The bride also seemed to recognize Ershan, and suddenly lay on the window lattice excitedly, but the curtain had fallen, and the sedan chair did not stop, that is, she lifted the curtain again by herself, and Ershan had fallen behind.

The bride was just about to poke her head out, when a group of brides surrounded her, persuaded her, blocked her view, and stuffed her back.

But all this, Ershan saw it in his eyes, and finally disappeared in front of him, with melancholy and sadness, as if he was asking for help, and as if he was asking questions, Ershan felt that he was thinking too much, how could there be a bride, not happily married.

He took a broom and slowly followed the team back to the inn, the road in front of the inn was swept clean, Xiaowan and Aunt Zhang were hiding in the palace gate to watch the excitement, Xiaowan asked Aunt Zhang: "How did I come that day?" ”

Aunt Zhang smiled guiltily: "We are all busy entertaining guests, and you were sent directly to the third floor by the person who sent your relatives, or Ershan went to bring you food, only to find that you were tied to the bed, so hurry up to find the shopkeeper." ”

Xiaowan pretended to be angry: "It turns out that you are not rare to me, it is better to be Brother Ershan." ”

Aunt Zhang hugged her and smiled: "Now we all love you, isn't it enough?" ”

And Ershan said: "The year is over, you hurry back to the room to read, you don't have to worry about the things in the store before the college exam, it is important to study well, and in the future, there will be more and more people covering our inn." ”

Ershan snorted, and with Ling Chaofeng's consent, he returned to the room to review his homework.

Xiaowan and her aunt sat in front of the door to pick vegetables in the sun, and when they talked about the prefect marrying their daughter, they learned that the prefect married the younger daughter to the eldest son-in-law's house to continue the string, and his eldest daughter died young two years ago.

Aunt Zhang said: "This is a common thing, if the two parents' families have a good relationship, most of them choose sisters from the original family to continue the strings, but according to me, my own daughter died in someone's house, I don't hate to kill them to settle accounts is very great, and then marry the daughter, that is really to treat the family as an ancestor." ”

Xiao Wan is now clever, so she said: "The prefect's in-laws must be older than the prefect's officials." ”

Aunt Zhang praised: "We are so smart late." ”

Xiaowan turned around to show off to Ling Chaofeng, but Xianggong beckoned her and asked her to settle an account.

But she has been playing crazy for a whole year, and since the month of Layue, she has been eating, drinking, and shopping on the streets every day, and her abacus is not as sharp as before, and the accounts are confused, and she immediately blushes.

Ling Chaofeng said softly: "Take it back and look at it, if you still don't know it tomorrow, how do you say you will punish it?" ”

Xiaowan pouted and whispered, "Even if it's not clear, so what." ”

Ling Chaofeng said: "You said that you want to learn, then you have to learn seriously, didn't we say yes, the proprietress of the dignified inn, she can't even settle the account?" ”

Xiaowan unconsciously put her hand behind her back, she endorsed it quickly, and she didn't ask Xianggong to grab the handle, which was inevitably a little fluttery.

Learning abacus because he was scolded twice seriously, although he was already very smart, but Ling Chaofeng was very demanding, Xiaowan always felt that he was deliberately finding fault, so the heart of learning abacus was not as active as reading in the first few months, and after a big year, he was crazy, and his head was blank now.

Xiaowan came back to pick vegetables, and Aunt Zhang asked softly with a smile: "Trained?" ”

"Hmm." Xiaowan muttered unconvinced, "At the beginning, he always encouraged me to praise me, but now he always likes to pour cold water on me, and I panic when he frowns." ”

Aunt Zhang said with a smile: "In the early years, when Ershan followed the shopkeeper to study, it was common to be scolded and beaten. But the shopkeeper himself, never frivolous and frivolous, study or learn kung fu, everything is practical, just a few years ago, he studied and practiced, the old lady asked him to do the work in the store, every day there was no time to take a breath, but nothing was delayed. ”

Xiaowan listened carefully, Xianggong was really amazing, and Aunt Zhang smiled: "You see that since the lunar month, we play every day, and the shopkeeper doesn't care about you, play when you should play, and you can't mess around when you should work hard, late, you are our boss." ”

"I know, I'll study hard." Xiaowan made up her mind, "Auntie, I won't go out again until I figure out the accounts." ”

In this way, after picking the vegetables, Aunt Zhang went to the back kitchen to get busy, and Xiaowan ran to pester her husband. Ling Chaofeng asked a few more words with a cold face, seeing that she looked serious and guilty, and swore that she would no longer be greedy for fun, and the heart that had not hardened became more and more soft, so he was patient and called her hand in hand.

Ling Chaofeng didn't remember how he taught Ershan enlightenment harshly back then, and treated his own little lady, half-coaxed and half-played, where would he really expect her to learn all kinds of skills, and protect herself and hurt her.

Speaking of which, Xiao Wan only learned after such a long time that Ershan was also surnamed Ling, and when he couldn't find Ershan's family, the old lady also left him at the inn. It's just that it's not quite the same as Ling Chaofeng, Ling Chaofeng is surnamed Ling when he is a son, Ershan is not an adopted son, Ershan's big name is Ling Chu, and he went to take the imperial examination, and he used this name.

In the afternoon, Xiaowan was sitting in front of the table of the Eight Immortals and was drowsy with the ledger and abacus, and a group of people hurriedly ran in front of the door.

An hour later, Li Zhutou came with people, in a hurry, he took the time to enter the store and said a word to Ling Chaofeng, and was surprised to hear that soon after the wedding boat went out, the bride jumped off the boat and committed suicide, and he couldn't find it at that time.

Xiao Wan trembled in her heart when she heard this, and glanced at Ling Chaofeng, I don't know if it was because Xiao Wan escaped marriage, how much she could understand that resolute heart, and asked Xiang Gong softly: "That young lady, is it just like Aunt Zhang said, because my sister died in their house and hated, so she refused to marry?" ”

Ling Chaofeng comforted her: "That's also someone else's business, Wanwan, we are businessmen." ”

Xiaowan nodded: "Xianggong, I know." ”

By the end of the night, Xiaowan had already settled the accounts that she hadn't figured out during the day, but at the end of the day, she didn't do any other work, and when she helped to serve the food, she said to her aunt that it was hard to imagine that Ling Chaofeng was so young in the past, and he had to study and learn all kinds of skills.

Aunt Zhang said: "That's not all bitter. ”

The family eats dinner, the New Year's Day is big fish and meat, these days can not eat, dinner is just a plate of fried vegetables, a plate of dried radish and a few pieces of bean curd, only Ershan bowl has a large piece of meat, Uncle Biao said that he studied and spent his brain, must eat.

Today, in order to send off relatives to clear the snow, everyone got up early, so they also closed the door of the store early to sleep, only the lights were on in the second mountain room, and they were still studying hard.

I don't know what time it was at night, the store was already peaceful, Ershan was thirsty and poured water to drink, and vaguely heard the movement of snow outside the inn.

He came to the door with an oil lamp, and as soon as he stood still, he heard two knocks at the door.

Put down the oil lamp to open the door, my heart was shocked, there was a woman in a red dress standing in front of the door, soaked and frozen, the green silk was scattered and her face was pale, and the third watch saw this scene in the middle of the night, as if she was a female ghost crawling out of the water.

But Ershan settled down in the next moment, and he recognized this person, the thief who stole the wallet at the temple fair.

"Do you see my purse?" The woman spoke, but she asked this sentence, and the words fell, and her weak body fell suddenly.

"Girl? Girl! Ershan exclaimed, which alarmed the people in the store.

This girl came somehow, she was soaked, when Aunt Zhang and Xiaowan took off her clothes, the skin inside was blistered and wrinkled, and on such a cold day, the body temperature could not dry the clothes at all, and there was a thin layer of ice on her back.

But at this moment, she was boiling hot and burning like a stove, and Ershan went to the town overnight to invite a familiar doctor, and the doctor took the pulse and said: "The extreme cold enters the lungs, and it is difficult." ”

When we met at the temple fair that day, the girl's face was smeared with charcoal black, which was not real, but at this moment her eyes were closed, Xiaowan couldn't recognize it, but Aunt Zhang Zeng Tsai carefully looked at her face, she could recognize it, and Ershan could also recognize it.

Looking at the soaked clothes that took off, it was not the red clothes of ordinary people's homes, but the wedding clothes with exquisite embroidery and very gorgeous, there is no doubt that this is the daughter of the prefect who passed in front of the door in the morning and committed suicide by throwing herself into the river after getting on the boat.

But the daughter of the prefect, how could she be a thief in the town?

Aunt Zhang said to Xiaowan: "Susu's cotton shoes are clean on her feet, I thought at the time, she may not be a thief, just for fun, occasionally go out to shop, and wear the stolen cotton shoes that day, maybe it was a whim." ”

Xiaowan thinks it's incredible, Miss Qianjin, let's have a good life, but what kind of trouble is this?

However, the unconscious person made a sound, and she burned in pain, her whole body convulsed, and her mouth read: "Sister, sister......"

Tears kept sliding from the corners of her eyes, seeing this situation, Xiaowan was very distressed, and unconsciously held her right hand, she hoped that this girl could live well.

All night, Aunt Zhang and Xiaowan stayed by her side, wiping their bodies with white wine, and pouring medicine with their mouths, tossing until dawn, and the mother and son were so tired that they fell asleep back to back.

The person on the bed, when he finally opened his eyes, instinctively shouted: "Water, water......"

Xiao Wan woke up suddenly, and hurriedly ran to the bed: "Girl, are you awake?" ”

She rolled her eyes slightly, still asking: "Water ......"

At dawn, the person with a high fever was completely awake, although the body was still hot, but the doctor looked at it and said that it did not damage his life, it was really a miracle, although he was busy last night, Xiaowan did not know whether it was her wish, but it was a great thing that people could survive.

Let's say that the prefect's surname is Meng, and the one on this bed is Miss Meng, after Xiaowan covered her with the quilt, Ling Chaofeng and Ershan all came.

As soon as she saw Ershan through the curtain, Miss Meng tossed violently and stretched out her hand from the curtain: "You, do you see my purse?" ”

Ershan was stunned for a moment, remembering the purse he picked up on the day of the temple fair, and hurriedly said, "I'll get it for you." ”

Miss Meng's maiden name is Lianyi, and her sister's name is Meng Lianxi, and the purse is a relic left to her by her sister, and it is a treasure she regards as her life.

Snatched back from Ershan's hands, the sick and weak man burst into tears, holding it tightly in his chest, trembling uncontrollably, and Ershan realized that she saw herself in the sedan chair yesterday, and she wanted to ask him if he had seen this purse.

After Meng Lianyi gradually calmed down, she examined the person in front of her, Aunt Zhang Xiaowan she recognized, Bu Shi had seen it once, and the temple fair had stolen it again, Ling Chaofeng was a strange face, and in this wilderness, there was a person of Ling Chaofeng's appearance. What surprised her even more was that the stupid and beautiful little lady turned out to be his wife.

In the eyes of a daughter like Meng Lianyi, Xiaowan is such a lively and cheerful person, who has no scheming in the city, she is stupid at a glance, and it is not that she is really stupid, but that Lian Yi is so immersed in the official family, and there are only interests between people, I am afraid that she will not be able to live in her own world.

Naturally, it's a lot of worry.

She coughed a few times, dizzy, and still proud and stubborn at the temple fair that day: "Have you reported to the official?" ”

Xiaowan said: "No, in the middle of the night last night, I was discussing at this time, whether to send you away directly, or go to the official first." ”

Meng Lianyi glared at Xiaowan: "Don't report to the official, I'll leave immediately, I'll leave immediately." She gasped for breath and tried to get up, but she couldn't muster any strength, and her face burned red, and her expression was very painful.

Xiaowan said: "You can stop a little, don't get excited, your life will not be saved." ”

Meng Lianyi held Xiaowan's hand tightly, afraid that she would use all her strength, but it was Xiaowan's pain when she pinched it: "Girl, I beg you, don't report to the officials, don't tell them I'm here, just when I'm dead, just when I'm dead in the Baisha River......"

She gasped for breath, as if she couldn't catch it at any time, Xiaowan hurriedly said: "I know, we don't report to the official, we don't hand you over to others, you lie down first, and then you toss, but you are really going to die." ”

Meng Lian was so angry that he fell down and closed his eyes, but he said at the moment before he fell asleep: "Thank you." ”

Everyone was silent, and after placing her, they retreated downstairs, seeing Ling Chaofeng's solemn expression, Xiaowan stood aside obediently and didn't dare to make a sound.

Aunt Zhang and Uncle Biao looked at each other as if they were already communicating, Ershan slowly walked towards the house, and suddenly turned back and said, "The shopkeeper, it's better to rely on Miss Meng and leave her first." ”

Xiaowan hurriedly echoed: "Xianggong, I couldn't agree to her just now, otherwise she would always be tossing and her life would be gone, but she promised others, and she can't regret it, right?" She waved her hand desperately, "I'm really not nosy. ”

This appearance is infuriating and funny, Ling Chaofeng gently knocked on her forehead: "When you see someone who has escaped from marriage, you are blind, do you know that she is the daughter of the prefect." ”

Xiaowan hurriedly said obediently: "Xianggong has an idea, I will listen to you for everything." ”

Aunt Zhang sneered and hugged her: "Now I'm getting more and more clever." ”

Ling Chaofeng naturally couldn't see death without help, and Ershan rarely asked for something, so he couldn't let him down, so he responded: "Wait for her to recover first, and then discuss the rest of the matter, if the people from the yamen find it, they won't know if they ask three questions." ”