(It's on the Qingyun list, and today is the second update as promised)

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Zeng's carriage went from north to south, to the Bianhe River, and then turned to the east, after passing the Royal Street and the Great Xiangguo Temple, Shen Fuzhi looked at the bustling and lively scene on the street, and said to Yao Huan: "Sister Huan, it is time to go to Shen, and my aunt wants to go to the restaurant to see how the business is today." But Zeng Jia Shiro sent you back alone, after all, ......"

Yao Huan understood, and replied simply: "Auntie, I just have a broken skin on my finger, and where is the big injury." Besides, Mrs. Wei persuaded so much food just now, and I just wanted to follow my aunt to the shop to have a look, so that I could eat and eat. ”

Shen Fuzhi shook his head, brushed the curtain, and poked out half of his head.

Zeng Wei, who was walking with the car on the bridle, caught a glimpse of the Shen family's aunt's actions out of the corner of his eye, and immediately pulled the reins, turned his head and asked, "What does aunt have to tell the coachman?" ”

"This Zeng Shiro is really a humble gentleman, he is the same generation as me, but he is just younger, and he doesn't want to behave so steadily and decently."

Shen Fuzhi praised silently in his heart, and said softly: "Fourth Uncle Zeng, the two of us will get off at the gate of Chunmingfang in front, Sister Huan and I, we have to go to the restaurant." ”

Zeng Wei let out an "oh", walked a few steps quickly, explained to the family who was driving the car, and then turned around and came to the side of the carriage, and said in a leisurely tone: "Auntie's shop, what kind of delicious food does it make?" ”

Shen Fuzhi's face is colorful: "Roasted pig intestines, braised pig hearts, kidney soup cakes, mustard and coriander mixed with small belly, pork brain soup with shredded cabbage, all cheap and good." It's not bragging with the fourth uncle, the foot shop, the restaurant and the small wine shop within a radius of five or six miles in Dongshuimen, in terms of the ability to be a pig in the water, can't match my Shen Erniang seven or eight points. ”

A smile flashed in Zeng Wei's eyes.

He felt that this Aunt Shen was really an upright person with one one and two two, and because her niece was in distress at noon, she was as fierce as a female leopard. However, the two postures before and after are not annoying, and he is a person with an unpretentious temperament.

Zeng Wei's gaze quietly moved again, turning to Yao Huan beside Shen Fuzhi.

The name of the only daughter of the Yao family shook the Zeng Mansion half a month ago.

Zeng Wei remembered that on that day, he deliberately got up early, went to Guozijian to hand in the homework assigned by his husband, and hurried back to the house to prepare to eat his nephew Zeng Ke's wedding wine. As a result, before he had time to change his clothes, the panicked domestic servant came to report that the bride committed suicide in the street, although she did not die, but the matter taught Zhang Jie, a veteran of the West Route Army, to get involved.

In an instant, there was chaos up and down the house. Seeing the angry eldest brother Zeng Wei and the sister-in-law Wang, who were in a state of impatience, and then saw his father Zeng Bu and his mother Mrs. Wei walking from the back room to the front hall with cold faces to ask, Zeng Wei didn't know why, and a burst of happiness rose in his heart.

Nephew Zeng Ke has played with his little uncle since he was a child, and Zeng Ke has raised a man, Zeng Wei has known it from the beginning.

He locked his mouth out of his heart, because his nephew was bolder, more enthusiastic, and more desperate than his generation in love. He even got encouragement from Zeng Ke's actions, and dared to say no to a marriage of benefits that his father Zeng Bu tried to promise him, on the grounds that it would be more appropriate for him to be admitted to the Jinshi first, and then his father would choose a daughter-in-law among the girls of his colleagues' family.

Zeng Wei saw his mother Mrs. Wei sitting alone under the pear tree in the courtyard when he was a child, weeping, when he was a teenager, he happened to hear his sister-in-law Wang hysterically crying to Rong Grandma about the mental torture suffered, and in the year of the weak crown, he experienced the complete and fiery rebellion of his nephew Zeng Ke, and finally, he saw a strange force from outside, like a sudden shower, broke through the authority of this family, making a hypocritical happy event in Zeng's mansion a real laughing stock in the whole city.

So, Zeng Wei was full of curiosity about the Yao lady who led this force. After going to his mother's Mrs. Wei's courtyard to say goodbye today, he somehow walked under the wall of his eldest brother's east courtyard to save Yao Huan's life by mistake.

When he saw Yao Niangzi herself, Zeng Wei couldn't associate her with a resolute and tough image, and at first glance she was a little embarrassed when she was curled up on the edge of the well, like a little cocoon that had been abused.

But as soon as she got out of danger, the calmness she showed in the persuasion also taught Zeng Wei to look at it in her eyes and remember it in her heart.

The coachman scolded with a "snort" and pulled Zeng Wei back from his wanderings.

In front of Chunmingfang, Shen and Yao got out of the carriage and said goodbye to Zeng Wei.

Zeng Wei suddenly remembered something, and then felt that it was really inappropriate to take it out and ask Yao Huan carefully, so it was better to explore it slowly.

At this time, when I just made a friend of Shen, the two banks of the Bianhe River in this section of the Song Gate in the inner city were lively and different from the first half of the day.

Around noon, there is always a kind of tension and chaos related to official business in the noise and disturbance here.

The soldiers patrolling the streets pretended to shake their majesty, picking out those who were just unfortunate passers-by and beggars to scold and scold a few times, so as to show the citizens of Kaifeng that they had not eaten a share of imperial food in vain.

The officials of the tax superintendent, holding their books, walked back and forth from the prison cell to the river, as urgent as ants anxious to move before the heavy rain was coming.

There were also other sergeants who did not know which division belonged to them, and instructed the slender men to haul the boats in an orderly manner, or to count and hand over the supplies in a hurry.

In such an atmosphere, both the people on the shore and the passenger boats in the river were a little cautious, so as not to suddenly touch a certain point of anger among the public family.

However, by the beginning of Shen, the situation had completely changed.

The routine of the big and small people who eat the emperor's food in the peaceful and prosperous world has come to an end, and it is time to get off work with a little step. The administrative function of the capital of a dynasty gradually faded away, and gradually was overshadowed by another carnival of leisure and entertainment.

Regardless of officials, officials, people, and slaves, people seem to follow the rules that the world has given them, and they take the initiative to abandon the armor on their bodies and hearts, and easily devote themselves to material enjoyment.

Clever is amazing, prosperous is long-spirited.

After this leisure and entertainment mode is turned on, the first activity is - eat!

Shen Fuzhi led his niece through Chunmingfang, which was densely covered with tea houses and wine shops, and interspersed with a few willow Mo flowers.

When I came to the Bianhe River, my eyes suddenly opened up, not to mention the restaurants and restaurants that took out their own signature dishes to attract customers, and there were also hawkers carrying burdens, flexibly shuttling between the crowds, selling cooking cakes, candied fruits, and all kinds of preserved meat forked on skewers.

Yao Huan just enjoyed the street scene of Bianliang in the carriage in the morning, and now he is immersed in it, and he feels more and more vivid in nature.

She couldn't help but admire: "Even if you sell a small cake bun, you are all dressed so neatly." ”

Shen Fuzhi said: "How does Huan'er seem to be a foreigner who came to Bianjing for the first time." What is the boundary of Kaifeng City, doing business in this place, whether it is a big store or a small shop, or whether it is a merchant or a businessman, if you want to pay for your field, not only do you make things worthy of the price, but also speak and behave decently. Don't talk about the merchant who sells candied buns, just say that your aunt and I, a small restaurant, are not as good as this building and that floor, but my aunt also dresses beautifully every day to beat those pigs into the water, even if Ah Si goes out to deliver food, I don't allow half a stain on his body and feet, as well as in his bamboo basket. ”

When Yao Huan heard this, he was inexplicably moved, put Shen Fuzhi's arm on his shoulder, and said sincerely: "Auntie, in the future, Huan'er will come to your restaurant to help, and you will be able to take charge of yourself for a long time, and you can often rest at home, so you won't work so hard." ”

When Shen Fuzhi heard this, he suddenly stopped, pursed his lips and smiled meaningfully, and then raised his eyes to look in the direction of Dongshuimen, which was more crowded with shops and shops.

After a moment of silence, she spoke: "The body is bitter, but the heart is not bitter. Huan'er, let's go to Zeng's Mansion today, you see that outsiders see the vermilion purple house with flowers and brocade and cooking oil, how much dirt and dirt are hidden inside, and there is no mercy and unrighteousness. Whether it's Mrs. Wei, Mrs. Zeng, or Mrs. Wang, let's count that Rong Grandma, they have fine clothes and jade food every day, but the days when they are locked up in the courtyard of the deep mansion are really light and light, and the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant? I'm afraid that I will swallow it in my stomach with cold and sorrowful, and bitter water. It's better to be your aunt and me, a lonely woman's family, it is indeed difficult and tiring to make a living, but no matter how difficult it is for me to be tired, I can see the world from the outside, and I can be my own master. ”

Yao Huan was dumbfounded.

This is not the feminism of the Northern Song Dynasty, and what is it?

This cheap aunt assigned to her by God is lonely but not arrogant, straight but not stupid, and she is frank and generous in dealing with men of the same era, and she does not shy away from transactions that do not touch the principles, but in her heart, how consciously she has the word "independence"!