Chapter 73: The Housewife Who Teaches Her Children (12)
Zhou Zhan seemed to see through An Nan's thoughts, and smiled gently and elegantly, very amiable: "When Mrs. built a ship and went to sea, it seems that she used a lot of money in the family to do these big things, right?" ”
An Nan gritted his teeth and glared at him viciously, this person has a bad stomach, obviously very bad, but he is good at covering up his essence with a harmless and gentle appearance, but what he said is reasonable, An Nan used his money for all these things, and he couldn't leave him, so he had to pinch his nose and let him join the gang.
But when you get on my ship, you have to listen to me...... When An Nan thought about it, he suddenly became mentally balanced.
Zhou Zhan seemed to be really interested as he spoke, his eyes lit up, and he said with great interest: "Why don't you go to Qinghai City with you this time?" ”
An Nan looked at his mummy-like half of his body expressionlessly: "It's all half-crippled, you better save some trouble, don't jump around, isn't it enough to hinder the emperor's eyes?" You just stay under the emperor's nose, if you come with you and he finds out about my back road, I will kill you first! ”
Zhou Zhan saw that her eyes widened and threatened to intimidate herself, so she couldn't help but chuckle out loud, and said meaningfully: "I found that Madame is getting more and more lively......"
An Nan rolled his eyes at him: "If you still stay in the Taoist temple honestly, I don't have to worry so much, I will be more lively!" ”
Zhou Zhan burst out laughing when he heard this, and only after a long time did he look at his half-crippled body regretfully, and said, "It seems that I can't go with you this time, so the lady will inspect it well and come back and tell me." ”
"No problem!" An Nan hurriedly agreed, as long as this half-crippled Buddha didn't follow her, she was willing to say anything!
An Nan prepared for a day and took a group of people to Qinghai City.
After leaving the capital, the closer you get to Qinghai City, the more displaced people you will encounter. These displaced people have run away from home because of the war. It has been more than four months since the imperial court fought a war with foreign enemies on the frontier, and they have won fewer victories and more defeats, and they have lost several cities and villages and towns, and one-tenth of their territory is almost gone.
The invading barbarians were cruel and tyrannical, slaughtering the people, burning and looting every city they conquered, and everywhere they went were like locusts crossing the border, and no grass was growing.
Moreover, the people in the frontier had long lost confidence in them because of the defeat of the soldiers of the imperial court, for fear that these barbarians would lose their lives if they hit their own homes, so they led their families to flee inland.
An Nan looked at these ragged, yellow-faced and thin-skinned refugees, and felt uncomfortable, these unarmed and unable to resist people, in order to survive, they could only run around in fear and helplessness, even if they escaped, they didn't know where they would die in the next moment, maybe they died of hunger, maybe they were robbed and killed.
Xing, the people suffer; Death, the people suffer.
An Nan thought to herself, if she had spare strength, she could save as many people as she could, and she couldn't accommodate these poor people here, so she could take them overseas.
An Nan suddenly felt that the burden on her shoulders was heavy again, she came to this world just to replace the original owner to train Buxiaozi, but she didn't expect to do something to save the people.
"Anping, you look at the situation, and then take some people to Qinghai City, our maritime training base." When she's ready, she'll take anyone who wants to leave overseas from here.
When An Nan built a new caravan to go to sea in the base and trained batches of people going to sea, he heard that several princes who were divided into various places also rebelled, and under the banner of the emperor's tyranny, mediocrity, and brutality, he wanted to pull him off the horse and replace him, so the flames broke out everywhere, the country was even more chaotic, and panicked refugees were everywhere, and An Nan could only take them in as much as possible to work on his own village, and he could shelter as many people as he could.
Just when she was busy in Qinghai City, the Zhou Mansion in the capital ushered in a person who claimed to be the eldest young master.
"Phew! You stinky beggar who doesn't know where you came from! If you want to pretend to be the eldest young master of our family, you won't inquire about the situation! The eldest young master looks like a jade tree in the wind, has a good demeanor, and is a talent, where can you compare with a dirty, smelly, skinny monkey-like beggar? If you're a young master, I'll be a master! The porter scolded the unkempt visitor.
"Zhou Da, it's really me, your wife was still a third-class maid by my mother's side before......" Zhou Rui lowered his head, covered his face with his hands, and said to the porter embarrassed, he appeared at the door of the house like this, and he had no face to see anyone.
The porter was shocked, looked up and down around Zhou Rui, and saw that he did have some shadows of the eldest young master, but this person's cheeks were thin and dirty, and his waist and back were like a stray dog who was overly frightened, and he did not have the demeanor of the eldest young master in the past, and he was a little suspicious, but this person even knew his wife's previous identity, and the porter was not sure, so he had to hesitate: "Then, then I will go to report to the chief housekeeper first, and let him come out to recognize you." ”
When the housekeeper's eyes are better than being the porter, he recognized it for a while and finally affirmed that this was really the eldest young master, so he suddenly said with tears in his eyes that the eldest young master had suffered, and welcomed him home, leaving only the porter alone in a frightened cold sweat, only begging the eldest young master not to care about his offense just now, and not to hate himself for seeing his ugliness......
The old housekeeper distressed and ordered his subordinates to prepare bath water and food for the eldest young master, and took him to see Zhou Zhan.
"Father!" As soon as Zhou Rui entered Zhou Zhan's study, he knelt down in front of him with tears in his eyes, as if he wanted to cry out all the grievances and pain he had suffered over the years.
If An Nan sees his actions here, he will definitely sigh that he is worthy of being a brother and sister with Zhou Minqi, and when he sees his father, he will kneel down first and then cry bitterly, this style is exactly the same, similar to the situation when a six- or seven-year-old child was bullied outside and came back to sue his father...... This is really a "child" who can't grow up.
Zhou Zhan was stunned to see his eldest son, who seemed to be a beggar, kneeling in front of him, if he hadn't listened to the voice, he would not have recognized that the extremely downtrodden person in front of him was his handsome and noble eldest son in the past.
It's just that after three years outside, how did he become a beggar? Zhou Zhan was disappointed in his heart, he knew how An Nan handled it at the beginning, and he didn't think there was anything wrong, Zhou Rui was twenty years old, he left home and went out to work hard by himself, even if he couldn't be rich and expensive, but he could always have no worries about food and clothing, right?
But I didn't expect him to be an embroidered pillow, and he couldn't live when he left the house, so he bowed his head and came back.
Good or bad are their own children, although Zhou Zhan is a little cold, he always has a little affection for his own flesh and blood, so he sighed and said, "Go down to take a bath and eat something first, and then come and tell me how you have lived outside all these years." ”