my grandmother

Chapter 68 The Two Gentlemen
Li Xiaonan went to Wangfu Bieye for the first time, got on the car at the entrance of the alley, the car started to run, and ran faster when it left the city, as expected, it only took about two quarters of an hour, the big car stopped, Wan Qing got out of the car first, Li Xiaonan got out of the car, turned her head and looked around.

The parking place is a large rectangular yard, with three white walls more than ten feet high, and a round door opening on one wall, and two guards are closing the door.On the other side is the undulating parapet, and there is also a round door, with a guard in brocade clothes standing on each side.

In the yard, there is a thick ginkgo tree in the south and north respectively. At the moment, the leaves are fallen and the branches are withered, standing silently.

"Don't look around." Wan Qing pushed Li Xiaonan, who was constantly looking around, into the Moon Cave Gate.

Inside the Moon Cave Gate is a camphor forest, deep and quiet.

After entering another round gate, Wan Qing led Li Xiaonan to turn a corner, passed through two gates, and entered a courtyard with a wide veranda.

Wan Qing stopped in the hall, and told Li Xiaonan first, "I can get here, you go in by yourself, don't be afraid, Shi Gun said, this yard is only for Mr. Qian to go in now, and Shi Gun also said, Mr. Qian is a brave man. Very small."

Wan Qing stretched her head to look, leaned closer to Li Xiaonan, and lowered her voice to the lowest, "I've never seen Mr. Qian, if you think that, don't go into the house, just give him lessons on the porch or in the yard, I'll stand here, See clearly."

Li Xiaonan nodded repeatedly.

Wan Qing patted Li Xiaonan on the shoulder before raising her voice, "Mr. Qian, Mr. Li is here."

"That's what Shi Gun said. It's better to call you Mr. than a girl!" Wan Qing raised her voice, then listened to her and muttered a few words.

"Here we come!" Running out in front of the bullock cart, across the courtyard, he looked at Li Xiaonan who was wearing a thick cotton jacket and trousers woven from home, then at Wan Qing, then at Li Xiaonan, and said hesitantly, "Who is there?" ?”

"It's me." Li Xiaonan didn't take the corridor, went down the steps, walked across the yard, and went up the steps.

He stared at Li Xiaonan in front of the bullock cart until she got up the steps, then took two or three steps back in fright.

"I'm Mr. Li, didn't your elder son tell you that I'm a little girl?" Li Xiaonan looked up and down in front of the ox cart.

This Mr. Qian looked to be in his forties or fifties. He was of medium height, slightly thin, with slightly drooping eyebrows and eyes, and slightly slumped shoulders. He looked like a frightened hamster.

"No, I didn't say anything, you..." The front hand of the ox cart was raised, but he didn't know whether to point in or out.

This is a little girl. If you enter the house, you will be alone in the same room...

"What account are you going to settle?" Li Xiaonan put her feet outside the threshold, supported the door frame, raised the curtain, and stretched her neck to look into the room, "Your son only said what kind of goods, taxes, etc., but didn't explain it clearly. It's better to know you What kind of account should be settled, only when it is taught can it be targeted."

"It's the throughput of Beixing Wharf in the past few years." Looking at Li Xiaonan's big home-woven cotton padded jacket in front of the bullock cart, she became less nervous.

"What do you need to look at in terms of throughput?" Li Xiaonan shrank back and asked.

"My son hasn't said anything yet."

"Then what are you doing now?" Li Xiaonan continued to ask.

"It's nothing, just watch."

"Then what do you want to learn?" Li Xiaonan scratched her head a little bit, it was a bit difficult to ask three questions.

"My son asked me if I could tell whether the throughput numbers of Beixing Wharf were true or not. I thought it was true. My son asked me why, but I couldn't answer it. My son said, I need someone to teach me. Me, do you really know why?"

The bullock cart went to look at Li Xiaonan's face.

"Your elder son said you are a scholar?" Li Xiaonan asked after thinking about it.

"Yes." The ox cart answered somewhat vaguely.

As a scholar, he was dismissed long ago.

"Then how is Gezhi doing? Are you the best at math? Where did you learn it?" Li Xiaonan asked.

"Mathematics is the best. My family is poor. At that time, the teachers of the county school were not good at Gezhi, so I didn't learn much. The reason for the best mathematics is because I can settle accounts." Niu Cheqian explained.

"Well, let's start with the most basic mathematics. In the house, or outside?" Li Xiaonan lifted the curtain.

It's much warmer inside than outside.Cold hands outside.

"Mr. Li, there is a difference between men and women. Where is that girl, or is she outside?" The front of the ox cart mumbled.

"Then here it is, is there a table and stool in the room that can be moved out?" Li Xiaonan stretched her hand into the curtain.

"There are chairs, I'll move them." The bullock cart went into the house and moved two chairs, and then came out with a pen and paper.

Li Xiaonan simply sat down on the threshold, spread the paper and pen on the chair, and smiled in front of the bullock cart: "Can this curtain be hung up? Let the warm air in the room blow us, so as not to freeze our hands. Your son has It’s a lot of money, so I definitely don’t care about the charcoal money.”

In front of the bullock cart, he laughed out loud, "Yes, yes, how about you hang up the curtain so that Mr. Li can sit inside the threshold while I'm outside?"

"Let's all sit on the threshold, your clothes are so thin, you must be colder than me."

A curtain was hung in front of the bullock cart, and Li Xiaonan dragged the chair into the threshold.

"Where is Mr. Li from? Look at your family background?" He didn't feel nervous at all in front of the ox cart, he moved the chair into the threshold, and sat down.

"Xiao Lizhuang, Kunshan County, my family used to be poor. This autumn, my brother got better after being admitted as a scholar. Now our family has opened a preserved egg store, which can make money. The preserved eggs used in this other business are given by our family. Yes." Li Xiaonan laughed.

"I also ate a plate in the morning, it was delicious." The front of the ox cart smiled.

"Where is your family from? I heard you speak, it doesn't look like a northerner. Their speech is hard and heavy." Li Xiaonan said while drawing quickly on the paper.

"From Huzhou." After a pause, he added in front of the ox cart, "Changxing."

"I know that Changxing is a good place just like our Kunshan County, so where is your family now, or is it in Changxing?"

"In Changxing, my son is nine years old and looks very similar to me."

Speaking of his son, there was a smile on his face in front of the bullock cart.

"Your son is only nine years old? How many children do you have? The youngest is your son?" Li Xiaonan asked casually.

"Just one son, I haven't been home for many years." The front of the bullock cart sighed.

"Hey! Then how old are you this year?" Li Xiaonan was surprised.

"34." The ox cart replied.

"Uh!"

Li Xiaonan let out a loud uh, this uh, the surprise was too conspicuous, Li Xiaonan simply said the truth, "You look like someone in your 40s."

"The past few years were too tormenting." The eyes of the ox cart turned red, and facing Li Xiaonan's suspicious eyes, the ox cart smiled bitterly: "Mr. Li is not an outsider, I was ignorant when I was young. Thinking that the article is full of flowers and flowers, you have to be in the list, and you will lose your name when it is released, and you will be upset and encouraged by others, so you will make a fuss and smash the Gongyuan."

The words in front of the bullock cart stopped for a moment, then smiled wryly: "The imperial envoy from the capital has come, and together with the third department, it has been found that there is no fraud."

"It's really not there, why don't we check it out?" Li Xiaonan asked.

"At the time, I thought it was the guards of officials and officials. When I woke up a few years later, I looked carefully at the articles that were accepted that year. It should be true." Ox Cheqian looked distressed.

Li Xiaonan groaned, then sighed.

"Smashing the Gongyuan is a serious crime, so I escaped from Huzhou, alas." The front of the ox cart sighed.

"Does your family know these things?" Li Xiaonan asked breathlessly.

"I know, I know." Nodding repeatedly in front of the ox cart, "My lord is wise and martial, unparalleled in wisdom, gentle and martial, there is nothing our lord doesn't know!"

"Your son!" Li Xiaonan corrected a sentence first, and then asked: "You were so wise and powerful just now, isn't it ironic?"

"How can it be an irony! This is what I say from the bottom of my heart!" The front of the bullock cart patted his chest hard.

"I've always thought he was a liar." Li Xiaonan raised a hand to cover her mouth, and said in a low voice, "What do we say, I don't think he is martial and wise."

Staring at Li Xiaonan in front of the bullock cart, he stayed for a long time, then suddenly laughed.

It was the first time he saw Shi Ziye, and when he thought about it that night, he always felt like he was dreaming, and wondered if Shi Ziye might be fake.

(End of this chapter)