Chapter 13: Yan'er Comes Home
The housekeeper knelt down and kowtowed to Zhang San and said, "Thank you, son, the villain will do his best to do things for him." ”
"Let's go down." Zhang San said.
Time was slowly passing, and as soon as Zhang San got up the next day, he found that Yan'er was gone.
In the past two days, although Yan'er would get up early to fetch water and wash herself, Zhang San was also awake at that time.
But today Zhang San woke up and Yan'er was gone, and the temperature in the quilt told Zhang San that Yan'er had been gone for a while.
At this time, the door was pushed open, and Zhang San saw Yan'er coming in with water, and Zhang San was relieved.
"Yan'er, why did you get up so early today?" Zhang San asked.
"Childe, Yan'er also got her monthly money today, Yan'er wants to go home to meet her parents." Yan'er said.
Since Yan'er followed Zhang San, the finance office has given Yan'er a lot of silver taels this month, a full two hundred taels, which is twenty times more than the usual ten taels.
And Yan'er used to have the habit of going home every month, for this, An Lushan is also very relaxed, basically at the beginning of every month, there are only a few maids and servants in the mansion.
"Then don't get up so early, and don't sleep much." Zhang San looked at Yan'er's face that still wanted to sleep, and felt a little distressed.
"My home is far away from here, and I have to come back in the evening to serve my son, so I have to get up early." Yan'er said.
Zhang San said: "Then go, go after breakfast, be careful on the road, if you can't come back, just stay at home for the night and come back." ”
"Thank you, Childe." Yan'er immediately helped Zhang San get dressed, washed, and then had breakfast and went out.
It can really be said that once the Tao is attained, the chicken dog ascends to heaven. In the past, Yan'er had to walk home on her feet, and she was dressed plainly.
Today, there are attendants waiting, carriages are carrying, and although the clothes are not very luxurious, they do not lose a sense of elegance.
Yan'er leaned in the carriage, Yan'er had never been in the carriage, fortunately, she didn't get motion sickness, she just closed her eyes and was thinking about things.
"I'm gone, will Childe go there again?" Yan'er thought a little preoccupied.
We drove out of the city until we came to a place ten miles from the city, where there was a small village, the name of which no one knew.
It is only known that the villagers here have lived here for generations, and the village has not been named.
Most of the villagers are farming, and some people want to do business, but their families have no money and cannot afford to do business.
This coincided with the prosperity of the villagers, and it was enough for the villagers to be self-sufficient.
Although they were all thatched huts, each house had a messy thatched hut with wooden planks, and they believed that one day they would be able to live in wooden huts like the people in the city.
Every house should be sturdier than the usual thatched house.
Of course, this is not the case with one family, which is a thatched house, and it may collapse at any time.
There is a kind of August autumn high wind roaring, rolling up the triple thatched on my house.
The head of this house is called Xiangcheng, and the name is very domineering, with a city as the name.
It is said that it was an orphan of the Spring and Autumn Period of the Chu Kingdom, and it was left to take root here, and the ancestors lived like this for several generations.
Xiang Cheng's wife is Liu, the relationship between the two is not good, Xiang Cheng always feels that he is an orphan of Chu State, Liu is not worthy of himself, and he should be the same as the emperor with three thousand harem beauties.
I wanted to take a concubine, but where could I take a concubine in this poor and remote place, so this city was addicted to gambling and went to the city casino to gamble when the family had a little money.
The Liu family wanted to leave Xiangcheng and remarry, which was a common thing in the Tang Dynasty, and it would not be a big city, and they couldn't do it in this small village.
In addition, with three sons and a daughter, I am even more reluctant to live like this.
And Xiang Cheng is even more hateful, he was addicted to gambling before, and his family had no money, so in order to get money, he even sold his daughter to others as a maid.
For this matter, the Liu family had a big quarrel with Xiang Cheng in front of the whole village, and since then Xiang Cheng has also reined in a little, otherwise his three sons may have to be sold by him.
But after his daughter sold it, Xiang Cheng found that his daughter had ten taels of money every month, so he gambled with the ten taels of money used to be filial to the Liu family every month.
Yan'er let the carriage stop outside the village, walked into the village by herself, and when she entered the village, the elders of the village greeted her.
"Isn't this Xiaoyan?" A middle-aged man walked up to Yan'er.
The man's clothes had been sewn and mended for three years, and his body was covered in mud, and he had obviously just returned from the field.
"Uncle Zhang." Yan'er greeted.
Yan'er used to be named Xiaoyan, but later entered the Jiedu Embassy, An Lushan changed Yan'er's name, and said that this will be Yan'er's name from now on, and it cannot be changed.
"Xiaoyan, I'm back, it's not me who said, you have to let your mother hide the money this time, otherwise your gambler father will take it to gamble." The middle-aged man who was called Uncle Zhang by Yan'er said.
"Thank you, Uncle Zhang, for the reminder." Yan'er thanked her and left.
Yan'er went straight away, the poorest and most dilapidated house was her house, she had a gambler father, a miserable mother, and three brothers who had spoiled her since childhood.
As soon as Yan'er entered the door, Liu's was preparing for lunch, today's meals were richer than usual, in the past, there was only one dish, today there are three dishes, a month of province, and there are three green vegetables on this day of family reunion.
"Xiao Yan is back." As soon as Yan'er entered the door, three men with stains, sewn and mended clothes on their bodies, and were not warm in winter, and their faces were full of sweat.
The eldest is twenty years old this year, called Xiang Xing, the eldest in the family, and the backbone of the family now.
The second child is called Xiang Fei, he is eighteen years old, and the second child in the family is also a little second, he has no idea about anything, and he stops his eldest brother's words.
The third child is called Xiang Hui, seventeen years old, one year older than Yan'er, the child of a poor family has been in charge of the family early, but as the youngest of the three men, he is still a little naughty and always has some ghost ideas.
"Three brothers, you see that you are tired, sit down, and I will pour water for you." Yan'er looked at her three hard-working brothers, and her heart was sour.
The three of them didn't do anything, anyway, their own family members, so they went to the stool and sat down, although the room was a little broken, but there was still a table and four stools.
Yan'er poured a bowl of water for each of her three brothers.
"Xiaoyan, you haven't been bullied in the city, right?" After Xiang Xing drank the water, he said to Yan'er.
"Big brother, don't worry, my son is very good to me, and no one in the house bullies me, you can rest assured, I'm doing well." Yan'er said.
This is natural, even before Zhang San came, no one would stumble on an ordinary maid, and when Zhang San came, no one dared to do this, she was the hostess in the house.