The little girl of the landlord's house

Chapter 66

The two children, Baozhu and Baozhen, did not receive much love and care when they were in the Jiang family. From time to time, they would see Jiang Guosheng beating and scolding the elder aunt. The young hearts of the two left some shadows, so when they first came to the Xie family , are also very quiet girls.

It's better that Baozhu is younger, she is not very sensible, and she talks and laughs from time to time.But Baozhen is already seven or eight years old, and knows a lot of things, and when the maids and mother-in-law outside talk nonsense, they will also hear a few words, lamenting their poor life experience and so on.

The little girl was sensitive, and when she heard others pity her, the more pitiful she felt, the more reticent she became.

Later, it was Xie Yujiao who said that the family was not allowed to say anything about the Jiang family. Baozhen heard less, and now that she had the old nanny to take care of her, she was a little bolder, and her words were louder than before. More than before.

When Baozhen heard her mother talking about herself, she immediately felt a little disappointed, as if she had done something wrong again, she just lowered her head and said nothing. Seeing this, Xu Huiru hurriedly took her hand and said, "I won't dislike Baozhen's long-winded words. I’m worried that no one can talk to me! When my uncle was here, my cousin didn’t have to be busy with family affairs, but she could always accompany me. Now my cousin is busy, and I live alone in Xiulou. It's boring, and I can't go out to play."

Hearing what Xu Huiru said, Baozhen opened her eyes wide and asked, "Sister Xu, can I go to Xiulou to play with you in the future?"

"Of course, I welcome you whenever you come." Xu Huiru said, only holding her hand and walking forward together.

When I arrived at the gate of my aunt's small courtyard, I saw a few women coming from the kitchen, holding a lot of reed leaves and prepared glutinous rice.

Baozhu hurriedly came out of the arms of the eldest aunt, went up to look at those things, and said with a sweet smile on her face: "It smells so good! Today Baozhu will also make zongzi for mother and grandma. Give it to my aunt and cousin!"

After hearing this, the aunt and grandma smiled so happily on her face.I remember that when Baozhu just came back, she didn’t understand why her mother called her aunt and grandma, but she told herself that she couldn’t call her aunt and grandma grandma.Later, she asked Xie Yujiao in a childlike manner, and Xie Yujiao said to the aunt: "Baozhen is so young, if you tell her what is born from a concubine or a concubine, I'm afraid she won't understand. If she wants to Calling my aunt, grandma, and grandma, let her call, anyway, people like us don’t need to be too strict with those rules.”

My aunt was very grateful for hearing this, and after going back to tell my aunt, my aunt finally shed tears of joy.

Baozhen listened to Baozhu's words, but refused to accept: "Everyone has a role in my sister, why don't I have mine?"

Baozhu blinked her eyes and thought for a long time, but seeing that Baozhen was missed, she just giggled: "Sister wants to eat her own bag!" Then she ran away.

But Xie Yujiao said that while waiting for Shen Shihu in the outer study, she took a small wooden spoon to water the meat. After a while, she saw Shen Shihu coming in from the outside covered in sweat, her face flushed from the sun.

But although he looked covered in sweat, his face was clean, and the roots of his hair were still a little damp, as if he had washed his face specially.In fact, Shen Shihu already regretted that he didn't prepare extra clothes at Xie's house, otherwise he could change clothes to see Xie Yujiao anyway.The weather will get hotter in the future, how embarrassing it would be to see Xie Yujiao in such a sweaty suit!
Xie Yujiao doesn't care about these things, isn't it normal for a man to have some masculinity?Even if she thinks it smells bad, she definitely won't dislike anyone because of this matter.

But Shen Shihu felt a little embarrassed, and when he saw Xie Yujiao, he was a little cautious.

Although Xie Yujiao saw it, she didn't say anything, she just asked about the business and said, "Second steward Liu has other things to do these days, and I will leave the dragon boat race to you. The second steward told me about this before." What exactly is the dragon boat race, but there is still something I don't understand, so I want to ask you."

As soon as Shen Shihu got down to business, all the embarrassment just now disappeared, and he just said: "It was three years ago that I participated in the dragon boat race. At that time, I was young and strong, and brought a group of us from Xie's house The lads also took the first place."

After hearing this, Xie Yujiao took another look at Shen Shihu's calm and youthful appearance, and said with a smile: "Brother Shen said that he looks like a seven-year-old 81 now. Since he is very old, last time I heard Aunt Shen say, Someone proposed marriage to you again, why did you return it?"

Married women don't know why, it's probably really boring, so every time Xie Yujiao goes to Xu's room, she hears only a few topics, or Xie Chaozong has eaten milk a few times today and wet his urine A few pairs of pants, or a girl from another family married a boy from another family, and she was pregnant with a child in a few days... Such a mother-in-law made Xie Yujiao feel that she was also being led by them intentionally or unintentionally. It's like this.

Shen Shihu's cheeks turned red when he heard this, and he said with a naive smile: "I want to wait until Shi Zhou is admitted as a scholar this time. The family spends a lot of money, and finding a wife will suffer with me."

Xie Yujiao was just making a joke casually, seeing that what Shen Shihu said made sense, she didn't ask any more questions, and just returned to the main topic: "Then tell me, how did you get the first place back then?"

Shen Shihu thought for a while, and only said: "At that time, we heard from Steward Tao that if we win, we can get rid of the land rent on the first floor, so we practiced together when we had nothing to do, and after a few months of practice, we won the championship. Yes. Because this competition is based on villages, some villages have few people, so it is not worthwhile. I heard from Tao Guanjia that there used to be a few big villages, because they wanted to win, and they invited outsiders who specialize in dragon boat rowing If people go to the competition, if they win at that time, they will be given some money, and later people from other villages dissatisfied and exposed it, which is very ugly."

Xie Yujiao frowned and thought about it. To make this dragon boat race a success, a complete set of rules is indispensable. If the rules are not set, there must be many people who take advantage of loopholes.For example, those villages who tried to find a way to invite foreign aid, in fact, if they were exposed in modern times, even if they were exposed, as long as there was no regulation in the competition, it would not be considered a violation.In the end, the reason was that the regulations of the competition were not well formulated.

"It's impossible to be completely fair, but I also understand what the folks are thinking. After all, the land rent on the first floor is indeed a lot for them." Xie Yujiao frowned, thinking, stood up from the bookshelf behind her He took out a booklet from the Internet, handed it to Shen Shihu and said, "Here is a list of all the tenants of our Xie family. Let's see if we can re-divide these villages according to the number of strong men, so that they can compete according to the new allocation." , if we win, the tenants in several villages will be able to rent one floor free of rent. We will also set the rules that people from other villages are not allowed, but refugees from the village who have escaped from the disaster and have settled down can be invited. Incorporate and not be excluded, and they will no longer be hostile to us locals."

When Shen Shihu heard it, his eyes lit up, and he knew that this was a good way. Those refugees who fled from the north were many strong men. The northerners seemed to be naturally stronger than the southerners. Let them join the dragon boat race, and their strength will definitely increase greatly.

"Miss's method is good, but how should the village be divided? If the division is too large, and several villages add up to win the competition at once, then Steward Tao will receive less land rent during the Chinese New Year. Will be nagging, but the eldest lady has an idea?"

Xie Yujiao rubbed her brows, reached out and took the tenant's booklet and flipped through a few pages, then raised her head and said, "It's about the size of Xie's house. Two or three hundred households make up a unit. You take it down and give it to me. Let's take a look."

Seeing what Xie Yujiao said, Shen Shihu felt confident. Back then, Xie's house won the first place, and the land rent on the first floor was exempted. According to Xie Yujiao's orders now, the loss of the Xie's family should not be more than three years ago. .

Xie Yujiao had arranged things, and the two were speechless for a while. Seeing that Shen Shihu was still silent, Xie Yujiao raised her head and asked him, "Brother Shen, what are you still thinking about?"

Shen Shihu was taken aback, and when he came back to his senses, he said: "No...it's nothing, I was thinking that Missy is really smart, such a convenient and fair village name."

Shen Shihu gave Xie Yujiao the impression that he was an honest man all along, but he didn't expect him to open his mouth to praise himself, but he felt a little embarrassed and said with a smile: "Okay, let's go out to do some errands, so many villages are enough for you to escape gone."

Shen Shihu responded, stepped forward and took the brochure in Xie Yujiao's hand, and then went out.

The old aunt and grandma took the children and made rice dumplings all afternoon, and now they finally calmed down. Baozhen and Baozhu were both tired and went to take a nap.Seeing that the children were all asleep, Xu Huiru also left.The eldest aunt personally sent Xu Huiru to the door. When she turned around, she saw the old aunt coming out with a cane, so she hurriedly greeted her and helped her in.

"This girl from the Xu family is really nice, she is quiet and courteous, better than the eldest girl!"

After hearing this, the auntie just laughed in her heart and said: Anyway, the old auntie has a knife mouth and a bean curd heart, so let her do it.

"Hui Ru is a good girl, but it's a pity that she lost her mother when she was young, so it's pitiful after all." The eldest aunt just said casually.

In fact, the old aunt and grandma already had some thoughts about Xu Yuxing in her heart, but the old aunt and grandma couldn't open the mouth.In her opinion, the members of the Xu family have high status and a good family background, they are clouds in the sky, but she is muddy in the ground. The reason why the old aunt and grandma wanted to challenge the Xu family at all times was actually precisely because of this extremely low self-esteem. mentality.But now that so many years have passed, she has succumbed to this status quo from the bottom of her heart, but this feeling of inferiority still remains in her body.

(End of this chapter)