After saying goodbye to Old Master Zhang's house, the uncle and nephew were all happy in their hearts, and Yao Zheng immediately led the scalper back home with the bookcase.

The matter of going to school has been finalized, Yao Zheng asked his aunt to bring silk and cotton cloth to make a few sets of new clothes and ** for the cattle, and asked the housekeeper to take a few stones of rice, wheat noodles, pickled meat, dried fruits, cakes and other things from the warehouse, and set up the donkey cart at home to send to his nephew's house.

When he sent it out, Yao Zheng handed over a volume of ancient books to the scalper and said, "Jie'er, my uncle has arranged the matter with you, don't let your father handle it." Don't waste your studies at home these days, Master Zhang likes to read "Zuo Chuan" and "Spring and Autumn", and my uncle has a volume here, so you can take it back and study it well. ”

The scalper hurriedly took it and replied, "The cow will take care of it." ”

Yao Zheng listened, but said with a smile: "I don't dare to call Niu Er in the future, and I can call myself a nephew and a little nephew with my uncle." When you enter the school, you must call yourself a student and a late student, and when you worship the teacher, you must ask Mr. Zhang for a word, but remember! ”

The scalper hurriedly replied, "My nephew has written it down!" ”

After Yao Zheng confessed a few more gossips, he asked the housekeeper Yao Bo to send the scalper back.

On the way, Uncle Yao asked him to get on the donkey cart several times, but the scalper shook his head and refused, so Uncle Yao smiled and said: "Little Niu'er, the housemother asked me to ask in private, a few days ago, Fuzhong sold a small courtyard in the north of the East Courtyard, and when it was poured, as long as you opened a side door, it was a family, and I wanted to call your mother and father to move back to live, and it would be convenient for you to go to school and study in the future, how about it?" ”

The main mother in Uncle Yao's mouth is the aunt of the scalper, and the meaning of the words is also understood, the scalper shook his head after thinking about it and said: "I'm afraid that my father won't allow it!" ”

Uncle Yao's eyebrows jumped: "Your father is stubborn, and he saved some money to redeem the ancestral property, but he let your mother and mother endure that hard life, but you don't know that the living are right." Besides, the calf is a reading seed, and when he is enrolled in the future and the first, how can the ancestral property not come back? Evil creature! What a hindrance! ”

The scalper had to smile bitterly: "My father is a person who admits death, wait for me to find an opportunity to persuade some, okay?" ”

"Good! Good! Yao Bo agreed, but his face was full of complaints.

Although the Yao family was not a big family back then, the second mother of the Yao family was not bad in Huangzhou City, her appearance should be considered a middle-class posture, the handmade female red, and the skills of housekeeping were not bad.

The two walked for a while, and then entered the west of the city.

When passing by Washi, the scalper accidentally saw a pair of children with straw sticks on their heads, each holding a large chicken in their arms and squatting on the ground. The scalper walked and looked, but saw that the two children were about brother and sister, the older male baby was about ten years old, and the younger one was a female baby, only seven or eight years old.

The pair of big chickens in the hands of the child are exactly one male and one female, the body size is really big, the cockscomb of the rooster is like the palm of an adult, the eyes are blazing, the beak is big, the claws are huge, and the weight is estimated to be at least ten pounds. The hen is also bloated, with shiny feathers, at least seven or eight pounds.

The scalper suddenly moved, so he walked a few steps forward and asked, "Can you sell chickens?" ”

Hearing someone ask, the two babies and the man both looked up, but it was the male baby who replied: "Chickens are not for sale!" ”

There seemed to be anger on the boy's face, and the scalper couldn't help but look carefully, only to see that although the two children also had vegetables, they were still in good spirits, and their clothes were clean, while the sick man was dressed in variegated linen clothes with some stains, and a lot of gray and white dust could be seen on the trouser legs and shoulders.

When he was stunned, Uncle Yao drove back from the donkey cart and asked, "What did the little cow do?" ”

The scalper was about to talk, when he saw a middle-aged man wearing a turban and a gray cloth walking over: "I've seen Uncle Yao, the villain is Cai Wu on the yellow tooth, Uncle Yao is here to see the servant?" ”

Yao Bo smiled silently, but he glanced at the two children with grass markers on their heads, this Cai Wu is a human tooth, and he immediately understood.

Cai Wu hurriedly said: "The father and son are from Qiaotou Village, Yingshan County, and their father Bi Qilang and his mother were originally working in the official ash kiln in Yingshan County, who knew that they had suffered from gray tuberculosis one after another. The lady didn't have the epidemic last year, and now Bi Qilang is also terminally ill, but she is afraid that a pair of children will not survive, so she wants to find a good family. ”

Uncle Yao saw that the two children looked good, so he said: "Coincidentally, the young master of my family just lacks a scholar and a girl to call." ”

Cai Wu's face was overjoyed when he heard this, and he hurriedly said to Bi Qilang: "Qilang is overjoyed, don't come and see Uncle Yao soon, Uncle Yao is now the housekeeper in the Bo Mansion of the Lord of Huangzhou." ”

Bi Qilang hurriedly got up and wanted to salute when he heard this, but he didn't know that he might get up too quickly, so he coughed as soon as he straightened up, and the two children hurriedly went to help him when they saw that they were distressed.

Bi Qilang coughed violently twice, but after spitting out a mouthful of bloodshot black phlegm, he crossed his hands and saluted: "Bi Feng has seen the housekeeper." ”

Yao Bo nodded, but he reached out to help Bi Feng, stretched out his hand and touched his veins for more than ten breaths, then looked at his eyes, and let him stick out his tongue to see, and then looked at the two children, and then said: "Sure enough, it is gray tuberculosis, it has entered the terminal, and there is no way to return to the sky." My little official is the nephew of the master, and now there is a lack of a companion to study in school, and there is also a lack of people around to serve him, how are you? ”

Bi Feng nodded busily and said: "It's a thousand good, but the villain still has a reluctant request, please borrow a step to speak......"

"But it doesn't hurt to say it!" Uncle Yao and Bi Feng took a few steps before listening to Bi Feng whisper: "Engong, the villain knows that his life will be short, and it is fortunate that a pair of children can be taken in by Engong, but the villain and the child's mother mortgaged the ancestral property of the family due to illness, and borrowed money from the neighbors, so they have to ......be cheeky."

"How much do you need?" Yao Bo knew what he meant, and immediately asked.

"Fifteen!" Bi Feng's cheeks, which were originally red from coughing violently, began to turn gray at this time, and he only heard him say eagerly: "The ancestral mulberry forest is ten acres and I dare not abandon it, and it takes ten consistent redemptions to redeem it." Borrowing money from the neighbors to bury the child's mother's arrears, this last consistent, is to wait for the villain to pass away, please ask Yizhuang to share the grave with the child's mother......"

"Brother Cai!" Uncle Yao didn't wait for Bi Feng to finish speaking, he took out a wooden sign from his belt and said to Cai Wudao: "I will ask you to go to the house to find the account room to withdraw twenty guan and Qilang, and then pay two guan to make tea money, and hand over the documents to the mansion." ”

With a pop, Bi Feng knelt on the ground, sobbed and bowed to Yao Bo: "Engong is above, please accept Bi Feng's three bows!" Da En had to be a cow and a horse in the next life, and the grass rank was reciprocated! ”

Uncle Yao didn't give in, but after being born, he smiled and said, "If you have something to say, just talk to the children!" ”

Bi Feng got up, but he saw that his eyes were red at this time, and after saluting Yao Bo again, he walked to the side of the two children and squatted, grabbed the children's small heads and leaned together, and spoke in a low voice.

After a few breaths, Bi Feng stood up and helped the two children to come to the scalper, but he said to the scalper with a smile: "Little official, the two big chickens are the domestic animals raised by the child's mother, and they can be regarded as spiritual for a long time, and I hope that the little officials will treat them well." ”

Then Bi Feng gently pushed the two children and said, "Go!" Bi Yang, remember Dad's words. Daddy promised that he would come to visit when he was free. You have to take good care of your sister, work diligently, and don't annoy the main family. ”

"Daddy, the kid remembers!" The boy named Bi Yang walked up to the scalper with a big chicken in his arms, then knelt down and bowed: "Bi Yang has seen the master's house. ”

He stretched out his hand and pulled his sister on the side to kneel down and said, "Bi Yue, bow down!" ”

The girl turned her head to look at her father, and then she bowed to the scalper with tears in her eyes, and muttered: "Xiao Yue'er has seen the master's house." ”

Before Uncle Yao and Bi Feng were talking on the side, the scalper naturally listened to it, and at this time he knew that he couldn't break it, so he helped the brother and sister to the donkey cart, and after carrying the two children into the car, Uncle Yao led the donkey cart away.

While the donkey cart was walking, the two children looked back until the donkey cart changed lanes, and a vague figure could still be seen on the side of the road, which was hidden by the scenery.