Chapter Seven Brothers and Sisters
A Yao's mind was in chaos. He came to the main room of the east room with a kettle. Seeing the objects inside were in a mess, he was stunned. After a while, he remembered that it was hit by Qin Ziyin. He turned to the west room and saw her lying on the bed, crying. He knew that she was sick, so he dared not be alarmed. He stepped back and forth and looked at the yard in a daze. He felt that the words Chuntao said were tossing and turning in his ears, making his mind roar. Suddenly, he felt heavy in his hand, and looked down at the kettle, and then he realized that he was going to pour water and wash his feet for Chang Sihao. After a glance, he saw the lights flashing in the west room, so he ran over.
The sound of water in the room was heard, and Chang Sihao's coat was dirty, and he took it off and was cleaning. A Yao came in and saw it, and hurriedly said, "Son-in-law, this is my maid's job. Why are you doing it? Come and give it to me." Chang Sihao smiled and said, "What's the big deal about washing clothes? Besides, there are some floating soil on it, which is very easy to wash." He said, "Hey, what did you call me just now?" A Yao was stunned by his question, his expression turned dark, his lips were pursed, and he did not answer, leaned over to get the washing basin.
Chang Sihao intercepted her hand and grabbed her wrist and said, "Ayao, are you still angry with me?"
A Yao struggled and didn't get rid of it. He said, "I didn't, why am I doing..." Suddenly, he remembered the things in the car, his face darkened, and he said, "Let go." Chang Sihao said bitterly, "I didn't mean to peek at you... Alas, you can scold me and beat me, don't do this."
Ayao said, "Where am I? Didn't you say you didn't see it? Why am I angry?"
Chang Sihao showed a slight slight disgust: "I... saw it."
As soon as they said that, the two of them looked at each other, and the faces were burning red, as if they were about to open the pot, and they were both embarrassed and forgot to struggle.
After a while, A Yao turned pale and turned his head and smiled sadly: "I was stripped naked and whipped when I was under the young master. I have long lost my dignity. What's the point of being looked at by someone? Besides, my body was seen when you first entered the mansion that day. What's the harm in watching it? Why do you have to apologize?" Chang Sihao relaxed his hand when he heard this, and stood up suddenly. A Yao was caught off guard and fell to the ground.
Chang Sihao waved his hand suddenly and said angrily: "You go out. Even if I need someone to do laundry and serve you, I don't want you!"
Ayao turned his head, his lips tightened, and tears rolled down from his cheeks, and he stood up silently and walked out.
Chang Sihao felt soft when he saw this, and hurried over to hold her back, and said warmly: "Stop crying, okay? I'm not yelling at you, alas... It's someone else's fault that others don't respect you, you give up on yourself and look down on yourself, so who else should you blame?"
A Yao's body was frozen, and he shook it, and finally threw himself into his arms and started crying.
Chang Sihao sighed and said slowly: "I am also a child of a poor family. I know that poverty will not take human life, but the shame brought by poverty is extremely fatal. I am always looked down upon. Over time, I forget what dignity is and what face is. As the saying goes, laugh at the poor but not the prostitute. People give the poor sympathy is even worse than prostitutes! How strange are you saying this world?"
He gently stroked A Yao's hair, letting her tears wet her chest, and said slowly, "Have you let go of firecrackers?" A Yao was slightly stunned: "No." Chang Sihao said, "Well, girls don't play with firecrackers, but we boys like it very much..." His eyes dimmed a little, "I remember when I was a child, one time during the Spring Festival, the rich family set off firecrackers, and broke the red paper all over the floor. When the rich young master turned around, I snatched them from a group of children and searched for the unburned firecrackers in the broken paper so that they could play. The rich young master turned around and saw that we were so poor that he was very happy. He pointed and mocked him loudly, and took out a hang of firecrackers, saying that whoever we kowtowed him, barked a few times, would give him a few firecrackers."
A Yao's spirit gradually turned to his story, and tears gradually faded. Chang Sihao continued, "Some of my friends were playful and thought it was nothing to kowtow, so they knelt down. I was also hesitating. Suddenly, an adult came up and picked up one of them named Xiaoshanzi. He raised his hand and had two big mouths. It turned out that he was Xiaoshanzi's father. His father had been studying for a few years and had not passed the exam. He was a forced scholar. He only made a meager income by copying files for others. At that time, he grabbed Xiaoshanzi and scolded: 'You are a backbone! Others look down on you, can't you look down on yourself? If you think you are a dog, how can others treat you as a human being?'"
A Yao's body trembled suddenly, and only those two sentences in his heart were constantly shaking and echoing:
"If you think you are a dog, how can you treat you as a human being?"
"If you think you are a dog, how can you treat you as a human being!"
Chang Sihao was in memory, with an uplifting look in his eyes, and said, "At that time, I was stunned for a long time. For the first time in my life, I understood the meaning of 'bone spirit'. Not only did I not kneel down, I also threw away the firecrackers I picked up in my hand, and walked away with my head held high. I just felt that the world was so vast, the sun was so bright, and the world was still the original world, but in my heart, it seemed to have become a brand new one. After that, although life was still poor, I ate wild vegetables, grass roots, and tree bark in my mouth, I never felt that I was inferior to whom I was inferior to whom!
He grabbed Ayao's shoulder with both hands, pushed her away slightly, and looked her straight into her eyes: "Think about it, why do the same people be regarded as servants, and have to pity themselves and sigh that their fate is low? Is it fate or our own hearts? Those who are rich and unkind, although they have a wealthy family, do everything evil, and I don't know how many people will be scolded by them. Compared with them, although we have nothing in our bodies, we have good hearts and good deeds. What can't live a peaceful life? You are bought as a maid and serving people is your duty, but you must never forget your true self in your heart. You are also a dignified person, do you know?"
A Yao looked at his eyes, and tears that had already stopped rolling down again. She nodded heavily: "Yes!"
Chang Sihao was very satisfied and reached out to wipe away the tears from her cheeks, with a smile on her face: "Okay! Good A Yao! Stop crying, okay?"
A Yao wiped the corners of his eyes and smiled: "I'm so happy."
Chang Sihao smiled and said, "You cry even if you are happy, and you cry even if you are unhappy. You are the same as Xiaohua."
Ayao blinked and asked, "Who is Xiaohua?"
Chang Sihao smiled slightly, turned his back, walked lightly, and said, "It's my sister." After a distance, he added, "She... is dead."
A Yao's expression darkened, his long eyelashes drooped. He suddenly thought of something, hesitated for a moment, and asked timidly: "Brother Chang, are you... willing to be my brother?"
Chang Sihao was stunned when he heard this and turned around: "What did you say?"
A Yao said, "I think, since you asked me to call you Brother Chang, it would be better for us to become a righteous brother and sister. You won't dislike me?" Seeing that Chang Sihao looked a little hesitant, he hurriedly said, "Why, you don't want to? Then... you don't want to..."
Chang Sihao hurriedly said, "No, I...I do." The last three words were very light, and his eyes flashed a little. He thought to himself: "I remembered the sound of her heart cup receiving rain to shake the sky, and said that she said she wanted to sweep the clouds in my heart for me and let me live happily, with some affection in it, and was secretly liking me. It turned out, haha, it turned out that I was being passionate. Ridiculous, ridiculous!"
He stroked his palm on Ayao's head, looked at her face, and thought to himself: "It's not bad to have such a sister." The more he looked at it, the more he felt as if his little flower sister who had been dead for many years had grown up and stood in front of him. The slight disappointment in his heart also turned into joy. He smiled and said, "It's great, little sister, since I met you, I have been careful that you are gentle, kind and cute, and I like you tightly. With you, I finally have another relative in this world, and from then on, I will no longer be alone!"
Seeing that he was so happy, Ayao felt so sad and happy, and he smiled with him.
The two of them made an appointment to recognize their relatives without any form. The next day, Tianming took advantage of Yu Zhide's arrival and said to everyone. Everyone said congratulations. Yu Zhide smiled and said, "You guys have recognized the girl. This is a big deal! Although we are on the road, we can't be careless." He ordered someone, "You guys, go out to the garment shop and ask the tailor to come. Let's tailor choose two new sets of clothes for Miss Ayao!" Ayao Lian said, "No need." Yu Zhide smiled and said, "It should be, it should be. Mr. Chang, why not accompany Miss Ayao to the jewelry street and she will personally choose a few pleasant things to buy as a souvenir." Chang Sihao
He said, "Okay." Ayao said, "I'm not wearing jewelry, so forget it." Yu Zhide smiled and said, "How can that be done? It's a must." Chuntao smiled and said, "We are on the way, everything is simple. Ayao doesn't want to be sensible, but you come to join in the fun." Yu Zhide laughed and stopped insisting. Chang Sihao asked, "Can the military account be purchased?" Yu Zhide nodded and waved his hand to ask someone to take it in. Chang Sihao looked at it. Seeing that its shape was the same as the one used in the army, but the workmanship was much more meticulous. After asking, he found that he summoned all the tailors in the town and made it overnight. He collected it now.
The two of them had a plan, and Yu Zhide led the brigade to go first. Chang Sihao, because Qin Ziyin cried and sang and made a fuss until the early morning yesterday, had no rest from both his maids and himself, so he decided to take a break for half a day before leaving.
After sleeping, they woke up, but it was almost dusk. After dinner, they bought all kinds of snacks, dried food, and packed their luggage. The four of them set off.
It was quiet at night, and Qin Ziyin was sick and laughing, and she would not attract people to watch. She got angry and jumped out of the car, beat Chang Sihao, and then slapped the fire. When it was early in the morning, she listened to her singing and rushed to the road with her horse's hooves. She was very interesting. So she continued along, resting in a secluded place during the day, and walking at night.
After a day when he arrived at Hengyuan County, Yu Zhide welcomed the four people into the shop room and presented a stack of papers, saying, "This is the contract for the former young master to come here first. The land he purchased was in a hurry. He bought a total of 2,379 acres. The numbers were scattered and not very good-looking. The subordinates asked local locals to help screen them, and removed some of the infertile enough, the inconvenient irrigation, etc., and made up the integer of 2,000 acres. Please check it out."
Chang Sihao took it and saw that the top one was a summary list, which said where to buy the place, the owner's name, how much silver was spent, etc. The following ones were indeed land deeds. He was born in a farmer's family and knew that if there were no government taxes and exploitation, a mu of good land could support two to three people. How expensive the items in those gift boxes were not worth mentioning in his eyes, and he had never kept them in his heart. He held the stack of land deeds, but he felt heavy and could not help but tremble slightly. He asked, "Are those farming families all voluntarily?"
Yu Zhide only considered whether the gift was enough, but he didn't expect that he would ask such a question, saying, "Most of these lands were purchased by the wealthy landlords, and the money was enough, and they didn't lose them. Some farmers lived here for many years, and they would not sell them even if they were given a high price. Otherwise, it would not be a problem to collect three thousand. Our Qin family has always been fair and never strong. Mr. Chang can rest assured about this." Chang Sihao nodded and returned the land deed and list to him, knowing that letting himself be just a formality, and said, "Keep the receipt of this document and hand it over to the young master when he goes back." Yu Zhide nodded.
Everyone rested overnight, took a shower and changed clothes, got up early the next day and went out to the shop to go on the road. Hengshan looked very far away. It took half a day for 40 miles to reach the foot of the mountain. Two figures came over from afar. One of them was in his twenties, a nun, and the other was a girl dressed in a secular family. The sword on her body was narrow and slender. Yu Zhide saw that the two were figures of Hengshan School, and hurried forward to show their names.
Chapter completed!