Bought saltpeter, carefully wrapped it in kraft paper, Liu Man'er walked out happily, but when she went out, she accidentally ran into a person, it was a lady wearing gold and silver, this lady had not yet spoken, but the girl behind her was arrogantly pointing at Liu Man'er and scolding:

"You don't have long eyes when you walk, do you know who our lady is?!"

Liu Man'er was inexplicable, and she swallowed the sentence that she wanted to apologize for: "Listening to you talk like this, your wife must be a big person, no wonder there is something like you around you!" ”

"You!" When the maid heard Liu Man'er's words, she was angry, she pointed at Liu Man'er with her finger, but she couldn't say a word.

"What are you?" Liu Man'er said coldly: "It's wrong for me to bump into this lady, but if you are so aggressive, I'm afraid you are also uneducated." ”

"I'm not educated?" The maid stood up and stretched out her hand to hit Liu Man'er.

But her wrist was grasped by Ye Yuanyi behind Liu Man'er, he pushed her hard, and the maid fell to the ground, at this time, the maid cried unrelentingly, "Madam, look, this country slut hit you and didn't say anything, she even beat me." ”

Country slut? Now Liu Man'er is really angry, she stepped forward and slapped the maid twice, "Do you understand the truth that trouble comes from the mouth!" ”

"Stop!" At this time, the lady who had not spoken all this time finally spoke, she looked at Liu Man'er coldly, and said: "It depends on the master to beat the dog, you two are just untouchables in the countryside, how dare you be so bold and reckless?" ”

"Heh, we are country pariahs, so who are you?" Liu Man'er said coldly, "I'm afraid it's not necessarily nobler than people." ”

"Hmph, you are dead, our lady is the county magistrate's favorite Aunt Hong now." The maid got up from the ground and looked at Liu Man'er viciously.

"Auntie? But it's just a minion, what qualifications do you have to be called Madame! Liu Man'er sneered coldly.

"Okay, you actually scolded me for being a minion!" It seems that Liu Man'er's words touched her pain, and the county order's favorite Aunt Hong stretched out her hand on the spot to beat Liu Man'er.

As soon as Liu Man'er grabbed her hand, the red aunt looked at the side of the street and shouted, "Little Liuzi, come here, these two people dare to bully me!" ”

A pair of county officials patrolling the street on the side heard the call of this red aunt, looked this way, and ran this way, Liu Man'er's brain was hot, and she didn't want to conflict with these people, so she pulled Ye Yuan and ran forward.

These county officials quickly ran over, Ye Yuan and Liu Man'er poured into the crowd and disappeared, these people were worried about Aunt Hong's safety and didn't chase after them, they just walked in front of Aunt Hong, "Mrs. Hong, are you okay?" ”

"What can I do!" This red aunt immediately slapped the county government and scolded, "You waste! ”

She was completely venting Liu Man'er's anger at scolding her, and there was no other reason.

"It's so hard to be a human being." In the crowd, Liu Man'er watched from a distance in the crowd, originally she wanted to see if these people were chasing after her, but she saw this scene.

"It's really not okay if you don't have the right, specially, you can meet such a thing when you go shopping." Liu Man'er said to herself: "This is so scared that I don't dare to come to the county seat, what if I run into her again and trouble me." ”

"No, she's just a slave, and being able to go out shopping is already the favor of the master's family, and we won't meet her again next time." Ye Yuan said.

"That's good, I still plan to do business in this county, I'm afraid that she will trouble me, and the people won't fight with the officials, seeing that she is like this now, even the county government dares to fight, she must be very favored, and it will be effortless to clean it up when the time comes." Liu Man'er said with some self-deprecation.

Ye Yuan didn't speak, but something had taken root in his heart, he hoped that one day she would also be the wife of the official family, and she would not have to worry about whether she would meet an enemy on the street, instead of even a slave who dared to insult her.

"Let's go back quickly, when I go back, I must urge Ye Feng and Fusheng to study hard, and strive to be admitted to Xiucai, raise people and even Jinshi as soon as possible, be an official, and glorify the ancestors, by the way, you can cover me."

Because she had just met these two people, Liu Man'er was in no mood to go shopping, so she directly pulled Ye Yuan home.

Along the way, in fact, she was also thinking that sometimes it is really difficult to rely on the efforts of one person alone, without the help of noble people, and it is easy to be bullied by others, and even annoy a person, and your business can not be done in minutes.

This society is such a dark reality, it is really difficult for farmers to rise, it is better to forget it like this, no ice shop is opened, farming at home, raising chickens and ducks, living a simple life, supporting a few children to study, it can be regarded as carefree, anyway, she has no talent for business.

If she was a little girl, she might still be able to smile and lick her face to please others, but she is not, she is a woman who already has a husband, and there are some things that she will inevitably say by others that she is not abiding by women's morals, and she is afraid that Ye Yuan and the Fang clan will not like it in their hearts.

Reliving a life, money is no longer so important in her heart, she likes people, for the warmth and harmony of the whole family, it doesn't matter if you make less money, as long as the family is happy, it is more important than anything else.

A small fortune is peace, it is enough to have today's life, anyway, after the struggle, it is also to enjoy life, it is better to enjoy life now.

After figuring this out, Liu Man'er felt that her life was even better, she didn't have to think of any new methods, everything at home was almost arranged in an orderly manner, all she had to do was to water her mushrooms, water her flowers and trees, play with her animals, take care of the whole yard, and make it look better and warmer.

The days are leisurely and simple, on this day, Ye Feng went home from school and told everyone a happy event, he said that the master said that in a few days it will be the children's examination, and he is going to take the children's examination, and when he is among the children, he can go to the academy in the county seat.

Naturally, he supported this Liu Man'er, and he was admitted to Tongsheng, which can be regarded as a student, and he took the first step into the bridge of fame.

Ye Yuan accompanied Ye Qing to the town to take the exam, and Liu Man'er was at home alone, and she was really worried, mainly worried about whether Ye Qing would be able to pass the exam, and worried about whether they would be in trouble in the county seat.

This exam is a total of three days, Ye Yuan and Ye Qing passed three days in advance, so it will take six or seven days to be able to come back, Liu Man'er has never been away from Ye Yuan for so long, she thought she wouldn't worry, but she couldn't sleep at night, and she was used to having someone by her side.

Late at night, she tossed and turned, from time to time to listen carefully, to hear if there was a sound of horses' hooves coming back, but it seemed that she heard the sound from a distance, Liu Man'er hurriedly put on her clothes and came to the side door, and after a while, the sound of horses' hooves was getting closer and closer from here.

As soon as Ye Yuan stretched out his hand and knocked on the door, Liu Man'er opened the door.

Seeing Liu Man'er, Ye Yuan was very surprised, but Liu Man'er took the first step to speak: "Aren't you going back?" ”

"I'm not at ease when you're home alone." Ye Yuan walked in with the horse and said, "It's still a little cold this weather, you go up and rest first, I'll come up later." ”

"Don't worry, you've been in the dust all the way, I'll go boil water for you and wash your face." Liu Man'er said and came to the kitchen, lit a fire and boiled water, now she has done this skillfully, and she will no longer blow herself to ashes because of blowing.

Ye Yuan walked in and saw Liu Man'er burning the fire seriously, and he didn't know how to speak for a while, "Man'er ......"

Liu Man'er raised her head, "You came back so late at night, you must be hungry, right?" Do you want me to give you a bowl of noodles? ”

"No hunger, no trouble." Ye Yuan shook his head.

The fire crackled, Liu Man'er stood up, opened the pot, scooped out the water from it, brought it to the water shelf, put the handkerchief in it, and then beckoned Ye Yuan to come over and wash his face.

Ye Yuan said, "You are so good to me." ”

"Of course, you are my person, and I am good to you and to myself." Liu Man'er laughed.

Ye Yuan had never heard of this kind of statement, and he even felt that it made sense.

"Didn't you say it would take six or seven days to come back? Why did you come back so soon? Is Ye Feng okay there? Liu Man'er asked casually as she walked upstairs with the lamp.

"He's a big boy, so I've found him an inn and let him settle down on his own." Ye Yuan said casually.

Liu Man'er said helplessly after hearing this: "Okay, this test is a big deal, you don't accompany him, and he rarely goes to the county seat, in case something happens, he would have known that I went." ”

"He doesn't even know I'm back, I'll just come back tomorrow morning." Ye Yuan was also a little helpless, "What's more, he is also going to grow up, what are you worried about doing so much, I was able to go into battle to kill the enemy when he was so young." ”

"Then you didn't have a way at that time, now that you have finally come back, you should take care of them, as the saying goes, a good eldest brother is a father." Liu Man'er said with a smile.

Although Ye Feng is almost fourteen years old, in her opinion, after all, he is still a child, if his family is not there, then there is no way, if he is all again, accompanying him can be regarded as according to his heart.

"Don't talk about this, I'll go to the county seat to buy you the candied fruit, I'll put it on the table for you, you remember to eat it tomorrow morning, and then I may leave first, so I won't call you." Ye Yuan put a small burden that he had been carrying in his hand on the table.

"Okay, will you come back tomorrow night?" Liu Man'er asked.

"Tomorrow's business, tomorrow's talk, sleep." Ye Yuan blew out the candle.

As a result, Ye Yuan went out early and returned late for a few days, and on the sixth day, Ye Qing had just finished the exam, and he originally wanted to go to the county seat, but he was pulled back by Ye Yuan, and when he got home, he was quite resentful, and Liu Man'er thought that he had not done well in the exam.

"Feng'er, are the questions in the exam difficult?"

"It's not hard."

"Then why don't you seem to be happy?" Liu Man'er frowned, "Could it be that someone is bullying you?" ”

"No one bullied me." Ye Feng shook his head.

"Oh, that's good, if someone bullies you, just tell your eldest brother that he has a lot of strength, let him beat that person secretly." Liu Man'er said with a smile.

But the reason why Ye Feng was unhappy was just because he wanted to stay in the county for one more day and look around with his classmates, but unfortunately, he was carried back by his eldest brother.

After Ye Feng's exam, the family began to wait anxiously, and a few days later, the results came down, and the lieutenant personally came to the door to report the good news, saying that Ye Feng was admitted to the Tongsheng, and from then on, he was also a student.

This is a great joy in the countryside, although the Fang family does not want to be extravagant, but he still specially invited relatives and some familiar villagers to let everyone have a meal together, which can be regarded as joy.

As soon as the banquet was spread, a few uninvited guests came over, Ye Yuan was entertaining guests in the courtyard, after these people came in, they saw Ye Yuan and said: "Ye Yuan, there is a big happy event at home, don't you call our brothers?" ”