Chapter Forty-Three Can Recognize

  Thank you!

  When she arrived at the outer gate, the maid saw the prepared carriage and couldn't help but laugh.

  "Sixth Master, you're going to be our daughter's sedan carrier again." she said.

  Zhou Lang turned his head to look at her, his eyes fell on the maid beside Cheng Jiaoniang, and then he turned his head back, shaking the horse whip in his hand, without saying a word.

  Jiang Yao didn't say anything either and got onto the carriage with the help of her maid.

  When they learned that Jingniang had arrived, the Chen family was overjoyed.

  The young men of the Chen family heard the news and arrived at the gate, looking at Zhou Liulang sitting in the carriage with a faint smile.

  "Does Master Zhou want to come in and have a cup of tea?"

  "Let's not, Sixth Master should stay with the carriage instead, lest he accidentally loses someone."

  These sarcastic remarks on Saturday just snorted and drove the horse away without arguing.

  The girl in front of the gate ignored her, but at the second gate, she received a warm welcome from the ladies, with Dan Niang running the fastest.

  "Sister." She rushed over, shaking Chunjiao's arm, "Grandpa and I miss you."

  "It's better if you don't think about me," said Cheng Jiaoniang.

  The women crowded around Madame Chen, who had also arrived at this time. Cheng Jiaoniang exchanged a brief greeting with her.

  "She said, and went in with Cheng Jiaoniang."

  The other women fell back a few steps, carefully looking at Chou Jiaoniang's clothes and hairstyle while whispering to each other.

  "Why did she say don't think about her?" someone asked in a low voice, "Is it good to take it?"

  She gave him a sideways glance.

  "Cheng Niangzi is a doctor, what kind of person would think of a doctor?" she said.

  The women were startled and couldn't help but cover their mouths and laugh.

  "What's the use of saying a few more words?" they whispered with a smile.

  "You're saying we talked too much in the past," said the woman previously. "Saying ten sentences, but actually it's just one sentence of meaning."

  "If others can't understand it, wouldn't they misunderstand?" someone disagreed.

  "What's the misunderstanding?" The woman looked at her.

  He choked back his words.

  What's wrong with misunderstanding? If you're ill, don't you go to someone else for treatment?

  "Besides, those who understand her naturally do, and those who don't, there's no need to bother with them." The woman continued, looking at the girl who had already walked into Old Master Chen's house with her mother, with a hint of emotion, "To be so carefree, what more could one ask for in life?"

  Jiang Nang withdrew her hand.

  Mr. and Mrs. Chen watched her with a few points of tension.

  Mr. Chen is relaxed and at ease.

  "Take this medicine for five more days," said Cheng Jiaoniang, looking at her maid.

  The maid had already picked up her pen and ink, and when she saw him looking over, she raised her pen.

  "In five days, change this prescription," said Cheng Jiaoniang.

  The maid handed the prescription written down by her to Chen Shao.

  Chen Shao took over and thanked him.

  "What does our daughter want to eat? Let's have it ready in the kitchen." said Mrs. Chen with a smile.

  "Thank you." Jingniang bid farewell, "I still have something to attend to."

  Mr. and Mrs. Chen were somewhat reluctant and wanted to persuade him again, but Old Master Chen raised his hand to stop them.

  "If you're not busy, come and sit down often, don't be strangers." he said.

  Jiang Nang looked at him and nodded.

  "Good." She said, and bowed her head in farewell.

  Mrs. Chen saw him out personally.

  Because when Dan Niang was sent away to have her pulse taken and came back, there were only Old Master Chen, Chen Shao and his brother Chen Siye in the house.

  "Sister, how could you leave?" Dan Niang was heartbroken and couldn't help but go over to shake Chen Lao Ta Ye's arm, "Grandfather, can we invite her to come back and live with us again?"

  "Third Sister, don't be reckless." Chen Shao shook his head and said.

  Mr. Chen comforted his granddaughter with a smile.

  "Girls don't like going to other people's homes, wait until Grandpa is better, and I'll take you to find her to play." he said.

  Dan Niang nodded happily.

  "Father, this is the famous five-character Shen Yun that has been popular recently." Mr. Chen said, carefully unfolding a piece of paper in his hand.

  Chen Shao also came with interest.

  "Is this the couplet that has been circulating recently and caused a stir in the temple?" he asked.

  When they started discussing poetry and literature, Dan Niang lost interest and got up to go out and play. She walked to the door but stopped when she heard the three words "Mo Xi Si" ( Ink Temple) and ran back.

  The words on the desk have been unfolded.

  "This is the poem I wrote!"

  The girl's voice was heard first among the others in the room who had yet to speak up.

  Chen Shaosan was taken aback for a moment, then burst out laughing.

  "What did Tan Niang make?" asked Old Master Chen, "It's really good."

  "Yes, I did it. Chen Dan Niang made some changes."

  Chen Shao smiled and shook his head.

  "Good, good, Dan Niang has made progress." he said.

  "Yes, my wife also said I did a good job, and she even helped me write it on the wall in person." Chen Dan's wife said happily.

  Madam Chen returned home after seeing off her guests and called out for Chen Dan Niang to come out.

  "The New Year is approaching, and it's time for making new clothes," she said.

  New clothes for New Year's are always the biggest temptation for kids, Chen Dan Niang happily went out.

  "Mother, I also want to make clothes like Sister Chang's."

  The sound of children's voices gradually faded away outside the door, and the three men in the house looked at each other again.

  "This poem does seem to be in a child's tone." Chen Shao said, stroking his beard.

  However, he didn't think his daughter was telling the truth, perhaps she saw this sentence at Maitreya Temple and children can't distinguish between what's mine and what I've seen.

  "But with this word added, it's no longer in a child's tone." said Old Master Chen.

  Mr. Chen nodded and sighed after staring at the words for a long time.

  "It's actually five fonts that I've never seen before." He said, "And the words are harmonious and rhyming. The five characters convey the seven emotions and six desires, it seems like an old man who has seen through all worldly affairs, but yet it ends with a vigorous and heroic tone of a young man, the only pity is that the arm strength seems to be insufficient, not reaching the true essence..."

  Shaking head and sighing at this point.

  "This is for people to copy from, or just get the general idea without grasping the underlying spirit." said Old Master Chen.

  "Indeed, who could have done this?" Old Master Chen looked for a moment and then asked.

  Mr. Chen nodded.

  "Nobody ever recognized it," he said with a regretful face, "what a pity."

  "Perhaps it's a one-hearted exam, and after next March, you will know." Chen Shao said.

  Such excellent calligraphy will surely be exposed to the world when the big exam comes.

  Old Master Chen and Fourth Master Chen nodded.

  "Could it be... was this really written by Miss Cheng?" Old Master Chen suddenly asked.

  Chen Shao and Old Master Chen burst out laughing.

  "Father, even Chen's daughter-in-law doesn't know how to write," said Chen Shao.

  Every time the prescription is spoken, it is written by a maid. According to the servant who has served before, this girl usually also listens to the maid reading books every day, presumably because she can't read or write.

  Mr. Chen also smiled, this font, charm, without a decade of effort can not be written, this young lady is only fourteen or fifteen years old, can't have started practicing calligraphy from birth?

  "Wait until I'm better, then you can go see." Old Master Chen said, looking at the words on the desk.

  Jiang Nang walked out of the door, and Zhou Liulang drove over from a distance. This made the young men in the Chen family who were preparing to see off the beauty very disappointed and angry.

  "Ordinary anti-thief, it's really humiliating. Old Shaanxi Zhou is indeed rough and rude." They gritted their teeth and said, watching the beauty ride away in a horse-drawn carriage, sighing inwardly, "Pitiful, pitiful."

  The young woman didn't feel sorry for herself; she lifted the carriage curtain and looked at Zhou Liulang.

  "Sixth Master, would you be so kind as to escort me to the mansion at Jade Belt Bridge?" she said.

  Zhou Lang didn't say anything and whipped his horse to move forward.

  The young woman sat for a moment, lifted up the curtain of the carriage and looked out, and was startled.

  "Sixth Master, where are we going?" She lifted the carriage curtain and asked with raised eyebrows.

  As far as the eye can see, it's the broad highway outside the city gate, a desolate and bleak winter wilderness.

  It's a rare sunny day today, and it's also a winter leisure time. People are coming in and out of the city, bustling with activity.

  The maid was surprised and when she saw that Zhou Lang didn't respond, she snorted.

  "Bully my wife, a weak and helpless woman, what kind of skill is that?" She said, flipping down the curtain and sitting back.

  The car fell silent once again.

  Zhou Lang grasped the reins tightly and with a swift motion, he lashed out fiercely, sending the horse galloping rapidly along the bustling road.

  The horse carriage finally stopped after galloping for nearly half a day.

  "We've arrived," said Shūroku from outside.

  The young woman lifted the curtain of the carriage and looked at the bustling scene in front of her.

  "Sir, have you reserved a spot?" Two attendants rushed over, one asking the question and the other preparing to lead the horse.

  Zhou Lang nodded and reported his name.

  "Immortal Residence?" The maid read from the flag, turned around and said, "Miss, this place seems somewhat familiar."

  Jiang Yao got off the car and also took a look around.

  "Master, young lady, this way, please." The shop assistant called out warmly.

  Zhou Lang raised his foot and moved forward, but at this moment someone rushed out of the store and pushed a woman over.

  "Smelly beggar, you're still alive and annoying, now you come here to make a scene." Several companions scolded.

  The woman in her arms holding a baby, after being pushed and crowded, her hair was disheveled, the baby also cried nonstop.

  Passersby immediately dispersed, fearing they would get in trouble.

  "Considering his father has worked for you all his life, pay the wages, and wait for the relief money." The woman fell to the ground, crying, stretching out her hand.

  "Li's wife, what are you talking about? Your husband hasn't been to work for two or three months, where did the wages come from?" a fellow worker shouted. "This is a restaurant, not a charity."

  The woman hugged her child and wept, knocking her head against the ground.

  "Please, shopkeeper, lend me some money first..." she sobbed.

  This commotion naturally attracted countless gazes and pointing fingers.

  A sleek and handsome man stepped out quickly from inside, followed by two attendants.

  "What are you doing?!" he thundered, his eyes blazing with anger.

  "Seventh Master, Li Daxi's wife is here again..." a fellow worker hastily said, pointing to the woman crying on the ground.

  The woman saw him and immediately got up again, knelt down and stepped forward to grab the man's hem.

  "Dou Lang, Dou Lang, please, my husband is seriously ill, please give me the wages to treat his illness." She begged, "Just because he has been following the old master since he was in his teens, save his life this time."

  The man was displeased as soon as he heard it. When the woman grabbed his clothes, with a hint of disgust and shock, he kicked her away.

  "Get out!" the man shouted, "So sinister, you actually want to ruin my family's business!"

  The woman was kicked away and the baby in her arms fell to the ground.

  The child's cry was sharp and piercing, sounding even more mournful.

  People going in and out can't help but glance over, even the people inside the store are sticking their heads out to see the commotion.

  "It sounds like all the credit for my family's store goes to your husband, and now that he's not working anymore, you're still asking for wages? Is this how you bully people?" Dou Qi shouted, hastily shaking her clothes.

  "How can you bully women and children?"

  A man shouted.

  The noise did not stop Zhou Lang and Qiao Niang's footsteps, they had already walked to the entrance of the store.

  There are many things in the world that cannot be helped, how can everyone get what they want?

  This male voice came from inside the store, accompanied by speech. A young man stood up, and two people beside him tried to hold him back.

  "In the past, don't bother with trivial matters."

  The young man shook off the person holding him and strode out, brushing past Cheng Jiaoniang.

  Jiangniang stopped in her tracks.

  Wrote too much, I need to slow down, sort out the plot, and update one more chapter. However, each update is 3,000 words, which is only 1,000 words less than two updates. I'll resume after sorting it out. RS