Chapter 161: Tracking
"Why are you two still grinding around here? Hurry up. Later, a woman came over, it was Du Jincheng's mother, Zhang. Like the two brothers, she carried large bags of things in her hands.
But it turned out that Du Yunyi's newly bought house was not far from the alley near the teahouse, they moved yesterday, and today there are still some bits and pieces to move from the old house, and the mother and son are walking to the new house with their things.
"Mother, I saw Du Jinning." Du Jingde pointed to the carriage lane that was slowly driving on the street, "He is with the young master of the Guan family." ”
Zhang's face changed.
She stared at the carriage farther and farther away, and asked, "How does he look?" ”
"It's good. Wearing new clothes, the whole person is like a different person, which is very different from the original. ”
Zhang's expression changed a few times, and when she saw a mule cart passing by, she gritted her teeth, stopped the mule cart, and then handed a few things in her hand to the brothers, and told them, "You go home first, and I'll go and see." ”
So saying, she took the remaining two and got into the mule cart.
"Mother, where are you going?" Du Jinde asked puzzled.
"Don't ask. Go back quickly. Zhang's voice came from the car, and the mule cart started and drove forward.
The brothers watched the mule cart drift away, running in the direction where Du Qinglin disappeared, looking at each other.
"Mother, this is ...... Want to go to the small three rooms? Du Jingde said.
"Maybe." Du Jincheng was thoughtful.
Seeing the pedestrians coming and going looking at the big bags and small bags they were carrying, he came back to his senses and said, "Let's go quickly, the thing is dead." ”
Du Jinde felt that his hands were tired, so he hurriedly walked forward.
Zhang's side, urging the mule cart to hurry up, finally saw the carriage in front of him, and there was a sign of the government on it, which seemed to be correct. She told the mule driver to slow down and follow unhurriedly.
Seeing that the carriage did not stop at the gate of the academy, but continued to walk forward, Zhang breathed a sigh of relief and instructed the coachman: "Go slowly, I'm a little dizzy." You keep walking forward, I want to go to the Zhuangzi in the academy to see relatives. I'll give you two more pennies for the car in a moment. ”
The driver was very happy to hear this, and immediately slowed down.
It used to be a big road, with people and cars coming and going; After passing the academy, the mule cart was far away, and the coachman of the Guan family did not notice that someone was following behind him, and according to Du Jinning's instructions, he drove the car directly to the door of Du's house, and then stopped.
Zhang did not dare to ask the coachman to drive the mule cart in, but when he arrived at Zhuangzikou, he got out of the cart and gave the money, sent the mule cart back, and walked forward carrying his things alone. After walking for a while, I asked where the newly moved Du family lived, and under the guidance of that person, I found a new home in the small third room.
At this time, the Du family, Chen was taken aback by the arrival of Guan Jiaze and Guan Jiayu, and hurriedly welcomed the two into the house, asked Du Fanghui to boil water, soaked the tea leaves given by Aunt Dong, and then took out a plate of dried tofu and peanuts and melon seeds that he had just bought for the New Year, and put them on the table, and said with a smile: "Our Zhuang family has nothing to entertain, only some dried tofu made by themselves, and some fried peanuts and melon seeds, which are quite clean." Don't dislike the two young masters Guan. ”
As she spoke, her eyes fell on Guan Jiayu.
Guan Jiayu is still just a girl, and she doesn't have any obvious feminine characteristics, and she is dressed as a boy at this time, and she can't be recognized if she doesn't look carefully. But Zhang still sensitively felt a sense of disobedience, and always felt that Guan Jiayu did not look like a boy. It wasn't until she saw the piercings on Guan Jiayu's earlobes with sharp eyes that her heart was determined.
Sure enough, it's a girl.
Her heart moved, and her eyes fell on Du Jinning.
Fortunately, Du Jinning has been raised as a boy since she was born, but she herself has no awareness that she is a girl, so she has not been exposed for so many years, otherwise, I don't know how much trouble she will cause.
"Auntie, don't say that, your dried tofu is delicious. As you know, we have partnered to open a teahouse, and now the tofu in the teahouse is the most popular snack, and the demand exceeds every day. Guan Jiaze said with a smile.
As a child of a family, he still copes with this kind of social etiquette with ease, and what he says is also the truth.
Because the vast majority of people who go to the teahouse to listen to books are middle-aged and elderly men, these people are not very interested in sweets, but have a soft spot for salty snacks, so the Du family's dried tofu is the most popular in the teahouse. Yesterday, the Du family provided a lot of money, and they were originally going to sell it for two or three days, but they didn't want to sell out the dried tofu before the last storytelling. Zhuang Yue immediately called Zhao Dahu to come over and spread the word, telling him to do more today.
Hearing Guan Jiaze's praise of his own dried tofu, and then thinking about the money from selling dried tofu in the past two days, Chen smiled from ear to ear, pointed to the dried tofu on the table and said, "This is newly made, just out of the pot." If you say yes, eat more. ”
said and beckoned Guan Jiayu: "Brother Yu'er also eat some." ”
Guan Jiayu has never been to this kind of villager's house, and she is curious about everything after coming in. She was not interested in the snacks on the table, but was curious about the vegetables grown in the yard, and asked Chen, "Auntie, can I walk in your yard?" ”
"No problem, whatever you want. It's just that the yard is not clean, and it looks like your shoes and socks are dirty. Chen said.
The mother and daughter of the Du family are all people who love cleanliness, and in the old house, the Niu family raised their livestock to other people's homes because of Zhang's dislike of chickens and ducks. Now that the Chen family is in charge and has their own yard, they naturally don't want to make their home dirty. In addition, vegetables were also planted in the yard, so for fear of being pecked by chickens, a small area was enclosed at the back of the yard, and the chicks caught from Aunt Dong's house were raised there.
Therefore, in the yard of the Du family, the most common yard in the countryside does not exist. When Chen said this, he was just thinking about the green brick floor of the rich family, and his own mud floor could not be compared.
"No, I'm not that particular." Guan Jiayu said with a smile.
Seeing that she smiled and had two dimples on her round little face, and her big eyes were bent into crescent moons, she was very cute, she was so sensible, and she didn't dislike the Du family's poverty, Chen suddenly liked her very much, and said with a smile: "Then look at it at will." ”
Guan Jiayu got up, came out of the house, and walked to the yard to look at the vegetable patch. Some of the dishes here were left by the original owner of the house, and after the Du family moved here, they pulled out some vegetables to eat and planted some more. Those seeds had just sprouted in the fields at this time, scattered dots on the soil, and Guan Jiayu was very curious, pointing and asking Du Jinning what it was.
After looking at the vegetable garden and hearing the chicks of the chicks, she followed the sound again and walked back, and in a short time she saw a group of yellowish furry creatures. Guan Jiayu suddenly shouted excitedly: "Brother Du, what is this?" ”
When his sister came out of the house, Guan Jiaze was not at ease, so he naturally had to follow. At this time, Du Jinning and Guan Jiaze followed Guan Jiayu.
Hearing Guan Jiayu's question, Du Jinning was a little speechless, turned his head and asked Du Jiaze, "What are you talking about?" ”