The Little Officials of the Song Dynasty

It was only later that Yunyan found out that the Salesian Village where they lived was a charity run by the family members of local businessmen. These days, poor people drown or abandon their children if they cannot afford to support them. Salesian Village specializes in adopting such children and hires healthy women breastfeeding and caring.

Yunyan went back to her current mother, who was the lady Zheng in the mouth of the fat woman, and went to work there after giving birth.

But now, due to the failure of the business, the owner had to discount the house and land, and had to go out of town. Madam Zheng lost her job and was declared after paying off her wages. The place will change hands in half a month.

It was even worse for the children in Salesian Village. There were twenty or thirty children here, and the owner couldn't take care of them, let alone them.

Yunyan didn't know about the children who lived in other yards, but the nine children who lived with him were either adopted or went to rich people's homes as servants.

As for the rest who had nowhere to go, it was the girl who had cared about Yun Yanhui before and the baby boy she was holding. One was five years old and the other was five months old.

Although Madam Zheng lived and ate at her workplace, she actually had a family of her own, and she did not live on the streets as Yun Yanhui imagined.

When Mrs. Zheng packed up her few gifts and carried Yunyan back to leave, the little girl was holding the baby boy and stood behind the door looking at them with tears in her eyes.

In the past few days, Yunyan heard that Mrs. Zheng called these two, and she knew that the girl was called Shuangyi, and the boy didn't have a name yet, so they all called him Xiaobao.Speaking of which, even this name is only used by Salesian Village, and when there is the youngest child, Xiaobao becomes that child.

Yunyan lay on Mrs. Zheng's shoulder and looked all over her eyes, feeling uncomfortable.They had only been together for a few days, but as a man pretending to be an adult soul, he really couldn't bear it.

But he has incomplete knowledge of this world and no ability, so even if he thinks about the Virgin, he has no way.

Zheng Ping walked a few steps, shed tears all the way, looked back at them, and then looked again, finally hugged Yunyan back and burst into tears.

At this time, Shuangyi ran over with Xiaobao in his arms, hugged Madam Zheng and squeezed into her arms.

Shuangyi wailed loudly, "Mother, mother!"

Yun Yan was also a little sad when she returned, probably in the eyes of this child, although she had never barked, but Mrs. Zheng who had been taking care of them was no different from her mother.

Madam Zheng hugged them and cried for a while, with the last wisp of tears, she said firmly: "Follow mother!"

Yun Yanhui was sweated out first, and then blinded by the radiance of Mrs. Zheng's Virgin Mary.

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Ms. Zheng's original work unit, Salesian Village, is located in the urban-rural fringe area. They took a ride in an ox cart and walked for about 10 minutes before seeing the city.

Madam Zheng was very surprised, usually Yan'er was the most delicate one, but today she was surprisingly sensible.She wanted to hug Xiaobao, so Yan'er and Shuangyi walked, but they didn't cry out when they were tired.Maybe it's because of the separation.

Mrs. Zheng didn't know that in modern times, Yunyan carried a camera and went out for interviews every day, and she was never free on weekends. Whether it was going to the mountains or going to the countryside or large-scale events in the city, it was no problem to run for a whole day.

Although the body is smaller now and the physical strength is insufficient, but the will is much firmer than ordinary children, and they will not cry.

The past few days made Yunyan think that he had traveled to a very poor era, but when they entered the city, he realized that this era was not only not poor, but also quite rich!

The dense population in the city may not be comparable to modern cities, but at least everyone is well dressed. The world is not as gray as imagined, and even very colorful.

The city is full of profits, and countless wine flags are waving.

This is a very rich era!

Yun Yanhui even saw foreign merchants doing business on the street, and the native merchants were also quite gorgeously dressed.According to Yun Yanhui's historical knowledge, he judged that it was at least the Song Dynasty at this time, otherwise the status of the merchant would not be so high.

Immediately, words like "Tokyo" and "Bianliang" heard from the passers-by confirmed his thoughts. This is Bianliang, the capital of the Song Dynasty.

In an instant, the picture in front of me corresponded to the famous painting "Along the River at Qingming Festival" in memory. Everything in the ancient painting came alive, and the surrounding scenes were also integrated into the scroll, which made Yunyan feel inexplicably excited.

Thinking about time travel is both his bad luck and his luck. How many people in this world can witness the real Song Dynasty capital across thousands of years.

Yunyan stared intently at everything in the street market. Although according to the law of time travel, it is basically impossible for him to travel back, but he couldn't help but feel like he was about to leave immediately, desperately admiring this ancient city to him. Another brand new city.

It's not unusual for Yunyan to look like this, no one on the street would take a second look, because Shuangyi is like him, and so are many outsiders who came to Bianliang for the first time, marveling at this bustling capital city.

Mrs. Zheng led them all the way to the vicinity of the Kaifeng mansion. Thanks to Mrs. Zheng, she introduced them all the way to the children, and pointed to a place and told them that it was the back wall of Kaifeng mansion. Then she turned around and said, our family right here.

Yun Yan was shocked again. He had traveled to Kaifeng, Henan Province before. You must know that Kaifeng Mansion is called Nanya because it is south of the palace, so the distance between Zheng Niangzi's house and the palace is not too far!

Yun Yan's mood brightened all of a sudden, our family has a house within the third ring road of the capital, who am I afraid of!

Although the empty house is not big, it is neat and tidy. Maybe the family used to be in good condition. There is also a small yard surrounded by fences and a lot of furniture. Although there are no valuable decorations, compared to the empty Salesian Village Much better.

——Of course, according to Mrs. Zheng's conversations with other people, Salesian Village was not like this before. It fell down with the decline of the owner's business until it was closed.

But Yun Yanhui felt a little strange, it stands to reason that in ancient times, the whole family lived together, no matter how bad it was, he should have a "father", right?Or is it that the rest of the family also live and eat at the work unit like Mrs. Zheng did before?

While Yun Yanhui was thinking, Mrs. Zheng over there was not in a hurry to clean up. Instead, she rested for a while and let the children sit on the bed. She herself took out a pen, ink, paper and inkstone from the closet and started writing letters.

Yun Yanhui pretended to be casual and strolled to Madam Zheng's side, pawing her to read the letter.Mrs. Zheng really didn't take it seriously, she never expected that he could read.

Mrs. Zheng's handwriting can only be regarded as neat and tidy, but considering the status of women in ancient times, especially the fact that most of the common people were illiterate, this is already remarkable, and it also proves that their family was in a good situation before.

As for the content of the letter, it was addressed to Mrs. Zheng's husband, the father of "Yun Yanhui".According to the letter, Madam Zheng's husband hadn't heard from her for more than two years after he left for unknown reasons—no wonder she was able to bring the child back on her own.

In ancient times, the mountains were high and the roads were far away, and communication was not easy. There was no reply to the letters sent by Mrs. Zheng. No one knew what happened to her husband, but she did not give up writing letters.

When Yun Yan returned to modern times, he didn't get along with his parents as a teenager. Later, his parents died young, and he never knew how he got his name.But here, he understands the meaning of the name that is the same as his own, which is the expectation of Mrs. Zheng.

Maybe one day, the swan geese who took away the letters will come back and send back the news of the person she is waiting for.

At the end of the letter, Mrs. Zheng signed, one word: Ping.

Yun Yan thought back, it seems that this is Mrs. Zheng's boudoir name, Zheng Ping.Because Yun Yanhui was about the same age as Zheng Ping before time travel, so he already called her by her first name in his heart.

After Zheng Ping finished writing the letter, everyone had a rest.She got up and took the children to the next door to knock on the door.The person who came to answer the door was a woman in her 30s. When she saw Zheng Ping, she had a pitiful face, saying that she had heard about the Salesian Village.

Zheng Ping called her Third Sister Hu, and let the children call her Third Aunt.Thanks to her for helping to look after the house when I was away, and introduced it again, and brought two orphans back.

Hu Sanniang whispered to Zheng Ping: "The girl can stay and take care of your Yan'er, but the boy should find someone to send out as soon as possible."

"Thank you, Third Sister, I'll take a look." Zheng Ping didn't express her thoughts clearly. After thanking her, she explained that she just came back and didn't buy anything, so she wanted to borrow some money.

Borrowing something from Hu Sanniang, Zheng Ping went back to cook, eat well before worrying.

When she was at Salesian Village, because there were many children, Zheng Ping also adopted the method of asking the older children to take care of the younger ones, so she was very relieved to let Shuangyi take care of the two younger brothers first.

Yun Yanhui sat obediently, originally she didn't need to worry about Shuang Yi, Xiao Bao was sleeping too, but Shuang Yi leaned over and hesitantly asked Yun Yan Hui: "Brother Yan, let me ask you something..."

Yun Yan glanced at her blankly.

Shuang Yi asked, "Do you like me?"

Yun Yan didn't think about it so much, and replied very innocently: "I like it."

As far as these days are concerned, this little sister is very kind to her younger siblings, loving her brothers and sisters, and caring about her elders. She can be called a gentle and virtuous little beauty in ancient times.

Shuangyi, the little crying bag, started crying again, with tears streaming down his face.

Yun Yan replied: "..."

What did he do?

Shuangyi sobbed and said, "I, I don't want to be Brother Yan's daughter-in-law, Brother Yan, can I be your younger sister, you, you can ask Xiaobao to be your wife... that's fine too , both of us can stay."

Yun Yan replied: "..."

Yunyan glanced back at Xiaojiji, who had an innocent face, and was speechless for a while.

Then Yunyan thought back, and remembered that Hu Sanniang seemed to have told Zheng Ping that she could keep Shuang Yi to take care of him.

He swore that he didn't even think of the meaning of that sentence in the Song Dynasty. Even children knew it, and he didn't mean it himself!It turned out that he was asking Shuangyi to be his... child bride-in-law?

Shuangyi's childish words made Yun Yanhui want to comfort her, but considering that other children of this age in Salesian Village couldn't speak cohesively, it might not be appropriate for him to comfort Shuangyi with long sentences in an orderly manner. Just spit out two words: "Okay!"

Shuangyi laughed through tears, and hugged Yunyan back.

Yun Yan was hugged by Shuang Yi, thinking, it's useless to think about it, in the end everything depends on Zheng Ping, the only person capable of working, and I don't know if he can afford the consumption of the capital...