Chapter 28 Shi Kefa attacks

Since I came to Lantian County, life in Xie Zhi has become extremely simple.

He lived his life in a form and went to the house where his mother lived.

When I opened the door, I heard the buzzing sound of the spinning wheel. When I saw my mother sitting under the eaves spinning thread, I walked over, sat down with my mother, and helped her to sort out the twine.

The mother's spinning movements were skillful and rhythmic. Perhaps because her son came, the spinning wheel turned even more happily. Half an hour later, a ball of hemp finally turned into a uniformly thick and thin twine.

On this table, official hours are fixed, meal and rest time is also fixed, and even toilet time is regular.

Today is time to accompany my mother, so Xie Zhi came just after dawn

Xie Xi took off the wire ingot from the spinning wheel and said to his mother: "Let's take a break."

The old woman stopped her work, held the needle and thread basket and said, "Where is your wife?"

Xie Zhi smiled and said, "She is lazy, so I'll let her sleep for a while."

The old woman looked up at her son and said, "It's a great thing for her to be happy at this age. Don't let her come here to pay her respects these days. Don't send all the pastries you brought back from Xi'an. Leave half of them for her. She is a greedy person, but she has been to our house and made her suffer."

Xie Zhi quickly smiled and said, "Filial piety is still something to be said. She just vomited so much today that the child broke the example."

The old woman stood up and held her son's hand into the hall with her help. She looked at her son's face carefully, touched the white hair on her temples and said, "Why are you so old? Your father still described himself as a beautiful boy at your age."

Xie Zhi smiled and said, "The child is not as broad-minded as his father."

The old woman smiled and said, "Your father is not as good as you. He is a Taiping official. You are struggling in troubled times and are unwilling to follow the trend. Naturally, you have to suffer more losses. Since you have arrived in Lantian County, you will admit it. Don't always call Xie Zhi. Xie Zhi himself. My son has a name. The three words Lu Xiangsheng are good. This person is not ashamed of the people in the world. What name should he change."

Xie Zhi said with a gentle voice: "The child now only wants to transform into a magic beast."

The old woman looked at her son and said, "You are human, what is a beast?"

"It is inevitable that there will be personal love for people, and only by being beasts can one be ruthless."

The old woman shook her head and said, "It's better to be a human being. People should only be controlled by others. If they are controlled by animals, what are people? How can you remember to be a mother, remember your wife and have children with her? How can you be considered to be ruthless? Child, you are just too disappointed.

Forgot the past. The emperor doesn’t want you anymore, and the Ming Dynasty doesn’t want you anymore. Then change the place, it’s not bad.

Wait for a while and go hand in the mail with your mother and see how the people in the market live. You will understand that you are lucky and do not insult your family traditions, your ancestors and your talents."

Xie Xi smiled and agreed, and took the basket under the guidance of his mother and put the hemp thread he had woven in the basket over the past few days. After a while, he actually filled the basket with a basket.

The old woman patted a basket of twine and said affirmatively, "Two pieces of linen."

Xie Feng looked at his mother's meticulously combed gray hair, and his heart felt a little sour.

The old woman noticed the tears in her son's eyes and smiled and said, "Do you think that mother's work is the son's unfilial piety? You are wrong. That's not the case. Let's go!"

Xie Xi carried the basket on his back, and the old woman smiled and said, "Is it heavy? It's very heavy now. When the twine comes to the workshop, it will be soaked, softened, remove the thick blank, and dyed it, it won't be heavy."

When my mother picked up a small basket and slapped it on her arm, walked forward with her little feet and led the way. Xie Zhi deliberately slowed down so that her mother could keep walking in front.

After leaving the house and bypassing a big willow tree, we arrived at the street market. The sun was rising for a while, but the street market was already very lively. The shop guys took off the door panels, put away the lanterns, cleaned the door, sprinkled the clear water on the street, and the man pushing a wheelbarrow shouted loudly through the crowd.

Some vendors who specialize in selling meals set up the scene. The thick voice of the Guanzhong people was upset, but the old woman listened with relish. She passed by a stall selling Zengcao and stopped, sniffed the smell of Zengcao carefully, and looked at the black and red Zengcao carefully, and said to her son: "Today's Zengcao contains more bee sugar and dates."

Seeing that his mother seemed to want to eat, Xie Zhi wanted to buy it for her, but the old woman stopped her.

The vendor smiled and said to the old woman: "Mother-in-law Lu, you said a few days ago that my zeng cake was so dark. Let's take a look today and spare no expense!"

As he spoke, he even knocked on his wooden plate with a shovel, full of momentum.

The old woman smiled and said, "That's right. When my son sells the twine, he will come and weigh it and leave me a good piece."

The vendor agreed happily, and the old woman took her son to continue walking through the street market. Xie Zhi whispered: "Mother likes to eat, so the child will buy it now."

The old woman laughed and said, "There are so many people in the family, who would not eat less than me, the old woman? But the good things you have to earn by yourself are the best."

Xie Zhi whispered: "The child is unfilial."

The old woman held her son's hand and said, "Living well is the greatest filial piety to me."

Xie Zhi was dragged by his mother to walk around the street market. He then shouted at the vendor who carried the load and sold needles and threads. He commented on the goods but did not buy them. He then picked and chose some cheap jewelry stalls, but did not buy them.

Seeing that his mother was happy, Xie Zhi followed her and encouraged her to buy the things she liked from time to time...

Passing by the storefront of a very imposing shop, the old woman pointed to the client at the door and said to Xie Zhi: "This business is the most fair, so let's sell the twine to their house."

The guy smiled and took the basket from Xie Zhi and said with a smile: "Mother-in-law Lu's family, it's not easy for you to recognize him. Our shopkeeper said that if every merchant in my Sihai is as picky as you, he will pay his grandma's house."

The old woman smiled with a shriveled mouth and said, "Your shopkeeper's grandma's house is at the back door of his house, so I can't pay for it."

When the shopkeeper saw the guy bringing the old woman in, a middle-aged man with extraordinary temperament followed behind him, he smiled and said, "I have used it to weigh it, so I won't lose my head."

The old woman laughed and scolded, "The old woman has never been shorter than a pound. The thread and textile are tight, so you can fold the head?"

The shopkeeper was just laughing. The guy delivered the goods to the back. After weighing them, he brought two bowls of coarse tea and placed them on the table. The old woman picked up a bowl and drank it slowly, urging her son to quench his thirst.

Ma is from a farmer in Lantian County, and the shopkeeper only needs to settle the handicrafts with Grandma Lu. After the hemp thread is turned into linen, there will naturally be a textile workshop to settle the accounts with the farmers.

One silver dollar plus six copper coins is the fruit of the old woman's labor for more than half a month.

With the fruits of labor, a cheerful old woman hurriedly left the shop with her middle-aged son who was faster than her and came back to the street market. This time, the old woman skillfully bought a piece of meat from the butcher, an old elm hairpin, a lot of needles and thread, and a bag of candy. Finally, she came to the vendor selling turban cake and patted the big wooden plate and said, "You need the softest piece in the middle!"

A full basket of twine was finally replaced with half a basket of messy things. When he returned to the door of his house, the old woman patted her son's arm and said, "It's great today, I spent a lot of money on the boss."

Somehow, Lu Xiangsheng seemed to have relaxed the big stone pressing on his chest.

While the mother and son were sitting in the hall sharing the zengcao, the old woman looked at her son and said, "You have to distinguish it clearly that it doesn't matter if this world is gone. If the Ming Dynasty left you, Lu Xiangsheng, it wouldn't be finished immediately.

Similarly, if you are not as bad as Lantian County, Lu Xiangsheng will not be too bad.

What we are experiencing today is what your mother has experienced every day for two years.

So, don’t lose yourself when you do things.

Do you think you are really a magic beast if you change your name to Xie Zhi?

Do you really think that the case determined by your hands must be fair and selfless?

Son, your mother is 70 years old this year. I still want to live and continue working. Eating a bite of good zengcao can make Mom happy for many days. Look, how easy is it to come to happiness? Why do you have to live your life like my dead mother?

It is an unmannerable magic beast during the day, and at night it is a walking corpse. It is obviously not dead, so why do you live like a dead person? Your wife is pregnant and there is a dead person lying beside her. Do you think she is very comfortable?

My mother looks at a place with a needle and thread. Today, things are sold fairly, and we buy things fairly. This is a good place. Does a good place need a dead person to manage a good place?"

Lu Xiangsheng smiled and said, "What my mother said."

The old woman smiled and pinched her son's cheek and said, "It looks so good to smile. Why do you have to hold a face and not have any popularity? Go, you know you are very busy, you have to do things in the yamen and the family affairs. You are actually not a little better than your father."

Lu Xiangsheng laughed and said, "After all, your son is from a Jinshi on two lists, my father... "

The old woman sighed and said, "I told you about this today because there was a Jinshi from two lists coming to you, and his ranking seems to be higher than you."

Lu Xiangsheng ate the last bite of zengcao and said, "Shi Kefa is here, the child knows it. From the moment he entered Tongguan, the child knows that Lu Xiangsheng, who killed the Ming Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty, didn't know what he came to me, Lantian County, to do."

The old woman said, "I'm very worried that this guy will humiliate my son when he comes."
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