Nine-thousand-year-old palm flower is not easy to mess with

Chapter 34 Doubtful Points
The old lady waved her hand, as if she regarded money as dung.

"Then your daughter-in-law usually goes out to do good deeds with her?"

"Of course, during the snow disaster a few years ago, my daughter-in-law even pawned her gold hairpin in order to donate more money to the poor people who were affected by the disaster. Do you think she is kind?"

Yao Suyu didn't expect that the daughter-in-law the old lady spoke of would be such a positive person.

Could such a person really be the murderer who killed her husband?
This made Yao Suyu lose her mind for a moment, and she couldn't help but look at Chu Lian.

Chu Lian stood up and said a few words on the occasion.

They came under the banner of condolences, and when they left, Chu Lian left a 100 tael silver note.

On the way back, seeing Yao Suyu, Chu Lian could not help asking, "What's wrong?"

"Aren't you saying that my deduction about drugs is a bit too arbitrary?" Yao Suyu couldn't help but reflect on himself.

"What do you mean?"

"I can't just conclude that Guanshi Liu is drinking white porridge at night, and I can conclude that his wife or old lady is bringing him supper. Maybe he even has a wife."

Guanshi Liu died in Huangzhuang. As the steward, he had his own separate room in the Zhuangzi, while his wife lived in the courtyard outside.

In ancient times, it was common for men to have three wives and four concubines, and Guanshi Liu had a lot of money in his hands, so it was not impossible for him to steal.

But Chu Lian shook his head, "I went to Liu's house, and I think Guanshi Liu's wife is more suspicious."

"Why?" Yao Suyu was extremely surprised.

They didn't even see Steward Liu's wife just now, how did Chu Lian come to this conclusion?
"When you were talking to the old lady just now, I took a closer look in the yard. There was a rope pulled at the corner of the yard, and the clothes on it should be the clothes of several members of their family."

Yao Suyu has just entered this dynasty, so she doesn't know much about fabrics, but Chu Lian is very clear.

"The old lady is wearing the most common material, which is in line with what she said about saving money and going to give to the poor.

But the other pieces of clothes that were drying were all made of medium-to-high cotton silkworm fabrics. "

As the name suggests, this material is a mixture of cotton and silk to make clothes that are durable, smooth and cool.

It is not cheap to sell, a foot of cloth costs two or three taels of silver.

"The old lady is so frugal, and her daughter-in-law controls the family's financial power, so maybe she doesn't know how much her daughter-in-law's clothes are worth.

I thought my daughter-in-law was saving money on food and clothing just like her, and gave all the money she saved to the poor. "

Yao Suyu understood, it means that the old lady is really frugal, but the daughter-in-law is a bit of a fool, just pretending in front of the old lady on purpose.

The old lady really treated her daughter-in-law as her own daughter because of her life-saving grace.

But the daughter-in-law didn't treat her mother-in-law as her own mother, otherwise, in such a hot day, she would let her mother-in-law wear clothes made of cotton and linen that have been washed and faded, but she would secretly wear that kind of expensive clothes.

"Furthermore, Guanshi Liu has brought so much trouble to the Liu family. Even though everything is gone after death, on weekdays, the neighbors and neighbors in front of and behind the house can't help but mutter a few words.

However, this daughter-in-law only knows to take her son away and stay away from these rumors. Why does she leave her mother-in-law alone in the whirlpool? "

Even if it's not suitable for a mother-in-law to go to the daughter-in-law's natal home, then it's okay to send the mother-in-law back to her natal home to live in the head office for a while.

As long as the money is enough, even relatives who haven't moved around for more than ten years can pretend to be affectionate. What's the point of staying for a few days?
The more Yao Suyu listened, the more he realized, "As the old saying goes, love a house and a bird.

If Liu Guanshi's daughter-in-law really loved him so much, she would definitely be filial to his mother, not to mention that the old lady is not bad for her daughter-in-law. "

But what the daughter-in-law is doing now obviously has nothing to do with the word filial piety, so the suspicion on the daughter-in-law may not necessarily be removed.

Yao Suyu looked at Chu Lian with admiration: "You are amazing, I just listened to the old lady's speech, and I didn't observe so many details at all."

"You're not bad, at least you got a lot of words out of the way. Do you still remember the snow disaster that the old lady said?"

Chu Lian suddenly changed the topic to the snow disaster, which shocked Yao Suyu.

She is not the original owner, not to mention that this happened a few years ago, Yao Suyu didn't remember anything for a while.

She didn't dare to look directly into Chu Lian's eyes, so she could only lower her head, as if she didn't want to recall the sad past.

"I was young back then, and my aunt wouldn't let me go out on weekdays, so I don't know much about these things outside."

This excuse successfully deceived Chu Lian.

After all, in those few years, the Qiu family often spread rumors to Yao Suyu outside, bad reputation of Yao Suyu, saying that Yao Suyu was timid and introverted, submissive.

It is to prevent those wives from high families from developing a good impression of Yao Suyu.

To put it bluntly, it was to guard against Yao Suyu and not dare to let her stand out.

Because there are only two girls in the Yao family's generation, if Yao Suyu gets ahead, Qiu's biological daughter will be compared.

Chu Lian didn't ask Yao Suyu any more, but said directly:

"Actually, the snowstorm that year not only killed many ordinary poor people to death from freezing and starvation, but also led to an uprising."

This is the inside story of that year. Under normal circumstances, Chu Lian would not casually tell outsiders.

But the word has come to this point, and Yao Suyu is his own, so Chu Lian didn't hide it from her.

"That's why the emperor refused to open warehouses to release grain, let alone open the gates of the city, so that the people affected by the disaster outside the city could temporarily live in the city, and thousands of people died in vain."

The snow fell heavily and quickly that year, and not every household could afford firewood and a large soft and thick quilt.

Therefore, on the night when the snow fell, some people were unconsciously frozen to death in their sleep, and some were crushed to death because their houses were crushed by the snow.

This is a natural disaster, let's not say anything for now.

But the more than 1000 people who died later were all because the emperor was greedy for life and afraid of death, and was afraid that spies from the rebel army would be mixed among the victims who entered the inner city.

So they blocked all the affected people from the city gate, and they were unwilling to open warehouses to release grain.

If these disaster victims can enter the city, they can hide under the eaves of rich families, and they can ask the dignitaries who come and go to beg for money. As long as they have a bite to eat, they can survive.

It's a pity that the emperor didn't give them this chance.

While Yao Suyu felt sorry for those who died tragically back then, she quickly figured out the relationship between them.

"Just now the old lady said that her daughter-in-law pawned off her golden hairpin because of the snow disaster. This seems a bit too kind and generous."

(End of this chapter)