Chapter Seventy-Nine

Because of the rain for several days, Hou Jue wanted to go to Zhuangzi to see his aunt's affairs, so he delayed it.

Little Fat Dun was raised by his aunt to be a little cowardly, and when this happened suddenly, the little guy was even more panicked. He used to always smile when he saw people, but gradually became more and more silent and depressed. Even the bulging little face quickly lost weight, and the family couldn't help but worry for a while.

In terms of expressing emotions, the five old men and their families are actually very clumsy. The way my wife expresses her love is to keep putting delicious food in Chubby's bowl. Hou Rui's way is more middle-two, either quietly reaching out to pull Xiaopang, or kicking him under the table. If it was before, Xiaopang would have jumped up and complained with a shout, but now he just avoided it listlessly, and the whole person was always so wilted.

The old man looked anxious for a while, but he was not a comforter, so he only slapped his chopsticks on the table and shouted, "What are you doing with a sad face?" It's not that you are not allowed to go, it is raining continuously, and Zhuangzi is far away from the town, do you want to let you go in the rain? ! ”

Xiaopang had the chicken leg that his wife had forced into his mouth, and the tears couldn't be held back for a while, and they fell down like this.

The wife was first so frightened by the old man's movement that she almost jumped up, and then saw the little fat crying, and immediately messed up, wiping the tears of the little fatty, while blaming the old man sideways. The old man immediately wilted. When Shanniang felt the silence around her, she looked up and saw her old lady and her brother, all three of whom were looking at her with a kind of hopeful eyes.

Shanniang sighed silently - "The skillful work and the wise worry about it", sure enough, the ancients did not deceive me. She is bent on raising herself here in a loaf place, and everyone in the family is counting on her as a housekeeper!

"Otherwise," she put a chopstick dish from the small fat bowl that was piled up like a hill and put it into her own bowl, "Ming'er, let's take a boat to ......."

Before she finished speaking, the old man frowned, "The Zhuangzi in the back mountain is not open to boats." ”

"I know." Shanniang smiled: "I remember that there is a wharf in the neighboring Zhuangzi, where we can go ashore and then hire a car to go to the nearest Zhuangzi." Even if the road is difficult to walk due to rain, it is easier than driving directly from Meishan Town. ”

When Xiaopang heard this, he immediately raised his head and looked at Shanniang with bright eyes.

The old man thought for a while and said, "It's okay." It's just that I haven't been available lately, and I'm afraid it will be a few days before I can do it. ”

The light in Xiaopang's eyes suddenly went out, and seeing that everyone couldn't bear it for a while, Hou Rui said, "I'll send him there." ”

"You're not going to school anymore?!" The old man glared.

Shanniang hurriedly said: "I don't need you. My brother can't miss class, my lord has something to do, but that's what we do in school, it doesn't matter if we miss a day or two, I'll just accompany him. ”

The wife said, "How can this be done?" You're a kid yourself. ”

Shanniang smiled: "Next month will be my fifteenth birthday, so I can't be considered a child." ”

Before she finished her words, she heard Hou Rui biting her chopsticks on the side and laughing: "How does it sound like you are deliberately reminding the old lady that it's time to give you a ceremony?" ”

Shanniang was stunned. In the previous life, her ceremony was accompanied by the ceremony of marrying Yuan Changqing, and she had never done it alone, so she forgot it for a while, and it was time for her to be fifteen years old. She turned her head and glared at Hou Rui, dipped the tea in the teacup, and bounced it in his face, causing Hou Rui to snicker.

The fifth master was stunned for a while, and suddenly looked at Shanniang and sighed: "Yes, Shan'er forgot about it if she didn't say it...... This looks like a child, who knows that it should be time...... and then he turned to his wife and said, "We have to give her a good ceremony." ”

The wife nodded, and said with a guilty face: "I was careless, and I forgot Shan'er's birthday......"

Shanniang didn't mention her birthday for this reason, so she quickly waved her hand to get back to the topic, and said, "I mean, if the old lady is not at ease, you can ask Uncle Gui to bring a few more people to send me and Hou Jue over." With so many people guarding it, and it is still in Meixian County, it will be fine. ”

Shanniang's words are for a reason. In other words, since Yuan Changqing left, the entire Jiangyin Mansion has been very unpeaceful, and it is said that it is caused by the fact that the fundraising committee visited and fraudulently received donations. There have been rumors before that the donation will check the poor households is to take the opportunity to deduct the donations, and now those funds and materials have been distributed in full, but I don't know where to blow a crooked wind, not to say that many poor households who should receive relief have not received relief, therefore, in addition to Mei County, which has an iron-blooded county order, there are rumors in other towns and counties that donations will be smashed and robbed by the so-called "angry poor households", and it is said that some people have taken the opportunity to do the business of robbing homes and houses.

The old man lowered his head and thought about it, and agreed.

So another day later, Uncle Gui really hired a boat. This time, Shanniang only took Wufu and Li's mother out of the house, Xiaopang only brought his nurse and the two servants who accompanied him, and Uncle Gui brought four or five big-shouldered and round-waisted family members to accompany him.

Shanniang got out of the cabin one step ahead of Hou Jue, and the nurse followed behind her with a package. Obviously, she and Wufu walked down the steps safely, but the nurse who followed them almost tripped as if she hadn't noticed the steps. Seeing Shanniang looking at her in surprise, the nurse was busy laughing for a while, and turned around and went to the back cabin. Wufu took the opportunity to lean into Shanniang's ear and whispered: "There was someone at my mother's house last night, it seems that I want her to go back." Because the girl was going out today, her mother didn't tell the girl. ”

She originally wanted to make a few more comments about the nurse's affairs, but suddenly heard the voices of Uncle Gui and Hou Jue talking, so she was busy with her mouth and helped Shanniang to sit down by the porthole.

Hou Jue followed behind and got out of the cabin gloomily, and saw Shanniang sitting against the window, he leaned on her coquettishly, looked up at her and said, "Will the master never take my aunt back again?" ”

Shanniang touched his back, not knowing how to comfort him for a while. She used to think about whether she could transform Ma's mother, so that the family could always be harmonious and beautiful. But there are some things, if it is beneficial to one party, it is destined to be unfavorable to the other party, the so-called either the east wind overwhelms the west wind, or the west wind overpowers the east wind, or no matter how much she wants to seek the best, it is impossible to achieve the best of both worlds.

"Will my aunt suffer there?" Hou Jue said with tears in his eyes.

"It shouldn't be that you're suffering, it's delicious, and there's someone waiting." Shanniang sighed again, and now she only hoped that Hou Jue would not be affected by this matter, so she joked again: "Actually, I think it is better to be in Zhuangzi than at home." You can sleep lazily in the morning, get up at any time you like, let people do whatever you want to eat when you get up, you can plant flowers with your wishes, plant grass if you love to plant grass, and if you are happy, you can go to the pond to fish, go to Zhuangzi for a stroll, you don't have to go to school every day, and you don't have to do your homework when you come back. ”

Hou Jue is a child in the end, and after being coaxed by Shanniang like this, he immediately felt that the life of living in Zhuangzi should be good, and finally showed a rare smile.

The journey was also smooth, although the sky has been overcast, but there has never been rain. When approaching the shore, Wufu couldn't help but clasp his hands together and said, "Amitabha, even the heavenly master is helping us." As soon as she finished speaking, a drizzle fell in the sky. Shanniang couldn't help but laugh and said, "Some things can't be said. Maybe God had forgotten that it was going to rain, but you reminded him of this. ”

She stood up, took the rain cloak in Mother Sun's hand and draped it for Xiao Chubby, and then turned around and asked Wufu to drape herself, and then leaned over the porthole to look out.

At this time, Uncle Gui had already gone ashore first.

In Shanniang's memory, the wharf on the shore can only be regarded as a ferry next to a slightly larger village, which is usually not very lively, she thought that Uncle Gui had to go to the village to hire a car, but she didn't think that there were three mule carts parked by the dock at this time. Shanniang pointed to the shore and smiled at Wufu and said, "This is God's help." ”

And when she helped Wufu's hand to the shore, she found that Uncle Gui had not hired a car, and was planning to send someone to the village to find a car.

One of the coachmen sneered with his two hands: "You are really strange as a guest officer, you don't hire so many of our cars here, but you want to go to the village to find someone." Okay, okay, do you like to hire or not! At this time, every family is busy with farming, and I want to see if you can hire a car. It's just a few of us, just sending people over, and we don't want to run back. ”

Shanniang didn't say much, just stood aside and silently observed the coachmen. Xiaopang didn't understand Uncle Gui's caution, and only asked Uncle Gui, "What's wrong, is there anything wrong with this car?" ”

His words immediately made the coachmen angry, and the leader turned around and beckoned to the drivers of the other two cars: "Yes, people suspect that we are robbing the road!" Brothers, let's not be greedy for that little money, let's go back with an empty car. As he spoke, he raised his whip and was about to drive the car away.

At this time, the rain gradually began to get heavier. Uncle Gui and Shanniang looked at each other, Shanniang nodded, and then Uncle Gui stepped forward to stop the cars and said with a smile: "It's not that your cars are not clean." ”

The leader snorted coldly: "I think our car is not clean, who knows that the car on Zhuangzi is pulling pigs and dogs?" That's clean! ”

Seeing that these three people didn't look like they were deliberately stammering, Uncle Gui gradually relaxed, so he picked a coachman who looked the most honest, and let Shanniang and Hou Jue get into the car first.

In the previous dynasty, the style of the carriage was quite simple, often just a simple shed, and a curtain was hung in front and back to protect it from the wind and dust. Since the reform of Shengyuan, Xu is everyone's life is peaceful, and they began to pursue better quality, and the carriage of the Great Zhou Dynasty has gradually begun to become more and more refined, with a sedan carriage and a van. The car is no longer covered by a simple curtain, but has been installed with doors. However, in order to facilitate getting on and off the carriage, the door is generally opened to the rear, and rarely opens on one side like the style that came from the West later. The three vans on the side of the dock were all side-open.

At this time, the rain gradually became heavier, and Shanniang was only slightly surprised by the style of the carriage, so she took Hou Jue to get into the carriage first.

The mule carts in the countryside are naturally not as good as the cars in the Five Old Masters' Mansion, the bodies are very narrow, and only two people can sit side by side in each car. There are more people in their group, and it is impossible for anyone to squeeze Shanniang's sister and brother, so the two of them only took Li's mother to sit in one car together, and the others were crowded into the other two cars.

Uncle Gui had a lot of eyes, so he put the family's car first, let Shanniang's carriage walk in the middle, and he himself escorted the car to the end.

However, when he got into the carriage, he found that the carriage only had open windows on the left and right sides, and there were no windows in the front and rear. Although glass is no luxury these days, the countryman is still reluctant to use this fragile thing, so the windows on both sides are still filled with wooden planks, and if he wants to check the movement of the two carriages in front of him, he can only open the window panels and poke his head out to see it.

Uncle Gui frowned, but looking at the gradually heavy rain, thinking that there was only one way from the ferry to the village, and the road was not too far, he didn't find fault with anything, shouted at the coachman, and the group set off in the rain.

At the beginning, everything was normal, and Uncle Gui would pull out the window panel and look forward from time to time. Gradually, as the rain became heavier and heavier, he gradually relaxed his vigilance at the sound of the coachman in front of him shaking his whip, until the carriage suddenly tossed strangely, and then the world swirled......

When Uncle Gui was dragged out of the overturned carriage by Wufu and the others, he saw an empty rain curtain in front of him, not to mention the other two carriages, the horses that drove them, and the coachman, all disappeared.