sheepskin for melon

Red, white, and purple chrysanthemums climbed all over the small soil slope. At the foot of the slope was a large green melon field, and at the top of the slope was a small two-room house. This was Chili's original home.

When Chi Li came home, Chi's father was on the phone excitedly, while Chi's mother was anxiously standing beside him with a spatula to listen.

"Boss Li, didn't we cooperate well before? What's wrong?"

"Who doesn't know now, in order to let your children live a better life, your family secretly replaced the richest man's child, knowing that it is your watermelon, who wants to buy it."

"Boss Li, don't talk nonsense. When did we secretly switch children? We only found out recently!"

"Don't quibble, it has already been exposed on the Internet. You used to go to Zhou's house to look after the child. If it wasn't on purpose, how would you know where your son is?"

"I'm just a melon seller. Boss Zhou bought my melons and I'll give them away. How could such a coincidence happen!"

"Do you think I will believe it? Even if I believe it, can the public believe it? Either you can lower the price of melons, or you can get out, I don't want to be dragged down by you." After finishing speaking, I hung up the phone.

Chi's father pinched the phone with his chest heaving, and Chi's mother also stomped her feet worryingly: "Which wicked rumor is it that we deliberately changed the child for money, even if our family is poor, we will not give our son to others to raise! Now Everyone believed it, supermarkets big and small don’t want our melons, what can we do!”

The couple looked sad, turned around and saw Chi Li, and immediately froze in place. They didn't know how to get along with this strange son, so they could only stammer: "No, son, we really don't have... "

"I know."

Chi Li's expression was very cold: "Everyone in the Zhou family likes to call me broom star, because their business just went bankrupt when I was born. Since they were bankrupt at that time, where did they get the money to make people plot?"

"What, they were bankrupt then?"

Mother Chi chewed on these words, her body gradually trembling.

Back then, their life was okay. When the construction industry was the most prosperous, the couple went to the city together to make exterior wall insulation for others. Because of their hard work, they soon had a house and a store.

I thought life would get better and better in the future, but I didn't expect that the child they gave birth to was born with a congenital disease. In order to treat the child, they sold all their belongings and were heavily in debt. They finally raised the child, and suddenly got the news, The child hugged the Zhou family wrong!

The Zhou family is not only the richest man in the city, but also famous all over the country. After the news came out, others said that their biological son was lucky, and that he had been a rich young master for so many years in vain.

Thinking about the hardships the adopted son suffered in their own family and the life he should have had, the Chi family couple also consciously couldn't hold their heads up and dared not argue.

But now Chili's words made their minds suddenly thunder. If the Zhou family had gone bankrupt, if they had known that the child was sick, who on earth changed the child on purpose?

Chi Mu trembled angrily: "How can this be... How can they do this! I want to ask them to judge!"

Chi's father stopped Chi's mother: "Forget it, what kind of people are the Zhou family, what should we fight with them!"

After calming down, Mother Chi recognized the reality, and choked up, "Then what should we do, the Zhou family doesn't intend to let us go now, no one buys our melons, so we will lose everything this year!"

Looking at a melon field, Father Chi also felt worried, but he still insisted: "It turns out that I have survived so many debts. It doesn't make sense that the days are passing by and I will go back. I will look for other merchants. Do you believe such a good watermelon?" If people want it, if it doesn’t work, sell it cheap, so it won’t rot in the ground.”

"The most important thing is that our family is doing well, and we will have a good life in the future!"

Mother Chi hugged Chi Li with tears streaming down her face. It was the first time that Chi Li was hugged so intimately, and she was stunned.

But this hug was soft and warm, so even though every cell in his body was clamoring to resist, Chi Li still didn't push her away in the end.

It turns out that he also has a pair of parents who can love him. He doesn't like to see them cry, because someone else should cry.

At night, Chi Li lay alone in his hut, unable to fall asleep.

It happened to be the fifteenth day, the moonlight penetrated the window, bright as day, Chi Li simply opened his eyes, pushed the door and went out.

The ancestor of the Chi family was a big landlord, who was handed out separately during the land reform, so the Chi family did not suffer from anyone in the village, and it was very quiet.

Chi Li's head was throbbing. He hadn't closed his eyes since he was awakened by a lingering nightmare for many years the day before yesterday. The bluntness caused by insomnia and the complicated emotions revealed by his life experience made him irritable and inexplicable. The quieter he was, the more he had something Arching outwards with teeth and claws.

Walking aimlessly into the ground, the stretch of melon fields looked like undulating green waves under the moonlight, but it couldn't arouse the ripples in Chi Li's heart. Suddenly, his eyes froze.

The full moon just in the sky sprinkled a vertical beam of light, and a figure slowly emerged in the cold moonlight.

The man was wearing a silver-gray cloak that he had only seen in ancient TV dramas, and his long ink-like hair hung down like a waterfall. From the angle of the pond gravel, he could see his delicate and translucent side face like jade, and his trembling like butterfly wings. eyelash feathers.

Chi Li looked at the uninvited guest in silence, and when he saw the man squatting down to pick up a melon, he finally had a guess——

Someone came to his house to steal melons in a cosplay suit?

……

Tan Yushu walked out of the official office, and the servant who had been waiting for a long time came over with the mule cart. Seeing his master's lips were pale from cold, and his expression was bleak, he immediately handed over the stove, covered his ears and stomped his feet: "Master, are you done? It's too cold today, get in the car, let's go back!"

Tan Yushu's mind was pulled back, he chuckled and said "hmm", then changed his words: "The journey is not far away, I want to take a walk by myself, you go back first."

The servant stopped immediately: "Master, stop joking. If I dare to let you go back in this cold weather, the old lady will let me go out. Please do me a favor, poor little one!"

"I'll give you twenty Wen. You can eat whatever you want. When the time comes, you'll be back just in time. How could Madam know?"

Twenty Wen... Not only can I get a big bowl of hot, gurgling, and steaming mutton noodle soup, but I can also have a lot of private money left over. The servant couldn't help swallowing, but he still groaned: "Master, Madam, don't worry about it." You're so tight, it's almost the middle of the month, do you still have twenty coins?"

"Huh~"

Seeing him take the bait, Tan Yushu took out his purse: "No matter how poor your master is, I can't fail to spend twenty cash, right? Look..."

Three copper coins rolled out of the palm of his hand, Tan Yushu was silent for a while, then shook again, it was still three.

……

"Three words..."

"Master, hurry up and get in the car!" The boy refused him righteously.

Even if there are only seven of them, it's fine to let him eat a bowl of noodles!It's not worthwhile to take the risk of being hit for the sake of three eldest sons!

Tan Yushu: ...

Put the three copper plates back one by one, get into the car resentfully, and hold the shriveled purse and fall into deep thought:

How did the money disappear?

The wheels were grunting on the bluestone road, the voices of people gradually became louder, and the cries of peddlers could be heard endlessly. Tan Yushu was attracted and opened the curtain.

Yongjing has always been prosperous, and there are small vendors everywhere on the street, and the white air exhaled from their mouths is continuous.Seeing Tan Yushu's mule cart passing by, they guessed that there were probably rich people inside, and they shouted even louder.

Seeing him lift the curtain of the car, a little girl with double buns and cheeks that were cracked by the cold immediately picked up a handful of chestnuts and chased his car: "My lord, fried chestnuts that are fragrant and crispy only cost three pennies for a big handful." !"

Sanwen?What a coincidence.

Forget it, anyway, it's almost the same if you have three pennies left or nothing left. Tan Yushu immediately stretched out his hand out of the sedan chair and said, "Give me fried chestnuts for three pennies." He also spent the last of the money.

Just like that, Tan Yushu, who was penniless, sat in the car and broke chestnuts, and arrived home when the chestnuts were finished.

The real estate in Yongjing was too expensive, and Tan Yushu's salary could not afford it. Fortunately, Tan Yushu's maternal ancestral family was relatively well-off, so he bought a nice house in the suburbs. Except for being remote, there was nothing wrong with it.

When I got out of the car, I heard female voices yelling angrily from inside, and a few servants were shivering at the door.

Tan Yushu grabbed one of them and asked in a low voice, "What's the matter?"

Seeing that it was him, the boy immediately jumped up: "Master, you are back!" Then he hesitated and said: "Madam may... scold that ugly cat..."

Tan Yushu: ...

Looking at this posture, he always felt that it was him that her mother wanted to scold.

Trembling in, she lowered her head and called out, "Mother."

There was a beautiful woman standing in the courtyard, pointing at the white cat on the roof and cursing. The white cat bowed and stared down, not daring to vent its breath. When it saw Tan Yushu coming in, it sneaked into the back of the room.

But when she saw Tan Yushu, his mother really didn't want to scold the cat anymore. She put her hand on her waist and said in a low voice, "Hey, isn't this General Tan? Your old man is back?"

Tan Yushu kept smiling: "Mom, who made you so angry, it's freezing, let's go back to the house and talk."

No matter what he said, he pushed his mother into the house, along the way there were still talking and laughing, mothers were kind and filial, as soon as they entered the house and opened the door, Tan's mother immediately raised her eyebrows and shouted angrily: "Kneel down!"

A habit developed over the years, Tan Yushu knelt down in front of his father's spirit with a "plop" without saying a word, without hesitation.

Mother Tan cried and cursed while holding the spirit tablet, Tan Yushu listened obediently, and finally understood what was going on.

It turned out that his uncle's child had come to Beijing to be an official, and his aunt came to sit here for a while, and then something made his mother upset.

Tan Yushu persuaded: "Mother, don't be angry, it's a good thing for another member of the family to become an official."

Tan's mother raised her eyebrows and poked him on the forehead: "What do you know, that woman came to show off. At first she showed off that she had more sons than mine, and now she comes to show that his son is better than mine. It's a joke, His son only earned a fame at the age of 33, and my son Seventeen is the third flower hand-picked by His Majesty, what a beauty, how can she compare with my son!"

Tan Yushu: ...

I'm praising him now, but can I not be scolded for a while?

Unexpectedly, Tan's mother quickly transferred her anger, pointed at his nose and scolded: "But you are worthless, you don't go on a good road, you have to go on your old road! These days, you are not a military officer, you A Tanhua from the scriptures went to the border to become some kind of general, now it’s all right, all cats and dogs can show off their power in front of me, why is my life so hard!"

The more she talked, the more sad she became. Tan's mother was holding the memorial tablet and crying loudly: "You bloody ghost, did you see how your son is angry with me, woo woo woo!"

Tan Yushu: ...

Tan's mother howled for a while, and seeing Tan Yushu kneeling there silently, she felt bored, stood up and shook her handkerchief: "Forget it, it's useless to tell you, three poles can't make a fart, and you Like that damn father, eat!"

Tan Yushu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, it seems that today's scolding has survived.

Seeing that his mother had already wiped away the non-existent tears on her face with a handkerchief, Tan Yushu hurriedly stood up and showed courtesy: "Mother, don't worry, the child will definitely regret it in the future, and I will never let you down."

"Humph."

"It's mother...can you give me some money?"

Mother Tan: ...

"You little bastard! I don't see how much you get back for your monthly salary, but you are very active in asking for money. Where did you spend the money? Tell me honestly!"

Tan Yushu hugged her head: "Mom, this time it's really serious!"

"Fart! Which time are you not serious!"

"Three days later, His Majesty will celebrate the birthday of Xinna Lu Meiren in the Changchun Garden. Now the harem belongs to Lu Meiren who is the most favored. If I can give a gift that suits my heart to please the empress, I will definitely be able to stay in the capital to find a wife." Good job."

Mother Tan was taken aback, and looked at him in disbelief: "What did you just say, do you want to stay in the capital?"

Tan Yushu finally escaped from his mother's beating like a storm, and he let out a long sigh of relief: "Yes mother, I want to stay in the capital."

Tan's mother suddenly became excited, rubbed the corner of her clothes, and murmured excitedly: "Okay! Okay! Okay! This is really a serious business!"

He happily went to the back room, pried open a brick crack in a very secret place, and dug out a pottery urn.

He untied the cloth seal, took out a few hanging copper coins, touched the bottom of the urn, and took out several gold ingots of different sizes.

Mother Tan carefully placed the gold in the handkerchief, and gritted her teeth: "I'll go to Jin Yuxuan to find the best goldsmith, let him make a pair of bracelets and hairpins, and then go to the shop to get the best goldsmith this year." Silk, you can take it when the time comes."

Tan Yushu was very moved: "Thank you, mother."

However, he hesitated: "I just don't know if Lu Meiren is used to seeing rare treasures in the palace, whether she still takes these gold and silver vulgar objects in her eyes..."

"that's true……"

Thinking of this, Tan's mother immediately poked him on the forehead angrily: "Then if you don't tell me earlier, I will let my natal brother think of a way, what else can I do now!"

While feeling melancholy, Mother Tan suddenly thought of something, and a smile appeared on the corner of her lips: "Yulang, you also manage an army of one hundred thousand at the border, so you didn't... um~" After saying that, she put on a smile that you understand and I understand. gesture.

Tan Yushu pondered: "Mother, there really are."

"What? What? Tell Mom quickly."

Tan Yushu looked left and right, leaned on his mother's ear and said softly, "When I came back, I brought back a load of good lamb skins, and now they are selling for a good price."

Mother Tan: ...

"roll."

Standing up in disgust, sure enough, his son can't be counted on at all!

In the next few days, the two mothers were rushing about presents, but no matter what they gave, they were almost meaningless.

On the night before the banquet, Tan Yushu tossed and turned on the couch, unable to fall asleep.

It coincided with the full fifteenth month, and the moonlight entered the house. Tan Yushu simply put on his clothes and walked into the backyard along the back door.

There was no sound, there was only a round of lonely moon in the sky, Tan Yushu was infatuated with the lonely moon for a while, stretched out his hand as if to hold the moonlight in his hand, and said with a smile in his eyes: "The bright moon has no companion, why don't you come into my arms? "

Before the words fell, the full moon rose into the sky, and it actually sprinkled a full moon, like smoke and mist. Tan Yushu slowly widened his eyes, but he couldn't see what was in front of him. When his vision became clear, a series of insects rang in his ears The frogs are screaming, and there are endless melon fields under their feet, shining softly in the moonlight.

Tan Yushu: ...

melon?

Staring blankly into the distance, shaking his head, could it be that he was too sleepy and had hallucinations?

He knelt down and picked up a melon for a closer look. The touch in his hand was unbelievable. Just when his pupils were slightly dilated in shock, a deep voice rang in his ears.

"Hey, are you trying to steal my melon?"