Chapter 19 Two Little Guesses

It's a March day, and the night is early.

Qiao'er was bored and crawled on the table of the Eight Immortals, pouting and sullen.

Liu sat opposite her, making needles in front of the candlestick, and accidentally glanced up at Qiao'er, and couldn't help but smile.

This girl in Ping Rì is like a horse without a halter, chirping in the rì, jumping around, without a moment of leisure. That is, when Wang Hongtai is there, he can still settle down a little.

But this little appearance is very rare, so I reached out and touched her forehead, thinking that she was sick.

Qiao'er tilted her head angrily, and Liu asked curiously: "Silly girl, have you been naughty when your father caught you again?" Are you being scolded again? ”

"Not really." Qiao'er said without jīng.

"What's going on here? See you didn't eat well at night? Who you off? Liu asked again.

"It's not that stinky fruit yet." Qiao'er said angrily.

When Liu Shi heard this, he smiled and said, "How can your brother Mu bully you?" Mother doesn't believe it, your shepherd brother loves you the most. ”

"Hmph, he is pretending to love me, now my father is training me, saying that I can't get married, I said that I am marrying Mu Guoguo, who knew that he was stunned. Mother, even Mu Guoguo dislikes me. Let no one dwell in his house, lest he may be an eyesore. Let's go, mother, let's go home. The little girl sat up and yelled aggrieved.

As she spoke, her clear and clear eyes were covered with a layer of mist, and crystal tears slipped down her lovely cheeks.

When Liu Shi heard this, she was hooked up by her heart, guilt, and sadness, so she hurriedly got up and comforted: "What should I do?" Stupid girl. Whoever you tell about this kind of thing, he's going to be shocked. Didn't my mother teach you the Analects of Women before? The daughter's family should be demure and virtuous, and when the marriage is important, she must listen to the orders of her parents and the words of the matchmaker. How can you talk about such a thing as getting married? Your brother Mu was born in such a strict family, and he learned the way of a saint, how can he not be frightened? ”

"Then mother, what did you tell me about the prince and princess before, how can they talk casually?" The little girl retorted aggrievedly.

"My mother's hometown is far, far away, and the customs there are different from here. Don't you see that my mother is here, and she also follows the local customs? In the future, I don't dare to talk nonsense anymore. Liu smiled.

"Master?" At this time, Zhang Mu's knock came from outside the door.

When Qiao'er heard this, she hurriedly turned around and wiped her tears.

Liu smiled gently, handed the handkerchief to Qiao'er, hurriedly opened the door, and saw Zhang Mu standing outside the door with pine lines, and said, "Your injury is not healed yet, how can you walk on the ground?" What should I do if I pull the wound? ”

"My injury is no longer in the way, I haven't said hello when my sister is here, now come and see how you live, if you need anything, just tell me, I'll let the next people arrange it." Zhang Mu smiled, looked at Qiao'er, and asked in a low voice, "Are you still angry?" ”

Liu nodded silently and smiled, "Come in." He turned around and said, "Qiao'er, your brother Mu is here." ”

Qiao'er turned her back to Zhang Mu, obviously still angry.

Zhang Mu quietly made a gesture and told the master that I would coax her, and Liu Shiwan smiled and said, "Qiao'er, I'll go see your father." You talk to your shepherd brother. So saying, he went out.

Zhang Mu turned to look at Liu's back, and felt a burst of warmth, I don't know why, Shi Niang has the smell of her mother, the longer she leaves home, the more she misses, and secretly thinks: "It's been almost three years since I left, I don't know how my parents are now?" ”

Qiao'er saw that his mother was gone, so he simply got up and sat on the edge of the embroidery, still with his back to Zhang Mu, with a little temper, and kicked the **couch for a while.

Zhang Mu let Songwen help him sit on the brocade stool, and then looked up at Qiao'er, Qiao'er was wearing a short jacket of red silk woven flowers, covered with a large hair of floral satin armor, and a pink silk pleated skirt on the lower body, embroidered with a hundred flowers and beautiful drapes, and the flat rì was always filled with a purse of various snacks and food, and it was also hung on the waist.

"Qiao'er, do you think I brought you something delicious?" Zhang Mu took a snack box from Songwen's hand, put it on the table and said with a smile.

"Not unusual." Qiao'er said angrily, and after thinking about it again, she said, "Don't talk to me in the future." You hate me anyway. ”

"Who said they hated you? I heard that you are here, and I have found a fun one for you. Don't you want to see it? Zhang Mu said with a wry smile.

"Hmph. Dad said to me, the plaything is demoralized. Besides, you are the eldest young master, and I am the little girl. Of course you're idle, I still have to learn from my mother, and my father wants me to write. I'll see you soon. Qiao'er turned around and said angrily.

Zhang Mu looked at her fair and pretty face, there were still tear stains, her deep blue eyes were misty, and her eye sockets were slightly red and swollen. ”

At that moment, Songwen turned around and went out, and then walked into the house with a little puppy that was just two months old, Zhang Mu took it and put it on the table, this little puppy ate round and round, fat, standing on the table and wagging his tail at Zhang Mu, cute to death.

When the little girl saw this, she was about to get up, but she suddenly sat down again.

"I sent someone to find it for you from the village, don't you like it? Forget it, I'll have someone send it back. Anyway, you won't talk to me anymore. Zhang Mu sighed lightly and said, "Songwen, you can take it away." ”

"Don't." At that moment, the little girl jumped up, took three steps and did two steps to hold the little yellow dog in her arms, and Qianqian's little hands stroked the little yellow dog, and she couldn't put it down.

"Like it or not?" Zhang Mu asked.

Of course I like it."

"Then you can't be mad at me?" Zhang Mu asked with a smile.

Hearing this, the little girl made a blank face, and said secretly in her heart: "Oh, why did I talk to him?" Then he said, "Of course I'm going to be angry." ”

"Oh, that's a pity." Zhang Mu pretended to be disappointed and sighed lightly.

"What a pity?"

"I'm also going to take a look at the village in the future, and I want to take you with me. You know, the fish in the pond have fattened up after the winter these days, and it's really delicious. Tut-tut, it's a pity that you're still angry with me, you must not go. I missed this delicacy in vain. Zhang Mu shook his head and said.

"Who said people wouldn't go?" Qiao'er immediately retorted.

"Huh? Then you don't want to learn to be a girl, and you have to write, you must have no time. Zhang Mu deliberately sneered.

"Female red can learn again in the future, and there is nothing to delay, as for writing? The mother said that a woman is virtuous if she is not talented, and she is not in the way. The little girl hurriedly said, just saying this, she felt that something was wrong, and suddenly said: "Okay, you are still bullying me, Xiao Huang, go bite him." ”

At that moment, the two of them were fighting together, and after a while, they were all panting with laughter, Zhang Mu asked, "Don't you get angry now, right?" ”

The little girl was lectured by his mother just now, and she felt that she was a little wrong, Zhang Mu took Xiao Huang to see him again, it can be seen that he was attentive, and the anger in his heart had long since disappeared, but his face was still a little unbearable: "Just now, why were you scared like that just now?" ”

"What scared you like that? I just choked. Besides, how can there be a joke about the marriage event. If two people want to become husband and wife, they must first like each other and have a heart-to-heart relationship. Zhang Mu explained.

"You are talking nonsense, when my mother talks about her daughter, you have to listen to the words of the matchmaker and the order of the parents." The little girl hugged Xiao Huang and said casually.

When Zhang Mu heard this, he thought to himself: "It seems that feudalism is poisonous, and it is really harmful." In these years, people are simple-minded, there are no pop songs, no long-legged Oba, and no early love enlightenment. It's just a blind three-from-four-virtue. So he smiled and said, "Brother Mu will tell you a story." ”

"What's the story?"

"Well, it's called you from the stars. Once upon a time, there was a man ....... ”

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The breeze ripples, blowing the rape flowers like a thousand waves in the green sea, a wave of cháo comes a wave of songs, which makes people feel refreshed and happy.

Just after noon, most of the people around Yifeng Township were still resting, and the fields were empty.

Located in the Yan family of Yifeng Township, the white wall and gray tiles stand in the northeast corner of the township, the attic in the middle is lined up, the scale is not small, and there is a piece of land behind, which is preparing to break ground, and is obviously still expanding. And at this moment, the compound was silent.

In the attic in the backyard, the charcoal stove is red and warm like chūn.

Dozens of pots of flowers are clustered, and the flowers are blooming one after another, adding a touch of vitality to the room.

In addition to these flowers, the room was very empty, a two-meter marble case, full of knives and shovels and other tools, and then there was a Taishi chair, and on one side of the Taishi chair, there was a rusty glaive knife, and on the other side, a set of worn armor was hung, as if there were traces of a fire. It's just that it's not used for years, and it's covered with dust.

An old man wearing a green cotton gown, holding a pair of scissors in his hand, carefully trimmed a potted plant on the side of the long table.

He has gray hair and a slight hunchback, but there is a hideous scar on the arm exposed by the sleeve tube, although it is old, but now looking at it, it is still shocking.

If the scar on the old man's arm is hideous, if you look at his face, that scar is nothing.

His face seems to have been burned by the fire, his face is scorched, his facial features have long been deformed, and in a pair of cloudy eyes, there is a slight cold light.

This old man is Yan Yongnian, the master of the Yan family.

When it comes to Yan Yongnian, the people of Yifeng Township, who doesn't give a thumbs up?

The old people in the township all know that Yan Yongnian is not a native of the country, and he came here more than 20 years ago to escape the war, and since then he has settled down here and spread his branches.

Over the years, the Yan family's business has flourished, inns, pharmacies, car and boat dealers, dental shops, martial arts halls, etc., as long as the imperial court allows the livelihood of the hands, almost all of the Yan family is there. Selling and buying has been from Jiangsu and Zhejiang to Fujian Huguang, which is really well known from far and near.

What is even more valuable is that Yan Yongnian has donated money to the township for education and paved the way for bridges over the years, and is one of the representatives of the squires of Yongkang County.

Old man Yan is very low-key, he rarely goes out, if he first appears in the crowd, except for his hideous appearance, I am afraid that no one will be able to recognize him as Yan Yongnian.

After a while, the old man put down the scissors, slapped his back slightly with one hand, and staggered towards the Taishi chair.

As soon as he sat down, a middle-aged man of thirty-seven or eighteen years old, wearing a scarf on his head and a gray sè uniform, pushed the door in, he was Yan Gang, the current manager of the Yan family, and walked straight to Yan Yongnian's side and whispered: "Father, Wang Hongtai from the county came to visit you." Are you seeing it or not? ”

Yan Gang knew in his heart that although the Yan family now has gold and silver, in the final analysis, business is just a sideline, and the status of businessmen is low.

Ordinary people don't come to trouble the old man, this Wang Hongtai has taught a student this year, a case leader, if the children in the clan let him dial it, it will be very useful, and he doesn't dare to slack off, so he came to tell him.

"Wang Hongtai?" Old man Yan Shen Yin said: "Help me go to the flower hall, he is a famous scholar, he is willing to come to our house, he must have something to ask for." It was inevitable that the children of the clan would ask him to take care of him, and I went to see him in person. Old Man Yan got up slowly, and Yan Tai hurriedly helped him and walked towards the door.

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