Aunt Zheng was naturally very happy to see her daughter come back, and when she entered the house, she moved out the things prepared at home, and set a table with peanuts, melon seeds and dates: "This year's peanuts were sent by your uncle, which are better than previous years, and I still want to keep some for you!" ”

Yan Ran was picking up her younger brother in the cradle, and when she saw that Aunt Zheng was still going to Zhang Luo, she hurriedly put her brother down, the child felt that Yan Ran was very comfortable to hold, and as soon as Yan Ran put it down, she frowned and pouted and planned to cry.

Aunt Zheng hurriedly picked up her son and breastfed: "It's also strange, you weren't at home when you gave birth to him, so you met and liked you!" Yanran pinched her brother's little face with her hand, and then said to Aunt Zheng: "Mother, it's not easy for me to come out, don't show up, I have something to say to you!" Aunt Zheng San, seeing that her son meant to eat two bites, stopped eating, so she put the child down and nodded her daughter's forehead: "It's becoming more and more like an adult, it's no longer a delicate baby in front of my mother, let's talk quickly, I'm busy and don't delay talking!" ”

Yan Ran hurriedly said what Zeng Zhixian said, and after listening to her daughter's words, Aunt Zheng's brows couldn't help frowning slightly before she said: "You kid, why did you agree to come down, this matter must be ...... first"

"Mother, what if I don't agree? Besides, the old lady let me come out so happily, I can't make sure she knows about it. Mother, you accompanied me to go, just as a trip to relatives, I inquired, my aunt's place is not particularly far from here, we take a car, back and forth will be over in half an hour! ”

Aunt Zheng still wanted to groan, but she also knew that her daughter had served in it for so many years, and she didn't have to make her own ideas, so she nodded: "Then I will change my clothes, and you will also change my clothes." Saying that, Aunt Zheng took out a shirt from the cabinet: "Dressed like this, at a glance, it is a maid in the house, and if you change this one, you can also cover people's eyes and ears!" ”

Yan Ran saw that Aunt Zheng took out an apricot-colored shirt embroidered with willow branches, and smiled when she took it and compared: "Mother, why is this shirt so suitable?" ”

"I make you a new shirt every year, and I know you can't wear it, but I look at it like you're around!" Yanran's eyes were sour, and she called her mother again, and Aunt Zheng patted her daughter's hand: "Don't be coquettish, hurry up and change out, don't you say that you are difficult to come out, we are done with this, come back and eat!" ”

Yan Ran responded and put on her clothes, Aunt Zheng had already asked the rough envoy of the family to go out and call a car, and said to the kitchen to let them prepare dinner, so that the maid could watch her son, and then she and Yan Ran took the rough envoy to go out together.

Although Shi An's place of residence is not far from Zengfu, it is different from the street in Zengfu, which is full of bluestone pavement, not to mention the muddy road, and the houses on both sides are also very low. Aunt Zheng lifted the curtain in the car, took a look, and said, "What kind of people live in this place?" The young masters of the Hou Mansion are all pampered, and it is better to live here, ......"

Yanran coughed, and Aunt Zheng Sanyu understood that she would no longer speak, and finally arrived at the gate of the courtyard where Shi An lived, and the mother-in-law helped Aunt Zheng San's mother and daughter down, and was about to come forward and knock on the door, Yanran hurriedly stopped her, asked her to wait in the car, and went up to knock on the door herself.

The door was opened, it turned out that the door was not locked, Yanran and Aunt Zheng both frowned, and they lifted their skirts and walked into the courtyard carefully.

The courtyard gate is already small, and this courtyard is not as big as one-third of the Zheng family's hospitalized children, and there are barely three main rooms on it, and the side rooms next to it are the kitchen.

"This, this yard, how do you live there?" Aunt Zheng San muttered, Yan Ran just wanted to raise her voice and ask anyone? Out of the room on the east side came a boy of fourteen or fifteen years old. Yanran looked at him dressed up, and thought he was Shi An's little servant, and asked, "Aunt Shi is here, are we here to find him?" ”

The young man was sleepy-eyed, and when he heard Yanran's question, he rubbed his eyes with his hand, and before he could answer, another teenager ran out of the house, a little older, and smiled when he saw Yanran's mother and daughter: "Alas, we can come to such a place like this?" Looking for Shi Juren, he took the little guy to the front to write a letter to someone, Rong Qi, hurry up and call them! ”

As he spoke, the young man had already taken out two chairs with missing legs from the house: "There are no good chairs in this poor place, so you can sit first." Yan Ran saw that the chair was full of dust, and her eyebrows couldn't help frowning, the young man hurriedly picked up his sleeve and wiped the chair, and smiled: "That's it at home!" Shiju was in trouble, but we know that he came from a different background, and he will definitely develop in the future. Who are you in his family? ”

"It turns out that this courtyard was not rented by Aunt Shi alone?" Aunt Zheng finally asked, the young man was about to pour water under the kitchen, and when he heard this, he smiled: "Yes, Rong Qi and I rented the east house, Shi Juren rented the west house, and the middle hall house will be used by everyone together." It's good to share a little rent! ”

It's really a tiger falling into the shallows of Pingyang Fish Play, Aunt Zheng only can afford these two sentences, seeing that the young man brought water, the cup was also missing, Aunt Zheng naturally refused to drink, and only put the cup aside: "The two of them live together with Aunt Shi, and they are very familiar with each other!" ”

"It's not familiar, but when it comes to it, it's a bit of a sympathy!" The young man saw that Aunt Zheng didn't drink tea, and he didn't care, so he leaned against the wall and said with a smile. Freemasonry? Aunt Zheng was about to ask, when she saw Rong Qi coming back with Shi An's master and servant, and when she saw Shi An coming back, Yan Ran hurriedly got up to greet her, and saluted Shi An: "The slave is the maid of the Zeng family, and she was specially ordered to come to visit her uncle!" ”

Shi An first saw two well-dressed people, and was still thinking about who it was, so he saw Yanran saluting him, his tone was modest and courteous, and then he took a closer look, after all, he had seen Yanran, and he was a little familiar, and nodded and said: "I'm tired of you, this ......"

Shi An wanted to order Yanran to come into the house to sit, but there was no furniture in the hall to sit on, so he could only say: "I remember that you are the maid next to Miss Zeng, who sent you?" Yan Ran heard the anxiety in Shi An's words, and said with a faint smile: "Whoever the slave and maid serve, who sent it." ”

Then Yan Ran groaned, wanting to say what Zeng Zhixian said, but seeing that the young man and Rong Qi were watching there, it was not easy to say. After these things, Shi An has calmed down a lot, and said with a slight bow: "The two of them are my friends, but it doesn't hurt to say it!" ”

Friends? Although Yan Ran felt strange, she still said: "Miss said that since the marriage has been decided, the oath will remain unchanged!" This sentence is very simple, Shi An's whole face lit up, when he encountered such things, Shi An was afraid that the Zeng family would withdraw from his family, so he did not accept Zeng Zhiqing's help, so as not to face Zeng Zhiqing in the future. At this moment, when I heard the words of Yan Ran on behalf of Zeng Zhixian, how could I not be happy in my heart?

Yan Ran then took out the silver wrapped in paper: "This is some scattered silver taels that Miss has saved, uncle, don't refuse!" "At this moment, how can you refuse? Shi An asked the little servant to step forward and take the bag of silver before saying, "Please go back and tell Miss, I will not live up to her!" ”

At this time, Yanran's errand was finished, so naturally she couldn't stay for a long time, so she bowed and left.

When Yanran left, the young man said: "Brother Shi, I just said that you are not a person who has lived under the people for a long time, and your downfall is also temporary!" Shi An's eyes were still bright, he pursed his lips and didn't speak, Rong Qi had already said: "After all, Brother Shi is a good person, like us, he can only do some odd jobs everywhere, and I don't know when I will be able to save up the money to go to Yangzhou to find my uncle!" ”

The young man smiled: "Rong Qi, you, you just think too much." You still know that your uncle is doing business in Yangzhou, and there is a place to go, what about me, my uncle is still traveling everywhere, who knows where to wander? Shi An listened to the discussion between the young man and Rong Qi, and the look in his eyes gradually became firm, the two of them also came out of a well-off family, and their father and mother were embezzled and emptied as soon as they had no family property, and they had no food and clothing, and the only thing they could hope for was to find their uncle and have a place to stay.

Compared to him, he is already much better, and he has a reputation and someone to help him, thinking of Shi An, he patted the young man on the shoulder: "Xiao Cheng, don't be annoyed, maybe your uncle will come to the capital tomorrow to look for you?" The young man's surname is Cheng, his name is Ruiru, and when he heard Shi An's words, he smiled: "Yes, when I was the most depressed, I even did it as a beggar, what else to worry about?" Next year, I will definitely be able to save enough money to go to Yangzhou and let Rong Qi go to find his uncle. ”

Hearing Cheng Ruiru's words, Rong Qi smiled, although the road ahead is vast, who can know that the future of the three people will definitely not be good, as long as people can live, there is hope.

Yanran's mother and daughter returned to Zheng's house, after eating and changing their clothes, Yanran teased her younger brother again, and went to the house.

Zeng Zhixian couldn't sit in the house this day, and when he heard Yuejuan say that Yanran was back, he stood up and was about to go to greet Yanran, but Yanran had already lifted the curtain and walked in, and when he saw Zeng Zhixian, he smiled: "Why should Miss be so worried?" ”

Zeng Zhixian didn't care if Yanran was making fun of himself, and asked with a trembling voice: "Have you seen it?" Is he okay? ”

"I saw it, my uncle is fine, although the house he lives in is a little simpler, but his spirit is still there. He also said, live up to Miss! "Zeng Zhixian is most worried about Shi An's spirit, this person, as soon as the spirit collapses, there will be nothing. When I heard Yan Ran's words, I felt relieved: "In this case, I will be relieved!" ”

"What are you worried about, Miss? Although my uncle is young and pampered since he was a child, he has also gone through things, and it doesn't say in the book that after setbacks, there will be no ......" Yuejuan hurriedly stepped forward, Zeng Zhixian couldn't help but smile: "If it becomes a big thing, it will always have to go through some hardships, Yuejuan, don't drop your bookbag." Let's do your needlework well! ”

Yuejuan deliberately stuck out her tongue and smiled: "Look, it's so easy for me to think of Miss Bo and smile, Miss began to dislike me, yes, I won't say anything in the book, Sister Yanran, you still teach me to do needlework." lest I be disgusted by Miss in the future, and I can't do needlework well! ”