195. The daughter of the carpenter's house

After drinking a few glasses of wine from Feng Mingwen and Tao Tao, they became friends who could talk about everything.

Feng Mingwen's father was a fourth-rank official. His elder brother passed the Tanhua exam at a young age and became a fifth-rank official.

Seventeen-year-old Feng Mingwen is also classmates with Tao Tao’s uncle’s son, cousin Cao Wentang, and they often play together.

Feng Mingwen is a straightforward and simple person. He admires those who can practice martial arts, but his father asked him to study and take the exam for fame and fortune, hoping that he would be a civil servant, and a brother would set an example for him. His father and mother at home were reminding him at any time to study hard, work hard, and get fame and fortune.

However, Feng Mingwen was not very interested in reading and literacy. Instead, he liked to eat, drink, play, and play with guns and sticks. In his father's eyes, he just didn't do his job properly.

He had long heard that Tao Zicheng, the cousin of his classmate and friend Cao Wentang, was a man of great martial arts skills, and he had always been interested in getting to know him. He had no choice but to hear from Cao Wentang that after Tao Zicheng returned to Beijing with his aunt, he had been busy buying servants, buying shops, doing business and other affairs. He was especially dedicated to teaching his sisters at home. The degree of severity was no less than that of his husband, and he was both the Cao family and the Tao family.

When Feng Mingwen heard that Tao Zicheng was a model of the eldest son who was a good player at home and abroad, he immediately reduced most of his interest in him.

At home, he listened to his parents and brother's instructions every day. He was trained by his husband in school and made two friends. He just wanted to make some relaxed and interesting people.

He has seen many people with the Kai style. No matter what he does, he is just a regular person and is very rigid. He never makes mistakes, and it is very boring.

Unexpectedly, I met by chance today and found that he was not only handsome, elegant, but also smart and agile. In order to buy a miserable child, he cleverly snatched the child from him, and spent a lot of money.

When drinking, he was casual and generous, and his speech was even more interesting, which surprised Feng Mingwen.

Feng Mingwen said: "Brother Zicheng, why do you want to compete with me for a small servant? Is it because there are not enough servants in the family? Or is it not easy to use? I will give you two people who serve me at home to you, and I will definitely be smart and use it."

Tao Tao said: "I don't lack servants at home. There is such a convenience in Beijing. As long as I have money, no matter what I buy, there are good ones. Although you want to choose, the child just now sympathized with his experience. He thought that one person at home was fine, it would be fine for him to help him. But later, I found that this child was quite cute. Although it was ten times higher because of your confusion, it was worth it."

"Cute? Hahaha... Brother Tao has so many new terms, but I like it."

In front of Feng Mingwen, Tao Tao was also very relaxed and spoke casually, no longer speaking as erotic as others.

Therefore, many modern nouns popped out of the ceramic mouth one by one, which attracted Feng Mingwen to be surprised and excited. Finally, he found a unique person, a particularly interesting person. Feng Mingwen was as rare as picking up a treasure.

Tao Tao and Feng Mingwen were drunk before returning home.

Tao Tao lay down after returning home.

The next morning, he woke up early and after washing up, Liu Si, a close maid who was taking care of her, came to report: "The eldest young master, the doorman said that the shopkeeper of the grain shop sent someone to deliver a child, saying that it was bought by the eldest young master yesterday. I don't know if it was to arrange for work in the store or at home."

Tao Tao then remembered that he seemed to have bought a little boy yesterday.

Tao Tao rubbed her temples, "Let that little boy come in and see me."

Liu Si answered and went out.

After a while, Liu Si brought the little boy she met on the street yesterday afternoon to meet Tao Tao.

The little boy was quite eye-catching. When he saw Tao Tao, he knelt down and kowtow.

"Thank you, the eldest master, for helping me bury my mother."

"Have they done your mother's funeral? You are satisfied."

"Thank you, my mother worked hard all her life. When she was about to come, she was able to put on a mourning dress and have a coffin to get buried in the soil. It was a good end."

Tao Tao looked at the child kneeling in front of him, with a pale face and thin body, and a sourness surged in his heart.

People of this era, especially in this prosperous Kyoto, have a huge gap between the rich and the poor, which makes people doubt their lives.

Human rights are just a ridiculous word here.

"Get up and talk! Don't kneel down at any time when you are by my side in the future."

"Yes, the eldest master!"

"How old are you?"

"Eleven."

Tao Tao looked at this skinny child. Due to long-term malnutrition, she looked only eight or nine years old, much younger than her actual age.

"Where is your father?"

"My father didn't have it three years ago. He went to the quarry to work and was killed by a stone."

"Then how did you and your mother live in the past three years?"

"My mother is relying on washing clothes for people to support us mother and son."

"Why didn't your mother?"

"Because she was sick, it was not very serious at the beginning, but in order to make a living, she had to rest and still helped people wash clothes every day. Later, she fainted while washing clothes and never got up again. She lay in bed for three days and had no money to get medicine, so..."

The child said, tears flashing in his eyes.

He wiped his tears with his dirty sleeves.

Tao Tao sighed secretly.

"May I have your name?"

"Xiao Anzi!"

According to convention, people who are sold as servants do not have their own surname and name, and the master will call him whatever his name he wants.

A slave, his fate is like his name, and is completely controlled by his master's thoughts.

Looking at this poor child, Tao Tao suddenly had a whim, she wanted to change the fate of this child.

"Xiao Anzi, your name remains unchanged for the time being. I will call you Xiao Anzi in the future. I ask you, if you are asked to choose, what kind of life do you want to live?"

Xiao Anzi looked at Tao Tao with a blank look on his face, not knowing what she said meant.

"That is to say, if your parents are still alive, your family is well off, and you are also a free and easy person, what do you want to do the most? What kind of person do you want to be?"

Xiao Anzi thought about it.

"Xiao Anzi wants to study, get fame and honor, and bring honor to my family and ancestors, so that my father and mother can have no worries about food and clothing."

"Have you ever been to school?"

"I went to school for half a year when my father was still alive."

"After six months in school, I will naturally write my own name."

He nodded.

Tao Tao ordered him to write a few words to read.

Liu Si quickly prepared the pen, ink, paper and inkstone.

Xiao Anzi stretched out his little hand like a chicken feet, held the pen, and actually wrote a poem in the Book of Songs.
Chapter completed!