Zhang Bao continued: "The family is wielding knives and guns, what does it matter if there are two more scholars? Ama always said that if you want to revitalize the family business, can you revitalize it with a knife and a gun? The brothers are reluctant to prosper in Beijing and don't want to suffer on the frontier, but where can they earn any military merits in Beijing? In the end, you still have to fight for anger in the court! ”

His words were so unusual that Tong didn't dare to speak, so he handed him a bowl of goat's milk. Zhang Bao drank it silently and also took a bowl to feed his daughter.

After a while, after breakfast, Tong asked someone to clean up the dishes and accompany her husband to the study.

Seeing her so cautious, Zhang Bao smiled: "If you have anything to say, you just say it, there is no need for husband and wife to dodge like this." Tong Shi was a little sneering: "It's nothing, it's just that you seem to be a little dissatisfied with your family, is something wrong?" Seeing that Zhang Bao's face was ugly, she hurriedly said: "If you don't want to say it, you don't have to tell me, I am a woman, how can I understand?" She paused, and then said, "You must be tired of holding your daughter for so long, give it to me, it's not good for her little child to hear these things." Then he reached out and hugged his daughter.

Zhang Bao didn't let go and said, "Where can she understand?" Let me hug me for a while, but I don't usually see each other a few times. He turned around and sat down at the table with his daughter in his arms, and pointed to the chair on the other side: "Sit down, in fact, it is okay to talk to you about this, so that you can know in your heart." ”

Tong was a little uneasy, sat down according to his words, and listened carefully to her husband talk about the ins and outs of the matter.

"I've been in Mukden for three years, and more than a dozen people have come together, those who have returned to Beijing have returned to Beijing, and they have been promoted to the top, and now there are only three or four people left except me, all of whom have no foundation. Last year, the imperial court pacified the three feudatories, the whole country celebrated, I had the opportunity to go back, as long as the family dredged up, but the family wrote a letter, saying that they wanted to take the opportunity to let the younger brother transfer back to Beijing, and there was a shortage in the military department that could be given to him, so the silver was given to him first, and then planned for me in the coming year. I thought that there was not much spare money at home, but my younger brother was about to get married at that time, so I agreed, and never complained about anything. The new Zhou Fucheng who came last autumn and I got along very well, and when I talked about it at dinner a few years ago, I learned that my eldest brother, who died of a concubine in the summer, actually spent a lot of money on funerals, and the funeral guard of honor was full of 100 people, not to mention 12,000 silver. He has the money to do the funeral for his concubine, so he doesn't have the money to ask for a shortage for his brother? How much can I spend as a six-grade petty official? If he doesn't want to, he just says, why coax me?! ”

Zhang Bao said that later, he was almost about to shoot the case, and Shuning was hugged too tightly by him, and he was a little painful, but he didn't dare to open his mouth at this time. Tong got up and soothed her husband's back. Zhang Bao pressed it down, saw his daughter's tearful appearance, hurriedly handed her to his wife, sat at the table by himself, and after a while, spoke again:

"Now we don't always think about going back to Beijing. I also thought about it, now I only do these six petty officials, and the official comments in the past few years are only average, even if I go back to Beijing, I just have to be a foreigner, I am afraid that I will have to stay up for ten or eight years before I have a chance to rise. My family has no intention of me now, so I might as well stay in Mukden, wouldn't I be comfortable? Even you're less angry. ”

Tong Shi bowed his head and was silent, and only looked up for a while before he raised his head and said, "Having said that, we are getting better, but what about our son?" Always think about his future, do you want him to accompany us in this kind of place for the rest of our lives? ”

"You don't have to worry about that. I just said to stay in Mukden for the time being, and I don't plan to really do it here for the rest of my life. This Jingqi Huitun matter is cumbersome and disputed, and now I have experience. In another year or two, Lord Fu Yin or General Sa will speak for me for the sake of my diligence, as long as the rank is promoted, are you still afraid that there will be no future? If you can meet the opportunity and make a contribution to the two of them, wouldn't it be better than returning to Beijing to boil up your qualifications? In the final analysis, it is better to be a petty official in Beijing that no one looks down on, it is better to go out. ”

"That Son ......"

"You don't have to worry, I will ask my husband in the next year, and I must teach him to read well. You also made a point earlier, it's not good to just be able to read, not to be able to ride and shoot. I would write to my family and recommend a good master. He sneered, "Could it be that this is such a trivial matter, and they can't say it can't?" ”

The Tong family didn't mess with him, and finally let go of the big things in his heart. Although her husband has a dislike for her family, she has never had a good impression of her in-laws' family, and she is not very sad. As long as the future of the husband and son is promising, it is naturally good if he can not go back to the big family. Now she was also a mistress, and she was accustomed to being the master of her own little house, and now she was not interested in returning to the Earl's Court to be at the mercy of others.

Sure enough, after fifteen, Zhang Bao asked Zhou Fucheng to lead the way and personally visited the Ding Juren, and he was very satisfied. Although he is only a lifter and he is not young, it is enough to teach his son. He solemnly took Duan Ning to the door to salute, Ding Juren happily accepted the students, and made an appointment that his family would take Duan Ning to his house every day to attend classes, and lunch was also eaten at his house, and the meal money had already been paid to a nearby restaurant.

Tong originally wanted his son to learn at home, but that Ding Juren was a bit old-fashioned, thinking that Zhang Bao went to the yamen every day, and most of the family members were women, which was inconvenient. He insisted, Tong had no choice but to give up, watching his son go out every day, thinking about when he would come home.

She is like this, and she is a little too lazy to take care of everything at home. Shu Ning ignored her and worked hard every day to practice walking and talking. She is the soul of an adult, and she naturally learns faster than the average child. When Zhang Bao found out that his son was not at home and his wife was distracted, he found that his daughter was already able to run and walk, and she spoke fluently.

Tong was very embarrassed by what her husband said. After a few months, she gradually got used to it, and instead of sitting and waiting for her son to come back, she spent time thinking about the evening meal and her husband's son's clothes. The daughter is well-behaved and obedient, and she doesn't mess around, so she is relieved to let the child run around at home.

Before, she was always carried around, and Shuning couldn't control where she could go, but now she was free to move around her home without worrying about someone always following, so she carefully looked at this home and everything in her home for the first time. I don't know if I don't see it, I was shocked when I saw it, the more she looked at it, the more doubts she had. Because she saw the flower water, the soap, the palm-sized mirror in the Tong family's makeup box, and the lampstand lampshade made of glass. Didn't these things have to be available in the late Qing Dynasty? Even if mirrors and glassware have appeared, what is the deal with toilet water? Could it be that there are other traversers in this world? Has history changed here?

At this time, Shuning really wanted to go through the history books in the study to figure out what was going on. If history has really changed, then is she still living in the Qing Dynasty she originally thought?

It's a pity that no matter how smart Shuning is, it is still a shocking thing for a two-year-old child to read history books. The so-called abnormality is a demon, and she will not forget what the consequences will be if she is too sharp. At this time, she could only press it down, and she couldn't check the book, so she could only ask people. So she pretended to be a problem baby, pointing to things all day long and asking people, "What is this?" "What's that?"

Although others are annoyed by her questions, it is normal to be curious about babies after all, and most questions can be answered. Among them, Gossip Xiao Tao became the most popular answerer for Shuning, because she always likes to ramble and often say a lot of things, although her credibility is quite dubious. This is often the case with the following.

"What is this?"

"It's soap. It's a white thing, it's very useful, and it can be washed cleanly. Much better than the honey locust paste we use to wash things in the countryside. I heard that there is also fragrant soap, which is added with spices, and only a little bit of it can make the clothes fragrant for three days and three nights! ”

"How did this come about?"

"I've heard the storyteller at Dongjiekou say that this is something that existed in the Song Dynasty, and it was invented by a horse master. He made it to make the princess's wife fragrant, so he specially made it to please her. As a result, the princess was kind-hearted, and specially passed on the recipe to the poor, and the poor started a workshop, made soap, and sold it for money, so that he would no longer be poor. When the little girl grows up, she will be a good person like this princess. ”

“……”

"What is this?"

"It's toilet water."

"What is toilet water? Is it made of flowers? "Who wouldn't pretend to be a child?

"I don't know. This is someone's secret recipe, I heard that it was available in the Tang Dynasty, and it has been there for thousands of years. Everyone says that this toilet water is made from hundreds of kinds of flowers, and there are many precious medicinal herbs, which can refresh the mind and repel mosquitoes. It costs five taels of silver to buy a small bottle, and only the ladies and ladies of the rich and noble families are worthy of it. The third grandmother's bottle is a large bottle, which is worth ten taels of silver, or was given by her mother's family, and she has only used less than half of it in the past few years since she came to Fengtian. ”

“……”

Shuning felt as if she was listening to a time-traveling history, how could she be so familiar with these stories? Although it is a little different from the novel, how does it sound so similar to "Song Feng" and "A Good Man of the Tang Dynasty"? Could it be that the cowman named Wang Zihao really traveled to the Tang Dynasty to make toilet water? But if the plots in these novels really happened in history, then history should be very different, why is she still living in the twenty-first year of Kangxi in history?

Slow down...... History really seems a little different......

Shuning remembered the four words "Jingqi Huitun" that she always heard, could it be that "Boiled Qing Dynasty" is also happening? But this era is not right! Oh my God, where the hell is she wearing?

She felt like she didn't know what to say, and her mind was blank.