Wukou Town is a small town in the south of the Yangtze River with less than 200 households, which is under the jurisdiction of Jiang County. Near the river, located on the border of the state and county of Jiangnan East Road and Liangzhejiang Road divided by the imperial court, it is a small town with a small reputation for caravans to stop and transit.

In places where businessmen come and go, there is no rule of 'people do not leave their hometowns', as long as they hear the rumors of what to do in such and such a place to make money, drag their families and hula to run after the money. There is a large flow of people, a lot of money flows, and there are frequent sales of houses.

Ye Fuliu likes places with large population flows.

Push back ten years, no one knows anyone, and no one can tell the origin of the deserted house. The family that lived in the town for the longest time only vaguely remembered that there seemed to be an old woman living in the past, or from the mouth of the deceased elder, who remembered what the family's surname was.

With a vivid land deed, the paper is old, the vermilion official deed seal is not bad at all, hang up a thousand firecrackers to announce the neighbors, find an auspicious day of the zodiac, and move in brightly, who said that this deserted house was not surnamed Ye twenty years ago?

When Ye Fuliu moved into the mansion for half a month, he was already a good neighbor who was 'warm, friendly and wealthy' in the eyes of his neighbors. Occasionally, when she went out, the ladies of several neighbors who lived close to her came out to greet her one by one.

The only one who didn't talk was the neighbor surnamed Wei who was closest to the Ye family.

The Wei family is also newly moved. A sick man, with a domestic servant, there are only two big men in the house, and the door is closed all day long, and he doesn't even go out of the door. Even the surname of this family is Wei, Ye Fuliu inquired about it from other ladies.

"Neither of the Wei family likes to take care of people." The lady of the Wang family, who talked the most, muttered one day, "Occasionally when I go out, it's the servant named Wei Da." The gentleman of his family is like a big girl in the backyard, and she doesn't go out of the door all day long. ”

The lady of the Li family also muttered, "Speaking of which, it has been two or three months since Langjun of the Wei family moved here, right?" I haven't even looked at the shadow. But every once in a while, I invited Lang Zhong to come to the door. I don't know what the disease has become. ”

Ye Fuliu sat under the verandah, carefully wiped the newly carved small Nanmu box with a soft cloth dipped in water, and put it in a cool place to dry.

Wei Jialangjun is indeed not lightly ill.

Looking past her, there was a figure sitting on the top of the wooden building opposite, with broad shoulders and long hands and long feet. I'm afraid it's more than eight feet to stand up.

Ichiro Jun, who is eight feet tall, only eats three mouthfuls of soup cakes a day. This posture of starving himself to death must have something wrong with him.

Wei Da next door was shouting again.

"Lang Jun, what do you want to eat, say it, I'll go out and buy it for Lang Jun now!"

Ye Fuliu sat by the fence of the corridor, the embroidered shoes under the pomegranate long skirt were cocked comfortably, looking up at the bustle on the opposite side.

No wonder it was heard so clearly. It turned out that Wei Da also went up to the wooden building, where could the two courtyard walls stop the sound from the heights.

Wei Langjun finally spoke.

"Okay, don't tell people to see jokes." He said indifferently, "Go down." ”

His voice was not as loud as Wei's, low and slightly hoarse, gathering in the wind but not dispersing, and clearly passing through the courtyard wall.

In the next moment, Ye Fuliu's lively gaze met the two lines of sight on the opposite side of the courtyard wall.

Wei Da showed a look of shame, and immediately shut up and turned around and went downstairs.

Wei Langjun's gaze also turned away. The next moment, he slowly got up and got down the wooden building by himself.

I only ate three bites of soup cakes a day, and my steps were quite steady.

Ye Fuliu retracted his gaze and held the small wooden box and thought for a moment.

In addition to being bold, it is more important to be cautious and careful, so that you will not step into the river and wet your shoes. She has a little problem and thinks too much.

She's been moving to the town of five for a whole month. Talking to each other, knocking on the side, the surrounding dozen or so neighbors are quite normal, only the Wei family next door is not normal.

The master and servant, the two old men, under the pretext of recuperation, did not go out all day, did not get acquainted with their neighbors, and only Lang Zhong came to the door. It's not the ones in the town, they're all strange faces from other places. You're welcome, who knows if it's a real man or a fake one?

Wei Jialangjun recuperated behind closed doors, but he didn't look like he was so sick that he couldn't get up. He speaks clearly, walks steadily, and just doesn't care about people through illness.

The master is sick, the servants are serving, and the Wei family has no regular business, but the family is not short of money.

The Wei family is not short of money, but they don't even invite a servant or maid to work for a short time. The house next door was empty all day long, which was more empty than the Ye family's house that had been deserted for more than ten years.

Ye Fuliu had a conjecture in his heart.

She herself is doing the business of reselling houses under the guise of a cloth business. The Ye family also doesn't like to invite more people, and it is easy to make mistakes when there are too many people.

The Wei family's mansion is not small, it has also been deserted for many years, and it has not long been newly moved.

Will Wei Jialangjun's illness also be a disguise, and the business that can't see the light is covered under the disguise.

She was a little suspicious that the Wei family was a peer.

……

As the sun approached noon, footsteps sounded outside the door.

Su Qiu came back with a large piece of bacon.

"Just now I sent Ah Tao home, leaving half of the money to make new clothes, her aunt was so happy, she stuffed a piece of bacon alive, and she couldn't push it off."

Su Qiu put the bacon on the stove, and asked while lighting a fire, "Lady, is it too much money?" ”

"Not much." Ye Fuliu went over to pick up the bacon and sniffed the meat with satisfaction. "We are new to the city, and we are surrounded by neighbors, so it doesn't matter if we spend more money, the main thing is to leave a good fate. Later, we moved away, but the good karma remained, and the neighbors were willing to help us speak. ”

Su Qiu: ??

"We're moving again?" Su Qiu's people were numb, "Lady, we have moved three places in two years." It's all a big deserted house with a garden in front and back, and it's easy to clean up one place, and you have to move in a few months before you live. How many houses do we have? ”

“…… Cough. The ancestors of the Ye family like to buy real estate, and there are a lot of family businesses everywhere, so they have to clean up and not be wasted. Ye Fuliu gently and skillfully diverted the topic, "The water is boiling, quickly cut a piece of bacon and put it in the pot." Just cook some...... Well, soup cakes. ”

Su Qiu was really taken away.

The two discussed eating, and the kitchen was lively and began to make noodles.

Su Qiu said while facing him, "When I entered the door just now, I saw Wei Da next door sitting by the door crying. ”

"......" Ye Fuliu thought of the scene of the eight-foot burly man crying and chirping, and goosebumps all over his body, "What is he crying about?" His family is fine, and I watched him go up to the wooden building in the morning to bask in the sun. ”

Wei Da refused to say what was wrong. But seeing that the corners of his eyes were red from crying, Wei Langjun may not be very good. Su Qiu whispered, "The eight pairs of paper figures and paper horses that the lady brought back, let's keep them first." ”

Ye Fuliu took a sip of honey water: "It's too late." It has been put into the soil and can no longer be dug out. ”

Su Qiu: ?

The smoke from the fire in the kitchen was big, and Ye Fuliu sat under the eaves outside the door, fiddling with the newly acquired small Nanmu box.

The box is not big, and it has been dirty for many years and cleaned inch by inch with a soft cloth, revealing a little broken gold in the sun, and the wood is the finest golden silk nanmu in the nanmu.

It's heavy, and there's something locked in the box.

She was a little interested, but she was not in a hurry to open it, and continued to hold the small box, glancing at the wooden building on the other side of the wall.

In the afternoon, the sun moved to the west, and there was no sunlight on the small wooden building in the east, and of course there would be no more people basking in the sun.

She pondered for a while, and then asked Su Qiu, who was pouring soup cakes in the room, "Do you think the Wei family Langjun on the other side is a real illness or a fake illness?" ”

Su Qiu turned his face in surprise, "Wei Dadu is crying like that, how can it be a fake illness." In the morning, Ah Tao was sent home, and Ah Tao's aunt also said that the Wei family's business was not good. Wei Langjun is a northerner, he lost his appetite during his illness, and his family Langjun didn't eat a bite of the food sold in the town, and threw it away. At first, I used to buy two soup cakes a day, but recently I have only bought one soup cake...... People always don't eat, how can they get sick. ”

Ye Fuliu looked at the small wooden building opposite, "His family is not short of money, why don't you hire a cook?" ”

“…… Ay? Su Qiu was stunned by the question, "That's right." The food in the south is not to your liking, so you can hire a cook from the north. ”

"So there's something wrong with his family."

Ye Fuliu put down the small nanmu box and told Su Qiu, "The patient should eat lightly, don't put salt in the soup cake, put some fresh scallops, and then lie down with an egg." A bowl of fragrant food came out, and I went to the next door to visit the sick. ”

Chapter 4

The courtyard is filled with an enticing aroma.

The fresh fragrance is invisible and shadowless, crossing the courtyard wall and scattered everywhere.

Ye Fuliu traveled south and north, and occasionally had a shortage of money, but he never treated himself harshly on food. She carries a calfskin purse with her, and she takes it with her wherever she goes, with bottles and jars of scallops, mushrooms, dried abalone, and crab paste all year round......

Occasionally, when I want to change the taste, I will grab a handful and put it in the soup to enhance the freshness.

She scooped a spoonful of soup from the pot and tasted it herself.

Simmer the bone broth base for a few hours on low heat, add noodles, chopped green onions, and add some fresh scallops, the taste is very good.

Ye Fuliu hummed a small tune in the south of the Yangtze River, deliberately found an octagonal ruffled white porcelain bowl in Dingyao, picked up a spoonful of hot and fragrant noodle soup, put it in a delicate porcelain bowl, led Su Qiu out, and knocked on the door of the Wei family opposite.

Wei Da's face was not very good when he opened the door, and he said impatiently, "Go, go, my family doesn't want these messy things-Ye Xiaoniang?"

Ye Fuliu's eyebrows were crooked, and he handed over the soup cake.

The voice was gentle and gentle, "I overheard that your mansion Langjun hasn't eaten all day?" How can you be so careless about your body when you are sick? But the food sold in the town is too sweet and not to Wei Langjun's taste? Just now I was cooking noodle soup at home, and I scooped a bowl by the way, and Wei Langjun tasted it. ”

The tip of Wei Da's nose twitched a few times.

It's the fresh smell wafting through the wall just now!

He just sniffed it, and his index finger moved. Lang Jun may use a few more bites!

Wei Da immediately took the bowl and thanked him with emotion, "Thank you Little Lady Ye for your concern, so I'll take it to my family Langjun to try." ”

"Take the blue sarong, too, and cover it." Ye Fuliu advised, "The weather is hot, and mosquitoes are flying around." If you don't cover the bowl properly, small insects will fall into the bowl after a while. ”

"Huh, okay." Wei Da is a sincere person, he didn't say a word of nonsense, and took the bowl with a blue sarong directly.

He had only taken two steps when there was an unusual movement behind him. As soon as Wei Da turned around, he was stunned to find that the little lady Ye next door was strolling leisurely, and she followed the door slowly!

Wei Da immediately stopped, his hands were not empty, and he blocked the way forward with his burly body, "Little Lady Ye is not easy to come in." ”

Ye Fuliu looked around leisurely. The courtyard of the Wei family is also large, but it is much neater than that of her house next door. The weeds were pulled clean, and the bluestone strips were neatly paved.

"Everyone is a neighbor in the township, door to door, Wei Langjun has been sick for so long, I have never visited the door, I really don't want to go." Ye Fuliu looked at the courtyard enough, lowered his eyelids, looked at the ground, and showed a trace of loss.

"I used to be busy, but today I was so easy to get free, so I was thinking about visiting the hospital...... It turns out that only food can enter the door, can't I enter the door? ”

Wei Da was choked with a bowl full of soup cakes.

Yes, how can there be food in the world, and the owner who gives food cannot enter the door.

It's soft.

Wei Da was silent, and his burly body stepped aside.

"Little lady Ye...... Come on in. My family doesn't like to see the living. I'll inform Ye Xiaoniang, whether Lang Jun wants to come out to meet the guests, I can't say for sure. ”

Ye Fuliu smiled and walked behind him, "It's okay, it's okay, just come in to visit the sick." If Wei Langjun really doesn't have a good body, he naturally doesn't have to be reluctant. ”

She led Su Qiu through the vestibule, and the two entered a side hall for entertaining guests, Wei Da also wanted to serve her tea, Ye Fuliu urged him to quickly bring the porcelain bowl to the backyard.

"The soup cake is only delicious when it is hot, don't let it be cold."

Wei Da also thought so, thanked him, and strode out of the side hall with a bowl.

There are only two little ladies of the Ye family left in the huge hospitality hall. Su Qiu exhaled at this time and reminded the master in a low voice, "The Wei family doesn't even have a female dependent, only two men. Our visit will attract gossip ......"

Two gossip about being said...... It doesn't hurt or itch.