You Can't Be Fierce Towards Me!

"Aim here, move quickly..." Chu Xiangtian said a few words in a low voice, but he didn't hear the reaction of the people around him, and turned his head strangely, just in time to meet Fu Tian's ecstatic gaze.

Touching his cheek, he asked doubtfully, "Is there something on my face?"

Fu Tian, ​​who was wandering in awe, came back to his senses in an instant, a layer of blush spread from his cheeks to his ears, he shook his head and stammered, "No, no..."

The young master's face was full of panic, his pupils dilated slightly because of the shock, and his eyes were filled with moisture. He was pitiful and cute. Although he knew he was lying, it made people reluctant to continue asking.

Reluctantly, Chu Xiangtian had no choice but to pretend nothing happened, "Well, did you hear what I just said?"

Fu Tian shook his head guiltily, what did you just say?

Patiently explained to him the key points of spearfishing again, Chu Xiangtian lightly held his hand, and said in a gentle voice, "I don't care if I don't understand, I'll take you with me."

Fu Tian nodded, bent over like him, and looked around in the water to see which fish was the biggest.

Chu Xiangtian made a hand gesture, telling him to wait for the fork - an extra fat black-backed fish, swimming in the water in front of them without any sense of danger.

Nodding cooperatively, Fu Tian clenched the branch in his hand a little nervously.

At the same time, Chu Xiangtian also clenched his hand, and after aiming at the target, he stabbed the big harpoon steadily and accurately.

The school of fish in the water scattered, and the big fish pierced by the branch opened and closed its mouth and struggled vigorously. Chu Xiangtian took down the struggling big fish and threw it to the shore, saying: "One more fish will be enough for us to eat." .”

The two concocted according to the law, and soon caught another one. Fu Tian was as happy as a child, jumping up and down uncontrollably.

Chu Xiangtian gave him the branch with the fish on it, then bent down for him to lie on it.

Fu Tian was not happy and wanted to leave by himself.Chu Xiangtian pointed to the sharp stones on the shore, and explained: "The stones on the shore are sharp and easy to scratch."

Reluctantly looking at the shore, the scattered stones were indeed sharp, Fu Tian pursed his lips, and obediently lay on Chu Xiangtian's back.

Chu Xiangtian went ashore with him on his back, took two big lotus leaves and spread them on the ground before putting him down.

The freshly picked lotus leaves were still fragrant. Fu Tian sat cross-legged on it, and Chu Xiangtian stuffed two lotus pods into his hands, "Wait here, I'll go gather firewood to make a fire first."

Playing with the two lotus pods, Fu Tian watched the tall figure walk away slowly, and for some reason, his heart suddenly filled with joy, as if he had just eaten a piece of candy, and his whole body was sweet, if he was at home , maybe you will roll up and down happily.

The smile on the corner of his mouth couldn't be suppressed no matter what, Fu Tian simply let his lips curl up and peeled off the lotus seeds deftly with his fingers.

Fresh lotus seeds are big and round, and the light green color is also very pleasing. Fu Tian carefully peeled off the outer skin to reveal the white and tender lotus seed meat inside. He tasted one first, and the lotus seeds were crisp and sweet. There was only a slight bitterness in the core, so he continued to peel and put the peeled lotus seeds on the clean lotus leaves.

When Chu Xiangtian came back with dry firewood, he had already peeled a large handful of lotus seeds.

Pile the dry firewood not far away, Chu Xiangtian saw the lotus seeds in front of him, smiled and said, "Why don't you eat them?"

Fu Tian smiled and waved to him. As soon as Chu Xiangtian passed by, he stuffed a lotus seed with a fragrance.

The lotus seeds are crunchy and sweet, but Chu Xiangtian feels his throat is dry, his lips seem to still have the touch of the young master's fingers, squinting his eyes and licking his lips, Chu Xiangtian said in a low voice, "Eat another one."

Fu Tian didn't notice anything, and obediently fed him another one.

After eating a few lotus seeds to his heart's content, Chu Xiangtian got up to prepare the grilled fish, dug a shallow pit on the ground with branches, spread dead leaves on the bottom, piled dry firewood in the pit, and then used fire to Zhezi lit a fire.

The weak flames sprang up slowly, Chu Xiangtian clapped his hands, and carried two big fish to the stream to deal with them.

In fact, in the past, grilled fish were all washed and then roasted on the fire. When marching and fighting, how could they handle it so meticulously with such spare time, but it was changed to the young master, and he was reluctant to let him eat such rough things.

The young master who can't wait to hold it in his hand will naturally be treated differently from other rough guys.

Chu Xiangtian handled it very carefully. The gills, viscera, and scales of the fish were all cleaned up. They were threaded with two branches that had been washed and soaked in water. Then, they were finely sprinkled with salt and roasted on the fire.

"Where did you get the salt?" Fu Tian was surprised.

Chu Xiangtian carefully turned the branches to control the fire, and said with a smile, "I'm used to carrying a torch and salt with me."

These are necessary for marching and fighting. If you sleep in the wild, you can buy some wild food.On the battlefield, fire and salt can save lives at critical times.

But Fu Tian didn't know what he thought of, and asked cautiously: "Did you often eat wild food outside?" Otherwise, you wouldn't take these things with you, it sounded like you didn't eat the next meal.

"Well, when I can't eat, I go outside to hunt. Fish in the river, birds in the sky, and pheasants and wild boars in the mountains... I have eaten them all." Chu Xiangtian turned his back to him, and did not see the expression on his face. I thought he was curious, so he said it very casually. When he was besieged by the enemy and ran out of food, he even gnawed on the grass roots and bark. These are already good things to add to the meal.

Fu Tian's heart ached when he heard it. He was used to living a life of rich clothes and fine food since he was a child. Even in the hardest years of his last life, because his master was kind, he could afford to eat.

When Chu Xiangtian came over with two grilled fish, he found that the way Fu Tian looked at him was...strange.

The young master made room for him, put the peeled lotus seeds into his arms, and said with bright eyes: "You eat."

Chu Xiangtian: "..."

Picking up a lotus seed and feeding it into Fu Tian's mouth, Chu Xiangtian smiled and said, "What's wrong?"

Fu Huang shook his head with a lotus seed in his mouth, wrapped the grilled fish with a big lotus leaf, and gave the big one to Chu Xiangtian, while he picked the small one and held it in his hand and blew gently.

"Be careful of the fishbone." Chu Xiangtian picked out his share of fishbone with a clean branch, and then forcibly exchanged it with Fu Tian, ​​"You eat this, the big thorns are all gone."

Looking at the white fish meat, and then at Chu Xiangtian who frowned and continued to pick the fish bone, Fu Tian pursed his lips, the warm feeling spread from his heart to his eyes, blinked his eyes, and took a small bite of the fish meat.

The fish meat was fragrant and tender, except for the slight salty taste, it was the sweetness of the fish itself. Chu Xiangtian handled the fish very cleanly, without any fishy smell. Fu Tian ate the fish quickly while blowing.

After eating the one in his hand, Chu Xiangtian roasted the remaining three smaller ones. Fu Tian had a small appetite, so he only ate one, and the rest went into Chu Xiangtian's stomach.

After extinguishing the fire in the fire pit, a cloud of burning fire has spread across the sky, filling half of the sky with red.

"It's time to go back." Chu Xiangtian squatted down, wiped Fu Huang's hands and feet with the hem of his clothes, and took the shoes next to him to put them on.

"I'll do it myself..." Fu Tian retracted her feet under her robe, snatched the shoes with red ears, and put them on in a hurry, lest Chu Xiangtian would insist on wearing them for him.

The sun was setting slightly in the sky, and the two walked slowly under the tree, the warm red light made Fu Tian's cheeks even more red.

It wasn't until I returned to Zhuangzi that the strange heart-pounding feeling dissipated.It was too late, they rested on Zhuangzi for one night today, and Fu Tian hid in his room as if he had fled.

The servant brought water in to bathe him. Fu Tian changed his clothes and sank into the water before exhaling a long breath.

After a tiring day, after taking a bath and changing into a soft undershirt, Fu Tian hugged the quilt and fell into a deep sleep, but this night's dreams seemed to be filled with the smell of grilled fish.

After breakfast the next day, Chu Xiangtian left with Fu Tian, ​​and Zhou Chuanqing was left behind to take care of the people in the village, at least he could not leave until everyone was settled.

Looking at the carriage going away, Zhou Chuanqing's face turned green with anger, and he scolded Chu Xiangtian a hundred times in his heart, and finally he could only throw up his sleeves angrily and go back to arrange the field affairs.

Fu Huang opened the curtain and looked out, thinking of Zhou Chuanqing's face just now, he felt sympathetic and wanted to laugh, "Why do you always bully Brother Zhou?"

Chu Xiangtian sat on the shaft and drove the car, he gave a "tsk" and said in dissatisfaction: "Whatever I bully him, if I bully him, I bully you."

The meaning of these words was deeper, and Fu Huang's ears were a little hot again, so he stretched out his hand to rub it, scolded a hooligan in his heart, and stopped talking to him.

Driving the carriage to Zhuangzi before noon, Fu Tian sneaked away when he left, but now he came back feeling very guilty, and made a silent gesture to Chu Xiangtian, and he was about to slip into the yard lightly.

"Where are you going again?" Fu Youqin, who heard the movement, came out to take a look, and saw Fu Tian slipping into the yard like a thief, so she said angrily.

Fu Tian's body froze, and he moved towards Fu Youqin's side slowly, and called out flatteringly, "Mother."

Fu Youqin nodded on his forehead, "You are still sneaky when you go out, but if you want to go out, can I lock you in the room?"

Fu Huang shook her arm coquettishly, admitted her mistake with a good attitude, and was finally let go.

"Fu Ji sent a message yesterday, saying that there is something in the shop that you need to deal with, you should go and have a look."

Fu Tian let out an "ah" and turned to look for Fu Ji.

Hearing that Fu Tian was back, Fu Ji also came to look for him. The two met on the way and went to the study together.

The news that Fu Ji brought was not bad news, but it was a bit shocking. He was worried that Fu Youqin would get angry, so he waited until Fu Tian came back to say it.

"Wen Boli opened a new rice shop diagonally across from our rice shop." This is obviously trying to grab business, and it's also disgusting.

Fu Huang frowned, "Is he still guarding the door?"

Fu Ji nodded, with a disgusted tone, "I go every day."

"You don't need to tell mother and sister about this." Fu Tian pondered for a moment and said, "I'll go back and deal with it. You can bring a few more people to stay and protect Zhuangzi, and let them relax on Zhuangzi."

Fu Ji bowed down and turned around to make arrangements.

At noon, Fu Huang said hello to Fu Youqin, saying that the shop had something to do and had to go back to deal with it, so that they could continue to relax in Zhuangzi, and went back to Sifang Town with Chu Xiangtian.

Fu Huang went straight to the shop. Diagonally opposite was originally a sugar shop, but now it was replaced by "Wenjia Rice Shop". Because it was newly opened, there was still red silk and satin on the plaque, and Wen Boli was welcoming and seeing off at the door. Go, beaming.

Fu Tian glanced at it in disgust, and was about to turn around and go in, but was stopped by the sharp-eyed Wen Boli, "Youling, how long are you mother and son going to hide from me?"

"Stay away from us, so you don't have to hide." Fu Tian said bluntly, "Don't hide away, I'm afraid my mother will see you dirty your eyes."

Passers-by stopped and looked this way curiously, Wen Boli blushed, "Is that how you talk to your father?"

Fu Tian sneered, "It's just Heli's son-in-law, what face do you have to call your father? Besides, my surname is Fu now, and Fu from the Fu family has nothing to do with you."

"You!" Wen Bo's polite face turned green. Hearing the whispered pointers from the people around him, his face became even more embarrassed. In the end, he could only flick his sleeves and turned back to the opposite side, "Don't regret it!"

Fu Tian is not afraid of him now, he snorted and said to the shop manager: "Don't let him near the shop in the future, I'm afraid he will dirty the Fu family's land."

……

Flicking his sleeves back to the rice shop, Wen Boli picked up the tea on the table and put it down heavily, the porcelain made a crisp knocking sound, and the spilled tea flowed down the coffee table.The rice shop is full of people who come to buy rice. The rice shop is newly opened today. If you buy two buckets of rice, you will get half a bucket for free. Therefore, there are many people in the rice shop.

Wen Boli made so much commotion that everyone in the shop secretly glanced at the person behind the screen and chatted with each other in low voices.All kinds of prying or curious eyes fell on him, and Wen Boli was like a thorn in his back. After sitting for a moment, he couldn't help it, and waved his sleeves heavily to leave.

The newly purchased house is on the East Street, and Sanjin's house is not small, but there are people of all kinds living around, making noise and restlessness all day long.Unwilling to go home, Wen Boli simply went to the brothel to drink.

There were two girls there who were good at singing, and Xiaoyi was gentle and more pleasing than the woman at home who was always thinking about her status. Wen Boli leaned on the bamboo couch to drink, and the two girls leaned on him to sing, Pour him a glass of wine every now and then...

Wen Xiang nephrite, wine and beauty, as if all the setbacks and troubles are far away from him, Wen Boli fooled around until the evening, the sky had already dimmed, he put on his clothes, stuffed two ingots of reward money on the girl's chest, and went downstairs crookedly go home.

After reconciling with Fu Youqin, he doesn't have to hold back anymore, listen to Qu'er, drink and play with women, no one dares to control him, and he doesn't have to worry all day long about that crap being known, Wen Boli laughed drunkenly twice, He muttered in a low voice: "You will regret it, you will definitely regret it..."

Walking crookedly against the wall, the bottom of the wall was not known to be water, Wen Boli stepped on it without paying attention, fell hard, got up cursing, swearing at the top of his throat twice, but no one responded, He could only bah, and limped home.

Neither her husband nor her son came home, and Bai Ruihe waited anxiously at home. When she heard the movement at the door, she hurried to the door.

Wen Boli pushed open the door, saw Bai Ruihe who came to help him with a smile, pushed him away viciously, and said with a gloomy expression, "Even you laugh at me?"

The smile on Bai Ruihe's face froze, and he took a step back instinctively, "Brother Wen, are you drunk?"

When Wen Boli heard the sound of "Brother Wen", anger suddenly surged in his eyes, and he slammed the flagon in his hand at Bai Ruihe, and then he rushed forward and pressed Bai Ruihe to the ground.

"It's all your fault, you bitch!"

Wen Boli slapped her across the face, and the crisp applause woke up the stunned Bai Ruihe. She beat Wen Boli on her body like crazy, but Wen Boli was much stronger than her. The man suppressed her, and slapped her twice as if venting, while cursing drunkenly: "If it weren't for you, how could I have ended up where I am today!?"

"Bitch, bitch! I'll kill you!"

Wen Boli slapped her hard, Bai Ruihe's cheeks were swollen, he could only scream and scratch him with his nails, Wen Boli was caught in pain by her, he got up drunk and kicked her, then staggered back to the house.

Bai Ruihe barely propped herself up to sit up, her neatly combed hair was all torn apart, her cheeks on both sides were swollen, her eyes widened in bewilderment, and finally she covered her face and sobbed softly.

She originally thought that as long as she snatched him away from Fu Youqin, she would be able to live a prosperous life, have a smart son, and a husband who dotes on her. This is what she has dreamed of for more than ten years, but now everything is gone. changed.

The nails sank into the palm of his hand, and the unwillingness in his heart was like a rising tide, roaring like crazy.

"Mother?" The drunken Wen Zeming came in through the open door, and saw Bai Ruihe sitting on the ground with disheveled hair.

Bai Ruihe raised his face, the redness and swelling on his face startled him, and he woke up a little from the alcohol, went to help him up, "Who hit him?"

"Your father..." Bai Ruihe was sobbing and sobbing. After Wen Zeming drank, an evil fire ignited in his heart, "I'll take you to find him!"

"No..." Bai Ruihe pulled him back and begged, "We still have to rely on him to live, mother is fine, it's just a small injury... Your father drank alcohol today..."

Wen Zeming had a sudden pain in his temple, he drank a lot of wine, or in other words, since he was released, he has been soaking in the wine jar, using wine to numb himself.

After nearly two months in prison, his bright future was completely ruined. If it wasn't for Wen Boli...he wouldn't have come to this point!

Now that Wen Boli dared to despise their mother and son, Wen Zeming laughed ferociously, "If he dies, we don't have to rely on him."

Bai Ruihe was frightened by his expression, he was stunned before persuading him: "You will pay for your life if you kill someone, as long as he is sick, it's not the same as letting us deal with it."

Wen Zeming exchanged glances with her, both eyes showing the same eager light.

*****

After being ridiculed by Fu Huang in public, Wen Boli never appeared in front of the Fu family's gate again, and Fu Tian was very satisfied.However, within two days of An's birthday, the Wenjia rice shop started to have moths again.

In return, Wenjia Mipu lowered the price by nearly half and sold it.

The common people naturally choose the cheap ones to buy. Although the rice from Wenjia Rice Shop is always mixed with a lot of chaff, even so, the price is almost half the price, which is still a good deal.

The steward said in a bitter tone, "The business in the shop has dropped a lot, and there are a few big households who seem to have been bribed by the Wen family, but they didn't come to pick up the food at the appointed time this month. Xiao Er said that he saw them go to the Wen family The rice shop has gone."

Fu Tian frowned, he could guess what Wen Boli would do, but he didn't expect that Wen Boli was much more stupid than he expected.

To deliberately disgust him by lowering the price of rice, and compete with the rice shop of the Fu family, this is simply an act of hitting a stone with a pebble.Even if the Fu family's rice shop can't sell a grain of rice, the Fu family behind it can support it, but Wen Boli is different. Fu Tian dares to bet that if he sells it like this for a month, he will not be able to support it.

"It doesn't matter, you let him sell it." Fu Tian said with a smile: "You find a few people, go to Fu's rice shop to buy rice, and see if the price can be lowered by the way. .”

The manager didn't understand what he meant, and he hesitated when he heard the words, "Why do we buy such rice? Our warehouse is still full."

Fu Tian waved his hand, and now he couldn't explain clearly to him, so he could only fool around and say, "Just listen to me."

The owner had the final say, so the steward had no choice but to leave full of doubts to do what Fu Tian had told him.

Fu Tian walked around the room twice happily, and said that Wen Boli was a fool in studying, and that he was able to rush to deliver food to him at this juncture. He only hoped that he would not die of anger until next year.

"What a good thing, smiling so happily?"

Chu Xiangtian came in to deliver a letter to the young master, only to see his smiling eyes crooked.

Fu Tian pretended to be mysterious and blinked, "You will know later."

Chu Xiangtian pinched his face and handed him the letter, "Look at the letter from Zhuangzi."

The wax seal was opened, and there was a ditch map inside. The drawing was spread out to a square of two feet. The location of each farmland and river was drawn in detail on it, and the ditches that needed to be excavated were marked with cinnabar.

The location of each ditch and the reason why it was chosen here are carefully explained at the bottom of the drawing. Fu Huang has read many books on water conservancy, so he is half-baked, but it can be seen that this picture does have However, he was not quite sure, so he turned his head and asked Chu Xiangtian, "Do you understand? What do you think?"

Chu Xiangtian: "..."

How could he know that sending a letter could cause problems to himself, Chu Xiangtian replied calmly, "I think it's possible."

Fu Huang also felt that it was feasible, and tightened the drawings in the envelope, "Then we have to call the manager of Zhuangzi, and we have to discuss how many people and money are needed."

Unexpectedly, he would implement it so soon, so the nonsense Chu Xiangtian took the envelope and said calmly, "Then calculate how much money you need first, and then I'll look at this picture."

Before Fu Tian agreed, he strode away.

Instead of going through the main entrance, Chu Xiangtian went out from the side entrance and went directly to the county government office.

The minister of the Ministry of Industry and the county magistrate were discussing the project progress of the wharf. Unexpectedly, Chu Xiangtian came over suddenly and hurriedly stood up to salute.

"Look at this." Chu Xiangtian handed the ditch map to the trembling minister of the Ministry of Industry, "Is there any problem?"

The minister of the Ministry of Industry carefully read the drawings. Although the drawings were a little rough, there were no serious problems. He carefully asked, "Is this where the ditches need to be built?"

Hearing that there was no problem, Chu Xiangtian felt relieved, put away the drawings and explained casually: "Fujiazhuangzi is going to open ditches, isn't that what you're in charge of? It's just for you to check, so as not to make any mistakes."

Minister of the Ministry of Industry: "..." I am not only in charge of water conservancy, I am in charge of many things.

The expression of the county magistrate is also indescribable. He knows this King Yu. The young man went to the battlefield and won many battles, making the foreigners frightened. He is the god of war who has made a lot of contributions to Da Chu, or the younger brother of the current emperor. No one dared to say a typo when walking sideways.

Fortunately, this evil god stays at the border all year round and rarely comes back, so that everyone can live with their hearts in their stomachs. However, they did not expect to see this evil god in the capital, but in the small Sifang Town.

The minister of the Ministry of Industry whispered to the county magistrate, "Where is the sacred Fu family?" It sounded very important to the prince.

The county magistrate had read Wen Boli's dossier, so he was naturally impressed. He coughed lightly. After all, he didn't dare to tell the secrets of the Fu family under Chu Xiangtian's eyes, so he coughed and told him to wait a while. Let's talk about the eyes.

However, he didn't provoke Chu Xiangtian, but Chu Xiangtian noticed him, "Are you the new county magistrate?"

The county magistrate nodded and said "yes" repeatedly.

Chu Xiangtian was dissatisfied and said: "The farmland and water conservancy in Sifang Town was originally the responsibility of the parents and officials, but now the people are required to contribute their own money and efforts. You are not very responsible for the city..."

The county magistrate almost knelt down in front of him. He has only been in office for less than a month. Although he intends to rectify the local government affairs, he is powerless and can only take it one step at a time. Now that Chu Xiangtian said this, he can only admit his mistakes again and again, " It is the negligence of the humble staff, and the humble staff will definitely put water conservancy construction on the agenda as soon as possible to benefit the people."

Only then did Chu Xiangtian leave satisfied.

The minister of the Ministry of Industry sympathized with helping the county magistrate who was limp on the ground, "Now we can say, who is the Fu family?"

The county magistrate wiped the sweat off his forehead and told him about the Fu family.

The minister of the Ministry of Industry was amazed, and he was not stingy to mention a few words, "It seems that the relationship between the prince and the Fu family is good, you should be smart in the future, there are many people in the capital who want to please the prince, but except for a few The son of a family who has grown up, but no one can make the prince so caring."

The county magistrate nodded, keeping the Fu family firmly in mind.

Chu Xiangtian went back with the blueprints, while Fu Huang was still in the study calculating Zhuangzi who needed to dig the canal.

Putting the envelope on the desk, Chu Xiangtian looked at the Zhuangzi he had listed and frowned slightly, "These Zhuangzi's fields have to be dug for canals?"

Fu Tian nodded, and had to dig it out this year.There are quite a few Zhuangzi in the Fu family, and it is impossible to dig out all of them this year, so he can only pick up a few bigger Zhuangzi.

The more Chu Xiangtian thought about it, the more strange he became. Although increasing food production is a good thing, opening ditches is not a trivial matter, and it takes time and effort. He couldn't figure out why Fu Tian was in such a hurry.

"Why are you in such a hurry? It's better to let the government preside over it to save energy."