Xiaoyaoshanjun

Chapter 33 Picking out ears
The next morning, they both got up early.

The three children slept until six or seven o'clock before coming to eat. As soon as they entered the yard, they saw the bean lady coming out with a bowl of soup.

"mother!"

The three children shouted.

The bean lady smiled and said, "Go wash your face and your hands."

"Okay! Mom!" The three kids took a look at the food on the table.

There were steamed locust flowers, mixed flour steamed bread, fermented bean curd, and a bowl of eggs.

Tian Buli was sitting at the wooden table and chairs in the yard eating. The weather had been getting warmer recently, so it was cooler to eat in the yard in the morning.

Although there was no meat, it was good enough to be full. Soon the three half-grown boys started to gobble up the food, fighting for it.

Eggs must be eaten first. Although they are family members, if you eat slowly, others will have finished eating them. After others have finished eating, you will definitely continue eating.

If you eat slowly, it means you don’t want to eat, don’t like to eat, or can’t eat.

No one taught these three children how to eat. They only knew that if they didn't eat quickly, they would starve.

Asking them to eat slowly would harm them.

Tian Buli's eggs and food were kept separately. Poor families have their own rules, and one cannot take food from the bowls in front of adults.

Dou Niang and Tian Buli ate together, and eggs, steamed bread and steamed vegetables were all put together.

After Tian Buli had almost finished eating, he didn't want to eat anymore. He was very strong and had high requirements for food, but he still didn't want to eat these simple whole grain meals.

Dou Niangzi brought the clay bowl with most of the steamed vegetables left in it from Tian Buli's bowl to herself, reached out and grabbed a little and put it into her mouth.

Steamed Sophora japonica flower noodles are a simple food made by steaming Sophora japonica flowers from trees and flour. Some vegetables on hand are also added, and a few drops of sesame oil are added.

Because it doesn't have much water and is easy to break, chopsticks are difficult to use, and I'm too lazy to divide it into several bowls, so I just eat it by grabbing it.

It is easy for crumbs to fall off when eating, but no one in this era would mind such a thing, especially since Dou Niangzi and Tian Buli slept at the same bedside, bathed in the same basin, and naturally ate from the same bowl.

Bean Lady was the slowest eater. She picked up the leftover dishes and the one or two sips of rice soup that Tian Buli had not finished, one by one, and scooped up the rice soup in the ceramic bowl with both hands and licked it clean after finishing it.

The three children still seemed a little hungry, so they finished all the steamed dishes and steamed buns except for some fermented bean curd.

Each person gets one egg, no extras.

"I'll eat and rest for a while, and see if anyone comes over today."

Tian Buli was not sure whether anyone would come to congratulate him. Mr. Bing was now living in the mansion, and most of the others would not come after knowing about it.

Lady Dou drank the last mouthful of rice soup, licked her lips and said, "Business in the county is not good. I was thinking about sending the three of them to the prefecture to find their father, and then just sell tofu in the prefecture."

"After we have packed up and sold this house, we will go there too."

"What are they going to do?" Tian Buli looked at Dou Niangzi. He could guess that Dou Niangzi was planning to hang out for a few more days, but he still objected.

The three children had no objection, and they had no right to speak in front of the damselfly.

Lady Dou explained, "His father is in poor health, and we used to take care of him. Now he is out there alone and it is difficult for him to take care of himself. People say that raising a son is a way of showing filial piety, so it is only natural for us to let our third son take care of his father."

Hu Er quickly said, "I'll listen to my mother and take care of my father!"

Tian Buli directly exposed it and said: "I think you don't want to work anymore."

Hu Er was not convinced, "My father is going to be a high-ranking official, wouldn't it be embarrassing for him if I still work?"

Tian Buli said helplessly: "Okay, let his father take care of him, and let Tiger and Gou'er go. Leopard will stay at home with me to work and learn some cooking skills."

Leopard didn't dare to speak and listened quietly.

The dog wanted to find his father, so he naturally agreed after hearing this.

The damselfly inquired, "How big is the place where his father lives? Can it accommodate three people?"

Tian Buli didn't ask this. "I came back because I was anxious. I will ask Master Kang and Master Liu when they come back. Then I will buy a cart to send them over."

Seeing that Tian Buli was going out again, Dou Niang felt reluctant to let him go.

"You have to spend a lot of money to buy a car, and it takes time to go back and forth. I think it would be better to let the business people on the street give them a ride when they pass by."

After hearing this, Tian Buli realized that there was this way.

Many things in the county town are not comprehensive, and people doing business on the street do often go to the government to purchase.

We are all neighbors, and we are familiar with the shops on the street, so it is not a problem to give someone a ride along the way.

This can save a lot of time and money.

Things will be roughly settled soon, and we will talk about the details when the time comes.

After dinner, Tian Buli went back to the house to rest. The three children were playing outside in the yard, playing games with their friends nearby.

As soon as Tian Buli lay down, Dou Niangzi pressed her big butt against the bed and sat down, touching the side of Tian Buli's legs and said, "Brother Tian, ​​let me clean your ears."

"Okay." Tian Buli got up, changed direction and lay on the bean lady's legs, facing the bean lady's abdomen.

Dou Niangzi hugged Tian Buli's head, reached out to take out the earrings stuck in her hair, and carefully cleaned Tian Buli's ears.

Tian Buli's ears were itchy, and his right hand was pressed under his body, so he used his left hand to touch the bean lady's back and buttocks.

It’s not that I don’t want to reach into the clothes, it’s just that there are three layers of clothes in this area, so it’s not that easy to reach in.

While the two were fooling around, someone came outside.

"Mother! Second Father! Aunt Bai brought eggs and a basket of fried dough cakes!"

When Tian Buli was about to get up after hearing this, he heard Bai Yanhong say, "Don't disturb your second father's rest. Go put the things in the kitchen. I'll go talk to him."

"Okay..." I don't know why the dog was so obedient. He must have gone to the kitchen to steal food.

The children were not very smart and always thought that the adults didn't know that they were cheating. However, Tian Buli knew that he and Dou Niang had never hidden their cheating from them.

Before Tian Buli and Dou Niangzi could leave, they saw a beautiful woman in a green dress and with a smiling face coming in.

"Brother Tian, ​​I came here early in the morning with a basket of fried cakes and a basket of eggs as gifts. I walked and stopped along the way and I don't know how tiring it was to come here. You must be lying down comfortably."

"I'm feeling quite comfortable." Tian Buli was not ashamed to see Bai Yanhong. He turned around and lay down, looking outside. "Zhang Xia didn't come?"

Bai Yanhong was the only one at the door, no one else could be seen.

Tian Buli felt strange, carrying things should be the job of a maid, but how come Bai Yanhong was getting worse and worse? She didn't even have a servant to run errands for her, and the gifts she received were just ordinary ones like fried pancakes and eggs.

Bai Yanhong blocked the door and said with a smile, "I know Zhang Xia. She has caught a cold these past two days and is lying in the house."

When Tian Buli heard that Zhang Xia had caught a cold, he asked, "Is she seriously ill? Have you seen a doctor?"

In this era, getting sick is still a very troublesome thing. If you are not careful, you may lose your life.

A sad look suddenly appeared on Bai Yanhong's smiling face. She used to be charming and coquettish, always smiling, but now she looked like a miserable daughter of a normal family.

"Where can we get the money to hire a doctor? It's very expensive to ask someone to do something for us in the farm, especially since we have been giving less rewards to our servants recently. We dare not say anything if someone steals our money."

The reason why the servants were rewarded with little money was naturally that all the money was secretly given to Tian Buli.

The servants could not get any reward money and had no benefits to take, so naturally they became corrupt and felt resentful.

Tian Buli sat up and asked, "Why didn't you tell the owner?"

Bai Yanhong smiled miserably, "We two may look glorious, but in fact, we are not even human beings in the manor. As soon as we entered the door, we took the poison that will ruin our bodies and make us childless. We have a lowly fate to begin with. We just need to endure it and it will pass."

These words made Dou Niangzi and Tian Buli feel pity. There was actually such a vicious poison.

Tian Buli asked with concern: "Does the owner of the manor not care about you guys?"

Bai Yanhong sighed, "He has a son and a daughter. After buying us, he just used us to entertain others and never touched us. There were a few concubines in the manor before. After they turned 30, they would be sold to brothels to make back their investment. Then the manor would add some money and buy new ones. It's the same for us. This is our fate."

Bai Yanhong smiled bitterly and said, "We are both not far behind now. Recently, the farm is short of money. If Brother Tian wants to see us in the future, he will probably go to the county brothel and ask for us by name."

Lady Dou knew the suffering of the people and said, "It's still about finding a man. Ordinary families sell their wives to outsiders to have children. If a woman can't find a good man, she will be miserable."

Tian Buli was about to speak when Dou Niangzi stood up.

"I'll see how much stuff we have left at home, sell it for some money, and ask Brother Tian to buy you two as maids, so that you won't be sold into the fire pit and your flesh and blood will be fed to wild dogs."

Bai Yanhong didn't expect that Dou Niangzi would be so righteous. She knelt on the ground and kowtowed excitedly.

"Thank you, damselfly! Thank you, sir! I will work like a slave to repay you in the future!"

Damselfly ignored her and stood there wondering how much it would cost.

Tian Buli went over and helped Bai Yanhong up. "Stand up and talk. You two have done me a favor, so how can I not save you from that fire pit? I just don't know how much it will cost?"

Bai Yanhong wiped her tears and a happy expression appeared on her face.

"It shouldn't be much. As long as your master can come to the manor and sit for a while, the owner and his wife have been thinking about giving up martial arts and pursuing literature over the years. Not only did they marry their daughter to an old scholar, they were also very generous to scholars and gave a lot of money."

"The manor owner's wife would rather marry her own daughter to an old scholar than to a young apprentice in the manor. As long as you go and talk to her, the manor owner and his wife will definitely give her face and make a good relationship with her."

Tian Buli scratched his head, looking embarrassed.

Bai Yanhong saw that Tian Buli remained silent and looked embarrassed.

"This..." Bai Yanhong thought of something bad, especially the relationship between Dou Niangzi and Tian Buli, and asked carefully: "But is there any difficulty?"

Tian Buli said awkwardly, "He can't go. He is a scholar, and a great scholar this time. The county magistrate hasn't even met him yet. If he goes to your place, I'm afraid it's hard to say. I guess he'll have to wait two or three months before he has time."

Bai Yanhong said quickly: "I am stupid and didn't think about what's going on here, or is it Brother Tian who knows more? I will go back and tell the owner of the manor that as long as the gentleman is willing to give us face, Zhang Xia and I will never have to do such dirty things again in the future!"

Lady Dou frowned and looked at the two men, "Are you following Brother Tian or that man?"

Bai Yanhong said quickly, "Of course I'll follow Brother Tian! We are two fallen women, how can we be lucky enough to follow Mr. Hu."

When Lady Dou heard this, she became angry and cursed, "Brother Tian hasn't married yet, and there are so many people in the county, who doesn't know what shameless you two are?"

"If you guys follow Brother Tian, ​​how will others see him? How can I find a good family for him?"

Bai Yanhong didn't dare to talk back, and could only swallow her anger and smile when she was scolded.

Tian Buli said awkwardly: "I don't have any good reputation... Saving people is the most important thing now, don't worry about these little things."

Lady Dou refused to listen, "No! Saving people is one thing, but since you are giving that person face, then the two of them are from the Hu family yard, and they don't count as yours!"

Dou Niangzi looked at Tian Buli without giving in. "You will also take the imperial examinations in the future, and you will also take the examinations for the title of scholar. You can't ruin your reputation! If it gets out that you had an affair with someone else's concubine, what will happen?"

Tian Buli obediently stepped back and sat down, not knowing what to say as he sat on the warm bed of Dou Niang's big butt.

When Dou Niangzi saw that Tian Buli was obedient, she looked at Bai Yanhong again.

"The houses for the two of you have been returned. Go back and tell Hu Yuwei that he knows about this. Just remember this kindness to Tian Ge'er and repay him in the future. Go back and tell your owner that I said that when the main compound is built in the future, I will give you two a side house to live in!"

Bai Yanhong looked at Tian Buli hesitantly.

Tian Buli said helplessly: "Anyway, it's fine as long as I rescue you two. It's better than being sold to a brothel or being bullied in the village. The master is also a good man and will not treat you unfairly."

Dou Niang sat next to Tian Buli and said dignifiedly and sternly: "I don't care about what happened in the past, but after entering the door, you must follow Tian Ge'er obediently. If you do those shameful things again, I will not forgive you!"

"Yes..." Bai Yanhong quickly agreed.

Bai Yanhong also knew that it would be better to escape from the farm first. Besides, she had not done glorious things in recent years. Now it would be a good thing to be with Tian Buli or Hu Xiucai, so she quickly agreed.

But I still don't know who I'm following now...

It's like eating at one place and sleeping at another.

(End of this chapter)