Chapter 28 Shi Kefa’s Attack
Since arriving in Lantian County, Haezhi’s life has become extremely simple.
He lived his life into a table. Arrive at the house where my mother lives.
When I opened the door, I heard the hum of the spinning wheel. I saw my old mother sitting under the eaves spinning thread, so I walked over, sat down next to my mother, and helped my mother arrange the twine.
The mother's spinning movements were skillful and rhythmic. Perhaps because her son had arrived, the spinning wheel also rotated more joyfully. After half an hour, the ball of flax finally turned into twine of even thickness.
On this form, business hours are fixed, meal and rest times are also fixed, and even bathroom breaks are regular.
Today is the time to accompany my mother, so Xie Zhi came at dawn
Xie Zhi took off the spindle from the spinning wheel and said to his mother: "Have a rest. "Have a rest."
The old woman stopped what she was doing, hugged her sewing basket and said, "Where is your wife?"
Xie Zhi said with a smile, "She is lazy. I'll let her sleep a little longer."
The old woman looked up at her son and said, "It's a good thing that she's happy at this age. Don't let her come to pay her respects these days. You can bring her from Xi'an. Don’t bring all the pastries when you come back, leave half of them for her. She is already a glutton, but it’s just that she has to suffer when she comes to our house.” Yes, she was just vomiting badly today, so the child broke the rules."
The old woman stood up with the help of Xie Zhi and took her son's hand into the hall, taking a closer look at his face. , touched the white hair on his son's temples and said, "Why have you become like this? Your father still called himself a handsome boy when he was your age." "Not as open-minded as your father."
The old woman smiled and said: "Your father is not as good as you. He is a peace officer. You are struggling in troubled times and are unwilling to follow the trend. Naturally, you will suffer more." , now that you have arrived in Lantian County, accept it and don’t always call yourself Haezhi. My son has a name. Lu Xiangsheng is a good name. This person is not ashamed of the people in the world. Why should I change his name? "
Xie Zhi said warmly: "My child just wants to transform into a magical beast."
The old woman looked at her son and said, "You are a human, why are you a beast?"
"It is inevitable for a human being to have personal affairs, but to be a beast you can be ruthless."
The old woman shook her head and said: "It is better to be a human being. People should only be controlled by people. If they are controlled by animals, What is a human being? How can you remember being a mother, remembering your wife and having children with her? My child, you are just too disappointed.
The past is nothing. Forget it, the emperor doesn’t want you, the Ming Dynasty doesn’t want you anymore, then change to another place, this place is not bad.
Wait a while and go with my mother to hand over twine and see how the people in the market live. You will understand that you are a lucky person and the things you do do not disgrace you.Family tradition, ancestors learned from your talents. ”
Xie Zhi smiled and agreed. Under the guidance of his mother, he took the basket and put the twine that his mother had spun in the past few days into the basket. After a while, it was filled with a lot of yarn. Back basket.
The old woman patted the basket full of linen thread and said affirmatively: "Two pieces of linen cloth. "
Xie Zhi looked at her mother's meticulously combed white hair, and felt a little sad.
The old woman noticed the tears in her son's eyes, and said with a smile: "Do you think mother Is working a son unfilial? You're wrong, that's not the case, let's go! "
Xie Zhi picked up the basket on his back, and the old woman smiled and said, "Is it heavy? It is very heavy now, but when the twine arrives at the workshop, it will be soaked, softened, roughened, and dyed, and it will no longer be heavy. ”
When his mother picked up a small basket and slung it on her arm, and walked ahead with her little feet to lead the way, Haechi deliberately slowed down her pace so that her mother could keep walking in front.
After leaving the house and walking around a big willow tree, we arrived at the street market. Not long after the morning sun rose, the street market was already very lively. Shopkeepers removed door panels, put away lanterns, and cleaned the door. , water was sprinkled on the street, and a man pushing a wheelbarrow shouted loudly as he walked through the crowd.
Some vendors specializing in selling food set up a scene. The loud voices of the people in Guanzhong were annoying, and the old women were annoying. But she listened with great interest. Passing by a stall selling steamed cakes, an old woman stopped and smelled the smell of steamed cakes carefully. Then she looked at the black and red steamed cakes carefully and said to her son: "Today's steamed cakes are here. There are many beeswax and dates. "
Xie Zhi saw that her mother seemed to want to eat, so she wanted to buy it for her mother, but was stopped by the old woman.
The small vendor smiled and said to the old woman: "Lu Mother-in-law, you said a few days ago that my steamed rice cakes are heart-warming and thin. Let’s look at them again today, no expense spared! "
As he spoke, he knocked on his wooden plate with a shovel, full of momentum.
The old woman smiled and said: "That's right, when my son sells twine, Just come and weigh it and leave a good piece for me. "
The vendor agreed happily, and the old woman continued to walk through the market with her son. Haechi whispered: "Mom likes to eat, so the child will buy it now.
The old woman laughed and said: "There are so many people in the family, who is willing to eat less than me, an old woman?" It’s just that this good stuff tastes best if you earn it yourself. "
Xie Zhi whispered: "The child is unfilial. "
The old woman held her son's hand and said, "Living well is the greatest filial piety to me. ”
Haizhi was dragged around the market by her mother. One moment, she politely stopped the hawker who was selling needles and threads. He commented on the goods but did not buy them. The next moment, he stopped at some cheap jewelry stalls. I went to pick and choose, but didn’t buy anything.
Seeing that her mother was happy, Xie Zhi followed her mother, encouraging her to buy the things she liked from time to time...
Passing by a very popular house. The imposing shop front, the old woman pointing at the guy at the doorJi said to Haezhi: "This company does the most fair business, so we will sell the twine to them."
The waiter burst out laughing when he heard this, took the basket from Haezhi and laughed. He said: "Granny Lu, it's not easy to get your approval. Our shopkeeper said that if every customer in our Sihai account is as picky as you, grandma's family will be in trouble."
The old woman grinned her withered mouth and said: "Your shopkeeper's grandma's house is at the back door of his house, so you can't afford to go there."
The shopkeeper's assistant took the old woman with him When he came in, he was followed by a middle-aged man with extraordinary bearing. He said with a smile: "Take it and weigh it, so as not to break your head."
The old woman smiled and cursed: "The old lady brought it The things are never short, and the threads are so tight that they need to be folded."
The shopkeeper just laughed. The clerk sent the goods to the back, weighed them, and settled the accounts in the accounting room. After a while, two bowls of crude tea were brought and placed on the table. The old woman picked up one bowl and drank it slowly, urging her son to quench his thirst as well.
The hemp belongs to the farmers in Lantian County. The shopkeeper only needs to settle the manual work with Granny Lu. After the hemp threads are turned into linen cloth, there will naturally be textile workshops to settle the accounts with the farmers.
One silver dollar and six coppers, this is the fruit of the old woman's labor for more than half a month.
With the fruits of labor, a cheerful old woman dragged her middle-aged son, who was almost two heads taller than her, out of the shop in a hurry and returned to the street market again. This time, the old woman was very happy. Skillfully, he bought a piece of meat from the butcher, an old elm hairpin, a lot of needles and thread, and a bag of candies. Finally, he came to the vendor selling rice cakes, patted the big wooden plate and said, "Want the softest one in the middle." "Bucks!"
A basket full of twine was replaced by a basket full of messy things. When she returned to the door, the old woman patted her son's arm and said, "I had a great time today. I spent a lot of money on it." Money."
Somehow, the big stone weighing on Lu Xiangsheng's chest seemed to become lighter.
When mother and son were sitting in the hall sharing steamed cakes, the old woman looked at her son and said: "You have to make it clear that it doesn't matter if this world leaves anyone. It will be the same if the Ming Dynasty leaves you, Lu Xiangsheng." It’s not over right away.
Similarly, it won’t be too bad if Lantian County leaves you, Lu Xiangsheng.
What we experienced today is what your mother has experienced every day for the past two years.
So, don’t lose yourself when doing things.
Do you think that if you change your name to Haezhi, you will really become a Dharma beast? < /p>
Do you really think that the case decided by your hands must be fair and impartial?
Son, your mother is seventy-one this year, and I still want to live and continue to work. Live, eating a good rice cake can make my mother happy for many days. Look, happiness comes so easily. Why do you want to live your life like a dead mother?
During the day? It's an inhuman beast, a walking corpse at nightYou're a zombie, you're obviously not dead, so why do you live like a dead person? Your mother-in-law is pregnant with a dead man lying next to her. Do you think she feels comfortable?
Your mother’s judgment of whether a place is good or not is based on the needle and thread. Today, things are sold fairly and we buy things fairly. This is a good place. Does a good place need a dead person? To take care of things? "
Lu Xiangsheng smiled and said: "That's what mother said.
The old woman smiled and pinched her son's cheeks and said, "It looks so nice when you smile. Why do you have to look so straight and lose all vitality?" Go ahead, I know you are very busy, things in the office have to be done well, things at home also need to be done well, you are actually not a tiny bit better than your father. "
Lu Xiangsheng chuckled and said: "After all, your son is a second-ranked Jinshi, my father haha..."
The old woman sighed and said: "I am telling you this today. It's because there is also a second-ranked Jinshi who comes to you, and his ranking seems to be higher than yours.
Lu Xiangsheng took the last bite of steamer cake and said: "Shi Kefa is here. The child knows it. From the moment he entered Tongguan, the child knew it. The Ming Dynasty beheaded Lu Xiangsheng of the Ming Dynasty." , I don’t know why he came to see me, 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 into his mother's bright eyes and said, "I'll go on. ”