Zhu was so frightened that she ran straight into her room as soon as she got home.
There was no one in the room and it was very quiet. She could only hear her heart beating like a drum.
Zheng Yu came to call his father, and Zheng Ren had almost finished discussing with old man Zheng. Zheng Yu wanted him to leave quickly, but he couldn't get a word in for a while. Fortunately, they finished their talk quickly, and after sitting for a while, Zheng Ren took his son home.
As soon as Zheng Yu went out, he pulled his father to quicken his pace.
Zheng Ren smiled and asked him, "Are you hungry, Yu? Why are you in such a hurry to go home?"
Zheng Yu shook his head, "Dad, let's go, the second aunt has gone to our house. I'm afraid she will bully my sister."
Zheng Ren also quickened his pace. This Zhu was really difficult to deal with. She was so annoying that she didn't even realize it. His patience had been completely worn out. If Zhu dared to do it again this time, he would never show her mercy!
The two hurried home. When they arrived at the door, they first saw a big hole in the door.
Zheng Ren was shocked and hurried into the house and asked, "Ah Xiu, what happened?"
Zheng Xiu came out of the house and said, "Dad, don't be nervous. It was Xue the hunter who just beat us to intimidate our second aunt. He said he would come to replace the door for us tomorrow."
Zheng Ren didn't care about the door panel, but just asked, "What happened just now? What did your second aunt do?" He had been in contact with Xue Zhi for some time and knew that he was not the kind of person who would make trouble out of nothing. It must be that Zhu had done something excessive.
Zheng Xiu didn't want Zhu's unpleasant words to fall into her brother's ears, so she sent him to eat first, and she went into the east room with her father and told him what had just happened.
"Nonsense!" Zheng Ren slapped the table and stood up, "I'll go to your grandfather's house again. If I don't talk things over this time, I will definitely not let her off!"
Zheng Xiu had a schadenfreude smile on her face, "If Dad goes now, Second Aunt will probably be scared out of her wits. Let alone talk things over, it's good enough that she can stand still. Don't be in a hurry, let's talk after dinner." Besides, Zheng Ren was a scholar, and it was very likely that he could not withstand Zhu's nonsense. It would be better to go there later and let his father talk to his second uncle directly. Although his second uncle is lazy and idle, he always listens to his father.
During lunch, Zheng Yu kept silent at the table, but he was actually dying of curiosity. There was suddenly a hole in the door of the house. How did it happen?
After finally finishing the meal, Zheng Yu followed his sister to clean up the stove.
How could Zheng Xiu not know his little thoughts, so she explained: "Second Aunt said something bad, Xue Liehu helped my sister vent her anger, so he punched the door where she was standing, and broke through our door." Zheng
Yu exclaimed in surprise, and his admiration for Xue Zhi became even stronger, "Uncle Xue is so powerful!"
Zheng Xiu also agreed very much, nodded and said: "Yes, your Uncle Xue usually looks quiet, I thought he didn't have a bad temper, but I didn't expect him to be like this when he got angry."
Zheng Yu puffed out his chest, "When I grow up, I can also protect my sister like this!"
Zheng Xiu tapped his nose, "There are many ways to protect my sister, Ayu, you must work hard to grow up."
Zheng Yu nodded solemnly and agreed.
After Zhu returned home, she didn't even go out for lunch. She just felt her heartbeat was fast and her head was a little dizzy, so she fell asleep on the kang.
It was not until later, when Zheng Xian finished her meal and brought her food, that she found that her mother had a fever, was unconscious, and was talking nonsense.
She thought that she would not go out of the house, just embroider and practice calligraphy at home, and did not care much about the affairs of the family. When she saw her mother like this, she immediately panicked and stumbled back to the main room, "Grandma, my mother is sick and talking nonsense."
Old Mrs. Zheng hurried over to see her. After a while, she came out and said to Old Man Zheng, "The second son's family has a terrible fever. Let's call a doctor."
Old Man Zheng nodded and told Zheng Xian, "Go to the town and find your father." Then he stood up and said, "I'll go call a doctor."
Zheng Xian panicked and cried, "How would I know where my father is!"
Old Man Zheng looked at her with dissatisfaction. She was such a grown-up girl, but she panicked like this when something happened. , but it was not easy to say anything to her at this time, so she just said: "Your father said that he went to drink with Chen Er. You can go to Chen's house and ask. If they don't know, there are only a few restaurants open in the town these days. You can look for them one by one and ask someone to find them. You will find them naturally."
Zheng Xian had not been to Chen's house very often, and she had not been to the town many times. She didn't know which restaurants there were, so she was reluctant to go. Instead, she said: "Let A Rong go. He often goes to the town and is familiar with the place."
Old man Zheng nodded, "Go." At the same time, he had asked old lady Zheng to take out the money from the family.
Although there was an old doctor in the village, he was reluctant to see patients on weekdays, let alone in the first month of the year. Old man Zheng decided to ask for the doctor in the town.
Old lady Zheng said, "I don't know if the doctor in the town can prescribe the medicine. Old man, why don't you ask the old doctor in our village? He is familiar with the eldest brother, and he will be willing to do it if you give him face."
Old man Zheng glanced at him, "Don't you know what Zhu did before? When he is sick, you still want to use the eldest brother's relationship? You are getting older, and your face is getting thicker."
Old lady Zheng was speechless. The old man seemed to be really annoyed with her. He hadn't said a harsh word for many years, but today he didn't give her any face.
Old man Zheng stopped someone's ox cart on the road, and it took only two quarters of an hour to go back and forth.
After the doctor came to treat Zhu, he said that she was too frightened, and prescribed a few medicines to reduce fever and deposit. Because it was the New Year, the consultation fee doubled, plus the medicine fee, it cost one or two silver coins. This made Old Lady Zheng feel distressed.
The doctor was kind. Seeing that there was no young man at home, he did not ask Old Man Zheng to make another trip, but asked the medicine boy in the medical office to deliver the medicine later.
After sending the doctor away, Old Man Zheng couldn't help but ask: "Why hasn't the second son come back yet? His wife is so sick."
Old Lady Zheng had been guarding Zhu from the beginning, but she didn't think about this. At this time, she said, "I'm afraid he hasn't found her yet."
Not long after, the medicine boy came home.
Old Man Zheng took the medicine, thanked him, and asked Old Lady Zheng to boil the medicine.
When he was about to go back to his room, he heard a faint cry. He followed the sound and found that it was coming from Zheng Rong's room. When
Old Man Zheng entered the room, he saw Zheng Rong crying loudly on the kang, and Zheng Xian was also wiping tears beside him.
Old Man Zheng got angry and scolded them, "Your mother is fine, why are you crying?!"
Zheng Xian wiped her tears with a handkerchief and said, "Grandpa, A Rong refused to go to town to find Daddy."
A Rong also cried and said, "Grandpa, my face hurts, I don't want to go out, please let my sister go!"
Old Man Zheng then realized that the siblings were unwilling to go out when their mother was seriously ill, and they even blamed each other. The younger one cried, and the older one followed suit. They had been at a stalemate for so long. Old
Man Zheng shouted, "Okay, stop crying!"
Zheng Xian and Zheng Rong were so scared that they shrank back and held back their tears.
Old Man Zheng waved his hand and said, "Go see your mother, I'll go find your father."
Zheng Xian and his brother left immediately.
Old Man Zheng had no choice but to drag his sore legs to Chen's house again, find out which restaurant it was, and go there.
Zheng Quan and Chen Er and a few of his childhood friends were drinking happily when they suddenly saw Old Man Zheng. They were very surprised. His father had a bad leg and never went out all year round. Why did he suddenly come to the town?
Old Man Zheng said concisely, "Your wife is sick. Go back and see her."
Zheng Quan wanted to ask his father if Zhu's illness was serious. If not, he wanted to go back later because he and Chen Er had not yet finished discussing their plans to make money. However, seeing that his father's face was livid and he had come all the way to call him, he did not dare to ask. He said goodbye to Chen Er and others and followed his father back.
Illness comes like a mountain falling. Zhu's illness was strange. After taking a dose of medicine, the fever did not subside.
Zheng Quan asked his parents, "He was fine before I left. What happened?"
Mrs. Zheng said anxiously, "Who knows? Your father was talking to your eldest brother in the room this morning. I prepared lunch. Your wife said she was going to take care of Arong, so I let her go. When it was lunchtime, I called her, but she said she didn't want to eat and wanted to sleep for a while. Later, the slim girl came to bring her lunch, and then I found that she had a fever. The doctor said she was too frightened. I don’t understand why she was so frightened in her own home.
Zheng Rong pouted and said, “Mother didn’t come to take care of me. She just came to see me and left.”
Everyone couldn’t figure it out. Zheng Quan was surprised and said, “It’s really strange. Could it be that she secretly went somewhere? Was she frightened?”
Everyone couldn’t guess.
In the afternoon, Zheng Ren came again. Hearing that Zhu was sick, he told them what happened before.
After hearing this, Zheng Quan muttered in dissatisfaction: "How could a hunter surnamed Xue, a grown man, embarrass a woman?"
After hearing this, old man Zheng immediately reprimanded: "As an aunt, she made up gossip about her niece in public. How would people feel? Not to mention that the hunter Xue didn't hurt her, even if that punch hit her, she deserved it!"
Zheng Renyi said seriously, "Second brother, I can forget about those things in the past. But it's not her turn to make decisions about Ah Xiu's marriage! I'll leave her here today. If there is a next time, we won't have relatives like you in our family!"
Zheng Quan smiled and said, "Brother, I promise there won't be a next time! When she recovers from her illness this time, I will definitely teach her a lesson!"
"Don't blame Xue the hunter, he is just trying to help our Ah Xiu. Of course, if you want to cause trouble," Zheng Ren looked at him deeply, "you can try."
Zheng Quan hurriedly said he didn't dare.
Zheng Ren didn't delay and went home, and told Zheng Xiu about Zhu's illness.
Zheng Xiu couldn't help but sneered and said, "In the past, I saw Second Aunt jumping around at home, and I really thought she was very brave. Now she is scared sick by a punch." Zheng Ren
couldn't help shaking his head, "Your grandpa and grandma are both kind and generous. Your second uncle seems to be too lazy to care about her, and he has encouraged her arrogance day by day. This time, she can finally remember it!"
Zhu's illness lasted until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
At that time, the front door of the Zheng family had been reinstalled. Xue Zhi, apart from other things, was actually skilled in carpentry. After measuring the dimensions, he made a new door panel in just two days. Although the color was slightly different from the original one on the other side, Zheng Xiu and her family were about to move out, so they did not bother him to paint and adjust the color.
On the Lantern Festival, the Zheng family gathered together for dinner. Zheng Xiu made glutinous rice balls brewed with wolfberry wine. The soft and glutinous rice balls paired with the fragrant sweet soup whetted people's appetite.
However, Zhu had been ill for many days and could not get out of bed. She could not eat such difficult-to-digest food, so she lost the treat.
Zheng Xiu also sent some to the Xue family father and son, in a small sand pot and in a basket. Fearing that Zheng Yu was too young to carry it, she went there in person.
The Xue family had no atmosphere of the New Year or other festivals. Although the house was cleaned fairly well, there was nothing else except a couplet posted on the door.
When Zheng Xiu arrived, their meal had just been served. The staple food was steamed buns bought in town, and the dishes were steamed pork and steamed pork intestines, as well as a large pot of cabbage soup.
Xue Zhi was surprised to see Zheng Xiu. He thought that since Zhu had caused such a scene a few days ago, Zheng Xiu, as an unmarried girl, would always be cautious. He did not expect that she would personally send gifts.
Zheng Xiu put the basket on the table and said with a smile, "It's not something fancy, I made it myself, and I'm sending some to let A Shao have a taste."
The clay pot she prepared was enough for two people, but she only said that it was prepared for Xue Shao, obviously not wanting Xue Zhi to feel embarrassed.
Since she personally sent it, Xue Zhi naturally couldn't refuse.
Zheng Xiu didn't stay for long, saying that her family was waiting for her to eat, and then she went back.
Xue Shao sent her to the door, trotted back to the main room, and couldn't wait to open the clay pot.
As soon as the lid of the pot was lifted, the sweet smell came out, making him drool.
Xue Zhi said, "Okay, let's eat first, and you can drink after you finish eating."
Xue Shao nodded, reluctantly covered the pot, and then started to eat. He quickly finished a steamed bun with vegetables, and then looked at his father eagerly.
Xue Zhi couldn't help being looked at by him, so he had to say, "Drink, drink."
Xue Shao drank half of the pot by himself, and only put down the bowl when he couldn't drink anymore, and went to the yard to digest the food.
He ate so deliciously that Xue Zhi couldn't help but take a sip -
the sweet soup was fragrant and mellow, and the soup was soft and glutinous. It was really delicious.
And there was a little rice wine in the sweet soup, which added fragrance and made it not too sweet. Even he, who doesn't like sweet, tasted good. No wonder his kid looked like he hadn't eaten it in eight lifetimes.
Xue Shao walked around the yard, and when he returned to the main hall, he saw his father drinking sweet soup. He asked with a look of surprise, "Dad, don't you not eat sweets?"
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