Midsummer July, Suzhou City.

After serving in the army for nearly two years, Yao Miaoyi finally returned to her hometown.

Walking on the familiar streets, smelling the aroma of fried stinky tofu on the street corner, listening to the market shrews bargaining, and the restaurant Xiaoer loudly announcing the name of the dish to attract guests, this is the fireworks in the world, which is completely different from the slaughter on the battlefield.

How many people have returned to the ancient war? Yao Miaoyi doesn't like the military doctor career of Jun Moxiao who is drunk and lying on the battlefield, dealing with dead people and wailing wounded soldiers all day long, and at this moment she reintegrates into the fireworks of the world, and even her hair feels comfortable.

She restored her women's clothes, a thorn hairpin cloth dress, a green silk combed into a double mustache, and a pair of gardenias that bloomed in summer.

At the gate of the Yao family's compound, a bare-fed boy with a red belly pocket, walking staggeringly, like a duckling, chased a kitten, saw the stranger approaching, and was so frightened that he quickly ran into the yard and hid in the arms of a girl sitting on a small bamboo bench next to the well to wash vegetables.

Bang dang!

Seeing the face of the comer clearly, the copper basin in Song Xiu'er's hand smashed on the well platform, and the picked and washed chicken feather vegetables were sprinkled on the ground, "Miss? Miss is back! ”

Song Xiuer is the original daughter of Song Xiaowei, who escorted Yao Miaoyi's mother and daughter. After Captain Song died in battle, his stepmother regarded Xiu'er as a thorn in her side, and in order to covet Xiu'er's dowry and silver, she actually sold it to a prostitute in Yangzhou!

The old bustard originally planned to train Xiu'er into a happy Yangzhou thin horse, but was bought by Yao Miaoyi, who was looking for his benefactor. Later, Yao Miaoyi joined the army on behalf of her brother, and the condition was that the eldest uncle of the Yao family came forward and went to the Yamen to get rid of Xiu'er's lowly status and become a good citizen.

Song Xiuer is very grateful to Yao Miaoyi for this, although she is no longer a slave, she has always regarded Yao Miaoyi as a master. Yao Miaoyi went on the expedition, so she worked as a domestic helper in Yao's house, waiting for Yao Miaoyi to come back.

"Yes, I came back alive, and I was rewarded with a great deal of money, and I hired a carriage to come back, and I sent a few men to carry the cages outside." Yao Miaoyi walked in with a small burden on her back, touched the bare boy's pigtails, and said with a smile: "I'm your aunt, did the eldest nephew take a name?" ”

Song Xiu'er was excited, looked at Yao Miaoyi intently, and before she could explain, an old man came over with a pestle and said, "The nickname is Brother Guan." Miaoyi, I have wronged you for my brother in the past two years. ”

"Great uncle." Yao Miaoyi saluted respectfully, "On this expedition, Miaoyi has also gained something, and she is not aggrieved." Is my uncle in good health? ”

Uncle Yao smiled bitterly: "Alas, it's still the same, sometimes good and sometimes bad, doctors can't heal themselves!" Xiu'er, hurry up and go to the restaurant outside to pass a good table of noodles to Miaoyi. ”

Xiu'er responded with a smile, and Brother Guan stumbled to her grandfather's side and grabbed the crutches to play. Uncle Yao doted on his fat grandson and said with a smile: "Your eldest brother is sitting in the pharmacy, and your sister-in-law is in charge of the accounts, I have already sent the scholar to the pharmacy and asked them to come back early today for a reunion." ”

The Yao family has a total of two rooms, and Uncle Yao is the eldest of the Yao family.

Yao Miaoyi's father-in-law is the second eldest of the Yao family, and he became a monk at the age of eight, with the law name Daoyan. Before adopting Yao Miaoyi, the monk Daoyan also adopted a boy as his righteous son, named Yao Jitong.

Yao Jitong traveled around with the monk Daoyan all year round, and the whereabouts of the two were as uncertain as floating clouds.

The year before last, Emperor Hongwu ordered the Northern Expedition, and the whole country had to be drawn into the Northern Expeditionary Army. The Yao family was included in the yellow register of household registration, and was given a quota to be selected as a military doctor.

At that time, Uncle Yao was seriously ill, and the eldest brother Yao Heng's new wife, Sister-in-law Yao, was pregnant, and the fetal gas was unstable, and she had been lying in bed to keep the fetus safe, and there was a danger of one corpse and two lives at any time, and her husband who was a doctor needed to take care of her.

And the second room Daoyan monk and his righteous son Yao Jitong left home for several months and did not know their whereabouts at all.

Yao's sister-in-law held her stomach and knelt down and begged Yao Miaoyi to follow Mulan's example when she disguised herself as a man and joined the army for her father and brother.

First, in order to repay the kindness of the Yao family in the past eight years of adoption and teaching medical skills, and secondly, to track down Zhao Tiande, the enemy who killed his mother, Yao Miaoyi agreed to Yao's sister-in-law's request.

The official brother is as strong as a calf, it seems that the sister-in-law is a smooth birth, and the mother and child are safe. He was afraid of life, so he writhed in Uncle Yao's arms, refusing to accept Yao Miaoyi's hug. It wasn't until Yao Miaoyi took out a piece of nest candy from her purse that Brother Guan'er's eyes lit up, saliva pulled out a crystal line at the corner of his lips, and he reached out to grab nest candy.

Yao Miaoyi took the opportunity to hug Brother Guan'er and slapped the fat doll's bare buttocks, "What a gluttonous baby." ”

Her face was pleasant, but her heart was a little trance-like, she remembered that she had tooth decay when she was a child, her mother Xiao Xie broke her snacks, and her father Xu Da secretly stuffed her with a box of ghee snails every time she went home, and her mother found out, and blamed her father for being too pampered, and her father kissed her little chubby face, "Is my Xu Da's eldest daughter still worried about getting married?" Even if the teeth are decayed, there is still a group of young talents rushing to marry......

Looking back on the past, Yao Miaoyi was about to cry with a sour heart, she forcibly diverted her attention, and deliberately grabbed the nest candy with the official brother to eat, and the aunt and nephew played together, and a piece of candy was mixed up before it was finished.

Uncle Yao was very relieved to see that his aunt and nephew were harmonious, and a trace of guilt disappeared in his heart, and ordered the servant to take out his private dragon well before the rain and soak it, and babbled about some interesting stories about his eldest grandson.

I heard that Yao Miaoyi in the second room is back, and she still has several heavy cages. Yao Ji Pharmacy closed early, and Yao Dalang and his wife both returned home. When I reached the door, I heard a sharp female voice sound, "Yo! I have never seen a servant so rampant that he dared to talk back to his married aunt. My younger brother and sister are really good at teaching people. ”

Sister-in-law Yao chuckled in her heart: Oops! The most difficult aunt has returned to her parents' house!

In the courtyard of the Yao family, Song Xiu'er's pretty face was shy and angry, and she was flushed, "Mrs. Gu, these cages belong to the young lady, you can't just reach out and take it if you see something, you are also a squire's wife, how can you ...... How can you be so shameless! ”

Brother Yao and Sister-in-law Yao, who were outside the gate, glanced at each other, and the tacit understanding was not good! Now Mrs. Gu is going to make a fuss again, so she quickly apologizes to Mrs. Gu and persuades her.

It's a pity that as soon as the couple's legs stepped into the threshold, they heard Mrs. Gu crying, "I'm really miserable, even my subordinates bullied my widow and unemployed." These things are obviously replaced by Miaoyi—"

"It's time to set the meal, and invite the eldest aunt to sit down for a banquet." Yao Miaoyi interrupted, took Mrs. Gu's hand, and walked into the house with a pull, and shouted in a low voice:

"This time, I joined the army as my brother Yao Jitong, who was wandering abroad, and for more than a year, the neighbors thought that I had gone out to find my biological parents. Although the eldest aunt cried, she shouted that the neighbors knew that I was dressed as a man and replaced Yao Jitong. The Yao family committed the crime of deception, confiscated the family property, the uncles and eldest brothers were in prison, and you were lonely and helpless in your in-laws' house, so you are satisfied? ”

Mrs. Gu is the sister of the monk Daoyan, and the two are dragon and phoenix fetuses. But creation makes people, how smart and open-minded Monk Daoyan is, how unreasonable and mean this aunt is!

I heard that Mrs. Gu used to be fine, married to Hejian Village in Suzhou at the age of sixteen, she was a wealthy squire, and her husband's surname was Gao, so she was called Gao Yao.

Gao Yao's young widow guarded a pair of children to live, and his personality and temper began to become eccentric, pinching and splashing. You can find fault with trivial things.

In fact, Gao Yao's tear-filled virtue of crying and crying, the mantra is "pity my widow and be unemployed", whether it is the husband's family in Hejian Village or the mother's family in Suzhou Mansion, no one dares to provoke her. Only Yao Miaoyi, who doesn't eat hard and soft, is her nemesis.

Hearing Gao Yao's sharp cry, Yao Dalang and his wife breathed a sigh of relief. Yao Miaoyi's disguise as a man, once it is broken, the Yao family is afraid that it will be self-defeating and will have to suffer a lawsuit.

The Yao family has accumulated some family business over the years by practicing medicine and selling medicines, and it can be regarded as a wealthy family, but if it sticks to the lawsuit, I am afraid it will be ruined.

Gao Yao is not stupid - a fool can't be domineering for that long. She knows what is at stake, if her mother's family falls, and a pair of children do not have a family, her widow will really be lonely.

However, Gao Yao's is a goose plucking temper, the matter will not end like this, seeing that everyone is seated, the family banquet is about to begin. She took out a handkerchief to wipe her tears, choked up:

"Miaoyi's good niece, your maid has sharp teeth and sharp mouth, I was angry with her, so I lost my mouth and talked nonsense. My widow is unemployed and pitiful, and has never seen much of the world, and when she sees your cages piled up into a small mountain, she wants to open it and have long eyes, so that she can talk more when she goes out in the future. Who knows......"

Gao Yao's handkerchief covered his face and cried: "Xiu'er just said that I stole your things, which is really more wronged than Dou E!" ”

As soon as Gao Yao's family stirred up like this, the atmosphere of reunion disappeared in an instant, and no one was in the mood to raise chopsticks. Gao Yao's whimpering continued, just to force Song Xiu'er to kowtow and admit her mistakes, and force Yao Miaoyi to open the box and let her pick good things.

Yao Miaoyi glanced at Gao Yao's sleeve, sneered in her heart, she picked up a glass of wine, walked to Gao Yao's side, and said: "Aunt misunderstood, in fact, there is no great treasure in the cage, and the rewards I got in the military camp were all exchanged for rare medicinal materials in the north, especially Korean ginseng, and the price was only a fraction of that of our south." ”

Gao Yao's face turned away and continued to cry, Yao Miaoyi pretended to toast and apologize, and secretly shook Gao Yao's sleeves.

Stamp!

A Korean red ginseng fell out of Gao Yao's sleeve, smashed on the table, knocked over a pair of cups and chopsticks, and the chopsticks were gone, and the celadon cup fell to the ground and shattered, making the official brother cry in fright.

Seeing the Korean ginseng on the wine table, everyone was stunned, Yao Miaoyi had a distressed expression, "Auntie, you actually ......"

Gao Yao's mouth opened wide, and he hurriedly argued: "No! I didn't steal it! ”

pointed at Yao Miaoyi and said, "It's her!" It's her who planted the blame! ”

This is to be honest, she originally wanted to fish in troubled waters when she was turning over the cage, but Song Xiu'er was desperate and watched too closely, no matter how she splashed, she refused to move her eyes, she really didn't have a chance to start.

But she is used to pinching the tip to take advantage, "bad deeds", and no one believes her explanation.

Catch the thief and take the dirty. Mrs. Gu was slapped in public and made a fool of herself, and she was ashamed of the elderly, Yao Dalang and his wife glanced at each other, hugged their son and retired. Yao Miaoyi also said goodbye and went back to the room.

Only the crying Gao Yao and Uncle Yao were left on the table. Uncle Yao sighed and ordered the servants to divide the banquet into a meal box and send it to each room for dinner.

As the sun set, Yao Miaoyi ate and drank to her heart's content, soaking in the bathtub and dozing off. Song Xiu'er sat next to the bathtub and peeled off the sweet grapes like purple jade.

"What's going on in the lobby?" Yao Miaoyi leaned on the edge of the tub and said with her eyes closed.

Song Xiu'er used a toothpick to remove the grape seeds, fed them to Yao Miaoyi, and raised her eyebrows, "It's not the same as before, Uncle Yao taught Mrs. Gu with a straight face, and before she could say a word, Mrs. Gu ran to the ancestral hall crying and cried for her father, saying that her brother helped outsiders bully her widow and be unemployed." Instead, he forced Uncle Yao to kowtow in front of the ancestral spiritual throne and admit his mistake. ”