Bachelor

Chapter 46 Face Change
Sun Dan was surprised by Zhiniang's father's happy face. He stood still and looked up and down at his father-in-law.

Butcher Wan was picking a pork leg bone with a knife, and his son was helping with a limped leg.After all, it is disabled and moves slowly.Butcher Wan slapped his son on the back, and said angrily: "You useless plague weapon, if you tell you to shave a bone, it will kill you. For so many years, you have eaten me and used me, and the money is wasted. Now I have grown up, but it is useless at all. I wasted three meals of white rice a day. Quickly, pick out these two thigh bones for me, wrap them in lotus leaves, and give them to me Baby daughter and son-in-law go home and cook soup."

"Father!" Brother Zhiniang snorted dissatisfiedly, but stared at Sun Dan with good intentions.

Sun Dan didn't care about the hostility in Wan Li's eyes, but Wan Butcher's enthusiasm made him wary.

"Hello, Daddy." Mother Zhi greeted in a low voice: "Hello, big brother."

"Hmph." Wanli let out a muffled snort.

"Okay, everything is okay." Wan Tufu replied with a smile, his eyes narrowed into slits, and he looked up and down Zhiniang: "Daughter, on the day you just had a full moon, I spent ten yuan ago to hire a fortune teller to show you Xiang, that fortune teller said that you are born with good luck, and you are a sign of great wealth. Haha, that guy is right. Who are you? , I was right."

Zhiniang thought that her father knew that Sun Dan had made a lot of money in the past two months, and now that she was praised by her father, she was very happy: "What did you say, Sun Lang and I are just small households, and it would be nice if we could ask for a bite of hot food. Satisfied."

"What's a small door, a small family, a small mouth?" Wan Butcher suddenly opened his eyes with narrowed eyes.His eyes were like two round copper coins emitting yellow light, "Brother Dan must not be hidden from anyone, he got the first place in the county examination. Now, the whole county has spread the word that the Sun family has a small Talented people, sooner or later they will win the Juren, Jinshi, and become a Grand Master. Hehe, in the future, my son-in-law will become a Grand Master, my daughter will naturally be his wife, and my old man will be able to enjoy the blessings of being a Grand Master."

Zhi Niang hurriedly said: "That's not the case, Daddy, you made a mistake."

"What's the matter, what's the matter?" Butcher Wan chuckled, wrapped two pork leg bones in lotus leaves so that no shreds of meat could be seen, and stuffed them into Niang Zhi's hands: "Take it back and cook the soup. After two years It's hard for you."

Next to her, Zhiniang's elder brother Wanli was unhappy: "Father, these two leg bones were promised to be left for the Gong's noodle shop to make soup. You gave it to Zhiniang, how will you explain to her later?"

"Confession, confession!" Wan Tufu yelled angrily: "I know you can't see your sister living a good life, what are you? You are my seed, and your sister is not my seed? They are all my heart , I feel sorry for everyone. Don't talk about two bones, even if I give her all my meat and my family property, it's just a word from me, and it's not your turn to show off."

When Zhiniang heard her father say such kind words, her eyes turned red: "Thank you, Daddy."

Sun Dan sneered in his heart, he understood that this old husband heard people say that he won No.1 and was optimistic about his future, but now he came to please him.

Let's see how he performs.

The scene of the Wanjia Meat Case was very lively, and people with good intentions gathered around to watch the excitement.

Niang Zhi took the pig bone and said in a low voice, "Father misunderstood, although the number one in the county examination this time is also called Sun Dan, but it is my family's Sun Lang, but another Sun family child with the same name and surname."

"No way, good girl, you won't lie to your father, will you?" Wan Butcher still didn't believe it.

"That's the truth." Zhi Niang also felt embarrassed, and said, "Dad, don't forget, Sun Lang is illiterate, how could he take the exam, and how could he get the first place?"

"Ah!" Wan Tufu was dumbfounded, and after thinking about it, this is indeed the truth.He slapped himself on the forehead suddenly: "Confused, confused, how can a blind person take the first place in the exam? I will be ashamed of myself."

The onlookers started booing: "Old Wan, do you want to be a scholar's father-in-law crazy, and don't think about what you are, just a knife maker who kills pigs, and you want to be rich?"

Everyone coaxed like this, but Wan Tufu was very embarrassed. When he looked up, he saw Sun Dan standing there with a sarcastic smile on his lips.

Wan Tufu didn't mind at first sight, but the more he looked at Sun Dan, the more he disliked it, and a wicked fire rose in his heart.

He straightened his face and said, "Mother Zhi, if you didn't tell me, I forgot, the pork leg bones at the Gong's noodle shop are urging me so hard, and I can't go back on my promise to others, you still put this bone Give it back to me."

"Give it to me." Zhiniang's eldest brother Wanli suddenly stretched out his hand, snatched the lotus leaf from Zhiniang's hand, and sneered: "You really think you are a wife, and you want to make broth for it?"

"You..." Zhi Niang suddenly burst into tears.

This sudden scene made everyone in the audience quiet down.

"It's too hurtful, too hurtful!" Sun Dan was furious, and secretly said: "The old and young guys are really hateful. Is there anyone who does this? If you don't bring this place back today, it's really a shame." My husband and I are easy to bully?"

He didn't talk nonsense, he stepped forward and pulled Zhiniang away, stared at Butcher Wan quietly, and said indifferently: "Old Taishan, can you get past what you have done?"

"What are you doing, what a fart, just go, you trash." Butcher Wan threw the two leg bones on the chopping board with disdain: "If you want to eat my pork, buy it with the money, don't try to trick me. "

"Yes, don't try to trick our Wan family." Wan Li interjected at the right time.

"Hehe, you don't love your daughter or your biological sister, but I, Sun Dan, still love my own woman!" Sun Dan smiled, ignored the father and son, walked to another meat case next to him, and took a piece of meat. The money was thrown over: "Boss Zhou, here is two taels of silver, how much pork can you cut?"

"Two liang of silver is enough to buy 150 catties of meat." The butcher Zhou next to him hurriedly replied that prices were extremely low in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and a catty of pork cost only thirteen Wen.This street is the main distribution center of agricultural and sideline products in Zouping County, and there are many dealers selling pigs and ducks.Butcher Zhou is the main competitor of Butcher Wan in business. Today, seeing such a big business come to his door, he was also happy in his heart after seeing such a big business, so he hurriedly replied respectfully.

"I don't need so much. I'm going back to the Sun's residence soon. In this way, this ingot of silver is temporarily stored with you. You send half a catty of meat to my house every day and give it to my wife until the money is spent. By the way, if If you have good fish, send some to them too. My wife is in poor health and needs meat to nourish her.” Sun Dan smiled and said, “It’s still the same sentence, my wife hurts herself, and others can’t count on it. I, Sun Dan I didn’t even think about who to count on.”

"Okay, don't worry." Butcher Zhou sang a promise loudly, and shouted to the apprentices beside him: "It's quick, Boss Sun takes care of my business, please work hard for me, and take the good ones. Give me half a catty of the meat from the seam and send it to the Sun family."

"Got it!" The apprentice knew that Butcher Zhou wanted to bring bad luck to Butcher Wan, so he gave a long answer.

Wan Butcher's face turned green and white, and he suddenly snorted and shouted: "Old Zhou, I don't know what kind of family background my son-in-law is, so I suddenly took out these two taels of silver, it must be fake. There are many people nowadays. Adulteration in silver, as a friend for many years, don't say I didn't warn you."

Butcher Zhou sneered: "Thank you for your concern. Old Zhou, I have touched more silver than I have eaten. My eyes are poisonous. Once the silver is in my hands, I can tell how it is. This is pure snowflake silver. Why, Old Zhou doesn't believe it. Oh, I see, you haven't seen a lot of silver in your daily life, and you have no eyesight. Let me open your eyes today." After that, he raised the bone knife and slashed down.

"Dang!" With a sound, the ingot of silver was chopped into two pieces.The unique mellow light of silver shines at the fracture.

Everyone in the audience burst into laughter: "It is indeed very good silver."

Wan Tufu stopped talking, his face was so gloomy that water dripped out.

Naturally, Sun Dan was not interested in caring whether the old man was in a good mood, so he took out his silver bills from his pocket to buy in the market, and placed an order with the duck seller and the chicken seller, and arranged for Zhiniang's food for this month. It was done, and then he walked away slowly with his hands behind his back in satisfaction.

After careful calculation, four taels of silver went out like this.

Seeing Sun Dan's bold move, the onlookers were suddenly in awe, silently flashed a passage, and watched Sun Dan and Zhi Niang leave.Then they got together and discussed in a low voice: "Sun Dan seems to have lost his temper."

"Well, I heard that I met a nobleman."

"That's right, walking around Huichang Hou's house all day long, the ground is full of nobles, as long as you meet someone who looks up to him, a little leakage between the nails will be enough for ordinary people to eat and drink."

"Good luck, I just said, I don't think this kid is an ordinary person."

Butcher Wan finally broke out. He spat hard and cursed loudly: "Girls are extroverted, and I'm unlucky too. I gave birth to a disobedient and unfilial girl. The money is so cheap that it's cheaper for others! Nizi , Rebel!"

After cursing a few words, Butcher Wan couldn't catch his breath, coughed a few times, sat down on the greasy table, and couldn't help panting.

"Father, are you okay?" Wan Li asked hurriedly.

"Fuck you, you wish your father would die quickly so that I could get my family property and marry that foxy son of the Tang family." Wan Butcher became more and more angry when he thought about it, and slapped Wan Li on the face: "Get out, see you The lame old man is angry, if he knew that he gave birth to you, he would just throw it into the moat to feed the fish."

Wan Li was extremely annoyed by this slap in the face, and said in a low voice, "Father, you won't be polite if you hit me again."

"It's only natural for me to beat my son." Another slap was slapped.

Wan Li quit, untied his dirty apron and threw it on the ground: "No more, this job can't be done anymore. You can get one or two taels of silver a month for killing pigs, but for you, you only get three I don’t have a single penny for pocket money. I’ll just go home and raise meat. You can’t deny me food and starve me to death. Huh, no matter what nonsense, I won’t even eat food. The queen of the Wan family."

……

"Don't send it off, I'll go to the Sun Mansion by myself." Sun Dan waved to Zhi Niang.

"Remember to come back early on the first day of next month." Zhi Niang said, "Father... I always feel that something is wrong with today's affairs."

"Don't pay attention to him, the more you pay attention to him, the more energetic he will be." Sun Dan smiled: "There are some things you can't hide from, the weaker you are, the more others will bully you."

Zhi Niang smiled slightly: "With you here, I can't stand being bullied by others."

"Let's go." Sun Dan strode forward, the government exam is coming soon, and he has to prepare for homework.

(End of this chapter)