Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Chapter 5159
Except for the person involved, no one knew exactly what Lao Yangtou had said to Liao Meiying.

After breakfast the next day, Liao Meiying hurried back to her natal home with the child in her arms and a bundle containing the child's favorite clothes and baby clothes.

The weather was getting colder and colder. Not only did Yang Yongxian not come back after failing the ranking, but even Liao Meiying and her children stayed at her mother's house and did not come back.

As the days go by, the news about Yang Yongxian's failure has long been chewed by the villagers like sugar cane, and things about him are gradually not being mentioned.

It was only occasionally that the big guys sighed a few words when they saw Lao Yangtou pushing a wheelchair and sitting under the old maple tree at the entrance of the village looking around.

Chang Huaizhou.

Yang Yongxian was very depressed during this time.

The shadow brought about by the failure has been hanging over my heart, lingering.

Obviously no one slapped his face, but he felt the burning pain on his face.

Every day I hide in the room I rented, I don't want to go anywhere, and I don't want to open the doors and windows.

Even when the daughter of the Song family came to deliver food, he asked her to put the dishes and chopsticks at the door of the house, and he was no longer in the mood to make friends with her.

After several times of refusal, the daughter of the Song family gradually lost patience with the depressed Yang Yongxian.

"Father, mother, I suddenly find that Yang Yongxian not pleasing to my eyes. It's just that he didn't pass the exam. If he has a little ambition and perseverance, it's a big deal to start all over again."

"If you don't have the ambition and perseverance, then go home and find those noble relatives he said to help find a way out."

"It's good for him, he doesn't do anything, just sleeps upside down in black and white all day long in the room, and I deliver food to him without even opening the door. Does this really treat me like a maid?"

"Father, mother, I don't want to ignore him, I'm too lazy to deal with him, I don't want a worthless man!"

In this way, the daughter of the Song family resolutely withdrew from the marriage plan, turned around and went shopping with her little sisters to buy rouge and gouache.

But Yang Yongxian still kept himself bored in the room like this, and after a game of cooling down, he fell ill again.

Lao Song came to take care of him to take medicine, and finally persuaded him earnestly: "Mr. Yang, you are still young, you can't continue to be so depressed. If you fail the exam this time, there will be another time."

Yang Yongxian smiled bitterly, "Uncle Song, I don't want to either, it's just that the blow is too great, and my health is not good. Now I just read a book and my head hurts."

Old Song said: "Mr. Yang, you scholars who have been sitting in the room for a long time are physically weak. If you want to study well, a good body and a clear mind are the key."

Yang Yongxian nodded, "I also understand this truth, but my body has always been weak, and it is not so easy to be strong now."

Lao Song smiled, "It's hard to say, but easy to say."

"There is a river embankment behind this tribute courtyard. Every morning and sunset, there are many people walking there, boxing and practicing swords. It is very lively."

"There is a way to walk a hundred steps after a meal, and live to 99. After Mr. Yang recovers from his illness, he can go to the river bank for a walk, relax, and change his mind. Maybe there will be other gains."

When Yang Yongxian heard this, he felt it made sense.

"Okay, when I get better this time, I'll go for a walk by the embankment." Yang Yongxian said.

Lao Song left contentedly.

When he got home, his mother-in-law came over, "That Yang Yongxian, I think he was either bragging, or he broke up with his family. He didn't go home after failing the exam, and no one came to look for him. Something was wrong."

Old Song said: "I failed the ranking, I don't have the face to go home."

The mother-in-law said: "Then the family didn't come to look for him? Could it be that they don't care about his life?"

Lao Song shook his head, "Changhuai Prefecture is so big, even if we look for it, it will be difficult to find it for a while, unless we help deliver a letter to his hometown, but in this way, Young Master Yang will definitely annoy us."

The mother-in-law frowned, and threw the feather duster in her hand against the edge of the window, "Stay in our house every day, this month has passed, and the house is due, he should be more sensible and pay the rent if he wants to continue living. !"

Lao Song comforted his mother-in-law: "Don't worry, don't worry, I don't think he is the kind of person who deliberately defaults on the rent, maybe he just forgot."

"I think he has no money at all and wants to be an old man," said the woman.

"No, Lao Song, you should give him a hint these few days and ask him to pay the rent. Now that our daughter is determined not to marry a poor scholar like him, we don't have to be polite, let alone raise him for nothing! "

"What's more, his food expenses are in arrears these days, and even the doctor's visit and medicine are paid in advance by us. We are the landlord, not Shantang!"

Lao Song was silent for a while, and felt that what the mother-in-law said was reasonable, so he nodded.

Two days passed.

"How is it? Did you press for the rent? What did he say?"

As soon as Lao Song came back from Yang Yongxian's side, he was called to him by a woman who was washing clothes in the yard.

Lao Song's eyes were bright, and his face was excited, "I told him straight to the point, and he spoke very sincerely, saying that the broken silver on his body was almost spent, and the rest of the silver was in the bank notes, all of which were in large denominations. , Said that after these few days, when he is in good health, he will go to the bank to exchange some scraps of silver to pay the rent."

The mother-in-law half-believed, "Success, then give him another three days, and if I don't pay the rent after three days, I will be kicked out!"

The mother-in-law dried the clothes, picked up a few gifts, and went to her elder sister's house to visit relatives.

The eldest sister's married daughter was divorced by her husband's family last month, and she has been looking for a life and death. The child called her aunt, which means she watched her grow up.

She was worried, and wanted to take a look whenever she had time, since it was only two streets away anyway.

……

Three days passed in a flash.

Lao Song came back empty-handed.

Seeing his shrunken shoulders, the mother-in-law immediately became angry.

"Didn't pay the rent again?"

Lao Song rubbed the corners of his clothes with both hands, and smiled flatteringly at his mother-in-law: "He said that he was a little tired from walking on the embankment for the past two days, so he didn't exchange money."

"Say another two days, when he gets used to walking..."

"He's farting!" The woman swallowed Lao Song's words in one gulp.

"That goddamn Yang Yongxian, wants to be an old scumbag to my old lady? My old lady is not so easy to deceive!" The old lady was so angry that the fat on her cheeks trembled, and her shrewd eyes rolled.

"Old Song, I have an idea, come in, I can find out the bottom of that kid, see if he really has a banknote in the bank. Back, hehe..."

The mother-in-law pinched her chin and laughed sinisterly, making Lao Song's face puzzled.

……

The next day, the weather was fine. The warm sun of early winter shone lazily on the high embankment, and the breeze was blowing.

Yang Yongxian was wearing a brand-new robe, holding a folding fan in his hand showing the demeanor of a literati, and walked gracefully on the river embankment.

The blue sky and white clouds brightened his mood.

After walking for several days in a row, he found that his energy seemed to be better than before.

(End of this chapter)