Chapter 397: Family Matters

After Fu Xianglian lowered her head and smiled, she said, "I heard that Deyu and they had an accident, what happened?"

Xiao Desheng and Xiao Deyu brothers and sisters entered the Wei family together, Xiao Desheng has been following Wei Minwen, and now he is the most powerful steward under him. Xiao Deyu followed Zhang Xing, first in charge of the Splendid Pavilion, and after the accident in the Splendid Pavilion, Zhang Xing asked Wei Xiaoxia and Xiao Deyu to follow Zhao Zi'an on the boat.

Who knew that he would not be able to come back.

Zhao Zi'an Tuo people brought a message that their ship encountered a big storm at sea, and Wei Xiaoxia and Xiao Deyu unfortunately fell into the sea, and their lives and deaths were unknown.

Life and death in the vast sea are unknown, and the possibility of survival is too small.

Zhang Xing's smile was gone, she lowered her head, and said gloomily: "Blame me for this." If she hadn't asked Wei Xiaoxia and the others to follow the boat, there would not have been such a misfortune.

Fu Xianglian sighed, "How can I blame you for this? Alas, it's just a bad fate. ”

Zhang Xing looked at Fu Xianglian. Since the defeat of her first child, she has changed a lot, and she no longer has the edges and corners of before, and her words are all caused by fate. She couldn't see her say that before, maybe she heard too much, and she was numb.

Fu Xianglian looked around the room and said, "Do you want to add a few more people here?"

Zhang Xing came over this time, planning to live at least until Yun Jinlan gave birth, she didn't have many people from Wutong Lane, and there were only one Mother You and Xia Zhi on the side of the female dependents. Sun Baozhu was pregnant, and Zhang Xing arranged another yard and sent an old mother and a little girl to take care of her.

Zhang Xing smiled and shook her head, "No need." ”

The person Zhang Jinbao bought in didn't know the roots, she didn't dare to put it around her, so she was all left on the side of Wutong Lane and handed over to Xiao's mother for training.

In fact, there are a lot of girls and boys on the Wei family's side, most of them were picked by Wei Minwen and Wei Minwu, and she was still very relieved about the people they picked.

Because she was going to move in, Fu Xianglian had already sent a few old people from the Wei family who had been in the Wei family for a long time, four in the inner courtyard and two in the outer courtyard, and there were enough people.

However, because Zhang Xing doesn't like unfamiliar people to take care of her, only Mother You's summer solstice kumquat can enter her house, and when Fu Xianglian came in, she only saw Xia Solstice and thought that there was a shortage of manpower, so she asked.

Speaking of manpower, Fu Xianglian asked about Sun Baozhu again. Zhang Xing had already explained to the people who came back with him, and his words were consistent, and he was not allowed to talk nonsense.

The people who were brought to Zhuangzi by Zhang Xing didn't like to talk nonsense outside, and although Sun Baozhu couldn't speak, he was sincere and got along with everyone in harmony. So after Zhang Xing explained the matter, no one really asked nonsense.

At least on the surface.

"Alas, why is this girl miserable?" Fu Xianglian sighed.

Zhang Xing lowered her head, poured a cup of tea for Fu Xianglian, and asked her, "Do you still take medicine three times a day now?"

Although the world is chaotic at the moment, she has not forgotten that this is still an era when women's names are bigger than the sky. Sun Baozhu's matter, since she took it, she must try her best to do her best.

Fu Xianglian smiled, "It's changed twice." ”

There was a light rain outside, the wind blew the branches of the trees, and the two people in the room who were talking couldn't help but look out the window. Zhang Xing hurriedly got up, put down the plank, and closed the window.

"Hey, it's raining again. Fu Xianglian said, "It is estimated that there is a shortage of manpower in the porridge shed in the south of the city, I will go over in a while, do you want to join in with it?"

After the war began, a steady stream of displaced people from all over the city came to the city, and there was a shortage of food and medicinal materials. The Wei family's grain store is one of the best in the entire Yu County, and Fu Xianglian is a warm-hearted person, so she is naturally indispensable in this matter.

Others fish for three days and dry their nets for two days, but Fu Xianglian is a real person, as long as she is free, she goes over almost every day.

She knew that Zhang Xing couldn't see others starving and cold. She did this, and she also learned from Zhang Xing. In the past, when he was in Zhanghe, when there were natural and man-made disasters, Zhang Xing was always the first group of people to come forward to do this.

Zhang Xing shook her head, "I won't go, the things haven't been cleaned up yet." ”

Fu Xianglian couldn't help laughing, "Look at me, I forgot that you came back." Stand up, "Then I'll go and take a look, you get busy first." ”

Zhang Xing sent Fu Xianglian out of the yard, and Mother You came back with her little brother in her arms. Zhang Xing coaxed him to finish drinking, and the cage in the yard had been ordered.

Zhang Xing looked at the sky, if it was a sunny day, the sun would have set in the west at this time. She asked Xia Zhi to bring an umbrella and came to the main courtyard.

Zhang Jinbao was talking to Ye Hexiang on the crooked couch, and when he saw Zhang Xing coming in, he hurriedly sat up straight, so that his eyes made the girl who was beating her legs stand up.

Zhang Xing smiled: "In broad daylight, what are you doing here?"

Zhang Jinbao hurriedly stood up, said with a hippie smile: "I, I'm going to take a look at the shop!"

"Wait!" Zhang Xing called him.

"Sister, do you have something?" Zhang Jinbao asked.

Zhang Xing sat down. Ye Hexiang asked, "Little brother is asleep?"

Zhang Xing nodded, "Sleep." ”

"Has his name been decided? This is half a year old in the blink of an eye. ”

"I'll wait until his father comes back. ”

Ye Hexiang stopped talking. Zhang Jinbao returned to Zhang Xing and stopped, "Sister?"

Zhang Xing instructed the girl next to her: "Go and change the pot of water." ”

The girl whispered yes and ran out with her head down.

Zhang Xing saw her go out and asked Zhang Jinbao: "Over there in Lizhuang Village, have you asked anyone to see it recently?"

Zhang and Li's families still have land in Lizhuang Village, and when Zhang Xing lived in Zhuang, she still let people come over to see it from time to time, but later as her body became more and more bulky, the matter was put aside. gave birth to a little brother, she was confined, because of the loss of blood and qi, she couldn't think about it, so she completely handed over the matter to Zhang Jinbao.

Zhang Jinbao lowered his head and said, "...... I've seen ......."

Seeing him like this, Zhang Xing's face sank, "How many times have you watched it? When did you go to see it? Uncle Li, are they all okay?"

"Yet, okay......"

Zhang Xing's hand rested on the table, and the sound that occurred startled Zhang Jinbao, who was already weak-hearted. He hurriedly said: "Sister, I really let people go to see it, although it has only been once......"

"Before or after the year?" Zhang Xing asked angrily.

"Years ago, ......" Zhang Jinbao replied in a low voice.

Ye Hexiang saw that her son was scared like this by her daughter, and said unhappily: "What's so beautiful about that broken place, is it worth it for you to be so angry with your own brother?"

Ye Hexiang knows that her family is doing so well now, and she can rely on the daughter in front of her. The two sons of the Wei family have nothing to do with her. So for Zhang Xing, she has long since lost her previous dislike, and she is much more polite in her words.

But a girl can't compare with a son. Zhang Xing's posture of speaking to Zhang Jinbao today, if she wanted to change the previous one, she would definitely jump up and scold.

Zhang Xing glanced at Ye Hexiang, ignored her, and said to Zhang Jinbao: "Jinbao, although there are only a few acres of land there, it is not a broken place, we all grew up there, and the roots of the Zhang family are still there." Maybe one day, we will go back, if we don't care about it when the days are good, and when we go back when it's bad, we don't even have a place to stay, do you think it's good?"

Zhang Jinbao lowered his head, remembering that when he was a child, Zhang Xing took him back to Lizhuang Village to go to Zhang Shuisheng's grave and visit him door to door.

Ye Hexiang didn't speak, she is now older, her life is better, and she is often talked about by Wei Yunhai, and the mood of Ye Luo's return to her roots occasionally comes out.

"Now the world is not good, and I am worried about my life when I go out, I know this. We can still eat and clothe us well, and in this Yuxian County, it is still quite stable, what about Uncle Li? They have helped us look at the land for so many years, and now it is so chaotic, we have to go over and have a look. ”

Zhang Jinbao raised his head, "Sister, I know, I'll talk to Steward Sun now, and I'll go over tomorrow to have a look." ”

Zhang Xing nodded, "Let Steward Sun bring more manpower, listen to Steward Sun's opinions more on the way, and don't be strong when you encounter something." ”

"Hey!" Zhang Jinbao replied with a smile, "I'll go to the street to buy some gifts for the Golden Lotus girl." ”

Zhang Xing waved his hand, "Don't bring too many things, the road is not very smooth." Uncle Li, if they want, they will bring people over. ”

Before Zhang Jinbao could speak, Ye Hexiang interjected: "Bring people over, where can I live at home?"

Zhang Jinbao remembered the situation when he played with Li Jinlian when he was a child, and hurriedly said: "I can live, I can live, I will let the yard where I live and give Uncle Li and them to live." I'll go back to the main courtyard. Mother, don't you always say that I live too far away?

The Wei family's house was not small, with seven or eight large and small courtyards. When Wei Yunhai and the others first moved over, Zhang Jinbao lived in the main courtyard with them, and later when they got older, they occupied a courtyard alone.

"You don't have to squeeze. Zhang Xing smiled and said, "Wutong Lane is empty." ”

She came to stay, and the house on the other side of Sycamore Lane was empty again. It's not much smaller than here, and it can accommodate twenty or thirty people.

Zhang Jinbao went out to prepare for returning to his hometown, Ye Hexiang frowned and said, "Jinbao is not too young, don't always press him!"

Zhang Xing couldn't help but look at Ye Hexiang with a smile, "You also know that Jinbao is not young, why do you want to keep him in the main courtyard?

Ye Hexiang snorted, "In a family like ours, which family doesn't have three wives and four concubines?" ”

Zhang Xing shook his head with a wry smile, and said unceremoniously: "People like us, you are confident! It's just that there is no shortage ......of food, no lack of clothing, and a few good times, so you have the dream of three wives and four concubines?

Ye Hexiang pointed at Zhang Xing and said, "After you finished training your brother, come and teach me no, I knew it was like this, I really shouldn't expect you to come back!"

Zhang Xing stood up and looked at the angry Ye Hexiang. She was much older than she was a year ago, and the heavy powder couldn't cover the wrinkles on her forehead at the corners of her eyes.

In fact, in this family, she is not doing well. Wei Yunhai is a rough person, he can be coaxed by her when he is young, and after getting along for a long time, he knows her temperament. But he is a kind man, and he can't do anything that he can't leave behind. Just go out early and return late, and ignore it.

Fu Xianglian and Yun Jinlan were afraid of her, probably for her and Wei Yunhai's sake, food, clothing, housing, and transportation were well managed, the money was sufficient, and the rest was as far away as they could.

She wouldn't blame them, because Ye Hexiang was such a person.

Mean, selfish, greedy.

So Zhang Tao has long been separated from her, and she can't be regarded as her daughter-in-law.

She only has one son left, Zhang Jinbao.

Ye Hexiang was furious by Zhang Xing's eyes, and said secretly, what she said was indeed a bit heavier, after all, she is relying on this daughter now.

Zhang Xing saw that she lowered her head, she couldn't say anything angry, looking at Ye Hexiang like this, she couldn't say anything serious.

"Jinbao is big, it's not good to let him mess with the girls, which family has a school-age daughter around, you have to look at each other slowly, this is a major event in Jinbao's life, don't delay. ”

After she finished speaking, regardless of whether Ye Hexiang heard it or not, she turned around and left. When he arrived in Wei Minwu's courtyard, he talked to Yun Jinlan. The main courtyard sent someone to pass the meal, and she carried Yun Jinlan over.

Ye Hexiang and Fu Xianglian have already been served. When Fu Xianglian saw the two of them, she hurriedly got up and said with a smile, "You are so heavy, why did you come here again?"

Before Zhang Xing came, each courtyard generally ate its own food. After she came over, the big kitchen was on fire, and Yun Jinlan came over with a big belly.

Yun Jinlan listened to Zhang Xing's words. Since she was pregnant, she rarely went out. After Wei Minwu left, he lay down more and walked less, and his body became more and more bulky. The people around her looked scared, and she herself was panicked.

Zhang Xing told her about her pregnancy, insisted on walking every day, and did not relax when she gave birth.

In fact, the bigger the child, the better, at least in this year, the child is too big, and the production is sad.

Zhang Xing said vaguely, but Yun Jinlan was very smart and insisted on coming over.

"It's okay to take a walk. Yun Jinlan said with a smile.

Fu Xianglian and Zhang Xing helped her sit down.

Ye Hexiang glanced at Zhang Xing, "Let's set the meal." ”

The mothers-in-law took turns to serve the dishes, and everyone was about to raise their chopsticks, when there was a sudden rumbling sound outside, as if a large number of people were passing over.

It's not the same as it used to be.

Zhang Jinbao and Wei Yunhai sat at a table outside, and he beckoned his little servant to come over, "Go to the city wall and have a look." ”

A meal is tasteless. Zhang Xing looked at Yun Jinlan, she couldn't sit for a long time. She was about to speak.

Zhang Jinbao suddenly lifted the curtain.

"Sister, Yu'an is lost. ”

Zhang Xing suspected that she had misheard, and looked at Zhang Jinbao in surprise.

Zhang Jinbao's face was ugly, and Li Zhuang Village was not far from Yu'an.

"Yu'an is lost!"

Now Zhang Xing heard it clearly, and she instructed the big girl beside Yun Jinlan, "Help the second lady go back to the room, and slow down on the road." ”

Yun Jinlan grabbed Zhang Xing's hand, she knew that Zhang Ji had several shops in Yu'an, and she was not far from Li Xiaoxuan's hometown Lizhuang Village. Xiao Fugui is not the palace of Huaiyang, every time he takes a city, he will definitely draw a lot of money, and forcibly ask the merchants in the city to donate money and food, and those who do not obey will end up miserable.

It's a pity that she doesn't want to say help now, and she doesn't make a mess herself, even if it's very good.