Letting go of the prejudice in his heart, Lou Shi immediately became relaxed. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info thought about it and smiled unceremoniously: "Hou Ye is sick and has a bad appetite, and he always wants to eat a bite of the crisp cucumber pickled at home, pickled by the chef of the Hou Mansion, and Hou Ye always says that the taste is not right." If the mother-in-law has it at home, let the son-in-law take the family a little, and the Hou Ye will like it. ”

When Da Sun heard this, he smiled and said, "We don't have fish, but this thing is not difficult." There are ready-made pickles at home, and I'll go and fill a jar later, and I'll bring it with me when I leave. If the Hou Ye and Mrs. eat it is still delicious, they can come to the house at any time to get it. Nothing else, this quasi-storage is enough. ”

Lou Shi said: "Then the little son-in-law will take the Hou Ye and Mrs. Xie Mother-in-law, and the mother-in-law is tired." ”

Da Sun Clan said happily: "What's the matter? But Chan Niang will too, but she is lazy and doesn't like to do it, otherwise her pickled taste is no worse than mine. Why didn't the prince call her? Alright, you two go back to the hall, I'll go to the kitchen. I'll make you some of the best dishes for you to eat in a moment. ”

As he spoke, the eldest grandson left with high morale.

Ruan Feng let Lou Shi go back to the living room. On the way, Ruan Feng was entangled for a while and asked, "Did the prince of the world encounter difficulties?" I've also heard people say that the higher the position, the more difficult it is. Why don't you hear it and see if I can help? ”

What's going on there? It's just an excuse that Lou Shi came up with for a while in order not to embarrass Ruan Feng and the Dasun family. However, after listening to Ruan Feng's words, Lou Shi's heart was still warm.

However, where is Lou Shi really asking Ruan Feng to do something? Ruan Feng's question made Lou Shi stumped. Lou Shi somewhat understood why Ruan Feng had been promoted to an official in the same year for so many years, and the reason why he was still spinning in place.

People who have a little crooked heart can see that Lou Shi is a good return gift for the Ruan family, and he is looking for the bottom of the stairs. Ruan Feng's solid eyes were taken seriously. Seriously, I'm afraid that Lou Shi really has something to embarrass about.

Lou Shi had no choice but to say: "If my father-in-law can't show favoritism, don't ask." is also the son-in-law Meng Lang, who didn't think about the relationship in detail, which made his father-in-law embarrassed. ”

Ruan Feng explained: "Don't be angry, thinking that I am outside. It's just that although my official position is low, I understand that since I am a court official, it is different from the private affairs of the family. Eat the king's fortune and do things for the king. ”

Lou Shi hurriedly said: "This little son-in-law knows. It's all a family of relatives, where are you angry? ”

Ruan Feng was still a little worried, he was not really worried that Lou Shi would be angry, but mainly worried that it would affect Ruan Yuan. But in the end, being an official is the foundation of his life, and he feels sorry for his daughter, but he can't be soft-hearted in major matters. Ruan Feng had no other way, so he had to accompany Lou Shi more carelessly, hoping that Lou Shi could treat Ruan Yuan well for the sake of his family.

Walking to the door of the house, the road guarded under the eaves helped to open the curtains. Lou Shi and Ruan Feng entered the hall, but Ruan Yuan did not wait for them in the hall. Lou Shi shouted: "You come in and take the box containing the silver, put it away, and take it with you when you leave." By the way, the carriage of the princess's mansion was sent away? ”

Dao Yi hurriedly called the soldiers who came to him into the house to collect the cash. He replied, "Go back to the world, and send it away early in the morning." But at the beginning of the year, he went back to the Hou Mansion to catch the carriage. ”

I also wanted to say: Tell Zhenbei Hou and Mrs. Jian together, they won't go back to eat at night, and they will be at Ruan's house. But Daoyi has always been clever, and he felt that these words were not appropriate, so he swallowed them back into his stomach.

The soldier put away the silver box, tucked it under it, and went out. Dao Yi also went out of the hall together, still waiting under the eaves to listen to orders.

Ruan Feng asked Lou Shi to sit down first, and then he carefully sat down on the main seat. Because I was too reserved, I couldn't find anything to talk about. But if he didn't speak, the hall was embarrassingly quiet. Ruan Feng wanted to find something to say, racked his brains, but couldn't think of it, so anxious that Ruan Feng sweated out.

Lou Shi sat on the seat with his back against the back of the chair, picked up the tea on the table and took a sip. said: "Ruan Yuan really pickles cucumbers?" ”

Speaking of his daughter, Ruan Feng is always proud. said: "No, Chan Niang is smart when she is young, and she can learn anything as soon as she learns it." Her mother taught her only once, and she did. I once pickled it once when I was at home, and when I brought it to the table, I thought it was your mother-in-law who pickled it, and it didn't taste bad at all. Since Hou Ye wants to eat this, she didn't tell you? ”

Lou Shi unceremoniously framed Ruan Yuan and said, "No, Master Hou said it a few times, but Ruan Yuan didn't say that she would pickle it." The family has been working for this pickled cucumber for a long time. Hou Ye always said that he wanted to eat the taste of home, no matter how good the cook made it, Hou Ye said that the taste was wrong. ”

When Ruan Feng heard this, his face showed guilt. Ruan Yuan's temper, Ruan Feng still knows. Although Ruan Yuan learns things quickly and knows everything, there is a problem. Lazy! When she is in a good mood and is in the mood, she will make out any difficult things, and she will never make them worse than others.

But once you say it's delicious and want her to make it again, you lose interest, or you're in a bad mood, no matter how you call or coax her, she just won't get it for you.

The daughter was not educated well, so she married to her in-law's family. Ruan Feng felt sorry for his in-laws. said: "Wait for me to say her, this child, she won't do it if she wants to eat it, this is because Hou Ye is not familiar with her." Try it in a different home? It's strange if you don't beat her every day. Not to mention, the neighbor of our family mentioned by the ancestor of the ancestor has only been here for a long time, and he always beats his daughter-in-law. ”

Ruan Yuan came out of the west room, stood at the door, raised her eyebrows, and said with a cold smile on the corner of her mouth, "Dad is arranging me behind my back again." I married into their family, could it be that I became a maid? I married as a wife. ”

Ruan Feng saw that Ruan Yuan was getting more and more unspeakable, and hurriedly scolded: "This kid, what nonsense? What kind of lady is not a lady, she comes out of a small family, and she can do it if she is not diligent in her mother-in-law's house? Don't say that you marry into a family like Houfu, that is, our family's newly moved neighbors, if you don't believe a few generals, you will meet, and sure enough, you always beat your daughter-in-law. You didn't see her mother-in-law, it's amazing. If he has nothing to do, he will pry his son and beat his daughter-in-law. ”

Lou Shi has probably seen Ruan Yuan's temperament in the past few days, and he is afraid that she will not care about what unpleasant things she says, so she hurriedly diverts the topic and says: "Beat your daughter-in-law?" I looked at the man who was still done, and it seemed that he was doing his duty, did he really beat his daughter-in-law? ”

Ruan Feng said: "I haven't seen him beat, but I can always hear their mother-in-law scolding, and then I saw my son and daughter-in-law in the house for a long time." After their daughter-in-law, she didn't leave the house for a few days, and according to her mother-in-law, it was her son who beat her. Anyway, since they moved in, it hasn't been clean for a few days. It's so noisy that everyone in the street hears it. ”

Lou Shi asked with a look of disbelief: "Daughter-in-law and mother-in-law are scolding?" ”

He was a city patrol envoy, and it would be very convenient if he wanted to know whose house it was, but he didn't specifically let his subordinates pay attention, so he didn't know it, so he asked like this.

Ruan Feng shook his head and sighed disapprovingly: "Her daughter-in-law doesn't make a sound, and her mother-in-law always scolds her for being fooled or something." I don't know what I can do if I marry a daughter-in-law. Their daughter-in-law easily didn't go out, and there were even a few waiting girls. ”

Lou Shi nodded knowingly.

Ruan Yuan sat on the chair opposite Lou Shi and asked strangely: "When I came to the house last time, my mother was busy and didn't finish speaking, has our neighbor changed?" What about Uncle Lu's family? Moved? He's cured? I showed him at home, and it didn't look like it was getting better at once. ”

Speaking of this, Ruan Feng sighed again: "Don't talk about your Uncle Lu." Your Uncle Lu died of illness two months ago. ”

Ruan Yuan didn't have a surprised expression, and only asked, "What's the matter, after Uncle Lu died, something happened to his family?" ”

Ruan Feng sighed: "You don't know that he is a big man, and he is addicted to gambling. While his father was alive, he could still take care of him. Since his father fell ill, he has been free, and no one can take care of it. Even the money for his father's medical treatment and burial was stolen to gamble. In the end, the deed of the family was suppressed. Leaving this family behind, he ran away without a trace. ”

Lou Shi frowned and said, "I heard about this, but his mother refused to report to the official, and the government couldn't do anything to him." Otherwise, this kind of unfilial son ...... "Lou Shi" hummed, although he didn't say anything, but it was self-evident.

Ruan Feng sighed again: "The prince is not a parent, so he naturally doesn't understand. But I understand. No matter how unfilial her children are, it is not a last resort, which mother is willing to go to the government to sue her son for unfilial piety? That's not fun. A few years ago, an old lady was so angry that she went to the government to sue her only son for beating her. Does the prince know this? ”

Lou Shi said: "It seems to sound a little faith." This is a direct decree from the emperor. The old lady's son and daughter-in-law were all beheaded and hung at the entrance of the vegetable market for a month as an example. How could the old lady stand this stimulation? At that time, she committed suicide at the execution ground of her son. Pity left a little granddaughter, and later heard that she was adopted by the clan. ”

Ruan Feng said: "Not really. Unless those abnormal parents, otherwise, no matter what, parents will not dare to go to the government in vain. ”

Ruan Yuan asked, "Then how did the Lu family move away later?" ”

Ruan Feng said: "If you don't move away, you can't do it." You also know that those who lend gambling debts are also easy to provoke? Every day I came to ask for money, but Aunt Lu had no choice, I wanted to sell the house out, and I could sell it at a high price, so that I could keep some silver as travel expenses and go back to my hometown. But those moneylenders who make trouble at both ends for three days, which person with rules dares to buy it? In the end, it was paid to the creditor, and after getting a few taels of silver, Aunt Lu took the family back to her hometown to ask for a way to live. ”

"Oh!" Ruan Yuan said: "Then the money lender sold the house." ”

Ruan Feng said: "Don't you just sell it to his family." ”

Lou Shi said with a smile: "The family's surname is Zhang, the wife's surname is Yu, young and widowed, with a son and a daughter." The son is in his twenties and married a daughter-in-law. My daughter is sixteen years old this year. It's been less than a month since I moved here. Father-in-law, is the son-in-law right? ”

Ruan Feng nodded again and again and said, "What the prince said is similar to what we know. How did the prince know? Know their kids? ”

Lou Shi glanced at Ruan Yuan and smiled.

Ruan Yuan looked at Lou Shi strangely, but she couldn't understand how he could know so much about her mother's neighbor. If it was a subordinate relationship, Lou Shi would not look at her and smile like this. It can't have anything to do with Tang Zhi, right? Ruan Yuan looked at Lou Shi in confusion.

Lou Shi explained: "I don't know his boy. But the daughter-in-law they married was the daughter of Tang Saijiu. ”

Ruan Yuan blurted out: "Tang Hui? Can't you? How could a high-ranking official like Tang Xijiu marry his daughter so low? How do you live in such a shabby place? Even if it's a concubine, it's too much worse. ”

Lou Shi thought for a while, and finally said: "Each family has its own difficulties. In the high-walled compound, the worst thing is the secret. ”

Ruan Yuan lowered her eyes and thought about it, pulled the corners of her lips, and turned to stop mentioning this matter. Instead, he asked Ruan Feng: "Dad, the two brothers are going to pick up the aunt, when will they come back?" It's been gone for more than half a month, right? ”

Lou Shi immediately thought of what Ruan Yuan said last time, when he quarreled with Ruan Yuan. I couldn't help frowning and plucking my ears to listen.

Ruan Feng didn't think much about it, and said: "It will take more than a month to come and go quickly, the weather is hot, and your aunt is not in good health, so it will probably take until the first autumn to enter Beijing." If your aunt is reluctant to give up the harvest at home, I'm afraid that it will have to be delayed. Don't worry, I'll send you a letter when I come back, and let you come home. ”

Ruan Yuan listened and was a little disappointed. She also thought that his two brothers would pick it up, and they would leave immediately, and if they were quick to whip up, it would be two months back and forth. She didn't know that she had been taken care of since she was a child, so she didn't have to worry about her livelihood, so how could she know the hardships of life? Where have you ever heard of "the poor are hard to give up"?

Glancing at Ruan Yuan, Lou Shi said, "The two eldest brothers are out?" Won't it delay the meeting? In the spring of next year, it will be Guan Jian. ”

Ruan Feng smiled helplessly: "Don't mention those two boys." It's a pity that the child was born wrong. Chan Niang is too smart, and those two are too stupid. ”

Lou Shi looked at Ruan Yuan with a smile and said, "How smart is it?" ”

Ruan Yuan glanced at Lou Shi, and Lou Shi smiled more and more happily.

Ruan Feng saw it in his eyes, and said busily: "Don't say anything else, just say that you can memorize a poem or something, her two brothers can't memorize it for a few days, and Chan Niang can memorize it very smoothly after only reading it twice." It's a pity that she's a girl, and if she's a boy, I'm afraid it's early now. Where are you like those two boys, and they still don't pass the test. Fortunately, this is in the capital, otherwise, there will be hardships for the two of them. ”

When Ruan Feng said this, he forgot that he himself had repeatedly failed the exam, so that he had traveled to the capital for many years and suffered a lot.

Ruan Yuan didn't like to hear it: "Father is talking nonsense, why is my brother not smart?" Waiting for tomorrow spring, I dare to guarantee the ticket, my brother is accurate. ”

When she said this, Ruan Yuan seemed very weak-hearted. Because Ruan Yuan knew that her two brothers were really academic, and they had no talent. It's not Ruan Yuan who said that she felt that her brother was the same as her father. However, no matter how bold Ren Ruan Yuan was, he didn't dare to say it in front of Ruan Feng.

Unless it's a dream. Thinking so, Ruan Yuan unconsciously glanced at Ruan Feng and secretly stuck out her tongue. (To be continued.) )