Rebirth of the pastoral landlady

Chapter 288 What Happened in the Back Streets of the Town God's Temple (Part [-])
Jin Xi smiled, looked at her fair and delicate face in the clear water basin, and said: "If it doesn't work, why should I make myself so troublesome? However, this is not something that will be immediate, so you have to take your time! "

"You figured out the aloe vera water two months ago, right? Why didn't you push it to Sun Ji to sell it for money?" Sun Yuxia asked.

In the spring of this year, Jin Xi began to fiddle with these waters, perfumes and so on whenever she had free time. She only kept them for trial use, and never pushed them to the shops for sale on a large scale. As in previous years, when she fiddled with new products, she immediately bought them. The act of selling money is a little different!
Jin Xi smiled mysteriously, and while patting her cheeks to help the skin absorb it, she said, "I'm planning a big plan for this trip, and I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry. You'll know what I'm going to do when autumn comes. Auntie, Just wait and see!"

"Well, then I'll keep my eyes open and wait to see your good show! Hey, girl Xi, your parents have sent a message. About Mao Shiba and the others being arrested, your parents and the others are also in the village. I heard it. Your mother asked when you plan to go back?" Sun Yuxia suddenly remembered this, and hurriedly told Jinxi, so as not to go back to sleep and get busy and forget about it.

When Mao Shiba and others were arrested, a notice was posted at the gate of the yamen. Someone from Changqiao Town came to the county and saw it, and they would definitely go back and say it.Furthermore, Liang Lihui will definitely send a message back to Lao Liang's house.

Parents can hear the good news that Mao Shiba has been arrested no matter where they come from.

"Your parents don't know about your sprained foot, otherwise, they would have rushed over!" Sun Yuxia said.

Jin Xi nodded, this is true.Fortunately, Liang Lihui and Mrs. Zhou came to visit that day, and Jin Xi and Liang Lihui warned in advance not to mention her broken ankle to her parents.

"Ah Cai's injury has almost recovered, and my leg is fine, so I can go back by carriage." Jin Xi thought for a while, and said: "It didn't rain today, how about it, I'll work harder tomorrow After completing the last point of the account book, I will go to visit Guo Hai's mother the day after tomorrow, and when the road surface of the official road is slightly hardened by the sun in the day after tomorrow, and the wheels are not stuck, I will set off to go back!"

Three days later, the sky remained clear.After Jin Xi got up, she washed up refreshed and had a full breakfast. Accompanied by Ah Cai and Ah Wang, she and Sun Yubao boarded a carriage and went to the place where Guo Hai's mother and son lived.

The layout of Wanghai County is based on the trunk of a cross-shaped main street, which is divided into four major areas: east, west, south, north.Among them, in different areas, there are other small cross-shaped streets distributed, such as the eight extraordinary meridians on the human body, which connect the huge Wanghai County together and criss-cross.

Behind a small street in the southern area, there is a narrow long street. Because there is a Chenghuang Temple at the end of the long street, this street is also called Chenghuangmiao Street.

Similar to the large farmer's market at Xiaobeimen, there are various small shops on both sides of the long street in front of the Town God's Temple.Things to eat, drink, wear and play, as well as imitations of antique calligraphy and paintings, all gather in this street.On the bustling long street, there are also some prostitutes soliciting customers here.

There is a side opening on one side of the gate of the Town God's Temple, which connects to a small alley extending inside.Half of the people living in the hutongs were born and bred in the county, and were the poorest and the poorest.The other half is rented to those who come from below to do business. No matter who they are, as long as they place their homes in this small alley behind the Town God's Temple, they are all poor people who have nowhere to go and don't want to sleep in the open!
Guo Hai, mother and son, now live in the back street of Chenghuang Temple.

According to Sun Yubao, Mrs. Wang's family had ended their companionship with Guo Haina ten days ago. The reason was because the young master of the Wang family felt that Guo Hai was a bondage and a constraint.

In addition to being helpless and ashamed, Old Doctor Wang gave Guo Hai an extra tael of silver.Seven days ago, Guo Hai's mother and son quit their rented house near the North School and moved to the back street of Chenghuang Temple.

Jin Xi was sitting on the carriage, and the carriage was driving slowly on the crowded Town God's Temple Street. Jin Xi heard the messy noises coming from both sides of the window, and slightly raised a corner of the curtain to glance at the street outside.

The prosperity of the world is for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit. A mere long street of Chenghuang Temple is a microcosm of the real world.

"Xi'er, get out of the car here, the alley ahead is really narrow, the carriage can't get in!" Sun Yubao's voice came through the curtain of the carriage, and the carriage stopped slowly.

With Sun Yubao's support, Jin Xi got out of the carriage, glanced around, and saw that there really was a temple with red tiles and yellow walls standing in front of her. The vendors were taken over.Seeing Jinxi getting off the carriage, a small vendor selling cats, dogs and rabbits over there started to yell loudly in this direction.

Jin Xi withdrew her gaze, and led by Sun Yubao into the back alley.After turning around, there was a woman's voice cursing in front of her.Immediately, two women, one tall and one short, were standing at the door of their own house at the two doors that were open on the wall of the alley in front of them, arranging their hips and scolding each other.

Because she couldn't walk quickly, Jin Xi sped up her pace a little and walked through the middle, although she didn't want to hear it, but the obscenities from the women's mouths still couldn't help getting into her ears.Although the cause of the quarrel was unknown, the fierceness of the two women was astonishing.It's not so much cursing, it's better to say that they expose each other's disharmony in their husband's and wife's life, so as to achieve the purpose of attacking their opponents.

Sun Yubao's handsome face was flushed, Ah Cai and the other young people also passed through that section with their heads lowered as if fleeing.Jin Xi frowned secretly, Guo Hai might have no other way out, otherwise a gentle scholar would never have moved to such a place, next to such a group of women!

"Xi'er, we're almost there! It's just in front of the house, I've been there last time!" Sun Yubao said to Jin Xi, pointing to a dilapidated wooden door three feet ahead.

Jin Xi nodded, and glanced at Ah Cai who was behind him. Ah Cai was holding a bundle and a stack of food in his hand.On Awang's shoulders was a bag of rice, and a bag of rice flour.

Sun Yubao went forward to knock on the door, but the door suddenly opened from the inside. A middle-aged and elderly woman with a large tumor on the corner of her mouth, smeared with makeup, and wearing big red flowers on her head was pushed out from inside, and then the wooden door slammed from inside. fall on.

Ah Cai supported Jin Xi and gently moved her to the side. The middle-aged woman dressed as a matchmaker staggered twice, and was pushed and shoved by the people inside and sat down on the ground.

"Hmph, what are you so arrogant about? Knowing two words and being able to write a letter from home makes you cock your tail? Isn't it because you are poor and can't get rid of the pot, and you pretend to be aloof with my old lady, and you don't even piss and take a picture of yourself, I am!" The man got up from the ground, spat on the wooden door of Guo Hai's house, rubbed his butt that was as big as a dustpan, and walked away cursing.

Jin Xi's frown deepened, Sun Yubao shook his head, stepped forward to knock on the door lightly, and was about to report himself, when Aunt Guo's angry and crying voice came from the door: "Matchmaker Wang, you go!" Tell Zhao Yuanwai, not to mention the dowry of 50 taels of silver, even 500 taels of 5000 taels, don't expect to give her daughter to my son, our Guo family doesn't want such a woman as a wife!"

"Aunt Guo, I'm Yubao, brother Zhenbang's friend Sun Yubao." Sun Yubao said warmly through the door with a red face.

The wooden door creaked open from inside, revealing the haggard and old face of Guo Hai's mother.The previous anger on her face hadn't faded yet, but Guo Hai's mother was surprised when she saw Jin Xi standing behind Sun Yubao and Sun Yubao with a smile on her face.

Immediately the anger completely dissipated, stepped out of the room and reached out to support Jinxi, looked at Jinxi's feet, and said: "It turned out to be Miss Jinxi, how did you come here? How is your foot now?" ? Come, come, come in, sit and rest."

Jin Xi smiled slightly and said, "Tomorrow I'm going back to Changqiao Town, so I'll come to visit you today, Auntie."

Guo Hai's mother was stunned for a moment, seeing Ah Cai and Ah Wang carrying things with both hands, her face was moved, but then she lowered her eyes in shame, and said: "This place makes Miss Jinxi laugh... Hurry up Come on, sit and talk in the room." As he spoke, he personally supported Jin Xi and walked slowly towards the room.

Walking in the door, you will find a row of two low houses in a row, and the narrow yard is full of dilapidated furniture, such as tables, benches, wheelbarrows, carts, stone mills and the like.Using simple wooden brackets, I built an extremely crude hanger with two clothes still dripping on it.

Guo Hai's mother went into the room on the right, and brought out a long stool for Sun Yubao, A Cai and A Wang to sit on, and a low stool with a back for Jin Xi, and then gave them all a seat. Here comes the tea.

Jin Xi is holding the tea bowl in her hand, seeing the yellowish red tea soup in the bowl, smelling the smell, she is all too familiar.

Such rough and low-quality yellow tea is used to drink by poor families in the countryside and in the mountains.After I first came to this world, I went back to Sunjiagou for the first time. Sun Yubao and Sun Erhu's family basically only had this kind of yellow tea, and the tea soup that was brewed was similar to that yellow mud water.

Seeing Jinxi staring at the tea bowl in her hand, Guo Hai's mother lost her mind, feeling ashamed and embarrassed, only to hear Jinxi lower her eyes, take a sip, seemed to meditate in her mouth, and praised Sun Yubao: " It’s been a long time since I’ve had such an authentic camellia, and I remember that my grandma and my aunt used to be the best at making this kind of yellow tea.”

Sun Yubao also took a sip with a smile, nodded and said: "Isn't that true? We mountain people grew up smelling the smell of tea when we were young."

Jin Xi smiles, isn't that what it is, life is better now, but there are many things worth remembering and nostalgic in the poor years of the past.

(End of this chapter)