"It's you ?! You guys have that kind of dried peaches, and you can help me coax this little ancestor......"

CHAPTER 40

Lu Zhengan and Song Huaishu looked at the crying child in the arms of the man opposite, and they only felt very familiar. After hearing the other party mention the word 'dried peaches', I remembered that the other party was actually the pair of uncles and nephews they met in the stele forest garden of Longtan Temple when they were visiting the temple fair in Jiang'an Town.

However, Lu Zhengan and Song Huaishu just went out on an ordinary basis, and naturally they would not carry dried peaches with them. Hearing that the other party was very eager to dry peaches, I couldn't help but be a little overwhelmed for a while.

"This ...... We don't have anything with us. ”

Hearing this, Ji Yuexian couldn't help but have another headache.

"Since the last time I ate the dried peaches you gave me in Longtan Temple, this little ancestor of my family has remembered it. As soon as I think about it, I cry and want to eat. I had people go all over the dried fruit shops in Jiang'an Town, large and small, and bought dozens of dried peaches, all of which were different from what you gave that day. In the past two days, something has come to Hualong Town, no, I woke up and made trouble again, I was so worn by his little ancestor that I really had no choice, so I could only come out and try my luck. ”

Ji Yuexian shook the little nephew who was sobbing in his arms, and felt a headache. The old lady who wanted to throw him back at home and leave him alone, but the old lady who waved a feather duster when she thought of the house when she couldn't move. Ji Yuexian felt that for the sake of his own farts and shares, this bear nephew was not impossible to bring.

Although this child is really a little crying and noisy, there are times when he is tired of crying.

Seeing that the child's hair and clothes were already soaked with sweat on a hot day in Ji Yuexian's arms, Song Huaishu felt a little unbearable.

I thought that the last time Lu Zhengan came to his house to give a gift for the festival, he had sent a lot of dried peaches. He and his parents will eat some when they have nothing to do, and Lu Zhengan has brought a lot of them, so there should be some left at home.

Moreover, this place is not far from his house, Song Huaishu hesitated for a moment, and then said: "I still have some at home, if the son does not dislike it, I will go back and get it for you now." ”

Hearing Song Huaishu say this, Ji Yuexian was immediately overjoyed. "Oh, that's great, so there's Brother Lao."

After hearing Song Huaishu's words, Ji Yuanbao in Ji Yuexian's arms thought that he would have to wait, and his small mouth immediately opened his throat and howled.

Seeing this, Ji Yuexian's scalp was numb, and he didn't care about being rude or not, so he hurriedly coaxed Ji Yuanbao in his arms and said, "Don't cry, don't cry, let's go to this brother's house to buy it immediately." ”

After Ji Yuexian finished speaking, he looked up at Song Huaishu and said, "My nephew has been spoiled by his great-grandmother since he was a child, and he is not willing to wait for a moment if he wants anything, and I am really pestered by him and lose my temper." If you don't mind, how about we go with you? ”

Ji Yuexian's words fell, and Song Huaishu immediately turned his head to look at Lu Zhengan on the side, and saw that there was no displeasure on his face. Seeing that the child was crying pitifully, he nodded his head in agreement.

Seeing this, Ji Yuexian hurriedly waved to a carriage parked outside the dried fruit shop, and after the carriage stopped in front of several people, he beckoned Lu Zhengan and Song Huaishu to get into the carriage together.

Ji Yuanbao, who knew that he could buy dried peaches, stopped crying, but just sat in Ji Yuexian's arms, holding a delicately made cloth tiger, tilting his head and looking at Song Huaishu and Lu Zhengan.

Song Huaishu saw that Ji Yuanbao looked white and chubby, like a porcelain doll, and he liked it very much. Seeing his big black and white eyes looking at him and Lu Zhengan for a moment, he couldn't help but smile at him.

Lu Zheng'an, who was on the side, looked at Ji Yuanbao and felt that when he wasn't crying, he was also very cute. Thinking that he had been thinking about his homemade dried peaches, he softened his voice, looked at Ji Yuanbao and asked, "Why do you like your uncle's dried peaches so much?" ”

Ji Yuanbao glanced at Lu Zhengan with ink-like eyes, his chubby little hand grabbed the ears of the cloth tiger, and replied in a milky voice: "Sweet and sour, delicious." ”

Hearing this, Ji Yuexian was immediately speechless for a while, "Aren't dried peaches all sweet and sour, what can be different?" ”

Xu is more familiar with Ji Yuexian, and Ji Yuanbao's attitude towards him is very different from his attitude towards Lu Zhengan, puffing out a round little face, and said loudly: "It's just not the same, it's just not the same." ”

Seeing that when Ji Yuanbao shouted, his eyes seemed to be filled with tears again, and Ji Yuexian immediately raised his hand to surrender.

"Okay, well, if you say no, it's not the same. Your ancestor is a monkey in a family, and he talks well to others, just like your uncle who lit a cannon fight. ”

Ji Yuanbao is only five or six years old this year, and he doesn't understand Ji Yuexian's words very well. However, seeing that his little uncle was soft, Ji Yuanbao stopped making a fuss, and quietly hugged the cloth tiger and stopped talking.

The three of them came all the way to the entrance of the alley where Song's house was, and because of the narrow intersection of the alley, it was not convenient for the carriage to enter. Therefore, Ji Yuexian asked the handlebar to find a place to stop the carriage out of the way, and he took Ji Yuanbao's little hand and followed Lu Zhengan and Song Huaishu all the way to Song's house.

When the four of them entered the door, Song Lanshi had just come out of the kitchen after cooking.

Song Lanshi saw the two people who had just entered the door, and wanted to beckon them to hurry up and wash their hands and eat. However, after seeing Ji Yuexian and Ji Yuanbao who were following Song Huaishu and Lu Zheng'an, he was stunned for a moment before asking, "Huaishu, these two are ......?"

Ji Yuexian was dressed in a moon-white brocade robe, with a jasper crown on his head, footstool moire boots, and even the Ji Yuanbao he was holding in his hand was wearing Su brocade from the Splendid Workshop.

"Mother, these two are the young men of Ji who we met when we went to the temple fair in Jiang'an Town earlier. His little son likes to eat dried peaches made by Zheng'an, and I thought that our family still had some, so I wanted to give them to them. ”

Song Lan already likes children, and Ji Yuanbao looks like pink and jade, so he likes it even more. "It's in the cabinet, and since Ji Gongzi likes it, I'll give it to them." After that, Song Lanshi seemed to remember something, and continued: "Have you ever had lunch, if Ji Gongzi doesn't mind, let's have a meal together in the cold house?" ”

Ji Yuexian was able to go to the door with Song Huaishu and Lu Zhengan to ask for dried peaches, and he already felt extremely rude, where would he stay at Song's house for lunch. He immediately bowed his head to Song Lan and said, "Thank you for your kindness, but my mother and relatives are still waiting, so I won't bother you." ”

At the right time, Song Huaishu took the dried peach and walked out.

Ji Yuanbao, who had been held by Ji Yuexian, looked at the familiar kraft paper, and immediately became happy, and his big round eyes were also bent into a crescent shape.

Seeing Ji Yuanbao's cute appearance, Song Huaishu couldn't help but bend the corners of his mouth, took a piece from the brown paper bag and bent down and handed it to him. "Let's eat one first, but it's time for lunch, but you can't eat too much, or you won't be able to eat."

Hearing this, Ji Yuanbao nodded obediently. "Thank you, brother."

Seeing Ji Yuanbao's well-behaved appearance, Song Huaishu couldn't help but touch his head. "No thanks, if you like it."

When Song Lanshi saw Song Huaishu touching Ji Yuanbao's head, his eyes subconsciously looked at Lu Zheng on the side. Seeing that he also looked at Ji Yuanbao with a gentle face, Song Lanshi couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Looking at Lu Zhengan's eyes when he looked at children, it was obvious that he also liked children. However, when he decided to form a contract with his family Huaishu, he was doomed to have no children in this life......

When Ji Yuexian and Ji Yuanbao, the two uncles and nephews, were sent to the carriage, Ji Yuanbao, who was originally holding a brown paper bag and smiling, suddenly fell with a smile. He looked at the paper bag in his hand with a small pout, and asked Ji Yuexian, "Uncle, what if I finish eating?" Can we still get it from my brother? ”

Hearing Ji Yuanbao's words, Ji Yuexian couldn't help but be stunned, looked at Lu Zhengan and Song Huaishu with a somewhat embarrassed expression, and asked: "I know that you make this dried peach for yourself and eat it yourself, but my nephew really likes it, if you can, can you give me some of it?" ”

Lu Zheng'an made these dried peaches for the purpose of selling, and when he heard Ji Yuexian say this, what was he not happy about. However, it is always a child, and Lu Zhengan is not good at directly saying that he will accept money from him for a while.

"It's rare for children to like it, so if they want to eat it, just come and get it."

Ji Yuexian saw that Lu Zhengan was also a sincere man, so she didn't talk to him about anything else. After carefully asking the address of Lu Zheng'an's house, he asked Ji Yuanbao to wave his hand with everyone and got into the carriage and left.

However, at the moment when Ji Yuexian got into the carriage and left, Song Xiren, who was returning home from the shop for dinner, also happened to walk to the mouth of the alley, which happened to be wrong with Ji Yuexian's carriage.

Hualong Town is not big, and most of the people in the town who can afford to buy a carriage, Song Xiren, knows. Now seeing such a luxurious carriage driving away from the mouth of his alley, Song Xiren naturally felt strange.

After seeing the three people standing at the entrance of the alley, Song Xiren pointed in the direction where the carriage had left and asked, "When did anyone in our alley have such a rich relative?" Look at this carriage, the average rich man can't afford it. It's time to eat, why are you all standing here? ”

"It's true that ordinary people can't afford it, and just one accessory on our body is enough for our family to chew for two months."

Hearing what his wife said, Song Xiren was quite complacent. "yes, I'll just say I'm still a little bit eye-catching. But how do you know that other people's accessories are so valuable, just now you saw them? ”

Hearing this, Song Lan couldn't help but glance at him. "We've all found our house, but haven't we seen it?"

Song Xiren was a little confused by Song Lan's words, and looked at Lu Zheng'an and Song Huaishu, who were smiling on the side, with a blank face, and hurriedly asked what was going on between the two.

So, Song Huaishu told Song Xiren all the ins and outs of knowing Ji Yuexian and why Ji Yuexian came to the door.

When Song Xiren heard that the other party's surname was Ji, the expression on his face was suddenly stunned, and then he grabbed Song Huaishu's wrist and asked, "Then is he from Jiang'an Town?" ”

"It's from Jiang'an Town, how did my father know?"

After confirming that Ji Yuexian was from Jiang'an Town, Song Xiren was pleasantly surprised for a while.

"The Ji family is the richest man in our entire Linzhou City, and it is also counted in the entire Daxi Dynasty. The unrivaled Yun Guifei in the palace today was born in the Ji family. It is a good fate that you can make friends with the Ji family. ”

Hearing Song Xiren say this, although Lu Zhengan was surprised, he was more puzzled. The Ji family should be from a merchant family, and a merchant is a lowly person, so how could a daughter from the Ji family enter the palace as a concubine?

Xu Shi saw Lu Zheng'an's doubts, and Song Xiren sighed and said: "It is rumored that when the current saint was young, he traveled and accidentally fell into the water when he encountered wind and waves. happened to meet the two young ladies of the Ji family, so they rescued the saint. The saint thanked the Ji family for their kindness and made an exception to admit the eldest lady of the Ji family into the palace. ”

Everyone also heard from his words, looked up at the scorching sun in the sky, and walked home together.

……

When Ji Yuexian returned to the restaurant with Ji Yuanbao, Mrs. Ji was about to send someone out to look for it. I heard the report from the next person that the two had returned, so I was relieved.

Ji Yuanbao got a big bag of dried peaches, and the whole person was happy. Hearing that the old ancestor invited him over, he hurriedly ran to the yard where the old lady Ji was with a brown paper bag.

When Ji Yuanbao entered the room with two little short legs, Mrs. Ji was instructing the people around her to prepare a meal. Hearing footsteps coming from the door, he hurriedly turned his head to look out of the door.

Seeing that the person who came was her precious great-grandson, Mrs. Ji immediately stood up from the stool and hugged Ji Yuanbao tightly in her arms with open hands.

"Alas, the ancestor's sweetheart, where are you going to play with your little uncle today?"

Mrs. Ji is almost old, but with proper maintenance, she does not look very old. Although the hair is already a little gray, it looks very expensive with the Yuehua yarn of the Splendid Workshop.

"If you go back to your ancestors, go to the street to buy dried peaches and eat them." As he spoke, Ji Yuanbao took out a piece of dried peach from the paper bag with his chubby little hand, raised his hand and stuffed it into Mrs. Ji's mouth.

Mrs. Ji opened her mouth with a smile, and while chewing, she praised: "The sweet and sour peaches given by our ingots are delicious, and the ancestor likes it very much." ”

At the right time, Ji Yuexian also walked in with two letters of snacks. Seeing that Ji Yuanbao was leaning on Mrs. Ji again, he hurriedly beckoned Ji Yuanbao to come down quickly.

"Ji Yuanbao, hurry up and get off the ancestor, how fat are you, don't you have a little count in your heart? Carefully, the ancestor couldn't hold you and threw you to the ground. ”

As soon as Ji Yuexian's words came out, he only felt that his eyes were dark. Ji Yuexian subconsciously took it in his hand, and looked at it when he saw that it was the buckwheat husk pillow on Mrs. Ji's Luohan bed.

"Shut up, you damn boy, if you can't speak! Our little ingots are so likable, even if I fall to the ground myself, I will never throw our little ingots. ”

Hearing this, Ji Yuexian laughed, carefully moved to Mrs. Ji's side, and put the pillow in her hand back on the Luohan bed.

"Oh, grandmother is angry, I'm just scaring him, why are you still serious?"

Mrs. Ji couldn't hear the meaning of Ji Yuexian's words, and she didn't want to deal with him anymore when she saw his flattering face. hugged the fleshy great-grandson in his arms and continued to tease him.

"Little Yuanbao hasn't told the ancestor where to play, this dried peach is the one you ate last time, the one your uncle didn't buy?"

Hearing this, Ji Yuanbao hugged the paper bag and nodded.

"My uncle took me to see a lot of sisters, but I didn't ask for the delicious food they gave me. This dried peach was given by the two big brothers, and the dried peaches they gave were delicious, very similar to what my mother made, and Yuan Bao liked it the most. ”

When Mrs. Ji heard that in the first half of the paragraph, she wanted to use a feather duster to teach her unlucky grandson a lesson, but when she heard Ji Yuanbao say that the taste of this dried peach was somewhat similar to that of his mother, Mrs. Ji couldn't help but feel sour.

"Yuanbao is good, since you like it, then let's ask Uncle to buy us a little more and bring it back." When do we want to eat the ingots, do you think it will be? ”

Hearing Mrs. Ji say this, Ji Yuanbao nodded her head like a chicken pecking rice. "Okay, the uncle took the ingots to that brother's house, the ingots want to eat, let the uncle take the ingots to buy them again."

Old Lady Ji hugged Ji Yuanbao, who was smiling and couldn't see his teeth, raised her eyes to look at Ji Yuexian, and asked him what was going on. So, Ji Yuexian told Mrs. Ji all about what happened on the street.

"Ordinary people's lives are not easy, and we can't take advantage of them for nothing. When you are free in the next few days, prepare some courtesies and go again, so as not to lose the courtesy. ”

Ji Yuexian saw that the old lady had ordered, and immediately got up to greet her. Seeing that the next person had already brought the meal, he hurriedly beckoned Ji Yuanbao to come down from Mrs. Ji.

After the three of them finished eating, Ji Yuanbao, who had been running all morning, had already begun to doze off. Seeing this, Mrs. Ji asked the maid next to her to go back to the room with Ji Yuanbao in her arms and take a nap.

looked at Ji Yuanbao rubbing his eyes and waving softly to her. Although Mrs. Ji had a smile on her face, she was very sad in her heart.

Knowing that Ji Yuanbao had completely disappeared at the door, he sighed: "Mingxian and his family are gone like this, but they pity such a small child as Yuanbao." ”

At the same time, when I thought of my young daughter who had never seen anyone or dead after falling into the water 40 years ago, I couldn't help but have red eyes.

……

Because the contract will be concluded in September, there will be no work for the time being as soon as the stubble is removed from the field.

Lu Zheng'an walked around the front and back of the house with his waist crossed for two days, and after deciding how to repair the house and yard, he went into the house by himself and sketched a rough sketch with a brush, put it in his pocket and went to the town.

Because the neighbor next door in the shop wanted to do a happy event, Song Xiren and Song Lan went to help, and Song Huaishu was the only one in the Song family. Seeing Lu Zheng'an coming over in high spirits, Song Huaishu couldn't help but be puzzled for a while.

"What is it that makes you so happy?"

Song Huaishu wiped the water stains on his hands, and when he saw that Lu Zhengan's forehead was covered with sweat, he hurriedly went to fetch a basin of water to wash his face. At the same time, he took out the watermelon he had cut before from the cupboard to quench his thirst.

"I'll show you something, and I'll be happy to see you specify."