Chapter 281: Xiao Qi who refuses to go
This is unacceptable, unacceptable. Du Mei wanted to hold the young man, but he had a lot of strength, and when he saw that Du Mei didn't agree, he leaned over and kowtowed a few times one after another.
"Stone ......," Du Mei looked at the stone standing next to him pleadingly.
"What's your name, where are you from, and why are you being hunted down?" Stone asked in a deep voice.
Although he is a very boring and boring person, as one of the top guards in the Yan Palace, he is not stupid. Under Shen Zhanghua's rule, it was impossible for such a daytime killing to happen in Qinghe County.
"My name is Xiao Qi, my grandfather and I fled from Qingzhou, and I don't know why someone wants to kill us." The young man who called himself Xiao Qi had dust on his forehead, and tears flowed two water marks on his face.
"The plague of locusts has long passed, and those who fled have returned, why did you pour it out?" The stone's gaze swept inquiringly across his face.
"We are entertainers, eating hundreds of meals, wearing hundreds of clothes, where life is good, we will naturally go to beg for a living." Xiao Qi lowered his head and sorted out the old man's clothes with a sad face, his tone was plain, but Du Mei was very uncomfortable listening to it.
"Stone, don't ask, the most important thing at the moment is to take some money to help him handle the funeral." Du Mei saw that Shi was talking a lot today, so he couldn't help but interrupt him.
"But we still have to make deliveries." Stone was very wary of this boy of unknown origin.
"Sister help me!" When the young man saw that the stone didn't want to deal with him, he trembled and cried, and knocked his head again.
"We can't let the old man expose the corpse in the market." When Du Mei's father died, she was as helpless as the boy, and at this time, she would never choose to turn away indifferently.
"Otherwise, let's pay some money and let others help with the cooking." Seeing that Du Mei was entangled by him, the stone had to say so.
"He's a foreigner, you don't want to help, where are others willing to come out!" Du Mei seemed a little annoyed.
"This ...... I ......" The stone choked, he was obviously thinking about her safety.
"Hey, Meizi, why are you here?"
"Ah, how can there be a dead man here!"
Just as the tongue of the stone was knotted and I didn't know how to say it, two fat and thin officials patrolling the street came from the corner of the street.
"Two brothers, you came at the right time, you are all familiar with the shops on the street, help Xiao Qi handle his grandfather's funeral." When Du Mei saw that it was them, he immediately felt like a savior.
"What's going on? Did you report it? The thin servant said nervously.
"Han Zhutou took the perpetrator away." Du Mei briefly said what had just happened.
"Meizi, it's not that our brothers don't help, they're patrolling the streets, and if they want to run away, they will have to be deducted this month." The fat servant looked helpless.
"Otherwise, Shi will accompany Brother Thin to help Xiao Qi with the funeral, and Brother Fat, you will drive me to deliver the goods." Du Mei thought for a moment and said.
"Then so be it, seeing that the sun is getting bigger, it's not a matter of leaving the uncle on the road." The fat servant nodded.
"Meizi, if I am deducted for this matter, you can help me say a few words." The thin servant admonished uneasily.
"This is a good thing to accumulate virtue and do good, I will definitely help you speak when I see the county lord." Du Mei responded very solemnly.
"Then I'll go for a run, where will I wait when I come back?" When the stone saw that she insisted on this, he said no more.
"I sent duck eggs, I want to see Sister Fengxian, I'm waiting for you in Song Mansion. You can use this money, and give the rest to Xiao Qi for entanglement, so that he can go back to his hometown. Du Mei untied his purse and handed it to the stone whole.
Not to mention how the stone and the thin servant collected and buried Xiaoqi's grandfather, only said that Du Mei sent two duck eggs and went straight to Fengxian, and the fat servant handed over the carriage to the servants of the Song Mansion to take care of, and he went to patrol the streets again.
Du Mei often came, and the servant guarding the door knew that the hostess had a deep friendship with her, so he didn't dare to slack off, so he immediately went in to report.
It didn't take long for Zhang to walk briskly from inside with a smile.
"Du Ruren hasn't been here for a long time, my master remembers it carefully." Before the Zhang family arrived, the voice came through the shadow wall.
"Aunt Zhang, how is Sister Fengxian?" Du Mei asked.
"Okay, it's very good, now I can eat and sleep soundly, and my belly is big." Zhang said in a brisk tone.
"Can you move around a lot?" Du Mei heard that she had a big belly, so she couldn't help but ask more. Fengxian is only more than five months pregnant, and it stands to reason that her belly should not be big.
"The master is often tired and doesn't like to move much." Seeing Du Mei ask like this, Zhang said with some hesitation.
The two were talking, and saw Xiaolian standing under the porch with Fengxian in her arms, the wind blowing her clothes and wrapping them around her body, and she was really bloated and had a very big belly.
"Sister Fengxian." Du Mei took two quick steps and took her hand.
"You've lost so much weight." Fengxian frowned and looked at Du Mei, a little distressed.
"How are you?" Du Mei glanced at Phoenix's belly.
"Okay, it's that when you're full, you want to sleep, and when you wake up, you want to eat, and you live like a pig." Fengxian quipped to herself.
"It's not good to eat too much, I'm afraid I'll suffer when the time comes." The two of them entered the room and sat down, Du Mei said worriedly.
"Oh, but I want to eat it." Fengxian sighed.
She now has a double chin, her hands and feet are no longer as slender as before, only her skin is as white as ever.
"In the future, you should eat less and more meals, eat six or seven percent full at each meal, and walk around in the morning and evening, which will be conducive to your future production." Du Mei took her pulse and admonished.
"If only you could come and see me from time to time." Fengxian sighed, she wanted to pinch a piece of dim sum to eat, thinking about Du Mei's words, she finally endured it.
"Didn't I come to see you when I had time?" Du Mei said with a smile.
"Let's go after lunch, Nafu sends a lot of ingredients every day, and I'm the only one, where can I finish eating." The mansion in Fengxian's mouth is the Zhongshu Ling Mansion in Gangneung City.
The child in Fengxian's belly is the first child of Song Shaohuai's generation, the Song family has a total of three children, one girl and two boys, although the eldest sister Shaoshu has been in the palace for a few years, there is no sign of pregnancy, and the third brother Shaoxiang is addicted to studying medicine every day, and he is not enlightened at all in the affairs of men and women. As a result, the child in the phoenix's belly became more and more expensive.
Mrs. Yuan already likes Song Shaohuai, not to mention the upcoming fourth generation, the old lady is looking forward to the four generations in the same house day and night. If it weren't for the fact that Fengxian's identity was really unbearable, she would have brought her granddaughter-in-law in and taken care of it herself.
Nowadays, Song Shaohuai raises the phoenix outside, and the food and clothing are no different from those in the house, but without the constraints of everyone and the rules of the province in the morning and dusk, the life is extraordinarily nourishing.
"Today, I'm going to go to the villa to have a look, so I won't eat with you." Du Mei said apologetically.
"Okay. You are always busy with things every day, and you should pay more attention to your body. Fengxian patted Du Mei's hand with pity.
"Double Ninth Festival, Dujiagou will be lively for three days, I see that you are heavy now, I'm afraid it's inconvenient to go out." Du Mei came today, originally planning to invite her to Dujiagou to relax and play.
"No matter what, I'm going to go, it's a big deal to let my master accompany me." Feng Xian smiled, and her eyebrows and eyes were crooked on her plump and fair face.
"You have to be careful, you must not be forced." Du Mei said solemnly.
"Don't worry, there is a grandmother in Nafu who has been accumulating for many years, and she has to feel her pulse every day. She said, the child is fine, and ......" Fengxian suddenly covered her mouth and smiled quietly.
"And what?" Du Mei couldn't help but ask.
"And it's a handle." Feng Xian whispered a little proudly.
"This ......," Du Mei embarrassed.
It is possible to determine the male and female fetuses through the pulse, but Du Mei is a girl who has not left the pavilion in the end, and when she heard Feng Xian say this, she was ashamed all of a sudden.
Du Meiliu sat down, and when she saw that the phoenix was sleepy, she got up and took her leave, and she estimated that it was time to come back to the stone, so she went directly to the stable in the backyard to look for it.
In the distance, I saw a stone feeding fried beans to a horse, and a half-grown child next to him holding hay to feed another horse.
"Little Seven?" As he got closer, Du Mei looked at the young man in front of him with some surprise.
"Sister, Xiao Qi has no home without his grandfather, how can he go back on his word!" Xiao Qi said conclusively.
"Xiao Qi, I just helped you, I didn't mean to buy you, you are still free, you should go home." Du Mei bent over his thin shoulder.
"I don't thank you for my kindness, Xiao Qi has no long things, so he can only be a slave and a maid to repay his sister's rescue." Xiao Qi knelt on the ground and kowtowed.
"Get up quickly, don't kowtow to people at every turn, men have gold under their knees!" Du Mei reached out and pulled him.
"If my sister doesn't agree, I won't get up." Xiao Qi lay on the ground.
"Do you have any other ways besides this trick?" The stone snorted, and he was also so troubled by him that he had to bring him back again.
"Otherwise, you go to Zhuangzi to help." Du Mei thought for a moment and said.
At this time, the villa is in full swing, and it is a time when there is a shortage of manpower, even if it is good to run errands.
"Okay, as long as my sister doesn't drive me away, I can go anywhere." The smiling little Qiyi got up.
"You ......" Du Mei couldn't cry or laugh when he saw his neat appearance.
Since he wanted to stay, Du Mei couldn't bear to dress like a flower, so he took him to the cloth village to buy ready-to-wear clothes, because of his small size, the shopkeeper of the cloth village went to the warehouse to find it. Du Mei picked out some extra muslin cloth to prepare for her younger siblings to make winter padded jackets, she didn't notice that Xiao Qi stupidly looked at the various colored skirts hanging on the wall one by one, her eyes were full of envy.
The shopkeeper found a total of two sets of smaller ready-to-wear clothes, one indigo and one dark cyan, Xiao Qi liked it very much when he saw it, and he refused to try it, Du Mei had to roughly compare the clothes on him, and it looked quite suitable.
Du Mei paid, Xiao Qi held his clothes preciously, and the two got into the carriage of the stones that had been waiting on the side of the road.
In the mountains and forests, today is really busy, Qian Maolu is building a house with a dozen bricklayers, and Du Zhong and the Lin brothers are helping to move bricks from mud. Even Du Mei and they came, and no one noticed.
The women of the Lin family have all gone to the cotton field, and when the cotton is harvested, they can play new cotton wool for themselves, and no one is willing to waste half of it.
Xiao Qi was very curious about this place, and couldn't help but look around, and when he saw several children of the same age in the Lin family cooking, he ran to look.