The husband's son-in-law

On the cuju field outside the city.

As soon as Fu Bao dismounted, he heard someone waving and calling him, "Li Zhaoxi, Li Zhaoxi, you are here."

"Father?" Fu Bao turned to look at his father first.

Master Gu snorted the child's head, and said confidently: "Cuju is a team competition. You can play well by yourself. Now you are getting more familiar with the field. When the time comes for the competition, will others still survive?"

"All masters are lonely."

"Familiar with the field with your classmates, isn't it more fun than playing in the field alone?"

Fu Bao nodded first, what Dad said was right.After a few seconds, he shook his head again, and said, "It's not that I'm not happy because everyone can come to the field to play football. It's obvious that Dad was fooling me when he was at home. He said it all morning, as if I was the only one playing football. I ran back and forth."

Gu Zhao: ...The child is smart, so it's not easy to be fooled.

But Li Zhaoxi was open-minded, and the little adult seemed to nod his head and said: "But as a child, I should also serve tea and water for my father and squeeze my shoulders. Daddy, don't fool me next time."

"It's not fooling - well, it's a little bit, but it's fun for Dad to tease you like this. If you are unhappy, Dad will try to correct it next time." What Master Gu said in the end was not so promising.

Fu Bao obviously knew it, snorted, and said, "I'm being generous. Let's play football, bye bye~" He hugged the ball and ran to the Cuju field quickly.

The school is on holiday today, and now not only the school classmates are here, but also the Cuju team from the government school that plays football.In the afternoon there was a pre-match friendly match. The original plan was for the whole family to watch Fubao play football with his classmates and spend the afternoon with Fubao. Now, of course, the plan couldn’t keep up with the temporary changes.

Mr. Gu was in the Cuju field, and he was always thinking about home.

Zhou Zhou took care of that son of the Rong family in the house——

Wait, son?

That's right.Gu Zhao remembered that when he was in Beijing, his elder brother Zheng Hui first mentioned the fourth son of the Rong family. , but definitely not a top-notch family.

The top ones are naturally the Lin family, the second prince Zhao's family, or the next one if it's not good enough.

Let’s just say that at that time, it was said that he was the first husband-in-law of a girl in the middle of Beijing, mainly because of his appearance and talent. As for this talent, I heard that he entered the Imperial College to study, but he never took the imperial examination from the beginning to the end.

Gu Zhao was still muttering at the time, if he is really talented, why not go to the imperial examination and get the number one scholar?He thought it was exaggerated by this Beijing native with a dog filter. He had never met Rong Si at that time, and had no relationship with him, so he thought it was strange and put it aside.

Now that I think about it, Rong Si was clearly a man in Beijing before, not a brother of the Rong family, but a legitimate son.

Standing in the Cuju field, Mr. Gu filled his mind with a lot of gossip.

For example, when Mrs. Rong was pregnant with Rong Si, her husband spoiled her concubine and almost killed her, so in desperation she gave birth to Rong Si who claimed to be a boy in order to consolidate her status.

It doesn't matter whether the dog is bloody or not, the important thing is that this Rong Sidang man has lived for such a long time, and now he comes to find Zhou Zhou, his own servants are not willing to scrub him and change his clothes, so Zhou Zhou has to take care of him——

Master Gu swears.

"Father, are you looking at Fu Baocheng? I asked Meng Jianyun to bring someone to stay here with me. I want to go back to the house to have a look first." Master Gu was anxious.

Li Da naturally agreed after hearing this, but when Zhao'er said it was fine, he was a little relieved, but if Zhao'er went back, he would be at ease, and hurriedly said: "Go back, Fubao, I'll watch."

Gu Zhao told Fu Bao that Fu Bao knew that his father had something to do, so he had nothing to be unhappy about. Anyway, he was playing football alone, and his father and grandpa were bored watching him, so they waved goodbye to his father.

"Kick it well." Gu Zhao patted Fu Bao's head, and rode away, but he didn't go back to the house first when he entered the city, but went to a food shop. There are a lot of fruits in Zhaozhou now, pineapple, lychee, mango, actually If it is made out of ice and served with various jams and milk, isn't this ice cream?

"Master Gu, what do you want?" the shopkeeper asked enthusiastically and nervously.

Gu Zhao looked at the various fruits in the bamboo basket, and said, "You each pick three catties of these fruits, and I will pay you extra for running errands, and take them to the Cuju field outside the city—do you know the place?"

"I know, we know that we are going to hold a Cuju competition in Zhaozhou. We knew about it a long time ago, and we are just waiting for this day."

"Sure, just that piece of land, if there is boiling hot water, put a handful of washed mung beans in it, a pot of mung bean soup, put some sugar, and send it along with a pot of warm water." Master Gu He didn't even let the money be counted, knowing that the shopkeeper would definitely refuse to accept it, so he put half a tael of silver on the table after speaking.

Counting the errand expenses, they are much richer.

Nowadays, the fruits in Zhaozhou are not worth a few dollars. Three catties of these fruits add up to a hundred cents, let alone mung bean hot water sugar.

The shopkeeper hurriedly said no, but Mr. Gu had already stepped out and got on the horse.He could only hold half a tael of silver, and smiled at the silver. This is the silver given by Mr. Gu, and he will definitely not spend it, so he will keep it at home.

"Hurry up, pick the freshest and best fruit, put a cotton mat underneath, and cover it with a layer on top, don't let it wrinkle in the sun, and cook a pot of mung beans, sieve the mung beans carefully, don't mix them with sand and stones, After washing, boil a large pot of hot water, prepare the cart, and I will deliver the goods myself in a while."

The boss called the clerk to get busy. Their shop is a small business, and there is only one clerk, and his wife is in charge of the stove behind him. He went there first and explained the reason clearly.

Because the shop is close to the South City Gate, it is convenient to collect the fruits from the villagers outside the city, but in fact, the business is just like that.The villagers who came to the city were reluctant to spend money to eat the fruit, and the guests from far away came into the city in a hurry and were unwilling to stay longer.

"Send it to the Cuju field?" the mother-in-law asked.

The owner of the store said: "Isn't that right? I just saw Mr. Gu sending his father-in-law and young master Fubao out of the city. It should be to play football. Mr. Gu loves the children and sent some fruits and mung bean soup to quench the young master's thirst. use."

"What father-in-law, you pay attention to what you say, I see Mr. Gu has the most respect for his father."

"That's right. I've never seen Mr. Gu like this. You said that you entered the Li family as a wife. You really belong to the Li family. You don't take concubines when you become an official..."

The proprietress became more mellow, and while working swiftly, she said affirmatively: "That's why Mr. Gu can be a good official, and he doesn't forget his roots. How good it is."

Things were packed and loaded onto carts.

The proprietress also wanted to see the young master Fubao on the cuju field, so she asked the assistant to look after the store immediately. The two of them pushed the cart to the outside of the city, and it didn't take long, and it took only two minutes to get there.

Fubao took the lead in warming up. He played for more than an hour. It was hot and he ran all over the field. He was sweating profusely, and his breath was hot. The big guys were all the same. They sat cross-legged on the ground for a rest, and then listened Grandpa said: "Fubao, bring all your little classmates over here, your father bought some fruit and mung bean soup and sent them here."

"!!!" Fu Bao's eyes were round, he was surprised and happy, and ran over with his classmates.

Fu Bao wiped his sweat with a handkerchief, "It's sticky——"

"My lord just asked us to boil warm water to wash our hands, right?" The shopkeeper put a large bucket of warm water on the ground.

Fu Bao was very happy, and said, "That's really great, thank you Uncle, we are heating up."

Everyone washed their hands and faces, and sat together to peel the fruit and eat it, as well as drink mung bean soup.

Obviously there are a lot of things, but these boys eat quickly and consume a lot of food. In the end, they really ate everything, leaving nothing behind.The store owner and his wife finished packing, and when they pushed the cart back, Mrs. Li returned twenty copper coins.

"Take it, it's not too much, it's hard work for you to make this trip." Li Da said.

The shopkeeper took the money and thought about sending a pot of mung bean soup later. It was really hot this day, and the Cuju field was built here, and it was far away from the village, and also a little distance from the city. …

"Stop nagging, when you talk about the competition, how about we prepare some more to sell in the Cuju field? There will be a lot of people watching, so you will always need food and drink? We are not far away, and it is convenient to deliver things." The proprietress poked The man said, "Did you see just now that the children from the government school who play football are all rich in their families. They must not be stingy with buying fruit and water."

"That's right, let's do it this way." The boss also thinks it can be done, and the left and right are just some ordinary ones sold by other houses, it's not a big deal, and it can't be compensated.

Let's say that when Mr. Gu arrived at the mansion, he ran to the front yard first.

"Master, why did you come back in such a hurry?" Li Zhouzhou had just finished washing his hands, seeing that he was in a hurry, "Did you forget something——"

Li Zhouzhou was halfway through speaking when he saw that Mr. Xiang raised his head to look at the closed door.

"Are you worried about Master Rong?"

"Nonsense, I'm worried about you, don't worry about you here." Gu Zhao whimpered.

Li Zhouzhou was stunned, and then smiled, "Sanggong said the wrong thing, this young master Rong is—" He thought about how young master Rong kept it so secret, and he didn't know whether he should mention it to Xianggong.

Gu Zhao knew what Zhou Zhou was thinking at a glance, and immediately became more sour, and said, "How long have you been thinking about outsiders, is it because my face is not as good-looking as his? Brother Zhou Zhou!"

"Xianggong Hun said, you know it, he is a brother, just like me."

Gu Zhaodao wasn't really jealous—it was a little precautionary, mainly because Rong Si came all the way to Zhaozhou to see Zhou Zhou by name.

"Of course I believe you, don't be angry Zhou Zhou, just listen to me first."

Gu Zhao explained what he just guessed, "...he has been a man for so long, at least fourteen to five or six years, right? Now that his identity has been dismantled and he has become a brother, he must not be able to change for a while. If you are still a man, then you must like women and brothers."

"Zhou Zhou, you are kind and upright. Let me tell you, some men know how to show weakness to gain sympathy, so I can take this opportunity to do something else, first to attract your sympathy and pity, and then use your pretty face to act coquettishly and show softness." ..."

The more Gu Zhao said, the more familiar it became.And Li Zhouzhou also looked at his husband amusedly.

"..."

Mr. Gu immediately acted out "Green tea is the best life to be coquettish".Li Zhouzhou just let it go and didn't mention the fact that Xianggong himself "dismantled the stage". After making a joke, Li Zhouzhou said seriously: "When I just scrubbed and changed Rong Ye's clothes, I found that he didn't have a mole on his face. .”

"??" Master Gu immediately wanted to swear, but it's bearable, the servants of the Rong family won't use this as a lie, and Zhou Zhou is not stupid, "It's not a bloody plot, then there is something else hidden?"

Li Zhouzhou said: "When I was in the village earlier, I heard from the elders that most of my moles grow on my face, and they are very bright and red when I was born. It’s so bright, and then it depends on how to raise children, some are in poor health and some are tired.”

Gu Zhao looked over and saw a little red between Zhou Zhou's eyebrows, small, but now it is very red. When the two of them went to the town earlier, the waiter called Zhou Zhou "little brother". At that time, Zhou Zhou's eyebrows were dark Wu Guang, he couldn't help reaching out to touch it, and leaned over to kiss her.

Li Zhouzhou smiled at his father-in-law.

Today is really like a child.

"It's mostly on the face, so there are other places?" Gu Zhao said solemnly.Zhou Zhou laughed at him, making him look childish!

Li Zhouzhou said: "I heard that there were still some growing on the neck in the nearby village before, mostly on the face, less on the body, but even if it grows on the body, you should be able to find it."

"Master Rong's elder brother's mole is on the inside of his forearm. His skin is white, especially bright and red."

That's brother.Gu Zhaolian thought about the cause and effect, "Do you think there are some things that didn't grow at birth, but grew up later?"

With Rong's conditions, the midwife Wen would not fail to check the whole body of the child.

What Zhou Zhou knew, Jingli Wenpo naturally knew.

"Then I don't know." Li Zhouzhou shook his head and said. "Anyway, now that he is living here with us, we can't really leave him outside the house to fend for himself, and the wound is serious. After cleaning the wound, Oda also said that he would have a fever. Whether he can survive it is another matter."

Gu Zhao: "Then let's talk about it after he wakes up."

"I stayed in Xiaotian for two days and kept watching." After Li Zhouzhou finished speaking, he remembered what Xianggong said, and couldn't help frowning and said: "Young Master Rong was born as a son-in-law. He was so beautiful before, and he was valued by his family. If it is really because of brother The situation will be like this if the child's identity changes—"

Li Zhouzhou didn't know what to say.

Gu Zhao patted Zhou Zhou's arm, put it half in his arms, and said, "There should be other reasons for not seriously injuring the child because of this abandonment."

With the family wealth of the Rong family, even if a half-way man turns into a brother, if he is afraid of hurting his face, he will remain the same as before. How much money a person spends on food and drink is not a big deal to the Rong family.

Seeing that Zhou Zhou was still worried, Gu Zhao knew that because of his conjecture, Zhou Zhou felt more sympathy for Rong Si, so he immediately said: ... Then he changed the topic and talked about the Fubao Cuju Competition.

"It's so hot, I'm thinking of making some ice."

Bing Jing is also an official in Beijing. The local officials look at the situation. Some houses with rich family backgrounds have ice cellars. It snows in winter and the weather is cold. Some ice is frozen and put into the ice cellar to be sealed, and it will be opened in the next summer. The ice cellar is used to get ice-this is how ice is obtained in summer.

So ice is used in summer, which is a consumable for nobles and gentlemen.

However, Zhaozhou does not snow in winter, and the coldest days are only those few days, and there is no ice.

"How can it be frozen in such a hot day?" Li Zhouzhou became curious.

Seeing that Zhou Zhou didn't want to do anything else, Gu Zhao was immediately happy and said, "The mountain man has his own tricks, just wait." There is a reason for him to speak so eloquently.

Saltpeter ice.

Gu Zhao was busy making ice, and Li Zhouzhou was also curious to watch it with him, but he went to the front yard during the afternoon break, and saw the grandparents and grandchildren brought by Master Rong guarding the door dutifully, and said, "You two are If you want to guard your young master, you can't come together, taking turns is the long-term solution, otherwise they will all fall down, your young master wakes up and needs someone, isn't there no one to serve you?"

Only then did the old servant move, and told his grandson to rest and replace him at night.Zhong Qi was unwilling, and let his grandfather rest first, so that he would not be tired if he was young.

"You all rest for a while, your young master is asleep, and I won't want you for a while."

The grandparents and grandchildren are arranged in the side room of this yard, and they share a room.

Li Zhouzhou entered the house, Xiao Tian was not there, but the maid in the mansion was there, and the silent Banfu saluted, Li Zhouzhou waved his hands to get up, and asked in a low voice: "Have you woken up yet?"

"Mrs. No, I have been asleep."

Li Zhouzhou stood by the bed and looked at it.On the bed, Rong Ye was lying on his stomach. Because the medicine was applied to his back, he didn't cover it with a quilt, and just covered his waist with a thin quilt. His face was sideways, and he didn't sleep well. Looking from the side, he looked really good-looking.

The eyelashes are as long as a small fan.

The nose is also very good.

Lips are also beautiful.

Li Zhouzhou looked at him like calm water. This young master Rong was good-looking, but he was no match for Mr. Xianggong in his heart. He wanted to laugh when he thought of Mr. Xianggong's reckless eating, and said, "You must live on. If you survive this catastrophe, then Just live for yourself."

"You take good care of me. If you have a fever, call Doctor Oda."

The maid replied yes.

Li Zhouzhou went out.

In the next three days, Li Zhouzhou took a look and asked about his injuries.The first night was hot, but luckily Xiao Tian was in front of him, and after tossing all night, his body temperature finally cooled down.

After hearing this, Gu Zhao thought that it would be unlucky for everyone to die in his house, so he sent some of the ice that he had made, and asked someone to apply a cold compress on Rong Si's forehead with a veil of ice water.

The spirit used to disinfect Oda was also what Gu Zhao said, and it was distilled and tossed out.

On the second day, Rong Ye woke up, but he was confused by fever and kept talking nonsense. Li Zhouzhou went to see when he heard that he woke up—Gu Zhao didn't go, and he couldn't get in, just listen to the news .

When I came back, Zhou Zhou said to my husband: "It's pitiful——"

"Zhou Zhou, don't allow poor men."

"He's not a man either."

"That's right." Master Gu said sarcastically.

Li Zhouzhou just listened to the nonsense with a sympathetic and pitiful tone, and his mood was messed up and not very good. This meeting is all gone, and he became dumbfounded, but Xianggong really relieved his depression.

"Sister, you guessed right. I heard Rong Ye crying in his dream: I am a man, mother, I am a man. He started to cry after repeating the words, intermittently saying that he is not a brother, and that he will not do it even if he is killed. The family must have forced him to do something."

Li Zhouzhou has become a father, so he can't see or hear these things.

Rong Ye looked so tall, he was a grown man, but at that moment, Li Zhouzhou felt that he was a child who was disliked and abandoned by his family and close relatives, just because of his gender.

"They're all our own children. Boys and girls, how can they be so important? They turn their faces and deny people all of a sudden." Li Zhouzhou said.

Gu Zhao held Zhou Zhou's hand and said, "If only the moles on the corners of Fu Bao's eyes are gone."

"Fubao is Fubao, our child." Li Zhouzhou affirmed.

Master Gu immediately said: "That's why we two are good fathers, peerless good fathers." The opportunity to put gold on his face will not be missed.

Li Zhouzhou: ...

But chatting, gagging, the atmosphere is good, and I don't have much anger.

At the end of the month is the first Cuju competition in Zhaozhou.

It was also two days ago that Rong Ye woke up from being confused for the first time, and later became conscious, but he was still in a dazed state, and today he was able to talk, but his face was cold, and he refused to be thousands of miles away.

But he is really beautiful and handsome, with a sick and haggard appearance, which adds a bit of poignancy.

The servants and maids in the mansion, anyway, talk in private now that there are distinguished guests recuperating in the front yard, plus the buff bonus of people coming from Beijing, that properly fills up many sad and beautiful stories.

In modern terms: the maid in the mansion is almost becoming a fan of Rong Ye's mother.

"I won't come to see you tomorrow morning. My family Fubao is going to compete. I've been practicing Cuju for almost a month. I've got a lot of sunburn. I'm sure you can't go with this injury. We will do it every year in the future, and if you heal your injury, you can watch it in the next year." Li Zhouzhou talked with Rong Ye.

Rong Ye didn't speak, just sat upright.

"If I didn't know you were listening, I would definitely feel that your attitude is driving people away." Li Zhouzhou smiled, not caring about Rong Ye's indifference, how could he get better immediately after such a sudden change, and still holding him while talking .

Afraid of Rong Ye's temperament developed in the past, he would not be courteous and flattering.

"Tomorrow, if Fubao wins, I'll give you fruit to eat, and if I lose, I'll give you coconut sugar to eat."

Rong Ye looked over, but didn't speak.Li Zhouzhou didn't ask, but got up and said, "You have a good rest, I'm leaving, see you tomorrow afternoon."

The next day is the Cuju Competition.

Fu Bao got up excited before dawn, lifted the curtain and got out of bed, the servant who was sleeping on the bed far away hurriedly got up when he heard the movement, and asked the young master if he was going to the toilet?

"No, what time is it? Forget it, I'll go and see by myself." Fu Bao hurriedly walked out. There was a set of copper kettle dripping glass in his yard, but it was dark, and he looked for it for a long time before he found it.

"Ah, it's only three o'clock."

"That's still early."

Fu Bao walked back, how did the day pass so slowly, he got back on the bed and got into the quilt to continue sleeping, but he couldn't fall asleep for a long time, and when he fell asleep, he was also thinking about today's football game, and woke up every once in a while.

Later, the servant stopped sleeping and sat by the bed. When the little master made any movement, he said what time it was, and it was not yet dawn.After Fu Bao saw it, he didn't bother, and just said: "If it's time, remember to call me, and you go to sleep on the bed, the ground won't be cold."

"Okay, master." The servant went to bed.

When it finally dawned, the servant came to call people softly, Fubao in the bed curtain got up as soon as he heard the sound, he was full of energy, brushed his teeth and washed his face, and didn't have to eat breakfast alone today, "I'll eat at Dad's." They all said all right.

Today, father, father, and grandpa, they had breakfast together and went to the competition field together.

Gu Zhaogang still made a bet with his father in front of the dining room, "I must have been tossing all night and didn't sleep well."

"Fubao sleeps soundly at night, so he doesn't get up very easily at night." Li Da said.He took Fubao with him when he was a child, and he slept soundly when he was a child. Naturally, it will not change at this age. "Besides, Fubao is the best football player. I must have confidence."

So Fu Bao stepped into the living room, and his father asked him what time did he wake up in the morning?

"Father, which one are you talking about? I woke up several times." Fu Bao said hello to his grandfather.

Li Da: ...he really made his father guess right.

"Our Fufu is the best at football, why can't we sleep well? Don't pretend to be serious, play boldly."

Fu Bao sat on the table and ate sweet bean paste buns, and said, "Grandpa, I'm just excited, and I'm a little nervous, and I can't tell. I want to play football on the field, but what if something goes wrong and I don't play well?"

"If you don't play well, you're gone." Gu Zhao said in an understatement tone: "It's not that you made a mistake in playing football, you are not Li Zhaoxi, your classmates do not love you, your studies have plummeted, and your parents will not because This is talking about you, what are you afraid of?"

"People will always make mistakes. If you improve, you will be fine. If you don't want to improve, your father will cover you if you can."

Li Zhouzhou was serving the soup, when he heard this, he blamed and glared at Mr. Xianggong.Gu Zhao immediately admitted his mistake, turned around and met Fu Bao's eyes, and made a grimace.Fu Bao immediately laughed.

"The porridge will choke soon." Li Zhouzhou reminded.

Fu Bao has a cute face, but he is full of joy and energy when eating, and he is not nervous or worried.

The competition is the first half of the day. Because it is hot, it is best to end at [-] o'clock, so the morning is arranged early, and it starts at [-] o'clock-mainly because this era also has Internet and mobile phones, everyone goes to bed early and gets up early, and [-] o'clock is not too early.

Li's family had breakfast, and hurried to the car to go outside the city after eating.

The same government school, all the teachers and students of the school, the players of the football team and their families, and the two adults from Zhaozhou City, not to mention Master Chen, the newly appointed Master Tong Zhi Liang Jiang also rushed to the place with the whole family.

Liang Jiang arrived half a day earlier than Rong Ye's carriage, and after that it was a busy meal. He also bought the mansion, and bought it next to Mr. Chen's mansion—the one that Mr. Chen strongly recommended to Gu Zhao.

Anyway, after all kinds of tossing, it was finally packed and able to live.

His aunt and Erlang, one is eight years old and the other is four years old. Liang Jiang thought that the child had just arrived, so he had to get used to it first, and was not in a hurry to send the aunt to school. He thought about it in a few days, but his mother and wife heard that he had sent the aunt to school. Going to school to plan, suddenly the good-tempered mother was not happy.

Especially I heard that the school is still mixed, how can this be done, there is no rule at all, do you want to have a clean reputation if you send the aunt in?

Even the wife who is always virtuous and takes him first is also crying silently and unwillingly, and even said: "Do you despise our mother and daughter, and spoil the aunt like this..."

Liang Jiang was furious, but thinking about Mr. Gu being an official, he held back his impatience. Mr. Gu's thoughts are very understandable. When he proposed to set up a school that day, he was a little unbelievable and wanted to refute, not to mention always obeying the rules. Traditional mothers and wives want to talk more euphemistically.

It just so happened that Mr. Gu organized a Cuju competition, and the school students also participated, and some performed dance exercises.

Liang Jiang felt that it would be better to take his family to the scene to see how polite and well-behaved the girl brother taught by the school was, with such a bright smile on his face, positive and energetic, he was not what the two of them thought. so-so.

So early in the morning, the horse-drawn carriage team of the Chen Mansion ran into the horse-drawn carriage team of the Liang Mansion.

Mr. Liang naturally asked Mr. Chen to invite him first. Chen Weng, an old urchin, got out of the car and said, "Xiao Liang is going to watch the ball? Let's go together. I'll see you on the field later. I'll save you a good seat. "

"Thank you, Mr. Chen." Liang Jiang got off the car and saluted.

As a result, when they arrived at the Cuju field, Chen Weng's family sat in the middle, next to Mr. Gu, and patted the other side, "Xiao Liang, come sit here, I have something to say with my brother, you can sit next to him."

"..." Mr. Liang: A little bit, bear with me.

The author has something to say:

Chen Weng is enthusiastic and cheerful: I will reserve a good seat for you, and you are not in a hurry to walk slowly.

Liang Jiang: This sixth child, I hate it!