Chapter Twenty-Eight: Shi Kefa Strikes

Since coming to Lantian County, the life of the hedgehog has become extremely simple.

He lived his life as a table. I arrived at the house where my mother lived.

When I opened the door, I heard the hum of the spinning wheel, and when I saw my mother sitting under the eaves spinning thread, I walked over, sat down against my mother, and helped her sort out the twine.

The mother's spinning movements were skillful and rhythmic, perhaps because her son came, and the spinning wheel turned more cheerfully, and after half an hour, a ball of hemp finally became a twine of uniform thickness.

On this form, there are fixed official hours, meal breaks, and even toilet breaks.

Today is the time to accompany the old mother, so the pigs come at dawn

The pig took the spindle from the spinning wheel and said to his mother, "Rest." ”

The old woman stopped what she was doing, hugged the needlework and said, "Where is your daughter-in-law?" ”

The pig smiled: "She is lazy, I will let her sleep a little longer." ”

The old woman looked up at her son and said: "It's a great thing that she is happy at this age, don't let her come over to say goodbye these days, don't send all the pastries you brought back from Xi'an, leave half for her, she is a glutton, but she came to our house to let her suffer." ”

The pig hurriedly smiled and said: "Filial piety still has to be taught, she just vomited a lot today, and the child broke the example." ”

The old woman stood up with the support of the pigg, took her son's hand and entered the hall, took a closer look at her son's face, touched the white hair of his son's temples and said, "Why are you old like this, your father still called himself a beautiful boy at your age." ”

The pig smiled: "The child is not as open-minded as the father. ”

The old woman smiled: "It's your father who is not as good as you, he is a peace officer, you are struggling in the troubled times, and you refuse to go with the flow, naturally you have to suffer more losses, since you have arrived in Lantian County, then admit it, don't always be a pig, a piggie calls himself, my son has a name, Lu Xiangsheng is very good, this person is not ashamed of the people of the world, what name to change." ”

The pig said gently: "The child only wants to turn into a magic beast now. ”

The old woman looked at her son and said, "Thou art a man, what is a beast?" ”

"It is inevitable that people will have private feelings, and only for beasts can they be ruthless and despairing."

The old woman shook her head and said, "It's better to be a man, people should only be controlled by men, if they are controlled by beasts, what is a human being?" Can you remember to be a mother, remember your wife and have children with her, how can you count it as despair, child, you are just too disappointed.

Forget about the past, the emperor doesn't want you anymore, the Ming doesn't want you anymore, then change places, it's not bad here.

Wait a while to go with Weiniang to hand over twine, and see how the people in the market live, you will understand that you are a good luck, and what you do has not insulted your family style, and your ancestors have learned from you. ”

The pig smiled and agreed, and under the guidance of his mother, he took the basket and put the twine that his mother had spun in the past few days in the basket, and after a while, he actually filled the basket.

The old woman patted a basket full of twine and said affirmatively, "Two pieces of linen." ”

The pig looked at her mother's meticulous white hair, and her heart was slightly sour.

The old woman noticed the tears in her son's eyes, and said with a smile: "Do you think that the mother's work is the son's unfilial piety? You're wrong, that's not the case, let's go! ”

The pig picked up the basket, and the old woman smiled: "Heavy, right? Now it is very heavy, and when the twine arrives in the workshop, it is soaked, softened, rough and dyed, and it is no longer heavy. ”

When the mother picked up a small basket and put it on her arm, and walked in front with her little feet to lead the way, the pig deliberately slowed down so that her mother could always walk in front.

After leaving the house, bypassing a big willow tree, we arrived at the market, the morning sun did not rise for a long time, but the market was already very lively, the shop men removed the door panels, put away the lanterns, cleaned the door, sprinkled the streets with water, and the men pushing the wheelbarrow shouted loudly through the crowd.

Some vendors specializing in selling food set up a scene, the thick voice of the people in Guanzhong was annoying, but the old woman listened with relish, passing by a stall specializing in selling retort cakes, the old woman stopped, sniffed the smell of the retort cake carefully, and looked at the black and red retort cake again, and said to her son: "Today's retort cake has a lot of bee candy and dates. ”

Seeing that her mother seemed to want to eat something, she wanted to buy it for her, but was stopped by the old woman.

The little vendor smiled and said to the old woman: "Mother-in-law Lu, a few days ago you said that my family's cake is black and thin, take a look at it today, and spare no expense!" ”

As he spoke, he also tapped his own wooden plate with a shovel, full of momentum.

The old woman smiled and said, "That's right, when my son sells twine, come and weigh it, and leave me a good piece." ”

The peddler happily agreed, and the old woman continued to walk through the market with her son, and the pig whispered, "Mother likes to eat, so the child will buy it." ”

The old woman laughed and said, "There are so many people in the family, who is willing to eat less than my old wife?" It's just that this good thing has to be earned by yourself to be the most delicious. ”

The pig said in a low voice: "The child is not filial. ”

The old woman took her son's hand and said, "Living well is the greatest filial piety to me. ”

The pig was dragged by his mother around the market, and for a while he called out to the vendor who was carrying the burden and selling needles and threads, and he did not buy the goods after commenting on the goods, and then he picked and chose from some cheap jewelry stalls and did not buy them.

Seeing that his mother was happy, the pig followed her mother and encouraged her mother to buy what she liked from time to time......

Passing by the façade of a very imposing shop, the old woman pointed to the man at the door and said, "This trade is the fairest, let's sell the twine to their family." ”

The guy smiled when he heard this, took the basket from the pig and said with a smile: "Mother-in-law of the Lu family, it is not easy for you to recognize, our shopkeeper said, every merchant in my four seas, if they are as picky as you, then they will be compensated to grandma's house." ”

The old woman grinned and said, "Your shopkeeper's grandmother's house is at the back door of his house, and you can't go there." ”

When the shopkeeper saw that the man came in with the old woman, followed by a middle-aged man with an extraordinary bearing, he said with a smile: "Take it and weigh it, so as not to fold your head." ”

The old woman scolded with a smile: "The things brought by the old woman have never been less than two catties, and the thread is tightly woven, so you can fold your head?" ”

The shopkeeper just laughed, and the man sent the goods to the back, and after weighing, he brought two bowls of coarse tea and put them on the table, and the old woman took a bowl and drank it slowly, and urged her son to quench his thirst.

The hemp is the farmer of Lantian County, and the shopkeeper only needs to settle the manual with Granny Lu, and after the hemp becomes linen, there will naturally be a textile workshop to settle the account with the farmers.

One silver dollar plus six coppers, this is the fruit of the old woman's labor for more than half a month.

With the fruits of her labor, a cheerful old woman dragged her middle-aged son, who was two heads taller than her, out of the shop in a hurry, and came to the market again, this time the old woman skillfully bought a piece of meat from the butcher, an old elm hairpin, a lot of needles and threads, a bag of candy, and finally came to the peddler who sold the cake and patted the big wooden plate and said, "I want the softest piece in the middle!" ”

When she returned to the door, the old woman patted her son's arm and said, "Today is a pleasure, and it cost the boss a lot of money." ”

Somehow, Lu Xiangsheng seemed to be a little lighter when the big stone pressed on his chest.

When the mother and son sat in the hall to share the cake, the old woman looked at her son and said: "You have to distinguish clearly, it doesn't matter who this world leaves without anyone, the Ming Dynasty left you Lu Xiangsheng, and it didn't end immediately."

Similarly, Lantian County will not be so bad if it leaves you Lu Xiangsheng.

What we are experiencing today is what your mother has been going through every day for two years.

So, don't get yourself lost in what you're doing.

Do you think you changed your name to a hedgehog, and you're really a magic beast?

Do you really think that a case that has been decided by your hand must be impartial?

Son, your mother is seventy years old this year, I still want to live, continue to work, eat a bite of good cake can make my mother happy for many days, you see, how easy it is to be happy, why do you want to live your life like a dead mother?

During the day, it is a human magic beast, and at night it is a walking corpse, obviously not dead, how can he live like a dead man? Your mother-in-law is pregnant, and there is a dead person lying beside her, do you think she is very comfortable?

Your lady looks at whether a place is good or not, that is, from the needle and thread brain, today, things are sold fairly, and we buy things fairly, this is a good place, does a good place need a dead man to take care of things? ”

Lu Xiangsheng smiled: "Mother said yes. ”

The old woman smiled and pinched her son's cheek and said, "How beautiful it is to smile, why should you have a face without a little vitality." Go ahead, know that you are very busy, things in the yamen must be done well, and things at home must be done well, you are actually not a star and a half better than your father. ”

Lu Xiangsheng smiled and said: "After all, your son is from the two rankings, my father ...... hehe"

The old woman sighed and said, "I'm telling you this today because there is also a two-rank jinshi coming to you, and his ranking seems to be higher than yours." ”

Lu Xiangsheng ate the last bite of the cake into his stomach and said: "Shi Kefa is here, the child knows, from the moment he entered Tongguan, the child knew that the Ming Dynasty killed Lu Xiangsheng of the Ming Dynasty, and I don't know what he came to do with Lu Xiangsheng of Lantian County." ”

The old woman said, "I'm worried that this guy will humiliate my son when he comes. ”

Lu Xiangsheng looked at his mother's sparkling eyes and said, "I'll do it next." ”