Outside Qixuan (27)
Aunt Dou helped Qixuan go to bed, and then put things in order. At this time, it was already dark.
The food was placed on the table, Qi Xuan didn't have much appetite, but he still ate slowly one bite at a time.
Looking at Aunt Dou who was still eating deliciously, Qi Xuan couldn't help asking: "They have robbed us so much, why are you not angry?"
Aunt Dou was shocked, but she soon adjusted: "What about being angry? Will they be able to return things to us when angry? I am now worried that the village chief’s wife will not take me up the mountain again."
Qi Xuan's attention shifted immediately: "I can go now. When I recover, I will accompany you up the mountain!" The people here are savage and domineering, and he is not willing to come into contact with them much.
Hearing Qixuan’s rejection of the Ajia villagers, Aunt Dou said, “No. If we have a relationship with them, and they won’t take you out of the village to buy things, we won’t even have salt to eat.” You, They haven't eaten such precious things for a long time.
Qi Xuan wanted to be hard-hearted, but thinking about the bottomless cliffs and the beasts in the mountains, he couldn't get hard-headed because the cruel reality forced him to lower his noble head. Otherwise, you can't survive here.
Early the next morning, Aunt Dou went to the village chief's house. Qi Xuan looked at her back without speaking.
Aunt Dou came back after more than half an hour. When I came back, I didn't have empty hands, and brought a fish back.
Aunt Dou said with a smile: "This is given to us by the village chief's wife. We will have a good time later."
The village chief felt that Aunt Dou not only had high and low eyebrows, but she also had a great city, and she was a person not to be underestimated. So he wanted to make his wife have a good relationship with Aunt Dou.
Of course, it was also the village chief who felt that Aunt Dou would definitely be Niti's wife, or she would be on guard instead of having a good relationship. Although Qi Xuan's injury has improved a lot, the village head doesn't think Qi Xuan can beat Niti.
After more than half a month of inhuman torture, Qi Xuan's arrogance has faded away.
Seeing the fish in Aunt Dou's hand, Qi Xuan lay on the bed and said with a guilty expression: "Qiaoniang, did you feel wronged?"
Aunt Dou was taken aback for a moment, then she turned to smile and said, "The village chief's wife didn't show me a look, there was nothing wronged. I used to meet tricky guests on a fishing boat, not only could not scold, but also had to smile. Just like that, they too. We may not be paid in full for the ship. At that time, I really felt aggrieved."
"Surely you were bullied a lot at that time?"
Aunt Dou nodded and said, "I remember when I was ten years old, a customer hit me. Not only did he not apologize, but he gave me a slap and knocked me to the ground, and then scolded my parents. My parents stayed with me, and asked me to kneel and kowtow to him before he stopped." Her face was beaten and swollen for several days before disappearing.
The memory of this incident is also very deep, so Aunt Dou hasn't forgotten it yet.
Qixuan didn't expect Aunt Dou's life when she was a child to be so difficult. Qixuan couldn't help asking, "It's so difficult, why not go back to my hometown? It's better to do something casually in my hometown than to run a boat."
The two emperors of the Ming Dynasty tried their best to govern, and now the people live and work in peace and contentment. As long as it's not tasty and lazy, you won't be hungry.
Aunt Dou smiled, her smile full of bitterness: "My grandfather gambling not only sold the house and the property, but also owed a debt. In order to pay off the debt, he took my fourteen-year-old aunt. The debt was paid. When these people came to the house to ask for someone, it happened that my grandmother took my parents to help others. After receiving the news, my grandmother took my dad and aunt and ran out. Because they ran out in a hurry, there was nothing. I brought it, and I didn’t have a household registration. During that time, I was often hungry and full. Life was extremely difficult. "The girls who were paid off were all sold to the kiln. Once in that kind of place, it will be ruined for a lifetime.
Qixuan knew nothing about world affairs, and knew that it was not easy for a woman with two children to discuss life outside.
"Because of fear, and not having enough food every day, my grandmother fell ill. Seeing that my grandmother couldn't live anymore, my aunt found someone to sell herself. At that time, my aunt wanted to be a maid in a big family, but This big family likes to use the family to have children, and even if you want to buy it, you only buy the younger one so that it is convenient for training." After that, Aunt Dou looked at Qixuan and said, "You think that life is extremely difficult now, but you can watch your relatives suffer. When there is nothing that can be done, it is really hopeless." Her aunt told her this.
Qi Xuan raised his heart and asked, "What happened then? How was your aunt?"
Aunt Dou said: "The guy told my aunt that there was only one way to save my grandmother, and that was to marry. Fortunately, the guy was kind-hearted and found a generous family for my aunt. My uncle is lame. I had a leg, but these years have been very good to my aunt." Aunt Dou's aunt looks pretty good. Otherwise, there would be no dowry for the bride price of twenty taels, and no one would dare to marry.
"In this world, there are still many kind people."
Aunt Dou nodded and said: "Yes! If you encounter a tooth from a black-hearted person, my aunt may be ruined in this life." Actually, it is not entirely luck. Aunt Dou's aunt does not just find someone to sell her teeth. of. She had inquired and found out that this man had a good reputation, so she found it.
Qi Xuan was also interested in hearing it, and asked, "How is your aunt's life now?"
"It's not good, it's not bad, but I worry about chai, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea all day long." In fact, noble as the empress dowager, he also has to worry about this unfilial son!
"Why did your dad run off the boat later?"
Qixuan said: "My grandmother died of illness in the second year of my aunt's marriage. My father was only thirteen at the time, and he went to the dock to do coolies to make a living. At the age of eighteen, he saved the man who fell into the water. My mother. My grandfather saw that he was upright and good in character, so he promised my mother to her."
"I think your father can write a book for his life experience."
Aunt Dou gave Qixuan a white look, and said, "My mother felt that she hadn't even made her head as a coolie at the dock, so she sold her dowry, rented a boat, and started a boat business. Until my brother was born, I only saved some money at home. Because the chartering cost is very high, my parents borrowed some money from relatives and friends to buy the boat. It was not until I was ten that the family’s foreign debt was paid off. It's hard to save money.
Qi Xuan said incredulously: "The boat in your house, I look at it at most two or three hundred taels."
Aunt Dou wants to roll her eyes: "If an ordinary person does not have a particularly capable person, it would be good to save twenty taels of silver a year after all expenses are excluded. Of course, it is incomparable with you. You can go to the Fuyun Tower and just go to the Fuyun Tower. It costs hundreds of taels to eat a meal."
Qi Xuan was embarrassed when he remembered that when he was a child, he thought that twenty-two pocket money was too little.
"Fortunately, my father and mother are now back to their hometown, so there is no need to go in the wind and rain, let alone being ugly." After speaking, Aunt Dou looked at Qixuan and said, "Speaking of which, my father and mother can Thank you very much for the good days now."
Qi Xuan hurriedly shook his head and said, "I didn't do anything, thank me for what?" When he took Aunt Dou back to the capital that day, he gave Dad Dou one thousand taels of silver, but Dad Dou confiscated it.
"My father and mother went back to their hometown without being collected by the previous creditors, and I was able to open a restaurant in my hometown. It's all thanks to you." Those are all loan sharks, and they are not enough to repay the family after they have to be recovered. However, Aunt Dou is the aunt of the palace and she also gave birth to a son. This is the umbrella of the Dou family. The ruffians confirmed that the news was true and sent back the IOU signed by Aunt Dou's grandfather. They didn't dare to ask for the principal.
After talking about these things, Aunt Dou looked at Qixuan and said, "Master, if I am gone in the future, I hope you can let Yikang and my parents walk around." Even if she is gone, as long as Yikang is here, those scumbags The hooligan didn't dare to bully Dou's family.
Qi Xuan shook Aunt Dou's hand and said, "No, unless I die, I will never let you have trouble."
Aunt Dou looked straight at Qi Xuan and said, "Master, then I will trust you again. I hope you won't let me down again this time."
Qi Xuan nodded heavily.
After the two chatted for a meeting, Aunt Dou helped him to the kitchen and said: "I will put the medicine and fry it by yourself. After you roll it away, you can pour it out in about two quarters of an hour. When it's not hot, you can hurry up. Drink it. This medicine is cold and harder to drink."
These days, I have been following the village chief’s wife to the mountains, but I haven’t been to the fields for many days. I am afraid that there is a lot of grass growing in the ground.
Qi Xuan sat down with difficulty. The fall yesterday made Qixuan's trauma worse. So now I get up and sit down. It hurts so much.
Looking at the medicine in the medicine bowl, Qi Xuan asked, "Do you think this medicine is really useful?" With regard to the virtue of a witch doctor, how can he treat him sincerely.
Yesterday, when I got Qixuan, Aunt Dou was in a very good mood: "I know you don't believe in that witch doctor, but I don't believe it either. But this medicine is really useful, and you don't know this better than yourself!"
The medicine is really useful, and the body feels much better after taking it. Qi Xuan said: "It is estimated that it was a mistake."
After confessing, Aunt Dou went out carrying a hoe and a scimitar.
I had no experience in boiling the medicine the first time, and the fire was a bit big. When he poured the medicine, the medicine only spread over the bottom of the bowl and was gone.
Before changing, Qi Xuan was eager to drink less, but now he doesn't dare to be willful anymore. After drinking the medicine, he poured a bowl of water into the medicine bowl and boiled the medicine again.
Feeling bitter in the mouth, I ate two thorns. This thorny bubble is the result of Aunt Dou followed the village chief’s wife to pick some thorny bubbles back from the mountain, as a snack for Qi Xuan.
After taking the medicine, Qi Xuan did not enter the room to rest. Instead, he scooped the water into the pot, then went into the utility room with a cane and took the pheasant that Niti had sent out to tidy up.
When the pheasant was cleaned up, Qi Xuan's head and face were all covered with chicken feathers. But he didn't care about it, instead he chopped the pheasant in half and put the mushrooms in the pot to stew.
Gu Jiu watched all this from the roof, nodding secretly. It seems that the suffering of more than half a month has not been in vain.
When Aunt Dou came back, she looked at the cooked food and couldn't believe her eyes. This is true, the sun came out to the west.
Qi Xuan was a little embarrassed and said: "Just do it indiscriminately, you will just eat!" It is also to see Aunt Dou go out early and return home and cook dinner these days, so he wants to do more to make Aunt Dou not so tired. .
Regardless of the taste, Qi Xuan's behavior made Aunt Dou overjoyed. It seems that Gu Jiu is right, so he has to suffer. In this way, it can be really improved.
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