Chapter 65: Rogue Warriors
Emperor Zhaode, who came to the menstrual event, not only changed the menstrual belt with a blue face with a familiar face, but also found a sheepskin blanket for himself with a familiar face, and then opened his mouth to call Tu Nan in.
"The chicken feet you used to grill with sugar are good, but they don't taste very enjoyable, and the method is still the same way, let's pick up a pork knuckle."
Looking at the "own girl" who was curled up on the bed, Tu Nan nodded in response, and said:
"That girl will eat some light food tomorrow morning, and it will save you from hurting your spleen and stomach, and the wind fish you made before will be able to open the tank tomorrow, can you steam a fish for porridge?"
As soon as he heard that Zhao Surui, who wanted to let himself eat light, he was a little angry, but when he heard that he was going to steam the fish, he was a little hungry again.
Tu Nan specially showed him the fish when he made it, and the fatty fresh fish was marinated in a tank with salt, peppercorns, sand kernels, chopped green onions, sesame oil, shredded ginger and tangerine peel for ten days, and he really wanted to know what it tasted like.
"Okay, if you steam the fish, you have to have meat, so steam two meat buns for me."
"Yes." can coax him not to eat big meat in the morning, Tu Nan has achieved his goal, and it won't take much trouble for her to make some steamed buns.
"Girl, you're here, I'll add another charcoal basin for you."
Zhao Surui waved his hand: "It's too dry to put two charcoal pots."
"Don't worry, girl, I'll get you two more basins of water and put them next to the charcoal basin, and it won't be dry."
Zhao Surui didn't say yes or no, he sat on the bed with his small stove, saw Tu Nan turn around and go out, and after a while, he came in with two basins of water.
It was cold, and the water in the well was not easy to beat, so Tu Nan rolled up his sleeves, and his hands were red from the cold water.
Zhao Surui caught a glimpse of her wet red fingers, and suddenly said, "I see that you are too strong every day, why don't you see that you also have menstrual affairs?"
After setting up the basin, Tu Nan squatted on the ground and divided the charcoal burning in a charcoal basin into two basins, and smiled when she heard this: "How can there be a woman in the world who does not have menstruation? It's just that I'm lucky that it doesn't hurt so much when I have my period."
Hearing that a woman doesn't hurt when she has menstruation, Zhao Surui was immediately interested: "How can you not be in pain?"
The maid, who had always been calm, was stopped by these words, lowered her head and thought for a long time before saying, "Girl, this is probably natural."
Zhao Surui: "......"
"When a girl comes to menstruation, most of them are weak, but in fact, it is not painful, and if there is such pain, she can't even straighten her waist. In the past, Ah Ting in the courtyard was, at that time, the grandmother next to Mrs. Sun said that she was lazy and wanted to send her out of the house, or the girl reluctantly accepted her."
In the blink of an eye, Zhao Surui frowned, he barely knew that the little maids except for the three big maids were all called Ah Chi's name, but he couldn't think of a person named Ah Ting.
"What about the Adine?"
Tu Nan was opening a piece of perfume to pour it into the basin of water, when he heard his words, his hand paused before he said:
"The year before last, her mother ransomed her out and said that she was going to tell her about her family, and the girl also gave her something as a dowry, but I heard that it was for his brother to change his family, and he married a widower in his thirties.
knew that giving birth to a child had nothing to do with him, but Zhao Surui couldn't help but hug his belly tightly at this moment.
Dystocia?
Strong section?!
Hiss –
Craned his neck, he looked at Tu Nan: "What about people? Just dead?"
Tu Nan looked up at him, the candle flame shining in her eyes, faintly shining: "Did the girl ask the son?"
"Who cares about that son, I'm asking the little girl, who died like this? None of you will seek justice for her?"
The ordinary-looking maid still looked at him, looked at it, and suddenly smiled: "The girl really doesn't remember at all, it's already the second day when you got the news, so I asked Pei Feng to go out of the house to find a doctor to see Ah Ting, and finally robbed a life and came back, because the child died, and the family that Ah Ting married wanted to sell her to marry another one."
When the daughter-in-law went back, the girl asked He Shusheng to come forward and pretend to be a businessman from Shanxi to buy him and secretly send him away."
After experiencing a catastrophe of life and death, he was able to escape the tiger's mouth, others may think that the girl named Ah Ting is already fateful, but Zhao Surui is extremely dissatisfied:
"What is the family's name, what is it, and where does it live? You'll be ...... tomorrow morning. It's okay to let Shao Zhiqing do this kind of thing, you go to Shao Zhiqing now, and let him go to that person tomorrow to bring him back to me. And the little girl's home is not a thing, how many times does a daughter have to sell it? Let Shao Zhiqing beat up and down the family with his hands,"
Even Tu Nan has always been calm, and she couldn't help but be stunned at this time, she put the fragrant dew steamed from orange peel back on the shelf, and then said with a smile:
"Rest assured, the bad guy always has a day to harvest, the family is actually a small official, there is a small pawnshop at home, meet a foreigner in a hurry to use the money, low price from his hand received a pair of Mi Fu's calligraphy and paintings, got such a baby, the family hurriedly sent to please Shangguan want to seek a promotion, the Shangguan got the word and sent up, after several turns, finally someone saw that the word was fake, and layer by layer pressed back, the family was crushed, the pawnshop was gone, the errand was gone, and a leg was broken, and the family business was also defeated. As for Ah Ting's family, with such a good family, it is naturally glued, and now they are living a good life."
Tu Nan spoke every word calmly, as if she was just telling a joke to Zhao Surui, and when she spoke, her hands were not idle, and she soaked the handkerchief with the hot water on the tandoor to wipe the face and hands of the girl from "her family".
Zhao Surui listened attentively, and usually took it over impatiently to wipe things up by himself, but this time he stretched out his head obediently.
When Tu Nan finished speaking, he slapped the wool blanket and shouted, "Happy! The two wicked people were actually punished by a fraudster, hahahaha, if they weren't greedy to use calligraphy and painting to ask for some promotion, how could such a happy thing come out? Hahahaha! The counterfeiter is like a thief, pinching the seven inches of these people to clean them up! Those who are thirsty for profit will cut off their path, and those who sell women for wealth will make them uneasy! Rejoice!"
As soon as he was happy, he forgot that he was menstruating, and the carp was about to get out of bed, but Tu Nan was easily held down.
"Girl, let's go to bed early."
"You should have told me about this kind of pleasure earlier, but is there anything else?"
Tu Nan shook his head: "Girl, it is already rare to have such a thing in the courtyard of the deep house, enough for us little girls who have no knowledge to talk about it for half a lifetime, there is really no more."
After tidying up the inside and outside of the house, Tu Nan walked out of the door with hot water, and when she closed the door, she lowered her head and the corners of her mouth were upturned.
Leaving Zhao Surui lying on the bed, his heart is still scratching his heart, he has always liked to watch the kind of chivalrous words and righteous words, and now he can't command Jinyi Wei to dig up and down the territory of Dayong to find out the person who made the fake painting, and he believes that the person must have known about the tragedy of the little girl before deliberately setting a trap for the family.
Thinking hotly, he fell asleep unconsciously, and when he woke up the next day, he felt a lot better in the faint cold pain in his stomach.
Emperor Zhaode, who was in a good mood, ate a plate of steamed wind fish, a plate of shredded chicken, a plate of pickled mustard greens and three palm-sized bamboo shoots and dried meat buns, and drank two bowls of porridge.
"Girl, Cui Jinniang has news."
Zhao Surui pinched his fingers, today is the third day that Cui Jinniang has set off for Yanjing, and she will live in Yanjing City for a day, so this will find out the news?
Wrapped in a newly made white rabbit fur and wearing a sleeve cage in addition to the stove on his hand, Zhao Surui returned to the main courtyard step by step and sat down, before asking Ah Chi to read Cui Jinniang's letter for him.
Cui Jinniang's letter was quite thick, first of all, she and Mrs. Zhang were now placed in half of the courtyard at the head of the Xiliu Hutong on the front street of Guanyin Temple in Zhengxifang, not far from Pomegranate Lane, and not far from Guangning Gate Street, which was full of merchants.
Hearing this, Zhao Surui raised his hand and interrupted Ah Chi's reading.
"Woman's disease? Is it a menstrual pain? Cui Jinniang, the heroine of the female middle school, really has her eyes on a good business."
Ah Chi shook his head on the side: "Girl, Cui Jinniang is talking about other diseases, she is now doing the business of a medicine woman in the third aunt and six mothers-in-law."
At this time, Tu Nan suddenly said: "The vicinity of Guanyin Front Street is full of businessmen, and there are some secret people who specialize in recruiting them, Cui Jinniang will indeed have a lot of business as a medicine woman there, she has been looking for his father in the gambling house in Yanjing City since she was a child, and she wants to know some of these three-way sects and nine streams, so she chose to start this business here."
Zhao Surui rubbed the hand stove in the sleeve cage, and came a little interested:
"Keep reading."
Cui Jinniang's letter then said that she met a secret "mother" yesterday afternoon, this "mother" talked about the three brothers who lived in Pomegranate Lane, one of the two brothers was a tribute to the prison, obviously relying on the family's money to study in the country, but when he met people, he said that he was a child of an official family, and there was an uncle who became a university scholar, who eats, drinks and has fun all day long in Yanjing City, and is a well-known gentleman.
This "mother" has a "daughter" named Mei Ying in her hands, she is only fifteen years old this year, she is beautiful and plays a good piano, but she was taken by the two people here, and these two people come to her door every day to harass and want to accept Mei Ying, but this "mother" has long been eyeing those wealthy businessmen who come and go to Yanjing, how can she afford these two prodigals? I thought that the three-entry mansion where the two of them lived in Pomegranate Lane was their own, and they were a little kind to them. As a result, last month, another little boy moved to the Shen family's house in Pomegranate Lane, this little boy was younger, only sixteen or seventeen years old, and the two brothers in front took him to the courtyard of this "mother" to "sit".
Mei Ying looked at this little boy as if he was the same age as herself, and he was talented and learned, and when he spoke, he became closer, and the two brothers in front of him were unwilling, and they were jealous, and they made a fuss in this "mother's" house, and as soon as they made a fuss, this mother knew that the very magnificent Shen family house was not the pair of brothers at all, nor the little boy who came later, but the aunt and grandmother of their Shen family who got married.
"I have some hard-working girls in my hands, and I used to dream about it, but I only thought that if I had a brother by my side, or married a good husband, the family would always have a good home, where did I think that such a decent family would still occupy the dowry of my sister and mother?"
This "mother" said it unintentionally, and when Cui Jinniang gave her medicine, she lifted her pants, but she didn't know that what she said casually was what Cui Jinniang was inquiring about.
With this news, Mrs. Zhang used the basket to carry some wormwood boiled eggs and gave them away, and after mentioning two sentences, she got more letters, and the three brothers turned their faces after a fight, and the two big ones joined forces to drive the small one out of the door. Now the little one took two old servants and rented a house outside Andingmen.
After listening to a big drama of brothers fighting for wind and jealousy, Zhao Surui looked up at Tu Nan:
"Tu Nan, you grew up in the Shen family, do you know who these three wastes are?"
Tu Nan thought for a while and said, "The two who have been living in the old house in Pomegranate Lane should be Shen Xianru and Shen Shouru of Master Shen's family, these two are two brothers, Shen Xianru is the second son of Master Shen born to Aunt Qing, and Shen Shouru is born to Master Shen's step-family, ranking third. Lord Shen married three wives and had five or six concubines, giving birth to a total of seven children, four of whom were raised to adulthood.
"The eldest Shen Fangru was born to Master Shen's original match, and he is already over the years. His mother, Mrs. Wang, is the daughter of a lifter in Qingzhou, and when the eldest lord was lifted, it was thanks to the help of the Yue family, but unfortunately it didn't take a few years for the eldest lord Shen to start taking concubines. Shen Fangru had already gone to Fujian before the girl got married, and the Shen family's big house had no contact for a long time, but our lord and wife have always remembered him, and when the lord died, he also came back from Fujian, at that time the girl had already married, and he had met him, and he also gave the girl a pair of crystal rabbits inlaid with red treasures and two hundred taels of silver tickets for makeup, and said that he really didn't know that the girl was like this
got married in a hurry, otherwise he, the eldest brother, would have to prepare a thick dowry. Madame originally wanted to keep him in Yanjing for a few more days, but he didn't expect Master Shen to pass him on to the master, he felt that he had no face to see Madame again, and left in a hurry, and then occasionally there were letters, but there was nothing to see, most of them were stopped by the Xie family.
"The back is Shen Xianru and Shen Shouru, Master Shen wanted to pass Shen Xianru to the master, Mrs. immediately gave Shen Xianru the money to the prisoner, and when he saw that Shen Xianru became a prisoner, Master Shen was reluctant. At that time, Shen Shouru was a legitimate son-in-law, and his mother's family was still the daughter of the prefect, although Master Shen also had the idea of letting him take care of him, but there were children and grandchildren in other houses of the Shen family waiting to take over the master's estate, and his mother's family was unwilling to leave a bad reputation, so forget it in the end. A few years ago, Eunuch Zhang fell, Shen Shouru's mother's family also fell into a crime, and the eldest man divorced his wife and remarried a rich widow.
"There is still one adult lady named Mo Niang, a lady with her feet entangled, who married a "celebrity" in her thirties at the age of sixteen four years ago, and the girl also asked me to pick two calligraphy and paintings to send over."
Zhao Surui grabbed a few candied dates and chewed them in his mouth, laughing while chewing: "A waste father gave birth to a litter of little waste, and he has no ability to worry about other people's family business. Where did that little lifter come from? The Shen family's three-bedroom?"
"Yes." Tu Nan picked up the kettle and refilled the ginger tea in the cup for her, "The third master was famous when he was young, and the pair of children he taught were not bad, and now the one who lives outside Andingmen should be his eldest son Shen Yan, who is sixteen this year, and his daughter Shen Panqing is only twelve years old."
The daughter of the big room is called Mo Niang, and the daughter of the third room is called Pan Qing, Zhao Surui tasted it in his heart:
"The name of the girl in the third room of the Shen family is from Shen ...... My word?"
"Yes." Tu Nan nodded, "The third master has always been close to the second master, although he doesn't like his wife's background, he is very good to the girl, if it weren't for the help of the third master, the lady would not be able to keep these industries, but it's a pity that the third master's official career is not smooth, he has been a professor in Hunan all these years, and his family background is also thin, not as good as the big man who made a fortune by changing his wife."
Well? Was Tu Nan mean just now?
Zhao Surui raised his head and looked at Tu Nan, only to see an honest maid.
"Hmm...... It's not far from our Zhuangzi outside the Anding Gate, let's see if Shen Yan is a usable one."
Zhao Surui stretched his waist and instructed Tu Nan:
"Go and prepare, tie that Shen Yan over, practice your hands, and let's be a thief too."