Huai'an renewed the lease of the house in Dongliu Hutong for another month, gave Lan Xinyue a shelter from the wind and rain for confinement, and left Yao Cuicui to take care of one or two, and only let her husband Wang Hu go back to work in the bookstore.

Yao Cuicui tentatively asked Huai'an, can you let Lan Xinyue go to work in the soap factory?

Huai'an doesn't care, the soap shop pays the wages by the piece, and also includes food and accommodation, it is a good place to go, as long as Lan Xinyue agrees.

When she was about to get out of confinement, Yao Cuicui began to do Lan Xinyue's work.

"That kid went to the Lin family, how can he live more steadily than following our small people, maybe he can still study and take the imperial examination, fortunately, he is a boy, what kind of world he will break out in the future, it all depends on his own creation. You can do it again, forget about him, and start over. Yao Cuicui said.

He also told her about the benefits of earning money to support herself, and that she could gain a foothold in the world without relying on men.

Lan Xinyue was ignorant, she used to make money to support herself, but most of the money she earned had to be handed over to the class owner, a large part of which was a "flower donation" handed over to the Department of Education, and a small part of it maintained the normal operation of the Lan Gui class, and only a small amount was left, which could be kept for herself. She is just a female gentleman who sings, not a famous prostitute in a green house, so although she has been singing for several years, her savings are pitiful, and she has been scavenged by the Langzhong couple in the countryside, and now she is penniless, if she hadn't met the kind-hearted Yao Cuicui, she would have died a long time ago.

Hearing that Yao Cuicui can earn one or two to two taels of silver a month, and there is still a place to eat and live, and she doesn't have to pay taxes to anyone, she nervously rubbed the corner of the quilt: "Sister Cuicui, can I do it?" ”

Yao Cuicui pinched her white hand: "Soap-making is delicate work, I can do it with my clumsy hands, you must be able to!" ”

Soon, when the shopkeeper Ding reported the situation of the soap shop to Huai'an as usual, Huai'an was surprised to find that a batch of new soaps developed by the soap workshop all had good names, such as "Yurong Yarn", "Qinghe Ripple", "Hibiscus Yingxue"......

"Who came up with this name?" Huai'an asked.

"It's the Crescent Girl." Shopkeeper Ding said with a smile: "Not only can she read and write, but she also likes to name and inscribe poems for each new soap, but she has little strength and is not very good at soap-making work." ”

Huai'an listened, isn't this a natural copyeditor?

"If you're not good at it, you won't let her do it, add a desk to her, let her name a poem, and sort out a set of product atlases." Huai'an said: "Two taels of silver a month, and the rest is the same." ”

The shopkeeper Ding should go down one by one.

"Also, tell Yao Cuicui to let her be a member of the literary and artistic propaganda committee of the women's trade union, organize some literary and artistic performances during the New Year's holidays, and sing and dance together, we are a state-owned enterprise, and we must enrich the spiritual life of employees and care about their physical and mental health." Huai'an said again.

Shopkeeper Ding has long been accustomed to him calling all industries related to Huangzhuang Huangpu "state-owned enterprises", and he agreed with a smile.

……

The impeachment of Lin Baiquan by the imperial historian flew into the cabinet like a snowflake, and Shen Yu looked like a vote as usual, as if he was dealing with a business that had nothing to do with him. Among them, the tooth man who abducted and sold Lan Xinyue, and the countryman Lang Zhong who illegally practiced medicine without a medical certificate, were all severely punished.

Lin Baiquan was on the self-defense note, wearing the sin at home, sitting in the upper room at this time, his face was gloomy, and his eldest son was reporting the situation of the eldest grandson in the hall.

"The broken leg can be roughly raised, the injury on the waist may fall into the old disease, and it will attack every rainy day in the future, or some drowning, Lang Zhong said that he injured the kidneys, and he can't be bumpy and tired, so he must raise it slowly."

In and out of the words, they all hope to leave their eldest son in the capital. Lin Baiquan didn't answer, and only asked someone to bring Lin Xiuping's child.

The baby in the swaddling clothes was already full-term, and his skin was no longer wrinkled and clingy to the red color of molting, but white and smooth, and he smiled at the sight of his great-grandfather.

"This child is kept in your yard, and his name is ...... Lin Hong, when he grows up, invite a gentleman to enlighten him, hoping that he will have great ambitions and be self-reliant. Lin Baiquan paused, and said: "From now on, the objects and clothes at home are of any color, so you don't have to deliberately pretend to be plain." ”

Lin Baiquan looked around with his afterglow, his home was gray and dark blue all the year round, and even the cups, saucers and dishes were pure white porcelain. Hearing this, I had mixed feelings and couldn't help but cry.

Lin Baiquan exhaled a breath of turbidity: "The family is unfortunate, and the descendants of the family will corrupt the door, you and I have the greatest responsibility, and we will ...... in the future." Reflect on yourself from time to time. ”

An autumn rain and a cold, unconsciously, Huai'an has been in prison for nearly half a year, after half a year of study, he is more and more convinced that he is not a material to write Baguwen, but he will stay in this place for at least four years! Or on the premise of not repeating a grade.

is thinking about bribing who can graduate smoothly and not repeat a grade - first of all, Uncle Lu is excluded, he still wants to live a few more years, and secondly, he is excluded from the two divisions, who do not have so much power.

If you bribe the emperor, can you let him out in the next special order?

On the way to the restaurant, Huai'an was whimsically looking for a way out for himself, when he saw a familiar figure in a Confucian shirt walking towards them. It turned out to be Lin Xiuping, who was skinny into a handful of bones, trying his best to hide his lame legs, and walked towards him.

Huai'an was walking with Zeng Shang, Zhang He, and Gu with them, and when he saw this, he asked them to go first.

"Don't fight." Gu Tong reminded.

"Don't worry." Huai'an said with a smile.

The three of them left first, and the friends who used to participate in the cultural meetings together were now a little embarrassed to even say hello when they met.

"Brother Lin, do you want to come back to prison?" Huai'an asked.

Lin Xiuping shook his head and said, "I'm going back to my hometown, and I'm going to sign with Lord Sacrificial Wine." ”

Huai'an nodded: "I heard that you have been sick recently, are you feeling better?" ”

"Thanks to you, the ghost gate was closed for a while, and I barely survived." Lin Xiuping said.

Huai'an heard the resentment in his words, but at this time, he couldn't be angry with this kind of person, he smiled: "The road is all walked out by yourself, don't bring so much resentment, the ghost door you said is closed, Miss Lan also walked through, I heard that you shed a lot of blood, Miss Lan also flowed." ”

Lin Xiuping's eyes dodged for a moment: "I can't live with her, when you see her, please help me tell ......"

"I'm not going to relay anything for you." Huai'an said: "Because you have never treated her as a person." You think you're amorous, but you're just a child who doesn't know anything about people, sees a novel toy, and tells one big lie after another in order to keep it with you, and when you see the lie being exposed, you're afraid of being punished, and you're anxious to throw it away. ”

Huai'an's words were too straightforward and accurate, ruthlessly tearing off the last fig leaf covering Lin Xiuping's heart, exposing his cowardice and selfishness, hypocrisy and stupidity to the fullest.

Huai'an said: "I'll do everything I say, when I go back to my hometown in the future, remember to be kind." ”

Huai'an walked a few steps, and then heard Lin Xiuping say behind him: "You are a young son, you have your parents and grandmothers to love, and your brother to bear the responsibility of the family, and you have been smooth sailing all your life, giving you kindness everywhere." You have not experienced any suffering, so why should you accuse me of being a person? ”

Huai'an paused for a long time before he said, "You are really not qualified to talk to me about suffering. ”

He raised his feet and wanted to leave, but he still added: "I hope you can understand one day that blaming others for your cowardice is the greatest cowardice." ”

……

When Huai'an returned home, his father was in the yamen, and he sent back that he had dinner in the yamen and would come back later, so that the family would not wait for him.

When Shen Yu went home, it was already late, Sister Peng had already slept, and only Xu Tinglan and Huai'an were chatting and gossiping and waiting for him to come back. He is really busy now, and he returns late half of the time every month, Huai'an is afraid that he will burn his body, so he uses sour jujube seeds, lilies, lotus seeds, etc. to make soup to calm his nerves and help him sleep.

The cabinet has endless government affairs, so he rarely talks about the affairs of the court and China when he goes home, and only spends a limited amount of time caring about the studies of several children.

When Huai'an took out the article of his monthly exam, he felt that he was really a worry-free child, and his performance had always been very stable, but it was still a "no-pass" sentence.

So Shen Yu drank the soothing soup while correcting his "shocking" article, and he didn't know if he would sleep well or lose sleep tonight.

After finishing the article, Shen Yu washed his hands again, if he wasn't afraid of hurting the child's self-esteem, he actually wanted to wash his eyes......

"One more thing." He said to Xu Tinglan: "Today Shen Lu wrote that there is a family surnamed Gu in Baoding Mansion, an official eunuch for many generations, and the second son of the Gu family is still the head of the Beizhili hospital examination, and now he is studying in Guozijian, I heard that Shen Lu has a daughter who has been married, and has the intention of marrying. ”

After listening to this, Xu Tinglan looked straight at Huai'an.

Huai'an asked, "What's your name Gu?" ”

"Gu Tong." Shen Yu said: "Do you recognize it?" ”

Huai'an opened his mouth and stammered, and his head was mushy.

"Talk?" Xu Tinglan urged.

"Acquaintance." Huai'an struggled to speak.

"That's a good idea." Xu Tinglan asked happily: "Tell me, how is this Gu Tong?" ”

Huai'an stood up silently and asked Yun Ling to go to the front yard to help him pack his luggage.

"Why are you going?" Shen Yu asked.

Huai'an's voice was full of heart-wrenching exhaustion: "I will go back to China and stay in prison for another month." ”

Chapter 166

Huaiwei is over seventeen years old, but the marriage has not yet been settled, Ji is inevitably anxious, but he understands in his heart that the matter of fate is not in a hurry.

Gu Tong was ordered by the elders in the family to come to the Shen family to see Shen Yu. Shen Yu knew that his scripture was "Spring and Autumn", but he asked a few words of "Shangshu", and they all answered fluently.

Shen Yu is quite satisfied with this, in his opinion, when talking about marriage, the academic future is more important than the family background. Along the way, he has seen too many people who have failed to gain fame and fame, and no matter what their family path is, they must be depressed.

Very few people can survive a long period of frustration and remain indestructible, and most of them will become depressed and depressed. Huai Wei married in the past, and it was inevitable that she would be depressed and tired to live with such a person every day, let alone rely on him to teach her children.

Ji accompanied Huaiwei to sit behind the screen, Huaiwei was expressionless, and didn't even wait for Gu Tong to leave, so she left the seat first.

After experiencing a divorce, Huai Wei felt more and more that marriage was a very boring thing, she was full of fear, if she really married into the Lin family, she would be dumb and eat coptis, and no matter how much her mother's family supported her, it would be useless.

When I thought of this, I didn't want to learn to take care of the accounts and embroider the dowry in the house, but borrowed a large stack of books from the uncle in the front yard, and I was very busy every day.

Sister Peng has been running to the second room recently, and the sisters are locked in the wing room together, staying for most of the day, and they also hang a sign on the door that says "idlers are not allowed to enter", and the maids and women who sprinkle and sweep must go in within the specified time.

On this day, Huai An took a portrait to Huai Wei to see.

The portrait was painted by Huai'an himself, the young man in the painting is tall, his eyebrows are sparse, and under a closer look, the outline of his facial features is somewhat tough and heroic, not as thin and quiet as Lin Xiuping.

"Isn't this Gu Tong?" Huaiwei said.

Huai'an nodded: "The head of the hospital examination in Beizhili, not only has he learned people, but he has also practiced martial arts since he was a child, he looks tall and thin, but he is not weak, I will give him seven and a half points." ”

"Only half a point more than Lin Xiuping?" Huaiwei asked.

"Isn't that the last time I looked away?" Huai An smiled embarrassedly. In fact, the extra half point is Gu Tong's eight-pack abs, but this is inconvenient to say to my sister, I will be beaten to death.

"Okay......" Huai Wei was not interested, and even sighed.

"Sister, don't you like this type?" Huai'an said, and casually took out a stack of portraits from his sleeve: "I still have a few alternatives, all of them are prisoners who have not yet married a wife, and their appearance is superior. ”

In order to avoid repeating a grade due to his sister's choice of son-in-law, Huai'an had to find a way to improve work efficiency.

As if he was giving the emperor a draft, he spread out the backups in front of Huai Wei: "Those who can be admitted to the Frank Hall are not too much in knowledge, this, six and a half points; This, six points; This, seven points...... Which one do you like, I'll check it for you. ”

Huai Wei laughed out loud.

"Don't just laugh, just look at it, just look at it." Huai'an Road.

Huai Wei said: "Huai'an, my sister knows that you are dedicated to your sister's good, but what can you see just by your appearance?" Let the elders call the shots. ”

Huai An knew that his sister was a little messy, he could quite understand that as a woman in this world, she was passive everywhere, blind marriage and dumb marriage was a big gamble, and she would be under unimaginable pressure if she didn't marry for life.

"Don't think about it, do my sister a favor." Huai Wei took out a list from the drawer: "I don't have the books in here, I don't have them at home, you can help me borrow them from the Yilun Hall in Guozijian." ”

Huai'an saw that they were all ancient books.

Yilun Hall is equivalent to the library of Guozijian, with a vast collection of books - although Huai'an never goes, he has not even read the Four Books and the Five Classics - but he has a good relationship with Liu Dianji, and it is not a problem to borrow a few books.

He had an idea: "Sister, you change into men's clothes, and I will take you to Yilun Hall to choose for yourself." ”

Huai Wei was shocked: "How can this work?!" ”

Huai An smiled: "Anyway, I can take you in, you can choose whether to go or not." ”

Huai Wei was entangled for a moment, then turned around and went into the inner room to change clothes.

When he came to Yilun Hall, he first had to get the approval of the "librarian" Liu Dianshu, Huai'an pointed to Huaiwei, who was a little shorter than him, and said, "My cousin wants to find a few ancient books, so I took him to see them." ”

Liu Dianshu got up and took the key: "I'll just say, the sun came out in the west today, and Shen Jiansheng actually came to read the book." ”