reborn princess

Chapter 219 Sui's Tomb
"My lord..." Zhang Qian felt aggrieved.

Chen An bumped his arm, shook his head at him, and signaled him not to bring up this topic with Di Yong again, then stepped forward and took the things in Di Yong's hand.

Di Yong turned around helplessly and wanted to leave, but suddenly remembered something, stopped, and walked to the grave next to the house, "Chen An, put your things here, and pay homage to this lady."

Since he couldn't make friends with this person, he didn't want to make enemies with him either. He believed that since this downtrodden man with a mysterious identity suffered such a big blow because of his wife's loss, he must love his wife as much as his life, and he might not be willing to accept others. His good intentions, but he will definitely not hinder others from paying homage to his wife, because this is a respect for his wife.

Standing behind him, Chen An looked at the words on the wooden sign, and saw that the wooden sign read "Tomb of Beloved Wife Sui's Nianxin", and the inscription below it was "Fluo".

"Follow the mind?" Looking at the name on the wooden sign, Chen An was startled suddenly, feeling that the name was very familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had heard the name before.

Di Yong took the wine and food from him, opened them, and placed them in front of the grave with oiled paper. Then he slapped the mud seal of the 15-year-old apricot blossom drunk on the altar, held up the wine jar and poured some on the ground. Putting the jar on the ground, he bowed his hands respectfully and bowed deeply, "It's really a pity that Madam passed away at such a young age. If Madam knows it, please bless your husband and don't let it happen again." This kind of drunk life dreaming of death. As a man, he should cheer up, honor his ancestors, and serve the country."

After finishing speaking, he gave another deep bow, then turned around and said, "Let's go!"

Not long after they left, a colorful tiger sprang out from the forest. This tiger was a rare white tiger. The white striped fur on its body looked beautiful and noble. It followed the scent to the grave and smelled it on the ground. He picked up a roast chicken in one bite and ran into the house.

There is a pile of straw in the inner room of the house. It lies on the straw and starts to eat.

The down-and-out man on the kang turned over and sat up, looked at it angrily and amusedly and said, "You're so greedy, sooner or later someone will feed you poison."

……

In the afternoon, Li Ying led the women who were close to her to come to help.

For this kind of rice noodles, it is impossible to prepare on the same day. It must be prepared from the first day. Sixi meatballs as big as a fist must be fried the day before.Meat such as sauced beef and stewed ribs should also be prepared the day before.

Li Ying and Li Feng have been living in the countryside for more than ten years, and they have long been used to doing these things. The two sisters chatted and laughed with a few women they made friends with, and then prepared everything that should be prepared in the kitchen, just meatballs Just fried the boss in a big pot, and steamed several baskets of white flour steamed buns.

Li Ying took Li Feng aside and said in a low voice: "Second Miss is an orphan and widow now, she has nothing to look forward to, you are a master and servant, at least you should persuade her, don't waste your family money for the sake of face. Yes. I think the things prepared today cost at least 30 taels, and our farmer’s family can’t spend this much money even in a year.”

Li Feng smiled and said: "Sister, don't worry, Second Miss and Miss Lan'er both have calculations in their hearts, even making embroidery has earned a lot of money."

"Oh..." Li Ying raised her hand and patted her forehead as she said. "I forgot. Everything in Liao City is cheap, but the embroidery is expensive. The few embroidery shops in the city are designed to trap those tartars. It's just my clumsy hands that can't earn this money. I learned this craft from Miss Er."

Li Feng said again: "Miss Lan'er means that we are newcomers, we have to make a good relationship in the village, and setting up this table will make people not look down on their orphans and widows."

Li Ying let out a sigh of relief, "Second Miss is such a good person, how can she have such a bad life?"

"This is fate!" Li Feng said. "I looked at the second young lady's belly. This baby looks like a son. If I can give birth to a son, the second young lady will have hope in the future. Fortunately, the young lady is strong. Even though she is young, she is decisive. This way Come on, big and small matters are all up to her to decide."

"This is something that can't be helped. The second lady has a temper like a bodhisattva. If Miss Lan'er can't stand up, how will she live this day?" Li Ying said, feeling a little embarrassed all of a sudden. "It stands to reason that I'm the same as you. We're both servants at home. Although the eldest lady is gone, I should go back to serve the second lady just like you. But you also know that the imperial court has a system, and the son of a slave is not I don’t want to go to the scientific examination, Fugui is doing well now, he is already a scholar, I really don’t want this kid to have the audacity to not mention this because I have no future.”

"Sister, what nonsense are you talking about? Is Second Miss such a bitter and mean person? Although my whole family is serving Second Miss now, Second Miss has said that I will only be called a sister in the future. Don't say that your family is rich, you It's my Xiao Cong, and Miss Lan'er has already said that she will help him to study for the exam in the future."

Hearing what his sister said, Li Ying felt relieved and went back to the kitchen. Seeing that the kitchen was almost busy, she called everyone home.

Everyone entered the house and greeted Youran with their attendant, saying that it was time to go back and cook for the old man and the children.

Sui Youran hurriedly got down from the kang, and said embarrassedly with her slightly protruding stomach: "Thank you for your help, sisters, I should have helped together, but my body is not strong enough, and my sisters are tired."

While she was talking, Ye Weilan took a lot of snacks from the cabinet, all of which were wrapped in oiled paper and tied with paper rope, a bag of two catties.

"My aunts and aunts, my mother has nothing to thank you for. I bought some snacks and brought them home for my brothers and sisters to eat. I have to ask you to suffer tomorrow." She said kind words sweetly, and gave these snacks to everyone. separated.

Everyone thanked them one after another, and praised Ye's mother and daughter for their thoughtfulness, and they went home contentedly with snacks.

After sending everyone away, Song Hengzhi locked the door, went into the kitchen, took a few stick flour pancakes, and went to the stable to feed the horses. After a busy day, he didn't have time to feed the horses, and the two horses were all starving.

In the room, Li Feng saw that the man had bolted the door, so he carried Song Jiacong to Xili Room under Sui Youran's gesture. Only himself, Sui Youran, Ye Weilan and Song Jiayin were left in Dongli.

Ye Weilan knew that they all wanted to know how much gold was in that box, so she asked Li Feng to take out the box full of gold, pour out the gold ingots inside, and count them one by one. In the future, it is determined that there are 500 taels of gold.

The exchange rate between gold and silver in the Canglan Dynasty has always been 24 tael of gold to 500 taels of silver. If the 1 taels of gold were exchanged for silver, it would be [-] taels. A staggering fortune.

When the four people saw the money, all of them felt a little heartbeat, you looked at me, I looked at you, and finally made a decision to hide it intact.

Ye Weilan thought, no matter what, this huge sum of money must be returned to that down-and-out man.

……

But it said that Li Ying and Chen Xiaofu had returned home, Chen An had already returned, and was cooking by the stove, Chen Fugui was in charge of lighting the fire, and the main room was filled with the smell of fish.

Seeing her come back, Chen An casually said, "I'm back."

"Well, this is the dim sum given by the second lady. They are all bought in Guixiangzhai. We usually don't want to eat it. You can try it." As she spoke, she put the dim sum bag on the dining table and opened it. It was full of jujube paste stuffing and She squeezed a piece of the white-skinned dim sum stuffed with red bean paste and brought it to Chen An's mouth.

"You can eat with the children. I work in the yamen, and I have refreshments every day." Chen An said with a smile.

Chen Fugui said: "Father, you work hard, so you should eat."

Chen Xiaofu also said: "I ate a full stomach of dim sum at Sister Lan'er's today, I should eat this dim sum."

Chen An smiled and opened his mouth to take a bite, "Eat them all, let's eat together as a family, everyone has a share."

Chen Xiaofu smelled the smell of fish in the house, and said with a smile: "Father, do we eat fish today?"

"Well, when I came back just now, I saw a hawker on the side of the road dealing with the leftover fish that was sold in the city today, so I bought two by the way." Chen An said with a smile. "It's a foot-long carp, it's fresh."

Chen Xiaofu laughed and said, "It must be because father sees the poor man and is afraid that if he can't sell the fish, the fish will rot, so he paid for it."

Chen Fugui put on a straight face on purpose, "Xiaofu, you must know that 'be kind to others and be kind to yourself', Dad is accumulating blessings for himself."

Li Ying looked at the family's loving son and filial piety, and felt relieved in his heart, and asked his daughter, "Xiaofu, go to the wine jar and get your father some wine."

She knew that the job at the gate of the yamen was not good, and her man was looking for this job. He was in fear all day long. After a tiring day outside, he came back to drink a drink and sleep well at night.So it's not like other women who get angry when they see a man drinking.

"Hey..." Chen Xiaofu agreed, moved a stool, went to the cabinet to get her father a drink.

Li Ying pushed his son aside, sat in front of the stove to help light the fire, and said, "Second Miss, please have a banquet tomorrow, can you ask for a day off? Second Miss's family only has a brother-in-law and a man, so it is hard to cope , you will also help support it when you come back."

Chen An thought for a while, and said: "Not tomorrow, the county magistrate has a terrible thing these two days, and he is restless all day long. I will not stop taking a bath tomorrow, so it is not good to ask for leave at this time. I can only come back early at night. .”

"Oh..." Li Ying couldn't help feeling a little disappointed after hearing this.

At this moment, Chen An was stunned suddenly. He seemed to have remembered something, and stared at Li Ying with a strange look.

Li Ying was a little frightened by his gaze, and couldn't help asking, "Why are you looking at me like that?"

"I..." Chen An thought for a while and asked cautiously. "I want to tell you something, but don't cry."

(End of this chapter)