Yu Shu was startled by the old man on the bamboo bed, slipped and fell to the ground, half a bucket of water splashed her wet, lying on the ground in embarrassment, hearing a burst of laughter, she got up from the ground in embarrassment, wiped a handful of water droplets on her face and shook it off, glanced at the happy old man depressedly, lowered her head and wrung the water on her body.

Yu Shu was depressed: What's so funny, laughing so loudly, isn't it just a fall, is it worth gloating so much, I hate it.

Yi Ke, who was scattered all over the hall, heard the movement, but only looked back a few more times, but no one stepped forward.

The old man on the bamboo bed laughed enough, and then he propped up his head with the palm of his hand, stretched one leg straight, bent one leg, and lay comfortably to look at Yu Shu, this casual posture did not match the moon-white robe on his body.

"Are you a descendant of the Ji family?"

Yu Shu wrung the water off his body, picked up the rag and squatted on the ground to wipe the water, heard him suddenly ask, hesitated for a moment, and then replied:

"Sort of."

"Yes, no, no, what do you mean?"

"Then it's not."

"One moment yes, one moment no, yes or no?"

Yu Shu was impatient with his reading, threw the wet rag into the bucket, dropped a sentence, and turned around to get a clean cotton cloth from the opposite corner:

"You should be, if you don't, you shouldn't."

Yu Shu still has eyesight, he can set a bed to sleep in this place, and no one has come up to ask him if he makes such a big noise, this withered old man must have some seniority in the Ji family, and the other party is just making fun of her, even if she is not happy, she can't be more real.

When Yu Shu came back with a large ball of clean cotton cloth, Lao Dao changed his position and lay down, crossed Erlang's legs, pillowed his hands behind his head, tilted his head to look at Yu Shu, and said with a smile:

"Who told you to work here?"

"Mrs. Ji."

"Oh? Why did you get here? ”

"I made a mistake, and the old lady punished me to clean here for a month."

Yu Shu replied one sentence at a time, while squatting on the ground to absorb the water and wring it into the wooden barrel, anyway, the wet floor couldn't be wiped clean for a while, so it was time to pass the time with him.

"Something was wrong, what was wrong?" Lao Dao raised his eyebrows with curiosity.

"What's the matter with you?

"What, excuse me?"

Yu Shu rubbed the floor twice: "I beat the young master of the table." ”

Lao Dao must know who the young master in her mouth is, and when she said this, she was immediately happy, turned over, squeezed her eyebrows at her, and said:

"I'm not old, but I'm not too brave, the old woman of the Ji family is the most protective, you beat her grandson, she didn't whip you a few times to get angry?"

Yu Shu said secretly: The whip was not drawn, but the rattan was beaten twenty times, and the strength of the beating was still left in his hand.

Thinking about it again, no, this old man is not the Ji family, how do you call Mrs. Ji "the old woman of the Ji family"?

Yu Shu was suspicious, so he asked him what he asked him at the beginning:

"Old man, aren't you from the Ji family?"

"Me?" Lao Dao stretched out his hand and pointed at his nose, smiled strangely, and touched his nose, "Lao Dao is not from this family." ”

Yu Shu listened to his own claims, and then looked at the old man carefully, and suddenly understood, no wonder he always felt that he was dressed differently, he was a Taoist priest.

"He was a Taoist leader, and he was disrespectful and disrespectful." Yu Shu put down the rag and arched his hand at him, pretending to be respectful.

Da'an Dynasty respects Taoism is still easy, easy to learn is a kind of learning to apply learning, and Taoism is a group of respectable religious beliefs, easy to learn and Taoism are inextricably linked, and are independent of each other, now there are some places in the Da'an Dynasty on the Yi Xue family, originally belonged to a certain branch of Taoism, and then broke away, opened the door and became a family business.

In general, the biggest difference between the Taoist sect and the Yixue family is that one is not worldly, and the other is among the courts.

Lao Dao waved his hand politely, rolled his eyes, and asked, "Since you are not from this family, where did you come from?" ”

Yu Shu didn't have anything to say, so he answered truthfully: "My mother remarried Master Ji San as a concubine, and I followed in." ”

"How old are you this year?"

"Fifteen."

"What month was it born?"

"Uh" Yu Shu's mouth stumbled, this, she really didn't know how many months "she" was born.

Seeing that she couldn't answer for a long time, Lao Dao's eyes flashed, and he sat up, cross-legged, and inexplicably added a little more seriousness to his smile:

"I can't remember when I was born, I should always know what year I was born, right?"

"Of course," Yu Shu blurted out.

Lao Dao's smile decreased, his eyes showed some disappointment, his mouth pursed, and he was about to lie down, when he heard Yu Shu say triumphantly:

"Of course, I was born fifteen years ago."

Lao Dao immediately sat up straight again, rubbed the short beard on his chin, squinted his eyes and smiled: "What year was it fifteen years ago?" ”

"This" Yu Shu was dumb again, frowning and silently calculating, the year of Da'an is the lunar calendar, what year is this year? Last time, I heard the shopkeeper Cao say, Jia Wu or Jia Wei?

She was only concerned with arithmetic, and did not notice that the old way's sparkling eyes were scraping on her, and when she looked over, she took it back in time, cleared her throat, and teased:

"Looks like you're not good at arithmetic."

Hearing this, Yu Shu stuck in his throat in one breath, crying and laughing, a math elite, was actually laughed at by an ancientman for poor arithmetic, shame, shame, shame.

"Your mother remarried, so do you have any sisters at home?" Lao Dao asked again, his tone seemed to be chatting with Yu Shu, but the sitting posture had long since lost the casualness just now.

"There's a younger brother."

Lao Dao was stunned, his face showed obvious disappointment, and before long, he wiped his face vigorously, his dry skin was rubbed red by him, turned over, and lay down on the bed again, turned his back to the past, waved his hand at Yu Shu, and said tiredly:

"Okay, let's play, Lao Dao is going to sleep, don't pestle here."

Yu Shu lowered his hand and stared at the back of Lao Dao's head in wonder, does this person want to come out when he is old? Just now, he took the initiative to pull her to ask questions, and when he turned his face, he didn't wait to see anyone.

It's just that people don't want to see her, and she still has a lot of work to do.

Yu Shu squatted back on the ground, pulled a ball of dry cotton cloth, continued to stain the water stains on the floor, slowly, occasionally looked up at the bamboo bed, and never saw the old way move, just as he was asleep, he suddenly felt that it was not interesting, quickly cleaned up the ground, and walked away with the bucket.

Without the sound of rubbing behind him, the old man on the bed turned his head sneakily to look at the back, and the person who didn't see Yu Shu secretly put his hand into his arms, felt out something, put it in his palm, looked at it over and over again, and pressed it on his heart after the last time, muttering in his mouth, laughing stupidly for a while, and letting out two whimperes for a while, hysterical.

"No, no, senior sister, I can't wait, I really can't wait"

***

Because she fell in the middle and wiped the floor for a long time, when it was almost noon, Yu Shu hadn't finished the work, and the water in the bucket was dirty again, so she took it out and changed it, and before she reached the door, she bumped into Yu Xiaoxiu who came from the miscellaneous courtyard.

Before Yu Shu could ask why you came, Yu Xiaoxiu asked unhappily:

"It's not for you to stay in the house, I said I'd do the work here, what else are you doing here? My hands don't hurt anymore, do they? ”

Yu Shu didn't know how to answer him, so he simply handed him the bucket, beat his waist, and called: "It's just right, go, pour the water and bring a bucket clean back, I'm tired to death." ”

Yu Xiaoxiu glared at her, but still took the bucket, slipped it on her again, frowned, and said: "Why are the clothes wet like this, I can't do any work, I'm sloppy, okay, go back quickly." ”

Yu Shu automatically converted Yu Xiaoxiu's sarcasm into concern, she wiped the compass all morning, sweat and sewage splashed, making her body sticky, she really wanted to go back to take a shower and change her clothes, when she heard him say this, she was moved, and after hesitating, she saw that the people in it were still busy with each other, so she pulled Yu Xiaoxiu to the door and waited:

"Then I'll go back first, you wait for the water to be fetched, and then wipe the compass hanging on the back half of the west wall, and the rag is placed in the corner box, first wipe it with a wet one, and then wipe it with dry water——"

"I know," Yu Xiaoxiu interrupted her impatiently, pushing her shoulders and taking a few steps down the steps.

"Come back early after you wipe it," Yu Shu squeezed his eyes at him, remembering the yellow-skinned little mouse who stole silver, and smiled maliciously, "Go back and show you good things." ”

Yu Xiaoxiu was not interested in the good things in her mouth, so in order to get rid of her quickly, he responded with two sentences of "uh-huh" and sent the person away.

Yu Shu returned to the courtyard from the West Courtyard alone, there was no one in the courtyard, the masters had not yet eaten, and Aunt Liu was still helping to cook in the big kitchen at this time.

The door of the house was closed, and it opened as soon as it was pushed, Yu Shu was actually quite concerned about this state of not being able to close the house, so he also put the matter of buying a lock on the agenda.

Seeing that the bowl behind the door was still there, Yu Shu hummed a nursery rhyme, closed the door, went to the old wardrobe and pulled out a coarse cloth skirt and turned over a short shirt, sat on the edge of the bed to change, and hummed as he changed:

"Little mouse, go to the lampstand, steal oil to eat, can't come down, call daddy, daddy shouldn't, call grandma, milk can't come, head planting, gurgling and rolling down."

After singing a few times, the bowl behind the door was motionless, Yu Shu thought to herself that this mouse should not be suffocated in it, but don't, she still has to rely on it to find Yu Xiaoxiu's stolen money.

As soon as her heart shook, she quickly fastened her belt, ran up, covered the mouth of the bowl with one hand to prevent the mouse from suddenly running out, and opened it with the other hand—

"An old lady!"

Under the bowl, it was empty, not to mention the yellow-skinned little mouse, and there was not even a grain of mouse feces left.