Concubine's three acres of pastoral garden

Chapter 27 Killing Chickens

Yu Zixi laughed and said: "It's okay, just go and bring the sledge to me. I have fodder and a stable here, and I'll ask the guy to feed it together. As for the shop money you paid, I guess I don't live with him. The store can also refund it."

After speaking, he took the two of them into the house for dinner.

After eating, he called a clerk to accompany Shen Dachang to the place where he stayed and brought the ox sledge over. I don't know what the clerk said, but he actually helped Shen Dachang get back the money he paid for the store.

In order to finish the book silently as soon as possible, Xianglai sat under the oil lamp and wrote non-stop.

At night, it was inconvenient for Yu Zixi to accompany her, so she went to another room to rest with the two of them, and only Shen Dachang and Xianglai were left in this room.

Shen Dachang has been doing farm work since he was a child, and he is used to working at sunrise and resting at sunset. He sat at the table with Xianglai for a while, but couldn't hold on anymore, fell down on the kang next to him and snored.

Chen Xianglai stayed up all night writing and writing, until the next morning when the sky was bright, she couldn't hold on anymore, so she lay down on the table and took a nap.

But not long after, she was woken up by the guy who came to deliver the food. After breakfast, she endured the pain in her wrist and continued to write.

It wasn't until now that she realized that it took so much effort to write a book that she looked at insignificantly before, even if she didn't have to do research and textual research by herself, it took so long to write.

In this way, she continued to write until the next night, when the "Nongsang Collection" came to an end.

After writing for a day and a night, she was not only dizzy, but also her right wrist and three fingers were swollen, but in order to finish it that night, she persisted.

It was not until the third watch that she completed the first "big book" in her two lifetimes.

Looking at the thick stack of rice paper, she let out a long sigh of relief, mechanically loosened her stiff fingers, dropped the pen holder that was almost broken by her, walked to the edge of the kang with numb steps, and stuck her head in the bed. On the kang, fell asleep beside Shen Dachang.

As soon as it was dawn, Shen Dachang woke up habitually, and seeing Xianglai sleeping next to him, he sat up in a daze, and quickly put on his shoes and got off the kang.

He has completely inherited Shen Wanjin's feudal thinking, even if he is a cousin, it is not acceptable to spend the night on the same kang.

After putting on his shoes, he quickly ran to the door and stood there until the buddy came to deliver the food, and then came in together, and woke up Xianglai who was sleeping soundly to eat.

The two came out for three days, worried that the family was in a hurry, so after dinner, Chen Xianglai took the manuscript to Yu Zixi to "hand over the work".

Yu Zixi looked and looked at the large stack of manuscript papers, but she still didn't ask the doubts in her heart.

After reading it, he nodded slightly, and said, "I heard that you want 45 catties of rice. I asked someone to weigh [-] catties. It's already packed and put in the granary. You can go and see it."

Xianglai said embarrassedly: "Fifty catties is a bit too much, that... I don't have enough money."

Yu Zixi looked up at her, and said, "If it's only for money, why should I waste so much effort, you should know what I value..."

As he spoke, he weighed the book in his hand and continued: "I think you should know the value of this book before you copy it for me. I am very happy. You are willing to write it to me. If you want to copy this book It can be treated as waste paper and can be thrown away, but some people can’t get it even after spending thousands of dollars. I’m not an ignorant person, and I’ve already taken advantage of it by exchanging fifty catties of rice for it. If you want more money, you can just take the rice, if you think it is not enough, I can add more!"

Since he helped find Dachang yesterday, Xianglai already knew that he was aware of the value of his book, but it was better not to be polite to him, and when he saw him say this, he quickly said: "No, no, fifty catties is enough. You are a discerning person, and I am not a greedy person, and I will be satisfied if you give me what I need."

After finishing speaking, he bid farewell to Yu Zixi, saying: "I've been bothering you for two days, and I should go. I didn't tell my mother that I would stay here for one more day. If I don't go back, I'm afraid she will be very anxious."

Yu Zixi said: "Well then, I won't stay any longer, just be careful all the way, and hope to see you again in the future!"

Xianglai nodded at him, turned back to look for Dachang who was setting the sledge, went to the granary with him to get the rice, and took out the big bag of medicine from the house, and the two left the Maosheng Grocery Store and set off on their way back.

And Yu Zixi in the Maosheng Grocery Store watched Chen Xianglai and Shen Dachang go out of the gate, and then quietly waved to a capable guy, who quickly put down his work and came in front of him.

Yu Zixi whispered: "Find someone to find out where this little girl came from, and be careful not to be discovered by her."

The guy nodded and left without a word.

Yu Zixi stood there and looked in the direction where Xianglai was leaving for a while, then turned around and went back into the house. Tixiang Laimo's manuscripts were placed on the table, and he copied and sorted them out by himself, not to mention how long it took him to finish copying, but After finishing, he put away Xianglai's original manuscript neatly and sealed it up carefully.

Besides, Xianglai, she didn't know that Yu Zixi was keeping an eye on her secretly, and after leaving the Maosheng Grocery Store with Shen Dachang, she bought something for her mother, second aunt, and Tianlai on the street, and Yu Zixi confiscated her seven taels of silver , This allowed her to have money to buy new year's goods, otherwise she really didn't know how to go back with Tianlai and six people.

It was already noon when she and Dachang left Songning City after shopping, and the two of them stayed in Erdaoji for another night, and got up early to go home on the third day.

It was snowing again in Zhongshang, and the snow became thicker as we walked, and the walking became more and more difficult. It was already evening when the two of them reached the mountain road back to the village. Seeing that they were only a few miles away from the village, they met Fortunately, the cattle driving the sledge were obedient to a small pack of wolves, so they were dragged by Dachang desperately and did not run around.

Xiang Lai lit a fire with flammable objects prepared in advance, and after a stalemate between the wolves and the two, seeing that the fire was getting hotter and hotter, they finally retreated unwillingly.

Even so, both of them were so frightened that their legs were weak and they were covered in cold sweat.

When they got home, the people in the east and west courtyards of the Shen family were going crazy, and there were people standing outside the gate almost all the time.

Wu Zhaodi scolded and quarreled several times, saying that Xianglai is a loser, and she didn't know what happened to Dachang.

It wasn't until Xianglai Niang saw the two men driving the ox and sledge on the road west of the village, and went back to tell the family that everyone's worries were relieved.

After Xianglai and Shen Dachang entered the door, they didn't dare to talk about the encounter with the wolves. They just separated the things belonging to them on the sledge. Diandi helped move some bits and pieces into the house.

Westinghouse was happy, but Wu Zhaodi, who came out to pick up Dachang, scolded Dachang shamelessly, saying: "You dead man, you went to the city and spent five days bringing it back and forth, but the floral cloth I wanted was returned." I didn’t buy it, you eat rice, and spend the next five days shopping in brothels!”

(End of this chapter)