At the beginning of autumn, I listened to the mother-in-law and the little maid on the other side of the inverted room outside the wall chewing the root of their tongues.

What to say, "The old man has been that classless little official, and this life is like this, even our gang of subordinates are bare when they go out and walk around!" ”

Coincidentally, Lin An listened to it, and he slipped away to inform Qiao'er. It didn't take long for the group to be found by the lady and driven out of the Zou family, and let them cry and beg for mercy, but it was still to no avail.

On this day, when it was time for lunch, the scholar put the meal on the stone table that had just been set up under me, twisted his beard, and said: "I have heard that the ancients ate at the top of the list, and my heart is envious, and it is also effective to imitate." Although there is no sound of the bell ringing today, it has the wonder of Brother Shu's 'slapping', which is also interesting. ”

Qiao'er dusted off the fallen leaves on the stone table and stone bench, and laid a blanket on the stone bench, and Fang instructed the little girl Ying'er to go out to pass the meal. When she was young, Qiao'er set up the dishes and chopsticks, helped the scholar to sit down, and Mrs. Kang sat in the seat where the scholar lowered her hand. I saw two seasonal side dishes on the table, and a plate of bad quail, which didn't make me sick.

After the meal, Qiao'er ordered someone to clean up, and when she saw that the scholar didn't get up, she hurriedly went to make tea again.

Mrs. Kang held the teacup and said, "Qiao'er, you go to the house and put the clothes sent by your mother yesterday." Qiao'er understood, and quickly answered and left.

"Mother-in-law sent me clothes again?"

Mrs. Kang replied with a smile: "It's the new material from the south of Zhiyunfang, and my mother saw that it was still good, so she sent some of it, saying that it was for the master to make new clothes." ”

The scholar nodded, put down the tea bowl, and asked casually: "I heard Lin An say that a few subordinates were sent out, what is the matter?" ”

Mrs. Kang said with a smile: "They are also to blame, those few were originally on guard duty at night, and they poured a few mouthfuls of yellow soup at night, and they couldn't even tell the difference between east and west, north and south." The concubine was afraid that they would be greedy and misguided, and they would not be reliable in the end, so they simply threw them out and asked Lin An to pick some other honest ones to make up for the shortcomings. In addition, a few others with minor circumstances also fined them half a month's monthly money as punishment, but saved our family a few dollars of silver. ”

The scholar smiled bitterly: "I have always neglected the way of housekeeping, and I have to worry a lot about my wife." Now, I am the Confucius of the Hanlin Academy, in charge of books and atlases, but I am just a small official who has not entered the stream, and my annual salary is only thirty taels. Compared with the future of editing and reviewing, I am afraid that it is going to waste the years, and what can be saved at home can be saved. ”

Mrs. Kang gently persuaded: "The affairs of officialdom, the concubine does not understand. However, the master doesn't have to worry about the money, not to mention that there are not a few mouths at home, and the cost of chewing is not large. It is the Zhuangzi of the concubine's parents' family hanging in the name of the master, and now there is no need to pay taxes, and the dividends we can get a year are not to mention that there are two or three hundred taels of input, and then there are seasonal fruits and vegetables can also be obtained from the Zhuangzi, compared with other small families in Beijing, our family can save more money than them alone. ”

"That's very good. By the way, in the future, this fallen leaves can be swept in five days, you look at this golden ground, it is a pity to sweep it all early, and only clean up the fallen leaves on the table and bench on weekdays. ”

After a few more conversations, the scholar got up and prepared to go back to the study to practice calligraphy as usual. Since the scholar no longer does Nalaoshzi "Hanlin Yuan Jishi", he has more free time, drinking under the tree during the day, or writing and reading, and has lived a much more comfortable and chic life.

Before the scholar had taken two steps, he saw Lin An coming over: "Master, I just received the news, Master Meng, I went...... Now the Meng family is doing the future. ”

The scholar turned his head sharply and said hurriedly: "I went to Meng's house for a banquet a few days ago, and I looked very good at that time, how can I be so dignified, just leave!" ”

The scholar was busy ordering people to change their plain clothes, and they were in a hurry to go to mourn, and Mrs. Kang ordered Qiao'er to seal ninety taels of silver and let Lin An take it.

This Master Meng, I also have a little impression. Scholars often say that he is the second noble person he met in Beijing, and the first one is naturally me. He is the head teacher of the scholar in the Hanlin Academy, because the scholar's temper has an appetite for him, so he takes good care of the scholar, and even this quadrangle house is also purchased by him.

The scholar bluntly said that Mr. Meng has the grace of reinvention for himself, and he is not only a teacher, but also like a father. It's no wonder that the scholar went out in three steps and two steps just now, and I have never seen him so gaffe.

Mrs. Kang was not qualified to go, so she simply went back to the house and copied the Buddhist scriptures, planning to send someone to Mrs. Meng. Before leaving the cabinet, the old lady of the Kang family admonished Mrs. Kang to read and learn words, and did not want her to be knowledgeable about the past and the present, as long as she went to her husband's house to take care of housework in the future, she knew a few words, and it was enough not to let the cheating and slippery subordinates be deceived.

Mrs. Kang copied the "Diamond Sutra", looked up and saw Qiao'er's eyelids drooping, looking drowsy, and scolded with a smile: "What do you look like with your little hooves, shaking your head?" Don't annoy the Buddha, hurry up and get out of here. ”

Qiao'er stuck out her tongue and opened the curtain and went out of the house, and as soon as she went out, she saw a little girl who was no more than seven or eight years old sweeping the ginkgo biloba leaves with a broom.

Qiao'er hurriedly stepped forward to stop her: "Don't sweep, don't sweep, the master ordered before going out, let me leave some leaves." If you sweep it clean, you don't have to call the master back to be angry. ”

"Ying'er didn't listen! Ying'er doesn't know! Sister, don't tell your father, otherwise Ying'er will be miserable! The little girl's baby fat little face was full of grievances and panic, and the broom taller than her almost didn't hold it steady.

I took a closer look and couldn't help laughing, it's this girl.

Who is my favorite person besides a scholar? It's not Mrs. Kang, it's not Qiao'er, it's this stupid and cute little warbler.

If you ask me who I hate the most, it must be Lin An! I really want him to experience the pain of broken branches!

But this world is so wonderful, the people I hate and love the most are actually a father and daughter.

I really don't know how Lin An, a guy with a villain face and a thick back and a thick waist, raised a little girl like Ying'er.

I saw that Lin An's mother-in-law looked ordinary, Lin An brought her from the township into the Zou family to watch the night, I had seen it from afar at that time, this is a later story, not to mention it for the time being.

Anyway, if you call an irrelevant person to distinguish it, you will feel that Ying'er was abducted from a big family.

Qiao'er is now doing something I want to do but can't.

She bent over, rubbing Ying'er's chubby little face with both hands, and the two small tender flesh trembling up and down made my heart melt.

"If you want me not to tell your father, it's okay, come on, rub this girl's neck, knock her legs, and go to the sleepy bug."

As he spoke, he unceremoniously turned around and sat down on the stone bench. When Ying'er heard this, she put the broom on me, grinned, showed her little white teeth, and happily stood on tiptoe to massage Qiao'er.

"But this leaf is not swept for two days or three days, if it stays for a long time, it is not good." Ying'er kept in her hand, just frowned and asked. Cleaning the courtyard and the main house is her job, if something goes wrong, she can't please her, and no one will say that the master is not, the fault is all on herself. Don't look at her young age, she looks childish, sometimes she is confused, and she doesn't know if she is deceived, but Lin An and his wife are well trained, and they should have understood it a long time ago.

"The master said that he would sweep every five days, but he didn't sweep all the time, when did he want to sweep? On which day do you just clean up the table and stools? Count your fingers on your own. Qiao'er pursed her lips and smiled.

"Sister Qiao'er only says half a sentence every time she talks to Ying'er, which makes me do a lot of things wrong before, and I have to be scolded by my father every time." Ying'er pouted and complained.

Just a gust of wind blew, and a few leaves fell, Qiao'er was quick to catch one, and slid the leaves on Ying'er's pretty face, itching her to hide, joking: "If your father scolds you in the future, and your mother doesn't dare to talk more, you tell me, I will go back to Mrs. to call the shots for you, and tell your father to compensate you!" ”

Ying'er took it seriously, shook her head like a rattle, and hurriedly said: "Good sister, don't make trouble, where do you dare to speak out to Mrs. Labor, you can break Ying'er." ”

The two were playing, and Mrs. Zhang, who was in charge of chores in the kitchen, stood outside the second door and waved her hand, and said in a suppressed voice: "Miss Qiao, here!" Come here! ”

Qiao'er got up and told Ying'er not to forget to clean up the fallen leaves on the stone table and stone bench, Fang came to Mrs. Zhang's side and said with a smile: "Mother Zhang, what can't you come in and say?" ”

I squinted my eyes and saw that it was really true, and the mother-in-law stuffed some money into Qiao'er's hand, and whispered with a red face: "My mother-in-law is seventy-eight this year, and she has recently had an illness, and the doctor said that it is a matter of these two days, and I have come to ask Miss Qiao for two days off, so that I can go back to take care of my mother's funeral." My work in the kitchen is horizontal and vertical for my man to be on top, my man is Lai San who carries a sedan chair outside, and he does things beautifully, so the girl doesn't have to worry. If the girl wants anything delicious and fun, just tell me, and when I come back, I will bring it to the girl! ”

Qiao'er smiled: "Why didn't you go back to your wife about this leave, but asked me to come here?" Today is your matter, tomorrow it is someone else's turn to have something, come and go, what has become of me? ”

Mrs. Zhang hurriedly smiled and said: "I should have returned to my wife, but a few days ago, my wife just got someone out, and I was afraid that my wife was still angry, so I came to ask the girl." Good girl, you have a face in front of the old lady, you are a spitting star worthy of ten words from the old woman, and I ask the girl to give me a look. ”

Qiao'er waved her hand and said with a smile: "Okay, okay, you pack up and go, I'll just tell my wife, it's irrelevant, don't wear a top hat for me." ”

When Mrs. Zhang heard this, she went with great gratitude.

I thought inexplicably: The last time I picked up people, it was because they had a bad mouth, and they had nothing to do with Lai San's family. Mrs. Kang usually looks kind and kind, how can she care about her, what is this woman afraid of? is also looking for Qiao'er to stuff silver, which is really a superfluous move.

In the evening, the scholar Fang came back from condolences, still with a sad face, and had a hasty dinner with Mrs. Kang, and fell asleep after a few words.

I listened quietly, it turned out that Master Meng only ate a few bites of clams to try it, which Cheng thought that he was not convinced by this thing (the meaning of allergies), his chest was stuffy, and he died in his early sixties.

Mrs. Zhang's mother is also going to go in the past two days, she is seventy-eight years old, and she has not lived past the age of eighty.

If I hadn't had an accident, I wouldn't have had a problem living for thousands of years, and human life is really short for me.

Today, scholars are depressed for the death of their teachers; The mother-in-law whispered for the death of the old mother.

I'm afraid that in a few decades, it will be my turn to mourn the scholar, Mrs. Kang, the smart and lovely Qiao'er, the annoying Lin An, and the confused Ying'er day and night.

Looking at the eternal bright moon, I can't help but think a lot......