[Ming] Wuzong's Chronicle of Rebirth

The author has something to say: The ones that appear in this chapter are all relatively important supporting roles, and there will be some scenes in the future, and they are definitely not soy sauce.Also, guess what exactly Xu Yaozu wants to learn?

Aunt Li looked up at the slightly dilapidated small house in front of her, wondering when there was such a house in her family.There are a few grasses fluttering in the wind on the black tiles. The white exterior wall has not been repainted for a long time, and some white ash has fallen off in mottled spots. Even the black gate has lost its paint due to disrepair for a long time, revealing the wooden texture. .

Yinhuan patted on the door for a long time before a hunchbacked old man opened the door a crack and stuck his head out.His face was full of wrinkles, his hair was gray and thin, and he was wearing a washed-out blue cloth dress.Xu Yaozu saw how scary this old man looked, and hurriedly buried his little face in his mother's arms.Yinhuan went up and said, "But old man Wei? The second young lady and the third young master are here, and they want to stay here for one night."

The old man Wei was a little deaf and couldn't hear what Yinhuan was saying, so he shouted in the old man's unique hoarse voice: "What? Can't hear clearly!"

Yinhuan also learned how to serve his master from Old Uncle Wei when he was young, and received a lot of favors from him, and now he is not as domineering as he was to the little girl. A few nights."

Only then did Uncle Wei hear it clearly, and opened the door wide.Seeing Xu Beiniang standing there with red eyes, he asked again: "Second Miss came here the day before yesterday and she was fine. Why did you become a red-eyed rabbit today? Did someone bully you? Tell Uncle Wei, Uncle Wei asked Wei The boy beat him to vent your anger."

After hearing this, Xu Beiniang let go of her previous grievances and laughed like an ordinary girl.Just after noon, and the sun was still high in the sky, old man Wei saw several flowery little girls were sun-drenched, so he hurriedly led everyone into the house, and said to Xu Beiniang as he walked: "The day before yesterday, you said it was fresh. Hello, lotus seeds. It just so happens that the lotus flowers in the village bloom early this year, and Wei Xiaozi is fine anyway, so I dared to go pick the lotus pods. Xiao He and her mother are inside making her brother some herbal tea to cool off the heat."

Arriving at the main hall, Aunt Li saw that although the house was dilapidated on the outside, it was still good on the inside.A row of lacquered red tables, chairs and benches were neatly arranged, and the beams on the ground were also clean without accumulation of dust.Xu Beiniang told Aunt Li to sit down, and a ten-year-old girl came out from behind holding tea.She combed her hair with two buns, wore a pink floral skirt, and her lower body was also a pink pleated skirt of the same color. She was cute and cute, and the color was good.

The girl smiled like a silver bell and said, "Sister Pui Niang is here again today, she just ate my mother's lotus cake, and sister Pui Niang is thinking about other things to eat." Aunt Li saw that she was not dressed properly It's shabby, and it's one after another, so I really can't figure out her identity.

Hesitating and not knowing how to address her, Xu Beiniang also replied with a smile: "I miss your mother so much, I thought I would abduct your mother that day." At this time, another person in purple clothes came in from behind, Her hair was tied up high and neat, and her face was about [-]% similar to that of the girl just now, but she was more mature.

When the girl in pink saw the woman coming in, she threw herself into the woman's arms and said coquettishly, "Mother, look at Sister Bei Niang. She said she would You snatch it."

The woman in purple hurriedly comforted her: "Your sister also has a mother, so why should I steal it from you? Hurry up and pick up the chilled watermelon in the well in the backyard to serve your sister." The girl made a face at Xu Beiniang and walked away.

"Today, when I saw the magpies on the branch crowing, I knew there was a happy event. It turned out that the lady is here." The lady in purple hurriedly handed the tea to Xu Beiniang and Aunt Li. "This is Aunt Li and the third young master. I haven't seen you for a long time, and the third young master has grown so big.

Aunt Li didn't know this woman.The mouth is too clumsy to strike up a conversation, the ambiguity of "Where is that, thank you, thank you" has passed.I heard Xu Beiniang say: "Aunt Zhang, I'm not afraid of making fun of you. Something happened at home, and the rest of us have to make do with it tonight, so I will trouble you."

Aunt Zhang knew that Xu Beiniang's three mothers and daughters were going to quarrel sooner or later. Now that Aunt Li and the third young master have been brought out by her, there is nothing she doesn't know. She comforted Xu Beiniang and said, "Why are you talking about this? Your home, just live in peace of mind. This is fine, the wound is picked out, and everyone is clean. Your original room has always been there, and you can sleep after drying the quilt. As for the aunt, I will be wronged tonight Sleep in Xiaohe's room for one night, and come back to sleep after tidying up the upper room tomorrow, okay?"

Aunt Li saw that the two were so familiar and didn't know what their relationship was. Seeing that she had arranged it properly, she just nodded in agreement.After a while Wei He brought up the watermelon, everyone ate a few pieces, Mrs. Wei brought a lot of fruits and cakes, Xu Beiniang left two maidservants to accompany them, and took other people to tidy up the room, make the bed and fold the quilt went.

In the evening, the boy Wei in the old man's mouth drove an ox cart with a large basket of lotus pods, a bucket of fatty fish, and many fresh vegetables back.Mrs. Wei wanted to divide the table for Aunt Li, Xu Beiniang hurriedly stopped her and said: "We are all a family, not a big family, where are there so many rules?"

Aunt Li had just met this young man whom Uncle Wei called Wei Xiaozi, and saw that he was thick-backed, with a heroic face, and it was said that he had a calm demeanor at the age of thirteen or fourteen.Then she thought to herself: No wonder people say that a person should not be judged by his appearance. How could a man like Uncle Wei have such a beautiful woman and such a pair of children.

When going to bed at night, Aunt Li couldn't hold back the doubts in her heart, she pulled Xu Beiniang to ask about the relationship between the family and Xu Beiniang, and Xu Beiniang spoke slowly.When he was young, this old man Wei was carrying big bags on the pier, and his birth was not much different from that of today's Wei boy Wei Jia.

Mrs. Wei was originally the daughter of a doctor, and she followed her father from the north to the south to Quanzhou. The doctor couldn't heal herself, so Dr. Zhang died of illness in Hangzhou.Although the old man Wei is a good person, he had some bad luck, and he did not marry a wife in his late thirties.When everyone saw that such a girl, with good background and good looks, was stranded in Hangzhou and made a living by weaving, they decided to match them up.

At this time, when Zhu Youtang and his father were in power, the civil affairs were chaotic, and the son of the county magistrate wanted to marry her as a concubine, but she naturally refused.It was old man Wei who took the risk to rescue her from that tiger's mouth.Xu Beiniang's father has always respected Old Man Wei as a man, and spent all his savings to get rid of his crimes. So far, Old Man Wei has been working with Xu Beiniang's father wholeheartedly.

Uncle Wei was really a bit noisy, and he was about to cause trouble in a few days, but fortunately, Xu Beiniang's father saw that he was only passionate about fighting against injustices, and kept protecting him wholeheartedly.Old Uncle Wei also knows how to repay his kindness, and saved several lives of Old Xu.The two are better than brothers, but when Old Man Wei was young, he was also good, and he offended some people by doing things for Old Man Xu.Father Xu was worried that someone would trouble him, so he only said outside that he was dead, gave him a large farm for rent, gave him a lot of money, and bought him a house next to his old house, Give him a family to live in.

Now there is a gate opened in the wall of the two houses, and there are only a few servants living there, which hinders people's eyes and ears.The family is still living here pretending to be the family that looks after the house.It's just that Aunt Li came here at a young age, and the two families later came and went in secret, so Aunt Li didn't know about it.Aunt Li only understood after listening.

Early the next morning, Xu Beiniang, Aunt Li and Xu Yaozu got up to wash up.Xu Beiniang personally covered Xu Yaozu's head and put on black clothes.After breakfast, the three of them got into the carriage and went to Master Lan, who Xu Yaozu was about to learn as a teacher.When approaching the street of Master Lan's small dyeing workshop, there was an ox cart loaded with a load of medicinal herbs waiting for him, and there was a big majestic rooster in front of the cart.Xu Beiniang's fifth uncle was also waiting there.

Xu Beiniang took Xu Yaozu out of the car and asked Xu Yaozu to say hello to the fifth uncle first, and then the fifth uncle took him to Master Lan's dyeing workshop.The men followed behind with the rooster in their arms, while the ox cart and Aunt Li waited outside the door.

Entering the dyeing workshop, there are many large water tanks in a small yard, but the curtains have been removed.As Master Lan's apprentices led into the main room, incense tables, drinks and other items had already been set up inside. The two patriarchs Mei Fu and Ge Hong were enshrined on the top, and two futons were set up below.Master Lan was also sitting there in black.

When he saw Fifth Uncle come in, he stood up and asked earnestly, "Is everything ready?"

Uncle Wu hurriedly clasped his hands together and said, "It's all ready." Master Lan nodded to him, and then asked Xu Beiniang with a straight face, "Your brother is an apprentice, what are you doing here, a little girl?"

Xu Beiniang had already prepared her speech: "Nowadays, there is no father or elder brother in the family, and the mother and elder sister are not in good health. Naturally, I, as an older sister, should care more about my younger brother's affairs."

Master Lan snorted coldly, stopped looking at her, went straight to light six sticks of incense with a candle, and said, "Xu Yaozu, since you are here with me and you don't just learn the last-minute tricks like dyeing cloth, then you can call me a master." Yes. Although Meige Erxian is the ancestor of the dye industry, it is still appropriate to be your ancestor, so you should pay homage to them first." After speaking, he held three sticks of incense, bowed three times, and inserted the incense .

When Xu Yaozu was at home, Aunt Li had already taught him the etiquette of worshiping a teacher. Although he was a little scared, he took the incense and worshiped the ancestor master alone.Master Lan saw that he had worshiped the patriarch, so he took advantage of the opportunity and sat on the chair beside the altar.Xu Yaozu remembered his mother and sister's instructions, and kowtowed three times to Master Lan by himself, then knelt down obediently, and stretched out two fat little hands.

A waiter hurriedly handed over the knife, and Master Lan's apprentice was holding the big cock.Master Lan took the knife, raised the knife in his hand, and cut a big gash on the chicken's neck, then slowly dripped the blood on Xu Yaozu's hands with the chicken.Master Lan said in a strict voice: "I don't know where your sister learned about it, and why she asked you to learn this skill. It's just that it's chicken blood today. I need to tell you that if you don't use it for a day, you These hands will be stained with human blood, whether it is your own or someone else's, I don't want to see it. I hope you can still remember my advice today."

Xu Yaozu was so frightened that he was about to cry, and the tears kept rolling in his eyes, but he kept his sister in mind, and his mother's entrustment was determined not to cry.Seeing that he was still strong, Master Lan helped him up, took his small white hands and slowly washed them in the basin brought by the apprentice.

Seeing that the apprenticeship ceremony was about to end, Xu Beiniang hurried up and handed over a big red envelope. "This is my mother's and my kindness. I hope Master Lan will accept it. I think Master Lan likes medicinal materials. I have prepared some things outside. I hope Master Lan will like it."

Master Lan took it over and said, "I'm afraid I'm going to scare him today. I don't have anyone cooking here, so I won't keep you. Take him back first. Bring him back tomorrow and talk about specific things." .”

Xu Bei Niang just said goodbye and went out.