"Humility, humility, be careful not to fall." Zheng Shi smiled and strode over.

Although the girl was young, she was quite agile when she ran, and she was still so fast on the bamboo horse, and when she ran, she suddenly threw the thin bamboo pole in her hand on the ground, and opened her arms and shouted: "Daddy-"

Zheng Shi grabbed a few steps, picked her up with both hands under his daughter's armpits, and spun around in the air, and the girl's silver bell-like laughter sprinkled on all sides.

Zheng Shi whispered a few words to his daughter, the girl looked at Zeng Yu with big black eyes, nodded vigorously, Zheng Shi came over with her, put it down in front of her great-mother Zhou, and the girl immediately twisted her small waist and hips to her great-mother Zhou's Wanfu, and said loudly: "Humble and say hello to Mrs. Zeng." "The words are clear, not milky, bold, and not afraid to see people.

Great-mother Zhou smiled happily, bent down to hold the little girl's humble hand, and said in a loud voice: "Good child, good child." ”

Zeng Yu smiled and looked at the beloved daughter of the three idiot brothers, this little girl is thin, her complexion is not very fair, her forehead is high and wide, her eyes are dark and big, and when she speaks, her eyes are dark and slippery, and she looks like a little clever-

According to her father's advice, the little girl Qianqian then wanted to salute Zeng Yu, but when she saw Niu Niu next to Zeng Yu, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she pointed to Niu Niu and asked, "Is she also going to be a guest with us, Daddy?" ”

Zheng Shi said: "Yes, say hello to my sister, uh, Qianqian wants to call my aunt." ”

The little girl Qianqian immediately said: "Only when she grows up is called aunt, she is as big as Qianqian, only a little older, I don't call aunt, don't call it." "The attitude is very resolute.

Zeng Yu's mother and son laughed, Zeng Yu said: "It's better to call my sister, I'm only two years older and I want to call my aunt, it's unwilling." ”

Zheng Shi smiled: "Isn't this a mess!" ”

Zeng Yu half-squatted and said to the little girl: "Qianqian, I am your father's friend, what should you call me?" ”

The little girl looked at Zeng Yu, but asked, "Uncle Jiuli, are you fishing?" ”

Zeng Yu smiled: "Why do you ask that?" ”

The little girl glanced at her father Zheng Shi and said, "Daddy wants me to call you Uncle Nine Carp, Uncle Nine Carp of Nine Big Carp." ”

Zheng Shi and Zeng Yu laughed.

At this time, the people of Yingtanfang gathered more and more, and people kept coming forward to say hello to Zheng Shi, Zheng Shi was busy coping, and asked his father and fellow villagers to make a way-

The hospitable Qianqian had already taken Niuniu's hand and asked this and that curiously, and picked up the green bamboo pole on the ground and enthusiastically invited Niuniu to ride a horse, Niuniu, who was two years older than Qianqian, was shy and restrained, with a red face, sweating at the corners of her forehead, but her heart was very lively.

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Zheng Shi's house is on the cross street of Yingtanfang, the house is not big, the door is a small hall, the ear room on both sides, the small hall is a patio, there are seven or eight brick and wood tile houses around the patio, the residence is not spacious, but the backyard is very large, the backyard is the Xinjiang River that flows out of the water, the sun sets, the river breeze comes mightily, it is quite cool.

Great-mother Zhou and Zheng Shi's mother Lu Shi in the patio greetings and pull homely, Lu is seven years older than Zhou, fifty-three this year, not good at talking, is a simple old woman, Lu twenty years ago with her husband from Yongfeng to Yingtan to settle down, ten years ago her husband died, life is also poor, now the son has entered school, can be exempted from the family's field service, the future days will be more comfortable, Lu is pleased, heard his son said that Zeng Yu's mother and son situation, greatly sympathetic, did not wait for the son to say that he wanted to leave Zeng's mother and daughter to live temporarily, Lu Shi first proposed, At this time, I was talking to my great-mother Zhou about this-

Zheng Shi's wife Li is one year younger than Zheng Shi, her appearance is mediocre, she is virtuous, there is no maid and maid at home, she should do laundry and cooking by Li alone, and she has to weave hemp when she has free time, and she is preparing dinner in the kitchen at this time.

There are two male servants in the Zheng family, namely Laifu and his father Fugui, Fugui is over sixty years old, with gray hair, a little deaf, and his legs and feet are still neat, he has been in the Zheng family for more than forty years, and he followed Zheng Shi's father here from Yongfeng-

Niuniu and Qianqian are already very familiar, the two little girls ran from the back garden to the patio, having a lot of fun, Niuniu ran with Qianqian at first, and paid attention to the faces of the Zheng family adults from time to time to see if they would be annoyed by the frolicking too noisy, but the Zheng family was smiling and angry, just reminding her two: "Be careful not to fall, don't hit the door frame." ”

Zheng Shi and Zeng Yu were walking and gossiping in the back garden, Zheng Shi said: "Jiu Carp saw it, Ling Tang and my mother are very reasonable, and Humble Jing will not resent me, my family is humble and has Niu Niu as a playmate, and I have time to teach her to read and write." ”

As he was talking, the old servant Fugui came over and said, "Young Master, Father Gui of Ximen asked to see him, sat in the foyer, and brought two loads of gifts. ”

The vast majority of people in Yingtanfang are surnamed Gui, Gui is the surname of Guixi, Yingtan this branch is moved from Guixi, has multiplied for more than 100 years, such as Zheng Shi is a minority, the Gui clan relies on the strength of the people, there is more discrimination and bullying against the foreign surname people in the village, before Zheng Shi's father was a small official in the inspection department, the Gui family did not dare to bully, but since the death of Zheng Shi's father, these Gui family members want to encroach on the Zheng family's more than 50 acres of paddy fields on the north bank of the Xinjiang River, first threatened and intimidated the tenants of the Zheng family, forcing those tenants not to dare to cultivate the Zheng family's fields, Then the Gui clan to do the Zheng family's tenant farmers, Zheng Shi was unwilling to rent the land to the Gui family for farming, but could not find other tenant farmers, more than 50 fields can not be just like that, had to rent to the Gui family, since then the troubles are constant, every time the summer wheat and autumn grain rent is paid, the Gui tenants will use drought and flood, insect pests and other reasons, do everything possible to pay less land rent, since the field was rented to the Gui family, Zheng Shi's field rent income has dropped sharply-

After two years like this, the patriarch of the Gui clan, known as Gui's father, sent someone to ask Zheng Shi if he was willing to sell the field, bidding four taels of silver for one acre of land, although Zheng Shi usually only cares about reading and playing chess and does not ask much about world affairs, but he also knows that the paddy field on the other side of the road is worth at least seven taels of silver per mu, of course he refuses to sell, the patriarch of the Gui clan knows that Zheng Shi still has some connections in the inspection department, and he does not dare to be too persecuted, and it is still difficult to collect the land rent of Zheng Shi's family in full in the next few years. This Gui Daddy came to the door and asked to see him-

Zheng Shi frowned and said: "What are the Gui family doing here, tell them to leave, just say that I have friends to accompany me." ”

Fugui took a few steps closer and asked loudly: "Young master, what did you say, who should you ask to pay?" "Deaf people are worried that others will not be able to hear clearly, so they speak very loudly, Fugui was originally a loud voice, and now he is shouting.

Zeng Yu said: "Although the three idiot brothers go to meet the guests, the younger brother will take a look at the river view in this back garden." ”

Zheng Shi said: "Jiu Li, you don't know anything-" At the moment, he briefly said the contradiction between the Gui clan and his Zheng family, and said: "I will go to see him for this kind of person, and in the second half of the year, I will take back those fields and find tenant farmers to cultivate, and see if his Gui family dares to stop it!" ”

Zeng Yu persuaded: "Why don't the three idiot brothers go to meet the patriarch of the Gui clan, since he gave a courtesy, it must be because he learned that his brother has entered school and wants to be friendly with his brother - adults don't care about villains, brother Mo is like such a snob, and he can deal with them." ”

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Tomorrow's second watch, Jiu Carp will also go on the road to Fenyi.