When Shen Yinxiao returned, he did not tell Father Shen and Mother Shen what happened in the government office.
"Did you borrow it?"
She opened the door and Mother Shen stood up.
She shook her head: "Soon."
Soon.
A delaying tactic that deceives oneself and others.
Mother Shen and Father Shen breathed a sigh of relief.
Shen Yinxiao's heart was still hanging on her head. It was getting dark, and the debtors had to go back to eat.
I won't be back until tomorrow.
Eat enough first before talking today.
I just don’t know if I can sleep or not.
"Go cook." Father Shen sighed, "Let's see what Dalang says."
"Yeah." Mother Shen nodded.
Get up and make a fire to cook.
Shen Yinxiao dragged his somewhat heavy legs over to help, collecting firewood, making a fire, and washing vegetables.
The green vegetable leaves are soaked in the water, cool and ice-cold.
There is a lingering greasy smell on the vegetable washing basin.
She smelled her hand.
It also seems to have a greasy smell.
The greasy smell mixed with the scent of jasmine, blending into a complex, incongruous smell.
It was the jasmine balm given to her by Wei Cheng, a special tribute from Youzhou to the royal family.
Wei Cheng casually gave her one.
The fragrance is light, not pungent, and has a long-lasting fragrance. The faint fragrance lingers on the tip of the nose. Wei Cheng leisurely circles her hair. He once said that this is called a subtle fragrance.
Elegant and charming.
This taste shouldn't be better than it is in her life now.
Firewood, rice, oil and salt will wear away all spiritual energy in a person, including such unique fragrance.
She frowned and rubbed the residual fragrance on her fingertips with water.
She is growing up.
She is not the fourteen-year-old girl who still yearned for the noble young master Fengguan Xiapei Shili Hongzhuang to marry her.
Nineteen-year-old Shen Yinxiao should learn to accept the facts.
Halfway through the meal, just as the vegetables were thrown into the pot, there was a knock on the door.
She wiped her hands on her apron.
Open the door.
Stunned.
It's the head of the village and a few neighbors.
Father Shen heard the noise and came out.
His face turned pale instantly.
"A few more days of grace... We are planning..." Father Shen said.
Shen Yinxiao clenched his hands.
The noise in the kitchen also stopped.
Mother Shen was too nervous to speak out.
The aroma of the food wafted over, and it was the aroma of green vegetables and radishes.
The manager waved his hands hurriedly: "No, no, that's not what we came to talk about. There's no need to pay so much. After we found out, it's all a misunderstanding."
Father Shen and Mother Shen were stunned.
"The pigsty is broken. It was originally in disrepair. The owner of the pigsty failed to repair it in time. This is the main reason. The incident happened suddenly today, and it is only now clear. So the big head should be whoever belongs to the pigsty comes out."
Father Shen twitched the corner of his mouth, and his withered face became more vivid.
"As for compensation." Li Chang smiled and wiped the sweat from his forehead.
Before dinner, the adults from above hurriedly called him over.
After half an hour of training, I finally understood.
He looked calmly at the small courtyard and the girl standing beside it.
He said respectfully: "Swine fever does exist, but it has not been passed on to the chickens and ducks of Li Tieniu's family, so the sum he asked for does not count. There are a total of twelve chickens and ducks eaten by the pigs. According to the market price, the total is 480 yuan." , the total loss of the trampled fields was thirty-five taels, the Shen family would pay fifteen taels, and the various compensation officials would share some, and they thought about the remaining eight taels, three hundred and sixty taels, and calculated it together. ”
Father Shen was stunned at first.
Slowly, his expression became completely alive.
"It's all as it should be..."
"It's all because the governor's office is considerate of the people's sentiments..."
"I'm not going to eat, I've already eaten..."
Father Shen sent a few people away, then came back and closed the door, with a serious face: "Tomorrow, I want to reward Ichiban Dalang well. I will personally invite him over for a drink."
Mother Shen nodded in agreement.
——
Li Youren didn't come, but he sent a child.
The four or five-year-old child raised her head and called her sister in a sweet voice.
Shen's mother laughed out loud after hearing this, and coaxed him with a kind face: "I have been good for a long time, but I can't call her sister. I am too senior, so I have to call him aunt."
"But...she is obviously a good-looking sister..." His eyes widened.
"From now on, you have to call this aunt mother. She is going to marry your father, so of course she has to call her aunt!" Mother Shen said.
Shen Yinxiao frowned.
You are still so young, what are you talking about?
and……
Looking at the half-grown child in front of me, my head started to hurt when I thought about him calling me mother.
After Shen's mother left, Shen Yinxiao touched his head and said, "You can call me sister from now on. My sister likes to call me that all the time."
Having been short-handed and short-footed for a long time, I got up and opened my eyes as round as grapes, "Okay, sister."
Feeling slightly sour, she touched his messy hair and decided not to talk to him about it until Li You came back. She took a comb and helped him comb his bun.
His hair was combed much neatly, and he looked more alert and energetic. After tidying up, Shen Yinxiao took Chang Nian to the store. Along the way to the store, he looked around, touching here and there. , Shen Yinxiao made him a bowl of fermented tofu pudding with fermented rice and asked him to sit at the table and eat it. Don't run around and be busy in the store.
Occasionally, acquaintances come to the store and when they see the little baby sitting on the stool, they wonder whose child it is.
Yun Xian sat down with great interest, pinched his long-standing face, and asked in a coy voice: "Little brother, whose child are you from? Are you from the Shen family?"
"No, no! My surname is Li!"
He has been puffing out his cheeks in protest for many years.
Yunxian looked up at Shen Yinxiao in surprise.
"My...friend's." Shen Yinxiao replied.
Yunxian nodded thoughtfully, paid the money, and took the tofu pudding: "I have been thinking about eating your tofu pudding these days. Selling tofu pudding is very hard, it must be harder than when you played the piano at our place before. "
"It's okay, let's eat for a while." Shen Yinxiao smiled faintly, remembering the day when she saw Yun Xian throwing herself into Wei Cheng's arms at the tea shop, her hand shook, and the tofu pudding in the spoon in her hand fell back into the bucket.
She wanted to ask, but couldn't.
Yunxian didn't pay attention to her little moves, and took a sip of bean curd by himself, shaking his head: "I have met a difficult customer these days. He is cold and cold, and he always makes faces. He is really like the king of hell."
Shen Yinxiao asked casually: "Who is it?"
"Who else can it be? Of course it's the one from the Wei family."
Shen Yinxiao paused: "Which Wei family?"
"There is no other Wei family in Youzhou. Naturally, he is the only son of the governor of Youzhou."
"oh."
Shen Yinxiao put down the wooden spoon in his hand, picked up the wooden pestle beside him, and started pounding the fruits, looking very busy.
"He...covered you?"
She spoke with some shame.
She had never seen anything in Cuihua Tower. No matter how explicit the words were, she had often heard those dignitaries talk about it. But at this moment, her face was burning. Thinking of Chang Nian still being there, she ordered Chang Nian: " For many years, you go to the backyard and help your sister see if the beans are ground."
Chang Nian jumped off the stool and responded, "Okay."
Yun Xian continued: "How can I be so lucky? But he is generous, and one reward is a gold hairpin."
Shen Yinxiao's heart stung slightly and she couldn't help but take a breath.
He was generous to her, and he always had gold hairpins and gold hairpins whenever he made a move.
"These days, I just watch him drink and sometimes ask us to sit with him, but he doesn't really marry anyone. I am the new top star after all. Fortunately, he doesn't marry anyone. If he did, I would really I’m too embarrassed to stand in Cuihua Building anymore.”
"I heard from the gentlemen who are with him that he will go to Chang'an to become an official in the future. Yin Xiao, tell me, what kind of official will he be able to do after he goes to Chang'an?"
Yunxian's eyes were full of imagination, and he held his chin and murmured: "If only you could like me and help me redeem my life, I will definitely be his concubine and follow him. I will probably not be able to endure hardships in the future. arrive."
"Besides, I heard that he seems to have a fiancée. She must be a girl from a noble family. Not like us, bah bah bah, my status can't compare."
Shen Yinxiao said dryly: "I don't know."
Her eyes were a little sore and she rubbed them, preparing to call Chang Nian in.
"Long years——"
She called several times, but no one answered.
She became alert and got up to look for him. The backyard was empty. Her scalp went numb for a moment. She pulled Yunxian in panic and asked her, "Where is the child? Where did you see him go?"
Yunxian was also dumbfounded: "I don't know, you and I were talking just now. I seemed to see him going out with a rattle."
"It should be fine. The neighbors all know each other, so it shouldn't be lost, right?"
Seeing her face turn pale and she asked Father Shen to keep an eye on the store, she rushed out to look for her, with Yun Xian holding up her skirt and following behind her.
Shen Yinxiao didn't dare to be careless. This was not her own child. She couldn't bear the responsibility for losing it. Even if she didn't eat or drink, she had to find the child. She asked the passers-by one by one, and finally a vegetable seller finally Said something useful.
"Auntie, have you seen such a tall and fat child?" Shen Yinxiao gestured with his hands.
"What?" The aunt with a little deaf ears repeated with her mouth open and her ears tilted, "Little dwarf?"
"Child!" Shen Yinxiao shouted anxiously.
"A child!" The aunt suddenly realized, "There seems to be one who said he wanted to find his father and went to Tongwen Hall..."
Shen Yinxiao's expression changed, she picked up her skirt and ran eastward.
