Daming Grocer

After waiting for a while, they replied: "I am ordered to protect the lord, lest this woman hurt you!" Without raising her eyes, she knocked the jade ruyi on the table one by one: "Get out, get out, get out."

The guard who had just answered was about to answer, the other quickly stopped him and winked, leaned forward slightly, and the two of them bowed their hands and left.

As soon as the door was closed, Mrs. Hu crawled forward and hugged the princess' golden silk boots: "Master, princess, my little one, save me... save your nanny..." After the words fell, there was a moment. Stepping away, she cried and climbed up to hug: "Master!"

Princess Huayue put Yu Ruyi in her hand against her forehead, looked directly at her scarred face for a long time, and asked in a cold voice: "Will men and women in the world do such nasty and disgusting things like you?"

Mrs. Hu was stunned, and burst into tears in a flash. From the loss of her son and being retired to how to live a hard life, interspersed with the ups and downs of raising the princess from childhood to adulthood, and crying rumblingly at the end, as if she was going to faint It's like dying.She was like this, and the princess was not moved at all, and when she had cried enough, she just said indifferently: "There is no need to be so hypocritical between you and me."

Her words made Hu tremble violently, and then he backed away a little and fell there.She suddenly woke up, and the one sitting in front of her was not the kind-hearted Bodhisattva, but the cold-blooded Lord Yan who was brought up by her alone, crying, and was useless in front of her.Thinking back on the day, the more I think about it, the tighter my throat becomes. This person may have seen what happened between her and Chai Er in the room early in the morning, but he kept silent because she was afraid that they would panic if they made a noise. It was not good for her, she waited until the patrolling guards passed by, and yelled that scream with the loudest voice in her life.

Thoughtful and terrifying, always.If she wanted to get a living from such a master, only by giving her what she wanted would she be able to survive.

Thinking about this, he put away his mourning face, fell down there and said calmly: "Master, you know the reason why you want to marry Yu's family instead of the princes and princes' family. You can see that there may be errors in repeating it here. Yu Fengnian The grandson of Yu Shili, son-in-law of Shen Wansan's family, is the nephew of your mother, Mu Yu's family. The entire Mu family wants you to marry into Yu's family. The picture is exactly the relationship between Yu Shili and Shen Wansan. If the Mu family army needs to expand its army They don't want the imperial court to know the number of people, so the Mu Mansion has to pay for the soldiers themselves. To stabilize the soldiers and horses today, they need a lot of money to support them. They need to be supported by a large wealth, and Shen Wansan's descendants are their hope. They speculated that when the Shen family was ransacked and destroyed, the secret of Shen Wansan's astonishing wealth was hidden in his descendants, and that secret could help the Shen family make a comeback."

After finishing speaking, he looked up and saw that the person on the chair was still sitting there motionless, and the jade Ruyi in his hand was tapped on the palm of his hand lightly, once and for all, as if he was making great plans for the chess game in front of him.There is no need for an answer, not to refute, is to agree, not to speak, is to let her continue.Hu went on to say: "After the uncle left, the master saw how the biological mother went north to eat vegetarian food and chant the Buddha to avoid others' attention. The nanny understood how it felt. Then master, why don't you be completely strong, so strong that the entire Mu family has to rely on you?"

When she finished speaking, Princess Huayue's eyes brightened, then dimmed again, and she still didn't answer.She had no choice but to continue: "I have a fellow from my hometown who is a small leader in the army. He oversees the silver mining of prisoners exiled by the imperial court. The slave family and him are like brothers and sisters. He often comes to visit the slave family. The fifth uncle of the concierge can testify. The slave family remembers him When I came here 13 years ago, I told my slaves that a pregnant woman found him one day and asked him to help her out of the mine on the day of her delivery.

Because the woman knew in her heart that if she gave birth to a child in the mine, the child would be born a slave, so she took a very dangerous risk to send the child out.In the end, my brother got the benefit of a tael of gold from the woman, and took her out of the mine on the day when she gave birth. According to my brother, the woman howled for several hours in the tea mountain forest in the middle of the night, and gave birth by herself. The baby, and then left the newborn baby in Chashan.

My brother didn't sleep all night after he went back. The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became. He felt pity that the baby might be taken away by wild animals when he was born. He asked for leave the next day to go to the tea mountain, but found that the baby had long since disappeared. Later, he heard the tea worker say , was picked up.

Master, my brother testifies that that woman is the wife of Shen Dequan, the grandson of Shen Wansan. "

In the twenty-odd li of the twelfth lunar month, the daily incense in the Guanyin Temple is at its peak.Aunt Zhang told Qijian that Zhang Xiucai, the son of Zhang Can's family in the county, could read, and they all said that sooner or later he would become a leader.Zhang Can's family liked this marriage very much, the dowry was bought according to marrying a young lady from a rich family, Shen Guanshi was also very satisfied, and the two families agreed to choose a date for the marriage after the year.Seeing that the day is coming to the end of the year, Manager Shen asked Qijian to buy incense candles and go to the Guanyin Temple to pray for blessings, and also prayed for the future husband. You don't have to worry about the day.

It was snowing again that day, Qijian put his hands in the hands of the rabbit fur warmer, and Erxi, the little girl behind the basket of joss sticks, carried it.This is the girl that the master's family gave to their family recently, saying that she will be a dowry girl to Zhang's family in the future, which can be regarded as a kindness from the master's family.The little girl is two years younger than Qijian, at the age of thirteen, wearing a bun, and innocently calling Mr. Xiao.

After burning incense and kowtowing, Erxi said that she would go for a walk in the temple, Qijian followed her, took her around for a while, and saw a person who had been peeping at the window these days by a temple in the back mountain.Today this person is not wearing an official uniform, but a plain cloth, and next to him is He Butou, who is also not wearing an official uniform.When the two heard someone calling, they both took two steps back nervously before answering.

"Your Excellency also came to pray for blessings, and I greet the two adults." Qi Jian said a blessing, and Er Xi hurriedly followed suit.He Butou made an excuse and left with a flickering um-oh.Chen Jiyan's name is Ji Yan, and everyone in the county knows that Yuxi County has come to Yunnan Province's Tolerance, and it is said that it is to catch a bandit 20 years ago, and this Chen Jiyan is one of the Tolerances who came with the team.

Qijian found a reason to send Erxi away, and walked with Chen Guancha in the snow, the back mountain was empty, and animals and birds did not come out in this snowy day, so it was very quiet.The two walked under the eaves of the hall, Qijian covered his frozen red face with his hands, and seeing the people beside him looking forward with a righteous face, without squinting, he was intoxicated at the moment, and blurted out: "Does your lord have a family?" ?”

Sudden questioning, Chen Jiyan turned his neck to look at the person beside him after a long while: "Never married."Chen Jiyan didn't seem to have heard this, and when Qijian was about to leave in embarrassment, he suddenly heard the other party firmly say: "I have never been engaged. My family is poor, and there is no marriage yet. I made Mr. Xiao laugh."

Qijian was inexplicably happy, his heart was so hot that he took out the sachet and gave it to him: "Your Excellency will have a good marriage, and I wish you the best of luck." What is the purpose of the woman giving the sachet, of course Chen Jiyan thought Clearly, he also knew that the young lady of the Shen family was engaged, but he was stunned for a long time, and unexpectedly took the sachet.

Qijian returned home dizzy all the way. He had never felt this way in his life, as if he was drunk from drinking.

In the evening, after dinner, Qijian hesitated again and again, but still said what was hidden in his heart: "Father, I...I don't want to marry Zhang Xiucai..." Shen Guanshi stopped writing and looked up, thinking that he was hearing hallucinations .After a long while, he suppressed his anger and asked: "Why did you suddenly say that you don't want to marry? If you were dissatisfied, you should have flatly refused before. Now that you say you don't want to marry, how do you ask your father to tell others? I can't do such things as make the neighbors laugh at me." Come out! Why are you dissatisfied with others, but let me hear it?"

Faced with this anger, Qi Jian nodded and took a few steps back, then stood firmly: "Father, my boy is not dissatisfied with Zhang Xiucai, it's just that my boy doesn't want to marry now. It was the boy's fault before. It can be redeemed, and I hope that father will make the decision for the child and call off the marriage."

The table slammed loudly, and Qijian trembled in fright.Terrified, but still stood there and refused to back down.

"You must have a reason for being so stubborn. If you are willing to tell Dad about the reason, Dad will think it is acceptable and reasonable, so he will call off the marriage." Shen Guanshi's eyes were deep at this time, as if he wanted to see through the person in front of him.Qi Jian's words got to his lips, but finally he said: "I just don't want to marry for a while, I want to serve my father for a few more years, and I hope my father will be fulfilled."

Hearing this, Guanshi Shen squinted his eyes and snorted coldly: "Don't use me as an excuse. The marriage is settled here, so what can we do if we continue to struggle? Jianer, you can do whatever you want. Don't expect too much, life sometimes ends. There must be, there is no time in life, so don’t force it.”

As if he had really seen through the person in front of him, he ground the words into a sharp blade, determined to let the person in front of him see the truth clearly.

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In the second season of the year, the business of cloth shops is booming.The clerk's sharp eyes saw Qijian from a distance, so he hurried forward to say hello: "Sir, are you here to see the spring fabrics?" Qijian smiled and asked him to do the work. look.The color that was finally selected made the guy feel puzzled, the color of the cloth is too soft for Shen Guan.After a while, I slapped my head and realized that there is no Zhang Xiucai here, and he picked it just right.

The post station is usually crowded with people, today at thirty, the county magistrate set up a table in the restaurant for their servants to eat and drink, but it will be very empty.Cao's family also had a lot of people on New Year's Eve, and Guanshi Shen and Qijian stayed at his house for over thirty every year. Guanshi ate at the master's table, and Qijian ate with the servants.At this moment, the maidservant's table has been eaten, and the remaining servants are still eating and shouting at the table.

In the dead of night, every household is full of joy and laughter, and the sound of firecrackers, saying goodbye to the old year and welcoming the new year.Really year after year, time flies.After ten years of walking,