Just as he was looking at the bruised tooth marks and preparing to beat the ingots, someone knocked at the door. Wen Wan opened the courtyard door, and it was Wang Guizi's mother-in-law who tenanted her land in the same village with her son Xing Ge'er. She went home from the ground and heard her son say that something had happened to the ingot. After thinking about it, he carried a basket of eggs on his arm to make amends.

"Her aunt, is Yuan Bao okay? I'm really sorry, this evil obstacle was uneasy at night and told me that something happened to the ingot, otherwise the door would apologize in the morning. Brother Xing's mother desperately pushed a basket of eggs into Wen Wan's arms.

"The child is small and ignorant. You accept this idea, don't be annoyed that my family is feasible? She looked nervous.

Seeing that Wen Wan didn't accept the apology, he gritted his teeth and slapped his son with a fan-like hand, and knelt down according to his son, Lin Lao Liu was just this one seedling.

"Don't kneel down yet, please forgive your aunt!" Next year, I will have to tenant people's land, and besides, the owner is still watching in the house!

Wen Wan hurriedly pulled Brother Xing'er, "I can't help it!" I can't help it! It was Yuanbao who was bitten because he was playful, what does it have to do with Brother Xing? Besides, the ingots have long been good, and the main house is eating lobsters with a mouthful of oil. ”

Brother Xing raised his head and looked at the main house with red and swollen eyes, and saw that Yuanbao was really sitting in his father's arms, obediently waiting for his father to peel a lobster and feed him. Immediately shed tears and grinned, and let go of his mother's hand and rushed in.

Wen Wan hurriedly led Brother Xing into the house together, and quickly took a big bowl from the kitchen and poured a full bowl of spicy and a bowl of garlic lobster into her hand.

"Sister-in-law Wang, it's all caught by Brother Xing, our ingots are gone, let's take some home and taste it with him." Wen Wan likes Brother Xing very much, and he has a tiger brain and a lot of aura.

At that moment, Brother Xing's mother was happy and embarrassed, and instead of giving out the eggs, he took someone to eat. Hurriedly took the bowl and pulled Brother Xing, who was talking to Yuanbao, and left, and when he got to the door, he put the egg and disappeared into the night.

At night, the two of them nested in bed and counted the silver, and worked in the wind and rain for more than four years, Lin Yuan earned a family fortune of two hundred taels, and now he is barely a rich family.

He took out a hundred taels from the money box and put it aside, this money was a filial piety that he had discussed with Wen Wan to give to his two parents. Sure enough, the next day, the old people were relieved to look at the white silver, and gave Lin Yuan a thumbs up.

Lin Yuan's mother even pulled her son, wiped away her muddy tears with trembling hands, and smiled proudly, "My son is out, your father has been busy all his life and has not earned this money." With these, our old couple will be able to relax a lot. ”

Lin Yuan hurriedly whispered to his mother to hide the silver carefully, and not to let the big house coax it. If it weren't for the fact that they had many brothers and a long time to make up for it, I don't know what kind of life the second elder is living now.

His mother nodded with tears, and her daughter-in-law had her hands tight, and their old couple had suffered enough.

As for what to do with the remaining one hundred taels, Wen Wan had a little headache. Buy land, I'm afraid that if there is a natural or man-made disaster, the particles will not be harvested; Replace it with a silver ticket, for fear of being bitten by rats and drifting; Add things, and it's too eye-catching for fear of being robbed.

After thinking about it, I still exchanged half of it for a universal silver ticket and hid it in a hollow wooden hairpin. There are also fifty taels, half of which is used to buy grain and store in the cellar, and the other half is used as capital to contract the river ditch in the village. In this way, it is more secure to have food, money, and income. Anyway, she still has some broken silver in her hand, which can be used for ordinary expenses.

This Wen Wan was pondering about hiding money, and two horseback riders came from the entrance of the village. A man and a woman walked in a hurry, the man was handsome and his eyebrows were straight; The woman wears a hat and has a graceful posture.

Seeing a villager passing by, the man was overjoyed and bowed his hand to the people, "The old man stays, we are people from the capital, and we have been lost in this place for two days, I don't know if we can do something convenient to relieve our hunger, and we have two silver to send." ”

The villagers couldn't understand the official language outside, so they waved their hands to show that they didn't understand, and walked away with their hoes.

The two of them hadn't eaten water for two days, and they couldn't walk. When he was sighing helplessly, he happened to see several children chasing and playing at the entrance of the village, and one of the children in the green shirt was clapping his hands and getting up to leave, and the man followed him as if he did not obey the call.

"What are you following me?" Yuan Bao has never seen such characters, such as Chang'e and Houyi, whom he often hears in bedtime stories. But he couldn't bring strangers into the house, so he stopped.

The man didn't understand, he stood awkwardly at a loss, he could only fight and kill, and he had never dealt with the little doll.

The woman behind him walked out at this time, squatted down and touched the head of the ingot, smiled gracefully, and took out a jade rabbit in his white porcelain-like hand to give it to him, although he liked it, he didn't take it with his hands behind his back. Seeing this, the woman thought he was embarrassed and handed it to his chest again, but he shook his head and still didn't answer.

A-Niang said that strangers' things could not be picked up, and also said that the youngest grandson of Wu Abo's family in the west of the village was coaxed away by the abductor with two jujubes.

When the woman saw that Yuan Bao didn't want her things, her eyes dimmed a little, and she squatted in front of Yuan Bao with her head down and was silent.

"I don't look like a crutch, it's just a big deal, it's a big deal to be beaten up by fat again", Yuan Bao was a little unbearable, touching the woman's face like a little adult, and holding his hands behind his waist, making a decision around the two of them in an old-fashioned manner.

He beckoned to the man who was standing awkwardly, "Come with me." ”

After only a few steps, the two stopped in front of a house with blue bricks and glazed tiles, and there were two golden laurel trees in front of the house. The gate of the courtyard was wide open, and there were grape trellises and a stone well on both sides of the courtyard.

The vines of the grapes are densely packed with shelves, and there are round tables made of stone and four rattan chairs under the grape trellises. The courtyard is paved with bluestone slabs, and in the middle is a small gravel path leading to the main house and kitchen.

A woman stood at the door of the kitchen. The peach blossom bun has a concentric hairpin, a daisy cloth coat, the skirt is tied with mung bean palace silk, the double balance of mandarin duck wood carving, the face is like a hibiscus eyebrows, the body is not bad, and the physique is coquettish.

The handsome boy who led them the way was now leaning on her skirt and talking to her with a smile on his face. But she secretly took the hand sticky to the flour like a shallot and wiped it on the villain's face, and the child touched it casually, and raised his hand to hit her angrily, she smiled and avoided it.

As if she inadvertently saw someone standing at the door, she straightened her clothes slightly, bowed down and smiled apologetically and avoided entering the house.

"There are two people standing at the door, who came back with your son, dressed so richly, go and take a look" Wen Wan smashed Lin Yuan, who was eating dumplings with her arm.

It was rare for Lin Yuan not to go out at home today, and Wen Wan was ordering celery and mutton dumplings for the two fathers and sons to eat.

Lin Yuan strode to the door with a bowl of lamb dumplings simmered in chicken soup, chewing a mouthful of "ba, haw", and chewing it fragrantly.

Leaning against the door, he didn't look up and asked casually, "What's the matter with you?" ”

The two looked at each other and shook their heads to show that they didn't understand, and stared directly at the dumplings in his bowl, the yellow chicken soup floated with oil flowers, and the aroma of meat and chives drilled straight into their nostrils, a bowl of dumplings with thin skin and thick meat, white and cute, lying in the golden soup is full and crystalline. Coincidentally, the two swallowed their saliva.

Lin Yuan frowned, "Where is the people?" ”

Speaking again is already the official language used by the people in the city, but I didn't expect some official words learned in Qingzhou City to come in handy at this time.

The eyes of the two lit up "people from the capital"

Lin Yuan understood, "What do you do for a living?" ”

"Shanxi Datong General Fan Zhong, this is an insider" The man with the star-eyed sword eyes explained.

Lin Yuan still doesn't let people into the house, "There is a road guide document"

Fan Zhong took it out and showed it to him, and Lin Yuan led someone into the house, and called Wen Wan, who was busy in the kitchen, to bring two bowls of dumplings.

A large pot of chicken soup and mutton dumplings, the two of them ate it after a while, but they didn't make a sound. The woman didn't even take off her hat, only lifted the corner of the scarf and ate the dumplings carefully.

After eating and burping and putting down the chopsticks, the man hugged his fists and "let the two of them laugh, the water and rice have not been exhausted for two days, and they are so hungry"

He touched it from his arms for a long time and took out a crumpled silver ticket, "This is five hundred taels, and I have the right to buy food for the two of you."

Of course Wen Wan and Lin Yuan don't accept it, just kidding! This is a general! Who knows if the mountains will not turn around, and one day they will beg him to beg for it. Fan Zhong saw that no one answered for a long time, so he had to accept the silver ticket and throw an emerald green moire jade pendant on the table.

"If he is in trouble in the future, he can find me with this thing." This is his greatest gratitude.

The mouth of eating people is short, and the truth of taking people's soft hands is still understandable. The service attitude immediately went up a level, and let Lin Yuan accompany him at home, take an ox cart to the town to cut meat and buy vegetables, and prepare to clean up a table at night.

The little ingots were noisily eating the big meat buns in the town, and she took the child with her.

When she returned home, Wen Wan boiled water for the two of them and bathed them, and found some old clothes for them to change. I am afraid that it will be inconvenient for them to wash and dry their dirty clothes again, no matter how big or small, they are warm and thoughtful.

She sweated and made eight dishes such as roast mutton, lobster, braised fish, radish and pork bone soup, and steamed refined rice and boiled shredded chicken porridge, which her family did not eat so well during the New Year.

Fan Zhong, who was born as a military general, ate very deliciously, but his wife also praised Wen Wan softly, and it was rare to have good craftsmanship. Her wife is a lady of the official family, and she is the person who has eaten the imperial banquet with the Empress Dowager Sun in the palace, and she has never moved the chopsticks to the exquisite meals.

For a while, he liked this kind of paradise a little, he only knew how to honor his ancestors and defend his family and the country since he was a child, and he never enjoyed such a peaceful and comfortable life for a moment.

And his wife's rare eyebrows and eyes were crooked, and she looked at the boy in Tsing Yi without blinking, and the smile on her lips seemed to overflow.

The little boy got the dishes that his wife had clipped, and he wanted to put some back for her and put them in the bowl, and smiled at her with wet eyes, "Thank you, sister, the ingots eat by themselves, and cause you trouble."

They were childhood sweethearts, but since they got married, he has never seen his wife so happy with such eyebrows.

Lying in bed at night, Fan Zhong cautiously asked his wife, "Why don't you stay for a few more days before leaving?" I know you love it here. ”

He was a little unbearable, his mother liked the daughter-in-law who was knowledgeable, and she didn't have a good day with him.

The wife turned her back and shook her head, tears rolling down her cold face.

"Let's go, if you stay for a long time, you will be even more reluctant to leave. You have your home and country, I know. "The cold and mellow voice of the stream carries endless exhaustion, and the soft tone is almost unpleasant.

He turned over and hugged his wife, who was curled up on his side, trying to warm her heart, "I can't live with you after all." ”

Early in the morning, when Wen Wan brought breakfast and knocked on the door, the house was already empty. She hurriedly went to the kitchen to make a lot of egg cakes, sauce meat and water for Lin Yuan to chase.

I went to the guest room to clean up the bedding they had slept on, and found that there was a rabbit-shaped jade carving tentacle lying at the head of the bed, which was the one that the ingots didn't want before.