Chapter 4: Forty Thousand
"The eldest young master is so smart, he can eat by himself at such a young age! Did you just see Bai Shao? Mother Song immediately woke up from her resentment and laughed loudly.
"I see, I see!" Bai Shao was overjoyed, and was busy wiping the milk at the corner of the eldest young master's mouth, and praised, "The second young master is also six months old now, and he can't turn over, sit up, or crawl, and he must hold the nurse in his arms all the time, and he can't let go, otherwise he will cry a lot, and he will cry several times." That's a fool! ”
"The woman should be rich, and the son should be poor. The young master of our Hou Mansion can only be married to a nurse when he is born, he must be weaned at the age of two, he must be self-reliant at the age of three, he has never dealt with others in washing and dressing, he goes to school at the age of five, he practices martial arts at the age of six, and he is upright, and he has produced many pillars of the country...... "Xu is thinking of the current downfall of the Hou Mansion, Mother Song couldn't go on, and turned to sneer, "Look at the cheap breed raised by the cheap maid, there are four nurses and maids around me, and dozens of servant women and maids, who are cold, hungry, and tired even when they lift their arms and legs, even if they grow up in the future, they are also a waste!" ”
The little girl nodded in agreement, took out three silver ingots and hundreds of copper coins from the package, and said in a low voice, "Mom, these money are all the flowers of our Penghao Courtyard, if they run out one day, will the master really kick the eldest young master out?" ”
"What can't Wang Xiang do? I'm afraid it's not that simple. Mother Song frowned while breastfeeding, and her aura around her body was very gloomy.
"I listened to Brother Zhuzi and said," the little girl wanted to speak and stopped.
"Say what?" Song's mother raised her eyebrows.
He said that once, when he heard the Lord of the Void Cloud Observatory say to the old man, since the eldest young master had come to collect debts, once the forty taels of silver were used up, he would be reincarnated from the physical body, and asked the master to prepare for the black-haired man to send the white-haired man. The old man also pretended to cry. ”
"The Lord of the Void Cloud View, Wang Xiangqian, is just a raccoon dog! One pretends to be a god and a ghost, and the other is a demon, and sooner or later he will be punished! Mother Song put her index finger to her lips and warned, "Don't say this again in the future, our eldest young master will definitely live a long time." Although, although the young lady also had the same dream, as long as this soul fixing mirror is there and carefully uses it, the young master will be fine for the time being. It's still a long time, what is the fate of the young master, we can take a look and think of a way. No matter what his origin is, since he was born in the belly of our young lady, he is our master. ”
"Bai Shao understands that Bai Shao will take good care of the eldest young master. We use these forty taels of silver carefully, and they can be used for a long time, and my family can't spend five taels of silver a year. ”
"Well, good boy, put the money in the box and lock it, this is all our property." Mother Song touched the little girl's head.
Youshu hiccuped, and said in her heart that her own mother was afraid that she was also quite concerned about that dream, otherwise she would not have dared to show her face from birth to the present. The mother herself is difficult to protect, the father is ruthless and unjust, spoils the concubine and destroys his wife, and there is a terrible ghost wandering around, and it is really a difficult task to grow up. Fortunately, the two of them brought a few yin-yang mirrors, which can temporarily curb the ghosts, and they are still a little loyal to themselves, which is a great luck in misfortune.
Thinking of this, Youshu's eyes straightened, and she fell into meditation again, completely ignoring the words of the Void Cloud Viewer who asserted that he would die early-
After hanging up the soul mirror, Yin Feng did not patronize the Basil Courtyard for a long time, but the people in other courtyards had symptoms such as body chills, dizziness, brain swelling, and lack of energy. At first, no one cared, but one day, even Aunt Lin was infected with this problem, so Wang Xiangqian paid attention to it and invited the master of Xuyun Guan to investigate.
"It's the evil cult of the west." The Void Cloud Viewer pointed in the direction of the Penghao Courtyard.
Wang Xiangqian's face turned dark, and he hurriedly asked, "Is there a way to crack it?" ”
"First expel the evil cult, and then do another Dharma deed, and then you will be fine." The virtual cloud view is the main shake off the dust, a group of high-level images.
Wang Xiangqian agreed repeatedly, asked the steward to wrap a hundred taels of silver and handed it to the Taoist boy, and then ordered someone to send the debt collectors of the Penghao Courtyard to his hometown far away, and he was not allowed to enter the ancestral house when he went, but distributed them to the village in the countryside at will. Wang Xiangqian's wife, Song, fainted after hearing the news, woke up crying and crying for a son, but heard the maid and servant say that the eldest young master had already left.
On a dilapidated carriage, Youshu, who had just turned one, was pinching a piece of walnut crisp and slowly grinding her newly grown front teeth. Mother Song hugged him, her face was very ugly. Bai Shao was holding the money box, her eyes were slightly red, and it was obvious that she had cried before.
"How can you be so ruthless? What a beast! Mother Song muttered to herself.
"What's more, it's better to be a beast!" Bai Shao added, and then said anxiously, "Mom, what should we do in the future?" ”
"Xincheng is Wang Xiangqian's hometown, and now the Wang family relies on him to make a fortune, and in Xincheng is a local hegemon, we are weak, and we are considered to have entered the tiger wolf's den. The Lin family is ruthless, if she asks the people in the Zhuangzi a word or two, the eldest young master will be in danger. Wait for me to think about it, wait for me to think about it. "Mother Song's six gods have no master.
"Why don't we run away with the eldest young master!" Bai Peony clutched the money box and whispered.
Mother Song pondered for a long time, and finally made up her mind, "Okay, let's escape!" Fortunately, before coming to the Penghao Courtyard, Miss had already eliminated our slavery, and as long as she escaped the capture of the Wang family, she would be clean in the future. Let's raise the eldest young master safely and steadily, and then go back to recognize the young lady when he is out of breath in the future. ”
There is Shu's grinding teeth with a wooden expression, but he is secretly weighing the pros and cons in his heart. As things stand, escaping has a better chance of surviving than going to the New Town. went to Xincheng, he was the meat on the board, and the so-called Aunt Lin could slaughter herself as much as she wanted, and she could also use herself to dominate her mother. If she leaves, it will be a relief for her mother.
Let's go! Thinking of this, he babbled and shouted twice, and also beat the soft pillow beside him with his small fist.
Mother Song smiled when she saw this, and sighed, "Look, the eldest young master also agreed." Then let's sum it up. The words fell to Bai Shao's ear and muttered for a while.
The two of them decided to stop the coachman when passing through a small town so that they could rest for the night. Fortunately, the Wang family didn't care about the life or death of the eldest young master, and only sent a steward and a coachman to follow, Song's mother spent hundreds of dollars to buy a table of good wine and good food, and invited the two to enjoy.
Song's mother grew up in the countryside since she was a child, and the work of driving a car was not difficult for her at all, and her overnight work had reached thousands of miles away. When the steward and the coachman woke up, all their money had been looted, and the people and the car were gone.
The Wang family had not received news that a few people had arrived safely in Xincheng for a long time, so they had to send someone to look for them. Find the inn where several people once stayed, only to learn that they fled separately. Wang Xiangqian didn't like this son in the first place, so he naturally didn't worry about his life or death, so he pretended to look for a few days and then gave up. Aunt Lin was even more happy to see it, and blew the pillow wind for several nights, asking Wang Xiangqian to directly erase her sister-in-law from the family tree, and said that she died of a violent illness.
The only heartbroken person in the Wang family is the Song family, but when I think about it in the dead of night, I understand the painstaking efforts of Song's mother, and knows that her son will die sooner or later if he stays in the Wang family, so it is better to leave. From then on, she closed her door to thank guests, fasted and recited Buddha, hoping to accumulate some merit for her son, so that he could grow up peacefully -
As the so-called most dangerous place is the safest place, Song's mother did not hide far away, but came to Liangzhou, the land of Longxing in the Ming Dynasty. Liangzhou is only three days away from Shangjing, covers a small area, but is very prosperous, most of the top families of the Ming Dynasty originated in Liangzhou, and there are ancestral homes built here, and people are carefully cared for. Therefore, the defense of Liangzhou is very tight, and there are officers and soldiers patrolling the streets all day long.
Song's mother guessed correctly, the Wang family really didn't dare to let people go to Liangzhou, where the powerful and powerful gathered, and the pattern was complicated, but announced the news of the death of the sister-in-law. Several people then settled in Liangzhou with peace of mind.
Song's mother didn't dare to use the silver taels left by the young lady, so she took the valuable jewelry of herself and Bai Shao as a pawn, and rented a small farm yard in a place called Yushui Village on the outskirts of the city, and made a living by doing embroidery.
Before you knew it, Youshu grew to five years old. Because Mother Song saved the idea of cultivating the eldest young master into a talent, and went back to recognize the young lady in the future, so that the young lady could raise her eyebrows, the forty taels of silver did not dare to use it at all. Although it doesn't cost a lot of money to live in the countryside, when the eldest young master grows up to six or seven years old, he can go to school, and the beam will cost five or six taels of silver a year, not to mention the various expenses of the imperial examination in the future. If it is only to train a child or a talent, forty taels of silver is enough, but to cultivate a champion, the cost is at least more than two taels of silver.
No matter how capable Song's mother is, she will earn at most one or two taels of silver a year, so she has to cut back on food and clothing, open source and reduce expenditure. Therefore, the life of the family is very tight, wearing coarse cloth clothes, eating whole grains, and only at the end of the year can you taste a little bit of meat. Fortunately, Youshu came from the end of the world, and instead of feeling bitter about her current life, she was very satisfied. For him, being able to eat enough is the greatest happiness, and he doesn't have to worry about anything else.
However, there are always a few things in the world that are not satisfactory, and it is true that life is much better now than staying in the Wang family, but the debt collector has followed. When Song's mother left, she didn't forget to take away a few yin-yang mirrors and hang them in the rented courtyard one by one. In the first two years, it really worked, but the debt collector absorbed too much yang energy, and slowly condensed into the entity, no longer afraid of the reflection of the mirror, and from time to time he went to harm Youshu.