Chapter 77
As soon as the basic arrangements were ready, the days slipped into the wax moon. Hearing that there is a lot of snow in the north this year, and the war reports of being harassed on the border are one after another, Zhu Rui's brows are gradually wrinkled and tightened.
In addition to the farm, which cannot leave people, other workshops are on holiday. Nowadays, the people of Yanshan County have enough working space, every family can have a surplus, and the workshop can earn money all year round, so that the people can rest assured a lot, and the street is not cold because of the holiday, but enthusiastically go to the street to buy for their wives and children.
Looking at these prosperous scenes, Lin Zimo was full of ambition. It took him less than a year to go from the depressed scene when he first came to the street full of few people to the prosperous scene where merchants from the south and north gathered. He had just accomplished something, but he was leaving! The mood is a little low, no wonder Lin Daiyu once said in the dream of Red Mansions that the last thing she wants to see is the loneliness of the moment after the party, so she would rather not go to the party.
There was a bustle, and several carriages drove over, pulling a cart of salutes. On the horse at the front, Zheng Cheng, who was about to go to Yishui County to hand over. Seeing Lin Zimo, Zheng Cheng hurriedly got off the horse, helped Li out of the carriage, and the couple came over to salute Lin Zimo.
Lin Zimo nodded with a smile: "This is going to Yishui County?" Li replied respectfully: "Yes Wang Jun, Lord Guan is about to come here to hand over to the prince, and the husband has to go over to accept a qiē from Yishui County." Look at Zheng Cheng, who is also standing respectfully: "Go ahead, do a good job, don't live up to the trust of the prince." ”
The couple got into the car and went away, the curtain of the third car was quietly lifted, and a ten-year-old face was revealed, looking at Lin Zimo who was gradually moving away, Liu's face was complicated, that is, when he met this person, his good life was gone, and he also met this person, and the master could also step into the officialdom as a lifter, I don't know if I hate it in my heart? Or gratitude? It's just that a little person like her will no longer meet such a noble person!
Except for Zhu Hui and Zhu Ze's two children, they have the surprise of returning to Beijing immediately, and they are carefree every day, including the next people, who are a little nostalgic for this place where birds don't. Putting aside the poverty at the beginning, Yanshan County is indeed a paradise here, with beautiful scenery and simple folk customs, except for the robber incident, such a large county has not had a single criminal case. Moreover, there are fewer people, there are fewer fights, although life is harder, but it is the easiest time to live for so many years.
If you are reluctant to give up, it will finally be the time to go back. On the sixth day of the lunar month, Guan Wenlai came from Yishui County to take over, and after the handover was clear, Zhu Rui began to return with a large team.
Because the identity of the prince has been revealed, the escort team walks with them openly. Lin Zimo took the children to sit in the carriage together, his heart was up and down, and after two lives combined, he didn't expect that he would have to face the difficulties of his mother-in-law one day. Zhu Hui and Zhu Ze's cheerful laughter washed away the haze in his heart, just that, the soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, is he a man, like a woman, dragged down by children, and swallowed his anger for a lifetime. Zhu Rui is worthy of him, he will live with him for the rest of his life, if he listens to his wife and embarrasses him, then he will leave him, travel the world in the sea and the sky, and no longer be burdened by love.
The farther north you go, the drier and colder it gets. After walking for five or six days, the little snowflakes began to flutter and fall down. Fortunately, there was a charcoal basin in the carriage, which smelled a little and could be tolerated. On the thick mat, there are also two quilts, and people sit on it softly, and there is a lot less suffering from bumps.
The carport of rosewood was too tight, and Lin Zimo was afraid of the poison of carbon dioxide, so he slightly opened a gap in Xiaoyan. The two children were already asleep in the warm environment, and Lin Zimo took the quilt handed by Xiao Yan and covered them.
Xiao Yan whispered: "There are still two or three days to go to the capital, and the young master has no plan in his heart?" Lin Zimo didn't speak for a long time, looking at Zhu Rui's figure dangling from time to time in the gap in a daze. Xiao Yan hurriedly said, "Young Master, did you hear my words?" In case he returns to the capital, the queen mother gives a woman or a man to the prince, does the young master have a plan in his heart? Lin Zimo smiled sarcastically: "What are you going to do?" With our status, how can we plan? The official level crushed people to death, not to mention that it was royal? "Not only in this evil ancient world, but also in modern times, are there still few people who rely on the rich and powerful to bully others? Jun Buwen: "Is my dad Li Gang?" ”
Xiao Yan was anxious: "Then what should I do?" Watching it? "The young master is a man, he can't leave an heir for the prince, and once he falls out of favor, he will not be able to turn over for life. After coming back to his senses, Lin Zimo asked, "How much money do we have now?" "Every day there is a new income, and he doesn't know how much money he has.
Xiao Yan smiled: "The young master now has more than one million taels, nearly two million silver!" "With this money, the young master's waist is still stiffer, so that he will not be bullied. Lin Zimo was also stunned, it turned out that unconsciously, he had become an upstart. After thinking about it, he said: "Go back and quietly buy a small mansion, let Han Qi follow you, don't let others know, all the valuables that are not needed, put them there secretly, and put some silver tickets there in case of emergency." "The cunning rabbit still has three holes, and he also has to plan for the future where his future is confused, and money is the foundation for everyone to stand in the world, and no one is exempt from vulgarity.
The group hurried quickly, and the capital city was getting closer and closer. The towns are also getting denser and denser, and if they don't have it, they won't cause trouble to the place, unless they stay in a hotel, Zhu Rui and they try to detour as much as possible. It was late that day, and they arrived at Lin Zimo's original capital city, Lizhou Mansion.
After setting up a large team of people at the post station, Zhu Rui couldn't help the quarrel of the two children, Zhu Rui took Lin Zimo and the children to the largest restaurant in Fucheng to eat. Before I got to the door of the restaurant, a man named Huazi appeared at the mouth of a small alley, kneeling on the ground and kowtowing, shouting: "Poor and pitiful, uncles, let's enjoy food-" The desolate voice, with the shrinking figure kneeling on the ground, was a little pitiful.
Lin Zimo couldn't look at this, the gray hair that was low to the dust made him feel pity, and he stopped to drive away his guards: "Forget it, give him some money." The little inkstone beside him didn't move, Lin Zimo was strange, he looked closer, but saw his face pale, and couldn't help asking, "What's wrong with you?" Uncomfortable? Han Qi, who was following behind, said in a low voice: "That person is very similar to Xiao Yan's father." ”
Lin Zimo was taken aback: "Impossible, right?" How can I not go to the ditch Mu Yao oar, Sang Jun Bei Zhan Street, Xin Zhen Mu gnats, Jing Xipa, Jiao Gong 19 cherry coats, new ⊙ badger sacs, cherry fangs, beating
Han Qi sighed and took a step forward: "Is it the little fifth father in front?" The body of the kneeling person on the ground trembled, and he raised his head tremblingly, with the still bright skylight, the wrinkled face, Lin Zimo was still a little impressed, wasn't he Xiao Yan's previous father?
Xiao Yan's father stretched out his hand and touched his eyes vigorously, and shouted in a lost voice: "Little Wuzi, are you back?" Xiao Yan looked at him indifferently and didn't speak. Han Qi went up and picked him up and asked, "Uncle, what's wrong?" How did you get to this point? "Xiao Yan's father is not old, not yet forty years old, but now it seems, I don't know, I think it's an old man.
Hearing Han Qi's question, looking at the eldest son who was sold by him and indifferent, the man looked ashamed: "It's a long story, it's all my confusion, the second boy was lured to gamble, not only bankrupt, but also built the house in, his mother - alas, this old lady, look at me like this, my family has remarried with my daughter, and now, there is no house, no land, and my mother lives in the land temple." ”
Everyone couldn't help sighing, people who knew Xiao Yan's life experience looked at him with contempt, this is the end of spoiling his stepwife and abusing his ex-wife and children.
Zhu Rui looked at a few people: "Let's go to the restaurant first." "If it were someone else, it would have been urgent for his wife and children to stand here and suffer from the cold, but who let Xiao Yan be his wife's henchman!
When the group arrived at the restaurant, Xiao Yan and the others could only eat and drink in the lobby, and when they entered the private room, Lin Zimo turned around and said, "Arrange the family." "The ancients valued filial piety, no matter what, this person is Xiao Yan's biological father.
Along the way, eating and sleeping in the open, eating and drinking are all about to come, and when I encounter this kind of opportunity to eat, not to mention Zhu Ze, a snack, Zhu Hui eats with a small belly, if it weren't for Lin Zimo's fear that the two of them would be broken, he would still be holding the plate.
When he came out with enough food and drink, Xiao Yan's father was no longer there. Lin Zimo raised his eyebrows, and Xiao Yan stepped forward and said, "I gave him a hundred taels of silver, and he's already gone." Lin Zimo looked at the lonely look on his face and patted him on the shoulder: "If you want, you can also take them to Beijing and find a small mansion to settle down." An old lady plus his old man, the silver for raising two people is more than enough. Xiao Yan lowered his head and said, "Besides, I don't know what he means." "Everyone yearns for a father and a mother, who wants to be an orphan? It's a pity that some people just don't take their own children seriously, and let go of the children they don't want are not his own.
The next morning, I got up late, and was about to get into the car after breakfast, when a woman shouted at the door: "Hurry up, you dead man, slow down, your son will be gone." Everyone looked over curiously, only to see Xiao Yan's father, holding an old woman with his head down, following behind a woman with a meaty face, walking slowly.
And this woman, Lin Zimo is also somewhat impressed, it is Xiao Yan's arrogant stepmother. It's just strange, don't you say that this woman is married again?
was driven in by the woman, Xiao Yan's father opened his mouth, and it took a long time to say a sentence: "Xiao - Xiao Wu, I" The woman pushed him away and grinned with blood: "Xiao Wu, since you left, my mother thinks about what you want, and I can't eat or drink." As he spoke, he took out a dirty handkerchief and pretended to wipe his eyes: "Your father is the same, now that you are out, we will rely on you to support our old age in the future." ”
Everyone laughed, they had never seen such a cheeky woman. Xiao Yan looked at the father behind him expressionlessly: "Didn't you say that she was already married again?" What does this say? The man lowered his head and said, "I came back last night, and I can't help it." The old woman at hand also lived up to the spirit of the past, and looked at Xiao Yan hopefully with cloudy eyes.
Xiao Yan stalked for a moment, and was speechless to this wretched father. When people follow you, it's okay for you to be afraid of your wife, but now you are married to someone else, and when you see the benefits, you come up like flies, and this man is still the same nest. Alas! There was no way, he really couldn't make up his mind to leave him alone.
Now that he has been training with Lin Zimo for all these years, Xiao Yan is not Wuxia Ameng, and he has a way to deal with this kind of person. Turning to the man, he asked, "Are you following me?" The man looked up in surprise and nodded randomly, "Yes." Xiao Yan nodded: "However, that woman can't have it, including your son." The man hesitated, looked at his wide-eyed ex-wife in front of him, closed his eyes and nodded: "Okay, I have done my duty to them." It's not too much, look at his clothes that still don't cover his body: "Where is the silver for you?" Why not buy a new dress to wear? The man tilted his head with difficulty: "It was snatched by that woman." ”
Shaking his head, Xiao Yan stopped talking, and gave Lin Zimo a salute to them: "Lord Wang, young master, please get in the car, the villain will follow with his grandmother and father." Nodding, Lin Zimo and the others got into the carriage, and the convoy began to move.
The woman panicked and grabbed Xiao Yan's father's arm: "You can go, take me with you, otherwise no one will leave." She knew that after this village, there would be no such shop, and if she didn't catch Xiao Wu, who followed the prince's master, she would never have a chance again.
Xiao Yan didn't look at her out of the corner of his eyes, waved his hand, two sergeants came over, rudely pulled her away, Xiao Yan took his father and grandmother, and sat in the car behind.