After the whole family was swept away, I lay down flat

Before noon, Hai Jiao quietly slipped out and rode a fast horse to the Zhou family's three-bedroom villa in the suburbs to meet friends.

It seems that he was lucky. After his cousin Xie Wenzai went to the Zhenguo Duke's Mansion, he never came home. He even sent someone back to deliver a letter, saying that he would stay at the Zhenguo Duke's Mansion for dinner and come back in the evening. Haitang had obviously brought the little note she wanted to give him at noon to the front yard, but she missed it.

The two elders, Cao Gengyun and Lu Bainian, had already agreed that if they wanted to invite friends out for dinner, they would naturally not come back.

Haitang reluctantly took the notes and prepared to return to the main courtyard, but she met Ma Li coming home to report that the mistress Ma had stayed at her parents' house for dinner. He came back in a hurry and left in a hurry. Haitang hurriedly ran to the kitchen and said that she would have a meal alone at noon and just need to bring a few hot buns back. It would save trouble and time, and there was no need to set up a table with small plates and big bowls.

Naturally, the kitchen has everything it needs. Haitang took away a small basket of hot buns and a pot of boiling mutton soup. The kitchen only needed to cook for Hai Changan's family, which was very convenient. However, when Haitang returned to the main courtyard, she happened to meet Hai Changan leaving the door. He saw his niece about to walk into her nephew's house, and she couldn't help but raise her eyebrows.

Haitang smiled and greeted him: "Second uncle, are you going to the kitchen? There is mutton soup today. It smells delicious!"

Hai Changan had long known the kitchen's recipe from his wife. Hearing this, he smiled and said, "Are you bringing food to your brother? Isn't this quantity too small?"

"Enough, enough, how much can one person eat?" Haitang said with a smile, walked into the house, and quickly locked the door. She saw Hai Changan going to the front yard through the crack of the window, thinking that he was not suspicious, so she returned to the kang with confidence and started eating her lunch.

Not long after lunch, she opened the window and wanted to get some air, when she saw Hai Changan standing on the corridor, staring at her, and subconsciously laughed twice: "Second uncle, what are you doing standing here?"

Hai Changan did not answer, but pointed in the direction of the door: "Open the door."

His instructions were brief but clear. Haitang hesitated for a moment, knowing that she couldn't hide this, so she obediently opened the door.

Hai Changan walked around the house and didn't see Hai Jiao's figure, so he knew what was going on: "Where did your brother go? He has only been working for two days and he can't sit still anymore?"

Haitang said something fair for Haijiao: "My brother worked for a long time and didn't go out until lunch time. Of course he had important things to do, and he didn't mean to delay his work. He will be back soon."

Hai Changan raised his eyebrows: "I didn't notice when he left the house at all. He must have sneaked away while I was not at home, right? It was at least half an hour before lunch time! If he could calm down, How much more work can he do if he stays at home for most of the time? The town government is still waiting for the results. How can it stand that he is always lazy? If he thinks this job is too hard, there are many people who can help the old man. , it doesn’t mean he has to be on the reef!”

Haitang said hurriedly: "Brother really didn't delay the serious business! Second uncle doesn't believe it, just look at these." She pointed to the dozen or so account books stacked beside the kang table, "He has checked these all this morning. So. With Grandpa's speed, this is enough for him to work for a whole night. When my brother comes back soon, he can work for another half day. Even the part that Grandpa will do tomorrow night can be prepared, and it will definitely not delay the work of the Zhenguo Palace. event!"

Hai Changan leaned over and took a few glances, then flipped through the half-written notes on the kang table. Although he has never seriously learned to do accounting, he has been the son of the Hai family for more than ten years, and he still has a good eye for accounting. He quickly judged that his nephew Hai Jiao's work efficiency was indeed not low, and he was better than his father and cousin. It was much faster than I expected. But... he flipped through the note and immediately noticed something was wrong: "This was written by your brother? Why did he only write half of it? Does he plan to come back and write the remaining half? How good is he? He is in a hurry to go out and refuses to finish even half a sentence? Isn't he afraid that after walking around outside and coming back, he has forgotten what this sentence is about? "

Haitang blinked and looked away with a guilty conscience: "Ah, that's me... I was helping my brother copy the notes on the note into the notebook... I just finished eating, and I only wrote half a sentence. I felt that the smell of buns in the room was too strong, so I wanted to open a window for ventilation, so I delayed..."

Hai Changan was surprised: "Did you copy it? Why does it look like your brother's handwriting to me?!"

Haitang raised her index finger and "shushed" at him: "Second uncle, don't say anything. My brother is in a hurry to go out. I wanted to help him. I thought I was just copying the words on the note, so I volunteered to help him. . But when my cousin got these notes, we definitely couldn’t let him find out that I had copied them, so I imitated my brother’s handwriting..."

Hai Changan was extremely surprised: "When did you learn such a skill? Can you even imitate your brother's handwriting so well?"

Haitang said: "I used to study with my brother, and I read his homework every day, and I became familiar with it. In fact, I didn't imitate exactly the same, I just wrote in a hurry. As long as my cousin didn't read too much. Be careful and you should be able to hide it." As she said that, she took another blank piece of paper and wrote a few words on it, "Second uncle, look, I rarely see you writing on weekdays. They must be very similar."

Hai Changan took a closer look and saw that the words written on the paper clearly had half the meaning of his own words. My niece said that they were only three points similar, which was too modest! He is not as studious as his cousins, nephews and nieces at home on weekdays. Apart from teaching his son, Xiao Shitou, he can barely turn a page of a book - why should he turn it over? His background made it difficult for him to take the imperial examinations and join the army, and many old friends in Chang'an recognized him. As soon as he had the idea of ​​​​doing business, countless people would come out to persuade him not to disgrace his family. In his free time, he could only play with bows and arrows and teach his children.

What chance does niece Haitang have of seeing what he wrote? It's nothing more than a little stone's enlightenment manual. It was written by Hai Changan himself, and what was recorded in it was what his father taught him when he was a child. It was very different from the usual textbooks used by the Chang family. Because Xiao Shitou is young, the words in the enlightenment manual are very simple, and there are also many pictures drawn by Hai Changan himself. He was too embarrassed to show it to others, but he didn't expect his niece to actually see it.

Being able to imitate his handwriting based on the words in the manual to this extent, my little niece is really talented. From this point of view, it is normal for her to imitate her nephew Hai Jiao's calligraphy so closely.

But even so, fraud is not something worthy of praise.

Hai Changan taught his niece a lesson: "Although you want to help your brother wholeheartedly, it is always bad to cheat, let alone deceive your elders. My cousin has always loved you. If your brother really has something important to do, he needs to go out for a day or two. After an hour, if you just talk to your cousin, will he still refuse to agree? What does your brother have to worry about? He even drags you along to lie? "

Haitang pursed her lips: "But if my brother really opens his mouth, my cousin will definitely ask why? My brother is now older, and he will have some secrets in his heart. He doesn't want to do bad things, he just wants to help. It's just a friend's business. It's a friend's private matter, and he doesn't want to tell his grandfather and cousin. Second uncle, can you just love him for once? Can you not tell this matter? "

Hai Changan sighed: "What does it matter if I don't say anything? But there are suspicious people watching outside. He is too arrogant to just throw so many account books to you for a girl!"

(End of this chapter)