Republic of China small businessman

Xie Jing didn't know what happened in the White Mansion here. After he was sent home by Zhang Huwei, he stayed with Grandma Kou all the time.

He brought back two envelopes of silver dollars this time, each with a hundred pieces, sealed securely with red paper, unpacked and scattered in a bright pile on the small kang.

Grandma Kou saw it suddenly and was startled: "Where did this come from?"

Xie Jing said: "I earned it, grandma, and I'll give it to you."

Grandma Kou refused to accept, "It's too much, you didn't suffer any trouble over there, did you?"

Xie Jing shook his head, "No, grandma, I'm with Jiu Ye now, that is, the Jiu Ye who came from the provincial mansion. I was able to do things with him before, and these are all rewarded by Jiu Ye and the Bai family."

"Jing'er, if they make you do something bad, let's refund the money. Grandma has already saved more than one silver dollar these days, and if I collect some more at the time, I can redeem you..."

Xie Jing sat over and put her arms around her shoulders and laughed for a while, coaxing her: "Grandma, it's really okay, I went to Heihe Shop to follow Master Jiu, these are my rewards."

Grandma Kou was taken aback, and turned to look at him: "Heihe? I heard that there were beards growing in Heihe in the past two days, and many people died. Are you going too?" As he spoke, the old man began to check up and down. It hurt a little bit.Xie Jing let her watch, and after the old lady confirmed that he was not injured, she said: "Grandma, I'm fine, I just went with him, there is a group of thieves, but I followed the nursing home, I didn't go anywhere, I hid with the young master Together."

Grandma Kou recited a Buddha, and breathed a sigh of relief: "It's better to hide, but nothing will happen to you!" The old lady touched his arm again, she didn't know what to think of, and wiped her tears, "If you have something wrong , how can I explain to Miss."

Xie Jing wiped her tears with the back of her hand, and called grandma in a low voice.

He is not Grandma Kou's grandson, he has known this since he was a child, and the "Miss" that grandma keeps talking about is his own mother.Grandma Kou took care of the two generations of Xie family girls, not only as his grandmother's dowry, but also as his mother's wet nurse, so that when she came to him, she raised her by hand, and her relationship was no different from that of her grandparents.

Xie Jing has never met her own mother, but only heard it from Grandma Kou, and knows that she follows her mother's surname Xie.

Grandma Kou didn't say anything else, he asked when he was a child, but every time grandma would be sad for a long time, and would cry once when "Miss" was mentioned, and Xie Jing gradually stopped asking.

Xie Jing didn't mention what happened in Heihe to Grandma Kou again, but Grandma Kou still missed him in her heart. During the Chinese New Year, she bought incense candlesticks to light up, and pulled Xie Jing to kowtow.

There was no small golden Buddha on the altar table, and there was a candlestick in that place, but I still kowtowed.

Grandma Kou was muttering something, and begged the lady to bless her.

Xie Jing kowtowed three times politely.

Grandma Kou said: "I also ask God to bless me, let me live for two more years, and take care of our Jinger for a while longer."

Xie Jing paused when she heard the figure, and kowtowed seriously again.

The one Grandma Kou cares about the most is Xie Jing, and the other is the small brass Buddha statue she has carried with her for many years. Before, she was desperate to save enough money for Xie Jing, but now that she has spare money, the old lady wants to Redeem the little golden Buddha.

But when they went to the pawn shop to redeem it, the Buddha statue was no longer there. Grandma Kou didn't give up, and asked the clerk and shopkeeper to check it several times, and it was indeed gone.

The shopkeeper stood tall and looked at them through the gap in the counter: "At the beginning, I said it was dead, so I didn't keep it. Let me keep an eye out for you. It may be resold after a while."

That's the way it is, and that's the only way it can be.

Grandma Kou couldn't find the little golden Buddha, and she was a little depressed. In order to make her happy, Xie Jing took the old lady to the tailor shop to make some new clothes. His wife bought him clothes.The old lady has a good eye and good sewing skills, but she is too old to do fine work, so she told the tailor over there about the style and asked them to make it to order.

Xie Jing said: "Grandma, I still have clothes to wear and fabrics at home, so I don't need to come out and spend money to make them."

Grandma Kou said: "Money is dead, but people are alive. Our Jing'er is dressed beautifully. Grandma is very happy!" The old lady said, and turned to discuss the style with the tailor.

The tailor said while taking Xie Jing's body, "This kind of tailoring is new, and it's not a common practice here. Old lady, you are from the south, right?"

Grandma Kou said: "I went to the south to beg for a living for two years, so I am a local."

The tailor still wanted to ask, but Grandma Kou refused to say a word, she only talked about the clothes, and kept silent about the rest.

After buying new clothes, Grandma Kou saw that she was in a much better mood, and took Xie Jing to have her hair cut again.

Xie Jing touched his head, a little hesitant: "It's not too long, why don't we wait for two days, grandma, we can cut our own hair at home." He used to cut his hair by his grandma, and it was pretty.

Grandma Kou said: "A few days later, it will be the first month. If there is no haircut in the first month, uncle will die."

"I don't have an uncle."

Grandma Kou refused and dragged him to have his hair cut.

Xie Jing's hair is good. The hairdresser didn't cut it into a flat head like everyone else. He trimmed the length and shortened it, and cut the broken hair on the forehead that was a bit obstructing the eyes a little bit. He couldn't bear to move the rest. This child is so beautiful, I can't bear to cut off more hair.

The master wiped the hair on his neck with a hot towel, "Okay, take a look?"

There is a mirror directly in front of it. It has been used for many years, and the surface of the mirror is a little rough, but it can still be seen clearly.

The boy in the mirror has black hair, which makes his original complexion whiter, with a pair of clear and bright eyes, a high nose bridge, and angular lips, with a bit of beauty unique to young people of this age. Regardless of gender, it is eye-catching.

Grandma Kou came over to take a look, and thought it was pretty good. The black hair on the child's forehead looked neat and neat.

This year, the family has money and food, and the grandparents and grandchildren have a rare good year.

Xie Jing came back from vacation, helped Grandma Kou with a lot of work, bought coal, and collected a lot of firewood for storage at home.The weather in the north is cold, and the snow in early March has not yet melted. He is afraid that the old man will be frozen, so he has to prepare more before he can rest assured.Xie Jing also followed his grandma to buy white flour and soybean noodles. When the old lady went to grind glutinous rice flour, he went to the nearby store to buy an extra ten catties of millet. The old man is getting old, and other things are not easy to digest, so eat more Millet porridge is good for nourishing the stomach.

Grandma Kou made a lot of delicious food for Xie Jing, such as steamed rice cakes, rice cakes, and red date cakes, and used up almost half a bottle of crispy cheese.

After Xie Jing finished eating, she felt sweet and fragrant all over her body.

Eat well, sleep warmly, and have all the important people by your side. There is nothing better than this. Xie Jing has been sleeping peacefully, sweetly, and looking good for the past few days.

Grandma Kou also made some cakes and asked Xie Jing to send some to Kou Laosan.

Xie Jing originally wanted to make a special trip there, but happened to be on the way.

Kou Laosan's home posted couplets, and there were broken red after the firecrackers were set off at the door, and the firecracker paper fell on the snow. It was also lively these two days.

When Xie Jing knocked on the door and went in, Kou Peifeng was still frightened, his forehead was wrapped with a layer of white gauze, and he looked thinner, Xie Jing told him twice before he said stupidly: "It's okay ?”

"Correct."

Xie Jing roughly talked to him about the situation at the winery, and finally said: "Master Jiu said it's all over, and when I return to the mansion after the Chinese New Year, I will exchange our names, and it's fine now. .”

With tears in his eyes, Kou Peifeng cried out after a while. He was not a very brave person in the first place, but this time he was even more frightened.On the one hand, he was worried that the Bai family would find out that he had spoken to the gangsters who pretended to be guards, and that the Bai family would arrest him as a "bandit". There are only a few, but there are not a few who cut people with knives. He saw with his own eyes that an apprentice was hacked, his arm was cut off, and his cotton robe was stained with blood. When the severed arm rolled down in front of him , the fingers are still twitching...

If it wasn't for Xie Jing, if it was him, he would have died countless times.

Xie Jing didn't know how to comfort others. He had been with Master Jiu for many years, and his thinking pattern was somewhat the same.

I feel that everything in the world is nothing more than asking questions and solving them.

Now that the problem was solved, Kou Peifeng couldn't stop crying, and he didn't know what kind words to say.

But looking at Kou Peifeng in front of him also solved a mystery in Xie Jing's heart. The cause of Kou Peifeng's death really had nothing to do with the Qinghe Bai family, nor did it have anything to do with Bai Mingyu.

The cause of Kou Peifeng's death back then was probably captured and tortured to death by the bandits.Those gangsters have always been brutal, and when they learned that he was "Kou Peifeng", they became murderous, and they would never leave a life alive—Kou Peifeng who was hanged in the stable may not have committed suicide, and he didn't even know where he was. It had been suspended for a few days and was moved to another place.

Thinking of this, Xie Jing couldn't help feeling a little sympathetic towards him, and put her hand on his shoulder to comfort him, but before she could speak, Kou Peifeng trembled like an electric shock, and immediately jumped from the bed of the kang. Kneeling in front of him as if falling down, and gave him a heavy kowtow!

Xie Jing hurriedly stopped him, but Kou Peifeng refused to get up, "Xie Jing, I owe you my life. From now on, I will never say anything, and I will listen to you in everything!" He wiped it off with his sleeve. His face was ugly, but he landed loudly.

When Xie Jing came out from Kou Laosan's house, Kou Laosan was very enthusiastic about him this time, and gave him five silver dollars, saying that Housekeeper Zhou had signed the deed before, and these belonged to Xie Jing.

Xie Jing said: "There are too many."

Kou Laosan refused to take it back and insisted on giving it to him: "I also received this money two days ago. I originally planned to send it to you when Brother Pei got better. Uncle thanked you for the extra money." He said After a pause, he said again: "From now on, you go to the apprentice's room, and Brother Pei will do the cleaning work. If the second young master doesn't stay there, we don't ask for anything, as long as everyone is safe and well."

Xie Jing took his few silver dollars and returned the rest to him, "No, Brother Pei will still be in the apprentice's room in the future, so it's just a matter of changing his name."

"how about you?"

"I'm going to the east courtyard, and I'll still be a servant."

Kou Laosan was even more guilty. In his opinion, the apprentice room was a good job, and being a servant was almost impossible after all, but Xie Jing insisted, so he thanked him again.Kou Laosan enthusiastically kept Xie Jing for dinner, Xie Jing only said that he would go back to accompany Grandma Kou, Kou Laosan hurriedly asked his wife to fill a bowl full of dumplings for him to take back, enthusiastically keeping up with the previous visit people.

It's not easy for anyone these days, there are few white noodles, and there is only such a bowl full of dumplings. I have kept five or six dumplings in total, and packed the rest for Xie Jing.

Xie Jing didn't refuse, and took it back with her.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Kou Peifeng came to visit with a basket of gifts and bought two roast chickens.When he saw Grandma Kou, he kowtowed first, and recited a long list of auspicious words, which made the old lady laugh: "Okay, okay, get up quickly, have you eaten yet?"

Kou Peifeng said: "Eat."

As he spoke, his stomach growled loudly.

He was a little embarrassed, scratched his head and said, "I drank a bowl of noodle soup in the morning, and after walking for a long time, I'm hungry again."

Grandma Kou said: "It's easy to be hungry at such a big age, it's okay, just sit down and wait for a while, I'm making lo mein for Jing'er, make some more noodles, you two eat together."

After the old lady recuperated, her body was strong, and she went down to the noodles with her hands and feet. By the way, she also put some fried vegetarian balls and fried tofu in it two days ago, and also scooped a large spoonful of cooked meat jelly—— This is the big broth that was cooked last night. It was frozen outside and turned into jelly. The soup is rich and the meat is soft and rotten. It is the most suitable for cooking noodles.

Grandma Kou seldom visits relatives here, and she doesn't interact with others very much. She just closes the door and takes Xie Jing to live with her on weekdays.

When the noodles were served on the table, Xie Jing was chatting with Kou Peifeng in a low voice, Kou Peifeng stared and said: "Isn't it, don't talk about apprentices, just looking at the strong guards on weekdays frightens both of you, our second young master I don’t know where the strength comes from—that’s really brute force, and a person is turned over when the door is removed!” He saw Grandma Kou bring the meal, and immediately stopped talking, and when the old lady walked away, she moved closer Xie Jing whispered: "It's not easy for others to catch him. Later, he took everyone to hide in the warehouse of the company. At least he survived until someone came."

Xie Jing mixed the noodles and ate them with relish: "The second young master is so strong? I remember that the door is very thick."

Kou Peifeng had lingering fears, and said worriedly: "No, the two guys may not be able to move usually. Hey, I came back from Heihe..."

Grandma Kou came in with a plate of hot roasted chicken and tore it open for them to eat.

Xie Jing caught sight of it, and calmly pushed Kou Peifeng's noodle bowl to his hand, "Eat."

Kou Peifeng was stupid but witty, so he quickly responded, and only praised the old lady for her good craftsmanship, without saying anything else.

The author has something to say:

Bai Mingyu (satisfied): Is my young master strong?Brain change.