The heavens start from Maoshan

Chapter 195
night.

The Ning family dinner was quite sumptuous.

Steamed buns cost two for one penny.

Pork costs twelve cents a catty, and mutton costs fifteen cents.

In addition, the old hen at home, the fish exchanged for people with millet, and a braised duck.

There was a large table full of dishes, including chicken, duck, fish, and everything, and it didn't cost more than a hundred yuan.

The dinner table.

Everyone is very happy, especially Ning Caichen's eldest brother Ning Hui.

Ning Hui didn't read well, and he worked as a clerk in the cloth village when he was a teenager. Later, he was spotted by the master who dyed the cloth, and recruited his son-in-law to work for the owner with his old father-in-law.

But it's embarrassing to talk about the identity of the door-to-door son-in-law.

In the past, it was inevitable to be scolded by the father-in-law and pointed out by the neighbors.

Now a distinguished guest has come to the house, riding a white horse, with a personable demeanor, he is a noble son at first sight.

Ning Hui also felt that he was honored. He brought his wife and children back to eat, not only because his eyes were greedy, but also because he wanted to raise his spirits in front of his wife: "Look, I am your son-in-law, but my brother is not, my brother I have made many friends and read a lot of poetry and books, so I have a bright future in the future."

"Mr. Zhang, I'm old and useless. I'm afraid you'll dislike me if I add more food to you, but you must eat more. The food at home is simple and the greetings are not good."

Ning's mother is actually not very old, she is only five or sixty years old.

Putting it into the real world, it is estimated that I have not retired in the work unit, and I can't even be ranked in the square dance.

But she looked like a 80-[-]-year-old old man, bent over, with a weathered face, and always smiled with a bit of flattery.

This is also inevitable.

The Ning family has long been in decline, and Ning's father died early, and the burden of the family is all on the shoulders of a woman.

It is not easy for her to bring up her two children, and she is used to being low-key in the past. If she wants to speak out, she has to be promoted by Ning Caichen.

But that possibility is slim.

Ning Caichen is not Cui Hongjian, he is not that knowledgeable.

Zhang Heng has seen Cui Hongjian's articles, as well as his ancestor worship rites for the village.

On the other hand, Ning Caichen's article can only be said to be quite satisfactory, and there is nothing outstanding about it.

Moreover, his thoughts are very dangerous. After Zhang Heng chatted with him, he opened his mouth and said that monsters are rampant in the world because treacherous ministers are in power and the emperor is fatuous.

Good guy.

Who is the treacherous minister, the chief examiner of the township examination, or a member of the six departments.

Not to mention the stupidity of the Holy One.

Confucianism pays attention to the heaven, earth, monarch, relatives and teachers, and the king is still in the forefront of his close relatives. A scholar actually said that the sage is stupid. If someone listens to this, he will be exiled for at least three thousand miles.

"Don't worry, I'm a person who travels all over the world and knows everything, but I'm not polite."

As Zhang Heng replied, he added two chicken legs to Ning Hui's two children: "Here, eat chicken legs."

"Thank you uncle."

Ning Hui's two children are not very old, one is five or six years old, and the other is seven or eight years old.

Thin and thin, looking at the fat in the bowl, drooling, because there is no oil in the stomach, the fat satisfies the craving.

"Is Master Zhang there?"

During the meal.

Someone yelled outside.

"Master Zhang?"

Mother Ning looked blank: "Did you find the wrong person?"

Zhang Heng thought for a while, and said, "Maybe they are looking for me."

Ning Caichen hurried to open the door.

As a result, when he opened the door, it was Kuai Dao Liu who came.

He took off his policeman's clothes, changed into rough linen casual clothes, and held a pangolin in his hand: "Master Zhang, I was doing errands for someone in the afternoon, and he gave me a pangolin. I don’t understand, but when I think of Mr. Zhang, you are staying at a friend’s house, I will borrow flowers to present Buddha, so as not to spoil good things.”

"Ah, it's Catcher Liu!"

They are all people on the street. If they don't know anyone, they have to know the policemen on their own street.

Seeing that Kuai Dao Liu was coming, the Ning family looked at a loss and stood up one after another: "Why are you here, let's sit down and have something to eat together?"

Zhang Heng didn't move, he just looked back.

He guessed that Kuaidao Liu saw that he was generous in his actions and felt that he was a rare commodity. After returning home, he tossed and couldn't sleep, and always wanted to have something to do with him.

In the end, he didn't hold his breath. He didn't know where to get a pangolin and came.

Still rank low.

If you have a brain, you have to hold back today and create a chance encounter tomorrow.

But it's normal to think about it.

In his thirties, he still has the unique skill of a sharp knife, but in the end he is just a catcher. If he is really high in rank, he will be able to calculate, and he will not be mixed up like this.

"I won't eat, I have to patrol at night."

Kuaidao Liu and Zhang Heng smiled, put down the pangolin and left.

Okay.

It's not too stupid, it didn't reach the point where Ning's mother really sat down and had a few drinks with Zhang Heng as soon as Mother Ning invited him.

If he sat down as soon as he was invited, and pulled Zhang Heng to toast, Zhang Heng felt that one of them would be too embarrassed to die.

"Brother Zhang, are you a friend of Catcher Liu?"

After Kuaidao Liu left, the eyes of Mrs. Ning looking at him became more and more fiery.

Because for ordinary people like them, if you catch fast, you don’t need to pay for breakfast, but when you finish eating, you have to take two catties of fried dough sticks back, which is very beautiful.

On the street, if anyone has a friend who is a policeman, he can speak in a three-point tone, and the local ruffians don't dare to provoke them.

"friend?"

Zhang Heng shook his head: "It doesn't count."

He just met Kuai Dao Liu today, and he had never heard of such a character before.

It's an exaggeration to say we know each other, let alone friends.

"Brother Zhang, since you are not friends, why did he give you the pangolin?"

Ning Caichen picked up the tied pangolin: "This thing is not common in the world, and it can be sold for a lot of money in restaurants."

Um.
Zhang Heng was at a loss for words for a while, and said vaguely: "Maybe we hit it off right away, and want to make me a friend."

Hearing this, everyone reacted differently.

Ning Caichen's eldest brother and sister-in-law were all smiling.

Even Mother Ning's forehead wrinkles stretched a bit.

Kuaidao Liu is a well-known figure on the street, and he wants to make friends with Zhang Heng, which shows how extraordinary Zhang Heng is.

Ning Caichen was able to invite Zhang Heng to his home as a guest. What does this mean? His son has vision.

after an hour.

After drinking for three rounds, everyone was happy after a meal.

Mother Ning and Ning Caichen's sister-in-law cleaned up the dishes, while Zhang Heng and Ning Caichen took a walk in the backyard.

"Brother Zhang, my house is a bit dilapidated, but fortunately the place is big enough."

"There are three yards in the front, middle and back, and more than [-] rooms. I have already tidied up the back yard, and I can move in at any time."

Ning Caichen accompanied Zhang Heng for a walk in the backyard.

When the Ning family was rich, the backyard should be a garden and an attic.

But now, the garden is gone, and it has been changed into a vegetable field. It is winter now, and the bare field ridge looks particularly bleak.

As for the attic, it is also dilapidated and has lost its former glory.

Even the paper on the windows is pasted with waste straw paper, but if there are some conditions, who would use this stuff to paste the windows.

"The place to live is easy to talk about. I brought my own bedding and tent, so I can sleep anywhere."

"It's the Qing family, you have to take me to have a look tomorrow when you have some free time. I'll know where they are from at a glance."

The family who wanted to marry their daughter to Ning Caichen was named Qing.

The name Qing is not common, and the origin of the surname is also different. Among them, "Road History" records: "Qi Taigong lived in Qingyang afterward, and took the land as his surname, so he was named Qingyang, or Shanzi Yiqing.

Zhang Heng still doesn't know the origin of the Qing family.

But since the opposite side has a name and surname, there should be some origins, even if it is really like what Ning Caichen guessed, it is a group of goblins, and they are also goblins who have read poems and books.

(End of this chapter)