When everyone came to the gate of the courtyard, the gate just opened, and a middle-aged man wearing a blue satin robe walked out.

Seeing this person, the lady of the Lu family screamed sadly, pounced, knelt at the feet of the middle-aged man, hugged his legs, and called "Daddy......", then she cried loudly, and the two children also rushed forward, grabbing the middle-aged man's clothes, and crying "father-in-law......".

The middle-aged man was of medium stature, with a clear face and a serious expression.

Although he was wearing a loose satin robe, Chen Xian could still tell that his body should be strong.

Needless to say, this middle-aged man is the father of the Lu family's lady, the head of the Yang family in Dongzhuangzi.

Yang Yuanwai first touched the heads of the two grandsons lovingly, and then helped his daughter with both hands and said: "Don't cry, Miao Nu, there is a father to call the shots for you, what happened to make you so embarrassed?" ”

Only then did the lady of the Lu family stop crying, and described the attack on Lujiazhuang in a matter of minutes.

Listening to his daughter's description, Yang Yuanwai's face became more and more difficult to see, and after listening to it, he was already iron-blue.

Although he was furious in his heart, Yang Yuanwai did not lose his temper, he forced himself to pull out a smiling face, handed his daughter to a handmaid who came out with him to support, only then took two steps forward, and bowed to Chen Xian: "It's really thanks to the help of this strong man, otherwise our father and daughter may be ......."

Chen Xian said modestly: "The lady of the Lu family, Jiren, has her own natural appearance, and it is just a coincidence, so Yang Yuanwai does not need to be polite." ”

Yang Yuanwai said politely, and instructed a middle-aged man beside him: "Butler, prepare a guest room for this Chen Zhuangshi, so that he can entertain him, and tomorrow I will prepare wine to entertain the strong man." ”

After the housekeeper bowed down and agreed, he said to Chen Xian: "Chen Zhuangshi, please come with me." ”

Chen Xian arched his hand towards Yang Yuanwai, followed the housekeeper towards the door, but when he reached the door, he was blocked by a housekeeper, and motioned him to leave the short gun in his hand.

Chen Xian hurriedly handed over the short gun to the other party, and then was let go into the gate.

Passing through the three-meter-thick doorway of the city wall, Chen Xian appeared in front of another wall, and between the wall and the city wall was a four- or five-meter-wide passage.

The housekeeper took Chen Xian along the sandwich road to the east, and after a while, Yang Yuan, who was surrounded by everyone, the lady of the Lu family and the two children also entered the city gate cave, Chen Xian glanced back, but everyone walked in the opposite direction from him.

Yang Yuanwai and a few people walked a short distance to the west under the crowd of people, there was a gate on the wall there, Yang Yuanwai's father and daughter and two children entered the door surrounded by the maids, but a few men stayed at the door, watched a few people enter the door, and closed them from the inside, and then continued to leave west along the sandwich road.

Entering through this portal, it is the inner house of the Yang Mansion.

The housekeeper took Chen Xian along the sandwich road to the east for more than 20 meters, turned the corner and there was a sandwich road dozens of meters long, the two of them ran into several portals along the way, the housekeeper did not stop, until he reached the end of this sandwich road, and then led him into a portal.

Walking into the gate, inside is a patio five or six meters wide and more than ten meters long, surrounded by a circle of houses.

The housekeeper walked into the courtyard and shouted, and the two middle-aged maids came out of a room near the door, and when they saw the housekeeper, they hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

The housekeeper pointed to Chen Xian and said: "This Chen Zhuang is the life-saving benefactor of the eldest lady, you have to serve well." ”

The two middle-aged maids agreed.

The housekeeper said to Chen Xian: "The strong man settles down in this guest house first, and my family will be thanked." ”

Chen Xian hurriedly arched his hand and said: "Thank you, thank you for not daring to be"

The butler bowed his hand slightly, and then turned away.

When the housekeeper left, the two maids looked at each other, and one of them said to Chen Xian, "Chen Zhuangshi, please come with me." ”

The maid took Chen Xian to a room in the north, which was a clean suite in the front hall and back bedroom.

After taking Chen Xian to see the room, the maid asked, "If the strong man has any orders, please put them forward." ”

Chen Xian has traveled to the past five days, during which he has crossed the mountains and mountains, and he has not known how many stinky sweats he has had, and he doesn't know how dirty he is, so of course he wants to take a good bath at this time.

However, he didn't bring it up directly, but took out a comb from his backpack, handed it to the maid with a smile and said, "Thanks to my sister for taking care of me, I don't know my sister's surname." ”

This comb was put by Chen Xian in the car to arrange his hair, it was a horn comb, it was not worth a few dollars, Chen Xian thought about it, this thing should be used to bribe the maid.

When the maid saw the comb, she seemed quite surprised, and said how dare she do this, but her subordinates were not slow, and took the comb and stuffed it into her sleeve.

This handmaiden claimed to have the surname Wu.

Seeing that the other party accepted the comb, Chen Xiancai sighed and said: "A certain family is in trouble, running away overnight, except for this armor, I don't have a few pieces of luggage, except for meeting Yang Yuan tomorrow, I don't even have a change of clothes, and I can't wear armor to see the staff." ”

"Please also ask Sister Wu to be pitiful, prepare a tank of hot water for me, give me a change of clothes for the next one, let me wash off the dust, and see you tomorrow."

"Tomorrow I see the outside, if I get a reward, I will thank my sister again."

The maid surnamed Wu smiled and said, "This is a trivial matter, I'll go and prepare." ”

When the maid surnamed Wu left, Chen Xian moved to put the wooden box on his back and the helmet tied to the wooden box, and the backpack was unloaded and put on the table, he looked at the pile of things, thought about it, and tied them back on his back.

This pile of things is Chen Xian's only property at present, and it is also the only capital for him to settle down, and there is absolutely no room for loss, and he will go to take a bath for a while, but he is not at ease to put these things in the guest room like this.

Chen Xian waited for about half an hour, and just now the maid surnamed Wu knocked on the door and came in, and said to Chen Xian: "Chen Zhuangshi, hot water and clean clothes have been prepared, come with me." ”

Chen Xian hurriedly arched his hand and said, "Thank you, Sister Wu, please lead the way."

Seeing that Chen Xian was unwilling to put down his luggage, the maid didn't say anything, and led him out of the guest room, through the courtyard, and into a side room on the left.

I saw that a large wooden barrel had been prepared here, and the wooden barrel was filled with steaming hot water, and there was a small square table beside it, on which were placed a set of folded clothes and a porcelain plate, and in the porcelain plate was a purple-red ball, and I don't know what it was.

The maid surnamed Wu made a gesture of please, then turned to leave, and closed the door with her hand.

Chen Xian unloaded the luggage tied together behind his back, and took off the armor on his body one by one......

Diving into the bathtub nearly a meter deep, Chen Xian almost groaned comfortably.

After scrubbing for a while, Chen Xian habitually wanted to find soap to use, and then remembered that he was in the Song Dynasty at this time, and there was no such thing as soap at all.

Just when Chen Xian couldn't help but feel sad for his future life, he suddenly saw the purple-red ball that was put together with clean clothes, and his heart moved, and he picked up the ball from the porcelain plate.

This thing feels a little slippery in the hand of the water, and when you put it on the tip of your nose and smell it gently, it has the smell of soap.

Chen Xian tried to apply the pimple to his body, which was very similar to the feeling of soap on his body.

Discovering that there were similar soaps in the Song Dynasty, Chen Xian's mood suddenly improved.

In fact, what Chen Xian didn't know was that this thing was really called soap, which was made by mashing the honey locust and mixing it with soybean flour and various spices and herbs.

The best soap is called soap, and this is because there are various varieties of soap, and the best one is called honey locust, and the soap made from soap locust is naturally called soap.

After washing his whole body with soap, Chen Xian put the underwear he had changed into in the bathtub and scrubbed it.

Next to the bathtub are two wooden buckets with hot water, which are supposed to be used for the last time to rinse the body.

Chen Xian looked at the wooden barrel and the wooden spoon inside, and hesitated whether to stand outside the bath barrel to rinse, at this time he found that there was a wooden cork under the bath barrel, and there was a ditch made of green bricks under the wooden cork, which led from the corner of the wall to the outside of the house, not to mention the drainage ditch of the bath barrel.

Chen Xian let go of the water in the bath bucket, rinsed himself with the water in the small wooden bucket, and washed his clothes again.

Chen Xian made a mistake when dressing, and the maid surnamed Wu prepared a set of linen short clothes for him, although this set of clothes was clean, it was obviously old clothes, and Chen Xian couldn't wear other people's underwear.

After thinking for a moment, Chen Xian took out the denim jacket he had taken off when he wore armor from his backpack and put it on as underwear, and then put on the outer coat of the linen short coat outside.

Awkwardly dressed, Chen Xian returned to his guest room with a salute.

Back in the inner bedroom, Chen Xian moved a chair to the back window, placed the stick that supported the window between the back of the chair and the window, and hung up the underwear.

Soon after returning to the guest room, the maid surnamed Wu brought lunch, and Chen Xian opened the food box to see that it was a stack of four dough cakes, placed on a large plate, plus a large jar of millet porridge with minced meat and minced vegetables.

The dough looks like it's baked, a bit like naan, but it's smaller than naan, and it looks delicious.

Chen Xian put the vegetable and meat porridge in the jar into the empty bowl prepared in the food box, and took a sip, the sweetness of the millet, the deliciousness of the meat, coupled with the faint taste of vegetables and a hint of saltiness, the taste was quite good.

Chen Xian was still worried about his stomach and stomach, worried that he would not be used to eating the food of this era, but now he was immediately relieved.

He picked up another piece of bread and took a bite, and the taste was almost no different from that of later generations.

What Chen Xian didn't know was that naan cake has a long history, and it was introduced to the Central Plains as early as the Jin Dynasty and was called "Hu cake".

After eating barbecued meat and fish with a lack of salt and oil for five days, such normal food is simply delicious to Chen Xian, and he snorted and ate four Hu cakes and a large pot of vegetable and meat porridge cleanly.

Half an hour later, the maid surnamed Wu came to collect the food box.

After eating and drinking, Chen Xian had nowhere to go, so he could only take a walk in the yard, and no one paid attention to him.

After turning around for more than half an hour, he felt that he had eaten away, so Chen Xian went back to the guest bedroom and fell asleep.

In the past five days, Chen Xian has been exhausted from climbing mountains and mountains, not to mention that he does not dare to sleep every night, and he has long been tired and sleepy.