Shen Chenai's Different Life in Ancient Times

In Shihua Street, Fengcheng City, in Luo's butcher's shop, Shuanzi, who was making plans, looked up and saw that the sun outside the window was already approaching Xishan, but the customers in the shop were still coming and going, and it was going to decrease a little. Meaning nothing.

Having worked as a shopkeeper in this store for more than ten years, he knows that, considering the popularity of his store, this kind of customer flow is likely to continue until it is about to close.

Looking at the time, Shuanzi knew that it was almost time to check the accounts, so he called someone over to sort out today's accounts with his family.

It was his nephew who was called over by him. He had just joined Luo's house to work not long ago.Not long ago, he received a letter from his hometown, saying that there was a flood in the house, and that there is nothing to expect from the harvest this year.In order to lighten the burden, the eldest brother wrote to ask him if he could send his 16-year-old nephew to him so that he could learn the skills and gain knowledge from him.

He has been away from home for so many years, but the bond between the brothers has not been broken. These years, the elder brother has never asked for anything. If it is not really sad this time, I am afraid that he will not open his mouth to him.

So Shuanzi wrote back without hesitation, dragged his acquaintances to pick up his eldest nephew from his hometown, and after asking the owner, he first arranged for him to work as a small worker in a butcher shop.

After staying by his side to observe for a few days, Shuanzi found that his nephew was good at everything, willing to work and suffer.It's just that people are still younger, curious, and want to ask about everything they see.

While the uncle and nephew were sorting out the books, the door of the store was pushed open from the outside, and a young girl of sixteen or seventeen came in from the outside.

Seeing the girl walking in, Shuanzi quickly walked out of the counter, held the account book and gestured to the girl, and then the two of them entered the back accounting room together, and then people heard the sound of the abacus coming from inside the accounting room. It rang.

Hearing the familiar voice, Shuanzi's nephew raised his head and looked at the cashier curiously, then nudged the little worker next to him, and asked in a low voice: "The master asked the eldest lady to come over again. There are still a few days before the end of the month, but the entire moonlight has been more than a dozen times when the eldest lady came to check the accounts. You said that the boss is willing to delegate power in this way, do you want the eldest lady to take over him in the future? business?"

The person next to him who was pushed by him looked around after hearing it, and then replied: "Who can say for sure, but the two children in the owner's family, the young master has already worshiped Mr. Xu at a young age. As a master, he is a serious Jinshi, not to mention our county, even the people in Liangzhou Prefecture, who want to invite him to be a lecturer, it is too late, if it is not for the friendship between our family and Mr. Xu Okay, I'm afraid it's very rare to invite Mr. Xu. But our young master is very talented. I heard that Mr. Xu always praised him, saying that it's next year's county examination, so I want him to give it a try first. If he succeeds, we The young master of the family is a scholar, and a 13-year-old scholar is rare in the mansion."

After Shuanzi's nephew heard his companion's words, he immediately interjected: "I know what you said, so I wondered if the master wanted to train a young lady to take over his hand. Think about it, wait until the young master is in high school. , He must continue to study, take the exam and then become a high-ranking official, how can a person who wants to be an official be able to do business, the boss must want the young lady to take over the business."

After he said these words, the companions around him whispered back: "Who will take over the business in the family, the boss has his own considerations. Even your uncle can't even think about intervening in these things, let alone you and me. Instead of thinking These are useless, it is better to work quickly and come to help me."

The young man helped his companion nimbly, and said in a low voice, "I'm just curious. Since you've already said that, I won't ask any more questions in the future."

While the two of them were busy, the accounts at the accounting office had been checked.The shopkeeper pushed the door and sent the girl out. When she reached the gate, the girl turned around and said to him, "Uncle Shuanzi, go back, don't worry about me, Erya is waiting for me outside." , I will take it back with me in a while."

Even after the girl said so, Shuanzi still watched her leave the street safely, and he didn't turn back to the shop until he could no longer see anyone.

As dusk approached, Yue Gui, who had patrolled the shops, returned to her home.Although many years have passed, the spacious courtyard of the Luo family has not changed much.

The guy who stepped into the yard first was Erya. Although he is already in his teens now, his lively and active temper is still the same as before.

After Erya entered the yard, she trotted all the way to the kennel, first kissed three or four puppies affectionately, then stretched out her neck, raised her head and barked softly towards the kennel several times.

Huzi lying inside opened his eyes and glanced at his daughter, then closed his eyes and continued to take a nap. The big yellow dog behind it licked Huzi's ears, and then barked at Erya a few times. .

After Erya heard the sound, she wagged her tail and barked at the kennel a few more times, seeing that there was no response from inside, she left with a circle of puppies who were making noise around it.

Hearing the barking of dogs, the door to the west wing was pushed open. An eleven or twelve-year-old boy dressed as a student stood at the door with a book in his hand. He glanced out and said, "When I heard the puppies making a fuss, I knew it must be You're back. Sister, have you bought everything?"

Yuegui glanced at the main room when she heard the words, and heard the young man say: "Don't worry, uncle is coming back from Wuwei today, and my younger uncle is going to pick him up. I guess they won't be back until half an hour at the earliest." .”

While they were talking, a tall and thin young man came in from the gate, Erya in the yard looked up at the person who came in, then lowered her head and continued to coax the puppies.

Xiao Shan looked at the person coming, and called out in a low voice: "Brother Anping."

The tall and thin young man responded, then took out a piece of paper from his pocket, handed it to Yue Gui and said, "I went to the pastry shop and asked, and they said that they can't make the kind of thing we're talking about for the time being." , but they are willing to give it a try, and ask if we would hand over the Fangzi to them?"

Xiaoshan looked at his sister when he heard the words, and saw that although Yuegui was a little disappointed, she still said firmly: "Since they can't do it, let's try to do it ourselves. Today is my uncle's birthday. Let him eat what he wants."

Xiao Shan expressed his firm support for his sister's decision when he heard the words, and the tall and thin young man just sighed when he heard the words, then rolled up his sleeves and followed the siblings into the kitchen.

Mrs. Qian, who had been waiting in the kitchen for a long time, looked helplessly at the three young people who were struggling with flour and eggs, and wanted to help them very much, but the three made it clear that they wanted to come by themselves, and couldn't see After going down, Mrs. Qian had no choice but to go out of the kitchen, trying to keep out of sight.

Just as the three young men were busy in the kitchen, a well-wrapped little chubby man ran in from the gate with a little dirt dog.

Little Fatty ran all the way to the main room, held the door and panted to the people inside and said, "Yuegui, your uncle came back early today, and he and my husband are walking home now."

The people in the room were all shocked when they heard the words, and they all went to see Yuegui, but Yuegui didn't expect that her uncle and younger uncle would come back early today, and she was at a loss for a while.

Just when everyone in the house was dumbfounded, the familiar sound of a carriage sounded outside the gate, and now there was no need to ask, as the children in the house knew that it was the adults at home who had returned.

Sure enough, a family's long carriage stopped at the gate of Luo's house. After the driver had parked the car, he got out of the car and opened the door curtain. Luo Ding and Shen Chenai stepped on the horse stools and got out of the car.

Today's Shen Chenai and Luo Ding are both in their thirties. Although they are nearly middle-aged, God seems to be particularly partial to them. In ten years, apart from making the temperament of the two more stable Besides, there are almost no other changes that can be seen.

After the two of them got out of the car, Shen Chenai saw the little chubby standing at the door at a glance. Although he was a little surprised, he smiled lightly and asked, "Xiao Shi, why are you here so late?"

Little Fatty stood up straight when he heard the words, and replied obediently: "My ninth brother took Brother Xu to the salt field, and said he would live there for a few days. I was bored at home, so I came to play with Xiaoshan .”

Shen Chenai nodded when she heard the words, Yue Huhu was famous in Fengcheng, Yue Xiaoshi's seniority was too high, there were really few people in Yue's family who could play with him.

However, the child liked to play with Xiao Shan since he was a child. After learning painting by his side, the relationship between the two children became even better, almost to the point where they were inseparable.

Speaking of Xiaoshan, where did the child go? When he and Luo Ding came back, wouldn't the child come out to greet them? Thinking of this, Shen Chenxi walked quickly into the house.

As soon as he got close to the gate of the main house, he saw Yue Gui standing there with Xiao Shan bowing his head, and beside him was his senior apprentice, who also stood aside with embarrassment.

Shen Chenai was a little surprised when she saw this. Just as she was about to ask something, Luo Ding, who was following behind him, spoke first, only to hear him ask the few standing there: "Why are you all stuck here? Why don't you go into the house?"

Several people looked at each other when they heard the words, but Luo Ding, who came in behind, found something strange in the kitchen. He pointed to the unrecognizable kitchen in surprise and said, "What's going on here?"

Shen Chenai heard the words and looked in the direction of Luo Ding's finger, and saw that the kitchen was full of pots and pans, and looked at the children standing in front of her. They were also covered with oil, and they seemed to be in the kitchen It looks like it has been struggling for a long time.

Seeing this, Shen Chenai quickly asked, "Why did you go to the kitchen?"

Yuegui kicked her feet away when she heard the words, lowered her head and whispered back: "Today is your birthday, we know that you have always wanted to eat something called a cake. We have been looking for it for a long time, but we couldn't find it. Then I thought about myself did it, but it didn’t work.”

Shen Chenai was a little dazed when he heard the words. He didn't expect that what he said so casually on his birthday last year would be remembered by these children.And it seems that these children must have put a lot of thought into his casual remarks.

Shen Chenai, whose heart was astringent and whose eyes were hot, said in a hoarse voice: "Didn't you guys already book a table for me at Jiqinglou? What are you going to do all this time for?"

Yuegui replied after hearing the words: "That's different. The noodles in Jiqinglou are made by master chefs. We wanted to make this cake by ourselves, but we couldn't succeed."

Shen Chenai touched their heads when she heard the words, and said with a smile: "It's the same, everything is the same. Since you want to cook for me, then don't make it difficult for yourself, just do what you can."

The children looked at each other after hearing the words, and then Yuegui asked cautiously: "Is it okay to boil eggs? This is the only thing we all know."

Shen Chenai replied with a smile when she heard the words: "Okay, boil eggs and cook eggs."

The children happily went to the kitchen to boil water and pick eggs. Luo Ding stood behind Shen Chenai and heard their conversation from beginning to end. After the children ran to the kitchen, Luo Ding walked back to the door Outside, he said to the handlebar who hadn't left yet: "When you go back, go to the Jiqing Building and tell them that you can't go out for dinner today, and ask them to ask someone to prepare the noodles and bring them over. "

Hearing the words, the handlebar Shih took the order and left. By the time the noodles were delivered, the hard-boiled eggs for those children had already been cooked.

Shen Chenai looked at the row of boiled eggs in front of her with black lines all over her head, and there were twelve of them when she counted them. Didn't these children plan to let him eat all of them by himself?

Shen Chenai really wanted to say that he didn't have that much appetite, but looking at the bright eyes of the children, he couldn't say the words that came to his lips, but it was impossible for him to eat all these eggs by himself of.

In the end, he had no choice but to think of a way and said, "When we eat cakes, we want everyone to share them together, so let's share the eggs too."

As she said that, Shen Chenai began to distribute the eggs on the table to everyone, even the tigers and their kennels had a few extra boiled eggs that had been poached.

With everyone's efforts, the filial piety of these children was finally wiped out.

In the evening, sitting cross-legged on the kang, eating the noodles brought by Jiqing Tower, and listening to the auspicious words that those little guys came up to say in turn, Shen Chenai's heart was about to overflow with a sense of satisfaction.

He picked up the corner of his mouth and drank the wine toasted by the children, glass after glass, the more he drank, the happier he was, and he couldn't remember how many glasses he drank in the end.

Anyway, when he woke up a little bit, the banquet on the table had already been removed. Shen Chenxi calmed down and asked Luo Ding who was really twisting the towel to wipe his face: "Who are those people?" Where did the little guy go?"

Luo Ding heard the words and replied: "Anping has already gone home, Yue Gui and Xiao Shan went back to the East and West Wings, Yue Xiaoshi followed Xiao Shan to the West Wing, and said that he is staying at our house tonight."

After speaking, Luo Ding took off the towel, soaked it in the copper basin, and then began to wipe Shen Chenai's body.

Feeling the gentle movements of Luo Ding's hands, Shen Chenai smiled slightly and said, "I suddenly remembered when I first arrived at your house, I was lying on the kang like this at that time, and I asked you to wait on me like this. Every morning and evening, twice a day , you just wipe my body with a soft towel so gently."

After hearing this, Luo Ding wiped Shen Chenai's body and said, "If you want, I can wipe it for you forever."

Hearing the words, Shen Chenai's eye sockets, which had been suppressed with great difficulty, became hot again. He took out a towel from Luo Ding's hand, put it over his eyes and replied, "It's a great day, you have to make me cry, is it on purpose? want to see me make a fool of myself”

There was no towel in Luo Ding's hand, so he had to stop what he was doing, and replied after listening to Shen Chenai's words: "I just want you to know that no matter after ten years or 100 years, I will never treat you It will change. When we are all gone, the graves will also be filled together. I don’t know if there will be an afterlife. If there is, I would like to have a chance to wipe your body.”

Hearing this, Shen Chenai took off the soft towel she had put on her face, pushed the obstructive copper basin to the edge of the kang, and at the same time pulled Luo Ding towards her, and said, "Why do you wipe your body? Come here and give me a warm bed."

Luo Ding smiled lightly when he heard the words, leaned into Shen Chenai's ear and said, "Then I'd rather be respectful than obedient."