Chapter 52: The Old Man (1)
Li Xin and his entourage entered the Zheng family with Zheng Xing, and the Zheng family's house is really big, and it is a big mansion with five entrances. When you walk in, you feel that it is very spacious, with flowers and trees planted everywhere, the scenery is beautiful, and the layout is very good. There are also some potted chrysanthemums that bloom in the frost, which is a beautiful scenery in this season.
The Zheng family's house looks a little old, it should be an old mansion, but it doesn't look dilapidated, but it reveals an ancient charm. Entering the flower hall, it didn't take long for Mrs. Zheng Fan to greet her. Seeing that it was Li Xin and them, I also felt that it was fate. Originally, they separated in the morning, but they met by coincidence at this time, isn't it fate?
Fan's impression of Li Xin is still very good, a little girl can support the whole family and live such a good life. Not to mention being a child, how many adults don't have such skills, and there is more admiration in my heart. Fan greeted Li Xin, went to prepare dinner first, and also instructed his subordinates to clean up the house for Li Xin and his party.
Li Xin and his entourage stayed at Zheng's house overnight, and after breakfast the next morning, they were about to leave. Mr. and Mrs. Zheng Xing personally sent them out.
"Let's go, Boss Zheng, Mrs. Zheng, don't send it." Li Xin said with a smile.
"Okay, then we won't continue to deliver, you guys be careful along the way. I'm in this house! It's just that I lack a daughter! When you have time, come and sit more, don't you say that there are two younger brothers? Next time you come, bring them all over for me! It's rare to have a lively time at home. Sanshi Town is not too far from here, so it's fast to catch a carriage! Fan took Li Xin's hand, with a reluctant face.
"If you come to the county, you must come in and sit down, and then the lady will not be annoying us."
"Why, you can come, it's too late to be happy! How can you dislike it. ”
After a while, Li Xin and his entourage got into the carriage, or sat in a carriage with the shopkeeper Sun. Although Wang Fu and his wife both said that Zhu Yong's car was good, the horse was newly bought after all, and he didn't know his temperament yet. It is still necessary to let Zhu Yong drive a good way, find out the temperament of the horse, and dare to go up and sit.
For Zheng Xing and his wife, Li Xin also likes it very much. Both husband and wife have very bold personalities and are also very hospitable. Especially Mrs. Zheng, she is very kind to people, she really feels at home, and she is also very good to Yuexiang and Yueting, but she is a little like her niece. This early in the morning, I also packed a lot of gifts for them to bring, and I was afraid that they would not accept them if they were valuable, so they prepared more food, some bought, and some made in their own kitchen, and packed several boxes.
"Eldest sister, I will come to Uncle Zheng's house in the future." Sitting in the carriage, Yueting hugged Li Xin and was crooked. Yueting has not had her mother's love since she was a child, and it is even more difficult to give up Mrs. Zheng's maternal care.
"Reluctant to go? It's better to give you to Mrs. Zheng as a daughter. ”
"Don't send me out, I won't leave the eldest sister, the second sister, the eldest brother, and the second brother." Yueting was about to cry with her mouth flattened.
"Okay, let's have a good time! Where is the eldest sister willing to send you out. ”
"You! At one time, I have to buy good clothes, and the next time I have to buy new pearls. Now your father's business is not easy to do, and the family is not as rich as before, so you don't want it anymore, you should be sensible. The sound of talking outside attracted Li Xin's attention, this voice always felt a little familiar to her, but she couldn't remember who it belonged to for a while, so she lifted the curtain and looked out.
"Mother, you and Dad are too stingy, I just bought some clothes and hairpins, how much silver do I get! Am I not your daughter? I didn't even want to spend this little money for me. Did I buy it for myself? The daughter of this county, who is not dressed beautifully, if I am dressed shabby, how can people take care of me. I also want to get to know a few young ladies from rich and noble families, and I can rely on them to find good relatives for myself in the future. If I don't dress up pretty, which rich boy can take a fancy to me! A girl was complaining.
"Okay, okay, I didn't say I wouldn't buy it for you, didn't I just take your father out to buy it while your father was out? Stop yelling, it's not good for people to hear. ”
But it was a middle-aged woman and a little girl of twelve or thirteen years old, all dressed well, although they could not be compared with the rich and noble families in the county, but they were also very good. Especially the little girl, who was dressed up even more outstandingly, not to mention the silk and satin in silk, and a few golden hairpins on her head. Although he is young, he is rubbed with rouge and powder on his face, which looks rich and compelling at a glance, but the thick fat powder hides the delicate skin that a girl of this age should have. The heavy golden hairpin seems to be too thick, and it doesn't match a girl of this age. In short, the self-righteous beauty makes people feel a little awkward no matter how they look at it, maybe Li Xin's aesthetics are different from these people!
That girl, Li Xin only glanced at it twice, and then stopped looking. She looked at the middle-aged woman carefully, and said that the middle-aged woman was still a little inappropriate, and she looked like she was thirty-four or five years old, if she was in her previous life, she would still be a very young woman. However, in this era, the woman of this age is dressed darkly, and her dress looks old-fashioned, as if she wants to make herself as rich and dignified as possible, so she looks a little old-fashioned.
I can't imagine that her luck is too good! It's just the first time I've come to the county, and I saw this person. The middle-aged woman is Li Xin's eldest uncle, although she hasn't seen her for some years, she has also been together for a few years, and there are still images of this family in the memory of this body.
Li Xin's eldest uncle, Li Changshou, used to just open a small shop in the town, and then the business slowly became bigger, and I heard that he was appreciated by some nobles, so he disposed of the shop in the town and came to Nanbai County to do business. Since the family moved to Nanbai County, they have never returned to Guihua Village, so Li Xin's family doesn't know how the eldest uncle's family is doing, and they have the impression that they have gone to the county to do big business and live the life of a rich and noble person. The people of Osmanthus Village almost never come to the town, and no one has ever talked about how Li Changshou's family is doing.
"Big sister, what are you looking at?" Yuexiang saw that Li Xin had been staring blankly outside, so she also stretched out her head to look. It happened that the carriage and the mother and daughter were going in the same direction, because they had not left the county seat yet, so the carriage was also slow, so Yuexiang also saw the mother and daughter. Yuexiang was young, and Yuexiang had no memory when Li Changshou's family left, so naturally she didn't know the so-called aunt.
"It's nothing, it's just an irrelevant person." Li Xin lowered the curtain of the car, blocking the view from the outside. Li Changshou's family, to her, is really just an irrelevant person. Speaking of it carefully, Li Changshou's family is worse than Li Changgui's family, and it will only be as bad as it is. Li Xin recalled the past a long time ago, Li Changshou was the eldest son of grandpa and grandma, and he had always been very fond of him, and the life in the family was not bad at that time, so Li Changshou was sent to school in the academy when he was young. However, Li Changshou is not a material for reading, and he has never been motivated. When he was thirteen years old, Grandpa and Grandma felt that he was really not that material, so he sent him to a grocery store in the town to do an apprenticeship.
However, Li Changshou's hands and feet are a little unclean, and he always sneaks in the shop to take something home. At first, the owner of the house didn't realize that there were a lot of things in the grocery store, and he didn't feel that there was anything missing for a while. But slowly, I noticed it a little, so I found an opportunity, and finally caught Li Changshou stealing things in person, and Li Changshou had no way to quibble. Fortunately, the owner of that house was not bad, and he didn't send Li Changshou to the official, but just kicked him out