Idle courtiers

Chapter 5 Absolutely Not Allowed To Happen

It turned out that Zhou Nan and Zhou Yang had no family separation before. After he was exiled to Liaodong, Yunniang had dinner with Zhou Laoer's family.

Zhou Yang locked the stove, so there was no way to cook this meal.Seeing Zhou Nan's dusty face, Yunniang became anxious and cried out, "Second Uncle, Second Uncle, please open the door, Brother Nan hasn't had dinner yet, please."

Cigu's angry roar came from the house: "Little whore, I don't know where the wild man came out and said he was your husband-in-law, so he recognized it if he was so shameless. My kitchen is not willing to be used by people who don't understand." , so as not to dirty the territory of the old Zhou family."

Yunniang's eyes were red again, and she was about to beg.Zhou Nan frowned, grabbed her, and shook his head.Then he took out the remaining penny from his bosom and handed it to Uncle Seven, saying, "Uncle, I have saved this over the years, and there is still some left after half a year's journey. I would like to trouble you to find a partner at your house for a while." , deal with today's dinner first, I don't know if it's enough."

The country people don't see a few ingots of broken silver for half a year. When they saw the money, the seventh uncle hadn't said a word, and his wife snatched it away, smiling: "Enough is enough, Yunniang, you have been guarding it for ten years. The guards came back, and I went to my side to help and finish the dinner."

Zhou Nan didn't know what was going on in Yunniang's house. If he went back to the house with her at this time, it would inevitably show his flaws. It's better to send her to Qi Shugong's house to cook dinner first, so that he can familiarize himself with the terrain first.He smiled and said, "Thank you Seventh Aunt, Yunniang, I have been thinking about eating your cooking all these years, and today you have to cook in the kitchen yourself!"

Hearing that Xianggong said that she missed her cooking skills, Yunniang was happy in her heart, she nodded, and said softly to Zhou Nan: "You go back to the house and rest, I will go back as soon as I go."

After Yunniang left, Zhou Nan was frightened by the poverty in front of him as soon as he entered the wooden house.

It was so dilapidated that there were only two rooms inside.Outside is the main room, with a small square table and three small benches, while the inner room has only one small bed.The mosquito nets have already been broken like a sieve, and no matter how patched they are, they cannot be mended.A straw mat was also frayed, revealing the straw underneath.

The room was dark, and although the wooden floor was laid underfoot, it was already decayed.When the person walked up, the mountain shook with a bang, and accidentally got his foot stuck in the gap.

It took him a long time to get used to the darkness of the back room.But I saw a row of bamboo nails nailed to the north wall of the house, and a lot of clothes were hung on it.There are coarse skirts and men's short brown long gowns, all washed clean.No need to ask, the dress belongs to Yunniang.The men's clothes belonged to Zhou Xiucai.After so many years, she still keeps her husband's clothes, which shows that she is an infatuated and loyal woman.

There are also a lot of books in the corner, all of which were chewed to pieces by mice, as well as an inkstone and two brushes.

Zhou Nan picked up a book and looked at it, but it was "University" where someone drew circles with a pen and made annotations.No need to ask, it must have been written by Zhou Xiucai.The handwriting is neat and tidy, but it's not very good, at least worse than myself.

Zhou Nan studied liberal arts and liked to write calligraphy since she was a child.From the age of seven, the family bought copybooks by Liu Gongquan, Yan Zhenqing, Qi Gong, and Wang Xizhi and copied them repeatedly. After 20 years, they can write very well.After joining the work, he basically rounded up the notices and banners in the unit.

The key to practicing brush calligraphy is to read posts. As long as modern people want to, go to Xinhua Bookstore to sell them, or directly turn on the computer to search.Whether it is Wang Xizhi or Mrs. Wei, they can learn whatever they want.But the ancients did not have this condition, they all depended on their masters.Whatever the teacher writes looks like, that's what you look like.The shape is in it, and it is in the middle, and Zhou Xiucai's handwriting can only be regarded as the middle and lower.

After reading the book for a long time, Zhou Nan felt very boring.Although he is a liberal arts student, he is also interested in Chinese studies.However, after traveling to the Ming Dynasty, he didn't plan to take the imperial examination, so he threw it aside.He casually took off Zhou Xiucai's clothes from the wall, and found a piece of saponin next to the weir beside the bed. After washing for a long time, he finally washed off the dirt on his body.

After taking a shower and changing into clean clothes, I felt refreshed.Back in the house, Yunniang had already brought dinner back, and there was a strong smell of meat in the air.Looking intently, Yunniang was sitting at the small table with lowered eyebrows and waiting.

Today's dinner is quite rich, a bowl of boiled yellow chicken, a serving of stir-fried chicken offal with leeks, and a large bowl of brown rice.

Zhou Nan is overjoyed, top-quality local chicken, not to mention that I have been eating and sleeping in the open for the past six months, this kind of green ecological food is not easy to eat in modern society.

Immediately, I couldn't bear it anymore and stepped into the door, and after I shot a chicken leg, I started to chew it: "It's delicious, it's delicious...cough cough..." Accidentally, I choked on it.

Zhou Nan rushed into the room suddenly and surprised Yunniang. After washing, the handsome husband in front of him seemed to be a little different from before.Although the eyebrows and eyes are similar, I always feel that there is something wrong.Xianggong's old clothes were a bit tight on his body, and he was not at all like the thin and weak appearance ten years ago.

However, seeing him wolfing down, he was obviously starving, and he didn't know how much he had suffered before.Yunniang felt sore, she stretched out her hand and patted Zhou Nan's vest lightly, and said sadly: "Sister, please slow down, slow down...Sister, have a drink of chicken soup."

After taking a sip of the soup, Zhou Nan swallowed the piece of chicken, sat down, took a chopstick of chicken offal and put it into Yunniang's bowl.After accumulating emotions, he pretended to be light and deep, and said: "Yunniang, you eat too, thank you for your hard work. It's my fault, it's my fault, I shouldn't have been so impulsive back then so that something bad happened. You're all alone at home."

Yun Niang's eyes were red, yes, this is my husband-in-law, he is still as gentle and considerate as before.She gently picked the rice grains in the bowl, her eyes kept falling on Zhou Nan's face, and she couldn't bear to look away: "Sir, you have grown taller and stronger, and your accent has also changed."

Hearing her words, Zhou Nan was so shocked that the chopsticks in his hand almost fell to the ground.In modern society, Zhou Nan is a native of the southwest region, and speaks the southwest dialect.Later, he went to university in the north and worked in the north, so he naturally learned Beijing dialect.Unfortunately, he has no talent in languages.Therefore, his accent is weird, and he was often used as a joke by his colleagues in the past.

The Huai'an Mansion speaks the Huai'an dialect, and the Huai'an dialect belongs to the northern dialect. Zhou Nan can understand it, but I'm sorry to ask him to speak it.When we were in the ancestral hall before, the scene was too chaotic, and everyone didn't feel it.But then the villagers will definitely find something is wrong.

This was the first crisis that Zhou Nan encountered after traveling to the Ming Dynasty. If she didn't deal with it properly, Yunniang would probably scream out immediately. There was still Zhou Yang's family in that house who wanted to eat her alive.

Well, if I can't even deal with a mere weak woman, I'm not qualified to survive in ancient times.Dear audience, let's watch my actor-level performance!

Zhou Nan immediately put on a sad expression, and sighed: "Yun Niang, I'm not going to make you sad. In fact, I didn't intend to talk about the ten years of Liaodong. I am a modest scholar, and I am a weak crown at the age of 16. Young man. When he was a child, he did farm work. But when he was dispatched to the army, he was driven all day to dig stones, build castles, and build buildings and halls for officers. He was half dead from exhaustion. One meal... unexpectedly could eat a catty Duomifan...he is tall and tall...is disgraceful and degrading. In Liaodong for ten years, he lived in a hut with savage soldiers all day long. He could speak Liao dialect, but he couldn't speak the language of his hometown. Really. It’s really a war dust from Xiaoguan, and Hehuang is separated from a foreign land. The Han people can learn the Hu’er language, but they scold the Han people at the city. Life is worse than death!”

Yunniang felt a pain in her heart, and finally couldn't bear it anymore, she grabbed his hand and wept, "Sir, I'm sorry for you."

Zhou Nan didn't wait for her to continue, and quickly reached out to wipe away the tears on her face.The tentacles are warm and moist.

He smiled and said, "Don't cry. People who cry too much tend to grow old. Now that I'm back, I want to see my family happy. Eat, eat."

After finishing speaking, he picked up a chopstick and fed it to her mouth. The most important thing now is to shut her mouth.

When had Yunniang been so considerate by her husband, even though they were husband and wife, her face was flushed with shame, she opened her mouth slightly, and bit the piece of chicken.

At this time, the voice of the second child Xiaodou came from the other side of Zhou Yangwu: "Father, mother, it smells so good, I want to eat chicken."

Zhou Yang shouted angrily: "Eat, eat, eat, you know how to eat, you are a pig!"

There was the sound of palms being slapped on the person, and then Xiaodou shouted unconvinced: "I want to eat meat, I don't eat barnyard rice, and I don't eat pickles. I am the only male of the next generation of the Zhou family. As the head of the family, I have the final say at home, I want to ask my aunt for chicken."

"Shut up and eat your meal."

"I don't care, I just want to eat meat."

Then, Xiaolan, Zhou Yang's eldest daughter, said: "Father, mother, we are children, or we should recognize this uncle."

Zhou Yang's wife, Ci Gu, scolded Qi Li loudly: "You little hoof, you have to recognize your relatives indiscriminately just to eat one bite, and I can't beat you to death."

Xiaolan: "If you have meat to eat, so what if you recognize a relative. Uncle, after all, it's my uncle."

People in the countryside live a hard life, and they don't see meat a few times throughout the year.Not to mention that now is the season of lean and yellow crops, Zhou Yang's family has almost no food left from last year, and now they are all eating weeds.

Zhou Nan spent money to buy a deliciously cooked chicken, not to mention the children, even his husband and wife could not resist the temptation of meat.

Immediately, Zhou Yang and Cigu were angry and annoyed, beating and scolding the two children.

Yunniang couldn't bear it, she brought an empty bowl over, and was about to split the chicken in half.

Zhou Nan: "What are you going to do, Yun Niang?"

Yun Niang said in a low voice: "In the past, my concubine would eat with my uncle, but today my uncle locked the kitchen because of anger. After all, we are a family, and if there is something delicious, I have to send some over there. After all, Xianggong is the eldest brother, so there is no need to be angry with the younger uncle, after all, he can't write two Zhou characters in one stroke."

"Don't go." Zhou Nan shook his head: "Yunniang, what you said is wrong. That's right, you worked with Zhou Yang in the past, but you didn't eat his family for nothing. First of all, this family is left behind by your parents. Yes, there are half of the second family, and half of mine. Besides, every spring planting and autumn harvest, you also go to the fields, and you don’t eat their food for nothing. As for the fact that you can’t write two Zhou characters in one stroke..."

He raised his voice and said loudly to the door: "How the second child treats my elder brother today, everyone can see how he treated you, the elder sister-in-law in the past. The sage has said: How can you repay kindness with virtue? When you complain straight, Repay kindness with kindness. Yunniang, you are too weak and kind to be bullied by others. However, this time I am back, and I will never allow such a thing to happen."

He said this on purpose to Zhou Yang's family. As a modern person, Zhou Nan is not as gentle, courteous and humble as the ancients are.The world is cruel. If you have no principles in some things, others will think you are weak and easy to bully, and dare to ride on your head and shit.

With a sound of "Guang Dang", Yunniang's room door was kicked open.

Zhou Nan thought it was Zhou Yang and his wife, and sneered in his heart: Why, you are not convinced, you want to fight me?
(End of this chapter)