Make a long-term worker as an old attack

When Niu Geng led the horse and appeared at the back door of Xue's mansion with Xue Zhaoqing on his back, Xue Zhong, who was drinking a bowl of glutinous rice noodles, dropped his chopsticks to the ground in shock.

"Ancestor, what is this?" Xue Zhong hastily led the horse, and Xue Zhong circled around Niu Geng and Xue Zhaoqing anxiously.

"Uncle Zhong, it's just a small matter, I just fell." Xue Zhaoqing returned.

"But you fell while riding a horse?"

"No, after riding the horse, I'm going to go for a walk in the small forest. I didn't look at the stone under my feet, so I knocked on it."

Niu Geng was slightly taken aback: "Master...?"

"Young master, what? Why don't you carry me back to the house and invite the doctor?" Xue Zhaoqing lay on the back of Niu Geng, and stopped the idiot before he could finish speaking.

"Oh..." Niu Geng didn't dare to be negligent, he asked Xue Zhong to fasten the horse, put Xue Zhaoqing on his back, and trotted into his wing.

The servants I met along the way had already informed Xue Qian and Xue Fu, and Xue Fu hurriedly sent someone to invite the best Jiang doctor in Sanyuan County to come over.

"The young master's leg looks scary, but it's actually not a big problem." Jiang Langzhong sat on the small bench next to Xue Zhaoqing's bed, pressed the wound carefully, and carefully checked the nearby flesh and bones, pinching a piece of his chin. Pinch of mustache said.

"It should have been caused by falling onto a hard object. The flesh was injured and there was blood inside, which is why the swelling was so high. Fortunately, the bones were not injured. I prescribed some plasters for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis to the young master. Two sets of stickers a day, once in the morning and once before going to bed, within half a month it should be fine to move around."

Xue Gan on the side listened, and then he was slightly relieved: "Then is there anything else that should be paid attention to in the past half month?"

"Don't dip the wound in water. In your daily diet, you can eat more mung beans, eggplant and other foods that promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, and eat less beef and mutton. It will also be good for the young master's injury."

"Okay, thank you doctor, Xue Fu, take the husband to the accounting room to pay for the consultation fee, send it back, and instruct the kitchen, according to what the teacher said, give the eldest and young master a separate meal every day for half a month." Xue Gan instructed with.

"Yes." After finishing speaking, Xue Fu led the doctor out.

"Father, there is really no need to trouble your son."

"You have a good rest. It's not that my father is partial to you. It's just that you get better sooner, and you can help my father sooner."

Seeing Xue Gan's sad face, Xue Zhaoqing asked cautiously, "But what happened at home recently?"

Xue Qian sighed, the eldest son has always been a delicate heart, and there is no need to hide the family affairs from him: "In recent years, the imperial court has been extorting miscellaneous taxes, and many tenants in the family have paid our rent and have to pay taxes. The grain is not enough to satisfy the hunger. In the past two years, I wanted to reduce the rent of some poor tenants, but the rent collectors who were sent to collect the rent were actually robbed. Rent collection. It’s a pity that this fact didn’t reach my ears until the beginning of this year, and there were so many people sent down, I don’t know who it is, so starting this year, I started to go to the tenants’ house to collect rent with your brother, although tired, Anyway, the account is clear in my heart."

"So father wants me to?"

"Yes, the family's land is leased to hundreds of tenants. With me and Zhaowen alone, how can I get it? What's more, your younger brother's body can't go to several houses every day."

"Father, don't worry, my leg is not seriously injured. I must take good care of it during this time. When it's almost done, I can go. I just need to bring someone to take care of me."

"That's fine." Xue Gan paused for a moment, then asked again: "Qing'er, did you fall off a horse for this injury?"

Xue Zhaoqing's back felt cold, his eyes drifted around, and he replied in a low voice: "It was because my son was walking in the woods by himself, he didn't pay attention to the road under his feet, so he knocked."

"Isn't it caused by Niu Geng's poor care of the child?"

"No, he taught me very well. He was always protecting me while riding a horse. My son really fell and injured himself. If it was because of my son's own problems that the long-term worker was punished, then I would be really sorry. "

"Hmm..." Xue Qian nodded: "You have a good rest. Let Xue Fu deliver the food to your room for the next two days. When you can walk on the ground, come to the side hall for dinner."

"Yes……."

Watching Xue Qian leave, Xue Zhaoqing let out a sigh of relief, that Niu Geng was sent away by Xue Fu after sending him back to his room, and he didn't know how that guy was doing now.

Right now, Niu Geng was outside the kitchen helping his mother chop firewood for cooking.He raised the sharp ax high, and when the tip of the ax fell, the light flashed, and the wooden stake in front of him was split in half. The firewood that others had to chop three or four times before it could be split into shape was in his hand. Get it done.

Niu Geng had something on his mind, so he worked very vigorously, and the firewood piled up on one side was almost as tall as a person.

"Gengzi, come on, don't do it, let's eat a bowl of noodles first." Niu Gengniang came out with a bowl of oil-splashed noodles, and the red pepper was sprinkled on the tender and white noodle leaves, looking very appetizing.

But at this moment, Niu Geng was obviously absent-minded, picked up the chopsticks and mixed the chili peppers in a mess, and the noodles that he usually likes most had no taste at all when he bit into his mouth.

The two big white legs of the eldest young master kept dangling in front of his eyes, as well as the purple and purple blood marks, looking at Niu Geng's heartache.

"Just now the big housekeeper came to the kitchen and told him that the young master's rice should be cooked alone instead of beef and mutton. We need more vegetables and other things to promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis." Niu Li said to his son while picking up the firewood he had just chopped. talking.

"..." Niu Geng hastily bit his face and swallowed it whole: "Then what happened to the young master's legs?"

"I heard that there is no bone injury, just take care of it."

Niu Geng breathed a sigh of relief, obviously he fell off the horse, why did he say he tripped?Niu Geng didn't quite understand.

"Gengzi, the young master didn't fall off while riding a horse, did he?"

"Mother..." Niu Geng never lied in front of his mother, when he saw her asking, he lowered his head and remained silent.Niu Lishi panicked, dropped the firewood in his hand and ran to Niu Geng: "What? Did you really fall while riding a horse?"

Niu Geng touched his round head and nodded.But he immediately said: "But the young master told people everywhere that he fell, and he didn't let me tell others the truth."

"Huh..." Niu Li finally felt relieved, looked helplessly at his son who was eating a mouth full of oil, and said, "You son, the young master is protecting you. Tell me, if the master knows It fell while riding a horse. Even if we don’t drive us girls out, we still have to deduct your wages, right? Even if you don’t deduct your wages, I won’t have a good impression of you. How could it be so easy to fall on your head again?"

Niu Geng's big eyes stared like copper bells, and then he realized that he had always thought that Xue Zhaoqing, who was high above him, only teased him from time to time because he saw him being stupid and dumbfounded.Unexpectedly, the educated young master of the master's family would be able to deceive others because of him, a long-term worker!As soon as Niugeng's chest became hot, he immediately put down the bowl in his hand, and was about to walk out of the kitchen.

"Geng Zi, what are you doing?" His mother called out.

"Go and see the young master." Niu Geng didn't turn his head.

"Come back to me! This doctor just came to see him, and the young master just finished his meal and sent him back. You must be resting at this hour. What are you going to do?!"

"Oh..." Niu Geng turned his head dejectedly, continued to squat on the ground, holding a bowl, and continued to hula-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la lala noodles: When the work is done, you must visit him!

Late at night, Xue Qian read the account book in the study, and returned to the room with a forehead with the word "Chuan". Xue Tian had already prepared hot water and waited for him in the room. Poured hot water and sent it up.

"Master, what's the matter? His brows are tightly locked." He rubbed Xue Gan's shoulders while talking.

"Hey, the harvest in the field this year is [-]% less than last year, but the tax is heavier than last year. This afternoon, there is news that there are more tenants who can't pay the rent than last year."

"Master still wants to reduce the rent with them?" Xue Tian asked calmly.

"Although I have intentions, maintaining the livelihood of our family is a huge expense. I am not sure what to do."

"What the master said is, what's more, if someone profited from it, and the rent saved for the tenants is also in the pockets of those people, wouldn't it be better to collect it?" Xue Tian finished rubbing Xue Gan's shoulders, kneeling on the cushions on the ground, rubbing his legs.

"This year I intentionally let the two brothers Zhaoqing and Zhaowen go to the tenants' houses to collect rent. One is to train them two, and the other is to fear that the people sent to them will not be trusted. With the attention of the autumn wind, it's just, hey... " Xue Gan sighed a long time.

"Master, are you worried about taking care of your green legs?"

"A good boy, how could he be like that?"

"Master also believes that the child did it himself?" Xue Tian raised his eyebrows slightly, and the strength in his hands increased a little.

"what do you mean?"

"When my concubine was serving the old lady in the backyard today, I heard that Jiang Langzhong vaguely said to people, "You can only fall like this when you fall from a high place". At first, I didn't care, but I heard people talking about Zhaoqing in the afternoon After I fell and went to see it again, I connected the two things."

Xue Gan's complexion changed, and his face darkened a bit, Xue Tian quietly raised his head to look at the expression of the master, and continued: "Niu Er is indeed a capable worker, but on weekdays, I have heard of the servants at home. It is said that he is rough in doing things and has a wild temper. If such a person has stayed with Zhaoqing in our family for a long time, it will inevitably have a bad influence... "

Xue Tian saw Xue Gan's thick eyebrows standing upside down, gloomy eyes, and hanging corners of his mouth, so he didn't say any more, and after a while, he said softly: "But the doctor may be talking about other things, and he may also be a concubine." Think too much, master, don't worry about these things."

Xue Qian snorted softly, did not speak again, and the expression on his face gradually returned to calm. Xue Tian pursed his cherry red mouth, quietly retreated, fetched the foot washing water, and served Xue Gan to wash his feet. Then he returned to his room.