Yuan Fu Nushu

Chapter 382, ​​Dew Wind Sieve

Luan Jing hides quietly, and when he meets Wu Tianxiong again, he can still talk, and he sends another piece of good news. Although he has mixed emotions, but the conversation is in high spirits, and when he wants to talk about his future in depth, Wu Tianxiong's words give him a hard blow.

I couldn't help but smile wryly: "He's my real big matchmaker. I hated him at the beginning, but now that I think about it, he really worked hard and wholeheartedly protected me. If I get to the same level as my cousin, then... we The whole family will be lost."

His original words were, as for Qi Shi, who is strong and strong, he might cheat the whole family more than Ma Dechang in the lawsuit, but his mother has been praising Qi Shi for being good recently, and he was squeezed out by his colleagues in the "imperial examination" in his official career. The dandy with thick walls finally showed his conscience once and refused to criticize Yanyan.

Wu Tianxiong was not without envy: "My words are right again, you have a small evil spirit, but you are much better than me."

"Do you think I'm happy? Old Wu, you and my brothers don't know about each other's family affairs. My second wife lives away from home, and I can survive until my military achievements come to my head. Just a small stroke of evil spirits can get me Check off my name."

Luan Jing's heart was baptized again today. He was washed by his colleagues in the yamen every day. After returning home, his father blamed him for not being close to the Qi family. one time.

He lowered his head annoyedly: "Are you saying that we are born short-sighted or something, why didn't we think it would be better with the little evil spirits before, you and I are the sons of the world, and we knew that sooner or later we would have official careers since we were young, and I used to think that I had money in my arms , I am not afraid of the sky, and I can't control the earth, it was thought of by some broken brain."

Wu Tianxiong who said these words also bowed his head, but he was eager to help Luan Jing with an idea, before he finished speaking, he quickly raised his head and resumed the topic: "You are very careless at the moment, your second It’s not convenient for you to go home and be warm with your first wife when your wife is out of the house, and clingy with your second wife when you go out. Both parties please, and neither party will offend, even if you kowtow and kneel, no one will communicate.”

Luan Jing's wry smile was heavier: "Kowtow and kneel in exchange for the little evil spirit to take a good look at me, I really don't mind, who are we, just one word, skin, shameless skin, I'm not afraid to kneel, I am There is no place to kneel."

Wu Tianxiong was persistent and enthusiastic: "I didn't understand, please tell me in detail, I heard from my mother that your second wife is now opening a shop by herself, and the business is doing well, and her in-laws like her the most now, you know, you and me The mothers teamed up to collect some court offerings. The business was pitifully small, with so many people sharing it, so they could only earn a few hundred taels of silver a year. My mother said she had the right to make small supplements, and if she didn’t participate, she would be left behind. I don’t know. Be optimistic, the court offering sounds nice, but in fact, the money earned is far less than the management, and the income is so little, and there are not many people who can manage it, maybe something happens, and the job will not be accepted."

"You are a crow's mouth, and you hit the mark this year." Luan Jing couldn't help laughing.

"Everything I say is right, hehe, something happened during the Dragon Boat Festival. This year, other provinces have suffered disasters, drought and wind, the harvest has decreased, and the goods cannot be collected. My mother said every day that this little money is nothing. Afraid of losing the job to talk to the palace, I was anxious to find sources of goods, and came up with an idea, saying that your second wife’s shop has the same goods, use them first, and return them later. Does your mother die? Promise, the goods are different."

Wu Tianxiong laughed as he said that: "You are a big celebrity in front of your in-laws, you and your husband can reconcile."

Luan Jing first said: "The goods are different."

Then he said: "I don't borrow the same thing, people look down on me, why should I let her do it again."

As he said that, there was a resonance in his heart, like a heavy hammer knocking down, Luan Jing was stunned sadly, and a sentence came out, mother, she doesn't like me, she doesn't like me even if she marries me Me, am I that mean?

Wu Tianxiong opened the fan and slapped it leisurely: "Now I also know that the goods are not the same, and my mother can't sleep well in a hurry. Can I not worry about it? I inquired about your second wife's shop and went to have a look. Hey, the business is booming, and there is a peanut seller at the door who is very polite, I bought two bolts of cloth, and gave me a lot of boiled peanuts, I remembered that she sold fried peanuts in cold weather, which is very fragrant."

Luan Jing interrupted him: "You and I are both officials. If you molested people in the street, you can't live with me." "Who wants to moles her? The face is three-pointed, and the body looks like a towering tree. I passed by and bought her peanuts during the Chinese New Year." , she has a foreign accent, so I have an impression."

Luan Jing interrupted him again, with an unhappy face: "Hey, I said you are not allowed to go to my second wife's shop anymore, she doesn't expect your business in the shop."

"Oh, that's it, then you should go, I've been there a lot, and I've become acquainted with my boss, maybe I can talk nicely to you." Wu Tianxiong was overjoyed: "You see, it's good for me to go."

Seeing that he couldn't listen, Luan Jing said with a smirk: "Then you go, I can tell you that Chunwei, the owner of her station shop, is the tenth."

"I know this, the tenth Chunwei in Jinke, the shop next door has already told me." Wu Tianxiong put away the fan: "Something is wrong, did the tenth Chunwei in Jinke fight with us?"

Luan Jing smiled and said: "Yes, he came to beat me with my promising uncle of the Qi family. Yes."

"Let me just say, seeing his familiar face, I thought I met him while eating flower wine." Wu Tianxiong thought about it, and hated Luan Jing again: "Tell me about you, Virtue! The marriage that Xiao Bixie told you about you Dare to be negligent, if he is willing to tell me about the marriage, it will be a high incense for several lifetimes."

Luan Jing didn't answer, frowning and thinking: "It's not right, where did you find out about my second wife's shop?"

"Your family, just throw some silver in your mother's main house, and I'll know. Is there any difference between your house and mine? If you want to know about my family, just throw some silver in my mother's main house, I know." Wu Tianxiong replied in a natural tone.

Luan Jing stared at him straight, until Wu Tianxiong came back, and the two of them let out a long cry: "Ah!" and lowered their heads again.

After working in the yamen for so long, what I have learned is not 01:30, the house is like a dewy sieve, and I can't hide anything.

Wu Tianxiong also talked about the Chen family's affairs, and Xihe Viscount Chen's family got an official position, but Ma Dechang persuaded his eldest son Chen Xiangui to take this official position away.

The day before the Mid-Autumn Festival, Yun Zhan got leisure, and went home early in the second half of the day. Yuanxiu also took leisure when he saw it, and the husband and wife held hands in the garden to look at the sweet-scented osmanthus.

After a while of leisure, it reminded the two of them that they were busy for half a year, either she came back to the room late, or he came back late, or Yun Zhan was away on business, Xiao Bie should be better than a newlywed, and began to write poems with great interest.

Tired from walking, Yuanxiu picked sweet-scented osmanthus and washed it with his own hands. Yun Zhan asked him to bring the tea set, and he also boiled water by himself to make tea.

Unavoidably speaking of Yuan Yun's dismissal from office, Yun Zhan lowered his head while adding charcoal fire, and said, "I don't know what you think, I never thought of it before I received the letter, my grandfather is really neat, he deserves to be the one who admonished him in the imperial examination back then." People, after he collected the criminal evidence of the third uncle, he first went to the province to find the person in charge, but he didn't mention me, he just said that I was his father, he couldn't be an official, I had to take him away and re-educate him."

"Then when you told me, you had a letter from another province in your hand. I was too busy to ask about it, and I forgot about it later. Since I didn't mention you, why did I send you a letter?" Yuan Xiu smiled. Watching her husband busy.

Yun Zhan said with a smile: "You are really busy, you don't think about anything. After the third uncle took office, he pretended not to care and mentioned that I was his niece and son-in-law."

Yuan Xiu smiled apologetically, just like that, continued to pick out good-looking sweet-scented osmanthus flowers with a smile, and waited until the water boiled to make sweet-scented osmanthus tea: "So it's like this, just for this one, it doesn't matter if Third Uncle is an improper official."

"Grandfather is still outside, and it's good for my third uncle to follow and serve me. Why should I be an official? Loyalty is the same as filial piety, and filial piety is also the same as loyalty."

Yuan Xiuyan said, "That's a good point."

"I didn't say this. It was my grandfather who said it when he was in Beijing. He said that his parents-in-law are in office all year round, but serving the country is filial piety in his eyes. Third uncle is filial piety now, you and I think he is still a filial piety." Officials, are still loyal."

Yuan Xiu giggled.

The crisp laughter made Yun Zhan look up, and when he saw his wife smiling like a flower, he also smiled brightly: "Let me tell you, how much do you give to Jing'an for Northwest's return gift this time?"

Yuan Xiu smiled and said, "Look at you, you are so busy, you don't care about your cousin at all? I told you, and you said I got it, so I sent it out, as much as Yanyan, and as much as Jing'an."

"I, I want you to laugh a few more times. It's okay to laugh if you don't laugh too much. You are a good cousin who loves your cousin. I will naturally find out your good deeds and then talk about it."

As Yun Zhan was talking, seeing the water boiling, he and Yuan Xiu made sweet-scented osmanthus tea and green tea, and got busy. The scent of sweet-scented osmanthus tea was far away, and Yun Zhan let him be bored for a while, so he poured out the tea in his hand and tasted it with Yuan Xiu: "That's right, my father-in-law is someone I admire. He was a scholar who learned to be a doctor, and then he learned how to make tea. This tea has the taste of mountains and rivers in the Northwest."

Yuan Xiu smiled and said, "You made me laugh again, so let me praise you too."

Yun Zhan stretched his ears: "Say a few more words, and speak louder."

Yuan Xiu got up and bowed lightly, with a mischievous expression on his face: "It's louder than this, thank you for sending the jade wall for Brother Yue, and also sending a handwritten message of congratulations."

Yun Zhan laughed heartily: "Guess, is the King of Pingxi a response now, or a response?"

Yuan Xiu blinked, and said in a soft voice: "Anyway, he won't retreat, that's inevitable."

Yun Zhan laughed again: "He dares? I want to find him a job, but I'm worried that I can't find a chance. He won't give me the handle."

Yuan Xiu looked forward to it for a while in the tea fragrance: "If brother Yue really becomes the son-in-law of the county king, would you think it's okay? Anyway, I think brother Yue is very patient with girls. We will bully him when we beat children, let him Whatever he does, he never dares not to go. He will treat the county master well."

"Me? There's nothing wrong with it. It's the same as my grandfather taking the third uncle's official position. I was accidental, but I was so far away. Qi Yue must do this, and I can't stop him. There is also my father-in-law to help him check it out. Father-in-law wrote The letter said that marriage should be proposed, so I will help him propose marriage, and I can't control the rest of the matter."

Yun Zhan couldn't help laughing as he spoke: "I just regret that I can't see the face of Prince Pingxi, it must be very good-looking."

Yuan Xiu said: "I don't know him, but I also want to see what the county king will think about the little general from the northwestern family who came out of our Xinji gate and succeeded in courting him, surpassing everything else."

There was always something to be said in these words, Yun Zhan sipped his tea, looked at Yuan Xiu's face first, and suddenly said: "Do you want to give Qi Yue some advice?"

"Do you think it's okay? The county lord has no shortage of jewels. If we really want to get married, I'm afraid I'll have to trouble you to pay for it. Brother Yue's family can't come up with a dowry gift that matches the county palace, and Brother Yue can't expect to win with jewels when he proposes a marriage." After all, you have spent a lot of money. Even if the Qi family donated all their property, they would not be able to get your jade wall to please the county lord. You said that the Northwest does not love literary talents, and No. 1 in the second class does not take advantage of it. Use some method to impress the girl's heart, maybe I, Yanyan and Luzhu thought of it, Brother Yue didn't think of it."

Yuan Xiu smiled softly, his mind slowly drifting away.

Yun Zhan didn't interrupt her, the sweet-scented osmanthus fragrance was far away in front of him, the water in the pool was clear and secluded, and the fragrance of tea was just in time to enjoy, so he was also fascinated to appreciate it.

A piece of red leaves slowly fell, passing Yuanxiu's eyes, Yuanxiu regained consciousness, remembered a gossip, the topic changed again, to Yuansan's grandma Guo Shi.

"Second Aunt's latest letter said that she had received a letter from her grandfather, prepared the room for Third Aunt to go home, and had a good talk with Third Aunt as told in the grandfather's letter. Second Aunt's voice, you see, her heart is not small."

Yun Zhan said indifferently: "Let me be fair, your third uncle is not nice to others."

The original meaning of 遇人不义 means that a woman marries the wrong husband, but it can also be used as a metaphor for encountering an inappropriate confidant, colleague, etc.Yunzhan can also be used here.

When Yuan Xiu heard it at first, he wanted to laugh, but he couldn't, so he had nothing to say.

"If she is stubborn, she might as well stay at her mother's house from now on, and never return to your house." Yun Zhan said again.

Yuan Xiu opened her mouth in surprise: "Well, this is not acceptable. The third uncle divorces his wife, it will damage the integrity."

Yun Zhan said: "What is Qingde? Being an official and doing things upright, this is Qingde. Your third uncle Han Chuang studied for more than ten years, and was killed by your third aunt when he just got an official position. This is also known by the officials in his province. Grandfather is my grandfather, otherwise your third aunt could escape the charge of instigating her husband?"

Yuan Xiu just thought of this just now, so she had nothing to say, and now Yun Zhan came one by one, and she had nothing to reply, so she could only mutter: "Grandfather would not agree to divorce his wife, otherwise he would have said If she comes out, she will not let the third aunt go back to live in Xinji. How about this, if she still refuses to come back after the Chinese New Year, let the second aunt look for her, instead of taking her home, why should she go back to her own home? Aunt understands the truth, let Second Aunt talk about her well."

Yun Zhan hummed: "I don't care about this matter, the gossip ends here, do as you like, as long as you don't hurt your third uncle again. If I take care of this, can she still hide safely in her natal house? Listen to a saying first, my grandfather went out to kill his relatives righteously, and the Minister of the Ministry of Officials was full of praise. He told me that there is such a clear old father in the family, and the third uncle can change it. And the evidence of the third uncle's crime is not to the point of being dismissed from office. The money was collected by your third aunt, and has nothing to do with your third uncle, but your grandfather insisted on removing him from his official position. The Shangshu said that in the past few years, the old father in the family had taught him well. Let me call your third uncle back and give him a new one. official position."

(End of this chapter)