Stepmother Shaoguang

Chapter 137

"It's the mid-year exam soon, isn't it?"

After being questioned by the three children one after another, Zhifu Zhan also broke out in sweat. I really don't know whether he is testing them today or they are testing him.

Lu Xiaowen saw that he didn't have the energy to ask about Chi Weiwei's mother and daughter, so she sent him out of the house in person.

Prefect Zhan walked with ease when he came, but he didn't expect that he couldn't wait when he left.

After he came out, he finally took out his handkerchief to wipe off his sweat, and the valet came up to meet him: "Master, oh, why is it so hot in this garden?"

Prefect Zhan glared at him: "Go, you're the one who talks too much."

Squinting his eyes, he remembered what he just said, and then turned his head and ordered: "Tell your subordinates not to investigate Jiang's house. Miss Chi Wu's disappearance should have nothing to do with them."

The boy responded quickly, sneaking to see his master's expression, he was relieved when he found that he did not appear to be intimidated.

Chi Weiwei was carrying water in the small yard that she rented from her aunt. Although the money they brought out was enough, Aunt Tao told her to be diligent and thrifty in managing the family, and to start a family in the future. These were all her dowry.

Chi Weiwei, no, Tao Weiwei curled her lips: "Mother, it's fine if I don't get married."

Now they live in a small courtyard, with only one girl helping them to work together. Although it is a bit hard, the air is free, and she can still call Aunt Tao mother.

I still remember when she first moved to this small courtyard, she called mother for the first time, and Aunt Tao was taken aback with her back turned to her tidying up body, and then she covered her mouth and cried: "Until this point Come on, when you called me mother, I believed that we really left that place."

How wonderful, why do you want to get married?

Aunt Tao, a person with gentle eyebrows, deliberately put on a straight face at this moment, but she is still not angry.

She glanced at her daughter reproachfully: "If you think your mother is a drag, just say so."

Tao Weiwei just hugged her, not allowing her to get angry.

The mother and daughter were making a fuss, when there was a knock on the door, it was very urgent, and I didn't know who it was.

Tao Weiwei sat up straight in fear, and looked at Aunt Tao, the smile on Aunt Tao's face also faded.

"Mother, the government didn't come to arrest us, did it?" Tao Weiwei was worried that the people from the government would find her, take her back and make her a servant.

"What are you afraid of? If you come, you can escape through the back door, and mother will drag you here." Aunt Tao seemed much calmer.

"I don't want it!" She lowered her voice and resisted.

"Mother's deed is in my hands, even officers and soldiers can't arrest me, you are different! Wei'er, you are the daughter of the Chi family, mother is afraid."

Before I finished speaking, there was another knock on the door, accompanied by someone asking: "Is anyone home? I'm a new neighbor who moved in next door. I brought some specialties to your family to eat."

The mother and daughter looked at each other, and they both breathed a sigh of relief. The voice of the person who came was gentle and polite, not like officers and soldiers trying to arrest someone.

Tao Weiwei opened the door: "Who is it?"

Unexpectedly, there was a businessman in his 30s at the door, pulling a cart of goods and a few oil-paper bags in his hands. Seeing Tao Weiwei, he smiled shyly.

"Girl, this is the bacon and sausage from my hometown. It's new here. We will be neighbors in the future. Please take care of me."

He pointed to the house on the left, which was smaller than their small courtyard, but it was just right for living alone.

"Thank you, Uncle!" Tao Weiwei responded crisply, and turned around to shout into the back room, "Mom! The uncle next door gave us a bunch of bacon!"

Aunt Tao stepped out with small steps, her face full of disgust: "Girls, why are you talking so loudly?"

She put on a smile again, and thanked her new neighbor gently: "Where are you from? What's your surname? Why do you come to the capital alone to do business?"

The other party met Aunt Tao, who was about the same age, and she was used to carefree women. It was the first time someone spoke to him so gently, and she was even more embarrassed: "Your family is really polite, there are scholars Right? My surname is Li, I am from Dingzhou, and I have no wife or daughter, so why don’t I just travel around by myself?”

Tao Weiwei shook her head: "There are no scholars in my family."

After hearing this, Aunt Tao pursed her lips and smiled, looking a little happy: "My natal family is also from Dingzhou."

"That's not a coincidence, we need to take care of each other more."

After observing for a few days, I didn't see any men coming in and out of Aunt Tao's house.

Li Wanzhi inquired curiously, and the owner of the two households said: "She is a widow, she was evicted by her husband's family not long ago, don't talk nonsense if you are fine."

That's right, Tao Weiwei made up a very miserable life experience for the two of them. Seeing that they were pitiful, the landlord took the initiative to ask for less rent when bargaining.

"Ouch. I was rude." Li Wanzhi thought of Aunt Tao's gentleness and tenderness, so why did she suffer so badly.

To express his apology, he would often chop some firewood for them when he was chopping firewood himself, or when carrying water, he would pick up a few more buckets and put them at the gate of their courtyard.

Aunt Tao took the favor from others, seeing that sometimes he had no one to cook, and he asked the foot shop outside to deliver the food every day, which was expensive and not tasty, so she deliberately cooked more and asked Tao Weiwei to send it to the next door.

Tao Weiwei actually noticed some signs of this coming and going.

So when Li Wanzhi scratched his forehead and asked her hesitantly if her mother had any intention of remarrying, Tao Weiwei shook her head and said, "Uncle Li, if you want to know, you can ask my mother yourself! You guys use me as a microphone." gone?"

She ran away unwillingly.

The branches in the garden began to lose their leaves, and the maple leaves on Qixia Mountain were also turning red. At this time, it was the mid-year exam time for the government.

Kao Wen, Kong Wen'an is not afraid at all.

He hardly stopped writing in the examination room, and wrote it down quickly. The proctor stood behind each student and read it, but nodded to his paper.

In the riding and archery test, Nie Lei was dressed in an orange outfit, which made him look tall and straight.

The other party raised his chin proudly: "Little dwarf, do you dare to compete with me?"

Hua Shaotang was afraid that Kong Wen'an would not be able to withstand the provocation, so he hurriedly said, "This is a lottery, Nie Lei."

Nie Lei snorted: "Of course I know, anyway, I can win against anyone, and he is the same, he can't win against anyone."

Kong Wenan ignored him.

When the results of the lottery came out, Nie Lei got Hua Shaotang. He was quite happy, because Hua Shaotang's riding and shooting were not very good, but they were friends, and Nie Lei would not make things difficult for him.

And Kong Wenan drew Song Fuer.

Song Fu was strong and strong, standing in front of him like a mountain, although it wasn't a wrestling competition, Hua Shaotang still swallowed his saliva.

He quietly squeezed his fist towards Kong Wen'an to express his support.

But Lu Mingyan was happier. The examiner thought he was too young, so he didn't need him to compete in riding and archery, and just wrote their exam papers once.

(End of this chapter)