Sixteen years later, eight years after Chenghua, Yangzhou.

With slender eyebrows but no lack of fortitude, Jing Yi pursed his lips tightly and looked at the abacus in the hand of the bookkeeper in front of him.

Crackling, crackling, the little abacus beads were made in the hands of the old man in the bookkeeper, Jing Yi was very calm with a faint smile, but in fact, the sweat of his palms had already been soaked.

"Ahem," the old bookkeeper coughed twice and was so frightened that Jing Yi trembled, and got the desired effect The old gentleman opened his mouth slowly, "Young Master Jing, this month's list of money has been roughly calculated, except for the loss money that Doctor Zhang counted on the head of the son, there is still one penny, three points, and silver." ”

Jing Yi stared blankly at the scattered silver taels pushed out with the pen on the table, and his face was a little pale.

"Young Master Jing, the silver is well collected." The old bookkeeper reminded with a smile that he was all laughing at this young master with a different surname who had grown up under his eyes.

"Well, thank you sir for the reminder." Wei Shi gave a salute and accepted the money with an empty purse, left the account room with frivolous steps, and looked up at the sky a little tired.

"Oh, isn't this Young Master Jing, how much money have you received, you have always been favored by the old lady on weekdays, and it is estimated that it is indispensable." is the eldest maid in the house, who has never been married but has already reached the age of marriage, and is always indispensable when she sees the young masters in the family.

Jingyi is not afraid of them on weekdays, and if he is told two meat jokes, he will not lose a piece of meat if he pretends to be blushing and shy; But these sisters are all unstable lords, and most of them usually say such flattery because they want to ask for a reward, but now that Young Master Jing, who has been paid off, really can't take out the scattered silver in his hand.

"My sister laughed, the ancestors taught me strictly, and I always reminded me not to spend money addictively, so this column of money has been reduced a lot year by year."

"Young Master Jing, you're telling the truth, why don't your sisters believe it so much? If it weren't for the young master's unmarried match, we would have thought that he was saving rouge money for the family! ”

The maids of Chen Qun laughed in unison, and Jing Yi also lowered his head very cooperatively, pretending to be shy, and turned his face to the sound of laughter and walked away.

It coincides with the spring equinox, and in mid-February, the month's reincarnation is only halfway over; A few years ago, he lost and smashed Daddy Zhang's righteous medical hall, and all the money for this compensation was taken out of Jingyi's purse.

The reddish and yellowed silver with bad color was deliberately placed on the top, but the old man was the old man, but the whole purse was all covered, and the savings of the dignified young master Yu Fujing for many years were exhausted, and he even said that it was not enough to lose more than a month's money.

I was thrifty and endured to live in the middle of the month to receive money, but I didn't expect that there was only one or two or three cents of silver left for this poor bastard, and I probably couldn't even afford a decent banquet.

The sixteen-year-old boy had something to worry about, and when no one saw it, his little white face was wrinkled with bitterness, and no matter how he excused his face, he couldn't talk about the bitterness in his heart.

"The scenery is different! Strange scenery! ”

It was the voice of the old ancestor, Jing Yi subconsciously stopped, and she was the only one in the entire mansion who dared to call her by her name.

"Ancestor."

Obediently and skillfully walked into the hall, the courtyard of the Jiangnan Water Town can give people a sense of private space at any time, and it is much more reassuring when getting along with others.

"Hmm."

Mrs. Pan snorted, sitting on the armchair with a pear wood cane, and the six screens behind her were painted in ink with a bunch of sergeants galloping on horseback.

"Ancestor, do you have any instructions for the child?"

"Hmph, it's nothing, grandma's old bones don't have any instructions to you young children."

"Ancestor, where are you, the child is young and knows little, if there is no ancestor to teach where to find lessons in the future, will you suffer sooner or later when you encounter people?"

Jing Yi's answer was probably coaxed into the old lady's heart, and the expressionless old ancestor had a smile in his eyes after saying a word, and he raised his hand to touch Jing Yi's head, obviously in a much better mood.

"Jing Yi, you are usually silent, but you don't have less honey in your mouth, grandma knows that you have been smart since you were a child and don't need to be taught, but you still have to say a few words."

"The ancestor commanded, and the child listened."

"Hmph, your deferential appearance is a bit like my stubborn son," the old lady casually didn't know whether to praise or scold, standing on the threshold with a cane and looking up at the black tiles surrounded by the four, "Sixteen years, um... Grandma never thought you could grow up like this, nor did she think that you would still look like your father. ”

"My dad?"

Jing Yi's eyes suddenly widened, this was the first time in sixteen years that he had heard from the old lady about his biological father.

"I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing, just like the outsiders of the Yu family who returned to the family tree a few times ago, they can't see whether the front is good or wrong.

But when it comes to you, this smart is like your father, and the integrity in his bones is very much like your mother," no matter what the scene was, the old lady said to herself, as if there was a picture in her eyes, but without two words, she came to the end, stopped there, didn't say anything and didn't move.

Long.

"It's a strange scene."

"Huh?"

"Go to Beijing, go and see your brother in the court for grandma."

said that she wanted to enter Beijing, Mrs. Pan knocked Jingyi out of the Yu Mansion with a word, and went to buy things on the road with the little money she had this month.

Thinking wholeheartedly about the father and mother that the ancestor said, Jing Yi walked out of the gate of the mansion and walked two ways, and then suddenly remembered where the silver on his body was enough; The money in the house is recorded in the accounts, and Mrs. Pan is obviously familiar with it, and she knows how many jingles she has on her body, so she is afraid that she will be punished for smashing the old Zhangtou Righteous Medical Hall.

It is said that the righteous doctor naturally does not make money, and the poor families who can't eat in the city are treated, and Jing Yi doesn't have to think much to know that the old chapter is clearly a robbery, and uses his savings to supplement the already dilapidated little hospital.

The heart of the stomach complained to complain, but the road to the journey to change the use of silver two or have to find a way to make up, the ancestor said that the spring breeze in February is enough to go, this way north is indispensable to make the money stable, about the estimated to touch the high and low to a two hundred taels of silver.

Two hundred taels of silver, I can buy four pigs, and Jing Yi feels that he is under a lot of pressure.

'Bang! ’

The absent-minded Jing Yi suddenly collided head-on with someone, and the two of them went to the end, fortunately it didn't rain, otherwise it would be mud again.

"Are you alright?"

"It's okay······ Well? How are you! ”

Wide-eyed and small-eyed, Jing Yi still maintained the action of helping people dust off, but as soon as he looked up, the whole person was almost frozen, really, the road is narrow.