Walking more than ten zhang away from the county government to the north, there is a huge courtyard on the east side of the road. The high porch, the red door panels, and the people are gilded and shiny copper nails. On the door hung two round and shiny beast-shaped rings. On the lintel are written two big characters: Lu Fu.

Yes, this is the mansion of Lu Xiang, the local magistrate. At this moment, it is the middle of the day, Master Lu has already gone to the office, and the whole house is full of maids except for the small maids, and the voice of the warbler Yanyan comes from the inner courtyard from time to time, and people can listen to the reverie.

It is said that Lu Xiang is a little more than forty this year, although he has passed the age of confusion, but he is more and more interested in the color of wine. He has been a county magistrate in Jinan for more than ten years, and has married forty or fifty aunts. These forty or fifty masters live in a large compound, and all kinds of house fights are staged all day long. Every aunt is not easy to deal with, this room wants rouge, that room wants jewelry, and only the procurement staff in the house is busy.

Of course, not all of these forty or fifty aunts are embroidered pillows, and Feng Jiao, the eighteenth aunt, is a knowledgeable person. Feng Jiao's family used to sell tofu, and her father opened a tofu factory. When Feng Jiao didn't come to Zhixian's house, she sat in the tofu workshop every day to sell tofu. Those frivolous children on the left and right saw that Feng Jiao was good-looking, and looked for opportunities to buy tofu to eat from time to time. There are even some prodigal children who give Feng Jiao a delicate name - fragrant milk. One is to describe the soft and delicious tofu, and the other is to describe Feng Jiao's handsome appearance, which is mouthwatering.

Although Feng Jiao is a tofu Shih Tzu, she is cold and arrogant, like a piece of frozen tofu in winter. Generally, when she saw a man who bought tofu, she ignored it, only asked how much tofu it was, and coldly cut the tofu and threw it over. If you are more interested, see that she does not take the bait. I had to walk away. If there are some uninteresting, they still talk nonsense with a hippie smile. She listens to what she likes, and she doesn't like to listen. A pot of tofu dregs was splashed over the head, making people lose face.

Feng Jiao's coldness spread all over Jinan Mansion. That day, Lu Zhixian heard that there was such a stunning woman under his jurisdiction, and he was very puzzled. How stunning can a tofu seller be? So, after getting off the office, he took a horse alone and came to the Sunjia Tofu Workshop on Tiancheng Street alone. He peeked at a horse and stood a lazy woman sitting in the stands. The sideburns are combed obliquely, the long eyes are slightly narrowed, and a drunken Hunan fan of the concubine is shaken in his hand. Just this one look. It only made Lu Zhixian, who had read countless Meimei, feel a wave in his heart. This is not stunning, this is going to captivate the country.

Lu Zhixian, who was galloping, hurriedly dismounted, tied the reins of the horse to the stone mill on the side of the road, greeted him with a smile and asked, "How much does it cost to eat tofu?" "His mind was messy for a moment. The word "eat" was added before the word tofu.

Feng Jiao looked like a pervert again. He said with a calm face: "I don't eat tofu here, I want to eat it at home." ”

Lu Zhixian realized this, and said with a smile: "No, no, I asked how much is this tofu a catty?" When I saw the girl, I was distracted for a while, and I said the wrong thing. ”

Feng Jiao said coldly: "Fifteen yuan a catty." ”

Lu Zhixian asked again: "How much is the girl's catty?" He didn't say the wrong thing this time, but he made it clear.

Feng Jiao was annoyed when she heard this. Since she was thirteen years old, she sat here selling tofu. The prodigal child has met thousands of hundreds, but it is the first time she has met such an arrogant pervert as him. She was annoyed: "This girl doesn't sell! You're looking for a woman. After crossing this street, there is a large painting boat in front of you. This girl sells tofu here, not women. ”

Lu Zhixian saw that Feng Jiao's face was flushed, and he became more and more enchanting when he became angry, and said more and more emotionally: "It's good that the girl doesn't sell it." ”

Feng Jiao listened to him speak upside down, thinking that the other party was a fool, and shook the concubine fan in her hand and slapped him outward: "Go away, go away, this girl is still doing business." ”

Lu Zhixian did not go but entered, pushed open the secret door on the side, and was about to break into the store. Feng Jiao panicked, afraid that he would break in and mistreat her, so she shouted inward: "Dad, Dad!" ”

A man of the same age as Lu Zhixian walked out of it, his hands were covered with tofu dregs, and he was strong and tall. He walked out of the kitchen, looked up and saw that there was a big man in the store, and he raised his palm, which was about to be drawn. Knowing that the county stretched out his hand quickly, he dodged the man's whipping and said: "I am the magistrate of this county, you dare to beat me?" ”

The person who came was Feng Jiao's father, known as Sun Fuji. Sun Buer heard that it was the magistrate, and he slapped him, just hitting the magistrate's head, and scolded and said: "Grandma is a bear, if you are the magistrate, I am the magistrate's father." ”

The magistrate took a beating in vain, and said in his heart that he was right, but he replied: "You are my father." ”

Feng Jiao said: "Dad, listen, isn't this person a fool? ”

At this time, Sun Buji listened to his words upside down, and also believed that the person who came was a fool, and said in his heart, he didn't want to deal with a fool. So, he waved his hand and said, "Let's go, it's so bad luck in the morning, you can go." ”

How do you know that Lu Zhixian knelt in front of Sun Buer and said: "Ask my father to fulfill me and let Feng Jiao marry me." Benzhi County must give more dowry! ”

How could Sun Buer believe that this person was the magistrate? In vain, he copied a broom from the corner and was about to hit him. At this moment, Lu Zhixian's follower Li Xiaozi hurriedly ran over, holding a box in his hand, and said in his mouth: "Leave people under the broom!" He is our magistrate. ”

This shout finally made Sun Buji hesitate slightly, and the broom in his hand stopped in the air, and finally hung down weakly. Soon, Li Xiaozi had already run to the front of the store, opened the box wrapped in brocade in his hand, took out the seal letter of the magistrate, and said: "He is our Lu Zhixian, you dare to beat our parents?" ”

Sun Buer was stunned, looked at Lu Zhixian who was kneeling on the ground, and couldn't speak for a long time. Lu Zhixian got up at this time, took out a silver ticket of one hundred taels from his arms, put it on the counter, and said: "This one hundred taels of silver is considered the gift money set by Benzhi County, you can prepare it, and the sedan chair will carry people early tomorrow morning." With that, he came out of the door, and Li Xiaozi untied the reins, jumped up, and walked away.

Sun Buji looked at Feng Jiao at a loss. The Sun family tofu has been open in the county for 20 years, and Sun Buer will continue to trade this tofu for the rest of his life. At this moment, I want to escape from this place for my daughter, and I am really unwilling. Feng Jiao Bingxue was smart, raised her head and said: "Dad, you don't have to worry, Feng Jiao is married, but this hundred taels of silver is a little cheap." As she spoke, Feng Jiao raised a bitter smile.

Sun Buer comforted Feng Jiao and said: "Don't be afraid, it is better to enter the county government than to sell tofu here." ”

In this way, Feng Jiao was carried into the house and became the eighteenth aunt of Luzhi County. Mrs. Lu Zhixian has been sick in bed for a long time, and she doesn't care about anything, so these aunts are consumed in the house. Feng Jiao entered the house, and she was also lazy, but all the aunts were not good at stubble, and they were tired of fighting all day long. Feng Jiao came from a humble background, although she hadn't read much, she was still very shrewd in her work. In addition, Lu Zhixian favored Feng Jiao, which made the other aunts very indignant. Lu Zhixian thought they were troublesome, so he simply built a separate yard for Feng Jiao to live in. At this time, Feng Jiao was in the house, but she was under one person and above a hundred.

The tenth day of June is Feng Jiao's birthday. In order to celebrate Feng Jiao's birthday, Lu Zhixian put a lot of effort into inviting a troupe, buying jewelry, and holding a family banquet in the house. This toss only made the procurement office in the house busy. In the morning, I had to ask Aunt Sun, at noon, and in the evening, I had to ask Aunt Sun, for fear that the things I bought would not meet Aunt Sun's mind and be scolded.

Aunt Sun's single courtyard is in the easternmost part of the house. Enter the gate from the main courtyard, all the way to the east, and pass through the moon cave gate. Because it was a little far away from the main courtyard, in order to facilitate the eighteenth aunt's walking, Lu Zhixian opened the east and west side doors and the back door in the east courtyard. Usually, the maids and women in the east courtyard enter and exit through the east and west side doors, while the maids and purchasers enter and exit through the back door.

The comprador that Song Chen knew was from the East Courtyard. His surname is Zhang, known as Zhang Slippery, and he is a sleek person, and he is worthy of being the best comprador in the house. He originally came out of Ji'an, and grew up with Song Chen's bare ass since he was a child, and the relationship is very tacit. Zhang Huatou is sleek, but he is quite sincere. He saw Song Chen in the city, thinking about the relationship between the hours, and was bent on fulfilling Song Chen's beautiful deed. Thanks to Song Chenren, he was very clever, and he only walked in the East Courtyard once, but he was very good with the people in the East Courtyard. Up and down the East Courtyard, there was no one who didn't like him.

It is said that Aunt Sun's birthday is imminent, and the old man said that he wants a hundred fine sheep. Zhang comprador couldn't think of anyone else, so he directly contacted his childhood friend Song Chen. Such a good deed, Song Chen was naturally happy to be filial. He chose a hundred fat sheep at home, drove four or five donkey carts, and only went to the mansion of the county magistrate of Jinan.

He had already been to the East Courtyard once before, and knew that he would have to enter through the back door of the East Courtyard. He stopped at the back door in a donkey cart and reported to comprador Zhang. Zhang Comprador instructed Song Chen to enter through the back door and unload the fat sheep under the kitchen. Song Chen naturally obeyed. After a while, he unloaded the sheep under the kitchen, sent away the donkey cart, and said in his heart, since the matter is done, it is better to meet Zhang comprador and drink wine together to catch up with the old days.

He came out of the kitchen, walked slowly across the house of the ladies in the kitchen, and walked into a garden. Song Chen knew that this was the inner courtyard, and he was afraid of meeting the female relatives in the house, so he was about to bypass the garden, when he suddenly heard a female voice screaming for help.

Song Chen knew that something was wrong, and he couldn't care much about it at the moment, so he ran into the garden, only following the female voice. He scurried past a row of sycamore trees, and in front of him was a man-made lake. On the shore, two maids waved their hands and shouted for help. In the center of the lake, a looming head rises and falls. Song Chen didn't hesitate for a moment, quickened his pace, and when he was about a foot away from the lake, he jumped into the lake. Song Chen lives in Ji'an, there are mountains and rivers, and the children in the village have been playing in Hanoi since they were children, and they are very good at water. He swam into the lake, took the drowning man under his left arm, and waved his right arm back to shore.

When the two maids saw that their master was rescued, their panic eased slightly, but they were afraid that the master would drown for a long time and not wake up, what should they do? Therefore, when Song Chen swam ashore, the two maids grabbed the woman and shouted: "Grandma, grandma, wake up!" (To be continued......)