The genius pyrographer of the reborn daughter

Chapter 13

Once the Cao family brothers and sisters interrupted, the original confinement insisted by Aunt Shao and Ye Momo would go nowhere, and the children of the Cao family should not be allowed to know about the embarrassing things about the daughter of the Ning family.Therefore, although Cao Yue'e treated Ning Wanzhu less enthusiastically than before, the visit of the Cao family brothers and sisters was a great good thing for Ning Wanzhu.

Two or three days later, Cao Yue'e posted a message to invite Ning Wanzhu to come to her house to enjoy the chrysanthemums.Ning Wanzhu agreed, and when the day came, the Cao family sent a carriage to pick her up.

The Cao family is also a big family in Nanyang. Some people compare the Cao family with the Ning family and the Yan family, and there are such evaluations in Nanyang city - the Ning family is expensive, the Yan family is rich, and the Cao family is big.This refers to the Cao family in Nanyang. The family has a large business and many children, and each house holds its own property. If you calculate it carefully, about one-third of the property in Nanyang City can be compared with Cao Cao's family. The family gets involved.

To the south of Dujiazhuang, [-] hectares of fields are all owned by the little brother of the Cao family——Cao Shijun.

The carriage sent by the Cao family was also extraordinary.The cart was pulled by a pair of steeds at the same time, not only the carved beams and painted walls, but even the curtains of the carriage were made of high-quality hang silk. The cart was also padded with a thick cotton mattress, which was very comfortable.Mo Mei, who came out with Ning Wanzhu, sized her up carefully and said, "It's no worse than the ones in Beijing!"

However, Ning Wanzhu was preoccupied.In the past two days, she asked Ning Dayong and Ning Xiaoya to find out through Ningzhuangtou if there is anyone in Du's village who knows the art of pyrography, and tried to find the tools for pyrography—hot pens and hot needles .Ning Zhuang asked around, but found nothing.No one has even seen what the pyrography tool looks like.It seems that the skill of Nanyang pyrograph is really withered and almost extinct.

Everyone thought that Ning Wanzhu was just on a whim, but Ning Wanzhu was always thinking about this matter, so on the way to Cao's house, she kept thinking about it sullenly.Instead, it was Mo Mei who came out with her, lying on the side of a small window in the carriage, yelling non-stop, pointing to the woods that were gradually dyed golden red outside the window, calling Ning Wanzhu to look over, " Miss, you see—”

Ning Wanzhu frowned slightly, and leaned over to look out the window.

I saw that the cart drove into a mountain depression, and the driveway of the carriage turned a sharp bend in front.The coachman of the Cao family pulled the reins hard and ordered the two horses to slow down.

Outside the carriage, there is a small open space among the depressions, with a few old houses scattered here and there, with a thick layer of fallen leaves piled up in front of the houses, as if no one has lived there for a long time.The brook in Du's Village has grown in strength when it flows here, with a gurgling sound, it rushes downstream along the other side of the carriageway.

"Miss Ning, I'm sorry, the mountain road here is not easy to walk, the horse feels sorry for the four hooves, and refuses to use all its strength to go fast, please take care of it." Cao's carriage driver greeted Ning Wanzhu.

Ning Wanzhu said with a smile: "Uncle, it doesn't matter, the scenery here is beautiful, please walk slowly, we can also see the scenery for a while."

Cao's coachman heard this, and praised: "The people in Du's Village are right, Miss Ning is really good-tempered."

Ning Wanzhu secretly sighed in her heart, no matter how popular she is in Du's Village, with Aunt Shao around, it is impossible for her reputation to spread back to Ning's family in Nanyang.Thinking of this, she couldn't help lifting the curtain with one hand, poking her head out slightly, admiring the beautiful scenery of the village, trying to relieve the melancholy in her heart.

"what?"

More than ten feet away from the big car, someone saw Ning Wanzhu's face protruding from the car, and couldn't help but let out a "huh" in surprise.Ning Wanzhu looked over at Xunsheng, and saw an old man in brown clothes with a gray beard standing in front of the house in the mountain depression, holding a cigarette pot in his hand, looking at Ning Wanzhu with a face full of amazement, almost touching the cigarette pot. The burning tobacco fell to the ground without even noticing it.

"You are, you are..." The old man suddenly stretched out a hand and pointed at Ning Wanzhu.

Ning Wanzhu was a little embarrassed, and reminded loudly: "Grandpa, be careful with your smoke pot!"

The old man was still indifferent, his eyes followed the cart closely.Suddenly, he threw the cigarette pot in his hand and ran after the cart.

At this time, the big car had already turned the narrow curve, and the speed of the car gradually picked up.The old man's foot strength is definitely not as good as that of a horse.After a while, Ning Wanzhu could no longer see the figure of the old man.Momei beside her asked Ning Wanzhu curiously: "Miss, do you know that old man?"

Ning Wanzhu shook her head and smiled faintly, thinking that the old man in brown probably had the wrong person.

The cart went a long way, only to hear the old man suddenly yell in the forest just now, his voice was full of resentment and depression.The birds in the forest were also frightened and flew up from the trees in the forest.When Mo Mei heard it, she sighed, "I'm afraid he's a crazy old man!"

In the Cao family village, both the Cao brothers and sisters are there.Cao Shijun met Ning Wanzhu, and the two met each other, so they went to the study again, but Ning Wanzhu stopped him again and said, "Mr. Cao, I asked my mother-in-law about it every day. When you are tired, drink it with cassia seed tea, which is an excellent prescription for protecting your eyes."

The reason why she took care of Cao Shijun's eyesight so much was for Cao Yue'e.Because Cao Yue'e only had Cao Shijun as an older brother, and she had been depressed for a long time because of Cao Shijun's affairs in her previous life.Ning Wanzhu did this because she wanted to help her friend from the previous life.

Cao Shijun was startled, his face flushed slightly, he thanked Ning Wanzhu solemnly, and then left, only Cao Yuee greeted Ning Wanzhu, a new friend.However, Cao Yue'e was only curious about the matter of the Ning family's asking for advice from Mammy for Ning Wanzhu. She pulled Ning Wanzhu to ask questions, and asked whether Ning Wanzhu had heard anything about Beijing from Madam Ye.

Ning Wanzhu smiled secretly, thinking that if there were no mistakes in this life, this Cao Yue'e should have married to Beijing.She was originally an easy-going personality, whatever Cao Yue'e asked, she would answer whatever she asked, and gradually the two chatted very well.Cao Yue'e asked Ning Wanzhu to use the dim sum produced in Cao's village.Ning Wanzhu was full of praise, and praised Cao Yue'e so much.Cao Yue'e suddenly couldn't help but said, "Second Sister Ning, your temperament seems... different from Big Sister Ning."

Ning Wanzhu felt her heart skip a beat, resisted the urge to blurt out, and asked slowly, "My eldest sister? Miss Cao, why do you think it's different?"

Cao Yue'e sighed, and said: "When I first made friends with Miss Ning in Nanyang City, I thought she was very warm and treated me very well. I also always like to talk to her. The stories she told... are very interesting. But later, when I heard that I was going to accompany my brother to live with Zhuangzi, Sister Ning became indifferent. I always felt that she was a little indifferent. Later, I sent her two or three letters, but nothing came to mind. No reply."

Ning Wanzhu smirked as she listened, this indeed sounded like Ning Luozi's character.Ning Luozi probably didn't think that Cao Yue'e was bad, but Ning Luozi was always utilitarian, and when she heard that Cao Yue'e didn't live in Nanyang City, she felt that it was useless to make friends, so she left her behind.

"Now that I know you, I realize that girls who are born on the same day are not the only ones who are good." Cao Yue'e suddenly let out a long sigh.

Hearing what she said, Ning Wanzhu suddenly felt extremely embarrassed.

And Cao Yue'e herself realized that she had made a slip of the tongue, her face flushed, and she hurriedly said, "Second Sister Ning, I, I, I... that's not what I meant." She was so nervous that she couldn't even speak clearly.

Ning Wanzhu secretly laughed in her heart, sure enough, Cao Yue'e was still the Cao Yue'e she knew in her previous life, the Cao Yue'e who would say whatever she wanted.She saw the embarrassment of the other party, so she just stepped forward and took Cao Yue'e's hand, and said: "We sisters are always friends based on whether their character is reliable and whether they have similar tastes. Family background can't determine everything, right?"

However, Cao Yue'e was still complaining about herself, saying: "It's all my fault. The concubine sisters in the other house of our family only know how to fight for this and that all day long. If they have a little skill, they show off in front of others. I can't get along with them. , That's why I misunderstood Second Sister Ning earlier..."

Ning Wanzhu patted the back of Cao Yue'e's hand lightly, indicating that she was not to blame at all.However, she felt sad in her heart - Cao Yue'e was right, concubine daughters from rich families were mostly used by the family for marriage.However, there are few dowries, and the man's family is very selective, so it is difficult to find a truly satisfactory home.For the sake of their own future, the daughters of concubines will inevitably have to show off in front of the adults in the family and show their "value", so as to gain some advantages when discussing marriage in the future.

The sorrow of the prostitutes lies in the fact that they know that they are chess pieces, but they still work hard to be a good chess piece.

The two talked about it, and the sky became a little dark.Ning Wanzhu left, saying that it was getting late and the road would not be easy.Cao Yue'e and Cao Shijun sent Ning Wanzhu out together. At this time, the sky was getting darker, and I was afraid that a torrential rain in autumn would be inevitable.

Sure enough, when the carriage was walking on the mountain road, the sky was as dark as ink, and the brakes opened like heavy rain, and it just fell down like this.The coachman suddenly said from the front: "Miss Ning, the mountain road in front of me is flooded by the river, and I can't go now. I'm afraid I need you to stay here for a while. I'm watching the rain, it won't last long——"

Ning Wanzhu also thinks so, usually such a heavy rain is difficult to last for a long time.However, she and Mo Mei are nestling in the carriage carriage, this carriage is not specially made for driving in rainy days, so when it is raining heavily outside, it is raining lightly inside the carriage.

Mo Mei was a little impatient, she stuck her head out of the carriage, looked around, and said, "Miss, there are people here, let's go and avoid them first!"

Ning Wanzhu looked out of the car following what Mo Mei pointed out, and saw the rain curtain was as thin as a silk curtain, and behind the rain curtain, the lights in the house were faintly peeking out.This is the col that I passed by when I came here earlier.

Ning Wanzhu nodded, and asked the driver to stay by the side of the carriage to take care of the carriage and the horses. She supported Mo Mei's hand, and the two of them walked side by side with an oiled paper umbrella, walking through the muddy road with one foot deep and one foot shallow. Came to the mountain hut.

Mo Mei stepped forward and knocked on the door, and the door opened in response, as if there was no one inside.Ning Wanzhu couldn't help but said: "Old man, old man—we came here to take shelter because of the rain, please forgive the crime of trespassing." He said it twice, but no one answered.Mo Mei then said: "Miss, let's rest in the main room first. There is no one in this room."

Ning Wanzhu nodded and walked into the main room.The house was in a mess, with pieces of wood and iron tools scattered around.In a corner of the main room, a charcoal stove was burning, exuding warmth and bringing a trace of smoke into the room.

"Hey, what's this?" Ning Wanzhu couldn't help being surprised when she saw something in the corner of the room.

(End of this chapter)