Rebirth of the pastoral landlady

Chapter 323 The County Magistrate's Wife Summoned (Two in One)

"Miss, Awang doesn't dare to worry about that. We were all deceived by that Cangyun in the past. That guy's skills are just like his, and he is evil." The fact that the two of them intercepted the Lingbao made them feel a little palpitating.

"I teamed up with Agui, and I am no match for him at all. If the young master hadn't appeared in time and blocked the knife for me, I am afraid that what I broke was not my left arm, but my neck!" Awang drooped his face. road.

Jin Xi's eyes light up instantly, Ah Cai and the others regard her as their master, but they always call her Miss.The young master in Awang's mouth is only Wending. Jin Xi never wanted to haggle over these titles, because there is no need for that.

"Young master? You mean... Brother Wen beat Cang Yun away and saved you and Agui?"

Awang nodded again and again, and said: "With the young master coming out, ten Cangyun are no match! However, the fellow of Cangyun is obviously moving to rescue soldiers, and the young master took into account that Agui and I were seriously injured, so he rushed to Cangyun. Before Yun Nasi's rescuers arrived, they took the two of us back to recuperate. No, as soon as our injuries heal, the young master will send us to find you, miss!"

Jin Xi nodded in satisfaction, and Ah Cai who was behind said sullenly: "No wonder both of you have rounded jaws, so you are taking some leisure time to recuperate from your injuries! Fortunately, Miss is still so worried!"

Awang and Agui look at Jinxi guiltily, Jinxi smiles and glares at Acai, not allowing him to say anything more.Turning around, he asked Awang and Agui about Wending's situation.

Of course, she knew what to inquire about and what not to inquire about.He only asked Wending about his current injuries, and did he say anything about his return date.

"The young master didn't explain anything, but we saw that the young master moved freely, so the injury must be fine." Awang said.

Jin Xi nodded and said nothing, feeling a little disappointed in the result of this inquiry.Ah Cai noticed Jin Xi's expression on the side, frowned slightly, and asked Ah Wang: "If you think about it carefully, the young master really has no other confession?"

Awang was stunned for a moment, then slapped his head immediately, and said: "Look at my memory, I was so busy on my way that I left this matter behind!" After speaking, he took out a letter from his bosom and presented it to Jin Xi with both hands, saying: "The young master sent this to the young lady. The young master explained it before leaving. If the young lady asks about the return date, let the young lady look inside."

Listening to Ngawang's report, Jin Xi couldn't wait to go to the ox cart over there, and opened the letter paper.When you hold it in your hand, you can feel that there must be another puppet inside.

When Jin Xi took it apart and took a look, it was indeed so.Familiar eyebrows and eyes, when the corners of the mouth are tilted to smile, there are faint smile lines around the mouth.It's just that this time, under Wending's hands, her summer dress has also changed into an autumn dress as the seasons change.The head is still simple and elegant, without any decorations, and the waist is tied with a big bow tie with Jin Xi's characteristics.

On the back of the little doll, in addition to engraving a slender word 'Xi', there is also a poem.

The return date is not yet due, but the night rain in Bashan rises in the autumn pond.

Why should we cut the candles in the west window together, but say that when it rains at night in Bashan...

It is Li Shangyin's "Night Rain Sending North", written when the poet lived in a foreign land, and was blocked by an autumn rain from returning home, so he wrote a letter home to his wife who was far away in his hometown to express his missing emotions.

That is to say, the date of his return has not been fixed, does it mean that the troublesome things behind him have not been dealt with yet?

Jin Xi looked up and saw that the maple leaves in the woods had already been dyed more than half of red. Seeing that this autumn wind is about to pass, winter will soon be over, Brother Wen, the return date is still undecided.

In the joy of receiving the gift, it is inevitable that there is still a trace of loss and worry mixed in...

She stood upright holding the bullock cart, and gently kneaded the little puppet in her palm a few times, carefully feeling every carving on it, as if she could pass through this thing, and pass through the boundary of time and space, to see the puppet personally. Brother Wen's feelings when he carved this object...

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On the 28th day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar, the autumn is crisp and cloudless.Old Liangtou and Chen Yizheng, accompanied by Liang Yuzhong, made a special trip to Sunjiagou with generous gifts.Afterwards, they picked up Father Sun, and they set off for Zheng's house in Gengshan.

Father Sun and Liang Yuzhong acted as a matchmaker, and formally came to propose marriage for Liang Lisheng to obtain Zheng Taozhi.

The good news brought back later was that the Zheng family naturally agreed with joy, and the old aunt of the Zheng family and Taozhi's mother-in-law even shed tears of joy on the spot.

Liang Lisheng and Taozhi's marriage was chosen on the sixth day of the eleventh month of the lunar calendar. It was a good day that Mrs. Sun prayed for from the half-immortal in the village, and it was suitable for marriage.

After all, Taozhi passed several houses in front of her. According to Taozhi himself and the Zheng family, everything about this marriage should be kept simple.However, Liang Lisheng didn't think so, he wanted to win Taozhi into the door seriously.Before getting married, Taozhi and Taozhi's natal family must come to Lao Liang's house as guests according to the rules.

Chen Yizheng understood and supported his second grandson's approach, and promised that Liang Lisheng would bear all the expenses of his marriage.Even though old Liangtou was a little unhappy in his heart, Chen Yizheng opened his mouth, and he couldn't refute.

The days passed quickly, and it was the third day of October in a blink of an eye, and it was less than five days before Taozhi went to Lao Liang's house.

After breakfast on the morning of the third day, Jin Xi went out to the town shop as usual, and Mrs. Sun was already waiting at the door.

"A few days ago, I sent a few beds of cotton batting to the dumb bomber in the town. I'm afraid it's finished playing. I'll go to the town with you and get it by the way." Sun babbled, walking side by side with Jin Xi towards the gate of the courtyard And go, followed by Mama Dong.

"Go back to the cloth shop in the town and pull a few festive and lively quilt covers. It's best to find the kind of satin that is full of blessings. Your cousin is getting married in a month, and I have to make it for her. Prepare some outfits for the bed!" Mrs. Sun said while thinking.

Jin Xi smiled and listened to her mother whispering in her ears that Tao Zhi and Liang Lisheng were getting married, and although the Zheng family was happy, the head of the Zheng family was not Tao Zhi's mother, but Tao Zhi's sister-in-law.

Her sister-in-law has already released the word, saying that she had prepared a dowry for her sister-in-law a few times ago, but now that there are more and more children in the family, life is getting tighter, and she has no ability to buy a dowry for her sister-in-law. back.

And Taozhi's mother has no sense of self at all, she is distressed, helpless and dissatisfied with her son and daughter-in-law.Father Sun and Mrs. Sun couldn't stand it anymore, they were both busy preparing the dowry for the peach branch, more or less they couldn't let the daughter into Lao Liang's house naked, that would be the eternal laughing stock of others.

Father Sun is busy making boxes and cabinets, while Mrs. Sun is making pots and buckets and other small things for daily life.Sun's side took other things. Of course, when they did these things, they all did it without telling Taozhi.

As for Taozhi, on the day after the marriage was finalized, she followed the rules to evade and went back to Zheng's home deep in the mountains.

On Liang Lisheng's side, because this year's rice was well managed and the harvest was good, the cotton field was a bit weaker, but Liang Lisheng was still very excited.

He and Liang Yuzhong planned to keep the family's rations for one year, and sell everything else for money to pay for the family affairs.

After the autumn harvest, there was a short period of slack in the fields, and Liang Lisheng was not idle, but he took over all the bricklaying jobs in the village and neighboring villages that had flipped houses, and worked from dawn to dusk to earn money every day.

Seeing it in her eyes, Sun was delighted in her heart, and felt that Liang Lisheng was really good.So, they thought that the cotton harvest in the big house was not good, the Jin family had never been good at housekeeping, let alone the bed cover when they came home, even Liang Lisheng, Liang Liqing and the others didn't have a complete winter coat.

Mrs. Sun originally thought of saving the cotton for the family to make new cotton clothes, but now she changed her mind and took more than half of the cotton from her two acres of land, and bought a few new bedding for Taozhi first. , cushions and covers, as well as the winter padded clothes of Taozhi and Liang Lisheng, are all ready together.

If there was any cotton left, I made jackets for the children in the family.Others will wait until next year's cotton harvest to make plans!
When they came to the town, Jin Xi, Mrs. Sun and Ma Dong were assigned to Yang Whip to do their own thing.When the two of them returned to the Qianlixiang shop before lunch, Jin Xi and Cui Xique were taken aback.

What the two of them were carrying was full of things.Not to mention the bed clothes that are washed and changed every time, even the clothes and materials for Liang Lisheng and Taozhi's four seasons after their marriage, Sun has prepared them properly.

Cui Xique ran up with bright eyes, flipped through the things that Mrs. Sun had bought one by one, and exclaimed: "Sister-in-law three, Taozhi and Sheng boy are the blessings of which life they cultivated. Look at you!" This is something I bought for you, my dear, is this from your mother’s family or your in-law’s family?”

Indeed, the combination of Taozhi and Liang Lisheng confuses everyone in terms of seniority.

According to the Taozhi side, Liang Lisheng had to call Liang Yuzhong and Sun as cousins ​​and husbands, and Jinxi had to call Liang Lisheng as cousins.But if it was according to Liang Lisheng, Taozhi would have to call Liang Yuzhong and Mrs. Sun as the third uncle and third aunt, and Jinxi would have to call Taozhi the second sister-in-law.

This entangled issue of seniority was once one of the reasons why Old Liangtou didn't approve of this marriage, but he couldn't bear Liang Lisheng's affection for diving headlong into it.

Ever since, Lao Liang's family and the Sun's family have made up their minds in private, and everyone should not take this name seriously, and just call them as they used to be, otherwise, just call them by their names!
Mrs. Sun shook her head with a smile and said, "It doesn't matter if it's from her mother's family or her mother-in-law's family, for the sake of Taozhi living under one roof of my house, it's nothing if I buy some of these for her!"

Cui Xique nodded with a smile, and said, "Sister-in-law three, you are kind-hearted and open-minded, you can grasp and scatter easily!"

Mrs. Sun smiled and said nothing, Jin Xi on the side took the bait and said, "It's true that my mother can let it go, but she might not be able to catch it!"

Sun Erhu hurried to the backyard and handed a letter to Jin Xi.

"Earlier, I went to deliver goods to the big family on the East Street. On the way back, I met the town's security chief. He asked me to hand it over to you!" Sun Erhu said.

Baochang?Jin Xi opened the letter with surprise, and what leapt into her eyes was Liang Lihui's handwriting.

"Xi'er, who wrote it? It's nothing serious, right?" Sun asked a little nervously from the side, Cui Xique and Dong Ma also looked surprised.

Jin Xi closed the letter, raised her eyes and smiled slightly at Mrs. Sun, and said, "It's from Brother Datang, saying that I'm going to visit the county government office in two days, there's something to do."

"Go to the county government? What's the matter?" Mrs. Sun was even more surprised, with worry on her face.

Jin Xi smiled and pinched Sun's hand, and said: "Mother, don't worry, we are doing well, opening a shop is also a legal business, there must be other things to go to the yamen, but it must not be in the way Don't panic!"

Jin Xi winked at Dong Ma and Cui Xique again, and the two came to understand, and hurried over to help comfort Sun, but even so, Sun's heart was hanging and hard to let go.Jin Xi herself is not full of suspicion, but in Liang Lihui's letter, there are only a few sentences, telling her to go quickly, and there is no other explanation.

The next day, just after dawn, Jin Xi took A Cai and A Gui and set off for the county seat.Liang Lihui seemed to have a premonition, and waited by the stone lion at the gate of the county government according to the time.Seeing Jin Xi approaching, she hurried to meet her.

Jin Xi speculated all the way, and when she saw Liang Lihui's anxious but uncontrollable joyful face, the faint worry all the way also receded.Looking at him like this, I'm afraid something good will happen!
"Sister, there is a happy event, it's still a big happy event!" Liang Lihui said in the first sentence when they met.

Jin Xi was surprised, she got off the carriage and asked, "Brother, where does the joy come from?"

"Do you still remember the last time when you offered advice and used yourself as a bait to let the government capture fugitive Mao Shiba and the Ma brothers alive without a single soldier?" Liang Lihui asked with a smile.

Jin Xi nodded, the impression was so deep that she and A Cai almost gave their lives. "Of course I remember, what's wrong?" Jin Xi asked.

Liang Lihui was overjoyed, and said: "Because Mao Shiba and others were all arrested, and followed the vines to find out the mastermind behind the gang of unscrupulous pig dealers, and caught them all. Yunzhou sent a special envoy here, and not only gave Wanghai county government I appreciate it, and I also specifically mentioned you, my sister, and rewarded you with 200 taels of cash..."

200 taels of silver?There was a momentary blank in Jin Xi's head which was shocked by this news.This is unexpected money. With these 200 taels, it is great to use it to buy a field for the family!
Liang Lihui didn't wait for Jin Xi to be distracted for a while, and urged, "Sister, don't be dazed, the two hundred taels of silver have already arrived at the county government office, you go in with me to meet the county magistrate first, and then accept the money, two hundred taels Well, it’s not a small sum.”

After finishing speaking, he turned around and walked towards the gate of the county government. Jin Xi asked A Cai and A Gui to wait outside, and followed Liang Lihui into the gate of the county government step by step...

A few days ago Jin Xi came to the main office of Mingshan Pavilion for routine inspections, and would pass by the county yamen, except for the time when she went to the county yamen prison with Wending, this was the first time she entered the yamen, and she still went to see the county yamen Grandpa.

The county magistrate is the parent official in this area.In the eyes of the villagers in the village, the magistrate's prestige far exceeds that of the emperor thousands of miles away.

Jin Xi's small heart couldn't help beating faster.Along the way, the layout of the houses inside the county office is not much different from those on the streets outside.If there is a difference, it is that in some details, it adds a sense of majesty that the residence does not have.

Originally, he was going to visit the county magistrate, but when he entered, he was told that the county magistrate had just received an official letter from Shangfeng and was discussing important matters with Zhou Xiancheng and the master in the main hall.

However, the county magistrate also told his wife to meet Jinxi, so Liang Lihui sent Jinxi to the gate in the backyard of the county government office, and he himself stopped.

Soon a woman in charge came out and welcomed Jin Xi into the inner courtyard.

The maid in charge led Jinxi all the way to an octagonal gazebo in the small garden of the inner courtyard.The season has entered late autumn. In the small garden, the greenery is sparse and the withered yellow is gradually growing. A small pond is full of withered lotus.

The late autumn sunlight shines on the white stone steps outside the gazebo, and on both sides of the steps there are blooming Hypericum chrysanthemums.

Jin Xi lifted her skirt slightly, followed the servant in charge up the steps and into the gazebo.

"Ma'am, Miss Liang is here." The maid leading the way bowed and said to the middle-aged woman sitting upright in front.

Taking advantage of the moment when the maid leading the way bowed down, Jin Xi glanced at the scene in front of her out of the corner of her eye, and saw a small round table inside the gazebo, on which were placed various kinds of melon and fruit snacks.A gorgeous figure sat on the side, and two maidservants stood behind him.

"Okay, bring it here for me to see." The county magistrate's wife, Fang Shi, said lazily, lifting her eyelids while playing with a date on the table.

The maid turned around and glanced at Jin Xi, then stepped aside.Jin Xi lowered her eyebrows when she heard this, and as the servant had told her to, she squatted down, with her hands sleeves at her side, and calmly bowed to the woman sitting at the table in the middle of the gazebo in front of her.

"Minister from Jinji Mountain, Changqiao Town, Jinxi Liang, I have met Madam, please greet Madam." There was a light voice, slightly lowered eyebrows, and a just right smile on her face, which was both respectful and not at the same time. Appears timid.

The corners of Fang's mouth curled up into a faint smile, and his eyes turned around the girl in front of him. She was dressed in simple clothes, and there was no decoration on her head.

Unlike the rough-skinned and thick-skinned girl she imagined growing up in the countryside, the girl in front of her was fair and smooth, but she was not considered a beauty, at most she was pretty.Mixing in the crowd, she was the kind of girl who couldn't be more ordinary.At first glance, it will definitely not make any deep impact on her.

"Miss Liang, don't be cautious, sit down and talk." Fang raised her eyelids and said calmly.

Jin Xi thanked her with a smile, straightened up, and sat on the chair prepared for her at the side, leaving two-thirds of the seat instead of all the seats under her body.

Fang took into account her sitting posture, the smile on the corner of her lips deepened, and glanced at the servant woman standing behind Jin Xi who was leading the way.

Although she is a country girl, she is not too stupid. The few words of training in this short journey have been learned and put into practice.

"Miss Liang's heroic deeds, as a woman in the inner courtyard, I also heard a thing or two from the master, and I really admire them. When I saw the two girls in person today, it was a little different from what I imagined! Look at such a delicate and quiet little girl like you." With a strong body, how can you have the courage to deal with such vicious people like Mao Shiba!" Fang said with a smile after looking at her.

Jin Xi also pursed her lips into a smile, and said, "Ma'am is absurd, I am ashamed to be a girl. To successfully capture the criminal, the county magistrate's wise layout is the key, and the girl just did her little bit."

"Look, this little mouth is quite good at talking. He has made the first-class contribution, but he is so humble. No wonder he can be favored by the big shots in Yunzhou, and he will be rewarded generously again." Fang said with a smile. , although she has a pleasant face, Jin Xi doesn't feel that her smile reaches her eyes.

The strings in Jin Xi's heart tensed a bit, she smiled, but she didn't respond to Fang's half-praise half-probing words, she pretended not to understand.

While Fang was sizing up Jin Xi, Jin Xi also glanced at Fang Shi, the county magistrate's wife in front of her.

Fang's age should be five or six years older than Sun's, about 33 or [-].Underneath she was wearing a navy blue gold silk lily skirt, and above was a lotus-colored short coat with an open front on the right lapel. The wind in the gazebo in late autumn was a bit strong, and Fang was wearing a white dress on her shoulders. Small velvet scarf.

The hair is piled up in a high bun, with red hairpins of various lengths and hairpins inlaid with gold and jade inserted between the buns, and silver dangling pendants on the ears.Because of the good maintenance, her skin looks much smoother and more tender than Sun's.

When Fang looked at people, he habitually liked to squint his eyes, which was a usual gesture of superiors.Because of this, there will be wrinkles of different shades at the corners of her eyes.It can be seen that no matter how good the maintenance and whitewashing is, it will not be able to withstand the ruthless killing knife of the years.

"I asked you to come here today because a batch of rewards has recently come from Yunzhou. One of them is about the pig dealer in Yunzhou last time. My master told Miss Liang to come here today to distribute the rewards to Miss Liang. A reward of 200 taels of silver." Fang said, playing with the jujubes in his hand, straight to the point.

Jin Xi lowered her eyes and listened seriously, her eyes fell on the embroidered shoes under Fang Shiru's skirt. picked.

"My master said that Ms. Liang used her as a bait to arrest Mao Shiba and other criminals last time, and she contributed a lot. Since Jinjishan Village is a long way from the county government, I don't know if Ms. Liang is the reward for the two hundred taels of silver. Do you want to get a silver ticket for easy carrying? Or exchange it for cash?"

Fang asked indifferently, put back the jujube that he had been playing with in his hand, subconsciously put his left hand on the wrist of his right, and when he was talking, his fingers gently turned the jade bracelet on his wrist.

Her eyes fell on Jin Xi's face, and Jin Xi faintly sensed a different kind of expectation from Fang's eyes.

Jin Xi was slightly stunned, and lowered her eyelashes slightly.

The two servant girls behind Fang, as well as the maid leading the way, all looked at Jin Xi with amazed and envious eyes.

If anyone can give them a reward of 200 taels of silver, as long as they spend some time leisurely, they will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of their lives.

(End of this chapter)