Chapter 14: The Gate of the Mansion
Jian Bing first took Xia Xiaoqing's mother and son to the so-called school, in fact, this school is not simple, located in a courtyard on Fenglin Road, the teacher is specially hired to be proficient in Mandarin Master, it is said that there is a former Qingxiu talent fame, as well as arithmetic and physical education teachers invited from Shanghai, the students are all children of high-ranking officials in the provincial capital, Yan'er is also studying here.
Xiaobei doesn't like to go to school very much, he is used to playing small rivers and lakes, like a little pony, how can he tolerate a bridle hair, but Xia Xiaoqing likes this school very much, touching the tables, chairs and benches and snorting: "Xiaobei, how good you see, my mother didn't have the opportunity to study when she was a child, you have to cherish it." ”
Xiaobei said: "Mother, I don't want to be here, I want to go with you to be a nurse." ”
Xia Xiaoqing's face sank: "Boy, you have itchy skin again." ”
Xiaobei immediately became honest.
Today is Sunday, there is no one in the school, and after visiting the classroom playground, Jianbing took the two of them to the district mansion.
There were a lot of cars and foreign cars parked at the entrance of the district mansion, and the door was like a city, Jian Bing directly led people into the door, and the policeman straightened his waist and saluted, and the housekeeper nodded and smiled, Jian Bing asked: "Where is your master?" ”
The housekeeper said: "The master is meeting guests in the study, and the little one will go to Tongyu." ”
Jian Bing said: "Forget it, I'm not here to find the district director, I'll go directly to see the eldest lady." ”
The butler hurried forward and led them to the backyard.
The back house is opening the card game, seeing that Jian Bing is coming, the wives hurriedly get up to greet each other, Jian Bing made an introduction to Xia Xiaoqing, there are four wives in the district mansion, the eldest wife of the main house is in her forties, she is Ou Guangyan's wife, gave birth to a son, and her position is very stable, the second wife is called Aunt Mei in her thirties, with thin lips and high cheekbones, she looks demonic and gave birth to a daughter; The third wife is known as Aunt Yun who is only twenty-seven this year, with a round face and a white face, a very kind smile, and she gave birth to a fat boy for the district director, and she is deeply loved; The fourth wife's name is Wanru, nineteen years old, Si Swenwen is like a schoolgirl, and she doesn't like to talk much.
Jian Bing said that this is the women's nursing home I found for you, don't look at her as a woman, her martial arts are quite good.
Xia Xiaoqing clenched his fists and didn't say much.
The eldest lady said with a smile on her face: "The nursing home introduced by Mrs. Chen, naturally I don't have to say it, I can trust it." ”
Aunt Mei said angrily: "Didn't you say a female nursing home, how can you still take a child." ”
Aunt Yun said: "I think it's good to take a child, it's about the same age as our Jinbao, just accompany him to study, it's good to be a companion, come on, take two pastries and give this child a reward."
The housekeeper didn't move, and the third wife's personal maid went to get the pastries, but Xiaobei didn't stretch out her hand, and Aunt Yun was slightly displeased, but she said, "Okay, this child really has a tutor." ”
Jian Bing is not easy to bully, and immediately smiled: "Second lady, this is the son of Sister Xia, who is going around together, he doesn't eat and live in your house, you can rest assured." ”
There was a faint thorn in her words, Aunt Mei didn't dare to confront her, and said with a smile: "Mrs. Chen is joking, there is a shortage of children in our house, I wish he stayed." ”
As he was talking, a thin and thin young man walked in, greeted Jian Bing very politely, greeted his mother and the three aunts, and finally stopped looking at Xia Xiaoqing: "This is our family's female nursing home?" ”
Xia Xiaoqing hugged his fists: "Xia Xiaoqing, please advise." ”
It turned out that this person was Ou Jinou, the eldest young master of the district mansion, who studied at Jiangdong University, and was the pride of the district family, and it was said that the little maids in the mansion had a crush on him.
Then the eldest lady Jin Ling also came, sixteen or seventeen years old, born very similar to the second lady, but not as bitter as her, fair skin, slender arms, faintly visible green blood vessels, with a clear jade bracelet, soft-spoken and shy, is the pearl of the master of the district, Xia Xiaoqing's main object of protection is her.
Everyone was talking, and suddenly the second lady's nose fluttered: "What is burned?" ”
The housekeeper hurriedly ran out, and after a while came back with a smile: "The little young master has grown up again, and he poured the wild cat that stole things with fire oil and burned him to death." ”
"Bastard, it doesn't matter if you burn the wild cat, what if you set the house on fire! Junior, how do you teach your children on weekdays? The eldest lady didn't care about the presence of outsiders, so she put on a straight face and trained people at that time.
The third lady was not afraid at all, lit a cigarette and said lightly: "That's so easy to walk through the water, the master said, the little boy should be lively." ”
The second wife said: "It's not easy to walk the water, but it's not good to burn the flowers and plants, the third sister, you should take care of Jinbao." ”
The fourth aunt sat in the corner, silent, and Young Master Jin Ou sat next to her, her face set off by a navy blue student uniform became more and more snow-white and handsome, not like an aunt and a young master, but like a pair of couples.
Jian Bing looked at the fighting methods of the three wives of the district mansion with great interest, but Xia Xiaoqing was a little impatient, but for the sake of forty yuan a month, he still endured it.
A fat man in a tweed suit ran in, saw the pastries on the table, grabbed them and ate them, and suddenly found a pair of eyes looking at him, turned his head to see Xiaobei, and glared: "Look at what!" ”
Xiaobei didn't speak, and turned his head silently.
Jian Bing said: "Okay, I still have to go in advance, and Sister Xia will come back to work tomorrow." ”
The ladies pretended to hold them back, but they sent them out, and in the yard, a dead cat was tied to a tree trunk and was already charred.
Out of the district mansion, Xia Xiaoqing said: "Mrs. Chen, I want to walk around and see the terrain, you don't have to accompany us." ”
After that, he took Xiaobei around the district mansion, and the surrounding streets and alleys, the height of the trees, and the few street lamps were all written down.
As he walked, Xiaobei seemed to hear something, and when he got into the grass, he saw that it was a litter of kittens waiting to be fed.
"Mother, look, it's a kitten." Xiaobei was very excited and wanted to go and get the kitten.
"Don't move, if it's popular, the old cat won't want it." Xia Xiaoqing warned.
Xiaobei blinked: "But, what if the old cat can't come back?" ”
Xia Xiaoqing looked at the high wall of the mansion next to him, and thought of the charred wild cat, he was afraid that he was caught and burned to death in order to find food for the cubs, and these cats and cubs were afraid that they would not survive.
I want to adopt, but my situation is not easy, so I still said ruthlessly: "Xiaobei, listen to my mother's words, the old cat will come back, if we take it, how sad it is for the old cat to not find the kitten, just like you were abducted and your mother is sad." ”
This time, Xiaobei was obedient and no longer insisted.
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The next day, Xiaobei went to school, and before going out, Xia Xiaoqing taught him again, absolutely not to beat people, not to bully classmates, otherwise he would be slapped and served.
Xiaobei asked, what if they hit me first?
Xia Xiaoqing thought for a while and said, "I can't bear it, I don't need to endure it anymore." ”
Xiaobei came to the school to meet the master, and the master tested him for a few questions, what three characters are the surnames of hundreds of families, and the upper, middle and lower people are eloquent, but Xiaobei can't recite a word, and the words can only barely write his name, and the writing is crooked, which makes the master so angry that he pouts his beard, but he still accepts him.
However, the physical education teacher is very satisfied with Xiaobei, this child's physical fitness is too good, whether it is explosiveness or flexibility, it is far beyond his peers.
There are also more than a dozen children in the class, of different ages, but they are studying in the same class, including Chen Zikun's daughter Yan'er, the third son of the district director, Ou Jinbao, and the children of other high-ranking officials.
The master lined up the seats, letting Xiaobei and Jinbao sit together, the two were tall and old, in the last row, Jinbao glared at him with a hostile gaze, and his fat body moved to the middle, squeezing Xiaobei's space.
Xiaobei thought of his mother's words and held back.
The classmates arrived one after another, the latest to come was Yan'er, she saw that Brother Xiaobei was also studying in the school, she was very happy, during the break, she took out the pastries from her schoolbag and ran over: "Brother Xiaobei, this is the donkey that my mommy bought from Beijing to roll, you can eat." ”
Jinbao's eyes breathed fire, and he snatched it and stuffed it into his mouth.
Yan'er was not angry, and said, "You can eat it if you like, I still have it." "Pull Xiaobei to the front.
The school carries out traditional Chinese language education, using the enlightenment textbooks of "Hundred Family Names", "Three Character Classics", "Thousand Character Text", "Kindergarten Qionglin", the master read a paragraph of the hundred family names, named the students to recite, let Jinbao back first, he stood up Zhao Qiansun Li Zhou Wu Zheng Wang shook his head and shook his head, won the praise of Mr., and then let Xiaobei back, back to Zhao Qian Sun Li can not continue.
The master was very strict, and asked Xiaobei to stretch out his hand and teach him a lesson with a ring ruler.
Jinbao glanced at him gloatingly.
After the Chinese language class is a physical education class, the young teacher from the provincial capital taught everyone to skip rope and kick the shuttlecock, Xiaobei can jump 500 times in a row without stopping, kicking the shuttlecock is like sticking to the feet, winning everyone's applause and the teacher's praise.
At noon, the students were picked up by their respective servants, Xiaobei went out of the school alone, found a corner and took out the bun hidden in the schoolbag and ate two bites, suddenly remembered the little cat found yesterday, and couldn't take care of the meal, hurried over, got into the grass to see, sure enough, it was still there, two had died, and the remaining two were weak and couldn't scream.
"Your mother must be gone, I don't have a father, you don't have a mother, it's pitiful." Xiaobei carefully carried the two kittens into his schoolbag, thought about it and dug a small pit, buried the two dead ones in it, and then left.
In the afternoon, the class continued, and the kitten that Xiaobei hid in the table was found by Jinbao, and he immediately raised a hand and shouted, "Master, someone has brought the cat to the school." ”
The master came over angrily with the ring ruler, and first asked Xiaobei to stretch out his hand and beat him more than a dozen times, and his palm immediately swollen and tall, but Xiaobei gritted his teeth and didn't admit his mistake.
After class, Yan'er and her classmates came to see the kitten, and took out the bottle to feed the cat, the master walked over with a serious face behind his back, and asked Xiaobei where he got the wild cat, Xiaobei told the truth, the master muttered a sentence that God has the virtue of a good life, put it in the firewood room to raise, and walked away.
The children cheered.
The hatred in Jinbao's eyes intensified.
On the way home, Jin Bao angrily mentioned that the new classmate had stolen the limelight, and his follower Agui was a young man in his twenties, and said with a smile: "Young master, there is still some oil left for burning wild cats last time, so let's just order these little wild cats too, so that this kid will never be able to get up again." ”