Crossing the Qinghe Landlord gl

The night shrouded the earth, and only the moonlight could cast a ray of light on the earth.Without a breeze, Qinghe Village has fallen into silence, and everything is quiet.

In the corner of the bamboo sea, there is still a little candlelight in Mrs. Li's home.Xia Jiniang was packing up her things when Aunt Li's figure appeared outside the door and gently knocked on the door, calling out, "Jiangniang, can you rest?"

Xia Jiniang hurriedly went to open the door, and replied with a smile: "Not yet, why is Auntie still not resting?"

"You have to go back, come to talk to you."

Xia Jiniang welcomed her in. There were two low stools beside her bed, and they sat down separately.Xia Jiniang said: "Aunt has a heart."

"When you go back, I'm afraid you won't have a chance to stay here for a long time." Aunt Li sighed.

Under the candlelight, Xia Jiniang's complexion did not change much, and there was a slight smile on her face: "Why would my aunt say that?"

Aunt Li held her hand and said: "Although you have been delayed for three years, your family can do it again, but your parents will not bear it."

Xia Jiniang panicked, but her expression remained calm: "Auntie thinks that within this year, I will be able to save enough for the dowry?"

Aunt Li stared at her, got up and went back to the house, and soon came back with a one-foot-sized copper box in her hand. She handed it to Xia Jiniang's hands, and said earnestly: "This is what my aunt has saved over the years. You take it back."

Xia Jiniang was shocked, and she quickly pushed away: "How is this possible, not to mention that I am not qualified to ask for it, now that my real cousin and expensive cousin are going to start a family and start a business, they must be homeowners. I absolutely can't want it!"

"Your real cousin, your cousin, they have been working outside these years and brought back a lot of money. I haven't touched it. I have used it to marry them. These are spare money. You are busy with me. How can I let you go back after two months?"

Xia Jiniang resolutely refused to accept it: "Auntie provides me with food and lodging, I am already satisfied, and I can't ask for more."

Aunt Li said comfortingly: "Auntie knows that you are a filial child, but I am also embarrassed that you help me work here for nothing. This is your wages, don't talk about it, and I will send it to your home go!"

Xia Jiniang's eyes flickered, she opened the copper box, and saw five coins and some jewelry lying inside.She took the stick and said, "This is my salary."

Aunt Li was speechless for a while, then took out the stick and gave it to her, and said forcefully: "Okay, it's settled like this, don't shirk it. Otherwise, when you go back, your family will still say that I treated you harshly!"

Xia Jiniang had no choice but to accept it, she knew Aunt Li was right.Although her parents would not say anything, if her uncles and aunts saw her go back empty-handed, they would definitely blame her.Her parents didn't care about it, but it was inevitable that someone who cared about it would say something in front of her grandfather, so it would be even more difficult for her parents to be human.

Aunt Li wanted to say something to her again, but she swallowed the words when they reached her lips, but she muttered regretfully when she walked outside the door: "Is there still no fate after all?!"

Xia Jiniang's heart was caught, she seemed to guess that Aunt Li was talking about her and Zhang He.In Aunt Li's mind, it would be nice if they could match them up, but Zhang He never expressed his intention to marry Xia Jiniang, and Xia Jiniang never mentioned the idea of ​​getting married, so it was not easy for her to intervene.

When the rooster crows in summer, the sky is already light, but the villagers still get up at this time.Xia Jiniang slept late, but she didn't look tired when she woke up. Her things were packed last night, including dry food and water for the road, and she said goodbye to Aunt Li and set off on her way home.

When passing by Zhang He's mansion, the closed gate made Xia Jiniang put away her thoughts of saying goodbye, and she walked towards Liujiaqiao Village without any hesitation.Qinghe Village is more than 30 miles away from Liujiaqiao Village, and the distance is not as far as entering the county seat.However, Liujiaqiao Village is not near the county seat, but in the northwest of Qinghe Village, which is also more than [-] miles away from the county seat.

The entire Qinghe Village is actually several miles long. Aunt Li and Zhang He's family are both in the middle of Qinghe Village, and it takes two quarters of an hour to walk from the road to the entrance of the village.When she walked out of the village, she saw a familiar figure——Zhang He.

Zhang He was waiting at the entrance of the village in an ox cart. Several baskets were placed on the ox cart, all covered with cloth.Her heart throbbed slightly, and when she approached, Zhang He raised his head and looked at her with a slight sense of emotion, and immediately said happily: "I thought I was late, and I couldn't wait for you!"

"Are you waiting for me?" Xia Jiniang asked.

Zhang He's eyes dodged a bit: "I'm going to the county town to deliver purple melons."

Xia Jiniang was slightly disappointed: "Oh."

"But I can take you home first, I have a bullock cart." Zhang He patted Hei Niu, causing Hei Niu to flick his tail in displeasure.

"I'm afraid it will be too late for you to send me home before going to the county seat."

"It's okay, I said it will be delivered every three days, but I didn't say it must arrive in the morning."

Xia Jiniang said nothing, Zhang He just stood there, tall and slender, weak and resolute.She nodded: "Then please trouble Zhang Erlang."

Zhang He was overjoyed, and went to take her bamboo basket and put it on the bullock cart, and then called her to come up and sit down.Xia Jiniang found that the grass on the bullock cart was twice as much as usual, and besides the bamboo basket containing the eggplants, there were two pots of water in it. It was obvious that Zhang He was ready to take her home.

The bullock cart moved slowly, Zhang He and Xia Jiniang didn't speak, and Xia Jiniang didn't show Zhang He the way until the fork.

From the northwest of Qinghe Village, you have to pass through several low peaks, and the mountain roads pass through them, and there are many people coming and going.In these places, there are bazaars formed by the gathering of four parties, all of which are for mutual needs.Zhang He's eyes lit up, and he said: "There is a market here that is comparable to a county town, it's really lively."

Xia Jiniang smiled and said, "Every first and fifteenth day of the lunar new year, there will be a market like this in the countryside. Have you never been there?"

"I only know the county town, but I don't know this country market. I'm also ignorant."

"This huge Fuzhou is hundreds of thousands of miles away. There are four county towns, and there are dozens of villages under the county town, and hundreds of villages. Some villages are far away from the county town. If you have to go to the city to buy everything, is it a toss? So in the adjacent There will be such markets in several villages."

Zhang He nodded. The traffic at this time is not convenient, and the roads are few and uneven. Therefore, new trading places must be formed near densely populated villages, which is inevitable.

"If I didn't have to hurry, I would have come to join in the fun." Zhang He said regretfully.

"It's a rare opportunity. You can also check here to see if you need anything. Although it is a rural market, there are some things you can't buy in that county. Just like there is a lady in our village who weaves silk cloth to take They can be sold in the city for five or six hundred cash per piece, while ordinary silk cloth is only four hundred cash per piece.”

"You...are you not in a hurry?" Zhang He asked tentatively.

Xia Jiniang shook her head, and Zhang He stopped slowly. She led the ox cart and walked along the road with Xia Jiniang, watching as they walked.Xia Jiniang said beside her: "You know that the government strictly controls salt, wine, and tea, but the government usually doesn't control the market in this country, so there are a lot of private salt and self-brewed wine for sale here."

Over the past dynasties, the government has strictly supervised the supervision of salt, iron, wine and tea, and the tax composed of these parts accounted for more than half of all taxes, which shows its proportion.Under such circumstances, the common people are not allowed to sell or buy illegal salt, or make wine without permission. Even if they can make wine privately, they have to buy wine koji from the government so that the government can collect taxes.

Today's Qin Dynasty is naturally no exception, but under the peaceful and prosperous age, the big merchants who make a living from salt, wine, and tea are basically suppressed, and small transactions in the countryside will not be supervised.There are people who make wine privately in their homes, but as long as it is not for sale, there is no government control. Even if it is for sale, as long as it is not involved widely, it is not a big problem.

Zhang He had no need for wine, so she bought a few catties of salt, exchanged a basket of eggplants for a catty of tea, and then continued on their way with Xia Jiniang.Xia Jiniang looked at her bamboo basket and asked in confusion: "You exchanged purple melons for tea, so you don't have to worry about not having enough money for the restaurant?"

Zhang He gave a "uh" with a sly look in his eyes: "I won't give less to the restaurant. Since I traded purple melon for tea, I have other preparations."

Xia Jiniang thought that Zhang He had other plans, so she stopped asking.

A few miles away, when they arrived at Liujiaqiao Village, a wedding party passed in front of them. From the wedding party and battles, it could be seen that this was a happy event for a rich family.Xia Jiniang suddenly became dazed. Zhang He glanced at her and then at the welcoming team. After the team had passed, she continued on her way.

"This may be the last time we meet, can I ask a question?" Xia Jiniang asked.

Zhang He felt a little lost because of her phrase "meeting for the last time". Hearing her question, he said, "You might as well speak up."

"How do you want to live in the future?"

Zhang He was stunned, she didn't expect Xia Jiniang to ask this question so suddenly.She was asked this on the premise that Xia Jiniang had guessed her identity, so the intention of asking this question was obvious, and her answer seemed a bit difficult to explain.

"How to live now, how to live in the future!" Zhang He said.

Xia Jiniang was surprised, she almost wanted to ask Zhang He why he would dress up as a man, but she was worried that it was related to the secrets of the Zhang family and Zhang He's life, so she didn't ask.

"You, will you come to Qinghe Village in the future?" Zhang He asked again.

Xia Jiniang pondered for a moment, then said, "Maybe not."

"Why?" Zhang He never thought that Xia Jiniang would stop going to Qinghe Village. She thought that Xia Jiniang was just going home, and there was still a chance to go to Qinghe Village in the future.

Xia Jiniang couldn't help laughing when she saw her so stunned: "If I'm not married and the family conditions are better, I will naturally go to my aunt's house."

Zhang He blinked, and heard what she meant: Xia Jiniang might get married.

Her shoulders drooped suddenly: Yes, she is not someone like me who needs to hide her identity, she will marry sooner or later.

Xia Jiniang suddenly said, "Here we are."

When Zhang He came back to his senses, he saw a small river in front of him, with willows and willows on the bank, and scattered fields all around.She said, "Is this Liujiaqiao Village?"

"My family's field is here. My parents should be busy at this time. I will walk over here to help them."

Zhang He didn't know what to say.Xia Jiniang got off the bullock cart and was about to get her bamboo basket when someone suddenly called her, "Youyou!"

Xia Jiniang's body trembled, but she turned around calmly: "Mother!"

I saw a woman walking across the small bridge with a basket in her hand, walking towards them.The woman has a beautiful appearance and rosy skin, which is not at all like a peasant woman who has worked all year round, but she is very plainly dressed, and there are some porcelain in the basket on her arm, as if she has just delivered food for her family in the field.

Hearing Xia Jiniang's address, Zhang He thought to himself, no wonder Xia Jiniang has been working in the fields all year round but has not been seen. It turns out that she has inherited her mother's powerful genes.Some people are not born with a tan, and this kind of person is the envy of others in modern times.

Xia Jiniang ran over, and her mother Xia Cui looked at her happily, and said, "I'm a little fatter, I think I'm doing well at your aunt's house."

"My aunt treats me very well." Xia Jiniang said.

Xia Cuishi smiled gratifiedly, but she noticed just now that Xia Jiniang seemed to get off the boy's ox cart, what is their relationship?She couldn't help but put her eyes on Zhang He.

Zhang He felt Xia Cui's gaze, and stared at her for a while, thinking: Should I just leave here or go up to say hello?

"That's—" Xia Cuishi opened his mouth.

Xia Jiniang looked back at Zhang He and explained, "That's from my aunt's village, and he gave me a ride along the way."

Xia Cuishi didn't think too much, but said "Oh", and went forward to thank: "I am Ji Niang's mother, thank you for giving her a ride, if you are not in a hurry, why don't you come to my house for a drink?"

Zhang Hexi said: "Then interrupt."

The author has something to say: first meeting the mother-in-law

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