Come to the hall.
The two guests and the host were seated. After the tea, Grandpa Wu looked at this extraordinary and decent young man, and began to probe.
Xiao Xinru didn't show the slightest hint of his feet when he talked and laughed, only that he met the second son of the Wu family at the Yellow Crane Tower party last year.
His accent is indeed from Wuchang.
Elder Wu nodded. His son was selected as a scholar last year. Afterwards, he must go to the Yellow Crane Tower to meet with his fellow high school students, which means that Master Xiao must be a scholar.
I got a lot of intimacy between words again, and I started to test the other's knowledge again, but after some testing, I found that the ink in my stomach was completely embarrassing.
Fortunately, the other party was humble, so he hurriedly changed the subject to test the purpose of the other party's trip.
He didn't think that the other party was here to visit this poor country from Wuchang with a thousand reasons.
Presumably, I am afraid that Jiro and Jiro are just one side fate, otherwise Jiro will definitely mention one or two.
"Uncle, I'm not telling you anything. In addition to visiting Brother Wu Xian, when I came here this time, my elder brother also confessed a few things and asked him to help."
"Oh? Nephew's brother..."
At this point, he picked up the teacup and took a sip.
"Actually, there are some trivial things that my uncle does not know. The recent severe drought in Henan has caused a thousand miles of land in Nanyang and Kaifeng, and there is no harvest. A large number of refugees have gathered on the north bank of Xiangyang. Although my brother is humble, he wants to make a contribution. With meager efforts, when I was born late in Nanzhang, I bought a batch of grain and shipped it back to Xiangyang."
"That's it!"
Mr. Wu nodded, but his mind was spinning fast, analyzing the meaning of his words, there was no way, once he understood it wrong, it would be really shameful.
The final conclusion was that his elder brother should be an official in Xiangyang or Nanyang, and wanted to take the opportunity to transport a batch of grain to Nanyang to make a fortune, but he was inconvenient to come forward. He learned that he has a classmate in Nanzhang. Send him.
Xiao Xinru saw that he was holding the teacup and didn't put it down for a long time, so he also picked up the teacup. The two of them just pretended to hold the teacup.
"Xiao Xian's elder brother, isn't it Xiao Tongzhen from Xiangyang Mansion, Master Xiao?"
Mr. Wu finally put down his teacup and recalled the entire Nanyang officials in Xiangyang, only then did he think of a man named Xiao who would use it to test.
no way.
If Elder Wu directly asks where his brother is an official, he would appear too abrupt and snobbish.
And Xiao Xinru can't directly say where his brother is an official, otherwise he will appear to be deliberately showing off. This requires an official with the same surname to come out and test.
Therefore, it is necessary to test the memory and knowledge of Mr. Wu. If you can't remember an official surnamed Xiao in the two places, you will end up with an outdated villager.
How can ordinary people understand the doorways and etiquette?
"It's my brother, who originally wanted to entrust Wu Xiandi to help, but unfortunately the junior came at the wrong time, so I had to..."
"Oh! A trivial matter, I don't know how much food the nephew needs? If not, the old man can go to the town to raise one or two."
Elder Wu hurriedly waved his hand, and when he learned that the other party's elder brother had really passed the sentence in Xiangyang, his tone became even more affectionate.
"It's not too much. The coarse and fine grains add up to a thousand stones."
"Since this is the case, let your nephew relax your mind. It's better to stay here and wait for Sejong to come back. This matter is left to the old man. If you want to use the old man's thin noodles, it is not difficult to raise Qianshi food.
"Then there will be Uncle Lau."
The two were courteous again, Xiao Xinru was taken to the guest room, and Qin Yu naturally followed behind.
"Madam, do you often do this kind of thing before?"
As soon as he returned to the room, Qin Yu stared at her curiously. He estimated that he would not be able to do such delicate work in his lifetime.
Xiao Xinru blushed and couldn't help but remember some of the past in Wuchang before he was out of the pavilion.
"Ms. Really used to pretend to be a man and go out?" When Qin Yu saw her appearance, he immediately understood that he had guessed it.
"When my concubine was at her mother's house, she did go to the Yellow Crane Tower twice as a scholar." Xiao Xinru nodded.
"I understand. It turns out that the big family ladies and wives don't get out of the door. In fact, I am afraid that women often disguise themselves as men to meet lovers and steal guys!"
Qin Yu suddenly realized that he finally figured out some routines of this era.
"The son must not talk nonsense. In this case, some enlightened people do exist before they leave the cabinet, but they are only to increase their knowledge. It is not as filthy as you said, and after marriage, it is absolutely impossible."
Xiao Xinru couldn't help groaning when he saw that he was so unbearable.
"Hehe, of course, I'm not talking about madams, but those widows who are lonely and deep."
Qin Yu smiled and waved his hand.
Mrs. Li obviously didn’t want to discuss this with him, so she hurriedly changed the subject and said, “The son, cotton cloth and sulfur, etc., I’m afraid I’m going to the county town. As for the doctor, wait for me and son to go around the town to see if we can find it. Doctor."
"Well! It can only be so."
Qin Yugang nodded.
There was a knock on the door outside the door, and only a few maids were standing outside the door carrying wooden barrels.
Xiao Xinru naturally wouldn't let the maid wait on the shower, otherwise they wouldn't be exposed immediately, so they all kicked out.
Qin Yu didn't move. He tried to test the water temperature and stared at her with a smile: "Madam, according to the rules, shouldn't the book boy take care of your bath?"
"My son don't want to mess around. It's no better than a cottage. Get out quickly. We will go to town to find a doctor later."
Seeing that he was still thinking about playing around at this time, Xiao Xinru was angry and ashamed, with a blush on his cheeks, he hurriedly said.
"Well, the lady washes slowly, I'll watch outside."
Qin Yu also knew that this was not the place and time for hooligans.
"The son can just wait outside."
"what?"
Qin Yu paused and looked back at her in disbelief. There is no outside room, only a screen!
"According to the rules, the book boy should really be served by the book boy. If you go out, the master's house will mistakenly let the maid come in."
After Xiao Xinru finished speaking, she lowered her head shyly. There was still the calmness of the dialogue with Mr. Wu just now, and her daughter's attitude was fully revealed.
Qin Yu stared at her, his throat squirmed twice, but his lips promised: "Don't worry, Madam, I will never peek."
Mrs. Li murmured secretly.
Where would you believe it?
So there was no bathing at all, just changed the outer gown to muddy the water.
Qin Yu was greatly disappointed and called out to be teased by her, but he had to go to town with her to find a doctor.
Not to mention that although there is no pharmacy in the town, a local herbalist was found.
After looking around and asking, he prescribed some medicines to Qin Yu, and when he returned to Wu's house, he let his servants fry them, only to explain that Shutong fell on the road.
Because Xiao Xinru hinted that the food was urgently needed and it was inconvenient to stay for too long, so only the next day, Mr. Wu collected all the food.
He also helped find hundreds of trolleys to transport grain from the mountain road to the official road.
Rice is one or two silver and one stone, wheat one and two and five silver and one stone, and soybeans are five silver and one stone, which is twice the price Qin Feng asked that day.
Qin Yu also complained about it, and after some inquiries, he realized that this was the real market price.
In fact, these grains belong to the Wu family, as the big landlord who owns more than 70% of the farmland in the town.
Don't say that one thousand shi grains can be obtained even five thousand shi, but it is not easy to sell directly to Young Master Xiao, and then it is said that these grains are raised from other families.
The official road to the east of Heishi Town was only ten miles away. Hundreds of trolleys, tied with a bag on one side, were pushed out of the town by hundreds of big men.