As he spoke, he handed the porridge bowl to Ah Lan's hand and bypassed the screen to change his clothes.

When Ah Lan heard this, his eyes showed a light of joy. In the past, when my mother was still alive, I also said that I would send her to school to know a few words, but then my mother died, and my stepmother entered the door, where did my father dare to mention sending her to school? Later, she had a younger brother, and when her younger brother entered the Zeng family school, she often heard the sound of her younger brother reading, and looked at the books he was holding in his small hands that exuded the fragrance of ink, she didn't know how envious she was.

Although her stepmother treats her strictly, her younger brother was brought up by her, and she is very close to her, and when she sees her envy, she has also taught her a few words, at least her own name, she can write.

Thinking of my younger brother, I felt sad again, the day she was sold, my brother entered school, and I didn't see it, I don't know if I will cry when I go home and find that she was sold?

I remembered that my younger brother watched her stepmother beat and scolded her, and secretly comforted her and said that she would be admitted to the exam in the future and become an official, so he would buy her a beautiful dress and treat her well. knew that her younger brother was in the Zeng family school across the wall, but now she was like this, but she couldn't see her younger brother......

Banniang changed her clothes, and when she came out, she saw her in a daze, and couldn't help laughing: "Beware of drinking porridge into your nose." I'll go first, and after you've finished eating, put the dishes and chopsticks here, and I'll send them to the kitchen when I come back later. ”

Ah Lan came back to his senses, put away the sad idea, and said with a smile: "I'll eat it when I go back, and I'll send it to the kitchen, Miss Eight, you just have to be busy with your go." ”

Banniang didn't want to say too much, but made her uncomfortable, so she answered and went.

When they arrived at the front yard, Wulang was talking with the merchant Xiao Chen, and when he saw Banniang coming, he got up, and Banniang went to talk to his sister-in-law Wu, and went out with the two.

After about half a pillar of incense, I arrived in front of a small courtyard. Brother Xiao Chen smiled: "Uncle Qiao and I both live in this courtyard, the courtyard is a little messy, Miss Eight and the fifth son pay attention, don't mix it up, please come here." ”

While speaking, he opened the courtyard door, led Banniang and Wulang to the east chamber, and through the window of the east chamber, he raised his voice: "Brother Qiao is at home?" I brought two guests to visit my uncle. ”

From time to time, a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy in a shirt with a guarded face came out of the house, and saw that Brother Xiao Chen was followed by only a little lady, and a gentle and sunny young man who was slightly older than him and smiled, so he showed a smile: "Brother Xiao Chen is here, I don't know who these two are?" ”

Brother Xiao Chen said with a smile: "This is the fifth son and eighth lady of the Zeng family, because they like Uncle Qiao's lacquer box, they still want to buy it again, and they just went to my stall yesterday to ask, so I brought it." ”

As he spoke, he gave the young man a wink.

Wulang stepped forward and said, "I heard Brother Xiao Chen say that Uncle Qiao has a grandson, so I think it's this brother." ”

The young man saluted the two of them and said politely: "Xiaosheng Qiao Junsheng, I have seen Zeng Fifth Son, Zeng Eighth Miss. ”

Banniang was slightly blessed and returned the salute, and Qiao Junsheng invited the two into the house: "Because my grandfather has always been sick, the house is full of medicinal smells, and I ask the fifth son and the eighth lady not to mind." You two may be seated, and I'll go get some tea. ”

That little Brother Chen is a person who will come to trouble, and said with a smile on the side: "Brother Qiao is also a scholar, thinking that he has something to say with the fifth son, and the matter of pouring water will be handed over to the villain." ”

Qiao Junsheng and Brother Xiao Chen have rented a yard to live together, and they have been in contact for a year or two, so they are not polite to him, and said with a smile: "Then it will trouble Brother Xiao Chen." ”

As he was talking, he heard a few coughing sounds from the compartment: "But the son and miss of the Zeng family that Brother Xiao Chen said yesterday have arrived?" ”

The voice was old, panting, and very weak.

"Yes, grandfather." Qiao Junsheng answered, confessed to Wulang, and went to the house to help Uncle Qiao out.

Looking at Uncle Qiao, who was helped out by Qiao Junsheng, Banniang was also startled.

I vaguely remember the appearance of seeing Uncle Qiao a few months ago, although he was thin at the time, but because he was a northerner, he was also tall and spirited, but he didn't see him for a few months, and he became sick like this?

If you take a closer look, there is a sudden burst in your heart, Uncle Qiao's head is wrapped in a white scarf, and it is still bloody, showing that he has been injured in some way. And the hand was also wrapped in a sling cloth and hung on his chest, swollen and high.

"Uncle Qiao, what's wrong with you?"

Seeing the question, Qiao Junsheng's face, which originally carried the sven aura of a scholar, immediately became angry, and he pursed his mouth tightly, looking like he was going to eat people.

Uncle Qiao coughed a few times, shook his head, and said with a smile: "It's okay, it's rare that Miss Gongzi of the famous family of Qiuyu can come to visit my bad old man, and it is also my old man's honor, please sit down, two of you." ”

After Qiao Junsheng helped him sit down, Uncle Qiao said, "The two of you came here to buy a lacquer box, right?" I haven't been to a stall for a long time, and Junsheng is busy taking care of me, and he can't go out on the street, so there are a lot of goods in the house. ”

Speaking of this, he turned his head and instructed Qiao Junsheng: "Junsheng, you go to my house, pick some of the best ones, and show them to the fifth prince and the eighth miss." ”

Gorou waved his hand: "Not busy, Uncle Qiao, I saw you like this, obviously seriously injured?" How so? ”

Uncle Qiao smiled: "It's just that I caused some trouble and offended people, and it is inconvenient to talk to Zeng Gongzi in detail." ”

As he was talking, it happened that Brother Xiao Chen came in with a kettle, and when he heard this, he hurriedly answered: "It's not that Li is a bully, because his family runs a woodware shop, and he took a fancy to Uncle Qiao's lacquer skills, and forced Uncle Qiao to pass on this craft to the craftsmen in his family's woodware shop, this is an ancestral craft, how can the old man respond?" After a few doors, the old man refused to agree, and the Li family bullied Uncle Qiao's family as an outsider, and they had no foundation in Nanfeng City, so they went to smash the old man's stall and injured people like this. There is really no reason for it. ”

Brother Xiao Chen brought the two brothers and sisters here, and he was also hoping that they were from the Zeng family, and he might be able to help Uncle Qiao's grandchildren, how could he not mention it?

It's this Li family again, Gorou was already furious when he heard it, slapped the table hard, gritted his teeth and said, "There is really no royal law." I don't believe that no one will be able to take care of their house. ”

Because Li Yuan was also a four-grade member in the court, although he was a minister, probably there is still some relationship between the court and the central government, since ancient times, the people do not fight with the officials, where do ordinary people dare to provoke? This is why their family has become a tyrant in Nanfeng City.

Banniang was concerned about Uncle Qiao's body, not to mention that the affairs of the Li family couldn't be explained for a while, so she stepped forward and asked, "Uncle is injured like this, but has your husband seen it?" ”

Qiao Junsheng blushed a little for a while, and nodded: "Please also see my husband, I have been hurting my muscles and bones for a hundred days, and my grandfather is ...... old again."

Brother Xiao Chen in the back put down the kettle and sighed: "Please, please, it's just that Uncle Qiao is seriously injured, and now that he has lost his income, where can he afford such expensive medicine?" ”

Uncle Qiao is also an upright old man, hearing this, it seems that he intends to complain to the brothers and sisters of the Zeng family, and wants to let Brother Xiao Chen shut up, but people are enthusiastic and want to help his ancestors and grandchildren, so it is not easy to say anything, just leave the topic away, and say to Qiao Junsheng: "Don't you pour tea for Zeng Gongzi and Miss Zeng?" ”

He turned his head and apologized to the two of them: "There is no good tea, only this little tea foam, it is still used by my family Junsheng when he is studying, and he will be refreshed, Miss Gongzi will just take it." ”

Banniang glanced at Wulang, and Wulang also saw that this Uncle Qiao was not easy to ask for, so he smiled and said: "I also asked Brother Qiao to bring the lacquer box, because my sixth sister is going to get married, and she is buying a dowry, so she just wants to choose some." ”

Seeing that Qiao Junsheng didn't move, Brother Xiao Chen hurriedly glanced at him and said with a smile: "Zeng Gongzi wait a minute, the villain will take it with Brother Qiao." ”

pulled Qiao Junsheng into the compartment of the room where the goods were kept.

After a while, the two of them came over.

Because he wanted to help people, Gorou said: "These are all good, but the number is less, why don't you go and get some more?" I'm going to buy about twenty boxes of this. ”

When Brother Xiao Chen heard this, he happily pulled Qiao Junsheng to the house again: "Zeng Gongzi will wait a minute, the villain and brother will bring it to you." ”

From time to time, a lot of them came over.

There are more than two dozen in total. Wulang didn't look at it either, and said with a smile: "We want all of these, I remember that the one that the eighth sister bought last time was six or seven hundred wen, and I was also greedy for a bargain, how about selling these boxes to me for five hundred wen?" Twenty ten guan money, but it just so happened that I just brought ten guan jiaozi. ”

As he spoke, he took out two Jiaozi from his sleeve and handed them to Qiao Junsheng's hand.

"Not necessarily." Uncle Qiao stretched out and stopped.