It was almost a blink of an eye and Xue TingRang's break was over.
In the past two days, Zhaoer stayed on the kang obediently. Xue TingRang didn't let her do anything. He and Xue Qinghuai were the ones who collected vegetables and sold them.
Protesting was useless. Zhao'er for the first time discovered that little man could be so domineering.
When Xue TingRang returned to the town school, Zhaoer finally got off the kang, and she felt particularly relieved.
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After eating at noon, Xue Qinghuai went to call Jiang Wu over.
Zhao'er put all the organized money on the table, as well as two ledgers. One is her account book, which looks like a ghost script, and the other is the account Xue TingRang helped her to copy and organize.
"Before I asked Ting'er to do the calculations for us. In the past ten days, we have made a total of 64,220 wen."
As soon as she heard that there were more than sixty-two liang, Sun shi, who just followed up, pinched Xue Qinghuai from behind to stabilize her excitement.
"Among them are Xiankelai and other several restaurants, and there is also a place in Zhennan where Jiang Wu is in charge. Because of the wealthy families in Zhennan, the housekeepers of those rich men are rich and don't care about these small things. Occasionally they will give some rewards if they are satisfied. These rewards are all handed in by Brother Jiang Wu, which accumulated to around two liang.
"Don't look at how we can get so much money this time. As I said before, right now is a good time to do this. I'm afraid it won't be so easy going forward because there will be more and more vegetables on the market. So they will not be as valuable as before, so you have to be psychologically prepared."
Xue Qinghuai scratched his head and smiled: "This time, I have been able to make enough for more than half a year. Even if there isn't any profit later, it's nothing. Besides, there is no way to make a steady profit without losing money in trading. Uncle understands what you are talking about."
Zhao'er nodded: "This is only gross profit. After deducting all the expenses, there is fifty-two liang and forty-three wen. Fourth uncle is 20%, which is ten liang and sixty-eight wen. Jiang Wu gets fifteen liang and fifty-two wen. Here is the money. Fourth uncle, this is yours, and Jiang Wu, this is yours."
Xue Qinghuai and Jiang Wu went forward to take the money separately, and because they both knew that Zhao'er made more, they did not stand on ceremony.
The three continued to speak.
"Actually, I don't know how to calculate these things. Ting'er did the calculations. After he had done the calculations, he checked the accounts with me before writing down the accounts. Ting'er said that after all, we are a partnership business, so we have to settle the accounts. This way everything will be clear and understandable, so that we won't have any suspicions because of the money..."
She roughly repeated what Xue TingRang had said, and then asked Jiang Wu and Xue Qinghuai to sign on the ledger. Because they couldn't write, they pressed their fingerprints on the account book.
After all this, she said again: "From now on, this account will be settled every ten days. In the next ten days, what we have to do is to maintain the previous business, and then run to the few villages that we have not visited. Let's make a contract with those farmers. In addition, I think we still lack manpower. Fourth Uncle and Jiang Wu should both be careful. They must be extremely reliable and have good character."
When it comes to serious matters, Zhao'er has a particularly powerful presence, and no one dares to take her lightly.
Xue Qinghuai and Jiang Wu listened and gave advice from time to time. The three of them discussed for more than half an hour before separating.
Zhao'er also went out, she planned to go to the Gao family.
When talking about finding staff earlier, Zhao'er mentioned Gao family's youngest son Gao Sheng. Xue Qinghuai and Jiang Wu both knew Gao Sheng. They knew that although this kid was a little mischievous when he was young, he was able to endure hardship, so they agreed.
Of course, it's useless for the three of them to agree. Gao Sheng has to agree with them as well. Zhao'er said she was familiar with Gao Sheng, so she went to find him in person.
Gao family is located at the end of Yuqing Village. Generally, people with mixed surnames live at the end of the village. Over time, it has become a place for mixed surnames. Apart from the inconvenience of getting in and out of the village, it's actually quite good, with the mountains as its back and the fragrance of birds and flowers.
When Zhao'er got to the Gao family, the family seemed to be a little restless. At a far away distance, she heard someone arguing in the yard. A person hurriedly walked out of the gate and almost knocked into her.
It was Gao Sheng.
Gao Sheng is seventeen this year, one year older than Zhao'er, and is born tall. The men in this place are generally tall and not many are not short. Gao Sheng's skin is dark, and he was wearing a short brown suit. His expression looked a bit angry but also showed that he felt wronged.
"what happened?"
Gao Sheng stopped: "Zhao'er Jie, why are you here? You need something?"
This "Zhao'er Jie" must be explained to you readers.
Gao Sheng was also very mischievous when he was a child and followed a bunch of kids in the village to climb up trees and dig out the bird's nest, to take a bath in the river and to fish for fish. There was nothing he was afraid to do. They considered themselves a nation of their own, with their own thought processes. They were bold and naive.
They changed attitudes faster than flipping through a book. One moment they are good brothers, and the next moment they could end up fighting. Xue TingRang didn't play with these hairy boys when he was young because he was weak and the shortest, so he was always bullied.
Not long after Zhao'er came to the Xue family. Xue's second family had adopted a girl and the only son of the Xue family's second family was weak and ill. It was inevitable that some people began to say that the second family couple found a child bride for their son.
The adults whispered secretly, and they were heard by their children, but the children did not know anything, so they just repeated the gossip. Every time Zhao'er went to ask her parents to come back for dinner, the children clapped their hands and said that she was Xue Gouzi's wife.
At first, Zhao'er had to bear it. One day the young Gou'er went out to take a fresh breath of air. Zhaoer accompanied him and was surrounded by a group of little children.
This group of little children clapped like before and sang: "The Xue family's Gou'er is thin and small, and he found a wife called Zhao'er. The wife and the little man, if the wife doesn't obey her husband, the mother-in-law cries, the mother-in-law cries!
Little Gou'er was so angry that he cried on the spot and Zhao'er told them to go away. They didn't go and continued to sing. Zhao'er couldn't take it anymore, so she grabbed one of the children and beat him up. The one who was beaten was Gao Sheng.
Ever since, whoever said this kind of thing will be beaten up by Zhao'er.
When children fight, adults cannot easily interrupt. They are all conscious that children fighting is normal, but it is not a trivial matter if adults get into the fight. So even knowing that their child was beaten by Zhao'er, no parent said anything. At most, when they saw their child was beaten a little bit hard, they said a few sour words in front of the second family's couple.
Although Xue Qingsong is an honest and good tempered man, he tends to protect the weak. He listens when someone says something, and ignores it after listening. When he goes back home, he still rewarded Zhao'er with delicious food. Besides, their own families were not in the right. If we1follow this case to the end, we will get to the point of how the little children know the term child-bride, so it is all their own fault.
Therefore, in the group of children about the age of Zhao'er, or even the age of Xue TingRang, mainly boys, only a few of them have not been beaten by Zhao'er.
After being beaten, they still have to call her Jie. Even Gao Sheng who is obviously bigger than Zhao'er, still calls her Jie out of habit.
"we" is referring to the second family
It was also because the incident was too memorable so he couldn't change his way of calling her so quickly.
"I have something to ask you. What's wrong with you?"
Zhao'er glanced at the yard. Gao Sheng's eldest sister-in-law was saying something angrily, and Gao Sheng's mother's expression was not very good. She was wiping tears as she spoke.
Gao Sheng lowered his head and pursed his lips: "Don't mention it."
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Upon hearing this, Zhao'er pretty much understood what was going on.
Gao Sheng's father died early. Gao Sheng is the youngest, and there is quite an age gap between him and his two older brothers. The Gao family is not considered rich in the village. It can only be said that it is a family that never starved to death. The family has only a few acres of land, so there is no separation of the family. Aunt Gao took her youngest son and lived with her older two sons. .
The early years were okay. As Gao Sheng's two older brothers married and both had children, Gao Sheng became an eyesore to the sister-in-laws. No matter how hard Gao Sheng usually worked in the field, there was always something to be nitpicked at, but the family still has to live even through the rough relationships.
As for the quarrel between Gao Sheng's sister-in-law and Aunt Gao, it was because Aunt Gao found a good girl for Gao Sheng, but when it was mentioned that the family should pay for the marriage, Gao Sheng's two sister-in-laws just kept crying that they were poor.
And Gao Sheng's two older brothers didn't speak. Aunt Gao was so anxious that she finally mentioned something, but she was blocked by Gao Sheng's sister-in-law. Aunt Gao burst into tears with anger. Gao Sheng couldn't hold back anymore and slammed the door and left.
"I will go to the county to find a job tomorrow."
Zhao'er sighed. She knew that Gao Sheng had this idea a long time ago, but Aunt Gao didn't agree. She felt that it was unsafe for the youngest son to go about alone, so she kept him from going out.
"I'm looking for you because of this. Now I have a business with Jiang Wu and my fourth uncle. Right now we are lacking a worker. If you think it is feasible, I will share 5% of my profits with you. Work hard and maybe you can even marry a wife by the end of the year. It also won't be difficult to take Aunt Gao and live outside."
Zhao'er thought about it. Not to mention Jiang Wu, Fourth uncle also has field work to do on weekdays, and now they desperately need workers who can do things independently.
The reason why she likes Gaosheng is not only because of their friendship, but also because Gaosheng is a cheerful and broad-minded person, and has a small group of friends who have a good relationship with him. After that, it's because he has an excellent character, his brain is active, and he is willing to endure hardship. Every aspect of a helper must be considered when looking for the right manpower. The first person Zhaoer thought of was Gaosheng.
"Okay, since Zhao'er Jie said this, I'll do it. If I don't do a good job, don't pay me."
"Aren't you going to ask me what I'm bringing you out to do?" Zhao'er teased.
Gao Sheng scratched his head slightly embarrassed: "Well, its not like you can sell me."
Now that things have been set, Zhao'er set out with Gaosheng the next day.
After a few days, Gao Sheng could clearly understand the basics of this business. He was surprised that Zhaoer could come up with this way of doing business, but did not thing it was unexpected. The village had been circulating about Zhaoer Jie doing business, but the words were vague. He did not expect that she did not show any signs yet was able to make her business run like this.
Gao Sheng is not stupid. Naturally, he realized that there is a lot of business to do, so he worked harder and even offered a lot of useful opinions.
Later, Zhaoer divided his due dividends as promised. Gao Sheng did not expect that he would be able to get so much. He felt ashamed and uneasy but refusing was useless. He then asked two young people to help him from the people he knew. All of the wages are from him.
With the increase in manpower, the scope of the business gradually expanded. In the past, it was only limited to a few large restaurants and several wealthy mansions in the south of the town. Now Zhao'er throws out the people in her hands, taking over the business of delivering food to many small wine shops, restaurants, and snack shops in the town.
Because they deliver the vegetables in time, and the vegetables are fresh and varied, and compare with market prices are cheaper, others have no reason to refuse. Someone will take the initiative to deliver it to the door if they need it, so why not do it.
Zhao'er was even inspired, and added a small amount of pork as one of the varieties, and robbed some business from butchers and meat stalls. I won't go into details here.
Zhao'er's business was booming here, but on the other end, Xue TingRang's side was calm.
Every day was the lecture hall, the dining hall, and the dorm, repeating back and forth. Life was boring and tasteless.
Because of the supervision of Chen Jian and Xue TingRang, Mao Badou and Li Datian were now more diligent than before. The only thing is that the four of them were now being isolated by other students in the academy, but none of them cared too much about other people's perspectives, and they enjoyed themselves.
But on this day, something happened.
When it came to the twilight again, after eating out of the dining hall, the four of them each washed and read on the bunk.
One person, each with a desk and a lamp, sitting side by side.
Xue TingRang still copied books as usual. Chen Jian was the same as him, but Mao Badou, while memorizing the book, would from time to time provoke Xue TingRang or Li Datian who was next to him. He mostly provoked Li Datian. Who told Xue TingRang to have a pen in his hand, and ink was accidentally thrown all over him. Mao Badou had learned his lesson.
Soon it was time to turn off the lights, there was a bell sound outside. The three of them blew out the oil lamps and laid down.
At this time, he couldn't sleep, so Mao Badou asked Xue TingRang for a script and told him he wanted tp read it for a while. Xue TingRang couldn't stand his torment and could only follow his will.
Mao Badou satisfactorily accepted the script that Xue TingRang handed over and put the oil lamp into the quilt. Just as he flipped through the script, there was a sudden sound of footsteps.
He blew out the lamp immediately and stuffed the notebook into his crotch. At the same time, the door of the room was pushed open, and a few people walked in.
The leader was an elderly school official. In fact this person was quite scary to the students. Because the old school official is in charge of night patrols all the year round, and he still manages the house.
All the trivial things in the house are under his care. During the day, he is not seen, and he comes out at night. Usually people would be frightened whenever he appears. This was Mao Badou's description.
The old school official was also followed by a few students, who looked like students who roomed next door. The leading one had a surname Zhou and was called Zhou Li.
Seeing this person, Mao Badou's pupils contracted subconsciously, and he had a bad feeling.
"Liu Lao, that's him. That day, when I came to this house to borrow a kettle, I saw this Mao Badou holding a book and was looking at it. He was the only one in the room, and he was sneaky and when he saw me pushing in, he hurriedly hid the book. Reading seriously would not be like that. I remember a person who was punished to copying books when he was found to possess an obscene book last year, so I very much suspect that the same situation has occurred again."
This accusation made Mao Badou stunned for a moment, and then he cursed: "When did you come borrow a kettle and see me read an obscene book? Did you come here in a dream? Why didn't I know."
Li Datian spoke up next to him: "Usually the four of us go in and out at the same time. We are never alone in the dorm. Brother Zhou might be going crazy."
Chen Jian nodded. Xue TingRang also said: "that is true."
"I can prove that Brother Zhou did come here that day, and he looked absentminded when he returned. It seems that there was something on his mind." said a student named Zhao Mingquan. He lives in the same dorm as Zhou Li.
"Maybe it was your brother Zhou who had hysteria and saw some fairy, that's why he seemed absentminded. Do you think I look like a fairy like this?"
Mao Badou sneered for a while, which drew laughter from many students who heard the movement outside. The dormitory is so big, and there is so much movement here, and the students who have just laid down in their clothes came out to watch this scene.
Zhou Li was ridiculed so much that his face flushed red: "Mao Badou, don't you ridicule me. You are a habitual offender. My suspicion towards you is justified."
"What kind of courtesy and evidence? You can use your words to frame others?" Xue TingRang said.
"Brother Zhao testified for me."
"Then I also can say that I saw you bring an obscene book into the academy, and I can also testify with someone from the same house." Mao Badou interrupted, and immediately angered Zhou Li.
At this moment, the students outside the door gave way to both sides. It was the curator Lin Miao and Meng Xiansheng who came.
The four people who were blocked on the bunk quickly got up and respectfully called the master, Meng Xiansheng. The other students did the same, and there were no more whispers around.
The court was very quiet. Mao Badou finally panicked and couldn't help but glance at Xue TingRang, who gave him a "calm down" look.
Lin Miao asked aloud, and the old school official told them one by one. From Zhou Li finding him and saying that Mao Badou was carrying an obscene book to everything that happened after he arrived at the dorm.
Lin Miao looked over, his eyes were devoid of emotions, but Zhou Li couldn't help but lower his head.
He thought about what the other party had said to him, and his panic lightened. Especially now that the arrow was on the string and he must send it out, he can only put his focus on the guilt of Mao Badou before he could escape completely. Then, he vowed using his own reputation and name that this Mao Badou had definitely brought an obscene book into the academy.
Seeing the changing expressions on everyone's faces, Xue TingRang came up and saluted Lin Miao and Mr. Meng: "I also hope that Master and Xiansheng see clearly. Although Ba Dou had made mistakes in the past, he has now corrected his mistakes and studies hard. How could it be possible that he is doing such ridiculous things as before."
Lin Miao looked sideways, and Meng Xiansheng nodded. He really saw the recent changes in Mao Badou.
"Furthermore, classmate Zhou used 'suspect' as an excuse to plant this charge on Badou, which was a bit too biased."
"I have witnesses."
Xue TingRang didn't rush: "Your so-called witnesses can only prove that you have something on your mind. Listening and believing is the habit of ordinary people and should not be taken as the truth."
At this moment, a student with an unfamiliar face suddenly came out from the crowd and said: "I saw Mao Badou returning from an outing a few days ago. He walked in a hurry and knocked into me. He is usually very fat but he seemed to be even more bloated at the time. There was something hidden. At the time, I was still wondering why it hurt so much when he knocked into me. At this time, I think he probably had a book hidden on him."
This student was from Class A. Xue TingRang and others were not familiar with him, but Lin Miao and Meng Xiansheng knew. Moreover, this person is usually silent and does not communicate much with others. If it is a testimony, his testimony will be much more trustworthy.
At the same time, a few students stood up and said that the people in this dorm were walking strangely. The four usually walked by themselves, and when others occasionally passed by the door, they could always see the four holding books and reading while laughing.
Zhou Li also said at this time: "The owner of the house can search this dorm. If he came in with a book, he will definitely hide it in this dorm."
When things got to this point, Xue TingRang and others knew that this was deliberately directed at Mao Badou and the rest of them.
Mao Badou is in trouble, and it is natural that everyone will try to help. The previous testimony can be regarded as collaborating. Once someone has found an obscene book, the whole dorm will not be able to escape.
Even the people who designed this scene must have been observing them for a long time, waiting for the right moment to frame them. For a time, the eyes of the four roommates flickered, especially Mao Badou, who was about to stand up and take care of everything, but was pulled by Xue TingRang from behind.
Lin Miao pulled his beard for a while, and said, "There are no waves without wind. There must be a reason for things. Since so many people have testified against you, whether they have the books or not, they should prove their innocence."
He ordered people to search the dorm, and immediately some students volunteered, and the old school official also stepped forward and began to search around. The bunk under the table had been searched, and there was nothing suspicious. Now there were only the roommates' cabinets left.
Meng Xiansheng sighed and said, "You four should open the cabinet. Those who are innocent will be proven innocent, and those who are not will be shown to be correctly accused."
Mao Badou became even more anxious. Except for the book he had hidden on his body, everything else was in Xue TingRang's cabinet. If it is found out, everything will be over.
Xue TingRang pursed his lips, and stepped forward, saying: "This student still insists on what I've said before. If there is nothing, then there is nothing. But since you want to search, naturally I must say some things openly. This accusation is unfounded and based only on these people's one-sided words, and yet it can be used to frame us for having a private collection of banned books. To say such irresponsible words and slander others! For people existing in this world, nothing can defy reason and logic. This truth does not only apply to a few people, but to everyone.
"If nothing can be found in my cabinet today, how about Brother Zhou, this classmate who testified, and those who said we behave strangely? Will they behave like this again in the future? Anyone who is not pleasing to the eye can be framed, and they can forge facts to wrong an innocent person. Just find two people to come out with irresponsible accusations to frame someone. No matter whether it is successful or not, there is no loss anyway. Will there be chaos in this school in the future and no justice at all? In other words, who should pay for the humiliation I have suffered?"
These words made everyone think deeply, and the onlookers whispered: "Yes, who dares to say that no one has offended a few people? After doing this, who dares to speak in public."
"A gentleman should be open minded and tolerant while a villain is narrow minded and uncompromising. I am afraid that it will be the other way around in the future."
"This cabinet seems ordinary, but in this case, being searched in public is almost equivalent to the treatment of a thief. If the owner of the house cannot give a reason, dropping out of school is no big deal, but my cabinet cannot be searched." Xue TingRang said.
This remark almost puts himself in a state of confrontation with the master of the house. Who dares to reason with the master of the house? This has never happened before in the academy.
The students on the sidelines were surprised by Xue TingRang's boldness, but they were also shocked by his attitude. From looking at this appearance, it seemed he really might not have done it before but was just framed.
"Brother Xue and I are the same, and we were humiliated for no reason. It's fine if we drop out of this academy." Chen Jian said stepping forward.
At this time, Mao Badou also concealed his face with his sleeves and said: "I had my heart turned to the bright moon, but the moon illuminates the ditch. It is said that those who do not follow the righteous way are extremely valuable after they change their evils and become righteous, but now it seems that it is all fake. I just did a wrong thing in my youth, but now it's been marked on my name by someone. Even after changing and becoming good, I am still targeted for my past."
"Unexpectedly, the academy actually divides people into three, six, and nine classes based on academic performance. The three of us testified and you didn't believe it. Just because someone else entered Class A and we are in Class B, so one person's words can equal the three of us."
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One of these four people is justified, one is firm in language, and the remaining two are not mentioned. Although the reason is a little bit crooked, it is exactly the case. Because the student who entered Class A came forward to testify, it caused everyone to support his side.
The students in Class B had a sense of sadness. There is the saying that all other industries are inferior; only studying and becoming an official is the right path. Even if you can come to school, those with poor academics were still at the bottom of society.
At this time, Lin Miao suddenly said, "What is your opinion?"
This question was not asked to Xue TingRang and his roommates, nor to Meng Xiansheng, but to Zhou Li and others. Of course, that also included the student who got into class A, and a few students who just said that Xue TingRang and the others behaved strangely.
The several people were surprised, and for a while they couldn't figure out what the owner of the house meant.
"The words of the four of them are very clear. After doing this, whether it is or not, the four of them are all paying the price of leaving the school. In the same way, since you vowed to testify against those people, you should pay the equivalent price. "
"This……"
Suddenly, the complexion of the few people changed drastically. They didn't expect things to develop this way.
The few students who accused Xue TingRang and others of the weird behavior immediately changed their word, saying that they were just skeptical and they were not sure, and then they sank into the crowd in a trance. Although it drew ridicule and contempt in the eyes of people around them, at least they could escape the possibility of withdrawing from school.
On the other hand, Zhao Mingquan, who testified for Zhou Li, also said that he only saw that there was something on Zhou Li's mind, but he didn't know what it was, so how could he use his withdrawal from school to testify for him.
With the absence of several people, Zhou Li and the student who entered Class A were put on the spot.
Zhou Li couldn't run away first, because he was the one who caused the trouble, and the attitude of the student who got into Grade A was the most important thing.
The student who entered Class A was named Wang Qi, and his appearance was ordinary. Even among the group of people who entered Class A, he was inconspicuous.
But as said before, this person did not hang out with any cliques and often comes and goes alone. Lin Miao has also heard about the small circles of friends and groups in the house, but this kind of thing was indispensable everywhere, so he never asked about this kind of thing.
He also knew that Xue TingRang and others had offended a group of students who entered class A. If it were someone else, he would definitely not have this attitude, but it was Wang Qi, a student he valued and placed importance on.
To put it bluntly, it was not that Lin Miao was indifferent to the matter of accepting disciples as Boss Chen said. Although he is also teaching Class A, teaching one person alone and teaching a group of people are two different things. This is equivalent to the fact that cooking a large pot of food makes it difficult to take everyone's palate into consideration, but a small stove can focus on the taste of one person.
In fact, he had been observing for a long time, and Wang Qi was among his observations.
Wang Qi looked remorseful and clasped his fists in apology: "This student just heard what Mao Badou and others said, and felt I was too irrational. This name can be big or small, and this not something that can be accused of by just suspicion and speculation. That day, Mao Badou just knocked into me, and I cannot come up with conclusive evidence to prove that he was hiding a book. Here I would like to apologize to Mao Badou and the few classmates. Please do not blame me. It is all this student's fault."
He finished his bow to Lin Miao, and then bowed to Mao Badou and others with a sincere attitude and candid speech. Compared to the few people who faltered before, he was much better.
Therefore, although it was obvious that he also went back on his words, no one made any accusations against him. Instead, they said that Brother Wang was magnanimous and worthy as a true gentleman.
Something flashed in Lin Miao's eyes and he looked at Zhou Li again.
Zhou Li's face was pale, but he knew that he couldn't escape. For the present, he had to bet on himself. As long as he could prove that Mao Badou had indeed hidden the book, he would be able to protect himself.
"I'm willing to pay the same price! If I am found to have deliberately framed them, I will leave the academy!" He said extraordinarily impassioned, with a brave appearance.
It's a pity that everyone had turned against him before, and his behavior was not appreciated. Instead they were just waiting to have a good laugh at him.
"Well, you guys—"
At this time, Xue TingRang spoke: "Badou, please open your cabinet and show it to Brother Zhou."
After Mao Badou recovered from his stunned expression, he hurriedly climbed up the bunk and opened his cabinet. Zhou Li impatiently followed, fearing that Mao Badou might try to play tricks. He pushed Badou away to check it himself.
As he went through the cabinet, some clothing such as socks and trousers mixed with the smell of feet and sweat rolled out of the cabinet. Mao Badou was very lazy and never did his own laundry. He always took it home when he had enough. And he never organized it, so his cabinet was the messiest in the whole dorm.
Zhou Li was unprepared and was smashed in the face by the smell. For a while, he only felt that he was in a pile of salted fish. It was hard to mention the smell. Especially afterwards, when he took away the things that fell on his head and face and saw clearly that it was trousers and socks that had turned gray and black, he retched immediately.
"I said I'll do it, yet you said you wanted to do it by yourself! Look at you, you messed up my things." Mao Badou grieved.
When the onlookers saw this, they couldn't help but laugh, and even a smile flashed in Lin Miao's eyes.
Zhou Li finally stopped retching, threw away Mao Badou's stinky clothes in a panic, and continued to rummage in the cabinet.
Nothing, there was still nothing. Although he had uncovered a few books, they were the Four Books and Five Classics1, and what he was looking for was not among them.
"How come it's not there?"
"There was no such thing!"
Zhou Li was dumbfounded, suddenly moved, and rushed to Xue TingRang and others' cabinets.
"Open your cabinet!"
Xue TingRang sneered: "Classmate Zhou, you seem to be joking. You accuse Badou of hiding lewd books. It's a matter between the two of you. Why do you want to search our cabinet instead."
"But before you—"
"What did I say before? Before there were more of your people, so I didn't mind it. Now you bet on four of us at the price of only you leaving the school. Zhou Tongchuang, your family does business, right? How can you be so good at making beneficial transactions?"
"you--"
"Of course, if you want to search our cabinets, it's not impossible. You can find three more people. As long as they are all willing to leave the academy, you can search our cabinets at will."
"You--" Zhou Li's face turned pale. He suddenly jumped up from the bunk and said to the familiar people in the crowd: "Brother Zhao Xian, you help me... Brother Chen, you..."
Wherever he faced, the crowd retreated one after another. No one dared to answer. All shook their heads.
"Okay, all of you leave. I don't know what to say!" Lin Miao scolded coldly and walked away.
Mao Badou jumped off of the bunk and smiled: "You should all leave now, leave now. Really, it makes people sleepless at night."
Meng Xiansheng said: "Zhou Li, you come with me."
"Xiansheng, they are deceiving. That lewd book must be hidden in one of their cabinets."
Mao Badou jumped three feet high and placed his hands on his fat waist and said, "Zhou Li, I will warn you again. Because we are students of the same school, I don't want to fight with you. If you slander me with another accusation about keeping lewd books, I won't forgive you!"
"Okay, leave with me. Don't make unnecessary far-fetched convictions!" Meng Xiansheng said with a wooden expression.
At the same time the old school official also stepped forward. Zhou Li could only walk to Meng Xiansheng with his head down.
"You all should rest early."
"Yes, sir."
these books were their class materials. kind of like the textbooks we use in school.
After the people left, Li Datian stepped forward to close the door, and everyone let out a sigh of relief.
Only Mao Badou was still filled with righteous indignation. He was so angry that he kept walking and cursing: "You dare to slander this little master. Why don't you look at what this little master does. Trying to steal chickens but ended up losing rice1. I don't even know which bastard is tracking me from behind!"
Xue TingRang glanced at him helplessly, sat down at the square table and poured water from the teapot to drink.
Li Datian said, "alright, alright. Stop walking. If you keep walking, the books in trousers will fall out again."
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Only then did Mao Badou react and hurriedly touched the book in his trousers. The three of them looked disgusted, especially Li Datian who hurriedly looked at what the book was like and what its name was. Then he said again: "You can really hide it. The books can even be stuffed into your trousers."
Mao Badou said frankly: "In that case, where should I stuff it if not in my trousers?"
Xue TingRang coughed lightly: "Badou, you should still go and tidy up the things on your floor. It is about time to turn off the lights."
Mao Badou went to clean up while Li Datian mocked him next to him: "You really have a lot of good things in your cabinet. I just saw that Zhou Li almost vomited out. How long have you kept your clothes? Why didn't you take it back this break?"
"I forgot."
"You stay away from me later. I'm disgusted by you."
After some gossip, the four of them lay down again, Xue TingRang leaned against the wall in silence, but Li Datian was very unlucky because Mao Badou wanted to squeeze onto his bed out of revenge. Li Datian tried to drive him away, but Badou gave him a look that said I'm fat and take up a lot of space, so I can't help it.
It was a quiet night.
When they went to the lecture hall the next day, there was one missing person in Class B. It was Zhou Li.
Unlike usual, quite a few students greeted the four with a very pleasant expression. There was a lot of comfort and appreciation in their words. It was obviously Xue TingRang's performance yesterday that made many people admire him.
This was also considered a pleasant surprise, but the four of them were choking in their throats, because there was someone dealing with them in the dark. And these seemingly pleasant people in front of them, who knows if they are people or ghosts.
"Badou, you have seen what happened yesterday. Although scholars uphold the gentleman's courtesy, it is very realistic in the end. If we can't enter the first class, we will be inferior. If someone who enters the first class wants to harm us, it will be hard to guard against. Now this person hasn't been found. We should study hard and get into class A as soon as possible, so that we can rest assured." Li Datian sighed.
"Will we be worry-free after entering class A?"
"Even if we can't rest assured, there won't be so many people who will come out to harm you. People are based in the world, and everything can't escape a trend. Although this academy is small, it is a reflection of the world. You get into class A and others will fear and weigh your worth. Your momentum must get bigger and bigger, so that the day when others dare not provoke you, you will naturally have peace of mind."
Mao Badou nodded, and immediately asked curiously: "Ting Rang, how do you know so much?"
Xue TingRang was taken aback. Yes, why did he know so much? It seems that after dreaming that dream, his disposition and behavior have changed a lot.
It's just this kind of inner complexity naturally can't be told to outsiders. He can only smile and tease: "There are thousands of grains in a book, and a golden house in the tree2."
"Hmph, If you don't want to say it, then don't say it. You even use those phrases to fool me."
All of them looked at each other and smiled, and the friendship between the teenagers was deepened between the laughter.
Lin Miao closed the scroll and left the lecture hall. Before leaving, he ordered Yu Ziyou to come to the house to find him.
The other students in the lecture hall were full of envy. To have the master teach them alone, there were not a lot of people in the whole school that could have this privilege. Even among the students who have entered Class A, there are only Yu Ziyou, Hu Lianshen and Wang Qi. There are also other students who have been individually called by the master to learn, but they are not as frequent as those three.
There is no doubt about the knowledge of the house owner. From the beginning when he became a xiucai3after passing the imperial examination and every year after, he was a lingsheng4and was subsidized by the court. There were many students in the academy who discussed privately more than once that it shouldn't be a problem for the house owner with his amount of knowledge to take the next imperial examination and become a juren5, but it is unknown why the owner has not taken the test for many years.
Generally knowledgeable scholars will accept disciples, but the owner has no disciples so far, and the students don't know the specific reasons. And old people like Meng Xiansheng are secretive even if they know. But this does not prevent everyone from guessing. Judging from the words and deeds of the house owner, it is possible that the candidate for his disciple is among the three of Ziyou, Hu Lianshen and Wang Qi.
Among them, Yu Ziyou and Hu Lianshen have the greatest chance. After all, they have already achieved fame.
Not to mention these, after Lin Miao left, Yu Ziyou sat in the lecture hall for a while, then packed up his books and went out. All the way to the house, Lin Miao was already waiting for him, drinking tea in the house.
"I'll give you a question today. You will go back and answer it, and hand in an answer tomorrow."
At Yu Ziyou's level of knowledge, the Four Books and Five Classics have been thoroughly read, and what is lacking is nothing more than the achievements from the eight-legged essay6.
The eight-part essay has been increasingly used in recent dynasties and finally established the metrical form in the previous dynasties, developing to its peak. Generally they only test these certain things, and the questions are all from the Four Books and Five Classics. It has almost reached the point where there are no questions to be tested and no questions to be asked.
Therefore, a question method called cut-and-match question was born. Strongly cut sentences and break the meaning of the scriptures to increase the difficulty of the topic, which is divided into long, short, ruthless, and separated forms.
Honestly, it really is just piecing together sentences from different chapters in the Four Books and Five Classics to create the question, splitting the meaning of the classics, but also letting you write an essay that is specific and substantial.
For example, one of the examiners in the previous dynasty gave a very unrelated question: "Wife Desires Wealth"7.
Looking at this question literally, it is extremely filthy, saying that some Wang Furen wants to see something indescribable. As everyone knows, Jun Furen comes from "The Analects of Confucius Jishi": "The wife of a state monarch is called Furen by her husband, and the outsiders call her Jun Furen."
And Yang Huo Yu comes from "The Analects": "Yang Huo wants to see Confucius, Confucius does not." It means that a person named Yang Huo wants to see Confucius, but Confucius does not want to see him.
These two irrelevant sentences can also be linked together. If candidates of any subject encounter this kind of question, it is estimated that some may even want to cry to their mothers.
But nowadays, the imperial examinations in the Dachang dynasty are almost all of this kind of cut-and-match questions, and therefore it is a test of the candidates' adaptability and solid foundation of classics.
Today, Lin Miao also gave Yu Ziyou a cut-and-match question.
After receiving the paper from the house owner, Yu Ziyou was taken aback when he saw the above question.
"The villain is lucky to take risks, listening kindly but acutely."8. The general idea is that the gentleman does not resent the heavens against the superior, and does not blame others against the evil, so the gentleman is in an easy position and waits for the fate of heaven, but the villain takes the risk to seek wrongful benefits.
And "Ting De Wei Cong" is from "Shang Shu·Tai Jia Zhong", the whole sentence is Shi Yuan Wei Ming Ting De Wei Cong9.
The general meaning is the vision is sharp if you can see far away; the hearing is sharp if you can listen to good words. It encourages scholars to pay attention to self-cultivation, study diligently, behave in self-reflection at all times, review their words and deeds, and be broad-minded, good at listening to good opinions, and discarding those bad things.
Could it be that the Xiansheng is concerned about something?
Yu Ziyou couldn't help thinking too much, he subconsciously raised his head and glanced at Lin Miao. Lin Miao's face was serious as always, and the vicissitudes and turbulence of life in his pupils were calm.
"You can leave."
After a respectful bow, Yu Ziyou retired.
It wasn't until he got out of this room that his expression turned ugly.
meaning: wanted to take advantage of someone else but ended up suffering a loss
书中自有千钟粟，树书中自有黄金屋.
Tried my best to translate this, but honestly, there are too many poetic chinese metaphors and they are all very hard to understand, so I apologize for my rough translation. If anyone has a better translation or a correction to make, please leave a comment.
I think TingRang is saying that a book contains an official's salary.
Cuz an official must be well read and scholarly to perform well and receive his wages... I guess.
title for someone who passed the lowest-level imperial examinations (the county level examination)
a student who gets government-provided food.
title of someone who passed the provincial level imperial examination
style of essay in imperial examinations
Eight-part essays are based on the "Four Books and Five Classics". Free expression is absolutely not allowed. It must be written using the tone of Confucius and Mencius. There is a fixed format for the essay, and as implied by the name, there are 8 parts to the essay.
I shortened it, but here I will explain some more.
The phrase was 君夫人阳货欲
君夫人 is the first wife or official wife of a prince during the spring and autumn period
货欲 means the greedy desire for wealth
This is the literal meaning
another cut-and-match question. I translated based on the literal meaning.
From the text, the phrase "the little man takes risks to get lucky" comes from "The Doctrine of the Mean", and the whole sentence is 'do not blame the world on the top, and do not show off others when you go down'[note]上不怨天，下不尤人，故君子居易以俟命，小人行险以徼幸
In case you wanted the chinese text
视远惟明，听德惟聪
In case you wanted the chinese text
What happened that day caused a lot of discussion among the students, and they all talked about everything, and the most talked about subject was how the people in the dorm had offended someone who caused the incident to happen.
Of course, some people refuted it, because Wang Qi was a student who was admitted to class A, and the student who was able to enter class A had his own unique side. Who could be so powerful that Wang Qi would come forward and frame him personally. Coupled with Wang Qi's decisive apology and self-examination in the name of oversight and negligence, many thought it was a coincidence.
In actuality, everyone only knows a small part of what happened and doesn't know the other side. Wang Qi was indeed instigated by someone, and this person was Yu Ziyou. Yu Ziyou chose him because of his detached, lonesome character in the academy, which does not easily attract suspicion.
As for why Yu Ziyou had to deal with Mao Badou and others, it was the disaster of the dining hall that day.
That He Ming was originally Yu Ziyou's person, and he stuck to Ziyou on weekdays. Yu Ziyou was a narrow-minded person. He was so ridiculed by Xue TingRang that day. He was already full of hate and then was instigated by He Ming. Therefore, he couldn't wait to get rid of them soon.
In fact, Mao Badou was nothing but a raft to deal with Xue TingRang. Yu Ziyou thought it was perfect, and it seemed that Zhou Li left the academy as the end of the matter. He never expected that the owner of the house would suddenly ask him such a question.
Is the owner saying that he has a small heart and has come close to being a villain, so he can only do things behind the backs of his classmates?
The more Yu Ziyou thought about it, the more shocked he became and his hand clenched the paper, utterly lost and unable to leave.
Until someone came around and called him: "Brother Yu, Brother Yu!"
Yu Ziyou looked at the incoming person, and immediately changed his complexion and said: "Why have you come find me? Don't be noticed."
Wang Qi smiled faintly: "I just want to remind Brother Yu, don't forget the remaining silver."
"It's just a small amount of silver, and you are afraid I won't give it to you? After this break, I will go home to get it, and I will give it to you in time. If you are free, don't come to me behind my back. It will cause suspicion!"
After saying this, Yu Ziyou hurried away, while Wang Qi stood there and looked at his back for a while before turning his head and leaving.
Probably, what Xue TingRang said that day really worked, and Mao Badou seemed to be diligent in the following days.
Time was slowly passed by the few people working hard and studying. During this period, Xue TingRang went home several times and also mentioned teaching Zhao'er literacy. But Zhaoer has been too busy recently, and was rarely at home. After coming back, she was in a state of exhaustion. Xue TingRang couldn't bear it, so he could only keep silent.
During this period, Xue Cui'e became more and more anxious from the beginning until the Zhao family still did not ask for marriage. It wasn't only her. Zhao shi was also anxious. Fortunately, Elder Xue held it in and kept the two of them under control, otherwise they still don't know what would have happened.
At the same time, on the Zhao family's side.
"It's not that I scold you, why bother fighting the truth. Besides, it's not all to blame E'er's indiscretion. If not for the fact that Jinrui couldn't hold it, how could this happen! You are going to be a grandmother, isn't it? I don't know if this kind of thing doesn't' come together, you don't want to hold your grandson?" Uncle Zhao complained.
Hong shi rolled her eyes at him angrily and turned back to the room.
Of course she not only disliked Xue Cui'e's indiscretion, but also had the heart to teach Zhao shi a lesson. Back then when she married Zhao Wang, Zhao shi, who was a sister-in-law, gave her a bad attitude and said she was a concubine behind her back.
Being a stepmother was difficult, and after all these years, Hong shi's life finally went smoothly. Then Zhao shi finally had something to beg of her, how could Hong shi easily let this opportunity go. She thought that the Xue family would honestly ask for the marriage, but who would have thought that the other party had been silent.
Counting the days, it is estimated that the girl's belly has been around three months, and if she continues to procrastinate, even if the marriage is really done, the things in her belly can't be covered.
"You just continue to do it, ruin Jinrui's reputation. Do you still expect him to become a xiucai and let you be a xuicai's mother?!" Uncle Zhao cursed in the outhouse.
The more she listened the more annoying she became, and Hong shi came out stomping: "Since you have made a decision about this matter, why do you still ask me?"
Zhao Wang looked at the mother: "Was it not you who said that you won't give the Xue family a betrothal gift. How can you not give a bride-gift when you marry a wife, especially when there is such a relationship. It will make outsiders laugh."
The Zhao family's family background is not bad. The family also has dozens of acres of land, and it is also one of the best in Zhaojiazhuang. Otherwise, Hong shi, who was a beautiful girl, would not marry Zhao Wang, a widower who was older than her by more than ten years. Zhao Wang can still afford the bride price for his son to marry a wife.
Hong shi came to the edge of the Kang. She sat: "Isn't because I am angry? I have such a good son. I had wanted Jin Rui to marry the daughter of Liu Dizhu's house."
Hong shi's tone was a bit coquettish, and Zhao Wang just loved it. The old man loved his young wife. Zhao Wang is more than fifty this year, and Hong shi is less than forty. She was spoiled to the point where she has complete authority at home.
The second daughter-in-law of the Zhao family saw this at the door, and she gritted her teeth with anger, wishing to throw the old witch into the river, so as not to instigate the relationship between her man and the father-in-law at home every day.
Of course, this was just thinking only. She lowered her head and picked beans, but her ears stood up to listen to the movement in the main room.
"Then we will go there tomorrow?"
"Go early, and get things done early."
"Just follow the old rules and pay another ten liang of bride price. After all, it is Jin Rui's fault. Our family has dragged on for so long, so it's just to give some face to my sister."
Although Hong shi was unwilling, she still agreed.
Early the next morning, the Zhao family was ready to go out, along with Zhao Jinrui.
The Zhao family had a cart, but it was a bull cart. The bull cart walked slowly, but was still able to carry things. It was just Zhao Jinrui looked unwilling to ride it. He felt that the bull cart was too bumpy.
By the time they reached to Yu Qing Village, Zhao Jinrui's expression stunk like someone owed him dozens of silver.
When Zhao shi was sitting in the room, she heard that her brother and sister-in-law were coming. She subconsciously got off the Kang, and only reacted when she quickly walked to the door. She turned her head and looked back. At the same time, she held Xue Cui'e, who also wanted to welcome them with joy.
"Girls should be more reserved. Go to the back room. Mother will talk to them."
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After a while, all the men from the Xue family returned, except for Xue Qinghuai who was not at home. Today, it happened to be Xue TingRang's break day, so Zhaoer was also in the house.
Early in the morning, Xue TingRang brought out the Three-Character scripture he had copied, intending to teach Zhaoer a few words.
There is a big kang, and a square kang table is placed on the kang. Here Zhao'er is sitting by the table, sitting upright, with the back straight and the hands behind the back, copying the posture that little children use when learning.
Xue TingRang was stunned for a while before he realized that Zhaoer most likely saw the children in the village's private school were like this, so she thought it was the same for all studying. He secretly laughed in his heart, and instead of pointing it out, he got off the kang to find a bamboo stick.
When Zhao'er saw the bamboo stick, she even remembered the school teacher's ruler in the private school.
She knew that she would be beaten if she was not good in her learning. Xue Qingshan's private school often had school children beaten, and she didn't deal with the beating because Xiansheng did it for their own good.
"You still want to hit me?" Her voice was full of uncertainty.
Xue TingRanglooked serious and said slowly: "If you make a mistake, you must be hit, and if you don't read well, you must be hit, so you have to study carefully and don't make mistakes."
Him like this, if you give him another beard, he would be like the Xiansheng in a village school. Zhao'er was especially in awe of scholars, and immediately put away the mentality of wanting to get lucky, and became solemn.
"It's best like this, You need to know that I am your Xiansheng at this time, and you are my student." Xue TingRang had an idea, and sighed pretentiously: "Reading brings wisdom, but it is not only about being literate. It is also about understanding some reason. In that case, I will start teaching you from the disciples rules."
He went to find the script of disciple rules that he wrote to compete with Xue Juncai and silently gave it to Zhao'er. He thought in his heart, when I have time, I will copy the disciples rules and give it to Zhaoer for her own uses.
"I read one sentence, and you read along. Not only do you want to read it, but also recognize the words." After a pause, he began to read in a mellow and frustrating manner: "Disciple regulation, sage instruction, first filial brother, second sincere faith, universal love for all, and kindness. If you have spare energy, you can learn literature. This is the general instruction. Now I will teach you the first chapter, filial piety."
Because Zhao'er was illiterate, in order to let her distinguish the characters from the phonology, Xue TingRang took the bamboo stick, read a sentence, and then used to stick to specifically point on the Disciple Rules to tell her the specific form of these characters. At the beginning of learning, schoolchildren must be literate, and only after literacy can they get started.
So when the Zhao family came, Xue TingRang was teaching Zhao'er literacy.
When Zhao'er heard movement outside, she bent her neck and wanted to look out of the window, but she was beaten back by Xue TingRang.
"When you are studying, you must have no other pursuit in your mind and not probe into other matters."
This hit was not fierce, but it played a vigilant role. Zhao'er immediately sat back, placed her hands behind her back, and started reading.
But there was still some grievance in her heart. She was already so old, yet she was beaten by a little man.
As if seeing the meaning of the move, Xue TingRang glanced at her lightly, and said: "You need to know that I am your Xiansheng at this time, and you are my student. Student is not based on age, but on knowledge. If you are not as knowledgeable as I am, just treat it as what I say is the truth."
"Oh."
Zhao shi's face has been stern, if it weren't for Elder Xue who came back in time, it is estimated that Zhao Wang and Hong shi would have already gone back by now.
Even if this is his own sister, Zhao Wang has to admit that his wife makes sense, and that his little sister is really hateful. He remembered that his sister wasn't like this before, when did it become like this.
Elder Xue is much smarter than Zhao, and he knows that his daughter will eventually come to be someone's daughter-in-law, so the money that should be taken is not too small, but it is not too much, so to make people feel uncomfortable.
After back and forth conversation, the two families got close again and began to discuss the details of the marriage of the two juniors.
Zhao Jinrui felt that the house was stuffy, so he went to the yard, and heard the sound of reciting the rules of the disciple in one room, so he thought the Xue family had a child to enlighten. Then he heard the voice and felt it was not because the voice was a female voice, not a child's voice.
He walked over curiously, and when he reached the root of the window, he was pulled from behind.
Turning around, he found it was Xue Cui'e.
"Brother Jin Rui, what are you doing here?"
"I heard someone reading..."
"It turns out that you said this. Isn't it just Gouer was bored to he decided to teach Zhaoer to read a few words. He really has nothing to do." After saying that, Xue Cui'e changed her tone again, inexhaustibly soft and charming: "Brother Jin Rui, follow me. Let me tell you something."
"What are you doing? Don't pull me."
"Oh, you just come with me."
In the room, Zhao'er and Xue TingRang looked at each other.
bit of smut in this chapter. I would categorize it as R15.
These two people are really talking when they are standing under someone else's window. Are they not afraid of being heard? Zhao'er climbed on the window and looked out, just to see the two people pulling each other while leaving. She got off the kang alone and Xue TingRang was unable to stop her.
Xue Cuie took Zhao Jinrui to the vegetable field behind the house.
The vegetable field behind Xue family's house is very large. Pig pens, chicken coops, firewood houses are all here, and there are also two piles of wheat straw. The latrine is also there.
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Xue Cui'e knew if people saw the two of them together, it would be bad, so she pulled Zhao Jinrui into the firewood house. Normally, very few people come to this room. The stove in the front is used to boil water and cook, and it is used once every several days.
Zhao Jinrui waved her hand away while dusting his own clothes: "What on earth do you want to tell me, dragging me to this place." He looked around in disgust.
This wooden house is an old abandoned house. The roof has long been broken, and it has been replaced with a thatched roof. But the doors are still doors and the windows are still windows, and the firewood inside is also organized.
Xue Cui'e said a little aggrieved: "Jin Rui Ge, it's been so long since we've last met. Don't you miss me?"
Zhao Jinrui glanced at her without speaking. But in Xue Cui'e's eyes, the fact that he didn't say anything meant that he missed her, and then she leaned over with a shy expression: "I missed you too."
Zhao'er couldn't help shivering and couldn't believe that Xue Cui'e would actually speak in this tone.
She was about to leave, but someone suddenly came up behind her.
She was so frightened that she turned around and realized that it was Xue TingRang. Because of her actions, a bamboo pole standing against the corner of the house fell down and made a crisp sound. Zhao Jinrui immediately looked over: "Who?"
Xue Cui'e listened attentively, and then said indifferently: "No one. It must be a wild cat. I haven't seen anyone come once in this wooden house for ten days or half a month."
Zhao Jinrui turned his face again and looked at Xue Cui'e and said, "What are you going to say? If you want to say something, say it quickly. If you don't say anything, then I will leave."
As soon as he turned around, Xue Cui'e hugged him from behind his waist: "Jinrui Ge, why are you so merciless? We haven't seen each other for so long, do you not miss me and want to talk to me? You don't know. I think of you day and night, and I wanted to find you, but my mother wouldn't let me go."
"Take a look, my mother said that a pregnant woman will not look pregnant until five months later. Brother Jin Rui, this girl1is pregnant with your child."
Therefore, the frequency of a man's thoughts is never in line with a woman's. Zhao Jinrui was hugged and pulled by Xue Cui'e, who took his hand and moved it to her belly. He was in the age of young blood and high energy, so how could he control it. In particular, Xue Cui'e looked pretty. At first he was touching her belly, but then began moving upwards.
Zhao Jinrui pinched Xue Cui'e's swollen breasts: "You little bitch, you seduce me like this. You don't miss me, you miss my..."
"Jin Rui Ge, what are you talking about?" Xue Cui'e shyly and coquettishly asked, a bit embarrassed as she lowered her reddish neck.
"Saying what? Whatever you think I'm saying is exactly what I'm saying."
As they said this, they hugged each other, kissing and touching.
Outside, Zhao'er's eyes were almost popping out of her eye sockets.
Tsk tsk, these two people really have no reservations. This is at home. But thinking about it, if they weren't so unscrupulous, how could they be unmarried yet have a big belly2.
She was watching with so much interest that she completely forgot there was a person standing beside her.
And it was a man.
But as she watched, Zhao'er felt there was something wrong. How come she is taking off her clothes? Zhaoer watched as Xue Cui'e's big white breasts became exposed while Zhao Jinrui was still sucking on them. Zhao'er immediately blushed deep red, but even as she blushed, she still wanted to watch.
"Ke……"
Zhao'er didn't look back. She didn't react until Xue TingRang pulled her again.
"When did you come here?" she asked very quietly.
Xue TingRang squinted at her: "I've been here long ago. Have you forgotten?"
"Oh oh oh, let's go."
"You don't want to watch it anymore?"
"What's there to watch? It's not as entertaining as watching Heizi find other female dogs to mate." She said, pulling Xue TingRang and walking out on tiptoe.
She just said this casually, but didn't know that Xue TingRang remembered it.
"You've seen Heizi go looking for a female dog?"
Zhao'er nodded subconsciously: "Haven't you seen it before? Heizi is such a hooligan, and he won't get off the female dog of Xue Qiang's house."
It was not until seeing Xue TingRang standing in the same place that Zhao'er realized that she was a big girl, and it was not very good to say such things. However, this place in the countryside where no one cared for such things. There are many dogs in the countryside, and you often see two dogs mating on the road. They've all grown up seeing this.
Animals can be like this, but people certainly can't. However, the folk customs in the countryside are still rather open minded. Not to mention the unmarried girls, those married men and young daughters-in-law when they walk together in small groups often make unruly jokes.
Growing up in this environment, the village girls and boys in the countryside knew these things very early. However, it was the first time that Zhao'er associates such things with people.
Thinking of the scene just now, she blushed and her eyes flickered as she said: "You are still young, so why are you asking such things?"
After speaking, she felt that something was wrong because she had been disciplined by the little man just before. She was a little confused for a while, and just when she was about to say something, she heard Xue TingRang say: "I am not young anymore. We will get married next year, and then we can do what Zhao Jinrui did to my little aunt."
Looking at the serious expression on the little man's face, Zhao'er's brain exploded.
coquettish way of saying "I"
(honestly, I get goosebumps whenever I hear it)
chinese: 人家 (ren jia)
big belly from pregnancy
What happened after that, Zhaoer couldn't remember.
She only knew that her mind was blank. She said aloud: "I will pick vegetables from the vegetable field first, and then go to the wooden room to get some firewood." Then she hurried away.
There was a panic from the firewood room. It seemed that a man called out, but the voice was very strange and it seemed like he was in pain.
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In this situation, Xue TingRang naturally didn't want to stay anymore, so he turned and went to the front yard.
In the kitchen, Zhou Shi and Sun Shi were busy. He stood outside and said: "Third aunt and fourth aunt, Zhao'er went to the vegetable plot behind to help pick vegetables."
Zhou shi and Sun shi were very busy. Naturally, they didn't know what was going on. Sun shi said with a smile: "It's enough to have your third aunt with me, why would we need Zhao'er's help?"
As they were talking, two people ran out one after the other from the back of the house. Because there was no one in the yard, no one paid attention to this, so only Xue TingRang knew that he saw a pair of wild mandarin ducks1.
After that, Xue TingRang went back to the house. Zhaoer felt oddly enthusiastic and helped make lunch.
Visitors at home can't be treated lightly. The dishes have to be on the table and they have to be generous with the food. Every time a visitor is at home, they must always make two meals. From the beginning to the end, Zhao'er didn't show up and stayed busy in the kitchen room. After the Zhao family had left and everything was cleaned up, Zhao'er came out of the kitchen.
She didn't rest, and began to busy herself with the task of giving Heizi a bath. Ever since she was young, she had given baths to Heizi. When it was cold, she washed him in the house, and when it was hot, she washed him in the river.
Zhao'er boiled a large bucket of hot water and took Heizi to the vegetable field behind. It took her more than half an hour to wash him before returning to the house.
At this time, she looked calm, as if nothing had happened, with a smile on her face, and she even gossiped with Xue TingRang.
Seeing such a Zhaoer, Xue TingRang felt very helpless.
At night, Xue TingRang found that Zhao'er's bedding was a little farther away from him. She never cared about these details before.
He didn't say anything, and the two of them got on the kang and laid down to sleep.
...
Zhao'er had a dream. The scene in the dream was very strange. She even dreamed of a little man.
The little man seemed to have grown up, becoming a gentle and elegant man. He was taller, his shoulders wider, and his ribs were no longer thin. He had become stronger and sturdier.
As to why she would know, it is because the little man is naked.
And she also seemed to be naked. She seemed to have become very weak, and she was hit by the little man against the kang without any chance of resisting. Just like the scene she saw before, her upper garment was half open, and her face pushed horizontally against the firewood. The other places are neat, but under the skirt, there are two thin white legs coming in and out of view, shaking in the air.
Zhao'er felt very stuffy, and his body was heavy, hot and heavy, but she couldn't push him away. In a daze, she dreamed that she seemed to have fallen into the water. A wave washed over her body one after another. She was thrown high in the sky along with the rising wave, and then fell to the bottom of the sea.
But she was actually not afraid. She just felt so sleepy...
It was dawn when she woke up. Zhao'er's body felt very heavy.
It felt as if her body was filled with water, swollen, faintly painful, but she did not want to go to the bathroom. The place next to her was very quiet. Xue TingRang seemed to be still asleep. She turned over, but took a breath of cold air to ease the pain.
Under the blanket, Zhao'er reached out and touched her chest, which was swelling painfully.
It's not that she had never encountered this kind of situation. In the past few years, the two pieces of flesh on her chest would hurt for some reason. When she walked, they hurt, and it hurt when she touched them. It only felt better after she bound them in cloth later.
Later, after a long time, it didn't hurt anymore.
But every time it hurt, the two pieces of meat on her chest got bigger.
Is it because they were going to get bigger again?
Zhao'er plunged her head into the quilt, secretly lifted her dudou2and took a look. Somehow she remembered the situation where Xue Cui'e's breasts were eaten by Zhao Jinrui yesterday.
Before, she only knew that when a woman had a baby, the breast milk was for the baby, but she didn't expect men to eat it too, and to eat it with such pleasure.
A person's voice suddenly sounded in her ears--
"I'm not young anymore. We will get married next year, and then we can also do what Zhao Jinrui did to little aunt."
Does the little man want to eat her milk, so he said such a thing? She suddenly remembered the dream last night. In the dream, he was eating it deliciously and greedily, and they were so red and swollen from being sucked, or...
God, how did she start thinking of such a thing!
Zhao'er turned over again and tightly covered her face with a quilt until she was out of breath. Then she let her face peek out.
The chicken crowed outside again, and Zhaoer knew that it was time to wake up even without looking outside.
While she was thinking about this, there was a sudden movement next to her.
It was the quiet of the morning. Everything in the house was so peaceful and tranquil. Heizi crawled under the kang with his tail flapping.
"Ah, you are awake? It's time to get up, and you will have to go to the academy after eating."
There was a low reply, and no more words. Zhaoer wanted to call him again, but suddenly there was a movement.
"Zhao'er, get me a pair of pants." The kang cabinet is on the side of Zhao'er.
Zhao'er sat up: "What pants, outer pants?"
"Underpants."
"Underpants? Didn't you just change into a new one yesterday."
"If I tell you to get it, then just get it for me." The voice seemed a little unpleasant, so Zhaoer didn't ask too much. She pulled out a pair of underpants from the cabinet and threw it to him. Then, she put on her coat and got off the kang.
She put on her clothes quickly without looking at him: "Get up, I'll cook."
After two squeaks sounded, Xue TingRang was the only one left in the room, and he sat up from the kang.
Not long after he got off the kang, he had planned to tidy up the bedding, but for some reason he threw the things there again.
He pushed the door and walked out. At this moment, the sky was just lighting up in the east. The air was still a bit cool, and the farm courtyard was quiet and serene.
There was a faint movement in the stove room. He glanced over there, then turned around and took a toothbrush and basin to wash up.
Next, it seemed that the prelude was opened, and the Xue family members started to get up one after another. The yard suddenly became lively, and the sound of splashing water was endless.
pair of mandarin ducks is a phrase for lovers
a small camisole that is part of a woman's undergarments.
Zhao'er quickly made breakfast and ate with Xue TingRang. While washing the dishes, Gao Sheng drove the cart over.
" Zhaoer Ji, is Ting Rang packed up yet?"
Gao Sheng got up early and had already gone out to collect a cart of vegetables. Because Xue Qinghuai was also busy outside, so he had agreed in advance that he would come to pick up Xue TingRang when he went to town.
"Yes. Have you eaten Shengzi1? I'll make some for you if you haven't eaten."
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"I've eaten. I've eaten very early already. Please don't busy yourself, Zhaoer Jie."
While they were walking, Xue TingRang already took the book bag and walked out with the baggage that had been packed in advance. Before, Zhao'er would have said a few words to him, but today she didn't say anything.
"Then I'm leaving?" Xue TingRang took the initiative to speak.
Zhaoer nodded.
He glanced at her again before getting into the mule cart. Gao Sheng bid farewell to Zhaoer and then they drove away in the mule cart.
Looking at the back of the cart, Zhao'er stayed in front of the door for a while. Until a villager came to this side from a distance, she recovered for her daze.
She shook her head and went back to the house.
The Kang was messy. She patted the two pillows and put them aside. While folding Xue TingRang's quilt, a pair of underpants fell out of it.
It was the underpants Xue TingRang had changed into before.
"I don't see anything dirty, so why does he need to change one." Zhao'er muttered to herself, and as she unfolded it, a very strange smell came to the tip of her nose.
Naturally, it was not the smell of urine or body odor, but was a very strange smell. She was puzzled, and as she was about to put it aside, she suddenly felt a wet spot.
It was slimy. She spread out the underpants to look. When she saw where the wetness was, she felt dizzy as if she had been hit by a hammer.
She couldn't remember exactly where she heard it, but she knew that the sign of boys growing up was getting their underpants dirty. If the boy gets his underpants dirty, it means he is thinking about a girl.
Thinking about a girl? Dirtying his underpants!
So, the little man is thinking about a girl?
Who is the girl he thinks about? She thought of that voice again in her ears--
"I'm not young anymore, we will get married next year, and then we can also do what Zhao Jinrui did to little aunt."
Xue Cuie's belly couldn't wait, so the wedding date was set on the 20th of next month.
There was less than a month to prepare the wedding dress and dowries. The entire Xue family was so busy with this matter.
The first was the dowry. Zhao wanted to buy two cabinets for Xue Cui'e, but she was in a hurry. It was too expensive to go to town to buy ready-made products. Xue Qinghuai and Xue Qingbai were driven out and ran several times just because of this cabinet.
Zhao'er's mule cart was also used. Fortunately, because there was extra money on hand, Zhao'er bought a mule cart for Gao Sheng to use for business a few days ago. Otherwise, it would have impacted their business.
However, Zhao'er also explained clearly to Zhao shi and Xue Cui'e. You can use it if you want, but only in the afternoon. Zhao's and Xue Cui-e's complaints were aroused because of this, but Zhao'er ignored them.
Time passed slowly while they were busy. During this time, Xue TingRang also came back twice, but Zhao'er, instead of choosing to stay at home at this time like in the past, appeared very busy and often could not be seen.
However, she really has been very busy recently, because with the addition of Gao Sheng and others, their business has expanded to Anyang Township next door. It's in the initial stages over there, so Zhao'er does not feel reassured without seeing it through herself.
Especially recently, she has been thinking about buying land again. She looked around and couldn't make up her mind. The price of land is too expensive. With so little silver in her hand, she can only buy a few mu2at all, and she needs a lot of land.
When she came back from outside on this day and passed the end of the village, Zhao'er's eyes swept across the back mountain, and suddenly her eyes lit up.
In the next two days, she seemed to be worried yet excited. She always took Heizi up the back mountain and no one knew what she was doing. On the day when Xue TingRang was back for break, she bought a lot of vegetables and cleaned the house thoroughly.
Zhao'er is a clean person. She hates messy things. But recently the house has not been cleaned up for some days because she has been too busy. When Xue TingRang came back in the evening, he saw the bright and clean room and the person in the room wearing a very bright smile.
Xue TingRang still understands Zhaoer, knowing that she must have something to ask him.
Sure enough, Zhao'er told him the matter during dinner.
"Do you want to buy the hillside of the hill?"
The back mountain is said to be a mountain, but it is just a few continuous hillsides, and a long distance further in is the real mountain. But Yu Qing Village likes to call it Houshan3.
The place Zhao'er fancied is the tomb of the ancestors of the two surnames Xue and Zheng, which is a small hillside far away. This place is at the end of the village, and a dirt road leads directly outside. The slope is not steep because the villagers cut down trees for firewood all year round. There are few bare trees on it, but there are many thorns, weeds and rotten roots, which have been abandoned for a long time.
"I've been thinking that after all, collecting other people's vegetables is not a long lasting business strategy. The folks first eat them by themselves before selling them. And there are too few varieties of vegetables. The ones we want are not there, and there are plenty of the ones we don't need. If it's just a small business, just harvesting the farmers' vegetables is enough, but if we want to grow bigger, I think we still have to have land in our hands to produce the vegetables."
"So you want to buy Houshan?"
Zhao'er nodded without concealing: "I don't have much money in my hands now, and I can't buy more than a few acres of land. There is no one in the back mountain. Even the villagers who chop wood hate those thorns and cannot bear to burn it. Anyway, it is deserted. It's also deserted, but it's different if you buy the land to grow vegetables. Vegetables are not as delicate as other foods. You can grow them by throwing a little bit of soil and seeds. It's just that we have to discuss with the village head."
"Do you want me to tell Zheng Lizheng?"
"I really want to go, but after all, I am a foreigner and a woman. Zheng Lizheng will probably not pay attention to me. You are different."
"Where is it different?"
Zhao'er's eyes flashed, and suddenly she stopped talking like a dull gourd whose mouth was sewn.
"Exactly what's the difference?"
Zhao'er still did not speak. Xue TingRang no longer looked at her but picked up chopsticks to eat. It wasn't until he had eaten half a bowl of rice that Zhao'er blushed and said, "Anyways, you have to go. Even if you don't want to, you have to."
He raised his eyebrows and glanced at her.
She slammed the kang table and exclaimed: "You are the only man in the family. Who will go if you do not go!"
Xue TingRang put down the bowl, looked at her and deceptively said: "Are you finally admitting that I am your man?"
shortened way of calling Gao Sheng. Also a little more affectionate
ancient unit for land/property
1 mu = 4840 sq. yards
Houshan = back mountain