West of the city, Shichahai, after Xiaojing Hutong.

This is a courtyard house, and it is an ordinary banner family. The ancestors are also famous, but they have only been passed down for several generations, and the current head of the family, Haishan, is just an ordinary bannerman. Because of a time during training, the horse fell and crippled, and now he is not on an errand with the battalion, but only receives a share of money to live at home.

In addition to the daughter-in-law, there are also a pair of children in the family.

This house is also an ancestral property, and a family of four lives in two upper rooms, and the east and west wings are rented to two honest families who do odd jobs in the city.

At night that day, Haishan hugged his daughter-in-law in Nankang, took off her daughter-in-law's body, and pondered waiting for the children to sleep, so that she could be with her daughter-in-law "Dunlun" and "Dunlun". The daughter is still young, has not yet been weaned, and has been sleeping in the cradle of Nankang for a long time. The son on the North Kang was born partially, turning over and over, and the tossing and turning like a pancake was endless.

Haishan couldn't help it, his hand was already moving on his daughter-in-law. His daughter-in-law hurriedly pinched him and whispered, "My son didn't sleep!" ”

Haishan was a little annoyed in his heart, and said with a little anger: "Keep it, why don't you sleep yet, Ming'er still has to go to the school, and Mr. Carefully will beat you on the board!" ”

I heard the sound of rustling, kept the quilt, pulled my shoes down the North Kang, came to my parents, and whispered: "Ama, my son dug a pit by the sea after school and fished for catfish. ”

Because there was a moon outside, it was not completely dark in the house, and there were shadows of people in sight.

Haishan hadn't said anything yet, Haishan's daughter-in-law had already stretched out her hand from the quilt, touched the ear she had kept, and pulled his ear and said, "No wonder you came back, you got half of your body mud, you muddy boy, when can you not be naughty!" ”

Keeping his ears was dragged painfully, and he said with a little grievance: "Didn't Aunt Bai say that Eniang's milk was not enough, so she wanted to eat fish?" ”

Haishan heard his son say this, and the evil fire in his stomach just now also disappeared, patted his son's shoulder, and said, "Good son, when you grow up, go to sleep!" Tomorrow morning, let your mother call you, and Amma will collect fish with you! ”

I was only a teenager when I survived, and I survived most of the night, and I couldn't stay up. Hearing his father say this, he sighed and went back to Beikang.

One less moment, there was a thin snoring, and I was already asleep.

Haishan's daughter-in-law sighed and said to Haishan: "Master, why don't I ask Aunt Bai to find a part-time job, it's also good to subsidize the family!" ”

Haishan listened to it and said in a muffled voice: "Niu is not yet a life, there are still many things at home, do you have three heads and six arms?" The son is already ten years old, let's stay up for a few more years, and when he reaches sixteen, he can receive money and food, and the son will be rich! ”

Haishan's daughter-in-law rubbed her chest and said, "Okay, why is there no milk and not enough milk, and you don't eat less fish this winter?" Speaking of this, he sighed: "It would be nice if I gave birth to a boy, and it would be thin to keep a brother." ”

Haishan smelled the milk smell on his daughter-in-law's body, and said in a low voice: "Is it really gone?" Let me take a bite. ”

Haishan's daughter-in-law was tickled by him, and said angrily: "What an adult this is, and she is still grabbing milk with the girl." ”

Because it was Nahan, she couldn't help but say to herself, "This can't be again, right?" ”

Haishan had already overwhelmed his daughter-in-law, and gasped: "It's good, I gave birth to a son to receive money and food, and I gave birth to a girl to choose a mother......

This night passed very quickly, Haishan slept late, and got up a little impatient in the morning, and was pushed up by his daughter-in-law.

Bao Bao was already dressed, washed, took a bamboo basket, and waited.

Haishan wiped his face, put on his clothes and went out of the house with his son, and went to the sea.

Now, it is late February, the weather in early spring, although I am anxious to keep it, but taking into account the inconvenience of my father's legs and feet, Naizi's surname is slow. The people in the alley, some of them got up early, and they met in twos and threes, and Haishan had to ask the last sentence "Have you eaten" and "You are early".

The place where the pit was dug was a shallow beach on the south shore of Haizi, in the middle of a few elm trees, and the location was quite secret.

I didn't care about getting my shoes wet, so I staggered forward and squatted down to look. In the two-foot-square mud puddle, a catfish is trapped.

"Amma, Amma, come!" I couldn't keep it, so I hurriedly beckoned.

Haishan stepped forward with his hands behind his back, and couldn't help but crack his mouth and smile.

The catfish was more than a foot long, and he hurriedly caught it with both hands, but it was slippery. It took several strokes to grab it and put it in the basket. Estimated the weight, it must be one and a half catties and two catties heavy. If it were sold in the market, such a big fish would have to pay a penny.

The father and son carried the basket and went home happily, and on the way the two of them discussed, and they would come to put bait tonight.

Haishan's daughter-in-law has already steamed cabbage dumplings, boiled millet porridge, set up the kang table, and waited for the two to come back for breakfast. Seeing that she had caught this big fish, she was also full of joy, rubbing her son's head and saying, "Eniang's good son, there is a future!" ”

Embarrassed to keep being praised, he blushed and said, "The school is getting late!" After speaking, he grabbed a vegetable dumpling, dragged his schoolbag and left.

Haishan hurriedly ordered: "Come back early after school, and let your mother stew fish for you!" ”

Haishan's daughter-in-law looked at the catfish in the bamboo basket that was still swinging its tail vigorously, hesitated for a moment, and said to Haishan: "Master, why don't we sell this fish along the street?" Is it worth a hundred and ten pieces of silver? ”

When Haishan heard this, his face immediately darkened, he sat down on the kang, and sneered: "Ye can't afford to lose this person, this is still a good one!" ”

Haishan's daughter-in-law sighed, there was no way, and her husband was still holding the flag. Thinking that this fish was her son's filial piety, she was not reluctant. While taking a bowl of porridge for her husband, she asked, "Master, there will be a tofu seller in a while, let's buy a piece of stewed fish?" ”

Haishan's face was better, and he said, "Well, you have to boil more heat and boil out the white soup, so that the taste is enough." ”

One less time, the two of them finished breakfast. Haishan took the chessboard and went to the mouth of the alley to find someone to play chess. Haishan's daughter-in-law fed her daughter a mouthful of milk, took her daughter leisurely, and went to the outhouse to clean up the fish.

The catfish has no scales, and it is not difficult to pick it up, but it will be disemboweled in a blink of an eye. Because of the size of the catfish, Haishan's daughter-in-law was reluctant to throw the fish intestines, so she found scissors and cut them open.

When she saw the red, white and white thing in the fish intestines, Haishan's daughter-in-law didn't react at first, and took it in her hand and looked at it carefully.

After seeing the half-pulled fingernails clearly, and knowing that he was holding half of his fingers, a piercing scream of "Ah......" came from the room

*Cao Mansion, Wutong Garden.

Cao Hao sat on the kang, looking at the food on the table, his appetite was useless, and he opened his mouth and yawned.

There was no court meeting today, so he didn't have to go to the yamen so early, so he got up very late. Still, he was too tired to do it.

Seeing that Chu Yu's face couldn't hide his tiredness, Cao Hao couldn't help complaining: "This little guy has too much physical strength, how can he cry all night?" Is the doctor you invited before safe, do you want to invite another one over? Don't say anything else, if you continue to cry like this, Hengsheng's voice can't stand it. ”

Chu Yu filled a bowl of porridge and sent it to Cao Hao, saying, "E, why don't you invite a shaman into the mansion to do a ritual?" ”

Shamans are the ones who dance the gods.

When Cao Hao heard this, he shook his head and said, "Those are all fools, where can you believe it?" If you let them toss, don't say that the child is uncomfortable, even if the child has no problem, it can also toss out the problem of the black brain! ”

The side dishes on the table, in addition to a few that Cao Hao often eats, also added a fried meat floss. Chu Yu was afraid that Cao Hao often ate vegetarian food and his body couldn't stand it, so he instructed the kitchen to make the meat and vegetables fine to hide the fishy smell. She also thought that her husband didn't like to eat meat and vegetables, because he thought it smelled of meat, so she ordered it like this.

Cao Hao is actually a picky eater, but because he is lazy, he doesn't want to bother with eating. After a few months of light eating, he also thought about eating meat, but he looked at the red one, and he was a little disgusting. Nowadays, this small plate of fried pork floss is made of pork tenderloin, which is yellow and white, sprinkled with pepper and salt, and eaten with porridge, but it is an appetite shock.

Cao Hao drank a bowl of porridge, ate two small flower rolls, and put down his chopsticks.

Thinking that Cheng Mengxing was going to make the trip in the next few days, he said to Chu Yu: "What about the incident I told you about the first two days?" I'll come back from the yamen early today, and let's go see Cheng Mengxing in the next morning, and meet his niece by the way. is a trading house in the capital, but the money village is not easy for her to get involved in. Of those Zhuangzi in Sijiu City, which one is no one behind them? ”

Chu Yu touched his stomach, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Forehead, this ......"

Cao Hao looked at her hand, and her four-and-a-half-month-old belly was already a little pregnant.

Cao Hao hurriedly helped her to sit down by the kang and said, "Look at my carelessness, I still bother you to do this, sit down, don't be tired." Let's not go, send someone to pick her up and talk. As he spoke, he went to take the cup in her hand. Inside was half a cup of milk, which Cao Hao had to drink every morning.

Chu Yu smiled bitterly and said, "Look at what the forehead said, you can still be tired with a cup!" ”

Cao Hao smiled and said: "We are husband and wife, you work so hard to have children, and you have to take care of housework, but I am like an uncle at home, I really shouldn't." From now on, I will wait for you. ”

Chu Yu has heard it, where are a few men doing housework?

Sitting on the kang, she remembered what Cao Hao had said a few days ago, and asked with a late question: "E, do you think Chu Yu can do it?" ”

Cao Hao said: "It's just an account, an account, what's so difficult?" Not to mention the Han Jiang clan, even if it is our business in Nantou, I have long wanted you to keep the account. Earlier, I was afraid that you would be impatient with this trivial matter, but now that I think about it, you are in charge of the house, and you will always learn these things early and late. You don't have to worry, let's not say that you have to learn it for a while, you just use it as a pastime. ”

Chu Yu thought that he could share the chores for him, and he was even happy in his heart, but when he thought of the Han Jiang clan who had not yet met, he said to Cao Hao: "E, since we are helping Mr. Cheng in order to repay Mr. Cheng's favor, is it too much?" ”

Cao Hao shook his head and said: "It's not much, if it's less, she should feel that the business in the capital is easy to do!" If you are not afraid of being eye-catching, opening a foreign goods shop is the best, and the gifts in this capital are endless all year round. Let's talk to her, if you don't open a foreign goods shop, you can sell these things for gifts, and buy some rare things from all over the world. I have inquired about it, and if any of the merchants who go to the king's house will be divided into four or six parts. Let's be fair. Speaking of this, he was a little hesitant and said: "Some people outside here say that you are a jealous woman, and now there is a clause on greed for money, why don't we think of other ways?" ”

Chu Yu shook his head and said, "It's not in the way, what do others say about Chu Yu?" As long as the forehead doesn't look at Chu Yu like that, it's done. Besides, didn't you say it, it's inconvenient for the Ping Wangfu and Ama to be on the other side, or it is the most appropriate to hang it in the name of the palace! ”

Cao Hao heard Chu Yu mention this, and whispered: "Do you know, why did I say it inappropriate? ”

Chu Yu didn't know why, and raised his little face to look at Cao Hao.

Although he said that people were not good behind his back, Cao Hao remembered the two palaces, and still said to Chu Yu: "I really can't believe my father-in-law and brother-in-law!" ”

When Chu Yu heard this, her face turned red, and she asked, "This niece of Mr. Cheng is a beauty?" ”

Cao Hao shook his head and said, "It's hard to say whether a beauty is a beauty or not, it's just a young woman, and there are a few ugly things to pick up." Although I've only been in contact with it a few times, I see that it's a woman with strong self-esteem. She didn't know that the more powerful she was, the easier it would be for a martyr like her to attract people to tame. When she comes, you have to make it clear to her, or be a proprietor with peace of mind, and find two proper shopkeepers to look at the shop. ”

Chu Yu said to Cao Hao: "Don't you see your forehead? ”

Cao Hao said: "I'll see you today, but it's up to you to talk to her." In the future, if there is no major incident, let her make someone find you to reconcile. ”

Seeing that Chu Yu nodded in response, Cao Hao said: "This is considered to be a new life for you, are you annoyed?" ”

Chu Yu shook his head with a smile and said, "What's annoying?" Chu Yu can't wait for the forehead to tell me everything, so that Chu Yu can share more worries and relieve the labor of the forehead......"

(To be continued)