Chapter 641: Hongchen is hard to decide and wants to borrow money

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Soon, a group of doctors and maids from the family came over, carried the child over, listened with a stethoscope, checked the pulse, and were responsible for changing the package.

Xiaobei and Xiaoyuan also asked people to surround them with curtains, waiting for the curtains to be removed, unless their hair was still a little wet, the rest of their bodies had become dry.

Glaring at the woman who stopped crying, but was still sobbing and didn't dare to resist, Xiaobei turned her head and remembered that the fishermen who helped save people were coming.

He is a very old-looking person, always begging for a living in the river, the wind is strong, and the skin looks bad, so it makes people feel that they are older than they really are.

In addition to this man, there were four more people on the boat, five to be exact, a woman who also looked old, and a young man, and a young woman, plus a little boy similar to Xiaobei, the young woman was carrying a baby in the middle of the ring, nursing the child, slightly sideways, not too shy of others.

"I haven't thanked this old man for his help, come here, take a hundred yuan and give it to the old man." When Xiaobei spoke, she stood up and wanted to see what the child who was milked looked like, but she couldn't see that people were breastfeeding.

The fishermen who rescued people were nervous at first, but when they heard Xiaobei's words, their faces suddenly changed, they sank, twisted their faces, and spit out two words: "Don't." ”

The other three adults were also ugly, and even the boy, who was about the same age as Xiaobei, snorted to show that he was angry.

"Don't, you saved my child, I will also help your child, there is not much money, add clothes for the child to wear." Xiaobei is very good at talking, pointing to the child who is being milked and said.

Immediately, there were maids and male chores from the inner courtyard who went over to do public relations, so that people could collect the money.

The woman who got the child out of the water stopped working: "My child. ”

"Not now, it's mine, your child has drowned, from now on, her surname is Zhang, she is my sister Zhang Xiaobei, the Datang patrol envoy, become ten people, and inspect the Datang place together."

Xiaobei didn't have a good face for this woman, and pointed to the rescued child and said.

"Yes, there will be ten people in the future, the sky will shake the evil ghosts, and they will have no ears to listen to all directions." Xiaoyuan also supports.

The fisherman who saved the child was shirking the money, hearing the words of Xiaobei and Xiaoyuan, he grabbed the hundred banknotes and wanted to carry them in his arms, thinking about it, he turned his head and handed it to the woman who was also full of wind and frost, and said: "Put it away, don't lose it, Xiaobei sent it, make it into a purse, and wear it close to the baby, so you can live a long life, no disease and no disaster." ”

The woman nodded again and again, took it carefully, and held it in her arms, holding her hand and not moving.

Xiaobei was stunned: "The money is for the child to buy clothes." ”

"I have clothes at home." The fishermen did not change their minds.

Xiaobei looked at Xiaoyuan very helplessly, Xiaoyuan touched his body, changed his clothes, had no money, stepped on his feet, reached out to reach, took out a handful of coins from the pocket of the servant next to him, and handed it over:

"Give, put the coin in the purse, the coin I gave is the same as the one given by Xiaobei, the banknote is stored for a short time, it's a pity if it's broken, spend it, use the money given by Xiaobei to buy things, dress comfortably, eat healthy, and use it."

The fisherman was not polite, he really took the coin in Xiao Yuan's hand, and it seemed that he didn't plan to return the hundred yuan.

The woman who put the child in the water, hearing the words of Xiaobei and Xiaoyuan, was also honest, and looked at her daughter who had been re-wrapped in cotton flannel in a daze, and suddenly a smile appeared on her face.

Xiaobei was startled: "It can't be crazy, right?" Don't scare me, I'm not guilty of your madness, it's the child you threw first, and then I'm coming, sue, tell you, even if you fight the lawsuit to Hanyuan Palace, I'm not afraid of you, from Dali Temple to Yushitai, no, no one will speak for you. ”

Xiaoyuan touched Xiaobei next to him: "What are you telling her to do this?" Doctor, go and see, can you cure it? ”

"I'm not crazy." The woman said hurriedly.

"You know, you're a normal person, don't move, doctor." Xiao Yuan followed.

"I'm really not crazy, I'm happy, I can live again, my child can also live, saying that I gave birth to a demon reincarnated, said that I didn't go to the water for a catastrophe, said that I was a demon woman, I thought that the child couldn't survive the water catastrophe, she died, I went back and threw myself into the well, and I was a ghost, and I had to pester them."

The woman seemed to be talking to herself, and seemed to explain to Xiaobei Xiaoyuan, a few words, so that the people around her could understand it.

The woman laughed twice: "Haha, hahaha, but my son has passed this catastrophe, yes, it has passed, and it will be the Tang Dynasty inspector in the future, that's right, from Dali Temple to Yushitai, no one dares to move, ha, the group comes and goes, inspects the place, beheads the corrupt officials, and stuns the king."

Xiaobei, I can work, I was originally their maid, I can do any work, you let me be your maid, I can sleep for two hours a day, I can eat all the leftovers, wear coarse linen clothes, sleep in the firewood room, I can do it. ”

As she spoke, the woman wanted to kneel and kowtow, but she was held up and could not move.

Xiaobei and Xiaoyuan didn't say anything, and a maid was unwilling, and said to the woman: "How can the main family have such treatment? You don't swear when you swear, who knows if what you say is true or false? ”

Xiaobei nodded, not believing what the other party said, and at the same time wondering that this woman lacked heart and eyes, and slept for two hours, so when she didn't sleep, did she still have the spirit to work?

"Hong'er, my Hong'er, come for my father." When the scene was at a stalemate, a man rushed over from outside the crowd, screaming as he ran, and tears flowed down his face.

Without waiting to get closer, he was stopped: "Stop, who is it?" ”

"Hong'er, my Hong'er is inside, she doesn't have ears, I'm her father, my poor child, let me see, is it hurt?" This man will go in.

"She's not your child, she's the reincarnation of a demon, Xiaobei, it's him, and his family says that my daughter and I are ominous." The woman shouted to the man.

"I didn't say it, it's you, you crazy mother-in-law, you didn't watch it today, you actually want to drown my red child, you have such a vicious heart." The man retorted.

"You're crazy, you, as the head of the Xuzhou Prefecture, bought me as a maid at the beginning, and then took my body, and didn't even give me a title, the child was born to kill her, you, you dare to make it up." The woman shouted at the top of her voice, causing others to frown.

Xiaobei looked at this and that, and couldn't tell who was telling the truth and who was lying.

Seeing that the two were still arguing, they stopped: "Stop, Xu, Zhou, Lord, Book?" Sixth, products, officials? Official, what the official said should be true, right? Come, Lord Bookkeeper, come near, yes, come closer, brother, you ask. ”

Xiaobei called it so, naturally called his brother Xiaohai, Xiaohai and the other seven people didn't jump down, and Li Jun and Pan'er came over.

Xiaohairen seems to be steady, and he usually does calculations when he is free, but among the nine children, he can always get support for speaking, so when he encounters trouble, Xiaobei will always think of his brother.

Xiao Hai looked at the master book standing there and being watched, he didn't make a sound, just looked at it, from top to bottom, from bottom to top, and waited for the master book to be seen that his legs trembled, and then asked, "For your daughter Hong'er, you came from home in a hurry, right?" ”

"Yes, I went home, and suddenly found that Hong'er was gone, and I heard that the crazy woman walked towards the river with her arms, and ran away regardless of her life, but unfortunately it was still late, thanks to your help, the lower official is grateful, and the lower official ......."

"What time is it?" Xiao Hai didn't wait for the other party to continue, and asked again.

"It's been three quarters, almost." The master replied.

Xiao Hai nodded, and then asked, "Running along the road, you must be very tired, right?" ”

"Tired, ah, no, in fact, the lower officials only think about Hong'er, forget whether they are tired or not, where do you still care about this, now I feel tired and weak." The master bookkeeper gasped.

"Do you know why we are in such a hurry today?" Xiao Hai asked again.

The master shook his head, and then nodded: "It must be my family's Hong'er Fu who has a great fortune and has met a nobleman." ”

"No, it's nine of us, we suddenly had the same dream together last night, guess who we dreamed of? Yan Zheng, when Hongnong sent water, he was arrested and placed on Suzaku Street, and Yan Zheng Yan County, who is not dead yet, dreamed of what he looked like when he lied, oops, why is it so kind? Did you know? ”

Xiao Hai said to the other party as a reminiscence, his tone was very flat.

"The lower officials have never lied, everything is true." The main book is clearly untenable.

"No one says you're lying, I don't know something, it's three moments, you're not staying in the yamen, what are you doing when you go home?" Xiao Hai's voice was still very soft when he said the previous words, but in the end, he suddenly raised his voice.

The master bookkeeper sat on the ground in fright, and said in a slur manner: "I, I'm at the yamen, processing, booklet, booklet, back, home, take the materials, yes, put the materials, put them home." ”

"You put the materials in your house? Are you going back to pick it up? And then you know what is going on, run over? Is your home close to the Yamen? Xiao Hai was still asking.

"Yes, yes, near, run, run." The master book replied.

Xiao Hai no longer spoke to the master book this time, but turned around and said to his sister: "Xiaobei, let's avoid it, it's too bloody to stand it, and we can use torture." ”

"Why?" Xiao Bei looked at the main book, whose face suddenly turned pale, and asked.

"Because he lied, there are still a lot of green vegetable juices on his official boots, and there are also traces of green at the corners of his mouth, what is the purpose of our stop this time?" Xiao Hai said the question on the main book, and then asked.

"The purpose? Ah, the purpose is to take the cherry paste distributed by the capital with the ship, to Xuzhou to deal with it, to supplement the green vegetables here in Xuzhou, especially the cabbage stored in winter, to make kimchi, and sell it when you arrive in Hangzhou, and there are green vegetables to eat on the road.

Mother wants to eat cucumbers, the cucumbers on the boat have been put for a long time, not fresh enough, here because the winter is not too cold, just get a simple greenhouse to produce cucumbers.

There is also the pork and chicken on our ship, so that the kitchen can make mature food, our craftsmanship is good, and we sold it together in Xuzhou, and bought fresh ones and put them on the ship for storage. ”

Xiaobei folded his fingers to calculate the purpose of staying, after this exchange, not only will he not lose money, but he will supplement all the expenses along the way, and he planned to do business all the way away.

The people around listening to the conversation between Xiaobei and the two people, many people sighed, worthy of Zhang Xiaobao's younger brothers and sisters, they have to make money along the road when they go out, even if they go out in the future, they don't have to worry about starvation.

But the master was dumbfounded, looked at his official boots, wiped his mouth again, and his hands began to tremble.

Xiao Hai took over and said, "Yes, so he didn't stay in any yamen at all, he ran to the dock, hid next to it, and didn't forget to grab the cucumbers sent by the people to eat."

Either he wants to spy on information, or he is worried about our purpose, or he wants to find an opportunity to meet with us, but either way, it proves that he is lying.

And when he speaks, he doesn't look at the same place as the woman's eyes, he's looking at us, but the woman is looking at the child, and we're so attractive? So terrible? If you don't do bad things, you won't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door, why is General Hu Hu not afraid of us?

If something happens to us, when our father looks at us, the emperor's uncle stops us, how will our father react? ”

"I'm going to be in a hurry, even if I can't come over, I have to keep looking, and I'll change it to my brother and sister, if someone dares to stop me, I'm going to kill someone, ah, I know, there's going to be another person on Suzaku Street, let's do it, let's avoid it." Xiaobei pointed to the master book with his little hand and said angrily.

"I'm guilty, I'm guilty, I confess, I want to find an opportunity to get close to you and get some benefits, the child's business is my family matter, I can't do this to me."

The main book completely gave up the psychology of luck, he didn't expect that Xiaohai could be so powerful, and he didn't need superfluous means at all, look at people, and ask a few words to make everything clear.

Xiaobei sneered, waved his hand, and the person who was about to be executed stopped.

Xiaobei circled around the main book twice and said: "I'm not interested in knowing what your surname is, I don't care if you do housework or not, we are Datang patrol envoys, and we inspect the place on behalf of the saint, you lie, you are guilty of bullying the king, and we caught you, and your crime will be added to the fifth degree."

I don't care if you live or die, and I don't convict you here, you go back and let the escort officials in this state take you to the capital, and you can talk to the officials, Dali Temple, and Yushitai yourself. ”

Throwing down this sentence, Xiaobei turned around and walked towards the location of the boat, about to go back, Xiaoyuan motioned to the maid to take the woman with him, and followed back.

No one touched this master book at all, he was very free for the time being, and Xiaobei didn't care if he ran away or not, which meant that he would go to the government office to receive the guilt, and then be escorted away, if you have the guts, you will run, and then there will be the sea fishing paperwork.

There was silence for a while, and cheers rang out one after another, and the people really felt the strength of Xiaobei and others, and also sighed that the life of a girl born without ears was good.

"He's in charge, ...... money?" The 'old' woman on the fishing boat still had her hands on her chest, covered the 100-tain piece of money, and asked the 'old' head.

The old man thought for a while, and said: "Flowers, money has to be spent, change a big boat, make a few clothes, prepare a monk's belongings, and give money together at that time. ”

The son and the daughter-in-law of the nursing child nodded at the same time, deeply agreed.

******

Xiaobei, who returned to the boat, drank a bowl of ginger syrup, and ran to see the children without ears.

The child was nursing in her mother's arms, and the woman was much more stable and her eyes were bright, and while she was feeding the child, she asked the maid to help her put a hot towel on her face, and told her that she wanted to eat boiled eggs and pork knuckle soup.

The maid agreed, but the kitchen made four dishes, a soup, the soup is black chicken soup, the dish is iron plate mutton, sweet and sour cabbage, cucumber enoki mushroom, tomato scrambled eggs, plus a seasonal fruit plate, but the amount is not much.

"I want to drink pork knuckle soup without salt." The woman glanced at the child in her arms, plucked up courage, and stubbornly offered what she wanted to eat.

"It's not popular to drink pork knuckle soup now, what you eat now is the same as what my mother and my little mother eat, they now have a baby in their stomachs, the news is coming back, my brother and sister specially asked the medical school to hold a meeting with my chefs to discuss the food rations, let me see my sister, okay?"

Becky's voice appeared at the door, and people followed in, wanting to see the rescued child.

When the woman heard that it was something specially made for the ladies of Yipin, she was relieved and turned sideways: "Look." ”

Xiaobei saw that the other party didn't hold the child to show herself, she still fed it, and she didn't force it, and the baby was eating.

"When I look back, I asked my brother and sister, if there are no two ears on the baby, let them find a way, you live in my house, and when the time comes, I will arrange things for you, we will raise the baby, and the father like that will not be.

You find another person, don't think about him, I've already opened the net, he can't die, the crime of bullying the king or something, the emperor's uncle won't care, but he doesn't want to continue to be an official, even his own children dislike the parent official, will it be good for the people? ”

Seeing that there was only one hole in the child's ear, Xiaobei was very distressed.

Listening to Xiaobei's words, the woman could only nod, her eyes stared at Xiaobei, and looked down at her daughter for a while, thinking that it was just as cute, her daughter was already asleep at this time, and she didn't even burp.

When the maid took the child, the woman realized that she was hungry, looked at Xiaobei, and said, "I'm going to eat, I can't help you do things first." ”

"I didn't say that you should do things now, what you need to do now is to take care of your body, feed my sister, eat, there is fish to eat at night, and beef bones, yak's, oh, and my share, tomorrow is like venison, anyway, even eat it for a month, every day is basically different."

Xiaobei also sat at the table and asked someone to bring a glass of juice, suck it with a bamboo pipe, and watch the woman eat it.

The woman knows, don't look at her conscienceless man is a master book, the family life is good, but they can't compare with Xiaobei, only the dishes in front of them, there are two kinds of food that they have never seen.

After taking a bite, the woman asked Xiaobei, "What is this, and this?" ”

"This is a tomato, my brother likes to call tomatoes, my sister likes to call tomatoes, Sinong Temple is seizing the time to cultivate seeds, in a few years, the whole Tang Dynasty people can plant, can cook and eat as fruits."

That is enoki mushroom, the output is very small, usually only the capital five or more can eat, brother and sister said, nutrition, similar to other mushrooms, can be replaced, but the taste is different, for the mother to make things, the mother must first like to eat.

There are also chili peppers, but they are spicy, my brother actually asked the people of Sinong Temple to get the chili peppers and tomatoes together, saying that they will grow such chili peppers, do you think it's fun? ”

Xiaobei introduced it like a few treasures, and the small hand was like drawing the appearance of a persimmon pepper.

The woman nodded: "It's fun and delicious, but many people can't eat it, hey, the rich have the life of the rich, and the poor have the life of the poor." ”

"It's not, my brother said, if you feel that your life is not easy to change, then let's change the world, in the past, in winter, the north was cold, and you couldn't eat cucumbers, but now you can eat it, people who believe in life are moths, and they enjoy the things made by people who don't believe in life."

Xiaobei's exposure to education made her not accept her fate at all, and she opened her mouth to say that she would fight with the sky.

The woman listened to Xiaobei's words, couldn't say anything else, lowered her head and ate violently, Xiaobei held the cup and thought about things.

Maybe the woman was really hungry, maybe she was afraid that the child would starve, or maybe the food was really delicious, she ate all the vegetables like a storm, and two bowls of rice, and when she ate the fruit, Xiaobei still stared at her eyes and looked shocked.

"You, you didn't make it? Let's take some Shancha pills, walk around slowly on the deck, take a bath, rest, my sister is taken care of, I suddenly remembered a very important matter, and discussed it with them. ”

Xiaobei looked at the woman worriedly, shook her head, and got up to leave.

The woman watched Xiaobei leave and touched her stomach: "It's delicious, the cook on the ship should be more powerful than the water and clouds and the blue sea and silver sand, right?" ”

******

When Xiaobei came to another room, Xiaoyuan and other ten children were studying, to be precise, Xiaoyuan was reviewing, and he was telling stories to Li Jun and Pan'er.

"Let's stop for a while, I'll discuss something with you, I think, is it that I have a lot of children in Datang, who are not in good health and have been thrown away, and there are female babies, let's stop them, right? Xiaoyuan. ”

"Yes, stop, where to start? Tell the people that you are not doing this? I'm afraid that they won't listen, so do I have to send my family's intelligence organization to check door-to-door? ”

Xiao Yuan stopped first and said, he had to stop, Li Jun and Pan'er saw Xiao Bei, so they left Xiao Yuan alone, ran to Xiao Bei's side, and listened to Xiao Bei with his face up.

Others also stopped learning things.

"Let's discuss together, the solution will always come up, I'll start with it, let's make up stories of ghosts and gods to scare them, and say how to throw the child away and how to ......." Xiaobei provoked the topic and came up with a solution first.

The others began to think of ideas with great enthusiasm, and it was not until dinner time came that the nine older children and the two younger children finally came up with a routine and arranged for them to be carried out by hand.

******

"It's another sunny day, the birds are chirping, the swallows are flying low, and the water is flowing eastward...... When will you return? Here, cheers! ”

In the early morning, Zhang Xiaobao stood outside the cabin to brush his teeth, and spit out the water from the toast into the river very unhygienically, blending with the river water and flowing eastward.

Wang Juan had already packed up, looked around for Zhang Xiaobao to eat, turned to the left deck to see him, was listening to his poetic hair, looked up at the sky, dark clouds, no wonder swallows flying low.

"Xiaobao, hurry up, wait for you to eat, sunny day, is this the legendary image infinitely stretched? It has the effect of spatial transposition, which piece of heaven have you replaced?

Don't rub it in, look at the sky, it is estimated that a heavy rain will not be able to run, and it will rain for several days in a row, maybe some place will be affected by the disaster, and you will have to be busy. ”

"Just come, it's normal to be affected by the disaster, as long as the scope is not large, if you really want to say which year, all places in Datang are all smooth weather, I feel surprised."

Zhang Xiaobao spit out the last mouthful of water and followed Wang Juan into the cabin, all the sails on the ship fell, ready to meet the storm.

When they came to the restaurant, Li Longji and others were also there, without moving their chopsticks, looking at the situation and waiting for Zhang Xiaobao.

"Morning." Zhang Xiaobao said hello and sat down in his place.

Li Longji picked up the chopsticks at this time: "Xiaobao, let me wait for you to eat, how do you say you should be grateful?" ”

"When I eat at noon, I'm waiting for you, but I can't do it, do it." Zhang Xiaobao regretted composing poetry when brushing his teeth.

"That's not necessary, you help me come up with a good idea, I'll be waiting for you tomorrow." Li Longji ate it and chatted while eating.

Zhang Xiaobao took a bite of the omelette and asked, "Which industry is the idea?" ”

"Think for yourself." Li Longji said.

"Well, industry, how?" Zhang Xiaobao proposed one.

Li Longji nodded in agreement with something in his mouth.

"There are a lot of industrial technologies, and considering the secrecy of raw materials and technology, there are not many that can be used in people's livelihood, so I asked them to design several kinds of human power that may provide power, or animal power, water, and wind power.

The technical content is low, the material can be made of wood, the quality of the steel in the key places is improvised, and the parts are replaced after the big deal is broken, the production efficiency is improved, and the time saved can be done other things, even if it is to learn to read and write, how? ”

Zhang Xiaobao stopped his chopsticks, came up with an idea, and took advantage of Li Longji's time to eat quickly, he didn't want to wait for others to finish eating, he was still on an empty stomach.

Li Longji thought about what Zhang Xiaobao said, but his mouth didn't stop, and after a while, he nodded and agreed.

"So, it's settled." Zhang Xiaobao breathed a sigh of relief.

"Xiaobao, don't eat too much, there will be something to eat in a while." Li Longji said to Zhang Xiaobao with an empty mouth.

"Okay, I'll just drink one bowl of soy milk and eat two fried eggs." Zhang Xiaobao reluctantly agreed, and the meal was finally finished.

I was about to drink some tea, and when I was resting, the heavy rain outside fell and smashed on the deck, and Li Longji called Zhang Xiaobao out again.

A large umbrella was erected on the bow deck, under which was a barbecue rack, and next to it was a basin of shrimp and two bottles of wine.

When Zhang Xiaobao sat opposite, Li Longji poured wine for Zhang Xiaobao and said with emotion: "The smoke and rain are cloudy, the waves are surging, it is a good time to talk and drink, but there are many worries in my heart, how many people are dripping water? Where are the bridges and roads difficult? Xiaobao, what do you say? ”

Zhang Xiaobao slapped his head in distress, he knew that this was the case, how good it would be to let Li Longji go out to play by himself, the house was leaking rain, the road was muddy, and he had to take care of everything?

When he was thinking about how to answer, one came from the inner courtyard of the house and said to Zhang Xiaobao: "Little boy, there is news from Datang Qianzhuang, Xiaobei Xiaoniang, they use the baby candy house and their own toy house, and other jewelry as collateral, and want to take out a loan from Datang Qianzhuang, Datang Qianzhuang will transfer it back, saying that they are too young and will not go through the formalities, what do you think ......?" ”