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When great traitor Official Xue Tingxiang regressed to his youth, it was a time when the Xue family was still so poor that for the sake of deciding who should be the family scholar, fights broke out and blood flowed freely in the wake of their struggle.
Also, that woman was still his child bride.
This time around, he decided to change his way of life.
The first and most important task is to treat her well. Treat her very well and find different ways to treat her even better and have lots of children with her.
Zhao'er was the Xue family's child bride and knew that once the little man she married came of age, they would be intimate with each other. However, her little man never liked her. He disdained her and loathed her.
In a flash, the little man underwent a great change. Not only does he treat her well, he even clings to her and hugs her and nibbles at her lips, th-th-th-this…
Traitorous Grand Secretary way of raising his wife
Wait, who is raising who, ah?
Shameless!
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Jia Yang Xiao Shou Fu
Raising the Young Grand Secretary
He knew he was dreaming again.
This dream appeared in his life for decades, day and night, entangled, it seems to be deep into the bone marrow, but also like flesh and blood. I can't throw it away, I can't dig it away, and if I don't come for a day, it seems that something is missing.
But he had never had such a clear dream, so clear as if it was real.
"Dog, why do you think you are so stubborn? Isn't my money your money? What do you think I earn money for? Isn't it just to support your studies and make you feel proud?"
"Why do you say you are so stubborn! You say you are so stubborn, who are you showing your stubbornness to?!"
"I know you don't like me, but I've been like this for many years, and I can't change it! I don't plan to change it either!"
"Look at Hong'er, does he look like you?"
...
Xue Tingxiang suddenly felt that someone was shaking him, opened his tired eyes, and saw the dark inner room, Hu San's face was no longer young, even the lines on the curtain were so familiar, he knew He was just dreaming.
It's just that the dream was too clear, the sorghum fragrance in the air, and the curve of her stubbornly pursed mouth made him feel like he was actually there. There are also her tears from being angry, crystal clear and shining with colorful light, he wanted to reach out to touch it, but someone woke him up.
"My lord, it's time to drink the medicine."
Xue Tingxiang was propped up and given medicine. He was dying of illness, and he had to be served by someone even to drink medicine. How could he look like that extremely human minister Xue Shoufu who had ruled the court for decades.
Oh no, he is not the chief assistant now.
He has already written a letter to beg for the bones, intending to return to his hometown for the elderly, and the Holy Majesty has already agreed, but he has no home to return to, no relatives to rely on.
In fact, he didn't intend to go back.
"Master Zhang, Mr. Wang, and Mr. Li and Mr. Cao all came to visit you, but they obeyed your orders and blocked the door. They come every day, and they are here again today. Would you like to see me?"
What can they do? Didn't they think that his illness was an expedient measure, waiting for him to stand up and continue to lead them to fight against the emperor, but he was really ill, terminally ill, and the medicine was useless.
"not see."
"My lord, please sleep a little longer."
The room became quiet again, Xue Tingxiang's eyelids began to get heavy again, he blinked again and again, and fell into sleep again.
...
"How come Mr. Wang is free to visit this old man?"
Wang Mingcheng's eyes were a bit complicated, but he smiled on his face: "After all, I am a minister of the same court, and I should come to visit Mr. Shoufu because of emotion and reason."
"I didn't expect you, Wang Mingcheng, to say such hypocritical things, but to see if the old man is dying on behalf of the emperor?" Xue Tingxiang sarcastically said.
He is obviously a haggard old man who is obviously dying, but just because of his calm, indifferent eyes that seem somewhat unpredictable, people dare not ignore him in the slightest.
After all, this is Xue Shoufu, and the name alone is enough to intimidate everyone. That was Xue Tingxiang's deep-rooted roots left by him after going through three dynasties and dozens of years, just like a towering ancient tree with intertwined roots, without him doing anything, just standing there is enough to make everyone daunting.
If not, why would the new emperor have to exhaust all means, but still dare not act rashly, only dare to take that roundabout strategy.
"It seems that my lord has misunderstood His Majesty a lot."
Xue Tingxiang snorted and laughed, half closed his eyes, did not speak, and looked obviously too lazy to talk to him.
"Actually, I'm here for myself. I just came to see how lonely and miserable the villain who abandoned his wife and son was now. I'm afraid Mr. Xue is dead now, and even a descendant in mourning None, in fact, Mr. Xue is too hard to see, it is just a show, just listen to it and watch it, how can you take the fake show as real and make yourself like this? Is it because of a disturbed conscience or fear? His true face is known by the world, he is reviled by others, and he will be stigmatized for thousands of years?"
"you……"
"To say that you abandoned your wife and son is too much to save your face. It should be killing your wife and son, isn't it, Mr. Xue?"
No one knows about all this. The world only knows that Xue Shoufu had a first wife before Mrs. Xue, but they don't know what happened to that first wife. After all, the time is too long, Xue Tingxiang has stood in the court hall for dozens of years, and his former, former and current opponents have all been trampled under his feet.
People in the world only know that Mr. Shoufu is friendly and respectful to the corporals, but they don't know that Mr. Shoufu also has a vicious side. In recent years, anyone who wanted to make a fuss about his past events all became lonely ghosts. No one knows how many ghosts have been added to it, and the only one who can know is Wang Mingsheng, the "bitter master".
"You, you are..."
Wang Mingcheng leaned closer to his face: "It's a pity that my mother's life is so bad, and so is my life. The sinking ship didn't kill us, but was saved by others. Do you know that for so many years, day and night, I I want to see this scene every night. It's a pity that your life is too long, and the power is in the hands of the people. I can only climb up step by step, to the position where I can step on you..."
"You are... Hong'er..." Xue Tingxiang struggled to say this.
Wang Mingsheng stood up straight and smiled heartily: "My name is not Hong'er, nor is my surname Xue, but my surname is Wang. My mother remarried, to the person who saved us...don't get excited, even if You are dead now, and I am not your son..."
Wang Mingsheng has always been known for being calm and introverted, hiding his secrets, and it was probably the first time he laughed so freely in front of people.
"By the way, you don't have to think that even if my official surname is Wang, I can still pass on the family lineage to your Xue family. Let me think about it. Yao Ji released the rumor that my official is as good as Long Yang back then, as if you ordered someone to do it. You really hit the mark, I don't like women, that's why I haven't married for many years..."
He smiled and looked at the old man on the bed, seeing how shocked, disappointed and remorseful he was.
But so what?
He suddenly found that he was not as happy as he had imagined, and even this smile seemed too fake. He suddenly lost interest, flattened the corners of his mouth, brushed off his sleeves, and said, "Since Mr. Xue is fine, I will take my leave."
...
"I didn't, I didn't..."
"My lord, what are you talking about?"
Hearing this voice, the fog in front of Xue Tingxiang suddenly dissipated, and he woke up suddenly from his dream. In front of the eyes is this dark inner room again, Hu San's unattractive or even ugly face, the air is filled with a bitter smell of medicine, and there seems to be a decadent smell floating gently.
Xue Tingxiang moved his lips, but no sound came out.
"My lord, what did you say?"
Hu San was very anxious, and kept asking, but Xue Tingxiang couldn't speak at all. Hu San could only ask based on his own guess: "Are you thinking about the past? Don't worry, your words have been passed on to Mr. Zhang , he already knows that Lord Wang is your only son, and will follow your instructions."
Xue Tingxiang blinked his eyelids. Hu San thought he still had something to say, so he put his ear next to his mouth, but only heard one sentence: "I didn't..."
After that there is no text.
When Hu San anxiously looked up, he saw Xue Tingxiang's wide-open eyes and gray-blue face.
He moved forward to touch the other person's breath with shaking hands, but was so startled that he sat down on the ground.
The cold wind came in through the holed window paper, blowing Xue Gouzi's face coldly.
Shocked, he opened his eyes.
What imprinted in my eyes was a small room with blue brick walls and black tile roof. The walls were plastered with white ash, but it looked gray. The beams of the house are log-colored, and because there is no dust, they are bare/exposed. There are several bamboo baskets hanging on them. There seems to be something in the baskets, and they are covered with blue cloth.
He was lying on a kang with a half-new quilt covering his body. The quilt looked clean and tidy, but in fact the cotton wadding inside had hardened.
Facing his kang feet, there is a row of dark brown kang cabinets, with brass bare nails inlaid with hinged leaves and copper tassel handles, and simple patterns of auspicious clouds and flowing water carved on them, which look thick and generous. . Although it is nothing in a rich family, it is already a piece of furniture that can be sold in a peasant family.
There is no problem passing it down for generations!
This is what his father said back then, and his father was the best carpenter in the village.
Xue Gouzi felt his head hurt, as if he had been hit hard with a hoe. He wanted to support himself to sit up, but he was exhausted and fell back onto the kang again.
It was only then that he realized that he was Xue Gouzi, the eldest son of the second room of the Xue family. Because of something that happened, he couldn't think about it for a while, and he was so angry that he became ill for a while, and he had been sick for many days.
He is not Xue Tingxiang, that Xue Tingxiang is the person in his dream.
How could he be like that?
In order to prove that all that was just a dream, he raised his hand to look at it.
really! The hand in front of him was slender and fair, and he hadn't developed the muscles and bones that a man should have. He was only fourteen this year, how could he live to be over seventy years old, and die in the end.
Xue Gouzi let out a heavy breath, looked around again, and finally felt more at ease.
Someone was talking outside, and the voice came in through the cracks in the window.
"I'm talking about recruiting, it's not my aunt talking about you, look at what you are now, a girl who stays at home all day, and learns from those small traders to do business. That business is what you can do. Did it? Look at your fourth uncle, you can't save a lot of money by running around outside every day, so don't worry about it, and if you have that little time, you can help fourth aunt with some work!"
The voice sounded like a young woman, but the sarcasm in the words was too strong. It is said that appearance is born from the heart, and it is no wonder that Mrs. Sun has a mean face.
This thought flashed subconsciously in Xue Gouzi's mind, and then he was stunned. It's true that he hated Fourth Aunt, but why would he miss her so much?
Before he could figure out why, he heard the voice in his dream.
"Fourth aunt, I would like to help you with some work, but you also know that the dog has been ill for a few days, and the family gave a few pennies for the medicine at first, but after taking it for half a month, grandma said that the family The money is not in hand, so I stopped the medicine. Gouzi is my man, I can't just watch him be so sick, it's not impossible for the fourth aunt to want me to help with the work, or you can lend me some money to buy medicine, I Can I pay you back slowly in the future?"
The owner of the voice was a young girl, and the tone revealed a capable and crisp taste, mixed with a bit of teasing.
That's right, Zhao'er deliberately ran on the Sun family.
Mrs. Sun has always had a temperament of only getting in and out, and it is more difficult to ask her to give out a penny, let alone lending it to the two half-children of the second room.
Now there are only these two people left in the second room, the top door is only fourteen, but there is an older one, only sixteen, and it is still a girl's family. Every time Mrs. Sun heard the rumors from the villagers that Zhao'er, a dead girl, had made some money by doing some business, she would be full of disbelief.
What kind of business can this dead girl do to make money, but she digs three melons and two dates from the wild, and takes them out to trick the people in the city into exchanging a few pennies.
"Your fourth aunt has no money to lend you. Our family's money is all in mother's place. You don't care about mother's going!" Sun patted her buttocks, stood up and went into the house, too lazy to talk nonsense with Zhao'er.
"Since the fourth aunt has no money to lend me, and I don't dare to take care of grandma, I can only figure out where to get some money to get some medicine for the dog!"
Zhao'er's voice was very loud, so naturally she was speaking not only to Mrs. Sun, but also to Mrs. Zhao who was sitting in the main room.
Sure enough, Zhao'er entered the house with his front foot, and Mrs. Zhao stood at the door behind him and scolded Mrs. Sun: "You haven't cleaned the pigsty, so you're going back to the house to hold a corpse?"
Zhao'er curled her lips, lifted the door curtain and walked in, bumping head-on into Xue Gouzi's eyes looking at her.
Chapter 2
Name：The Little First Grand Secretary in My House Author：Jia Mian De Sheng Yan Mask Feast 假面的盛宴
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Xue Gouzi has been ill for several days, his face is thin and out of shape, and his eyes are getting bigger and bigger.
Zhao'er has always thought that the little man's eyes are the most beautiful eyes in the world, although these eyes are always disgusted and resistant when facing her.
In fact, Xue Gouzi's eyes are the only ones that look good. He has been weak since he was born, and the second wife and his wife managed to support him, and they are usually spoiled. The boys of his age in the village were all dark-skinned and as strong as a calf, but he was pale, emaciated, silent and taciturn.
But Zhao'er has always been domineering, and never allowed anyone to talk about a little man, and whoever said she was in a hurry. Because of this incident, she had fought with many girls and boys in the village, although some people still said it behind their backs, no one dared to point fingers in front of others.
Zhao'er always felt that the little man's eyes were weird today, and he avoided them uncomfortably.
She knew that the little man must be angry again, and he didn't like her saying things like 'the dog is my man' the most. Every time he heard her say such things, he would ignore her for a few days. In fact, Zhao'er has to face, but she is the child bride-in-law of the Xue family's second room. If she didn't claim to be like this, how could she have the right to challenge the fourth aunt, Sun's.
"Are you hungry? Look what I brought back for you?"
Zhao'er turned her head and put all these troubles behind her, and took out a paper bag from her pocket. Opening the paper bag, there are two steamed buns inside. They are white and plump, and people like it when they look at them.
"Eat quickly, while it's still warm." She smiled and stuffed the paper bag into the little man's hand, while putting the pannier on her shoulders in the corner.
Xue Gouzi glanced at her.
The girl in front of her was in her twenties and eighth year, and her skin was the wheat color that is common among girls in the country, but Zhao'er's complexion was very different from others, it was smooth and radiant, as if she had been smeared with honey. He has a tall nose bridge, a pair of medium-sized eyes, and swarthy pupils. When he smiles, there is a flash of inspiration in him, and he looks lively.
Zhao'er's stature is taller than ordinary girls, and she is well-developed, front/convex/backward, full of youthful vigor.
It was so vivid, as vivid as in his dream.
He unconsciously took the steamed stuffed bun and gnawed on it. Seeing this trick, he smiled even more happily. He went to the kitchen and poured him a bowl of water, which he placed next to his hand. On the other hand, he bent down to tidy up the scattered quilts on the kang, thinking about what to cook for him at night to nourish his body.
Finally, the little man got better, so he had to continue to drink the medicine, and he had to drink a few more to strengthen it. From this, he naturally began to calculate the little money left in his hand, and think of a way to get some money, so as to solve the urgent need.
"Have you eaten yet?" Xue Gouzi asked.
This kind of behavior rarely happens to him, so Zhao'er can't help but look up at the little man sitting on the kang.
In fact, the little man has a handsome appearance, which is different from the fair skin of the countrymen. The corners of his eyes are slightly raised, and the curvature makes his face a little more delicate and handsome. It's just that the little man always hangs his head halfway on weekdays, with a gloomy and silent temperament, and is too thin, so he is not conspicuous in front of others.
Zhao'er's eyes warmed up, her smile widened, and she said cracklingly, "Eat, I ate it outside, this is for you."
After she finished speaking, she realized that she had slipped her mouth. She waited for the little man to show a disgusted expression, or to condemn her daughter's family for running around, but he didn't say anything, as if he had something on his mind. Head eating buns.
Zhao'er couldn't help heaving a sigh of relief, but at the same time felt a pain in his heart, and couldn't help but said: "Dog, don't worry too much. After all, you heard the words. Since you didn't say it face-to-face, you can't take it seriously. Even if it is true Don't be afraid, sister earns money for your education."
Xue Gouzi's head still hurts a little, and he was dizzy. Zhao'er thought he had something on his mind, but in fact he was just thinking about that dream. Hearing Zhao'er's words at this time, he suddenly remembered why he had this serious illness.
Seriously speaking, Xue Gouzi's serious illness came in a hurry due to stagnation of liver qi.
Speaking of this, I have to talk about the general situation of the Xue family.
Yuqing Village is a village located under Huyang Town, Xia County, Pingyang Prefecture. There are only more than 200 households in the village.
The Xue family is one of them.
However, the Xue family is different from other ordinary farmers, and it can be regarded as having some origins.
The ancestor of the Xue family, that is, the grandfather of Mr. Xue, was a scholar. In a poor mountain depression like Yuqing Village, it is a great event for the ancestors to have a scholar.
Because of this talented gentleman, the generation of the Xue family produced the head of the Xue clan, and there were several village elders in the clan, and finally had some say in Yuqing Village. At the same time, it is also a blessing for the younger generation. Mr. Xue's father is hardworking and willing to work. With the help of the elders, he also slowly built up a family business.
By the time of Mr. Xue's generation, the Xue family already had more than 30 acres of fertile land, and several sons also had their own livelihoods. Their lives were enviably prosperous, and they could be regarded as a well-to-do family in the village.
Mr. Xue and his mother-in-law Zhao have four sons and two daughters. The eldest son Xue Qingshan married his wife Yang, and they have two sons and a daughter. The eldest son Xue Juncai is fifteen years old, the second son Xue Youcai is ten years old, and the eldest daughter Xue Maner is married.
The second child, Xue Qingsong, is a carpenter. He married his wife Qiu Shi and gave birth to a son, Xue Gouzi, who is fourteen years old. The third child, Xue Qingbai, is a farmer, married his wife Zhou, and gave birth to a son and a daughter. The eldest daughter, Xue Taoer, is thirteen years old this year, and the youngest son, Xue Shuanzi, is eight years old now. The fourth son, Xue Qinghuai, is a shopkeeper. He married his wife, Sun, and gave birth to a son named Xue Maodan, who is only four years old this year.
As for the two daughters, the eldest daughter, Xue Cuiping, is already married, and the youngest daughter, Xue Cuie, is fourteen this year and is still in her boudoir.
It is worth mentioning that nowadays there are parents who say that they do not separate their families. In addition, families in the countryside are ruled by clans, so Xue's family has no separation.
The Xue family has tasted the benefits of reading, so they have more vision than ordinary farmers. Xue Qingshan is smart since he was a child, and he is the eldest son. Mr. Xue has high hopes for him, and when he reaches the age of enlightenment, he spends money to send him to a private school.
Xue Qingshan also strives for success. At the age of twenty, he passed the Tongsheng examination. Although he is still a scholar, he can be counted as a scholar who can be counted in ten miles and eight villages.
Don't underestimate Tongsheng! As the saying goes, scholars, farmers, businessmen, and scholars are the highest class of people in the current society. If ordinary people want to turn ordinary people into scholars, there is only one way to take the imperial examination. As for the imperial examination, it is only a matter of going to the west to learn Buddhist scriptures, and you have to go through various checkpoints and go through hardships before you can get it.
If you want to embark on this path, you must first have the qualifications, and Tong Sheng is a person with this qualification. It is necessary to pass the county and government examinations to be called Tongsheng. As for the next step is to be a scholar, to become a scholar is to enter school, and it is also the first step to embark on the road of imperial examinations.
It can be seen from this that Tong Sheng is not an ordinary person, so Xue Qingshan's status in the Xue family can be imagined.
But as I said before, the Xue family's family background can only be regarded as a middle-level family in the countryside. If a family like this wants to support a scholar, it will almost exhaust all the human and financial resources of the family. Because the eldest son is the eldest son, who will set up a family in the future, and is talented and intelligent, the next few sons naturally have to give in.
As for why Xue Gouzi became seriously ill, it has to be related to another old matter of the Xue family.
Back then when Xue Qingshan was selected as a child student, he was considered a success at a young age. He was full of ambitions and wanted to pass the college examination in one fell swoop, and he could also be a scholar, but it was a pity that God did not follow his wishes.
It was only a close call, and no one would be reconciled to it. Xue Qingshan could only calm down, work hard, and hope to win next time.
After so many years of rushing away, the original smugness was completely devastated by the impact of reality. Xue Qingshan failed many exams, so he couldn't stay at home and eat free food all the time. In desperation, he set up a private school in the village, which specializes in taking children from the village and several nearby villages to read and write, and they can more or less earn a living.
With such convenient conditions, several children of Xue's family naturally followed suit. The next few children are still young, and among the grandchildren, Xue Juncai, the eldest son of the big house, and Xue Gouzi of the second house have studied the longest.
However, compared to his cousin Xue Juncai, Xue Gouzi is obviously not as good as he is because he is too weak. When he was young, he was always sick every day, which delayed a lot of homework.
The time was stretched back to five years ago, this year the academic officer held a college examination in Fucheng, Xue Qingshan naturally would not miss it, he stopped his private school classes early and went to Fucheng to take the exam.
It's not easy to go out at this time, and besides, Mr. Xue was worried about his eldest son going out alone, so he asked his second son Xue Qingsong to accompany him. He always took care of him when he was usually on a business trip.
That is to say, something happened on this trip, Xue Qingshan offended someone in Fucheng, Xue Qingsong was beaten all over his body in order to protect his eldest brother. In the end, the man was pulled back, but he died within a few days after he came back. Before he died, Xue Qingsong asked Xue Qingshan to promise himself that he would do everything in his power to confess Xue Gouzi.
In fact, after giving way for others all his life, how could Xue Qingsong have no complaints in his heart, but he has a simple and honest nature, and he knows that his talent is not as good as that of his elder brother, so he has been making contributions in obscurity.
But when it came to his own son, especially Xue Gouzi, who was weak since he was a child, he was not a farmer in any way, and he was dying, so Xue Qingsong took the opportunity to force his elder brother to make a promise.
Xue Qingsong would do this, but he wanted to break the status quo that the Xue family's resources had been leaning towards Dafang. The Xue family only had two scholars in the first room, and now there is a Xue Gouzi. The children in the third room were still young at that time, and the fourth child was not married yet. As long as Xue Qingshan agrees, others will naturally have nothing to say, and Xue Qingsong will do his best for his son Brown.
Xue Qingshan agreed to the matter on the spot, crying blood, saying that he would treat Xue Gouzi as his own son, Xue Qingsong closed his eyes.
Not long after that, Qiu Shi, who was already in poor health, became depressed and fell ill, and then passed away. Since then, Xue Gouzi has become a poor child without father and mother. Fortunately, there are grandparents and uncles, and Zhaoer, a child bride-in-law, so he doesn't have to worry about food and clothing.
In the following years, Xue Qingshan really treated Xue Gouzi like his own son. No one in the village would say that the boss of the Xue family raised his nephew as his own son. But as the saying goes, the human heart is the most fickle, and selfishness is the nature of human beings. As time passed, Da Fang gradually changed his attitude. Although he was in front of others, he was still the same as before, but only the person concerned would know what happened to him afterwards.
This year, seeing that he had nothing to teach his son, Xue Qingshan decided to send Xue Juncai to the town school to study for two years.
But it costs a lot of money to go to the school to study, not to mention the one-year study that costs two silver, the three festivals and six rituals of the husband, and the pen, ink, paper and inkstone used in daily life, all of which cost money. The Xue family has already been seriously injured because they confessed to Xue Qingshan, and how can they have money for the two children to go together.
You can only take out one piece of money, that is to say, Xue Juncai and Xue Gouzi can only go to one.
Xue Qingshan told the matter in front of the whole family, but Xue Gouzi didn't say what he couldn't say tactfully, but chose to remain silent.
During that time, the atmosphere in the Xue family was weird, the old man Xue was frowning, and the grandmother Zhao was eccentric all day long, but the eldest couple were still the same as before, and they didn't think it was a problem.
I will not mention this, it is also a coincidence that Xue Gouzi accidentally overheard his eldest aunt Yang and fourth aunt Sun talking in secret, saying that he would let his parents-in-law come forward and let Xue Gouzi take the initiative to give up his place to study in the town , Xue Gouzi became seriously ill in a fit of rage.
Thinking of this, Xue Gouzi felt uneasy for a while, and at the same time, many pictures appeared in his mind, which were just some of his previous dreams.
The Xue Tingxiang in the dream also faced the same situation in the fourteenth year, and the other party's temperament changed drastically after this incident, changing his previous disposition.
Could it be that he is Xue Tingxiang, and that Xue Tingxiang is him? But why would he dream of these things!
Xue Gouzi felt a throbbing pain in his head, the bun in his hand fell on the kang, and the water bowl next to him was also knocked over. Zhao'er heard the movement, rushed up and hugged him in his arms.
"Dog, dog, don't scare me!"
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Chapter 3
Name：The Little First Grand Secretary in My House Author：Jia Mian De Sheng Yan Mask Feast 假面的盛宴
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Because of Xue Gouzi's sudden fainting, the Xue family was turned upside down.
For this reason, the third uncle Xue Qingbai borrowed an ox cart from his uncle's house and invited a doctor back from the town. The doctor came to check the pulse, and Xue Gouzi didn't have any symptoms, and the previous illness was almost cured. Although he is a little weak now, he just needs to take care of it slowly.
As for the headache, even the doctor couldn't tell what the cause was.
After sending the doctor away, grandmother Zhao slapped her face on the spot.
She looked like she was in her fifties, with her gray hair neatly pulled back behind her head. With a long face, the eyelids are a little sunken, and when the face is pulled, it becomes a triangular eye, which looks particularly unfriendly.
Without Mrs. Zhao's words, Mrs. Sun said: "Zhao'er, it's not the fourth aunt talking about you, you girl likes to make a fuss. Could it be that you deliberately torment us all, even if you don't like it..."
Before she finished speaking, she was pulled by the man Xue Qinghuai.
"Okay, let's say a few words less, Zhao'er is not ignorant, and besides, the dog is already sick, so it's better to find a doctor to take a look, so the family can rest assured."
"I said less and said less, and I didn't say anything..."
"You also said..."
The couple went out while chatting and tugging. The eldest aunt Yang smiled at Zhao'er, and then said to the mother-in-law: "Mother, let's go too, let the dog have a good rest."
Mrs. Zhao glanced at the dog on the kang, snorted coldly, turned her head and left. It can be seen from her posture that she is very angry.
In fact, it is true. The Xue family can't be called a rich family. It costs at least one or two hundred dollars to invite a doctor from the town. ! In particular, the doctor's pulse just now confirmed Zhao's guess that Xue Gouzi was deliberately pretending to be ill, and it was only strange that she was happy.
Let Mrs. Zhao see that the two little boys in the second room are deliberately torturing the family, but since the eldest daughter-in-law has come forward to persuade her, Mrs. Zhao will naturally not say more.
Generally speaking, among the three daughters-in-law of the Xue family, Yang is the one who wins Zhao's heart the most. The eldest has an unusual status, and Zhao is willing to show the eldest daughter-in-law some face.
After Mrs. Zhao and Mrs. Yang left, only the third uncle Xue Qingbai and the third aunt Zhou were left in the house. The two were not used to talking much, and they didn't stay long, Zhao'er thought that the third uncle had worked hard just now, so he sent the two of them out with a smile.
When he turned his head and came back, he saw Xue Gouzi lying on the kang with his eyes open, his eyes staring blankly, as if he had lost his mind.
She didn't think much about it, she came to the side of the kang and patted his head: "Dog, don't think too much, they don't believe that you are sick and have a headache, sister believes you. Take care of your illness and don't think about it anymore. "
Xue Gouzi glanced at her, his mouth was dry and his throat was tight: "Zhaoer..."
"What's wrong? Is there something uncomfortable?"
Feeling these undelicate but very warm hands touching his head and face, Xue Gouzi had a sense of reality and gratitude that he had never had before.
She wasn't dead, and neither was he.
Although he didn't like some of her daily actions, and even hated her as his child bride-in-law, but he never thought of letting her die, so how could he be the one who killed his wife and son.
But Xue Gouzi was still very flustered, because that dream was too real. After going through that dream for more than seventy years, it seemed that he had also experienced that life. But after waking up from the dream, the vicissitudes of life have changed, and he dare not look back.
"Zhaoer..."
"Why!"
"Zhaoer..."
"Um."
"Zhaoer..."
A hot stream suddenly flowed out unconsciously from the dry eye sockets.
This scared Zhao'er quite a bit, and he didn't care to think that the little man would never call her that, let alone let himself get close to him. He hugged his head into his arms and asked him anxiously up.
Seeing that he didn't speak, but just buried himself in his arms and cried, Zhao'er couldn't help but wonder if those people made him think too much just now. According to Zhao'er, the little man has a lot of things on his mind, and he never speaks out, otherwise he wouldn't have this serious illness.
She patted him on the back, hugged him like she did when she was a child, and comforted him: "Don't be afraid, dog, even if they don't send you to study, sister will send you there, and sister will send you even if she sells everything." go."
After all, Xue Gouzi had just recovered from a serious illness, and after experiencing such an incident, he fell asleep after drinking some porridge for dinner.
Zhao'er covered him with a quilt before tidying up the basket she had just brought back.
The back basket is full of needlework and cloth, which are rags that Zhao'er bought in the embroidery workshop in the town. The reason why I started this business was because I used to recruit children to carry the finished purses for the women in the village to sell in the embroidery workshop.
There is no adult in the second room. Although the family is in charge of eating, after all, the pen, ink, paper and inkstone used by Xue Gouzi to study, as well as the clothes, bedding and some odds and ends of the two people on weekdays, etc., all need money.
Wanting to ask for money from Mrs. Zhao is more expensive than ascending to the sky, and although the uncle Xue Qingshan is determined to treat his nephew as if he were his own, but Zhao'er usually only sees the big family's child with greasy lips, and Xue Juncai never Lack of pens, ink, paper and inkstones. In contrast, the little man was as thin as a bamboo pole, and he picked up a bald pen that Xue Qingshan didn't use back then.
Zhao'er has always been a strong one, she couldn't bear to wrong the little man, so she could only find money everywhere by herself. There was no opportunity to make money in the countryside, so she went to the town to look around, as long as it was within her power and did not require capital, she would try to do it.
In the past few years, she has collected vegetables from the village and sold them in the town, picked up work from the embroidery workshop and assigned them to women with good craftsmanship in the village, and usually went to the mountains to find mountain products to sell.
And now this business has been done several times, Zhao'er has a sweet mouth and a thick face, the boss of the embroidery workshop can't hold her back, so he sells the unwanted rags to her in bags. She took it back, sorted and cut it, and then asked the women in the village to help make purses and other things, and she could earn a lot of money by reselling them in the embroidery workshop. It is much better than before just receiving the purses made by others, and earning a penny for a few purses.
If he hadn't made some money by doing this business, he didn't know when Xue Gouzi would recover from his serious illness. Mrs. Zhao would have given up the money to get the medicine for a long time ago, and Zhao'er used his own money to catch the medicines later. I still have to hide it, for fear that other members of the Xue family will find out.
Thinking of this, the corners of Zhao'er's mouth tightened.
She has always been agile in her hands and feet, and seeing that she picked out some usable cloth heads, she stopped tossing about. I chose clean ones and spread them out on a square table, and cut these strangely shaped cloth heads into a uniform shape with scissors.
This is Zhao'er's own calculation based on how much fabric is needed to make a purse, no more and no less, she will not take out these rags for people to see.
It is not easy for country people to earn a penny. If someone finds out, the designated way to earn money will be robbed within a few days.
Zhao'er also wants to use this to make money for the little man to go to the town to study, so that she can only go to see Xue Jun, and her little man can also go. Zhao'er has always been prepared with both hands when doing things, and she knows in her heart that the big house will never let such a good thing happen to the little man.
It is better to ask for others than to ask for yourself, and it is better to rely on yourself than to rely on mountains and rivers.
Zhao'er has understood this truth since she was seven years old when she was going to be exchanged for money by her grandmother and father.
After Zhao'er finished what she was doing, seeing the little man was fast asleep, and seeing that it was already dark outside, she wrapped the tidy cloth in something, and hurried out with it.
Under the night, Yuqing Village was exceptionally peaceful, and the light silver moonlight shone on the trails in the village. Although the road was still unclear, it was not completely dark after all.
Zhao'er walked all the way and didn't even startle a dog.
This is not an ability that ordinary people can have. You must know that in places like the countryside, almost every household has a dog. Dogs are very alert at night, and whenever someone walks past the door, they bark wildly. Even if a petty thief came to the door, he would have been scared away by the dog long ago.
Zhao'er also developed this ability after walking a lot at night.
Of course, it was also related to the sunspot following her legs.
Heizi is a country dog, but it is stronger and bigger than ordinary dogs. There are not many dogs in Yuqing Village that can beat Heizi, and it is because of Heizi that Zhao'er dares to walk alone at night.
She went all the way to a family's house with ease, and it was strange that the other party knew that she would come at this time and left the door open for her. As soon as she entered the door, the family's dog rushed over. Before she could reach her, a black shadow rushed over and threw the other person to the ground. The dog was so frightened that it fell on the ground and stopped barking.
Zhao'er gloated at the side: "I don't have a long memory!"
At this time, a person came out of the house, and he smiled as he walked up to the front: "This black man is here to bully our family Wangcai again, Zhao'er, come in and sit down."
"Aunt Osmanthus, I won't go in, I'm still rushing back."
Zhao'er handed over the things in his hands to the visitor, took some things from the other person, wrapped them in cloth, and then went to the next household.
Zhao'er went to five families.
She is anxious to make money, but there are few women in the village who are good at needlework, and she needs to find someone who is tight-lipped and reliable. shit money.
The reason why she said that was because when she collected vegetables from the village and sold them in the town, she was publicized by people who didn't know the door, causing her to be pointed at all day long. She was not afraid of being pointed out, but these things finally reached the ears of the little man, and some villagers made fun of him, which caused a lot of conflicts between her and the little man. And after that, she won't receive any vegetables in the village, even if someone sells them to her, it will be at a high price.
In the end, she had no choice but to go to other villages to collect vegetables. It was not a waste of time. Since then, Zhaoer has developed a memory.
When Zhao'er came home, Xue Gouzi on the kang was still sleeping soundly.
She went to get some water to wash her face and wipe her hands before getting on the kang. The second room only had this kang, and she had slept with Xue Gouzi since she was a child, and she was used to it.
Heizi slept under the kang, just now when he invited his son into the house, he slid in at his feet and chose a random place to lie down. It seems that the dog's eyes have been closed, but in fact the two ears are standing up, and they move from time to time.
Before Zhao'er lay down, she bullied herself over to look at the little man, and touched his forehead, before falling asleep in peace.
Compared with the second room because of the sparse population, there are only two rooms and one kang, the treatment of the first room is obviously much better. The entire three east rooms were occupied by the big room, and at this time in the east room, Mrs. Yang was talking to Xue Qingshan.
Yang narrated what happened during the day, Xue Qingshan immediately frowned after listening.
He was not at home during the day, so naturally he didn't know what happened at home. Nowadays, some respectable families will invite scholars to preside over their weddings and funerals, but where rural families can afford to hire scholars, some will invite children to make up the number.
No matter how they are all scholars, they are different from ordinary people.
Today, Xue Qingshan was invited by a family in a nearby village to have a wedding. It doesn't matter what the etiquette is.
But the people in the countryside are poor, so the happy money will not be too much, at most a few tens of pennies.
Xue Qingshan likes this kind of work the most. Every time at this time, he will randomly assign articles to memorize for the students in the school, and then go out for a whole day, and no one will say anything. What he likes is not only having money to take, but also when this time is his happiest time.
He was sitting in the position of the guest of honor, and the men who came to have a wedding banquet were all proud to have a conversation with him.
He is the master of Tongsheng!
Of course, it would be even better if Tongsheng could be replaced by a scholar, Xue Qingshan would have dreamed of it. But for so many years, he has more or less self-knowledge, so he can't help pinning his hopes on his son.
It's a pity that someone is blocking this way now.
Xue Qingshan drank a lot of wine, his chubby face was flushed, and he was holding his breath in his heart, so he spit and scolded: "What kind of moth is this son of a bitch, I really want to open a dyeing workshop just to give him some color. !"
Yang sighed faintly: "Who told you that you agreed to the second child so easily at the beginning, but now it's hard to get off the tiger because of our talents."
"In that situation back then, the second child seemed to be honest, and he wanted to accompany his elder brother when he was about to die. If I knew that he was paying attention that day, I would have found a way to shut him up, but so many people I was present, and the accident happened because of me, if I don't even agree to this matter, how can I gain a foothold in front of others."
Of course, Mrs. Yang knew this truth, but she couldn't calm down. Just because of that bullshit promise, Da Fang kept her hands tied. Her son wanted to go to the library to study, but he had to hide and beg the other party to show his respect.
She was always proud and arrogant, so naturally the more she thought about it, the more annoyed she became, her eyes sparkled, but she sneered on her face: "Because he fell ill suddenly, originally Dad planned to make decisions for us, so we can only endure it. But he has been sick for these days, and today he has such a scene, and my mother is already annoyed. I asked the fourth daughter-in-law to tell my mother that the dog is probably pretending to be sick. I think my mother has already decided that he is pretending. sick."
Xue Qingshan's eyes lit up: "That's good, I'll go talk to my parents tomorrow and let them put this matter into practice." He put his arms around Yang's shoulders with a smile, and said: "My wife is smarter. , Prepared a backhand early."
Yang gave him an angry look, and the two of them rested together, without speaking for a whole night.
Chapter 4
Name：The Little First Grand Secretary in My House Author：Jia Mian De Sheng Yan Mask Feast 假面的盛宴
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The morning light was twilight, and the sky was just breaking. Most of the villagers in Yuqing Village got up very early.
Smoke rose from the chimneys of many houses, and villagers walking in twos and threes on the village trails, either carrying hoes or pulling cattle, looked like they were going to the fields.
It is the time of spring plowing, and the plan of the year lies in spring. If you are lazy at this time, you will cry when the grain is harvested in autumn.
Zhao'er woke up at this hour on time, and opened his eyes to find that the little man was still asleep.
Not long after she fell asleep yesterday, the little man developed a fever again. After being busy for most of the night, luckily the fever subsided in the middle of the night.
She sat up, raised her hand to touch the little man's forehead, and made sure that her hands were not hot, then put on her clothes lightly and got off the kang.
The first thing to do was to open the door, and Heizi, who had been restless for a long time, got out with a swish. Zhao'er also walked out of the room, seeing Heizi hurriedly running out of the courtyard to pee, she shook her head with a broken smile.
At this time, someone has already got up in the courtyard, it is the Zhou family of the third bedroom and his eldest daughter Xue Tao'er.
Today it's the third room's turn to cook. The Xue family's rule is that apart from the housework of each room, the work in the office is shared equally. One day per room, in rotation.
The room responsible for cooking is not only responsible for the food and drink of the whole family, but also takes care of the livestock in the family. The Xue family raised two big fat pigs, and it was not an easy job to just serve these two ancestors every day. Not to mention feeding chickens, carrying water, and chopping firewood, so the female family members who do housework on this day do not have to go to the fields to work.
It seems to be fair and just, but in fact everyone inside knows how.
The eldest aunt Yang claimed that the man was a child student, and she was exceptionally superior at home. Since Xue Qingshan passed the child student examination, she never touched housework again. The key is that Mrs. Zhao is also looking towards her, so it's not easy for others to question her.
At first, it was Xue Gouzi's mother, Mrs. Qiu, who finally came in, the third-bedroom Mrs. Zhou, and the two sisters-in-law finally shared the burden. Afterwards, Mrs. Qiu followed her deceased husband, and Mrs. Zhou was left alone. It was not until Mrs. Sun of the fourth room entered the door that she would be able to catch her breath again.
It's a pity that Mrs. Sun is lazy and playful. In fact, Mrs. Zhou still does most of the work.
In the past, when Mrs. Qiu was still alive, Zhao'er also helped Mrs. Qiu to do it. After Mrs. Qiu passed away, Zhao'er was busy with the housework of the second room and had to do the work in the office. In addition, Zhao'er was still young at that time, Mr. Xue told her to take good care of Xue Gouzi and not to take care of the work at work.
Zhao'er now has free time to go around and get some money, but she is a person who looks at her conscience and will help out as much as she can in her spare time. As for those who used words to squeeze her like Sun, her sharp tongue was not forgiving.
Seeing Xue Taoer struggling to fetch water from the well, Zhao'er rubbed his face and went up to help her.
Thirteen-year-old Xue Taoer is like a small flower in bud. Although she is not very beautiful, she is very delicate. Seeing Zhao'er coming to help her, she couldn't help showing a smile and talking to her: "Sister Zhao'er, is the second brother better?" Xue Gouzi is the second grandson of the Xue family, so Xue Taoer called him the second brother .
"I had a fever again last night, and it got better in the second half of the night." Zhao'er looked around curiously, and asked, "Why isn't Third Uncle here?"
Although Xue Qingbai is a bit honest and reticent, he always loves his wife and daughter. Whenever he meets the third room to cook, he will get up early to fill the water tank.
The Xue family has its own well, but the well is too deep, and there is no pulley on the well, so it is really exhausting to draw water with the strength of the daughter's family alone. That is to say, Zhao'er was naturally as strong as an ox, and his strength was no worse than that of ordinary middle-aged men, so he could pull the bucket out of the deep well very easily.
"My father went to the field and said he would work for a while and return after breakfast."
Xue Qingbai is an honest farmer. Unlike other brothers in the family who have other skills, he only knows how to farm, so he puts all his heart on the ground. The Xue family has a total of more than 30 mu of land, and now he, Mr. Xue and the fourth son Xue Qinghuai are all planted.
Although the women of the Xue family also went to the fields, it was only during the busy farming season, and besides, the women only had so little strength, so how could they help. Fortunately, the three men from Xue's family are all good hands in the field, and they are really too busy, so they hired part-time workers to help out for a few days, so they don't have to worry about not being able to finish the work in the field.
Just as he was talking, the door of the fourth room opened, and Xue Qinghuai walked out from inside.
The men in the Xue family are all big, so Xue Qinghuai also inherited a tall body.
He was born with thick eyebrows, tiger eyes and a high nose bridge. He was dressed in dark blue coarse cloth and short brown, and looked very heroic. In fact, the men of the Xue family are not bad looking, but the women of the Xue family are a little mediocre, but all the grandchildren are born well, and they are all top-notch in the village.
"Zhaoer Taoer, you wake up so early." Xue Qinghuai walked over in a few strides, took the wooden bucket in Zhaoer's hand, walked to the water tank, and poured water into the tank.
"How can you two little girls do this kind of rough work? You go to do other things, and the fourth uncle is here to fetch water."
Zhao'er and Tao'er didn't refuse either, one went to the kitchen to help her mother cook, and the other took a basin to scoop up water for washing.
As time passed, the rest of the Xue family got up one after another, and there were more and more voices in the yard. On the other side of the kitchen, Mrs. Zhou yelled to eat. Generally, country people don't pay much attention to breakfast, and they have to set a table or something. They always serve a bowl with a bowl, and eat it at any place.
Breakfast is two rice porridge, the so-called two rice porridge is porridge cooked from two kinds of rice. Yuqing Village does not grow rice, but only wheat, sorghum, millet, corn and other crops. Although farmers grow wheat, they seldom use it for their own food. They sell it for other grains.
Even a well-to-do family like Xue's family with surplus food did not eat fine grains all at once, but a mixture of coarse grains and fine grains. For example, today's breakfast is two-rice porridge, which is a porridge cooked with millet, that is, yellow rice, and sorghum rice.
Because it was a busy time of farming, it was cooked quite thickly. Although it didn't hold up with chopsticks inserted, it was much better than the usual thin soup with little water.
There is no way, the Xue family seems to have a decent family background in the village, but there are three scholars in the family. Not to mention Xue Gouzi, Guangda Fang and his son spend a lot of money every month, and it's no wonder that Mrs. Zhao usually can pick up fleas to get a little blood.
Zhao'er filled two bowls of porridge, put a few cornbreads on a thick porcelain plate, and put some pickles on the side, and took them back to the second room's room.
As soon as he entered the door, he saw Xue Gouzi sitting up from the kang.
She hurriedly put the wooden tray on the square table, and came up to see him: "But he's better? Are you hungry? Sister will bring you some porridge."
Xue Gouzi looked at her with complicated eyes.
After experiencing such a dream, he now doesn't know how to face Zhao'er. As long as he saw her, he couldn't help but think of him in his dream, those words scolded by others before he died. He also tried to find the cause of Zhao'er's death in his memory, but it seemed that that memory was Xue Tingxiang's most unbearable past, and he had no memory at all.
In fact, Xue Gouzi was burned in a daze last night, and Xue Gouzi thought for a long time. He couldn't figure out whether he was Xue Gouzi or Xue Tingxiang, whether that dream was true or not, whether he was thinking about it every day and dreaming at night , to have such an absurd dream.
However, he also had an idea in his heart. If everything in that dream was true, several things should happen in succession. If these things happen, it means that his dreams are real.
Thinking about something in his heart, he reached out to catch the bowl, only to realize that he didn't even have the strength to hold the bowl. Luckily, Zhao'er caught the bowl quickly, so he didn't spill it all over him.
Xue Gouzi was a little embarrassed and anxious. It was very strange, obviously he would not have this kind of reaction in front of Zhao'er before, but I don't know if it was a dream, and his state of mind had a strange change.
Zhao'er laughed at him: "Why are you being polite with my sister? I forgot that when you were a child, you peed on the kang, and it was my sister who washed it for you."
Zhao'er came to Xue's house when he was seven years old, and Gouzi was only five years old at that time. It is very inexplicable for a child to pee on the kang. It is obvious that he has not urinated for a long time. I don't know if he drank too much water before going to bed or what, but he actually peed on the kang.
Since Qiu gave birth to the dog, her bones were not good, and it was winter again. In order to repay the kindness of the second wife, Zhao'er volunteered to wash the dirty clothes and pants for the dog. Since then, she started her career as a child bride.
What Xue Gouzi hates the most is Zhao'er. He always likes to say inconspicuous things in front of him. You must know that as you get older, boys will lose face, how can you still be willing to listen to people mentioning such things, especially dogs are naturally sensitive. But today for some reason, he didn't feel annoyed, only a little embarrassed.
He was surprised by his own reaction, but Zhao'er had already fed him porridge with a wooden spoon. He subconsciously opened his mouth, and waited until the warm porridge blown by her was fed into his mouth, and he saw the smiling eyes of the other party.
Those eyes were big and bright, as if there were stars hidden in them, and he couldn't help but blush.
Zhao'er smiled even more happily, and stuffed him with a tortilla: "Eat quickly, sister will cook eggs for you at noon."
She was coaxing him like a child, Gouzi suddenly had this understanding.
He was eating porridge from Zhao'er, thinking wildly in his mind, it was very chaotic.
Just then, someone came to the door.
It was Xue Qingshan.
Exactly the same as in the dream.
Xue Qingshan's fair face was full of sighs and worries, he sighed and said a lot of words, the main idea was to let the dog recover well, don't worry too much, there are grandparents and uncles at home, he can't lose him.
Seriously speaking, Xue Qingshan also followed the appearance and height of the man from the Xue family. He was also a weed in Yuqing Village in his early years, but unfortunately he got a little fatter as he got older.
"Uncle still has to go to the private school, dog, take care of your illness, you are a child with a lot of thoughts." Sighing and patting his nephew on the shoulder, Xue Qingshan lifted the curtain and left.
What is he doing?
Zhao'er thought suspiciously. After thinking about it for a while, she couldn't figure out why, so she stopped thinking about it and concentrated on feeding the dog porridge, but Xue Gouzi looked thoughtful.
In the main room, Mrs. Zhao is chatting with Mr. Xue about what happened yesterday.
Mrs. Zhao was sewing an old dress in her hand, and said, "Let me tell you, you just like to spoil that little thing. You love him, but he doesn't love you. Our family's money doesn't come from the river, just Because he didn't want to show his illness to the whole family, he made a fuss after another, which is to make the family upside down."
Mr. Xue was in his fifties, tall and tall, and his skin was black and red like that of a countryman who had been exposed to the sun for a long time. He was wearing dark blue coarse cloth pants, sitting cross-legged on the Kang, smoking a dry cigarette.
Every time after dinner or before work, Mr. Xue always smoked for a while, otherwise he would feel exhausted.
"Okay, Gouwazi is sick, who doesn't have three illnesses and four pains." After a while, he said hoarsely.
The patter, patter sounded again, and the lingering blue smoke swirled in the air, and then scattered in all directions. Behind it, the old face of Mr. Xue was hidden, looming.
"But look how long he has been in trouble? Yesterday, more than one hundred coins were lost. How long will it take you to work hard in the field to earn more than one hundred coins! Boss has to leave another two hundred coins. It is said that someone in a classmate's family had a birthday, and there was a disaster just last year, and the tax was not exempted, but increased. Seeing that the boss said that he wanted to send Juncai to the town to study, it was another expense. How much money do you have? Withstood such a toss!"
Seeing that his wife was so distressed, Mr. Xue sat up straight, tapped the cigarette pot on the kang table, and gave her a sideways look: "Your heart will be distressed if you spend a hundred yuan for a dog, and you will give it if the boss asks you for it? Not me Speaking of you, you are a parent and grandmother, so don't be too biased, you don't have to make the following little ones have conflicts."
Upon hearing this, Mrs. Zhao didn't want to. She slapped him across the kang table and said, "I'm biased? Don't you?"
He is also biased, but the boss is the most promising in the family, and the handsome is also the most outstanding among the grandchildren. It's different to have a scholar in the family. No one will say that Xue Lianxing's family is a decent person when they go out. If Dafang can produce a scholar, his Xue family will be honored.
Just thinking of Xue Gouzi, Mr. Xue couldn't help frowning.
Of course he knew that the mother-in-law was very annoyed, Gou'er was too ignorant, the eldest owed the life to the second, but Xue's family was in such a family situation, naturally they had to pay attention to their future.
It's not that Mr. Xue looks down on his grandson, but that Gou'er is really not comparable to a handsome boy, nor can he. It's good to be strong, but you always have to look at the situation.
"The boss's daughter-in-law has already said several times that the school in the town cannot be delayed. The delay is half a year. The boss still wants to let Juncai try next year." Zhao added.
"Back then, I promised my second child!" Old Master Xue sighed deeply, took two puffs of dry cigarettes, and coughed twice when he was choked.
"Anyway, you can figure it out!" Zhao Shi was so angry that she threw the clothes aside, turned her head and leaned back on the kang, giving the man a backbone.
Old man Xue slapped his mouth several times, and the gully on his face deepened: "You too, old woman, don't you think that if outsiders know about this, we can still have face in the village?"
"Then what do you think we should do? Let's not do it?" Mrs. Zhao rolled over and sat up again, staring at Mr. Xue.
"Of course it has to be done, it depends on how to do it. How about this, you ask Cuiping to come back tomorrow, and she has to do this matter."
Chapter 5
Name：The Little First Grand Secretary in My House Author：Jia Mian De Sheng Yan Mask Feast 假面的盛宴
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After breakfast, the men of the Xue family went to the field.
Xue Qingshan also went out, but instead of going to the field, he went to the town. It is said that some classmate in the town had an elder in his family celebrating a birthday.
Now is the busy season, and there are not many schoolchildren in the school. The private schools in the countryside are like this. Every two seasons when the farming season is busy, the schoolchildren will be given holidays, so Xue Qingshan has been quite free recently. But no one cares about where he goes or not. When the school is on vacation, he is often not seen for several days.
Zhao'er washed the dishes and chopsticks used by herself and the little man, and took them back to the kitchen. Mrs. Zhou was cooking pig food, while Tao'er was sweeping the yard. Seeing that she had nothing to do, Zhao'er found Heizi's food bowl, and took a bowl from the leftover rice that was going to be mixed in pig grass to feed pigs later. , carrying it and walking out the door.
Mrs. Zhou glanced at her back, but said nothing.
The leftovers are for Heizi. Dogs in the country are like this. The owner eats dry food, and the dog drinks water. When the owner eats water, the dog usually goes hungry. Country dogs in the countryside are used to starvation, but Zhao'er usually pays little attention to sunspots, no matter good or bad, he always feeds him.
Occasionally there are additional meals, of course, these are invisible to the human face.
Anyway, Mrs. Zhao saw Zhao'er picking food out of her pig's mouth and feeding it to the dog!
She stepped out of the main room and saw this scene, her old face immediately pulled down, and she didn't see her scolding Zhao'er, so she stood in front of the door and shouted at the direction of the kitchen: "Let you feed the pigs!" It's good for you, feed the food into the dog's mouth, such a big person is useless, and eating for nothing is not enough."
This clearly refers to Sang scolding Huai.
In the kitchen, Mrs. Zhou didn't speak. Tao'er, who was sweeping the yard, looked up at Grandma, endured it and continued to sweep the yard. Mrs. Zhao didn't mention her name, who knows who she was scolding, if she stepped forward to intervene, she would only change the target and be scolded bloody.
These are lessons learned.
As soon as Zhao'er walked to the gate of the courtyard, she heard such scolding. She didn't show any weakness, and turned her head to look at Zhao with a smile: "Grandma, are you scolding Third Aunt? If you scold Third Aunt, Third Aunt But it's too unfair. If you want to scold you, you should scold me. I scooped up the leftovers and planned to give Heizi to eat. Didn't I just think that Heizi would not be easy, so I would bring a rabbit to the house every now and then. You said we You can't do something that wants the cows to work without giving them grass, don't you think?"
Mrs. Zhao glared at Zhao'er angrily. She knew that this girl was not a cheap girl, so she scolded Mrs. Zhou, but she found her by herself. Just as he was about to say something, some of the women who passed by the gate of the courtyard smiled and said, "I saw Lian Xing's family so energetic early in the morning."
Someone next to him interjected: "Don't talk about it, Ren Zhao'er is right. How can there be a cow that works without giving it grass?"
"That's right, Lian Xing's family, it's almost enough. Everyone in the village doesn't like your big black dog. At this time when there is a rabbit shortage in the wild, it can fetch rabbits. What a smart beast. Usually In summer and autumn, voles, wild rabbits, and pheasants were often picked up at home, and they would be brought back if they didn't eat them. If you don't like Heizi, give it to our family, and your Uncle Shouxin has already taken a fancy to Heizi."
This is a Lianxing family, Mr. Xue and his aunt, known as Aunt Shouxin. Although he is ten years younger than Mrs. Zhao, but he is of a higher seniority.
There are more than 200 households in Yuqing Village, with Xue and Zheng as the main surnames, and there are more than a dozen other households with mixed surnames. Since they all have the same surname, it is inevitable that every family is related, and some relationships can be pulled out of Wufu. But relatives are relatives, and when one is younger than others, one has to respect one another, so when this aunt Shouxin spoke, she sounded like an elder giving advice to younger generations.
Mrs. Zhao was terribly blocked by these words, even though she was scolding, she was really reluctant to let her give Heizi to others. Just like what these people said, Heizi did bring some wild animals to his house at ordinary times, regardless of size, fat or thin, he always eats meat, and it is not easy for country people to eat meat.
She kept a straight face and didn't speak, but the trick in front of the door said: "Grandma Seven, this is not okay, Heizi is my lifeblood, you are running away with my lifeblood, I can't live anymore."
She smiled as soon as she said it, and said witty words in her mouth, and immediately made Aunt Shouxin laugh, pointing at her bit by bit, and said to others: "Look at this naughty girl, but she is not at all. You're welcome. Please, please, Seventh Grandma doesn't want you dog, so she won't take away my son's life."
After talking and joking, Zhao'er sent the women away with a smile, and then turned around to feed Heizi.
Mrs. Zhao glared at her, turned around and was about to enter the room, but just as she lifted her foot, she heard someone calling her from behind.
"Mom, why are you standing here?"
But Xue Cuiping, the eldest daughter of the Zhao family, came back.
Xue Cuiping's appearance is 60% similar to Zhao's, but she has a pair of big almond eyes. She looked like she was in her twenties, and she was wearing a washed-out blue floral jacket with a pair of red-coloured wide-leg trousers underneath. She was holding a bamboo basket in her hand, which was covered with a layer of cloth, and she couldn't see what was in it, and she was looking at Mrs. Zhao suspiciously.
This really means that Cao Cao and Cao Cao will be here soon. The old man said before that the Zhao family is planning to get someone to report to Shangshui Village. This will save trouble.
The mother and daughter walked into the house while talking, and soon disappeared behind the curtain of the main room door.
Zhao'er squatted there watching Heizi eat, stroking its big head with her hand, but she was a little curious about how her aunt came back in time for the busy farming season.
"This can't be done, mother, you are letting someone poke my spine!" In the main room, Xue Cuiping stood up after listening to Mrs. Zhao's words.
Mrs. Zhao hurriedly reached out to pull her, and at the same time gestured for her to keep her voice down so that no one could hear her.
"Why not? You are Gouzi's aunt, and you beat the younger brother and the second child. If this family says who the child wants to listen to, they will probably listen to you."
Mrs. Zhao's words are true. Xue Cuiping has been friends with her second child, Xue Qingsong since she was a child, and she and Mrs. Qiu also got along well when she was not married. When Xue Gouzi was born, she often hugged him.
Xue Gouzi has been shy and introverted since he was a child, and since his second wife left, he has become more silent and gloomy. He often doesn't see him say a word for ten days and a half months, and the members of the Xue family are only close to aunt Xue Cuiping.
"But..." Xue Cuiping was full of embarrassment, and secretly said in her heart that she shouldn't be coming back this trip. She never thought that she hadn't finished her business before going back to her mother's house, but this kind of thing would happen.
"Don't forget, your family Xingzi came to our private school, and your elder brother didn't care about you. Now your elder brother needs your help, why don't you want to ignore it, you are good, your elder brother is fine, The big house is promising, can it still make you suffer?"
"Why don't you tell the dog yourself, mother!"
Mrs. Zhao has never been a patient person. She can speak so softly because Xue Cuiping is her daughter. Seeing her daughter pushing back and forth like this, and poking her heart with words, she immediately exploded: "If your mother can go and tell him, is it still necessary for you? Your mother can say this, can you say it? If you let outsiders You know, what has become of this?"
Xue Cuiping was already irritated by her in-laws' affairs, and when she saw her mother scolding herself, she immediately became annoyed: "Hey, the whole family will not go, and I am an outsider who asked me to be this villain? Even if an outsider finds out, it's okay It's no use for me to be an aunt, and the second elder brother's family and adults are all dead, so why not force a child?!"
Seeing her daughter's voice getting louder, Mrs. Zhao was afraid that people would hear her, so she gave her a firm hand and scolded: "You are afraid that people will not hear you, right?"
Naturally, Xue Cuiping didn't want to have a falling out with her mother, so she muttered reluctantly: "Let me say, it's not your mother's business to be in charge of this matter, let the elder brother or sister-in-law handle the affairs of the elder brother's house by himself. Let others do all the bad things." , their family is innocent, there is such a thing!"
"Why are you talking about your elder brother? Your elder brother is a scholar, he wants to face and respect. Besides, he is ashamed of his second son, and he can't do such a thing."
Xue Cuiping's lips parted, and she pressed down her full stomach.
If he really felt ashamed of his second brother, would he still make such a fuss? In fact, over the years, Xue Cuiping has also seen through the behavior of this elder brother. If the elder sister-in-law is a smiley face, the elder brother is not a good person. Bad things have been done by others. It is obvious that their family has benefited, but they still pretend to be innocent.
But so what if she knew, she was a married woman after all, she couldn't shake the deep-rooted respect her parents had for her elder brother. As long as this kind of value is not broken for a day, the big house will always be the first in the family. In particular, she also has her own selfishness and her own reasons, so even if she knows what happened at home in the past two years, she can only ignore it against her conscience.
She brushed back the hair that fell on her cheeks, and said: "Mother, let's not talk about it, I came back this trip to borrow some wheat seeds, you also know my mother-in-law's disease, because I was in a hurry to raise money last year The money for the medicine, and no seeds left..."
Before she finished speaking, she was interrupted by Mrs. Zhao.
Mrs. Zhao patted her hard twice: "Borrowing wheat seeds again, do you think your mother's family has gold and silver, don't you? With so many sons in the Liu family, let you, a daughter-in-law, come back to dig out her mother's family!?"
"mother……"
"Those head-cutting things in the Liu family, a house full of losers, a bunch of incompetent bastards, who can't even support their mothers..." Mrs. Zhao scolded, and seeing Xue Cuiping crying, she beat her again. She said twice: "Go and deal with Gouzi, and mother will give you wheat seeds."
"mother……"
"Go, don't ink."
When he heard that his aunt had returned, Xue Gouzi felt a sense of fate in his heart.
Afterwards, when Xue Cuiping opened the door curtain and walked in with a smile, he surprisingly didn't feel sad at all.
When Xue Cuiping was talking, Xue Gouzi was not actually listening, he was just thinking about all the strange things in and out of the dream.
Xue Tingxiang also experienced such a thing back then, since his parents passed away one after another, he felt resentful towards Xue's family in his heart. And these grievances accumulated little by little under Dafang's hypocrisy and the acquiescence of his family members. Until this time, he still had the last bit of hope in his heart, but when even his closest aunt was standing on the opposite side, he completely collapsed in despair. Instead of being silent earlier, he chose to explode.
In fact, what Dafang and even the Xue family were waiting for was his outburst. As long as he raises this matter himself, countless big hats will be put on his head. He had no ability to resist at all, and these people were all his elders, so his anger and unwillingness were all strangled to death in his infancy.
This time, what happened in the dream happened again, what should he do?
Xue Cuiping's mouth was still opening and closing, it could be seen that she was a little guilty in front of this pale and frail nephew. But these guilty consciences were hidden behind her constantly opening and closing mouth. Xue Gouzi's eyes were indifferent, but someone beside him couldn't help it.
Zhao'er's face was ugly, but he still forced a smile: "Auntie, you see that the dog has been sick for a few days, and he just got better. He is not in good spirits. If there is anything to say, let's talk about it later."
In fact, Zhao'er knew that this day would come sooner or later, otherwise she wouldn't be desperately trying to make money recently. But when the malice between relatives approached a little bit, and it was her little man who forced it, Zhao'er couldn't ignore it.
She knew that it was the relatives who hurt people the most, and she had suffered this kind of pain. When mother left, she promised her that she would take good care of the little man, she made an oath.
At this moment, Zhao'er's eyes were stern, which was a sign that the female beast was going crazy.
Xue Cuiping was frightened by what Zhaoer saw in her eyes, she shook her head subconsciously, and smiled uncomfortably, she couldn't believe that a girl's eyes could be so scary.
"Zhao'er, Auntie is here to enlighten the dog. Auntie is also doing it for the good of the dog, and for the good of the family..."
"Auntie." Suddenly, Xue Gouzi spoke.
Interrupting Xue Cuiping's words also interrupted Zhao'er's explosion at a critical point.
Xue Cuiping hurriedly turned her head to look at him: "Dog, Auntie told you..."
"Auntie, I didn't understand what you said for a long time. What should the meaning of the family come first? Why does Kong Rong give up pears? What does elder brother need from me? Auntie, you don't know that elder brother has everything, grandma Uncles and aunts love him too, and they bought good pens, inks, papers and inkstones. Every time he uses paper for calligraphy practice, I can only practice calligraphy with branches and write on the sand. The paper I occasionally use is the worst quality Zhaoer bought. The rice paper, the ink drops on it and it is printed.
"Brother has a lot of books, but I only have a copy of "Children Learning Qionglin", which I bought when my father worked as a carpenter for a few months. I know that my reading is not as good as that of my elder brother, and my handwriting is not as good as that of my elder brother. So I dare not ask to be like him. I don't have anything, I really don't know what I can give up to my elder brother."
Xue Gouzi's eyes were bright and moist, with a kind of bewilderment and doubt that was ignorant of the world. The envy in his expression implied inferiority, and there was also some sadness in the inferiority complex.
In particular, he had just recovered from a serious illness, his face was pale, and he was so thin that only a bone remained. He said such words that really made the sad witnesses cry.
These words left Xue Cuiping speechless, feeling distressed and ashamed of herself, feeling that she would have no face to see her second brother and sister-in-law if she died. But the situation at home is imminent. There are no seeds during the spring plowing, and the wheat seedlings are not cultivated in time. If this season is missed, the whole family will suffer from famine this year.
She suddenly hardened her heart, licked her lips and said, "Auntie is talking about going to the school in the town. You see, your handsome elder brother is better at studying than you. He is at the critical moment. You should give up as a younger brother. Anyway, you are one year younger than him, so it won't be too late to go again next year."
Zhao'er turned around abruptly, and picked up the stick behind the door.
At this moment, Xue Gouzi said again: "Why did you let me go? Didn't I have to go? Uncle asked you to come? Did he forget what he promised my father before he died? It turns out that uncle said Treating me like my own son is all fake..."