Chapter 22: Poor Aunt and Nephew
"Well, that's the case, so it's really a poor aunt and nephew." After listening to Tian Dayi's introduction, Mr. Yuan sighed.
While talking, the two of them came to the door of the cargo room, "Qiu Ju, Qiu Ju." Every day his aunt! "Although it is a utility room, it is the female dependents who live in it now, and there is a difference between men and women, so even if Tian Dayi is the boss, it is not easy to go in directly, he raised his voice at the door and shouted.
"Hey, boss, what's wrong with you?" A woman's voice answered in the room, and then the door opened, and a woman of about twenty-three or fourteen years old appeared in front of her, although it was a coarse cloth shirt, no powder, and there were no ornaments on her body except for a bamboo hairpin pinned to her head, but it looked like she had good facial features, and she was very qualified, and found that in addition to Tian Dayi, there was also an old man with a short hair under his chin and a gray hairline.
"Qiu Ju, this is Teacher Yuan Lang Yuan of the 'Learning Without Bounds' Private School in Meilong Town." Tian Taiyi introduced to Chunmei first.
"Oh, Mr. Yuan, hello." Qiu Ju immediately saluted, please say hello, although it is the most ordinary etiquette, but the whole action is like a cloud, falling and generous, which is very different from the ordinary women in Meilong Town.
"Heh, hello, hello." Yuan Lang bowed and returned the salute, wondering in his heart - judging from the other party's behavior, words and deeds, this Qiu Ju seems to be from a large family, and a woman in her twenties should have married and started a family long ago, not to mention her husband and children at home, serving her in-laws, why did she take her five or six-year-old nephew to a foreign land? Also, where are the child's biological parents?
"Teacher Yuan, do you have any advice?" Knowing that it was Old Master Yuan who was looking for him, Qiu Ju asked.
"Oh, is it convenient to go in and talk?" The purpose of his visit is not clear in one or two sentences, Yuan Lang asked.
"This, okay, the house is simple, and please don't laugh at Teacher Yuan." Qiu Ju hesitated a little - she was only living in a utility room now, and there was no furniture in the room except for a bed, a square table and two wooden chairs, which was really shabby, but it was indeed not in line with hospitality to block the guests at the door and talk, and in the end, she had to smile a little shamefully and invite the two into the room.
The furnishings in the house are very simple, and the ventilation conditions are not good, there is a faint musty smell in the air, the window is very small, although the sun outside is very good, the house is very dark, as if it has reached dusk. Qiu Ju set up the wooden chair, took out a rag and wiped the chair again, and then invited the two guests to sit down, I wanted to pour a cup of tea for the two, but the teapot on the table was cold, I couldn't help but be stunned, I couldn't decide whether to go to the water room immediately to fetch water and tea to entertain the guests.
"Aunt Tiantian, don't be busy." Seeing Qiu Ju's expression, Tian Dayi immediately guessed what the other party was hesitating, on the one hand, he wanted to say it early, and he didn't plan to stay in this utility room for a long time, on the other hand, he couldn't get used to the kind of bad tea that could buy a big bag of bad tea for a big dollar, so he stood up and came to the door, called a guy, and asked him to go to the front counter to get a pot of good tea that he cherished and was reluctant to drink on weekdays, and by the way, he brought three fine porcelain teacups, and then returned to the house to sit down with Yuan Lang.
"Boss Tian, I'm really troublesome to you." Qiu Ju thanked - her home can be said to be a family with four walls, no long things, three meals a day and still eat a big pot of rice with the guys in the inn, although it is not in love, but where can she come up with decent things to entertain guests?
"Hehe, trivial matter, what is polite, Teacher Yuan, just say something." Waving his hand, slightly exaggerated to show his generosity, Tian Taiyi then said to Yuan Lang.
"Oh, that's the case, this afternoon when the private school was in class, there was a child eavesdropping by the window, I found out and ran away in a hurry, and accidentally fell down, I heard Qingyou say that the child is your nephew, so come to visit, is there a fall." Yuan Lang is a scholar, and he speaks very methodically, not slowly, not in a hurry, which is in stark contrast to Tian Dayi's rough and loud pretentious arrogance.
"Ah, I'm sorry, Mr. Yuan, this day, let him not run around, just stay in the inn to play, I didn't expect to run to you to make trouble, affect your teaching, I'm really sorry, I'll beat him up when I come back later, let him apologize to you, and never go to the private school to make trouble in the future!" Only then did Qiu Ju know that her nephew had done something good, and hurriedly apologized to Yuan Lang - she was busy washing the guests' clothes in the backyard in the afternoon, where could she care about playing with the child, who would have thought that this child would dare to go to the private school to play, this is too bold!
"Oh, that's not necessary, children, if you're not naughty, you're not a child." Yuan Lang hurriedly smiled and waved his hand - he is not a stingy person, let alone the kind of unreasonable person, although children going to the private school to listen to the wall root does affect the order of the classroom, but then again, even if there is no day, will those naughty and mischievous children in the private school read honestly? It's not bad at all.
"Teacher Yuan, you are really kind-hearted." Knowing that Yuan Lang did not intend to ask the teacher, Qiu Ju breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly thanked him.
"Ha, then it goes without saying, Mr. Yuan is the most knowledgeable person in our Meilong Town, the most amiable, and the best hearted, and whoever mentions Teacher Yuan must not give a thumbs up." Tian Dayi also praised him next to him, patting Yuan Lang's ass.
"Hehe, Boss Tian has a good reputation." Tian Dayi's sycophants are not clever, but who doesn't like to hear good words? Yuan Lang is a scholar, with the high character of most readers, the so-called 'rather eat no meat, not live without bamboo, no meat makes people thin, no bamboo makes people vulgar', he can regard money as dung, but regard his reputation more than life, Tian Dayi's few words of praise that are not clever made Old Master Yuan feel good, smiling, and even the crow's feet at the corners of his eyes were revealed, "By the way, what about every day?" After being polite, Yuan Lang asked Qiu Ju.
"Oh, I was playing in the yard when I was drying my clothes just now, maybe I went to the front." Chunmei replied.
While he was talking, the guy from the shop who had just been sent by Tian Dayi to go to tea came back, holding a red lacquered tray in his hand, and there was a large celadon teapot and three white porcelain tea bowls in the tray, in order to show the respect of his son and teacher, Tian Dayi took the tea set, personally poured the three tea bowls full, and then respectfully served one of them in front of Yuan Lang - worthy of Tian Dayi's collection of high-grade tea, the refreshing aroma instantly filled the whole room, diluting the original musty smell in the house a lot.