After returning home, Su Yan was still worried about Qin An. She never liked gossip, so she followed him every day these days for fear of hearing any news.
This day, afternoon
Zhang Xiu was walking in the yard with a hand on his hands. Hearing the sound of footsteps, he subconsciously raised his head and saw a tall figure.
"master."
"Um."
Qin An's voice was a little tired. He touched the ball, went into the room, and soon came out to the kitchen.
"Madam is talking to the elder sisters over there at the pool." Zhang Xiu naturally knew what he was looking for.
Every time the master comes back, he always looks for his wife.
Qin An said "hmm" and strode out. As he approached the pool, he heard the voices of a group of women talking.
"Stop it, when I was pregnant with my second child, my family couldn't bear it and insisted on doing anything to me."
"I thought it was just like the one at my house, but it turns out they are all the same."
"Girls from the Qin family, when are you going to have a second child?"
"In a few years."
"Don't wait for a few years. It won't work in a few years. You see, my husband is young, but it is useless now."
Su Yan smiled helplessly, looked up and saw her husband standing three or four steps away from her, "Mr. sir, you are back."
As he spoke, he stopped banging his seeds and stood up and walked towards him.
"It's better for you and your wife to come out and have a conversation and someone will pick you up."
"He is the only couple in this alley who has never had a quarrel."
Usually when a family quarrels, the whole alley knows about it.
Unless there is no sound at all.
Su Yan was a little embarrassed by their teasing, "Sister, we will go back first and we will send you cakes tomorrow."
"Hahaha, we don't eat pancakes, we eat your children's full moon wine."
"I'll definitely call you when I get it." Su Yan pulled Qin An and left quickly. A married woman doesn't know what to say.
After entering the courtyard, she said: "You go to the house and sleep for a while, and I will cook egg noodles for you."
"Look at you for a while." Qin An was indeed very tired at the moment, but he just missed his wife.
Su Yan didn't say anything. They went into the kitchen and she asked him to sit at the door of the kitchen to light the fire. Knowing that he must be tired, she didn't say anything.
After a while, she saw him leaning against the wall, sleeping with his head tilted, and the stubble on his chin was clearly visible.
After the provincial examination, he became even more tired.
There will be the National Examination in June and the Palace Examination in July... If you fail the exam, you will have to study again.
She was not tired, but Qin An was tired. He was asked to take these exams as a hunting man.
Crack two more eggs to cook the noodles. After they are cooked, call him, "Mr., the noodles are ready."
The man didn't move. She walked over with a straight face, stretched out her hand and patted him gently, "Mr.
"Yeah." Qin An opened his eyes immediately, took the noodles and ate them.
Finished the soup together.
Su Yan took the empty bowl and urged: "Go to bed."
Qin An nodded and went out. Su Yan cleaned up the kitchen and went to the house. She saw that he was so tired that he didn't even cover himself with a quilt.
She sighed inwardly and walked over to cover him with the quilt. Suddenly her eyes paused and her eyes fell on the scratches on his neck.
The first time I was bullied by others.
She was a little angry, but she refrained from waking him up.
When he woke up, it was already dark. Qin An sat up and heard the shouts of groups outside the house, and his wife's shout: "Tuan Tuan, don't throw things."
Feeling at ease, he got up and sat in front of the bronze mirror to shave. Before he could finish shaving, the door opened from the outside.
He held a knife in one hand, raised his chin slightly, and said hoarsely: "Daughter-in-law."
Su Yan came over, took a knife and shaved him skillfully. After shaving, she said: "Did you have a dispute with someone?"
"Well, there is a woman who is always next to me." Qin An couldn't help but look disgusted.
During the rural examination, many women will go to Fucheng to see the man. If they like him, they will propose marriage to him.
Qin An is handsome and tall, and his clothes are expensive.
Of course there are women who are interested in him.
Su Yan probably guessed it and said with a smile: "You just hit her?"
"Just pushed her away and she tickled me."
Qin An looked at his wife's reaction and saw that she was still smiling, so he held her in his arms.
"Daughter-in-law, other people's wives would be angry if they knew it, but you still laugh."
"Are you happy that I'm angry?" Su Yan asked.
Qin An immediately said nothing, hugged her and kissed her again and again, "Don't have any more children."
"It's not my decision to have a baby." Su Yan didn't plan to have a second child, and it wouldn't be too late to do so when the situation gets better.
"I won't ask for it in the future, one is enough."
Qin An was afraid that she would think too much, so he explained in a low voice: "You are not in good health."
"If something happens, what do you want me to do?"
"I don't want glory and wealth, and a family full of children and grandchildren. I want to live with you until I grow old."
"As long as the business is enough to feed the whole family."
He knew that Su Yan was exhausted because of him, and no amount of money would do it.
"I haven't done anything, I just do business as a helper."
Su Yan smiled and added: "If you can make money in the past few years, make more. When we get older, we will go out for a walk."
She stood up and patted his waist, "I'll get some ointment and rub it on you."
"No, wife, please touch my chest." Qin An said with a mysterious look.
Su Yan knew without guessing that he had bought something for her, but she still cooperated and reached out to touch it. After touching for a long time, she couldn't find it, so she raised her head and faced the man sillyly.
She knew immediately that he was teasing her, so she patted him and said, "Let's go out to eat."
Qin An held her wrist and touched her waist. Su Yan touched a pair of silver earrings, and the pendant was a pearl.
Pearls are less common here.
"Is it expensive?"
"It's not expensive. Some people are selling it on the street. It's cheap, only two hundred coins per pair. It may be fake. It looks good."
Qin An said in a low voice: "If I meet the real thing in the future, I will buy it for you."
"good."
Su Yan put on the earrings in front of him and shook them twice, "Does it look good?"
Her fox eyes were inherently seductive. Now she came slightly closer, and Qin An picked her up fiercely, "I don't want to eat dinner."
Su Yan was startled, exclaimed, hugged his neck, "Eat first."
"Don't eat."
Qin An put her on the bed, lowered his head and kissed her, and then carefully removed the hairpin from the back of her head.
Cuilan and Zhang Xiu didn't wait until the lady and the master came out to eat. Cuilan and Zhang Xiu knew it well, and after leaving half of the food, they fed the two children.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The night was extremely dark, the wooden door made a slight sound, and two black figures came out and finally entered the kitchen.
After a while, the candle was lit, and the woman bent over and took out the cold dishes from the cabinet and put them on the stove. "They are all hot."
"Don't steam the rice, just heat it in a pot."
The man nodded and raised his chin slightly, "When you are tired, just sit down and wait."
Su Yan was sitting at the door of the stove, lazing around, watching him busy with work, and finally the food was handed to her. She smiled and said, "Mr., do I look like the master?"
"Well, I'll serve you."
"become."
Su Yan leaned on his shoulder and said as she ate, "The ground vegetables are quite delicious once in a while. I've almost finished all the ones cooked at home."
"I'll pick it up again this year and eat it."
"good."
Qin An took a big bite of ground vegetables and stir-fried sauerkraut, which went very well with rice.
It was said the first day that the man left to go out early the next morning with a basket to look for it. It had rained the night before and there would be dirt.
At almost noon, he came back with a basket of ground vegetables. After eating, he sat in the yard and washed small pieces.
Zhang Xiu and Cuilan watched in the main room, both of them were a little envious, how could any man do such detailed work?
When Su Yan came back from her work, she saw a large dustpan of ground vegetables drying in the yard. Without asking, she knew that she had been picking them for a long time.
She shouted, "Ms. sir."
Cuilan came out of the house holding Tuantuan in her arms, "Master went to the mountains again, twice this time."
Su Yan nodded and took the ball in her hand, "What did you eat today?"
"Two eggs, a bowl of porridge."
Cuilan thought for a moment and then said: "Master fed me some steamed meat in the afternoon."
"Okay, I must give him more food to help him grow."
Su Yan sat on the chair and thought of something: "How about Xiaoxiu and the Wu family?"
"It looks pretty good. Sister Wu often invites her to have dinner, but Xiaoxiu doesn't even go." Sister Cui shook her head.
"When you get close to each other on weekdays, talk to her more and enlighten her." Su Yan was still worried about Zhang Xiu's marriage.
In a few years, it would be difficult to arrange a marriage for her, and there was nothing she could do to arrange a good marriage for her.
"As I said, she said it would be better to marry at Madam's house."
Cuilan understood what Zhang Xiu was thinking. Both of them were sold by their families, and they were no better than pigs or dogs in other people's homes.
After finally meeting the madam and the master, they couldn't bear to leave.
If you marry well, you will live a good life.
If you marry poorly, life will be difficult.
Su Yan thought about this. Zhang Xiu and Cuilan had helped the family so much, so naturally she would not ignore them.
"When she gets married, I will be the eldest sister of her mother's family. The same goes for you, Sister Cui. If you meet the right person, you can, too.
We are your biological family."
After Cuilan got married, she never wanted to marry again. If that man hadn't been beaten to death by her master, she wouldn't have a peaceful life now.
"Madam, I just want to raise Tuantuan."
Su Yan didn't force her. After all, Cuilan was already too old and it was hard to talk about getting married. We could only talk about it after we met.
"good."
After a while, a family in the alley came to deliver vegetable pancakes. Su Yan took them with a smile, "What do you do at home to make so many pancakes?"
"It's nothing, it's just that when my son comes back after taking the exam, he bakes pancakes and eats them."
The woman smiled and said: "I saw that guy in your family was picking up land right now, so I just said, "If you have any idea, let me go home and treat that guy in my family. Besides drinking, he will do whatever you ask him to do all day long."
Don’t do it.”
Su Yan joked: "Let me think about it."
The woman smiled cheerfully and said, "By the way, did your wife come back and say how she went in the exam? Was it difficult?"
"I don't even dare to ask my Shun'er, but I'm anxious."
Even if Qin An told Su Yan whether it was difficult, she couldn't tell her, mainly because she had a scholar in her family.
It's hard to say, but when she does well in the exam, others will say she's faking it.
It's not difficult to say, but this will make her feel uncomfortable again. After all, everyone in her family studies well.
"I don't know, and I didn't dare to ask, for fear of making him angry."
The woman was a little disappointed, but looked happy, "I heard that people in the capital need to hire more officials this time."
"Don't forget me when your family members become officials."
Su Yan smiled helplessly, nodded in agreement: "Okay."
"Is your shop looking for widows? Can my brother and sister come? Hey, it's hard for her to be a widow. People harass her every now and then. When she goes out to buy groceries, she gets scolded by those stinky women," the woman said angrily.
She looked around, pulled Su Yan under the tree in front of the door, and said, "A beast broke into the courtyard yesterday. Fortunately, we went there together, otherwise it would have been a waste."
"Do you think you can do me a favor? I'm afraid that she will be distracted at home and seek death. My sister-in-law is very hardworking and works alone. If my second brother hadn't died of illness, the couple would have been just like you."
As soon as he finished speaking, a man hurried over and said, "Daughter-in-law, my sister-in-law wants to jump into the river. Go and persuade her."
"My mother!" the woman turned and ran away.
Thinking of the people in the alley, Su Yan turned around, put down the cakes, and ran out. She happened to bump into Qin An who was walking in the door.
She touched her forehead in pain.
Qin An quickly put down the basket in his hand, bent down and blew twice, and said in a low voice: "Does it still hurt?"
"It doesn't hurt. I'll go out for a while and you stew the ribs. I'll come back later and fry them."
"Where to go?"
"The Zhao family's younger siblings want to jump into the river. I'm going to see if I can help."
"I'll go with you."
The two of them walked towards the crowd and happened to hear someone say: "If you want to die, die quickly, don't waste our time."
"It's just that if you don't want to live, just hang yourself at home."
"It's not like she's just pretending to want a man to comfort her."
The ugly words came one after another, not from one person, but from a group of people.
Even the court doesn't want to see the widow, how can these people treat her?
Su Yan didn't feel bad, just a little pitiful. At the same time, she was glad that Qin An was not unhappy because she was a widow.
Aunt Zhao collapsed and shouted: "Stop talking, please stop talking."
There were not many people present to listen, so it was impossible for Su Yan not to help. She was also a widow, and the fate might fall on her at some point.
Just as she was about to say something, Qin An said: "If anyone makes a comment, I will throw him into the water."
Everyone in the alley knew that Qin An had the worst temper and looked the most vicious.
The family has the most money.
Suddenly no one said anything, and the woman in a red wedding dress standing by the river burst into tears, "Brother, sister-in-law, please don't try to persuade me. I have struggled to get through these years."
"Don't be confused, life is better than death." Aunt Zhao advised.
"No one treats me well. I go out to buy a green onion and they say I'm a widow. It costs half as much. I...what's the point of living?" the woman choked.
Aunt Zhao's eyes were red when she heard this. At this time, Su Yan said: "It's better to live than to die. Now your sister-in-law told me that you come to my shop to work as a helper for two taels of silver a month. Do you think you can come?"
Come? If you want to come, go home and change your clothes."
Even in the county town, two taels of silver was a very high wage. Suddenly someone in the crowd exclaimed, "Two taels of silver!"
Aunt Zhao was also shocked and followed Su Yan's words: "Didn't you say you wanted to make money to repair the grave of your second brother? Just work for a few months."
The woman looked at Su Yan and thought she was lying to her. She shook her head and said, "Sister, you have a good heart. There is no need to lie to me. I have no hope of living."
"I'm not lying to you. You can change your clothes and come with your sister-in-law. Hurry up, my child is going to sleep after dinner." After Su Yan said this, she pulled Qin An away.
If you keep trying to persuade her, she might just be stubborn.