Chapter 63

Come to the hall.

The two guests and hosts took their seats. After tea, old man Wu looked at the distinguished and well behaved young man and began to test it.

Xiao Xinru didn't show the slightest hint when talking and laughing. She just said that she met the second childe of the Wu family at the Yellow Crane Tower party last year.

According to his accent, he is indeed from Wuchang.

Mr. Wu nodded. His son was a scholar last year. Afterwards, he must go to the Yellow Crane Tower to make friends with the students from the same high school. That means that Mr. Xiao must be a scholar.

The words made a lot of intimacy again, and began to test each other's knowledge, but after some testing, he found that the little ink in his stomach was completely brought to shame.

Fortunately, the other party was modest, so he quickly changed the topic and tested the other party's purpose of this trip.

He didn't think the other party was really visiting this remote place from Wuchang.

I'm afraid it's just one-sided with Erlang, otherwise Erlang will definitely mention one or two.

"Uncle, to tell you the truth, in addition to visiting brother Wu Xiandi, my brother also explained some things and asked Wansheng to help."

"Oh? My brother... "

At this point, he picked up his tea cup and took a sip.

"In fact, there are some small things that my uncle doesn't know. Recently, due to the severe drought in Henan, several houses in Kaifeng, Nanyang are thousands of miles away and have no harvest. A large number of refugees have gathered on the North Bank of Xiangyang. Although my brother is humble, he also wants to do his bit. Therefore, when my late birthday comes to Nanzhang, he will purchase a batch of grain and transport it back to Xiangyang."

"I see!"

Mr. Wu nodded, but his mind was spinning rapidly. There was no way to analyze the meaning of his words. Once he understood it wrong, it would be a real shame.

The final conclusion was that his brother should be an official in Xiangyang or Nanyang. He wanted to take the opportunity to transport a batch of grain to Nanyang and make a windfall, but it was inconvenient to come forward. He learned that he had a classmate in Nanzhang, so he specially sent him.

Xiao Xinru saw him holding the teacup and didn't put it down for a long time, so she also took the teacup. Just like that, they pretended with the teacup.

"Nephew Xiao Xian's elder brother, isn't it Xiao Tongzhi of Xiangyang mansion, Lord Xiao?"

Master Wu finally put down his tea cup and recalled the whole officials in Xiangyang and Nanyang. Only then did he think of a man surnamed Xiao to test.

no way out.

If master Wu directly asks others where his brother is an official, he will be too abrupt and snobbish.

And Xiao Xinru is inconvenient to directly say where her brother is an official, otherwise she will appear to show off on purpose, so she needs to find an official with the same surname to test.

Therefore, this will test Master Wu's memory and insight. If you can't remember that there is an official surnamed Xiao in the two places, you will become a villager who doesn't know the current situation.

Where are the doorways and rites that ordinary people can understand.

"It was my brother who wanted to ask brother Wu Xiandi for help. Unfortunately, the younger generation came at a bad time and had to..."

"Alas! It's a trivial matter. How much food do you need? If not, I can go to several houses in the town to raise one or two. "

Master Wu quickly waved his hand and learned that the other brother was really Xiangyang's judgment, and his tone became more intimate.

"It's not much. Coarse and fine grain add up to a thousand stones."

"In that case, my good nephew, please relax. It's better to stay and wait for Shizong to come back. I'll take care of it. It's not difficult to raise thousands of stones of grain with my thin noodles."

"Then there will be uncle Lao."

They were polite again. Xiao Xinru was taken to the guest room, and Qin Huan naturally followed.

"Madam, didn't you often do this before?"

As soon as he returned to the room, Qin Huan stared at her curiously. He thought he couldn't do such fine work all his life.

Xiao Xinru blushed and couldn't help thinking of some past events in Wuchang before she left the cabinet.

"Madam used to really go out dressed as a man?" Qin Huan immediately knew that he had guessed her.

"When I was at my mother's house, I did go to the Yellow Crane Tower twice as a scholar." Xiao Xinru nodded.

"I see. It turns out that the ladies of big families don't step out of the door. In fact, I'm afraid they don't always dress up as men to meet lovers and steal men!"

Qin Huan suddenly realized that he had finally found out some routines of this era.

"Don't talk nonsense, young master. Some enlightened people did exist before they came out of the cabinet, but only to increase their knowledge. It's not as filthy as you said, and it's absolutely not possible after marriage."

Xiao Xinru couldn't help complaining when she saw what he said.

"Oh, of course, I don't mean madam, but those lonely widows in the boudoir."

Qin Huan smiled and waved his hand.

Mrs. Li obviously didn't want to discuss this with him. She quickly turned off the topic and said, "I'm afraid I'm going to the county, childe, cotton cloth and sulfur. As for the doctor, wait a minute. I'll go to the town with Childe to see if I can find a doctor."

"Well! That's the only way. "

Qin Yugang nodded.

There was a knock outside the door. I saw several servant girls standing outside the door with buckets.

Xiao Xinru naturally wouldn't let the servant girls take a bath, otherwise they wouldn't show their stuffing immediately, so she drove them out.

Qin Huan stayed still and tried to test the water. Wen stared at her and said with a smile, "madam, according to the rules, should the bookboy serve you to bathe?"

"Don't fool around, young master. It's not like a mountain stronghold here. You'd better go out quickly. We'll go to the town to find a doctor later."

Xiao Xinru saw that he was still in the mood to play at this time. She was angry and ashamed. A bright red appeared on her cheeks. At the same time, she hurried.

"Well, the lady washes slowly. I'll watch outside."

Qin Huan also knew that this was not the place and time to play hooligans.

"You can wait outside."

"What?"

Qin Huan stepped back and looked at her incredulously. There was no outside room, only a screen!

"According to... According to the rules, the scholar should serve you. If you go out, the master will misunderstand and and let the servant girl in."

Xiao Xinru said that, shyly lowered her head. There was also the calm demeanor when she had just talked with Master Wu. Her daughter's attitude was all clear.

Qin Huan stared at her, his throat wriggled twice subconsciously, but his mouth promised: "madam, don't worry, I won't peek."

Mrs. Li spat.

Where will you believe it?

So I didn't take a bath at all. I just changed the long shirt outside to muddy the water.

Qin Huan was so disappointed that he was teased by her, but he had to go to the town with her to find a doctor.

Although there is no medicine shop in the town, I really found a local doctor.

After listening and speaking, he gave Qin Huan some medicine. When he returned to Wu's house, he asked his servants to fry it. He just explained that the schoolboy fell on the road.

Because Xiao Xinru hinted that this batch of food was urgent and inconvenient to stay too long, it was only the next day that old Wu raised all the food.

He also helped find more than hundreds of trolleys to transport grain from the mountain road to the official road.

Rice, wheat and soybeans are twice as cheap as the price Qin Feng asked that day.

Qin Yu also Tucao endless make complaints about it before we know that this is the real market price.

In fact, these grains are owned by the Wu family. As a big landlord with more than 70% of the good land in the town.

Don't say that you can get a thousand stones of grain, even five thousand stones, but it's not easy to sell it directly to childe Xiao. That's why it's said that these grains are raised from other families.

Blackstone town is ten miles away from the official road in the East. Hundreds of trolleys tied with a bag were pushed out of the town by hundreds of big men, and the team continued for several miles.