Pan Jinlian's petty bourgeoisie life

Nonsense, I hurriedly said the advice that I had been thinking about for a long time yesterday:

"Students are unreliable. Brother, if you meet illiterate people in the future, you can get close to them, but you must not lean on those who have read books. Although they say that benevolence, righteousness and morality are for the sky, in their hearts they still hold those The way of Confucius and Mencius puts fame, fortune and future more important than anything else, and he doesn’t really think highly of people in the world, and the second brother is also a sensible person, just don’t let the hypocrisy blind your eyes, and then you will suffer.”

In a word, you can’t believe a bad boy who hasn’t read the book, and even a bad guy can’t believe it if you read the book——Pan Jinlian thought that Wu Song’s ending in the book turned out to be a shaved monk in the end, and she always felt uneasy Feeling good, I thought of a few words to remind him, don't be fooled by others, and be used as a stepping stone to climb the ladder.

"Sister, I remember this."

Wu Song didn't seem to understand the deep meaning in Pan Jinlian's words, so he just nodded slightly.

Pan Jinlian didn't want to say anything, just stood there and watched Wu Song and the two officials go further and further away, gradually disappearing along the official road, but the corners of her eyes were a little moist, people are not ruthless. .

17 move

Pan Jinlian's widow career officially began.

After seeing off Wu Song and returning home, sister-in-law Liu and Mrs. Wang helped clean up the house, and found someone to sell what could be sold inside. The rest of the tables, chairs, benches, wardrobes, wooden beds, pots, pans, rice noodles, and food were also given to Brother Yun. He moved to Mrs. Liu's house with a few men who did rough work on the street.Sister-in-law Liu's house is the same as her own, only slightly dilapidated, with two small bedrooms on the second floor, the main kitchen downstairs, and a small backyard filled with sundries.

Pan Jinlian and Sister-in-law Liu took up a room respectively, and moved their clothes cabinets and beds in. The kitchen was also arranged properly, and they gave a few rough men a few dozen dollars to drink. , and didn't care about making some meals for herself, but let the little girl Xing'er go to the corner restaurant to order a few small dishes, and bring them over to sit around a table with Wang Po Liu, Sister-in-law Liu, Xing'er, and Brother Yun. It's a housewarming banquet.Wang Po closed the tea house and came over with a bottle of good rice wine. The dim shadow of the oil lamp, the size of rice beans, shone on the ground, reflecting the figures of several people. It seemed real and unreal, as if in a dream.

"They are all good people. My family has just had a bad accident, and my uncle was assassinated and exiled. I have a few neighbors to take care of me. Otherwise, I'm afraid I won't be able to live in the future. I would like to thank you here first."

Although they borrowed Sister-in-law Liu's main room, it was Pan Jinlian who arranged the table, so she took the first place, and Sister-in-law Liu accompanied her.She picked up the wine cup and toasted the four of them with a smile. Everyone was busy comforting and persuading them, especially Mrs. Liu couldn't help but shed tears when she couldn't help recalling the memories of the past, and hurriedly replied with a forced smile:

"Where is it? As the saying goes, distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors. They are all suffering the same. We will naturally help if we can. We only hate that we are powerless. Girl, you just live here, as long as I have a mouthful of porridge to eat, you will be fine." You are hungry, besides, I think you are also calculating, you are much stronger than my sister, and I don’t have to worry about not being relied on in the future."

"That's right, my lady doesn't need to be sad, this housewarming is always a happy event, we still just eat wine."

Wang Po also laughed to make fun of it, and they drank all the wine in their hands, and Xing'er and Brother Yun were both children, they didn't know what they were talking about, they just buried their heads in grabbing chicken legs to eat.

The three grown-ups also looked at each other and smiled, and stopped talking about these things, and no matter what they did, they still had to live on.After drinking a jar of rice wine and eating almost all the food, someone on the street was beating the midnight drum before Wang Po took Xing'er to the house, her face was flushed, and she was still muttering something.

Pan Jinlian and Sister-in-law Liu were also half-drunk, and they staggered to the door, and took the rest of the meat to the old man in Brother Yun's house, then closed the door carefully, and went upstairs to sleep.I was thinking about moving to a new place and I was not used to falling asleep, but Pan Jinlian fell into a deep sleep with her head tilted on the bed. She woke up at noon the next day, got up yawning, and opened the window to see that the scenery was not the same as before. , just slowed down - things are different, this place is no longer the home that just arrived in the Song Dynasty.

"Wake up, I made some rice porridge, and I took some of the pickles you brought, it's still hot, come and eat."

Sister-in-law Liu got up early, saw Pan Jinlian going downstairs, and said to her with a smile.

"Thank you, sister-in-law. I knew that you were the only one who really cared about me. Although it's nothing to drink with this wine, it's just that it came later."

Pan Jinlian was not too polite, and replied with a smile, went downstairs to eat a bowl of white rice porridge with capers and garlic eggplant, and worked when she was full.There are indeed a lot of chores to deal with today, Pan Jinlian washed the rice bowl, and then she went to the Wangpo Tea House and asked her to find someone from the pawn shop, inspected the house, changed the locks, handed over the contract, and never had anything to do with her up.

After completing a set of procedures, Pan Jinlian watched the pawnbrokers lock the house and leave, feeling suddenly relieved, and she lived her own life from now on.

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After eating the stewed fish noodles with deep-fried meat and sauce specially made by Sister-in-law Liu for fear of hurting her feelings, Pan Jinlian sat on the small stool at the door, biting her chopsticks and was stupefied, then decided to take a few days off for herself to rest and rest. The days are so busy, finally there is a result, and it is time to stop and think about the future.

Pan Jinlian was looking forward to the future when she suddenly saw two horseshoes and then a pair of black boots in her line of sight. She looked up and saw that it was Chai Wu from the Chai family. asked:

"Isn't this the little brother of the Chai family? Why, did you run out of things for those few days?"

"Yes, yes, our shopkeeper knows about the affairs of the lady's house, let me come and see the lady."

Chai Wu pulled the horse, blushed and said in a low voice.Pan Jinlian stood up with a smile, let him sit on a pine chair at the door, brought out some tea, and hurriedly replied:

"Thank you shopkeepers. My place is fine. Even though the head of the family is gone and the neighbors will take care of me, and my uncle asked the acquaintances in the yamen to take care of him before he left. Well, say I thank him for his concern, and treat him to a drink some other day."

As long as he gives her money——Pan Jinlian thinks that the old man Chai De sent someone here with malicious intentions, but she is not afraid, the Chai family is different from Ximen Qing, Ximen Qing is a real scum, since the Chai family is The royal family first had to put on a facade, so she shouldn't dare to blatantly bully a widow like her.

Chai Wu sat on the chair stiffly, holding hot tea on his lap in his hand, without taking a sip:

"I will remember what the lady said. When I go back, I must tell the shopkeeper that there will be new wine tomorrow, and I will trouble the lady to go to the winery."

Pan Jinlian nodded, agreeing, but then she thought about it and felt that this was wrong. At the beginning, she thought that Wu Song and Wu Da could only go to the winery.People are always separated from each other, not to mention there is Ximen's family on the side, so it is better to be cautious.

"Brother Chai Wu, you also know my current situation. I'm afraid it's not suitable for me to go out. Tell me how much you plan to make in the shop. I'll give you the ingredients and let you take them back."

The last time I saw the size of the pot in the winery, Pan Jinlian knew it well. Although it was a bit risky for the Chai family to hold it, it was a stopgap measure.After finishing speaking, Pan Jinlian went straight into the room, took out the unused ingredients last time, and told Chai Wu in detail:

"This bag can make a big pot. Come to me when you run out. Besides, you go back and tell your shopkeeper that I don't have a head here to go out to do business. I'm afraid life will be a bit embarrassing. If he has enough money until this year's Mid-Autumn Festival Tie it to me once before and after, otherwise everyone will suffer if there is no money to buy ingredients."

Chai Wu took the paper bag, carefully put it in his cuff, and nodded to take down what Pan Jinlian said.Pan Jinlian sent him to the entrance of the alley, turned around and came back, and saw Mrs. Liu standing at the door and looking at her.

"what happened?"

"It's okay, I see if Wang Po is in the store, the new handkerchief is embroidered and is about to be delivered to her."

Sister-in-law Liu's face flushed suddenly, she lowered her head and went to Wang Po's tea house.Pan Jinlian was a little baffled, then she thought about it, sister-in-law Liu saw her being with a young man, she was a bit taboo, in her eyes, her husband had just died, and she should mourn and cry all day long - imagine Seeing that situation, Pan Jinlian got goose bumps all over her body.

Rubbing her arms, Pan Jinlian felt that the weather was starting to turn cold. According to the days, it was almost Mid-Autumn Festival. The small autumn wind in the morning and evening was a bit unbearable. It seemed that it was time to prepare thick clothes.

Slowly walking into the door of the house, Liu's sister-in-law also came back after delivering the handkerchiefs. Both of them were women, and neither of them ate much, but Pan Jinlian usually had a petty bourgeoisie together, so she made some snacks and fruit tea by herself. It was afternoon tea for pastime, and Mrs. Liu followed suit, and the two of them sat at the table in the main room and chatted about the daily routine while drinking tea leisurely.

"It's time to prepare winter clothes, but our widow's family didn't celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, so we lived as usual, reunion festival, reunion festival, how can we be reunited again?"

"Not at all, I have been busy for half a year, and the holidays are just poor and happy, what kind of group