Chapter 120: Du Mei's apprenticeship
"Lizheng, why are you here? You may be seated. The eldest lady saw Du Huaibing walk in and hurriedly gave up her seat.
"Since you have bought land and real estate in Dujiagou, you are naturally a person from Dujiagou, I don't have the reason to watch you being bullied and stand by!" Du Shicheng looked at the eldest girl, and then looked at the eldest girl lying on the bed.
"Thank you for coming, thank you so much." The eldest girl wiped her eyes with her sleeve.
"Lizheng, I'm sorry for you." The eldest girl was struggling on the bed, and the eldest girl hurriedly helped him up and leaned on the quilt.
"Don't be polite, it's not you who is making trouble for me, it's this woman!" Du Shicheng turned around and looked at Ding with a cold gaze.
This woman came to Dujiagou to make trouble, not once or twice, this time I didn't give her something powerful, and when he was a soft persimmon, she kneaded it casually.
Ding Shi was frozen by his gaze, and couldn't help but shudder, but his mouth was unforgiving: "I kindly lent her money, but I lent her the sin!" ”
"Do you know that the law of the Dashun Dynasty stipulates that the monthly interest rate on any loan shall not exceed one cent, and the Huang family can borrow your money for a month?" Du Shicheng asked.
"No, it's less than twenty days." The eldest girl hurriedly said. This matter was like fire in her heart, and she remembered the days clearly.
In this way, fifty wen is only a lot more. My dynasty is now a peaceful and prosperous era, if you mess up the law and discipline, don't blame me Du Jiagou for not giving Lao Wangzhuang face, and immediately send you to the county government to do so. "Du Shicheng's face is as cold as iron, oozing with a trace of coolness.
Ding's heart trembled, she is a woman, where do you know what the moon is? It's just that I didn't achieve what I wanted, so I just had more money to relieve my anger.
As soon as she heard that Du Huaibing risked the two villages to break off their friendship, she was going to be sent to the county government to be beaten. Ding's face is like a paint shop, from red to white, and from white to blue.
"Get out, the old Wangzhuang people of the dog day are easy to bully when they are Dujiagou people." Onlookers began to stir.
"Du Mei, what about your black girl, this kind of person only deserves to be chased by it!" One person said it solemnly, and the others burst into laughter.
"You deceive people too much!" Speaking of black girls, Ding only felt two trembling forces. Her calculations at the beginning can be described as excellent. She not only wants the craftsmanship of the Huang family, but also wants a daughter-in-law who can do a job, and the most important thing is that the Huang family is a foreign surname, and the Du family will not care if they live or die.
And she miscalculated, she didn't expect that Du Mei would intervene in this matter, and Du Jiagou's Li Zheng is even more of a calf protector, not hesitating to make enemies, but also to protect his own villagers. If she stays any longer, don't say that fifty wen is not guaranteed, for fear that it will arouse the anger of the villagers, and five hundred wen will not be even. Lao Wangzhuang is not famous in Qinghe County, and Li Zheng will not offend Du Shicheng, who is favored by the county commander of Qinghe County, in order to favor her.
Thinking of this, Ding grabbed the purse on the table, turned around and left. Her mouth will never be cowardly: "You guys wait, our old Wang Zhuang is not easy to bully." ”
"Shhhh Onlookers whistled.
"Thank you, uncle, aunt and sister-in-law." The eldest girl was in the courtyard, bowing to the onlookers.
"Hey, don't mind, we didn't help much, but just scare her a few words and get her out." The onlookers waved their hands and dispersed.
"If you have any trouble in your house, come to me. There are many things in the village, and there are many things that are not well taken care of, so please speak up. Du Shicheng looked at the situation of the eldest girl and shook his head, this family is really embarrassed for the eldest girl.
"Don't dare, don't dare, this matter has caused you a lot of trouble."
The big girl waved his hand again and again.
"There's no trouble, it's not troublesome, your family has entered the household registration of Dujiagou, and you are a person from Dujiagou, although our Du family is a big family, but it is not interested in bullying people with foreign surnames." Du Shicheng stood up. It's over, he wants to leave, and there are still a lot of things to do at home.
"Lizheng, please stay, I still have something here, I need to trouble you to witness it." The eldest girl said solemnly.
"Witness what?" Du Shicheng stopped and asked suspiciously.
"Child, you hang the portrait of your ancestor." The eldest girl commanded.
"You're here, you're not a year, why do you want to hang that?" The eldest girl didn't know what was going on, and asked in a daze.
"It's better to choose a day than to hit the day, it just so happens that the girl is here, and the matter of the eldest girl is over. Let Meizi and them formally worship the ancestor today, and I can be regarded as accepting the apprentice seriously. lest after a hundred years, I will lose my craft and go underground, and I will not have the face to see my ancestors. The eldest girl reached out to smooth her hair and straighten her clothes.
"Whoa." The eldest girl hurriedly went to the box to find the portrait.
"Daddy!" The eldest girl happily threw herself into her father's arms.
"Master, this is too hasty, I should prepare the six salutes." Du Mei didn't expect that he would suddenly have to do such a solemn thing.
"Meizi, you've done enough for my family, it's much more important than those false courtesies." The big girl waved her hand.
"Everything is important in sincerity, and since your master has approved you, he must not care about that." Du Huaibing, who was sitting on the side, nodded.
"Her father, there is no decent tribute and wine at home." The eldest girl hung the portrait on the wall and said with a little distress.
"If you have anything at home, put it out, and replace it with water if you don't have alcohol. My ancestors knew our predicament and could understand my plight, so they didn't care. The eldest girl's eyes were staring at the portrait, and her eyes were filled with moisture.
"Oh." The eldest girl agreed, turned around and went to the kitchen, and Du Mei and the eldest girl followed to help.
It is a problem for the eldest girl to eat at home, how can there be any sacrifices that can be taken. It's just a few half-sized cucumbers, a few half-green tomatoes, and a dish of nests.
The eldest girl lit three sticks of incense on the incense table, poured a teapot of boiled water, and prepared two wine cups. He poured another glass of sugar water for Du Huaibing and invited him to sit aside. Du Mei and the eldest girl knelt straight in front of the incense case.
"Ancestor, unfilial man Huang Yiping was robbed in middle age, resulting in physical disability, and because he has no children under his knees, he is now constantly inheriting the craftsmanship of the sugar-free people, and Yu violated the ancestral teachings and passed on the craftsmanship to the eldest daughter Huang Daya and the foreign surname Du Mei. Du Mei is kind-hearted, hardworking and intelligent, and has more than his help. May the ancestors bless their sisters, learn well, and carry forward the skills of sugar people. The eldest girl, Huang Yiping, solemnly prayed to the portrait.
"Respect heaven and earth!" Huang Yiping said loudly.
The eldest girl poured boiled water into the two wine cups, Du Mei held the cup in her right hand, picked up the water in the wine cup with her left hand, bounced it into the air, and poured the water in the cup in front of the desk one by one. The big girl has a lot to learn, and this is all taught by the big girl in the kitchen.
"Second respect for the ancestors!" Huang Yiping opened his mouth again.
"Du Mei (Huang Daya) worships under the door, must study hard, study hard, pray for the blessing of the ancestors, and we will pass on the skills of the sugar man." The two of them chanted in unison and sprinkled water in front of the desk.
"Master Sanjing!" Huang Yiping continued.
"Master (father), master (mother), please drink tea." The eldest girl sat on the edge of the bed and accepted the water that Du Mei and the eldest girl gave them respectively with Huang Yiping.
"Licheng, congratulations." Du Shicheng slapped his face with a smile.
"Thank you." Huang Yiping hugged his fists.
"You're welcome, you have passed on your unique family heirloom skills to the juniors of our Du family, so that we are already a family." Du Huaibing shook hands with Huang Yiping, said some festive words, and left.
Du Mei went home and told her mother about it, Xu was a person who kept old etiquette, and asked Du Mei to buy some pastries and tonic herbs as gifts to Huang Yiping when she went to the town to sell vegetables tomorrow, which was regarded as a supplementary gift.
Mui Kee Restaurant is still full of diners, and some people are used to eating every day, and if they don't drink a bowl of Ruyi soup in the morning, they won't be happy for a day.
The food was sold out, Du Mei saw that it was still early, leaving Du Gui and the eldest girl to clean the stall, and she went straight to Yujitang.
"Is Dr. Zhong here?" Du Mei looked at the guy behind the counter.
"Your uncle is in the back hall, you can go in and find it yourself." The guy was one of the two people who gave the plaque that day, and he naturally recognized Du Mei.
"It's not good." Du Mei was a little surprised, but after thinking about it, this guy really regarded her as Dr. Zhong's niece.
"Dr. Zhong is drying books, he is precious, he won't let us touch our hands." The guy laughed.
"Well, thank you." Du May turned and stepped into the threshold, and turned a cloister, and it was the back hall.
"Doctor Zhong, what are you doing here?" Du Mei saw that Zhong Yu was really drying books.
"Some time ago, there was a lot of rain, and the east wall was flooded, and I only found out yesterday that these books were damp, and today I took advantage of the good weather to take them out to dry. The rainy season will be in a few days, and if you don't get sun, I'm afraid you're going to get moldy. Zhong Yu spread a book on the ground, and the wind turned the pages of the book with a loud noise.
"You've got so many books." Du Mei picked up a copy and read it.
"Didn't you say last time, if you want to learn, you can do it at any time." Zhong Yu raised his eyes and looked at Du Mei.
She was reading a book with her head down, and the sun shone on her head, creating a halo of light. This situation and this scene are very similar to one day many years ago, Zhong Yu shook his head, he must be old and dazzled.
"I'm really going to learn from you." Du Mei looked at the names of those medicinal materials, medicinal properties and pharmacology, jerky and difficult to understand.
"Why do you suddenly want to learn this?" Zhong Yu asked curiously.
"My master's back injury is quite serious, I wonder if there is any way to help him." Du Mei closed the book and said with a frown.
"Master?" Zhong Yu was a little disappointed, he had already explicitly hinted that Du Mei would study medicine with him, but this girl recognized someone else as a master.
"Big girl's father, he's a sugar man." Dume explained.
"Be a candy man! Do you want to learn to be a sugar man? Zhong Yu couldn't suppress the anger that came out of nowhere, and yelled in a strange tone.
Du Mei was taken aback by his voice: "Yes...... Oh, yes. ”
"You can't teach your son, you can't teach your child!" Zhong Yu exploded in an instant.
"Doctor Zhong, what's wrong with you?" Dume asked timidly. She had never seen Zhong Yu so out of control, he had always been gentle and elegant.
"Your mother agrees?" How noble is the identity of the young lady, how can the young lady of the young lady do such a ninth-rate job!
"My mother agreed, she asked me to buy tonic herbs." Du Mei looked at Zhong Yu's inexplicably angry face, nodded and said.
"Oh, that's right. His condition is more complicated, and it can be maintained as good. If you want to sit up and stand up, it's even more difficult. Zhong Yu realized his gaffe after realizing it, and hurriedly stabilized his mind and resumed his daily flat tone.
"Is there really no other way?" Du Mei frowned. 2k reading web