Chapter 56: Borrowing
Yan Qi only saw Yuan Chang, who had not seen each other for nearly three days, before the club training in the afternoon of the next day, "I was called into the palace by my sister and trained for a beating," Yuan Chang's face was still annoyed, "The old man surnamed Ma has too many things, and he still wants to make trouble in front of my brother-in-law, I think he doesn't want to die properly! I was locked up at home for two days, if it weren't for the fear of delaying my homework, my mother would not let me out today." β
"Just come out. Yan Qi gasped - this one is running in a circle with two sandbags falling on his legs.
Yuan Chang followed easily beside him, still with the ball on his feet, the ball seemed to be magnetic, no matter how he kicked it, he couldn't get out of his control.
"Hmph, but it's also bad luck for the Ma family," Yuan Chang had a gloating smile on his face, A daughter-in-law of the old man's younger brother's family, secretly lending usury to people, originally did not know who dug it out, I don't know who dug it out in the past two days, I heard that the number involved is not small, the family is in a lot of trouble, Ma Qiang and his father can't get out of it, this son is in a hurry, even Ma Qiang was ordered by the academy to wait at home for the final results of the investigation by the criminal department, if it is also related to his father, the academy will not allow students with a stain on the family to study, sooner or later he will have to be forced to drop out! Hmph, if I knew this, I would have been more ruthless, so I wouldn't be able to touch anyone if I wanted to beat him in the future!"
Yan Qi didn't react, but he didn't know that in the office of the deputy mountain chief of Dexin Hall not far from here, the deputy mountain chief was sighing there: "As for this, a small matter will ruin the future of the Ma family...... But you're ...... As for it, this is really a snake spirit, don't mess with anyone!
As soon as he got home in the evening, Young Master Yan Jiu was called by Old Master Yan to go to the outer study to ask about his homework, and the old man was not concerned about the education and training of this grandson. The grandfather and grandson were going to eat in the outer study, Yan Qi was sitting in the summer residence to eat, and as soon as the first dish was served, someone followed the fragrance into the door.
"What's the food?" Yan Zike took off the stone blue outside and threw it on the kang near the window when he entered the room, leaned over and looked at the table, looking hungry.
"Cherry anchovy with slices of ham with fresh bamboo shoots. Yan Qi asked Boiling Rain to fetch water for Yan Zike to wash his hands, and asked Cooking Yun Sue SΓΉ to add another pair of dishes and chopsticks to the kitchen, "There are also crispy chicken, shiitake mushrooms, spring bamboo shoots roasted lentils, and snowflake tofu." β
"Snow tofu, what's it made of?" said her uncle, washing his hands, as always, like a curious baby, asking everything.
"It is said that the tofu that has not been lit with brine after grinding is fried in a pot with diced bamboo shoots and diced mustard greens. "His niece is also very fond of food.
"Is this the bamboo shoot seller killed, four dishes, three have bamboo shoots in them. Yan Zike wiped his hands, sat down at the table and waited for the next three dishes with Yan Qi.
"Isn't this a spring shoot, try it more. Yan Qi didn't care, and handed the chopsticks to her uncle.
"Where's Xiao Jiu?"
The old lady called. β
"Are you tired today?"
"It's fine. β
"What did you practice in the Riding and Archery Club?"
"Let's go, let's go. β
"After Qingming, it's a riding and archery competition, right?"
"Nope. β
"What, is there anyone in the club who is better at archery than you?"
"There are people outside the people. β
"Where do you want to go to play Qingming?"
"I made an appointment with Wu Yue and Lu Rong to go to the outskirts of the city for a picnic and fly a kite. β
"It's like this every year, don't you get tired?"
"Everybody's like that. β
"How about a change this year?"
"Replace what?"
"I'll get it back to you in two days. β
"Okay. Don't you like snowflake tofu?"
"It's unpalatable. β
"Take it and put it here for me, you can eat the crispy chicken, this is fragrant." β
"......" seems to have heard some strange words.
"......" is not intentional, really.
When Young Master Yan Jiu came back from the old lady's outer study, Comrade Yan Zike had already eaten and drunk enough to pat his ass and went back to the courtyard of the long room, anyway, it was common for him to come to the second room to eat and drink, and no one was surprised by this, Young Master Yan Jiu didn't ask much, just went to the fourth to enter his sister's room.
His sister was lying in front of the bookcase to write homework, leaned over and looked at it, the handwriting has grown a little, the head of the knife swallowtail, but unfortunately the strength is too strong, and she loses the softness that a girl should have.
"Something?" Yan Qi looked up at him.
"Nope. Young Master Yan Jiu said.
"Oh. Yan Qi lowered his head again and continued to copy the text.
Young Master Yan Jiu sat down next to him, Yan Qi didn't hear his movement for a long time, and couldn't help but raise his head to look at him again, seeing that he was just sitting like that, with the light of a candle flame flowing in his clear pupils.
"What's wrong, you have something to say?" Yan Qi put down his pen and turned to look at him.
"No," Young Master Yan Jiu smiled, speaking slowly, and his movements were also slow, stretching out a finger to stir the flame on the candlestick, "I just found that my grandfather's problem was a little stricter." β
"What's wrong?" Yan Qihu pulled away his fingers that were running through the flames.
Young Master Yan Jiu slowly hooked the corners of his lips: "Obsessive-compulsive disorder." Forgot to tell me about this word, obsessive-compulsive disorder, grandfather's strange habit, obsessive-compulsive disorder. β
Old Lady Yan has obsessive-compulsive disorder, and those who are familiar with him know about this problem, but only Yan Qi and Young Master Yan Jiu know more about this term and pathology. For example, the courtyard where his four sons live, all sit north and face south, but the east two and west must be symmetrically distributed along the center line of the courtyard, and the name of the courtyard must also be corresponding.
And Mrs. Yan's daily necessities, it must be a complete set, whether you are seven or eight, anyway, it has to be a complete set, and there can be no damage, such as a set of seven cups of tea set, if the bottom of one of the cups has a little bit of porcelain, the whole set of cups The old lady will not use it again, and he doesn't even want to look at it, even if this set of cups is worth a lot.
There are also floor tiles in his house, which must be tightly seamed, horizontal and vertical, and even if the middle seam between the bricks is only a little unstraight, the old lady's heart is as uncomfortable as a cat scratching. All the furniture in the house, that must also be in everyone, not allowed to be crooked, more than one corner less.
And the old lady is actually a little obsessed with "pairs" and "symmetry", daily things can be matched into pairs, never use a single piece, the layout of the house and the interior furnishings can be symmetrical, never high and low, although this kind of psychological problem has not yet reached the outrageous Cheng dΓΉ of zero tolerance, but it is definitely a stage of fine standards and high requirements.
For people with this kind of psychological problems, you can't stimulate him, and the more he is stimulated, the stricter the situation will be, and it will lead him to overcorrection or even worsen. Therefore, the Yan family usually pays great attention to it in front of the old lady, and the old lady himself also knows that his problem is a bit excessive, so he also pays attention to enlightening himself, tries not to pay attention to those details, and writes and paints every day, planting flowers and raising birds, and strives to cultivate his own open-minded and idle state of mind.
The effect is actually quite good, why is this time so strict?
Young Master Yan Jiu didn't say much, and Yan Qi didn't ask much, what should the sisters and brothers do, wash and sleep as usual, and each have their own dreams.
Golden Day Friday is also Hello Day. The mother and son of the long house arrived the earliest, and Yan Qi and Yan Jiu were not too late, but it was Mrs. Yan San who came the latest, with a gray face, as if she had suffered some blow in life, and Yan Qi saw that Aunt Zhao and Yan Ba girls who were following her were not in a good mood.
Mrs. Yan glanced at Mrs. Yan San, and there was no squeak, this is a bit abnormal, if Mrs. Yan San looks like this on weekdays, Mrs. Yan is bound to ask carefully, care about her cordially, and do a good job of mother-in-law and filial piety in front of Mrs. Yan, what's wrong today? Don't you want to win the Best Supporting Actress award?
Mrs. Yan, who has always been a spectator, has no drama to watch today, she lowered her eyes and drank morning tea with a teacup, several young masters were silent, Yan Er Girl's face was expressionless, Yan Fifth Girl seemed to be suppressing some anger, but after all, she still endured it and did not have a seizure as usual, and the third young master Yan and Yan Sixth Girl who came out of the concubine even reduced the sense of storage to a minimum, making the air pressure in the whole room so low that it was breathless for a while.
What the situation.
The way I went to the toilet in the morning was wrong? Why did everyone wake up with a stinky face.
Yan Qi looked at Young Master Yan Jiu beside him, Young Master Yan Jiu was also drinking morning tea there.
This strange and unbearable atmosphere was finally broken by Mrs. Yan after a stalemate for a while, and she said calmly: "What do they all look like? After so many years of female training and female morality, they have learned in vain? Since the birth of Xiao Shi, our Yan family has not increased the number of people for many years, you look at the martial family, there are only more than 40 children in their generation, how developed and prosperous is that?! Your old lady came out of the Yan clan and worked hard to raise the four of them, isn't it just that he can give us a fight? Such a person is thin, where can he be able to stand up to his waist? No one in the family is half short, and there are more hands and feet to do things outside, so that they have the confidence and help, and without a helper, it is difficult to support alone, do you want the Yan family to be good or just for your own heart?"
"But grandmother," the fifth girl Yan finally couldn't help but speak, "My mother gave birth to four of our brothers and sisters, this is already for our Yan family, and there are also third and sixth sisters, and six children in the long house, not a fewββ"
"Little Five!" Second Miss Yan interrupted Miss Yan's words with a cold snort, "Haven't you woken up yet?" β
The gold satin and silver silk is the personal girl of Yan Wu girl, and when she heard this, she hurriedly went over to help her master, Yan Wu girl was so aggrieved that she couldn't do it, but she still stopped talking and didn't dare to say more, and walked out of the house angrily.
"Sister Meng'er, this child is used to talking nonsense, don't pay attention to her," Mrs. Yan finally spoke, and said to Mrs. Yan with a smile, "Mother is right, as the daughter-in-law of the Yan family, she has to contribute to the Yan family in everything, and the daughter-in-law has already asked people to clean up the empty yard next to Aunt Yang's residence, and when the child opens her face, let her live in, and she can be a companion with Aunt Yang every day. β
Lie trough suck trough, why does Yan Zike also want to take a concubine? Yan Qi didn't expect such a divine turn.
"What about you?" asked Mrs. Yan with a straight face, to Mrs. Yan San, who was still mindless and unhappy.
Mrs. Yan San gritted her teeth for a long time, and the creaking sound even heard the squeaking sound even the tenth young master Yan who was sitting next to her, and couldn't help but look at her mother curiously and asked, "Mother, what are you stealing to eat?"
Young Master Yan Jiu suddenly laughed out loud, beckoned to Young Master Yan Shi and said, "Come here, I have something delicious here." β
"Ninth Brother Ninth Brother, what is delicious?" Young Master Yan Shi, who was not yet six years old, ran over innocently and threw himself into Young Master Yan Jiu's arms at once, completely unable to understand his mother's resentment that he hated to eat all the women in the world at this moment.
"I'm ......," Mrs. Yan San said dryly, "I'll also let people sweep ......"
What is the situation, Master Yan San also wants to take a concubine? This is also with a group purchase.
"Finally, you still know the general situation," Mrs. Yan's expression softened slightly, "After all, you are still young, and you should take care of your body more on weekdays, so it is good to add a few more younger brothers and sisters to them, so that our house will also be lively." β
Yan Qi didn't react until he got on the carriage to go to school this morning, and looked at Yan Xiaojiu, who entered the sleep mode as soon as his eyes were closed, as always, Bingqing Yujie was lonely and tall, and then looked at the boiling rain, this girl was waiting by with black eyes, ready to collect first-hand gossip after returning home.
The cliff is the first to use the paparazzi in front of the emperor.
After school that day, Yan Qi got a newer and more detailed news, it turned out that the one this morning was from the old lady Yan's speech, and with a wave of his old hand, he gave each of his four sons a concubine, fair, just and open, impartial.
Boiling rain was able to inquire about the cause and effect before Yan Qi went to bed at night, squatted beside Yan Qi's bed as soon as the window was closed, and reported in a low voice: "Didn't the old lady buy four beautiful girls from Renyazi to enter the mansion?" Originally, it was said that two were picked and sent to the frontier to serve the second master, but only the old lady had a branch, and the old lady didn't care, but then somehow, last night she was anxious and went to say to the old lady: 'Since you picked four, what is it to send two away?' If you don't have a room, just right, the eldest daughter-in-law has not moved for more than ten years, she should have added a room a long time ago, the second child is fighting outside, it is not appropriate to delay more women, and it is enough to add another room, the children under the knees of the third child are thin, the most should be added, the fourth kid is not at home all day, and he is outside Hu Tianhai, put someone in his room, so that he can take care of it - one room, a complete set of good things. "The old lady responded, and asked the three to pack up and go to each room during the day, first make a room, and then lift her face to her aunt, and the one who gave the second master also took the luggage and sent someone to the border to send it to the border gate......"
Yan Qixin said This is who stimulated the old lady so much, I have heard of four sets of cups, but I have not heard that the concubine also has four sets, please be kind to every obsessive-compulsive disorder around you.
"Only Xiao Jiuye has entered the old lady's outer study before and after," Yizhi whispered to the one who was sitting idly drinking tea and counting the moon in the pavilion, "I brought a set of four-cup tea sets in, saying that I had learned two new hands in the tea ceremony class, but I broke one by mistake...... took the painting of the four gentlemen in the flower and asked the old lady to point out, and accidentally tore the paper with one of the chrysanthemums...... Speaking of the birthday gift given to his classmates, he gave four goldfish, three of which were dragon eyes, one crane top red, the crane top red was named 'Chunyang', the dragon eye was called 'summer flower', one was called 'autumn tree', and the other was called 'Bailifang'...... In the end, when it came to the classmate who gave him four thrush birds that could sing songs, he first asked the old lady if he wanted it, and the old lady said no, and the little ninth master asked the old lady whether the four birds were good for three in the long room and one in the third room, or how to divide them. The old lady said that it was best to have one room, and the little ninth master thought for a while and said: "Yes, one room is one, and it is comfortable to look at it when it is evenly divided...... At the end, he only mentioned casually: 'When I came over, I saw my grandmother buy four girls and enter the house'......"
The one in the pavilion laughed: "Seek according to the situation, move according to the situation, and take advantage of the situation." Hehe, the afterlife is terrifying. β