Chapter 24: Give You a Peach
On the third day of July, the sky in Fengjin County, Pingzhou, was still as cloudless as ever.
Man Yun was wearing a moon-white skirt with a light flower pattern of willow leaves, and her hair was only tied with a monochrome light blue ribbon, and she honestly took Zhu's mother's hand and followed her to the courtyard gate.
They were going out together. Zhu's mother wanted to go to the pharmacy to get the fetal medicine for Du Shi, which was a job she had always done herself. But Zhou Manyun went through a lot of trouble before he was reluctantly allowed by Du, and followed Zhu's mother to the street to see the appearance of Fengjin County.
The Zhou family has not received a funeral letter from either side of Luo Jing and Huo Cheng until today, Zhou Manyun is dressed plainly, and he just used the excuse of thinking about making himself look fresher in the summer, and he was very teased by his mother and Mother Zhu about her stinky beauty.
The Taoist priest ran away, but the children in the family looked much better, and there should be no more danger of death.
Zhou Manyun raised his eyes and looked at the sky and clenched his little fist. It's just a little change from her previous life, and she has pulled back a few more lives, which makes her more confident in changing the future.
When the clenched fist was pulled by an old woman looking at the door, and a string of copper plates was stuffed into her palm, Man Yun came back to his senses and turned his head to look at Zhu's mother in a daze.
"That's it! Mrs. Wang, I will bring the medicine you want! Don't get my sister's hands dirty! Mother Zhu stretched out her big hand of Pu Fan, snatched the copper coin string from Man Yun's small hand, and stuffed it into her arms with a big smile.
Mrs. Wang, who had just given Zhou Manyun money, was relieved, and showed a smile that was pleasing to Haode. Originally, the money was not given to Miss Man Yun, but Mother Zhu kept refusing just now, so she hurriedly stuffed it into Man Yun's hands.
Manyun's trip was only delayed by Mrs. Wang for a while, and the other servants chose to turn a blind eye to Zhou Manyun following Zhu's mother out. No one thought of going to Mrs. Zhou or the eldest grandmother to complain in front of them, and they all remembered the sturdy beating that Gui Zhi suffered not long ago.
"Why do you use a mother-in-law on the door?" , Looking back at the small courtyard of the Zhou family that was already behind him, Man Yun asked Zhu's mother softly. This is not in line with the rules of the Zhou family, no matter in the past life or this life.
"It's during the day, and it's still used at night!" , Zhu's mother replied, and couldn't help but sigh. Manyun's fourth uncle, Zhou Tan, fainted from heat stroke and fell ill after several days and nights on duty, followed by two or three male servants, so he had to use some mothers-in-law to guard the door.
"Then, why did that princess give me money? What medicine does she want? ”
"That? That is the mother-in-law of Aunt Wang in the uncle's room, who was originally the head of the village in the farm on the outskirts of Beijing, but she is decent......." Although he is also a servant, he can be the master of the house behind closed doors in the small manor, if it is not for the daughter who is half the master to return to Jiangnan with him, why not.
Thinking that it was the same kind, Zhu's mother's voice became smaller and quieter, and Zuihou became a silent mutter.
But Manyun had suddenly understood, shut up, and stopped making a sound.
Raise and step low, human nature, that day Brother Wen died, because of the epidemic and died, only a small coffin was carried outside the city and burned, and even the ashes were stored in a nunnery outside the city, and they were not retrieved.
Aunt Wang, who still had a big belly, was also mentioned by the master who came to help Xie sing the three-day sutra for Brother Wen, saying that she was afraid that her filth would affect the eldest girl Manhua, so she moved to the inverted seat where the servants lived in the inner courtyard, and squeezed it with her own mother, and Mrs. Wang could only endure her anger, hoping that the child who was still in Aunt Wang's womb was born smoothly.
I'm afraid it's still not good! Thinking about Aunt Wang's recent situation, Mother Zhu shook her head, and suddenly pulled Zhou Manyun's little hand heavily, "Sister Yun! ”
"Huh?" , Man Yun was greedily looking at the increasingly lively street scene, his hands sank, and he raised his head in confusion.
"Sister! You've been kind since you were a kid! But you have to remember that when you grow up and get married, you have to ...... with Miss Grandma learns a little, and if she can't tolerate a concubine, she will say it directly, don't spoil other girls, she is obviously generous, and it is even more difficult to ...... people's lives", Zhu's mother said, she was happy, and stretched out her big hand to touch Manyun's soft top hair. "Look at my nonsense, my sister is still young! I don't know where the little son-in-law is......"
I know! Man Yun smiled lightly and nodded, but his heart was at a loss. In her previous life, she was a wife, and she smiled at the concubine, and she couldn't wait to poke a few knives at the person in her heart. treats the fate of the concubine for the sake of others, but she is often humiliated from all sides, which makes her ashamed and want to die......
Speaking of which, it's right not to be a concubine or a concubine, but what if you don't want to marry again in this life?
Sighing secretly, leaving aside the worries that should not be considered until ten years later, Zhou Manyun concentrated on observing the surrounding situation.
Pretending to be a soul of almost thirty, Zhou Manyun wanted to go out with Zhu's mother, of course, not because of the reason why he was bored and panicked when he said to Du Shi Sarai.
After more than ten days of reliving, not only did some things change slightly under her efforts, but a bunch of facts in her previous life seemed to be shrouded in a layer of fog of lies, as the death day of her mother in her previous life approached, in the calm of the Zhou family's courtyard, Zhou Manyun, who couldn't find any clues, was anxious, so she decided to go out and see.
Zhu's mother said that she was taking Man Yun out to see, but in fact, she was swaying in the streets near the Zhou's small courtyard in Nancheng, Fengjin County.
The residents of Fengjin South City are rich, and Zhu's mother took Manyun straight to a street, paved with straight and wide blue striped stones, and all kinds of shops opened on both sides, and the colorful shop banners were high, showing a different kind of prosperity that the waterway was going to rush.
A noise attracted Man Yun's attention, and she dragged Zhu's mother's hand and slowed down curiously.
Looking closely, it was a rice shop that changed the water sign hanging at the door of the store, and raised a few coppers for a few types of rice.
"Guest officer, are you still waiting for the big ship from Jiangnan to transport rice? Several states in the north have been hit by disasters, yesterday our lord only got the news from the county master, the downstream Yunzhou side set up a card on the river, the river has been closed for three or four days, and the ships going north have been intercept......ed by both officials and businessmen", a sharp-beaked monkey cheek shopkeeper at the door of the rice store, deliberately held his chest, and showed off to the crowd who looked around that his master's house was well-informed, and he had made full preparations before Yunzhou set up a card.
Yunzhou set up a card to intercept the ship? Zhou Manyun estimated the lower position according to the water map that Zhou Tan memorized that day, and then calculated according to the experience of taking a boat in her previous life, she smiled helplessly, she understood that Huo Chengbao should have been stopped by the news of her great-grandmother's funeral, even if she got off the boat three or four days ago and went ashore and took the land route, at least she would have to wait for another three or four days to get to Pingzhou.
But this is nothing, the trouble is that something has to happen in the past few days to be able to take the life of Zhou Manhua, the sister of the Zhou family? Do you have to let everyone say that she is sick and dead? Because he remembered that Zhou Manhua's death was the day before his mother's death, Zhou Manyun was very unkind to take the hall sister who is still as gorgeous as summer flowers, and referred to it to find clues.
A pair of small eyebrows frowned slightly, and Xiao Manyun was stunned when she looked at one place, which really startled Zhu's mother, picked her up, and went straight to the pharmacy.
"Doctor! Doctor, show my sister...... Don't get heat stroke! As soon as she entered the pharmacy, Zhu's mother directly pressed the recovered Man Yun on the chair, and beckoned the doctor in a loud voice to give her a second pulse.
After getting the assurance that Man Yun was only a little weak, she patted her fat breasts and moved to the counter to urge the guy to grab the medicine.
Zhou Manyun tilted his head, pursed his lips and smiled, and reminded in a crisp voice: "Mom, don't forget Mrs. Wang!" ”
"Children's families, their memories are so good, what are you doing!" , Mother Zhu, who really forgot, blushed, hummed, and handed a medicine list to the cabinet.
Because he had to wait for the medicine cabinet to weigh the medicine, the guys in Zhou Manyunyang Pharmacy helped move a small stool, obediently found a shady place, and looked at the crowd passing in front of the pharmacy with his cheeks up, stunned.
A gaze fell on her on the way, and quickly moved away. Zhou Manyun stood up vigilantly, and just saw a small man wearing a gray and black coarse cloth clothes and a hat, pretending to be calm and flashing into a shop opposite.
Zhou Manyun sneered and laughed, but he was not in a hurry, he turned his head, sat back on the small stool, and leisurely counted the brick joints on the ground.
When Mother Zhu, who had followed the medicine, and walked back to the alley where the Zhou family's courtyard was located, Zhou Manyun gently pulled Mother Zhu's sleeve, "Someone is following us!" ”
"Sister is awesome!" , Zhu's mother, who had already found out that she was being followed, smiled and squinted, and gave Man Yun a small high hat.
Holding Man Yun's hand and turning into a secluded alley, Zhu's mother's fat body took a stride back suddenly, but the speed was extremely fast, and a thin man who followed them was pressed against the brick wall by her, and the little face deformed on Zhu's mother's palm tried hard to make a begging expression.
"It's a lie!" , Zhou Manyun's eyes bent into crescents. Somehow, maybe it was an old acquaintance from a previous life, and I was quite afraid, but I was evaluated by Mrs. Zhou as a thief, but Zhou Manyun felt that he should be used to being a thief, and he should not be condescending to change to stealing chickens and dogs.
Mother Zhu's hand was released, and under the prompting of Man Yun, she also recognized the little Taoist boy who had met two or three times before, but this time he had changed into a layman's clothes.
The twelve-year-old boy straightened his clothes that had been crumpled by the fat woman in anger, and his pair of thick and black sword eyebrows were still picking up with a bit of anger, but his two pale amber pupils were full of laughter, and he nodded to Man Yun, who recognized him.
Forgetting words is obviously a pseudonym that matches the false words, looking at the handsome face of the young man in front of him who is somewhat similar to Xu Ne, Zhou Manyun can't help but become more and more soft-hearted.
In his previous life, Xu Ne was alone without relatives when he descended to the scene, so this young man who was very close to Xu Ne may have long been drowned in the chaos of the war, and he didn't know when and where he became a lonely ghost. Zhou Manyun brought half of the unfulfilled mother's heart from his previous life, and brought a little compassion for the life that might be dying into his eyes.
The six girls of the Zhou family have a pair of deep eyes, but they are warm and not offensive. Forget to say blushing shyly, lowered his head, took out something from his pocket, stretched it out and handed it to Zhou Manyun's eyes, "Here you go!" ”
Without waiting for Man Yun to see clearly, Mother Zhu had already snatched it into her own hands first, and after a closer look, her eyes squinted with a flash, "Peach? ”。
In Zhu's mother's hand is a walnut-sized wood carved peach, just a peach shape, the material is ordinary, the workmanship is rough, looking at the scratches on the surface, I think it is cut out with a sharp weapon in a hurry.
Zhu's mother has never read, but she can't stand her aunt and her own young lady, and she has also sent peach and plum to and fro for a while, and now looking at the strangely handsome little Taoist priest in front of her, she suddenly has a feeling that evil is born from the side of her guts.
"The master gave you the fourth uncle, but I can't see him, and your doorkeeper won't let me approach at all now!" , Forget to flatten her mouth a little angrily, and said to Zhou Manyun seriously, "The master also said it, and it will be done for you." If you say yes, you should return the favor. ”
Give him back the peaches I gave him? Zhou Manyun pondered carefully, suddenly opened his mouth wide, and his eyes showed a look of horror, "Escape?!" ”