Yuan Fu Nushu

Chapter 438, raise you

On the night of New Year's Eve, there is no night in Xinji Town. Yuan Hui's friends set up fireworks to illuminate the night and the snow.

Shopkeeper Zheng entertained a wave of guests, and the people of the tribe stayed until now after eating the wedding wine with roots, and planned to surround Yuanhui and his wife to go back to worship their ancestors tomorrow.

Stepping on a piece of cannon paper to go home, seeing the red happy letter on the door of the house, shopkeeper Zheng's heart warmed, the door opened, and Fang looked at him sadly.

Shopkeeper Zheng's heart instantly returned to the freezing cold, which was as warm as the surrounding ice and snow. He said vaguely: "Go to sleep, we will go back tomorrow."

Going to Ding's room as if hiding, Zheng Ding looked at him with his sleeves folded.

What happened to the Zheng family is another characteristic of this dynasty. They were afraid that the eldest son would delay Zheng Liugen and drive him out of the house before leaving him for scientific examination.

The money is not missing, and the surname is still there. The shopkeeper Zheng also lives with Fang's mother and son for a few days every year, and gets angry with Chang Gen year after year.

But it's still a bit like "throwing out".

Zheng Changgen started to gamble and drink before he was deported from the family. Before he gambled and drank, he was devoted to business, and he was determined to expel Zheng Liugen and his mother.

As a result, he was expelled, and Zheng Changgen was even more devastated.

Liu Gen married, he should come, Zheng Liugen and Yuan Hui will not think that he is not a member of the Zheng family, but Zheng Changgen heard that Liu Gen returned home in fine clothes, and wanted to get married, he gambled harder and drank harder Well, Mrs. Fang didn't count on the time to come to congratulate her. Mrs. Zheng Ding had already sent a message to let her go to Xinji to celebrate the New Year.

Zheng Changgen didn't care about the store, and even stole Fang's private money.

There was a gold and silver village in such a dynasty, but everyone saved money at home. It was not difficult to find Zheng Changgen on the beam in the stove under the kang head. The Fang family who came to Xinji with a knife to commit murder had become more and more miserable in the past two years.

After all, Zheng Ding has a kind heart. He heard that Fang was sitting in the snow and crying because of his son's anger in the winter. Thinking about it, she was going to come to congratulate her, so she asked her to come to the new episode in advance to avoid getting sick.

After the shopkeeper Zheng came back, there were two worlds of ice and fire. On the one hand, he kept his roots to get an official and married, and on the other hand, Fang's misery.

This father is similar to Nanyang Hou and the others. The child is born. I let you go to school, and I let you grow up well. If you don't listen, what does it matter to me?

Zheng Changgen became like this, there is no reason for the shopkeeper Zheng, he married Zheng Ding's and had a good result, so it can't correct the fact that he concealed his family history when he proposed marriage.

The righteousness in Xinji School is due to Baitang and all the gentlemen.Playing with Yuanhui is due to Zheng Liugen.After entering Beijing, he went to school, thanks to Yuanxiu's high marriage and the care of the Huguo Gongfu.Only the hard work in the south really belongs to shopkeeper Zheng.

Shopkeeper Zheng was sitting on the top of the kang, drinking and feeling unhappy, and Zheng Ding didn't want to persuade him.

She is willing to accept Fang Shi, because after Fang Shi was harmed by her son, she should no longer be harmful to others, and she can't rest assured about Chang Gen.

The courtyard door slammed, as if there was a rush of joy, Zheng Liugen and Yuan Hui came in with the smell of firecrackers all over them, the storekeeper Zheng smiled, and Fang's face also barely squeezed out joy.

Zheng Ding followed the young couple back to the room: "What do you think? It's Chinese New Year, Chang Gen is still in the casino, so drunk that he can't see his way, and he's going to gamble again. If you don't lose, what are you waiting for?"

Zheng Liugen put away his joy and looked solemn: "I will do this when Sister Hui and I worship our ancestors tomorrow. Don't worry, mother, I will not leave this scourge around you, and I will not let him harm me and Sister Hui. "

Zheng Ding said: "It's fine if you're willing to take care of him. Your father is the same. He's not his son except for his family status. I don't know what he's doing. If I knew, I wouldn't let him do it. It's not a change of medicine. What's the use. We are not cruel people, we can't deny him if he is kicked out of the house."

Zheng Liugen said with a smile: "Please rest assured, mother, I know."

There is no severe winter or heat in the casino, people who drink three times and four times can’t feel it, Zheng Changgen stared at the poker table with red eyes, another game, he lost again, felt all over his arms and had no money, regretfully walked to the casino clerk: "Okay!" Come on, I'll go home and look for money."

The man said: "You have been in debt for several years, this is not a long-term solution."

Zheng Changgen said: "Although I owe something, I keep paying it off."

The man said: "In fact, your family has a way to get money, which is fast and stable. Why don't you use it?"

Zheng Changgen said, "Say what you say."

The man laughed and said: "I heard that your younger brother got married, and the dowry can't be walked around the market town. Why, didn't you go to the wedding?"

Zheng Changgen gritted his teeth: "I didn't drink it! I have already separated."

The man patted him on the shoulder: "One family, we are close to each other, and you are also brothers in the branch family. Seeing that you only have a thin dress in the cold weather, it is better to find a way than to freeze to death. Your brother is an official. He wants to be decent and famous, and he wants to be famous through his fingers." Don't miss it, you can't finish it."

Zheng Changgen stepped out, dazed in the vast snow.

Thinking of the guy's words in his mind, forgetting that his thick cotton coat has been lost in this casino for several years in a row.

Holding his arms tightly, as if he would not be cold, Zheng Changgen only had one sentence in his red-eyed mind, "Your brother is an official, he wants to be decent and famous." Zheng Changgen jumped up and shouted: "No! He has to control me, otherwise I will be with him. It's not over!"

This big one tried to suppress the sound of firecrackers, and someone in the next room opened the window and scolded him: "Poor gambler, get out, don't shout outside my house."

Zheng Changgen ignored it, and continued to think that Liugen had money in his hand, the bride had a lot of dowry, and Zheng's family drank wine one after another, and some people returned home, so it naturally spread.

Go home and sleep indiscriminately, Fang is not there, the reputation of drinking and gambling has spread, the originally planned marriage has also been blown, and I lie down in a cold kang and cold room.

Sleeping late and getting up late, when I woke up the next day and heard the noise outside, I instinctively decided that Zheng Liugen was back, and listened carefully, and it turned out that Liugen had arrived.

Pushing open the window, only to see the crowded crowd, seeing the back of the tall horse, Zheng Changgen clicked his tongue, I don't want more, just give me one.

How much is his portion?
He himself has no number.

The hot water was unintentionally boiled, and the rice was unintentionally prepared. Mrs. Fang had already arrived at Mrs. Zheng Ding's house. There were no New Year's dishes in the kitchen, only half a hard steamed bun that I did not know when. Zheng Changgen stuffed it in his mouth and walked towards the ancestral hall.

Zheng Liugen and Yuan Hui had just paid homage to their ancestors when they heard Zheng Changgen yelling outside the ancestral hall: "Why don't you let me in? My brother and his wife are here. I'll show you a gift, why can't I do it!"

Zheng Liugen's head buzzed, he has not forgotten this familiar voice, it was still the arrogance of Changgen's mother and son playing the new episode that year.Living in Beijing for several years, Zheng Liugen slowly lowered his countenance, turned around steadily, put on a face, and said to the patriarch: "Who is outside? Why is the New Year so noisy?"

The patriarch saw his style, he was unhurried, calm and self-possessed, the more he looked at it, the more he liked it, this is the first official of his Zheng family, he came out when he was the patriarch, the patriarch hurriedly said: "The beggar Well, the New Year beggars are also vicious."

Zheng Liugen was secretly amused, thinking that if he said this, Zheng Changgen would have to be able to break in, so he agreed, and sat down with Yuan Hui to have tea.

"It's dead, it's not good, it's dead!" The cry changed, and Zheng Changgen held a knife in one hand, and the tip of the knife pierced his own chest. Now no one dared to stop him, and he walked in dripping with blood.

Zheng Liugen curled his lips, suddenly pleased, Chang Gen had really turned into such a bad appearance, no wonder his mother was willing to sympathize with Fang Shi, and Fang Shi's face was filled with sorrow at all times.

A tall and thin man, he likes to gamble and doesn't eat enough food. Looking at the sharp-billed monkey's cheeks, his eyes are blood red, but the clothes on his body are dusty. Look, it's autumn clothes, not a thin jacket, and the hem of the clothes that was torn apart by the long roots can't be seen Mezzanine.

Zheng Liugen was angry again. As far as he knew, his father did not lose any money from the separation of the family, at least it was enough for Fang's mother and son.

They also have a shop.

The patriarch and other elders questioned Zheng Changgen. Chang Gen was also looking at Liu Gen at this time, and Chang Gen was equally shocked.

The last time I saw Zheng Liugen was when he was eight years old, and worshiped his ancestors among the Hui people in Zhongqiuwei. Zheng Changgen immediately felt that his family property was threatened, and he and his mother Fang went to Xinji Ding's house with a knife to provoke.

At that time, Zheng Liugensi's gentleness was not pleasing to the eye, but today, it is no longer an objectionable thing. First, he is dressed in official robes and oppresses his face, and then, the grown-up young man is not angry.

Zheng Changgen rubbed his eyes and looked again, he couldn't believe that this was his younger brother, he hesitated, he couldn't make a mistake, it was clearly the young master of which family.

Zheng Liugen said indifferently: "Brother Changgen, are you looking for me?"

"Yes, I'm looking for you." Zheng Chang was able to agree, and then he screamed strangely, shook his hand, and the knife in his hand fell with a plop, which turned out to be shallow.

Holding his head in both hands, he backed away, staggering and shouting constantly: "Ah, you, you are staying behind!"

How is this possible!
Before coming here, I was full of confidence "seeking my brother for help", but when I saw Liugen, I became "scared to death".

In such a dynasty, most of the people were afraid of seeing officials, and Zheng Changgen was no exception. He was "frightened to death" by wearing an official robe.

The knife also fell, and the person also fell, with his hands on the ground, and his buttocks rubbing against the door. What Zheng Changgen thought at this time was that the people would see the officials, and the officials could hit him with the board.

Why is he afraid of this one, he was cleaned up in the new episode.

The scene in front of me is not at all the younger brother that Zheng Changgen thought, and he is also my younger brother when he gets married, so why not give it?
Thinking, sometimes and doing, are two different things.

There were two voices in Zheng Changgen's mind, one shouted: Get up, ask him for money, or make trouble with him if you don't pay.Another voice was weak: hurry up, he is really an official.

Want money?

Or retreat?
Zheng Changgen sat stiffly on the ground.

The patriarch and the elders pointed at him and cursed a few words, Zheng Changgen was enraged, his temper came up, his courage came up, and he said angrily: "Then I have no money, can't I find him!"

Zheng Liugen took a step forward: "Are you asking me to borrow money, or beg for money?"

Zheng Changgen said: "You can borrow it or ask for it. Anyway, I don't have any money, so you can figure it out."

Zheng Liugen smiled and said, "What if I don't give it?"

Zheng Changgen roared: "You are still an official, if you don't give it, you can figure it out!"

In the next room, shopkeeper Zheng was so angry that Mrs. Fang was in tears, and Mrs. Zheng Ding was in charge of watching the two of them not go out, so that Zheng Changgen could "behave" clearly.

The brother's dialogue came clearly.

Liu Gen said: "How much do you want? Hey, you don't answer, just look at what my wife's jewelry is doing?"

Zheng Changgen hesitated: "Is this bride's phoenix crown worn by my sister-in-law a real pearl? A fake one is worth a hundred taels of silver. I saw that there is red gold in the phoenix crown."

Liu Gen: "Oh, you want a hundred taels? You talk, and what are you doing with my wife's jewelry?"

"Sister-in-law's phoenix crown has pearls and precious stones, and the fake ones are worth a hundred taels of silver. There are so many."

Shopkeeper Zheng sighed: "Ah, ah, ah, Fang, you now understand why I want to split up, why I want to split up,"

Fang just cried.

Zheng Dingshi changed the angle, otherwise the ears would be full of sighs and cries, but the conversation next door was still clear.

Chang Gen said in a cruel tone, "Give me 1000 taels!"

Fang's frightened tears stopped: "God damn it, he really dares to ask for it!"

Zheng Changgen yelled to cheer himself up: "My sister-in-law also has necklaces and earrings, which are all money. You can wear a few hundred taels for your daughter-in-law. I only need 1000 taels and I will leave."

"Hehe, in the future, what if you come to me after the flowers are finished?"

Zheng Changgen said confidently: "Of course! Although my father separated from the family, I am also your elder brother. Since you are rich, I will be raised by you!"

"Okay, I will support you!"

When Liu Gen said this, he shouted loudly: "Come here, get the horsewhip, and whip him thirty times outside the gate of this ancestral hall, and immediately send him to the river worker as an errand. I will raise you, and you will be raised by me in the future!"

Fang couldn't bear it any longer, rushed out and knelt in front of Zheng Liugen: "It's so cold, you drive him away, don't beat him, he is my son after all, what should I do if he plays well or badly."

Yuan Hui smiled at Gu Yatou: "Help my mother-in-law up quickly."

Sister Hui smiled all over her face: "When the father-in-law separated the family, he wrote a divorce letter. I know that. But, the two mother-in-laws are all under our care, and we are willing."

Glancing at Zheng Changgen, who was dragged outside: "We didn't come to beat you until today, it's already too late. If it wasn't so difficult to come back from Beijing, we would have beaten you long ago."

Fang cried: "You are good, I know, I know, let him go, this weather can freeze to death on the river work, what if he is going to die on the river work."

Yuan Hui smiled and said: "Then follow him outside the door and look at his autumn clothes. If you don't care about him, he will freeze to death sooner or later if he doesn't go to the river worker. If you go to the river worker, we will give him some thick clothes. Don't worry, in front of the elders On the face of it, my husband and wife guarantee that he will survive. Whoever called him Liugen's elder brother, my husband and wife will not ignore him."

After finishing speaking, he ordered people to prepare thick cotton clothes for Zheng Changgen.

Sending Zheng Changgen away, Zheng Liugen looked at Fang, and said calmly: "Mother, don't be too sad. Sister Hui speaks for me. Whether there is a divorce letter, we will support you. Your shop is still your shop, continue to write Chang Gen's name That’s right. But you can’t manage the shop by yourself, and Changgen may send a message from the river worker to ask you to send money. When we return to Xinji, you also return to Xinji, and you will help my mother’s shop in the future. Here The store, let my mother send two stable guys to maintain it, and when the long roots get better, I will return them to him."

Fang said desperately: "You raise me, I believe it. The roots get better, I don't believe it."

Zheng Liugen said: "Then you should pray for him every day, and burn a few more sticks of incense, the family does not lack this money."

The couple stayed at Zheng's house for a few days, and they were invited from morning to night. On the way back, they took Fangshi and her cage. Zheng Liugen asked Yuan Hui in the car: "Sister Hui, do you think you have to be hypocritical when you grow up?" ?”

Yuan Hui understood: "Are you referring to her mother?"

"Yeah, I really didn't expect that I would be able to shout out, and I still shouted as if nothing had happened. In fact, I have not forgotten the fierce appearance of their mother and son that year." Zheng Liugen said.

Yuan Hui smiled and said: "This is not hypocrisy, it really makes you grow up."

Zheng Liugen also smiled: "Really? That's a good thing."

After a while, he said again: "Sister Hui, do we really need to bring long roots with us when we go back to Beijing?"

Yuan Hui gently stroked his shoulder: "Don't worry, I made an agreement with Sister Yanyan, and Sister Yanyan made an agreement with Mr. Bai in Xueli. Only those who write letters to Mr. Bai will be kept in the shop as shop assistants." , so that we can ensure that all the guys in the store are good, let everyone watch this brother together, and correct his bad habit of gambling, so that you and I can feel at ease. Otherwise, sending him thousands of miles away will not guarantee that he will not gamble .”

Zheng Liugen nodded, suddenly amused, Yuan Hui hurriedly asked why he was laughing, and Liugen said: "When my father married my mother, others said that he was seeking the Ding family's property, but now all the Zheng family's property is in my hands."

Yuan Hui also smiled: "We don't want this little money, but run the store well and use the surplus to support their mother and children."

Having said this joke, Zheng Liugen looked a little happy, and started laughing with Yuan Hui: "Thank you sister Hui for your idea, if I release foreign officials, I will follow your idea."

Yuan Hui nodded her nose with her hand: "You can't be wrong if you listen to me. When my sister-in-law wants you to release a foreign official, this brother should change almost as well. Take him and let him do errands in the yamen, and give him his share of the family property. If it’s not good for him, it’s very convenient to beat him.”

Zheng Liugen laughed loudly: "Sister Hui is still Sister Hui, she has always been Sister Hui."

After returning to Xinji, I went to see my grandfather and parents at Yuan's house, and told the story. The second master Yuanlian was not surprised. He had already said that if he didn't change his roots, he would be beaten by sister Hui sooner or later.

Although it wasn't Sister Hui who went into battle in person this time.

After the festival of lanterns, the section of the canal was unsealed. Prince Li rushed back to Beijing years ago. It was Princess Xian who took everyone back to Beijing by boat. Zheng Liugen and Yuanhui really took Zheng Changgen with him. Roots have a future, and they can give Changgen a bowl of rice for a long time.

The mother-in-law thanked Yuan Hui, but Yuan Hui avoided her.

You Jian looked ugly after boarding the boat, and Jiang Ying asked sister You Ting when they were talking: "It's because we returned to Beijing late, did we delay your father's errand?"

Sister Ting laughed: "No way. Sister Jiang, you are going to be the concubine. I think you should know that the officials who serve in the palaces of the princes can only listen to the palaces of the princes when they ask for leave. Sister Hui is married, and I will give it to my father in the palace of Wei Wang. Lots of vacations. What he's upset about is my mother taking my uncle's daughter, my cousin."

Jiang Ying said with a smile: "That's not necessary. Your cousin is old and doesn't have a husband, and your family has settled down in Beijing. She will be a guest in Beijing for a few days. It's normal for her to relax."

Sister Ting smiled and said: "If it's just like this, my father won't be annoyed. Sister Meng Hui gave me shares in the store, so I don't have to bother Prince Wei's Mansion, but there are guests who just live in the store. Sister Xiu won't say anything. The two older sisters, Yan and Lvzhu, are even more hospitable. What annoys my father is my mother's selfishness."

Jiang Ying was curious: "What selfishness? In the past few years I have known you, to be honest, I have never seen anyone among you who has selfishness. It is you who help me, and I help you. Inferring from this, elders They are also good, and I respect them."

Sister You Ting couldn't help laughing: "My mother has only a little selfishness. After my father became an official, my mother always wanted to find an official son-in-law for each of my uncle's cousins. I'm not afraid of you laughing. My youngest cousin has not been married in these years. It’s just watching my mother marry an official.”

Jiang Ying also laughed happily: "That's right, that's right." Covering her face with a veil, she smiled for a while.

You Zhen said that Li Shi is a beauty from her natal family, but the girl from her uncle's family is not born well.A bad birth doesn't necessarily mean ugly and scary, but a bad appearance, Li still wants to find an official niece and son-in-law, so Sister Ting laughed, and Jiang Ying didn't hold back.

After laughing, Jiang Ying didn't show any annoyance, and pulled Sister Ting to do practical things: "When I go back to Beijing to see my aunt, Princess Li, I ask her to see the officials serving in Prince Li's mansion. Are there any people of the same age who have no wives , maybe just take a fancy to it, which is not good."

Sister Ting thanked her.

Yanyan walked over, and the three of them started talking.

He Ning and Steward Xie boarded the boat on the same day, separated from Yanyan and Jing An on the canal, and the big boat came south.

Brother Ning still has the loneliness of not having sympathy for failing the ranking, but he also knows that life is comfortable.

For Yuan Hui's marriage, Brother Jie's full moon and hundred days, Brother Ning is not there, and Yuan Xiu will take care of them all. At this time, going south in the cold spring, there is no need to worry about mother and child.

The letter has already gone back and forth, and Lu Zhu told He Ning to stop by to see Song Han and Yuan Caigu.

In February, the spring breeze continued, the boat docked at the pier, and Housekeeper Xie accompanied He Ning to Shu Ze.

(End of this chapter)