Chapter 3 Chongxi
No wonder Guan Wang prepared the meal so quickly, a stack of pickled radishes with salt frost in the center of the low table, a bowl of green and clear millet porridge, if there were not a few grains of millet floating on it, I really couldn't tell whether it was a bowl of water or a bowl of porridge, this lunch was really a little too much. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
In the past, my mother had three meals a day and changed her tricks to make food for herself, and she was still fat and thin, compared with now, Dong Hao's heart was sour, and his conscience felt a burst of self-blame.
Zhao Ruixue gently took a small bite of pickled radish like a kitten, and drank the crystal clear porridge with her head down contentedly, with a sweet face, as if she was accustomed to this kind of life.
Guan Wangshi saw Guan Shanyue staring directly at the food, as if he had seen through his thoughts, and frowned, "If you eat, be content!" Everything that can be sold at home has been sold to buy medicine for you, and our mother and wife are not willing to eat every meal like this! ”
Guan Shanyue saw that her heart was seen through, and her fair face immediately turned red.
Picking up the chopsticks, Dong Hao, who was reincarnated as Guan Shanyue, gritted his teeth and drank three bowls of clear water rice porridge, and finished his first meal in Daming.
Guan Shanyue, who finished eating, got a lot better, and just wanted to get up and clean up the dishes and chopsticks, but she didn't need to do anything, Zhao Ruixue cleaned up the table with her hands and feet, which made Dong Hao's heart warm.
Guan Wang took out dozens of dollars from his arms and handed them to Zhao Ruixue, "Xue'er, while you have money in your hand now, you hurry up and return this money to Aunt Guan next door, thanks to the help of their old couple these days, otherwise our family would have run out of food a long time ago." Mother, I'm going to work in the dyeing workshop in the county, No, this money is for you, you go to the grain number to buy some old rice when you come back from the oil mill laundry, and we will have a full meal at night. ”
After Guan Wang's arrangement, he glanced at Guan Shanyue, who might fall at any time, shook his head, and staggered out.
Zhao Ruixue saw that Guan Wang's family was gone, she carefully helped Guan Shanyue to the kang, gave her a little hot water, and instructed him to recuperate at ease on the kang, and playfully stuck out her tongue and went out.
Guan Shanyue was lying on the kang, and the acquaintance outside the window screamed as if he had eaten gunpowder, and he didn't stop for a moment even at noon, making him upset.
Listening to the words of Guan Wang and Wu Gonggong, this scholar seems to be sick because of the sudden death of his father a few years ago, and he can't afford to be sick due to excessive grief.
With food in her stomach, although she didn't have the strength to do so, Guan Shanyue was already able to walk by herself by holding on to the wall.
The Guan family of three lives in three earthen houses, and the place where they entered the door for dinner just now, there is a stove on one side, and he himself lives on the right, and on the left is the bedroom of the two women. The kang on both sides is impartial, they are all the same, there is a kang cabinet on one side, a large kang mat is spread on the kang, and a thin quilt that is not much thicker than the sheets is covered with patches. If you want to talk about the difference, it is Guan Shanyue's room, there are many books and a black medicine jar, but there is nothing on either side.
"Hey, the prime minister must start from the state department, and the fierce general must be sent from the army. This family is so poor, God wants me to be an official, so my mind, my muscles and bones. Guan Shanyue comforted herself, touched an empty rice jar and shook her head with a wry smile, "This family doesn't need to raise cats, and the poor don't even have mice." ”
After turning around, except for the half-urn of pickle pimples Guan Shanyue did not have any valuable discoveries, it seems that this poor disciple wants to make achievements in this era, and this imperial examination is the best way out.
Back in his room, Guan Shanyue flipped through the books in the room at random, all of them were some, and he read a few pages hard-headed at first, but he was used to reading vernacular texts, he looked at the traditional characters on the paper, and the more he looked at it, the more irritated he became, and he couldn't read it anymore after reading it for a while.
"Forget it, I'd better see what's going on outside!" Guan Shanyue didn't want to eat rice, and when he saw where there was work he could do, he worked hard to clean it up. Not to mention, his ability to do housework has not fallen at all, and after a while, the small courtyard that is a little messy and neglected to be taken care of is actually cleaned up in an orderly manner by a big man of his, if it is left in modern times, everyone will laugh at his mother.
When the thin Zhao Ruixue pushed open the firewood door with half a bag of old rice and a small bag of noodles on her back, Guan Shanyue was sweating profusely to clean up the weeds in the yard.
Zhao Ruixue hurriedly put down the food in her hand, snatched the weeds from Guan Shanyue's hand, and her face was full of disgust, "Hey, Brother Yue, you are not in good health, you are a person who wants to take the Xiucai exam, how can you do these rough jobs?" When my mother and wife go out to work, let those long-tongued women laugh at the unruly manner, and then let them see you as a big man cleaning up the yard and doing housework, and our mother's backbone will not be broken! You go and rest, it's all because I've been busy earning money lately, and I've neglected to clean up the weeds in the yard, which makes them grow like crazy. As he spoke, he sat down on the stool at the door of the house that Guan Shanyue had pushed, and never let him get any closer to the weed.
Guan Shanyue stood up and gasped a few times, watching Zhao Ruixue clean up the weeds in the yard with three times and five by two, and a burst of warmth welled up in her heart, "Sister Xue'er, it's not in the way, I'm about to grow hair when I lie on the kang, and doing some work can also move my qi and blood, which will help my recovery!" ”
Zhao Ruixue spread out the weeds in the sunlight in the yard, wiped her sweaty nose, turned around and smiled at Dong Hao, "Okay, okay, you have a full stomach, I haven't gone to school, but you are a learned person." However, in the future, you should not concentrate on studying at home, my mother and I are waiting for you to get fame and fame so that you can enjoy happiness with you! ”
The working woman is the most beautiful, although Zhao Ruixue is a peasant girl who has not grown, but she is born with a Qiong nose and cherry lips as white as snow, and she is a little beauty ruffian who is alive and well. This smile made Guan Shanyue's heart flutter, as if the most itchy flesh in his heart was brushed by a piece of velvet, his old face turned red, he smiled, and hurriedly took over the conversation: "Sister Xue'er, is it so important to gain fame in this test?" ”
Zhao Ruixue immediately stopped what she was doing when she heard this, her face was serious like an adult, and she said word by word with her fingers: "You can be admitted to the show is the biggest wish of Daddy Guan before his death, I heard Master Zhao of the wine shop in the county town say that only those who are admitted to the show are qualified to be officials!" My mother and I are also looking forward to a golden phoenix flying out of our poor nest, if Brother Yue can be admitted to Xiucai, don't talk about my mother, even if I die, I will laugh. ”
Guan Shanyue didn't expect that she was still the hope of the whole family, looking at the immature Zhao Ruixue, she was ashamed for a while, and secretly swore in her heart that she must let this girl live a good life, and said in a firm tone: "Sister Xue'er, don't worry, brother, I will definitely be admitted to Xiucai, so that you can live a good life!" ”
Just when the two sisters were talking and laughing and looking forward to a better life in the future, a gorgeously dressed little guy suddenly kicked open the closed firewood door and broke in with a group of evil men with a full face.
"Xue'er, don't listen to this half-dead guy painting you a big cake here, as long as you follow this young master, you will be able to eat and drink spicy food!" The angry young man flashed the folding fan in his hand and looked at Zhao Ruixue profligately, just like looking at the prey at his fingertips.
Zhao Ruixue's eyes widened angrily when she saw the comer, picked up the flat pole leaning against the wall, and walked in front of Guan Shanyue, her eyebrows were heroic, "Su Shuo, Master Su, my father had no money to mourn at the beginning, you took the initiative to lend us money, we are grateful to Dade, but afterwards, how did this debt become a usury?" Eight hundred wen turned into five taels of silver, and I can't take it out even if you eat me! ”
It turns out that this angry young man is Su Shuo, his father is a well-known rich man in Ningjin County, relying on the two money in the family to do evil everywhere, and he does not do much bullying men and women on weekdays, but this goods also has self-knowledge, specializing in picking soft persimmons and pinching, specializing in bullying poor people, hating people so much that the roots of their teeth itch, everyone calls him Su Bad Water behind his back.
I don't know who said that there is a little girl named Zhao Ruixue in Guanmiao Village, who is very standard, and he came from the city to see that what he said is true, based on his experience, he concluded that this girl must be a great beauty if she grows up, so he deliberately entangled Zhao Ruixue, and stalked Zhao Ruixue to make him a concubine.
Although Zhao Ruixue was born poor, she has a tough temperament, not to mention that she doesn't look down on Su Bad Shui, who is full of evil, even if she likes him, she won't give him a concubine.
The Su family has a big business, is rich and powerful, and it is not something that ordinary poor families can provoke, although the people of Ningjin County have long been unaccustomed to what Su Badshui has done, but they dare not speak out.
Su Badshui's triangular eyes turned, looked at the three earthen houses with weedy roofs and pouted, "Young Master Ben, I have a kind heart, so I will reluctantly accept your house, you go and give the deed to Young Master Ben and take it out!" ”
"Phew!" Zhao Ruixue spat at Su Badshui's face, and the ground in her eyes suddenly ignited with anger, "Where do we live for our family of three?" After so many years, I have already paid you more than 800 yuan, don't deceive people too much! ”
Su Badshui's eyes closed, touched the spit on his face, and suddenly his eyes opened, as if he had changed someone, and said viciously: "You little slut, you dare to spit on me!" Damn, if you don't teach you a lesson, you won't know that Lord Ma has three eyes. Today you have to follow, and you have to follow if you don't! You, I'm going to decide! Come on, bring this little girl back to the house, young master, I want to train her well! ”
Seeing this, Guan Shanyue's heart was filled with anger, and her lungs exploded. He didn't expect that the robbery of people's daughters that he had only seen in books would happen in front of his eyes, and the victim was still his sister.
The evil man behind Su Badshui looked at each other and smiled, it seems that he doesn't do this kind of thing on weekdays, and he rushed forward with a weird smile in his mouth to rob someone.
At this time, Guan Shanyue, who had a cold face, shook her figure, and blocked in front of Zhao Ruixue, turned around and smiled warmly at Zhao Ruixue, who was anxious to pull herself behind to protect her, and said undoubtedly and refused: "Xue'er, this time I will protect you!" From now on, I will not allow anyone to bully you! After saying that, he turned around and rushed towards the group of evil men.
"Shout, here comes a person who is not afraid of death! Beat me to death and teach him how to behave! Zhao Badshui saw Guan Shanyue, who was usually cowering, and today he dared to challenge his authority, and the momentum in his heart did not come to one place.
Zhao Ruixue, who had just started to help with the flat burden, found that the situation was not right before he joined the battle group, he looked at the crowd and couldn't shut up in shock, she couldn't believe her eyes, Guan Shanyue, who was usually sick and even a little cowardly, turned into a person today, like an out-of-body sword, flashing cold light and ruthlessly slashing at the enemy.