Chapter 101: Hunting Sparrows in the Mountains
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"Miss, something happened, something happened." Mo Ju looked terrified.
"What's wrong?" Yan Qian had just returned to the room after lunch to rest, and couldn't help but feel a little nervous when she saw Yan Ju like this.
"The people that the slave cousin is looking for have been arrested and sent to the county office." Mo Ju said in a low voice.
Yan Qian gasped and asked, "When were they arrested?" โ
"Last evening, the slave's cousin inquired and said that they had offended a noble man from Beijing and were arrested." Mo Ju said uneasily, the Yan family is not from Beijing.
Elegant?
Does it mean Yan Hagi?
But they didn't do it, why did the county government arrest them? What the hell is going on? They were arrested and put into the county office, and when they were interrogated, would they tell the truth? A flash of panic flashed across Yan Qian's face, "Did you tell your cousin, my identity?" โ
"The slave didn't say anything." Mo Ju did not say that Yan Qian was the sixth lady of the Yan family, but she told her cousin that she was a maidservant in the Yan family, and if she really wanted to track it down, she could find out at once. Just looking at Yan Qian's face, she didn't dare to tell the truth.
Yan Qian sighed lightly, as if she couldn't be implicated, "Don't go to see your cousin again, don't go out at will, just stay in the yard, this incident will not happen, do you understand?" โ
"The slave understands." Mo Ju can't wait to clear up the relationship, she is the maid of the third room, Yan Hagi is not her serious master, but if you think about it seriously, Yan Hagi is also her master; It is a capital crime for a subordinate to murder her master, even if she is acting according to orders.
Yan Qian thought about it, and felt that this matter should not involve her, she didn't expect that Yan Hagi might not have the ability to track down, but the county lord of Nanping was definitely capable, and on this evening, the county lord of Nanping not only got the interrogation records of the county government on the gangsters and cousin Mo Ju, but also got the portrait of Mo Ju drawn by cousin Mo Ju, and was confirmed by Pearl that it was indeed the third-class maid Mo Ju next to Yan Xiang.
"If the adopted daughter does not teach, it is the mother's fault." The county lord of Nanping felt that Yan Qian would become like this, and the biggest responsibility lay with Mrs. Yan San.
The county lord of Nanping began to pay attention to Mrs. Yan San, and this attention did not matter, and he found that Mrs. Yan San was wearing a set of jade heads with excellent water color; The lord of Nanping also has a set of similar jade heads, worth 10,000 taels of silver.
When did Mrs. Yan San become so generous?
The county lord of Nanping felt strange, and smiled tentatively: "The third sister-in-law's face is newly made, I haven't seen you wear it before." โ
Mrs. Yan San raised her hand and touched the earrings, and said with a smile: "The fourth brother and sister have a good eye, this head is indeed new, I only wore it once today, the third master has been promoted, I can't lose his dignity, I have to take care of it." โ
Yan Sanye has survived for eight or nine years, and finally rose from the fifth-grade waiter of the Ministry of Officials to the fourth-grade right counselor. Although he is only a civil and prose official, he does not have much real power, and he has only been promoted by half a level, but it is a qualitative leap, Mrs. Yan San has become a four-grade respectful person, and she can wear a red gold head, and Mrs. Yan San suddenly felt that her eyebrows were raised.
"The third sister-in-law's head mask costs at least tens of thousands of taels of silver, right?" Mrs. Yan asked enviously.
Mrs. Yan San smiled and said nothing, with a proud face; Yan Wuye did not enter the office, and it is impossible for Mrs. Yan Wu to have a wife who is expensive with her husband, she wants to wear a red gold head, and she has to count on Yan Tongfeng to read the book, and she doesn't know which monkey year and horse month she has to wait for. Mrs. Yan San can only find superiority in front of Mrs. Yan Wu, the official ranks of Uncle Yan, Second Master Yan and Fourth Master Yan are all above Third Master Yan, and the county lord of Nanping has his own title.
A few concubines were gossiping, and there was a commotion outside, it turned out that in the morning Wu Zhuangtou took his three sons up the mountain to set traps to catch game, and when they came back, they brought back not only more than 20 sparrows, but also two wild rabbits that were frozen and dying.
Yan Jing swallowed saliva and circled around the two rabbits, "Little Fourteen wants to eat little rabbits, Little Fourteen wants to eat little rabbits." โ
Seeing her gluttony, Yan Hao couldn't help but want to tease her, and deliberately said angrily: "Tutu is so cute, how can you eat Tutu?" โ
Yan Jing looked at the unusually Yan Hagi and asked blankly, "Don't you eat rabbits?" โ
"Don't eat, keep it." Yan Hagi said seriously.
"Raised?" Yan Jing looked at Yan Hong in distress, "Thirteenth sister." โ
"Listen to Sister Twelve." Yan Hong loves to eat, but he loves to listen to Yan Hao's words even more.
"Then keep it." Yan Jing pouted, her vocal cords cried, her little arms couldn't twist the thighs of her two sisters.
Yan Hao smiled: "When we grow up and give birth to many little rabbits, we will have many, many rabbits to eat at that time." โ
Mrs. Yan sneered, thinking that the greedy girl had changed her temperament, so it was not that she didn't eat it, but that she was going to raise more rabbits to eat.
Yan Jing cheered in surprise, "Twelfth sister, twelfth sister." โ
Yan Hong patted her head and said, "How about it, I said that it's not wrong to listen to the twelfth sister, the twelfth sister is wise and martial." โ
Yan Jing nodded, "The twelfth sister is the most wise and powerful, the twelfth sister, let me raise the little rabbit, okay?" โ
"Okay." Yan Hagile said.
Old Mrs. Yan saw that Mrs. Yan, the county lord of Nanping, and Mrs. Yan Wu were about to burst into tears when they laughed, these three sisters were really three living treasures.
Yan Jing pulled the head lady of Wuzhuang and asked her how to raise rabbits, and the head lady of Wuzhuang found dried straw, made a nest for the two rabbits, and went to the cellar to bring vegetables and radishes. It's a pity that the two rabbits don't care about vegetables that don't have much water.
"Why don't they eat it? Eat, eat, you will starve to death if you don't eat. Yan Jing took the radish and stuffed it in front of the rabbit. The rabbit twisted his head away, jumped forward, and burrowed his head into the haystack.
Yan Jing looked up at the lady in Wuzhuangtou, "Is the little rabbit the same as me, he doesn't like to eat green vegetables and radishes, he loves meat, or let's cook some braised pork for them to eat." โ
Yan Hagi glanced at her, "You want to eat braised pork, Little Fourteen, forget the little song I taught you to sing." โ
"I didn't forget, the little white rabbit was white and white, and its ears were pricked up. I love to eat turnips, I love to eat vegetables, and it's so cute to bounce. Yan Jing sang and made movements, which made everyone laugh.
After singing the song, Yan Jing continued to feed the little rabbit, but the little rabbit still refused to eat, Yan Jing asked Yan Hagi for help, "Twelfth sister, the little rabbit refuses to eat, what should I do?" โ
Yan Hagi thought about it and said, "The little rabbits are timid, they are still scared when they are caught, so they don't dare to eat them, so let's put them in the corner and leave them alone for the time being." โ
Yan Jing listened to her advice and asked the maid to move the little rabbit to the corner, without the rabbit distracting her, Yan Jing remembered the sparrow caught by Zhuangtou, "The sparrow can be fried and eaten, right?" "I'm afraid that the twelve sisters of her family will suddenly think of it, and they will raise the sparrows.
Before Yan Hao could speak, Yan Qian opened his mouth and asked: "I remember that the bird is going to fly to the south for the winter, why are there still sparrows catching it when I go up the mountain now?" โ
Wu Zhuangtou said with a smile: "Sparrows don't go to the south for winter, and there are hot springs here, which are warmer than other places, there are many sparrows on the mountain, and on snowy days, they will fly down the mountain to feed." โ
"Are you going to catch sparrows in the mountains tomorrow?" Yan Qian asked.
"Let's go, take advantage of the warm weather now, grab more, dry it, and wait for the New Year, you can also have one more dish." Wu Zhuangtou said with a smile.
"It must be fun to catch sparrows, can I go up the hill with me?" Yan Qian asked.
Zhuang Tou glanced at Mrs. Yan and said with a smile: "The mountain road is slippery, and the young lady is afraid that she won't be able to go up." โ
"I don't want to be too tall, I just want to see how to catch sparrows, thirteenth sister, fourteenth sister, I finally came to Zhuangzi to live, don't you want to see it?" Yan Qian didn't call her sister, and directly found Yan Hong and Yan Jing, who were most closely related to Yan Hao, with the intention not to be too obvious.
"Yes." Yan Jing blurted out.
Yan Hong is a few years older than Yan Jing, she is not so impulsive, she purses her lips and is silent, she only looks forward to Yan Hagi; If Yan Hagi goes, she will follow, and if Yan Hagi does not go, she will not go even if she wants to.
Yan Hagi glanced at Yan Xiang, is it going to be bad again? Do you want to cooperate with her? Anyway, if you are idle, you will be idle, so tease her, Yan Hagi threw herself into the arms of Mrs. Yan, "Grandmother, Xiaoxiao wants to go up the mountain to catch sparrows." โ
Mrs. Yan thought for a while and said, "If you want to go, you can go, but you are not allowed to go to the mountains, just play on the small hill next to Zhuangzi, you must listen to the words of Wu Zhuangtou, you are not allowed to run around on the mountain, you are not allowed to stay too long, come back early." "I came to Zhuangzi to be lighter, and there was no need to detain my granddaughters.
Yan Hagi nodded, indicating that he remembered everything.
The county lord of Nanping frowned slightly, this bold girl, but she trapped her daughter at home, and the county lord of Nanping was reluctant, and said: "Aping A'an will go with you, you have to follow the young lady every step of the way." โ
Yan Qian frowned slightly, Ah Ping A'an followed, it was difficult to do it, so he had to think of a way to get rid of these two people.
The team that went up the mountain the next day was very large, eight young ladies, eight maidservants, Ah Ping A'an, Zhuangtou father and son, Yan Jing, the first to respond, but failed to go, I was too excited last night, I couldn't fall asleep over and over, and I couldn't get up this morning.
The mountain roads are all stepped out by people who go up the mountain, narrow and rugged, and after climbing more than ten meters, the pampered ladies have no strength; Seeing this, Wu Zhuangtou said, "There is a small open space in front of you where you can rest." โ
Everyone walked for a while, and saw an open space, but the ground was wet, and they could not sit and could only squat to rest; Yan Hong was full of energy, he didn't squat to rest, he ran around in the small clearing, "Uncle Wu, come here, come here,"
Wu Zhuangtou walked over, "Miss Thirteen, what's wrong?" โ
"Is that red fruit edible?" Yan Hong asked.
Wu Zhuangtou recognized it and said with a smile: "That's a vine fruit, you can eat it." โ
"You can eat it." Yan Hong dragged her maidservant and went to pick wild fruits.
Wu Zhuangtou pointed to a pine forest not far away, "There are pine nuts in there to pick." "It's still early, let the ladies play for a while, and then take them to catch sparrows.
Xiaobei, the third son of the Wu family, accompanied Yan Hong, and the others followed Wu Zhuangtou into the pine forest to pick up pine nuts, Yan Hagi paid attention to Yan Qian while picking up pine nuts, and found that she always followed her. Yan Hagi glanced at Ah Ping A'an and Qi Mai, she wanted to know what method Yan Qian used to lure the three of them away.
After a while, Yan Xiang's maidservant Xia Lu asked for help from Que Mai on the grounds that the pine leaves had fallen from her hair; Que Mai was dragged by Xia Lu, and after walking for a while, Yan Qian pretended to be frightened, ran to Yan Hao's side, pointed to a place casually, and said, "There is a sound there, Ah Ping A'an, you go over and take a look." โ
Ah Ping A'an stood still, and Yan Hao smiled: "The sixth sister makes the person who arouses me, which is quite smooth." โ
A touch of embarrassment flashed on Yan Qian's face, and said, "Twelfth sister, don't worry about this little thing, you let Aping A'an take a look." โ
"The sixth sister took Aping A'an away, what do you want to do?" Yan Hagi looked at her with a smile, "Let me guess, I'm not as tall as the sixth sister, not as strong as the sixth sister, it's not a difficult thing for the sixth sister to faint me, and then drag me to the edge of the cliff, throw me down, and it's done." โ
Although Yan Hagi didn't guess it, it wasn't far away. Yan Qian couldn't admit it, "Twelfth sister, what are you talking nonsense, how could I do that kind of thing, I'm really worried that there are beasts and poisonous snakes over there, so I want Ah Ping A'an to see it, if you're scared and don't want to let them pass, then forget it, there's no need to slander me." โ
"Sixth sister, you should really study hard, don't you know that snakes hibernate in winter? Also, if the head of Wuzhuang dares to take us into this pine forest, it means that there will be no wild beasts here, and your worries are unnecessary. Yan Hagi sneered, "Besides, Ah Ping A'an is a person who practices martial arts, and his ears are outstanding, they didn't hear any abnormal sounds, but the sixth sister heard it." โ
"I'm worrying about it." Yan Qian was annoyed and ashamed.
Yan Hao's expression was straight, "Sixth sister, I asked myself if I have offended you, why are you trying to harm me so much?" Yan Hao wanted to find out about her previous life, she wanted to know what she had done in her previous life to make Yan Qian hate her so much.
"When did I hurt you, you really don't know." Yan Qian's mouth was stiff and he didn't show any wind at all,
"It doesn't matter if you don't admit it, I'll put my words here, today is the last time, if you want to fight any more bad ideas and want to harm me, don't blame me for not thinking about sisterhood." Yan Hao knew such a few simple words, it was impossible for Yan Qian to give up the hatred of his previous life. She just deliberately made her words clear, so that Yan Qian didn't think she was a fool and could deceive her.
Yan Qian spat heavily at the back of Yan Hagi leaving, "Phew, what kind of bullshit sisterhood, I'm not rare." In her previous life, she had a bad reputation and was forced to marry far away, and none of her sisters in the family helped her intercede. In their lifelong events in this life, she did not stir up trouble, and it was already her subordinates who showed mercy.
She only remembered that her sisters didn't help her intercede, but she forgot that when she married far away, the makeup that her sisters gave her was very rich, so it wasn't a part of the sisters' affection for her.
In this pine forest, the villagers have already come to pick up pine nuts once, and everyone's harvest is not much, and they have picked up a basket in total, but it is enough to eat these days. What's more, everyone goes up the mountain mainly to catch sparrows, pine nuts and wild fruits are incidental.
Xiaodong, the eldest son of the martial family, swept out a place and sprinkled the rice he brought on the ground, "Now let's hide first and wait for the sparrows to come down and eat the rice." โ
They looked for a place to hide around, and after waiting for a while, they saw three sparrows flying over, and one of them was bold, and landed on the ground, and took a few steps forward tentatively, and then stopped, and turned its little head, as if to check the surrounding situation.
After confirming that there was no danger, it pecked at the rice on the ground, and the two sparrows hovering in the sky flew down with it. Then dozens of sparrows flew over one after another, and they pecked around the rice.
"Can you catch a sparrow just by watching it eat rice?" Yan Hagi remembers a text he learned in elementary school that he put a basket on top of the rice, tied a rope to the stick of the basket, and when the sparrow came to eat the rice, he pulled the rope and buckled the basket to catch the sparrow. But Xiaodong doesn't have a basket! Can you catch a sparrow like this?
Wu Xiaobei, who was hiding with Yan Hao, said with a smile: "Miss Twelve, don't worry, you can watch it." โ
Yan Hagi continued to watch, and saw that the sparrows that had eaten the rice fell to the ground one by one, and some of them tossed their wings and tried to fly away, but unfortunately they just flew off the ground and fell back to the ground.
Wu Xiaobei smiled: "Twelfth Miss, Thirteenth Miss, you can go out to pick up sparrows." โ
"What's going on?" Yan Hagi asked curiously.
"The rice was soaked in wine, and the sparrows were drunk when they ate the rice." Wu Xiaobei said with a smile.
Yan Hao suddenly realized, it turned out that this method of catching sparrows was better than the method she knew.
I picked up the drunken sparrows one by one into the basket and counted them, there were thirty-seven in total, a few more than yesterday, plus a small basket of pine nuts and a small basket of wild vine fruits, and this trip to the mountains was also a full return.
After returning to Zhuangzi and greeting Mrs. Yan, she was faced with Yan Jing's resentful eyes, "The twelfth sister is bad, the thirteenth sister is bad, and I don't take the little fourteen up the mountain to catch sparrows." โ
"I went to your room and called you, you slept like a millet pig, you can't wake up no matter how you scream, what can I do." Yan Hong spread his hands.
"Your thirteenth sister picked a lot of vine fruits, and I asked the water chestnuts to make jam for you to eat." Yan Hagi directly comforted her with food.
Yan Jing's eyes lit up, "I want to eat, I want to eat, Xiao Fourteen wants to eat jam." โ
Yan Hagi called the water chestnuts and told her, "Wash this fruit, remove half of the pit, marinate it with icing for an hour, and squeeze the other half into juice." The pickled fruit is boiled in a pot, stirring while cooking, adding the juice to it, and when the water is dry, it can be put into a small porcelain bowl. โ
"The slave and the maid know, and the slave and the maid will do it." The water chestnut went out with the basket.
In order to eat the jam for the first time, Yan Jing followed in a hurry.
"Little Fourteen is worried about eating, and I don't know if she feeds the little rabbit or not, Sister Twelve, let's go see the rabbit." Yan Hong pulled Yan Hagi to the west corner of the courtyard, where the rabbit was raised.
The nest was covered with a thick layer of grass, and two rabbits were nesting in it to nibble on turnips. Yan Hao smiled: "They gnaw and eat, it seems that they will not be raised to death." โ
"And when will they give birth to bunnies?" Yan Hong asked eagerly.
This Yan Hagi is also inexperienced, "Go ask Aunt Wu." โ
The head lady of Wuzhuang gave the two of them a heavy blow, "These two rabbits can't give birth to little rabbits." โ
"Why?" The sisters looked up, their eyes wide.
"I've made people see it, and these are two male rabbits." The head lady of Wuzhuang said with a smile.
"Why can't male rabbits give birth to baby rabbits?" Yan Hong then asked.
The head lady of Wuzhuang didn't know how to explain to her, Yan Hagi pulled her, "Just know that you can't give birth, don't ask so much." Aunt Wu, please take these two rabbits to slaughter, and eat braised rabbit meat at noon. โ
There is braised rabbit meat to eat, and Yan Hong can't care about asking why the male rabbit can't give birth to a baby rabbit.
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