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Chapter 231 Clearing the Portal
late noon.

In the Chen Mansion in Sajin Lane, there is a big banquet for guests.

Since Chen Chu was on the front line, it was difficult to leave easily, so Chen Jingyan, Cai Yuan and others took the initiative to accompany the guests.

Zhang Chunxiao, who came to Caizhou with the eunuch Xuanzhi, took the opportunity to express to Chen and Cai that they hoped that they would persuade Chen Dutong to send troops to suppress the bandits.

Zhang Chunxiao knew that these two were the core of Chen Chu's inner circle, and it was far more useful to have them speak than to speak by himself.

But Chen Jingyan and Cai Yuan didn't know what Chen Chu was thinking, and they only quarreled with Mr. Zhang.

Chen and Cai's attitudes are beyond reproach. When Zhang Chunxiao questioned, the two were active and polite, and they didn't know what to ask.

Master Zhang talked about Shengshang Longjuan, the two were grateful, grateful, but sorry.
Mr. Zhang talked about the difficulties of the state, and the two understood and understood, but there was nothing they could do.
In short, it is a central idea, and it is even more difficult for the court to make it difficult for us and Chen Dutong
Compared with these two old foxes who talked water-tightly, Zhang Chunxiao felt that Chen Dutong was much cuter.

The men sit in the hall three times, and the women enter the back house four times.

Today, apart from the Zhao family, Mao'er's concubine Yan, and many Tongshan women's relatives.

Seeing that Yan Shi was reserved, the old lady specially called the latter to sit next to her.

After all, on this occasion, the Yan family represents Mao'er's mother's family.

"Old lady, our cat is really promising now. I heard that the magistrate of the Caizhou government office is only a fifth grade!"

During the dinner, accompanied by the old lady, Yan relaxed a lot and couldn't help sighing.

While the old lady laughed heartily, she was full of doubts. Not long after the banquet started, Mao'er and the Cai family girl went to the back house, and they left for half an hour.

Today is my grandson's big day, but she, the protagonist, has been away for so long?

Could it be that something big happened?

Until the end of noon, no one came back, and the old lady couldn't sit still.

The back house, Hanchun Hall.

There are five hairpins with hairpins on the cat's head, wearing a red dress with large sleeves, a long red skirt, embroidered with the five elements of Zhai pattern, and a jade pendant around the waist.

Beizi and Xiapei all use Jiangluo.

A petite person could hardly hold back the aura of Zhu Yi who was wearing a fifth-rank life uniform.

However, at this moment, there was no surprise on Mao'er's face, and even a little panic and confusion.
"Little wild cat" Cai Wei sighed, and said apologetically, "I didn't come to spoil your good life."

"Thank you, Sister Cai, for coming to inform." Mao'er naturally knew that it was good or bad. Her Zhao family was involved in this matter. If Cai Wei directly leaked it, Mao'er would not be able to clean up even if she jumped into the Yellow River.

"What are you going to do next?" Cai Hua paused for a moment with her winking eyes on Mao'er's small face, and added, "Aren't you going to tell him?"

"I" Mao'er glanced at Cai Wei with some guilt, and said in a low voice, "Of course I won't hide it from the officials. My family made a mistake and it was a mistake, but I want to tell him after I deal with it. Sister Cai"

"Got it, I won't tell. What are you going to do about it?"

'Tuk tuk ~'

While speaking, there was a knock on the door outside, and the cat asked, "Who?"

"Your person." Bai Lu changed her words quickly, "When Baoxi came in the morning, he brought back something, which he said was brought to you by the general. I was busy just now, and almost forgot, now I remembered to bring it to you as soon as possible."

"Come in, you."

The cat suddenly feels guilty.

When officials are away, they will always be sent home to her as soon as they see some novelty or rare food.

She thought it was like this again this time, and couldn't help but think that the officials loved her so much, but she didn't take care of things, and there was such a big mistake, and her family was involved.

After Bai Lu came in, Cai Wei naturally stopped talking, but she was also curious and apprehensive about what interesting things the puppy brought to the little wild cat.

What Bai Lu brought in was a wooden box, and the cat took it, and opened it carefully, only to find two small piles of wooden slices separated inside.

The cat was confused for a moment, and leaned closer to sniff.

Recently, due to staying in the camp of the victims, Mao'er has dealt with medicinal materials a lot. At least he knows a few main ingredients in Daqinglong Decoction. After a short period of confusion, he immediately realized what it was.

As soon as he changed his mind, Mao'er's face changed drastically. He pinched two pieces and put them in his mouth to sip.
'patta~'

The wooden box fell to the ground.

Seeing the cat's face suddenly turned pale, Cai Wei asked strangely, "What's wrong?"

"Everything happened." Mao'er's thin lips trembled.

Cai Wei hurriedly waved to Bai Lu, signaling the latter to go out first, and when she was the only one left in the room, Cai Wei said, "What happened? Fake medicine?"

"Yes, the official. The official understands." Mao'er tried his best to control his emotions, and his eyes turned red.

Cai Wei didn't understand why the cat reacted so violently, so she couldn't help curling her lips and said, "Little wild cat, why are you so scared? You didn't make this fake medicine, how can the puppy scold you?"

Hearing that she mentioned Chen Chu, the cat's reaction became even bigger, and a mist of water quickly formed in the watery peach blossom eyes, and it was wrapped around the plump lying silkworm, and it was about to fall, "If the official scolds me, it will be fine." He only sent fake medicines to him, but he didn’t say anything, he must think it’s my connivance with my family.”

"." Cai Hua.

"What should I do, what should I do?" Mao'er got up and walked around the house in a hurry, and couldn't help asking Cai Hua, "Should I go to Xinxi County now?"

"Where are you going?"

"Go to the officials and admit your mistake face to face."

"Little wild cat, are you confused if you care about it? I think the fake medicine sent by the puppy may not be what you think."

"Officer." The tears above the lying silkworm finally rolled down, and Mao'er was anxious and sad, "Will the official hate me because of this?" Cough cough cough."

Not knowing whether it was because of anxiety or choking, the cat coughed violently.

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Looking at the panicked cat, Cai Hua suddenly realized that despite the fact that the little wild cat is organized and behaves gracefully when she is outside, all her self-confidence is based on her own officials.

That's why she's so scared. It's like when a child makes a mistake in school, and the husband tells the parents, he wonders how his parents will deal with him when he returns home.

Cats are naturally not afraid of slapping palms, but they are afraid that the officials will be disgusted by it.
not yet.

Waiting and waiting until the cat came out, the old lady couldn't help worrying, and went to the back house.

In the Hanchun hall, although the cat was dressed in a solemn red dress, the man slumped his shoulders, lowered his head, coughed from time to time, and unconsciously stirred the veil with his hands.

The bright red peach blossom eyes indicate that she has just cried a while ago.

The old lady saw this scene as soon as she entered the door, and looked to the side, Cai Wei, who looked like a female hooligan, was lying crookedly in the big chair, because of the sweltering heat in the noon, she grabbed the neckline with one hand, and swayed a round fan in the collar with the other to fan the wind , so as to cool down a pair of Jade Rabbits.
That's pretty unsightly.

Seeing Grandma looking at herself unkindly, Cai Wei straightened her clothes and said with a coquettish smile, "Hey, old lady, don't look at me, I didn't make you cry, baby grandson."

"Oh? May I ask Mrs. Cai, today is a good day for my grandson to be enshrined, why is she crying?" The old lady didn't quite believe it.

"I said it doesn't matter to me, if you want to ask, you need to ask your own family"

Cai Wei got up, smiled, and said something to the cat before leaving, "Little wild cat, stop thinking about it, I don't think this is that serious, and the puppy is not so narrow-minded."

After Cai Wei left, the old lady took the initiative to walk up to the dispirited Mao'er, and said distressedly, "My dear grandson, what happened?"

Cat, who was still sitting on the chair, heard the sound, put his arms around the old lady's waist, and began to cry.

It took half a quarter of an hour for the cat to cry and talk, coughing and crying, and finally tell the whole story.

The old lady patted the cat on the back, silent for a long time, finally squeezed out a smile, and comforted: "My dear grandson, grandma will help you decide this matter, today is your big day, hurry up and clean up." See relatives and friends in front, lest others say we are impolite."

At the beginning of the application period.

The banquet in the front yard was still going on, but the old lady had been sitting there for an hour.

"Grandma, grandma, why don't you go to dinner."

It wasn't until Xiaomei poked her head out of the door frame that Grandma came back to her senses and smiled kindly. After a moment of silence, she suddenly said, "Xiaomei, go ahead and call your father over."

"Grandma"

Xiaomei stood there with her hands behind her back, seemingly reluctant.

When she was born, her mother had dystocia, and her father almost lost her because she thought she couldn't support her.

Fortunately, after the grandma heard about it, she took Xiaomei with her.

At that time, Grandma held Xiaomei in her arms and asked people from all over the world to find out which woman had just given birth and had milk, and she gave up her face to beg for milk for Xiaomei.

So no one gets called a 'crazy woman', but Mei always survives.

All these years, she has been by Grandma's side, and she is quite unfamiliar with her father Zhao Kaiyuan.

"Be obedient." The old lady's face darkened, so Xiaomei reluctantly went to the front yard to invite her father.

After Xiaomei left, the old lady dug out a small bundle from under the bed, sat on the bed and unfolded it, and was stunned for a long time
The application time is two quarters.

The drunken Zhao Kaiyuan came to the courtyard where the old lady was temporarily staying, and saw the old lady sitting at the table in a daze.

"Grandma Seven, what do you think? Now that our cat has made a fool, we don't even need to ask the magistrate."

Zhao Kaiyuan was thirsty after drinking, so he picked up the teapot on the table and poured himself a cup of tea while talking.

The old lady didn't know what kind of madness she was having, and she snatched the teacup like a conditioned reflex.

The hot water spilled on both hands, but the old lady didn't realize it
"Grandma Seven?" Zhao Kaiyuan was taken aback, not knowing why.

"My wife is hot. I'm in my 30s. I'm still in a hurry. I'll drink it later."

The old lady squeezed out an unnatural smile.

"Oh." Zhao Kaiyuan didn't take it seriously, sat down at the table, and said excitedly: "Grandma Seven, I had a glass of wine with Tongzhi Chen just now. He heard that I was Mao'er's cousin, so he talked to me for a few minutes. Sentence. On the contrary, the governor surnamed Cai is very ignorant. When I toasted him, the old man only drank half of the glass, and he didn't know how to reciprocate.

Moreover, even a ninth-rank governor dares to overthrow Giotto, but our cat is a fifth-rank magistrate!Sooner or later let the nephew take care of him! "

Hearing this, the old lady looked at Zhao Kaiyuan with cloudy eyes, and wanted to say something, but finally changed her mouth, "Kaiyuan, Qi Nai remembers your favorite soup cakes cooked by Qi Nai, Qi Nai will cook a bowl for you Is it good to eat?"

The old lady's sudden soft tone made Zhao Kaiyuan stunned for a while. Before Ding Weiqian, Seventh Grandma was a well-known loving child in Zhuangzi. Serve a bowl.

Grandma Qi is best at sesame oil soup cakes. It's a pity that such a good person has no children and grandchildren.

There is a small stove in this yard, and the old lady can do it as she says.

Kneading noodles, rolling noodles, cooking noodles, although the movements are not as fast as when I was young, but I can vaguely see the swiftness of those days.

In the late summer afternoon, the old lady drenched her clothes with sweat in order to cook this bowl of plain noodles for Zhao Kaiyuan.

'hululu~'

Regardless of burning his mouth, Zhao Kaiyuan picked a large chopstick into his mouth, chewed it a few times and praised, "Grandma Seven, it's still the same taste as before! When I was young, my mother used to say that I was around Grandma Seven all day long, why don't you just give it to you?" Forget Grandma Seven as her own grandson.”

"Hahaha among your cousins, you are the one who can eat the most. When I come back to my house, I have to scrape the bottom of the pot."

Recalling the past, the old lady laughed.

'hululu~'

"Hey, Seventh Grandma, now we are living a good life with the cat, and I have made many friends, and I often go to restaurants with them. The restaurants outside can't make the soup cakes of Seventh Grandma."

"Oh Kaiyuan, let's hear it, have you made those friends?" The old lady smiled.

"The son of Zhang Yuanwai, and Li Zhuanzhi of the government office, the young master of Wen's firm, Seventh Granny, let me tell you that Wen Yuren, the young master of Wen's firm, is a generous person. This time the cat was awarded the title, and he even gave him a gift. "

"Oh? Really?" The old lady seemed to be hearing this name for the first time.

"Grandma Seven, look." Zhao Kaiyuan took out the brocade box from his arms, opened it towards the old lady and put it on the table.

A look of complacency.

But the old lady just glanced at it lightly, and suddenly said: "I heard that you have done some business with this Wen Yuren?"

"Uh..." Zhao Kaiyuan froze, his expression suddenly became unnatural, and he said vaguely: "I just found some things to make a living."

"But medicinal materials make a living?"

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"But the business of sending medicinal materials to the camps of the victims and the military camp?"

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Zhao Kaiyuan glanced at Seventh Grandma in a panic, and responded, "It's a partnership with Wen Yuren to deliver some medicinal materials. Seventh Grandma, there are dozens of people in my family, and I also want to find a way to make everyone's life easier."

The old lady, who had always been calm, couldn't bear it any longer after hearing this, grabbed the opal on the table and slammed it on Zhao Kaiyuan, "Is this your excuse to sell fake medicine in the camp?"

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Zhao Kaiyuan didn't expect Seventh Grandma to know so clearly. After a brief moment of astonishment, she hurriedly explained in a low voice: "Seventh Grandma, even with a little fake medicine, it won't kill anyone."

The old lady became even angrier when she heard this, and scolded: "You are blocked by phlegm? You have done this, but have you thought about how the cat will treat itself? How do you let her behave in front of her grandson-in-law!"

"I am me, and the cat is the cat. The cat doesn't know about this." Zhao Kaiyuan argued.

"Fart! If you don't go out and show off that you are Mao'er's uncle, you have the ability to supply medicine for Daying? Then Wen Yuren will find you as a partner? All the evil you have done will fall on my cat!"

"Grandma Seven, you only think about cats, but have you ever thought about us?"

Zhao Kaiyuan has been scolded all the time, and he also got a little angry, "Although we moved to Caizhou, we didn't have to worry about food and clothing, but we didn't have money to make a living. Should we still farm for a lifetime? Am I also trying to make money for our Zhao family? How about Lu! No matter how good the cat is, she is also a woman, from the Chen family, we can count on her, can the children and grandchildren below count on her?"

"You..." the old lady's chest heaved in anger.

Seeing this, Zhao Kaiyuan was also afraid of making the old lady angry, so he finally stopped talking, poured a cup of tea resentfully, and drank it down.

The old lady who was looking angry was slightly startled, a look of pity flashed in her eyes, but she didn't say anything.

After a moment of silence, the old lady suddenly sighed, pointing to the old bundle spread out on the bed, and said wearily: "Kaiyuan, do you still remember this bundle?"

Seeing the old lady's attitude softened suddenly, Zhao Kaiyuan couldn't help feeling guilty, glanced at the bag of patches, and said in a low voice: "I remember, after our house was run down, Grandma Seven would take this bag with her wherever she went. "

"Do you know what's in it?" asked the old lady.

"do not know"

"In there, there is a memorial tablet for the ancestors of our Zhao family, and... there is also a pack of castor beans."

"Grandma Seven is carrying castor beans with her? Eating them by mistake will kill you."

"Hey" the old lady gave Zhao Kaiyuan a pitiful look, then looked away at the blue sky outside the window, and murmured: "Back then I brought a group of female dolls, and I would not be able to live any day. , If it really comes to the day when there is no way out, I will make a pot of castor tea and accompany the children to the underworld, so as not to let them be humiliated in the world. Unexpectedly."

"I didn't expect much."

Just as Zhao Kaiyuan asked, he suddenly felt a cramping pain in his stomach.

I felt a fishy sweetness welling up in my throat again.
"Cough cough."

He coughed twice and spat out a mouthful of blood.

Zhao Kaiyuan looked at the dark red blood on the tablecloth, and dazedly wiped it around his mouth. Immediately afterwards, thick blood rolled out of his nasal cavity.

The old lady seemed to be unable to bear to look any longer, and turned her head to the side, "Don't worry, I will take care of Xiaomei with all my heart, and I will let Xiaomei burn it with you every year and festival. Don't hate cats either. She doesn't know about this, it's Grandma Seven who doesn't keep you."

"Castor Bean."

Zhao Kaiyuan, who was coughing up blood, finally understood, and then his body became limp uncontrollably.

The strong will to survive drove him to keep crawling towards the door, but the same strong fear made him cry again, "Grandma Qiqi, you are so biased. You want to kill me for the sake of the cat."

The old lady sat at the table, motionless.

Zhao Kaiyuan couldn't climb out in the end, and stopped two feet inside the door.

It took a long time, maybe two quarters of an hour, maybe half an hour.

The old lady finally stood up, but felt dizzy for a while, and quickly stretched out her hand to use the table to stabilize her body.

Then he walked tremblingly to the washbasin, wetted and wrung out a towel mechanically, and then walked to Zhao Kaiyuan who was prostrate on the ground step by step, and knelt down slowly.

Pulling him back with all her strength, the old lady carefully wiped the blood off his face, and murmured, "Kaiyuan, I can't let you ruin our Zhao family, and I can't let you ruin our cat." "

Russian hectares.

The old man cried bitterly while hugging Zhao Kaiyuan's body
　The old lady ordered to delete the last chapter
　　It's really inappropriate.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)