After the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law returned home, Gu Yin asked Mrs. Wang to go to the theatre.
But Wang Shi refused, saying that she wanted to stay with her at home, and said, "I didn't look at you, and you almost got bullied. I dare not let you out of my sight again."
She said she didn't want to go, but her eyes kept looking out, obviously a heart that wanted to listen to the play had already flown out of the house.
There was no way, Gu Yin could only go with the Wang family.
The stage is right next to the largest teahouse in the town. Dozens of benches are placed in front of the stage as stands, and for three cents, you can sit down and drink a bowl of rough tea. A bench can generally seat two people, and the next bench is five cents. If you are shy, then spend a penny to stand and listen.
As soon as the stage was set up, Mrs. Xu hurried to call Mrs. Wang. Therefore, the two took the lead, and each packed a bench in the front and connected them together.
At this time, the stage was already surrounded by water. Fortunately, Mrs. Wang had the strength to let Gu Yin hide behind her. .
Xu shi was helping her look at the bench, and when she saw her coming, she immediately got up and sat back to her seat.
"Where did you sing!" Mrs Wang sat down and asked Mrs Xu.
Mrs Xu said, "Singing about that evil mother-in-law forcing her daughter-in-law to remarry and become a concubine in the palace!"
With a "Hi", Wang Shi patted her thigh and said, "Isn't the daughter-in-law still doing needlework to support the family? Why did she suddenly jump to force her to remarry? Where did the emperor come from?"
Xu shi kept his eyes from the stage, and spit out the skin of the melon seeds, "It was the embroidery made by that daughter-in-law that the emperor took a fancy to, and then she took a fancy to her."
On the stage, they babbled and sang. The two of them gathered together to listen and chat. Gu Yin didn't understand the script very well, so she started looking for Xiao Wu'an.
She was looking around when Xiao Wu'an stuck his head out from behind Mrs Xu, "Is my sister-in-law looking for me?"
It turned out that this little guy was sitting on Xu's side.
Gu Yin smiled, and Xiao Wuan handed the melon seeds in his hand to her, but his hand was too short, and it was still a short distance away.
When Xu Shi saw it out of the corner of his eye, he simply stood up and waved at Gu Yin. The two changed positions. She and Wang Shi sat on a bench, while Gu Yin sat next to Xiao Wu'an.
Only after Gu Yin changed, did she find that Xu Qingchuan was actually there, and in such a place he never left his books.
Gu Yin guessed that he probably didn't like watching dramas, and was forced to come over by the Xu family, so she couldn't help bending her lips.
Xu Qingchuan felt her gaze raised her head, and the two nodded across Xiao Wu'an as a greeting.
"Sister-in-law eat quickly, Brother Qingchuan gave it to me, it's delicious!"
Without waiting for Gu Yin to refuse, Xiao Wuan stuffed the melon seeds into her hand.
Gu Yin had to catch it, and then thank Xu Qingchuan.
Xu Qingchuan opened his purse, which was full of melon seeds.
He put the purse next to Wu An and smiled with his lips curved: "Don't be so polite, this is fried by my family, it would be a waste to leave it if you can't finish it."
The melon seeds are fragrant and crunchy in the mouth, and the teeth and cheeks are fragrant, and you can still taste a tea aroma.
Gu Yin sincerely praised: "Aunt Xu's craftsmanship is really good! No one sold on the street is as delicious as this fried!"
Hearing this, Xu Qingchuan turned his eyes away in a panic, and a faint pink appeared on his fair cheeks.
"It wasn't my aunt's frying, it was..."
Xiao Wu'an was halfway through speaking, when Xu Qingchuan covered his mouth.
"Don't you want to listen to me recite the Three Character Classic?"
Wu An nodded hurriedly, turned around obediently, and snuggled gently beside him.
Xu Qingchuan stretched out his arms to embrace him, his thin lips slightly parted, and his words were clear and authentic: "In the beginning of human beings, their nature is good. Their natures are similar, but their habits are far apart.
His voice was as clear as a symphony of jewels, and his tone was gentle and soft.
Gu Yin listened to the drama that he didn't understand in one ear, and listened to his reading in the other ear, her eyelids fell straight down, and she fell asleep unconsciously on the other side of Wang Shi.
When Xu Qingchuan raised his eyes again, he saw that she was already asleep, and he couldn't help bending his lips.
When she opened her eyes again, she heard the sound of gongs and drums and the opera, and the people around were pointing at the stage and yelling.
As soon as she woke up, Mrs Wang helped her sit up and moved forward.
"What's wrong?" Gu Yin rubbed her eyes, her voice still laced with drowsiness.
Xiao Wu'an shook his head like a rattle and said, "I don't know, I sang it well just now. I don't know why an old grandpa came, and it started to quarrel."
The matter was a little complicated, the little guy couldn't explain a few words, and Xu Qingchuan explained: "Just now, the evil mother-in-law sang on the stage that she repeatedly forced her daughter-in-law to enter the palace, and her daughter-in-law would rather die. A scholar felt injustice after learning about this. , but just when the emperor came, he turned the scholar with fame and fame into a white body, and even had his daughter-in-law tied into the palace. Afterwards, the ministers persuaded him, but the emperor was indulged in beauty, completely refused to listen, and returned I took off the black gauze hat of the adult in the lead. Then the old gentleman came out angrily and interrupted, saying that the play was 'humiliating the royal family'."
After listening to him say a few words, Gu Yin couldn't help but wonder: "Even someone like me who doesn't listen to the drama knows that the dynasty in this drama is all fabricated. Why is this old gentleman so angry?"
Xu Qingchuan shook his head and said he didn't know either.
On the stage, an old man in a leather robe with a stand-up collar was confronting the troupe.
The class leader came out from the backstage and begged for mercy, saying, "Master, it's not easy for us to set up a grass-platform team once. You are old-fashioned and go to other places. Don't interrupt our livelihood!"
The old man was thin and small, but his voice was not small, and he said, "You are not allowed to sing indiscriminately? You must correct this paragraph for me. After I correct it, I will cover your entire troupe and sing him for a month. Yes, please see everyone in town!"
Both Wang's and Xu's came to the front of the stage, and they were going to join forces to drag the troublemaker down.
Hearing this, the two of them stood up at the same time - darling, this old man sounds rich and rich, if he can listen to a month's drama for nothing, it seems not bad
Although the class leader had a smile on his face at first, he was somewhat angry in his heart. Hearing this at this time, he really smiled and said quickly: "Okay, I will listen to you. After this song is over, I will change it, and I will change it as you want."
This farce should have ended here.
But the old man was still unwilling and insisted: "No, you can change it now. Change it to the emperor who obeyed the advice of the civil servants, and changed his past, and became a wise monarch from now on!"
He wanted to say that the other side was okay, but the leader of the class reforming the law didn't dare to respond - after all, this faint-hearted gentleman was an important supporting role in the play. If he wasn't stupid, how could he seem pitiful to his daughter-in-law? And according to the old man's meaning, the protagonist of the play has also changed and became the emperor.
They are just ordinary grass stage teams, and they don't have the ability to say that they can still be changed after a temporary big change.
"Do you understand drama?!" Mrs. Wang couldn't bear to hear it, "Why do you sing after you change it like this?"
The old man said, "Just sing about a peaceful and prosperous world, can't He Qinghaiyan not do it?"
"Who wants to watch this? I won't watch it if you ask me for nothing!" Xu shi followed.
Afterwards, Mrs. Wang winked at Mrs. Xu, and the two climbed onto the stage, each holding the old man's arm.
The short old man was immediately suspended, and his two short legs volleyed back and forth.
"Where's the woman from, put the old man down!"
Xu shi and Wang shi turned a deaf ear, not counting him off the stage, they kept him out of the crowd.
Seeing this, Gu Yin and Xu Qingchuan quickly followed Xiao Wu'an out.
Fortunately, neither Xu nor Wang did not embarrass the old man, and they put him down after they brought him out.
The old man straightened the leather hat that was knocked on his head, while blowing his beard and staring: "What are you two old ladies doing to get me out? I haven't finished talking to the class teacher!"
Mrs Xu said, "Master, I think you are getting old too, so don't toss around. If you have money, you can write a book of your own and let people sing, how you like to sing. But we ordinary people see each other all year round. The troupe is not easy, at least let us hear one."
Wang Shi didn't kill him, and just followed: "That is, what emperor Shengminghe Qinghaiyan do you like to listen to, please ask someone to do it yourself, don't embarrass others, and don't embarrass us fans."
The old man said angrily: "What's going on with you people, this play is insinuated in the courtroom, and being sent down is a big deal!"
Both Wang and Xu are confused. Although the play is made up, it really can't allude to the court. There was an angry scholar who wrote a playbook in the past, saying that the obscure king favored the eunuch and disturbed Chaogang. However, the play is not waiting for it. When they were discharged, they would let someone inform the government, and a bunch of people had their hair down. But today's play is about a drowsy king marrying a little widow of a good family, and it doesn't talk about any important court events.
"Could it be that that person has really robbed the civilian girl recently?" Mrs Wang asked Mrs Xu in a low voice.
Xu said that he had not heard of it, and turned to look at Xu Qingchuan.
Xu Qingchuan pondered for a while, and said, "This old gentleman should be talking about the emperor and Mr. Wen?"
The old man snorted as a default.
Xu Qingchuan told them about the grievances and grievances between the emperor and Mrs. Wen a month ago. But this is what happened in the capital. He also heard from his classmates about it by chance, so he didn't know much, only about such a thing.
After a few people listened to it, Mrs Xu said, "It's not too new for the emperor to take off the black gauze cap of a high official, then Mr. Wen is indeed at the age of resignation. Since he has proposed to resign, he is not allowed to let others go. Are you allowed? You are too sensitive, old man!"
The gongs and drums on the stage over there were beating again, and Wang's mind was no longer here, so he continued: "That's right, the situation of the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in that play is still similar to my family, and I don't think it's me who sings. You Don't think too much about it. Besides, this drama didn't reach the ears of the humanities boss. Even if it did, maybe people wouldn't be as anxious as your old man!"
The old man wanted to say more, but suddenly his body swayed and fell down.
Both Wang and Xu were startled, and immediately said in unison, "I didn't do anything!"
After he finished speaking, he immediately went to lift the person up.
It was still the same with one arm, and the old man was lifted up into the air, all the way to the nearby hospital.
And just after they left, Wen Lang came over with a big bag of food.
Today, he said whatever, and finally "tricked" his grandfather out of the name of listening to the show and watching the fun, thinking that the old man might have an appetite when he was happy.
Grandpa Wen also gave face to his eldest grandson. He didn't dislike the simplicity of the stand, so the grandfather and grandson picked up a place to sit.
Halfway through the aftermath, there were some vendors selling snacks nearby.
Seeing that he was in a good mood, Wen Lang secretly thought about how he could persuade him to eat more this time. But I didn't expect him to go for less than a quarter of an hour, and when he came back, his grandfather was gone!
…
Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Zou put the old man in the hospital to see the doctor.
After the doctor's diagnosis and treatment, he said: "It's not a big problem, the spleen and stomach are out of balance, and the blood and qi are depleted, so I'm hungry. Go back and eat two meals, and you'll be fine."
Mrs Wang and Mrs Xu let out another long breath together. Although they really didn't do anything, if something happened to this old man, they wouldn't be able to tell with their mouths!
He wasn't awake yet, and they couldn't leave him alone with such an old man, so they had to bring him back to Jinyi Alley together.
The two carried the old man back to Xu's house, and Mrs. Xu sent Xu Qingchuan back to the house to read a book.
Since the money from the doctor was given by the Xu family before, the Wang family is not good at doing anything, so she can only bite the bullet and say to Gu Yin: "Son, you see this is a mess... I have to trouble you to do something. food."
Gu Yin nodded and said, "It's alright, the materials are all ready-made anyway. I'll cook a bowl of porridge without much effort."
After she finished speaking, she turned around and went to her kitchen.
In the kitchen, in addition to the ingredients they use every day, there are also some ingredients that they eat every day.
Gu Yin thought that the doctor said that the old man had a bad spleen and stomach, so she didn't make ordinary white porridge. She grabbed a handful of millet, cut a slice of pumpkin, and prepared to make pumpkin millet porridge. Small casserole at home.
She first washed the pumpkin, cut it into pieces and removed the seeds, then put the skin into the steamer, and then boiled water to wash the rice. Steam the pumpkin for more than a quarter of an hour. After peeling, press it into a puree with a spoon. Then pour the pumpkin puree into the casserole and stir it together with the millet. After the rice oil is boiled, it can be taken out of the pot.
When Mrs. Wen opened her eyes again, it was already dusk outside.
He braced up and reacted for a while before he remembered what happened before. His five senses slowly recovered, and he smelled a sweet fragrance.
The fragrance was sweet but not greasy, making Mrs. Wen, who hadn't eaten much for many days, growled in her stomach.
He followed the scent to the door of the house, and Gu Yin just came over holding the casserole.
"Are you awake?" Gu Yin put the casserole on the table with a smile, "I made some porridge, do you want to eat some?"
Grandpa Wen was about to refuse when his stomach growled again.
He was indeed still dizzy, so he reluctantly said, "Then I'll take two bites."
Gu Yin lifted the lid of the pot, and the sweet fragrance filled the whole room.
The millet in the casserole bloomed, and the pumpkin was stewed into the porridge soup.
Mrs. Wen took a sip with a spoon. The sweetness of the pumpkin filled the whole mouth, and even the whole spoonful of porridge soup became sweet. Although the grains of millet are blooming, the grains are distinct when eaten in the mouth, and it is not as rotten as the average person boils.
After a few mouthfuls of hot porridge, Mrs. Wen felt her whole body warmed up.
"There is no sugar in the porridge, but it is sweet. The water added is not too much or not enough to dilute the fragrance of the pumpkin. Your porridge is cooked well, who is your teacher?"
As soon as he exited, he asked Gu Yin's apprenticeship, obviously a connoisseur of food.
To outsiders, Gu Yin couldn't talk about the immortals in her dreams, so she pretended not to know: "My family does some small food business every day. It's not difficult to cook porridge. Where do I need to learn from others?"
Grandpa Wen frowned and wondered if it was because he was too old, or because he had been hungry for too long, and his sense of taste was out of balance, so he felt that the porridge cooked by this farmer's daughter-in-law was extremely accurate, and it was not worse than the imperial chef
Without waiting for her to ask more, Gu Yin found an excuse to hide.
Old man Wen finished the whole pot of porridge in a gentle manner, and went out of the house with strength.
Although the front was unpleasant, Mrs. Wen knew that his fainting had nothing to do with them. He was not a relative, but he was brought home and cooked a bowl of porridge for him, which was considered a favor to him.
Give money directly? This approach seems a bit too vulgar.
He remembered that the family seemed to have a scholar, so what about sending two famous paintings or a solitary book
Mrs. Wen walked outside the main room, not thinking about how to repay.
At this time, in the main room, Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Xu were nibbling melon seeds and grinding their teeth.
Mrs. Xu blamed Mrs. Wang, "Why did you wink at me at that time? The class leader didn't care much, so let's get out of this. It's a shame that the old man was just starving. If he really wanted to do something wrong, we couldn't do it. Let his family eat it?"
"What did you say I was doing, I knew he was so easily dizzy? Besides, you weren't in a hurry to watch the play at that time..."
In the end, it was still her own choice, and Mrs. Wang felt guilty, and quickly changed the subject: "Do you think this old man... is there a problem here?" She pointed at her head.
Mrs Xu nodded and said, "Most of them are crazy. I saw that he was dressed brightly in front of him, and he spoke with confidence. If he said that he would entrust a troupe to sing for us for a month, I really thought I was rich and powerful. But you listen to that doctor. As you said, when he fainted, he was hungry, how could a rich person not be able to eat?"
Wang Shi nodded again and again, "No wonder he said that the emperor's relegation of civil servants was a taboo in the drama. What does it have to do with him? If he is crazy, he will eat carrots and worry about it first."
"Haha, do you think this crazy old man said he wanted to repay us when he woke up? What crazy talk about giving money and famous paintings."
"Well, we don't care. Anyway, we should do whatever he says in a while, but it's not good to confront him again."
Mr. Wen is talented and intelligent. At the age of 20, he was recognized by the emperor as a high school champion. Before the age of 30, he entered Zhiwenyuan Pavilion and served as the prince's grandfather. He became a minister of real power in the three dynasties. Even today, when he was allowed to resign, he had to do a lot of superficial work and personally send him out of the capital.
Right now, Mrs. Xu and Mrs. Wang are talking "crazy old man", and Mrs. Wen almost spit out a mouthful of old blood.
With a dark face, he turned and walked towards the door.
Gu Yin met at the door and said hurriedly, "Slow down, it's getting dark before you see it, and the road in the alley is not easy to walk. Let me get you a lantern."
Mrs. Wen said no, as soon as he walked to the door, he tripped over a stone and staggered and almost fell on his horse!
Gu Yin was startled, and quickly said, "How can you go without a lantern if you are blind in the dark? Just hold the lantern!"
The old man said without turning his head: "I don't want it! I'm crazy and I'm afraid of walking at night?"
Gu Yin didn't know why he was so angry all of a sudden, so she could only watch him go away in confusion.
…
There was traffic in the narrow alleys and alleys near Zhenyi Lane. Master Wen entered in a daze. When he came out, he felt in the dark. He was dizzy and went around in circles. It took a lot of time to ask several people to find his home. road.
It was already dark when he returned to Wen's house.
At this time, the door of Wen's house was open, and all the family members of the nursing home were clinging to the torches. Master Wen was assigning someone to find him.
Seeing him appear suddenly, Master Wen immediately ran down the steps and said anxiously, "Where is my father? It's easy to find my son!"
Seeing the old man's face ashen again, Master Wen immediately said, "Don't worry, father, that scoundrel Wen Lang has already sent me to the ancestral hall, let him kneel in front of his ancestors to reflect, and wait for your return."
Mrs. Wen said angrily, "Why are you shutting him up?"
Although Mr. Wen was middle-aged, he was still quite afraid of his father, and his voice suddenly dropped, "Didn't he lose you?"
Mrs. Wen laughed angrily, "How can I be lost for such a big man?"
Master Wen asked tentatively again: "Then who are you..."
Mrs. Wen could never say that he was on the stage after listening to the play and was carried by two women, and he was even more embarrassed to say that he fainted from hunger when arguing with someone.
Looking at his eldest son's inquiring and caring gaze, he held back for a long time, and finally said something—
"It's up to you! I'm crazy!"
Master Wen was so stunned that he fell silent, and did not dare to ask any more questions.
Seeing that Mr. Wen entered the house with his hands behind his back, Mr. Wen quickly followed.
Going around the shadow wall, Mrs. Wen suddenly stopped and ordered, "Take some silver taels, two famous paintings and two books in the private library of my study, and I want to give them away."
"Where?"
"Send to..."
Mrs. Wen was speechless. Damn, it's time for a lantern! Where do those two families live? !