Lin Xiuping took them into the house again, Huai'an looked around, the simple and tidy house, the ground was spotlessly clean, the furnishings in the house were terrible, and there was only one scholar and an old servant in and out.

"Brother Xiuping, are you too frugal?" Someone asked.

Lin Xiuping said with a smile: "I'm not afraid of your jokes, the family is strictly controlled, and the bright colors are dazzling, and it is easy to be distracted by reading, which has been the case since childhood." ”

As soon as the words fell, Huai'an looked at the pile of rice paper nailed to the wall again.

Lin Xiuping explained behind him: "As the saying goes, 'words are afraid of going to the wall', nailing paper to the wall and hanging your wrist to practice calligraphy is easier to find the shortcomings, you can also try." ”

The corners of Huai'an's mouth twitched: "Is this also a skill you have practiced since childhood?" ”

Lin Xiuping smiled: "This is not a skill. ”

"The real skill of Xiuping is to be able to hold a pen with both left and right hands." Another overseer said.

"......" Huai'an already wanted to leave.

The banquet of Jiuweifang was delivered, and everyone gathered in the courtyard to eat, and most of the banquet was to discuss poetry and calligraphy.

In the twilight, the lights were on, Huai'an went home with complicated thoughts, and the carriage that picked him up was waiting at the corner of the street, he almost missed it because he was too involved in thinking, and the coachman and Changxing called him several times before he came back to his senses.

He is becoming more and more unable to understand Lin Xiuping, for a while he is a bitter school of self-denial and self-denial, and for a while he is a char siu bun against poetry, could it be a dual personality?

……

Children who don't go home for a short time are rare, not only Sister Peng pestered him to be excited, but his father and mother also shouted at him, and the old lady hated to pick off the stars in the sky and kick him to play. He quickly put these bad things behind him, ate turtle jelly mixed with milk, and snuggled up to his grandmother and pretended to be a child.

The first time I took a break since I was imprisoned, I spent a happy time with my family. The next day, when he returned to Guozijian, Huai'an had a new idea, and he sent the clever guys in the store to follow Lin Xiuping in shifts every day to see where he went after school.

But after following me like this for more than half a month, the guys are about to cry, this guy's life is too boring, two o'clock every day, only when he is resting, he goes out with his classmates to get together and participate in the literary meeting.

Huai'an asked again: "Is there really only one master and two servants?" Nothing women? ”

The guy said with great certainty: "Don't talk about women, there is not even a female mosquito." ”

Why don't you act according to the normal script......

Huai'an was instantly disheartened, and even began to wonder if he had drilled the tip of the bull's horns and thought too much...... In the end, he really had a hunch, he felt that Lin Xiuping was not a good person, or he was selfish and short-sighted, and every man who approached his sister was not pleasing to the eye, and even he couldn't tell the difference.

After thinking about it, what if Lin Xiuping's city mansion was too deep and disguised as a righteous gentleman in front of him? It's May now, and there are still two months before the "invitation date", once the wedding date is set, everyone will really know about it, so at this time, it is better to kill by mistake than to let go.

Huai'an found Sun Dawu, the shopkeeper of the bookstore, and asked him to come forward and rent the courtyard next to Lin Xiuping, what? Tenants don't want to move? Throw money at it! At all costs, Lin Xiuping's true face must be revealed.

After renting the house, Sun Dawu arranged for Yao Cuicui and his wife to move in, they didn't have to do anything, they stared at Lin Xiuping every day, recording the time when he went out and returned home, anyway, Lin Xiuping lived in a simple house, rarely interacted with neighbors, and neighbors would not care too much if they changed people.

In order to let Lin Xiuping relax his vigilance, Huai'an moved home from the prison as promised. Shen Yu and Xu Tinglan felt that his behavior was abnormal, and chatted with him, Huai'an told his father and mother about his concerns, and he also knew that he was groundless and was ready to be scolded.

Shen Yu pondered for a moment and said, "You go back to your room to rest first and prepare for the monthly exam." ”

Huai'an was stunned: "You don't scold me?" ”

Shen Yu said with a smile: "If you have this need, it's not that you can't meet it." ”

Wyan'an disappeared in front of them at the speed of light.

Under the flickering lights, the husband and wife fell silent.

"What do you think?" Shen Yu asked first.

Xu Tinglan shook his head and said, "I believe that your son will not wronged people for no reason." ”

Shen Yu also realized at this time that their perspective on the problem was completely different from Huai'an's, they only recognized this marriage based on the rhetoric of outsiders, only on the basis of family background, and academic future, but Huai'an was different, he was watching with his heart and putting himself in Huaiwei's shoes.

Thinking of Huai Wei, Xu Tinglan blamed herself a little: "I am a child like my own daughter, a girl raised in Qiluodui, if I meet someone unladylike and ruin her life, I ......"

Shen Yu held his wife's hand: "While you haven't been hired yet, let's find an excuse to delay it first." I'll send someone to take a closer look. ”

Xu Tinglan pondered for a moment: "The old lady will be too old next month...... Let's just say that the rules of the hometown are to avoid the birthday month when the big gift is too big, so as not to clash with each other. ”

Shen Yu said: "That's very good. ”

……

Guozijian takes an exam every month, and the topic is selected from the "Four Books", and an eight-strand essay is written, plus a trial poem.

Huai'an was still in the groping stage of Baguwen, and he forced one out, but the whole article was covered with black circles, and he easily got the comment of "not working". Of course, in the entire Guangye Hall, more than eighty percent of the monthly examination articles of the inmates are either "unpassable" or "off topic".

Looking at the article that was criticized for being incomplete, Huai'an broke the defense!

Since he began to write poems and essays, Shen Yu has pursued encouragement and education, circled out the sentences in his essays that were not bad, instead of tearing his self-confidence into the mud with a sentence of "bullshit".

Shen Yu looked at the article he got back, and then looked at the owner of the article with his hair hanging down, and couldn't help laughing a few times.

"Dad, it's too much." Huai'an looked loveless.

"What's this, dad is ...... when you're so old" Shen Yu's voice paused, when he was so old, he was slow to say that the eight strands of literature were perfect, and he was proficient in edicts, seals, policies, and judgments, so he changed his words and said: "Everyone's progress is different, and there is no need to compare with others." ”

Huai'an: ......

Shen Yu slowly wrote down a problem-solving on the paper, asked him to continue to write the topic, and then carefully explained the problem-solving skills for him.

The busy and regular days passed quickly, Lin Xiuping sat in prison at two o'clock and one line as usual, reciting diligently, and his relatives and friends were long, and there was not even a trace of wrinkles in his clothes.

Yao Cuicui and his wife, who were lurking next to Lin Xiuping, with eyes like copper bells, began to be decadent, feeling that they had nothing to do with their wages every day and did not make any performance, which was really ashamed of the owner.

That afternoon, when the sky was overcast and the lead clouds were low, Yao Cuicui ran into the yard to take back the clothes that had dried in the morning. The raindrops the size of beans fell down, and they became a rain curtain in an instant. The wind and rain came too quickly, and the courtyard door slammed, Wang Hu ran to close the door in the rain, and suddenly heard a faint knock on the door.

Wang Hu looked over and saw a thin woman sitting on the ground, pounding weakly on the door next door, a piece of blood oozing from her feet, mixed with the rain, flowing in front of him along the water.

"Daughter-in-law, daughter-in-law!" Wang Hu was so frightened that he changed his voice, and crawled into the yard with a rolling belt: "Yes, yes...... There is someone! ”

Yao Cuicui glanced at her husband with disgust and came out with an umbrella.

"Oops!" She exclaimed, handed her umbrella to her husband, and ran over to help. The woman was soaked and fell into her arms, and Wang Hu stumbled to hold an umbrella.

"Girl, girl!" Yao Cuicui saw that she was unconscious, so she hurriedly called her husband for help and carried the person to their courtyard.

"You won't cause trouble for the owner, will you?" Wang Hu hesitated, because he saw that under the girl's wide robe, the bulging lower abdomen was looming.

"Stop talking nonsense, no matter how you say it, it's a human life!" Yao Cuicui said, picking up her upper body.

"Is it possible that there are two ......?"

"Shut up!"

Wang Hu was chattering, but he had already thrown away the umbrella in his hand, picked up the woman's leg, and the two worked together to carry her into the house and place her on the only bed in the east room.

Wang Cuicui tore off a clean handkerchief to wipe her face and body, and hurriedly urged: "Don't be stupid, go to the car and invite Langzhong, quickly!" ”

Chapter 163

"Isn't it time to find a stable woman?" Wang Hu asked blankly.

"I didn't see so much blood, looking for Langzhong!"

"Eh...... Huh! Wang Hu rolled up his trousers, propped up his umbrella, and braved the heavy rain to rush to the nearest medical center.

When she came back, Yao Cuicui had already removed the woman's soaked clothes, dried her body, covered her body with a dry sheet, and after the person became conscious, she poured half a bowl of ginger syrup, but □□ still blood flowed out.

Lang Zhong asked Wang Hu to wait outside, asked Yao Cuicui to boil hot water, and took out a silver needle to apply needles to the person on the bed to stop the bleeding, but the woman on the bed trembled with pain.

Yao Cuicui came back with hot water: "Why does she hurt like this?" ”

Lang Zhong wiped the sweat on his forehead and said to her: "It's already in labor, the fetal position is bleeding, protect the adult or the child?" ”

One sentence asked Yao Cuicui, she didn't know this woman at all, how could she afford this responsibility.

The woman suddenly grabbed Lang Zhong's arm and said to him in a weak voice: "Save me, save me......"

"Lord Bao Bao Lord," Yao Cuicui woke up suddenly, "Sir, save her!"

……

Today is the old lady's birthday banquet, because it is not a whole birthday, there is no big business, and as usual, at noon, Xu Tinglan and Ji accompany the old lady to listen to music and compose music, and in the evening the children and grandchildren are back, and then hold a family banquet.

Boss He heard that the old lady was too old, so he left a stall of business and brought two guys to the house to take charge of the spoon.

The old lady was wearing a new pine green placket today, and with a smile on her face, she just asked strangely: "That female gentleman, called ...... The new moon comes every year, and there are always many new words for longevity, why not come this year? ”

The female gentlemen invited were also a small team, but they came and went a few times to change their new faces, and this time even Lan Xinyue did not come, and the old lady was most impressed by her, so she asked.

A younger female gentleman said to her: "No wonder the old lady asked, in terms of voice and figure, we have no one who can compare to the senior sister, but the senior sister was ransomed and left more than half a year ago." If you meet her one day, you must tell her that the old lady asked, so that she will be flattered! ”

The old lady leaned back and leaned back, pointed to the girl, and said to her daughter-in-law, "Look at this little mouth." ”

Shen Yu came back from outside, not wanting to disturb his mother Yaxing, so he sat silently and drank tea on the side, and after a while, the maid came in and reported: "Master, Fang Mao is back, I have something to look for you." ”

Shen Yu had no choice but to get up and go to the front yard, Fang Mao is his current long-term follower, he is very clever, there is nothing special about his appearance, he can almost be invisible when thrown into the crowd, this is a unique advantage.

"Master, I've found out." Fang Mao said: "Lin Xiuping's uncle once ransomed a female gentleman who sang lyrics, and sent her to a rural Langzhong house in the suburbs of Beijing. Because the month was not small, the woman was afraid of death, and pleaded in every way, and Langzhong and his wife were over forty years old and had no son and half a daughter, so they gave birth to compassion and promised to take her in and adopt her child in the future. ”

Shen Yu's face was expressionless: "And then?" ”

"Then, I deliberately told them that this woman was the concubine of a large family, and she was wanted by the government for the crime of fugitive slavery, and the crime of private possession was the same." Fang Mao said: "They were really scared, and they swept the woman out of the house that day." I ordered someone to pretend to be a coachman to take her back to the city, she named her to go to Dongliu Hutong, and the coachman secretly followed, but it was Lin Xiuping's outer house. Who knew that she stood in the rain and knocked on the door, but no one answered, as if she had shed a lot of blood, fainted, and was taken in by a couple of men and women next door. ”

Shen Yu frowned and asked, "Are people still alive?" ”

"I said that I invited Lang Zhong, I don't know if there will be worries about life," Fang Mao sighed, "The villain just wanted to force her, and she knew that this was the case, so she didn't do this evil." ”

Huai'an happened to come back from school, and the conversation stopped abruptly.

Huai An looked at the stiff expressions of the two and asked strangely, "What's wrong?" ”

"Nothing." Shen Yu smiled: "Go and celebrate your grandmother's birthday." ”

"Oh." Huai'an took the umbrella from Changxing's hand and ran into the inner house with his schoolbag.

……

A thin baby cry was heard, and in an instant it was swallowed up by the sound of wind and rain.

Wang Hu, who was lying on the door, sat on the ground with a weak leg: "Mother, it's really fatal, how can I explain to the owner?" ”

The door slammed open, and Wang Hu fell backwards.

"What are you doing?!" Yao Cuicui kicked her husband, who was not interested: "Go buy a chicken and come back to stew, it's okay if there is no chicken and fish." ”

"You're so idle." Wang Hu looked into the house, Lang Zhong was washing his hands, the copper basin was full of blood, and his eyes couldn't help but darken: "It's over, the days have just improved a little, and there is a life on my back." ”