The arrogant little husband is desperately flirting with the hunter

It's really lively as the New Year is approaching. Before entering the county town, there are already many people setting up stalls on both sides of the road selling things, mostly chicken, duck, fish, and mutton. The food is delicious and takes up a lot of space.

This kind of creatures cannot be accommodated in a single stall in the city, and the stall fee would be doubled for living creatures, so every year in the twelfth lunar month, stalls are set up outside the city. There is no need to pay stall fees, and one only needs to clean up the ground when leaving.

It would be difficult for an ox cart to enter the city at this time, so Yan Zhenshen placed the ox cart in a storage place outside the city, and then carried Yan Zhengdao into the city.

Since they were already there, they went to Tong Ren Tang to ask Doctor Hu to check on Yan Zhengdao and see if the prescription needed to be changed.

Doctor Hu had a lot of patients that day. They waited for a while before Doctor Hu was free. He reached out and felt Yan Zhengdao's pulse, and looked at Chu Xiao with an even weirder look.

He repeated it several times before speaking: "Your lungs are well taken care of, so you shouldn't cough anymore, right?"

Yan Zhengdao nodded: "I don't cough often, and I don't feel chest tightness or shortness of breath."

"Then you don't need to take the medicine." Doctor Hu squatted down again: "Let me take a look at your legs."

Yan Zhengdao cooperated and stretched out his leg. Doctor Hu tapped and touched it, and finally pinched it hard: "How do you feel about your leg recently?"

"It doesn't hurt if you're not cold, and you can stand for a while, but if you stand for too long you'll feel weak."

"No big changes." Doctor Hu stood up and looked at Chu Xiao with a questioning look: "This leg can't be cured?"

Chu Xiao: “…” Don’t you think what you said is very presumptuous?

"Doctor Hu, you are the doctor, okay?" Chu Xiao smiled innocently: "Whether this can be cured depends on your medical skills."

Doctor Hu touched his beard awkwardly. It turned out that he was thinking the wrong thing. If the disease could be cured, it would have been cured long ago and there would be no need to come to his place.

Doctor Hu prescribed a few plasters, saying that they could be applied when the legs hurt. They weren't very effective, but they could provide some relief.

After leaving the clinic, Yan Zhengdao said that they could just find a place to put him down, and they couldn't always carry him on their backs to buy things.

Yan Zhenshen didn't say anything, but Yan Zhennan seemed to be hesitant to speak. He wanted to say that he would go to his wife's place, but he didn't know whether his parents knew about it or not, so he felt a little conflicted.

It was Yan Zhenbei who spoke first: "Let's go to Sister Cheng Xue's place. I'll go over and check Qing Ge'er's homework too. He won't study hard without me watching over him."

Zhao Guizhi patted the little guy on the head and said, "He's just a young man, and he doesn't need to take the imperial examination. Why are you meddling in his affairs so much?"

"I am..." Yan Zhenbei couldn't utter a word of rebuttal after holding it in for a long time.

"He just wants to be a role model for others. He forces me to study at home, but he's afraid that Qing'er will get annoyed and think he's a pedant and ignore him." Yan Sanmei smiled gloatingly, "Don't cry to me when the time comes."

Yan Zhenbei: “Will it?”

Yan Sanmei shrugged: "If it were me, I would definitely do that."

The little guy instantly felt a sense of crisis and began to reflect on whether he was too strict with Qing Ge'er. Otherwise, he might as well not check his homework this time and just play with him for a while.

As he was thinking about this, he saw a roadside stall making candy figures. He pulled Zhao Guizhi's clothes shyly and said, "Mom, can you buy me a candy figure?"

"Do you want to eat this?" Zhao Guizhi asked.

Yan Zhenbei shook his head: "I want to buy one for Qing Ge'er."

Everyone couldn't help laughing when they heard this. He really couldn't stop talking about Qing Ge'er.

"Okay, buy a few more and bring one to your sister Cheng Xue as well."

There were a lot of people on the street, and it was not very convenient to carry someone in the midst of all the traffic, so he took the person to Lu Zhubu's house.

Lu Zhubu is currently in the yamen, and Lu Zhicheng also has official business to attend to, so he went to the border and has not returned, so now only Lu Chengxue and Qing Ge'er are at home.

Seeing the Yan family coming, Lu Chengxue was very happy. She asked the maid to treat them to some good tea and also brought over some snacks.

When Qingger saw his brother Xiaobei, he took the initiative to report on his review progress in the past few days without Yan Zhenbei saying anything, and directly pulled people to recite the books for him.

He just recited it haltingly, and from time to time he glanced up at Yan Zhenbei, as if he was afraid that he would say that he was not serious.

After reflection, Yan Zhenbei felt that there was really no need to be so strict with Qing Ge'er, so he smiled and praised: "Qing Ge'er is great, you recited really well."

Everyone laughed again at these insincere words.

Qing'er was very happy to be praised and insisted on sharing the candy man with his brother Xiaobei.

The few of them chatted for a while and had to buy some things, so they didn't stay any longer. However, Yan Sanmei didn't follow them, saying that she wanted to stay and have a private chat with Sister Cheng Xue.

It just so happens that there is no man in the Lu family at this time, so it is just right to keep the third sister here. "Okay, we will call you after we buy the things."

Lu Chengxue said, "It's rare for the whole family to come to the county town. We are not in a hurry to go back today. We can stay at home for lunch."

Zhao Guizhi held Lu Chengxue's hand and said, "We are all family, so I won't be polite to you. But I can't let go of the worry that no one is home. It's better to go back quickly after shopping."

The West Street Market is at its busiest at this time, especially with the increase of stalls selling couplets, New Year pictures and lanterns, all of which are bright red and look very pleasing to the eye from a distance.

Zhao Guizhi looked at the picture of a baby holding a small fat fish and was overjoyed: "Buy one of these and put it up in your room."

Before Chu Xiao could say anything, Yan Zhennan pointed to another one and said, "Mom, I think this little doll is prettier."

"What are you looking at?" Zhao Guizhi rolled her eyes at him unhappily, "Can you give birth to a child after you look at it?"

Yan Zhennan shut up immediately. He couldn’t have children, and neither could his wife.

I picked out a few couplets and window decorations with good meanings, and some red paper, and planned to write the word "Fu" on the wall myself.

As for the painted doll that year, Zhao Guizhi did not buy it, so as not to burden the eldest brother and Xiao Ge'er and make them feel that she was forcing them to have children.

When she saw colored threads being sold, she bought some more, especially red.

Chu Xiao was looking at the big red lanterns, some big, some small, and in different styles. He was dazzled by the choices.

In the end, I bought a pair of each, big and small, and also bought two small portable lanterns.

They bought things as they walked, and the things in their backpacks became more and more. They weighed out several kinds of candy, bought many bags of cakes, as well as peanuts, melon seeds and candied fruits.

When they finally reached the end of the street, Zhao Guizhi went to buy some long incense, candles and paper money: "Xiao brother, we need to light lamps at the graves before the New Year. Will your uncle go to light lamps at your parents' place?"

Chu Xiao thought about it, then shook his head: "I don't know."

"It's okay. Whether he lights it or not, let the eldest brother accompany you to light one this year." As she said that, she began to choose the styles of lanterns.

The lanterns used for visiting graves are different from the lanterns for the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Most of them are just a cover made of cardboard or carved from wood, with polished stones hung on both sides to prevent them from being blown away by the wind, and a kerosene lamp placed underneath.

One of these costs only about ten or twenty cents.

Of course, there are also more exquisite ones, which are made of porcelain and have various patterns painted on them or meaningful words written on them.

The price is naturally much higher. A lantern costs two or three hundred coins, and only wealthy families can afford it.