"Don't eat it if you're afraid of evil," Zhong Ye sighed and drank a large pot of rice porridge, and said vaguely: "Now the emperor is not allowed to hunt and release eagles in the spring, for fear of disturbing the livestock and trampling the seedlings." You've been yelling all day long that you're about to fade out of your mouth, and that's why I came up with this idea. ”

"Grandpa, in that case, why don't you catch two big fish and come back? Save having to wait three days. "At this time, the winter melon has already thrown the evil behind the second gate, just thinking about satisfying the hunger.

"There are the most loaches in the release pond, as well as koi and soft-shelled turtles," Hulu said coldly: "Eat soft-shelled turtles in the big spring, do you want the three of us big men who have not married wives to bleed from their noses?" The meat of the koi fish is sour, and it is also a last resort to eat it in order to give milk, who do you want to give the milk to?! ”

The Chaoyong Mansion has long been an empty shelf, and the court's Yulu has been stopped for almost ten years.

The grandfather has no real job except for an empty title, and the servants in the family have long been dismissed, only the gourd and winter melon are left and refuse to leave, and Zhong Ye's nurse Mother Song, the old lady died the year before last.

The original family background in the house was not very thick, and it was almost used for the funeral of the old duchess back then. Now that the things that can be sold have long been sold, there is only an empty yard left.

The food and vegetables that are usually eaten are grown in the back garden, and the winter melon has already been trained into a skillful dealer's style, and other uses are mainly made by gourds to do embroidery work for money.

Zhong Ye's food is extremely large, others eat and talk about bowls, he has to talk about pots, the food is basically not enough to eat, and he has to find a way to raise rice and noodles, and his life is really hard.

Zhong Ye's character Manlang, people in the capital tell Zhong Manlang as a joke.

said that he had an empty body, could not write or do anything, and was addicted to alcohol and had no talent at all. Except for the murder of his father and enemy when he was fifteen years old, there is no outstanding deed.

Zhong Manlang was sentenced to 20 years for killing Nikan, the leader of the Black Chezi tribe who had just surrendered, and he did not cut his title because the Zhong family was full of loyal martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the country.

Knowing that capital crimes can be avoided, living crimes cannot be escaped, Zhong Manlang can only drag two loyal servants to suffer alive.

"Now is the time when the green and yellow are not harvested, and Grandpa had better get a few more baskets of loaches back," Hulu sat in front of the window and said idly while sewing Zhong Manlang's clothes: "That thing is dried and roasted and eaten strangely, and it will not be damaged after being salted for a long time." ”

"Yes, grandpa, the loaches in this release pond are things that save our lives, and the Buddhists are merciful, and they will not blame us." Winter melon sucked the saliva back and said, "With the dried loach, you won't have to worry about running out of snacks and dishes in the future." ”

"You're not afraid of doing evil?" Hulu sneered.

"People don't destroy heaven and earth for themselves, we are for the sake of hunger, how can we be regarded as evil?" Winter melon said confidently.

Zhong Manlang didn't feel that there was anything wrong with going to the release pond to fish for loaches, and all the cultivators may not be good, let alone him, a person who is hungry all day long!

That night, he hid behind the bushes and heard the conversation between Mrs. Zhang and Mingxin, although he didn't know who the "loach" in their mouths was, but he must be a weak one.

Zhong Manlang hates bullies the most in his life, and it seems that Mrs. Tai is not a sincere and kind person, and there must be another reason for practicing in that nunnery.

……

A mountain peach forest in front of the Suxin Nunnery is already full of green leaves and branches, and an ox cart slowly stops in front of the mountain gate, and the cart pulls some dried vegetables and grains, which are the people from the Weijia Farm who come to deliver food to the nunnery.

The one who drove the car was called Yue Laojiu, and he came in a hurry every time. There were two elderly women sitting in the back of the car, one was Yue Laojiu's wife, and the other was a little younger.

But because she came with Yue Laojiu and his wife, the old man who guarded the door didn't bother to ask.

Unloading things from the car, several people began to move inside.

The woman who gave birth to the face quietly made a look at Yue Laojiu's wife and walked to the West Zen Temple alone.

Wei Yining got up early and freshened up and knelt on the futon to recite the scriptures to her parents, and she only ate breakfast after reciting the scriptures every day.

Except for nights, the door of her room is left open, so that someone does not have to sneak up the window paper all the time. Since you want to see it, let's look at it generously!

The old woman stood at the door of Wei Yining's room, and tears couldn't help but fall just by looking at her back.

Wei Yining heard the choking sound behind him, and just finished reading the scriptures, so he turned around.

She saw a somewhat familiar and unfamiliar face, familiar because the corners of the eyes and eyebrows were very similar to what she remembered, and strange because the face was much older than in her memory.

"Mother Lin!" Wei Yining had no doubt that this was her nurse, Mother Lin.

"Five girls!" Mother Lin staggered over, grabbed Wei Yining's hand, and opened her mouth several times, but couldn't say a word.

Wei Yining was only five years old when she left Beijing, but she remembered it early, not to mention that she relied on Lin Ma very much at that time, so she was more impressed.

Mother Lin was the companion of Wei Yining's mother Wang, and later Wei Yining was born, and Mother Lin became her nurse.

"Miss and Uncle-" Mother Lin choked up for a long time, and she still couldn't say a complete sentence when she opened her mouth again, but Wei Yining understood what she meant, and the Miss and Aunt in her mouth were her parents.

Mother Lin walked to the incense case and knelt down, crying and kowtowing three times, and was pulled up by Wei Yining.

"Mother Lin, you must have heard about my father's mother. Where have you been all these years? Wei Yining knew that Mother Lin must have heard that she was back before she came here.

When my father had sinned, the whole family was exiled, and he was not allowed to bring his servants. Mother Lin is the companion of the Wang family, and she must not be treated well in the Wei family, and looking at her now dressed as a Zhuanghu, she must have been sent to Zhuangzi to farm.

"Since you left the mansion, none of us who married the young lady have stayed in the mansion. Our family went to Zhuangzi in Xicheng, and a few days ago I heard that you were back, so I specially begged Yue Laojiu, who sent rice and vegetables here, to bring me over while he was sending things to the nunnery, so that I could meet you. Mother Lin wiped her eyes with her rough sleeves, and looked at Wei Yining with pity: "The fifth girl is really good." ”

Thirteen-year-old Wei Yining is not very outstanding at a glance, her eyebrows and eyes are covered by thick bangs, and she can't see clearly. It is not a pointed melon seed face, and the jaw is very rounded. The body is moderate, and the waist is not necessarily slim.

On the contrary, it is a good green and thick black hair, even if there is no superfluous decoration, it is glossy, and the neck is white and greasy, and the cheeks are pink.

"How are you in the family?" Wei Yining held Mother Lin's hand and was reluctant to let go: "Go back and take it for me to take care of my grandfather and the two brothers." ”

"Hey, it's all right, girl, don't worry." Mother Lin hurriedly said, "I came to see the girl today to say something to you-"

Mother Lin deliberately glanced out of the door a few times when she said this: "Girl, don't go back to the mansion, it's a place to eat people!" ”

Wei Yining's eyelids were slightly closed, and she couldn't see clearly, she remembered that her mother also told her to go to her uncle's house before she died, and didn't want her to go back to the Zhiyong Mansion.

Seeing that Wei Yining didn't speak, Mother Lin said a little anxiously: "There are no people in that mansion, look at the house you live in now, even the foot of the bed is missing, it can be seen that I am snubbing you." ”

"It's nothing, it's a joke that you live too well during the funeral." Wei Yining's expression was indifferent, and he didn't see the slightest grievance: "Mother Lin, my surname is Wei and not Wang, so naturally I want to go back to Wei's house." Rest assured, I can take care of myself. ”