Chapter 44 is scheming

In the evening, Shen Laibao and Hua Ling, who "woke up", sent Qin Qin back first, and then went home together.

When they arrived at Nanfeng Alley, Shen Laibao also got out of the car at the door of the Hua family, went in with her and told the Hua family's father and mother about the situation tonight, and apologized to them. If it weren't for the conflict between himself and Chai Qi, tonight's incident would not have happened.

Hua Pingsheng said, "It's not because you don't offend everyone who doesn't offend you, so you don't have to blame yourself." ”

Liao Shi was still not at ease after seeing his daughter's hand covered with ointment, so he was busy taking his daughter in to have a look, and then he followed up and led his daughter in.

Shen Laibao withdrew from the Hua family, thinking that he would have to get up early tomorrow to accompany Qin Qin to her uncle's house, and also went back to take a bath and sleep.

As soon as he entered the house, he heard the voice of a drunk man shouting behind him, which was quite familiar. Looking back, the two drunken people who came in with their arms around their shoulders were not his father and uncle. The subordinates had already stepped forward to help, and the two of them shouted without knowing the heavens and the earth. When he walked next to Shen Laibao, he smiled stupidly, rubbed his face with a wine bottle, and burped with wine.

"Such a handsome little boy is a child of which family, much better looking than my family."

Shen Laibao left three black lines on his forehead, and was scratched and rubbed by both of them, pinching his face so painful. He looked up and said, "Quickly help them into the room, by the way, don't bathe them, just wipe them with a wet cloth, and let the kitchen prepare hangover soup." ”

When Father Shen heard this, he squatted down and hugged him and cried, "So good, it's good to be my son." ”

Shen Laibao was suddenly smoked by him, which was nothing, but he felt dizzy. When someone pulled Daddy Shen away, he was still a little dizzy.

He walked back to his room in a daze, and suddenly realized that there was a problem.

The physique of the real noble may not be a drop of alcohol!

He suddenly felt a headache, where is there a person in the officialdom business who doesn't drink, the woman is fine, and the man can't drink is a double blow. However, he is still young and cannot exercise his drinking skills.

Can't be with Du Kang often, and even drink a wine and rice wine can get drunk, Shen Laibao was so sad for the first time after coming here.

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Shen Laibao, who slept all night with sadness, was in a bad spirit, and only got up alive after breakfast.

Mrs. Shen waited for him to rinse his mouth before saying, "Today is Halloween, don't walk around, just study in the study." It's okay to play in the yard, anyway, your dad is hangover and hasn't woken up, so he can't control you. ”

"I have to go to a place with my friends, and I have to go to the school and the racecourse in the evening."

Mrs. Shen shook her head slightly, "Not today." ”

Shen Laibao discussed with her, "You can not go to the school field, but Xiaohua and I haven't said hello in advance, so if she doesn't go to the horse farm, I can't go." Accompanying a friend out was also promised yesterday, and it must be done today. ”

The son gave in, and Mrs. Shen also took a step back, "Then you have to go home." ”

"Hmm." Shen Laibao had eaten, and when he thought that Qin Qin said that the road was far away, he asked his subordinates to prepare another food box for two people.

It was still early, and Shen Laibao had just arrived at the cake shop. He waited on the opposite side for a while, watching Qin Qin sell cakes. When he saw Qin Qin's mother come out, he immediately got up and went over. For fear that one step too late, Qin Qin would be slapped again.

"Auntie, morning!"

When Qin's mother arrived at the table, she was shouted loudly by a little young master, a little frightened, and looked at him a few times, the clothes and accessories could be seen to be from a rich family, and her face eased, "Does the little young master want to buy cakes?" This bread is delicious, buy a basket and give it to your next person to eat. ”

Shen Laibao said, "Buy ten, and Auntie, I'm here to find Qin Qin." ”

Qin's mother paused slightly, "What are you looking for Qin Qin for?" ”

"Take her to play and eat something delicious."

Qin Qin looked at him when he heard the sound, it turned out that the eldest young master of the Shen family would not blush when he lied. Mother Qin didn't think much about it and pushed her daughter out, "Let's go play, my mother will sell cakes, it's fun." ”

She pursed her lips, not surprised by what she expected. She took off her rolled up sleeves as she walked out, and did not forget to carry the ten cakes he bought, and walked out with Shen Laibao.

Shen Laibao leaned over and took the cake in her hand and said, "Where is your uncle's house going?" ”

"Just go out of the street and go to the right." Qin Qin said, turned around and couldn't see his own cake shop, and then said, "Okay, my mother can't see it, thank you for helping me with this, I'm leaving." ”

Shen Laibao blinked, he thought that Qin Qin wanted him to accompany her to her uncle's house, but it turned out that he was just here to help her out? But she also said that the road was far away, how could he rest assured that she was going alone, "Qin Qin." ”

Qin Qin turned to look at him, "What's wrong?" ”

"You're going alone?"

"That's right."

"A long way?"

"Hmm."

"That's too dangerous, I'll go with you, I thought I was going to go with you." Shen Laibao lifted the food box in his hand, "Even the lunch box for two people is ready." ”

Qin Qin stood there and looked at him for a while, her eyes turned straight, but she couldn't see through her thoughts. Qin Qin stepped forward to take his food box and said, "I received this kindness, you don't have to accompany me, aren't you going to the racecourse and the school field?" And...... If you go with me, others will gossip. ”

Speaking of the last one, Shen Laibao became scruples, the reputation of the girl's family was too important these days. Right...... He understands everything as an "outsider", so how could Qin Qin's mother not understand. He suddenly understood Qin Qin's mother's intentions, the eldest young master came to invite her daughter, and she was so happy.

He suddenly felt sorry for Qin Qin in his heart, just because he had a hunch that Qin Qin's mother loved money so much, and he was afraid that in five years, as soon as Qin Qin was married, she would be promised to be married, and Qin's mother would be able to get the dowry.

He sighed secretly, Qin Qin thanked him again, and then left with the food box.

Shen Laibao stood for a long time before leaving.

As soon as his figure turned the street, Qin Qin, who was supposed to go away, showed his face again. She looked at the back of the little boy until she was out of sight, and then she squatted down to open the food box.

There are vegetables and pastries in it, and the rice is also served for two people. He really prepared a meal for two people, and he really planned to accompany her to her uncle's house.

- My uncle was willing to give her money to study, but she hurt her leg and couldn't send it, so she had to go and get it.

Just don't let Shen Laibao know, let him feel very pitiful.

She can't compare to Hua Ling in anything, she thinks she is very brave, but from last night, Hua Ling is not worse than her.

After thinking about it, I only have one comparable - miserable.

She smiled self-deprecatingly, looking at the food in the food box and feeling warm, she carefully closed the box for fear that the food would overflow. The box weighing a few pounds doesn't seem to be heavy in your hand.

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In order to welcome the extremely picky aunt and grandmother of the Hua family, it was only in July, and they found a florist to prune the flowers and plants.

Liao watched the flowers and plants he had carefully planted for more than half a year being cut bald, and his brows were twisted so much that he was about to cry. Seeing her husband drinking tea leisurely, she angrily punched him in the leg, "It's okay!" Don't cut it anymore. ”

Hua Pingsheng grabbed her hand and said with a smile, "If you don't cut it now, when my aunt comes, she should cut it all, she is afraid of mosquitoes, you can also understand it." My aunt only comes once a few years, and the flowers and plants can regenerate every year. ”

Rao couldn't soothe the pain in Liao's heart, and there was nowhere to vent, so he punched him again. Hua Pingsheng suddenly laughed, "If you beat me again, I'll have to fight back." ”

Liao snorted lightly, "Come on, you should return the flowers and plants to me." ”

He couldn't pay back the flowers and plants, and was about to "return" her, when he saw his daughter holding a bead. He had no choice but to lie back on the bench and return it when he returned to his room.

Hua Ling jumped up the steps of the pavilion, shouted to his father and mother, and sat on the stone bench to put down the abacus.

Liao smiled, "Lingling wants to pluck the beads to play?" ”

"It's not playing." Hua Ling said proudly, "Brother Noble taught me a good algorithm, I just learned it." ”

Hearing that it was taught by Shen Laibao, Hua Ping became interested and asked with a smile, "What is the algorithm?" ”

"The first one is head by head, tail by tail, tail by tail."

Liao frowned, "What is this, my mother has never heard of it." ”

Hua Pingsheng didn't ask or ridicule, and said, "How is that calculated?" ”

"For example...... "Hua Ling counted her fingers, "Let's take the last time the mother settles the accounts, asking an embroiderer to embroider the cloud brocade will cost twelve taels, and embroidering thirteen pieces will cost one hundred and fifty-six taels of silver." But it's too troublesome to count one by one, and it's hard to calculate them together. According to the method taught to me by Brother Noble, it is one plus one to get one, two plus three to get five, and two times three to get six. Together, the three split numbers are one hundred and fifty-six. ”

Hua Pingsheng smiled, "It's fun, is there anything else?" ”

"Also, for example, the head is the same, and the tail is complementary. There is also a head by a head, a head by a head, and a tail by a tail. ”

Liao was almost confused, "Huh? ”

Hua Ling thought for a moment before saying, "For example, twenty-one times forty-one, that is two times two to get eight, two by four to get six, one times one to get one, a total of eight hundred and sixty-one." ”

Liao Shi was not used to such a splitting algorithm, and in her opinion, it was even more difficult, so she waved her hand and said, "My mother is already confused." She saw that her husband was listening with great interest, and said, "You are interested again, and you will be fascinated by something new as soon as it comes into your eyes." Obviously, I have a belly of novelties. ”

"There's no end to learning, ma'am." Hua Pingsheng still wanted to ask his daughter a few more words, but Hua Ling was already holding a small abacus to add, subtract and subtract. He smiled and didn't ask again, just watched his daughter dial the round abacus.

Suddenly, Liao stood up and walked to the yard tremblingly, really crying, "Don't cut it!" ”

The appearance was too painful, Hua Pingsheng laughed and laughed, and also got up and shouted to the gardener to stop. If you don't let them stop, then the wife should talk to him for half a month.

"That's right, Daddy." Hua Ling ran to the railing of the pavilion and asked, "Today is the midyear festival, and the children in the alley are not allowed to go out, but I still have to feed the foals, can I go?" If I can't go, I'll have to tell Brother Noble early, lest he wait for me. ”

Hua Pingsheng nodded, "Go, come back early, don't worry your mother." ”

Hua Ling asked curiously, "Isn't Daddy worried?" ”

Hua Pingsheng scratched the tip of her nose and said with a smile, "I'm worried that our bell will scare the ghosts and gods on the road into tears!" ”

Hua Ling giggled, her father is just funny, no one can compare!

Before evening, she planned to go to Shen Laibao to go to the racecourse together. When he arrived at Shen's house, it happened that Shen Laibao also planned to go earlier, and the two coincided, so they happily went early.

When I looked out of the car window, I saw that there were a lot of paper money, incense and candles on the road, and there were no pedestrians on the street. It looks cool and weird, and when you get to the racecourse, because there are few residents and pedestrians, the atmosphere of the Midyear Festival is not as strong as in the city.

When he arrived at the racecourse, Shen Laibao also found that there was an incense burner in front of the door, and the incense was ethereal, and he couldn't help but sigh at the prevalence of the Midyear Festival in Dayang. I knew it earlier, and I should have thought of a marketing strategy, like Qixi Festival. For example, build a haunted house to cool off the people.

According to his expectations, no one should come to ride a horse today, but as soon as he entered, he saw a horse whistling and flying over the wide horse farm, and the speed only made him see a green coat, almost lost in the greenery.

Hua Ling was speechless, "That man rides so fast, my brother doesn't ride as fast as him." ”

As they walked and looked that way, the man had disappeared from sight, entered the hinterland of the racecourse, and was out of sight. Shen Laibao asked, "Your brother, have they already arrived at the academy?" ”

"The day before yesterday, I came to the family letter, and I said it." Hua Ling said again, "But my father said that my brother would come back to study next year, and my mother was happy." Of course, I'm happy. ”

Shen Laibao smiled, if the Hua brothers come back, she has a companion, and she also has a companion.

The two went to the stable to feed the horses, and Shen Laibao remembered Qin Qin and specially asked the stable. "Yesterday I took a leave of absence, saying that I would not be free to come today. ”

Shen Laibao thought that he would have to go to the cake shop to check her safety when he went back.

The foal eats and drinks well, grows quickly, the Ili horse is not tall in Mali, and the sweaty horse raised by Shen Laibao is already much taller than the Ili horse, and it looks more powerful. It's just that Hua Ling still prefers her foal, even if she hugs her flower cat, she thinks it is much taller and more powerful than the horse.

After feeding the horses, the two did not stay as usual, and today is Halloween, they have to go home early, which is what the two promised their elders.

Coming out of the stable, the man in Tsing Yi, who had ridden away just now, rode back again. is still in the wind and fire, like the hot wheels under Nezha's feet, riding fast here with a momentum that is not open, and there is no posture to contain.

Shen Laibao hurriedly pulled the flower bell and took a few steps forward, dodging sideways, lest the man really rush over on horseback.

But the man who can ride a horse is a skilled horseman, and he drinks the horse lightly, and when he is still more than a foot away from the fence, he pulls the reins. The horse neighed and stopped, his voice full of joy in his run.

Only then did Shen Laibao see the person on the horse clearly, he had seen Tsing Yi with his hair tied up, dressed as a man, but now when he got closer, it was clearly a woman's face.

She still looks very young, her complexion is not too fair, but at first glance she looks very healthy. She has a beautiful face, there seem to be vast stars hidden in her eyes, and she gets off her horse, and she has the demeanor of a general.

Shen Laibao has never seen such a woman since he came here, and most of the girls here are gentle. Even Qin Qin, who he felt with the same firm eyes, was less than one percent of her.

Hua Ling had already left him and walked to the fence, her foot probe a little higher than hers, "Brother, you ride so well." ”

The woman blinked, clapped her hands and stood in front of her, "What are you calling me?" ”

"Brother." Hua Ling understood, "Should I call uncle?" ”

The woman laughed loudly, and didn't remember that her hand had just grabbed the reins and touched the horse, so she rubbed her head vigorously, "You will ride so well in the future, of course, if you have to learn." ”

"I'll learn!" Hua Ling raised her little head and said loudly, "I like horses, and I also have a foal called Xiaoyun." Uncle, do you want to go and see it? ”

The woman was hilarious, and Shen Laibao also smiled bitterly, she was so naïve, she was abducted as soon as she met the bad guy, "Xiaohua." ”

Hua Ling said with a smile, "I have to go home, today is the Midyear Festival, my mother asked me to go back early, uncle, you should go home too." ”

The woman tied the whip and threw it to the left, as if she had seen someone there, but she didn't even look at it when she got off the horse. Shen Laibao Weidun, it seems that he is really not an ordinary person, maybe he is really a female general?

"Okay, let's go."

She took two steps back, rushed forward, jumped over the half-man-high fence, and saw that the horseman leading the horse was dumbfounded, and also saw that Hua Ling's eyes were attentive, and she chased after her and said, "Uncle, your skills are even better than my eldest brother." ”

The woman laughed softly, "You always compare your brother with me, but how old your brother is, when he is twenty-six or seventeen, he may not be worse than me." ”

Hua Ling thought for a moment and said, "It seems possible, my brother is amazing." ”

She muttered, not realizing anything. But Shen Laibao heard the signs, and he looked up at the woman.

Heroic but outstanding, hearty temper and not afraid of losing her demeanor by pretending to be a man, she is extremely free and easy.

He paused, "Are you ...... Flower Phoenix? ”

Hua Ling also raised her head sharply when she heard the name, and blinked, "Grandma? ”

The legendary aunt and grandmother?!

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Liao felt that today was really the Midyear Festival, and she was leading people to burn incense at the door, when she saw the phoenix aunt getting down from her carriage, and getting out of the car with her daughter in her arms, and walking this way. I opened my eyes and looked at it, only to find that it was really a flower phoenix.

"Auntie?"

Hua Fenghuang was slightly surprised, "Yo, Xiaowan, when did you learn gossip, you don't know the prophet, come to the door to greet you in person." ”

The girl's name was shouted out by a person younger than himself, and Liao Shi breathed out a sigh and calmed down, "Today is the fifteenth, come to the door to burn incense and drive away evil spirits." ”

"Ha, then you burn slowly, what about my nephew?"

“…… Read a book in the gazebo. ”

The flower phoenix sighed, "Reading in the gazebo at night and feeding the mosquitoes." ”

After that, he stepped in and didn't put the flower bell down. Liao watched her daughter being taken away, and shouted to return the person to her. Hua Fenghuang said, "I like this little girl, follow me to study in the future!" ”

Liao almost didn't faint!

But Hua Phoenix is an elder, and she didn't dare to stop her, her heart was about to twist into a ball. She sighed, only to find that Shen Laibao was standing at the door, presumably sending her daughter in just now. She said with a soothing face, "It's getting late, go back quickly, don't worry about your mother." ”

Shen Laibao asked, "Auntie, was that Xiaohua's aunt just now?" ”

"Not really." Liao muttered, "The Great Demon King of the Mixed World." ”

She shook her head, the incense was not in the mood to burn, and she handed it over to the next person and went to the pavilion, she had to take her daughter back, and she had to keep her distance from the flower phoenix, so she didn't really want her to take her on a study tour.

Shen Laibao felt that the Hua family was full of interesting people, he retreated and went home, and saw a carriage driving into the alley, which was the carriage that his father was sitting in.

After a while, the carriage stopped in front of the door, Father Shen looked drunk, hugged the horse after getting out of the car, and cried, "Noble, my son, why is your neck so long, why is your hair so long." ”

Shen Laibao pulled the corners of his mouth, should he thank Daddy Shen for loving him deeply and not forgetting to call him every time he was drunk, or should he remind Daddy Shen not to just hug something and call his son every time he is drunk?

After a while, another person got out of the car, and sure enough, it was his Uncle Ge again.

Ge Mingxiu was even more drunk than him, and when he came down, he directly hugged Father Shen and called his son.

Shen Laibao couldn't stand it anymore, so he called someone to carry the two of them back together, and said very intimately at the end, "Don't let my mother see it." ”

It's a pity that there is no impermeable wall in the world, not to mention that Master Shen has to go back to the room to lie down, of course Mrs. Shen knows it immediately. She decided to wait for her brother to wake up and ask him why he always took her husband to drink, and he too, could it be that something happened again, and he didn't have a score to drink like this to relieve his worries.

As soon as Shen Laibao entered the house, Ah Wu also knocked on the door and came in, and said, "Young Master, the owner of the Bai Zhuang has sent the settled money to someone." Because you have commanded not to let anyone know, the money is brought in a chest to fill the garment. ”

"Got it." Shen Laibao said, "Do you know how to measure? I'll take a ruler and measure how long my bed is. If you are tall, you can make it a fist high, and make it flat and wide, and I want to put it under the bed, so that people can't see that it's a box. Therefore, the size should be done well, and the material should also be consistent with the floor. ”

Ah Wu understood what he meant, this was intended to hide people's eyes and ears, and called the most dangerous place the safest place, he taught, "The little one understands, let's go get a ruler." ”

"Wait." Shen Laibao called out to him again, "You go to the Baijia Cake Shop to take a look, has Miss Qin come back?" ”

I didn't see Qin Qin when I came back just now, the door of the cake shop was closed, I don't know if it was because of the Midyear Festival. Shen Laibao is still not very relieved, probably because he has been looking at paper money and incense candles for a day, and he is psychologically troubled.

It was almost night, Ah Wu came back to report that Qin Qin was at home, and Shen Laibao didn't think much about it.

After dinner, Mrs. Shen asked her subordinates to bring Ai Qing dumplings, wormwood can ward off evil spirits, and eat a dumpling to drive away evil spirits.

Every year in the early spring, Mrs. Shen would ask people to pick two large baskets of wormwood and come back, wash and boil it, wring out the juice, and put it in the ice cellar. In this way, even at the end of the year, it is still fresh. On festivals, a piece will be knocked out, and the juice will be put into glutinous rice flour to make dumplings.

Shen Laibao doesn't like sweets, he symbolically ate one, and he was a little sticky.

Mrs. Shen loves sweets, and her appetite has not been very good recently, so she ate two more. Originally, glutinous rice is not easy to digest and easy to stagnate, and the stomach has been uncomfortable after eating, and I complain of stomach pain in the middle of the night. Master Shen was so shocked that he woke up and hurriedly went to visit his mother.

After the old lady drank the medicine prescribed by the doctor, her stomach did not hurt, but she was groggy. She was sick for three days in a row and didn't get better, the days she got sick were too weird, and after discussing with Mrs. Shen, Master Shen felt that the old lady was evil. I invited a monk to chant the scriptures, I don't know if it was a coincidence or something, the old lady was good.

But when people are old and sick, they don't feel at ease, and after talking to their daughter-in-law a few times, Mrs. Shen thought about it for a while, and said to her husband, "It's better to go to the temple to fast and recite Buddha for half a month, as in previous years." ”

Master Shen also thinks it is feasible, but there are many trivial matters in the commercial bank in the middle of the year, and it is really not empty. When Ge Mingxiu heard this, he immediately said, "I'll take them with me." ”

There was a credible person to accompany him, and Master Shen immediately agreed.

And because the cave master of the academy is always messing around, it is more and more excessive, Master Shen simply asked Shen Laibao to enter the deep mountain temple together, and after the new cave master takes over, it is not too late to come back.

On July 20, the Shen family of 26 people went to the mountains to practice with their things.