People at the table were talking and laughing when suddenly they heard someone shouting outside the courtyard. This is the inner courtyard, which is far away from the main gate. If the five people had not been cultivated and their eyesight and ears were already superior to ordinary people, they would not have been able to hear it.
"Someone is shouting." Wen Ya stood up, "I'll go out and take a look."
Old man Xu and Xu Lan were both silent. After listening for a while, their faces were a little strange. They didn't hear any sound?!
"I'll go." Xu Lan stood up.
"You sit down, you sit down. You eat first." Wen Ya held Xu Lan down while walking out.
...
When I came to the entrance of the courtyard, I saw a middle-aged couple. The woman was holding a plate of meat in her hand. She smiled and said to Wen Ya: "We live in the house across from you. This is my husband Li Sheng."
Li Sheng smiled and cupped his hands, but his expression was a little stiff and he looked a little reluctant.
It turned out to be a neighbor. Wen Ya smiled and said, "We were supposed to go visit him, but we have been delayed by trivial matters these days."
Li Sheng's wife quickly laughed and waved her hands, "No, no, we are rude. We have been sick a few days ago, and you didn't come out to say hello."
Then he held up the plate in his hand and said, "This is the sauced pork I made myself. It tastes pretty good. It's not respectful to be careful. Madam, please don't dislike it."
Wen Ya smiled, "I'm sorry for taking so much trouble. Why don't you go inside and sit for a while?"
"Oh, that's good." Li Sheng's wife immediately pulled Li Sheng up and stepped over the threshold.
Wen Ya's eyebrows moved slightly, and she asked with a smile.
Li Sheng's wife grabbed Li Sheng and followed Wen Ya into the courtyard, while marveling in her heart. Finally, she couldn't help it anymore and asked in surprise: "Why is your place so beautiful? How do these flowers and plants grow so well?"
Previously, because of the haunting, all the flowers and plants in their yard had died, just like the trees in the alley. Now, although the Yin Qi is gone and it doesn't seem to be haunted anymore, the flowers and plants in their yard have not come back to life.
Wen Ya also smiled and shook her head, "When we came here, they were all dead, but for some reason, they slowly came back to life. Aren't those trees in the alley the same way? I guess the weather has cleared up after the rain."
Li Sheng was a little pretentious, grabbing his wife's hand and looking around nervously. Although Li Sheng's wife was a little suspicious, she didn't show it, but smiled and said: "Listen to your accent,
He seems to be from out of town."
"Yes, we came from Shuzhou to escape famine."
Li Sheng's wife was shocked again, "Shuzhou? It's so far away. You must have suffered a lot along the way."
Wen Ya sighed, a little bitterly, "From September last year to April this year, except for two months in Chengyang County in winter, I was on the road the rest of the time."
It turned out that they were a family fleeing. Li Sheng’s wife was relieved of her doubts and asked out of curiosity: “Then why are you fleeing?”
"There is a locust plague over there in Shuzhou. The government is not paying attention, and the remaining food has been exhausted. I have no choice but to leave my hometown to find a way to survive."
Li Sheng's wife sighed and couldn't help but sigh, "It seems it's not easy everywhere. I'm afraid it will be Yinzhou's turn to suffer from drought again this year. I can't even think about it."
The two walked to the dining room while chatting.
Several people in the room saw Wen Ya leading a strange couple in. Shi'an Hongtao had already known about it, so there was nothing surprising. Although Zhufeng didn't understand, he still fulfilled his responsibility as the head of the family and stood up on one leg.
He smiled and made an arch with Li Sheng.
Li Sheng saw that there were young and old men in the room, and the stiffness on his face softened a lot. He also saw that Zhufeng's head was wrapped with gauze, and he was polite and concerned, "What's going on? Are you knocked down?"
Zhufeng smiled helplessly, "Today there was a fight between the village head and the tenant farmers. I accidentally got pushed and got knocked down." He raised his leg slightly to indicate, "I stepped on my toes and broke them."
Li Sheng sighed for a while.
Wen Ya introduced Li Sheng and his wife to everyone in the room, and then introduced her family to the couple. After listening to this, the couple felt completely relieved and secretly thought that they had overthinked it. This was just an ordinary family.
Li Sheng's wife put the sauced meat on the table and said with a smile: "If it doesn't suit your taste, don't blame me for making it taste bad."
"Thank you, thank you." Zhufeng asked Li Sheng again, "Have you had dinner? If not, you can stay for a light meal."
"We have eaten." Li Sheng returned the greeting and glanced at his wife, who said very wisely: "Since you are eating, we will not disturb you and go back first. We will visit you another day."
Then he said to Wen Ya: "If you want to buy clothes, jewelry, rouge, etc., just come to me. I know where it is good-looking and cheap."
"Okay, I will go to the street another day and I will definitely look for you." He said as he sent Li Sheng and his wife out.
On the way, Wen Ya remembered again, "Oh, by the way, Qian Fangya said that Jiu Quli was eating the well water in the backyard.
I haven’t seen you come to fetch water these days, so don’t be polite anymore. I keep the back door open during the day. If you want to fetch water, you can go there anytime.”
Li Sheng's wife smiled and thanked her, said goodbye to Wen Ya, and took Li Sheng away.
Wen Ya watched the couple enter the hospital, then closed the door and returned to the dining room. As soon as they entered the room, Zhufeng asked, "Why are they here suddenly?"
He had been here for a month, but he had barely met any of the families in the alley. If he hadn't occasionally heard noises in the courtyard, he would have thought that they were the only ones living in the alley.
"Maybe the Yin Qi is not there, so I'm not afraid anymore, so just walk around." Wen Ya sat down.
The family continued to eat, and Zhufeng talked about things in the countryside again, "...I thought about the conflict between the tenant farmers and the landlords, but I didn't know what to do, but it didn't feel right to leave it alone, so I just came back and asked.
You guys." He looked at Qingyu.
Old Man Xu knew very well that the farmers were the targets of exploitation, and sighed: "Fighting against the He family is like hitting an egg with an egg. I'm afraid I'll have to sign a tenancy agreement in the end."
Qingyu put down her chopsticks, "Today I made a hexagram. The upper hexagram is fire, and the lower hexagram is water. This is 'water and fire are not coming together'. This hexagram represents the imbalance of yin and yang, which means that the upper and lower hexagrams are blocked."
Everyone in Zhufeng looked at her.
Qingyu glanced at Wen Ya, smiled slightly and said, "It's not too troublesome to solve this matter."
...
After finishing the meal and clearing away the dishes, Qingyu's family dispersed.
Xu Lan and Mr. Xu hadn't seen each other for a long time, so they stayed in the main room to talk for a while. However, the topic revolved around their boss.
Especially Xu Lan, she couldn't wait to tell everything she had seen and heard recently, "Grandpa, you have really sharp eyesight. I have been following my wife these days and I have seen things that are unimaginable in my life.
Did you know that my wife can fly with a sword and control objects with her breath? I was so frightened when I first saw her. Grandpa, I think we must have met an immortal."
Old Man Xu was also quite emotional, "Chasing the boss is no easy task. I have been cultivating medicinal herbs all my life, but I have not heard many of the things he said. I have benefited a lot from following him these days."
Then he said: "This family is not simple. The third lady is so young, she can actually do divination. Girl Lan, I don't have many years to live. I'm afraid this is your fate. You have to follow it carefully."
With them, Grandpa can rest assured."
Xu Lan's eyes turned red and she said, "My grandpa said such things again, you will definitely live to be a hundred years old."
"Hahaha~" Old man Xu laughed for a while, and seeing that it was getting late, he advised Xu Lan to rest.