Chapter 25: The Villagers' Assembly
It's just some wild vegetables, Bai Yitian and Xu Cong'an almost even ate their tongues, these two people are not masters who have never eaten the delicacies of the mountains and seas, but such fragrant and delicious wild vegetables and mountain mushrooms picked at the foot of the roadside mountain are not only able to eat but also so delicious, which is really unexpected.
Now that Xu Cong'an and Bai Yitian are silent, they have to come to the Zhou family for a few days every month, and the Zhou family is grateful for their life-saving grace to Zhou Bo, so they are naturally welcome. Xu Cong'an and Bai Yitian naturally followed Zhou Bo to live in the outer courtyard of the East Courtyard, and without saying a word, they followed the big tiger and the second tiger to live in the upside-down seat.
Although Xu Cong'an doesn't say much, Bai Yitian is a familiar character, and he has already been familiar with the Zhou family from master to servant, knowing that the Zhou family has a hard life, and every time he implicitly brings some items, and he has to help with farm work every time.
Now when it comes to eating, it is basically divided into three rooms. Zhou Bo Saburo Liulang Xuejian and Bai Yitian Xu Cong'an were in the lobby of the East Courtyard, and the other little ladies and young masters of the Zhou family were in the lobby of the backyard, silently following the people in the inverted hall. The meals are all exactly the same, but except for making soup for Zhou Bo, there are very few times when Xue Jian can do it herself, under her command, Aunt Zhou and Aunt Du are good at cooking, and even Sanni can now make a table of food.
Drinking tea after the meal, Liulang couldn't help but say: "Oh, Uncle Zhang and Uncle Jin Sheng haven't hunted for a long time, if there is a pheasant, you can eat the stewed pheasant with mushrooms made by Sister Yukimi!" ”
Yukimi shook his head and said, "Whoever says this can say it, but you Rokuro can't say it!" ”
"Why?" Rokuro asked.
Yukimi pouted and said: "Look at Rokuro's thin arms and legs, he is thinner than Kohachiro, where can he eat, he has obviously been hungry for many years!" ”
Everyone laughed, indeed, except for Xiao Hachiro, this week's Jia San Lang Liulang and Shi Niang are the thinnest and the most picky in eating, but no matter how they eat, they don't gain half a cent of meat.
Bai Yitian rolled his eyes and asked Liulang: "This mountain mushroom stewed pheasant, but it is also an ordinary thing, so what you said seems to be better than today's food." ”
Rokuro nodded and said angrily, "Hugh compares what others outside do with what Sister Yukimi does!" Our little Hachiro, as you know, is the least attentive to eating, and his appetite is not good, but he is the best at this one! ”
Bai Yitian has nothing to do, and his father doesn't want him to enter the court to participate in politics, and he doesn't have any other hobbies, only the word "fresh", and he is interested.
Xu Cong'an nodded and exhaled lightly, and said: "Hachiro's spleen and stomach are not in harmony, and chicken soup is also symptomatic, but if you eat too much chicken, it is not easy to digest." ”
Xue Jian really understood what he meant, and took over with a smile: "He only has this soup flavor, and he can eat a little more mountain mushrooms, we are very content, where dare he let him eat more chicken, but it is cheaper than other gluttonous ones." ”
Wu Niang shook her head: "No, no, this is called 'it is better to be happy alone than to be happy'." ”
Everyone looked at Rokuro and laughed.
Zhou Bo looked at the room full of smiles, and couldn't help but think of the days when the family didn't take the next meal last winter, and the younger siblings were all dressed with vegetables, and even the cotton clothes were pitiful. He reached under the table to hold Yukimi's hand, but said nothing.
Yukimi returned a smile, and that smile shone in the candlelight, making people instantly lose their minds.
Sanni came into the house with tea and said, "It's better to drink tea alone than to drink tea in everyone, everyone please drink it." ”
Xu Cong'an shook his head: "Look, the most docile Sannizi has also been skinned by you!" ”
Bai Yitian was silent, his brows furrowed, and his eyes kept smiling with Sanni helping everyone make tea.
And Bai Yitian didn't know what he was thinking, he didn't speak for a long time, only a pair of eyes were shining.
Erniang and Siniang have always just listened on this occasion, and they didn't say much, at this moment they both thought, although they are not rich now, but the most important food and clothing problem has been solved, and they are stained with Bai Yitian's light, and they still have some meat to eat after a while.
Yukimi tilted his head to look at everyone's smiling faces, and he also had a bright smile on his face.
Zhou Bo suddenly understood that everyone is no longer like before, complaining about the day, every day seems to be a new beginning, everyone is full of vitality, it turns out that what Xuejian brings to everyone is - hope - these two precious words!
This extremely beautiful little person may not be extremely smart, or she may not be talented, but she is like the winter sun, shining warmly on this home, and warming everyone, this little person belongs to me Zhou Bo!
Every morning when she gets up, Qi Niang will take Hachiro Jiulang to take a detour to the rice field to herd ducks, and Xue Jian slightly changed the lyrics of the childhood song "There is a group of ducklings raised in the production team" and taught her to sing.
Now all the ducklings, including the big ducks, have been put into the rice field one after another, and there is no occurrence of ducks eating seedlings, which makes everyone's heart that has been hanging finally let go.
There is a flock of ducks in the rice field, and this duck does not eat seedlings but only weeds? This is clearly a demon law! This is clearly the demon magic cast by the fox spirit of the Zhou family! The rumors in the village slowly rose again, and the Zhou family didn't take it seriously, but several uncles and uncles of the Zhou family are now very close to the Zhou family's brothers and sisters, and they are ashamed of what they did before, so they can't allow others to smear the Zhou family like this, so they found Lizheng.
Zhou Jia Saburo taught the children of the whole village to read and write, and did not charge half a penny, but the villagers criticized it, and Li Zheng was very annoyed! Moreover, Bai Zhixian's son now lives in the Zhou family for three days, if he knows about this, he must have done it in this way!
Wang Junfeng knew that if his father held a village meeting, he would not let Bai Yitian know about it, and he was looking for Zhou Kang to come out early to discuss the matter, when he saw the carriage of the Bai family son coming out of Zhou's house early in the morning and heading towards Daqingshan.
It turned out that Bai Yitian wanted to hunt a few pheasants to satisfy his hunger, and now he let Buyan drive the carriage and send them to Daqingshan.
Anyway, knowing that Bai Yitian was not in the village, Li Zheng went to the school first with peace of mind, gave the students another day off, and then gathered the villagers in the square and held a meeting.
Of course, the Zhou brothers and sisters did not know about it and did not participate.
Seeing that the person was almost there, Li Zheng forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart, coughed lightly, and the scene gradually quieted down.
Although the mood was complicated, Li Zheng didn't talk nonsense, and went straight to the point: "Call the big guy over when he is busy with farming, don't say much, just for the rumors in the village for a while!" ”
Pingshan Village has always been a poor village in the county, and most of the villagers are timid and wooden, and it is okay to have fun and listen to the excitement, but Li Zheng personally held a meeting to discuss, and they all felt that the situation was serious, and they were silent for a while.
"Rumors! It's all rumors! Li Zheng wanted this effect, and said seriously: "In the end, isn't it just the child who bullied the second child of the Zhou family and no one cares?" This week, the second child's family used to be the richest man in our four miles and eight townships, the county and even the whole state, but now they feel that they are forced to be bullied? The serious grandparents, uncles and uncles are still there! ”
Handed a look to Zhou Shangwen, the uncle of the Zhou family, Zhou Shangwen stood up with a shelf, and said slowly: "In the same village for decades, everyone must know that our Zhou family has lived in Pingshan Village for decades, and the fields may not be the most, but the house is the largest, the number of scholars is the most, and the children in the family are also the most promising!" ”
Seeing that the Zhou family took the initiative to come forward, someone below turned their heads and ears, don't care if you like to listen to it or not, Zhou Shangwen's words are true.
Li Zheng saw that he was a little off-topic, and hurriedly asked: "The young man who lives in the second child's house now ......"
Zhou Shangwen nodded proudly: "It is the son of our Baizhi County family in Anning County!" ”
The son of the magistrate?! The crowd buzzed and messed up, that's the parent official! How? The son of the county magistrate is actually the young master who often breaks his legs with the Zhou family, and the person who walks around the field together? Impossible, right?
Li Zheng's eyes turned, and his gaze wandered away, and now this formation was as he expected.
At this time, someone had the courage to ask: "Also, what about an old man?" ”
"What old man?" Uncle Zhou Shangneng on Thursday angrily reprimanded in the crowd: "That's Doctor Xu who has been a royal doctor in the imperial city and has been sent by the emperor to see the emperor!" Doctor Xu is giving my brother Bo Ge'er free leg treatment, how many people can be invited to Dr. Xu to see a doctor in our country? Please return it to the free doctor.,What kind of character is that?! ”
"What Zhou Laosi said, but is it true?" For a moment, the crowd was buzzing.
This old man, who often walks around the village with his hands in his hands, is actually a miracle doctor! I've been in the Imperial City!
But the discussion is the discussion, the emperor is still far away from everyone, and he doesn't feel anything, but Bai Zhixian is a square person who loves the people like a son, but he is a good official praised by everyone!
After listening to gossip for a long time, Li Zheng's in-law Wan Huaishan rubbed out and said loudly in the crowd: "It is said that the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and the hands and eyes of the Zhou family can reach the sky." ”
Someone pouted quietly, and before he could speak, the third uncle of the Zhou family received a signal from the governor and said loudly: "Our brother can bear the responsibility of the gentleman in the village, and his knowledge is also praised by Baizhi County, and everyone can see his character, but who has ever been restrained?" ”
"Zhou Laosan is right!" All of a sudden, everyone nodded yes, who doesn't have a child? Even if he doesn't have it now, if he has a child in the future, he will be allowed to enter the free school in the village. If the Zhou family is annoyed, these children will not be able to go to school from now on, and they can't afford to invite another gentleman with the ability of Pingshan Village, so where can they find a gentleman who doesn't want money?
Beekeeper Luo Zhiqiang was stabbed in the back, and was about to say something, but when he saw Li Zheng's eyes sweeping over, he was so frightened that he closed his mouth, turned to the side slightly, and let the person behind him out.
The angry one asked on the spot: "Li Zheng, just say it, who made this rumor?" ”
Someone else directly stated: "If anyone deliberately can't get along with Zhou Laoer's family in the future, you have to ask our whole village if they can do it!" ”
There was a chorus of echoes.
Hearing this, Li Zheng's expression relaxed slightly, and he looked a little gentle in the face of the villagers.
"Who else?" Zhou Kang squinted at the Hong family beside Luo Zhiqiang, "I pull my wife's tongue every day when I have nothing to do!" ”
Wang Guokou saw that everyone was skimming their daughter-in-law Hong from the corner of their eyes, and shrunk even more, so Hong could only stab Luo Zhiqiang in front of him again, Luo Zhiqiang couldn't, and asked boldly: "Where is the fox spirit of Zhou's second family?" But someone saw her fly down from the moon on the night of her childhood, and flew to Zhou Laoer's house, and our Daqing Mountain has never seen a beast bigger than a wild boar, why did the bear come out now? ”
To say that this large green mountain, in fact, is not so tall and precipitous, but the forest cover is extremely extensive, it is simply a natural habitat for wild animals, villagers can see wild boars, hares and other animals in the forest area at any time, and large carnivores in recent decades almost no one to see.
Several cousins of the Zhou family have already heard the sound and surrounded them, and saw that Luo Zhiqiang, the only beekeeper in the village, was admitted to Pingshan Village more than ten years ago, and usually walked closest to Wang Guokou's family, and Wang Guokou's daughter-in-law was the first long-tongued woman in the village, Hong.
Zhou Kang grabbed Luo Zhiqiang's collar and shouted, "What happened to our brother Bo'er when he met a bear?" Aren't you still raising a good child at home? If you try to meet a bear, will you be able to go down the mountain alive? ”
Stopping the eagerness of the Zhou family brothers with his hand, Li Zheng glanced at him coldly, and then said lightly: "If the second family of the second Zhou is really protected by the fox fairy, if someone dares to provoke the fox fairy, it will not be a matter of dying one person and dying the other!" ”
Before Luo Zhiqiang could say anything, he looked at the lively Hong's face turning green, rolled his eyes, and collapsed.