lady, please calm down

Chapter 201 Legs Street
The ninth day of the first lunar month.

At dusk, Chen Chu entered the city.

After leaving the city to suppress bandits years ago, he returned to his home in Sajinxiang for the first time.

At dinner, Yu Nong, who hadn't seen the son for a long time, was very happy.

He pulled Chen Chu's favorite chicken wings and fish maw into his bowl with his own hands, and then sat at the dining table with his hands on his chin and looked at Chen Chu with a smirk.

"Aren't you going to eat?" Chen Chu asked strangely.

"Nunu wait for sister." Yunong said sensiblely.

In the past, the Chen family had no rules. They sat together when eating, and whoever came would eat.

At this time, Yunong was like this, and Chen Chu didn't stop it. The Houzhai had its own ecology, and there was no need to forcibly change it for an unrealistic equality of everyone.

lean less.

Cui Yuan, who was sent by Chen Chuzhi to ask the cat to eat, turned around, "My lord, madam is not hungry, so I won't come to eat."

"Oh"

"Madam also said that she is not feeling well, please go to Auntie's place to rest at night."

As soon as Cui Yuan finished speaking, she only heard a 'chiliu'.

Chen Chuxun turned around, only to see Yunong blinking her moist innocent eyes and wiping the corners of her mouth.

The goblin is going to eat people!

Xu time at night.

Looking at the garden boudoir.

Yunong and Chen Chu each wore white silk underwear, and sat side by side by the bed, their feet, one big and one small, soaking in the same tub for foot bathing.

"Ayu said that the date of returning home next time may be set on the seventeenth day of the first lunar month. If there is any change, she will inform Nunu in advance. Don't worry, my lord, now Nunu will go to Ayu every day. Let Mrs. Chen Tongzhi secretly abduct Ayu."

Yunong's words are justifiable. Can a mother bring her daughter back to her hometown called "guai"?Obviously it is your man who wants to abduct his daughter.

"Also, the trust slaves that Ayu gave to the young master recently are all hidden in the dowry, I will show them to the young master later."

After not seeing each other for many days, Yu Nong turned on the chatterbox attribute again, as if she wanted to finish the words these days in one breath.

When talking, a pair of white feet were dishonest. Sometimes they slapped the water surface, making a faint splashing sound, and sometimes they curled up their toes and rubbed them against Chen Chu's insteps.

It was clearly a way to seduce people, but when he looked at Chen Chu with a pair of big eyes, he was as innocent as a baby.

This is Aunt Chen's trump card.

The water was getting cold, Yunong took the cloth towel to help Chen Chu wipe his feet, but the latter snatched it from his hand.

"Baby, do you want to find another maid for you from outside?" Chen Chu bent down, took Yunong's feet out of the water basin and put them on his lap, and asked while helping Yunong wipe her feet.

Yunong grinned and giggled when she saw this, and forgot to answer.

Chen Chu had no choice but to ask again.

"No need, Cui Yuan and Bai Lu are both fine."

Yunong was a little dumbfounded, but she was not stupid.

Bai Lu is Mao'er's confidant in the back house, and Cui Yuan is also devoted to Mao'er now.

It's like Yu Nong has lost even a confidant in this big house, and Chen Chu is worried that she will be wronged.

"Master, it's okay. Although Bailu and Cuiyuan belong to my sister, they are also members of our family. I don't want to argue with my sister. I can follow my son from Caiwei Pavilion to Luliuxu, Caizhou, and live in the house. In this big house, Nunu is already very happy and content."

Instead, Yunong turned around and comforted Chen Chu, fearing that he would not believe me, and vowed: "Really, Nunu is very happy every day and night now, the back house is our daughter's business, son, don't help me carelessly. Me. How can other aunts have the blessing of slaves, son, please don’t spoil me.”

Hearing what she said, Chen Chu smiled, "Alright then, I won't interfere with the affairs of the back house."

"Chuck~"

Yunong sat on the edge of the bed, bouncing her little feet in the air a few times to shake off the residual moisture, then took a few steps on the big bed, hugged Chen Chu's neck from behind coquettishly, and whispered in the latter's ear Said: "Young master, can you also carry slaves?"

"Carrying you?"

"Yeah" Yunong lay on Chen Chu's shoulder, her long eyelashes flickering, and her tone of envy couldn't be concealed, "The year before last, my sister was lost. We found her in the ruined temple at the foot of the mountain. The son carried her on his back." On the night when I went up the mountain, Nunu followed behind and watched, thinking, if the young master can treat me like this one day, Nunu would be willing to live a few years less."

"Just memorize it, as for a few years less life?"

Chen Chu shook his head with a smile, stretched his arms back, caught Yunong's knees, and lifted him up lightly.

Regardless of not wiping his feet, he stepped out of the tub directly, leaving wet footprints on the floor.

"Giggle~" After the iconic crisp and sweet laugh, Yu Nong wrapped her arms around Chen Chu's neck.

The two fools generally circled in the small bedroom.

like a donkey pulling a mill.

A moment later, Yunong, who was lying on Chen Chu's back, whispered her silly love words again, "Master, Nunu will treat you well for the rest of my life."

"Hehe, what a good way?"

"Uh"

This really caught Yunong's attention. The young master earns everything he eats, drinks and wears. He can't cook, and he's not good at female celebrities. He has no other skills besides serving others.

After thinking hard for a long time, he finally said: "Later. Later, you don't need to move, the head office will do it."

The next day.

Yu Nong stayed in bed, Chen Shi had only Chen Chu for breakfast.

Seeing that Cuiyuan was returning alone again, she couldn't help asking: "Madam isn't hungry?"

"Uh yes."

"Hey, is my wife going to cultivate immortality? You don't even eat, Cui Yuan, which level has your wife reached? Jindan, or Nascent Soul?"

"Pfft~"

In the dining room, a few maids couldn't help laughing out of Mrs. Chen's words.

Chen Chu could naturally guess why the cat avoided seeing him. It was all caused by the night when the room was checked.

The people of Zhao An naturally did not practice immortality. They will still be hungry when they should be hungry.

Two quarters of an hour.

The tiger's head was laid on his sister's big bed, sleeping soundly, with saliva running down his face.

Sitting in front of the dressing table, Mao'er choked on the half piece of sweet-scented osmanthus cake that she had just swallowed and slapped her chest.

Just at this moment, there was a light knock on the door outside the bedroom.

"Who?" Cat asked nervously.

"Madam, it's me. I brought a bowl of porridge to Madam."

Cui Yuan's whispered reply sounded outside the door.

"Has the officer left?"

"Uh gone."

Only then did Mao'er go forward and opened the door a crack, only to see a tall figure beside Cui Yuan.

"Hehe, I forced Cui Yuan to bring me here."

When the cat wanted to close the door again, the tall figure outside the door had already stretched its legs ahead of time and got stuck in the crack of the door.

Seeing that she couldn't stop it, Mao'er turned around and ran inside the house. To be honest, she didn't know what she was running for, anyway, she was just embarrassed to see Chen Chu.

But how big is the bedroom? After a few breaths, Mao'er was forced into a corner by Chen Chu, forming a standard overbearing situation.

The cat lowered its head, turned its face sideways, and lowered its eyelids. It was hard to tell whether it was wronged or shy on its reddish face.

Chen Chu knew that that night had a certain psychological impact on Mao'er, who always maintained a dignified image. Especially in that absurd scene, Cai Wei, who was quite concerned about Mao'er, participated.

The cat took a look, and the people's design collapsed.

But life must go on, is it like an ostrich hiding forever?

Now that the mistake has been made, if you make a big deal a few times in the future, you will always get used to it.

I think so, but I must not say it, or the cat will be angry from shame.

"Why are you running? I have business to ask for your help."

"What's the matter?"

The cat with its head tilted heard the words, glanced at Chen Chu in a very short time and then quickly looked away.

But just such an ordinary glance made the whole little face uncontrollably congested and red.

It seems that I remembered some pictures again.

"En." Chen Chu knew that it is absolutely impossible to raise the value of the house at this time, so he continued: "Today, help me go to Legislative Street to visit a family."

Hearing that there was something serious to do, Mao'er calmed down a little, but still didn't dare to look at Chen Chu, and continued to look at the ground with his head tilted and said, "Football Street? Who are you going to see?"

"Jiang Huaixiong's family."

"Well, who is Jiang Huaixiong? Do the officials want me to sing the red face or the bad face?"

The cat became more and more calm, it seemed that this kind of thing was done with ease.

"Hehe, I'll talk about this later. First, tell me what delicious food you ate while hiding in the house?"

"Oh no, I didn't steal it!"

The old lady of the Chen family ate her mouth secretly?The cat doesn't want to lose face, it immediately refused to admit it.

Chen Chu grinningly stretched out his fingers and wiped the corner of the cat's mouth, then rubbed his fingers, and said, "Did you steal it? Where did the crumbs of the sweet-scented osmanthus cake at the corner of your mouth come from?"

"Uh" Mao'er hurriedly raised his hand to pat the corner of his mouth to remove the evidence.

"Cat?"

"Ok?"

"Anymore?"

"Here"

The cat, who was still squeezed into the corner, pitifully raised his other hand, but half of the sweet-scented osmanthus cake was smashed to pieces because of the nervousness just now.

"Don't eat this, I want to eat imported ones!"

Until then, Mao'er blushed and looked up at Chen Chu silently for a moment, then looked at the big bed, and said in a low voice, "Officials, don't make trouble, the tiger head is here!"

Ok?
My lovely tiger head is coming too!
Chen Chu looked sideways.

Hutou seemed to be woken up by the movement in the house, got up from the bed with a sleepy face, rubbed his eyes with a dazed face, and then saw his longing brother blocking his sister in a strange posture .

Hutou immediately grinned, but the happy brother didn't yell out, but Chen Chuxian said: "Hutou, go to Aunt Yao's house to borrow coriander."

"???" Tiger head.

The end of the hour.

Chen Chu and Caizhou Civil and Military Officer Zuo went north of the city to welcome Zuo Guoen, the magistrate who took office today.

Mao'er picked some gifts from home and left the house.

Foot Lux Street.

Located in Xishuimen of Caizhou, it got its name because it is close to the waterway wharf and gathered a large number of porters and laborers here.

Because of the low-lying terrain, the streets are always muddy.

Not long after the cat brought people here, it quickly attracted attention.

After all, most of the people who live here are low-level people who work hard, not to mention the clothes of the cats, even the clothes of the maids like Cui Yuan and Bai Lu are not brocade.

Looking at the dilapidated houses on both sides of the dirty street, the cat once suspected that the official had given the wrong address.

"Ma'am, you can wait here, I'll go and find out."

Cui Yuan looked down at the soft shoes on Cat's feet, and at the muddy road mixed with an unknown liquid.

"It's not in the way." But the cat walked straight in. In just a few steps, the upper of the shoe was covered with mud.

In order to prevent the skirt from being soiled, the cat still needs to lift the hem of the skirt, which looks a little embarrassed.

The porters waiting on both sides saw the distress of this delicate young lady who was out of tune with the surrounding environment, and enjoyed it as if they were watching the excitement.

But they also have eyesight, and they can tell at a glance that the cat is a noble woman, so they dare not open their mouths to make fun of it.

I was watching the play vigorously, but I saw a group of strong men running over to the pier.

The first two were named Luo Hong and Lin Dali.

These two are the most famous men at the pier recently.

It is said that both of them are from Tongshan. Last October, they brought a group of people to Caizhou Wharf to build a guild called 'Cao Gang' in private.

After the establishment of the Cao Gang, local porters were organized to set prices uniformly to prevent malicious price-cutting and internal involvement, and then negotiated a reasonable price with relatively powerful shipowners who needed to hire porters.

As a result, the income of the porters has also increased slightly.

It's just that there is never a shortage of unruly people in the business of relying on hard work for a living.

At Caizhou Water Transport Wharf, there was originally a guild organized by four brothers surnamed Zhang. Zhang's brothers were not good at negotiating prices with shipowners, but they were not lenient when they exploited porters.

Every time each person does a job, his family will take away [-]% of the wages.

[-]% doesn't seem like much, but the income of the porters is meager. It really hurts a lot, but because the Zhang family brothers have raised more than ten idlers, the porters dare not speak out.

When the Cao Gang came, it was the Zhang family's job that was robbed, and the little Caizhou naturally couldn't accommodate two tigers in one mountain.

The two sides fought with each other several times, and the conflict intensified. One morning in the twelfth lunar month last year, the porters suddenly found that the Zhang family brothers who had originally dominated one side were all floating on the river.
Whoever is the murderer in this matter can be imagined with his toes.

But what is strange is that Lin Dali, Luo Hong and others were detained by the government for a day, and they were released on the grounds of 'no evidence'
Moreover, Wen's firm, the behind-the-scenes boss of the Zhang brothers, didn't even dare to fart afterwards.

At this point, everyone has finally tasted it. Lin and Luo are probably related to each other!
Now there are 200 people in the core gang of the Cao Gang, and hundreds of porters who have joined the association. They are the rule-makers in the Caizhou Wharf area.

It is said that after the year Caobang opened a incense hall along the Huai River.

"Boss Lin"

"Boss Luo"

When all the porters saw these important figures, they all stood up to salute and say hello.

Lin and Luo, who are usually kind and friendly, ran up to the delicate young lady as if they didn't hear them today, bowed, clasped their fists, and sang "Fat Ye".

"Miss, why are you here in my dirty place, if there is something to do, just send someone to tell me to wait!"

Mao'er turned around and looked at the two men in front of him. It seemed that he met them here by accident, but he didn't ask any more questions, and just smiled modestly, "You two big brothers, you're welcome. I'm here to visit a family."

"I don't know which house Madam is looking for?"

"My name is Jiang Huaixiong. He is the Marquis of Zhengyu in the Wuwei Army. Do you know Brother Luo?"

"Jiang's family! I know, I will lead the way for Madam."

Luo Hong said respectfully, then took two quick steps, walked a foot in front of Mao'er, then raised his arm sideways, and made a gesture of please.

Not far away, the porters who were still watching the fun just now looked at each other, and couldn't help feeling scared for a while.

Fortunately, he didn't open his mouth to tease this little girl indiscriminately just now, otherwise, he might be the one floating on the river tomorrow.

Cup of tea time.

A cat with a muddy foot stood in front of a house and asked in disbelief, "Brother Luo, are you sure this is the Jiang family? Wu Weijun Jiang Yuhou's house?"

"Back to the lady, this house indeed lives in Jiang Yuhou's mother, wife and children." Luo Hong bowed.

The gate of the house is cramped and the walls of the adobe courtyard are low.

Tiptoeing into the courtyard, I saw a woman in her 30s washing and washing piles of clothes in the cold winter of the first lunar month.

A camp of Yuhou, live in this kind of place?
Cat was full of doubts.

(End of this chapter)