Chapter 15: Return to the Imperial Capital
The lady of the Zheng family has not seen Yuexi for a long time, and she is also happy to see her come to the door today.
It's just that she is really sick and has no energy, so this happiness is to say hello to Yue Xi weakly, and then she struggled to raise her head and look behind Yue Xi: "What about Sanniang?" I don't know where she went, she hasn't been home for a month. ”
Yue Xi stood in the middle of the Zheng family's courtyard, with a small dining table next to it, and there were things everywhere in the huge courtyard, which was so messy that there was no place to put his feet.
Hearing that a guest was coming, the dog came out of the kitchen, wearing only a blanket and naked, revealing his fleshy little buttocks.
He held a hard pouted pancake in his hand that looked like it could be used as a plate, took a bite with great effort, and looked at Yue Xi stunned for a moment.
I haven't seen him for a few months, and the child has grown a lot, but he is sloppy, and he looks like a wild child who no one cares about!
Yue Xi squatted down and clapped his hands at the dirty boy: "Come here, don't you know me?" ”
The little thing took two steps towards Yue Xi, then turned around and ran to the door of the main house, and plunged into the arms of his mother who was sitting there, so as not to bump into the Zheng family's lady.
"Watch out for your mother!" Zheng Baocai helped Yue Xi drive the donkey cart into the livestock shed, and when he entered the yard, he shouted at his son.
This sound was not small, Yue Xi felt a little deafening, but it was only powerful for the dirty boy with a bare butt, and his whole body was lying in the arms of the Zheng family's lady, and asked in a milky voice: "Mother, who is he......"
The lady of the Zheng family lowered her head and smiled at her son, but she only gasped a few times and did not speak. Only then did Yue Xi see that her thick hair had fallen out a lot, and this time she looked down and saw the scalp covered under the hair!
"Alas!" Sighing secretly, Yue Xi stood up straight, only feeling that the Zheng family had a really messy life.
"Brother, who do you look like?" Zheng Baocai took his second son out of the house, walked to Yue Xi's side and said, "Isn't it quite handsome?" ”
Yue Xi looked down at the sleeping child in his arms, and the first thing he felt was that this gray child also had to be put in the water to take a bath.
"Be quiet!" Father Zheng came out of his room, glared at Zheng Baocai with a puff fan in his hand and said: "He howled for an hour, and his mother held him, and he fell asleep because he was tired of crying." ”
"The family is too busy, why don't you invite someone to come back and take care of it?" Yue Xi stretched out his hand and gently touched the child's little face, looked at it carefully, and felt that the child was still born like his mother.
"Your sister-in-law is not happy." Zheng Bao looked back and lowered his voice and said: "This girl doesn't look crooked, her temper is not small, when she was confined, her sister-in-law came over and said that she would serve her for a few days, but she didn't do it!" ”
"My brother is also out of line." Zheng Baocai lowered his head and kissed his youngest son on the face, and then said: "It's all up to her, woman, this life is not easy, she worked hard to give birth to another son for me, you say, how can my brother make her unhappy again?" ”
Yue Xi nodded slightly, took out a silver ticket from his arms and stuffed it into the baby's placket: "It's a happy event to add Ding to the family, Brother Zheng, you have to take the congratulatory gift of your brother!" ”
"Oh, my brother takes it!" Zheng Baocai didn't shirk it, walked to his daughter-in-law with the child in his arms, took out the silver ticket and handed it to her: "Our brother gave it, take it." ”
The lady of the Zheng family raised her hand to take it, and gave Yue Xi a smile: "Why didn't Sanniang come with me?" If you see her, bring her a message, saying that your sister-in-law misses her. ”
"Okay." Yue Xi smiled and nodded: "The shop in Cixian County can't do without her, those few people love to eat her cooking." When I'm busy for a while, I'll invite someone who is good at cooking to come back, and let her come to the shop here. ”
"Sanniang's cooking is delicious, her hands are fast, and it won't take long for a meal to be served......" The lady of the Zheng family looked down at the silver ticket in her hand, the smile on her face was even stronger, and she whispered to Yue Xi: "I just miss her, our sisters have a temper, I dreamed of her yesterday, she wore a new dress, embroidered with pink lotus, it looks good......"
The smile on Yue Xi's face was almost unbearable, she hurriedly turned around and walked to the well to get a bucket of water, washed her face, turned her head and Zheng Baocai said, "You can't live without people at home, so don't go to the shop." ”
"Chu Yingzhi isn't staring here? Brother Zheng might as well take care of the family more. ”
"Don't hide it from your brother, my brother can't go for a few days a month." Zheng Baocai put the child back on the bed in the house, and put down the curtain when he went out, there were many mosquitoes in summer, and he was afraid that the child would be bitten.
"There was a brother who came over and sent a letter, saying that the account show hadn't shown up for a few days, and I was afraid that he would run away with the money in our shop, so I went over to stare at it, and asked the surnamed Chu to check the accounts in the past two days."
Yue Xi chuckled in her heart, she only thought about it slightly, and then walked towards the gate: "I'll go over and take a look." ”
"Ming'er will take good care of it at home. The old man is old, don't let the old man cook anymore......" Standing at the bottom of the steps, Yue Xi said to Zheng Baocai, who chased him out.
"There's something I forgot to mention." Zheng Baocai also went down the steps and approached Yue Xi and whispered: "That county prince has come, he came by himself, so I asked my brother about you, and my brother feels that he has taken a fancy to you!" ”
"Huh?" Yue Xiyi frowned: "He has a crush on me?" ”
"Brother pondered, he still wants to pull you into the Golden Pavilion." Zheng Baocai said firmly.
"Oh." Yue Xi breathed a sigh of relief: "Next time he comes back, you will ask him to check the pulse of his sister-in-law again, don't let him go lightly." ”
"Hey!" Zheng Baocai stretched out his hand to pull Yue Xi, who turned his head and was about to leave, he looked at her, swallowed his saliva and whispered: "Brother, my brother heard about something, it was said by a friend who lives on Yudao Street in the city......"
"Huh?" Yue Xi's heart moved, and almost immediately thought of what he was going to say.
He said that in the lunar month of last year, the emperor of our Dazhao Dynasty was married to a descendant dressed in black
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The marriage was disturbed by a descendant in black......"
Originally, my brother didn't believe it, but what he said had a nose and eyes, and he also said that later, the people in the government went door to door, so that everyone kept their mouths shut...... It's not that my brother is too careful, how do I think the black-clothed poster he said is so much like your brother? ”
"That's me." Yue Xi did not evade, and nodded directly.
"Ah......" Zheng Baocai let go of Yue Xi's hand and couldn't help but take a step back, but he immediately approached Yue Xi and said in surprise: "I said brother, are you dying?!" You dare to stir up that person's family affairs, are you going to die? ”
Yue Xi pursed his lips and smiled, and said lightly: "How else to say that I am young and reckless, I was blinded by lard at that time to do such a stupid thing, and I won't do it in the future......"
"Oops!" Zheng Baocai nodded, and whispered with palpitations: "You can do these things again, my brother is panicking!" We can't mess with people like that! ”
Yue Xi was still smiling, she didn't say anything but thought in her heart: It's all provoked, what else can I do? Lao Tzu no longer cares about = provokes him, because he doesn't want to deal with him!
The two of them were silent for a while at the same time, and when Zheng Bao spoke again, he sighed first: "This matter, my brother shouldn't ask." ”
"It doesn't matter." Yue Xi replied with a flat face.
"When I asked, I was worried, but when you look at the mess in my brother's house, I really don't want to see my brother anymore."
"Brother Zheng, but don't worry, the younger brother is not good, and he has lived for thousands of years since ancient times, so the younger brother's longevity is still long, and Brother Tai has to take good care of the family." Yue Xi said with a grin.
"Haha! And it will come out of your mouth. Zheng Baocai shook his head again, the expression on his face was no longer so solemn, and he immediately said to Yue Xi: "Fat girl, you haven't come to my house for a few days, brother, don't get me wrong!" My brother didn't have crooked thoughts, but your sister-in-law always talked about her, and she also packed a bag of clothes and came out, saying by name that she would leave them to Du Sanniang, and said that if she swallowed her breath, it would be unlucky for her to give people her clothes again......"
"Brother, when you go back to Cixian, let that fat girl come out and accompany your sister-in-law, you can see how many days your sister-in-law looks like, my brother is not embarrassed for you, right?"
Zheng Baocai raised his head and stared at Yue Xi with eager eyes, just waiting for her to give a happy reply, so he could go back and coax his daughter-in-law to be happy.
But Yue Xi shook his head.
Zheng Baocai's face immediately sank: "Brother doesn't have any face in front of you?" ”
"My fat sister is gone." Yue Xi's body exuded a cold air, and even his voice seemed to have lost its temperature.
"What?" Zheng Baocai's eyes widened leisurely, and he asked in surprise, "Gone?" What's missing? ”
"There will be no Du Sanniang in the future, she is dead, and she swallowed yesterday morning." Yue Xi said very lightly: "Don't tell outsiders about this, my fat sister is filial, and I'm afraid that her father and mother will send the black-haired person sad, so let's hide it first......"
Zheng Baocai stood on the ground in front of his house, and he didn't come to his senses for a long time.
He watched Yue Xi wave his hand to him and walk farther and farther, and he didn't reach out to hold him again.
Suddenly thinking that his daughter-in-law would always mention Du Sanniang in the past two days, and said that he had dreamed of her, Zheng Baocai immediately got goosebumps, he turned around and walked up the steps quickly, and shouted loudly before entering the yard: "Daughter-in-law, come out to eat, I bought you a bamboo shoot chicken, it's still hot!" ”
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Yue Xi is the Zheng family who left on foot.
On the road in the dark of night, she walked slowly along the side of the road.
The small account office of the Taiping Bureau will not come to work for no reason, and this matter will never be as Zheng Baocai guessed.
Yue Xi just thought about it more and more strangely, if it was according to common sense, the Taiping Bureau accident should have happened a long time ago, how did he come out of the mountains, these people encountered accidents one after another, is this time really just a coincidence?
Looking up at the sky, Yue Xi quickened her pace, it was not too late, she was still in time to advance to the city at the gate.
She had to move faster, only in this way could she stop Han Er's slut from harming people again.
The Jokhang Emperor was still the same, maintaining a semblance of calm, as if nothing had happened in the city.
Yue Xi had gone into the city to buy wine before, and now he was able to enter the city again without hindrance.
Almost without any effort, she found out the location of the Prime Minister's Mansion from a traveling merchant who walked the streets and alleys with a burden to do business.