Father's Farmer's Wife: Farming Makes a Fortune

Chapter 160 The Night of Qingyuan ([-])

Zhong Shi and Zhang Xiucai made an appointment to meet with Nanmen Yue at the stone bridge of the moat at six o'clock tomorrow morning, and the two had to meet in advance to make a confession, so as not to reveal their secrets in front of Wang Dabao.

After returning from that Zhang's house, he didn't even take a short rest in time, and then rushed to the south gate Yuena again.

Seeing Nanmen Yue scrubbing the tables and chairs brought out from the house by the well, she stepped forward and kidnapped her mysteriously again: "Yue'er, I have made an agreement with that young master of the Zhang family, He also agreed to pretend to be the object of your marriage contract to propose marriage, but before that, you two have to meet and make a confession, at least some of the situation between the two parties has to be told, so as not to reveal the truth."

"Where are we going to meet that young master? What does he look like?"

"Tomorrow is Sishi, you walk along the moat in front, and you will meet a single man on the first stone bridge."

Anyway, she didn't tell Mr. Zhang what Nanmenyue looked like. There were basically no people there, and the few who passed by occasionally went to the mountain to chop firewood or collect herbs. It should be correct to explain it like this.

"Sure, I see. I'll go there on time tomorrow morning." Nanmenyue was busy with work, and didn't want to talk too much nonsense with her. For such a trivial matter, she could adapt to the situation at that time. She turned around and went to work, but was given by Zhong again. stuck:
"Don't worry, this is related to your aunt's career as a matchmaker, so you have to distract me." She held Nanmenyue back and refused to let her go: "Also, I thought about it, I'm afraid it's wrong not to tell your parents about this matter. After all, you have a marriage contract with that young master. If your parents react too much, it's not a trap. Tonight, you can find a way to talk to your father. Say hello." He is the most difficult to deal with, and also the most difficult.

Nanmenyue thought that it was not a big deal, so she agreed: "No problem, I will tell my father after dinner." Anyway, it's not for real, just fooled Wang Dabao.

Seeing the cleverness of this girl, Mrs. Zhong stopped talking nonsense, her nerves were tense all day, and she was almost going crazy: "I'm going back to rest, remember to be careful, be careful!"

Nanmenyue waved at her and went to work again, when she suddenly remembered the tool bag she found, and hurriedly asked Mrs. Zhong: "Auntie, in which room did I find a cloth bag containing an axe and an ink fountain? Whose is it?" She wondered who else in the family knew carpentry.

Mrs. Zhong replied without turning her head: "Your unprofessional cousin said he wanted to learn woodwork, and it took tens of taels of silver to buy it. If you can't do it for a few days and find it hard, you will be separated from him." gone."

It's no wonder, she saw that the ax was almost unused, but it was mottled with rust, after a few sharpenings, it was usable again.

Thinking of such good luck, Nanmen Yue's mood became happier, and the pain that was stuck in her heart was temporarily put on hold.

Turned around and went to work by the well again. There were a total of twelve sets of tables and chairs that were brought out, and they were not badly washed. They were all moved to the flower shelf to dry next to each other, and the remaining scattered utensils were thrown away. For Lou Xiulan and Guo Kefu, get up and prepare dinner by yourself.

When Nanmen Junhou went out, he said that he would buy vegetables when he came back, so Nanmen Yue didn't have to go out.She washed the rice and put it in the pot. Just as the porridge in the pot rolled away, she heard the voice of Nanmen Junhou from outside. He was walking towards the stove with a small piece of pork and two handfuls of vegetables in his hand.

Putting things down in a hurry, she was about to go back to the house, but she was called out by the sharp-eyed Lou Xiulan.

"Master, you made a lot of money today?" Lou Xiulan had something to say, put down the rag in her hand and walked over.

"I earned a little extra money today, so I bought some meat for you to make a toothbrush." ​​He shrank and wanted to enter the house, but was grabbed by Lou Xiulan, who had quick eyes and quick hands: "What else did you buy besides meat? "As he spoke, he reached out his hand mercilessly into Nanmen Junhou's protruding coat, pulled it hard, and pulled out a book.

"It's all done, you still have the mood to buy books, why don't you just eat this book tonight." Lou Xiulan was annoyed, if it wasn't for the fact that there were two children at home, she really wanted to do it.

"Sent by others, sent by others."

He emphasized guiltyly, reaching out to take the book back, Lou Xiulan took a step back and avoided: "Which person has such a good relationship with you, even gave you the book? Why didn't you send me rouge and water powder? "

Nanmenyue was at the stove, seeing that the two of them were about to quarrel again, she hurriedly dropped what she was doing, and came over to put out the fire: "Okay, mother, why don't you just buy a book? If it doesn't happen, you can just buy a book." Stop arguing, mother, you go to work, father, you go back to the house and rest, I have something to tell you after dinner."

Lou Xiulan looked at Nanmenyue's seriousness, and thought that Mrs. Zhong's questioning of marriage to her had been settled, and she didn't have the intention to entangle with Junhou Nanmen any more. Didn't Mrs. Zhong come to the house again just now, she guessed, Can't go wrong.

Nanmen Junhou seized the opportunity, why would he stay here, and went back to the house quickly.

Finally, the yard became uncommonly quiet. The sun set in the west and the evening breeze blew away the heat of the whole day. With the last ray of red clouds in the sky, we started today's dinner.

Stir-fried vegetable stalks with pork slices, a plate of stir-fried vegetable leaves, and a bowl of steamed eggs are dinner tonight.

Lou Xiulan's thoughts had long been suspended by Nanmenyue, and as soon as she sat down, she quickly asked: "Yue'er, didn't you say you have something to tell us, what's the matter?"

Nanmenyue saw that she couldn't wait so much, so she didn't keep her secret anymore. After she filled the porridge one by one, she sat down and said, "Aren't you bothered by my father's books every day? Let's go to the academy. My father is a grand teacher, and there is no need for capital to open an academy, what do you think, father?"

Opening an academy in this era is not as troublesome as it is in the 21st century. You have to file for records and have qualification certificates. As long as you are knowledgeable, it is not difficult to open an academy. You can’t rely on her father to write letters for others to earn the meager money. .

Nanmen Junhou listened to his daughter's words, and thought about it seriously, so it's no problem for him to teach, but said: "Our master doesn't have a school, just these two shabby houses, where should the students teach when they come? "

"Well, you don't have to worry about it." Nanmenyue smiled and pointed to the flower shelf: "Look, our school is there. The tables and chairs are all ready."

Nanmen Junhou looked in the direction she pointed, and kept shaking his head: "No, it's too much, this flower shelf has no shelter, what if it rains, even if it doesn't rain, the scorching sun can't stand it ah."

"Father, you can rest assured about this. You just need to agree to teach me and nod your head to teach, and leave the rest to me."

(End of this chapter)