Yizhou, Daotai Mansion, in front of Yimen.

Dong E Jinghui leaned over to Chu Yu, and Chu Yu hurriedly stepped forward to support her: "Cousin, what are you doing?" You shouldn't be so gifted! ”

Dong Ejinghui said with tears: "If there is no cousin to take in, there is no cousin to take care of......"

Chu Yu took her hand and comforted: "The past is over, cousin should not be too sad!" ”

Dong Ejinghui nodded tearfully, and thanked Amethyst, Xiyun and others for taking care of them in the past few months, and everyone returned the salute one after another. Cao Song was on the side, watching Dong E Jinghui say goodbye to everyone one by one, just pulling herself down, her face was a little difficult to look at. Thinking about it in my heart, this ugly girl, have you forgotten who saved her?

The grandmother who came to pick up the person said: "Girl, this road is still far away, let's go!" ”

Dong E Jinghui listened, Fang turned to look at Cao Song, took two steps closer, leaned over and said, "Thank you second cousin for saving your life!" The voice is not loud, but it is real to listen to, and people can't help but feel sour.

Cao Song hesitated for a moment, took out something from his arms, handed it over, and said, "Ugly girl, in case you still want to come out...... This one...... Save yourself from being bullied! ”

It was a beautifully decorated Mongolian knife, with a thumb-capped ruby inlaid on the top of the hilt and various small gems on the scabbard.

Dong E Jinghui didn't know how to refuse, Cao Song had already stepped forward and stuffed the Mongolian knife into her hand.

Because he knew that Dong Ejinghui was going back to Beijing today, Cao Song didn't go anywhere, and he was even interested in going down with his brother. Unexpectedly, after waiting for a long time, he got her one sentence, and he originally wanted to lose two sentences, but seeing her with tears in her eyes and frowning slightly, he couldn't get angry.

Perhaps because of the proximity, Cao Song could smell the faint fragrance on Dong Ejinghui's body, and couldn't help but suddenly realize. For a while, he really didn't know what to say, looked at Dong E Jinghui, and couldn't help but be stunned.

The two grandmothers who had been ordered by the old lady Jueluo to pick up Dong E Jinghui saw that the second master of the Cao family, who looked a little naïve and annoying, was standing a little close to her own young lady, so she "coughed" twice and said, "Girl, it's time to go!" ”

Dong E Jinghui glanced at everyone again, turned around and got into the carriage and sat down, and just as Mama was about to put down the curtain, she heard Cao Song say: "Ugly...... I'm going to Beijing next year, and I'm going to see you then! ”

Dong E Jinghui nodded, and gripped the Mongolian knife tighter and tighter. The car curtain separates everyone's sight, and Dong Ejinghui has returned to Beijing!

Dong Ejing Huiping said that although he didn't talk much, he was honest and well-behaved, not only Chu Yu and Amethyst were reluctant, but even Xiyun had red eyes.

Cao Song only felt stuffy in his chest, and he was irritable in his heart, so he stretched out his arms and stretched his waist, because he slept less last night, his body was a little tired.

In March, the sky was fine, Cao Song was really impatient to go back to the house to sleep, so he asked Chu Yu: "Sister-in-law, when will my brother come back?" Why don't my brother bring a few people to meet him? ”

Chu Yu smiled when he heard this: "Your brother said that he wanted to go to the next counties to see, but now I don't know where to go, where to greet him?" ”

Cao Song looked at the blue sky, scratched his head and said, "Since this is the case, then sister-in-law will go back to the courtyard to rest first, and my brother will go to the martial arts hall to walk around!" ”

Chu Yu responded and took people back to the inner courtyard. Amethyst was fine in her hands, she was idle, so she followed Chu Yu to the main room to talk. Before I reached the door, I saw the jade dragon in the west courtyard standing at the gate of the courtyard, looking quite hesitant.

Chu Yu smiled and asked, "Why are you standing here?" Is there something to find Sister Amethyst, or is it coming to me? ”

Jade Dragon's face was a little shy, and she replied: "The slave maid has something, I want the county lord and Sister Amethyst to know!" ”

Chu Yu and Amethyst glanced at each other and invited her to sit down in the main hall. Jade Dragonfly hesitated for a while, Fang lowered his head and said, "It stands to reason that there is no room for slaves and maids to talk more about the affairs in the second master's room. It's just that Mama Zhang is not here at the moment, if the slave doesn't say it, I'm afraid that the second master won't be able to come back! ”

Chu Yu listened and looked at Amethyst with a little embarrassment. Although Cao Song is still young, there is no reason for his sister-in-law to take care of the affairs of his uncle's room.

Amethyst smiled and said to the jade dragonfly: "Look at you like this, but the second master is not sensible and has wronged you?" ”

Jade Dragonfly was afraid that the two would misunderstand, so she shook her head and said, "That's not the case...... It was the second master who lifted the Jade Spider sister...... "Speaking of the back, it is already inaudible."

Chu Yu is nothing, Amethyst frowned slightly, and then asked with a smile: "I see that she is very close to Miss Jing, and now that Miss Jing is back in Beijing, why don't you see her come out to see her off?" ”

Jade Dragonfly replied with a smile: "Sister Jade Spider came up with it, but she accidentally saw the wind last night, and her body was a little hot, and now she is lying in the house!" ”

Amethyst knew it in her heart, and said to Chu Yu: "County Lord, since the second master has raised the jade spider to be a person around him, he can't use the past monthly money, you can see ......"

Chu Yu nodded, thought about it for a while, and said, "Since this is the case, according to the previous jade dragon's monthly example, you can also add some clothes on your head and face." Speaking of this, he glanced at the jade dragon with a smile: "On the jade dragon's side, the monthly rules remain the same, but the appropriate amount is added or subtracted during the New Year's Festival!" ”

Jade Dragonfly couldn't refuse, got up and thanked him solemnly, and then went back to the West Courtyard.

Because Cao Song was not married, Jade Dragon did not officially open her face, but everyone treated her as an aunt. In addition, she is the same age as Chu Yu, she doesn't talk much, and her surname is good, everyone likes her very much.

Before everyone got married, it was nothing to have two or three people in the house, but it was common for men to "like the new and hate the old". Chu Yu and Amethyst thought of this, and they complained a little about Cao Song's abuse. It's just that their identities are limited, and it's not easy for both of them to talk about it, so they can only shake their heads and sigh.

* In the wing of the west courtyard, the jade spider took a nap, got up to freshen up, and when he saw the jade dragon coming in, he couldn't help asking, "Is Ye Ke back?" ”

Jade Dragonfly couldn't help but be stunned when she saw that her face was full of spring breeze, as if she had changed from yesterday. The jade spider noticed the gaffe, hurriedly lowered her head, wrapped her fingers around the corners of her clothes, and was speechless.

Although the jade dragon's heart is pantothenic, she also understands that the woman is this life, and her body is given, where can her heart be kept? smiled and pulled her to sit down by the kang, and said with a smile: "I just came back, I asked the Ermen Xiaowu, and said that the master went to the martial arts hall!" ”

The jade spider nodded, her face was already red, and she said with a sigh: "Jade dragonfly...... I ......"

Seeing that she was embarrassed, Jade Dragon saw a small dish of hawthorn placed on the small table next to her, picked one up, and said with a smile: "Ye is also weird, fortunately, Mr. Zhuang has more knowledge, and after listening to the two aunts, he knows that it is not appropriate, or this is not a good intention?" It's good now, all the houses in this courtyard are this red hawthorn, which makes people feel sour at a glance! ”

The jade spider picked up one, took a bite, and was a little disapproving: "Who knows if what Mr. Zhuang said is true or false!" The more knowledgeable the person, the more he pays attention to. When I was a child, my relatives had a happy little daughter-in-law, and I ate more of this, and I didn't see anyone miss it! Even if there is no hawthorn, this sour radish and capers, there is nothing they don't eat! ”

Listening to the jade spider mention the past, the jade dragon also thought of herself, she is a native of Wuhu, her parents are honest farmers, Kangxi forty-six years of Wuhu drought, rivers and ports are dry, crops are not harvested. In addition to her father, she also has two younger brothers, and the family of five has run off rations. The family really couldn't do anything, so they sold her twelve-year-old to someone.

The people taught these teenage girls the rules for two years and sold them to large families in the capital as maids at a high price.

* After returning from Daxing Town, Tancheng, Cao Hao and his team did not return the same way, but went east through Linmu Town to the north, first to Junan Town, and then to Juzhou. On the north-south road from the south gate of Juzhou to the north gate, there are many shops scattered one after another, but it is not as prosperous as Daxing Town.

Not long after entering the city through the south gate, Cao Hao saw a sparse half-circle of people not far away, pointing at someone.

When he got closer, he saw that it was a little girl of eight or nine years old, dressed in a patched gray cloth gown, kneeling on the side of the road, with a straw mark stuck in her head. A middle-aged man in his thirties was squatting next to him, covering his face with his hands.

"Sell sons and daughters!" Cao Hao's heart was indescribably heavy, and he grabbed the reins of his horse and watched there.

The little girl's eyes were red, and it seemed that she had been crying for a long time, but at this time, her expression was dumbfounded, her eyes were wooden, where was there still half of a child's aura?

Some onlookers asked about the price of selling their bodies, and laughed twice; Some looked at the little girl to see if it was profitable; Some were not ashamed of what this big man did, and rebuked loudly: "Look at you, a father, with sound limbs, how can you be willing to sell your daughter?" ”

The man did not defend himself, his shoulders moved, he wiped his tears, and cried like a child.

At this time, I saw two people running on the street, and in front of me was a woman wearing a big gown and holding a child, and she didn't care about whether there were many people or not, so she squeezed in directly, looked at the straw mark on the little girl's head, and immediately knelt down, put her in her arms, and cried. The little girl snuggled into the woman's arms and began to weep slowly. The baby in swaddling clothes, as if feeling the sadness of his mother's sister, cried "ahh

Behind the woman, a middle-aged man in his forties, saw the grass mark on the little girl's head, and immediately said angrily: "Zhao He, the girl is your own flesh and blood, how can you be worthy of your younger siblings when you do this?" ”

The man pounded his head vigorously: "Brother Zhou, I have no interest, and I have raised my father and mother for more than 30 years, but now I can't let the second elder fill my stomach!" What else can I do, I can't starve my whole family to death! ”

"Brother Zhou" sighed and said helplessly: "This is the trouble of those black-hearted grain merchants, where is your fault, if the price of rice continues like this, who else can afford it!" ”

"Girl's father, please, keep the girl!" The woman cried, and then put the baby in her husband's hand, pulled the straw mark from her daughter's hair, and slowly inserted it into her own hair.

Although her face is yellow and thin, and her hands are slightly rough, she is twenty-six or seven years old after all, and she also has a bit of a look. Maybe it's because of the nursing child, the chest is bulging, and it doesn't look like a slightly thin figure.

Among the people who were originally watching the gossip, someone immediately shouted: "How much is the silver, the master wants it, and there is one less ** in the family?" ”

Everyone followed the sound, and a fat old man in a blue silk robe was squinting his eyes and looking into the woman's arms. Although his face is not wrinkled because of his fatness, he has to be in his sixties because of his gray hair and the old age spots on his face.

When the people next to him saw it, they couldn't help laughing and said, "Is it one less **, or one less little grandmother?" Whether you want a grandson or a grandfather! ”

Another person said: "What does he care about, when people come to the house, they don't want to milk anything, just milk anything?" ”

The more he talked, the more obscene he became, but the fat old man just smiled "hehe", worried about the money bag in his hand, looked at the couple and said: "Master, you haven't eaten dinner yet, you two, don't be greasy and crooked, let's make a price!" ”

The woman looked at the man with tears in her eyes, where else could the man think of? A family of four, hugging their heads and crying. It was the little girl who took it first, knelt on the ground, and kowtowed to the people around her: "Uncles and uncles, the girl begs you, don't buy the girl's mother, the mother still has to take care of the younger brother and cook for the grandparents, you still buy the girl!" ”

No matter what the others were, Cao Hao couldn't stand it anymore, and turned around and signaled to Wei Hei who was not far away.

Wei Hei, Wu Mao, and a few of them reined in the reins of their horses and stepped forward to disperse those who were watching the excitement. Someone saw that they were not local accents, and wanted to argue a few words, but they were whipped honestly by Wei Hei.

In fact, in the arms of Wei Hei and Wu Mao, there are the waist cards of the warden of the Daotai Yamen, and the sentence "Yamen handles the case" can also make them retreat. But because they saw that this family was really pitiful, and it was shameful to see the excitement, they would not have a good attitude.

The big man sensed that something was wrong, stood up, and protected his wife and children behind him. Even "Brother Zhou", who came with the woman, also stepped forward and stood on the side of the man.

Among the people who had just been dispersed, a few of them were standing not far away, and they wanted to continue to watch the excitement, but they were glared at by Wei Hei, and they immediately ran away.

Cao Hao looked at the family of four, secretly clenched his fists, and muttered: "Seven days, give me seven days!" ”

Mr. Zhuang's heart was very heavy, and after listening to Cao Hao's words, he turned his head: "What seven days?" Fu Ruo got an idea? ”

Cao Hao nodded and said, "Yes, sir, I know what I should do!" He turned around and ordered Xiao Man to say two words, and watched Xiao Man go to Wei Hei, his expression became more and more determined.

(To be continued)