The husband's son-in-law

Life is just passing by, I don’t feel how it is at the moment, but when I look back, I feel in a daze how it goes by so quickly.

The summer in Zhaozhou is long, especially in the hot summer, and it is difficult for ordinary people to use ice—it has never happened before. Fortunately, the dressing system of the people has changed in recent years. It used to be hot, so they dare not show some , Afraid of being scolded by the spitting star, now the ups and downs are effective, and the open atmosphere is a matter of course.

People walking on the street, no matter men, women, young or old, rich or poor, can be found everywhere in loose and loose clothes, showing forearms, wrists, ankles and necks are also common. If the days are better, it is the flowing silk upper body, and if it is cheap, it is the sweat-absorbing ramie Cloth, style is the same.

Wearing a clear and breathable single piece, it is no longer wrapped like before.

In addition, Zhaozhou City has a trend of loving beauty and pursuing beauty. Regardless of whether they are rich or not, young girls and women try their best to make themselves beautiful and appropriate.

No, more than half a month ago, Xiaoyu's grocery store released a new model, which was cheap and beautiful.

The ramie red round neck and narrow sleeves are lined with grass green culottes or a matching skirt, which exposes the neck. This skirt is worn with a high waist and is tied below the chest. The figure is beautiful and graceful, and some women are naturally a little shy. Put on a thin streamer silk half-sleeve to cover the chest, so as to avoid some embarrassment when you sweat in the hot weather.

As soon as this dress came out, it was loved by ordinary girls in Zhaozhou City.

It’s nothing more than cheap, and you can build it yourself, or you can buy a single piece and go back to match what you have.The best selling single piece is the flowing silk half-sleeve. Flowing silk is expensive. How can ordinary people make new clothes every year, but this flowing silk half-sleeve is very cheap. It is made of various kinds of flowing silk. The colors of the pieces are different, and the sizes of the pieces are also different.

Naturally, it is mainly cheap.

The streamer silk in Zhaozhou City is cheaper than that in the Central Plains, and it costs seventy cash for a zhang, but this half-sleeve is only thirteen cash per piece, and some say it is defective, and it can be two or three cash cheaper.

So, not to mention Zhaozhou city girls, even young women in villages outside the city also have one.Mainly the original clothes, with this brightly colored, soft and high-quality half-sleeves, it suddenly appeared 'extravagant'.

Later, it was sold too much, and Xiao Yu's grocery store couldn't make enough handmade sewing, so the "half-sleeve raw material package" method appeared. The streamer silk pieces made of half-sleeves were cut and packaged, and matched with thread, so that the sales could save a few cents.

Naturally, there are also those who are afraid of poor sewing, so let the shop do it, and the handiwork done by Xiaoyu grocery store is good.

At this time at the north gate of the city, the sun was already scorching, but the carriages kept coming and going. Some outsiders rushed to the gate of the city to stop their horses and get off their cars for inspection, and some returned home from Zhaozhou City. Young men were carrying baskets on their backs. That's why I became my daughter-in-law.

"It's beautiful, it's really beautiful." The man boasted.

The daughter-in-law was blushing, she didn't know whether it was because she was sunburned or shy, and said concerned: "I will change my back later."

"These things are not tired, don't strangle your clothes."

"I just said go back and wear it again, let me ruin a good thing."

"It's not expensive. Now that I wear it, everyone in the village can see it." The man said, the half-sleeves are just beautiful. The one next door bought them and put them on, showing off in front of his wife every day. This time they also showed off. .

"Let's go, I'm neither hot nor sunny, and there's still wind when I walk, take a rest along the way, and I can go back early."

"Okay." The daughter-in-law took a handkerchief to wipe the man's sweat from time to time.

No matter how hot the day was, the two looked happy and happy.

Since the cement road in Sanzhou City was repaired, there have been more carriages and carts going to and from Zhaozhou City, and there are two more soldiers at the gate of the city. At this moment, one person is interrogating an old couple. The color is a little old, and the one behind is a cart with several large boxes on it.

The soldier asked a few more questions about what was in it, whether he was selling goods, or looking for relatives and friends.

The old man smiled and replied: "It's clothes and some books. Ah Zhong opened the box." He also said: "I'm also looking for relatives. My young apprentice lives in Zhaozhou. He wrote a letter saying how prosperous Zhaozhou is now, so I will Come and have a look."

The box was opened, and there was only one box of clothes, and the rest were books.

When the soldier saw him, his face was full of admiration, and he clasped his fists and cupped his hands, saying: "Don't be surprised, old man, there are more people coming to Zhaozhou City now, I'm afraid there are some nightclubs among them, and now the patrol in the city is also stricter." some."

"It should be."

The old man waved his hand kindly, and asked again: "By the way, how do I get to Li Mansion?"

"Are you going to Li Mansion?" The soldier was stunned, then became more solemn, and then pointed the way to Enthusiasm.

The old couple were not getting into the carriage either, but there were servants holding the horse rope. The two of them walked beside them all the way into Zhaozhou City. After a while, they disappeared among the bustling crowd.

The soldier came back to his senses, and suddenly remembered that the old man said just now that he was looking for relatives and friends, and he found out that he was his apprentice, so he went to Li Mansion again...

The old couple are Sun Mu and his old wife.

It was noon at this time, and it was hot both inside and outside the city, but neither of them mentioned taking a car to go to Li Mansion to have a rest. They just walked in the streets of Zhaozhou city. The letter, little by little, corresponds to the picture in front of me.

Pointing to the ground under his feet, Sun Mu said to his old wife, "This is Baishan Street. On the day he built the road, he wrote me a letter saying 'coax them'. Ziqing is narrow and beneficial to the people."

His wife did not speak.

Sun Mu's wife's surname is Bai, and her single character is Yin. She is also from a local literati family in Chuzhou.

Not to mention that when people reach middle age, they have experienced the separation of life and death, their moods are different, and the paintings are even more different. It can be said that they have reached the pinnacle.

Along the way, Bai Yin's eyes naturally fell on the clothes of the people in Zhaozhou City, especially the young women and girls. They were dressed boldly. Unlike Chuzhou, these women dared to quarrel and talk loudly on the street, and even grabbed A man refused to let go and yelled loudly.

"...you're a bastard, you cringe behind my old lady's buttocks, and you want to touch my old lady's buttocks, you spit on your face, and you don't even look at your stinky shit, everyone, come and see, Now the three stinky hooligans look like no one has taught them."

After Bai Yin heard this, even her usual reticent expression showed surprise.

If it were in Chuzhou, if a woman was treated lightly on the street, she would definitely not yell loudly. I'm afraid she wished she could go home and burn her clothes away. She would be too ashamed to speak out. How dare she yell, curse, and tremble like this when she is arrested in the street? It fell cleanly.

Aren't you afraid of being pointed out?

"Speech!" Some of the onlookers spat first, but it was just like that stinky hooligan who cowered and was caught.

Someone else said loudly: "Report to the official, report to the official, let him be severely whipped."

"Yes, you can't just let it go."

When the man heard about it, he begged his grandpa to tell his grandma that he was wrong, and even knelt down to apologize or lose money.Who would have thought that woman said: "My old lady won't accept your money, save me saying that I have falsely accused you for taking your money, I will definitely arrest you and go to the court to make you lose face once, and watch you go down!" dare to do it again.”

"It's a shame if you don't learn well."

"Pooh!"

The onlookers applauded, everyone said hello loudly, and some said, "I'll go with you, I just saw him touching you."

"go!"

The woman is not tall, but her figure is a bit plump, especially the clothes, which outline a graceful and beautiful figure, with a high chest and a thin waist. When she walks, her back is naturally graceful.But at this time, grabbing the man, and the people around him helped, they went to the yamen one after another.

Bai Yin then heard the vendor who stayed in the same place say: "This rascal doesn't learn well, he dares to do this in the street."

"It's said in the mansion newspaper that if you catch someone, you'll have to tie him up for an entire afternoon and give him ten lashes."

Bai Yin stepped forward and asked, "What residence newspaper? How can I buy it?"

The few vendors were chatting, and it seemed that the clothes were from other places, so they were not surprised, and one of them said: "If you want to see, there is a poster at the gate of the yamen, so you can just go and watch the excitement."

Another person said: "There is a bookstore to the east. If you are a scholar, you don't need money to borrow it. If ordinary people can borrow it back with a ten-cent deposit, the money will be refunded when you pay it back. If you can't read, you'd better go to the bookstore." Watch it outside the yamen, there are people reading it from time to time."

Sun Mu said, "Let's go to the Yamen to have a look." It happened not far from Li Mansion.

The chariots and horses went to the yamen, and the woman arrived with the gangster, and the drum was beat, and the trial had already begun.

The two didn't go in to listen, but stopped in front of the notice board outside the yamen. On the top of the house newspaper, there was a section on Zhaozhou's heard area, and some were positive, like a hot weather, the daughter-in-law at home I fell ill and couldn't see him for a long time. Before dawn, my mother-in-law walked for three days to Zhaozhou City to seek medical treatment.

I also wrote how the daughter-in-law was filial and served her mother-in-law before, but now she is sick, how her mother-in-law also values ​​her.

Bai Yin read this mansion newspaper, and after reading it, she fell silent, didn't say anything, and then went to look at the other ones, but it was written at the end of the latest mansion newspaper that her daughter-in-law was seriously ill and her mother-in-law had to leave in three days The story of the broken straw sandal has a follow-up, and the seriously ill woman is much better and can get out of bed.

Bai Yin saw this, then looked at the first one, and calculated the time.

After a month, it can be seen that it is true.This time when I read the mansion newspaper again, my expression was much more serious.

There are good and bad, this area is not only positive, but also some conscience-stricken, the husband and wife thought that their elderly parents were a burden, and tried to murder their parents. The parents also interceded for their son, and even wanted to bump him to death in the yamen, so that the officials would not arrest and kill his son.

In the end, such a case was judged vaguely and ambiguously.

……

One case after another, there are some short stories underneath, everything is written, the language is simple, and sometimes there are some ingenious thoughts, Sun Mu can understand it at a glance, this is borrowing the story to tell the people, the clothes are too short Being cool doesn't affect work, and it's not a shame for women to love beauty and dress up.

If he is underestimated, it is because the other party's character is low and he is a bad embryo. Naturally, he has to stand up and scold him for not daring to do it again next time. If there are witnesses, it is the first offense, and he is not serious enough to repent and admit his mistakes. Lighter punishment, if sophistry——

Of course, none of the people who have been dragged into the yamen dare to slander and sophistry indiscriminately.

The husband and wife stood under the sun and read the entire residence newspaper in front of the yamen. After reading it, the miniature of Zhaozhou was in every way, and Sun Mu sighed: "It's good to have Ziqing in Zhaozhou."

That day because of him, Ziqing went to Zhaozhou. Naturally, the teacher Sun Mu felt guilty and blamed himself. Before Ziqing said it directly, they coaxed him to say that Ziqing was willing to come to Zhaozhou.

Sun Mu didn't know where Zhaozhou was. At that time, he was discouraged and hurried back to his hometown. It was only later that he thought about why Ziqing was transferred to Zhaozhou.Later, there were letters from Zizhi in Jingli first, and rites from Ziqing, and then letters from Zhaozhou, which were more frequent.

One letter in half a year, Ziqing wrote about things in Zhaozhou.

Sun Mu thought that Ziqing was trying to comfort him, but now it seems that Ziqing is telling the truth.

The carriage made noises, and as soon as it entered the alley, a maroon pony galloped up first. The rider on the horse was an eight or nine-year-old boy. Under the scorching sun, the mole at the end of the eye is more dazzling.

"Slow down, master."

"It's okay, Aji, you can go back quickly, it's too hot here, I know." Fu Bao had only run two steps before he was admonished, so he had to rein in his horse and waved to Aji behind, "You and I Dad said, I won’t be at home for dinner this afternoon, I’ll go to my seventeenth nephew’s.”

One school of uncles is prudent and dignified.

Bai Yin looked at the little brother on the horse, his cheerful and agile appearance made her memory a little hazy.Sun Mu recognized at a glance that this was Ziqing's only brother, Fubao, Li Zhaoxi.

He still hugged it back then.

After Li Zhaoxi finished talking with Aji, he is now at home during the summer vacation and goes out to play every day. Today, later today, Fu Bao pestered Dad to go out on horseback. Knowing that it was a long way, Dad would definitely refuse, so he just said I went to play at Seventeen's house, and instead of running, I just strolled around.

Li Zhouzhou agreed.

After leading the horse out of the house, he got carried away. He wanted to have a good time, but he was caught by Aji who came from behind. Li Zhaoxi would be a bit wronged, so he pretended to be calm, so he coaxed Aji to go back and not follow him. up.

Aggie is not leaving!

"Master, I'd better go with you. When I see you arrive, I'll report to the boss when I come back." Aji said.

Fubao: ...

"I ride a horse and you walk, how boring you are."

"Aggie is not boring."

Fubao: ...

Why is Aji getting more and more upright!

The two of them talked one word at a time, Fu Bao was thinking about how to coax Aji, and Aji was obediently guarding and never retreating half a step. While they were arguing, Fu Bao heard the sound of the carriage, and he heard the sound and looked over. Seeing that there were two carriages coming, his family was the only one in this alley, so they naturally came to look for his family.

Fu Bao looked over curiously, and felt familiar, blinking and thinking carefully.

Sun Mu smiled cheerfully and didn't speak, just let Fu Bao watch.

But when he smiled, Fu Bao remembered, and his small face soon showed a "wow" exclamation expression. He hurriedly got off the pony, and asked happily: "Are you the grandpa? The one who gave me the little rabbit lantern." Master?"

Sun Mu looked kindly, reached out and stroked the child's hair, and joked, "Why don't you call him Fourth Grandpa?"

This is for sure!

"Grandpa Master, I was young at the time, so I called out vaguely when I couldn't speak clearly. I am now eight years old and almost nine years old." Fu Bao was quite steady. Hello fourth grandpa."

Sun Mu laughed heartily when he heard this, and said, "Hi Fubao, this is your fourth grandma."

This is Fubao.Bai Yin went to look, and met Fu Bao's eyes, her slightly solemn expression had already melted before she knew it, becoming soft, and there was kindness in her eyes.

"Hello, fourth grandma." Fu Bao saluted and smiled.

Bai Yin felt a little love in her heart, she had only one brother in her life, and her grandchildren would have boys and girls, but she was a little disappointed that she didn't have a brother, and she felt good, if it wasn't good, it wouldn't Without pain, he would not have followed in Mingyuan's footsteps.

It's just that when I see Fu Bao now, the brother's mole is shining, and her family's Mingyuan's brother's mole is also at the end of the eye, but it happens to be in the opposite direction from Fu Bao, at the end of the eye on the other side.

The visitor at home is still such an important guest, Fu Bao immediately said to Aji: "Go to the Chen Mansion and tell Shi Qi that I won't go to play today, and make an appointment tomorrow, just tell them my fault, and bring them cold drinks tomorrow."

When Sun Mu heard this, he said, "A man keeps his word, so go."

"Fourth grandpa, I'm not a real man, but I'll go there in person, and I'll come back after I finish talking. I'll take you and fourth grandma home first."

"Your father is right. Sometimes you have big ideas. Fourth Grandpa Cheng will listen to you."

"Fourth grandpa, what else did my father say about me?" Don't speak ill of him!

Fu Bao's thoughts showed on his face.Although Bai Yin didn't speak, she was listening and watching, with a smile on her face and a sense of intimacy.

"Your father said that you are good at painting, so I came to see with your fourth grandma. Your fourth grandma is good at painting."

"Fourth grandma, how about painting? That would be great." Fu Bao was happy, but a little shy and said: "Fourth grandma, can you take a look at my paintings later? My father praised me for being spiritual, but other students Always make fun of me."

Fu Bao didn't even know how good his paintings were.

Fu Bao originally thought that his father was playing tricks on him, but what his father said made sense, and Fu Bao also thought so, but his classmates secretly laughed at him, and even the teacher frowned at his paintings and then praised: "The strength of ink and brushwork" good.

What does this mean?

Praise him for painting black?

Bai Yin's tone was also gentle, and she said: "Okay, I'll help Fu Bao take a look, what your father said should be correct, you are still a novice in painting, if you are not good enough, you can improve it, people who laugh at you are unreasonable."

Fubao's confidence has greatly increased, Grandma Si is right!

He just learned to paint.

After that, Li Mansion naturally started to move.Li Zhouzhou was supposed to take a nap, but just after dinner, he was about to take a nap, but he heard the servants say that Fubao came back with guests, and Aji ran fast, and added that they were called the fourth grandpa and the fourth grandma.

Li Zhouzhou was still a little confused at noon, thinking about the fourth grandpa and fourth grandma, maybe they were from Ningping's side--after thinking about it, he suddenly became energized and became sober.

It's Master Sun of Chuzhou, Xianggong's teacher.

Since it was time to get to the house, it would be too late to change clothes. Li Zhouzhou didn't care about it, so he put on his shoes quickly and went out to meet him in a hurry, while telling housekeeper Zhou that there should be hot water in the kitchen for food, new clothes and tea sets, and cleaning up courtyard--

"Wait, the yard is not in a hurry."

Ask the teachers and teachers about their preferences, and then make arrangements.Li Zhouzhou walked quickly, and happened to meet him at the gate leading from the front yard to the back yard. When Fubao saw Dad, he happily called Dad, and said, "Fourth Grandpa and Fourth Grandma have come to our house."

Sun Mu and Bai Yin had just learned that Gu Ziqing was not in the mansion now, and seeing Li Zhouzhou walking quickly all the way, they felt moved, knowing that this person valued them as a husband and wife, and immediately accepted some plans to live elsewhere.

Naturally, there are other reasons.Bai Yin wants to teach Fu Bao how to draw.

After exchanging pleasantries, he was ushered into the main room in the backyard and seated.On such a hot day, Mr. Sun and his wife came all the way. Li Zhouzhou knew that it must be hard work, so he didn't have many polite words. He arranged to check in first, and then rested, washed and ate.

As for the residence, Li Zhouzhou didn't say much, but Sun Mu asked if there was a yard in the front yard.

Of course there are.There is also a quiet and elegant place not far from Rong Ye's courtyard, but - Li Zhouzhou didn't hide it, and said truthfully: "Teacher, Rong Ye lives not far from this courtyard."

"Let's just leave it there, it's fine." Bai Yin said.

Sun Mu nodded, with a smile on his face, he really didn't care.

Li Zhouzhou personally led the way to the front yard, and now he has a rest in Xianggong's study, and Fu Bao also mentioned it, with bright eyes, he said to the fourth grandma: "My paintings are hung in Dad's study, and Dad even framed them. Look at it when you're tired."

Bai Yin became interested, thinking that Fu Bao's paintings must be good.

So the group went to the study.Gu Zhao was not at home, and the study room was cleaned every day, and there was nothing valuable in it. The messy notebooks written by Gu Zhao were still placed in a special 'safe', with a small lock on it.

At this moment, Fu Bao couldn't wait, pushed the door open, first invited the fourth grandpa and grandma to enter, then followed beside, crossed the threshold, and said expectantly in his voice: "It's on the front wall, facing the direction of my father's chair."

Sun Mu, who had already entered, heard the sound and looked at Bai Yin at the wall: ...

Li Zhouzhou: ...Help me, Mr.

It was useless to save lives. Master Gu, who was far away in Xinzhou, sneezed several times. He rubbed his nose. It is definitely impossible to catch a cold in this summer, so he muttered: "My family must be thinking about me every week." Several in a row.

Li Zhouzhou was thinking about Gu Zhao, thinking of coming to rescue him, while Sun Mu scolded this apprentice from the bottom of his heart, this Ziqing, this Ziqing——

Fu Bao looked at the fourth grandpa and grandma with sincerity and longing.

"Fourth grandma, how is my painting? Is it not very good?"

When Fu Bao said it was not good, Sun Mu scolded Gu Ziqing in his heart for being a bastard who lied to the children. Now that the children asked them with such eyes, what would his old wife say?How round?How to coax.

Not to mention, when it comes to painting, even my own grandson has no aura talent, and my old wife doesn't care to teach her, and she doesn't care too much about it. Now——

Bai Yin looked at the painting on the wall, then looked at Fu Bao who looked forward to her and sought affirmation, then looked at the painting on the wall again, thought for a while, and said, "It's quite similar."

Fubao:! ! !

The eyes are shining, the smile is reserved and proud.

He is really good at painting, I am praised!