The person Wu Mama found was called Shen Tian, very thin and small, with a pointed chin, but his eyes were very flexible, before Wu's mother brought him in, Xu had explained some things about Xie Wan, so when he saw Xie Wan sitting cross-legged behind the bookcase, he immediately kowtowed to the ground to evoke the "three girls".

The young man who came out of Tian Kanli was not timid when he entered the house.

Xie Wan asked him about the situation at home, so he asked him to go down to eat with Wu's mother, Xie Wan made a look at Yufang and asked her to follow quietly.

After a while, Yufang pursed her lips and came back and said, "As soon as this kid went out, he said to Mother Wu, 'You lied to me when I was still the fourth aunt, I didn't expect the third girl to be so young. I was nervous, but when I saw that she wasn't as tall as me, I was down-to-earth. ’

"Mother Wu scolded him: 'No matter how young the girl is, she is also the master, the third girl is smart, don't want to fish in troubled waters!'" I'll send you back to the village to pick up the rubbish!" Frightened, Shen Tian said, "Third aunt, don't! I just don't think it's as terrible as you say, these three girls don't look fierce at all, but like my sister. ’”

Xie Wan stroked the table and laughed.

Yufang said hatefully: "Girl, did you say that he was angry? Why did you become his sister? And there is no shame! ”

Xie Wan suppressed his smile and said, "Let him stay in the mansion for two days first, let Wu Xing take him to see the second young master, and then familiarize himself with the environment and teach him the necessary taboos." I went back and waited for the two people who were looking for Steward Luo to come, and then sent them to Lizi Hutong together. ”

The two people Luo Sheng was looking for would not be brought by his wife until the day after tomorrow, and tomorrow would be the Laba Festival.

Xie Wan asked Yuxue to put a pot on the small stove in Yifeng Courtyard, and threw the red dates and longan that had been placed on the windowsill together with two large bowls of glutinous rice, and boiled a large pot of fragrant eight-treasure porridge. Although the large kitchen has long been prepared, there is a pot of porridge and side dishes in each master's house, but the style of the people is very simple.

Shen Tian has never been so busy with the Laba Festival, busy with Wu Xing to move firewood and burn the fire, and help Yuxue wash rice and pour water, full of enthusiasm. When eating porridge, I didn't care about burning my mouth, I drank three bowls in a row, but I cried when I ate the fourth bowl, Wu's mother scolded: "I've seen a greedy mouth, but I've never seen you so greedy!" It's not that you don't have your share, what are you doing in such a hurry? "Thought he was burning.

Xie Wan said: "Take two more bowls and put porridge on them for him to dry." ”

Shen Tian wiped his tears and said, "I'm not gluttonous, I think of my father." I'm eating porridge here, and I don't know how he's doing at home. ”

Everyone was stunned, but they didn't know what to say.

Mother Wu sighed: "Who doesn't have a difficult time at home? Don't cry, come out and do things well, earn money and go back to honor your father! ”

Shen Tian nodded with tears, but his strength was not as strong as before.

After the meal was dispersed, Xie Wan left Luo Sheng.

"Who are the people employed in the Grange of Nanwa Village now?"

Luo Sheng said: "They are all tenant farmers nearby, and the people in charge are the people who came from the old Yang family, and they have always worked hard, and they are also very loyal to the second master." ”

Xie Wan hummed and said, "Then I went to ask Shen Tian to see if he would like to take his father to Qinghe, he was originally from farming, if he wanted, let him help in Nanwa Village." ”

Luo Sheng groaned: "This Shentian has just come, and he hasn't gone to work yet, so it's too early to arrange for his father to go to the Grange now?" ”

Xie Wan sighed: "I also know that this is a little rash, but if you can help, you can help, and if it doesn't work, you can send it back." He is such a father, and it is inconvenient to meet across a county town. There is not much more of him in the grange, and there is no less of him, and if they take over their father and son, they can at least see each other if they want to, and they can also make Shen Tian feel at ease to do things. ”

Luo Sheng paused for a moment, bowed down and said, "The girl's generosity is very admirable to the little one. ”

Not long after Luo Sheng went out, Shen Tian rushed in like the wind, and when he arrived at Baoxia, he didn't say a word, knelt on the ground and kowtowed more than a dozen times in a row, and then cried: "Little thank you to the third girl!" The great kindness of the three girls, the small ones will always be engraved in my heart! ”

Xie Wan smiled: "Just do things well." ”

Shen Tian kowtowed again: "The little one must do his best to do things for the girl!" ”

"Hey, what's wrong?"

As he was talking, two people appeared in the hall, and Ren Jun, who was in the lead, curiously said inward through the long window of the hugging building.

Xie Wan hurriedly gave Shen Tian a look, and then got up: "There is a new guy in the shop, my brother asked him to come into the house and kowtow to me, and then prepare to put it in the shop." While walking to the bottom of the corridor, he looked at Ren Jun and Xie Yun who came with him: "Why are you here?" Isn't my brother in the room? ”

Xie Yun pushed Ren Jun narrowly and said, "We won't be looking for the second brother today." Just now I said that the third sister has a tank of goldfish here, and the third brother didn't believe it, so I brought him over. Third sister, take out your baby and let us feast our eyes! ”

Xie Wan looked at Ren Jun. Several young masters of the Xie family stay in Qinghe all the year round, and they haven't seen goldfish, the Ren family often comes and goes to Beijing, and the Zeng family married by the eldest aunt and grandmother is a person in the noble circle who is very good at fighting cocks and lackeys, so he will even have a few goldfish?

Ren Jun blushed a little, as if he saw her suspicions, and hurriedly said: "I also saw it at my eldest brother-in-law's house before, but I heard that goldfish are very difficult to feed, so I was curious about how the third sister fed them." ”

Xie Wan looked at his nose and nose and thought for a while, raised his eyes and said, "Come and sit in the hug building." ”

The goldfish was raised by her in the small hall of Baoxia.

Yuxue carried the fish tank to the table, and the three of them sat down on three sides.

Ren Jun nodded, pointed to the flaming red fish and said, "This is the big red robe, and the posture is the most beautiful." I remember that the late Jiangnan celebrity Gu Youzhi was the best at painting it. ”

Xie Wan said: "Gu Youzhi's best thing is actually painting carp. ”

She remembered that in her previous life, Gu Youzhi painted a picture of a carp playing lotus in Taihu Lake sold for up to three hundred taels of silver, but as for the big red robe, it never exceeded one hundred taels. The reason why she was able to open her mouth was because after Gu Youzhi's death at that time, the Gu family was incompetent, and she was idle and had no money to spend, so she stole all the paintings of her ancestors and sold them for money, Xie Lang happened to know Gu Yanzhi among them.

Ren Jun said with bright eyes: "The third sister can also appreciate paintings?" ”

Xie Wan was noncommittal. Approach the fish tank and pretend to feed the fish.

After Ren Jun finished looking at the surrounding furnishings, Xie Qi's voice sounded sweetly outside the door: "Brother Jun! So you're here, let me find it! ”

Xie Qi was wearing a new jacket and pants, and wearing the beaded flowers that Xie Hong brought back to her on her double buns, and ran in happily.

Ren Jun smiled: "We are here to see the fish of the third sister, why did the second sister come." ”

Xie Qi said: "Mrs. said that everyone will eat in the main courtyard at noon today, let me come and see where Brother Jun is, don't be dragged out of the house by the fourth brother." While frowning and looking at the fish tank on the table, "What's so nice about this?" I have the thrush that my father brought back, let's go, go to our perch and play in the courtyard! ”

Xie Yun was very dissatisfied with her words, and frowned: "What do you mean not to be pulled out of the mansion by me?" Why do I like to turn people out? ”

Ren Jun also said: "Uncle Xie has just come back, this trip must be very hard, so I won't go." Come back and visit. He turned around and spoke to Xie Wan: "The third sister rarely goes out, let's go together when we go back." ”

Xie Yun said: "Turning around is still in the house, what's the point?" I think it's better to take a slingshot to Zhuangzi and shoot birds. ”

"Okay!" Ren Jun said happily: "The second brother can't go to Wen Shu, the third sister will go with us!" ”

Xie Wan waved his hand: "I'm not going." Go ye. ”

Xie Yun said: "You just go!" More people is fun! There are not only mountains but also rivers in Zhuangzi, where you can touch fish. If we're lucky enough to get snowy, we'll be able to go up the hill together to chase hares! When the time comes, I hit the rabbit and come back and empty the belly, stuff the star anise cinnamon and onion and garlic into it, tie the whole one with the iron wire and skewer it and roast it, the taste is incomparable! ”

He was already drooling as he spoke.

Xie Qi shouted: "Then I'll go too!" ”

Ren Jun smiled and nodded: "Call Brother Tong and the eldest girl again, and let's go together." He looked at Xie Wan earnestly: "Let's go together?" ”

There is only one grange in Xie Mansion, in the eastern suburbs of the county, near Huangshi Town, called Wutouzhuang, and hundreds of acres of land have been used to grow vegetables.

Xie Wan said that it was false not to be moved, how many years had he not been in the grange, and then Luo Sheng, the shop in Huangshi Town, had already seen it and had already made a deposit. And Sister-in-law Mei said that there will be a letter of permission to hire in two days, if she can go to see it in person, and by the way, she will have more confidence in her heart.

So Xie Yun persuaded her again, and she nodded and said, "Then wait until it snows before going, I see that the sky has changed, and I am afraid that there will be snow in the next two days." ”

It's already snowed, and it hasn't started to snow this year, and it's not normal to have some snowflakes on this gray and cold day now. She also took advantage of these two days to make some preparations.

Xie Yun jumped up: "Then it's decided!" As soon as it snows, go to Zhuangzi! ”

Ren Jun also laughed easily.

Xie Qi pouted and took a handful of pine nuts from the plate and ate them.

When she came back from eating in the upper room at noon, she called Wu Xing: "If Steward Luo comes back, you let him come in." ”

Xie Lang hurriedly came in and said, "Wu Xing, hurry up and help me prepare a few books!" The student test is scheduled for February next year, and it will be over after the New Year! "All the way to the house, I looked so nervous that I didn't know what to do.

Wu Xing hurriedly went in. Xie Wan leaned on the door frame and said inwardly: "Brother, don't be so nervous, you will definitely pass the test." "Since he was able to take the examination in his previous life, how could he take the exam for a small student? It's just the first time I'm taking the exam, and I'm just worried about the unknown.

"Really?" Xie Lang stroked his chest, exhaled and said, "If only it was as Wan Wan said!" ”