Chapter 43: Ghost Laughter in the Middle of the Night

With Xu Caizheng's stubborn temper, it is not easy to play tricks in front of Xu Caizheng, even if Xu Deshan carefully explained to Xu Caizheng what is called engineering architecture, what is called design and development, what is called personnel management and the benefits of excellent management to the project, but Xu Deshan took away from Xu Caizheng here, and only five taels of silver, which was still Xu Deshan was about to pick a son and not do it, Xu Caizheng relented.

Of course, this is indispensable to the process of bargaining between father and son, when the price is fixed at five taels, Xu Deshan picked up the cheap and took it, agreed to it, and then immediately ran to the room where the silver was stored, in front of everyone's eyes, especially Xu Zheng Xu Jing's eyes were about to fall, and the neat silver ingots that people had originally stacked were messed up, and then selected a small ingots in the best condition, held it in his hand, and never spread it again.

Xu Caizheng, who followed up later, saw Xu Deshan's face of being a fan of money, and was quite helpless, so he couldn't help asking: "Deshan, you said that you are at home, is it a loss of your clothes or your food, you just have to say something, which time is not to buy it for you in every possible way, what do you have to do with these five taels of silver." ”

Xu Deshan shook his head and said: "This is different, this money is mine, and it feels different when you spend it." ”

Xu Caizheng had no choice, and said angrily: "Then you have to be careful, five taels of silver looks like a lot, but if you spend the money according to the way you spent the money for one meal yesterday, there will be no five meals, calculate it." ”

Xu Deshan's eyes widened and said: "Who said I want to spend it, I'm still a child, what do I want, won't you buy it for me?" ”

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It is said that people are poor and short-minded, horses are thin and long, since Xu Deshan has this huge sum of five taels of silver, his status has risen in Xu's mansion, and it is suddenly different, originally everyone respected Xu Caizheng, and Xu Zheng was secondary, now everyone listens to Xu Deshan in addition to listening to Xu Caizheng, only listening to Xu Deshan, no way, a huge Xu Mansion, can earn money to support the family, out of Xu Caizheng, the rest is Xu Deshan, who else can listen to Xu Deshan, who else can listen.

The two ladies also began to have different attitudes towards Xu Deshan, and they could be regarded as understanding, Xu Deshan is a phoenix in the grass nest, if he doesn't make a sound, he is a blockbuster, obviously he doesn't look down on his own grass nest, and he has to take advantage of Xu Deshan's young age to quickly cultivate some daring, otherwise he will not have a chance to hug his thighs in the future.

There is another person whose status has changed in Xufu, that is, Gao Mang, Gao Mang was a martial arts teacher in Xufu before, and he took care of the house, and his status was higher than that of the miscellaneous servants in Xufu, and he was about the same as a cook's mother, but now Gao Mang has changed and become Xu Deshan's personal guard, and his status is only below the general manager.

These changes are happening within the Xu Mansion, and when the news is not known to be spread by whom, it caused a big sensation in Fuping Township, although Xu Caizheng's previous official was not small, but he was too rigid, and some relatives wanted to touch Xu Caizheng's light, but they didn't get it, and when Xu Caizheng returned to his hometown, there was less light that could be touched, so there was a normal relationship with each other, and basically everyone came to Xu Caizheng's house.

But this time it's different, the county magistrate actually handed over the project of building the school to Xu Caizheng, and without asking the price, he directly brought a thousand taels of silver, what does this mean, Xu Caizheng has changed his temperament, is he going to meddle in the affairs of the county, this is a very good signal.

Chinese are naturally good at association, even if nothing happens, but as long as there is a trace of connection, people will confidently connect the two things, if Xu Caizheng takes this opportunity to talk to the county, then he will not be able to benefit a lot.

For example, according to the service law now implemented in the Song Dynasty, every man in the county has to go to the county to serve in the county after he becomes an adult. The children of the family can naturally be assigned to a more relaxed position, if there is no one, then the dirty work will naturally be done by you.

The Xu family has been bred here for more than 100 years, and it can be regarded as a flourishing leaf, some relatives, Since Xu Caizheng and the county government hooked up again, what seven aunts and eight aunts, but all the relatives who are next to each other have to go to the Xu Mansion to walk around, for fear that Xu Caizheng will forget himself at a critical time.

This kind of anti-lock thing, Xu Caizheng felt that his head was incomparable, the man was okay to say, it was nothing more than eating and drinking, those women came to Xu Caizheng but couldn't resist, fortunately, two ladies came forward in time to block the huge group of relatives of the Xu family, I have to say, women are born to do this, a group of people get together, twitter, twitter, and there is no sign of stopping for a long time, I really suspect that these people have neither the same culture and education, nor the common life experience, where did so many common topics come from.

In the face of this kind of thing, Xu Caizheng has a headache, in fact, Xu Caizheng really wants to drag Xu Deshan over to block the knife at this time, but Xu Deshan is so smart, seeing that things are not good, he has already hid in everyone's place, and his reason is also very legitimate, since I want to supervise the construction of the school, I naturally have to survey the direction, design the drawings, so many things, how to do it if I don't hurry up, so I took five copper coins from the money box, and called Gao Mang to go out.

This time when I went out, there were only two people, Xu Deshan and Gao Mang, even if Xu Zheng and Xu Jing wanted to go, but when relatives came to visit, how could the eldest son of the parent not be there, so Xu Zheng and Xu Jing could only watch Xu Deshan go out.

With Xu Zheng and Xu Jing's experience of Xu Deshan, let Xu Deshan enter the city with money in his hand alone, it is the same as a mouse entering the rice warehouse, it is definitely how much to spend, even if it can't be spent, it will be wasted, and they will never go home if they don't spend it, but they really blame Xu Deshan this time, Xu Deshan called Gao Mang out of the house early in the morning every day, until he came back in the evening, and after he came back, he locked himself in Xu Caizheng's study, until he came out at two o'clock, and it was like this for several days.

Xu Caizheng knows that Xu Deshan is not an ordinary person, in ordinary times, lazy and slippery, and playing with right and wrong is his strength, but in the face of major events, Xu Deshan must have his own ideas, so he doesn't care about him, just tells everyone in the family, where Xu Deshan commands, it is not allowed to disobey, in the kitchen, it is necessary to prepare a delicious supper for Xu Deshan, and Xu Deshan can eat it at any time.

It's okay now, all of a sudden, it shows that Xu Deshan's baby is coming, maybe I don't think Xu Caizheng had such treatment when he entered Beijing to take the exam, but Xu Deshan didn't live up to Xu Caizheng's expectations, he gave Xu Caizheng a big surprise.

This day is the seventh day of Xu Deshan's retreat, Xu Deshan, as usual, did not come back until the evening, hastily ate two bites of dinner, and then plunged into the study and did not come out, everyone in the family has long been accustomed to it, seeing that it is dark, he fell asleep after talking for a while.

Sunrise, sunset, this is the law of life in ancient society, even if the child is naughty, play for a while, to the second watch, I am afraid that they are already asleep, the kitchen behind as usual sent today's stewed pear juice, and waited outside the door to chat with Gao Mang in a low voice for a while, listening to the drum outside the second watch, according to the usual time, Xu Deshan is about to blow the lamp out and prepare to sleep, but today I waited for a while, but I saw that Xu Deshan's silver in the study was still lying on the table and writing something, and there was no sign of coming out.

The two didn't dare to disturb, they could only wait outside the door, this wait was another hour passed, Gao Mang yawned for a long time, the cook went back to heat the pear juice three times, seeing that it was about to come to the third watch, Gao Mang was a little impatient, thinking that this little boy would not be reading a book and looking at the devil, no matter what, the body is the most important thing, with his body in the prime of life until now, the little boy is four years old, even if he is smart, how can the body of God stand it.

Gao Mang thought about it, so he was about to knock on the door and go in and persuade Xu Deshan to rest early, but Gao Mang was about to move, but he saw Xu Deshan in the study suddenly stand up, and then laughed.

Everyone, imagine what it feels like to hear a child crying in the cemetery in the middle of the night, when the yin is at its heaviest, the sharp sound can simply penetrate the soul and disturb people's minds, but children, can't sleep in the middle of the night, or are naughty, they will cry in the middle of the night, and the market can hear it in the middle of the night, and if you listen to it too much, there will be nothing.

If you have the opportunity, you can experience what it is like to hear a child laugh in the middle of the night, the same sharp and piercing, the same unsettling, but compared with crying, children have to sleep in the middle of the night, where are children laughing in the middle of the night, as the saying goes, there must be a demon when things go wrong, with such a layer of inner hints, you say that this voice is not a ghost laughing, who else can there be.

Gao Mang was frightened by Xu Deshan's laughter, and the cook was directly frightened to throw the bowl on the ground, and after a while, I only heard Xu Mansion up and down, a riot, all kinds of shouts to open the door, in a moment, men, women and children, none of them fell, all gathered at the door of the courtyard, craned their necks to look inside, but no one dared to come in, everyone discussed: "Little boy, this is a ghost." ”