Although the small building was not messy before, Aunt Cui was really busy, and she had to take care of the diet and daily life of several children, so she didn't have time to tidy up like this.

At this time, Aunt Cui was still helping out at the sister-in-law Liu's side, and this room must have been cleaned up by the old and young people who saw it in the morning.

Sure enough, as soon as Cheng Xi and Xu Sanlang entered, the two of them came out of the side hall, and said to Xu Sanlang Cheng Xi, "The slave has seen the master and the lady." ”

Cheng Xi responded with a smile, "Since you came here, it can be regarded as fate, you should also see it, we don't have so many messy rules, as long as you do things with peace of mind, you will be like everyone else in the future, and you will definitely not treat you badly, I haven't asked you what your name is?" ”

The old woman answered, "After entering the slave register, the slave and the maid can only let the master give the name. ”

Cheng Xi looked at Xu Sanlang suspiciously, and asked with his eyes, "There is still this rule?" ”

She bought Aunt Cui and they came over, and they all have names and surnames?

Xu Sanlang leaned into Cheng Xi's ear and explained for Cheng Xi in a low voice, "This is not a glorious thing to be a slave, and it will be inferior in the future, and some people even think that they will lose the face of their ancestors, so after many people sell themselves into slavery, they are unwilling to have a surname anymore, and gradually there is such a rule that is not a rule." ”

Cheng Xi understood, this means that those who are willing to continue to use their real names can continue to use them, and if they don't want to use them, let the master give them a name, since the woman said so, Cheng Xi thought that she must not be willing to use her original name again, looked at the middle-aged woman in front of her, thought about it, and said, "How about you call Aunt Qin?" ”

The woman replied, "Thank you, Madame, for the name." ”

Cheng Xi looked at the maid again, she should be a little older than herself, and she was also Zhou Zheng, standing there in a well-behaved and quiet manner, giving Cheng Xi a poetic and picturesque feeling, so Cheng Xi said, "How about you call Xiaoshi?" ”

The maid Rongyang replied, "Thank you Madame for the name." ”

Cheng Xi said, "If you have a surname, since you have come to our house, you will follow my family's surname." ”

While talking, Cheng Xi has been looking at the little maid, and has the idea of the little maid in his heart, this Ah Wen has already married, Ah Yi has a sister, and Ah Wu, who has a tendon, is still a problem, and with Ah Wu's temperament, it is really worrying to expect him to find a daughter-in-law to come back.

You can't let Ah Wu beat a bachelor, Cheng Xi thought to himself, so he couldn't help but glance at the door, Ah Wu, who was standing at the door like a pillar, not squinting.

Then Cheng Xi said to the maid Xiaoshi, "In the past, most of us were served by Ah Wu, so you should follow Ah Wu first in the future, and learn more from Ah Wu." ”

After speaking, Cheng Xi shouted to the person standing at the door, "Ah Wu." ”

Ah Wu heard the shouts inside, walked in quickly, and said with a fist at Cheng Xi, "Madam, what's the matter?" ”

Cheng Xi responded, "This is Xiao Shi, in the future, we will be around you and Xiao Shi to serve together, you bring her more, Xiao Shi, this is Ah Wu, don't look at him with a straight face, in fact, he is very good, if you have anything to do with him, find him as soon as possible." ”

The little poem was stunned for a while before she came back to her senses and said, "The slave and maid obey Madame's orders." ”

Cheng Xi heard this long list of thanks-like answers, frowned slightly, and said to Ah Wu, "You can talk to her alone for a while, how do we get along with people here." ”

Only Ah Wu's Mu Ne was beyond Cheng Xi's expectations, Cheng Xi obviously wanted to create an opportunity for the two of them to be alone, so that the two of them could communicate more, but this Ah Wu did not plan to talk to others alone as Cheng Xi said, but directly opened his mouth to teach, "Don't answer in the future, don't be so troublesome, reply 'yes', and Mrs. will know." ”

The corners of Cheng Xide's eyes twitched several times, and he reached out and pinched Xu Sanlang's arm hard, before he couldn't help but kick out without saying anything, and finally waved his hand impatiently, "Don't be stunned here, what should you do, look upset." ”

Ah Wu didn't know why he had provoked his wife to be unhappy, and looked at Cheng Xi suspiciously, but Aunt Qin on the side was older, and at a glance, she understood what the master meant, so she opened her mouth and said to Xiao Shi, "Xiao Shi, didn't Mrs. say that you should let the Ah Wu guards tell you how to serve you in peacetime, and hurry up and go outside with the Ah Wu guards to study hard." ”

Na Ah Wu didn't understand why Mrs. was angry with herself, and looked at Mrs. who looked like she was an eyesore, so she had to answer, "My subordinates are retired." ”

Thinking of Madame's instructions just now, he said to Xiao Shi who didn't understand what was going on, "Come with me." ”

When Ah Wu left, Cheng Xi couldn't help but complain to Xu Sanlang on the side, "You said that they grew up together, this Ah Yi and Ah Wen are so clever, why didn't this Ah Wu learn half a point, it's just a piece of wood." ”

On the side, Xu Saburo patted Cheng Xi's back and replied softly, "Look at your temperament, Ah Wu is that temperament, you are still angry with him, didn't you say that I am wood, she may follow me." ”

Cheng Xi pursed his lips and responded, "You are pretending to be wood, and he is real wood." ”

Aunt Qin on the side left quietly when she saw her master caressing her lady's back and comforting her.

Xu Saburo responded with a smile, "Why don't I beat him up and make you angry?" ”

Ah Yi, who came into the door with two guards behind him and three people holding two jars of wine in their hands, happened to hear Xu Sanlang's words, looked at Xu Sanlang with a vigilant face and said, "Master, madam, I haven't done anything to make you angry recently, right?" ”

The two guards behind Ah Yi were bright-eyed, looking like they were eager to dance and cheer up their master, looking at Xu Sanlang Cheng Xi, and at their leader, Brother Yi.

Xu Sanlang looked at the expressions of the two of them, and said in his heart, are they all a little deviated?

Without waiting for Xu Saburo to answer, Cheng Xi waved his hand and said to Ah Yi, "It's none of your business, but you can help, can you help me take a good look at Ah Wu's elm head and make him smarter." ”

As soon as Ah Yi heard Cheng Xi's tone, he knew that it must be none of his business, and the whole person relaxed, took the two jars of wine in his arms to the table in the side hall and put them down, and said in his mouth, "Madam, you will embarrass me, if you let your subordinates beat Ah Wu for you, we can do it together, but if you want him to open his head, his subordinates are really powerless." ”

Cheng Xi looked at Ah Yi's expectant expression of waiting for her to give the order to beat people, and waved his hand speechlessly, "Stay the wine, and people can leave." ”

Ah Yi saw his master's eyes on him, put down the wine and walked quickly out of the door, and said, "Madam, you remember that you promised your subordinates, I will have a share of the wine when it is brewed, and it is just at this time that my subordinates should also go to pick up Xin'er." ”

After saying that, the man was gone, and the two guards went out with him, and they had to go to Ah Wu to inquire about what stupid things he had done.

There were only two people left in the room again, Cheng Xi went to the shelf behind the side hall, took down the wild star fruit that Qin Gu had already packed with a bamboo dustpan, put it on the edge of the wine jar, and then said to Xu Sanlang on the side, "You go and get me two buckets of water." ”

Xu Sanlang nodded and went out, and as soon as Xu Sanlang left, this Qin Gu appeared again, looking at Cheng Xi picking at a dustpan of star fruit, she asked, "Madame, do you want the slave to help?" What do you need to choose? ”

Cheng Xi shook his head and said, "You can go and find me two clean dustpans, I remember that there are more star fruit brought back yesterday, you can find the other for me as well." ”

Aunt Qin heard Cheng Xi's instructions, so she turned around and went to do it, and Cheng Xi continued to pick out the ripe star fruit, leaving only the harder star fruit to soak in wine.

Fortunately, most of the star fruit is hard, and if you eat it, you have to put it at home, but if you soak in wine, it is just right.

After a while, Aunt Qin found the dustpan and star fruit, Cheng Xi thought about getting Aunt Qin in the house and the living room they had just cleaned up was dirty, so she followed Aunt Qin to move the star fruit and wine out, there happened to be a big banyan tree outside the small building, Cheng Xi felt that it was a good place to enjoy the coolness, and then asked Ah Wen to find someone to make a stone table and stone bench, Cheng Xi and Aunt Qin moved the star fruit and wine over there.

When Aunt Qin moved here and planned to help, Cheng Xi said, "I don't need your help here, Aunt Cui is not here, you can go to the kitchen and take a look, a few children and Miss Xin'er will come back to eat after lunch, you can't go to urge the kitchen too late and delay their afternoon classes." ”

Aunt Qin responded, then turned around and left, leaving Cheng Xi alone to sit under the tree and pick star fruit.

Cheng Xi suddenly remembered that when he was young, he sat beside his grandmother, watching his grandmother pick star fruit like this, and when he met something ripe, he would give it to his hand, and then his grandmother smiled kindly and instructed, "Eat slowly, the skin must be peeled clean." ”

It's just that whenever I just start peeling it, my grandmother will take back the star fruit in her hand uneasily, and say while peeling, "Let's come, the hair outside will let you get inside, and it will be eaten in the throat, but it will be uncomfortable." ”

Later, I was taken to my parents' side, and I saw my grandmother less, only until I was sick, and my grandparents were also taken to the city, and they stayed with her bedside for a long time, still with a kind smile on her face, and opened her mouth to comfort her, "Xi'er, take medicine to recuperate, and you will get better soon." ”

Only Cheng Xi saw more than once that when he opened his eyes, his grandmother's panicked tears that he didn't have time to wipe away.