985 Fanwai - Willing to be a slave
When Xixi went to Jiang's house, he vaguely heard the Jiang family's aunt and cousin-in-law talk about Su Yan's childhood, and he was shocked, opened the curtain, and Beibei shouted: "You are the evil woman of the Hu family?" The one who caused my mother to contract smallpox when she was a child and almost ruined her appearance? ”
Sissy glared.
Beibei disagreed and poked his head out.
Hu Xiangling was stunned at first, a family of three returned from Baitakou, had no way to make a living, and still lived in a broken temple in the north of the city, the former industry of the Cao family had already changed hands several times, and Cao Yuzhen had no silver to live, no silver on his body, and only a few sets of clothes.
Su Yan lifted the curtain from Beibei, looked at the old woman, and the Hu Xiangling in her memory were like two people, her slightly raised eyes, there was no sharp light, only the pity of survival.
Fourteen years, she and Cao Yuzhen were sent to Baitakou as hard labor in the first year of Tianxing, and fourteen years of time can turn a young and beautiful woman into an ordinary, old woman.
She was in the middle of the stone path, so humble, like a poor, wounded puppy.
But now, their family can no longer hurt her, and they can't calculate the Jiang family.
Su Yan raised her head, "You were also a young lady of the official family, and I can't afford a slave like you in my house." ”
"No, noble princess, the slut is willing to be a slave, just to give the three of us a full meal."
Su Yan said to Bai Zhu: "Take her back to the house!" ”
Beibei seemed to have seen the most strange thing, and jumped to his feet and said: "Mother! How can you bring a beggar back. She's a bad person, she's a bad person! ”
Xixi rolled his eyes and ignored Beibei. Let her be noisy.
So-yeon asked, "Sissy." You say how to help her. ”
Xixi has the childishness of the past. After thinking for a while, I was struggling with how to reply, and outside the carriage, Yaodong's voice came: "Why should my mother worry about such people." Or rent some fields from Zhuangzi to his family, we have a lot of shops in the western vegetable market, and we don't care about renting a shop to make a living. ”
Su Yan now doesn't want to take care of the affairs of the house, and says, "Xixi, you and your eldest brother will deal with it." I'll go back and forth when it's done. ”
Sissy replied.
Back in the house, Su Yan didn't see Hu Xiangling, but Bai Zhu knew Su Yan's temperament deeply, and inquired carefully about Hu Xiangling and Cao Yuzhen in Baitakou for more than ten years.
Su Yan recalled Master Wuyuan's words in her mind: "Female donor, let go of hatred, let go of yourself and others, ......"
Cao Yuzhen and Hu Xiangling have endured enough hardships.
She doesn't hate anymore!
Because the current Hu Xiangling and Cao Yuzhen no longer deserve her hatred.
They are so lowly, like ants, that they do not deserve half of her mercy, nor of her hatred.
Yes, revenge for the best. It is she who lives a good and happy life, but her enemy is worse than death. This. is the most enjoyable revenge.
She wouldn't defend them anymore.
The Cao family was destroyed, and there was no more Cao family in the imperial city.
The Hu family is gone, Hu Changling married Hu Xiangju to Yu Wencong, and the Hu family has become a once-in-a-century thief henchman, Hu Changling died early, and Hu Xiangzhi also died......
Only Hu Xianglan, who married into the Tang family, later heard that she also became the aunt of the Tang family.
A woman who does not have her mother's family to rely on has lost her prominent status, and it is not easy to survive and have children.
In the flower hall of Deyuan Hall, Yaodong was sitting upright, holding a tea cup in his hand, with inquiry in his eyes.
Hu Xiangling was given a seat, but he hung his head carefully.
Yaodong said: "Mother told our brothers and sisters to let us give your family of three a livelihood. Do you want to rent twenty taels of fertile land for a living, or do you want to start a small business to make ends meet? ”
Hu Xiangling stopped at this time, she originally had the idea of going to the palace to be a housekeeper, after all, she was a young lady from an official eunuch's family, and she would have done this.
Xixi sat on one side, glancing at Yaodong from time to time.
Without waiting for Hu Xiangling to speak, there was a subordinate outside: "The second master is back?" ”
Only one man answered in a low voice.
Xixi poked his head out, and saw a half-grown boy in white coming over at the gate of the courtyard, tall and thin, eyebrows and eyes like flowers, wearing a hollow silver crown, and walking like the wind. He held a folding fan in his hand, his expression was neither happy nor angry, and he was as calm as water.
Xixi shouted "Second Brother".
Yaonan replied in a low voice and glanced at Hu Xiangling, "You are the Hu family?" He had heard about her, too.
Hu Xiangling smiled awkwardly, "The slut is young and ignorant, and she has done a lot of wrong things. ”
Xixi tilted her head to look at Yaonan, "Are you going to the Tang Mansion again?" Dad is the most annoying that we are close to Daddy Tang? ”
Yaonan said unhurriedly: "That's my husband, I went to his place to study, and my father knows." Even my grandfather said that I should go to his place more. ”
Xixi rolled her eyes again, "Beibei hasn't seen anyone at this time, I'm afraid I'm going over there again." The two of you will see the past, and turn around and make your father and mother angry again. ”
Yaodong didn't want to talk about his own affairs in front of outsiders, so he asked: "Hu, you haven't returned to your own world, do you want to farm or do business?" ”
Hu Xiangling has never planted land, but he can move stones, and the strength to move stones in the past ten years is enough. I was entangled in my heart, and I didn't know how to answer, so I asked timidly: "May I ask the prince of the world, do business...... What kind of business do you want to do? ”
Yaodong said: "Under the overpass in the West Market, there are shops in our house, a tofu shop, a tea shop, and a cloth village, you see what kind of business you can do." The tofu shop has all the utensils, since my mother has answered to help you, she will prepare enough beans for you for March, and then you can go to the grain and oil shop near the overpass to buy it......"
Xixi saw that Hu was entangled, and said: "Although these shops are small, the business is good, this was originally placed by my mother as a housekeeper, and it was specially used for me and my sister to take care of and practice." You don't want it, I don't want to give it. ”
Hu Xiangling was frightened, more than ten years of tempering, long lost his previous sharpness, dealing with hard labor and officials all day long, what he learned was to be cautious, hard-working, "The county lord is not angry, the slut is willing." I'm afraid that it won't take care of it well. "How can it be a good housekeeper. Drought and flood protection. Receive monthly silver.
Yaodong said: "It's a tofu shop." I will ask my mother-in-law to teach you how to make tofu and oil cakes, and that shop is enough for your family of three to live. "I was too lazy to say it, so I called the little guy and asked the little guy to lead Hu Xiangling to the tofu shop near the overpass in the West City.
Hu Xiangling went to the tofu shop and saw that it was not bad, although there was only one shop, there were three rooms behind, a mill, and two rooms. It's not very big, but it's already very content for her. Beans could be stored in the mill, and the kitchen utensils in the shop were all available, and even the bedding in the house was also complete, which was better than she imagined, and she was immediately happy.
In the afternoon, Hu Xiangling went to the broken temple in the north of the city and picked up Cao Yuzhen and the child to the tofu shop.
Cao Yuzhen shook his head and sighed lightly: "Do you really want to sell tofu? ”
Hu Xiangling said: "I still have to live this day." ”
Cao Yuzhen asked Hu Xiangling carefully, and said repeatedly: "Why don't you want fields." ”
Hu Xiangling said: "I won't serve the crops, and neither will you." ”
"To the country. I can be a teacher, and by the way, I can also teach Run'er. ”
Run'er. The name of the child born to Hu Xiangling is Cao Run.
Hu Xiangling said stubbornly: "It's this shop, and I begged for it, I can't change it again, if you want to change it elsewhere, you can ask for it yourself, I can't say it." ”
Cao Run stared at a pair of big eyes, glanced around, full of novelty, "Mother, is this our home from now on?" ”
Hu Xiangling said happily: "Yes! That is Granny Huang, she taught us to make tofu and soy milk before leaving, you have to learn with your mother. ”
Just like what the hard labor sister-in-law of the Baita Mine said in the past: From now on, forget about the official lady and grandmother in the past, just be an ordinary person, be fed and clothed, and be safe and free is the greatest blessing.
Cao Run deserves a profit.
Cao Yuzhen glared at it without concealment, saw that there was a bed in the house, climbed into bed, fell asleep, and Hu Xiangling took his son to learn to make tofu.
Xixi did the things entrusted by Su Yan and went to the Moon Pavilion, where Su Yan was still drawing flowers and birds attentively, and in the Celestial Empire, the flowers and birds of Lingxue Jushi were a must.
"Mother." Cissy bowed.
Yaonan also went up to the second floor, stood in front of the wall, and carefully looked at the paintings of the vassal mountain people hanging on the wall, and there were the words of Baifeng monks.
Su Yan said softly: "Let you and your eldest brother do everything?" ”
"Yes, that's done. Listening to Mrs. Huang from the tofu shop, the Hu family was very satisfied, but Cao Ye seemed to want the field more and wanted to go back to the countryside to teach. ”
Su Yan continued to add color, holding the front of the desk, "How much did you buy that tofu shop in the past?" ”
Xixi thought for a moment, "It seems that I heard the big butler say that for less than two hundred taels of silver, the location is excellent." ”
"After a month, let people send the deed over, and say that I gave it to them, and they can change the name of the shop at will. Then I gave a message to Hu for me, and said: The heart of harming others is indispensable. People are doing it, the sky is watching, and the days will be spent in peace. ”
Xixi knows that her mother is kind-hearted, which the whole imperial city knows, and even his father said that don't tell your mother about those things that add to the blockage and suffering, and she will feel uncomfortable when she looks back.
Xixi responded, stood on the side to look at Su Yan's painting, looked at it for a while, and said in a low voice: "The queen's Qianqiu Festival, look at the meaning of His Royal Highness the Prince, this year has to be done, the daughter is trying to embroider a screen for the mother, I heard that the queen likes the things that the mother prepares the most, as long as it is the mother's preparation, she likes it, and the mother paints a picture of flowers and birds for me, and I will embroider it." ”
Su Yan froze for a moment, looking at Yaonan who was standing on the wall in a daze, among the five children, this child's temperament is the most calm, and he is also the most kind, and his demeanor is biased towards Tang Guan. Even Ming Feng, the lord of Jinling, boasted that Yaonan was like a vassal mountain man.
The vassal mountain man died in the autumn of the tenth year of Tianxing, and the news came, Mingfeng fell seriously ill for this, and Su Yan also went to Tianlong Temple to copy the scriptures and requiem.
Xixi's female celebrity was learned from Ling Wei.
Beibei has now also learned for a while, and then refuses to learn, but the darts are interested, and the chief of the heart said that "there is a stunt called the goddess flying silk", Beibei felt fun, so he clamored to learn, and asked the heart to say: "The person who learns this skill needs to be a master of embroidery." With these words, Beibei has also learned hard these days.
Su Yan said to Bai Zhu: "Take the "Cuckoo Reflecting the Xia" in my box to Zhaohua!" ”
Bai Zhu responded. (To be continued......)