Good morning Mr. Zhongtang

Chapter 22

Back home, Fu Heng unloaded all the things on the trolley in the yard, while Tong Wanrou took the two boxes of candied fruit inside and handed them to Mrs. Li.

Then he came out to pack things with Fu Heng.

When they were about to clean up, the two looked at the cold stove, you looked at me, I looked at you, both of them grew up being served by others, where did they ever enter the kitchen or cook.

After looking at each other for a long time, Fu Heng lifted up his sleeves and volunteered to say:

"Isn't it just cooking, I'll come!"

Tong Wanrou was also moved by his enthusiasm, and raised her hand to take over the work: "Then I'll light the fire!"

The two of them held hands, and they walked to the hearth as one, and decided to charge forward and show their strength, but... they died before they could finish their mission, and a quarter of an hour passed, but the two people behind the hearth hadn't finished their first task yet—— light a fire.

Fu Heng looked at the top of the blackened wood, and said puzzledly: "It's strange, why can't it light. I saw that they all used firewood to light the fire in the field."

After finishing speaking, he glanced at Tong Wanrou, and saw that she was sitting on a small stool, with her hands resting on her cheeks, blinking her big eyes at him innocently, Fu Heng originally said "Do you know how?" Make a fire' this sentence swallowed abruptly again, and continued to work hard.

Just as they were at a loss, they were covered in ashes, and when the two of them were about to collapse, there was a sound of heaven:
"Leave me alone."

"..."

Fu Heng and Tong Wanrou turned their heads together from behind the stove, saw Mrs. Li who finally walked out of the room, and suddenly felt that the light of life was ushered in.

Seeing that the faces of the two children looked like little cats, Mrs. Li couldn't help laughing, and raised her hand to let them out. Fu Heng pulled Tong Wanrou up from the small stool, dusted her off, and Tong Wanrou also raised her hand After wiping off the charcoal dust on his face, the two who became clean again smiled at each other, walked out of the stove, and obediently stood aside.

I saw that Mrs. Li spared a handful of hay without being proficient, then lit a fire with a torch and sent it into the pot hall, and then quickly spared two balls of hay and stuffed it in with thick firewood before the fire was extinguished. , After the fire got bigger, she picked up two sticks of firewood the size of a finger and put them in to burn. There was a crackling sound immediately, and then she walked out from behind the stove and waved to the two children:

"You go out first, there will be food later."

With that said, Mrs. Li scooped a spoonful from Fu Heng's full water tank and poured it into the pot, brushed the pot with a bamboo pot brush, then scooped out the water in the pot with a ladle, wiped it clean, and poured it into the pot. Clean water goes into the pot and covers the pot.

Fu Heng and Tong Wanrou looked at Li Shi with full of admiration. Li Shi couldn't laugh or cry when they looked at them, so he had to push the two of them out, and began to look for the ingredients in the kitchen.

Fu Heng and Tong Wanrou walked out of the kitchen holding hands. Fu Heng asked Tong Wanrou to wait for him under an old locust tree with a crooked neck in the yard. Back to the spinning top.

Then before the meal, Fu Heng used it to teach Tong Wanrou how to spin the top so that it could keep spinning. Fu Heng's technique was precise and strong, and Tong Wanrou couldn't stop clapping and applauding, calling out 'Xianggong is amazing', Shouting made Fu Heng work harder to perform for her.

They didn't stop until Mrs. Li called them to eat.

Tong Wanrou wiped the sweaty Fu Heng's cheeks with a handkerchief, and the two walked into the hall. Seeing them like this, Mrs. Li couldn't help shaking her head, but she was very relieved. I really hope that these two children will always be so sweet. Get tired of it.

Tong Wanrou and Fu Heng looked at the three dishes and one soup on the table, and their eyes lit up. They had eaten some snacks since morning, and they were already hungry. After Fu Heng sat down, Tong Wanrou was going to serve Mrs. Li a meal , but saw that Mrs. Li had already walked over with three people's rice bowls, Tong Wanrou ran to the door to take it, and the three of them sat down to eat together.

During the meal, after Fu Heng picked up a chopstick dish for Tong Wanrou, he said:
"Tomorrow I will be on duty. Although the city gate officials are petty officials, they still have a monthly salary of 15 taels of silver. Although it can't return to the previous standard, it should be enough for the three of us to live a normal life.

Mrs. Li looked at the rice in the bowl, and sighed faintly: "Now I can only rely on you."

Tong Wanrou also nodded, and said to Fu Heng: "Master, then you have to work hard, and my mother and I will rely on you to support us."

Fu Heng glanced at her, as soon as their eyes met, it was as if they were glued together, and they were inseparable. You get me a piece of meat with chopsticks, and I get you a piece of bamboo shoots, innocent and carefree. The worry made Li Shi, who came here, feel numb.

Although Tong Wanrou said she wanted Fu Heng to take full responsibility for the family budget, but the next day, after Fu Heng went out, she moved a small stool and sat next to Mrs. Li, and embroidered flowers with her.

Mrs. Li's needlework is very good, and it only takes one and a half days to embroider a piece of handkerchief. Earlier, she heard from the servants in the mansion that the silk and satin shop would always sell some handkerchiefs with good embroidery work. Mrs. Li felt that it didn't matter Anyway, this is also a way to subsidize the family, so I did it.

She was not a weak woman at all, she had been mentally prepared since she married into the capital alone and became a concubine of the Fucha family, but this preparation came a bit late, and she just passed it by in such a muddle-headed way. 20 years.

Tong Wanrou is good at writing, but embroidery can only be described as mediocre. After all, she doesn't spend much time on this skill. After all, her mother-in-law's plan for her is to marry into the palace as a concubine or marry into a big family. A wife is not an embroiderer, so it's useless to be good at embroidery.

Tong Wanrou only embroidered a little, and Li Shi told her to stop embroidering. Tong Wanrou knew that she was not good at embroidering, so she didn't try to be brave, so she put down her needle and thread and sat aside, watching Li Shi embroider.

The two sat under the old locust tree, quietly, neither of them spoke, but the atmosphere was surprisingly harmonious. Li Shi was seriously embroidering flowers, and Tong Wanrou looked at her with her chin resting on her hands.

Mrs. Li purposely slowed down when closing the needle, so that Tong Wanrou could see clearly.

When the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were getting along harmoniously, an annoying laugh came over.

Liu Fushu, the sixth aunt who was always dressed in gorgeous clothes, came in, followed by two maidservants, and walked in through the courtyard door imposingly.

Mrs. Li put down the needle and thread in her hand, stood up from the small stool, looked coldly at her, looked at her defensively, and asked, "What are you doing here?"

After listening to Li Shi's words, Liu Fushu couldn't help twisting her waist, gave Li Shi a sneer in a very charming way, and then began to comment on everything in this yard.

"Hey, how can our honorable and favored Mrs. Li Fang live in such a dilapidated place? This house is probably in disrepair for a long time, and it is about to collapse, and the walls, tsk tsk tsk, are mottled and ugly, really I don’t know how Mrs. Li Fang can live here, if it were me, I would rather hang myself on that crooked neck tree than live in this kind of pigsty.”

Liu Fushu was stroking her hair with bright red cardamom fingertips while talking. Everyone in the Fucha mansion knew that this sixth aunt successfully married into Fucha because of her black and beautiful hair. Therefore, on weekdays, he takes good care of this beautiful hair, and even the flag head is rarely combed.

Mrs. Li sighed deeply, and then sneered back at Liu Fushu:

"Okay, when it's your turn to live in in the future, I'm going to see if you will hang yourself on the crooked neck tree."

When Liu Fushu heard Li Shi's counterattack, his face darkened immediately, and he pointed at Li Shi and shouted: "Shut up your stinky mouth! I won't live in this kind of place one day, but you, usually Li's posture is very high, which is not pleasing to the eyes, you are obviously old, but you insist on keeping the adults in your room, your ability to seduce men is much higher than Wu Yiniang."

"..."

As we all know, the fifth aunt of the Fucha mansion was once drunk and insisted on redeeming her. She was originally an oiran, and she had been receiving guests in Qinglou for many years. Scalp brought her into the mansion, but she never stepped into her yard again.

Liu Fushu compared Wu Yiniang's kiln sister with Li Shi, obviously to take advantage of this relationship to embarrass Li Shi. After all, all the people who married into the Fucha Mansion, no matter how beautiful they were, were always innocent women.

Tong Wanrou was listening, and felt that Liu Yiniang's behavior was too much. She thought that her mother-in-law would be defeated and cry bitterly. Unexpectedly, Li Shi just took a deep breath, calmed down, then curled the corners of her lips, and said to Liu Fushu in a neither humble nor overbearing way :

"That's right. I've been taught by the adults. In the 30 days, the adults stayed in my courtyard for twenty days. Do you think that the adults and I are reciting poems and fighting against each other every night, and playing chess for fun? "

"..."

Tong Wanrou almost burst out laughing after hearing Li Shi's words.

Sure enough, he was an old Jiang Hu who had been in the Hou Zhai for 20 years. With this exit, he choked Liu Yiniang, a young girl, out of the sky. This skill is really amazing.

Sure enough, after hearing this, Liu Fushu jumped into a rage, pointed at Mrs. Li and shouted:

"You, you are shameless!"

Mrs. Li calmly said, "Everyone is a concubine, who is more respectful than the other? If I were you, I would hurry back and hone my skills instead of looking for a sense of presence with me."

Liu Fushu was furious at Li Shi's few words, her cheeks blushed, and finally she became angry from embarrassment, and shouted at the two servant girls:

"Slap me! Tear off that shameless face!"

The two servant girls looked at each other in blank dismay, not daring to make a move.

They are all old people in the Fucha Mansion. Seeing that the Li family has been prosperous in the Fucha Mansion for so many years, people in the family usually say that they would rather offend Mrs. Li than neglect Mrs. Li. But if you offend Mrs. Li, you may be blown into the pillow, which is equivalent to offending your lord. Although Li shi has been relegated to a side courtyard now, and at this age, I am afraid that it will be difficult to return to your lord's side in the future, but Li shi The perennial prestige still makes them dare not try it lightly.

Seeing that the two maids didn't listen to her, Liu Fushu went berserk, walked up to Mrs. Li himself, and raised his hand.

Mrs. Li didn't dodge or dodge, she just stood upright, as if waiting for Liu Fushu's hand to come down, her sharp eyes stared at Liu Fushu motionless:
"If you are brave enough, you can shoot it down! You just need to move your hand. If there is a chance in the future, I will personally peel off your face and burn your black hair. If you die, you will have no face! I will do what I say! "

Li Shi's words were vicious and vicious, but Liu Fushu didn't have the courage to really slap her hand. After a long time of stalemate, she clenched her fist, put it down and shook it heavily, annoyed for her timidity.

Seeing Li Shi's sharp eyes like hell's ghost, Liu Fushu lost all confidence, turned around and left in desperation.

After all, she just came here today to find her bad luck, and she can't really be sure that this woman will never have a chance to stand up in the future. Since she is not sure now, then she will not do it until she is sure. Let's see how she teaches this shameless shrew .

After Liu Fushu left, Li Shi let out a heavy breath, and her straight spine instantly bent down. Tong Wanrou saw all of this, and felt that her admiration for Li Shi could no longer be described in words. .

That's right, in her heart, women should be like this.When you treat me well, I will be warm and moist like water, but if you treat me badly, I will be ruthless.

It can't be too handsome!
(End of this chapter)