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Shunniang didn't even want to say a word to Xiaojiao, and continued to walk her own way, but she didn't take two steps, but was stopped by someone, standing in front of a man and a woman, the man was in his early twenties, wearing a Confucian shirt , looks like a scholar, the woman is about seventeen or eighteen years old, her appearance is somewhat similar to that of Xiaojiao, and she is holding a one-year-old doll in her hand.

The woman first asked Shunniang: "Who are you? Why are you arguing with my second mother in the street? Seeing how angry my second mother is, you must have bullied her."

This woman called Xiaojiao his second mother, and she was either Xiaojiali's sister or sister-in-law.However, it’s probably the older sister. After all, the owner of the Xie’s butcher’s shop is unlikely to have such a son who looks like a scholar. The most important thing is that the woman who stopped Shunniang from questioning her looks like a little pepper, so Shunniang made this judgment.

In the two months since she became Xi Shunniang, she has never bought meat from Xie's butcher's shop. Besides, her mother Liu is thrifty and doesn't ask to buy meat, so Shunniang went to the city to go back and forth from Xie's butcher's shop the next day. I have been there twice, but I have never seen the people in this butcher shop, so after saving Xiaojiali yesterday, Xiaojiali knew her, but she didn't know Xiaojiali.Now, from the mouth of the woman in front of her who stopped her from questioning her, she knew that Xiaojiao turned out to be the second mother of the Xie family, and this one in front of her was the aunt of the Xie family.

So Shunniang bowed to her politely, and explained: "It was Xie Erniang who wanted to give me some pork bones, but I refused to take them, so we started to argue."

"Really? Don't you fool me?" Mrs. Xie glanced at Shunniang up and down and asked in disbelief, "Why did she give you a pig bone for no reason?"

Shun Niang replied: "If you don't believe me, you can ask your sister, she wanted to give it to me, but I didn't want to accept it, so I gave the money."

Aunt Xie called out Erniang Xie, who was in front of the butcher shop, to come over. Erniang Xie was coaxing her younger brother, but she didn't see her sister and brother-in-law coming. When she heard the shout, she saw her sister and brother-in-law stopping Xi Erlang in the middle of the street.So she picked up her younger brother and walked quickly to her sister and brother-in-law, saying that her father and mother were busy cooking in the kitchen and were waiting for her family to come.

"This man said you wanted to give him a pig bone, but he didn't want it, so he flirted with you in the street, but is it true?" Mrs. Xie asked, pointing at Mrs. Shun.

Xie Erniang nodded.

Aunt Xie asked again: "Second Mother, why did you give him a pig bone for no reason?"

Xie Erniang went to catch loaches for her younger brother yesterday, but slipped into the river by Liushan and was almost drowned. Xierlang, who lives in the east of Yangliu Town, went down to the river and rescued himself. said.

"That's how it is." Aunt Xie smiled after hearing this, and when she looked at Shun Niang again, she couldn't help but praise her for saving her sister, and she refused to even ask for some pig bones as a thank-you gift. She really has a chivalrous heart and a noble character.

Shunniang was very embarrassed when she heard the praise. She glanced at Erniang Xie who was hugging Xie Jiasanlang, and said to herself, you should say a few words, saying that I saved you and making rude remarks, and you are still rushing to me.Also, why did Mrs. Xie say that the finished product is noble and clean without charging herself for a pork bone worth twenty or thirty Wen?Why don't you say that your sister even gave away pig bones worth twenty or thirty renminbi in return for saving someone's life? Could it be that your sister's worth is only those few pig bones.

Thinking of this, she suddenly wanted to laugh, thinking that Little Chili Pepper was so stupid and cute. In order to repay her life-saving grace, she gave herself a few pork bones left over from the butcher's stall. Didn't she ever think of others What would you think.Really ignorant of worldly affairs, hey, she is a girl of fourteen or fifteen years old!

"Go, go, go, since you saved my second mother, come in and have a meal with us, my father-in-law and mother-in-law must welcome you very much." The scholar beside Aunt Xie spoke suddenly, and stretched out his hand to pull Shunniang.

"Well, forget it. It's not that I don't want to go. The main reason is that my mother, sister-in-law and others are still waiting for me to go back for dinner. It's getting dark. If I don't see me going back, they must be worried about me." Shun Niang quickly declined .

The scholar said: "What's the difficulty? Let Erniang go to your house and tell me. Although I, Lu Zhan, am a Confucian scholar, I like to associate with people with a narrow heart and high morals. Brother Guan is now a woodcutter and a fisherman. To make a living, but with such a broad mind and dignified appearance, in the future, he will definitely be a leader among men and a husband."

Shunniang really wondered if the scholar in front of her was fooling herself. The pig bones that didn't accept Xie Erniang turned out to be so tall all of a sudden?

"You..." She looked at the scholar who didn't know what to say, her face full of embarrassment.

Aunt Xie also said to Shun Niang very enthusiastically: "The officials of the Nu family said it very well, and the Nu family also meant the same thing. Xijia Erlang, don't refuse. The Nu family will ask Erniang to go to your house to talk to your mother and sister-in-law. Someone say it."

Xie Erniang obviously didn't expect that her sister and brother-in-law would invite Xi Erlang, the "toilet stone", to eat at home, and was as embarrassed as Shunniang for a while, and froze in place.It was only under the urging of his sister that he agreed, put down his younger brother, turned around and walked towards the east end of the town.

Shunniang was dragged into Xie's butcher's shop by the scholar. The front of the Xie's butcher's shop was the store, and the back was the place where pigs were usually slaughtered. There were pigsty, butcher's room, kitchen, and several butchers' helpers also lived there. behind this.As for the owner of Xie's Butcher's and his wife's family, they all lived upstairs.

Aunt Xie held the child and led her younger brother by the hand. After entering the house, she went straight to the backyard, while Lu Zhan led the way in front and led Shun Niang up to the second floor of Xie's butcher shop.

As soon as I sat down in a room upstairs that looked like a hall, heavy footsteps sounded from the wooden building, and someone came upstairs.

"Hahahaha! You are Xijia Erlang? You saved my second mother? Well, it looks like a good-looking talent, as my son-in-law praised, thank you, I don't know what to call my little brother?" A bearded 37 The burly man on the eighth floor came upstairs, went straight to Shunniang and bowed his hands to her, and then asked her boldly.

This man should be Xiaojiali's father, Shunniang thinks that he really has the qualities of a butcher, at first glance, he is in the business of slaughtering and selling meat.With such a bold self-introduction, Shun Niang, who is a junior, quickly stood up, bowed to Xie Yi and cupped her hands and said, "My little one's surname is Xi, and her single name is Shun, and she ranks second in the family."

Xie Yi nodded, asked Shunniang to sit down and talk, then he picked up a chair and sat next to Shunniang, and then asked: "But who else is there in Xi's family?"

Shunniang briefly told Xie Yi about the family situation, and Xie Yi said after listening, "It must be difficult for the whole family to depend on you for food and drink."

"Fortunately, it's okay to chop some firewood and catch some fish to sell in Bianjing City on weekdays." Shunniang said.

While talking, the helper of Xie's butcher shop brought tea, Xie Yi personally poured tea for Shun Niang and invited her to have tea.

Shunniang thanked him, took tea and started to eat, while listening to Xie Yi and Lu Zhan gossip, from the mouths of the two, Shunniang knew that Lu Zhan's family was a teaching family, from grandfather to His father is a teacher for a living, and now there are two brothers in his family, he is the eldest, although he is now a scholar and qualified for the state examination, but he has not yet achieved fame.Shunniang knew a thing or two about the imperial examinations in this era. She knew that scholars at this time did not have so-called fame. The talented scholar has not yet qualified to be an official, but has only obtained the provincial examination and the qualification to obtain a Jinshi.If Juren fails to pass the Jinshi examination, he needs to retake the examination every three years, and those who pass can continue to maintain the qualifications of Juren.This can also explain why Xie Yi, who sells meat, was able to marry his eldest daughter to Lu Zhan.

Xie Yi owns the property of the Xie Family Butcher Shop, and the business is booming. Among the square households in Yangliu Town, they belong to the upper-class households. Although the Lu family is a family based on poetry and books, they still use property to distinguish the upper-class households from the lower-class households. In this era of the Hu family, they are obviously not as good as the Xie family.Besides, although Lu Zhan is a scholar, he is different from the scholars in Ming and Qing Dynasties. He has no fame, and the daughter of Xie Yi's family who married a high-class family did not bury him.Even Shunniang guessed that the dowry given by the daughter of the Xie family must be very rich, so the Lu family did not dislike marrying the eldest son a butcher's daughter.

Lu Zhan also said that he has a younger brother named Lu Quan, who is about the same age as Shun Niang. he.Mentioning this younger brother gave Lu Zhan a headache. He was afraid that he would not be able to marry a wife when he was too old, and he was also afraid that he would cause trouble.He also said that if Shunniang gets to know his younger brother in the future, he will help him and persuade him. His younger brother likes to deal with a man like Shunniang who is broad-minded and chivalrous.

Shunniang unconsciously twitched the corners of her mouth, thinking, you still really think highly of me for persuading a rascal and a prodigal son to turn back for nothing.At this moment, she actually felt like coming to Xie's house for dinner, as if she was going to a Hongmen banquet.

However, on the face, she still had to show a smile and nodded slightly, which was regarded as a promise to the other party.

After talking for a while, I heard the sound of footsteps on the stairs again. This time, a few women came up with wine and food. Erniang Xie also came up. She told Shunniang that she had gone to Xi'an at the east end of the town. At home, he passed the word to Shunniang's mother, saying that Shunniang had dinner at Xie's house before going back.

Shunniang nodded and said she understood, and then a round and strong woman came over and talked to Shunniang with a smile, thanking her for saving her second mother, and saying that Xie Erniang didn't talk about it when she came back yesterday, otherwise she would have been with her long ago. My man came to the door with a thank you gift, and today I asked Shun Niang, the savior, to drink and eat well, otherwise the Xie family would feel bad.

Under Xie Yi and others' frequent persuasion, Shunniang drank a few bowls. Fortunately, the wine in this era is rice wine and rice wine, and the alcohol content is not high, so she was not drunk.When eating at a butcher's house, of course meat is indispensable on the table, and Shunniang let go of her stomach and ate until she was full and relieved her cravings.She hadn't eaten so much meat since wearing it, and she even ate a few pieces of fat that she didn't eat before wearing it, which shows how short of oil and water Shunniang's body is.

When she was full, Shunniang thought of her mother and sister-in-law, they hadn't eaten meat for a long time, so tomorrow I will spend some money to buy them a few catties of meat and eat them.

She ate wine and meat at the same table with Lu Zhan and Xie Yi, and at the other small table sat Aunt Xie, Erniang Xie, their mother Wu Shi, Sanlang Xie, and the baby in Aunt Xie's arms. .

While eating and drinking, Shunniang had a strange feeling that the woman on the small table next to her was looking at her frequently, wondering if this was the reason why she was a little tipsy after drinking.

After drinking and eating, Shun Niang was sent out by Xie Yi and Lu Zhan in person, carried the fish basket, and went home with firewood.

Immediately afterward, Lu Zhan and Mrs. Xie went home with their son in their arms. They lived not far away, in a yard in the middle of the town. Half of the yard was usually used as a school, teaching the town to study in their Lu family school. child.

Xie Yi went upstairs to the room where he lived with his wife Wu Shi. Wu Shi pulled him over and asked him in a low voice: "Officer, what do you think of that Xijia Erlang? Is he worthy of my second wife?"