The food was brought over by my concubine Han Qing.
A large bowl of rice, a braised cabbage, and two eggs. It was steaming hot with a little oil and water. Just looking at it was enough to make Zhang Zhou drool.
But after Zhang Zhou moved his chopsticks, two pairs of big eyes stared at him, and Zhang Zhou couldn't bear to touch the bowl of scrambled eggs.
"You two, each half, bring your own bowl!"
As soon as Zhang Zhou finished speaking, his eldest son and youngest daughter rushed into the house, took out their bowls, and waited to receive their food.
Zhang Zhou could only bear the pain and split the eggs in the bowl into two, half for his son and half for his daughter.
The two little guys looked at the eggs in the bowl with a look of longing.
"As an elder brother, you have to let your sister live and give some of it to your sister."
In my memory, as a father, he lacked education for himself, and he never understood the current situation and entered this kind of poor life of civilians.
Zhang Zhou felt that it was time to teach his children.
His son Zhang Jun looked at the eggs in his bowl, and then looked at the eggs in his sister Suisui's bowl. It seemed that there were not as many eggs in his bowl as his sister's. But his father was very dignified today. Even if he was reluctant to part with it, he would still listen to his father. , put a piece of egg in his bowl into his sister's bowl.
"Okay, hurry up and eat. After you finish eating, I will teach you your homework."
Zhang Zhou stuffed the remaining egg crumbs in the bowl into his mouth while still educating the child on the other side.
In front of the stove, his wife Jiang Pingyu and his concubine Han Qing looked at each other. They seemed to feel that their husbands were different from before.
After entering Gongyuan once, it seems completely different from before when I come out.
He seems to be more responsible.
…
…
Finally the exciting moment of the night arrived.
The so-called fullness, warmth and lust.
Just after the Mid-Autumn Festival, Zhang Zhou looked at the bright moonlight outside and thought to himself that this was really a beautiful night.
The house in the small courtyard has a hall in the middle with a stove inside. There is a room in the east and west. The wife and children live in the east, and the concubine lives in the west.
Southerners sleep on couches instead of kangs. The rooms are small but well-equipped.
People these days pay attention to sunrise and sunset. Zhang Zhou lamented that there was no nightlife. After he blew out the only tung oil lamp in the house, he tiptoed into the east room. His wife and son seemed to have fallen asleep. Then, Zhang Zhou lay down and hugged his beloved wife from behind.
Jiang Pingyu did not sleep. She was hugged by her husband and did not look back.
Only then did Zhang Zhou realize that his wife was sobbing secretly.
"Madam, what's wrong with you?" Zhang Zhou suddenly lost his interest.
Jiang Pingyu was afraid of waking up her son, so she whispered: "I miss my father. I wonder how his health is now."
Zhang Zhou was embarrassed.
Jiang Pingyu was born into a rich family. She originally thought she was marrying the right man. However, her father-in-law passed away just after she got married. Her husband and his brothers separated and her husband spent a lot of time and alcohol. In the past few years, she had lost all her family property and ended up in such a land. She I was too embarrassed to go back to see my father and family.
"I'll take you back to see her when I have time." Zhang Zhou just comforted his wife with modern ideas.
But in this era, husbands cannot take their wives back to their parents' homes at will.
Jiang Pingyu said: "Husband, if you have time, go and see your father. Maybe he will remember our old relationship and solve our urgent need."
This is……
Want me to go to my father-in-law's house to borrow money?
As a man, even if you are so messed up that you can't open the pot, do you have the nerve to ask your father-in-law for charity?
Jiang Pingyu added: "I have done some embroidery work. When my husband goes to see his father, please remember to hand it over. Just say that I can't always stay by his side from now on."
Zhang Zhou could tell that his wife was trying to help him, a grown man, step down.
It didn't sound good to come to the house to borrow money, so I just said I was going to visit and show my filial piety to my wife. But the house was like this and I couldn't come up with a decent gift, so I could only do some embroidery work and send it to her.
"Look back."
Zhang Zhou really didn't know what to say.
It was very depressing, but it was not caused by him.
If it had always been me, I would never let such a thing happen.
"Husband, I am inconvenient today. You can go find your sister. She has recently taken out all the money in the piggy bank for family matters. She has always been the most distressed."
Jiang Pingyu's words completely extinguished Zhang Zhou's thoughts.
yes.
It's all like this. Today, my wife was almost kidnapped to pay off a debt. After such a big setback, why do you still have the nerve to come and ask for sex?
Although buying and selling people was illegal in the Ming Dynasty, this kind of thing could not be banned among the people. Even the imperial court had a rule that officials would be punished and their families would be punished, and the people would follow it.
Then there is the "inconvenience" aspect, which is indeed a major obstacle for couples to enhance their relationship.
…
Zhang Zhou came out of the east room with a disgraced face.
If the east side fails, there is still the west side.
He entered the west room again.
The little daughter here is sleeping peacefully, while Han Qing is sitting on the edge of the couch, holding a piggy bank in his hand, feeling sad even if he doesn't shed tears.
Zhang Zhou knew that his concubine had no other hobbies except saving money.
Perhaps it was because Han Qing came from a small family and valued money very much. She originally became Zhang Zhou's concubine just to have a stable life. Who would have thought that just a few years later... she got so bad that she asked her to use her savings? to fill the space for home use.
Just like that, there weren't even a few coppers left in the piggy bank.
"Qing'er, are you okay?"
Zhang Zhou thought about it for a while. If his wife hit a wall, the concubine would be attached to him anyway. She should have no reason to kick him out of the house, right?
Han Qing pursed her lips and almost cried.
Obviously what happened during the day had a great impact on her. She had begged Zhang Zhou several times before, begging Zhang Zhou not to sell her. After all, a concubine had no status in the family.
If Zhang Zhou wants to save, the only way he can do it is to reduce the size of his family, then as a redundant person, she is likely to...
Zhang Zhou went over to hug Han Qing and said with a manly spirit: "Don't worry, Qing'er, I will take good care of you mother and daughter, and I will do everything possible to let you live a good life again."
"Um."
"I will go out to do a job tomorrow and let my family have enough food first."
"Um."
"Qing'er, you see I'm also very sleepy, isn't it..."
As Zhang Zhou said this, he was about to take off his shoes and get on the bed. It was also time to enjoy the tenderness.
Han Qing was moved, but she had not been moved to her head yet: "Master, I am inconvenient today, you should go find my wife."
"ah?"
Are you kidding me?
One is inconvenient and the other is inconvenient?
Zhang Zhouzheng wanted to say, are you two working together to punish me? It means that if I don’t make progress, you two won’t do anything with me, right?
But when he thought about it again, he couldn't help but slap his forehead.
Pig brain.
This is clearly the girls' dormitory effect. Two women live together. It's inconvenient for one, but it's strange that it is convenient for the other.
never mind.
If it's inconvenient, it's not convenient. Now I just want to find a place to sleep well.
Then Han Qing poured a basin of cold water on Zhang Zhou's head: "Didn't I say before that if you want to study seriously, you should always sleep in the living room? The slave family has been sorted out by the master a long time ago."
What does it mean?
Didn't it mean that the three monks had no water to drink? I'm here to enjoy the blessings of the whole family. Even if you don't give it to me, why are you forcing me to sleep in the living room?
"master……"
Han Qing blinked her big eyes like her daughter Suisui's and looked at him pitifully. This look... really made people's hearts melt.
Zhang Zhou originally wanted to be tough, but when he thought about the suffering he had brought to his family, he was too embarrassed to stay here any longer.
If you sleep in the living room, just sleep in the living room.
Zhang Zhou came out of the west room and saw that there was indeed a narrow canopy bed made of wooden planks in the living room. Although the conditions were better than those in Gongyuan, they were not much better. Even sleeping on wooden planks, would it be better for the back? But the problem is, if I only have a thin mattress, what should I cover myself with at night? Are you going to let me sleep on this mattress?
Zhang Zhou was just thinking when the curtain in the east room opened and his eldest son Zhang Jun came out holding a quilt.
"What are you doing?" Zhang Zhou glared over.
Even his wife knows about his feelings, so he will definitely hit a wall with his concubine? Have you prepared this for him a long time ago?
And you said you didn’t have any premeditation?
Zhang Jundao: "Dad, mother said, I'm afraid you'll freeze at night, so I'll bring you a quilt. Dad remember to wash your feet, it stinks!"
Little bastard, your father and I are the ones who have been in Gongyuan for eight days. Are we making fun of your father?
But it seems...
It's time to wash up.
If the conditions are not good, just make do with it, since there are no outsiders in the yard anyway.
Zhang Zhouzhou took the quilt and put it on his temporary bed. Before his son was about to enter the house, he said with a straight face: "Get up when the rooster crows tomorrow morning. Dad will take you out to learn a lot. If you dare to stay in bed, I will beat you with a ruler." Your ass!”
My son has a habit of being lazy in bed. After all, he was a young man in the first few years and had many physical problems.
When Zhang Jun heard this, he touched his butt and went back to the east room.
