Zheng Xiaowen said in his heart: Oh, I don't go to school these days, I also remember this matter, and if I talk again, I know what to say.

The mother said, 'There are many things that you don't understand, and no one has told you, since your mother has told you, then think of what to say.' People from a radius of 20 miles all come to our Zheng Village to buy things. The people in our village, of course, can buy urgently needed things without leaving the village, which is very convenient.

'Tomorrow, our Zheng Village is a market, and there are many people in Fangyuan Village, and there are many people who come to catch the market, and the street in front of our gate should be lively again. If you don't go to school tomorrow, you can help your father sell pastries. ’

Zheng Xiaowen really wants to know more about the situation, he will show up at the gate tomorrow, he knows a lot, and when he meets an acquaintance, he won't say the wrong thing. Moreover, if you know more about your father and mother, you will know the situation at home. She was tentative, and deliberately said, 'My father grows crops and sells pastries, my father is really capable!'

The mother said: 'Good son, if you can understand and appreciate your father's ability, you will be considered filial. Your father harvests crops and farms when he is busy farming, and makes and sells pastries when he is not working. The money you make from the pastry business will be used to support your school, subsidize your family, and then you can save some money. ’

Zheng Xiaowen said: "My father has such a good pastry craft and can make money to support his family, he is really capable. ’

My mother said: 'Our family makes pastries and tofu, which are our family's ancestral crafts. People within a radius of dozens of miles say that our pastries and tofu are delicious. Last year, your dad felt so busy that he stopped tofu. You think, your father is making pastries and tofu in the front yard house, and he has to go to the east yard to feed the livestock, and he is almost forty years old, and he can't stand it, so he stopped the tofu. ’

Zheng Xiaowen couldn't help but say: "We have so many houses, and we don't have to worry about housing, what we get from farming and labor is enough to eat, so don't work my father anymore." ’

The mother said: "If you want to say that our house is a lot, our west house has two courtyards, and the east house also has two courtyards. At the east end of the village, more than a mile away from here, there is also a house empty. These three houses are all left by their ancestors.

Your father said to me that the three houses and 60 acres of land left by your ancestors were all left by your ancestors with sweat and frugality. said, my father named me Zheng Shouye, just to let me protect the family business, I can't squander this business. I've got to work hard, and I've got to live my life carefully. ’

When my mother said this, she looked at Zheng Xiaowen and said: "Son, you are young, you don't understand, your grandfather thought that he would have at least three sons, so he worked hard and worked hard to do business, so he bought three houses and sixty acres of land.

Son, don't you know, back then, the pastries and tofu of our "Zheng Hongxing" were famous for a radius of 100 miles, and the pastries and tofu we made were beautiful and delicious.

I heard that when those shop buyers heard this name and looked at the pattern of our pastry encapsulation, they all felt that whoever sold the pastry and tofu was going to be lucky and prosperous, and would definitely make a fortune. Therefore, as long as our pastries and tofu are made, they will be shipped and sold out immediately.

It's just that your grandfather, your grandfather, neither of them have a brother to help. If there is no helper, then, why will our business be so big? There is no way to do it, you see the front yard of our west house, there are five rooms facing the street, and four rooms in the east wing, which used to be workshops. There were a lot of guys back then, and they all lived in the west wing of the front yard.

At that time, I was usually busy, and the more I celebrated the New Year's holidays, the busier I became. The busier our business is, the better it is, the more money we make, and our family has these three houses and sixty acres of land outside the city. As a result, your grandfather and your father are all single-handed. Son, single biography is to give birth to only one son.

'In your lifetime, we have children very late, ordinary people, seventeen or eighteen years old, when my mother gave birth to you, you were twenty-seven or eighteen years old, and you were still a girl. Son, don't think wrong, my father and mother are not saying that their daughters are bad, but there is a rule in this clan, if you don't have a son, you have to be raised by a stepson.

'Raising other people's children, parents also have to think carefully, within five suits, there are no suitable children, and there are no relatives, so you have to pick up a child from a farther family. Or the father and mother really want a son, and it is okay to go to a foreign country and bring one back.

"My mother told you what was in my heart, and my mother didn't want to hug other people's children! Why? There was something in this village, so my mother told you." There is a neighborhood on South Street, the family business is very large, the two are young, but there are no children, and there are no ready-made boys to adopt, so the two went to the distant countryside to pick up a boy and came back.

The couple took the boy back, and within a few years they had three boys in quick succession. They raised the boy until he was fourteen years old, and they happily married the boy. There are unforeseen circumstances, and the two are left with only the mother who is pulling three children.

The boy he raised, he saw that his three younger brothers were still young, so he wanted to dominate the family business. The adoptive mother was young and good-looking, and the boy who was holding him wanted to sell his adoptive mother and let the adoptive mother take away the three younger brothers.

When the adoptive mother heard the news, she quickly left the house with her three boys. How can a woman live outside, she is still afraid that her adopted son will find her and sell her. An official fell in love with her, so she followed the official openly and secretly. She's not a person who doesn't care about her reputation, she is desperate, so she should do it!

The adoptive mother endured the humiliation, and she saw that her eldest son was thirteen or fourteen years old, and that he was tall enough to block the door, so she took the three boys home. When she returned, she remained silent and gave her adopted son a share of real estate. Her eldest son is good-looking, her family is very rich, and there are constantly matchmakers, and her eldest son soon married a rich girl who is a good family and looks good. ’

Zheng Xiaowen said in his heart: This is the old society, and there are all kinds of messy wonders.

The mother said: "Your father, your mother only saw the affairs of this neighborhood, so she decided not to think about it anymore, and the matter of adoption." When I gave birth to you, I discussed with your father and said that we would have a daughter, and we would have a son. When I went to report the good news, I said that we had a boy. Later, more on that later. That's it, from the time you were born, I raised you as a boy. ’

Seeing that Zheng Xiaowen didn't answer, my mother continued: "Who knows, after giving birth to you, my mother will not be any more. It also happens that our house is a deep house compound, you are small, and you won't go out by yourself, relatives come for a long time and leave, no one knows that you are a girl. When you go to school, you are sensible, and your mother teaches you a little, and you imitate boys everywhere. Until now, no one knows you're a daughter!'

Zheng Xiaowen said in his heart: Oh, I wear boy's clothes, it turns out that this is the origin...... Also, it seems that our Zheng family, from our ancestors to the present, is a person who can endure hardships and work. Well, that's good.

Zheng Xiaowen had an idea, she said to her mother: 'Mother, you are just forty years old, and your age is not very large, you will give birth to the first one, and you will give birth to the second. From tomorrow, you take good care of your body, I will think of ways to let you eat nutritious things, and your body will be better. Maybe you'll have a second one.

As for the fact that I am a girl, my mother told me so clearly that I knew what to do, and I also knew how to speak in front of others. In the future, don't worry too much about anything, just take care of your body. ’

When my mother heard this, she said in her heart: Our family can be regarded as a wealthy family, and my mother eats well, but I have been working on this body for three months, how can I have another son. Mother just thought of this, she didn't tell Zheng Xiaowen about it.

Zheng Xiaowen suddenly remembered something, she said: 'Mother, our family has so much land, and it is still so far from the field, it is very laborious to work in the field and move food to the house?"

The mother smiled and said, "We have a carriage, and the cattle and carriages are in the east courtyard." When your father went to the fields, he went in a carriage. ’

Zheng Xiaowen was a little confused: Oh? I remember that at the Moon Gate in the front yard, I saw that the east courtyard was full of flowers and trees? Oh, at that time, I may have been a little confused in my heart, but what my mother said was right and true.

The mother and daughter were talking, when they heard their father shouting outside the door: 'Xiaowen and his mother, there is a guest coming, come out quickly.' ’

The mother said, 'It's getting dark, where are the guests?' and the mother and daughter went out of the room.

My mother saw five people standing in the yard, and there were big bags and small bags around them. The mother hurriedly stepped forward, signaled to the room with the screen, and said, 'Come and sit in this middle house.' ’

Everyone came into the house, and Dad quickly lit the lamp. At this moment, Zheng Xiaowen noticed that on the right side of the room, there was a living room, and there were fancy tables and chairs from the Qing Dynasty in the hall. She hurriedly looked at her father: Ah, his father really looks like his father!

Zheng Xiaowen looked at the five people again, and felt that there was also a man and a woman around forty years old, like a husband and wife, and those three people looked like their children. The older boy was about sixteen or seventeen years old, the girl was about fourteen or fifteen years old, and the younger boy was about twelve or thirteen years old.

Dad and mother both smiled and let the guests sit down, and Zheng Xiaowen followed her mother to sit down.

The adults were talking, and Zheng Xiaowen was listening carefully. It turned out that this family of five fled from the countryside 500 miles away and fled to Zheng Village. The family's surname is Yang, and Yang's father's name is Yang Zhiye; the eldest son is 17 years old, nicknamed Yang Shipeng, and the eldest name is Yang Yishan; the daughter is 15 years old, nicknamed Yang Shijuan, and the eldest name is Yang Yihua; and the youngest son is 13 years old, nicknamed Yang Shijie, and nicknamed Yang Yilin.