Chapter 26

It turned out that Shanzi's family was also an outsider in the village, when he was a few years old, he followed his father to settle in the village, and he didn't want his father to die of illness in less than two years, leaving him alone in the village.

Later, the war in Western Xinjiang broke out, and the people were recruited, and although every household in the village was ransomed as good citizens, they still had to give a manpower, and they would pay silver if they didn't come out. Shanzi had no money, so he went to war with seven or eight villagers.

I don't know what happened on the battlefield, in short, in the end, only Shanzi came back alive, although the people in the village were sad, they seemed to know that the battlefield was a place of nine deaths and a lifetime, but they didn't want Shanzi to start going out non-stop, and when they came back, they would take silver to help those families who had no pillars.

In the past four years, some families have built new yards, some families have married daughters-in-law, and some people's children have gone to private schools to study, and only Shanzi still lives in that broken yard.

A few years ago, Shanzi sent a sum of silver to several families, and then said that he was leaving and would never come back.

The people in the village gathered together to see him off, and they all said that even if it was a great kindness back then, he would pay it back, and he could go wherever he wanted.

Unexpectedly, it was only two months after saying this, Shanzi came back, and brought the Hu family with him, and everyone was so curious that they could imagine it.

Ye Lan listened to it with relish, but she really didn't expect that Shanzi, who had always been silent, was still a selfless hero who knew how to repay his kindness.

There is no woman who doesn't like gossip, she still wants to ask a few more words, but she doesn't want someone in the yard to shout-

"Brother Shan, Brother Shan, are you back?"

When the women heard this, they poured out of the door, leaving only Aunt Wu to guard the door.

Ye Lan looked curiously through the crack in the window, and saw a girl wearing a flower cotton jacket who wanted to rush into the main room of the Wu family, but the women stopped her and persuaded, "Cuihua, the gentlemen are all drinking in the house, don't go in and mix with one of your daughters, anyway, Brother Shan is back, you will definitely see it in the future." ”

"No, I'm going to take a look at Brother Shan now, how many times did he sneak away last time and make me cry. I want to ask him, why is he so ruthless? The girl in the padded jacket was also persistent and bold, and her shouting was so loud that Shanzi must have heard it in the house, but he didn't come out.

Ye Lan remembered what she heard at the entrance of the village before, and couldn't help asking, "Aunt Wu, this is Miss Cuihua, right?" ”

"yes." Aunt Wu asked suspiciously, "How do you know, did Brother Shan talk about this girl?" ”

Ye Lan shook her head and asked again, "Is this girl good at pickling sauerkraut?" ”

"Yes, there is nothing better in the village than her pickled sauerkraut."

Ye Lan couldn't bear it anymore and fell on the bed laughing. In the previous life, there was a very famous sauerkraut brand in the north called Cuihua, and I still remember that in the advertisement, the girl with two swarthy braids spoke a Northeast dialect, and the shot of holding the sauerkraut on the plate was really impressive.

Unexpectedly, although time and space have changed, this Cuihua is good at pickling sauerkraut and has always remained the same, which is really too spoofed.

Aunt Wu was confused, but she also felt that Ye Lan was more intimate like this, so she also laughed.

In a blink of an eye, the Hu family has been moving to the village for more than a month, the weather in February is frozen in the morning and evening, but it is very warm when there is a sun at noon, the small courtyard of Shanzi is clean, and the two willows in the corner of the courtyard have recovered some vitality, and they will sprout and draw strips in a few days.

Ye Lan washed two clothes, and when she saw that the sun was good, she carried the two children to the wooden steps under the eaves of the porch to see the light, and they were so happy that they giggled, and from time to time stretched out their little hands and grabbed them in the air, as if they were playing with the spring breeze.

Sister-in-law Wang, who lived next door, crossed the fence and saw Ye Lan's mother and son so leisurely, so she joked: "Big sister, you are a bad heart, you play with the children all day long, and you don't bake a few more baked cakes, so that everyone will not eat well, so I look forward to your shop opening up quickly!" ”

Ye Lan heard it funny, so she climbed the fence and chatted with her, "My aunt and uncle have already taken care of the place, and Brother Shanzi has also greeted a few uncles in the village. ”

"That's great, the intersection is the only way to enter the city, and it is close to the two villages of Laozhaigou and Sanwanzi, and it will make a lot of money when the time comes."

"Borrow my sister-in-law's auspicious words."

The two were talking lively, Hu Bo and Hu Po stepped on the mud and came back, Ye Lan hurriedly stepped forward to take the basket in the hands of the two, Hu Po had a smile on her face, and talked about what she had seen and heard while changing her shoes, and she was obviously very happy.

"That Aoki town is also very prosperous, we went shopping, fine noodles and vegetarian oil are not expensive, and the shop will be opened in the future, so you don't have to go to the capital to buy these things, not to mention that it is too far, things must be much more expensive."

Hu Bo took off the wine gourd on his waist and shook it, and said with a smile: "Haha, there are really a lot of good wines in the wine shop, which is much cheaper than that in Gravel City." ”

Ye Lan has always felt very guilty about the two elders moving out of their hometown, and now seeing them so happy, she naturally breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, and said jokingly: "I'll cook at night, cook two more good dishes, and my uncle will taste how good the wine here is." ”

"That's good," Hu Bo was very happy, and responded: "Shanzi has been tired and panicked from Zhang Luo's shop these days, so I asked him to drink two cups together." ”

Ye Lan tied an apron and was about to cook, but when she was carrying a pole to get the bacon hanging on the beams of the house, a girl with two long braids ran in outside the yard, with a red face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a tall figure, a typical hard-working child of a farmer.

It's a pity that when she saw Ye Lan, she stared at her eyes and pouted, which was extremely unfriendly.

Ye Lan has been dealing with this girl every day these days, and she is already very familiar with her, so her subordinates will cut the meat when they should cut the meat, and wash the vegetables when they should wash the vegetables, and said provocatively with a smile on her face: "What, Miss Cuihua, what do you think of why I shouldn't live in this courtyard?" Come, tell me quickly, I'm bored today, and I'm looking forward to you grinding my mouth. ”

Cuihua was obviously a quick-tempered person, and the words she had thought of at home before, when she saw Ye Lan like this, she had already thrown it to the back of her mind, only to see her stomping her feet angrily, and said angrily: "You...... You're just shameless! Brother Shan is a man, and you actually stay at his house and don't leave. You...... You're thick-skinned! ”

Ye Lan pursed her mouth painlessly, cut the bacon into thin slices with a kitchen knife in her hand, and replied casually: "Why, he is a man, I am a woman, so I can't live in his house?" Then your father and your brother are both men, and you are a girl, don't you also live in the same yard? Why do you do this, but I can't? Do you treat them differently? Be strict with others and lenient with yourself? ”

"What Yan Kuan, big fish and small fish?" Cuihua was stunned when she heard this, and waved her hand and shouted impatiently: "Anyway, you just can't live in Brother Shan's house, he hasn't married yet, he ......"

"Oops, it's terrible to be uneducated." Ye Lan lit the fire, put oil in the pot, poured the bacon into it with a "zila", and said with a smile while stir-frying: "Cheng, I'll teach you when I'm idle today." "Be strict with others and be lenient with yourself" means to be strict with others and lenient with yourself, understand? To put it more simply, it is a crow standing on the back of a pig, saying that others are black, but they don't know that they are black. ”

"You...... You! Cuihua finally understood, Ye Lan said that she was a crow! She jumped to her feet in anger, but her mouth was really not neat enough, and she didn't find a word to refute it for a long time.

Ye Lan took advantage of the victory to pursue, grinned and said: "Also, Miss Cuihua, you keep saying that Shanzi is good and good, but why don't you bring something every time you come to the door?" I heard that your sauerkraut is pickled very well, don't forget to bring two next time, I like to eat dumplings stuffed with sauerkraut......"

"Eat, eat, eat! Why don't you die! Woo woo...... "Cuihua couldn't stand it anymore, stomped her foot a few times, and retreated again.

Her two black and shiny braids smashed on her ass, and it was so cute to shake it off.

Ye Lan smiled and sang happily: "There is a girl named Cuihua in the village, who is good-looking and kind, with a pair of beautiful big eyes, thick and long braids......"

The old couple hugged a child and stood under the eaves of the porch to bask in the sun, and couldn't help but shake their heads and smile bitterly when they saw this.

Hu Bo muttered in a low voice: "This Cuihua is also a stubborn temper, knowing that she can't quarrel with the eldest lady, she always comes to find a fight." Shanzi's stuffy gourd is really, what a good girl, why is he hiding and not seeing? ”

Hu Po didn't respond, turned her head to look at the busy figure in the kitchen, and sighed softly. There is never a reason to talk about this thing, you can't ask for it, you can't buy it with money, you can only wait, wait until it goes with the flow, wait for it to come to fruition......

Not to mention how the Hu family happily started a new life in Pagoda Village, just say that this night, a pigeon fell in a small courtyard in the corner of Tibetan Kuncheng, and the small bamboo tube on the pigeon's leg was quickly removed, and two black shadows were reflected on the window paper, one sat and one knelt, the man in black who sat looked very angry, but the kneeling was frightened.

After a long time, the man in black crumpled the note in his hand into shreds, and scolded in a low voice: "Useless waste, such a trivial thing can't be done!" ”

The subordinate who was kneeling on the ground trembled and responded: "The leader is angry, no one thought that there was a master in that family, and if he couldn't intercept and kill him once, he would catch fire when he started again." ”

"Humph!" The man in black asked coldly, "Those specific corpses are indeed the Hu family?" ”

The subordinate hesitated for a moment, but he still didn't dare to lie, "It's really four big and two small, but it's burned beyond recognition, and no one can recognize ......."

"Rubbish!" The man in black scolded again, but the matter was already like this, and he couldn't start over, so he had to remedy it: "Send more people to investigate, that stupid woman refuses to tell the truth, I'm afraid there is something wrong with the Hu family." ”

"Yes, Chief."

"In addition, send a letter to the palace and tell the stupid woman to send what I want as soon as possible, otherwise be careful of her life!"

"Yes."

Ye Lian is always thinking about the life and death of Ye Lan's mother and son these days, she really can't eat and sleep well, and the maids and daughters beside her are all trembling, for fear that they will anger this master again somewhere, and they will be pulled out and beaten to lose half their lives.

This night, Ye Lian finally ate two mouthfuls of lotus seed soup and went to bed early, but she didn't want to send a box of mung bean cakes in the small kitchen, and the mother-in-law guarding the door saw this, and couldn't help but scold the little girl who was carrying the food box, "You little hoof, it's a big night, and the mother didn't name such a snack, what kind of heart do you have?" Are you not happy to see that I live two more days, are you trying to kill me? ”

The little maid was pulled out of her ear, screamed in pain, and cried and begged aggrievedly: "Mama is angry, the slave maid is also assigned, it is Mama Wang of the stove courtyard who said that the mother has been popular recently, and she specially made this mung bean cake to be sent by the slave maid, and it really has nothing to do with the slave and maid......

The two of them were so noisy, Ye Lian heard it in the house, and she was originally angry and wanted to beat both of them, but when she heard that it was the mung bean cake specially made by Mama Wang, her heart trembled, and she hurriedly asked someone to bring the food box in.

Sure enough, there was a small note hidden in the mung bean cake on the top of the plate, and when she could see the small words on it, she couldn't help laughing, and the maid who was guarding outside was curious, I don't know how a plate of ordinary mung bean cake won the joy of the mother?

But it's a good thing that they can breathe a sigh of relief......

A few days later, the convoy sent by Gonggong Hong to pick up people from Gravel City finally rushed back, the young steward was in high spirits and full of red light before he set off, but when he came back, his face was yellow and haggard, as if the warm wind in the spring had changed into the autumn wind, and blew him alive and withered.

When Father-in-law Hong heard the news from the porter, he put down the trivial matters at hand and hurried out, not wanting that there was no figure in the carriage, but the young steward cried first and fell to the ground.

Gonggong Hong glanced at the gate and leaned over, intending to look at the lively pedestrians, and scolded with a cold face: "What are you crying about, what are you like!" Let's talk about it when I come into the house. ”

The young steward was like a beaten child, saw his mother, wiped a handful of tears, and honestly followed Gonggong Hong into the house.

After a cup of hot tea, Gonggong Hong asked in a low voice, "Say, what's going on?" What about the person the prince asked you to pick up? Is it that they haven't found it, or are they unwilling to come to the capital? ”

The young steward grimaced and shook his head like a wavy drum, "Chief, it's neither, it's ...... It's ......"

"What the hell?" Gonggong Hong asked impatiently, regretting why he sent such a fool out in the first place, just looking at his incomprehensible appearance, how could he do a good job? ，

The young steward was extremely wronged, and he steadied his mind and told everything he saw and heard on the way back and forth to the Gravel City, and cried at the end: "Boss, it's really not a little lazy, there was a delay on the way, when we arrived, it had been almost half a month since the Hu family had an accident, and we couldn't catch up with the flying!" ”

Gonggong Hong opened his mouth in surprise, and he didn't react for a long time. Others don't know, but he knows too well that the prince attaches great importance to this matter, and in the past few days, the prince has asked no less than seven or eight times, obviously looking forward to seeing the Hu family as soon as possible.

Now that people didn't take it back, but took back six altars of ashes, I really don't know how angry the prince will be.

"Boss, you want to save the little one, the little one is bent on doing errands, where did you think that your luck is so bad." The young steward wept with a handful of snot and tears.

Gonggong Hong was extremely upset, waved his hand and said, "Don't cry, the prince is not an unreasonable person." You went to get the ashes, do you have any relics from the Hu family? They all took it together to see the prince. ”

"Yes, yes! I also found a piece of jade pendant in the fire, and I brought it back. The young steward was afraid that Father-in-law Hong would regret it, so he ran to the carriage and got the wooden box containing the urn, and rushed to the outer study with Father-in-law Hong with his own hands.

When a large army goes on an expedition, it is definitely not a pat on the head that everything is available, there are many grains and grasses, carriages and horses, people's husbands, and many trivial matters, each of which is not taken into account, and many soldiers may be killed on the battlefield.

(End of chapter)