Chapter 4: Jiang Han
In other words, Yun Niang and Xiao An chased after this unobtrusive Jiang girl, turning around the mountains and the town, and finally came to a neat courtyard in a fairly clean alley after more than two quarters of an hour.
Just as Miss Jiang pushed her hands on the door, the door was pulled open from the inside, she couldn't retract her momentum, and she tripped over the threshold again, and rushed straight forward......
- Hi guys! My name is Jiang Han, and I am the woman who is about to fall to the ground, sixteen years old this year, who likes to dress up in male makeup and have some fists and kicks. In fact, my original name is Jiang Hanyue, it is said that when I was a child, my father was afraid that I would not live long, so he kept me as a boy.
However, this is not the real me - although I am also called Jiang Han from the distant future.
That night, I was dreaming from the comfort of my apartment bed, looking forward to the next day in my unit – I was about to become a fitness instructor at a large fitness center.
Oh, I forgot to mention, I went to a sports university and I did running.
Everyone knows that it is difficult for yellow people to run to get ahead. But when I was in school, as long as I ran faster and more durably than others, I could become a special student.
So, since I participated in the county long-distance running competition in the sixth grade of elementary school and won the first place, I started all kinds of training, participated in various running competitions, ran from junior high school to high school, and ran from high school to university, but I ran lower and lower in the rankings.
After four years of college, I realized that my best career path was to become a PE teacher. But it's a pity that my cultural grades are too poor, and I took the teacher certificate three times, but I didn't get in. Then I was left with only two career directions: long-distance running training coach and fitness coach. After running for ten years, I really thought that running was enough, and half a year after graduation, I accepted the job of this gym instructor introduced by my brother without hesitation.
At that time, I was dreaming of myself becoming a gym owner, and suddenly I heard a knock on the door, which was urgent and loud, and I heard a shout, "Is there anyone, get up, it's on fire!" ”
I got up and opened the door in my pajamas and saw a lot of people running and the smell of smoke in the air. I didn't think about anything, so I hurriedly ran down the stairs.
At this time, the people on the upper floors had also come down, and there were more and more people in the stairwell. I rushed down with the crowd, and suddenly my back was bumped, and I stumbled and rolled down, and as soon as I rolled to a stop, I received several kicks on my head and body one after another, and my eyes were black and unconscious.
When I opened my eyes again, I was lying on a board bed with bitter mouth, and a little boy in ancient costume with two chirping on his head was holding a spoon and feeding bitter juice to my mouth......
Later, they told me that my father and I in ancient times met bandits on the way to Linxian County. I was unconscious, my dad was seriously injured in bed, and there were several other dead wounds that were also killed.
I've been wearing it for more than four months now.
In order to treat me and my current father, the family's savings have been spent, and I still owe a lot of foreign debts, and my father can only barely walk around on crutches.
Later, I was repeatedly called to the yamen five or six times, and each time I was asked if I remembered anything - I couldn't think of it at all, they could have sent troops to the bandits' den to strangle without making a serious investigation - however, I believe that after you have seen Liu Dakang's nest, you can guess that the officers and soldiers will only be killed by K· O。
Speaking of Liu Dakang, this is also a poor child!
It is said that his family and my family got married 14 years ago.
At that time, he was only more than three years old, his eldest sister had just been born for a few months, and he also had a pair of twin brothers and sisters who were more than two years older than him.
It's a pity that fourteen years ago, on the afternoon of the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival, the family took a boat to their grandfather's house in the next Shanyang County to celebrate the holiday. From Luoxia Town to Shanyang County is retrograde, and there is a section of waterway to pull fiber to cross.
The family brought a lot of things, and they showed their wealth, and when they were pulling fiber, they ran into robbers disguised as slender men. His father found out when the boat was about to be pulled to the shore, but his two fists were invincible to his four hands, and just when he was about to die, he ran into my father who was going down the river in a boat.
But his sister fell into the water during the fight, choked on the water, and had a high fever that night, and went there two days later.
Later, his family contracted bad luck.
His brother lived to be eight years old when he had a cold.
His father was transferred to the fast shift ten years ago, but he was injured on a business trip, and his heart and lungs were broken, at that time his mother was pregnant with his little sister, in order to give his father medical treatment, the house and land were sold one after another, but his father dragged on for less than two years, and still went.
After another two years, her eldest sister followed her little sister to Xiaoluoxia Mountain to pick mountain mushrooms in the spring, rolled down the hillside, hit the stones, and went.
Since then, his mother has been completely obsessed with burning incense and worshiping Buddha, and almost all the money she earns is sent to the temple all year round.
Fortunately, before his father died, his grandmother passed on the craft of midwifery to his mother - yes, you all guessed right, his mother is the necessary mother-in-law who appears in the most thrilling environment and the most frequent appearance in ancient novels - "Wen Po"! In the past few years, his mother's good reputation as a midwife has gradually risen, and he also asked his father's old friend to catch Uncle Zhao two years ago, and found an errand in the yamen, so that the family would not be unable to survive.
In the year his brother died of a cold, Liu Dakang was sent to my house by his father to learn some boxing and kicking from my father to strengthen his health, so I have to call him senior brother - although he can't even beat me.
The one who opened the door just now is Liu Dakang's superstitious stable mother-in-law - wearing a blue cloth floral jacket skirt, a wooden hairpin on her head, a slightly thin figure, thick eyebrows and big eyes, the whites of her eyes are a little cloudy, the Sichuan character lines between the eyebrows are serious, and the crow's feet and mouth corners can no longer hide the middle-aged aunt - Liu Dakang and his sister Liu Xiaomei have inherited his mother's thick eyebrows and big eyes.
The family now lives next door to mine. Although Aunt Liu has a bad fate, she has the unyielding spirit of "Xiaoqiang who can't be killed". She is now a well-known stable woman in Qinghe County, and she is also famous in the government, and when she does not deliver babies, she takes advantage of her convenience in and out of large and small households to do some intermediary transactions in the town to match people.
Since my father had an accident and quit to help her mother-in-law, Aunt Liu often takes her daughter Liu Xiaomei to cook a meal and boil medicine when she is not busy, she is a big good neighbor and aunt!
Speaking of Liu Xiaomei, this girl, since her sister had an accident in the mountains, her mother never let her leave her sight, and she was taken wherever she went, until the last year, when her mother successfully stuffed her into the Qiancaotang Pharmacy as a female apprentice, she got rid of the fate of the fart. Her mother said that the daughter of a poor family does not need to be a lady of the family, in order to live, there is not so much exquisiteness, and it is most important to learn the ability to support the family.
After talking about so many people, there is one important person who has not been mentioned, and that is my father.
My dad is a hero!
It is said that my father has a good martial arts and is a well-known dart master in this area.
It's the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty - the Ming Dynasty seems to have only Zhengde, but I'm not studying history, exactly, whatever - in short, it seems that there is no dart game yet.
My father's military value is high, he is popular, he is responsible, and many darts who go to Linxian and Fucheng like to find my father. As long as my father shouted, he could immediately form a team on the spot and escort him safely.
My mother is said to have died very early, and my father took me alone, and it is said that he was afraid that I would be abused by others, so he did not marry for many years. He worked in Luoxia Town for ten years, bought the Jiang family's courtyard, and bought more than a dozen acres of land, he was going to work for another two years, save more silver, and give me a rich dowry, but unfortunately the thieves have become more and more serious in the past year or two, and he finally had an accident, not only the dowry has become a cloud of smoke, but even the Jiang family's courtyard, we can't keep it. - If he doesn't have an accident, because of me, I will probably be the founder of Da Ming Dart in the future! It's a pity.
I originally thought that I was a person who traveled from the thriving modern age, and the god of crossing asked me to come here, obviously sending me to rescue them, and it was not a piece of cake to earn money to pay off debts and start a career!
For example, I can open a gym that I haven't had time to work in modern times.
Don't have start-up capital? I can use the most common trick - sell recipes!
In modern times, although I am not very good at cooking, I have memorized a lot of recipes. Chinese: My favorite scrambled eggs with tomatoes, boiled fish, Mao Xuewang, hot pot, spicy fragrant pot, etc.; Western-style: steak, pizza and cake, you can write more than a dozen kinds of it. Not to mention that like in the novel, a recipe can be sold for a hundred taels of silver, and a dozen taels of silver is always possible, but it's a big deal for me to sell a few more.
With a beautiful fantasy, I quietly ran to the first restaurant in Qinghe County, the Cyclamen Restaurant. I finally waited until their shopkeeper was willing to listen to me, but the shopkeeper didn't give me a chance to talk more, and only let me do it for him to taste.
An hour later, I was kicked out of the back door by them, and the shopkeeper teased me that this level of recipes, and wanted to blackmail their money, wasting so many ingredients from them, and not reporting to the official was already giving me face, and warned me not to go to other restaurants to deceive people, he would inform everyone in the guild, and if he met me, he would directly send it to the official office.
What a blind dog—eyes!
After a few days, I figured it out - the gym can't be opened for a while, first, there is no fund, second, those equipment is estimated to be no craftsman can do, and the other is, these ancient rich people, if they want to exercise, just find a martial artist to come back and learn some boxing and kicking.
In this way, I might as well just open a martial arts gym.
I can support my father's name, anyone who has paid the tuition, let them walk and run first, and the taekwondo, self-defense, and martial arts routines I learned in college can also be used to teach them, and when my father is better, let him sit in the courtyard and guide.
It was perfect!
So the next day, I made a shelf by myself, found a piece of red cloth, went to West Street to find a person who wrote a letter on behalf of the person, wrote the words "martial arts hall enrollment", tied the cloth to the shelf, and the enrollment signboard was ready.
I was about to go around the streets and alleys with a signboard to see if I could recruit a few students, when not far away, there was a loud shout, and I saw a child being kicked away.
A fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy in a yellow robe, a golden crown on his head, and a folding fan in his hand, was standing in the middle of the road, followed by three or four servants with eyes on top of his head, and the child was kicked away by one of his servants. On closer inspection, the left side of the child's robe was dyed with a large piece of sauce - it turned out to be a child's soy sauce bucket, which accidentally bumped into the child.
Somehow, I thought it was a great opportunity to make a name for myself, so I grabbed the sign and rushed to it.
If it was one-on-one or one-on-two, I could definitely handle it, but the four of them went together. In the end, I had to grab the boy to death, greet him, and beat the boy to the point that his nose was blue and his face was swollen, and he couldn't stop crying, no matter how badly I was beaten.
Later, the official came and took us all to the yamen, and I learned that the son was the little son of the Cheng family in Jiangyang County, and he happened to come to Luoxia Town as a guest that day. Later, under the coordination of Uncle Zhao, I stayed in the cell for ten days and compensated the boy for twenty taels of silver for his medical expenses, and the matter was settled.
It's really a house leak that happened to rain overnight!
For my completely changed personality, my father not only accepted the excuse I gave for being injured and losing his memory, but also silently added one more thing to me - that is, something happened to him, the family was in debt, and the burden on my shoulders suddenly became heavier, and I changed.
Later, my father didn't dare to let me get into trouble everywhere anymore, so he asked an old friend to take me on a dart, and I finally worked steadily for a month and earned my first money, two taels of silver.
I thought, if I pull the business myself and recruit some more people, wouldn't I be able to make a lot of money?
I thought of it, I walked around the dock for three days, and finally received a deal - to transport a batch of tea to Dongyue County next door. It's a day's journey, there are not many things, and Dongyue is at the end of Xiaoluoxia Mountain, and it is rare to hear of bandits, but for the sake of prudence, I still recruited four people together. Who knew that it was raining heavily on the road! Although I did a good job of protection, there were a few bags of goods on the very edge, and I still got a little damp.
The boss was a profiteer, and not only did he not pay him, but he also wanted me to compensate him for his losses - I had to pay him a hundred taels of silver! The deed is written as compensation for intentional damage - it is not intentional that it will rain, and I will not pay him money if it makes trouble with the yamen.
I spent a tael of silver to hire a lawyer, and it took half a month before the judgment came out. I thought that they would definitely send money to the Dongyue Yamen, so I stayed in Dongyue and guarded them strictly.
In the end, Liu Dakang went to drag me back, saying that he had asked Uncle Zhao to ask someone to help me keep an eye on it, and I just needed to ask at the interval, so I didn't have to waste money there.
Yesterday was the third time we went to Dongyue Yamen to investigate the news, and the news we finally got was: The above just wanted to deliberately drag it, so that the filial piety of both parties would be good, and when the bitter master could not stand it, he would withdraw the lawsuit. The man also wondered how we could go to the yamen, this kind of thing is usually private, and said that it was very clear in the paperwork, and the profiteer ignored it, but deliberately made it difficult to pay less.
Finally, the man said in a tone of caring for the mentally handicapped youth: "Young man, don't be too impulsive! The gate of the yamen is open to the south, and there is no money to come in, why do you have all the money? It is impossible for people to pay you any more money now, and if you want to win this lawsuit, you have to stuff the money again. In the end, even if you win, you may not spend much to get it back, do your own calculations, is it worth it? Just run a dart for nothing! ”
However, as the head of the dart, not only did I not earn a single dart this time, but also the expenses on the road, the silver of the master, the rent of Dongyue for half a month, the work of the yamen, and finally I had to pay the silver to the four people who were recruited! - This is another head-to-toe account!
Early this morning, we hurried back, after a whole night of introspection and most of the day's rush, I have been resurrected with full blood - happiness is also a day, sorrow is also a day, it is already like this, and can not be reborn back, or think about the future days!
When I was sheltering from the rain in the dilapidated temple on the mountainside of Xiaoluoxia, I was baking clothes with Liu Dakang, chatting about life, and imagining the future, when the sister and brother behind me fell in.
What a misfortune for each unfortunate person! When I saw them, I felt like all the bad luck and bad things I had done before were gone!