As soon as they entered the room, the light dimmed instantly, and a thin girl with braids was playing by herself.
Grandma Liu: "Qing'er, where are your father and mother?"
Qing'er: "Dad went out to fetch water and will be back soon. Mother is chopping firewood in the backyard."
Grandma Liu: "Ban'er, Qing'er, please go out quickly, call your father back, and say that a distinguished guest has arrived."
"Three benefactors, sit down quickly. Oh! Look at my brain!"
Grandma Liu looked at the clothes of the three of them, then at her own bamboo mat, patted her forehead, and quickly wiped her sleeves on the edge of the fire pit.
Xue Hong grabbed Grandma Liu and said, "Grandma Liu, you don't have to be like this. Although this house is a bit old, looking at how clean and tidy it is, I think the son-in-law and his wife must be the ones running the house, and they may not be rich in the future." day."
Dirty and dirty are two different things. Although the house is old, it is clean and tidy, which shows that the spirit of the people has not broken down and they are motivated.
When Grandma Liu heard Xue Hong's words, her eyes narrowed with laughter: "Ouch! I'm borrowing my kindness from my benefactor!"
Xue Hong and the others got on the kang and sat around the small table.
Zhu Hui shook his butt from side to side, finding it very novel and interesting.
Chen Chen also felt strange about the bamboo mat and fire pit under his buttocks, and knocked on them from time to time.
Xue Hong: "Why did grandma come to Beijing in the first place?" (Grandma can also be a name for an old woman, not necessarily the mother's mother.)
Grandma Liu: "Hi! It's not that last year's harvest was not good. Our family only has a few acres of land and depends on God for food. Last year was approaching the end of the year, and our family didn't even have money to buy food and clothing.
There was really nothing I could do, so I took Ban'er to Beijing to beg Uncle Wang's family."
Zhu Hui: "Uncle Wang...is that Prince Teng's family?"
Grandma Liu nodded: "Exactly, how come, my benefactor knows Uncle Wang?"
Chen Chen shook his fan and said, "I've just heard of it. Grandma, are you related to Prince Teng's family?"
Grandma Liu: "We can be considered related. My son-in-law Gou'er's ancestor was related to Mrs. Wang, so we can be considered the same clan.
I originally thought about going to Uncle Wang's house and asking him to help me, a fellow farmer, but after all, the king of hell is easy to meet, but the devil is difficult to deal with. The old woman has never met the gentlemen of the Wang family.
In desperation, I had no choice but to find my aunt who married into a family in Rongguofu in the capital city. Not only was my aunt like a fairy, she also had a kind heart.
You gave me this much money and twenty ounces of money, so that last year's New Year was over."
After hearing this, Zhu Hui was very happy: "This is really strange. Wang Ziteng ignored his fellow disciples who were upright, but it was the married Wang Xifeng who showed kindness. Interesting, really interesting!"
Chen Chen closed the folding fan and said: "This prince is only thinking about getting into the camp, but he doesn't think about stabilizing the family's foundation. I'm afraid it's the vine after autumn. It grows fast and dies...quickly."
Xue Hong: "By the way, why hasn't Wang Ziteng been busy lately? There's no news at all?"
Zhu Hui: "Aren't you scared? My father..."
Listening to the words of the three people, Grandma Liu became more and more surprised and kept chanting "Amitabha": Where did these three benefactors come from? Listening to their words, it seemed that they didn't take Uncle Wang seriously at all, and they didn't know. What kind of big shot is he?
No matter what kind of big shot he is, he is Baner's savior. I just have to look after you, old lady.
Halfway through his words, Zhu Hui suddenly remembered that he was not at home here. He swallowed the second half of his words and turned around to chat with Grandma Liu about farm work.
Although Zhu Hui had some farming knowledge because he and Xue Hong were busy tinkering with crops and fertilizers every day, he still looked childish and ridiculous in front of a serious farming family like Grandma Liu.
But Grandma Liu couldn't help but praise: "Oh, I have never seen a young man who knows how to work like my benefactor!"
Xue Hong: "Grandma always calls me benefactor, which sounds awkward to me. My surname is Xue, this is my elder brother's surname Hong, and that is my younger brother's surname Chen."
Grandma Liu: "Old lady, I will call you Mr. Xue, Mr. Hong, and Mr. Chen. But the surname Hong is really rare."
Chen Chen poked Zhu Hui with his fan and raised his eyebrows: "Brother, do you think your surname is rare?"
Zhu Hui rolled his eyes at Chen Chen, smiled at Grandma Liu without conscience, and said, "It's indeed quite rare."
How rare! Now, if we count the descendants of various princes’ branches, the starting price is at least 200,000! This is only counting the clan members, there are also those who have become common people and all kinds of others, the total number is almost 400,000 to 500,000!
To be honest, if the previous terms of Emperor Longqing had not abolished the princely feudal state and the excessive preferential treatment for the descendants of the surname Zhu, otherwise just raising these clans would be a huge expense!
Why was Chongzhen so poor in history? It would be strange to be poor if he raised more than 200,000 rice bugs!
Several people were chatting and laughing when a dark, lean man walked in and saw the three of them laughing and chatting with Grandma Liu.
The man first looked at Grandma Liu, and after confirming the identity of the three of them, he knelt down and kowtowed to them: "Wang Gou'er, thank you three benefactors for your kindness! In my generation, the only one in the Wang family is Ban'er." , if he makes any mistakes, even if I go underground, I won’t be able to see my ancestors!”
Xue Hong: "Brother Wang, please get up and talk."
Wang Gou'er responded, standing on the ground with red eyes.
Xue Hong: "Brother Wang, don't be formal. This is your home and we are guests. When guests come, how can the host not sit down with him?"
Wang Gouer scratched his head in embarrassment and sat on the edge of the kang next to Grandma Liu.
Xue Hong: "I saw just now that the wheat in the field is growing well. I think we should have a good harvest this year, right?"
A smile appeared on Wang Gou'er's face unconsciously: "God has opened my eyes. The weather has been smooth this year and there have been no disasters, so the crops are growing exceptionally well."
Xue Hong: "This crop cannot be faked. If you water it with a drop of sweat, it will grow stronger. The crops growing so well are inseparable from your hard work, Brother Wang!"
Wang Gou'er: "We farmers don't know whether it's hard work or not, as long as crops grow in the ground, it's all right!"
Ban'er stood on the ground and looked at Xue Hong and the others: "Brother, what do you do?"
These words suddenly stunned Xue Hong and the others.
It was Xue Hong who was the first to speak: "We are also farming, and we are almost the same as you."
After all, the three of them are now researching fertilizers and barely doing farming, which is not a lie.
Ban'er: "Brother, do you know how to read?"
Grandma Liu slapped the board: "Damn child! What kind of words are you talking about! How can the three young masters be illiterate! My dear, my child is young and ignorant."
After all, Ban'er was so young that she burst into tears immediately after being beaten.
Xue Hong stretched out her fair and well-jointed hand, shook it gently, and formed a Shifeng candy, which she handed to Ban'er.
Ban'er stopped crying when she saw the candy and reached out to take it. She was not afraid of the three people who were full of nobility. She didn't know whether it was because newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, or what.
Xue Hong: "Ban'er, do you want to learn how to read?"
Ban'er nodded.
Xue Hong: "Why? Are you too tired from farming?"
Ban'er shook his head: "My grandma said that as long as you study, you can know things that others don't know."
Xue Hong glanced at Grandma Liu and then looked at the board: In the original book, it was said that the Jia Mansion fell into a vast expanse of white and the earth was really clean, but it also said that there was an opportunity for the Jia Mansion to rise again... Maybe it is not a contradiction?
Since the land of Jia Mansion has been completely wiped out, Jia Lan, as a direct descendant, cannot escape the blame, but this revival will fall on others.
Later, Sister Qiao married Ban'er. If the two had enough children, it might not be impossible for one of them to inherit the surname Jia and bring glory to the family.
And how do you write ban in traditional Chinese? Menpin. Menpin is the lintel.
Moreover, although Xue Hong Kanban'er was born into a poor family, Lingtai has always had some luck, and he may not be able to succeed in the future.