Great-mother Zhou's heard her son say that the old guest surnamed Yuan was really from Jiaxing, and she just nodded, and did not feel the joy of meeting her hometown in another country, nor did she have the inquiry of "you come from your hometown and should know about your hometown", she is nearly half a hundred years old, and she is very indifferent to her distant hometown, and she knows that it is impossible to find it back, because she doesn't remember most of the things before she was trafficked, and she only remembers that there is a big lake near her hometown, and her family once took her to take a boat tour of the lake, she feels very happy, so she has a deep memory; When Zengyu's grandfather bought her, he heard her call herself "Zhou Zhou", so he let her take Zhou as her surname, in fact, she has a big question about whether she is surnamed Zhou, who will let the child use the surname as a milk name, "Zhou Zhou" may be Zhouzhou or Zhouzhou, who knows Lu Dao?

Since his mother didn't ask more, Zeng Yu didn't mention his mother's childhood hometown, being abducted and exiled from his hometown at a young age is his mother's eternal pain, more than 40 years have passed, it seems that the scars have long been settled, but in fact he is still fragile, and he feels a faint pain in his heart when he thinks about it.

The city has beaten two drums, the night is getting deeper, looking out of the small window, the moonlight reflects the snow, the courtyard of the inner courtyard seems quite bright, the three little girls who were still upstairs and downstairs frolicking before are not moving at this time, they have fallen asleep, without the laughter of the children, the house surrounded by the high horse's head wall is deserted, you can hear the sound of the flowing water of the Lingxi in front of the door and the snow of the branches in the back garden is blown down by the wind.

"Ah Tong and Ah Wei insist that Niuniu sleep with them, the three of them really don't want to be separated for a moment, just bothering you Sister Ruolan, but tomorrow their mother and daughter will go back to Zhu's house, these days Ruolan is specially coming to accompany me, Zhu Dedong came to urge Ruolan to go back in three days."

In the dim bedroom, great-mother Zhou sat on the edge of the bed, Zeng Yu sat on the low pestle in front of the bed, great-mother Zhou looked at her son with a smile, and her mother was worried, and she heard about the thieves a few days ago, and she was worried day and night, but now she is at ease, and she is simply satisfied.

Zeng Yu said: "Sister, they are close, and you can come back at any time when you go back." ”

Zeng's mother Zhou said: "The Zeng family is an outsider, and there are no relatives here, and you have little contact with your eldest brother." ”

Zeng Yu said: "Shitian is also hundreds of miles away from here, where can I walk around as often as Zhu Jiajia. ”

Seeing her son shrug his shoulders, his great-mother Zhou seemed to be a little cold, so she handed the stove in her hand to her son and said, "You have a good hand." He reproached again: "Your clothes are still so thin in this cold day, how can it be good if your body is frozen out." ”

Zeng Yu held his hand on the stove and said with a smile: "My son has always been in good health, and my mother touched my hand." As he spoke, he stretched out his right hand and put it on the back of his mother's hand, which was slightly cold, with green tendons and slightly loose skin.

Great-mother Zhou smiled: "You just got hot." ”

Zeng Yu smiled and said, "It's also hot." ”

Great-mother Zhou's "um", Yu'er was weak and sick before the age of six, and later practiced Baduanjin with his uncle Mr. Shaolong, and practiced boxing and sword, and became physically strong, great-mother Zhou's did not have much worry about her son's body, what she wanted to say now was: "This house is large, it can be lived in by a large family, tomorrow after your sister's family goes back, we will be a mother, and we can't help but ——,be deserted" paused for a moment, and got to the point: "Xiaoyu, there are more than ten days before the New Year, and you will be twenty-one years old after the New Year, whether it is Shitian or Shangrao, People of your age are engaged even if they are not married, and some of them have children and become fathers—"

Zeng Yu smiled: "Does my mother want to hug her grandson?" ”

Great-mother Zhou's eyes lit up and said, "Needless to say, my mother is almost fifty years old, and she has long wanted to see my son marry a wife and have children." ”

Zeng Yu said: "The old immortal Yuangang Master of the Qing Palace of Longhu Mountain, who is still light and healthy in his eighties, is a man of the Tao, and his seniority is also very high, and the Tongchen Dao chief who has seen his beard is white is his nephew, this Yuangang Master once calculated a hexagram for his son, saying that his son will not have a son until he is in the year of Yin, this year is the year of Gengshen, and the next year of Yin is six years later, that is, the mother will wait for her son to be twenty-six years old before it is possible to hold her grandson. ”

"It's going to be twenty-six years old, so it's really a long wait." Great-Mother Zhou felt a little regretful, and then asked, "Did the old immortal of Longhu Mountain say when you will marry a wife?" ”

When asked this, Zeng's mother Zhou immediately thought of Zhang Guangwei, she had a very good impression of Zhang Guangwei, this noble girl is beautiful, and there is no domineering arrogance, the most important thing is that this little fairy girl is good to her son, although the Zeng family and the Zhang family of Longhu Mountain are very different, but as a mother, there is always such a luxury.

Zeng Yu replied: "I didn't say when I would marry a wife, it must have been before I had a child, hehe." ”

Great-mother Zhou glanced at her son with disgust and asked, "Then you tell the truth to your mother, do you have a favorite lady, and your mother will ask someone to propose you to your relatives." ”

Zeng Yuxin said: "I like Lu Miao, but she is five years older than me, and she is still Yan Shifan's thirteenth concubine in name, and she is half a monk nun, if I say it at this time, my mother is only afraid that she will be angry and half dead, helpless, helpless, she can't marry her aunt but wants to marry her niece, what's going on!" Although Mr. Yan Er and the Cao family want to promote the marriage between me and Miss Yingzi, with Yan Shifan's arrogant and rigid personality, they should not agree, Yan Shifan can't refuse Xu Jie's grandson's proposal and then marry Yingzi to a poor Xiucai, wouldn't that be equivalent to humiliating Xu Jie, so my marriage with Yingzi is basically no fun, what I have to do is to wait for Yan Song's father and son to fall and try to help Lu Niangzi and Miss Yingzi, and not let them fall into the fire pit——"

"Hey, isn't Xiaoyu going to take the test tomorrow, why don't you go to rest?"

After Zeng Ruolan took care of the three girls and fell asleep, she came to see if Aunt Zeng had turned off the lights and slept peacefully, but saw Zeng Yu's mother and son whispering under the lamp.

When Great-Mother Zhou heard Zeng Ruolan say this, she immediately urged Zeng Yudao: "The fish hurry back to the room to rest - do you want Tang Pozi to warm the bed?" ”

Zeng Yu said with a smile: "My son is young and vigorous, and it doesn't take a moment to warm up when he sleeps in the bed. He said goodnight to his mother and sister and went back to his bedroom.

Zeng Ruolan sat down on the low pestle where Zeng Yu was just sitting, and asked softly: "Aunt Zeng asked Xiaoyu about the little fairy girl, is it a marriage?" ”

Great-mother Zhou said: "I was about to ask him if he had a favorite girl, but before he could answer, you came over - I didn't ask directly about the little fairy girl, and after a few tentative words, he talked about an old fairy in Longhu Mountain and said that he would not have a child until he was twenty-six years old, and he didn't mention the little fairy girl." He sighed lightly: "Alas, what kind of background is that little fairy girl, where can we afford to climb high." ”

Zeng Ruolan disagreed, and said: "Although the Zhang family of Longhu Mountain is noble, if our little fish enters Beijing to catch the title of the gold list, it is also worthy of it." ”

Great-mother Zhou said with a smile: "How can it be so easy to take the examination and take the Jinshi, you see that Xiaoyu has taken the test three times, and it is still a long way to make up for the examination, even if it has been more than ten or twenty years for the ancestors to accumulate virtue and win the Jinshi, then the small fish will become an old fish, hehe." ”

Zeng Ruolan also laughed, but said: "I think Xiaoyu is running now, and it is not impossible to win all the way." ”

Great-mother Zhou smiled: "How can you pin Yu'er's marriage on the imperial examination luck high school, if not, won't your wife marry!" ”

Zeng Ruolan said with a smile: "Aunt Zeng is in a hurry to hold her grandson, isn't it easy for Xiaoyu to marry a wife, now the person who tells Xiaoyu about the matchmaker makes three or five trips a day, and the thieves have stopped in the past two days, I expect that there will be a matchmaker tomorrow, and now Xiaoyu is back, I don't know how many people inside and outside Shangrao City want to let my Xiaoyu be his son-in-law, Xiaoyu can be carefully selected." ”

Great-mother Zhou also smiled and said: "It's better to let the fish make up their own minds, as long as the fish likes it—Ruolan, you can also go and rest, it's three watches." ”

……

Zeng Yu heard his sister Zeng Ruolan walking through the corridor in front of his house, his sister's footsteps were very soft, and after a while, the entire wooden building and the entire house were completely quiet, as if there was only one floor and one room between heaven and earth.

Zeng Yu had already performed the Baduan Jin Guidance Technique at this time, and slept comfortably in the warm and thick quilt, thousands of miles away, twice encountered thieves, all kinds of waves were quiet at this time, as for nothingness, the beautiful feeling of being at home accompanied him into a dream.

The entrance examination is not like the prefectural examination and the college examination, which requires candidates to get up on the fourth watch and enter on the fifth watch.

When Chen Shi was on the cards, Zeng Yu and Zheng Shi packed up and were waiting to enter the city for the exam, Wu Chunze brought a servant over to take the exam with Zeng and Zheng, and Laifu and Sixi followed with the exam basket.

Before entering the venue, Zeng Yu told Sixi to go to the Soviet-style silk shop next to the Chenghuang Temple to find the old customer Yuan Zhong, if Yuan Zhong and his son want to return to their hometown, please postpone for half a day, and wait for him to go out of the examination room to discuss important matters.

Sixi and Laifu watched their young master enter the examination room, and then went to the Chenghuang Temple at the east gate, Laifu said to Sixi that day when he encountered a thief, and said that Zeng Yu stepped two small ingots of silver into the snow on the road, Sixi was also poor, and regretted: "Oh, didn't my young master go to pick it up later, it was ten taels of silver." ”

Laifu said: "How can I have time to pick it up at that time, it's important to save my life, but there is a bald tree where your young master stepped on silver, it should be a stinky tree, and I will help you find it when my young master returns to Yingtan after the exam——"

Sixi hurriedly said: "I'll go with you to find it." ”

Rifle said, "Okay, you will bring back the silver when you find it." ”

Talking to the east gate of the City God Temple Square, this area of shops gathered, these days because of the bandits, many merchants stranded in Shangrao City, as well as a lot of rich businessmen who fled here, the people in the city have also come to the City God Temple Market to shop, so the City God Temple this area is more lively than in previous years, filled with a kind of post-disaster rebirth and the atmosphere of fun.

There are a lot of cloth shops in this area, Sixi is now considered to be a Rao person, but he is still unfamiliar with life, not to mention Laifu, two people go to ask for a store by store, see a big tree at the west end of the square, a large group of people gathered under the tree, I don't know what happened, Sixi and Laifu are teenagers who like to join in the fun, so they went to see closely, the crowd is crowded with three layers outside the three layers, the two of them heard the crowd and someone crying and shouting injustice, very curious, Laifu is young and strong, with his shoulders to open a road, Squeezed in with Sixi to see, I saw a man kneeling on the ground, holding another man's calf with both hands, a handful of snot and tears begging bitterly, these two men are forty or fifty years old, looking at the costumes and dressing up are both businessmen, I don't know why, one of them wants to kneel and beg like this?

Laifu was asking the bystanders what was going on, and Sixi suddenly exclaimed: "Isn't this Xia Chaofeng, Xia Chaofeng?" ”

Hearing Sixi's exclamation, the middle-aged businessman who was kneeling on the ground looked up at Sixi, his eyes were blank, as if he didn't recognize Sixi, but he still nodded to Sixi, still hugging his legs and begging the man to let go of his son-

Laifu asked Sixi: "Sixi, do you recognize this person?" ”

Sixi said in a low voice: "You know, didn't my young master take my grandmother and Miss Niuniu and me to leave Shitian to fend for himself in May, it rained heavily that day, and he was drenched, it was really miserable, this Xia Chaofeng was in the parchment paper business, and when he met my young master in Shanxiyi, he let our family take his boat to the county seat, and then to Shangrao Mansion City, and let us eat with him on the same boat, which was very polite——"

The middle-aged businessman who was hugged by Xia Chaofeng's leg couldn't break free, and said angrily: "The good things your **** son has done are intolerable, what is the use of you begging me, you want to shout injustice and go to the government hall to shout." ”

Xia Chaofeng hugged the leg of this merchant and just didn't let go, and couldn't stop pleading.

Sixi inquired about the bystanders for a long time, and finally understood a rough idea: Xia Chaofeng's middle-aged businessman named Zhao Yuwu, opened a silk shop near the City God Temple, and likes to sell furniture on weekdays, once someone borrows from him, but it is a dime, Xia Chaofeng is a paper merchant, there is a small shop adjacent to Zhao Yuwu's silk shop, most of the time it is taken care of by Xia Chaofeng's son for twelve months a year, a few days ago, I don't know what happened, Zhao Yuwu complained to Xia Chaofeng's son to the government, saying that Xia Chaofeng's son **** His daughter-in-law He also took away the treasure worth a thousand gold, Lin Fuzun tried the case, and asked Zhao Yuwu's daughter-in-law He to confront him in court, He suddenly hanged himself, and Xia Chaofeng's son was imprisoned for **** death-

Sixi was shocked to hear it, and thought: "If it is a small crime, my young master may be able to help say a favor, who would dare to provoke such a **** death crime, alas, Xia Chaofeng is a kind-hearted person, but his son has not taught him well." Shaking his head, he sighed, and pulled Laifu out of the crowd, it was important to go to the old guest Yuan Zhong first.