In Wenhua Academy, Wei Yan was listening to Master Li's lecture on the classics.
After class, the students left the school in twos and threes.
Wei Yan was walking with two classmates with whom he had a good relationship while discussing what Master Li had just said, when he saw Li San, a handyman from the academy, shouting: "Ms. Wei, someone is looking for you."
Most of the students in the academy live and eat in the academy. Some students' families are richer and will send some food from time to time. The students are not surprised by this.
It was just the first time that Wei Yan encountered someone coming to see him. When he walked towards Li San, he was still thinking, everyone at home was busy working, who would come to see him.
When he walked to the entrance of the academy, he saw Lu Yuhan and her maid Xiaocui.
Wei Yan turned around and was about to leave. Lu Yuhan hurriedly shouted: "Ms. Wei, I have something to see you for."
Wei Yan didn't even look back and said, "What's the matter? Just tell me quickly!"
Lu Yuhan bit her lip and said, "My uncle asked me to come."
Lu Yuhan's uncle was the owner of the restaurant where Wei Yan stayed before, and Lu Yuhan was also the niece of the owner that Wei Yan had mentioned to Yang.
The other party mentioned the owner of the restaurant, and Wei Yan had indeed received favor from the other party, so he turned around and said, "Then if you have anything to say, just say it!"
Lu Yuhan took two steps forward, but despite her arrogant personality, she was very restrained in front of Wei Yan. It took her a long time to bite her lip and take out a piece of handkerchief, then she handed it to him, turned around and ran away.
By the time Wei Yan came to his senses, Lu Yuhan had already run away without a trace with the maid.
On the way back, Li San stopped him again, and then took out a baggage and said, "Ms. Wei, the young lady in front of me sent this. She said it was from your family."
The baggage is not big, but a little heavy.
However, Wei Yan saw clearly that the baggage was indeed the one commonly used by the Yang family, so he took it.
Having collected things that he shouldn't have collected before, Wei Yan's face really wasn't very good-looking, and he returned to his residence with the baggage in hand.
Li San said that the baggage was sent by a young lady, and claimed that she was from his family. Wei Yan immediately thought of Shen Xiu, and there was no one else but her.
He opened the bag first and saw that there were a lot of things in the bag, including two new pairs of shoes made for him by Yang and two cleanly washed gowns. Under the clothes was an oil paper bag with something wrapped in it.
Some crispy-skinned snacks. In addition, there is also a delicately crafted pouch embroidered with green bamboo.
Yang had never been good at embroidery. Wei Yan picked up the purse and looked at it. It must be Shen Xiu's craftsmanship. She must also have bought the snacks.
Wei Yan's mood finally improved.
The crispy-skinned pastry was stuffed with lard and pine nuts. Shen Xiu bit it gently, and the lard inside flowed out. Fortunately, the fragrance of the pine nuts balanced it out, and the lard filling did not taste so sweet.
Yang felt distressed after taking a bite, "This snack must be very expensive!"
Shen Xiu smiled and said: "Mom, I bought all these snacks. Besides, my husband said he wanted to eat snacks when he came back last time, so after I sold the handkerchief this time, I thought about buying a pound for my husband to try.
Later, I was afraid that my husband would not be able to finish the meal, so I kept half a catty."
In fact, Shen Xiu wanted to have some snacks, so she carried Wei Yan out.
Yang said: "My second brother is going on field holiday soon, so he won't be able to eat that much. Next time you want to buy it, just remember to buy half a catty."
Shen Xiu only heard the first sentence, "Mom, what is Tianjia?"
Father Wei said from the side: "When the wheat is harvested, academies and private schools will take a month's leave to let the students come back to help with the wheat harvest."
After Father Wei explained this, Shen Xiucai understood that Wei Yan would be back soon and would stay at home for a month.
Five days later, Wei Yan returned home from the academy.
Mrs. Yang knew that he was coming back, so she dried the bedding for him early.
Da Ya had been sleeping with Shen Xiu. As soon as Wei Yan came back, her bedding was moved to Yang and Wei's father's room.
After Wei Yan had washed up, when he came in from the outside, Shen Xiu was cutting a purse under the lamp. The fabric for the purse was the rags she bought from the silk shop. These rags were palm-sized and could be used to sew the purse.
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When Wei Yan saw these half-finished purses, he remembered the purse Shen Xiu had embroidered for him.
He looked at Shen Xiu with a gentler look in his eyes: "It's so late, why don't you go to bed?"
After being reminded by him, Shen Xiu remembered that he would go to work in the fields with Father Wei tomorrow and would definitely have to get up early, so she put away the rags and said, "Go to bed right away."
The new bed is very big, and the two of them can occupy half of it just like before, without disturbing each other.
The next day, before dawn, Wei Yan opened his eyes. He moved gently, without disturbing Shen Xiu who was sleeping soundly, and walked out of the room quietly.
When Shen Xiu woke up, it was already bright and Yang had already prepared breakfast.
Cutting wheat is a laborious job. In order to give the two men enough strength to work, Yang started baking white flour pancakes early in the morning. After baking more than a dozen pancakes, he stopped and cooked a large pot of porridge using the polished rice bought by Shen Xiu.
, and boiled a dozen eggs.
Rice porridge is put in earthen pots, and white flour cakes and eggs are put in baskets.
Yang couldn't get it by herself, so Shen Xiu helped her deliver the breakfast to the ground.
From a distance, I saw Wei Yan cutting wheat with a sickle.
Before Shen Xiu came, she thought that the other party was a weak scholar who was definitely not good at work. But when she came to the field, she realized that Wei Yan worked very meticulously and cut the wheat neatly, which was no better than Wei's father who often worked.
Difference.
Mrs. Yang looked at her son and said proudly: "My second son has been like this since he was a child. Either he doesn't do it, or he does it to the best of his ability." After saying that, he invited the two men to come over for dinner.
While the two men were eating, Shen Xiu and Yang also went to the fields to cut wheat for a while.
But when Shen Xiu picked up the sickle, she realized that cutting wheat was both a physical and technical job. She felt soreness in her back and legs soon after cutting, and she was left far behind by Yang.
Fortunately, Wei Yan and Wei's father took over from them after dinner. Yang stayed in the field to bundle wheat, and Shen Xiu returned home alone.
The three people here were working enthusiastically, but Wei Ping was working alone, without even a meal delivery person.
Father Wei and Mrs. Yang pretended not to see it, while Wei Yan kept concentrating on cutting the wheat and seemed not to notice Wei Ping, his eldest brother.
Wei Ping wanted to open his mouth to talk to them several times, but finally swallowed his words.
Yang was the first one who couldn't bear to say: "If I had known this, why did I do it in the first place?"
Father Wei said: "Don't worry about this matter. No matter how pitiful the boss is, don't interfere. He wants to divide this family. He is the only one who can't do anything to us, and we can't do anything to him."
Furthermore, there is the second child. Although the second child looks silent, he has had a strong feeling in his heart since he was a child. The separation of the family this time by the eldest brother must have hurt his heart. Do you want the second child to seduce the eldest son in the future?
You must hold back at this time.
The more the eldest brother suffers, the second eldest brother will see it and feel intolerable, and only then will he forgive the eldest son. This is much more effective than saying it over and over again."
Yang was silent for a while and then said: "Then just listen to you, old man."
From this moment on, Mrs. Yang made up her mind not to watch Weiping work alone. At noon, Shen Xiu brought lunch, but Mrs. Yang did not call Weiping to come over for dinner.
If Yang didn't mention it, Shen Xiu wouldn't mention it either.
Today she specially bought two kilograms of pork belly from the butcher in the village. Half of the two kilograms of pork belly were used to make braised pork, and the other half was used to make meatball soup.
Braised pork and meatballs are of course delicious with rice. So Shen Xiu simmered another pot of rice.
She took out the meals from the basket one by one, and the aroma of braised pork and rice immediately wafted out.
Weiping hadn't eaten in the morning, and his stomach growled even louder when he smelled the aroma of braised pork.
Unfortunately, no one came to ask him to eat, so Wei Ping could only smell the aroma of braised pork while nibbling the whole grain pancakes he brought.
Halfway through the pancake, Wei Ping suddenly heard Aunt Chen calling him from the ground, "Wei Ping, go back quickly! Your wife has fainted."