In the evening, Yu Shu carried a few pieces of hemp paper under his arm, a small bag of broken ink in his arms, two copper plates in his hands, humming a small tune made up by an abacus mantra, and happily walked home.

Cao Zixin is a good person, after knowing that Yu Shu was illiterate, he still left her down, and the two cooperated, one planned to make a plate, the other kept an account, and the time of a meal was to calculate the account he left today.

Before closing, Yu Shu helped him clean up the shop, aimed at some waste paper and scrap ink in the corner of the house, and offered to use the labor money to buy it with him, but the shopkeeper Cao generously gave it to her, saying that those things were useless and the most lost after the most was lost, Yu Shuyu got the paper and ink without spending a child, and made an appointment with Cao Zixin to help him settle the account tomorrow afternoon.

Yu Shu imagined Yu Xiaoxiu's reaction when he saw these pieces of paper and ink, as if he bought a basketball for Yu Lei when he paid his salary for the first time.

In the back room, he hid and changed the women's clothes back, folded Yu Xiaoxiu's clothes and stuffed them into the tree hole, as soon as Yu Shu entered the courtyard, he shouted loudly:

"Aunt Liu! Aunt Liu, I'm back! ”

Hey? What about people?

Yu Shu swept around, but didn't find Aunt Liu's figure in the yard, usually at this time, Aunt Liu should have cooked and was washing clothes.

Yu Shuhu walked into the house suspiciously, heard hurried footsteps behind him, turned his head, and almost collided with someone.

"Yikes! Miss, where are you playing, I can't find you everywhere, let's go, go with the slave and maid, it's too late. Aunt Liu had a problem, she was in a hurry, and when she talked to Yu Shu and Yu Xiaoxiu, she claimed that she would mess between "slave" and "me".

Yu Shu was half-dragged and half-dragged out by the panicked Aunt Liu, and couldn't stop, so she had to ask:

"What's going on, what's going on, where are you taking me? What about minor repairs? ”

"You forgot what day it is," Aunt Liu kept walking, nagging her, "Every fifteenth night, the big and small of the Ji family have to go to the front yard to eat, not one less, the little young master has passed, you go with me quickly, the old lady is not happy to go late, and he should preach the third master, the third master is angry, and he should scold his aunt, and the aunt has been wronged, and it is time to beat you out of anger." ”

What is this, the corners of Yu Shu's mouth twitched, and when she thought that she was the last to be beaten, she walked fast under her feet, and the two masters and servants ran forward hand in hand.

The scenery along the way gradually changed, and when the row of simple huts in the backyard came out and ran across a small bridge with tinkling water, the world world changed little by little.

From the gray tiles of the shacks, to the high buildings of the pavilions, the carved trees of the Danying, from the hard soil with potholes, to a long pebble path, from the low wall stone well, to the small bridge and flowing water, the flat green grass, the flowers, the rockery, the strange rocks, through the long corridor full of wisteria waterfalls, dyed with a fragrant fragrance.

The Ji family's ancestral house was like a picture scroll slowly unfolding in front of her, which most intuitively allowed her to see the beauty of the courtyard of the ancient big family, until Aunt Liu pulled her to stop breathing at the doorway at the other end of the garden, and she couldn't come back to her senses.

What kind of villa and bungalow, when she has money, she must also buy such a beautiful mansion and enjoy the pleasure of living in the park.

Yu Shu was secretly envious, and he heard a coquettish reprimand:

"What are you doing here, get out of the way."

Aunt Liu hurriedly pulled Yu Shu aside, Yu Shu looked at the little girl who raised her chin and led the maid to pass in front of them, and thought hard about the name of this Miss Ji who went to school with her in a private school.

Yu Xiaoxiu said what was her name? Kisu? Ji Ru? Ji Chu?

"Whew, it's good to catch up, miss, you go in by yourself, the slave goes to the kitchen to help."

Aunt Liu left Yu Shu and left, Yu Shu looked at the classmate in front of her who couldn't remember the name, turned her steps, and followed, while rolling the hemp paper that she didn't have time to put down under the creaking nest into a tube, and stuffed it into her sleeve with great effort, so as not to lose it.

Out of this doorway, you will see a courtyard, a spacious corridor, a corridor on both sides, a style of red lantern hangs under the eaves, in the middle of a vacant space, there are more than ten round tables, covered with red and yellow pattern tablecloths, first put six plates of cold dishes, two plates of dim sum, surrounded into a flower cluster shape, very exquisite.

There are already more than half of the people here, men, women and children, all dressed beautifully, silk and satin, jasper and gold hairpins, and at a glance, they are not all the way to Yu Shu, who lives in a low house.

Yu Shu didn't care about other people's eyes, raised his eyes and found Yu Xiaoxiu, who was sitting on a table next to him, looking around, and hurriedly walked over.

As soon as Yu Shu came over, Yu Xiaoxiu turned his head over and didn't look at her, as if it wasn't him who was waiting for someone in a hurry just now.

Yu Shu laughed in her heart, and didn't forget to look at the people at this table, three women with different appearances, ranging in age from twenty to thirty, should all be her stepfather, the concubine of Ji Xiaogu, the third master of the Ji family, including the biological mother of the sisters and brothers, Aunt Cui.

"Why don't you sit down and stand tall?" Aunt Cui glared at Yu Shu, waved a handkerchief at her, and motioned her to sit down quickly.

"Oh." Yu Shu sat down next to Yu Xiaoxiu, and glanced at the children of the concubines on the side, don't you be a concubine, they are the biological children of the third master, and they are also wearing brocade strips, there is no shortage of everything, and the two sisters and brothers of Yu Shu are sitting here, just like dog meat on the wrong table.

Yu Shu secretly touched Yu Xiaoxiu with his elbow under the table, and after he looked at it impatiently, he leaned over and whispered:

"I'll be done eating, and I'll go back and show you something good."

"What?"

Yu Shu squeezed his eyes at him, "I won't tell you yet." ”

Yu Xiaoxiu snorted, and when she saw Aunt Cui turning her head and glaring at the two of them, she hurriedly sat down obediently.

After a while, everyone came, and the old lady with a jewelry counter head who Yu Shu had slandered before was held up by two maids and said an opening remark, Yu Shu knew that this was the old lady Ji who was under one person and above hundreds of people in the Ji family.

A group of people stood up and listened to the leader's speech in a proper manner, and after they all sat down, the meal was served.

Yu Shu, who had eaten vegetarian for a long time, had both eyes lit up, and he didn't bring the plate of braised fish head to himself, and ate honestly.

At the dinner table, Aunt Cui and the other two aunts in the third master's room quarreled and pinched each other, Yu Shu listened while eating, and almost laughed out loud several times.

Finally, the old lady was full, and left the table first, a few filial sons and daughters got up to send each other, and Yu Shu, who had already eaten enough, saw that he could leave, so he quickly pulled Yu Xiaoxiu to stand up and go back to their small bungalow.

"You go back first," Yu Xiaoxiu pushed away Yu Shu's hand, glanced at the direction where Aunt Cui left, and trotted after him.

Yu Shu stood in place for a while, not at ease, but decided to follow over to have a look.