Lucky husband

Bai and Li took advantage of the afternoon of New Year's Eve, when everyone was busy, quietly went out to meet each other and exchanged gifts.

Li Mingjin asked Bai Zhiwen how his life was in Fucheng Academy, and Bai Zhiwen asked Li Mingjin if he felt uncomfortable after returning home. After saying a few words respectively, they went home separately.

Although Li Mingjin has adjusted his mentality, there is a big difference between the big brother next door and the person he likes. Now when he looks at Bai Zhiwen, he sometimes doesn't know what to say.

Bai Zhiwen really wanted to say a thousand words to Li Mingjin, but now is not the time, the two of them are not married yet, and he is only a scholar with no other skills, so it is better not to say something, so as not to increase troubles .

Back home, Bai Zhiwen was stopped by Bai Yao, and he asked, "Mom?"

Bai Yao knew exactly what her son did on that trip just now, she stopped Bai Zhiwen not to ask him about what happened just now, but to chat with him about life in Fucheng.

It's been so long since Bai Zhiwen came home. First, he exchanged pleasantries with the people in the village for a day or two, and then he was called out to a gathering by the scholar circle in the county. The mother and son haven't had a chance to have a good chat yet.

Now that the things for the New Year are almost ready at home, and Bai Zhiwen is free, it's time to talk about it.

Bai Yao asked Bai Zhiwen to sit down: "Zhiwen, although you have sent letters home every month for the past six months, mother still wants to ask how you are doing in Fucheng."

To his mother who cared for him wholeheartedly, Bai Zhiwen concealed his incompatibility when he first arrived in Fucheng, and being rejected by the old students in the academy, etc., and chose some relatively easy things to tell Bai Yao, so that his mother could relax.

Then, Bai Zhiwen talked about what he was thinking about before the new year.

"Well, what do you think?" In terms of business, Bai Yao knows that he has no skills so he doesn't say much, and he also understands that his son told her that firstly, he wanted her to know what to do, and secondly, to make her feel at ease, not to let her idea.

As the person in charge of the family, Bai Yao is in charge of the family's money, so he naturally knows how much money is left. With the speed at which Bai Zhiwen spends money now, if he doesn't want to find a way to earn money, there will always be a day of nothing.

Unless he gets a higher degree of fame early, but at that time, there will be other places to spend money.

"If the aunt who made the bracelet can use broken gemstones to make other attractive enough tricks, then I naturally want to do something in Fucheng. If she can't do it, forget it."

"Anyway, the worst plan is to open a shop selling foreign goods in the county town. With the face of a scholar like me, I think there will be no problem in running a small business."

Bai Zhiwen analyzed: "The only inconvenience is that I am alone in Fucheng now..."

Before he finished speaking, Bai Yao interrupted: "Zhiwen, do you mean to marry Brother Jin home in advance?"

Bai Yao felt her son's impatience, so she subconsciously had such an idea halfway through hearing it.

To be honest, she was really worried about Bai Zhiwen being alone in Fucheng. She didn't even have anyone around her who knew the cold and the hot. If Brother Jin went to take care of him, it would naturally be better.

Many widows who have lost their husbands have a common problem - they want to hold their sons in their own hands and control them. They don't like the relationship between their daughter-in-law and their sons, because it will make them feel a sense of crisis.

But Bai Yao didn't have that kind of idea, or she used to have it but now she doesn't.

She knew that no matter whether she was widowed or not, her son would always marry a wife or husband, and the person who would accompany her son for the rest of his life would be his bedside person, and it could not be herself, the old woman who would be disliked sooner or later.

Compared with his so-called sense of security, Bai Yao cares more about whether his son is comfortable and whether their husband and wife are harmonious.

Another point is that Zhiwen is already dead, and Bai Yao actually wants her son to get married as soon as possible so that she can hug her grandson.

Looking at his mother's idea of ​​not knowing where it went, Bai Zhiwen felt a little helpless: "Mother, it's not what you think."

"What I mean is, I'm alone in Fucheng, and sometimes it's inconvenient to do things. Can you ask uncle to help me choose a reliable and smart boy from the clan, and follow me to Fucheng to help me run errands." Bai Zhiwen spoke out his thoughts in one breath, not giving his mother a chance to intervene.

He will get busy in the future, and it is better to find someone who knows the basics to help run errands than to always find someone outside. Don't worry, if he really starts to earn money, someone will need to come forward to help take care of it.

"Oh, oh, so that's what you meant." Knowing that he had misunderstood, Bai Yao smiled embarrassingly.

"Mother, do you think I should find someone from our clan?" Bai Zhiwen was torn between finding someone from his relatives, or just buying a clever servant to do things by his side.

Bai Yao thought for a while and said, "I think it's better to just pick one from the clan."

It's easy to buy a servant, and you can let him do things with confidence by holding the deed of sale, but Bai Yao feels that the people of the Bai people take good care of their mother and children, and now that they have the ability to give back to the clan, they have to show something so that everyone is genuine. I really feel that it will be different if there is a scholar guild in the clan.

Bai Yao also thought of the past when the father-in-law and the husband-in-law were alive, and the two of them said that they regretted that they had passed the examination of the scholar but failed to take care of the villagers. Let Zhiwen choose a boy from the clan to train, which can be regarded as making up for the two of them. sorry.

And Bai Yao's has a longer-term idea, which is to let Bai Zhiwen cultivate a person who can manage the Bai people for him.

At present, it seems that the village head of Shanghe Village and the patriarch of the Bai people, Bai Village Chief, is a sensible person. With him in the village, the clan and villagers rarely do anything excessive.

But from Bai Yao's point of view, Bai Zhiwen will have a great future. As the saying goes, if one person attains the Tao, the dog will ascend to heaven.

Once Bai Zhiwen really passed the Juren examination, and even got a higher reputation and went to become an official, the whole Bai nationality and even the people in Shanghe Village would benefit from it.

In the face of this change, will the clan members take advantage of this to do anything to bully others?Once a member of the clan did something bad, even if it had nothing to do with Bai Zhiwen, it would damage Bai Zhiwen's reputation.

At that time, whether Village Chief Bai can still control the Bai people is very crucial. If he can't, there must be another person who can take care of the clan's affairs for Bai Zhiwen.

Bai Yao thought, now choose a young man from the clan to go out with Bai Zhiwen to practice, if necessary in the future, he will come back to take care of the people in the clan, if not, he will continue to work with Zhiwen.

In this period, it is indeed better than directly buying a servant.

Originally, Bai Zhiwen was inclined to choose a young man in the clan. After hearing Bai Yao's words, he no longer hesitated, and planned to talk to Village Chief Bai about it after the first and second grades.

When the mother and son were talking about their future plans, Li Mingjin who had returned home was also caught by Jiang Zhiyun and questioned.

Like Bai Yaoshi, Jiang Zhiyun had a clear mind about what Li Mingjin did when he went out, but Jiang Zhiyun still wanted to ask him.

Li Mingjin honestly took out the hairpin that Bai Zhiwen gave her just now: "Mother, this is it."

Jiang Zhiyun picked up the hairpin and weighed it in her hand, knowing that it was more than one tael of silver, which is not very expensive.

Thinking of this in her heart, Jiang Zhiyun suddenly realized that her family had really changed a lot over the years.

When the second sister-in-law was still in Li's house, the second sister-in-law was able to go to her mother's side to make her angry because Brother Shi bought herself a silver hairpin.

At that time, Jiang Zhiyun didn't dare to wear the silver hairpin because she was afraid that wearing gold and silver would be too ostentatious, which would attract other people's opinions and make it difficult for her family to do well.

Unexpectedly, it has only been so many years, and she doesn't pay much attention to one or two silver hairpins, and she doesn't think it is particularly valuable.

But although this hairpin is not very valuable to Jiang Zhiyun, it is different to Li Mingjin. He and Bai Zhiwen are not yet married, so he hastily accepted a valuable item from the other party. Jiang Zhiyun wanted to know what Li Mingjin did. What.

Jiang Zhiyun looked at Li Mingjin: "Brother Jin, what did you give Zhiwen?"

"I made him a pair of insoles." Li Mingjin said without embarrassment.

"Insole?" Jiang Zhiyun's eyes widened in surprise when she heard the answer.

Jiang Zhiyun thought about everything she could think of just now, but she didn't think of the answer. If the insoles are too simple, how can they be given away, not to mention that the insoles are simple, but there are ways inside.

Seeing Jiang Zhiyun's surprise, Li Mingjin couldn't help but argue: "I started making insoles when I came back from Fucheng, with asparagus bamboo embroidered on them. Brother Bai said he likes them very much. I, I didn't mean to be perfunctory."

"Brother Jin, mother knows that your embroidery is not very good, but even if you send a hairband or a belt, it's better than giving you insoles." Jiang Zhiyun looked at Li Mingjin who was still ignorant, and said in a low voice, "Do you know how big Zhiwen's feet are? Just make insoles for him, and if they don't fit, how can he wear them?"

Measuring the size of a foot is a very intimate act, and of course Li Mingjin never did it to Bai Zhiwen.

Therefore, Li Mingjin's eyes gradually widened in front of Jiang Zhiyun's question. He remembered that when he did it, he had to rely on his feeling, and he didn't know how big Brother Bai's feet were.

"Mother..." Li Mingjin blinked and stared blankly at Jiang Zhiyun.

Jiang Zhiyun couldn't hold back, and poked Li Mingjin's forehead twice: "What can I say about you, I gave it away, and it's impossible to get it back. Don't make such a fool again in the future."

Jiang Zhiyun took this opportunity to explain to Li Mingjin carefully what should be paid attention to when making personal items for others, so that he can remember them long in the future.

As for whether or not gifts must be equal in value, Jiang Zhiyun felt that this was something that Li Mingjin could decide for himself, so she only mentioned one thing for him to pay attention to in the future.

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