Hearing the sound of footsteps behind his head, Geely hurriedly raised his head and looked at An Xiancheng with tears in his eyes, and shouted as pitiful and infinitely aggrieved as before: "Master." ”

But seeing An Xiancheng gritting his teeth, he slapped her face with a calm face, Jili's lips moved twice, endured the rest of the words, and quietly cleaned up and retreated thinking that he was unlucky.

Fortunately, he is not a person who really spoils his concubine and kills his wife, regardless of his flesh and blood. An Yi breathed a sigh of relief, watched An Xiancheng sit on the only stool, and looked at him for a long time. An Xiancheng should be about ten years older than Mrs. An, with a dark complexion with yellow in the middle, his eyebrows are wrinkled, and his face is depressed. The person is very thin and tall, and the cuffs and necklines of the eight-grade green official uniform he wears are very worn, and the official boots on his feet are also old, and there are patches on the inconspicuous ankles.

The county Cheng, the eight-rank official, is under the county order, and is the second-in-command of a county, of course, the salary is not high, and the monthly salary is six stones and six buckets, but it is not so simple that the population cannot be supported. What's more, the magistrates have all kinds of hidden income, Mrs. An is a shrewd person, Mrs. An is not a person who is extravagant and wasteful, although Mrs. An spends a lot of money on medical treatment and medicine all year round, but it should be guaranteed to be well-off all year round. There should be another reason why this family has fallen to this point.

The sound of snow particles hitting the window paper rushed one after another, and the cold wind blew in from the wide open doorway, An Yi was so cold that she sneezed, pulled the wound on her head, sobbed and hurt, and her stomach also "growled" twice.

An Xiancheng finally spoke: "I'll ask your aunt to bring you a bowl again." After that, he really shouted auspiciously and gave An Yi porridge again.

Geely happily agreed: "Hey, I'll be here soon." When she came in again, she smiled like a flower, as if she had completely forgotten what had just happened, and the speed with which she changed her face amazed An Yi.

An Yi finished drinking the porridge, and An County Chengcai said again: "What's the matter with the injury on your head?" Who hurt you? What is the reason? ”

An Yi could only think of the scar-faced boy who fled in embarrassment at the end, and she couldn't see the other two people clearly. As for why she hurt people to death, she didn't know, so she took out what she said to Mrs. An last night to deal with An Xiancheng: "I can't remember, I'm dizzy, and I have a headache if I think about it." He also emphasized: "I can't think of many things!" ”

Anxian Cheng didn't show much surprise and disbelief and nervousness, but said, "I heard what your mother said." Don't worry, wait for Aunt Wu to come to you for a follow-up in two days, and then ask her to help you take a good look. ”

"Okay." An Yi responded, wanting to change the conversation: "Dad, have you eaten?" ”

An Xiancheng glanced at her in surprise, and said for a long time: "Wait until you go to the county government to eat." Without waiting for An Yi to ask again, he got up and walked out: "When you think about it, remember to tell me that although I'm a father who has no ability, I won't let my daughter be bullied for nothing." ”

"Oh." An Yi got into the hard quilt, listened to the auspicious incident outside the east window being chased by Mrs. An to cry and run all over the yard, looking at the yellow and blackened roof and thinking about her thoughts.

A few days later, the wind and snow stopped a little, the sky was blue, and An Yi was able to get up and walk. Seeing that the afternoon sun was excellent, it was hotter than her cold room, so she slowly took a stool and sat down in the courtyard to bask in the sun.

Because of the food and some silver money that Anxian Cheng got out of nowhere, the family had to eat, drink and sleep on the hot kang, so both Mrs. An and Geely gave birth to a lot, and Mrs. An even had milk, and the little baby who was born prematurely insufficient, had no milk to eat, and was always humming and chirping every day was much quieter. Therefore, this afternoon is a rare purity, and An Yi just sorts out the situation about this family that she has collected these days.

The An family is a big family in the capital, and the patriarch is still the former head of the Dafeng Dynasty An Guide, and there are many people in the clan who have studied and entered the ranks, but Mrs. An and Anxian Cheng are already a little far away from the lineage, and they are still very weak. And in this branch, Anxian Cheng's mother and son are even weaker. Anxian Cheng Anliang's father was born in a continuous line, and he died early, leaving Mrs. An alone to serve her in-laws and raise her children. That's it, the unfortunate thing is that when Bao Liang was five years old, the old lady of the An family was gone, and the two sons born to his wife immediately made a fuss about separating the family, and the united clansmen kicked out Xu Xian and Mrs. An's mother and son at once, and the three of them only had two crumbling old houses and a few acres of thin fields and mountains, which were not enough to make ends meet.

Mrs. An is a strong and capable woman, farming, doing needlework, doing odd jobs, gritting her teeth and sending her mother-in-law to the end, raising Bao Liang and providing him with education. It's easy to wait until the security is good and the Jinshi is elected as an official, marries a daughter-in-law and has a baby, and after several twists and turns, he has mixed into the household department and made a good life from the seven products to the matter, and the good life has not passed for a few years, and he was implicated by the head of the An family and the first assistant An Guide at that time, and he was suddenly assigned to this remote and poor small place, not to mention the loss and sadness, and he was squeezed and destroyed by his colleagues from other factions every day.

This is not the end, because Bao An Liang was dedicated to studying in his early years and had no spare money, and Mrs. An ******** wanted to marry the daughter of a scholarly family or an official eunuch to fill the façade, so she waited until Bao An Liang was thirty years old and became a jinshi before she managed to marry the current Mrs. An Xue.

At that time, Xue's mother's father was a nine-grade national superintendent, the official was not big, but he had a good reputation among scholars, and Xue himself was young, beautiful and well-behaved, and the mother and son were very satisfied, but Xue's body was injured when he was growing a daughter, and he couldn't get pregnant even later. It is a big deal that there is no male heir, when Mrs. An was in Beijing, Xue Xuezheng could still endure it, and as soon as she got out of the capital, she couldn't bear it anymore, and took out her private money to buy two concubines in one go, one is Geely, and the other is called Fugui, Fugui fell ill and died not long after entering the door, and the rest of Jili stood up with the cunning beauty and good look of Mrs. An and Baoanliang. But for some reason, Geely also failed to give birth to a boy and a half girl, but Mrs. Xue, who is nearly thirty, successfully conceived and gave birth to a son after several diagnoses and treatments from Aunt Wu, but it is a pity that Xue's body is too weak, which causes the son to be born prematurely and weak, which makes the family worried.

As for the reason why this family is getting poorer and poorer, and even can't open the pot, Mrs. An worships the Bodhisattva everywhere and begs her heirs to spread incense and fire money is a reason, Mrs. An is not in good health and often has to ask for medical treatment, and Bao An Liang also accounts for the main reason - his income is not high, plus this Changli County is very poor, and the invisible income of the subordinate officials is very limited, and he is still a target of exclusion, and even less is available; But whenever someone asks him for help, regardless of whether it is to subsidize poor scholars or donate to poor people, he is very willing, and no matter how much money he has in his pocket, he knows how to live within his means; In the end, he still belongs to the kind of person who has lofty ideals, and he wants to dredge up and return to the capital as soon as possible to show his ambitions, so he also has to honor Shangguan.

Regardless of the little things he respects, Shangguan can not look down on them, in short, this family has been in Changli County for five years, and the days have become more and more miserable, and the debts owed have snowballed. There are also colleagues who are safe and good because they are afraid of him borrowing money, and they know that he is hopeless, so they take a detour when they see him, and even the county magistrate has to beat him every day for fun. As a result, the life of the An family became what An Yi saw.