Chapter 2 (1/2)
It's raining again!
A five-year-old girl was sitting on the threshold of a small courtyard with her elbows on her chin. She closed her eyes and listened to the sound of the rustling rain outside. On the ground, there were already a series of water eddies on the ground, and the leakage from the eaves clattered.
The girl looks pretty, but her skin is a little bit yellow, and her hair is not very thick and dark. Only her lips are beautiful, and her sharp cherry mouth is a little lighter and less ruddy.
She is a little girl with malnutrition. If she is white and ruddy, she may look better.
All of a sudden, she reached for the rain.
”As you please!” A soft voice came, and in the misty rain curtain, a lady in coarse cloth came in a hurry. Although she was wearing coarse cloth and had a large basket on her back, she was very delicate and graceful. The closer she came, the more you could feel the soft light flowing from her eyes.
Suixi immediately took back his hand and stood up with the doorpost, ”Aung, you are back.”
It turns out that this young woman is Guan Niang.
Guan Niang said hello to her neighbor, then she came to pick her up and said, ”I told you many times. Don't wait for me outside the door. Although it's raining, you should be careful that it's hot.”
Suixi cleverly put her arm around Guan Niang's neck, smelling the familiar warm smell on her, she whispered, ”grandma only wants to play with her younger brother, and my father is drinking again.”
Guan Erye got his fame four years ago. Now he works as a clerk in the Yamen's book office. He is in charge of the examination of Cheng. He married the daughter of his master county magistrate two years ago. Last year, he gave birth to a boy named Tai Yu. He has never been loved by all the people in Suixi. He was not favored at home. In the past year, his father didn't love him, but his grandmother didn't love him. He only cared about her 。
”Aung bought pork. Would you like to have some fried pork tonight?” Guan Niang's heart was sour when she heard the speech. She just hugged Suixi and said with a smile.
Suixi showed a charming smile. She had not eaten pork for half a month. Her grandmother said that the pork should be reserved for her father-in-law and uncle-in-law because they were the pillars of the family. However, she heard that her grandmother had secretly left pork for her aunt and asked her aunt to give birth to a son to the Guan family.
Why do you have pork when you have a son? This is something that Suixi has been unable to understand.
Guan Niang holds Suixi into the room. Uncle Guan just twists a peanut and throws it into his mouth. Seeing Suixi in her arms, his face sinks, ”it's not that she doesn't have long feet. Do you still need to hold it when you are so big?”
Suixi timidly said in Guan Niang's ear, ”Aung, Suixi can walk by himself.”
With a sad look at Suixi, she put her on the low chair by the door and said to Mr. Guan, ”Why are you drinking at home again? I don't want to go to the Yamen to see if there is a job to make up for it. ”
”There are only some petty officials in the Yamen. Can't I be a petty official?” Uncle Guan ate peanuts and took a sip of wine. His cheeks were full of wine.
”You can't drink at home.” She untied the basket behind her back and twisted a silk towel to wipe her sweat. ”Although there is a small piece of land at home, my mother can't do it any more. I have to help others to pay for the family. If you are...”
”OK, OK. I don't want the land in the end. I'm a great Jinshi. Do I have to go to the fields to farm?” Uncle Guan was impatient. If it hadn't happened to be the beginning of the change of Dynasty, the imperial court was cutting down its leisure duties and had no time to take care of them, such as Jinshi. If it had not happened before How should he be at this time?
It's just a bad time!
Guan Niang bit her lip and whispered, ”I know I have wronged you, but I can't help it? You've never made up for your job. ”
”If you can make up for it, it depends on how much money you have. If you don't give people some benefits, will they arrange errands for you? It's not that I don't have the ability, it's that I have no luck. If I have money, I still need to stay at home. ”
”How much money does that cost?” She wiped her hands and sat down opposite him.
Uncle Guan held out five fingers and said, ”twenty taels, ten taels!”
”So much?” Guan Niang took a breath of air-conditioning, and the family could not come up with five Liang silver.
”Deng Xiaozi in the next street is just a scholar, because he went to use silver. Now he is the inspector of Yamen.” Mr. Guan said that patrol inspection is a fat job.
”Well, you can try. I'll borrow money from my mother's tomorrow. I have just got the salary here. I can make up 50 Liang, and then I can borrow 50 liang from my sister.” Guan Niang Zi gnaws her teeth.
”It's only ten Liang. What's the use of it?” Uncle Guan snorted, and suddenly his eyes flashed, staring straight at Guan Niang, ”don't you still have a box of dowry...”
”That's not good. It's for the joy.” Guan Niang Zi does not want to return.
”What matters now?” Uncle Guan glared and felt that his daughter was losing money.
”I can't help thinking about my daughter. I'll borrow money tomorrow.” Guan Niang's face turned pale and her heart was shaken. But seeing Suixi sitting by the door, she shook her head resolutely.Uncle Guan sighed, ”well, I shouldn't have used your dowry. It's always your mother's wish for you. I just like her I don't know if I can get married in the future
”She's my daughter, whether she's married or not.” Guan Niang's eyes are slightly red. After leaving her words, she takes up Suixi and goes out.
Uncle Guan looked at the back of their wives, and their bearded faces showed helplessness.
”Sit here, Aung, go and fry the meat.” Guan Niang will be happy to place in the kitchen door on the small stool, their own quickly cooking.
Throw the branches into the stove, and when the fire starts, throw in the dry wood, wash the rice and cook the rice quickly, then slice the palm sized lean meat, beat two eggs to make the soup, stir fry a vegetable without oil, and cut a plate of dried pickled vegetables.