Chapter 7 There is concern
Before dawn, Li Weizheng was awakened by a burst of rumbling sounds in the yard. "Who is it?" He instinctively sat up, but immediately realized that it should be the mute sister he had recognized yesterday. Li Weizheng walked to the window barefoot and gently pushed open a crack in the window. No mute girl was seen in the yard, but the kitchen door seemed to be open, and there could be vaguely seen someone shaking inside. There was a pile of garbage at the kitchen door, and the sound came from the kitchen. Oh! He had never entered this kitchen before, what would it look like inside? Li Weizheng felt ashamed. Not only the kitchen, but all his rooms were in a state of a primeval forest. With one more person, it would be a lot more.
A thin figure suddenly appeared at the kitchen door. Li Wei was immediately putting the crack in the window a little thinner. From the crack, he saw a mute girl walking out of the kitchen carefully with a casserole. The casserole seemed very hot. She walked very slowly and carefully. It was good! She actually made breakfast for herself. Li Wei smiled at the corner of her mouth, and tiptoed back to the bed, retracting her cold feet back to the warm bed.
‘Dingling!’ A crisp ringtone suddenly rang in the room, and Li Wei was shocked, ‘Dinglingling!’ The ringtone rang again, and he realized that there was a pair of bells hanging above his door, and a rope extended to the outside of the door. The rope was pulled rhythmically. The bells were making a series of pleasant ringtones. The bells, Li Wei was suddenly remembering that there seemed to be a pair of bells left by the former landlord in the utility room. He couldn't help but laugh. This smart little girl actually woke him up with this method, but she didn't know when she entered the room and hung bells.
The 'manual alarm clock' kept ringing unyieldingly, forcing him to say goodbye to the warm bed, "Okay, I'm up!" The ringtone stopped, and Li Wei had to put on his clothes and slowly opened the door with a sleepy look. The situation in front of him made him a little stunned. The charcoal basin was burning red, "cracking!" The sparks were blew up, and the messy room was neatly tidy. There was a sand jar on the table, and a sliver of heat came out from the gap in the lid, and there was a pair of bowls and chopsticks next to the sand jar. What surprised him the most was that there was a steaming basin of face washing water in front of him, "This.
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’Li Weizheng, who is used to being single, is unable to adapt. He looks for the mute girl everywhere, but she hides in the room and is secretly visiting here. Seeing that Li Weizheng seems to be looking for her, she slowly walked out with her head down.
The little girl is a little different from yesterday. Although she is still so thin, her face seems to have a little more gloss and her back is straightened.
"Good morning!" Li Wei was stretching easily and calmly accepting everything in front of him. Although he regarded the mute girl as his sister, this kind of brother-sister relationship cannot be determined by a name. It takes time to cultivate it slowly. Everything she is doing now is not the sister's concern for her brother, nor is it a kind of repaying kindness, but a desperate manifestation of fear of being driven away by herself.
"Come on, let's have breakfast together!" Li Wei was washing his face, took a small bowl and served her a bowl of porridge. The mute girl lowered her head and sat opposite him, but she didn't dare to look at him. Li Wei was taking a heavy jar from the windowsill and pushed it to her and smiled: "There are scattered copper coins in it, about three or four jin of coins. Every afternoon, someone will come to sell vegetables by the river in front of our house. Go and buy some vegetables! From today on, we will cook our own meals, and I will go back to the restaurant."
The mute girl held the bowl and nodded slightly. The two of them said nothing. The atmosphere at the dinner table seemed a little dull. At this time, Li Wei suddenly felt that the mute girl was peeking at him. A naughty thought suddenly surged in his heart. He raised his eyelids and stared at her with bright eyes. The mute girl was panicked and almost buried her head under the belly of the table. Li Wei was laughing, putting down the bowl and walking out the door.
"I'm leaving work." He heard from long distance that he told in the yard: "I will ask someone to repair this door, and there will be rain in your room, so I will ask someone to flip through the tiles. If you have nothing to do, stay at home and don't go out and run around." When he said the last sentence, his voice was already on the street.
The mute girl stared blankly outside the door, and before she knew it, her eyes were filled with tears.
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Although she took in the mute girl, it does not mean that her business is over. She has no household registration and she still has to find a way to enroll her. The household registration system of the Ming Dynasty was extremely strict. Most people were ordinary civilians. In addition, there were military and craftsmen. Among them, there were special household registrations such as monks, Tao, Le, Yin and Yang. Li Weizheng had a mute girl's body sales contract. Her name was named Jiaofang, called Jade Slave Twenty-three. In fact, it was a number, a slave No. 23 who did odd jobs. The birthplace column was blank. She was sold to Jiaofang at the age of nine and sold to a tofu shop in less than half a year. She is already thirteen years old this year and will not enroll again.
I'm afraid there will be future troubles. For ordinary people, it is difficult to change their household registration or settle their household registration, but it is not difficult for Li Weizheng, who has been at the bottom of the power pyramid for nearly three months. It is relatively easier to do such a thing, and the review will not be strict. He just needs to get the proof of the ban on the ban. He usually returns to his hometown. If he does not have a hometown, he must take a new name and apply for a new household. The advantage of his work in the ban is that he does not need to slowly verify the nature of the mute girl's origin, and can directly connect with the private households. If he doesn't need to take action, his subordinates will help him do this properly.
Li Weizheng came to the county government office to order Mao. He had no intention of patrolling the streets today. He immediately found Wang Sanbao and said, "I have recognized her as a girl yesterday. I want to give her a new book today. You may do it?"
'Girl?' Wang Sanbao smiled very warmly, "I am willing to serve the girl if I want to register for her, but it is best for the boss to figure out what our girl wants to be named in the new name."
"Fuck!" Li Wei slapped hard on the back of his head and cursed with a smile: "What do we mean by our girl? Are you a family with you? Go and ask when it will be done. If you miss the matter, be careful to peel your skin."
"I guarantee there will be news in the afternoon." Wang Sanbao ran away, and heard him sing proudly with a gong from a distance: "This girl is not that girl, this girl kisses on the bed!"
"This hooligan", Li Wei was smiling and shook his head, but Wang Sanbao said it makes sense, and he wanted to ask for the mute girl's surname first. She might still be thinking about her parents.
It was still early, and Li Weizheng went to find the carpenter and bricklayer, and went around for a tour. Seeing noon, he was thinking about household registration, so he slid back home. The yard was very lively. The carpenter repaired the door and had already left. A tall ladder was placed on the eaves. Four or five bricklayers were busy on the roof, and the other two were cleaning up the garbage below, and the yard was in a mess.
Li Wei saw a small table in the yard with five or six bowls on it. The mute girl was carrying a teapot to pour water into the bowl. When she saw him coming back, the mute girl was surprised and came forward, making a meal move, and staring at him with bright eyes.
When Li Weizheng saw a smile on her face for the first time, he was very happy and said with a smile: "I have eaten in the yamen. I came back to ask you something." Seeing that there was no one around, he lowered his voice and said: "I want to settle down for you, and I want to ask your surname."
The mute girl's eyes were gloomy. She lowered her head for a while and did not express her opinion. When Li Wei saw her look hurt, she knew that she was thinking of her parents, so she comforted her and said, "Or, your surname is Li!"
But the mute girl shook her head and found a branch to write the word "Guo" on the ground. When Li Wei saw her beautiful font, she couldn't help but ask in surprise: "Do you know how to read?"
The mute girl wrote on the ground again: "I have read a few years."
Li Weizheng was overjoyed, "That would be the best. We will write and speak in the future."
‘Submitted to Guo.’ he pondered for a moment and asked again: “What is your name? Can you tell me?”
The mute girl hesitated for a long time and finally wrote two words on the ground: "Qianqian".
‘Guo Qianqian.’ Li Weizheng read it twice. He seemed to think that the name was not much like an ordinary woman. He hurriedly smiled and said, “I was just thinking! The name of the mute girl is not very good. I will call you Qianqian in the future.”
The mute girl shook her head slightly, and she wrote the word "mute girl" on the ground and pointed at herself again.
"Okay! Since you like it, I'll call you a mute girl from now on." Li Wei was smiling and patting her arm, "I'll go back to the yamen, and I'll leave it to you."
When Li Weizheng's hand touched her arm, her body shook slightly, but this time she did not avoid it. She wrote three more words: 'Wait a minute'
But the man ran back and poured a bowl of tea and handed it to him. Li Weizheng hurriedly took it and drank it dry. Seeing that he was drinking happily, the mute girl couldn't help but smile gently. Her smile was bright eyes and white teeth. There was no such thing as a lowly slave who was auctioned, and no such thing as a thin yellow-haired girl like bean sprouts. She was clearly a lady with elegant temperament. Although her graceful temperament was fleeting, Li Weizheng was still stunned.
He suddenly put down the bowl and said repeatedly: "Okay, I really have to go back to the yamen. I have already paid their wages, so you don't have to worry about it."
Li Wei was leaving her residence and walking towards the yamen. Along the way, she couldn't let her look when she smiled. He was full of doubts. Who is the mute girl?
When he walked to the yamen, Wang Sanbao was already waiting for him. "Boss, Lao Qian, who is applying for household registration, said that there will be the last batch of this year in ten days. He wanted to ask whether the slaves should return to their hometown or apply for a new account."
"Of course, I need to apply for a new household registration, and I need ordinary citizenship." Li Wei was handing him the paper with Guo Qianqian's name written on it, but suddenly remembered something. To apply for a new ordinary citizenship, you must have real estate and land, and you and the mute girl have nothing to do. You have to go back and discuss this with your father.
"Let's rest for two days! I have to go back to my hometown first."
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Chapter completed!