Song Mian left Jinling in early spring to go back to Tianshui to go to the scientific expedition, one in April, one in August, just in time, if it is high luck, come back is a lift.

When he first came to the Song family, his mother had just mourned, and it was easy to finish his filial piety, and he waited for another two years to meet the scientific expedition, he took a boat back to Sweet Water Town to prepare for the end, and came to look for Shi Gui before going, and promised to go to Lanxi again to inquire about the news of the Shi family.

Shi Gui listened to the letter again, and he had the bottom in his heart, but there was no news for all these years, and he was always worried, and he saved some silver in the past few years, took five taels out, and entrusted it to Song Mian: "I'm afraid that the field house will be destroyed, so I can't come, if you see it, give them this silver for me, and tell them I'll wait." ”

Song Mian didn't dare to answer, so he withdrew his hand and refused to answer: "I'll give it first, and then you can make it up to me when you come back." I also remembered in my heart, go back and find the lady surnamed Bai again, and see if anyone from the Shi family came back, this time he had to tell the truth.

Guilty didn't dare to look at Shi Gui's eyes, Shi Gui was completely unconscious, and he was shy, the two of them have known each other in the past two years, and she also knew that she was getting older, and it was no longer appropriate to meet so often.

At Song Mian's age, he should have said goodbye a long time ago, if it weren't for his filial piety, Song Jingtang would have returned to his hometown when he returned to his hometown. If the two of them often talk like this, if they are seen by others, they have seen very little in the past year, and they have borrowed books to read, and Shi Gui has nothing to thank him, so he can only occasionally make some food for him.

This time he was going back to his hometown for the exam, Shi Gui thought about what to send to him, Song Mian had helped her a lot, he would naturally come back when he went to Nengzhong, and he didn't know what kind of regulations the Song family treated him, so he had to give him something as a parting gift.

I can't afford to send the four treasures of the study, and I really can't take the bad ones, both in the Ye family's courtyard, the things of the foreign man can't handle them, I thought about it for a long time, when Song Yintang took the exam, the Ye family prepared these many things for him, there were medicinal oils and food, everything was proper, it was Song Mian's turn, first, Ye's illness, and second, the old lady didn't care, I was afraid that I wouldn't think of these.

I made a back bag for him, which is good for books, food and food, a few small bags are spaced apart, but can hold a lot of things, royal blue cloth bags, embroidered with lychee longan walnuts in Lianzhong, take a good intention head of Lianzhong Sanyuan, and tie a wishful knot rope, give it to him as a parting gift.

Song Mian took the things and was a little twisted, but Shi Gui also looked uncomfortable, and gave him a lot of things, and they were all thank you gifts in return, and the more he owed this favor, the more he owed.

Song Mian took the bag back, and the servants around him were about to turn it over, but Song Mian stopped drinking, he rarely had a temper, so he ordered people to be polite, and the servants were not afraid of him, he rolled his eyes, and laughed twice.

It's good that he doesn't laugh, his smile makes Song Mian's face flush with laughter, and he doesn't let him see the bag, the scholar has followed Song Mian for three or four years, knows his temper, and hopes that this young master can be promoted, if he can be an official, he can also mix it up: "But Sister Shi Gui in the wife's courtyard gave it." ”

"What nonsense!" Song Mian's face became redder and redder, and the scholar knew at a glance that he supported his legs: "The young master can hide it from others, but he can't hide it from me, the young master talks in his dreams at night, and calls her name." ”

Song Mian was startled, how could he think that he was still talking in his dreams, his face was embarrassed, he was not sure whether he called Shi Gui's name or not, and when he was about to say something to mix it up, he had never lied, so he had to shake his head.

The scholar smiled: "The young master doesn't know about himself, but I really heard it, the young master thought in his heart that he wanted to live with others?"

Not to mention Song Mian, which one of the people in this courtyard doesn't know that she was born well, she is white-skinned and big-eyed, and she is indeed a little fierce, so that people don't dare to climb and joke, and she looks like a heart-wrenching person.

A little guy at this age, when he sees that he is not a sister or sister, he always has to ask for two sentences, not to mention that he was born so well, she is different, the corners of his mouth are smiling, and as soon as his eyes are cast, the doorkeeper is silent.

Originally, I just wanted to see the angry appearance of these girls, the scholar is literate, and Song Mian has also read a few poetry collections, and he doesn't understand it, he always knows some words, and because he can read a few lines of poetry, he is more pleasing than those little guys.

He usually looks down on those who are open-mouthed, only by liking to provoke others, not knowing the subtleties at all, but there is a poem "shy and angry, with Yu Jiao in the cheek", there is no place in Shi Gui at all, she is angry is angry, she will never be ashamed, and she is not very coquettish, she is born so well, but there is no style.

The clerk smacked her lips: "Although that one is good, don't worry about it, don't say that our wife's wheel is not her own car, I have heard, it is a mind to go home." ”

"Nonsense, look at me......" Song Mian has never been beaten or punished, he said a sentence, he didn't know what to pick up, he looked at the scholar's shy face and waited, and he didn't pay attention to him anymore, rubbed his back bag, reluctant to use it for books, his ears were red, he didn't live with her.

Seeing Song Mian's appearance, the scholar sighed and persuaded him: "I have long wanted to say this, the young master likes her in his heart, and he has to look at the present, how can he treat a girl as a treasure and still talk in his sleep, the young master likes to take a concubine in the future, and it is important to ask for a decent lady." ”

This is not all without reason, the master in the school likes Song Mian very much, and the old lady Song invited Mr. Xueguan is a talented person, so he is not an official, he always rolls a round in the officialdom, and vaguely reveals a few words, willing to protect Song Mian for the media, and the big and small Dengke are connected.

"Don't talk nonsense anymore, just pull me back, how can you tarnish her name. Song Mian only had ears and no heart, Mr. Those words, when he understood, he actually didn't understand at all, how did he know that the Song family intended to say things about his relatives for him, turned his back to study, and didn't pay attention to the scholar Qingyu anymore.

Qingyu folded his hands, wrinkled his nose and didn't dare to say more, but he couldn't stop muttering: "A girl, what else is there to clear your name." "I only said in my heart that the young master was blinded by flowers, and I really waited for the beautiful lady to put it in front of me, where did I want to get a girl.

Before Song Mian left, the main courtyard sent road vegetables, all the way up the boat, and he would not always touch the sharp live in the store, and the road dishes were some side dishes for dinner, fried eggplant diced meat, mixed with bad oil, even if it was not as good as the shore, it could be put out to eat.

Half of the road dishes are made in the kitchen, and half are made by Shi Gui, Jin Li said a few times for this, and she laughed at her openly and secretly for thinking about climbing high branches and going crazy, even the poor boy was really a young master.

When you are old, many things are inconvenient, that is, you are selfless in your heart, and some people want to go to a dirty place when they see a wave of eyes, Shi Gui is not merciless this time, and he scolded her when he lifted the curtain: "I don't know where this belly pickled heart comes from, it's up to you to ask, but Sister Chunyan ordered it?"

It was indeed ordered by Chunyan, the Ye family was thoughtful, when Song Jingtang returned to his hometown, the small kitchen of the Mandarin Duck Pavilion prepared road dishes, this time Song Mian went, and he couldn't be rash, he walked ninety-nine steps in a hundred steps, and it was not such a step, the old lady Song was still running around for the Ye family, and the Ye family had to be more careful with the Song family.

The blue and white jar is filled with pickled melon and fried dices, scooped out to eat bibimbap, and bald butter crab meat paste, Huang Chengcheng scooped it out with a spoon and rested on the white rice that has just come out of the pot, soaking the rice to reveal the aroma of crab oil, and the food on the boat is not worse than on the road.

Jin Li had nothing to say, why didn't she dare to look for Chunyan, although Shi Gui was instructed, he did it more carefully, and sent several jars and jars over, Qingyu smiled: "Tired sister, our young master is in high school, and my sister will be indispensable." ”

Shi Gui raised her eyebrows, Qingyu didn't dare to say any more, she raised her eyebrows and let it go, Song Mian had to thank her in front of people, looking at Shi Gui and nodded, Shi Gui's heart was relieved, waiting for Song Mian to write a letter.

waited from spring to summer, worried about Ye Wenxin, and worried about the family, Song Mian was going to end, and she would never go to find someone for her before the exam, so why didn't she have a letter until after August.

How do you know that Song Mian did go to Lanxi as soon as he returned to Sweetwater Town, and after three years, the town no longer looks like it has been flooded, the gatehouse shop is reopened, the business is booming, and the houses of the Song and Gan families have also been repaired.

As soon as Song Mian put down his things and went to Lanxi, when he came back, he saw a miserable image of the world, and this time he went to spring ploughing, and the fields were ploughed again, and the houses were all repaired, some were still grass houses, and some had built brick houses.

Song Mian only knew a white lady, and asked from house to house, but someone knew and pointed the way for him, Song Mian asked the Shi family again, and the person shook his head, saying that he didn't know that there was such a family here.

After the flood, the county also divided the ownerless land to the victims, the situation in Lanxi is better, and the disaster is even more serious, many people have moved out to beg for a living, and the villagers here have all changed once, but a small half are not the original Lanxi people.

And fortunately, Aunt Bai is still there, Song Mian went to look for it, Aunt Bai still remembers her, Aunt Bai's house is also called collapsed, only people are still there, but it is the first batch of brick houses in the village, half of them are bricks and half of them are soil, looking at the days are quite passable, as soon as they saw Song Mian, they said: "You are the descendant." ”

If it weren't for the three taels of silver, Aunt Bai's family would not be able to support it, there were all tenants here, the main house was called Chong, the owner was all dead, and the good rented land became an ownerless field, and the government was all asked to collect it, and they were allowed to rent and pay taxes, but these remaining people have to have the strength to plant.

A year's harvest is soaked in the soup, and then the land has to be prepared and plowed, how can the family be made without labor, every household has a field, even if the lazy and scoundrel in the village also get a few acres, Shi Gui's family only has Qiu Niang Yu Pozi, two women with a child, how to live.

Song Mian couldn't help but be shocked: "Didn't Shi Gui's father come back?" One day when the boat came back, Shi Gui scraped together a lot of silver for him, as long as he came back, the family would always be able to get by.

Aunt Bai shook her head: "It's also true that you don't come back after going out for a few years, and a fellow villager said that they met on the road, so they went to look for it." "Mountains and rivers are far away, and you can find them anywhere.