Quick Wear: With the cub in hand, the world is mine

"Si Niu, are you going to the market with... with mom? Mom will take you to buy clothes."

Li tried hard to force a smile towards Si Niu. This was the first time she called the word "mother" to Si Niu.

Si Niu glanced at her indifferently, turned around and ran behind Hua Ke and grabbed her clothes. He wanted to follow his grandmother. He just wanted to go to the market with his grandmother.

A trace of loneliness flashed across Li's eyes, but she quickly returned to normal. If she didn't want to go, then she wouldn't go. If she lost him, her mother-in-law would definitely be angry.

Hua Ke looked down at the little brat who had his face buried in her skirt, and said to Li, "It doesn't matter if he doesn't want to go. You take Sanniu and Xiaozhu with you, and buy me some chestnut cakes."

Hua Ke took out ten copper coins from her cloth bag and gave them to Li. Her eyelids were twitching today and she had a bad feeling in her heart, a feeling she rarely had.

Li and Wen Fugui took their two children to the market, while Liu stayed at home to cook. The day after tomorrow would be her and Wen Fugui's turn to go to the market, because Da Niu would have a one-day holiday the day after tomorrow.

"Mom, what do you want to eat today?"

Hua Ke didn't hear it. Si Niu pulled her sleeve. Grandmother seemed strange today. She looked a bit listless. He didn't like her like this. He liked her to be full of energy and talk to him a lot instead of staring at the ground in a daze.

Liu was also very puzzled. Wasn't she very happy yesterday? Why was she so distraught? Could it be that her father-in-law had another bad dream?

"Ah? Si Niu, what's wrong with you?"

It's not me, it's my aunt. Si Niu pointed at Liu.

"Mom, what do you want to eat today? I'm going to prepare dinner."

"Whatever you want, I don't feel like eating today, you don't need to call me for dinner."

Liu: “???”

What happened? The big eater has no appetite? The sun rose from the west today?

Si Niu's eyes were full of worry. Is grandma sick?

Hua Ke had enough sun and went back to her room to catch up on some sleep. What a joke! How could she be afraid of a dead person? If she had the guts, she could just crawl out of her coffin and have a fight.

After Hua Ke fell asleep, Si Niu gently put his hand on her forehead, which was warm, but not hot.

"How is it? A-Zu doesn't have a fever, right?" Erniu asked in a low voice while squatting at the door.

Si Niu shook his head. His grandmother was not sick, but she was not in good condition, which made him even more worried.

"Maybe A-Zu is just sleepy. Si Niu, let's go out and practice writing Chinese characters. A-Zu said whoever practices best will be taken to the market during the New Year."

Hearing this, Si Niu followed Er Niu out. He liked practicing calligraphy and hanging out with his grandmother. If his grandmother saw that he had practiced calligraphy well, she would definitely be happy.

After a good sleep, Hua Ke felt refreshed. As expected, there is nothing that cannot be solved by a good sleep. After all, one will forget a lot of things after waking up.

Si Niu was sharp-eyed. When he noticed Hua Ke went out, he put down the feather brush in his hand and ran over, pulling Hua Ke to watch him practice calligraphy for the whole afternoon.

"Oh my, Si Niu can write A-Zu's name, and he writes it so well!"

"A-Zu, I can write too. I can write the names of all the people in my family."

"Wow, Erniu is also great. There will be many talented people in our family in the future."

Erniu boasted: "Grandpa, I will pass the imperial examination and come back later."

Hua Ke touched Erniu's head. The boy was quite arrogant. "Ancestor wishes you success."

……

Another year passed, and the twenty-third year of Yongfeng arrived. Hua Ke took Erniu and Siniu to the market to buy firecrackers, door gods, spring couplets and other New Year items. Although the New Year had not officially begun yet, Yanlai Town was crowded with tourists. The hawkers were enthusiastically soliciting customers, and the town was bustling with people coming and going.

"Wow, there are so many people!" Erniu suddenly saw something and rushed into the crowd, "Ah Zu, there's a monkey!"

Hua Ke: “!!!” Erniu, the helpless monkey, was so excited to see his fellow monkeys.

Erniu and Siniu stared at the monkey who could say hello and the fire-breathing acrobat, and were reluctant to leave.

Hua Ke had to hold a baby in each hand. Not to mention Erniu and Siniu who had never seen the world, she could hardly take care of them in all her years. In the past six months, she had been doing nothing but farming and taking care of the baby, which made her feel suffocated.

After watching for a quarter of an hour, she tried to drag the two children away. Seeing the reluctance to leave on their faces, she softened her heart and said, "Then you can watch for another quarter of an hour!"

"Okay, Zu."

The three of them finally left the circus and stayed in the open air for another half an hour. The storyteller was very good at creating a lively atmosphere and spoke in a very coherent manner, which fascinated the three generations of grandparents and grandchildren.

Unexpectedly, a high-ranking official in the capital kept a masked lover for twenty years. It was heard that this lover was very talented, and the current emperor wanted to bring him into the palace. However, the official was reluctant to see his beloved suffer castration, so he had a quarrel with the emperor and kept the lover.

A pot-bellied man threw a few copper coins to the storyteller and asked with a smile: "Sir, are you talking about the general?" Everyone in the world knows that the emperor and the general are friends for life and death. Only the general can quarrel with the emperor and remain safe and sound.

"It's a tacit understanding." The storyteller stroked his beard, his face serious, "Everyone who understands will understand."

"The most lively people in the capital right now are the mysterious lover who just woke up after being in a coma for three months, and the youngest daughter of Ningyuan Marquis, Lu Chuchu. She was good at debate at the age of one, and good at poetry at the age of five. She is extremely intelligent and is a famous young talent in the capital. If she were a man, she would definitely be the top scholar in a few years."

When Hua Ke heard Lu Chuchu's name, she pulled Si Niu's smooth cheek. She didn't expect that her Si Niu liked the smart sister who was older than him.

The storyteller took a sip of tea, held the ruler in his hand and continued, "I don't know if it's because she's too good that she was cursed. This talented girl got a strange disease at the end of last year. She can't eat meat on the first and fifteenth day of every month. If she eats meat, she will vomit violently and feel uncomfortable all over."

Hearing this, the people below interrupted the storyteller and said, "What's wrong with her? She vomits when she sees meat. This talented girl is not destined to enjoy happiness..."

"Yes, we ordinary people don't have much chance to eat meat."

While the three generations of grandparents and grandchildren were engrossed in the storyteller's nonsense, they had no idea that there was chaos in their family.

……

"Impossible! You are not my father! My father died a long time ago! Get out of here!"

Wen Fugui roared at the man in front of him who was wearing a mask and whose age could not be determined. In addition to the conspicuous silver mask, his hair was tied up with a hollow carved jade crown. He was wearing a dark blue satin brocade robe with a golden auspicious cloud pattern on the collar and a jade belt around his waist. It was obvious at first glance that he was not someone that their Shicheng Village could come into contact with.

"Who are you? Why are you lying to us? Even if the county magistrate rewarded our family with twenty taels of silver, there is no need for you to come to our house to defraud the silver, right? Everything you wear and use is more valuable than ours. Besides, before you lie to others, can you ask around? Everyone knows that my father Wen Lin died a long time ago. Are you sick? If you are sick, go see a doctor, don't come to my house and make trouble! Get lost!"

Chu Heng, or Wen Lin, looked around and said, "Where's your mother? I want to find her."