Chapter 11: The Past of the Fan Family

While pondering the hidden meaning of Cao Huchang's words, Cao Hu Chang seemed to sense something, and asked, "How is it, but I'm not sure?" ”

Fan Ming suddenly felt weak for a while, and hurriedly said: "No, I'm just afraid that I will miss Uncle Cao's business!" ”

Cao Huchang patted Fan Ming's shoulder, "It's okay, it's okay, he can't do anything to you with me, you just need to do your duty." ”

After thinking about it, Fan Ming bowed, "It's better to be so respectful than to obey!" ”

Chief Cao smiled, "It's better to be respectful than to obey!" This is a new word, do it well, and tell me if you have any difficulties in the future. ”

Fan Ming rolled his eyes, "Uncle Cao, I have a request!" ”

Cao Hu Chang turned his head and glanced at it, "Say!" ”

"I want to come here to read!" Fan Ming pointed to the bookshelf on the side.

The expression on the face of the head of the Cao family froze for a moment, and the smile resurfaced again, and said: "It's okay, it's okay, you come to the porter in the future, borrow it and read it at home, the books here are also used to fund the village school, but I have forgotten this stubble these days." ”

Leaving Caofu, with the thoughts in his head, Fan Ming returned home in a trance, picked up a sweat towel and came to the sink to wipe off the sweat.

The sky is close to dusk, and his mind is still in the excitement of finding a new job, 80 Wen a day, which is nearly three times higher than the previous salary, this month is three times, this can be saved for a year to build a few blue brick houses, this happiness comes a little suddenly!

However, Chen Er, who was mentioned by the head of the Cao household earlier, cast a shadow on his heart, this Chen Suliang happened to be Hu San's maternal uncle, if Hu San took the opportunity to find trouble, it would be troublesome......

At this time, there was a pair of eyes in the room staring at him stupidly, it was none other than Zhang Wan'er.

At this time, Zhang Wan'er was leaning on the door and thinking about her thoughts, in the past three months, the uncle has become more and more unique to the man, and his appearance is more and more like his husband, no, he is more handsome than his husband, and he is much stronger, if it is ...... But......

Alas!

In the end, all that was thought about turned into a sigh.

Zhang Wan'er saw that Fan Ming was just a random tulu behind him, and there were still a lot of sweat stains, so she couldn't help but smile and go, "Wulang, I'll wipe your back!" ”

The Northern Song Dynasty inherited the Tang style, and the women's style was quite bold, and there were no constraints from those rules and regulations, but under the customs, they were also afraid of gossip, Zhang Wan'er carefully wiped every inch of Fan Ming's back, as if she couldn't wipe it clean, and while feeling Fan Ming's fire-like body, her hands were trembling slightly.

"Sister-in-law, it's almost!" In the face of Zhang Wan'er's emotions, even a fool can feel it, but Fan Ming can only pretend that he doesn't know anything.

"Oh!" Zhang Wan'er woke up suddenly, and felt that her face was very hot for a while, so she hurriedly walked into the house.

Fan Ming didn't follow in, what else could he do but be embarrassed after entering, it was better to stay outside for a while.

Sitting on the stump in the courtyard, looking at the red glow in the sky, Fan Ming felt something, stood up and took a long breath, spit it out again, back and forth three times, and the depression in his heart instantly dissipated.

His goal is not to be trapped in this small mountain village, how can he be stumped by such a small obstacle!

As soon as he thought about it clearly, Fan Ming's heart was also a lot more comfortable, there was a strong smell of meat in the house, and when he walked into the house, he saw that there were still chickens and eggs on the stove, and he suddenly felt confused, what day is today, how can the usually thrifty Fan Qin cook meat to eat, he didn't know the taste of meat in March, and his stomach rumbled for a while.

As soon as he heard this voice, Fan Qin's tightly knit brows gradually stretched these days, although the clothes on his body were still plain, but he looked a little like an old lady from a big family, and said with relief: "Wulang, just wait a little longer." ”

"Mother, what day is it today, is my brother-in-law coming?" After he got better, he had never seen his two sisters who married into the county, and he thought that the sister was coming after such a big battle.

"It's your birthday, have you forgotten?"

"Birthday!" Fan Ming smiled bitterly and shook his head, is he an adult now?

According to the laws of the Tang Dynasty in the Northern Song Dynasty, fifteen is considered an adult, and if he is called a virtual age, he will be sixteen, but this day seems to be so inappropriate, I wanted to tell Fan Qinshi that he had been 'promoted' to become a craftsman, but when I thought about it, I didn't know whether it was a blessing or a curse and endured it, "Mother, let's move to Yingtianfu in a while, okay?"

"Okay, why do you want to move to Yingtianfu, is something wrong again?" Fan Qin's face changed suddenly, and the great changes in her family last year made her nerves very sensitive.

"It's nothing, just talk about it casually!" Fan Ming smiled awkwardly, seeing Fan Qin's nervous appearance, he wanted to go to Ying Tianfu to break through, but he didn't dare to mention it.

The aroma became stronger and stronger, gradually overflowing the whole house, taking advantage of this, Fan Ming re-covered the roof with thatch, and added polished bark on it, so that the dilapidated house looked completely new.

While eating, chewing the fragrant chicken in his mouth, Fan Ming's mind flew outside, looking at a nest of chicks falling on the jujube tree outside the yard, and suddenly asked: "Mother, why did our family become like this, and why was my father stabbed into the Daimyo's Mansion?" ”

Fan Qin sighed in a low voice, and slowly said some things she didn't want to think of, it turned out that the ancestors of the Fan family were also quite gracious, Fan Ming's grandfather was still the county lieutenant of Chuqiu County, and he was also regarded as a local snake, one day a few years ago, a foreigner came to Lao Fan at home to discuss the matter of jointly trafficking tea bricks, and the whole sky seemed to fall down in an instant.

From the information in Fan Qin's words, Fan Ming vaguely felt that this was a conspiracy, and there were two points of information in her words that made Fan Ming very suspicious, a county lieutenant would not be brought down so easily, and the second point was that the foreigner was speaking with a daimyo's accent.

He knows that tea transportation is a profiteering industry in this era, compared with salt affairs, judging from his experience in society for so many years, ordinary high-level liars will choose a business with enough profits to impress people's hearts, and this is just the time when the magistrate took office, which is more reasonable to show that this is a conspiracy.

It is impossible for a local snake who has been operating in the local area for so long to be crushed to the ground without any power to fight back, Lao Fan died of illness, Fan Ming and his father stabbed the Daimyo's mansion, and the family property was confiscated, and there was no chance to turn over.

"Mother, how did my fourth brother get over in the first place?" As soon as he asked, Fan Ming immediately regretted it.

Sure enough, after a while, the tears in Fan Qin's eyes flowed out, and then Zhang Wan'er also sobbed, looking pitiful, and the room fell into mourning.

In Fan Qin's choked narration, Fan Ming became more and more sure that this was a typical officialdom overthrow, and the methods were very ferocious, his illness and the violent death of the fourth brother were obviously a chronic poison, and they would attack in a certain period.

Although he didn't directly put people to death, it was tantamount to cutting off the roots of his Fan family, but fortunately, God was merciful and let 'him' come back to life, if he didn't expect, it was estimated that the assassination would be arranged to the Daimyo's Mansion, thinking of this, Fan Ming couldn't help but worry about this father who had never met, and he didn't know if he could survive.

But in this situation, he can't do anything, and he can only pray for God's blessing.