7. Chapter 7 Brother is disrespectful, brother is not friend
Zhang Hengqing wandered many times in the morning, but he didn't let Master Chen see it. It was Zhang Henglin, who was glared at by Chen Fuzi several times, and he couldn't bear it anymore, and he beat him up. The brothers finally got out of school, Zhang Hengqing couldn't bear it, and immediately got up and walked out after Master Chen left. Zhang Henglin hurriedly chased after him: "Second brother, where are you going?!"
"Go to Grandmother's. Zhang Hengqing paused slightly, but not to wait for Zhang Henglin, but to point to Moxiang and ask him to go back to feed the cat.
"Remember to feed her some more water and clean up if she has. ”
Mo Xiang answered, went to the kitchen to get cat food, and stopped by to see his wife.
Mrs. Zhang had already given Mrs. Zhang the right to be a housekeeper, and only had some important things in her hands, so the old lady's life was quite leisurely, and she raised seven or eight tender and lively girls in the house.
As soon as the second young master and the third young master came, the little girls in the house saw it, and they didn't know which one, so they shouted crisply: "Old lady, the young masters are here!"
A little girl in an emerald green gown stood in front of the door to open the curtain for the brothers, Zhang Hengqing and Zhang Henglin walked in successively, and the old lady heard that the two grandchildren were coming, and there was a smile on her face: "Come in!"
Zhang Henglin rushed in a few steps and shouted, "Grandmother!"
Zhang Hengqing watched with a little envy that Zhang Henglin was hugged into the arms of Mrs. Zhang, and when Mrs. Zhang stretched out her hand to pull him, he refused to follow and insisted on not making such a childish gesture.
Zhang Henglin twisted and coquettishly in the old lady's arms, sued Master Chen, and stretched out his red palm to show the old lady, which made the old lady cry out in distress for a while, but he didn't promise him to talk to Master Chen and tell him not to be so strict.
Zhang Hengqing watched coldly from the side, and met such a grandson who didn't like to be close to others, although Mrs. Zhang cared, there was nothing she could do, and she basically had nothing to say after asking about her studies and life. However, Zhang Hengqing took the initiative to care about whether the old lady ate well last night, slept well, and was not stuffy, and by the way, he took the white girl out and told the old lady: "Grandson's cat is very good, and yesterday my grandson wrote, so I put it on the table." It watched Mo Xiang grinding ink, and even learned Mo Xiang to grind ink for his grandson. ”
The old lady was amused, pointed to her grandson and said, "You little monkey grandson, make up this to tease me!"
"Grandmother, how could your grandson lie to you," Zhang Hengqing said with a smile, "It's true, my grandson was so surprised last night, the cat is a little older, and he can't hold the ink strip with his two paws, and he hasn't polished the ink for a long time." The grandson thought, there are red sleeves to add fragrance in the past, and when the cat is older, the grandson will be the cat's paw to add fragrance. ”
Zhang Hengqing said seriously, the old lady couldn't stop laughing, and she was also a little interested: "Is it really so spiritual?"
"But no," Zhang Hengqing said: "I didn't prepare a bedpan for it last night, and I pulled it next to my grandson in the middle of the night, and I woke up my grandson with a stink." The grandson moved it outside, and it was angry with the grandson, humming and chirping like a child, and it was coaxed to coax it with half a bowl of fish and meat in the morning. ”
The old lady really smiled: "Come and take a look at me after school in the evening." ”
Zhang Hengqing responded with a smile.
"Madame is here. The little girl outside the door spread the word, Qiu Shi hurriedly went over to open the curtain, and as soon as Mrs. Zhang came in, she saw Zhang Hengqing and the old lady talking lively, and Zhang Henglin on the side was hanging, and her heart was not happy. When Zhang Henglin saw his mother coming, he felt that he had a backer, so he quarreled with the old lady.
"Grandmother!" Zhang Henglin coquettishly said: "I also want to raise a cat!"
Zhang Hengqing's face was about to turn blue, but it was difficult to turn his face because of the presence of his grandmother and aunt, so he couldn't bear to say: "That cat ran away when he saw you, and he died in two days after raising you!"
Mrs. Zhang was so troubled by him that she couldn't stand it, her palms and backs were full of meat, both of them were her grandsons, and her big heart was heavy, she didn't dare to let him give his favorite cat to her younger brother, and immediately said when she heard the words: "Yes, it's so troublesome to raise a cat, you live in a yard with your brother, isn't he raising it?"
Zhang Henglin seemed to have got some kind of handle, and immediately said loudly: "Second brother doesn't allow me to touch the cat! Grandmother! You just let me raise the second brother's cat!"
Without waiting for Mrs. Zhang to speak, Mrs. Zhang reprimanded first: "What do you say, it's just a cat, what is worth robbing with your brother!"
Zhang Hengqing's eyes were red, he pursed his lips tightly and didn't speak, his cat, he wouldn't let anyone!
Mrs. Zhang's eyebrows moved, her face turned pale, and she reprimanded Zhang Henglin: "Your mother is right, that cat is your brother's beloved, and she can't raise it for you." ”
Zhang Henglin's eyes turned red instantly, and Mrs. Zhang was very distressed, so she immediately pulled her over and comforted her carefully: "Let's not ask for your second brother's cat, my mother will find two for you, one black and one white for you to raise." ”
Zhang Henglin was also angry: "I don't want it, I want the second brother's cat!"
"I want my second brother's ink-grinding cat!"
Mrs. Zhang had a headache, glanced at the old lady's face, and slapped her youngest son on the back twice. After beating Zhang Henglin, he cried instantly, Mrs. Zhang was distressed, and promised him to find a cat who could grind ink.
Zhang Henglin cried, but Zhang Hengqing didn't say that he wanted to let it, which made Mrs. Zhang hold a grudge in her heart. Zhang Hengqing's face was blue, he turned his head not to look at them, Mrs. Zhang looked at the two grandsons, and sighed in her heart: "You go and order, let the cook find another one." I'm tired today, so go back. ”
The room was cleaned, and Mrs. Zhang was tired, Qiu Shi hurriedly came up to serve, and Chunhua on the side stood quietly behind her to pinch the old lady's shoulders.
"Look at what she's talking about. Mrs. Zhang also had resentment in her heart, and it was rare to confide in the girl, the eldest daughter-in-law who married back was narrow-minded, and the concubine room couldn't accommodate it, so she didn't say it, and the old lady was also a person from the past. But she can't even accommodate the nephews in the next room, and there are only her own cubs in her eyes. Zhang Hengqing and Zhang Henglin are both the grandsons of the old lady, how can the old lady not be angry?
Qiu Shi thought to herself, Mrs. Fang Cai opened her mouth, obviously she was scolding the third young master, but secretly she was not talking about the second young master? She didn't dare to answer the old lady's words, and whispered softly: "The third young master is still young, and he will be sensible when he is older." ”
The old lady waved her hand tiredly, just like her daughter-in-law, it was difficult to teach her grandson well. Thinking of Zhang Hengqing, the old lady sighed in her heart. This is a heavy-hearted and non-talkative father, and has always been worried about going out to be an official, and often comes to ask her if his father has written from him.
The old lady often told him that he did not believe, but in fact he did. The second master rarely writes back, and when he writes a letter, it is not nonsense, but he wants money to turnover. Occasionally, when Zhang Hengqing was mentioned, the old lady would take out the letter and show it to her grandson, and the grandson would be happy for many days.
The old lady's own son knew that if she really missed Zhang Hengqing, she would not occasionally piggyback on Zhang Hengqing, and in addition, her son married another person and gave birth to a son and a daughter in office, how could she still miss the son left by her original partner in her hometown? The old lady couldn't bear to poke it when she saw her grandson happy, and she had something on her mind.