Chapter 11 Housework

There are a few feng shui trees crawling with withered vines at the head of the village, a few yellow dogs with dirty fur saw this strange traveler, the dog barked more than once, the village is not big, forty or fifty households, all of a sudden let people know that there are guests in the village, but just now more than ten strong knights came and went in a hurry, so that many timid villagers did not dare to go out, and then saw that Xu Zhiniang and Yousong Niang came back in a hurry, some of the mother-in-law who got up early to cook and hurriedly went to shout to call up the man who was lying on the bed, although the man on the kang said that he was not very promising, but he had more knowledge than them, and the man who woke up hazy stood on tiptoe and looked at the loess mud wall for a long time, in the end, I can't say one, two, three.

Back then, Xu Zhiniang was bullied by the green skins of the outer village, and the elders in the village couldn't stand it, so they dared to take the young people in the village to solve the siege. At this time, I heard that the local dog raised by the family barked vigorously, for fear of causing trouble, the impatient man ran out of the door and kicked several times before he could put down the bowl, and the local dogs whimpered and hid in the corner and lay on their stomachs, very innocent. In the crack of the door, I saw a young boy with a sword, slowly walked to the winding bluestone path, handsome and handsome, a few small village women if they didn't know some of the severity, they would have already gone out to flirt with two sentences, such a good-looking man, it was really the first time to see it, the villagers didn't have too many scruples to pay attention to, if the little daughter-in-law gave birth to a cub, in the summer cool, breastfeeding words dare to open her chest with a big grin, a cool picture, and there will be no less meat after being looked at a few times, seeing the village girls of the son's brother, I feel that if I was looked at by his beautiful Danfeng eyes, maybe I still took advantage of myselfใ€‚

Xu Fengnian's family passed by one by one, and the Spring Festival couplets written by the old master were hung at the door, appreciating the past one by one, stopping at the door of a household at the end of the village, knocking, and not waiting for the master to promise, he pushed the door in, and unexpectedly saw the little lady, Xu Fengnian stopped with suspicion, and laughed softly: "Why didn't you go?"

The uncertain little lady turned her head slightly, did not look at the Lingzhou scholar, and said softly: "If you have no relatives and no reason, where can you go." โ€

Xu Fengnian leaned against the cold courtyard door with morning dew and moisture, and said with a smile: " I came to try my luck, thinking that you don't go too fast, so as to talk to my sister-in-law, today this matter has really been resolved, I and the general who came behind is a fellow villager in Lingzhou, although I can't call it a world friend, but I don't look at the face of the monk to see the Buddha, he and my father bowed their heads and didn't look up, always embarrassed to go too far, I spent some silver to let him go to the gang of military men to drink old wine and eat dog meat, and it will be a big thing and a small matter, so that everyone's face is passable. How can I say it, in response to the old saying, the king of Hades is so difficult to see that the little ghost is difficult, if the sister-in-law still can't believe it, the government will spit out all the deducted pension silver in the past two days and make it up to you, so I know that I didn't lie to you. โ€

The little lady's eyes turned red instantly, her head lowered more and more, and a few slender and good-looking fingers that were not as creamy and silky as a rich woman twisted the corners of her clothes.

Xu Fengnian hesitated for a moment and said: "Tell you Song, read well with the old master, there is a golden house in the book, and when he reaches the age of gaining fame, our Beiliang will be different from the current world, not to mention anything else, there will always be a greater chance of being a scholar." โ€

After Xu Fengnian finished speaking, he turned around, and heard the young boy running out of the door and shouting big brother, but His Royal Highness the Prince still did not stop. The little lady Xu Qing sighed softly: "Son, aren't you even happy to walk in the door, it's dirty? There are many rights and wrongs in front of the widow's door, I understand this truth." โ€

Xu Fengnian was stunned, turned around and smiled bitterly: "Sister-in-law, you know that I didn't mean that." โ€

Xiao Niang glared and said, "Who is your sister-in-law!"

After she turned around, she whispered but said resolutely: "I heard You Song said that you sent out two buns in the morning, and I will cook some food for you, and then leave after eating." Small families don't have any good things, and they can't even have no reason. โ€

Xu Fengnian smiled slightly, walked into the house, and placed a table of eight immortals to occupy half of the position, it can be seen how small this house is, the left hand side of the house is the side room for sleeping, and the right side of the little lady should be the kitchen, although the house is small, but it also sits north and faces south, and it does not look gloomy, You Song brought Xu Fengnian the only chair, sat on the small bench by himself, looked up at this big hero in his mind, and stared at him with big eyes. The little lady is skilled in cooking, and soon cooked a pot of white rice porridge for Xu Fengnian, a pair of bowls and chopsticks, and a dish of vinegar cabbage under the porridge.

Xiao Niang and You Song sat side by side on a bench where the vermilion lacquer had already been mottled and peeled off, the child snuggled up to his mother, with an innocent smile on his face, Xiao Niang seemed to be infected by the child's emotions, with a smile on the corner of her mouth, probably thinking that this boy was interesting, and even this white porridge and vinegar cabbage could be eaten with relish.

Xu Fengnian was not happy to drink porridge, so he ate three bowls slowly, put down the dishes and chopsticks and said with satisfaction: "It's delicious." โ€

The little lady smiled gently: "If you eat a meal every day, it won't be delicious." โ€

Xu Fengnian nodded and shook his head and said: "It's better than a meal of delicacies from the mountains and seas, at least it can nourish the stomach, and the taste of the world is bland, and ordinary people can't eat this realm. โ€

The little lady raised her eyebrows, patted Yousong's brain, the child was sensible, and immediately went to clean up the dishes and chopsticks and moved back to the stove room. Only then did she ask cautiously: "How much silver does Gongzi give away, and he should pay off what he owes you, and he will pay it back little by little as soon as he has spare money in the future, okay?"

Xu Fengnian smiled but said nothing.

The little lady was really thin-skinned, and she was blushing at once.

Xu Fengnian said calmly: "A small family like you in Beiliang, who has more livelihoods, can only accumulate more than ten or twenty taels of silver in a year, even if you can embroider, you can embroider some beautiful sachets and sell them to the ladies and girls with good families, but the Maguan is such a size, how many can you sell a year? If you spend a lot of money to buy fine satin from the silk village, but you can't sell the sachet and press it on your hand, even if there is only one, you don't have to lose a lot of money." Even if the business is good, you have to be busy with crop work during the day, and this meticulous embroidery work can only be put on hold at night, and you light the oil lamp and slowly hook and twist, and you are tired, and you accidentally fall asleep, and when you wake up, you find that the oil lamp has been wasted, and you don't feel distressed? You can't stab yourself twice with an embroidery needle? Take 10,000 steps back and say, if you add that pension, you can repay me 30 taels of silver a year, and you have to pay it back for a few years? So, you shouldn't have mentioned this at all, anyway, I don't lack this money, just when I do good deeds and accumulate virtue, it's not very good. โ€

The little lady raised her head, bit her lip and said with clear eyes: "I want to pay it back!"

Xu Fengnian said with a smile: "If you want to pay it back, it's okay, five hundred taels of silver is the foundation, and besides, this officialdom is not something that others are willing to accept if you give silver, and the favor that the general wants to come, how can you convert it? Is it worth a thousand taels? Count you 1,500 taels, and you will slowly pay it back for fifty years?"

Xiao Niang said calmly: "Let You Song return it in the future." โ€

Xu Fengnian couldn't cry or laugh, this Xu Zhiniang's stubborn temperament was not brought by beating his mother's womb?

Xiao Niang suddenly said softly: "I actually know that the son of Lu Dao is not rich, and I must not let the son be the boss of this wrong, and I can't go away." โ€

Xu Fengnian was surprised: "How do you say this?"

Xiao Niang's cheeks were rosy, and she said weakly: "When Gongzi took over the dishes and chopsticks, Xu Qing saw that Gongzi's palms and ten fingers were calloused. โ€

Xu Fengnian was stunned, with a strange smile.

Xiao Niang mistakenly thought that it hurt the self-esteem of this Lingzhou scholar, but she had also heard that the scholars and scholars in the big city, the face is more important than money, benevolence and morality are more valuable than gold and silver, she doesn't understand this, but she also thinks it is a very good thing, if this makes this scholar who is in charge of studying abroad feel that he can't pull down his face? Xiao Niang only felt that her mouth was too stupid for a while, and quietly pinched her thigh with two fingers, and her eyes were moist for a moment.

Xu Fengnian wanted to speak and stopped, did not explain the misunderstanding here, turned around and beckoned to You Song, who was hiding behind the door of the stove room, took off the Spring Thunder Knife and handed it to the child, and said with a straight face: "No matter what you think, I will leave after I have said some words." This silver, you really want to pay it back, it's okay, wait until one day you have saved enough in one go, and then come to Lingzhou to find me, otherwise you will think that I can't afford to lose the face that accepts you dozens of taels of silver every time. Even if I have calloused hands and an average family background, since I am a scholar, this bit of face still has to be held up, and the people who come out of the scholar family, like you, are more serious in the matter of money. โ€

Xiao Niang sighed, and didn't dare to blindly drill the tip of the horns again, for fear that this talkative son would leave in a fit of anger, and he would be her and Yousong's great benefactor.

You Song holds this spring thunder knife whose reputation is not obvious in Beiliang, and even few people in Beiliang Wangfu know the name of it and the embroidered winter knife, I am afraid that only those maids in Wutong Garden know, but Wutong Yuan seems to be harmonious, His Royal Highness the Prince never talks about the rules with them, but how dare they not talk about the rules with the Beiliang Palace? Any news about His Royal Highness the Prince, no matter how small and trivial, once it reaches the ears of outsiders, it is a capital crime, Xu Xiao, the king of Beiliang, is kind to His Royal Highness the Prince, and he is not in a good mood to listen to grievances, and he is kind to the people, especially the servants who do not understand the rules, and they are all soft-hearted. The reason why Guo Yi Duwei Huangfu knew about this spring thunder knife was because he "chatted" with the Xu family father and son in the palace that night, and only then did he catch some clues to listen to the holy decree. You Song asked with a look of adoration: "Big brother, you must have beaten those inverted horse Guan armor soldiers, right?"

Xu Fengnian smiled and said softly: "It's okay to fight, even if you kill a few people, it's not difficult, but there are some things, it is difficult for Qing officials to cut off family affairs, and killing them is not beneficial to the overall situation, it is better to be patient and reasonable, if it really doesn't make sense, it's not too late to fight." You Song, you have to know the way, just reading books and reading fame is good, but many times you have to rely on your own fists to talk to people, like that Zhang Shun, the old master who teaches is not very knowledgeable? Do you know much about the truth? But Zhang Shun and the old master are up, who do you think is the last to lie down? Of course, the old master has the identity of lifting people, and he doesn't have to kneel when he sees the county master, Zhang Shun is a green-skinned scoundrel who doesn't know the big characters, and he generally doesn't dare to jump in front of the old master. โ€

The little lady chewed the taste carefully and said nothing.

You Song nodded vigorously and said: "You Song wants to win glory for his mother, but he also wants to walk the rivers and lakes like this with his big brother, and he pulls out a knife to help when he sees unevenness!"

Xu Fengnian stretched out his hand and nodded the child's forehead, and said softly: "How many bowls of porridge can you eat with your little belly? How much appetite is right to eat a few bowls of rice, first read the four books and five classics taught to you by the old master, and then talk about the rest." โ€

You Song suddenly said in a muffled voice: "Big brother, my father is a hero." โ€

Xu Fengnian's tone was ancient, but his eyes were gentle: "Whether your father is a hero or not, I haven't seen it, and I don't know what to do." But Yousong and your mother are all fine. โ€

Very good.

In addition, His Royal Highness the Prince, who can speak of the lotus, doesn't know how to comment.

Xu Fengnian looked out of the door, there was a row of human-height cabbage walls hanging at the root of the courtyard wall, and said to himself: "I have a home, very big, much bigger than your home." There are my father, there are stewards, there are maids, there are guards, there are porters, there are maidservants, there are grooms, there are many, many people, this family is so big that many people I have never seen on the side, each more or less selfish, in their own position for a small family behind them to do things, if I want to take care of this home, not to say that who made a mistake was bumped into by me, with the identity to knock it and it will be over, like even if it is some grievances near the stable in the corner of a home, I am not easy to take who can make the housework better, maybe it will be worse after a fresh face, there are always a lot of people outside my house, thinking about stuffing nails in, on the surface, I help you do things, but in fact, I want to hollow out my family. When I was the size of you like Yousong, I didn't know anything, hiding in my own small yard, I felt that the sky couldn't fall, but when I grew up, I realized that my father was a person who had accumulated a lot of business, and one day he would be powerless, he had too many things to take care of, too many people in the family were with him into the house, and those neighbors outside the house who relied on our house, up and down inside and outside are human feelings, these people have all done things for my father, so that today's great cause of everyone, no matter how ruthless my father is, he must also turn a blind eye, killing chickens and monkeys is useful once, and many times have learned to be smart, the means of making money and digging the foot of the wall are more subtle and subtle, and my father has a headache even more. At first, my father asked me to leave the house and go out for a walk, and I felt that I had been greatly wronged, but then I gradually learned that it was useful to see more about how others lived. This time I said that it was a study tour, the reason why I walked from Liangzhou to the inverted horse pass here, I didn't do it alone, but I just wanted to see how our people in Beiliang lived, and whether they were doing well, just like a fledgling tinkerer, the windows at home were broken, and they had to be sewn up, otherwise the wind and rain would hit in the future, and they would have to suffer, and the wall was dug and had to be filled. But just a headache doctor head and foot pain to treat the feet, so sewing and mending, or not the top thing, know where the root of the disease is, it is good to prescribe the right medicine, a family is the same as a person, and then beg grandpa to sue grandma when he is terminally ill, it will be too late. What I have to do now is not to be in a hurry to show my face, but to find a few people who can be used neatly and neatly, and push them to the front, so that they can be both fishermen and pasteurs for me, which will be far more beneficial in the long run than if I had to pick up my sleeves and beat anyone. I have seen a person surnamed Xuanyuan before, he cleaned up the housework, it was too thorough, almost turned the bottom up, a relative of my family surnamed Chen, may want to do this, and he has the ability, but I don't want to repeat the mistakes of the past. โ€

The boy with the knife didn't understand it anyway, but he only heard about the big brother's home, which seemed to be very big.

The innocent little lady at the bottom of her heart was stunned when she heard it, and her face was in a trance.

Xu Fengnian stood up, the little lady patted You Song's shoulder, and the child hurriedly handed him back the Spring Thunder Knife.

Xu Fengnian smiled and said something that the little lady couldn't figure out how to smack and chew, "I'll help you today, in fact, the root cause is today's incident, blame my father." If this kind of thing happens in Beiliang in the future, you and You Song can blame me. โ€

When the little mother and the child were sent to the gate of the hospital, Xu Fengnian hesitated for a moment, and said softly: "At that time, I reached out to stop you, it was an unintentional move, don't blame you." โ€

The little lady Xu Qing's pretty face was so red that she could drip water.

At that time, she was only concerned about rushing forward, and when His Royal Highness stretched out his arm, she knocked her plump breasts into it.

Seeing that she was about to cry, His Royal Highness the Prince, who knew that he had done too much, smiled a little embarrassedly and walked out of the village in a dashing manner.

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