Ordinary clear day

Chapter 10 Doubts
Zhang Bao continued: "The whole family is armed with knives and guns. What's the point of having two more scholars? Ama always said that he wanted to revitalize the family business. Could it be possible to revitalize the family business by relying on swords and guns? Brothers are reluctant to part with the prosperity of central Beijing. I don't want to suffer in the frontier, but where can I earn military merits in Beijing? After all, I still have to strive for success in the court!"

What he said was very unusual, Tong Shi didn't dare to answer, and handed him a bowl of goat's milk.Zhang Bao drank it silently, and took a bowl to feed his daughter.

After a while, when breakfast was finished, Tong asked someone to clean up the dishes, and accompanied her husband to the study. Seeing that he was not angry, she tested his intentions a little.

Seeing her cautious look, Zhang Bao smiled instead: "If you have anything to say, just say it, there is no need to be evasive like this between husband and wife." Tong said a little embarrassingly: "It's nothing, it's just that you seemed a little dissatisfied with the family just now, Is something wrong?" Seeing that Zhang Bao's face looked sour, she hurriedly said: "If you don't want to talk about it, don't tell me, anyway, I'm a woman, how can I understand these things?" She paused, He also said: "You must be tired after holding your daughter for so long. Give it to me. It's not good for her children to hear these things." After saying that, he stretched out his hand to hug his daughter.

Zhang Bao didn't let go, and said, "How can she understand? Let me hug her for a while, and I haven't seen each other often." He turned around and sat at the table with his daughter in his arms, and pointed to the girl on the other side. Chair: "Sit down, actually, it's okay to tell you about this, so that you know what's going on."

Tong was a little uneasy, sat down as she said, and listened carefully to her husband's ins and outs.

"I have been in Fengtian for three years. A dozen people who came together, those who returned to Beijing, and those who were promoted to Gaosheng, now except for me, there are only three or four people left, all of whom have no foundation. Last year, the imperial court pacified San Francisco, and the whole country Daqing, I had a chance to go back, as long as the family cleared it up, but the family wrote, saying that they want to take the opportunity to transfer the younger brother back to Beijing. There is a vacancy in the military department that can be given to him, so the money will be used first. I will plan for me in the coming year. I thought I didn't have much spare money at home, but my younger brother was getting married at that time, so I agreed, and I never complained. The new Zhou Fucheng last autumn was very good with me. Talking about it while having a drink before, I just found out that my eldest brother died of a concubine in the summer, and spent a lot of money on the funeral. There were a hundred people in the funeral procession, and at least it cost one or two thousand silver. He has How much money can I afford to pay for my concubine's funeral? How much money can I spend as a sixth-rank official? If he doesn't want to, just say it, why bother me?!"

After Zhang Bao talked about it, he almost wanted to fight the case. Shuning was hugged too tightly by him, and it hurt a little, but she didn't dare to open her mouth at this time.Tong stood up and comforted her husband's back.Zhang Bao suppressed himself, and seeing his daughter was tearful, he quickly handed her to his wife, and sat at the table by himself. After a while, he said again:

"Now we don't always think about returning to Beijing. I have also thought about it. Now I am only a low-ranking official. In the past few years, Shangguan's comments are only average. Even if I return to Beijing, I will only get a Yuanwailang. I am afraid that I will suffer. Only in the last ten or eight years did I have the chance to be promoted. My family doesn’t care about me now, so I might as well stay in Fengtian, wouldn’t I feel comfortable? Even if it’s you, don’t be angry.”

Tong lowered her head and remained silent for a while before she raised her head and said, "That being said, we are better off, but what about my son? We must always think about his future. Do we want him to stay with us in this kind of place for the rest of our lives?"

"You don't have to worry about that. I just said I would stay in Fengtian for the time being, and I didn't intend to stay here for the rest of my life. The return of Jingqi to the village was cumbersome and full of disputes. Now I have experience. In a couple of days For the sake of my diligence, Mr. Fu Yin or General Sa will speak for me. As long as the rank is promoted, are they afraid that there will be no future? If there is an opportunity, set up a position for the two of them. Wouldn’t it be better to look at the family’s eyes than to go back to Beijing for qualifications? In the end, it’s better to be a small official in Beijing than to be a small official that no one thinks of.”

"The son..."

"You don't have to worry. I will invite my husband in the next year. You must teach him to read well. What you said earlier is also reasonable. It's not good to just be able to read and not know how to ride and shoot. I will write to my family and tell him to recommend a good master. Come on." He sneered, "Could it be that such a trivial matter, they also say no?"

Tong Shi didn't bother to provoke him, and finally let go of the important matter on his mind.Although her husband had a rift with his family, she had always disliked her husband's family, so she was not very sad.As long as the future of the husband and son is promising, it is naturally good not to go back to the big family.Now she is also like a hostess, and she is used to being the master of her own small family. Now she is not interested in going back to the earl's mansion to be manipulated by others.

Sure enough, after the fifteenth day, Zhang Bao entrusted Zhou Fucheng to lead the way, and went to visit that Ding Juren in person, very satisfied.Although he is only a juren and he is not too young, it is enough to teach his son.He solemnly brought Duanning to the door to salute, Ding Juren readily accepted the students, and made an appointment that his family would bring Duanning to his home for classes every day, and also eat lunch at his home, and the meal payment had already been paid to a nearby restaurant.

Tong originally wanted his son to learn at home, but that Ding Ju was a bit old-fashioned, thinking that Zhang Bao went to the Yamen every day, and most of his families were female relatives, which was inconvenient.He insisted, so Tong had no choice but to give up, watching his son go out every day, thinking about when he would return home.

With her appearance, she was a little too lazy to take care of everything at home.Shuning ignored her and worked very hard to practice walking and talking every day.She is the soul of an adult, and naturally learns faster than ordinary children.When Zhang Bao found out that his son was not at home and his wife was distracted, he found that his daughter could run and walk and speak fluently.

Tong was embarrassed by her husband saying a few words.After a few months, she gradually got used to it. Instead of sitting around waiting for her son to come back every day, she spent time thinking about the dinner and the clothes of her husband and son.The daughter is well-behaved and obedient, and she doesn't mess around, so she can let the child run around at home without worry.

Before, she was always carried around by people. Shuning couldn't control where she could go. Now she can walk around the house freely without worrying about being followed all the time. It was the first time she carefully looked at the house and the family. everything of.If you don't look at it, you don't know, and you are startled when you look at it. The more she looks at it, the more doubts she has.Because she saw toilet water, soap, the palm-sized mirror in Tong's makeup box, and the lampshade made of glass.Aren't these things only available in the late Qing Dynasty?Even if the mirror and the glassware we have seen before have appeared, what about toilet water?Could it be that there are other traversers in this world?Has the history here changed?

At this moment, Shu Ning really wanted to look through the history books in the study, so as to find out what was going on.If history has really changed, is the Qing Dynasty she lived in still the Qing Dynasty she thought it was?

Unfortunately, no matter how smart Shu Ning is, it is still a shocking thing for a two-year-old child to read history books.The so-called abnormality is a demon, and she will never forget the consequences of being too sharp.At this time, she could only hold back, she couldn't look up books, she could only ask people.So she pretended to be a problem baby, pointing at things and asking people all day, "What is this?" "What is that?"

Although others are annoyed by her questions, curious babies are normal after all, and most questions can be answered.Among them, Bagua Xiaotao became Shuning's most popular answerer, because she always liked to ramble and often said a lot of things, although her credibility was quite suspicious.The following situations often happen.

"what is this?"

"This is soap. It's something that washes things for nothing. It's very useful. It can clean things up very well. It's much better than the acacia ointment used to wash things in our country. I heard that there are also scented soaps, which are spiced. Just use a little bit on the clothes, it can make the clothes fragrant for three days and three nights!"

"How did this come about?"

"I've heard the storyteller at Dongjiekou say that this is something that existed in the Song Dynasty and was invented by a son-in-law. He specially made it to please the princess's wife in order to please her. The princess showed kindness and specially passed on the recipe to the poor. The poor started a workshop, made soap and sold it for money, so they would no longer suffer from poverty. The little girl wants to be a good person like this princess when she grows up. .”

"..."

"what is this?"

"This is toilet water."

"What is toilet water? Is it made of flowers?" Who can't pretend to be a child?

"I don't know. It's a secret recipe. It's said that it existed in the Tang Dynasty. It's thousands of years old. Everyone says that this toilet water is made from hundreds of kinds of flowers, and a lot of precious medicinal materials are added. , can refresh the mind, and can also repel mosquitoes. It costs five taels of silver to buy a small bottle, and only the wives and ladies of rich and noble families can use it. The bottle of the third grandma is a big bottle, which is worth ten taels of silver. It was given by her natal family, and I have used less than half of it in the past few years since I came to Fengtian."

"..."

Shu Ning felt as if she was listening to a time travel history, why did she hear these stories so familiar?Although there are some discrepancies with the novel, why does it sound so similar to "Song Feng" and "A Good Man in Tang Dynasty"?Could it be that awesome man named Wang Zihao who really traveled to the Tang Dynasty to make toilet water?But if the plots in these novels really happened in history, then history should be very different. Why is she still living in the 21st year of Kangxi in history?
Hold on... history does seem to be a little different...

Shu Ning remembered the words "Beijing Banner Huitun" that she always heard. Could it be that "Boiled Qing Dynasty" is also happening?But this year is wrong!God, where did she wear it?
She felt that she didn't know what to say anymore, and there was only a blank in her mind.

(End of this chapter)