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Chapter 489: The excitement next door (please subscribe and vote monthly)

The group of people sat in the lobby for a while. Seeing other people returning to their rooms one after another, they also went up to the second floor.

Even when Qingyan was chatting with others, she still used her spiritual consciousness to pay attention to the officials. Seeing that they had indeed gone to bed, she stopped paying attention.

It seems that I haven't slept all night, so I am going to catch up on some sleep.

In this way, if they go back to the forest, they won't be able to find anything. When the rain came down heavily, Qingyan took a look. The body was long gone, and even the blood was washed away by the rain. There was no trace left. These people Since we didn’t take the killers with us, we probably wouldn’t be able to find the specific location.

No wonder there were so many unsolved cases in ancient times. With such efficiency and attitude, solving the case really just depends on luck.

Qingyan and the others were going to play cards in the room to kill time. Unexpectedly, as soon as they sat down, they heard crying and yelling.

Several people stood up almost at the same time and rushed to the right window together, where the sound came from.

It's not that they have forgotten that they have spiritual consciousness, but they can tell that it's not far away by hearing the sound, and the excitement can be seen with their eyes, which is definitely better than using their spiritual consciousness.

When he opened the window and looked outside, he saw several people standing in a courtyard on the right side of the inn, surrounding a woman kneeling on the ground.

Those standing were either holding oil-paper umbrellas or wearing oilcloths. Only the one in the middle was kneeling on the ground. It seemed as if he didn't feel the raindrops hitting his body. He just knelt down and cried and begged.

After listening carefully, they understood the general reason. This woman was the daughter-in-law of the family. Her husband went out to do business. After leaving, there was no news for several months, but she was pregnant.

This was obviously a man-stealing act, and her husband's family was prepared to divorce her instead of her husband.

But the woman refused to admit that she had stolen the child, and cried out that she was wronged, saying that the child belonged to her husband and was conceived on the day he left.

The husband's family didn't believe it. Anyway, he wanted to divorce his wife on his brother's behalf.

Yes, that's right. It was her eldest brother-in-law who divorced the woman, that is, her husband's brother.

Listening to their conversation, you can tell that the woman's parents-in-law have passed away, leaving only an eldest brother and two sisters on her husband's side.

Now, the people surrounding her were her eldest brother, two eldest aunts, and three couples. They were all yelling at her, telling her to take the divorce papers and leave quickly, so as not to pollute the Chen family's land.

It seems that the surname of this family is Chen, and it can be heard from the yelling of several people that the woman's surname is Liu, and she is called the Liu family.

The husband-in-laws just yelled and cursed at first and refused to leave when they saw Ms. Liu, but soon they started to pull her away.

Of course, it was only the three women who made the move, while the three men did not move and continued to scold them. The words were very unpleasant, even worse than the shrew who often scolded the street.

However, after listening to it for a while, Qingyan felt that something was wrong. After talking for a long time, those people said that her brother was away and that her sister-in-law was pregnant. However, they did not mention the specific time when her brother went out, nor did they mention the month when her sister-in-law was pregnant.

Besides, their brother just went out. At this time, transportation and communication were inconvenient. It was not impossible for him to go without news for several months. It was normal, and it was not certain that he died outside.

Even if the sister-in-law steals someone, she can wait for her brother to come back and then handle it on her own. Whether to divorce his wife or something else is a matter for the couple. These people are not serious parents-in-law, so their control is too lenient.

It wasn't until these people made too much noise and the neighbors came over to see what was going on. Qingyan learned the true purpose of these people from the whispers of those neighbors.

It turns out that Mrs. Liu's husband and the brothers and sisters of the Chen family have the same mother and father. Yes, they have the same mother and father. The reason why they both have the surname Chen is because their fathers are both married into the family.

The wife of the Chen family is also unlucky. She is the only daughter in the family, and her parents love her in every possible way. She should be lucky.

Her parents were good to her, and it could be said that they almost raised her like a boy. After all, at this time, there was no idea of ​​favoring boys over girls. Not only were men and women alike, but they also had a share in inheriting the family property.

Just like a woman's dowry, it can only be inherited by the woman's children. If the woman has no children, the dowry can return to her natal family after her death. Therefore, the Chen family's property will be regarded as Mrs. Chen's dowry from now on.

However, she didn't want to get married, but wanted to find a wife. It wasn't that she wanted to continue the family tradition, but she was afraid that she wouldn't be able to honor her parents after getting married.

After all, after getting married, you can't always run home. It will definitely be inconvenient to take care of the family. It's better to just recruit a son-in-law who comes to your home, and these things will disappear.

Therefore, Mrs. Chen is also very transparent. She decided to have a wife at a young age. She is the only child in the family. Of course, her parents will not object to this idea and even support it. With two of them watching, why? It is also more comfortable than marrying into someone else's family.

So there was Mrs. Chen's first husband-in-law, who was the father of the Chen family's eldest uncle.

The Chen family's shop is a cloth shop. This kind of business requires you to go out and find the source of goods by yourself. At this time, if you want to purchase goods, there are not as many wholesale markets as in later generations. You have to go to a large county or prefectural city. Purchased from similar places.

Of course, not every county has a large amount of goods, especially fabrics. There are no textile factories at this time. Most of them are family workshops, or there are salesmen who go door to door to collect them, and then sell them to some merchants together.

Basically, there is one kind of cloth in each place. This depends on the local production. Where there is hemp production, there are more linen and coarse cloths, and where there are silk production, there are more silk brocades, so you still have to go out and purchase the goods yourself.

Those who run a cloth shop can't just buy one kind of fabric. They must go to places like the county town to find the goods. And if the nearby county town doesn't have it, or it's more expensive than what he sells here, he can't go there to buy the goods. As long as you lose money, you can only run farther.

The Chen family's business is not that big of a business, and they can't bring in too much at one time, so it's not appropriate to go too far, that is, wandering around Fucheng, it will take a month or two just to go back and forth.

There are many mountains and rivers along the way here, and even those with servants to protect them may get into trouble, let alone those who are doing small business, so Mrs. Chen's first husband died on the road. Mrs. Chen's first husband was the shopkeeper of her family's cloth shop. In fact, he had always been interested in her. He came to her house as shopkeeper just because he wanted to be near the water, the first to win, so the two hit it off.

After the two got married, they directly hired a shopkeeper, and he was responsible for purchasing goods. After all, the shopkeeper could be replaced, he had accounts to check, and he was not afraid of the other party's manipulation.

This matter of purchasing goods must be done by one's own family. As a result, on the way to purchase goods, I encountered a bandit and died outside. An acquaintance who came back from there found the body and helped bring it back. There is no corpse wilderness.

Although Mrs. Chen was sad for a while, her children were still young, her parents were old, and the cloth shop had to continue to open, so she hired another wife.

That's right, the two Chen sisters and the eldest brother of the Chen family are not from the same father. It is such a coincidence that the second wife is the shopkeeper of their cloth village.

It’s not that he came with a purpose, but it happened that his wife also died in childbirth, killing two people. It was because the family was reluctant to spend money to hire a stable woman and had to die by herself. In this sadness, she and her family She was separated from her heart, and in a fit of anger, she joined Chen's family.

However, this son-in-law learned the lesson from the previous one and continued to work as a shopkeeper in the cloth shop, not caring about the purchase of goods.

But this matter cannot be entrusted to others. It can only be Mrs. Chen’s father who takes over the job again. After all, he is used to it and has more experience than novices like them. At least he has never done it after so many years. thing.

To be honest, it was a bit strange that Madam Chen's last husband died. After all, Father Chen had been away for so many years without any incident, and he only left a few times before something happened.

That's right, there are really not many times. After all, it only takes one year from conception to birth, and they got pregnant when they got married, so it only took a year to get married. It takes a long time to buy and sell goods, so I left. He died on the road after two or three attempts.

Either he was unlucky, or he was being targeted. Knowing his route and knowing that he had the money to purchase goods, he immediately killed someone and robbed him of his wealth.

Although Mrs. Chen's second husband did not go out to buy goods, he was not a long-lived man and died within a few years.

This was really an accident. When Mrs. Chen gave birth to her second daughter, her third child, the midwife from the town was invited to the village below to deliver the baby.

It would definitely be impossible to give birth without going to the midwife. Even though Mrs. Chen had already given birth to her third child, this one was a bit large, so it was difficult to give birth and she wouldn't be able to give birth for a while.

In a desperate situation, her second husband directly inquired about where there were Wenpo in other surrounding villages, and then went to look for her himself. As a result, he was caught in heavy rain when he went out, and was washed down into a ditch and drowned.

In less than five years, two husbands died in succession. This time was very feudal and superstitious. Rumors spread in the town about Mrs. Chen’s husband. Mrs. Chen could only live with her three children and her elderly parents. .

Originally there were not many people in the family, and there were three more children to take care of. As you can imagine, the new shopkeeper in the shop did not dare to think about getting married, and the shopkeeper hired this time was older. , has a family.

There is no other way. People who are not married dare not apply for the job. Even the clerks are the same. They are all older and have wives and children at home. Singles are afraid of being attracted by Mrs. Chen. What if they are also suppressed.

Seven or eight years passed like this. When the eldest son of the Chen family was already a teenager, a group of refugees came here. They said that their hometown was washed away by floods, and the whole village fled here.

Among these victims was Liu's husband's biological father. In order to save his sick father, the man was planning to buy himself a car. He happened to be met by Mrs. Chen who was passing by. The man looked tall and good-looking. , then he thought about it.

She went up to him directly and asked him if he wanted to marry him. She also teased her about her situation. If he was afraid of being killed, then forget it. She wouldn't force him to do anything.

It turned out that he was also a tough guy, so he agreed directly. Mrs. Chen gave him a sum of money to treat his father, which was regarded as a bride price.

After this person entered the Chen family, everyone knew what was going on, but they were not very optimistic about it. Most people were waiting to see when this person would be killed.

In the end, it was not known whether this person was lucky or had a strong destiny, but the two of them lived together like this and even had a son, who became Liu's husband.

It was not until Liu's husband came of age and all four children were married that they died of illness one after another.

Although he died quite early, it doesn't count in ancient times. After all, the level of medical treatment in ancient times was there. The average age was only forty or fifty years old. He raised four children and gave them a family and a career. This is considered the normal age of death.

In other words, the four children of the Chen family belong to three fathers respectively, and the reason why this happened today is because the eldest brother Chen had the idea of ​​cloth village and this courtyard, and the two eldest aunts heard about it. Those who came later to share the pie.

This courtyard is considered the old house of the Chen family. Mrs. Chen and her parents lived here before. The Chen family split up after Chen Laosi and Chen Laosi got married and their two daughters got married.

Because the boss didn't want to take over the cloth store business, he took the money to buy real estate elsewhere. He was mainly afraid that he would die on the road like his father when he was buying goods. In addition, he was marrying the daughter of a grain store owner, so he went directly to his father-in-law's family. They started a grain business together.

You don't need to go far for this. You just need to collect it in a nearby village. At most, you have to go a little further, but not too far. Safety can still be guaranteed.

So the business of the cloth village was left to the younger son, and it was fair to give him some extra money.

At this time, Mrs. Chen's parents were gone. Before her death, her main concern was that Buzhuang must be passed down. This was the hard work of several generations of their family.

So Mrs. Chen and her husband followed their younger son directly, and it was the younger son and his daughter-in-law who supported him.

This is not because Boss Chen's grain store was flooded some time ago and the whole store was burned down. Because the money for the new batch of goods had not been settled, he lost a lot of money.

In addition, this younger brother had been away for several months without any news. He thought that he might have died outside like his biological father, so he decided to focus on his younger brother's property.

There was no reason at first. After all, there was no news of his brother's death. In addition, he also had a son, so it was not his half-brother's turn.