The peddler was about to pick up the hairpin, but Liang Yu had already taken it and said with a smile: "Shengmin, pay the bill." The little maid called Shengmin had already neatly presented a piece of silver, and the hawker took it with a smile, Liang Yu inserted the hairpin back into Zhang Erzhen's hair and said, "Girls don't just take personal things to exchange things, it's not appropriate." ”

Zhang Erzhen was not hypocritical, put the opium into his arms and said, "Then thank you Liang Gongzi, I will return it to you another day." Then he said to the vendor: "This thing is a disaster that kills people, I saw it and bought it today, and Ming'er told the government to arrest you." If you still know how to cherish your life, don't go this thing anymore. The peddler was so happy that he said casually, "Naturally, the girl said." Zhang Erzhen said it, and she couldn't care if people listened to her, so she left here. Liang Yu instructed Shengmin to take ten taels of silver and buy the inkstone just now, before going to find Zhang Erzhen.

Zhang Erzhen carried opium in her arms, and she was tired after shopping for a long time, thinking that she should go back to her home, so she said goodbye to Liang Yu, and Liang Yu responded and sent the inkstone to the square and said: "Reunion after a long absence, the turbidity will send you to play, don't shirk." ”

Zhang Erzhen took out a handkerchief and pointed inside: "The gift has been received, thank you." Liang Yu shook his head and said: "That's different, besides, this is just an inkstone, Zhen Zhen is always so polite, I should be sad." Zhang Erzhen also felt that it was too hypocritical to refuse again, so she accepted it with a smile.

Liang Yu watched Zhang Erzhen's back disappear into the crowd, and turned his head and walked towards Liang's mansion. Shengmin wondered and asked, "Childe, which girl was that just now, how come I have never seen it?"

"I used to be the eldest girl of Wuchang Zhangzhi County, but now I don't know it......"

Zhang Erzhen wrapped the opium and walked back, Mingyue asked, "Girl, buy this thing for ten taels of silver, we won't be fooled, right?"

Zhang Erzhen naturally knew how worthless this was, and said casually: "Whether you are fooled or not, it depends on whether this thing is worth it to us." ”

"Do you think it's worth it, girl?"

"That's—that's pretty ......valuable," Zhang remembers that opium was introduced to China on a large scale in the late Qing Dynasty, most notably Lin Zexu's Humen cigarette sales. It turns out that opium has been quietly penetrated into the Ming Dynasty, and now no one has discovered its usefulness, and the traders don't take it as a good thing, but they don't know how long it will be "popular". Zhang Erzhen felt that she was a little blind again, how long would it be later, as a little girl, where could she manage the affairs of the family and the country. Zhang Erzhen also thought about throwing this thing, what does it have to do with her. But when she was trying to take the public examination, she kept in mind every day that "serving the people" and "we are the servants of the people" made her involuntarily clench her handkerchief, forget it, just treat her as boring.

Zhang Erzhen touched the hard opium in her arms, and always felt that this thing looked like a delicacy, she hadn't eaten it since she came to the Ming Dynasty, and she would reward herself when she went back, but I didn't know if there was beef in the house......

The emperor of the Ming Dynasty was surnamed Zhu, and an emperor surnamed Zhu in history ordered a ban on eating pork. But obviously this order is not in line with the national conditions, do not eat pork, beef will be sentenced if you eat it, and you can't afford to eat mutton. However, as an important farmer's friend, the ox stipulated in the "Da Ming Law" that if you kill someone else's cattle and horses, you need to have 200 canes and be sentenced to two years, and if you kill your own cattle and horses, you will be sentenced to 100 canes and one year in prison, and if you don't report the illness and death of the ploughing ox, you may be whipped 40. After Zhu Yuanzhang's regulation, Zhang Erzhen knew that if he wanted to eat beef, he should hurry back and dream of being more realistic.

When Zhang Erzhen returned to Zhang's mansion in a hurry, the door of the mansion was already pleasant, and it was only an afternoon, and the messy box cage frame was gone, and the little man who guarded the door saw the big girl coming back, and said nervously: "Big girl, where have you been, Mrs. said that if you come back, hurry up and go to her courtyard, she will look for you." ”

Zhang Erzhen felt that she would not be so unlucky, so she was caught when she only went out once, and hurriedly asked, "Madame knows that I went out?"

The little girl thought for a while and said, "It was about the beginning of Shen Shi, and the green willow girl next to Mrs. came over and told the little one, saying that when you saw the eldest girl, she should quickly tell her that Mrs. is waiting for you in the courtyard." ”

Zhang Erzhen was puzzled when she heard this, isn't it time for the Jin family to be busy, what to do with her, but she didn't dare to delay, what if the Jin family was going crazy again, she took out the handkerchief in her arms and handed it to Mingyue, and told her to take it back to the butterfly courtyard first, and she walked towards the Jin courtyard. The courtyard was very quiet, Luliu saw that the eldest girl was coming, and quickly opened the beaded curtains, when Zhang Erzhen entered the main hall, the Jin family was flipping through the account books, frowning, and saw Zhang Erzhen coming in, and said angrily: "The house is so busy, you still have the leisure to run outside, your two younger brothers are fighting because of you, you tell me what to do!"

Zhang Erzhen was a little puzzled, the two younger brothers were fighting? Before she could open her mouth to ask, Jin had already said in one go: "Isn't it the little wooden horse you gave He'er, Yan'er wants to play, but He'er won't let it, the two of them pushed and shoved, Yan'er naturally couldn't resist his brother, fell to the ground and broke his elbow." Tell me about you, as a sister, where is there any partiality like this, and you don't know what you give to He'er, and you don't know how to prepare a copy for Yan'er!"

Zhang Erzhen felt that the Jin family was a little unreasonable, my mother, Yan'er, you watch and protect her every day, she can't see each other a few times a month, how to develop the friendship between sisters and brothers, and said: "That thing is very simple to make, my mother can find a carpenter to make one, why not train me for this little thing." ”

Jin looked at Zhang Erzhen and said, "Am I not as good as you?" ”

Originally, it was a trivial matter, but Zhang Erzhen couldn't stand the way of raising children of the Jin family, and said dissatisfiedly: "Mother is sure that if I do it again, the two younger brothers will not quarrel again?" Jujube cake can be made in two servings, swing rack can be made in two, Trojan horse can also be made in two, and even ten or eight are no problem, but every time the two younger brothers have to scramble for it, He'er, as an elder brother, never knows that he let his younger brother, and his mother won't tell them the story of Kong Rong's pear. ”

Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling are still young, and they are becoming more and more unseemly raised by the Jin family, six-year-old Zhang Heling is proud and naughty, and he scolds the slaves who serve him, and he will not call his sister obediently when he sees Zhang Erzhen, and often sues Xiao Hei behind his back that his sister bullied him, and he hides when he sees Zhang Erzhen. Two-year-old Zhang Yanling is the age when he is full of curiosity when he walks around, but Zhang Heling doesn't let him at all, and the two brothers often cry and roll on the spot, which is extremely ugly. Obviously, the Jin family didn't realize her failure in education, and when she heard Zhang Erzhen's words, she said disdainfully: "You still need to teach me such a simple thing, how old are your younger brothers, and how old are Kong Rong when he made pears, you don't have to worry about their affairs, you just do what I ask you to do." ”

Zhang Erzhen looked at Jin's horizontal eyebrows and looked cold, and said insistently: "My mother asked me to make a Trojan horse, I naturally have to do it immediately, regardless of whether I eat or not, whether I drink water or not, is this what it means?"

"What's going on with you girl today, you go to make something for your brother and you don't want to move, you forget how the crane treats you, and you think about you when you have anything to eat and drink. But how did you do this sister, she was calculating, and her heart was small!"

Indeed, when Zhang Heling was three years old, she was still a cute and well-behaved little doll with meat, and she would think of a way to go to the Butterfly Courtyard to see her, but now, Zhang Erzhen sneered and said: "Thanks to my mother's education, now He'er can't take a detour when she sees me, dare to ask her mother how she usually tells He'er about my sister, saying that I have a bad mind or that I still say that I have a sweet mouth and a sword and do a lot of evil?"

"You are so young that you dare to talk back to your mother, I think you are getting bolder and bolder, and you dare to pluck the feathers on the tail of such a lawless, even the tiger's tail?!" The daughter who usually lowers her eyebrows and pleases her eyes dares to talk back at this time, and the Jin family is angry: "You hurry up and let me out, kneel down in the yard, and you are not allowed to eat for a day! I want to see if what my mother said still works!"

Zhang Erzhen didn't want to talk back to the Jin family, nor did she want to quarrel with the Jin family, but the Jin family didn't relent: "Don't think that if your father protects you, I can't control you." Don't dare to be slow to respond, and sincerity and joy are the ways of filial piety. Look at you, you don't come to say hello all day long, you are not filial and disrespectful, your mother is too busy, you are still walking around at will and shopping leisurely, and you are going to climb on my head at a young age!"

"The former mother is here, and the prodigal son does not feel cold. Zhang Erzhen couldn't help but say: "The mother is not kind, how can you know whether the son is filial or not?"

Zhang Erzhen was extremely impatient with this kind of fake compassion, and wanted to go back after saying goodbye. The Jin family commanded the green willow and the red willow to stop the eldest girl: "Didn't you hear what my mother said just now?"

Zhang Erzhen asked loudly, "What if I don't kneel?"

Jin Shi made a look, and the green willow and red willow stepped forward after a little hesitation, and pressed Zhang Erzhen, Zhang Erzhen looked at Jin calmly and asked, "Mother, do you have to let me kneel?"

Jin lowered his head and continued to look at the account book and pretended to look at the account book without making a sound, Zhang Erzhen shook off the two willows and said, "Isn't it just punishment to kneel, I'll go!"

As the sun set, the orange halo spread all over the earth, and Zhang Erzhen knelt on the stone blue slab road, her back was straight, and her figure was slender. The momentum is sufficient, but after a while, I feel that my knees are numb and weak, and I am a little swaying, and I am used to being pampered, where has my little body suffered such a sin. Zhang Erzhen naturally hated it in her heart, but she also knew clearly that even if she knelt here until she died, the Jin family would not be moved in the slightest. Now Zhang Erzhen is kneeling not the Jin family, but the filial piety of the Ming Dynasty, and he can't resist.

The Kim family's courtyard was no longer called Yilan Temple, but changed its name to Zhenghui Temple. The little maid in the courtyard muttered, looking at the sweat of the eldest girl dripping down and whispered: "Madame is so ruthless, the eldest girl looks pale at this time, as if she is about to suffer from heat stroke......"

Zhang Erzhen naturally knew that she would not suffer from heat stroke, she specially chose a ventilated and cool place, and the sun had also set, except for being tired and painful, it was still quite cool. Half an hour later, Zhang Luan finally appeared, and when he came in with big strides, he saw Zhang Erzhen who was still kneeling, his face was gloomy, and he ordered the maid on one side to quickly help the eldest girl up, Zhang Erzhen staggered to his feet, Zhang Luan said: "Zhenzhen, you go back first, I have something to say to your mother." Zhang Erzhen responded, and was helped back to the Butterfly Courtyard by the two maids, and the words that he wanted to persuade Zhang Luan not to be angry were swallowed by himself when he came to his mouth, looking at Zhang Luan like that, it was impossible not to be angry.

When Zhang Luan pushed open the door of the main hall and entered, the Jin family was lying leisurely on the beauty couch, and the green willow was gently shaking the fan on the side. Seeing Zhang Luan's anger, Jin said first: "Luan Lang is interceding for Zhen Zhen again, now Luan Lang should not care, Zhen Zhen is getting bigger and bigger, if it continues to be lawless like this, what will happen in the future." ”

Zhang Luan stiffened and said, "I have already ordered someone to send Zhen Zhen back, Yao Niang, why is your heart so ruthless?"

Jin was taken aback and asked, "What does Luan Lang mean by this?"

Zhang Luan looked at Jin with an expressionless face, and saw that Jin had a weak face, and then said: "I don't say some things, it doesn't mean that I don't know or know, for the sake of harmony and tranquility in the family, Zhen Zhen has suffered a lot of grievances." What are you going to do to her now? Do you really want to follow your stepmother's example and kill Zhen Zhen?"

Jin was shocked when he heard this: "What Luan Lang said, I can't understand ......"