The little girl of the landlord's house

Chapter 121

The old woman hadn't heard about her son for more than half a year. Now that Zhou Tianhao said that, she was relieved a lot. Seeing him and Xie Yujiao together, she was a little puzzled, and asked, "What is the little general doing now?" The eldest daughter of the Xie family is together, who are you two?"

Besides, she remembered that when Steward Tao delivered meat and vegetables during the Chinese New Year, he clearly said that the Xie family had recruited a son-in-law, and it seemed that the family background was also very high. The old woman looked at him coldly, could it be Zhou Tianhao?She suddenly realized it, and only smiled and said, "Could it be that you are the son-in-law Tao Butler said?"

After hearing this, Xie Yujiao's cheeks flushed slightly, and she only whispered: "I've come to the door, and I haven't become a son-in-law yet!"

"It won't be sooner or later!" The woman became happy when she heard that, and then she heard someone calling her outside: "Lao Si's mother, this stewed pheasant and mushroom is almost burnt."

When the woman heard the words, she only groaned, and hurriedly went out to have a look.

After a while, a pot of stewed pheasant and mushrooms was brought up. Since there was only ordinary brown rice here, Xie Yujiao and Zhou Tianhao knew what to do and ate it.

The two sat leaning against the oblique corner of the Eight Immortals table in the hall, each poking rice in their bowls.Probably because she had been hungry for a long time, Xie Yujiao didn't even feel that the brown rice was so unpalatable, but she ate an extra mouthful of rice than usual.

Seeing that she was eating seriously, Zhou Tianhao put down the bowl and chopsticks, looked at her quietly for a moment, and then said: "Is this considered to be a simple meal, a tea talk about Sangnong?"

Xie Yujiao just ignored him, carefully spat out the pheasant bone in her mouth, wiped her mouth and said, "You can bear it if you eat it once in a while for two days, but if you eat it every day, you will definitely complain."

Zhou Tianhao thought for a while, and only replied in a serious manner: "I used to think that I would die without my computer. I never thought that I would come here and be stabbed a few times, but I'm still alive and well."

Xie Yujiao raised her head and looked at Zhou Tianhao. There was a bit of playfulness in those deep eyes, but also a bit of seriousness.Xie Yujiao then reached out her hand, pinched his cheek, and said with a long sigh, "Young man...forget about the computer..." Xie Yujiao paused, and only added playfully, "Take the plane as well." forget."

After that...you don't need to fight anymore.

After returning to Xie's house from Qinglong Mountain, Xie Yujiao's annual leave was over. After offering sacrifices to heaven on the day Long raised his head, he went to the county government office for several days to discuss the refugee issue with Kang Guangshou.He asked Zhou Tianhao to go back to Jinling, inquired about the military supplies raised by the Ministry of War, and took several government procurement items from the Ministry of Households.As soon as the emperor heard that Xie Yujiao was going to use it to resettle the refugees, he agreed with all of them with a wave of his imperial pen.

In the blink of an eye, it is the ninth day of February, which is the anniversary of Master Xie's death.Because the second old man was ill, the ancestor worship in the ancestral hall that he was in charge of was handed over to another person of the same generation as Master Xie.That person is also considered to be a relatively prosperous man in Master Xie's generation. He has a few acres of land in his family, and now the children under his knees are all studying in the family school of Xie's family. Xie Yujiao assigned this matter to him at the beginning. She didn't follow the second old master to do those unreasonable things, and secondly, Xie Yujiao vaguely remembered that among the group of people who wanted to come to Xie's family as heirs, there were no children from his family.

In fact, Xie Yujiao still values ​​her relatives very much in her heart.Although all the people in Xie's house have the surname Xie, there are actually not many people who can reach relatives on this level.We all live together, and if we can help, we naturally need to help.

And after the second grandpa made a fuss last time, everyone seemed to be a little afraid of Xie Yujiao, so many relatives who used to walk around during the New Year's Day did not come around.Mrs. Xu is usually bored at home, if not for this aunt and that sister-in-law coming to play, it would be difficult to pass the day.

So when I met this uncle today, Xie Yujiao said, "I heard from my mother that you were the seventh eldest in my father's generation, so I will call you Seventh Uncle from now on. I didn't see you much before."

The man was of medium build, but his appearance was gentle and handsome. Hearing what Xie Yujiao said, he opened his mouth and said, "It's common sense that the young lady doesn't know me. I just came back from the north last year." Uncle Qi stopped talking after finishing his sentence. , paused before continuing: "It's just that I didn't expect me to come back, and the capital is gone, but it's a no-brainer to recover a life."

Xie Yujiao returned home, only to find out that this seventh uncle was originally a descendant of her great-grandfather's concubine brother, and it is supposed to be farther away than the second old man and the others.Moreover, this seventh uncle was used to studying since he was a child. I heard that he was selected as a scholar when he was very young, and he was selected as a candidate in a few years.But who knew that he was born unlucky, and was admitted to Jinshi at the age of 26. Who knew that there was an incident of cheating in the imperial examination that year, and everyone's grades were invalidated.

Later, he took the exam several times one after another, but he never passed it again.Fortunately, he is also a smart person, and he never neglected his lifelong affairs because of his studies, because he still has a few children under his knees, and he returned to his hometown from the capital in the old year.

Xie Yujiao heard what Xu said, and she felt sorry for him from the bottom of her heart. She is now in her early forties, and most of her life has passed, and only one person returned home with hatred. He is already very lucky for the person who died in a foreign land before returning home in time.

Now Xie Yujiao is about to arrange the affairs of the victims, Tao Laixi and Liu Fugen have their own affairs, and the young man who runs errands at home is not smart enough. Fame did not starve to death, presumably must be someone with some skills.

Mrs. Xu saw that Xie Yujiao asked about Master Qi today, so she smiled and said, "Before your father passed away, he also said that in their generation, only Master Qi was a person. I remember clearly that when he went to the capital, At that time, your father gave him 100 taels of silver as travel expenses, and the second day after he left, he asked the old mother at home to send a note."

"IOU?"

"Isn't it?" Xu said with a smile: "At that time, you were young and didn't understand things. When you saw the paper, you liked to tear it up and play. If I didn't pay attention, you tore up the IOU, and your father returned it. Said, well done, anyway, he didn't want to ask Master Qi to exchange this silver." After Xu finished speaking, she only paused again, and continued: "But after he came back last year, he came to the house once. You are sick, I saw him, and he exchanged the 100 taels of silver back then without saying a word, and I almost forgot about it if you didn’t ask me.”

Xie Yujiao heard Xu's words up to this point, and she already admired the character of the seventh master. He has both ability and character. Because of the chaos of war, such a person happened to be known by Xie Yujiao. use it?

Xie Yujiao immediately asked Xu where is the 100 taels of silver now?Mrs. Xu usually doesn't leave the door, doesn't open the second door, and can't spend any money, so she naturally put it away, and said: "I asked Mama Zhang to put it on the bookshelf in the study, and I didn't even open the box. It looks like it was delivered."

Xie Yujiao smiled and said, "Father can't be wrong in judging people. He thinks Uncle Qi is a talent, and we can't really let Uncle Qi fall back to his roots like this. Now that the imperial court has come to the south, it's time to employ people." !" Xie Yujiao said, just in time to see Zhang's mother coming in from outside, so she asked her to go to the study and hand over the silver box.

There are 20 taels of silver ingots in it, five in total, and the seal of the bank is printed on the bottom.

Mrs. Xu glanced at the silver and asked Xie Yujiao, "What is Jiaojiao going to do?"

"Naturally, return the money to Uncle Seven. By the way, ask him if he has any free time and help me take care of a few people."

After hearing this, Mrs. Xu was a little bit worried, but also a little bit happy. The happy thing was that Xie Yujiao valued the people Mr. Xie liked, and the worry was that if the seventh master was another second old man, like that Relatives, she really can't bear it.

But Mrs. Xu thought about it for a while, when she passed the door, this Seventh Master was still good, and if this person changed, it might not be so fast.

Xie Yujiao did not have Xu's doubts. The so-called employing people is not suspicious, and the suspecting people are not used. From the conversation and behavior of the person I saw in the ancestral hall this morning, I don't know how much better than any villager in this Xie's house.No wonder Xie Yujiao felt like meeting people from the city back then, and wondered when the Xie family had an extra relative who looked like a dog. It turned out that they really came back from the city.

Xie Yujiao came out of the main hall, thinking about letting Liu Fugen take a trip, but also felt that someone like Master Qi might have three points of arrogance, if she went there in person, it would definitely be much better than letting Liu Fugen go.

The last time I assigned him the affairs of the ancestral hall, but I didn't know these details at the time. I only heard Liu Fugen and Tao Laixi say that this person is reliable, and she didn't think about it further. relative.Now that she knows this, she has to make a trip in person to invite her.

The seventh master is from Master Xie's generation, named Yun Zhen, ranked seventh, smart when he was young, because he went to school with Master Xie, so Master Xie is particularly fresh in his memory, the scholar who went to the exam together, himself He failed first, but he won.When he was admitted as a scholar, he even passed the exam... So Master Xie's admiration for him is naturally like the flood of the Yellow River, out of control...

Since Xie Yujiao had this thought in mind, she asked Liu Fugen to find Zhang's mother, opened the storeroom door and ordered a few small gifts, then took the box of silver and went to Xie Yunzhen's house.

(End of this chapter)