Chapter 127: What's the hazy night

The night is hazy, and lanterns reflect the water. It shines on the red pavilions and stars in winter.

In the water clouds, looking down from the window on the second floor, there was no ice in the artificial lake. The old man who came here a few days ago and his family also arrived here. At first, he felt surprised. Later, he saw someone roasting the lake with a charcoal brazier during the day. If there was a little ice, they would be caught.

At this time, a few lanterns were hung on the boat and placed in the lake to illuminate it, setting off the pavilion in the middle of the lake, and reflected the starry sky in winter, hazy and dreamy.

One six, the seven-year-old girl had two braids on her head, leaned her hands on the window, and looked down at her feet. Her big, lively eyes blinked, full of curiosity.

"Grandpa, look, look, there are lanterns below, so beautiful." The little girl freed up a hand, pointed her arm straight down, turned her head and said excitedly to the old man.

The old man had already known the scenery below, but he still stood up, walked behind the little girl, looked at the place where his granddaughter pointed, touched his granddaughter's head, and said, "I saw it, I saw it, I feel it's good, and I will watch it often in the future."

"Dad, do you really want to retire?" asked a man sitting next to the table when he heard what the old man said.

"Kang'er, it's not that I want to retire. My body is getting worse every day. Staying in that position will make people misleading the country and the people. It's better to find a place with a good view and enjoy the wind and moon when I'm free." The old man was helpless when he spoke. Seeing his granddaughter looking up at him with confusion, he said to his granddaughter:

"I didn't know where to look for before, but now I understand. Just look at the scenery and taste the delicious food here. From now on, you can watch it all day long. I think they can't care about me asking for too much money. The girl from the Wang family, do you think?"

The following words were said to Aunt Wang, who was mentioned by others. Before Aunt Wang could say anything, Dazao and Xiaozao who were serving him nodded together. Xiaozao's mouth was almost there. "What the adults said is that in the future, they don't have to pay a penny. How dare the Zhang family ignore it?"

"Haha, little girl, if you say this, don't let the people of the Zhang family hear it, otherwise you will be driven away. Today's Zhang family is not the same. I will let you see that child tomorrow. You can have something to say when you go back after the New Year."

The old man did not think that the head of the Zhang family would still be as afraid as before. If the Zhang family had done in the past two years, if it were not for the head of the family, there would definitely be guidance from experts behind it.

Aunt Wang didn't think the Zhang family was anything great, and said to her side: "Sir, even if the Zhang family is stronger than before and has a seventh-rank scattered official, it will not be able to catch the eyes of others. Just wait until you go to Beijing next year, and you still have to stay in the Wang family? Otherwise, who will help him hold a poetry and wine meeting?"

The old man looked at the person in charge of the Wang family, that is, Aunt Wang, who sent the Wang family this time, and appeared in his eyes with a look of disappointment. He shook his head and said, "If you still think so, don't go to see the children tomorrow. Look at the way Zhang and Wang families deal with them now, how can ordinary people do it?"

Aunt Wang didn't dare to contradict the old man, so she could only murmur in a low voice, "It's just a farm, can you still have great skills? Just a hundred and ten farmhouseholds will reach the sky?"

When the old man heard this voice, he didn't want to say much. He turned to his son and said, "Kang'er, you can go and see it tomorrow. Today, I don't know what Zhang and Wang's villages look like. Learn from your cousin, hide in Xiao Luoshui, and learn what's happening on the dock."

"Dad, I know. If the two families of Zhang and Wang are different from other places, the people behind them will definitely be very human." The man immediately stood up and said respectfully.

Seeing that his son was so sensible, the old man finally smiled satisfied, sat down again, looked at the gurgling hot pot on the table, picked up a roll of mutton slices with chopsticks, rinsed it in it, and then smeared the sauce in the plate, ate it in his mouth, and waited to swallow it, and said:

"This way of eating is really different from other places. The mutton melts in the mouth. The meat has other fragrances, and the smell of mutton cannot be smelled. I think this way of eating can spread if it doesn't take too many days."

"What the master said is that I have lost a few teeth. I originally thought it was not easy to eat this meat, but I didn't know that it would be better to put it in my mouth and chew it a little. The chef in Shuiyun is not ordinary." An old lady on the table also rinsed a piece and praised it there.

The old man's son immediately rinsed two more pieces and sent them to the old lady's plate, saying, "Mom, if you want to eat, eat more, and this meat is fat but not greasy, and thin but not tiring. You can try it too."

As he spoke, he picked up a piece of braised pork for the old lady. It looked red and didn't have the taste of the red pond in his mouth. It was a sugar-colored sweet-colored meat with white sugar. The meat was specially selected for three-layer meat. It was specially added to the mountain juice when it was watered.

The old lady looked at her son, then at her granddaughter, then at the bustling room, laughed happily, and said to the old man: "Master, I heard that the new county magistrate of Sanshui County seems to have some friction with the Zhang and Wang families. It is better for the master to persuade them. If the county magistrate uses some means to harm the Zhang and Wang families, it will be bad."

The old lady was a little worried about the Zhang and Wang families at this time. After all, Jia Shan and Jia Yiheng were still a little capable as a county magistrate.

As she was talking, she looked at the person in charge of the Wang family. The meaning was self-evident. Aunt Wang also knew why the old lady looked at her, but she pretended not to know that it was Xiaozao and Dazao who listened to it anxiously, winked at each other, and did not dare to say anything to protect whom.

The old man pondered for a while and said, "Don't worry, this is the Chinese New Year, so how can anyone not open their eyes cause trouble for others at this time? Wait until the Chinese New Year, the provincial capital will give a try first. Then Zhang Zhong will have the identity of a juren, close to the capital, and will participate in the spring exam this year.

As long as the two families of Zhang and Wang were fine for a few months, relying on the people found in the capital, if he could show some skills, the village would be worry-free."

"Dad is right. This place is close to the capital. If you get the identity of a village tribute, you will be able to arrive in the capital immediately. Unlike in that far away, if you get the identity this year, you may not be able to arrive next year. If you get the identity this year, you may not be able to arrive next year. If something happens on the road, it will be even more troublesome. However, the ranking of the town tribute should not be too low. Daddy might as well think of a way."

Kang'er also agreed. His idea was that he helped the Zhang family members. When the father was really willing to live here, the Zhang family would definitely take good care of him.

The old man smiled and said, "Kang'er, this kind of thing is not enough for the father. If you look at the calligraphy and paintings hanging on the wall, you can think of how much effort the Zhang family has put into providing for their own personal gain. Before the trial, Zhang Zhong's name will definitely be passed on.

If you hand over the recipe for growing vegetables in winter, people in the cold land can eat more in the winter. The Zhang family does not want any official rewards, so it must be a name for the picture."

The kanger now knew that the farm had already planned. Since Zhang Zhong's calligraphy and paintings were hung in the restaurant in Shuiyunjian, Xiao Luoshui would not be bad, so he pushed up. Even if Zhang Zhong's talent was a little worse, he would be better than the talented man who could not find a family.

"Hmph! I still don't believe that Zhang Zhong can get the first place in the exam. Every state has the first place. How many states have they arrived in the capital in the first few years? Is it so common to be in the spring exam?"

Aunt Wang muttered in a low voice again. She seemed to look down on Zhang Zhong, Zhang Xiaobao's father, and she always sarcastically no matter what happens, but she has no intention of not eating the dishes on the table, even if she is eating them while finding faults.

Dazao and Xiaozao couldn't speak at the side, so the two of them could only whisper themselves.

"Dajuana, I will see the young master tomorrow. What do you think the young master looks like? Will he be as stupid as Zhang Zhong? He is so scared that he can't speak when encountering a big scene?"

Xiaozao thought carefully about Zhang Zhong's appearance, and wanted to overlap the images of Zhang Xiaobao and Zhang Zhong, and asked Dazao next to her.

Dazao seems to be less imaginative than Xiaozao. He can't guess what Zhang Xiaobao looks like. He waved his head and said, "How can you know? The little lady of the Wang family should be very fun? I heard that when the two of them opened their eyes, they had to be entangled together, and they cried after they parted. They lived in the Zhang family all the time.

I would have had such a person since I was a child. I would have played together and grew up together. If someone bullies me, he would help me stand up. I would do his clothes and cook for him, and then…and….”

As I was talking, the dates couldn't be said, the sound became lower and lower, and my neck became red.

Xiaozao was stunned when she heard Dazao's words, looking at the night outside. After a while, she realized her reaction and smiled at Dazao: "Dazao, do you want to grow up with Erkui in the mansion? I know what you want."

"What nonsense? I'm talking about the little lady of the Wang family, Erkui's stupidity, I don't like it. How does he have anything to do with me? I've never thought about him.

You don’t know that last month, he went out to do things with people in the mansion, but when he came back, he wanted to catch fish. The river was frozen and ice, and he actually fell down. Do you think he was still there? There was still October, he himself….”

Dazao denied Xiaozao's words, saying that he didn't care about someone, and began to say what someone did as a treasure. Xiaozao was stunned again.

At night, many things always happen. In the Zhang family's head of the Zhang family, in the yard of Zhang Xiaobao, Wang Juan was holding her chin over there, staring blankly. Zhang Xiaobao stared at her eyes and kept litting her face with her hands. Both of them didn't want to sleep today.

Just as time passed, the servants in the yard hurried outside the door and said to the pomegranate and cherry guarding there: "Go and tell the young master and the young lady that the young master Li is here."
Chapter completed!