Lingquan after kitchen

Chapter 38 Inquiry
Leng Liyu suggested: "Why don't we go over and see what the tenant farmers are doing now?"

Dongfang Xuanyi said: "Li Yu, it's quiet at night and it's best for studying. Brother Ouyang is going to be a Jinshi this year, so let him go back to study. I'll accompany you to have a look."

Leng Liyu apologized, and hurriedly said: "Brother Ouyang, go back to Zhuangzi quickly. We all have our followers, so you don't need to accompany us."

Ouyang Jinye shook his head and said: "I am familiar with this place, if you are not familiar with this place for the first time, I will accompany you naturally."

"He is a night owl, and he sleeps very late. He ate dinner tonight, so he won't go back to Zhuangzi until he arrives for a walk." Dongfang Xuanyi fixed his gaze on Ouyang Jinye, and said, "The masters in Zhuangzi are all Women and children, you can give them courage when you go back."

Ouyang Jinye thought about it, so he went back to Zhuangzi.

Leng Liyu wanted to talk more with Ouyang Jinye, so as to understand the situation of Ouyang's family, and went back to the house tomorrow to tell his family, this is good, he was sent away by Dongfang Xuanyi.

"Why are you staring at me with a bull's eye?"

"You've only known me for a few days, and you know that I'm a night owl and sleep late?"

Dongfang Xuanyi strode towards the tenant farmer's house and said without looking back: "I want to know the situation of Ouyang's family more than you. We want to hear the truth, so we can't ask people from Ouyang's family. "

The most depressing thing in Leng Liyu's life is that his appearance is too ordinary, he said angrily: "My father said that my eyes are like my aunt's!"

Dongfang Xuanyi burst out laughing, and said sarcastically, "Your father's eyes are really bad. My aunt's eyes are ten times better than yours."

"You just pretended to be polite in front of your aunt in Zhuangzi, but now that she's not here, you're showing your true colors." Leng Liyu replaced Ouyang Jinhua with aunt, thinking that Dongfang Xuanyi couldn't understand what he said .

Dongfang Xuanyi turned his head sharply, fixedly looked at Leng Liyu, suddenly raised his eyebrows and smirked a few times, and said in a low voice: "If I talk too much, can Xiao Tianxian still notice you?"

"You mean I have to thank you for your generosity?" Leng Liyu has arrogance in his bones, but he has self-knowledge, knowing that he is not as handsome as Dongfang Xuanyi, and he is not as smart as him, but he can also see that the Ouyang family treats him well. Dongfang Xuanyi deliberately distanced himself.

Dongfang Xuanyi said solemnly: "It's not enough to just say thank you, we have to be more practical. That seal of yours..."

Leng Liyu blurted out: "No way!" The Tian Huangshi seal in the study was a birthday present from Grandpa Leng Taifu, so it is impossible to give it away.

Dongfang Xuanyi said casually: "So in your heart, the little angel is not even as good as a seal?"

Leng Liyu blushed slightly, and said angrily: "You made my two cousins ​​angry at my house, made them cry, and when you came here, you made fun of Jinhua to affect her boudoir name. I won't accompany you, you can go by yourself !"

"Brother Liyu, I apologize to you." Dongfang Xuanyi hurriedly stopped Liyu, who had already turned around, and said in a low voice: "If you are interested in the little angel, then you must go to the tenant farmer with me to ask and find out. People from the Ouyang family."

Leng Liyu said angrily: "You don't need to apologize to me, you have to apologize to my two sisters when you return to my house!"

Dongfang Xuanyi spread his hands, sighed softly, and said helplessly: "You only saw them leaving crying, but you didn't know what happened at that time, so you asked me to apologize to them? Think about it, my aunt was there at the time, Do I dare to bully them in front of my aunt?"

Leng Liyu then asked: "What's the matter?"

"They farted very loudly, but they had to rely on me. It was two farts with two noises in two places, not one fart. Even if I admitted it, no one would believe it. I just said it wasn't me. In the end, they ran away crying." Dongfang Xuanyi thought of the delicate and gentle eyes of Leng Liyu's two twin cousins, and felt like a caterpillar crawled across his heart, it was really a great thing to no longer have such small eyes Wonderful thing.

Leng Liyu was dumbfounded, and said to himself: "It's actually about farting."

"People eat whole grains, so what if they don't fart? You see, they can cry for such a trivial matter, causing me to be wronged by you. Sigh, shouldn't you comfort me?" Dongfang Xuanyi tugged at Leng Liyu arms, and strode toward the tenant farmer's quarters.

The sound of dogs barking one after another broke the silence of the night.Several tenants were twisting hemp ropes by the dim oil lamps. When they heard the barking of dogs, they knew that a stranger had come, so they opened the door and came out to have a look.

Leng Liyu wanted to see how Dongfang Xuanyi found out about Ouyang's family from the tenant farmer, so he followed him silently.

Dongfang Xuanyi spread his hands carelessly, turned towards a middle-aged tenant farmer who was walking in front, and said loudly: "My fellow, we are playing on Lishan Mountain, and we will eat dry food in the mountain in the afternoon, do you have anything to eat and drink at home?" Get some?"

Leng Liyu said in his heart: Just now I ate my throat, and said I didn't have dinner.

"There is no fine grain at home, but coarse grain. It will take a while to prepare it. Let's see if you can wait for it?" The middle-aged tenant farmer smiled and led the two of them and their six attendants home.

Dongfang Xuanyi said casually: "Forget it, I won't eat so late, drink some water to get rid of dryness."

The middle-aged tenant farmer was a little embarrassed, glanced at the woman, and said, "There are eggs at home, how about making some egg soup for you to satisfy your hunger?" Eggs are expensive, but when guests come, it is unreasonable not to eat them.

"My fellow, you really don't need to make egg soup, just boil water for us to drink." Dongfang Xuanyi saw chicken feathers on the ground by the moonlight just outside, "You have a dog at home, and you also have a dog."

The middle-aged tenant farmer asked his wife to boil water for several people, and replied: "I raised a dog to guard the door, and raised more than [-] chickens, more than half of which were hens. Each got a few catties of eggs, which can be sold for some money. Salt or something."

Dongfang Xuanyi said in amazement: "Raising so many chickens!"

"Every family in our few rows of houses raises so many chickens." The middle-aged tenant farmer said again: "We want to raise pigs and sheep in the spring of next year."

Of the four children in the family, two young ones were asleep, and the two older boys, aged eleven and twelve, were twisting hemp ropes while listening to a few people talking.

Dongfang Xuanyi asked: "What are these hemp ropes used for?"

"Our master collects hemp ropes, saying they are used to bind fruit trees in winter, to dress them, and to protect them from freezing." The middle-aged tenant farmer gestured at the thickness of the fruit trees and the ropes, and said excitedly: " A nine-foot-long hemp rope can be sold for two copper coins, such a small job can be done by children of all ages."

(End of this chapter)