Yuan Fu Nushu

Chapter 218, found you, found you again
The next day, Yanyan complained about Luzhu and Yuanhui: "There are many trees planted behind my house and in front of sister Hui's house. Why can I hear you all arguing until midnight?"

Luzhu made a grimace: "That's because you want to come and play too, but now you are playing the head of the house, you can only envy me and sister Hui to play, let me tell you, we didn't sleep last night, and there were no fish in the pond." I didn’t sleep, and I was kicked out by sister Hui and me for eighteen laps.”

Yanyan held back her laughter, and rolled her eyes towards the blue sky: "Poor fish."

When He Ning came out of the room, Yanyan, Lu Zhu and Yuan Hui put away their smiles at the same time, each of them lowered their faces, Yanyan was annoyed: "If you fail, hurry up and go to the street to buy vegetables, so you can make breakfast, don't delay .”

He Ning has nothing to say, yesterday he lived alone in the West Wing, and his family members refused to accompany him. They either slept in the shop in front, where there were prepared beds for the men to sleep at night, and they just dragged them out, or they said green bamboo Sister He Hui may be afraid to live in the garden. Although the garden is not big, some of them sleep in the back two floors. The bunk can sleep more than a dozen people.

There are three rooms on each floor, and there are two other rooms downstairs. The children of the Qi family and the Song family also sleep here. If you think it is crowded, the three empty rooms upstairs have no goods, and you can sleep with the bed and quilt.Qi Yue and Song Han went to bed with Qi Xi yesterday.

In Qi Xi's words, Yanyan Green Bamboo's family business is really good, and the other two rich and powerful, Yuan Xiu and Yuan Hui, probably don't care about this family business, they just serve Yanyan Green Bamboo.He Ning also helped tidy up the shop, the east wing room was for the couple to live in, the tables and tables were all chosen by He Ning and Lv Zhu, like the foundation of thousands of generations.

It was cold and quiet last night, except for Qi Xi who still felt sorry for him and came in to help him apply medicine, no one came in. Qi Xi babbled on him again, saying that green bamboo is not a beauty, and she is prosperous, If there is no green bamboo as a wife, half of this new family business may have the surname Qi, you who are in the blessing and don't know the blessing, the dubious woman outside will only consume your reputation and money, green Bamboo has brought you such a large family property, be content, child.

Qi Yue and Song Han's two punches were so ruthless that He Ning's eyes were narrowed into slits this morning, and he couldn't open them. It would be embarrassing to go to the street like this, but He Ning said obediently: "Okay, I'll go right away."

Luzhu folded her arms and looked up to the sky, pretending not to see him.

Yuan Hui said: "For those who fail, I want to eat meat buns from the street."

"Huh?" Yanyan and Lvzhu squinted at her with expressions of disapproval.

Yuan Hui met their eyes and understood that this is the weird adult who can talk, and the little one shut up. Although the sisters are of the same generation, they are adults compared to Sister Hui.There was nothing embarrassing about Yuan Hui, she smiled happily: "Brother who failed, remember to buy me breakfast on the street."

"Understood." He Ning felt that it was a good sign to resume treatment at Sister Hui's place first, so he agreed resoundingly.

Qi Yue and Song Han walked out of the room, saying that he couldn't hold it alone, and went out side by side with He Ning, He Ning's heart warmed up again, although the brothers were ruthless, he woke up this morning in unbearable pain, but he was still a brother.

The three of them brought along two guys from Qixi. This is a lively street. The more people there are, the more shops there are. Shopping is the most convenient. Not far away is a big vegetable market, fresh vegetables, squatting chickens Duck, start a fresh day in Beijing.

They bought vegetables for about three or four days. The chicken, duck, fish and meat are so rich that they can be called rich. There are dozens of people in the family eating, and it only cost less than five taels of silver. Zaohua murmured while ordering: "My mother , This is the life of a person, and spending a few taels of money to manage a person's life is no longer possible."

This can also be said to be expensive. The poorest Beijing officials have a salary of tens of taels a year. It takes a year to rent a house, coal and clothes to travel, and it costs five taels for three or four days, and it costs 30 taels a month.But Zaohua can calculate this account, a family of tens of taels a year can only support five people, and there are children from the Qi, Song and He families in the store, as well as Qi Xi, Qi Jun, Qi Xunfu and the masters, one or two a day Silver food is not expensive.

The first one is to treat Mama Zhang, Luan Tai, and Chai Zhi Biyun well. These four are witnesses to Yanyan's innocence.

Luan Tai and Chai Zhi Biyun came to help, Yanyan's nanny accompanied Zhang's mother, and she would never let the old mother work hard, Yanyan's other two little girls and Jiuhua also came to help, and followed Sister Hui The girls and boys in the house only play with Sister Hui.

Where did these girls live yesterday?The boys can squeeze in with the younger ones, and the girl sleeps in Sister Hui's room.

Take Yanyan’s main room as an example. There are two main rooms and two side rooms on both sides of the main hall. In the room, there is a bed and two coffee tables, a little girl is sleeping here, and it is also a tea room.

Inside is the compartment, where Yanyan looks under the window to look at the flowers and plants in the garden during the day. If she is a female family member of a rich family, she can also make needles here. This is a well-made kang, with kang tables and other things during the day, and you can sleep at night one person.

These two partitions are parallel to each other, and they are half of the main house on the left side where Yanyan lives. One has windows facing the front yard, and the other has windows facing the back garden.

Yanyan lived in the inner half, and there was a window behind her bed to see the garden, and in front of her bed, there was a window on the wall that led to the front yard, and under this window was a well-coiled kang with jujube flowers. Even if you live here, you can spend the night.

This is to divide a main room into three rooms, one half is the place where Yanyan and Jiuhua live, and the other half is divided into two halves. It is also possible to sleep.

This layout can also be seen in the main house where Mama Zhang, Nanny Yanyan, and Chai Zhi Biyun live in the right room, and it is also the same layout as Sister Yuan Xiuhui's room. One, agreed to come over in the morning, and the other two were the most mischievous and the ones who liked Sister Hui the most. One lived in the cubicle of Sister Hui's room, and the other slept on the kang under the window opposite Sister Hui last night.

Therefore, last night, the empty shop yard was filled up all of a sudden, and there were constant voices of people when they got up in the morning, Qi Xi looked so happy, and even said that this is a prosperous scene: "Yanyan, Luzhu, you really set up your home. "

After breakfast, Qi Xi left Qi Jun and Qi Xunfu to look after the house, and hurriedly went to the Duke's Mansion with his children. After the marriage leave, Shizi Yun started to work. It is agreed that Qi Yue and other people will go home to worship their ancestors, and Qi Xi will accompany his daughter for a few more days, so that he can return with his children in a glorious way.

A day in the village often starts when it is dark. Yuancaigu walked out of the low door, knowing that the day started too late, and she had to go out as soon as possible and try to finish things today.

Turning around and seeing the figure reading under the window, Aunt Yuan Cai was very happy. She finally found Shu Ze. Shu Ze refused to go home in Beijing. She found him in Beijing. Shu Ze refused to take her home yesterday. Yes, yesterday After she and Shu Ze walked out of the Jingli city gate, Shu Ze threw away his daily [-]-mile commute to and from school, leaving Aunt Yuancai far behind.

"Shu Ze, wait for me." Aunt Yuancai shouted at the beginning, she couldn't speak official language, and her foreign accent attracted the attention of officials and passers-by, so Shu Ze simply ran away, and now Aunt Yuancai couldn't catch up, she He simply stopped, took out a note and unfolded it.

This is the green bamboo and 40 taels of silver bills for her.

The careless Luzhu actually wanted He Ning to write down Shu Ze's address, which was really embarrassing for her. He Ning, Qi Yue, Song Han and other disciples searched for Shu Ze every day, and it was very likely that they would find him in the place where Shu Ze was working. Luzhu actually wanted to ask He Ning to ask Shu Ze's address. He Ning said that I also failed. Where do you live? I will visit you when I have time and talk about poetry and papers with you. He was actually happy with the three visits, and he had lived in Beijing for so long, and he also heard that there were many Xinji students who studied at the Wang family's home.

He's pretty good at everything, why didn't he look for him?Thinking of sister Xiu as a young man made him daunted, and he was ashamed to go.

At the same time, the young man with a clear family background also heard that the students from Xinji were being entertained by the Palace of the Protector of the Country.

So when he saw Qi Yue and He Ning, Shu Ze was not embarrassed, and there were some excuses for himself, such as he didn't eat well and live well, and no one discussed it when he was studying alone, let's pass the exam, he will pass the exam.

At that time, I didn't expect that my classmates would look for me, just because Yuan Caigu came to Beijing, Shu Ze happily reported the address to He Ning, and He Ning wrote it out and handed it to Luzhu after returning to the shop.

When Aunt Yuancai was reading the note, let alone how happy she was. In the middle of the afternoon on the official road in early autumn, it was almost dusk, and there was a chill in the wind, but Aunt Yuancai was extremely happy. Fortunately, she was studying. Fortunately, she had read books. , she read the words on the note.

Thinking about it this way, her father and mother appeared in her mind. Aunt Yuancai's face was burning hot. Her parents were the ones who helped her study, but after marrying Shu Ze, she not only gave Shu Ze all the property she got when she got married He was afraid that he would not pay enough money in Beijing, so he went home and blackmailed his parents.

As a result, her parents told her not to go back to her natal home, and after Shu Ze got all the money, he packed his luggage and went to Beijing within a few days. When he left, he only kowtowed to his parents. The house was empty, and her husband never came back and there was no news.

Aunt Yuan Cai cried to the moon every night, and when there was no moon, she cried to the darkness: "You can write to me, I can understand you to write to me"

Half a year later, Shu Ze didn't say a word. During this time, the new recruits who failed the rankings in Chunwei came back. Aunt Yuancai and them were classmates, and they all knew each other. They ran to ask each family. If they didn't have an address, they went to the school to ask the gentlemen for the address. , They have never met Shu Ze, so there is no message.

Shu Ze is like a breath of air. Even if Aunt Yuancai enters his house, she still feels that her husband is thousands of miles away.

During the two months before and after the Chinese New Year, Aunt Yuancai was in a trance, always worried that Shu Ze would be robbed by robbers or die of illness in a foreign land.

Cooking without salt and noodle sauce, going to the chicken coop to get eggs, and falling into a mess without being able to hold any of them, the parents-in-law are used to frugality, and because they marry this daughter-in-law, they can see the resentment of their sons, so they put Yuancaigu After scolding and scolding, Miss Yuancai had no family to go back to, so she continued to cry at night alone.

This forced marriage started with cold swords and swords, wishing to cut Aunt Yuancai into pieces and then turn into ashes, so that there would never be a trace of this person when the wind blows.

How the day of getting married will come about is only Yuan Caigu's own feeling. The days with Shu Ze are good, even if you always look at Shu Ze's cold face, a day is equal to a moment, and the days without Shu Ze, a moment is equal to a year.

The twisted melon is not sweet so that everything around her changes and turns into a desperate situation so that Yuan Caigu can't see where the life is. She has no choice but to go and beg Yuan Xiu to take her to Beijing. Even if she dies On the way to find a husband, I don't want to live with my in-laws who scold me every day.

Thanks to the kindness of her cousin, and the green bamboo taking care of her on the road, Yanyan is also a good girl. Aunt Yuancai was able to find Shu Ze in thousands of villages outside Beijing, with a radius of hundreds of miles, and now she I still have the address.

After Mrs. Yuan taught He Ning, after three rounds of dinner and drinks at the shop, Aunt Yuan Cai knocked on the two wooden doors with her big and small bags on her back, and said to the puzzled owner, "I am Shu Ze's daughter-in-law, I heard that he rented a room in your house?"

She happily raised the sweaty note in her hand: "I have his address."

In Shu Ze's eyes that could kill people, Aunt Yuancai walked in, put down the meat and a few vegetables she bought on the road, and there was even a bottle of wine. Aunt Cai was lucky today. There are still a few pieces of meat at the butcher's stall, and the shopkeeper has all kinds of things on his shoulders.

She also brought her own bowls and chopsticks, which were newly bought on the way.

Finally, she put down her small burden and held out 40 taels of silver bills in full bloom. If Luzhu let her use it as her private house, she threw it to Java. She happily sent it to Shu Ze: "Cousin, Yanyan, and Luzhu gave me 40 taels." Well, you put it away. On the way I passed by, I met someone who was free and rented out the whole thing. The asking price is paid on an annual basis. We can afford it. I will settle it tomorrow. From now on, you can study with peace of mind and catch up with the next subject, and I will support the family. "

Shu Ze only had the heart to throw her out with a broom, so naturally he didn't accept it. Aunt Yuan Cai was infinitely satisfied when she saw him, put the banknote in front of Shu Ze, picked up the wine and vegetables and went outside: "Wait, I'll borrow the landlord's cooking stove, and I'll cook for you here."

When only Shu Ze was alone, he pursed his lips, but he couldn't refuse the banknote. When he came to Beijing, he took all the family money away, including the belongings he received from marrying Yuan Caigu, but he lived on the boat for as long as he lived. For two months, even if he saves to the extreme, he bought a lot of biscuits in the winter and took them on the boat to eat slowly. When the boat arrived at the pier, he disembarked and made up for it. His travel expenses and meal expenses also went to a sum of money.

It seems that he started early, but in fact he arrived in the suburbs of Beijing late. To save money, he took a merchant ship. The merchant ship is cheap, and if the merchant ship needs someone who writes and calculates, Shu Ze also wanted to save a few meals, and finally found out that The young masters on the merchant ship were all no worse than the dudes of aristocratic families. They yelled and spoke rudely. They were even afraid that Shu Ze was poor and sick, so they almost kicked him off the ship.

(End of this chapter)