After listening to Ji Liu, she didn't waver for half a minute, Aunt Zhang looked at her indifferent appearance, couldn't help but close to her ear, and added softly: "Listen to my man, the ferry stuffs money for the master of the yamen all the year round, and there have always been groups of ruffians and hooligans, and it is very chaotic. If you encounter bandits and you suffer a disaster, the yamen will also turn a blind eye and get by. ”

Aunt Zhang's kindness, Ji Liu knew, but she was really reluctant to let the silver she just received cheapen others. Ji Liu thought in her heart, whether it was buying new clothes for Ji Mou to grab medicine, or repairing the roof that had opened a hole and dripping when it rained, she needed money anywhere, and she had to save it.

"Thank you Aunt Zhang," after speaking, she pinched two handfuls of ten taels of silver hidden in her chest with her hands, gritted her teeth and insisted: "It's just that I haven't been selling vegetables for a day or two, and I have met a lot of people of all kinds." ”

She shook Aunt Zhang's sleeves slightly, and said coquettishly at the right time: "Auntie, just tell me how to go." If you are worried that I am in danger and your heart is not at ease, I will not embarrass you, but ask others the same. Ji Liu knew that this was embarrassing Aunt Zhang, but he still added fuel to the fire.

It's not that Aunt Zhang can't see that Ji Liu is reluctant to pay money, since she can't persuade her, she can only help, if something happens to the girl who is like a flower, how distressed the family should be. She thought for a moment and said, "Well, you stay here for a while, and when I sell my things, let my man send you over." ”

It's great to be able to do this, Ji Liu smiled, and her eyes narrowed into a slit, forming two curved crescents hanging on her porcelain white face.

In less than half an hour, some maids from large families came out to buy and bought all the purple persimmons on Aunt Zhang's spread. Ji Liu looked at the money in Aunt Zhang's hand, thinking that he had only gotten ten taels of silver in the past two days, and his eyes were really red.

Aunt Zhang's house is at the top of this row of blue-tiled houses with a similar pattern, and the houses are very small from the outside. But when Ji Liu stepped into the gate of Aunt Zhang's house, he found that there were four rooms inside, and the road paved with ordinary blue bricks connected all the corridors in front of the house, and the remaining part opened a rockery pond, and even the outer wall was planted with many flowers and trees. On the whole, it is really not a corridor waist manhui, let alone surrounded by pines and cypresses, but in Ji Liu's eyes, it is a blue tile and white wall that she can not hope for, elegant and clean.

"In winter, many flowers do not bloom, only the red plum on the outer wall and the holly in front of the hall are left," as soon as Aunt Zhang, who had just entered the house and woke up the man, went out, she saw Ji Liu tilting her head and looking at her home, with an inexplicable look of joy in her eyes. ”

After Ji Liu was brought into the hall, Aunt Zhang went to get breakfast. She sat inside for a while, and then saw a middle-aged man in a light blue scholar's robe, and when she passed by Ji Liu's side, there was a faint smell of grass, and she saw the middle-aged man ask with a gentle smile on his face, "Have you ever had breakfast?" What to use together? ”

"I drank some porridge when I went out, and I already used it." This is Uncle Zhang, Ji Liu never thought that Aunt Zhang's husband who was full of copper smell all day long was actually a weak scholar, and she thought that he would be a shrewd and capable appearance.

"It's just some porridge and steamed buns, you don't have to be restrained." Ji Liu turned his head and saw Aunt Zhang entering the hall with a plate, and she was still greeting her, and the rice fragrance from the plate filled the room, around the tip of her nose, and her whole body was warm.

Ji Liu licked her lips, she thought of the soup she drank in the morning without seeing the rice grains, coupled with the rush for nearly an hour, her stomach kept rolling and protesting, she was still embarrassed to trouble Aunt Zhang's family again, and then restrained the indifference in her heart and refused: "Thank you two, I really don't need it." The red plum outside is delicate, I'll take a look, you use it slowly, just shout. ”

Ji Liu swallowed her saliva silently and quickly found a reason to leave, she was worried that she would be embarrassed to stay here any longer, and she was even more afraid that the gurgling sound in her stomach would be heard.

After Ji Liu finished speaking, he hurriedly walked out and closed the door with him. Then she walked to the lake and squatted down, pressed her right hand on the demon's stomach and said, "Don't scream, I'm afraid that others won't hear you." ”

At this moment, the door of Aunt Zhang's house next door suddenly opened. The sound of "squeak~" seemed to be slapping Ji Liu's stomach.

Ji Liu turned around and saw a familiar figure coming out of the next door, squatting with his back to Ji Liu in a trance, cleaning up the garlic planted on the outer wall.

"Sister Jade?" Ji Liu couldn't help but feel excited in his heart and stepped forward and asked, his voice mixed with uncertain tremors.

The woman's body in front of her instantly stiffened, and she raised her hand as if to wipe her face, and then turned back with a smile.

She looked at the girl behind her suspiciously for a moment, and then asked, "Are you...... Remember Liu? ”

"It's me, Sister Yu." Ji Liu looked at the woman with lines in the corners of her eyes, but she didn't expect that Aunt Zhang and Li Yu were neighbors.

"Sister Yu, I haven't seen you since you got married." When Ji Liu was brought to Lotus Village by Ji, she was still a milk doll not long after birth. Ji Mou was in a hurry to grow vegetables in the field, and often had to go to the town to buy vegetables to fill his stomach, and Ji Liu was a burden to him at that time.

Later, in order to facilitate the work in the field, Ji promised Aunt Li to enlighten her son to read and write, and asked Aunt Li to take care of Xiao Ji Liu when it was inconvenient for him.

In fact, Ji didn't know that Aunt Li didn't care about her at all, and every time she took care of her, it was the jade sister in front of her. Li Yu will feed his share of porridge soup to Jiliu first, and then drink the rest by himself.

Perhaps in a sense, the word Li Yu has become synonymous with remembering Liu's mother.

Li Yu has two younger brothers and a younger sister, and the family is living hard, in order to take more care of the family, she was stunned to delay her marriage until she was twenty years old.

Ji Liu was exactly eight years old that year, and she already remembered it completely, and the girl who married at the age of twenty in the countryside was almost half bought and half given.

Li Yu is the same, and since then, except for occasionally sending silver to his mother's family, he has never returned.

Ji Liu also cried to find her, but in the coming winter, Ji fell and broke her leg on the way to buy vegetables, which caught her off guard at a young age, tired of making a living, and put away her full of coquettishness.

"I asked Aunt Li several times, where did you get married," Ji Liu thought of the Li family's pile of superb products and sneered lightly, so as to hide the disdain in his eyes, and then raised his head again and continued: "She always said that you are well married, let me not worry about it." ”

Ji Liu asked hesitantly: "Sister Yu, have you ...... all these years?" How are you doing? ”

Looking at Li Yu's red eyes, Ji Liu couldn't help but slap himself in his heart, and was about to step forward to grab Li Yu's hand to comfort her, but was interrupted by Aunt Zhang.

"Little girl, my man is fine, let's go."

She stopped and glanced at Aunt Zhang's house, and then said to Li Yu: "Sister Yu, I'm going to the ferry, I'll be back soon, you wait for me." Uncle Zhang still had to go to work after sending her, and it couldn't affect him, so Ji Liu had to stop talking and kept repeating that Li Yu was waiting for her.

But when Jiliu returned to Li Yu's residence again, all she was left with was the door closed, and no one returned when she knocked on the door. It was Aunt Zhang who told her that Li Yu had hurried out of the door not long after she went to the ferry.

Ji Liu didn't know when he would have the opportunity to come to the county seat again, so he waited at Aunt Zhang's house for a while, seeing that the sun was getting higher and higher, but he never waited for Li Yu.

"Aunt Zhang, are there any ready-to-wear shops around here?" Ji Liu still had to rush back to Lotus Village to get some lunch for Ji, but he really couldn't wait.

"A ready-to-wear store? If you don't go to Chen's shop, you can go to the market from here, and then you can cross a street and you will be there, and you can see it at a very big glance. Listening to Aunt Zhang's suggestion, Ji Liu walked to Chen's shop and stood still.

This shop is twice the size of the shop with the interface, and there are people coming and going, unlike other stores that need to shout.

Ji Liu picked out a dark blue jacket and was about to go to the stage to pay the bill and leave, when he heard the two little two talking about gossip from nowhere.

"Do you know the young master of the Sheng family?"

"The Sheng family? You mean the young man who flirted with the maid and criticized the subordinates. ”

"It's him, just the county government released the list," the speaker sold a pass, hung his appetite, and continued: "He actually got admitted to catch fast." ”

"Yo, the Sheng family master can also be a fast catcher?" The person next to him suddenly let out a sneer and said, "Isn't this the same as letting the bandits come out to eliminate violence and peace?" ”

Ji Liu listened to Xiao Er's evaluation of the Sheng family master at the center of the topic, and inevitably became a little curious.

She knows the Sheng family, and it is said that the Sheng family relied on the old lady who died sixteen years ago. Mrs. Sheng was a high school champion, and was arranged by the emperor of the previous dynasty to teach the prince, although he was a prince, but he was a rigid person, and he didn't like to deal with those people in the officialdom, so he resigned and returned to his hometown to open a school not long after.

The Sheng Family School teaches regardless of gender, regardless of age, and regardless of origin, now the emperors of the Qing Kingdom and the Xifeng State in the Four Kingdoms have learned the way of being a monarch under him, not to mention these, even the officials of various dynasties have many of them have gone out from the Sheng Family School.

Yes, even though the old lady Sheng has been immortal for many years, and the Sheng family school has lost its former glory, the Sheng family is still a century-old family sought after by literati. So far, there are rumors that "entering the Sheng Family School is equivalent to stepping into the court hall with one foot." ”

How could such a person be criticized by future generations, Ji Liu asked curiously: "Is the young master of the Sheng family really so ridiculous?" ”

Xiao Er in front of the stage saw that Ji Liu, a young girl, also liked to chat about gossip, and he was even more energetic: "If you want to talk about him, there are a lot of rumors in the market." None of the good ones, like ......"

"What are you talking about? It's not good to work yet. At this time, the curtain was opened in the garment shop, and a woman came out and reprimanded the lazy Xiaoer.