Yuxi asked Aunt Jia: "What are your requirements? As long as I can do it, I will promise you."
Aunt Jia said with tears in her eyes: "I hope that the master will not trouble me to be the head of the house, and I hope that the princess can follow the Buddha to my brother Hua." Han Jianming is a ruthless person. If she knows that she has remarried to a bandit, she may not be able to repay the head of the house. Young children will die. This is why she would send Brother Hua to the palace instead of to the Han palace.
Yuxi nodded and said, "I can promise you both of these conditions." The two conditions that Aunt Jia put forward are trivial to her.
Aunt Jia knelt on the ground and said, "Thank you, Concubine." If it weren't for this, she wouldn't be willing to leave her son behind.
They are all mothers. If anyone separates her from the child, she might be able to fight hard with others. Yuxi looked at Aunt Jia who was crying miserably, and said with a sigh: "If you want to see Brother Hua in the future, you can come to visit him in Haocheng."
Aunt Jia suddenly raised her head and said: "Really?" Seeing Yuxi nodded, Aunt Jia shook her head while wiping her tears, "I'm not going to see you anymore. I'm afraid of seeing you, and the child is even more sad."
Yuxi thought for a while and said, "Brother Hua is too young, let him go to Yanzhou to see you when he gets older!" This is tantamount to a promise not to let Brother Hua break the relationship with her.
Aunt Jia was so moved that she knocked Yuxi three heads: "Thank you, princess, and princess."
Yuxi said, "Don't thank me, I can do very little." The eldest brother now only has a son, and the heirs are too thin. Since Brother Hua is not dead, he must stay.
At this time, Hua brother shouted outside: "Mother, mother..." She also changed her name to mother when he was fleeing. In the past, Hua brother could only call her Aunt Jia Niang.
Yuxi paused and said, "Should I ask Brother Chang to come over, so that he can see you too." Brother Chang was brought up by the Ye family, and he didn't kiss Aunt Jia. But Aunt Jia is his biological mother, it should be met.
Aunt Jia shook her head hurriedly and said, "I don't see the eldest young master." This son has not stayed with her for a day since he was born, and she has not raised him for a day, so he is not kissing at all. Although sad, she didn't want Brother Chang to be embarrassed.
When Yuxi saw this, he didn't say anything anymore: "Then you can rest for two days and then go back!"
Aunt Jia shook her head and said, "I'll go back later." Although she was reluctant to part with Brother Hua, she was even more worried about seeing Han Jianming. Whether she could return to Yanzhou at that time would be unknown. In Han Jianming's eyes, she is a weed that can be thrown away, but in the eyes of the master, she is a treasure. Therefore, she will return to Yanzhou even if she is dead.
Seeing Aunt Jia's horror, Yuxi sighed again: "I'll let Han Ji arrange the carriage for you, and leave tomorrow morning! You and Hua brother, let's get along one more night!" See Aunt Jia hesitate , How can Yuxi not know that she is caring about the Han family. Yuxi said, "Don't worry, I will be able to do what I promised you."
Aunt Jia nodded and said: "The kindness of the princess, I will be a cow and a horse in my next life."
Yuxi shook his head and said, "Needless to say, it seems that the Han family owes you." You include not only Aunt Jia and Brother Hua, but also two other aunts and the children who have died.
Meilan said outside: "Wang Hao, Master Tan, please see me." Yuxi is a busy person now, and there is really no time to rest for a while.
Yuxi said to Aunt Jia: "After returning to Yanzhou, live with that person! If you have any difficulties, you can come to me at that time."
Aunt Jia shook her head and said: "Don't trouble the princess."
Tan Tuo came over, mainly talking to Yuxi about Qiuzhong in Gansu. Tan Tuo said: "Wang Hao, there was a heavy rain in Gansu two days ago and we are ready for farming. Wang Hao, do you think we can grow potato?"
Yuxi shook his head and said, "No. I just planted potato in the field last year. If you plant it again this year, there will be pests. For those fields, let's grow wheat!" If you conquer Shanxi and Henan, you can grow potato.
Tan Tuo hesitated and said, "Or, plant some and try it." The output of potato is so high that officials and people who have just experienced the disaster are reluctant to give up, including Tan Tuo.
Yuxi shook his head and said, “I asked them to do experiments before. The same acre of land was planted two crops in succession, and the second time they could only harvest more than 400 catties.” The yield was cut by three-quarters.
When Tan Tuo heard this, the light that had just ignited in his heart was extinguished: "It's okay in Gansu, but I don't know when the farming will be available in Shaanxi." It's the end of October now, and any more delay You have to wait for the beginning of spring to plant seeds.
Yuxi shook his head and said, "Look at what God meant."
In the evening, Yuxi finished talking with Yun Qing on official business, and then talked about Auntie Jia: "I didn't expect that Auntie Jia and Brother Hua didn't die."
Although Yun Qing respected Han Jianming, he felt that Han Jianming was not responsible for this matter: "Even if the situation cannot take them out of the capital to the northwest, they should be settled instead of being left in the capital. "
Yuxi smiled bitterly: "It's too late to say this." Han Jianming hasn't regretted it in the past few years, it's just that regretting is useless.
Yun Qing said, "After Jia's departure, send the child back to the Han Mansion! Otherwise, your sister-in-law will probably never stop."
Yuxi didn't agree, and said, "When the eldest brother comes back, let the eldest brother take him back!" Yuxi didn't worry that Brother Hua would be treated badly when he returned to the Han family. After all, Brother Chang is the elder brother of one of his compatriots. With this relationship, even if his mother is not by his side, the people in the Han House dare not slacken him.
Yun Qing said silently, "The family affairs are already busy enough for you, so don't intervene in the affairs of the house in the Han Mansion." You can't be too busy with your own affairs, so there is no time to take care of other people's affairs. .
Yuxi smiled and said: "The eldest brother will be back in two or three days, and the child will stay in the palace for two or three days. Besides, I don't need to take care of it, there is a maid!"
Yun Qing didn't say anything anymore.
The next day, Auntie Jia got up before the sky was up. Looking at the sleeping brother Hua, Auntie Jia wiped her face with tears, gritted her teeth, turned and walked out of the house.
Sitting on the carriage, Auntie Jia finally stopped being patient and cried loudly. She cried until noon, when the coachman told him to get out of the wagon for lunch. In the next few days, Aunt Jia was in the sadness of being separated from her son.
After seven days, Aunt Jia returned to her home in Yanzhou. The coachman sent Auntie Jia to her door, and then took out a big gray cloth package from the mezzanine of the carriage and said, "This is for you by the princess." After speaking, he put the package in Aunt Jia's hands.
The package was very large and heavy, and Aunt Jia almost couldn't hold it firmly on the ground: "What's this here?"
The coachman shook his head and said, "I don't know. The steward said this was given to you by the princess, and he will give it to you when he arrives in Yanzhou. Lady Li, I will go back if there is nothing wrong."
Aunt Jia guessed that there was money in it. She wanted to say no, but she couldn't say anything when she thought about the current situation at home.
The coachman's mission was completed, and he turned and drove away.
Aunt Jia's husband is Li Erpao, who was the second leader of the bandit group before. I didn't save much money for marrying relatives. I still saved some gold and silver after marrying Aunt Jia, but it was almost spent during the famine. When he arrived in Yanzhou, Li Erpao exchanged a piece of gold for this earthen cave dwelling, which was considered settled. But after buying this cave dwelling, they have no money on hand. Li Erpao borrowed this time to go to Hao City.
Aunt Jia opened the door with the key, and then inserted the door upside down before entering the house. I opened the package and found that all it contained was clothes, including adults and children. In addition to clothes, there are more than 30 pieces of broken silver and a square camphor wood box.
Opening the camphor wood box, Aunt Jia saw a neat pile of yellow golden leaves.
Yuxi gave the gold leaf but not the gold ingot, thinking that the gold leaf was small and easy to exchange when used, but the gold ingot was too eye-catching. There are fifty taels in this box of golden leaves. As long as they don't mess around with flowers, it will be enough for their family to worry about food and clothing in the northwest. Of course, the premise is that there is no longer a major disaster.
At this moment, there was a knock on the door outside: "The second baby, his mother, are you at home?"
Aunt Jia heard the voice of the neighbor Hu's sister-in-law, and hurriedly hid the box of gold leaves in the middle of the kang, and then put the brick back to restore it to its original state. After finishing the clothes, he went out and opened the door.
Sister Hu's husband and Li Erpao are friends of eight worshippers, and it is also because they have a group of people to live till now.
Sister Hu saw the lake-blue muslin clothes on Aunt Jia’s body and smiled: "Oh, my second baby, her mother, this dress is really beautiful." He saw Aunt Jia get off a carriage just now. Then the coachman also handed Aunt Jia a big package.
Aunt Jia said with a smile: "This is from her aunt, the eldest baby." When she left with Brother Hua, she said she was sending her eldest baby to marry her aunt in Weizhou City. For people like them who come in from other provinces, if there are relatives in the northwest, that is an enviable thing. What's more, Sister Hu also knows that the eldest baby and her aunt are still working in the official house.
Aunt Jia told people when she was in the cottage that she was caught by the bandits only when she took Hua brother to join the sister-in-law who married in the northwest. Life is difficult now, and no one doubts sending the child to Weizhou.
Aunt Hu said with a look of envy: "This dress is not cheap anymore. The eldest baby is really willing to do it. By the way, is the eldest baby staying at her aunt's house?" Seeing Auntie Jia nodded, Aunt Hu said: "This eldest baby It's considered to have fallen into the Fu's nest." The clothes that Aunt Jia wears are worth two or three hundred yuan. Such a generous master will certainly not treat a child wrongly.
When Aunt Jia heard this, her eyes were red and she said, "If it weren't for nothing, I wouldn't be willing to send the child so far." It's also a man who has a strong relationship, or she wouldn't be a neighbor. But Aunt Jia's relationship with Sister Hu is not close. Sister Hu is not a bad person. She just has a broken mouth. Everyone knows a little bit of things that she can preach. In addition, she was very stingy, so she didn't dare to entrust her youngest son to her when she went to Haocheng.
Sister-in-law Hu felt that Aunt Jia didn't hurt her back when she stood and talked. If she had such a good relative, she would have sent her son at home long ago. It's a pity that her son didn't have that life, and he didn't have an aunt who worked as an official.
After a few words, Aunt Jia gave a piece of broken silver to Sister Hu: "Sister-in-law, this is the silver you owe you. Sister-in-law, you see that I have been back for so long, so I have to pick up the child. What's wrong, late Let's talk about it later!" I borrowed two taels of silver from Sister Hu, and this piece of silver is more than two taels.
Sister Hu took the piece of silver, and her eyes were about to come out.
Aunt Jia turned around and went back to the house, picked up two of the most basic and oldest clothes, rolled them up, and took her household registration to the grain shop and bought ten catties of potato. Passing by the grocery store, after thinking about it, I bought a bag of maltose and carried it to Shang's house in large and small bags.
Northwest security is very good, even if Aunt Jia is a womanly woman, no one dared to make an idea.
Dasao Shang saw that Aunt Jia gave so many things, she was shocked: "Brother and sister, don’t dare to ask for it, it’s too expensive." Although Dasao Shang’s husband and Li Erpao didn’t have a bow, they had a strong relationship. It's just that there are four children in his family. The child will not live well for a long time. Except for the eldest daughter who survived the famine, none of the following three children survived.
It was also because of tight money that their family could not afford a cave dwelling, so they could only rent a cave dwelling with others. Aunt Jia will give her youngest son to Sister Shang's family. First, Sister Shang is kind enough to worry about treating the children harshly. Secondly, her eldest daughter, Xiaoqin, is nine years old, so she can help bring the children without delaying Sister Shang's work.
Aunt Jia held her clean son and said: "Xiaoqin helped me take care of my second baby so well. I am happy. This is something I gave Xiaoqin specially, not for you. Sister-in-law can't postpone it."
Sister Shang also knew that Aunt Jia intended to help her, thinking about the situation at home, and looking at her daughter's expectant eyes, finally accepted the things: "Xiaoqin, thank you auntie soon."
Xiaoqin took a piece of maltose and said with a smile on his face: "Thank you auntie." After speaking, he added a small bite.
Sister Shang asked: "Brother sister, how about her aunt and uncle? How about you and her?"
Aunt Jia nodded and said: "The eldest baby is a warm-hearted aunt, and his uncle is also a kind person. Otherwise, I wouldn't worry about handing over the eldest baby to them." After a pause, Auntie Jia pointed to the clothes on her body and said: "The eldest baby's aunt knew how difficult I was. Not only did she send me some clothes, she also gave me some silver. When she left, she said that if there is any difficulty, just go to her. It's just that I am remarried. I wouldn't go to her if I couldn't make it through this time."
Sister Shang nodded and said, "This is really rare for my eldest baby and her aunt." When Aunt Jia left, she didn't even get involved. Now it’s sending sweets and cloths, the eldest baby and her aunt are definitely not giving me money anymore.
Aunt Jia took the child and went to the grain shop again. This time, she bought 20 catties of potato and five catties of rice noodles and beans, which cost a total of one or two silver.
She eats the potatoes herself, and the rice noodles are for her son. Although the second baby survived, she was very thin. Now that I have money on hand, I naturally want to feed my children some good food.
There were a lot of things to buy, and Aunt Jia held the baby again, so she reluctantly spent two cents to ask someone to deliver the things to her door.
Sister Hu looked at the pile of things, her eyes almost glowing green: "My younger siblings are really rich this time. Why do you have to ask for seven or eight hundred yuan for these things?"
Aunt Jia smiled and said: "Sister-in-law, I have to pack my things now, I'll talk about it later!" After speaking, they were shown to be carried into the yard.
ps: A fat chapter! It’s so awesome in June, so you guys should give your full support. R8