Jiayin finally breathed a sigh of relief, handed the note to the maid, and asked her to show it, her body has become more and more bulky recently, and she can't sleep well, the weather is also very hot, and her appetite is also very bad, she seems to be full just by drinking water a day, she walked to the vine chair under the grape trellis and sat down, the maid immediately walked to her side, gently shook the fan for her, she slowly closed her eyes, and fell asleep after a while.

In a trance, it seemed that someone was calling herself, but Zuo Jiayin didn't want to open her eyes, it was rare to have a good sleep like this, she still wanted to sleep, the person was still screaming, she muttered, opened her eyes and looked, and found that she was lying on her bed recently, and there were a bunch of people around the bed, as well as Meng Tianchu and Wenwen, everyone looked at themselves anxiously, isn't it just a sleep, so it's all here?

"Jiayin, are you awake?"

It was Meng Tianchu's voice, he kept holding his hand, Zuo Jiayin frowned, and said, "It hurts!" ”

Everyone became nervous again, and Meng Tianchu asked, "Where does it hurt, tell me!" ”

"My hand."

Meng Tianchu looked down and realized that it was him, probably too nervous, so he quickly let go.

"Master, are you back? Jiayin has seen the second lady. ”

Gentle hurriedly said: "Don't speak, you have to rest." ”

Zuo Jiayin smiled reluctantly, nodded, and said, "I just slept for a while, nothing." ”

Feiyan's eyes were red on the side, and she choked up and said: "What is the fuss, if it weren't for Wenbo seeing you fall under the grape trellis, the outside wouldn't know it." You're scaring us to death! ”

Falling under the trellis, am I not sleeping? Zuo Jiayin didn't understand what Feiyan meant, Xia Fengyi sat at the head of the bed, looked at Feiyan, and said with a smile: "It's not in the way, it's probably too nervous Tianchu and gentle them, so they didn't rest well, Lang Zhong came to see it." Saying that you just need to take care of it is nothing. You and the child have nothing to do. ”

Meng Tianchu nodded. Said: "It's all my fault, I didn't let people bring a letter home earlier, which made you worry, now that we're back, you can rest well, you know?" ”

Zuo Jiayin nodded.

Gentle said: "Now that Jiayin has woken up, everyone should not stay in the house." It's already hot, Jiayin will feel very stuffy, let's go out, leave a few of us to talk to Jiayin for a while. ”

As soon as the maid who was waiting on the side left, the room was a lot empty, Meng Tianchu took the maid's wet handkerchief, and was about to wipe Zuo Jiayin's sweat, Murong Yuxue, who had been silent on the side, said, "I'll come." You've just arrived. Take a break and let me come. Saying that, Meng Tianchu nodded. He handed the handkerchief to Murong Yuxue, stood up and gave her a seat.

Seeing that Murong Zhenxue carefully wiped Zuo Jiayin's sweat, she said, "Don't delay the matter of Zhenxue, it's better to do it early." ”

Seeing that Wen Rou offered it, Xia Fengyi looked at Meng Tianchu, and the two of them smiled.

Xia Fengyi said: "What the second lady said is true. ”

"In the future, don't shout the second lady and the third ***, trouble, according to the age, call the sister when you should call the sister, and call the name when you should call the name, as for the second lady and the third grandmother, I think it's also awkward, gentle and unauthorized to make a decision for Tianchu, it's all called Mrs., where is so exquisite, Sister Fengyi, what do you say?"

Everyone was stunned for a moment, Xia Fengyi quickly nodded, and said with a smile: "Just listen gently, what do you say?" ”

Meng Tianchu said: "Okay, since Gentleness says so, everyone will applaud it in the future." ”

It's just that Murong Yuxue on the side was so ashamed that she was about to wring the veil out of the water.

…—

Magnolia Village

The ancestral hall built by the ancestors in the past hundred years is now mottled everywhere, the walls are covered with grass, the yard is also moss and weeds more than a foot high, and the eaves of the ancestral hall are also full of gray spider webs, and huge spiders are waiting for food to be automatically delivered to the door.

The sun was very strong, and the bamboo leaves around him were hanging as if they were about to be ignited.

Even so, the ancestral hall inside and outside is still surrounded by the people in the village, everyone is close together, whether it is hot or not, some people's straw hats are squeezed off and have no intention to pick up, according to the older people in the village, this ancestral hall has not been opened for 50 years, and today it suddenly opened again, and all the respected people in the village rushed over, it must be another big thing happened.

Li Zheng Ye Chu kept fanning the fan, more and more people came, he looked at the patriarch Ye Jing who was sitting beside him uneasily, and he was also his own brother, only to see that the patriarch's eyes were slightly closed, and the fan in his hand was also fanning unhappily, and there was no expression on his face at all. There were a few gray-haired old men sitting beside him, looked at Li Zhenghe and the patriarch, smashed it, smashed it, saw that they were all stable, and it was not easy for them to speak, sweat flowed down their beards and dripped onto their robes, and there was a moment of coolness.

Someone was shouting: "Li Zheng, what the hell is the matter with you gathering everyone here, there is still a lot of work to be done in the field!" ”

Everyone looked over at the sound of talking, wanting to see who was so bold and actually competing with Li Zheng, and when they saw that they were shirtless Wangcai, wearing a straw hat on his head and holding a hoe in his hand, and it was very similar to that thing, everyone secretly whispered.

Ye Chu coughed dryly twice, and as soon as he spoke, his voice changed his tone a little, and the person standing in front secretly laughed, Ye Chu rubbed his throat embarrassedly, and said, "I didn't summon it, it was the loyal old man who asked everyone to come here." ”

Everyone was in an uproar when they heard this, and the person who was still covering his mouth and snickering just now also forgot to laugh and looked at Ye Chu in surprise.

Someone asked, "What did he do when he summoned us to the ancestral hall?" Are you going to sell the lotus root he planted to everyone? ”

Everyone immediately burst into laughter, and Ye Chu heard Ye Jing muttering in a low voice: "Ridiculous!" A little steward told all the people to wait for him here. But after all, the body still didn't move half a little.

Ye Chu wiped the sweat on his face, his clothes were already soaked, and he felt like he couldn't breathe when he stuck to his body, he also began to get irritable, and said loudly: "Everyone wait." Guan Zhong must have something to tell everyone, or he wouldn't have asked everyone to stand under the scorching sun. ”

"I'm coming!" When everyone heard the voice, they immediately consciously moved out of the way, and saw an old man, wearing a gown, barefoot, and holding a bamboo basket for fishing, and looked inside

Earth.

Ye Chu saw that Guan Zhong was coming, and quickly breathed a sigh of relief. Sit on a chair with a butt. Suddenly, I felt that the chair was scorching like a charcoal stove. Like a spring, he immediately jumped up, and quickly touched his ass with his hands, and his eyebrows and nose were wrinkled.

A few people secretly laughed again, Ye Jing looked at Ye Chu with one eye open and one eye closed, and said lightly: "Be steady, what kind of body is it to jump around!" ”

Ye Chu was so hot that he sweated out, and he saw his brother say this. I also felt that I was a little rude, but when I looked back at the chair, I still felt a little angry, so I simply asked someone to move away, and it was cooler to stand by myself.

Ye Chu said to Guan Zhong: "Old man Guan Zhong, if you have something to say, everyone's oil will be dried for you." ”

Guan Zhong didn't smile, and said seriously: "I'm not the sun in the sky. I can dry everyone's oil and water in this way. ”

"You... You..."Ye Chu was choked and speechless. It seems that everything is not going well today, and I have already called someone to find Meng Tianchu and them, I hope they can arrive soon. In case of an accident, he can't be shocked, but fortunately, Meng Tianchu has a person who is concerned about him in his own home, and he doesn't look at the face of the monk to see the face of the Buddha, but also to see the help.

Ye Jing coughed dryly twice, and said in a deep voice: "Guan Laohan, just say something well, there are old and young here, and it is not good to be signed." ”

Everyone nodded yes.

Guan Zhong walked up to Ye Jing and said loudly: "The letter I handed over to the Hangzhou Mansion asked you to intercept it for me, right?" ”

Ye Jing nodded and said casually: "Just for this?" I remember five years ago, the outside discussed the pillar of the ground to set up a chastity archway, you don't agree, what the pillar mother said all day in the village to show up, but also said that people are embarrassed, when we saw that you were suicide and hit the wall, forget it, is it easy for people to raise families and children? It's been more than 20 years since you were widowed, and there has never been any gossip, and you're still picking bones in your eggs. Now, we want to set up for Yulan, and you can stop her, and now that she is dead, can't you be merciful? ”

Several old men also agreed with Ye Jingdi's opinion, saying that it was not Guan Zhong.

There were also many people in the crowd who complained about Yulan, saying that this old man Guan Zhong was really dizzy for a day.

Guan Zhong ignored it, and at this time, Wangcai said loudly in the crowd: "Master Meng and the people in the yamen are here." ”

When everyone heard this, they hurriedly got out of the way, and sure enough, they saw Meng Tianchu, Murong Zhenxue, Wang Yi, and more than a dozen officials from the yamen coming over.

Ye Chu and Ye Jing hurriedly stepped forward to greet them, and the others also stood up from their chairs.

"Master Meng, what kind of wind blew you here?" Ye Jing didn't know that his younger brother had called Meng Tianchu to come, so he was still wondering, this master was so well-informed, and he felt that he was more familiar than himself in this Yulan Village.

Meng Tianchu looked at Ye Chu, and when he saw that he looked at himself with his eyes, he immediately stepped away, and said with a smile: "Meng has no talent, and he has not found the murderer of Yulan, since he has not found it, he naturally has to come to your Yulan Village to disturb him!" ”

Ye Jing hurriedly made a move, and said with a smile while leading Meng Tianchu and them to the corridor under the eaves: "Master Meng, you are really too polite, I heard that you are about to accept the fifth lady again, when will you invite the contemptible people to have a cup of wine?" ”

"That's a certainty, that's a certainty."

As he spoke, Ye Chu had already asked someone to bring a chair and invited Meng Tianchu to sit between him and Ye Jing, and the others stood behind.

After sitting down, Meng Tianchu looked at so many people and deliberately asked, "What day is it in your Yulan Village today, why did everyone come to the ancestral hall?" Outside, when I entered the village just now, it was easy to see a person before I realized that you were all here. ”

At this time, Guan Zhong on the side angrily pointed at Murong Zhenxue behind Meng Tianchu, and scolded: "A woman from a Taoist family dares to enter the ancestral hall, really... It's really lawless, why don't you hurry up and give me a stick! ”

Meng Tianchu took a closer look, and sure enough, there was no woman in the courtyard, the women were all standing outside the courtyard, everyone looked at Murong Zhenxue, Murong Zhenxue hurriedly walked out, with an embarrassed face, she didn't look at Meng Tianchu, and walked directly to the door, the men all looked at her with contempt, she was about to die of shame, she was used to Meng Tianchu wherever she went, and she followed wherever she went, and it was the first time she had encountered such a thing today.

Meng Tianchu looked at it, and said that he was gentle with the strange old man who was by the pond that day, it was so hot, he knew that he shouldn't have brought Murong Yuxue here, and he also knew that women were not allowed to enter the ancestral hall, not to mention ancient times, and it was still the same in the Chaozhou area.

Meng Tianchu called Wang Yi over and whispered, "You let a person take Xue Xue to Xue'er's house to sit for a while, she will suffer from heat stroke if she stands like this." ”

Wang Yi nodded and went out.

Meng Tianchu sneered: "Just go out, why is it so serious?" ”

Guan Zhong saw that these respected elders in the village were in awe, and he didn't dare to be too public, so he said stupidly: "Who is responsible for breaking the feng shui of our village?" ”

Meng Tianchu retorted: "You said that a woman will break the feng shui as soon as she arrives at the ancestral hall, so dare to ask if your mother is a woman?" ”

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and thought that it was only Meng Tianchu who dared to say such a thing, although Guan Zhong was not highly respected, but he was relatively old in the village, and he had a strange temper, including Li Zheng and the patriarch, everyone still let him score three points.

Guan Zhong was so choked by Meng Tianchu that he couldn't speak, and it took a long time before he said, "You... As the master of the county magistrate, you should know what the way of Confucius and Mencius, etiquette, righteousness, honesty, ethics and morality, so you can make a big splash in the ancestral hall? ”

"Presumptuous! Since you know that I am the master of the county master, do I still need you to teach me how to speak and how to do things! If I hadn't seen that you were old and an elder, I would have asked someone to slap your mouth. If there is no mother-in-law, where will it be your turn to say what Confucius and Mencius are here, courtesy, righteousness and shame. ”

The first time the women outside the ancestral hall saw a man willing to stand up and speak for a woman, they couldn't help but cast awe-inspiring and appreciative glances at Meng Tianchu, but the old antiques on the side couldn't stand it, and continued, wouldn't it be a mess, so they gave Ye Jing a look and pretended to cough.