Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 161 Tracking
"Why are you two still dawdling here? Hurry up and leave." Later, a woman came over, who was Du Jincheng's mother, Mrs. Zhang.Like the two brothers, she also carried big and small bags in her hands.

But it turns out that Du Yunyi's newly bought house is not far from the alley near the teahouse. They moved yesterday, and today they still have some odds and ends to move from the old house. The mother and son are carrying things Going to the new house.

"Mother, I saw Du Jinning." Du Jingde pointed to the carriageway slowly driving on the street, "He is with the young master of the Guan family."

Zhang's complexion changed.

She stared at the carriage that was going further and further away, and asked, "How does he look?"

"Very good. Wearing new clothes, the whole person seems to have changed, quite different from before."

Zhang's expression changed a few times, and when she saw a mule cart passing by, she gritted her teeth, stopped the mule cart, then handed a few things in her hands to the two brothers, and told them: "You go home first. ,I gonna go see."

With that said, she took the remaining two items and got into the mule cart.

"Mother, where are you going?" Du Jinde asked puzzled.

"Don't ask. Go back quickly." Mrs. Zhang's voice came from the car, and the mule cart started and drove forward.

The two brothers looked at each other as they watched the mule cart drift away towards the direction where Du Jinning disappeared.

"Mother, are you...going to the third room?" Du Jingde said.

"Maybe." Du Jincheng was thoughtful.

Seeing the pedestrians coming and going looking at the big and small bags in their hands, he recovered and said: "Let's go quickly, things are sinking."

Only then did Du Jinde feel that his hands were too tired, so he hurried forward.

On the other side of Mrs. Zhang, urging the mule cart to hurry, and finally saw the carriage in front, with the sign of the Guanfu on it, it seemed that they were right.She asked the mule-drawn driver to slow down the speed of the car, and followed him unhurriedly.

Seeing that the carriage did not stop at the entrance of the academy, but continued to move forward, Mrs. Zhang breathed a sigh of relief, and told the driver: "Go slowly, I am a little dizzy. You just keep going forward, I am going to the entrance of the academy." Zhuangzi is visiting relatives. I will give you an extra two pennies for the car."

The coachman was very happy when he heard that, and immediately slowed down the speed of the car.

It used to be a main road, with people coming and going; after passing the academy, the mule cart was far away, and the coachman of the Guan family didn't notice that there was someone following behind him, so he drove the cart directly to the door of Du's house according to Du Jinning's instructions. stopped.

Mrs. Zhang didn't dare to ask the coachman to drive the mule cart in. When she got to Zhuangzikou, she got out of the cart, paid the money, sent the mule cart back, and walked forward with her things alone.After walking for a while and seeing people, he asked where the newly moved Du's family lived. Under the guidance of that person, they found Xiaosanfang's new house.

At this moment in the Du family, Mrs. Chen was taken aback by the arrival of Guan Jiaze and Guan Jiayu. She hurriedly welcomed them into the house, asked Du Fanghui to boil water, soaked the tea leaves given by Aunt Dong, and took out a plate of dried tofu and just Bought peanuts and melon seeds for Chinese New Year, took them out, and said with a smile: "Our farmers don't have anything to entertain, only some homemade dried tofu and fried peanuts and melon seeds, which are pretty clean. The two young masters Guan Don't be disgusted."

As she spoke, her eyes fell on Guan Jiayu.

Guan Jiayu was still just a girl, and she didn't have any obvious feminine characteristics. At this time, she was dressed as a boy, and she couldn't recognize it unless she looked carefully.But Chen still sensitively felt a sense of disobedience, and always felt that Guan Jiayu didn't look like a boy.It wasn't until she saw Guan Jiayu's pierced earlobe with a keen eye that she was sure about it.

It really is a girl.

Her heart skipped a beat, and her eyes fell on Du Jinning.

Fortunately, Du Jinning was raised as a boy since birth, even though she didn't have the consciousness of being a girl, so she didn't reveal her secrets for so many years, otherwise, I don't know how many troubles will be caused.

"Auntie, don't say that, the dried tofu in your house is delicious. I think you also know that we have opened a teahouse together. Nowadays, the dried tofu in the teahouse is the most popular snack, and the supply is in short supply every day. .” Guan Jiaze laughed.

As a child of a family, he can handle this kind of social etiquette with ease, and what he said is also true.

Because most of the people who go to the teahouse to listen to books are middle-aged and elderly men, these people are not very interested in sweets, but they have a soft spot for salty snacks, so Du's dried tofu is the most popular in the teahouse .Yesterday, the Du family had already provided a lot of dried tofu. It was originally planned to be sold for two or three days, but they didn't expect that the dried tofu would be sold out before the last storytelling session.Zhuang Yue immediately called Zhao Dahu to pass on the message that he should do more today.

Hearing Guan Jiaze boasting about his dried tofu, and thinking about the money he earned from selling the dried tofu in the past two days, Mrs. Chen smiled from ear to ear, pointed at the dried tofu on the table and said: "This is freshly made, just out of the pot. Well, since you agreed, eat more."

As he spoke, he greeted Guan Jiayu: "Brother Yu, eat some too."

Guan Jiayu had never been to this kind of farmer's house before, and she was curious about everything after she came in.She wasn't interested in the snacks on the table, but was curious about the vegetables grown in the yard, and asked Chen, "Auntie, can I walk around in your yard?"

"It's okay, you can do whatever you want. It's just that the yard is not clean, and your shoes and socks are dirty." Chen said.

The Du family's mother and daughter are all clean people. In the old house, Mrs. Niu raised the livestock to other people's homes because Mrs. Zhang disliked dirty chickens and ducks.Now that the Chen family is in charge and has their own yard, naturally they don't want to let the house be dirty.In addition, vegetables were planted in the yard, and for fear of being pecked by chickens, they surrounded a small area at the back of the yard and raised all the chicks caught from Aunt Dong's house there.

Therefore, in the Du family's yard, the most common yard full of chicken droppings in the countryside does not exist.When Mrs. Chen said this, she was just thinking about the green brick paved ground of rich people, and her own muddy ground was incomparable.

"It doesn't matter, I'm not that particular." Guan Jiayu laughed.

Seeing her round face with two dimples in a smile, her big eyes bent into crescent moons, she is very cute, and she is so sensible, she doesn't dislike the poor Du family, Chen immediately fell in love with her, and said with a smile: "Then Feel free to look."

Guan Jiayu got up, came out of the house, and went to the yard to look at the vegetable fields.Some vegetables here were left by the original owner of the house. After the Du family moved in, they plucked some vegetables to eat and planted some.Buds had just emerged from the fields where the seeds had been sprinkled, and they were scattered on the soil. Guan Jiayu was very curious, and pointed to Du Jinning and asked what it was.

Looking at the vegetable garden, she heard the crowing of chicks, followed the sound and walked back, and soon saw a group of pale yellow furry creatures.Guan Jiayu suddenly shouted excitedly: "Brother Du, what is this?"

When the younger sister came out of the house, Guan Jiaze was worried, so naturally he had to follow.At this time, Du Jinning and Guan Jiaze followed behind Guan Jiayu.

Hearing Guan Jiayu's question, Du Jinning was a little speechless, turned his head and asked Guan Jiaze, "What are you talking about?"

　Thank you for catching bugs, okay?

　　
　
(End of this chapter)