Chapter 54

People living in Anning county have similar topics after dinner in the past two days. They are either telling a story called Laoshan Taoist, or discussing what plants they have around them. I'm afraid there is a trend to cultivate into immortals.

These are the sequelae of two Liaozhai stories. Li Luoyang, the founder of the figurine, did not show up. Instead, the ink fragrance Bookstore published and distributed has brushed a wave of sense of existence in the past two days. Now even the children in Anning County know that the frightening but reluctant stories come from the ink fragrance bookstore.

Since no one in Anning county can escape the sudden "Liaozhai wind", as the "first good" in the city, Zhangjia has also been submerged by this trend in the past two days. It is an indisputable fact that both the master and the servant are discussing these two stories, whether the people in charge of Zhangjia are happy or not.

Zhangjia has lived and multiplied in Anning County for hundreds of years. The efforts of dozens of generations have created today's Zhangjia. Even after several separations on the way, the owner's house still covers dozens of mu, covering almost one third of the area in the south of Anning county. The continuous houses and courtyards are connected together, which is considerable.

As a married daughter, Zhang Xiaohua shouldn't often run back to her mother's house, but Zhang Xiaohua doesn't care about the gossip of those people. She has been married to Li Pingwu for so many years. She has to run back to her mother's house almost every month. As a husband, Li Pingwu doesn't dare to express any opinions on this at all, just like when he married Zhang Xiaohua and went home, I found that Zhang Xiaohua was not perfect, but I didn't dare to mention it to others.

Originally, as the daughter of Zhang Jia, Zhang Xiaohua shouldn't marry down to a remote place like Lijia village. If there's no secret, how can this "good thing" fall on Li Pingwu? It was because Li Pingwu had a relative working as a steward in zhangjiali. I heard that the host family wanted to find an ordinary family to marry Zhang Xiaohua. He also proposed Li Pingwu's name to the host family in the spirit of treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor. Hey, I didn't expect to really complete Li Pingwu.

Unfortunately, Li Pingwu lost his relative later. It is said that when I went out to do business with the Zhangjia caravan, I met a mountain thief and was killed by the mountain thief. There are not many people who die in the hands of mountain bandits in Anning county every year. There are always seven or eight. Even the county government will not stand up for the people who die in the hands of mountain bandits. Mountain bandits are basically equivalent to anti thieves. It is the matter of the imperial army to destroy these strong people. A county government doesn't have to be boring.

These two days, Zhang Xiaohua came back again. Some people are happy and others disdain the whole Zhangjia. For example, Zhang Xiaohua's uncles are very unhappy about Zhang Xiaohua's return.

Zhang Ling's father, Zhang Baicheng, was drinking tea in the Pavilion when he suddenly saw Zhang Xiaohua holding hands with Zhang Jiong walking down the corridor. Ben's smiling face immediately collapsed and said to the slave around him, "why is this woman back? And, Zhang Jiong, does he know what he's doing?"

The servant standing next to him did not dare to take Zhang Baicheng's words, just because although Zhang Ling is the most outstanding one of their generation, the overall strength of Zhang Baicheng's house is slightly weak in Zhangjia, and the main reason is that Zhang Baicheng is not competitive enough.

In those years, Zhang Baicheng was also a scholar. However, maybe Zhang people did not have the gene to read. Even if Zhang Baicheng smoothly passed the township and county examinations as a teenager, he was regarded as the hope of Zhang. However, as he grew older, Zhang Baicheng's aura became weaker and weaker. After failing in the examination for ten consecutive years, Zhang people completely died of him.

Originally, it's nothing if everyone can't study. It's nothing if he can't be an official. However, Zhang Bocheng's experience in his childhood makes him disdain to be an official again. He secretly vowed to be a serious official in his life. However, the final result is to waste decades of time, Oath into empty at the same time, but also let Zhang Bocheng's house in Zhangjia's status decline sharply.

It can be said that if Zhang Ling had not successfully entered the county government at a young age and became the chief official of the prison, maybe Zhang Baicheng's house would be kicked out of the Zhangjia courtyard when he separated next time.

Therefore, even if Zhang Ling is outstanding, Zhang Baicheng's voice in the Zhangjia courtyard is not strong enough. Even the servants around him know this, but Zhang Baicheng claims that he is a scholar and has integrity. He will scold anything he doesn't like. He also says that scolding the injustice of the world is the clandestine iron bone of a scholar!

Zhang Baicheng's favorite seller in Zhangjia is Zhang Xiaohua, his nephew daughter. As for the reason, most people in Zhangjia know but dare not mention it.

"Oh, this is not my second uncle. It's not easy for me to come back once, Qingqing. If you don't want to see me, close your eyes."

"Qingqing, how can you talk to your second uncle?" Zhang Jiong pretended to criticize Zhang Xiaohua, but there was no sense of sorry for Zhang Baicheng on his face, and even the smile on his mouth didn't converge.

"What's the style, what's the style of you!" looking at their hands that they always refused to let go, Zhang Baicheng almost didn't get angry with heart disease.

"Don't worry, uncle. It's the right way to read your sages. Let's go and enjoy the flowers in my yard." Zhang Xiaohua glanced at Zhang Baicheng, and even a blind man could see the contempt on her face.

"Well, second uncle, let's go. Don't be angry."

"Yes, it's no use getting angry!"

Looking at the back of the two people leaving hand in hand, Zhang Baicheng's mood was really worse than that of Sheng swallowing a lump of dog shit. He raised his fingers to Zhang Xiaohua and Zhang Jiong and stamped his feet, but his chest was stuffy and couldn't make a sound.

"Father, what's the matter with you?"

Zhang Ling, who came from another corridor, just saw the scene of Zhang Baicheng's anger. He hurriedly ran over, put a stack of thick paper in his hand on the table, and quickly stroked Zhang Baicheng's chest.

"Angry, angry to death!"

"Who made you angry?" Zhang Ling frowned and asked.

"Zhang Xiaohua's bitch cough, Li Zhang's, she should be called Li Zhang's, and we should not open the door of Zhang's!" as a scholar, even if he is in a hurry, Zhang Bai Chengdu still remembers to be gentle and not dirty.

"Father, didn't you say leave it alone?" speaking of Zhang Xiaohua, the expression on Zhang Ling's face was also quite strange, but Zhang Baicheng was angry and didn't pay attention to this detail.

"No matter? I don't want to take care of it, but she just walked through the garden hand in hand with Zhang Jiong. You let my discerning eyes pretend not to see? I'm a scholar, a scholar!"

"Yes, but we are all brothers and sisters. We grew up together. It's nothing to hold hands. Forget it, let's not talk about this. Father, look what I brought you back today."

"What?"

In fact, Zhang Baicheng is not the kind of person who can be distracted at will, but Zhang Xiaohua should not be mentioned repeatedly, so Zhang Ling sent him up the steps, and Zhang Baicheng followed the trend and left some face for himself and Zhang Jia.

"It's said that it's a new kind of book from Moxiang bookstore. What's the name of Liaozhai anecdote? It's a kind of strange novel. It doesn't matter. I just think the story inside is good, so I bought an extra one for my father to taste."

"Books?"

Zhang Baicheng picked up the thin periodical with two fingers, looked at the yellow paper and said contemptuously: "if it is printed like this, it's too scary to wipe your ass. it also means books and periodicals!"