Chapter 3
The men went to the military camp, and Su Jin sat on the kang and counted the property.
When she set out from Yangzhou, she had a savings of more than 20 taels, and she was considered a rich woman. However, after nearly half a year of running around, the money for the meals, inns and the expenses of the sick mother and her friend Agui not only spent all the money, but also put in one of her bracelets. Finally, she arrived in the north, and the cold wind blew her heart to make her feel cold. Ache couldn't resist it and fell ill again. Su Jin had to take off the other bracelet, exchanged for five taels of silver, and bought medicine to add clothes.
Arriving at Qianhu Mansion, Su Jin was left with only a string of pitiful copper plates.
Fortunately, Feng Shi had been in the army for so long and saved up six taels of salary, and his wife handed over all of them as soon as she arrived.
Taking out two taels of broken silver and put it in the cuffs, Su Jin asked his son who was sitting in the kang while hiding the piggy bank: "Mom is going to go out, will Archer go?"
Archer shook his head and lowered his head to play Jiulian. It was played by Feng Shi himself the previous year. Archer was smart and could have been untied long ago, but the little guy especially liked this Jiulian, and he would never play enough.
A boy of four or five years old should be at the age of being lively and active and causing trouble everywhere, but Archer never takes care of himself and stays at home every day.
Su Jin knew the reason.
Archer is so beautiful, like his father who dislikes the poor and the rich. Anyone who sees the father and son will suspect that Archer is not Feng Shi's kindness. Feng Shi doesn't mind, and the neighbors are disgusting, and there are always people who ask Archer: "Are you like your father or your mother?"
The adults were polite to say this. The children on the street were unrestrained. After hearing the gossip from their parents, they ran to laugh at Archer: "Don't call Feng Blacksmith Dad, he is not your father, your mother is raising a man outside!"
When he heard this for the first time, Archer ran home crying, wiping his tears while asking his mother whose son he was.
Su Jin felt distressed and lied that he was her and Feng Shi's child.
Three-year-old Archer believed her and happily ran to argue with his partners.
The boy's voice was tender, and in order for everyone to hear it, he screamed with hoarse voice.
It was useless, the adults continued to tease him, and the children continued to laugh at him.
Archer became more and more silent. One day at the age of four, the boy suddenly asked his mother who his father was, and asked her to swear to the sky that she would never lie.
Su Jin looked at her son's dark eyes holding her tears, picked up her son and kissed her, telling the little guy a story, her story.
Su Jin's life was miserable. He lost his father when he was three years old and his mother when he was seven years old. Then her grandparents, uncle and aunt, began to treat her as a maid. She was only seven years old, and Su Jin wanted to cook, raise chickens and goose. Her uncle and aunt opened a bun shop. She got up early and went to bed late and worked hard. She did so much and didn't have a penny.
Su Jin was unwilling to give up and had a fight with his uncle and aunt. The neighbors watched the fun. The couple was so shameless that they were scolded by her and agreed to give her ten coins a month.
Not much, but Su Jin was content, and there was better than no.
When she was twelve years old, Su Jinchu was very beautiful, with a phoenix-eyed cherry mouth and snow-white and tender skin. When she stood at the door of the bun shop, the men squeezed here one after another. The business of the bun shop was getting better and better. Su Jinxin knew the credit was on her, so she went to talk to her uncle and aunt to raise her wages. The aunt raised her to twenty copper coins a month. Su Jin thought she was too young, and the aunt threatened her and sold her to the kiln in disobedience.
What can't the couple do for money? Su Jin was afraid and dared not make trouble again. He swallowed his anger and was determined to get married soon.
When he was thirteen years old, a scholar named Chen brought in his neighborhood. His face was as gentle as a jade-like jade. He liked to wear a blue shirt and his peach blossom eyes were better than girls. The scholar came to buy buns and saw Su Jin's fingers were hot. When he came again, he secretly stuffed her a bottle of plaster. During the Lantern Festival in the town, the scholar asked her to see it. The scholar under the lantern was as handsome as a god descending to earth.
Su Jin was a little moved.
Later, the scholar promised her that he would marry her as soon as he passed the exam for the scholar. Su Jin was very happy that the scholar wanted to kiss her, but she did not hide.
Later, the scholar went to take the exam for the scholar. After the exam, the government office issued the exam not long after, and the scholar was the head of the case. The scholar was very energetic and various social invitations came one after another. Even the prefect held a banquet for talented people, he posted a post to him. The scholar was full of confidence and asked Su Jin to go to the Peach Blossom Forest to enjoy the flowers before going to the palace.
The peach blossoms are like clouds, and the little couple under the tree are reluctant to leave. The scholar hugged Su Jin and said that the two of them would get married as soon as he came back. The low promise and the gentle black eyes as water, how could the fifteen-year-old Su Jin resist? She was dizzy by the married life described by the scholar. Unconsciously, the handsome scholar pressed her into the grass and kissed and touched her. Su Jin gave her half-supported and half-stopped her.
As a result, when the scholar went there, he was attracted by the prefect and asked him to be the son-in-law. The scholar's family was poor and married to the prefect, so he no longer had to worry about his livelihood, no longer had to write and sell money for others. When he became an official in the future, someone would take care of him. So the scholar agreed. When he returned to the town, the scholar asked Su Jin to go to the Peach Blossom Forest again.
The peach blossoms have collapsed and are full of withering. The scholar kneeled in front of her and said sorry.
Su Jin's dream of becoming a scholar's wife was shattered, and the hope of leaving her uncle and aunt was shattered. She gritted her teeth with hatred. Just as she was about to slap the scholar, the scholar suddenly took out two silver ingots of five taels from her sleeve and held them high in front of her, and said with a complicated expression: "My grandma Jin, if I was born rich, I will never bear to give up on you. But the reality is like this. You are poor and I am cold. Even if you marry me, we are poor and humble couples will always be unhappy. It would be better for me to join the powerful and enter the officialdom. You took the money to open a bun shop. Let's part with each other and be happy."
Su Jin stared at the two ingots and thought, with her own bun shop, what else would she want men to do?
Su Jin accepted the scholar's compensation with a tense face, and hugged Yin Yuanbao at night and laughed.
After laughing for a month, she vomited when Su Jin was thinking about how to get rid of the control of her uncle and aunt.
Su Jin once witnessed the whole process of her aunt giving birth to her cousin, and knew that her symptoms meant that she was pregnant with the scholar's child.
Su Jin was very scared. The scholar had already married a bride. She came to the door with her child. The magistrate was generous and might let her be a concubine. If the magistrate was a jealous woman, maybe someone would send her to destroy her. Su Jin didn't want to be a concubine or died unjustly. She tried every means to get rid of the child, but accidentally heard that this matter was not going to be a tragedy. Su Jin immediately had no courage to mess around.
If a child cannot fall out, there is only one way left to get married before his stomach appears to be pregnant.
Who should I marry?
It’s not Su Jin’s bragging. Most men in the town like her are tall and thin, and they can line up from the alley to the end of the alley, but those people all come to her appearance, and look at her with a slight look. Su Jin is pregnant before marriage, which is a stain. It’s unreliable to marry someone. What should people do if they scold her for this in the future? Su Jin picks and picks her, and he likes Feng Shi.
The 20-year-old blacksmith had an ordinary appearance and was almost the same size as her, and was the object of ridicule of neighbors. But at that time, Feng Shi was the most decent and honest man who loved her. When others bought buns, they wanted their eyes to stick to her face. Feng Shi bought buns, and his head hung down and did not dare to look at her.
After confirming that Feng Shi could accept her child, Su Jin slept at Feng Shi's house that night. The eldest uncle and aunt kept thinking about using her for a good price. When they learned about this, the couple seemed to have a fattening pig stolen by someone else. They blushed and called her shameless, but because the raw rice had been cooked, they had to send her to marry.
After marriage, Feng Shi was very kind to Su Jin. He couldn't bear to leave any heavy work, and gave her much money he earned.
Su Jin passed by Feng Shi with peace of mind. The neighbors talked about her, and Su Jinquan was in the mood to open a shop and sold buns happily.
After listening to the story, Archer knew in a daze that his biological father was a scholar named Chen who abandoned his mother.
At that time, Su Jin told his son: "He thought that his mother was not an official father and was cruel to not want her anymore, and that mother didn't want her. Since her mother married Feng Shi, Feng Shi was your father. Archer was willing to call him his father, and he would always raise you as his biological son. If Archer wanted to find his biological father, then mother would send you over..."
Before Su Jin could finish his words, Archer threw himself into his mother's arms and cried loudly, not allowing his mother to send him away.
How could Su Jin be willing to send her son away? This is the baby she gave birth to ten months of pregnancy. She almost killed her life when she was born. What did the Chen surname do for them besides being happy? Not to mention giving away, even if the Chen surname comes to rob, even if the Chen surname takes out 220,200 taels of silver ingots, she would not give him Archer!
Since then, Archer has been reluctant to go out. Su Jin and Feng Shi are quite worried, worried that his son will not be able to think about it, but Archer did not dislike his parents. Feng Shi's little iron thugs stared at the side, like a little blacksmith. When Su Jin came back from selling buns, he lay on the bed and shouted that his waist was sore. Archer would also help his mother massage her back in a manner.
He just doesn't want to contact outsiders anymore.
The son was unwilling to go out, and Su Jin had no choice. She had tried forcibly taking her son to the street before, and then Archer lowered his eyes and looked at him without looking at anything, which deeply hurt her. Su Jin thought, let's do it first, and when his son grows up, he may not be afraid of others' words.
He told Archer to take good care of his house. Su Jin called Aunt Liu to go out together. She was just a first-timer and needed someone to lead the way.
Zhangcheng belongs to the fief of the Liao king. It is an important town on the northeastern border of the Great Zhou Dynasty to defend against the invasion of the Huns. Its trade and trade were good on the border, but its wealth was far less than that of the Yangzhou City that Su Jin was familiar with. From the perspective of sight, the people almost wore thick winter clothes that could not be seen. They were gray and rarely bright. When Su Jin appeared, the little persimmon-red jacket was like a ball of fire, attracting attention.
Su Jin was surprised: "Don't people here like to wear red?"
Aunt Liu smiled and said, "It's cold in winter, so I don't have the time to dress up. The weather is warm and the young wives are changing into beautiful clothes and going out."
Su Jin looked around and looked around, no matter what she liked, she would wear whatever she liked.
While talking, the two came to the main street, where there were narrow pastry shops on both sides of the street, as well as a grand silk and satin restaurant.
Su Jin wanted to rent a shop, but after a walk around, there was no one to sell it.
When he walked back, Su Jin looked at the vendors selling food and fragmented items on both sides of the street, and asked Aunt Liu: "Can I set up a stall here?"
Aunt Liu said: "Yes, yes, but there are a bunch of people snatching each day, and there is no place to come late."
Su Jin nodded thinking.
The author has something to say:
Well, the three men in the copywriting all have rough outlines. Who do you like the most?
Scholar Chen: I’m pretty!
Feng Blacksmith: I'm honest!
Chapter completed!