wind and rain scissors shop

Chapter 25-25
Zheng Yuanxin said with a straight face: "Second uncle actually tossed Tian Erya like that, it's too much, I have to tell him to go."

Zheng Yuanfei pulled him: "Why are you meddling in this business? If Tian Erya can't bear it, she should get out of the blacksmith yard and leave Zheng's house as soon as possible. She found this all by herself, leave her alone, let's go eat."

Zheng Yuanli put his arms around Zheng Yuansheng: "Second Uncle tortured Tian Erya for the benefit of my fourth son. I really can't stand her tormenting, so I should just leave. Fourth brother, what do you think?"

Zheng Yuansheng pushed away his second elder brother: "A gentleman does something and doesn't do something. Our Zheng family shouldn't belittle others. We should dissuade them."

Zheng Yuanfei robbed: "Fourth, kindness alone can't convince others, you have to show some means and majesty to deter the scene. Your soft-heartedness should be changed, otherwise, one day you will suffer a big loss."

Zheng Yuanli chuckled: "Our fourth child has a heart of a bodhisattva. Anyone who is like you and a bully, the servants in the family are afraid of you. Father said that you are as vicious as the second uncle when he was young."

Zheng Yuanfei didn't take it seriously: "What's wrong with being like Second Uncle? You also know that those who go to the iron yard are the fuel-efficient lamps? In the end, they are all obedient and submissive under the management of Second Uncle. A master should have a Second Uncle like that." wrist."

Zheng Yuanxin stopped him with words: "Don't talk about it. There are servants in the yard watching to see what it looks like when they see you arguing endlessly. I'll talk to my second uncle later to make him restrain himself."

Zheng Yuanfei smiled but didn't smile: "Brother, let me tell you something you don't like to hear. If you speak dignifiedly in front of Second Uncle, Tian Erya won't let Second Uncle treat you like that. Although you fight in name I care about the iron yard, but in fact it is the second uncle who keeps his word, so don't make yourself uncomfortable with that."

"I don't have that ability. Whoever of you has that ability, who cares." Zheng Yuanxin swung his sleeves and strode forward.

"Brother?" Zheng Yuanli didn't stop him, and turned around to criticize Yuan Fei, "Third brother, it's too much!"

"Second brother, don't you think that the eldest brother takes himself too seriously? He is obviously limited in his ability, but he always preaches us in the name of the boss. Fourth brother, do you bother him too?"

Zheng Yuansheng cupped his hands, with a respectful attitude: "The eldest brother is our elder brother, and it is right to assist our father in family affairs. The sage Confucius taught us to be respectful and filial. It is recorded in "Historical Records: Five Emperors Benji": Take eight yuan, make cloth five Teach in the four directions, the father is righteous, the mother is kind, brothers and friends, younger brothers are respectful, sons are filial, inner peace and outer success."

Zheng Yuanfei raised his leg and walked away with a straight face.

Zheng Yuanli looked at the backs of the eldest brother and the third child leaving, and then looked at the bookish Zheng Yuansheng, blinking his small eyes. He was running Long Shunhe, and he also relied on the iron mines of the third child to lower the cost of iron tools.He wanted to understand this, and called out to his third brother to chase after him.

Zheng Yuansheng shook his head, thinking about Tian Erya's miserable situation, he was a little uneasy, and he couldn't taste the taste of a meal.After he returned to the study, he wanted to call the book boy Xia Tian to take a look at Tian Erya, but he felt that it was inappropriate, so when he hesitated, Xia Tian ran into the study.

"Fourth young master, Tian Erya seems to be in a daze, go and have a look."

Zheng Yuansheng was puzzled: "What happened to her?"

Xia Tian gestured: "She was squatting in the yard by herself, grabbing grass and stuffing it into her mouth, and scratching on the ground with a branch, muttering. Could it be that she was hit and went crazy? I heard that someone went to blacksmithing The courtyard soon went crazy, will Tian Erya follow in their footsteps?"

Zheng Yuansheng didn't hesitate anymore, and immediately went to visit Tian Erya.When he reached Wutong Garden, he saw Tian Erya grabbing grass and stuffing it into her mouth, so he rushed over and pinched her mouth: "Spit out the grass, spit it out quickly."

Tian Erya slapped his hands away, chewed the contents of her mouth a few times, swallowed them whole, and glared at him angrily: "What are you doing?"

Seeing that she was conscious, Zheng Yuansheng breathed a sigh of relief: "It's fine, what are you eating grass for? Others thought you were crazy."

Tian Erya looked around, only to find that many maids and boys in the mansion were pointing at her from a distance, a little embarrassed: "I eat purslane, an edible weed. I used to eat it in our hometown. I eat it often, but I didn’t expect it to be available here.”

Zheng Yuansheng stared at the row of grass on the ground: "Is this thing edible?"

"Of course. You rich people won't eat it, but we poor people use it as a vegetable, and it can also be used as medicine. It can be cooked and eaten to prevent fire. I don't have a stove here, so I can only eat it directly."

Zheng Yuansheng disliked it: "It's covered with dirt, maybe it was stepped on by others, you can just eat it by grabbing it, and you don't think it's dirty."

"I've rinsed it twice with water, and it's not dirty at all." Tian Erya glanced at him, and scratched on the ground with a branch.

"The handwriting you wrote is really ugly." Zheng Yuansheng saw that what she wrote was the word 'Wu' from Wutongyuan, so he couldn't help but make comments.

Tian Erya pulled the corners of her mouth down: "I just started writing, and if I write a lot, I will be better than this."

"I'm not holding the pen properly."

"what?"

"It's not all five fingers holding the branch, you have to hold the branch with your index finger and thumb." Zheng Yuansheng saw that it was a misunderstanding, so he left this sentence and left.

Tian Erya continued to squat, adjusting the hand holding the branch.

Xia Tian followed behind Zheng Yuansheng: "Master, it turns out that Tian Erya is practicing calligraphy, I really thought she was crazy!"

Zheng Yuansheng stopped: "Xia, why do you think Tian Erya eats wild vegetables?"

"Hungry! Look at the food on her face, she probably hasn't eaten today."

"Daddy once promised to give her food, so she shouldn't be hungry. Who is she eating with now?"

Xia Tian scratched her head: "I heard that she was arranged to dine with the maids."

Zheng Yuansheng frowned: "Then there should be something to eat."

"Our servants eat strictly according to the time. If you miss the time for eating, you will have no food. It is estimated that Tian Erya came back from the iron shop late today, and she didn't catch up with the meal, so she didn't eat."

"Can't eat, is there nothing else to satisfy your hunger?"

Xia Xia smiled: "Master, she is not you, nor is she the other masters in the mansion. She can enjoy meals and pastries at any time. The servants in our mansion, like me, who follow you, can have something to eat at any time. Others People are not so lucky, if they miss the time to eat, without the master rewarding them with food, they can only starve."

Zheng Yuansheng nodded thoughtfully.

"Master, are you soft-hearted again? Can't bear to watch Tian Erya go hungry?" Xia Tian asked tentatively. As a school boy for many years, he knew the character of this master very well.

"Don't talk nonsense, go back and grind." Zheng Yuansheng had no expression on his face, and he began to have other thoughts in his heart.

In the days that followed, the servants of the Zheng family would see Tian Erya returning to the Wutong Garden with a bruised nose and a swollen face every evening, covered in wet mud.This became the talk of everyone, and some people even started betting on Tian Erya's condition the next day.

Xia Tian, ​​as Zheng Yuansheng's school boy, is under 15 years old this year, and he is also a child at heart. He followed the servants and went back to the study room, telling Zheng Yuansheng about Tian Erya's recent tragedy, saying that her head had been knocked out with several big green bags, Clothes were wet from the mud, and I was limping when I walked. It was a miserable life in the blacksmith yard.

Zheng Yuansheng was originally a soft-hearted person. After hearing Tian Erya's tragic situation for a few days, he finally couldn't bear to appear on the path leading to the iron courtyard.

"Fourth Young Master." Tian Erya saw him, saluted him, and walked past him.

"Tian Erya." Zheng Yuansheng couldn't bear to see her bruised nose, swollen face, and emaciated figure, so he said the decision he had made in his heart, "You don't want to go to the iron yard anymore. If Miss Wu's three years, no, within one year Never show up again, I will marry you as the wife of the house, and give you the title you want, and you don't have to endure the pain of flesh and blood, and toil day and night."

(End of this chapter)