Chapter 103 Past and Present Lives
In fact, when the words were asked, Banniang already regretted that some things were really wounds hidden in the bone marrow, and they could not be mentioned easily, such as her own illness that eventually led to the loss of her life. tortured herself, but also tortured her grandfather and grandmother, who loved her deeply.
If it weren't for her parents finally informing her grandfather and grandmother, she would not have told the two old men who had brought her up with one hand about her terminal illness. Just because I couldn't bear to face the despair in the eyes of the two old men.
The most painful thing in this world is that a white-haired person sends a black-haired person.
However, there is no regret to be able to see the person she loves when she is dying, and in this regard, she does not blame her parents for inviting the two old people to her hospital bed.
It's just that what kind of blow will her death give to her aging grandparents, and what kind of pain will she leave to them?
It was something she didn't know, but she could imagine.
Thinking of this, Banniang couldn't help but feel sad.
It was a deep powerless sadness, like falling into a cloud and not being able to find a point of focus.
Sympathizing with each other, Lu Qiqi naturally understood her feelings, so he stepped forward and hugged Banniang and comforted: "We are all living very well now, if the family can really perceive it, we should be gratified, why should you and I be sad?" ”
Yes, she also believes that her grandfather and grandmother will be able to perceive her happiness now. This is a comfort to oneself, this unsupported belief, and the best cure for the weakness in one's heart in the dead of night.
Seeing that she seemed to be calming down, Lu Qiqi let go of her and sat down opposite her. smiled: "I am the kind of person who died in an accident and is not sorry to die." Being able to travel through thousands of years and come here cannot but say that God has been very kind to me. ”
It's a little strange for two living people to talk about their previous deaths.
Lu Qiqi changed the subject: "Actually, I don't do anything serious when I travel like me, and I don't think there are many people who eat, drink and have fun all day long." However, for me, this kind of life is the most suitable, and you, you ...... in your previous life."
"Me? It's ridiculous to say, I was born in a rich family in my previous life, and now I am in a poor family with only the spirit left. In the past, money was just a digital concept for me, my life was full of other things, and I never lived for money, but now on the contrary, what I think about all day long is how to fight for money, how to make our family live happily and richly, you are God is very gracious, I probably lived in my previous life and God can't stand it, so I decided to let me suffer a little, or it is too unfair to those who run around all day for life. ”
"So you're working hard all day long, running around for money, but you're also calm and happy?" Lu Qiqi asked with a smile.
"You can say the same thing."
Lu Qiqi smiled, and before he could say more, Xuan'er had already run in, followed by a shopkeeper, and there was indeed a pot of wine in the tray in his hand.
Originally, the reed was opened to facilitate speech. Naturally, it was not good to say anything at this time, the two of them held back their conversations, and when the shopkeeper went out, Banniang smiled and said, "If you want me to say, you might think of a way to make real wine?" ”
The so-called wine at this time is actually similar to the rice wine of later generations, the degree is very limited, and a lot of fruit wine can be drunk as a drink, Lu Qiqi shook his head: "It's not a good thing, what do you do with that?" With such a wine, the men of our Great Song Kingdom are already crazy about it, if it is really a high degree of wine...... and I am not short of silver. ”
"Uncle Seventeen," Xuan'er listened to the words of the two, looked at the wine jug on the table, and said strangely, "What is high wine?" What do you say about real wine, isn't this wine? ”
"Uh," the two glanced at each other, Lu Qiqi rubbed Gong'er's head, and said with a smile, "This is also wine, what I told your eighth aunt is a more spicy wine." ”
For the sake of the child's correct outlook on life in the future, Lu 17 decided to tell the truth.
Fortunately, the baby is too young and has not yet reached the age of boiling blood for wine, so he will concentrate on eating snacks and no longer pay attention to these two adults.
Banniang and Lu Qiqi stopped talking nonsense in front of Gong'er, fortunately, the shopkeeper served the meal, and it turned out to be silver bead rice, and bowls of crystal clear rice like white jade were placed in front of them, and the three of them all carried chopsticks, eating large pieces, while eating, Banniang said: "Our restaurant will open in a short time, we have to learn from people's strengths, abandon people's dross, and if we are free recently, we have to go out to eat and learn from experience." What do you think? ”
Those restaurants, Lu Qiqi really didn't seem to have any famous ones that he hadn't been to, but it was useless for him to go, and Ba Niang, who was in charge of the dishes, hadn't been there, and when he heard this, he nodded and said: "If you are free, go to find your fourth sister, and I will take you out with me when the time comes." ”
Banniang talked about the martial family's birthday banquet from them again, and Lu Qiqi also felt that it was a good opportunity to hear it, and told Banniang to prepare for her life and make sure it was a hit.
Banniang carefully tasted other people's dishes, and said, "Brother Seventeen, this rice is good, can we buy it?" In the future, the restaurant will use this silver bead rice for cooking. ”
"We also have it in Nanfeng, but it is not as much as Nancheng County, and the quality of the middle class in Magu Mountain in Nancheng County is better, it is not difficult to buy, it just takes some trouble, anyway, it is not far away, and it will be bought when the time comes."
Banniang then remembered the matter of timber that she talked about earlier, so she asked Lu Seventeen: "Brother Seventeen, I heard from the fourth sister that your uncle Lu Hanlin is now the transfer envoy in Fuzhou in the same year, can you find a way to ask Uncle Father to help introduce one or two, I and my sister Wu want to open a carpentry shop, and we need imported wood." ”
Lu Qiqi showed a look of embarrassment: "This is really not easy, you should know that there is very little timber trading between the Great Song Dynasty and the surrounding countries nowadays, unless you buy a large number of them, and the price must be suitable, otherwise others will not give up high-profit products to help you sell timber." If a large number of acquisitions are made, even the samurai family may not be able to afford so much money. Even if these are not problems, my uncle, you know that although he loves me very much, he rarely supports me in anything, and he only thinks that I am foolish, especially when I am not doing my job. ”
As he spoke, he smiled wryly.
Banniang threw him a contemptuous look, and said in her heart that this is not caused by your own lack of business all day long, thinking of this, he asked Lu Seventeen curiously: "Manda Song, especially our southeast road, especially Jiangxi, the prosperity of the style of study is completely incomparable with other places in the country." Of the more than 200 academies in the country, we in Jiangxi account for 80 of them, more than one-third, such a unique condition, why don't you want to study? You must know that in this era, although it is not as heavy as the Zhao Dynasty and the Great Song Dynasty, the status of the literati is indeed superior to other classes, if you can get into the Jinshi, at least you can go deep into the mainstream society and become a member of it. And your uncle is a bachelor of Hanlin, why don't you want to study? ”
"This ......," Lu Qiqi drank a glass of wine and said with a smile, "Let's talk about it when it's convenient in the future." However, our family can't be compared with your family, your grandfather is the first Jinshi in our Nanfeng, the Zeng family can be called the Jinshi family, there are seven grandparents, six fathers, and now your brothers will be even more ...... If the Zeng family is said to be the second literati family in history, I am afraid that no one will dare to call it the first. Speaking of this, Lu Qiqi was silent.
Banniang suddenly remembered how many days she had been thinking about it, and wanted to ask Lu Seventeen. In fact, as long as you are a person who has read books, who can not know the Tang and Song Dynasty Eight Families? Her second brother, she privately thought that it must be Zeng Gong, so she wanted to ask Lu Qiqi if he knew Zeng Gong in history, but just like Lu Qiqi's silence, there was a spring here, and she couldn't ask, so she had to be silent, but the doubts in her heart were like the silkworms spitting out, constantly bubbling out, torturous.
I really want to find another machine port to send the spring out.
But now that there are a lot of traffickers, she doesn't dare to be careless.
Quickly eaten, because Gong'er still needs to go to school in the school house in the afternoon, Banniang didn't dare to stay for a long time, and after eating, she pulled Gong'er to say goodbye to Lu Qiqi.
Lu Qiqi's expression was also much more cheerful than when she first came, because she was not at ease when she was a little girl and a child on the road, but fortunately, it was not far, so the two of them returned to Zeng's mansion.
On the way, Banniang still asked: "What Brother Seventeen just said should be related to Miss Liu, right?" ”