Chapter 097: Epistolary Fun
The weather in April and May is exceptionally cool after rain. After the rain washes away the mountains and countryside, the faint green eyes ripple out of the heart, which makes people feel refreshed.
It was the end of April, the first batch of spring silkworms had already fallen asleep, and they had turned into cocoons, and the bodies of the six silkworms that Chu Jianniang had obtained from Aunt Ruan Ping had become transparent, and they began to be stunned.
Chu Jianniang hurriedly found straw stalks, planted a few small silkworm shelves, and covered them with a small canopy, and put them in the dustpan to make the light darker, so that these mature silkworms could find a comfortable place to spin silk and cocoon.
In addition, more than 20 ant silkworms hatched from silkworm paper have now shed two skins and passed the second sleep, and it will not be long before they will enter the third sleep and spin silk.
Looking at these treasures, Chu Jianniang was in a good mood, and she was also full of anticipation for the last silk cocoon to come out, and she unconsciously hummed a ballad in her mouth.
When he turned around and entered the room, he didn't retreat after he was interested, so he dipped his pen in ink, wrote down this good mood, and sent it to Wei Xuan.
There is also a painting on it: a small round brown dustpan; The dustpan is painted with emerald green mulberry leaves; Two white and fat silkworms are painted on the mulberry leaves, eating mulberry leaves with relish; The spring breeze blows off the leaves of the ginkgo tree......
In the academy of the Hanlin Academy, Wei Xuan received a letter, and after reading the letter sent by Fu Zhuoyi, compared to the letter sent by Chu Jianniang, he was glad that Fu Zhuoyi was a thorough person.
What a big event happened in the family, this lady actually talked to him about the way of raising silkworms in a letter, and even painted a picture for him. Angry, wanting to laugh, but not knowing what to say?
Another scholar who was annotating the scriptures and commentaries in the academy with him was at a loss. After that, the man saw Wei Xuan grinding the pen on the spot and writing, his eyebrows were still twisted together, and his expression was really serious.
Wei Xuan put aside the way of raising silkworms and the painting, and asked Chu Jiaoniang how the Chu family was doing, and what about her?
If you want to say that this lady of him really reports good news and not bad news, she has a wide heart, and she even wants to hide it from him! That's not going to work.
At the end of the Wei family, Chu Jianniang received a letter from Wei Xuan after the ripe silkworm spun silk and wrapped the cocoon into a cocoon and laid eggs, and more than 20 silkworms in the back were all in the cocoon.
Reading the contents of the letter, Chu Jianniang raised her dark eyes and stared at Fu Zhuoyi who came to deliver the letter for a long time.
In the courtyard of the Wei family, under the ginkgo tree, the clear wind of summer teaches people to refresh their bodies and minds, and Fu Zhuoyi picked the corners of his forehead, feeling a little hot and a little uncomfortable.
"I thought my sister-in-law was ...... I have told Brother Wei about this, and I have written to him...... A few mentions. Didn't think about it...... My sister-in-law didn't say it. ”
This is very empty-hearted.
Chu Jianniang was speechless, took a breath, let go, and put the letter away.
Not to mention, Wei Xuan also asked, what else?
Chu Jianniang sighed in her heart: Only please pass the sin!
Fang remembered something, Chu Jianniang raised her expression again and asked, "What did you say about my mother's brother?" ”
Hearing this, Fu Zhuoyi also remembered the purpose of her coming.
After Chu Jianniang asked Fu Zhuoyi for help last time, in the past half a month, he really went to check this person. This person's temperament is really flattering.
I wanted to tell just now, but when I saw Chu Jianniang reading the letter, I closed my mouth.
After this Chu Huaiwen was buried by Old Man Chu, he immediately went to the gambling horse farm in a neighboring county the next day, and did not come out for half a month. Later, when I came out, I heard that it was run, where did I run? Fu Zhuoyi, the new guy, didn't catch up.
Just yesterday, a boatman on the other side of the Xichuan River came to report the case, saying that a person had died in the river, and it was salvaged to verify the identity, and it turned out to be the Chu family in Shuiguling - it was Chu Jianniang's brother. This morning, the Wang family and Chu Xiwen went to receive someone, and they were afraid that they were wailing at home at this time.
From yesterday's investigation to this morning, it is appropriate to know that Chu Huaiwen owes a debt in the gambling racecourse, and he can't pay it back, so he ran away. After running away, the debt collector chased the murderer, and then the person was beaten fatally. However, the murderer has now been brought to justice.
After listening, Chu Jianniang's face was not moved, and she sank coldly.
Fu Zhuoyi couldn't help but be stunned when she saw that her delicate appearance was indifferent, as if she was listening to something that didn't matter. This was the first time he had seen this sister-in-law's disdainful appearance, which made him feel cold too.
"Sister-in-law......"
Chu Jianniang came back to her senses and suddenly smiled bitterly: "Then ...... It's all right. ”
Hearing this, Fu Zhuoyi felt a little cramped in her heart, although she nodded in response, but she suddenly had some complicated feelings about Chu Jianniang in her heart. Without saying much, he excused himself and left.
Chu Jianniang just felt that it was Chu Huaiwen's own retribution. It's a pity that Fang Tho's inkstone was ruined.
……
After raising silkworms, time flies very quickly, with horses passing through the window and white horses passing through the gaps. After the spring silkworm, it is the beginning of the summer silkworm.
Summer silkworms are difficult to raise, and after a few thunderstorms, many new ant silkworms are not adapted to the wet. In the hot climate, all the zombie silkworms will never move again. Chu Jianniang pushed the work of the owner outside, put her mind on the family, and took care of these silkworm babies wholeheartedly.
Since the last time, after the dozens of silkworm moths handed over their tails, they laid no less than a thousand eggs, although they died better, but the number looked more and more huge, it was Chu Jiaoniang who found someone to play two cages of ladder shelves, made more than ten silkworm foils, and connected them with the lattice shelves used for clusters, cages for laying eggs, silkworm paper, all prepared.
Old man Wei felt that this was a good way to get rich, better than farming. So he took the initiative to help set up a haystack house in the backyard and made a silkworm room. The father-in-law and daughter-in-law were busy.
Not to mention that when Liu saw these dense silkworms, his scalp was numb. Just to prepare these silkworm raising equipment, even she has already pasted dozens of coins, and she feels extremely uncomfortable.
It is said that raising silkworms makes money, but I don't know if it's true, although the Liu family doesn't expect more, but they also hope that they can make some money, which is better than making money for nothing.
Chu Jianniang always saw Liu's disgust, and wanted to get closer, but couldn't pull down the steps, it was really funny. So from time to time, he deliberately smoothed a few words and pulled her to drill into the silkworm room.
……
In the school building of Hanlin Academy, Wei Xuan received another letter from home. This time, Chu Jianniang frankly explained the matter of the Chu family in the letter, and reported Chu Huaiwen's matter by the way.
Now the Chu family is a thing of the past for her, Chu Jiaoniang is now focused on the silkworm road, and she lives a comfortable life at home alone.
At the end of the letter, Chu Jianniang also complained about why Wei Xuan didn't reply to her about raising silkworms, and told him that there was already a silkworm room at home, so don't be scared to teach him to come back. Wei Xuan was funny.
When she saw the payment place, although Chu Jianniang did not leave her name, this time she drew a fat and thick silkworm, biting the mulberry leaf fiercely.
Wei Xuan really couldn't hold back, grinning openly: Look at that silkworm, isn't it him who bites it?
The roommate was lazily taking a nap, when he heard the sound, he opened his eyes and saw Wei Xuan's appearance again, how could he still sleep? I saw him like this at the academy last month, and this time again.
A cigarette slipped in front of his desk, picked his chin flatteringly, gestured to the letter in his hand, and said: "You always have such a few days a month, can you share a thing or two, what did this wife in your family write to you?" Let you be so distracted, you can't support it. ”
Wei Xuan was really in a good mood, and while folding the letter and putting it in the envelope, and then putting it in the bookcase, he deliberately teased: "You marry a beautiful wife and come back, and you know." ”
The man glared disdainfully, "Cut!" Look at you, I'm afraid you're a strict wife. ”
With that, Bored Lai continued to lie down on the couch.
Wei Xuan laughed, thinking a little about what would happen if Chu Jianniang was strict with him?
"That's right!" The man suddenly remembered something, raised his head and said: "The matter you asked me about last time, the news came this morning, and there is no one you said in these military aircraft camps in Liaodong, northern Sichuan...... Brother Jiang Feng from your hometown. Did you hear me wrong, he probably didn't join the army? ”
Wei Xuan's brows lowered slightly: "What about Quanzhou?" ”
"There is no news from Quanzhou yet, and it is all sea transportation over there."
"Okay, I see, thank you."
"Thank you, I'll lie down for a while, remember to wake me up after the dispersal of the value, and then let's go to the street to paint." As he spoke, his elbow blocked his eyes, and he muttered in his mouth, "It is most practical to be a very good man and an idle master." ”
Wei Xuan smiled: "Your father is afraid that he will be angry with you." ”
"Let it be."
Let's say that this person is the son of Xielulang of Taichang Temple - Gu Shuqing. Eight feet tall, with upright eyebrows, eyes, mouth and nose, in addition to a slender face, he is also a gentleman. At the same time as Fu Zhuoyi, he took the exam and got a top three end.
However, it was said that the official family had previously asked the top three, except for the champion Lang, to return to their hometowns for evaluation, and then enter the DPRK and the Central Committee to divide their posts. And why is he in Hallym Academy?
This has to be said to a related household.
However, when it comes to the "return assessment", it has actually come to an end.
Since Qin Yan took office in the two Shangshu, the corrupt officials and traitors in the court have almost been eliminated, and the new science and technology scholars who have been dispatched have also returned one after another, and they have all been assigned and resettled. It's just that in the order of return, it's different.
Gu Shuqing went to his hometown of Liuzhou for half a year, and with the help of no one, he completed several cases. Xielulang was afraid that his son would suffer a lot outside, so he took these small cases in his hand to invite merit and transferred him back in advance.
However, after he came back, there was no job placement for the time being, so he came to the Hanlin Academy as a monk and continued to study.
It is also Gu Shuqing's loose temperament, except for loving to write braille and painting, he has no pursuits, and he has to live a mixed life, so he got together with Wei Xuan and sold calligraphy and paintings outside.
Besides, he doesn't have to worry about eating and drinking at home, why is he willing to do this with Wei Xuan?
It was purely a matter of Xielulang forcing him to press hard.
Xielulang himself is a musician, so he wants his son to do something real, but his son only loves calligraphy and painting. So the father and son quarreled, and Gu Shuqing was kicked out. So now I live in a school house, earn my own water, and fill my stomach.