Chapter 52: Laundry by the River
Gu Bo looked frightened, and when he saw him splitting his head, he asked, "You, have you borrowed from a loan shark?"
Jiang Yun was stunned when he heard this, and said puzzledly: "Usury? ”
Gu Bo pointed to the pile of white flower silver ingots and silver coins scattered on the bedside, and gasped and said urgently: "If it wasn't borrowed by a loan shark, then where did the silver come from?"
Seeing this pile of silver, Jiang Yun realized that it was this bag of silver that caused the trouble, and he instructed the little girl next to him: "Xiaolan, go and put away the silver." ”
Youlan lowered her head, and took back the money bag one by one in the past, she was also worried in her heart at the moment, and said that it was not so much silver, it was really obtained by the son through usury, thinking of this, her little face turned pale for a moment. Although she is young, she has heard people talk about it, and she knows that this usury is as powerful as a vampire, and how many families have been ruined by this harmful thing.
Seeing that the two of them looked nervous as if a catastrophe was coming, Jiang Yun smiled and said, "Uncle Gu, don't worry, this silver is definitely not obtained from usury." ”
Gu Bo was still frightened and uneasy.
Jiang Yun didn't hide it at the moment, so he told the other party about the process of getting this bag of silver.
After listening, Gu Bo was stunned for a long time, and it took a long time to come back to his senses and ask: "You, you mean that this bag of silver is the lottery you got by writing poems in Qingfeng Building, winning everyone?"
Jiang Yun nodded and said, "Yes." ”
"Is that so, you didn't deceive the old man?" Gu Bo asked again in disbelief.
"That's true, I didn't deceive Gu Bo, and the academy classmates can testify. Jiang Yun said affirmatively.
Gu Bo seemed to believe it, breathed a sigh of relief, and muttered to himself: "That's good, that's good." ”
At this time, he remembered that his attitude towards his words just now was already very rude, and he hurriedly blamed himself: "The old man's words just now were rude, and I ask my son to forgive me!"
Of course, Jiang Yun didn't care about this, and said with a smile: "Uncle Gu doesn't have to blame himself, I know that Uncle Gu is also concerned, I'm afraid that I will do something wrong, how can I blame you." ”
Seeing that things were clarified, Youlan was also very happy on the side, and said with a smile: "I know, grandpa, you are wrong to blame the son." Childe can win so much silver with a single poem, it's amazing!" said with a look of admiration and adoration.
Gu Bo was also curious about this, and asked: "The poem that Gongzi won, I don't know if I can read it for the old man to listen to?"
"Absolutely. Jiang Yun read it out immediately: "The sun is at the end of the mountain, and the Yellow River flows into the sea." If you want to be poor, go to the next level. ”
The literary style of the dynasty was at its peak, and the seven-year-old boy had to go to the school to study for a few years since he was a child, and Gu Bo had also read books, and his stomach also had a little ink, that is, the maid Youlan, and he also recognized some words.
After Jiang Yun read this poem, Gu Bo was shocked, although he didn't have much ink in his belly, he could also hear the benefits of this poem, as for the maid Youlan, he had already begun to applaud on the side.
"Childe, this, is this really a poem you composed?" After being stunned for a while, Gu Bo asked in disbelief with a surprised face.
Regarding Jiang Yun's studies, he actually understands very well that the other party can read well, otherwise he would not have been admitted to the Qinghe Academy in the town, but when it comes to poetry, it is not satisfactory. Because of poetry, he knows that it is not something that can be obtained by studying diligently and diligently, but what is needed is a talent and experience of the world.
Therefore, the poet once said, "If you want to learn poetry, your kung fu is outside the poem".
As a person who watched the other party grow up, Gu Bo knows Jiang Yun very well as a person, knows that the other party is hard working and diligent in reading and studying, but he is a little pedantic, unruly, and less flexible, so that he has drilled the horns of the bull, if he wants to write an article, it may not be difficult, but it is not so easy to make a good poem.
And the other party is now able to make a good poem that is a blockbuster and wins the championship in one fell swoop at the poetry meeting where the academy is full of talents, which is so surprising and unexpected that he can't help but have some doubts in his heart.
In order to dispel the other party's doubts, Jiang Yun naturally put this poem on his head at this moment, and said: "This poem was written by me for a moment's epiphany. ”
When Gu Bo heard this, he was stunned for a while, and he seemed to believe it in his heart, he knew that although the other party was sometimes pedantic, he was not good at lying. As for why the other party suddenly made such a good poem, he can only attribute it to the fact that the other party really had an epiphany and the result of an idea.
For example, he knew that there was an old boy in Linxian County, with a gray beard, a family with four walls, a son and a wife, and he had not been in the show, but he still persevered, diligently devoted himself to the meritorious imperial examination, and became a joke in ten miles and eight towns. Some boil it down to being an epiphany.
Could it be that his son-in-law also had an epiphany?"Okay, great!" Gu Bo thought of this, accepted Jiang Yun's explanation, and became full of joy.
"Uncle Gu, you just need to recuperate from your injuries now, and you don't have to think too much about other things. Jiang Yun comforted the other party, and then walked out.
In the courtyard, Jiang Yun thought, now that Gu Bo is sick in bed, Youlan is young, he still has to go to the academy to study, if he leaves, there will be no one in charge of affairs in this family.
"The owner-" was thinking here, when he heard someone calling in his ear, and when he looked up, he saw a person standing in front of him, not who Wang Xiulian was, although it was a jinghai cloth skirt, and the village girl was dressed up, but the melon seed face, willow eyebrows, and a pair of big eyes seemed to be able to speak.
"Miss Wang, you're here. Jiang Yun had something in his heart, and greeted him casually.
Wang Xiulian snorted and said, "I'll take a look, if there is anything I need help with." ”
Jiang Yun arched his hand when he heard this: "In the past two days, thanks to Miss Wang's help, I have worked hard. ”
Wang Xiulian smiled and said: "The owner said so, it is polite, everyone is a fellow villager, and it is also appropriate to help if you have something, and you are not tired, just help a little." ”
Jiang Yun snorted, and said, "I'm afraid that I will have to bother Miss Wang, there will be a quarterly exam in the academy tomorrow, which is very important......"
When Wang Xiulian heard this, she said: "Since this is the case, the owner can rest assured that he will go, and I will help take care of it here." ”
As he spoke, he looked around, and saw a basin of unwashed clothes under the eaves, so he walked over quickly and picked it up, and said, "I'll take it and wash it." ”
After speaking, he hurried out with his head down with his clothes basin down, and when he walked past Jiang Yun, Jiang Yun suddenly stretched out his hand to stop her, and said, "You don't have to bother Miss Wang about this, you put it down, I'll wash it." ”
Wang Xiulian stopped, as if she had heard something incredible, and said with wide eyes: "Dong, Dongjia, what did you just say?"
Jiang Yun said: "I said that I will wash this basin of clothes." ”
Wang Xiulian was sure that she had heard correctly, but she still felt very ridiculous and unbelievable, how could the other party say such a thing, the other party would not have a cold and fever last night, so let's talk nonsense at this time.
While she was thinking about it, Jiang Yun had already stretched out her hand and wanted to take the wooden basin with the clothes.
Wang Xiulian woke up in shock, and saw that the other party seemed to be real, so she hurriedly grabbed the basin and said, "Owner, how can this work, I'll wash it." ”
Jiang Yun didn't feel that there was anything wrong with his behavior, but he just felt that it was his own business, and it was not good to trouble the other party, so he insisted on washing it himself.
The two fought over a wooden basin with clothes here, pulling back and forth a few times, Wang Xiulian felt undignified, and as soon as her hand was loosened, the wooden basin was taken away by the other party.
Jiang Yun snatched the wooden basin, and without saying a word, he strode out of the courtyard with the wooden basin.
Wang Xiulian stood in the courtyard, stunned for a long time, and when she came back to her senses, she couldn't see Jiang Yun's shadow anymore, she hurriedly turned around and chased out, shouting while chasing after her: "Boss, stop-"
Jiang's family went out not far away, it was a small river meandering through, Jiang Yun went out of the house with a wardrobe, didn't walk a few steps to the river, walked down the riverbank along a slope, and saw a row of neat and smooth big stones by the river, at this moment there were already four or five big girls and daughters-in-law in the village gathered there to wash clothes.
These village women and village girls were washing clothes and laughing with each other, but a little daughter-in-law suddenly stopped the movement in her hand and looked in a certain direction in a daze.
"What's the matter, looking at the way you look like you've lost your soul, you can't be seeing a good handsome guy. Seeing her strange appearance, someone was eating and laughing next to her.
"You, look—" The little daughter-in-law ignored her companion's teasing, and pointed in a certain direction, her face still looking incredulous, ghostly.
"What's there to see, no matter how handsome the handsome brother is, he can still see that the flowers can't come out. ”
The companion next to her continued to make fun of her, and some people also looked curiously in the direction of her finger, and at this glance, they were immediately dumbfounded.
The rest of the people turned their heads to look, and saw a young man in a green shirt carrying a wooden basin full of clothes to the river, found a large bluestone, put down the wooden basin, rolled up his sleeves, and began to wash his clothes there.
"Isn't this the little brother of the Jiang family, what is he doing? ”
"Are you dazzled, don't you see people doing laundry? ”
"I saw it, but I still didn't believe it, what the hell was going on. ”
"Look, he's really washing. ”
"This is really rare, I heard that this little brother of the Jiang family is a little nerdy in reading, but when I look at it today, it is really true. ”
The little daughters-in-law and the eldest girls by the river all stopped their work at this time, looked at Jiang Yun who was washing clothes by the river, pointed, covered their mouths and snickered, as if they saw an unprecedented and rare thing.