"The eldest young master is so clever that he can eat by himself at such a pee! Did you just see Bai Shao?" Song Mama immediately woke up from her resentment and laughed loudly.
"I saw it, I saw it!" Bai Shao was overjoyed, and hurriedly wiped the milk from the corner of the eldest young master's mouth, and praised, "The second young master is now six months old, can't turn over, can't sit up, can't crawl, all the time If you want the nanny to hold her in her arms, don't let go, otherwise, you will cry a lot, and cry several times so much that you can't breathe. That's how you look like a fool!"
"Daughters need to be rich, and children need to be poor. The young master of our Hou's mansion can only be born with one nurse. When he is two years old, he must be weaned. When he is three years old, he must be self-reliant. He never takes care of others when washing and dressing. Xue, he practiced martial arts at the age of six, his family is upright, and he has produced many pillars of the country..." Xu Shi remembered the current downfall of the Hou Mansion, and Song Mama couldn't continue, and instead sneered, "Look at the lowly bastard raised by the lowly maid, beside you. There are four nurses alone, dozens of servants and maids, and they are too cold, too hungry, and even tired of lifting their arms and legs.
The little girl nodded in agreement, took out three silver ingots and a few hundred copper coins from the package, and said in a low voice, "Mom, these coins are used for all our Penghaoyuan. Young master drive out?"
"What can Wang Xiang do? I'm afraid it won't be that simple." Song's mother frowned while breastfeeding, her whole body was very gloomy.
"I heard Brother Zhuzi say, say," the little girl hesitated.
"What?" Mother Song raised her eyebrows.
"He said that once in a while, he heard the master of Xuyun say to the master that since the eldest young master came to collect debts, once the forty taels of silver are used up, he will be reincarnated from the flesh, and asked the master to be a black-haired man and send a white-haired man. preparations. The master even cried hypocritically."
"Master Xuyun, Wang Xianggan, is nothing but a raccoon dog! One pretends to be a ghost, the other is a demon, and one day he will be punished!" Song Mama put her index finger on her lips and warned, "You can't say this again in the future, our eldest young master will definitely do it. Live for a long time. Although the young lady also had the same dream, as long as the soul mirror is there and you use it carefully, the young master will be fine for the time being. Time is still long, what is the fate of the young master, we can slow down Take your time and think of a way. No matter what his origins are, since he was born in our young lady's belly, he is our master."
"Bai Shao understands that Bai Shao will take good care of the eldest young master. Let's use the forty taels carefully, it can be used for a long time, and my family can't spend five taels a year."
"Well, good boy, put the money in the box and lock it. This is all our property." Mother Song touched the little girl's head.
Youshu hiccupped, thinking that her own mother was also quite concerned about that dream, otherwise she would not have dared to show her face from birth to the present. The mother is unable to protect herself, the father is ruthless, loves his concubine and destroys his wife, and there is a ghost lingering around. It is a rather difficult task to grow up smoothly. Fortunately, the two brought a few yin-yang mirrors, but they could temporarily contain the ghosts, and they were still somewhat loyal to themselves, which was a great fortune among misfortunes.
Thinking of this, You Shu's eyes were straight, and he fell into meditation again, completely ignoring the words of the Xuyun Guanzhu's assertion that he would die early.
After hanging up the soul-fixing mirror, Yin Feng did not visit Penghaoyuan for a long time. Instead, people from other courtyards had symptoms such as body cold, dizziness, and mental weakness. At first no one cared, but one day, even Concubine Lin contracted this problem, Wang Xianggan took it seriously, and invited Master Xuyun to investigate.
"It's Xie Chong's trouble in the west." Lord Xuyun pointed to the direction of Penghaoyuan.
Wang Xianggan's face turned black, and he hurriedly asked, "Is there a way to solve it?"
"Expel Xie Chong first, and then the poor Taoist will do a ritual, and then there will be no problem." Xuyun Guanzhu swayed the dust, showing an image of a master.
Wang Xiangqian agreed repeatedly, and asked the steward to pay one hundred taels of silver to hand it to Daotong, and then ordered the debt collectors of Penghaoyuan to be sent to his hometown far away, and he was not allowed to enter the ancestral house, but was distributed to Zhuangzi in the countryside at will. inside. Wang Xianggan's wife Song Shi fainted after hearing the news, and woke up crying crying for a son, but she heard the servant girl say that the eldest young master had already left.
On a dilapidated carriage, Youshu, who just turned one year old, was pinching a piece of walnut cake and slowly grinding the newly grown front teeth. Song's mother held him with a very ugly face. Bai Shao was holding the money box, her eyes were slightly red, it could be seen that she had cried before.
"How can you be so cruel? What a beast!" Mama Song murmured to herself.
"More than that, it should be better than a beast!" Bai Shao added, and then said anxiously, "Mom, what should we do in the future?"
"Xincheng is Wang Xianggan's hometown, and now the Wang family is relying on him to make a fortune. In Xincheng, we are a local tyrant. We are weak, and we are in the den of tigers and wolves. Lin's heart is cruel, if she asks the people in Zhuangzi. In other words, the eldest young master is in danger. Wait for me to think about it, wait for me to think about it." Song's mother is indifferent.
"Why don't we run away with the eldest young master!" Bai Shao clenched the money box and suggested in a low voice.
Mother Song pondered for a long time, and finally made up her mind, "Okay, let's escape! Fortunately, before coming to Penghaoyuan, the lady has eliminated our slave status. As long as we escape the arrest of the Wang family, we will be clean in the future. Let's take the eldest young master first. Raised safely and steadily, in the future, when he is good enough, he will go back to meet the young lady."
There is Shu grinding his teeth with a dull expression, but he is secretly weighing the pros and cons in his heart. As things stand, escaping has a better chance of surviving than heading to the new city. When he went to Xincheng, he was the meat on the chopping board. The so-called Concubine Lin could slaughter herself any way she wanted, and she could use herself to control her mother. If she left, it would be a relief for her mother.
Then go! Thinking of this, he babbled twice, and thumped the soft pillow beside him with his small fist.
Seeing this, Song's mother laughed and sighed, "Look, the eldest young master also agrees. Then let's make a good deal together." Bai Shao came over and whispered for a while.
The two planned to stop the driver when passing through a small town, so that they could rest for a night. Fortunately, the Wang family didn't care about the life of the eldest young master, and only sent a steward and a coachman to follow. Mother Song spent hundreds of big money to buy a table of good wine and good food, and invited the two to enjoy it. , got the two of them very drunk, then took their luggage and left with Bai Shao overnight.
Mother Song grew up in the countryside, and driving a car is not difficult for her at all, and she has traveled thousands of miles in one night. When the steward and the driver woke up, their money had been looted, and the person and the car were all gone. They wanted to send a letter to the host, but they were worried that if they told the truth, they would be beaten to death, so they simply ran away.
The Wang family had not received news that several people had arrived in Xincheng safely for a long time, so they had to send someone to look for it. I found the inn where several people once stayed, only to know that they escaped separately. Wang Xiangqian didn't like this son at all, so naturally he wouldn't worry about his life or death, so he pretended to look for a few days before giving up. Concubine Lin was even more happy to see the success, and after blowing the pillow wind for several nights, Wang Xianggan directly erased the direct descendant from the genealogy, and said to the outside world that she had died of a sudden illness.
The only person in the Wang family who was heartbroken was the Song family. However, when she thought about it in the dead of night, she understood Song's mother's painstaking efforts. She knew that her son would die sooner or later if he stayed in the Wang family, so it was better to leave. From then on, she closed the door to thank guests, ate fast and chanted Buddha, hoping to accumulate some merit for her son so that he could grow up safely.
As the saying goes, the most dangerous place is the safest place. Mother Song did not hide away, but came to Liangzhou, the land of Longxing in the Ming Dynasty. Liangzhou is only three days away from Shangjing. It covers a small area, but it is very prosperous. Most of the top families of the Ming Dynasty made their fortunes in Liangzhou, and built their ancestral homes here, and sent people to take care of them. Therefore, Liangzhou's defense is very strict, and officers and soldiers patrol the streets all day long. It is expected that the Wang family does not have the courage, nor the face, so they sent their family members to look for people in the city.
Song's mother guessed right. The Wang family really didn't dare to let people go to Liangzhou, where the rich and powerful were gathered, and the complex structure was found. Instead, they announced the news of the death of their son-in-law. Several people then settled down in Liangzhou with peace of mind.
Mother Song did not dare to easily use the silver taels left by the young lady, and took the valuable jewelry of herself and Bai Shao as a pawn. She rented a small farmhouse in a place called Yushui Village on the outskirts of the city, and made a living by doing embroidery.
Before you know it, You Shu has grown to five years old. Since Mama Song had saved the young master to become a talent, she would go back to meet the young lady in the future, so that the young lady could raise her eyebrows, so she did not dare to spend the forty taels of silver. Although it doesn't cost a lot of money to live in the countryside, when the eldest young master is six or seven years old, he can go to school. He will cost five or six taels of silver for a year of training in the light beam, not to mention the various fees for the imperial examinations in the future. Forty taels of silver would be enough to train a boy or a scholar, but to train a champion would cost at least taels of silver.
No matter how capable Mama Song is, she will earn at most one or two taels of silver a year, so she has to save money, increase income and reduce expenditure. Therefore, life at home is very tight, wearing coarse clothes, eating whole grains, only at the end of the year can you taste a little bit of meat. Fortunately, You Shu came from the end of the world, and instead of feeling bitter about her current life, she is quite satisfied. For him, being able to have enough to eat is the greatest happiness, and he can ignore everything else.
However, there are always a few things in the world that are not satisfactory. Life is indeed much better than staying in the Wang family, but the debt collector has also followed. When Mother Song left, she did not forget to take a few yin-yang mirrors and hang them one by one in the small rented courtyard. It did work for the first two years, but the debt collector sucked too much yang energy and slowly condensed into a real body. He was no longer afraid of the reflection in the mirror, and would harm you from time to time.