Poor family mother and son

Chapter 28
When they arrived at the school kitchen, Chu Qing poured water into the tank, and Zhang Mingyu squatted on the ground with a firewood stick to draw pictures.

When Chu Qing saw it, he was depressed.Zhang Mingyu drew himself quite clearly, but Chu Qing couldn't understand it!When you draw a picture, why do you draw another line in the parallel line that represents the road? Is this one road or two roads, or is it separated by a wall?
It took a long time for Chu Qing to figure out the general route.

"Well... can I not go?" Chu Qing probed.It feels very dangerous.

"This is a mission!" Zhang Mingyu didn't understand why this woman was so... awkward!
"But Xiaobao..."

"Put it at my sister's place."

In the early morning of the next day, Chu Qing and Zhang Mingyu were already on the way.It is good to have a horse. After refitting the ox cart, you can put on the horse. This is much faster than walking!But even if there is a carriage, they have to get down when they are two streets away from the General Military Mansion, for fear of being exposed.

Chu Qing tied the cloth towel for wiping sweat around his neck, blocking the pinch marks on his neck.It is estimated that it will take a few days for those finger marks to disappear.He picked up two baskets of vegetables and followed Zhang Mingyu to the back door.

The back door of the General Military Mansion was set in the northeast corner, and there were two soldiers guarding the door, and there was a woman not far away.As soon as Chu Qing arrived at the gate, they were stopped and searched.

A soldier groped Zhang Mingyu's body carefully, and then turned through the vegetable basket; the woman was in charge of searching Qing's body.

Chu Qing's back was slapped a few times by the woman, it wasn't heavy, but the stick wound on her back made her sweat all of a sudden.

Nothing showed on Chu Qing's face.He just imitated how the women in the village lower their heads and be careful when they see outsiders.

I thought it was over like this, but unexpectedly the soldier who stood still asked: "Why is it so late today?" He glanced at Zhang Mingyu again: "Who are you?"

Zhang Mingyu quickly nodded and bowed and said that his elder brother lost his waist in the morning and couldn't even turn over, so his sister-in-law had to stay at home and wait on him, and let his husband and wife come.

"But don't worry, Mr. Jun. Madam loves the hand-shredded scallion pancakes made by my sister-in-law. My sister-in-law made dough before dawn. She made a lot of dough and it's still hot. Let me bring it!"

Zhang Mingyu quickly bumped Chu Qing's arm with his elbow, and Chu Qing opened the furoshiki on the vegetable basket.In fact, the burden has just been overturned.

With the matter of scallion pancakes, and the fact that the food deliverers used to ask their family members to help deliver them, the two gatekeepers let them through.Chu Qingxin said that Zhang Mingyu is quite quick to adapt to changes.

After entering the yard from the back door, passing the stables, and then passing through a small door, you will arrive at the yard where the kitchen is located.The yard is not big, and there is nothing but a pile of firewood drying under the kitchen window.

The interior of the kitchen is not small, much larger than the school kitchen.The oil tank was several steps away from the operating table, unlike Chu Qing who would kick the oil tank every time he turned around.People's oil tanks are almost full; the school's oil tanks are packed in earthen jars with only one bottom.

The two went in with the vegetable baskets, but there was no one in the kitchen.I guess he was sent away after breakfast was made.According to what Zhang Mingyu said, the kitchen should be only separated from the inner courtyard where the chief soldier lives by a courtyard wall.

Chu Qing looked around and found a small door next to the kitchen, which should lead to the inner courtyard.

Zhang Mingyu followed the way the vegetables were placed on the operating table, pretending to sort the vegetables in the basket into different categories, dawdled there, and then Chu Qing left the kitchen to look for a chance to slip into the main yard.

"What are you going to do!" A shout made Chu Qing shiver in fright.Two soldiers came over from the stable, "Is it all over? Hurry up and leave!" The soldiers wanted to hurry away.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Jun, I rushed to deliver the food in the morning, and I was in a hurry to go out, so I didn't even go to the latrine. Right now, right now, it's really... really..." Chu Qing didn't pant for breath when she spoke. His face turned red, but the anxious expression of his bladder about to explode was very realistic.

"What's the matter, this is!" The soldier was very impatient. "Then you can't walk around!" He shouted again.At this moment, a servant girl walked into the kitchen yard and said to the soldier, "Ma'am, I can't bear the stomachache, even if you let me cook a bowl of rice soup!"

"I can't decide this matter, and it's useless if you tell me!" said the soldier.

"You!" The servant girl said angrily, "You are all soldiers under the master, but now you dare to treat the master and madam like this! Is this the opposite?!"

That soldier wanted to turn his face with a knife, and the other soldier whispered: "Don't be impulsive! We can't understand the matter between Mr. Cao and Mr. Hong! We can do whatever we want, and we can't get angry with a girl." Just in case...that's Madam's personal maid!" Then she said to the maid, "Go back! We are soldiers, and we will do what our superiors tell us, and we dare not disobey."

The servant girl still wanted to fight for it, but Chu Qing said at this moment: "That...Master Jun, can I go to the latrine? I really can't hold it anymore..."

"It's really troublesome!" The grumpy soldier pointed at the maid and said, "Who is that, take her to the latrine, don't let her run around, if something happens, you two will die together!"

The maid ignored her, and wanted to argue a few more words, Chu Qing secretly bumped her with her arm: "I'm sorry for your trouble." She even winked at the maid.The lady's personal servant girl has a door!

The servant girl was suspicious, but she still led Chu Qing towards the inner courtyard.There is a room in the northwest corner of the inner courtyard, which is the nearest hut, and it is also a hut for the maids in the inner courtyard.

When passing through the corridor, Chu Qing fell behind the servant girl, lowered her voice and said, "I want to see Mr. Hong. I have something important to report." The servant girl was startled, and her footsteps stopped.

Don't stop at this time!This is too obvious, what can people do if they find out?
Chu Qing nodded and pleaded loudly, "Girl, really, I'm sorry, I went out in a hurry, and I didn't bring a toilet ticket."

At this time, the poor cannot afford toilet paper, and they will bring toilet chips, which are bamboo or wood chips, when they go out, otherwise they will have to be "scratched with a stick".Chu Qing sometimes wonders, would the ancients be bored while squatting and write some toilet quotes on the edge of the squatting pit?
These words are equivalent to explaining the reason why the servant girl stopped.The soldiers who were watching at the gate of the inner courtyard had no doubts.

The servant girl reacted quickly, said "Come with me" in an impatient tone, and walked forward, and pretended to say: "Follow closely, don't walk around and look around! Don't get involved if you die!" I!"

Chu Qing nodded and followed behind, covering her waist and abdomen with her hands from time to time.

After the servant girl brought Chu Qing to the door of a main room and asked Chu Qing to wait outside, she was about to turn around and enter the door next to the main room.

There is also a door in the compartment to enter the master's bedroom.Chu Qing grabbed the servant girl's sleeve, stuffed something into it covertly, and begged, "Please hurry up, girl, I, I really can't hold it in anymore."

The maid turned around and entered the house.After entering the house, she rushed straight into the master's bedroom: "Madam!" The servant girl lowered her voice and hurriedly said, "Look at this!" and handed the things in her hand to Madam.

Soldier Hong Liang was also in the bedroom at this time. He had been fighting all year round, and his life of irregular meals severely damaged his stomach.

As the leader of an army, his health status will affect his prestige in the army. In fact, no matter ancient or modern, as long as he has a certain power, he is always sick and cannot show it to others.So the personal servant girl can only say that the wife is sick.

Zong Bing's wife wiped her husband's sweat with a handkerchief, and wiped her own tears from time to time.My heart is full of distress for my husband, worry about the current situation, and I don't have the heart to look at the things handed over by the maid.

"Madam, master, someone said they want to see the master, please take a look at this." The servant girl was in a hurry.

Enduring the stomachache, Hong Liang stretched out his hand reluctantly, and took the thing.It was a coarse cloth veil, opened, and inside was an ebony waist card with the word "secret" engraved on it, and a small folded note.

Open the note, and there is a line of small words on it: "Give the soldier talisman to the person who comes, evacuate at any time, and be ready." The signature is Song Tingshan, and Song Tingshan's private seal is printed on it.

Hong Liang and his wife looked at each other, then turned to the maid next to him: "What's going on?" The maid spoke very quickly and briefly explained what happened just now.

Zong Bing's wife worried: "Master, is it credible?"

"It's Song Tingshan's handwriting, and the seal is correct, so it shouldn't be wrong. Let's just believe it. There is no other way." After all, he is the general in charge of the army, and he is quick to make decisions.Madam nodded cautiously to the servant girl.The maid grabbed a few straw papers and went out.

"Come with me!" After coming out, the maid signaled Chu Qing to follow her, and the guarding soldier at the courtyard gate shouted, "Why are you so slow!" The maid rolled her eyes and said bitterly, "Will you eat or not?" Drink, I won’t even give you straw paper to buy some. The masters are almost useless! I still have to search for a long time!”

She really deserves to be the girl next to the master!Chu Qing commented in her heart.Once in the hut, the maid immediately closed the door.She walked quickly to the toilet stool, pulled out the hairpin on her head, and used the pointed end to pick up the cushion on it. The cushion looked thick, but it was actually a U-shaped piece of wood with a circle of cotton spread on it, and then covered it. The cover, so soft and crisp.It will not fall into the toilet while sitting on the cushion.

Picking up the jacket of the cushion, grabbing some cotton from it, a U-shaped piece of wood was exposed, a hole was dug in it, and a rectangular brass token half the size of a palm was embedded in it, with "Ling" engraved on the front , engraved on the back of the "General Soldier Waist Card".This is the soldier talisman, Chu Qing looked at it with wide eyes.

The servant girl quickly pried out the military amulet with a hairpin and handed it to Chu Qing, then pulled out a needle from the chest, stuffed the cotton inside, and the needle started threading, her fingers flying.

Chu Qing didn't have time to appreciate the maid's sewing skills, so she took the soldier talisman and stuffed it into her bun, which was what she had thought about early in the morning.After stuffing it in, cover it with hair, and then pin it with a wooden hairpin.Wrap the turban again.

When all this is done, it will only take a few minutes.When the two walked out of the hut, Chu Qing humbly kept bowing and thanking her, her face was no longer the anxious look just now, but a carefree and relaxed smile after emptying her stomach.

The servant girl lifted her chin towards the gate of the courtyard and said impatiently: "Hurry up, hurry up." Then she turned and went back to her room.

Chu Qing walked out of the hospital briskly, and kept thanking the guarding soldiers, playing a peasant woman who had never seen the world so vividly.Played well on the spot.

When I got out of the yard, I saw a yard to the west, and there was a man talking inside, and I listened with breathless breath, and heard intermittently that someone was reporting that there was a food delivery man looking for a latrine or something.

According to the sketch drawn by Zhang Mingyu last night, that courtyard should be the place where the concubines of Mr. Zongbing lived, but Mr. Zongbing's concubines stayed in Beijing to serve their mother, and only his wife was with him.So the yard should be empty.But now there are people inside, probably the deputy commander in chief Cao Wang who lives in, taking care of Hong Liang nearby, and looking for a soldier talisman.

Because the soldiers around him were watching, Chu Qing was unable to investigate the courtyard, so he had to go back to the kitchen honestly and followed Zhang Mingyu out of the General Military Mansion.When he left the house, he was searched again.Fortunately, the soldier talisman is stuffed in the hair, so I won't turn it over here.

Leaving the mansion without any risk, the two quickly left with empty baskets.It is estimated that these dishes and scallion pancakes all entered Cao Wang's stomach.Thinking about it, Chu Qing went all the way back to the carriage parked two streets away.After driving the carriage around a big circle, the two entered Jizhou Prefecture Yamen.

　When I go to the toilet recently, my eyes always look at stick-shaped things.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)