Daming: From the end of Hongwu

"Second Sister, come and wash it. You can help Second Sister twist it in a while." After speaking, Erxian sat down and began to wash.

On a winter day, the well water, which was originally warm, was tapped out and left for a while in the twelfth lunar month, until it was so cold that it would go straight to the bone. Erxian gritted her teeth and couldn't help shivering. She smiled wryly, Endure, as if born to bear these sufferings.

At this time, Zhang Yuqing sent the matchmaker out.

As soon as he came to the courtyard, he saw Xiao Liu wearing brand new clothes, rubbing back and forth on the wooden door, and immediately became angry.

After a few steps, he came to Xiao Liu, picked up the little girl, and spanked her ass.

"Wearing new clothes again, how many times have I told you, this is for the New Year, who told you to wear it again."

Xiao Liu is also skinny, twisting and refusing to admit cowardice.

"Why don't you let me wear new clothes."

Zhang Yuqing saw that Xiaoliu was unrepentant and couldn't be cured by beating her. She turned to look at the other daughters, and said angrily, "Don't you all know how to look at her? What are you doing every day?"

The fourth child stuck his neck: "You just let me watch Xiao Qi, and you didn't let me take care of Xiao Liu."

Erxian also said helplessly: "Mother, don't you look at how busy I am this day, how can I have time to take care of her, besides, it's not like you don't know her, and you put it on again in a blink of an eye, who is in a hurry."

Xiao Qi, who was in the arms of the fourth child, saw the lively scene, and burst into tears too.

The whole house was full of noise and excitement for a while.

At this moment, the sound of horseshoes came from not far away, Xiao Liu had sharp eyes, and saw Zhen Wu from a distance, and broke free from Zhang Yuqing's grasp all at once.

Xiao Liu lost his eyes when he smiled, and shouted at Zhen Wu: "Big brother, big brother."

This time it bluffed everyone.

Both Zhang Yuqing and Er Xian dropped their work and went to the door to look at Zhen Wu who came riding from the entrance of the alley.

Zhen Wu approached and got off his horse.

Seeing that Xiao Liu rushed towards him, he felt so happy all over, he laughed and hugged Xiao Liu and turned around.

Zhang Yuqing looked at Zhen Wu, his eyes turned red instantly.

Then I heard Xiao Liu complaining to Zhen Wu.

"Big Brother, Big Brother, do you think my new clothes look good? My mother is so mean that she won't let me wear them. She's almost mad at me."

It was only then that Zhen Wu realized that Xiao Liu's accent had improved a lot since he hadn't seen him for a few months.

He hasn't had time to speak yet.

Zhang Yuqing rushed over and wanted to beat up Xiaoliu again: "With you as a girl, your mother will be pissed to death."

Xiao Liu only hides behind Zhen Wu.

Zhen Wu stopped Zhang Yuqing with a smile: "Mother, it's not worth it, let her wear it if she likes it."

"You said it's light. Now that you wear it, is it possible to make her a new one on the first day of the new year? With this money, there is no such time." Zhang Yuqing rolled his eyes.

"Then find a place that makes clothes and buy another one for the little girl. No, I'll buy another one for you." Zhen Wu said indifferently.

These words made the eyes of the four and five who were crowded by the door light up.

"What nonsense?" Zhang Yuqing said angrily to Zhen Wu, "Don't be silly outside, let people who don't know hear it, and think our family is rich, so we'll talk about it when we go home first."

"and many more."

Zhen Wu took the reward from King Yan from his horse, and handed it to Zhang Yuqing with a smile: "Look, the reward from King Yan, take a closer look at this cloth, it's hard to buy even if you have money, so much, give it to our family You can make as many clothes as you want.”

Zhang Yuqing glanced at it, and quickly covered it again.

I drop well.

Something rewarded by the palace? !

The matchmaker next to her was also envious after seeing it. The ladies like these cloths these days.

Zhen Wu was taken aback, and said, "Hey, isn't this Aunt Zhang? You're not busy today, come to visit?"

The matchmaker's smiling eyes couldn't bear to move away from Bu's body. Thinking that Zhen Wu's family also wanted her, she straightened her back and said: "The visit is secondary, mainly for the marriage of your two sages."

"Someone proposed a marriage? Which family?" Zhen Wu asked curiously.

The matchmaker shook her head: "It's impossible, but you have these good cloths in your house, and I see that you still have jewelry, so it's not a problem to talk about a good marriage."

These words immediately made Zhen Wu happy.

"What's the matter, my family's second virtuous is getting married, and my family is required to send cloth, but jewelry is not acceptable."

When the matchmaker heard this, she became a little anxious, for fear that Zhen Wu would think it was such a simple matter, without even thinking about it, and regardless of the two sages who were right by her side, she opened her mouth and balked, regardless of the occasion.

"How easy do you think this job is? If it weren't for the close relationship between our two families, my aunt would not be willing to work." The matchmaker always liked to talk, relying on a pair of mouths that can speak nonsense, and now she opened her mouth, let alone accept it. Zhu: "Besides, it's not like you don't know that your family was divorced by the Ni family, and the Ni family is still a family of hundreds of households. It is a serious official who eats at the court. Others will say that your family is second Xian, can you not weigh it?"

Erxian's face turned pale.

Hearing this, Zhang Yuqing couldn't hold back.

And Zhen Wu's originally smiling expression suddenly sank.

Humph.

It's ridiculous.

"In that case, my family won't bother you, but it's a coincidence that I happened to make some contributions a few days ago. I was promoted to a hundred households, and I became a serious official in the court. With the imperial court's food, he Ni Liang only has a hundred households, it's not that I haven't beaten hundreds of households, I don't believe there is anything to be coaxed, because no one dares to come to propose marriage because of this matter."

With that said, Zhen Wu also pointed to the military horse riding back.

"Did you see that the border army horses assigned by the imperial court, if someone wants to marry a cub in the future, they have to be worth clear, and they have to investigate clearly."

The matchmaker was instantly stunned.

Official status is different from ordinary military households.

Zhang Yuqing was also stunned, in a daze, only one sentence remained in his mind.

My son is now an officer? !

Chapter 030 - There are always all kinds of worries at home

This Zhen family will become hundreds of households in the future?

The matchmaker didn't want to believe it. In the past, her family was similar to the Zhen family, but the Zhen family lost a man and brought so many children. In comparison, the Zhen family is not as good as hers. Now I really don't want to see the Zhen family flourish.

Sore eyes and envy.

But she had to believe, who would lie about this in the current world?

The matchmaker pursed her lips, wanting to say something, looking back for love, but just as she was about to speak, Zhang Yuqing had already dragged Zhen Wu home, without even saying hello to her, she stared angrily, and finally He didn't dare to say anything, he could only watch helplessly as the Zhen family went home and then slammed the door.

The matchmaker moved her mouth, and suddenly felt that it was boring to be a matchmaker for others all day long. She also thought that her man had been in the army for most of his life, and he couldn't get along well, and he had no interest in everything in front of him.

The neighbors of Zhen Wu's family heard the movement outside, put their hands in their sleeves, and came to the door to watch the excitement.

Come over to have a look, but only see the matchmaker, wondering.

"What happened just now? I was listening to the noise in the room, why did you come out?"

"The boss of the Zhen family is back, and he's twitching. You didn't see the vigor of the boss of the Zhen family just now. I'm afraid that others won't know how to test a hundred households. I don't know why they will look down on us poor neighbors in the future."

Ho!

Zhen Wu's neighbors were taken aback.

……

At this time, Zhen Wu had followed Zhang Yuqing to the house.

On the table was the reward from the King of Yan, two pieces of cloth, and two pieces of fur, which looked like sable wool, but Zhen Wu couldn't tell how good it was, a box of medicinal materials that Zhen Wu knew, and there was a ginseng in it And a small box of velvet antler, and a box of jewellery, pearly powder, apart from Zhen Wu's beauty, Zhen Wu couldn't see anything else.

The women in the family only stared at the jewelry except for the cloth and fur.

Xiaoliu and Laowu couldn't help reaching out to grab them, but Zhang Yuqing slapped them off. They stared at the daughters with obvious warning intentions.

Xiao Liu looked at Zhen Wu pitifully.

Zhen Wu hugged Xiao Liu into his arms with a smile, and said: "Little girl, what jewelry do you want now? When you grow up, I will make a dowry for you. I'm sure you'll get bored of playing."

Xiao Liu still didn't laugh.

Zhang Yuqing said: "Who is like you, it's not so painful to hurt girls, how can they use such good things when they get married." At this point, Zhang Yuqing also said to the four daughters: "Mother, I will talk to you in advance. Having said that, you can’t put your mind on these things, they all belong to your elder brother.”

After finishing speaking, Zhang Yuqing packed up his things, his eyes wandered all over the room, wondering where he hid them.

Zhen Wu took advantage of Zhang Yuqing getting up to find a place to hide, smiled, and said to the four younger sisters: "It's okay, my mother won't give it to me when the time comes, I'll figure out a way, everyone has a share."

The eyes of the fourth child, the fifth child and the sixth child jumped up for a while, and only Er Xian smiled far-fetchedly.

Zhen Wu saw it in his eyes and remembered it in his heart.

After Zhang Yuqing hid the things, Zhang Yuqing had the opportunity to ask about Zhen Wu's promotion, and Zhen Wu briefly explained it to his family.

Brothers and sisters like Erxian are not too interested in this, but they just think it is a good thing.

On the contrary, Zhang Yuqing felt a little sad in addition to being happy.

Seeing something strange, Zhen Wu asked Er Xian to take the others out, and asked with concern.

With memories in his eyes, Zhang Yuqing was silent for a while, and finally only said a word softly.

"Your father has always wanted to be a hundred householder all his life, but unfortunately he didn't realize it until he died."

Zhen Wu didn't quite understand Zhang Yuqing's feelings after the loss of a husband, but after hearing what Zhang Yuqing said, he somehow felt a little bit sad about his father's death.

Very strange.

At last.

It was Zhang Yuqing who recovered first, smiled and said: "When the next year is Qingming, I will tell your father about you, and your father will be happy if you appoint him. Now the main thing is the marriage of the two sages."

"Have you been talking to Er Xian recently?"

Zhang Yuqing thought of the unsmooth marriage between the two sages, and sadness appeared on his face again.

"I've talked to several companies, but they still can't reach a deal. I'm more or less concerned that the two sages were divorced."

Zhen Wu thought for a while, the Erxian was only seventeen this year, and said, "Don't worry, I take the matter of the Erxian to heart."

But Zhang Yuqing said in a hurry: "Why don't you worry, you will be nineteen next year, and if you can't marry a wife at twenty, you won't be an old bachelor. Now we only have two rooms in our house. If Erxian gets married, I and the younger ones will also be married. If you can squeeze, and let the third child sleep in the kitchen, it can also free up a wedding room for you, but you can't let the new wife come in, so you should live with your younger siblings."

Zhen Wu didn't expect, and didn't expect, that Zhang Yuqing had been thinking about marrying Er Xian off just to give him a spare room.

There are two rooms in their house, one for Zhang Yuqing and Erxian, the fourth and fifth, and the other for Zhen Wu and the third, the sixth and seventh.

There is always a limit to the number of people that can be accommodated in a room. After Erxian got married, Zhang Yuqing squeezed with a few younger ones, but they could still fit.

Zhen Wu sighed.

How could this day be so miserable.

"How's the third one doing these past few months?" Zhen Wu asked Zhang Yuqing.

Zhang Yuqing sighed again, as if nothing was going well at home: "It was fine at first, but I heard from the third child that now more and more people go to the mountains to dig medicine by themselves and sell it in the city by themselves, and those who dig medicine There are too many people, and the medicinal materials in the mountains are not easy to dig, and after last month's calculation, the third child will take home three taels of silver."

Two or three.

Zhen Wu and Lao San earned four taels a few times before digging medicine, but now they only earn three taels a month, and the income has indeed dropped sharply.

However, these were also expected by Zhen Wu, digging medicine in this mountain is not a long-term thing.

"Where's the third child?" Zhen Wu hasn't seen the third child since he came back.

"I asked the third child to go to the countryside to buy some new year's goods and come back."

"Why go to the countryside to buy it? It's so cold, and besides, the city is not as complete as the countryside?"

When Zhang Yuqing thought of this, he felt angry: "You think I think, it's not that no one wants to buy New Year's goods with our family, and you can buy odds and ends in the city. You know how expensive it is. There's so much money."

"I remember you hid several jars of copper coins." Zhen Wu wondered.

Zhang Yuqing almost broke his throat, and said anxiously: "That's for you and the third child to marry a wife, and you can't move even if you die."

amount.

Zhen Wu looked at Zhang Yuqing's anxious look, and didn't know what to say. He wanted to talk about the opportunity to make money in the future, but after thinking about it, he still didn't say anything.

He could see that Zhang Yuqing felt very ashamed because of the fact that he hadn't married a wife so far, Zhen Wu even guessed that Zhang Yuqing might think her mother was incompetent, and was deeply sad at night.

Now if Zhang Yuqing wanted to use the money that Zhang Yuqing hid for his two sons to marry his daughters-in-law, it would undoubtedly take her life.

This ordinary woman's whole life's thought may be to serve a good man and take care of her son.