"Liu Gongzi, are you passing through Huozhou?"

The shyness made the old lady feel good, especially the three rings that knelt on the ground, "Grandson, Liu Zuochen greets Grandma Chen." This kind of rhetoric made her even more overjoyed. The first time we met was one of them, Liu Zuochen's status was noble, even if he called her grandma, he still didn't dare to call him "grandson" calmly.

"If you go back to grandma, my grandson is here to Huozhou on an errand this time, and I have to live for a long time."

"Oh! ......"The old lady looked thoughtfully at the two grandsons who were standing side by side, "I am not busy with errands, I go to the house to sit in my spare time, but the family is too simple......"

She seemed to have something to say, but it was difficult to speak, Liu Zuochen couldn't help but look at her gaze, and Chen Yongfeng also looked a little cramped and uneasy at this time.

The sound of light broken steps sounded, and the girl of the Lu family entered the room in a hurry but not panicked, holding a set of tea sets that could be seen more eye-catching, and walked straight to the table of the Eight Immortals, bowed slightly and whispered: "Grandma Chen, let Xiaonu help you watch the tea?" ”

Seeing that the old lady bowed her head and poured tea and sent it to Liu Zuochen and his party one by one, she turned around and poured a full cup for the old lady, and bowed lightly to retreat.

"Grandma, who is this?" Liu Zuochen, who had not been introduced and saw a lot of cats, opened his mouth and asked.

Unexpectedly, Liu Zuochen would ask, the old lady sighed slightly, and said, "It's not an outsider...... it's Yongfeng's...... Cousin. ”

The word "table" can pull out how far the relationship can be drawn, no one can find out clearly, the daughters of the mother-in-law, uncles and aunts, and the sweet potato seedlings of the seven aunts and eight aunts can be called "cousins", who can be clear and clear? The sentence "is Yongfeng's cousin" is nothing more than an attitude - this is a relative of the Chen family.

But the hesitation between the words, and the look of the superintendent, should be secretive! Liu Zuochen thought and waved his hand, "Wait for you to stand down, the official has something to say to grandma." ”

"Then ......, my lords deignant, would it be good to go to the small house?"

“…… Very good, very good! Lord Liu, if you have something to do, just greet the lower officials. The superintendent's eyes were rolling around, and in response, he arched his hand to Liu Zuochen again, and then left the house.

The charcoal in the brazier was stirred by the cold wind poured in when the door was opened, and sparks flew everywhere, and the charcoal chips that were blown up lost their fiery red color before they could fall to the ground, and the smoke did not last long to complete its mission.

Life is frugal, and the coals for heating are not willing to buy better quality.

For a long time, the old and the young did not speak.

The old lady did not know what he was going to say, and waited with peace of mind.

Liu Zuochen was thinking about how to open his mouth to inquire, knowing the meaning of secrecy as deep as deep, most of them were unwilling to judge the character of outsiders.

"Ahem, cough, cough ......" seemed to be smoked by charcoal, the old lady coughed and picked up the teapot, frowning slightly, "Liu Gongzi, the old man added tea for you." ”

"How can you work for your boss, your grandson will come by himself, by himself."

Liu Zuochen, who got up in a panic, rushed to the table of the Eight Immortals, picked up the teapot, and asked, "Brother Yongfeng's cousin, isn't she a close relative?" ”

“…… Alas, it was ...... daughter, the daughter of his father's childhood playmate, who lived in our house when there was a situation at home. ”

"You can see that they are ...... Very good! ”

Born in poverty, he lives honestly, and there are not so many twists and turns in his heart, Mrs. Chen listened to Liu Zuochen's words, and she also opened the conversation.

It turned out that the father of the girl of the Lu family was one of the few people who could play with Brother Chen Dong, after all, the son of the executioner of the Yamen made many people quite taboo. The father of the Lu family is a responsible person, and he has become a stonemason like his ancestors, and his skills are not bad, and the beautifully carved stone walls of many deep mansions in Huozhou City are all from his hands.

The craftsmanship is good, the income is quite considerable in comparison, and the family background is naturally said to be in the past, until you marry a wife and have children, until your beloved daughter grows up.

There are unpredictable circumstances in the sky, and people have good and bad luck.

A few years ago, a rare flood in Huozhou collapsed a long section of the embankment, and as a well-known stonemason, he was not spared by the Huozhou government to forcibly recruit laborers. I don't know what kind of majesty God will make, and the heavy rain for three days and three nights will wash away the rebuilt embankment, and in another place it will tear a large hole for several miles, and countless houses and crops will be washed away.

The feeling that the construction of the dam is far away hits my heart. Stonemason Lu pondered carefully, and he had no experience in building embankments, and found that there were many drawbacks in the original renovation and early construction of embankments. Originally, there should be a large number of rocks to fill in the back of the embankment near the water, in order to ensure stability, but I didn't think that the official yamen would only use broken sacks to fill with mud, and over time, the sacks would inevitably loosen the rotten stones, and over time, they were hit by the water, and they were loosened, and it was a strange thing not to collapse!

Because the stonemasonry of Lu has a good craftsmanship and has a certain appeal, he was instigated by the simple villagers to go to suggest. The official replied that he had agreed to the revised measures, but in practice, he still went his own way, causing the villagers to shake their heads and sigh in vain.

What else? Can a small arm be twisted over a thigh?

But the stonemason just doesn't believe in this evil! The rough big hand slapped his thigh, "They are all people who eat whole grains, and they can still be like the gods in the temple, only receiving fireworks and not oil and salt?" ”

He knows that after some people are born, they are soaked in the changes of time, and the human flavor gradually fades and disappears, and in the end, they just don't do anything when they eat and pant for popularity! Is it human? Surely someone said no! Is it a brute? Not like that! Two-legged eats human food and wears human clothes, and the beasts dare to be with them? When you open your mouth, you scold and raise your hand to beat, and the beasts have to take a detour when they see it!

The stonemason Lu who failed to get justice was full of whip marks, which was an external pain, but whether the wound in his heart could heal with the external injury, only God knows.

"These dog crumbs! White-draped in a human skin! ”

The townsfolk are outraged! The short-term impulse was quickly crushed by the strong soldiers of the government, like a sack of dirt that had just been filled in the embankment, and there was no shadow before even a splash could be made. Isn't it more important to be alive than anything else? Who is willing to die, and who is willing to ignore the family and children in order to achieve justice?

As she spoke, the indignant Mrs. Chen became short of breath, "How can anyone be willing, how can someone help so many poor people?" Every year, Chen Dong's salary is down, leaving a family with tight daily expenses, how many poor blind dates can be helped by buying rice and noodles!? Alas......"