Chapter 248 Xiaoman goes home (1)
"Well, it's been a few months since we came out. Grandpa Ma Jin will definitely miss us, so I plan to go back and have a look today."
Xiaoman is the little girl Ye Tan gave him malt sugar. Compared to the past, although she still looks like a yellow-haired girl, her head is neatly tidy and her clothes are clean. The most important thing is that her face is blushing. You can tell at a glance that she has eaten well. The fear she was when she came here and her calmness now can be said to be a very difficult process.
As for people, after spending a long time outside, as long as the home is a little warm, they will hope to go back, not just to return home in glory, but also to be able to see the people in their own home.
Xiaoman also has a mother and a father in his hometown. Although she is illiterate and has a bad temper, she just likes it.
"When will you come back?"
Although Ye Ji is clever, he is a kind-hearted person. When he is with the smart Xiaoman, he can always find common topics, so he is very excited when asked.
"School is about to start, okay, Grandpa Liang, everyone, I'll leave first."
As Xiaoman said that, he pulled the honest Xiao Jin beside him and was about to get on the carriage.
"Xiaoman, wait."
At this moment, a carriage came from not far away. The carriage was not big and very ordinary, but the people sitting on it were different. It was a not simple existence in Yejia Village.
Because her husband is Zhang Yi, Zhang Yi is the third leader in Ye Tan's hands, and her father is Liang Shuqun, who is the principal of Ye's Academy, and she is naturally Liang Jing, who has been married to Zhang Yi for almost a year.
Compared with the stingy character she used to be, she is much quieter now, but today she seems very anxious, and let the servants at home drive the carriage very quickly. When she stopped, Xiaoman shouted happily, "Aunt Jing."
Liang Jing dressed like a young woman, and her clothes were not gorgeous, but they were very conspicuous. She looked different from others. She looked like ink. She was a white jade hairpin. She bought it for her and she usually likes to wear it.
Getting off the carriage, I walked over and pulled Xiaoman's hand and said, "You little unscrupulous, you don't even say hello to your Aunt Jing and leave."
Xiaoman felt the smoothness on her palms and couldn't help but smile, "Aunt Jing, this is not the case. I just finished everything today and prepared to leave. I didn't sneak it away. I miss you."
Looking at her cute appearance, Liang Jing said to the subordinate behind her, "Move things in."
The servant tied the reins of the horse to the horse-tie stone on the side and started moving things. Although it didn't seem to be much, it was quite heavy.
"Aunt Jing, are you?"
Xiaoman had a lot of things in his own carriage, all given by people from the village, but he was still surprised to see the huge box.
"After you go home, you must give someone something. I heard that your life at home has improved a lot, but maybe you are not used to it this time, so I prepared some things for you. At the same time, I will tell you something, you must remember."
Looking at the seven or eight-year-old girl in front of me, Liang Jing thought she was liked by someone for some reason, so she had no scruples when talking. Of course, it was related to Liang Shuqun and the elderly who returned to the yard, otherwise the old man might really not be able to stand it.
"What's the matter?"
Xiaoman looked up at her in confusion and asked, her long eyelashes were really beautiful and nice.
"I heard that the people in your place were engaged at a very young age. If you encounter such a thing when you go home this time, be careful."
Liang Jing’s words are not empty words. In remote places, there are many people who get married at the age of ten, especially girls, which are even more terrifying. If it were in the Song Dynasty, I heard that many people like women who are in their teens, they are simply beasts.
"Aunt Jing, this probably won't be true?"
Xiaoman studied here for several months, and she also knew about women, but she really didn't know about the things in the village. Xiaojin, who had always been like a wooden one, said, "Xiaoman, it's true. I heard that many families in the village are like this."
"What should I do?"
Xiaoman asked in confusion that she didn't want to get married yet. She hoped that she could become Cui Qingchen, the Ye family's internal affairs manager, and live her own color. However, this kind of thing is so easy to solve. Although the words of the matchmaker from her parents' orders are a bit inappropriate for them, there are more low-level means, that is, to change marriage, that is, you are my daughter-in-law, and I am your daughter-in-law. It's terrible, but it really exists. When you have no money, what should you do?
"Don't worry, I've figured out a solution for you."
Liang Jing chuckled and patted his head and said, "If someone really tells you this time when you go home, just say that Ye's school has regulations that girls cannot get married before the age of sixteen. Otherwise, the governor will be unhappy. If they violate the law, they will be arrested and sent to the mountains to get stones."
"Ah? It's true or false?" Xiaoman said he didn't understand. Is it true or false?
"It's true." Xiao Jin rarely said anything. He usually eats, sleeps, and studies, but he is very down-to-earth in doing things. He seems to like the law very much, but he just doesn't like talking.
"Oh, that's good, that's good." Xiaoman pulled Liang Jing's hand and said, "Aunt Jing, I don't want to get married yet. I still need to learn a lot."
"You're right, let's go. It's getting late, and it's going to get dark when you get home." Liang Jing said, patting her palm.
"Well, Xiaozian, Aunt Jing, I'll leave first." Xiaoman got on the carriage cutely, and then Xiao Jin also went up. The coachman untied the reins, then shook the whip in his hand and said, "Go."
Seeing Xiaoman leave, Ye Ji, who was already lively, suddenly lost his energy. He was dejected and planned to leave, but Liang Jing pinched his ear and said, "Movie, why, do you feel sorry for me?"
"Aunt, what are you saying? I will do big things in the future, just like Ye Du." Ye Ji endured the pain, looking righteous, Liang Jing patted his head and said, "Since he has such ambition, why do you still take those little devils to my orchard to steal fruits?"
"Did Ye Guo say that traitor?" Ye Zi said with a wailing face, and said to Liang Jing, "Aunt, our fruits are not as good as yours this year. Let's just go and have a look."
"Is that so? Have you seen that someone left a bunch of fruit cores after watching it?" Liang Jing continued to ask, pulling his arm and preventing him from running away.
"The Marquis said that there is no right to speak without investigation. I am all for the good of our Yejia Village. Ah... it hurts..." Ye Chi looked righteous and asked Liang Jing to drag him into the academy directly. This brat's mouth was getting smoother and smoother.
Xiaoman was sitting in the carriage with a reluctance on his face, but when he heard Ye Ji's miserable scream, he couldn't help but burst out and laughed, making Xiaojin, who was reading a book, puzzled. However, he was not as popular as Xiaoman, so he ignored it. He was looking at the law.
After the sun rises, the heat around it will rise up, and slowly there will be fewer pedestrians on the road.
There are still some strong men in Songzhou, maybe landlords or big families. However, when these people saw the carriage running over, they did not dare to stay for a moment, and they flashed directly because there was a flag on these two ordinary carriages and large leaves on them, which was a unique mark in Yejia Village. There was also a curved branch under this leaf, which was the mark of Yeshi Academy.
A man who didn't know anything had planned to steal a carriage, but was shot dead by the groom on the spot. Then the man's family also became unlucky. Later, everyone knew that in Songzhou, you can bully a lot of people, but children and people from the college should not bully them, otherwise you will know how death was born.
Because there was food on the carriage, I just stayed in Songzhou for half an hour, drank some water, and then the carriage ran towards Jiaochuan County, and the two children were also lying there to fall asleep.
Those who drive the carriage are usually soldiers in the army. These people are all active service. Ye Tan asked people who perform well every once in a while to come out. What are they doing? They just do these things. On the surface, it seems to be a humiliation, but more people know that this thing is called a reward, because after giving away the child, you can rest for a few days.
Jiaochuan County has once caused headaches for many people because of its special geographical location. Even Pan Wei was beaten up. It shows that the people are so tough, but unfortunately, they are much more honest now.
The carriage stayed in the county town for half an hour, but Xiaoman was a little nervous when he saw that the sun had reached the west.
I haven't been home for four or five months, and I don't know what's going on at home.
The county town of Jiaochuan County is different now than before. Although it has only been a few months, the periphery has been built. When you walk over, you will really look like a county town above the middle.
Xiaoman saw that many people were exchanging their own things in unique places in the county town. People who entered were nervous and sweaty, and people who came out were laughing and laughing. Then they went to the market on the side to buy some cloth and other items, some of which were also salt, and these things were necessities. Some of the things sent in were fed to pigs in the past, but now they were used for food for people. The governor was really amazing.
Sometimes, Xiaoman couldn't help but wonder how he did it.
"The people here are pretty good, and the law is well enforced."
Xiao Jin, who was sitting in the carriage, looked up and came to such a conclusion. The groom driving the carriage raised his lips slightly. To be honest, he felt strange that he was just a savage from a mountain village. There had been such a big change in just a few months.
"drive."
The carriage passed among a group of people. Although some people were not very happy to be so arrogant, no one dared to talk nonsense. In Songzhou, the class is definitely not empty talk, but it is also very vague. As long as you can work hard differently from others, you will always have a chance to make a comeback. This is the end.
A society without a goal is a deformed and unmotivated society. Perhaps such goal will make some people live a bad life, but it will make more people live a good life. This is enough. After all, not all places are suitable for all people to survive. If most people survive well, the society will be stable.
As soon as the carriage left the city gate, it headed directly to Huanglongzhai.
If it were in the past, I would have to walk for a day and a night, even if there was a carriage, but now there is a road ahead.
As long as there is a road, people will hope to come out and take a look.
From the beginning of watching and now walking out in a swagger, it is a progress for the people in Jiaochuan County, and a leap for the people in Huanglongzhai.
The carriage suddenly began to bump. Xiao Jin looked up at the ground and frowned and said to Xiaoman, "I didn't expect that this place was a stone road, not a cement road."
Xiaoman also felt that they were very happy whenever there was a dirt road in the past, but now they felt a little uncomfortable when they saw such roads. After all, people who are used to staying in big cities will always feel uncomfortable when they look at the dirty and messy small cities. This is true regardless of whether this place is your hometown or not.
"How could that be? I heard about it in the school that roads are being built everywhere. This shouldn't be the case here." Xiaoman looked at Xiao Jin in confusion and asked, "The things in this school will not lie."
"Hmph, I know from the school that some places are lazy because some people are lazy, there are problems with the construction of this road, or they simply don't work hard." Xiao Jin's words made the two of them silent all of a sudden, after all, the people here include their own villagers.
Lu Xun once said that he would be sad for his misfortune and anger that he would not fight.
This is a truth, not a disease-free "shenyin".
The carriage passed through some places where Xiaoman looked familiar and unfamiliar, but she didn't hear any sounds of tigers and leopards. There were many things in the past. The words used by the elderly in the village to scare children were not empty words, but a truth. Even adults might not come back when they go out at night, let alone children with more delicious taste and meat. Their defense level is too poor, and they almost die if they encounter it.
When the carriage stopped, Xiaoman had already seen the afterglow of the sun that was about to sink into the mountains.
Looking at this familiar and unfamiliar place, the words Huanglong Village were carved on the huge rock in the past, but the village that was dark at night had some sporadic lights at this time, which was not simple.
From the perspective of bright light, Xiaoman knew that it was the home of the village chief Ma Jin.
But my home is dark, and it seems that I am sleeping.
She never wanted to go home at this moment, and as soon as she got off, she heard a voice.
"Is it Xiaoman?"
A honest voice came from outside the village. Xiaoman looked up and shouted happily, "Brother Meng Yue, where are you?"
Meng Yue, who was covered in sweat but confident, had a lot of things on his body, and he knew he was going out to change things at a glance.
"It's really Xiaoman. I told me who came to Huanglongzhai in a carriage tonight?" Meng Yue used to be a person who was attracted by Ye Xiao. Now he has good cooking skills, but he often comes back.
"Yes, Brother Meng Yue, the school is on vacation, I'll go home."
Xiaoman was about to come and hug him, but Meng Yue took a step back, perhaps because he was worried that the sweat beads on his body would dirty Xiaoman's clothes, and then opened his throat and shouted, "From Xiaoman's family, your Xiaoman is back, and you can't come out yet to continue."
Chapter completed!