Chapter 5: The Nurse Moves

There was nothing to say all night, and the next morning, Shao Ying, who had always been in bed, got up early, and rushed to the county seat without even eating a bite of breakfast.

Shao Ying is also a good hand, Fugui'er stretched out the bricks for the morning, and was about to go back to help the nurse cook, when she saw the thin figure rushing back with a group of ragged children from a distance.

"Young Master is here, what are we going to eat at noon for such a child?" Cooking was originally a nurse's business, but seeing that Fuguier was going to cook herself, she hurriedly came over to help.

"Get out of the egg dumplings when you come to noodles, you must eat noodles today!"

Fugui remembered what the squad leader said while serving noodles to himself on the first day of entering the barracks, and he couldn't help but say it in his mouth.

"With so many people eating noodles, how long will this rolling be done?" As the nurse spoke, she tried to take a panel of rolling pins.

"Haha, no, let's eat knife-cut noodles...... Nurse, you go wash some greens and peel two green onions for me," Fugui'er said, picking up the basin and preparing to make noodles......

Fuguier took a knife to cut the noodles, waited for the dough to turn into noodles tumbling in the pot, picked up a long spoon and gently scratched the pot twice.

"The fire can be reduced," he looked down at the nurse who was squatting on the ground and burning the fire, but saw the grandmother who had just said goodbye.

People and his grandmothers are cheap, and they don't care much when they give you an open look, but this inadvertent peeping has a different kind of fun.

"Look at it, it's not that you won't eat, it's that you want to quit."

The nurse gave Fugui'er a blank look, took out the unburned firewood from the bottom of the pot and stepped on it with her foot.

"Haha, I don't dare to eat it, I'm afraid that if I eat it again, I will have a problem that will embarrass everyone."

Fugui'er said softly while adding salt to the pot.

"Yes, he's grown up, just look at what he's doing these days, he's really grown up, if he thinks about it, he can't beat him, he's not stupid, he's smarter than many smart people......"

The nurse secretly pondered in her heart, got up and brought the washed rice bowl.

"Children, it's time to eat," bowls of knife-cut noodles came out of the pot and handed them to the children's hands, and happiness and emotion filled the children's faces.

After having lunch and taking a short rest, in the afternoon, Fuguier and Chun Xi'er went to the city to buy a batch of ready-to-wear clothes for the children and came back, but the nurse and Shao Ying took the children to take a bath and scrape lice.

In the following days, the children have been following Fugui'er from sunrise to sunset, and lived a normal life of a normal family.

The houses were repaired one by one, the sleeping kang was also coiled, the reeds that had been cut down in the reed field were also dragged out and restacked.

At first, the neighbors of the Zhu family's workshop thought that Fuguier was cutting reeds to plant crops, and all the crops felt sorry for Fuguier's ignorance, until at this time, the fence had the appearance of a livestock pen, and people suddenly realized that the fourth young master wanted to raise livestock.

But except for the stupid rich and noble, no one knows what he wants to raise, including Shao Ying, who is also anxiously waiting for Chunxi'er next to him.

"Young master, you have recruited so many children to herd sheep, but what about our sheep? This eats every day, but the food is money, just our two hundred taels of silver seems to be a lot, but it is dead money, and it can't last long if you can't get in and out! ”

This Chun Xi'er was in charge of the accounts, and seeing that the silver in her hand had turned into copper coins, which was decreasing day by day, Chun Xi'er panicked in her heart.

"Why are you in a hurry, don't worry, I can't be hungry for you, our sheep are on the way."

In fact, Fugui'er is more anxious than anyone else, but as the backbone of the family, he can't reveal any uneasiness and anxiety.

On the third day of the seventh month, the weather was fine, and Fuguier was putting the finishing touches on the fence with her children in the morning, when the country road in the distance suddenly became dusty.

Straighten up and listen carefully, but hear the bleating cry, under the whip of the whip, the sheep trotted all the way down the road, the dust raised, people can't help but feel that there is a marching army passing by, and when the sheep enter the sheepfold in the reed field, the crowd of onlookers who follow behind makes people feel more than sheep for a while.

"Everyone has worked hard all the way, hurry into the house to rest, Chun Xi'er asked the nurse to prepare the meal, let Shao Ying boil the tea on the ......" Seeing the dust of the several eldest brothers who came to drive the sheep, Fuguier hurriedly greeted the family to prepare meals for guests.

Several eldest brothers drove the sheep for more than 20 days in a row, and the physical exertion was indeed to the limit, so they were simply polite to Fugui'er, and then went into the house to eat and rest.

"Chun Xi'er, you personally went to the blacksmith shop to invite Master Zhou, and your brothers came, and you didn't show up?"

Although Fuguier's words were reproachful, he couldn't hide the gratitude and joy in his heart.

"Master Zhou came early and took the children to watch the sheep in the reed field!"

Chun Xi'er talked to Fugui'er while serving her meal.

It turned out that when Fuguier went to the blacksmith workshop to play sickles a few days ago, he chatted with Master Zhou and learned that Master Zhou was from the mountains, and the land there was mostly mountainous, and it was not profitable to grow crops, and the farmers in the whole village basically lived by raising cattle and sheep.

Master Zhou's ancestors handed down the iron-striking skills, the craft is not to say that people are also diligent, but they are still not full in the mountains, and they took their wives and children out of the mountains, all the way to the village to make iron and repair farm tools, until two years ago to the Zhu family in Fengqi County, it was really stable.

Listening to Fuguier talk about wanting to buy a large number of sheep, as soon as the two of them combined, Master Zhou asked his eldest son to go back to the village to report the news, and go back to see the old people at home.

"Chun Xi'er, how have you learned math recently, this big sheep is fifty and each is seven hundred wen, and the little sheep is one hundred and three hundred wen each, and you will have to calculate the money for others in a while."

Since that night Chun Xi'er decided to stay, Fuguier began to teach Chun Xi'er arithmetic, this girl wants to manage money, so this math is also attentive, ninety-nine multiplication table two days to memorize, four days can be used flexibly, according to Chun Xi'er's strength to learn hard, in the previous life must be the master of the school.

"Five seven thirty-five, one hundred times three to get three hundred, a total of sixty-five thousand wen, according to the current two thousand wen and one tael of silver, a total of thirty-two taels of silver," the little girl tilted her head, her mouth was full of words, and after a while, she came up with the answer.

After eating, paying the silver, Fuguier repeatedly asked everyone to stay here for a night before leaving, but these simple farmers, who still raised livestock at home, insisted on returning immediately, Fuguier and Blacksmith Zhou were stubborn, so they could only let the nurse burn some cakes for these farmers to eat on the road.

The sheep were tired, and the sheep who had been in a hurry for twenty days were also tired, and Fuguier was not in a hurry to let these sheep go up the mountain, and the new reed buds in the reed field were whirring upward, just for these sheep to gnaw.

The newly recruited lambherds had not let go of sheep before, and during this period of time, Fuguier focused on cultivating the relationship between the children and the sheep.

With sheep, there is goat milk, under the supervision of Fugui, everyone around them began to have two meals of milk a day, which was originally only enjoyed by the young master, and now everyone has a share, the blessing of goat milk and eggs every day, the children and adults around Fuguier, the body is also changing, the most obvious of which is the little girl Shao Ying.

This girl was originally pale and yellow, covered with skin and bones, and walked lightly, as if a gust of wind could blow people away, such as two meals of milk today, and her little face became rosy after drinking it for a few days.

If you look closely, the ruddy and white skin is covered with fine fluff, like a ripe peach, which makes people want to take a bite.

Looking at the earth-shaking changes of the children in the reed field, some of the neighbors who secretly sweated for Fuguier finally let go, the goat milk in the reed land could not be drunk, and some neighbors came to beg to go back to feed the children, and Fuguier did not hesitate to give it, after all, when he cut the reeds, he was secretly helped by the neighbors.

Some people are happy and some are worried, but at this time, there is a different sound in a gorgeous house in the Zhu family's compound.

"Back to the fourth aunt, that stupid rich man bought a batch of sheep and came back, turned the thirty acres of reed land into a sheepfold, and recruited a group of beggars to herd sheep for him, fourth aunt, do you think we should give him some cruel medicine?"

The lean white-faced scholar was talking and his hand was dishonestly touching the woman's waist.

"Do you want to die in broad daylight? What I want is the family business of the Zhu family, not to have an enmity with the people of your Zhu family, if I really force that stupid rich man to a dead end, not to mention whether the old man will interfere, as far as your third brother with martial arts, can you deal with it? I heard that the best thing for this Zhu family and Silly Fuguier is your own brother Zhu Cheng, let Silly Fuguier do a good job, it's a big deal to find a way to get it in the future......"

"Gao, it's still the fourth aunt who is smart, but the eyes are narrow, hehe......"

"Go down, by the way, it's time for your medicine to be dispensed, the old man has been getting less and less useful lately, and he hasn't come to me for the night for several days......"

As she spoke, the woman had a charming smile on her face, but her eyes flashed with malice.

The reed land is officially on the right track, and the house prepared for the nurse has already been prepared, Fuguier and the nurse have already made an agreement, and when the reed land is completely stable, she will move over, after all, it is not safe for a woman to walk alone every day, so find a good day to move the nurse on the schedule.

Three miles east from the reed field, we entered a small village, and the nurse's house was located at the west end of the village. The three thatched houses seem to be a little old, especially the stone courtyard wall, which has collapsed in many places, blocked there with some thorny thorns, opened the courtyard door and entered the small courtyard, the courtyard paved a path into the door with stone slabs, the courtyard was cleaned clean, but it was still difficult to hide its depression, a big black dog squatted in the yard, and when he saw the master returning, he quickly wagged his tail and got up to greet him.

"Nurse, do you want to move them all?" After Fugui'er visited the whole house, her heart sank a little, and she couldn't help choking up.

"I don't want to stay here," the nurse glanced timidly at Fugui, her face slightly embarrassed, after all, this family is too shabby.

"Then move them all, let's move the futon first, Chun Xi'er, you hold the pillow, and the nurse I will hold the futon with you."

As Fugui spoke, he stuffed the pillow on the futon into Chun Xi'er's arms, turned around and picked up the neatly stacked futon, and with a "clang", a small rolling pin with a dumpling skin slipped out of the futon and fell to the ground.

"Nurse, what are you doing with a rolling pin in the futon, do you use it for self-defense?"

As she spoke, Chun Xi'er squatted down and picked up the rolling pin.

"Yo, nurse, you hit the child with a rolling pin, you hit the child hard enough,"

Fugui saw the nurse standing there numbly, looking at a loss, and hurriedly played a round for her.

"Mmmm, the kids are too naughty, I'm scaring them."

The nurse slipped down with Fugui'er's words, and hurriedly stretched out her hand to roll the still new mattress on the kang.

The broken house is worth a lot, the things in the nurse's house seem inconspicuous, but if they really want to move it, they are also full of carts, and the group of people slowly walked out of the village with the donkey cart, and a group of idle daughters-in-law and mothers-in-law are also crowded on both sides of the road muttering and watching the excitement, and the nurse at this time is holding her head high, with a serene expression on her face with a hint of determination, as if she is despising everything around her.

Back at the station of the long workshop, the nurse didn't seem to have come out of that tragic mood for a while, and kept working silently, making Fugui and Chun Xi'er a little speechless, and they could only unload the things on the car first.

The two of them were secretly busy working here, but a neighbor came to ask for goat milk, "Chun Xi'er, you go and get goat milk for your neighbor, remember to give more." ”

Chun Xi'er sent goat's milk here, and Fugui moved the unloaded items to the house one by one, "Nurse, aren't you happy to move here?" ”

"No," said the nurse, making her bed, and her words were very short.

"Then how do you look a little wrong?" This answer was obviously not satisfactory to Fugui.

"You also saw that the collapsed wall was knocked down by those cats who wanted to steal fish, in fact, I am not afraid of them, if I don't agree, which of them has the courage to be strong, but this person is terrible, spitting stars and drowning people, those mothers-in-law and aunts who can't control their own men, can only use the most obscene words to spread the most shameless rumors, living in gossip My Tian Wumei lives aggrieved......"

As she spoke, the nurse finally couldn't control her emotions, and tears fell from her eyes.

"Nurse, don't cry, didn't you move over and get away from them? This is my territory, dare anyone to harass you in the future, I will break his legs, okay, don't cry, here are the two of us, others think I bullied you when you cry! ”

"Well, you don't need to fight, who wants to come again if you live here, I'll let the dog bite people, this is the territory of the Zhu family, dare to touch here at night, it's not me who is a widow."

After listening to Fugui'er's words, the nurse felt that she couldn't cry anymore, so she wiped her tears, but her words were more ruthless.

The nurse stabilized her emotions, and the two of them began to pack up the house seriously, entering the house one by one, tidying up a little, and soon tidying up.

"Nurse, you're almost tidy here, I'll make lunch, you're busy first," Fugui'er turned around and left after speaking.

The nurse said behind her, "Young master, thank you today!" ”

"Why do you thank me for yourself? Said that Xie seemed to be divided,"

"No, you know that, yes?" The nurse stopped talking, and her heart was pounding hard.

"What do I know?" The nurse's words made Fugui a little confused.

"That's not for hitting children, you just know it, don't mention it to Chun Xi'er......"

The nurse's face was red all the way to her neck, and her words were very light and light.

"Hey, you can still steal people without your husband, normal needs, understand and understand......"

Fuguier didn't care whether the nurse could understand her words or not, and it was a little embarrassing to talk about it with a widow.

"Oh, how could I tell him this, he wouldn't feel like I was seducing him, how could I do that?"

Looking at the back of the rich and noble, the nurse was full of self-blame, and when the mood calmed down, she realized that she was too lonely to live in this world, and she didn't even have a person who could say what she knew.