Fish Leaping Farm Gate

Chapter 12 Market ([-])

The two talked and laughed all the way, when they just reached the intersection, they heard a familiar voice shouting behind them, "Oh, I just happened to meet you two girls, I knew we would come together this morning!"

Who would it be if it wasn't Aunt Wu?
But who is the old lady over here?Du Xiaoyu didn't recognize her, so she just stared at her. This woman was a bit fat, neither tall nor short, and her face was so long that her neck was almost invisible, and her face was full of bumps and bumps, except for her nose. Apart from being relatively straight, everything else is not very correct.

"Hello, Aunt Wu." Du Huanghua bent over to her, and she didn't know the person, so she called aunt out of politeness.

Aunt Wu smiled over there, "Don't you know this Aunt Zhu? She is Mrs. Liu's old lady. It will be easier to see her in the future."

Mrs. Liu's old lady, Du Xiaoyu looked at her again, isn't she the one who forced Mrs. Liu to find a wife!
Du Huanghua over there has already respectfully called Aunt Zhu again, and Du Xiaoyu is no exception. There's no harm in being polite to her, but what she didn't expect was that Aunt Zhu's behavior behind her was very weird.

She kept staring at Du Huanghua, and even looked at the front and back!
Aunt Wu also found out, and said with a smile, "This girl is good-looking, and many people propose marriage, but her mother just doesn't like it."

Mrs. Zhu nodded straight, "Not bad, not bad, really good." Her eyes sparkled, and she asked Du Huanghua, "What month were you born in?"

Du Huanghua was embarrassed by her look, so she stepped back a few steps before replying, "It's in June."

"Hello June!" Mrs. Zhu cried out excitedly again, and then dragged it to Du Wenyuan, "My son often says that your brother is well, he is smart, and he can write and compose poetry. My son is studying there, so it won’t be a problem to pass the Juren examination in the future," he said, turning his eyes straight, and looking back at Aunt Wu, "It is also fate to meet them today. I remember that I went to Du’s house a few years ago. The girl is that big."

"Yeah, life flies by so fast!" Aunt Wu said, "You went to your mother's house later, and you only came back recently. It's normal that you can't recognize yellow flowers."

Mrs. Zhu was so angry that her son refused to marry a daughter-in-law and went back to her natal family. Now that she has come back to force Mrs. Liu in the past few years, she laughed and said, "That's the reason." Then she looked at Du Huanghua again. , Pulling her to ask a few questions from time to time, such as what do you do on weekdays or whether you are busy with farm work at home.

Du Xiaoyu felt a little uncomfortable being next to her. For some reason, this Zhu family's behavior was not pleasing to the eye. Probably there is no reason to hate someone. She interjected, "Ms. Wu, it's getting dark, mother But wait, I want to go back with my sister!"

It was indeed getting late, Aunt Wu said, "It's time to go, if you don't go, you won't be able to catch up."

A few people hurried to the entrance of the town, Zhu Shi couldn't keep his mouth shut when he was in the bullock cart, and the more Du Xiaoyu looked at her, the more he disliked her.

When we got home, it was already evening, Mrs. Zhao glanced at Du Xiaoyu when he saw Du Huanghua took out a piece of meat from the basket, Du Huanghua smiled and said, "I made a few extra money on the pillow today, so I'll buy some meat by the way." When I come back, the second brother also needs to replenish his body, and he is tired from reading all day."

Mrs. Zhao just laughed, "What I said is, save half of it for stewing tomorrow, and sneak a piece of meat at night, just in time for your father to pick some green peppers."

Du Xiaoyu said beside him, "There's also fat lard, it's a gift from others, boil some oil and put it in the noodles, it will be delicious."

"You little greedy cat." Mrs. Zhao tapped her on the head, "I'll get it right away, and I'll give you a strip tomorrow morning."

Du Huanghua took out the paper and pen and other things again. Du Xiaoyu knew that Du Wenyuan was reading in the room, so he picked up the paper and pen and ran over there, "I'll send it to my second brother."

"Be careful, don't fall." Du Huanghua hurriedly warned her when she saw her anxiously.

Du Xiaoyu hugged the pen and paper and stopped and said, "Why don't you send it over?"

"Ah," Du Huanghua was taken aback, then paused and waved at her, "No, you go quickly." After speaking, he lowered his head and continued to arrange the things in the bamboo basket.

Seeing Du Xiaoyu coming, Du Wenyuan put down the book, "Are you back?"

"Yes." Du Xiaoyu trotted all the way to the desk, put the things in his hand up, "Look, the elder sister bought them for you, they are very expensive!" She stuck out her tongue, "It's more expensive than meat, Seeing how kind the eldest sister is to you, I am not willing to buy anything, I think she also likes that hairpin."

The horned pen holder was shining faintly on the purple-red tabletop, and Du Wenyuan's eyes fell on it for a long time without moving away.

"Look, there is still this paper, how beautiful it is, the second brother must write better on it!" She spread out one of the papers, and the white and smooth paper was not as white as the rice paper of later generations. How inferior.

Du Wenyuan turned his head slightly, and the lovely smile of the sister opposite came into view. Did she come to say this on purpose?Du Xiaoyu was also there when Du Huanghua got angry with him that day, and he and Du Huanghua didn't say a few words during the later period. Although they didn't talk much on weekdays, Du Xiaoyu still noticed .

This clever sister!
Du Wenyuan stretched out his hand and pinched her cheek, "I'm not angry anymore, I know that my eldest sister hurts me."

So I knew it, Du Xiaoyu frowned, why are the two of them still so unfamiliar sometimes?
"It's just here. Do you remember the herbs that I taught you to identify last time?" Du Wenyuan opened a book, and there were many pictures of herbs in it. He covered the words below for Du Xiaoyu to identify.

"Ophiopogon japonicus, calamus calamus, motherwort..." Du Xiaoyu answered in one breath. It took her a lot of effort, anyway, knowing a little more is a little bit.

Seeing that she got all the answers right, Du Wenyuan was very happy, and taught the rest, and also talked about the effects of some herbs and their simple combinations, such as Ophiopogon japonicus, Habitat, Gardenia and bamboo leaves are good for curing fever. He didn't think so, But Du Xiaoyu was very surprised.From his tone, it seems that he has studied herbal medicine for several years and can basically prescribe prescriptions. Could it be that he is self-taught?

"By the way, I went to town today and met a man named Zhang Zhuoyu, who said he was also studying with Mrs. Liu." She mentioned something.

"He said he was going to his uncle's house. You met him. What a coincidence." Du Wenyuan laughed. Zhang Zhuoyu was two years younger than him and came to study with Master Liu later. The book was exchanged with Zhang Zhuoyu.Zhang Zhuoyu's uncle was a wealthy family in Feixian Town, and had a lot of books at home. Zhang Zhuoyu often went to borrow them to read, and Du Wenyuan got them all.

Du Xiaoyu was also very happy to see that the two seemed to be good friends, and said that Du Wenyuan had the opportunity to bring him back to play, and later talked about meeting Mrs. Liu's wife Zhu.

Du Xiaoyu was very gossipy, and told the story of Zhu's forcing Mrs. Liu to marry a daughter-in-law last time, and then asked what Mrs. Liu looked like and how old his daughter was. Du Wenyuan studied in their small courtyard. Definitely see it often.Later, it was discovered that Mrs. Liu was 29 years old this year and had an 11-year-old daughter with a very savage personality, and the students in the private school were afraid of her.

"Then has she ever bullied you?" Du Xiaoyu chuckled.

Du Wenyuan glanced at her, expressing that he was too lazy to answer.

The dishes tonight are very rich, stir-fried green broad beans, boiled pumpkin, green pepper slices, green vegetables with oil residue, and bean sprout soup. Du Xiaoyu ate very happily.

After that, Mrs. Zhao called Du Wenyuan over, took out 220 five cents, said it was the tuition fee for the next three months, and told him to go to Mrs. Liu to pay it by the way.

In the evening, she and Du Xian counted the money in the room. After Du Xian's old illness and Du Xiaoyu's asthma recovered, her money became more abundant, and she didn't have to spend all the money every time. Lao Pang's family borrowed money.Du Xian sighed contentedly, "Finally we don't have to worry about the next meal, we have to thank Lao Pang well!"

Mrs. Zhao is a sharp-eyed person. He heard the words and replied, "Every time he said this, he had to evade it. I think there is some difficulty. Is this prescription wrong? I don't think so. Don't mention it. At most, I will invite him to eat more in the future."

Lao Pang's father was a thief, he was arrested and imprisoned in the yamen, and died there later. Du Xian was taken aback and shook his head, "No way, it couldn't be his father who stole it?" Doubtful, "Speaking of it, this recipe is amazing, maybe it's the secret recipe handed down by some genius doctor! Could it be that his father wants to use it to cheat a sum of money?"

"What is impossible, let's not mention this."

Du Xian agreed this time and nodded.

"Father, you and Xiaoyu are all well now, and I have time to go to the field. It's better to buy a few more acres of land. You can take a look?" Zhao said, "Our fields are still open up wasteland, and no one has planted them for so long. Well, after a few months, save some money and buy a few acres of good land, there will be a lot of places for children to use the money in the future, and we have to take care of it when Wen Yuan is going to be admitted as a scholar."

Du Xian was a little bored. When he was kicked out of the Du family, he didn't have a single field. Fortunately, Lao Pang and Aunt Wu begged the village chief to plant the wasteland for them. They didn't collect taxes a few years ago, so they finally lived. down.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Mrs. Zhao said coldly, "Don't think about Ertian over there, we didn't go back when we died, and it's even more impossible to get well now!"

"Who said he was going back, it was Wen Yuan..." Du Xian hurriedly explained, "Mother also really likes him, otherwise she wouldn't have taken the initiative to find us all these years."

"Bah!" Zhao became even more furious, "I gave you face to celebrate your birthday, and you don't want to push your surname Du. How much she likes Wen Yuan, isn't it just to see how he can make his ancestors shine in the future? Let me tell you, he If Guangzong belongs to our family, not her Du family!"

"Okay, okay." Du Xian hurriedly comforted her, "I won't mention my mother anymore, calm down, calm down."

Mrs. Zhao spilled the things in her hand on the bed, turned around and pushed open the door to go out.

(End of this chapter)