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Walking to the corridor, Ye Fu Liu bent down to pick up the dusty cat bowl and washed it in the big water tank under the eaves, revealing the pale azure enamel.
“Three small nails on the bottom, the top coat is azure-green glaze, crab claw pattern, carefully wrapped and burned.”
Ye Fu Liu showed the three small nails on the bottom of the cat’s basin in the sun, “You just have to take this cat basin to the county government office along with my original words.”
“… The magistrate of our place is an official who was demoted from the capital. He was a big scholar and even had been in the Hanlin Academy. He should have a good eye for precious things.”
Ye Fu Liu wanted to save trouble, so she just washed it.
After cleaning the porcelain edge, she held the small piece of clean glaze between my slender fingers and threw the cat basin into the other side’s arms.
“It’s enough to give it to the official…”
Steward Qin directly held the cat tray in one hand and dragged the tied-up thief with the other, and walked out the door with doubt.
When Ye Fu Liu went to close the door, the movement outside the door leaked in.
Coincidentally, the group of little boys and girls who were blocking Ye’s family door just now circled around, and this time they swarmed around Wei’s house.
The sound of shouting and driving the children away came from the Wei family next door.
“Go, go, go… my house doesn’t need these messy things.”
The door next door was open, and the burly servant Wei Da was standing by the door, blocking the entire door by himself. He was impatiently shouting at the children and trying hard to drive them away.
“No soap, no ointment, no tooth powder, no messy drinks and snacks are needed. Just give me yesterday’s soup cakes! Nothing else.”
Hearing that, the little boy holding a big bowl of soup cakes grinned happily.
The other boys and girls gathered around the door and slowly dispersed in disappointment.
“Never come to the Wei family again!”
“I don’t want anything every day, they just want soup cakes.”
“The Wei family doesn’t even want my fragrant sesame cakes! You big barbarian don’t know what to buy!”
Wei Da pretended not to hear the children’s shout and stood at the door like a big tree.
He counted out a few copper coins and handed them to the child, carrying a bowl of hot soup cakes.
Ye Fu Liu stood at the door of her house, and Wei Da stood outside his house. Their eyes met each other.
Wei Da held a bowl and simply nodded at Ye Fu Liu, “Good morning, Miss Ye. I just saw Steward Qin dragging someone out. Something happened in your house.”
” Yes?” Ye Fu Liu also politely nodded and said, “There was a robber who broke in last night. Steward Qin just dragged him out to report to the official. Is your master feeling better today?”
Thinking about his master, the servant of the Wei family sighed, with a sad look on his face he said goodbye.
Wei Da went into the house holding the soup cake and slowly closed the door.
Ye Fu Liu slowly ate half a bowl of sweet tofu and drank the warm honey water. She came out with a machete and continued to slowly clean up the weeds in the yard.
Sure enough, she heard the noise from her neighbor’s house again…
Wei Da had a loud and strong voice. When he got anxious, he roared loudly. The two courtyard walls separated by half a foot distance could not block the loud movement at all.
“Mr. Lang, please eat some! The soup cake is exactly the same as yesterday’s morning meal. You ate three bites of it yesterday. Why can’t you take another bite today?”
Hearing that, Ye Fu Liu looked up, the sun coming out.
Today was another sunny day with few clouds in the sky. It looked like the sick man next door still didn’t seem to have a good appetite.
That person didn’t eat much in the morning or evening, but every sunny day, he would go out to bask in the sun.
Ye Fu Liu mowed the weeds and slowly began to clean up the debris in the corners. From the pile of rags, she directly picked out a small carved nanmu box that was so dirty that its original color could not be seen.
Ye Fu Liu tapped the box with her knuckles. The wood was thick and intact, and there was no termite damage on it. She placed it aside with satisfaction.
When Ye Fu Liu looked up again, there was indeed a figure sitting on the top of the two-story wooden building facing east next door.
Ye Fu Liu was well prepared, she stood up holding the small nanmu box and raised her face to the other side of the wall, saying the same greeting as yesterday.
“Good morning, Mr. Wei. Are the children outside the door bothering you too?”
Mr. Wei, who was high up on the other side, was bathed in the light golden sunlight in the early morning. He was still indifferent as he was yesterday.
No, that person was even more indifferent than yesterday.
He looked straight at the morning glow in the distance, pretending not to hear any greeting, and didn’t even glance at the Ye’s family courtyard wall.