Yoshida Mii

Chapter 185 Song Bai failed the ranking
"What happened to Zhao Baozhu's stepmother?" Master Yan asked.

Xiao Xu came to his senses, "Zhao Baozhu's seat is next to mine, he showed me all, his arms and legs were covered with green marks pinched by his stepmother, and he was not allowed to eat. I told Aunt Li Aunt Li was very sad to hear that, and she cooked four eggs for me to bring to Zhao Baozhu. Aunt Li is a good person, not like those evil stepmothers."

The implication is that he is quite willing to accept a stepmother like Li Shi!

Lord Yan gave a rare smile, remembering that when they met for the first time, although Li Shi was afraid that he would be terribly scared, he dared to stop him when he was angry and wanted to beat Xiao Xu, and advised himself to be gentle and patient with the child.

She is a gentle and soft woman.This is Master Yan's first impression of Li Shi.

Later, I got to know more and knew more, and I saw how Li's parents-in-law bullied her, an honest person, and I was even more impressed with Mr. Yan. Besides, I felt sorry for them, so I couldn't help but take care of them more.

After recovering from his senses, Master Yan found that Xiao Xu was still staring at him waiting for his answer, he smiled at his son rarely, patted Xiao Xu's shiny back, tucked the quilt for Xiao Xu, and avoided Xiao Xu In response to Xu's question, he said instead: "Sleep, don't tell outsiders about this, or your aunt will be angry, and your elder sister Dongbao won't talk to you anymore."

"I understand this, it's the defense of men and women." Xiao Xu nodded and said with a very serious and earnest expression, "But Dad, you should think about it again, Aunt Li is only two years older than you, I don't have a mother, Sister Dong Bao Without a father, if you marry Aunt Li, I will have a mother, and Sister Dongbao will have a father, the best of both worlds!"

"You even asked how old he is?" Master Yan looked at Xiao Xu in a daze, that's not how idioms are used...

"Yes." Xiao Xu took it for granted, "I asked Sister Dongbao, and Sister Dongbao told me."

"Then did you say anything else?" Master Yan immediately asked nervously, for fear that his son would say something that should not be said, causing him to be despised.

Xiao Xu shook his head contemptuously under his father's nervous eyes, "I'm not a child who doesn't understand anything, so I asked Sister Dongbao how old is Aunt Li, and Sister Dongbao said 31, you are 29 this year, you There is not much difference between the two, I heard from Mrs. Zhang who used to cook for me, that the female junior holds gold bricks! Besides, Aunt Li looks good-looking, and she looks not as old as you!"

Mr. Yan was irritated by his son's word "old", and his face was very gloomy. Xiao Xu knew that his mouth was about to poke a hornet's nest, so he quickly shrunk his neck and got under the quilt to pretend to be asleep. After a while, he fell asleep with the sound of even breathing. .

Master Yan certainly didn't take Xiao Xu's words seriously. These years, he has been a father and a mother to bring up the children by himself, and only he knows the hard work.Since he became an official, many people are willing to marry the eldest daughter of the family to him to fill in the house, but he has never thought about this, because he is afraid of wronging his son.

His son has lived with him for so many years. He is afraid that a big girl who will marry him will not take care of his son and make him angry. Let him marry a widow, not to mention that no one will introduce a widow to him. The hurdle in his heart, what kind of woman does he want, why does he have to marry a widow?
But Mrs. Li seems to be different, she is not only kind to Xiao Xu, she is also kind and loving to other children.If you talk about being greedy for money... I'm afraid that compared with her, he is a poor official. She also has a smart and sensible daughter who can support the family business, which is better than her son.Moreover, Mrs. Li is not bad looking. In the past few months, he has seen that Mrs. Li has become more and more fair and beautiful. Dong Bao's delicate face just followed Mrs. Li's good appearance.

The most important thing is that Mrs. Li has a good temper, gentle and considerate, it's really terrible, I'm too angry with him!

Lord Yan tossed and turned, unable to sleep like kang biscuits, and compared the advantages and disadvantages of himself and Li Shi in his heart, and found that besides the advantage of being young, he still had the big advantage in marrying Li Shi. Cheap!
Let's wait a little longer, Mr. Yan said to himself, it's been less than a year since his husband's death, and Mrs. Li usually doesn't want to look at him more, maybe she doesn't have any thoughts about him.

On the morning of August [-]th, Baoji had an unexpected visitor.Shan Qiang led two servants, and each brought a wooden box in.

As soon as he entered the door, he first congratulated Mrs. Li on the Mid-Autumn Festival, and after talking about the deep friendship between the two families, he complimented the prosperous business of the shop. After seeing Dong Bao, he couldn't stop praising Dong Bao's beauty.

Shan Qiang's plump lips kept twitching, and Li Shi's skin got goosebumps when he heard it. It's really unexpected that there are people with such a strong mouth and such a thick skin.

On August [-]th, there were so many people in the market, Li and the others were so busy that they had no time to entertain Shan Qiang, and Shan Qiang didn't stay any longer. After greeting Shan Qiang, he wanted to leave. The things he brought were stuffed back to the boy, and he said with a smile: "It's all from the folks in the village, just talk about it, and if you have anything else, bring it back to the family to eat."

Shan Qiang stopped him quickly, and winked at the two boys, who quickly put the wooden box back.Shan Qiang bid farewell to Mrs. Li with a smile, and left with the two servants.

It wasn't until noon that Li Shi and Dong Bao looked at the things Shan Qiang brought. There was 20 yuan mooncakes in one box. It was hard to tell whether they were delicious or not, but the workmanship was exquisite. Four calicoes, both bright and old-fashioned.

"Oh, I said no, but he still has to let it go." Li Shi looked at these things and worried, and really didn't want Shan Qiang's things.

Dong Bao smiled and said, "We'll keep it when he sends it. Today, August [-]th, these things happen to be the employee's Mid-Autumn Festival benefits. Anyway, we don't use his things. We can't see them and worry about them."

She can remember clearly that just a few months ago, the desperate Li Shi took her to Shan's house, and what kind of treatment the mother and daughter suffered.

If Shan Qiang remembered the friendship between the two of them, why didn't he come to the door with gifts during the Mid-Autumn Festival before!Only ghosts believe his words!

Mrs. Li has stayed with Dongbao for a long time and knows what employee benefits are. After a brief discussion with Dongbao, [-] mooncakes were distributed to the Baoji team. Mrs. Fufa and Hehua each got a piece of floral cloth, and the rest Two pieces of floral cloth were given to Aunt Qiuxia.

Mrs. Liu took Mrs. Liu to meet old friends in Anzhou, Mr. Yan was invited to have a drink by the merchants in the town, the academy was on holiday, Lin Shi went home, and only Mrs. Li and Li Hongqin were left to celebrate the festival with a few children Although the moon viewing was not as lively and festive as yesterday, several people had a very happy time.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, a few days later, the students who went to the county to take the exam came back.

When Zhou Pingshan came to the restaurant for dinner, he told Dongbao that he had won the prize of the scholar, but the fly in the ointment was that his ranking was a bit low.

"This is a happy event!" Dong Bao smiled, and asked Zhou Pingshan to wait. She went to the back kitchen to fry a dish quickly, and brought it to Zhou Pingshan. "This dish is for you, as a gift for you. !"

Zhou Pingshan smiled, glanced at Lin Shi standing behind Dongbao, thanked him earnestly, and sat down to continue eating.

When the students at noon had finished their meal and left, the shop was empty, Mrs. Li was sitting in the room resting, suddenly remembered something, and asked Dong Bao, "The list has been announced, and I didn't hear that your third uncle took the exam. How is it going. Dashi, have you heard about it in the academy?"

"I must have failed the exam." Dong Bao said ahead of Lin Shi, sewing a small cube-shaped cloth bag in his hand without raising his head, preparing to fill it with dried corn grains and use it as a sandbag for kicking.

If Song Bai passed the exam, the Song family would have let people all over the world know about it.Mrs. Huang would definitely like to shout at the door of their shop, so that they can see that her son is promising, and what is the end of going against her, the mother of a scholar!
Aunt Qiuxia also came out of the kitchen at this moment, sat next to Mrs. Li to rest her breath, and said, "I didn't pass the exam. I went back to see Song Laosan yesterday afternoon. Dongbao's grandma still needs to help him continue his studies. She The second uncle and the second aunt didn't want to, and they were noisy and noisy until midnight. Her second aunt cried and cried, saying that she gave up all her children for him to study, just to save a mouthful of food Give it to him, if you want him to study again, drown her first!"

"Then what happens in the end? My grandma won't pay for my third uncle's education?" Dong Bao asked, thinking that it was impossible. Old man Song and Mrs. Huang were bewildered. They would rather sell their granddaughter and pay for their drowned granddaughter A son who is an official, with such a firm will, will not confess because of Second Aunt Song's crying and crying, that's impossible!
Lin Shi shook his head, with a smile on his lips, "The master of the academy said... Let third uncle study and review at home, instead of going to the academy."

Dong Bao laughed out loud, this is actually dismissal in disguise!

If Song Bai got lucky and passed the exam, the masters of the academy would be more polite to him. Now that he can't even pass the exam as a scholar, the masters don't bother to see him anymore.

"All right, all right!" Mrs. Li couldn't help saying, seeing that Dong Bao's smile was out of shape, "Let's just know about this, and don't talk about it outside in the future. Your third uncle stumbled this time." Well, if he can gain knowledge, it's not a bad thing. This scholar is not easy to pass the exam, and your father took the exam several times before he passed the exam."

Mrs. Li is a kind person, even if Song Bai had done such wicked things, she never thought of exposing him.

It was the autumn harvest season at the end of August, and the usually bustling market became deserted. Everyone was busy with the autumn harvest, so Mrs. Li simply stopped the early business in the shop.Although no one went to the market to drink bean curd, more tofu and bean sprouts were sold. Lin Fu and others worked in the fields during the day and picked tofu and bean sprouts to sell in the afternoon. They worked hard for a few days and made a lot of money.

(End of this chapter)