375. The turn of life and death
Let’s talk about Xipo Village, Lin Wulang has received a letter from Aunt Luo in the past two days, saying that she has returned from Jiangnan, and now she is in Chang'an City.
Goro read the letter at that time, packed his bags and was about to leave. He was pushed down by Lin's father.
Lin's father went to the Xujiakeshe at the entrance of the village to inquire and learned that at the end of this month, the disciples of Luo Yong would transport a batch of mutton fat soap purchased from merchants from the north to the north and south groceries in Chang'an City. So Lin's father asked Lin Wulang to wait a little longer and then leave with their cargo transport team at the end of the month.
"Why do you have to wait until the end of the month and go with the Dingda Express? They are now going to take a trip in two or three days."
Lin’s father had just returned home and finished speaking. Without waiting for Wulang to say anything, Lin Liulang spoke first: “Brother, please go with peace of mind, we still have in this family.”
"What's wrong with you? Don't get involved." Lin's father scolded him.
"The Dingda Express delivery person didn't start from us and walked all the way to Chang'an City. Their goods were transported to Xicheng and they had to fall down again when they arrived in Linfen. The people were also changed one after another." Lin's mother sat on the kang with her sleeves in her arms, muttering: "I heard that the king has added a lot of people in the past two years. Those newcomers may not all know your brother, so how can they expect them to take care of you?"
Lin’s mother is older, and her body has become a little decayed in the past two years, and her voice has become much smaller, and she has lost her former aura.
"That's nothing to worry about. This is the first time my brother has gone out far away." Lin Liulang said.
"Don't talk about those useless." Lin's mother waved her hand and signaled him not to make noise. She then said to Lin Dalang Lin Erlang's wife: "There are still some time left. You can help him clean up in the past two days, make one or two new clothes, and prepare a few pairs of shoes that are easy to leave."
"Here." Mrs. Lin, Mrs. Lin, responded. They probably knew in their hearts that Lin's mother was worried that Goro would be looked down upon by others.
"You have to make more clothes, and why do you have so many shoes?" The person who spoke was Liu Lang's wife. At this time, she was erect and looked like she should be six or seven months old. At this time, she joked to Lin's mother: "Brother goes to Chang'an, and it is smooth and stable, and there are carriages to ride. I am afraid that she will only take two steps when she stays in the evening."
"It's always a long way to bring more shoes to rest." Lin's mother sighed slowly, as if she was a little tired, and then said that she was going to rest and told them to go back and rest.
After all the people in the house were gone, she sighed again and said to Lin's father: "This Liu Lang's wife is really a brainless person."
When I first started the school a few years ago, I realized that I was uneasy and planned to rely on Ye Niang's favor for Liu Lang to overwhelm Aunt Luo, but she suffered herself.
In the past two years, Aunt Luo has flew far and wide. Not to mention that she has to suppress her, I am afraid she can't even climb.
She turned around and curled up with Lin Wuro. However, she was also a person who couldn't do anything. When she was smiling and spoke kindly, she didn't respect her two sisters-in-law at all. However, she didn't know that Goro saw these things and was not happy with her in her heart. However, Goro always talked little and treated others kindly. Even if she was a little displeased, she would not show it very clearly on her face.
"I look smart, but I am very stupid inside. It's better to be as dull as her second sister-in-law." Lin's mother looked at this young daughter-in-law, but she was not satisfied with her.
"If it's really like the second family, do you think Liulang really likes it?" Lin's father replied to her.
"Oh..." Speaking of Lin Liulang, Lin's mother sighed again: "Liulang is so old this year, why is it still unrestrained? Earlier, even the gentleman in the county school praised him as a smart person."
The teacher from the county school just said that although this son was smart, he had no intention of learning. Lin's mother remembered it firmly and asked from time to time to say it, which proves that his Liulang is indeed a smart person.
The old couple in the main room were talking like this, and the couples in the other rooms in the yard also had their own mutters.
Goro was alone, and when he returned to the house, he sorted out his things, sometimes tidying up his clothes, sometimes tidying his shoes and socks. He was very anxious to think that he had to wait until the end of the month before he could set out to Chang'an.
But Ye Niang is right. It is much safer to go out with the cargo team at the end of the month than to go with Wang Dang's subordinates. If the aunt was at home, she would definitely say this.
He was about to leave home, and he felt a little moved in his heart. If the aunt went to Chang'an this time, he would go with him.
This time he had been waiting for too long, and he was very anxious and uneasy. He was not very concerned about some things at home.
Their family is just about these things. Their parents are partial to each other and their brothers and sisters-in-law are dissatisfied.
When Goro was a child, he felt depressed and wronged about these things. Since he defeated the aunt, he gave his feelings more to the aunt. He felt no longer as concerned about Ye Niang's partiality as before.
In those years, he thought that no matter how biased Ye Niang was, when he was separated in the future, his share would definitely not be missing. He could live randomly, and it didn't matter if he endured some hardships, but his wife and children could not.
In the blink of an eye, these years have passed, and now Aunt Luo can still look down on the property of their Lin family, so Goro doesn't care anymore. His parents still have to be more filial, so he will go with the rest.
Waiting around, and finally waiting until the end of the month, Lin Wulang was wearing the clothes, shoes and socks prepared by his sister-in-law, carrying a few big bags, and put them one by one on the carriage, with clothes, dry food, and even bedding.
The old and old man of the Lin family took him to the entrance of the village, watching him meet with Luo Yong's two disciples, and a group of people walked slowly towards Lishi County along the cement road at the entrance of the village.
Lin's mother looked at the direction of the departure of the convoy and wiped her tears. Lin's father stood silently, as if she was already an old man in his twilight years.
Goro leaned out of the carriage and waved his hand to ask Ye Niang to go back. Don’t stand there all the time. Lin’s father also waved his hand and told him to just leave.
There were other people in the village who came out to see him off. The Lin family stood in the crowd, holding the baby in their hands, stretching their necks to look at the direction of Goro's departure, and they didn't know what it felt like.
Goro is a good-faithful woman and married a capable wife. The two have a good relationship. Although they are separated from each other, they have frequent letter exchanges, which makes others envious. However, this time he left Xipo Village, I don’t know if he will come back in the future.
When everyone went back to the village together, someone asked Lin's mother like this, but Lin's mother was tiring: "Of course I have to come back. He was a farmer. Where else can he go if he didn't go back to Xipo Village to farm?"
The old man of the Lin family fell to the ground and wanted Lin Wulang to keep his farmer's family. Even if he couldn't save it in the end, he would have saved it for one more day.
At this time, Goro and their convoy gradually went farther. This time they used slow horses to pull carts. The slow horses walked fast, making it much shorter than the days. Goro and two of Luo Yong's disciples were riding in the same cart.
Their cargo was in charge of only two people. The rest were porters hired from surrounding villages. They hired porters in their local area, which was slightly more expensive than those foreign porters, but they had the best knowledge.
The convoy was walking on this cement road, which was mostly flat and sometimes bumpy.
I think about how glorious this cement road was when it was first built. Now there are potholes on the road. I just made up it two years ago, and some places have been broken in the past two years.
Over the years, they have also changed a lot.
The cement workshop at the entrance of Xipo Village moved to the county town two years ago. Some of the people who worked in the cement workshop earlier followed them to the county town, and some of them worked in the threshing machine workshop. The threshing machine workshop has been doing well in the past two years.
Since Luo Yong left, the business of the Xu family's guesthouse at the entrance of the village has not been as good as it used to be. Now only women, children and elderly people have been left to continue to operate. Often, some people come to buy threshing machines, or come to Xipo Village to find someone to knit sweaters, and they will stay in the Xu family's guesthouse.
The Xu brothers were probably outside, and so were Luo Yong's other disciples. When Luo Yong was still in the village, they all lived at the entrance of the village, which was very lively. Now Luo Yong has left. Some of them followed Hexi, some of them stayed in Chang'an City. In the past two years, there are still a few people working on the needle shop in Hedong Road. The rest often traveled between Hedong Road and Chang'an City, playing a role in communication, and sometimes they would also sell some goods themselves.
Luo Yong had letters with these disciples. Some of them didn't know the words, so they had to find someone who knew the words to help write. Sometimes, they accidentally received a letter from their master and held it on them for half a month and couldn't find someone to feel at ease to help them read it. It was really inconvenient.
Sometimes if you pass by Linfen, you can ask Wu You to help you read it and write another letter on your behalf.
Wu You is a man who knows words, is righteous and has a scheming person. If they encounter something that cannot be understood, they will tell him the previous one, and he will always break the things here and tell you clearly. In the end, they can often give suggestions.
If these people encounter some difficulties in Linfen, they will not help him. Although this is generally the case among their fellow disciples, Wu You came in later, and they did not spend as long as the previous ones. In addition, others are smart, everyone will inevitably be wary of him at first. After a long time, they feel that this person is also very good, and their master's vision of people is still good.
After a long time, after they had a close relationship with each other, those people also learned about Wu You's identity as a fugitive slave. They asked Wu You why not send his family to Xipo Village and walk around with them by themselves. It would be better than now. The whole family stayed in Linfen and ran a guest house for many years. What should we do if someone discovered it?
Wu You said that the problem of his identity as a fugitive cannot be solved for a day, so he cannot have too much involvement with Luo Yong. Like now, even if he is caught back one day, it will not hinder Luo Yong. He is a guest house, and there is nothing strange about having some friendship with passers-by. There were not many people in the world who knew that he was Luo Yong's disciple. Even if he knew, he would just grit his teeth and refuse to admit it. If he sent his family to Xipo Village, wouldn't he begging himself?
Everyone knew that he was right and admired his courage and courage. Xu Erlang also respected him very much.
Earlier, when Xu Erlang first met him, he heard his conversation and thought that he was a man from a declining family. He was a little ashamed at that time and said that he was a family of decaying merchants. He could only make a few words, but his knowledge and ideas were still very shallow. In the future, Wu Youduoduo taught him.
Wu You joked with him at that time: "Your dilapidated merchant family, for me, is quite noble in origin."
That was the first time Xu Erlang knew about Wu You's identity as a fugitive slave. He didn't even tell him about this. There were only two or three people who knew Wu You's identity.
Now that Luo Yong is not in the Central Plains, his disciples can only rely on themselves in everything. These people are from humble origins and do not have strong self-confidence and lofty ambitions like those gentry men.
They carefully manage their careers and are very united with each other. They know how small they are in this world, they rely on each other for support, and their friendship becomes more and more sincere as time goes by.
For Xu Erlang, if Wu You is in trouble in the future, he will definitely not be able to stand idly by. Even if he bet on his own life, he will save his friend's family from the fire.
Chapter completed!