ordinary people's house

As soon as Lin Yuzhen came home, her husband Wu Liulang came over, "How is it? What did Xiao Langjun say?"

Lin Yuzhen didn't look good on her, and she felt a sharp pain in her fingers on the road. After returning home, she hurriedly asked the little girl to get her some ointment, and Wu Liulang followed her, asking constantly: "What did you ask?" ? When will the Yuan family return to Beijing? After returning to Beijing, what arrangements does the emperor have for the Duke?"

Lin Yuzhen sat down and applied the ointment, and saw that both of her fingers were red and swollen. The anger that had been suppressed for a long time finally burst out: "What's the rush! Didn't you see that I was hurt?"

Sitting beside her, Wu Liulang looked at her fingers gloomyly and asked, "Could it be that you didn't go in at all?"

Lin Yuzhen said coldly: "The door is actually inside."

"and then?"

"Then?" Lin Yuzhen paused and sneered, "Do you think I asked something?"

Wu Liulang dissatisfied: "Then what did you do? How did I tell you! I told you to talk to Saburo, he was angry, even if he said something bad to you, you have to be patient, who told you to... "

"I was back then!" Lin Yuzhen said coldly, "At that time, whoever heard that something happened to the Lin family kept a straight face, and I said that I wanted to show my heart to Lord Hou, so you just go with me! I'm afraid that I will still be involved with the Lin family! Now it's all my fault!"

Wu Liulang was embarrassed, but he still said: "I have nothing to do with the Lin family, but you are Lin Sanlang's biological elder sister. You, as an elder sister, don't get close to your younger brother. Why should I, my brother-in-law, go!"

Lin Yuzhen looked at him with a sneer, and mocked: "It's a pity that you want to curry favor with the Yuan family now, so you have to start with your brother-in-law and husband."

Wu Liulang stood up and walked back and forth boredly. After a while, he pointed at Lin Yuzhen and scolded: "Since I married you, I haven't gotten any benefits from my father-in-law. Instead, I have been troubled everywhere! I am 40 years old now. Now I only have the title of a fourth-rank military officer, and I am bored at home every day, and I finally come across an opportunity, and you can't even get it for me!"

Lin Yuzhen thought of Lin Yulan's phrase "A man's future is earned by himself", and only sighed leisurely.

Wu Liulang flicked his sleeves, "I won't go home for dinner today."

After he left, the girl next to Lin Yuzhen sighed: "Three or four aunts in the house are not enough, the master still has to support those pink-headed prostitutes, now the young master is working hard, but no one understands the wife Hard."

Lin Yuzhen laughed at herself, "Who said it wasn't?"

On the sixth day of the lunar new year, Old Wu, the head of Xiao Yunlang's Zhuangzi, drove a carriage to deliver the harvest to Xiao Yunlang. He only came to this place once, and this time he knocked on the door after asking for a long time. The old Wutou and his wife are honest and honest. People, I didn't underestimate Xiao Yunlang because of the Lin family's affairs, and the carriage was full every time I came these two times.

He and his eldest son entered the door and stood on the side in prison, Xiao Yunlang smiled and asked the girl to greet them, but the old Wu still didn't dare to sit down, Xiao Yunlang said: "We are all ordinary people now, you just sit down, Uncle Wu. "

"Don't dare, the young master tells me to stand..."

A trace of disapproval flashed in the eyes of old Wutou's eldest son. He lowered his head, but no one saw him. Old Wutou said: "I also sold a few pigs that have been raised in Zhuangzi for several years. Last year, chickens and ducks were good. I sold a total of 80 taels of silver, and I brought a basket of eggs to the young master, but as for chickens, ducks and poultry, I didn't bring them because I was afraid of dirtying the young master's yard."

After hearing what he said, Xiao Yunlang smiled and said, "You are very thoughtful."

Old Wutou said: "I slaughtered a pig during the Chinese New Year, and I saved all the good meat for the young master. You can hang it in the yard, it can be eaten for many days."

"it is good."

"There's nothing to see in the village right now. When the weather gets hot, Lao Wu, I'll clean up a few quiet rooms and invite the young master and Mr. Lin to enjoy the cool air..."

"By the way, I was just about to say, I want to grow some leeks in the yard, and ask Uncle Wu to help me see how to get it right."

"It's simple." Old Wu went out with him to have a look, and said directly, "When the weather gets warmer, I'll ask my son to come over with farm tools and seeds. The young master just waits to eat."

Old Wutou's son muttered in dissatisfaction, Xiao Yunlang didn't hear it, and smiled at old Wutou: "Then I thank you in advance."

Old Wutou refused to stay for lunch, so he took his son away, Xiao Yunlang picked a piece of meat and asked Wen'er to fry it, but he didn't know that Wuda, the son of old Wutou, was on the way back, dissatisfied: "What about us? In the past, it was enough to be a slave to the young master of the uncle's mansion, why bother to work for an ordinary person now!"

Old Wu frowned and said, "Without Madam, our family would not exist!"

"Madam is Madam..." Wu Da fell silent under his father's stern gaze, and then said after a while, "Anyway, I won't come to grow leeks!"

"You! You heartless!" Old Wu head scolded.

Wu Da hummed a few times and stopped talking.

Mrs. Yuan knew Xiao Yunlang best, he was a man who only knew how to spend but not how to earn. At first, the dowry prepared for him had no shops, the village had few people and not much food, but the scenery was beautiful and wild.Madam Yuan prepared most of the gold, jade and jewelry for Xiao Yunlang, and for the rest, she thought, the Lin family would never be short of her youngest son.

Xiao Yunlang brought out scrambled eggs, Lin Yulan was waiting at the table, Xiao Yunlang asked the little girls to go out to play, and they were the only two at home eating.

"It's so delicious..." Xiao Yunlang put the egg in front of Lin Yulan, "There's also pork stew, I'll bring it."

"I'll go." Lin Yulan stood up and pushed Xiao Yunlang on the stool.

Ever since Xiao Yunlang saw the miserable situation in the kitchen, Lin Yulan would drive people out even if Lin Yulan wanted to help in the kitchen. Unexpectedly, he couldn't even light a fire.

"When the weather gets warmer and there are more dishes, I can cook a lot of food for you." Xiao Yunlang laughed.

"Ah."

After the couple had finished eating, they heard the sound of things being moved next door. Xiao Yunlang said, "It's probably because their family is going to move out in the next few days. Hey, I don't know what kind of person the new neighbor is. It's okay if they don't get along well." That's bad."

Lin Yulan said: "Just don't socialize."

"What you said makes sense."

The neighbor's family was going to Fuxian County in the south of the Yangtze River. Even an eighth-rank county magistrate had to compete with many people. Mrs. Zuo said that they had already sold the house, and the buyer was a student from a wealthy family.

A few days later, when Xiao Yunlang's leeks were planted, he had to look at them seven or eight times a day, but he didn't see any green shoots for several days.

The neighbor's house is not a student, but a mighty family. Xiao Yunlang also rented his house in the outskirts of Beijing to a foreigner. Just mentioning it, look at how lively those people are, we serious relatives haven't said anything yet, and some people have prepared gifts for my grandfather."

Xiao Yunlang was a little disappointed and said: "So grandma doesn't know when she will be able to return to Beijing?"

Xiao Mulang rubbed his head and said with a smile: "I know you miss your grandmother, and your grandmother misses you the most. Have you received the things I sent a few days ago? It's an annual gift from my grandfather's house, and one of them was specially taken care of by my grandmother. For you."

"I have received a lot of herbs, tea bricks and dried fruits..." Xiao Yunlang lowered his voice, "Grandmother also gave me a bank note."

Xiao Mulang smiled and said: "I know, my grandmother is afraid that you will be wronged. Since I gave it to you, you can keep it."

Xiao Yunlang's tone became a little frustrated, "I'm already this old, and I still make my grandmother worry about it."

"It's you who think you're old. You know how many people my grandmother has in mind. My uncle's cousins ​​are all older than you, and my grandmother doesn't care about the rest."

Xiao Yunlang suddenly remembered something, and looked at him hesitantly, "Brother, you said that my grandfather is in the northwest..."

Xiao Mulang smiled helplessly: "Grandfather has added two little uncles and a little aunt to you and me in the past six years in the northwest, what do you think?"

"Hey..." Xiao Yunlang also sighed softly, his grandfather is really healthy and strong.

"Hey, third brother!" Liu Lin'er ran over happily.

Xiao Yunlang smiled, Liu Lin'er pushed the things in his hands to him and said, "Third brother, you eat."

"Thank you very much." Xiao Yunlang took the pastry in his hand.Xiao Mulang was about to leave when he saw him coming, and Liu Lin'er looked at his back disappointedly.

"My father told me to go back," Liu Lin'er said, "I don't want to go back at all, what should I do?"

Xiao Yunlang couldn't do anything about it, Liu Lin'er sighed: "The academy sent a lot of students to take the exam, and there are also my father's students. My father told me to go back and stay well, and don't distract him outside."

Last year, because the new emperor ascended the throne, Xiao Yunlang held an Enke. He originally thought that the emperor would select talents to supplement officials, but for some reason, only a few people were selected, and even the champion was not reused. Therefore, this year can be regarded as the emperor's first large-scale envoy. Selection of personnel.Liu Lin'er smiled and said: "When I was young, my father didn't give up on me and even told me to take the exam. I didn't want to become a nerd. I don't read books, I don't read at all. I'm the best at planning. Fast and accurate."

Xiao Yunlang's heart moved, "You know how to settle accounts?"

"That's right! Mr. Fang from our academy sometimes asks me to help."

Xiao Yunlang said: "Then teach me, I always want to buy a shop or buy some fields recently, but I don't know much about these things, so I dare not do it rashly."

"What's the problem?" Liu Lin'er immediately agreed.

In the afternoon Xiao Yunlang took Liu Lin'er home to discuss things, but found that Lin Yulan was not at home, and Wen'er and Tao Zi didn't know when he left.

Xiao Yunlang didn't think much, and took Liu Lin'er into the house to learn abacus.