Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 8
Standing in the middle of the crowd, Du Yinsheng was squeezed back and forth, seeing this scene, a heart-wrenching pain came from his heart.He closed his eyes in pain, unwilling to open them again.

Du Fangfei was holding Du Jinning in her arms, but she couldn't stand on her feet. She was supported by a group of women and daughters-in-law, and entered the house where Sanfang lived.

After seeing clearly the dilapidated house converted from an abandoned cowshed where the third family of the Du family lived, and then looking back at the tall, spacious and bright houses where other people lived, everyone looked at Du Chensheng and Niu Shi with more and more contempt and alienation.

A tiger's poison does not eat its offspring. Although there is a reason why an outstanding young son was killed, but in the past ten years of venting anger and treating a few poor women and children so harshly, the hearts of the second old man and the old lady of the Du family are really as cold as iron. human touch.If you treat your own family like this, let alone outsiders?
"Put it on the bed, and everyone else will go out. The old man will give him an injection." Mo Langzhong shouted.

The old lady Wang whom Du Jinning met by the river lived next door to Du's house. She was usually a very enthusiastic person and most sympathized with what happened to Chen and Du Jinning.Hearing this, she waved her big palm-like hand and said to everyone: "Go out, everyone go out. The room is too small to accommodate so many people."

The crowd who followed in to watch the excitement retreated.

Mo Langzhong didn't care about anything else, he took out a needle and stuck Du Jinning in it.

The acupuncture needles look thick and long, but they don't hurt much when pierced.Du Jinning was prepared to not let himself have the slightest expression. Seeing that the pain was not so painful at this time, he relaxed in his heart.

After leaving the needle for a while, Mo Langzhong took it out, and ordered Du Fangfei to grind the ink for him, and wrote a prescription. Then he raised his head and asked outside: "Two days ago, I was trying to get medicine for my little brother. , the eldest sister of the Du family accepted the marriage of the Meng family; now you have to spend money on medicine, what do you say, old man Du?" As he spoke, he glanced at Du Fangling's face, and then at Du Chensheng.

Du Fangling froze, looked at Chen in horror, and called out: "Mother..." The voice was full of pleading.

Chen Shi, who had just woken up not long ago, shook her body and almost fainted again, tears could not help but flow down.

The backs of her hands and the palms of her hands were full of flesh, she was reluctant to let Du Jinning die, and she was also unwilling to push her daughter into the kang.If Du Fangfei hadn't gone to Niu's behind her back and borrowed money for the marriage, she definitely wouldn't have been able to trade her daughter's life for the life of her "son".

What should I call her at this moment?
When everyone heard this, there was an uproar.

The news that Du Fangfei agreed to marry fool Meng in order to get medicine for her younger brother has not yet spread in the village.When everyone heard this, they looked at Du Chensheng and Niu Shi with more complicated eyes.If Du Jinning defeated his father and killed Du Yuncheng, a young scholar, it is understandable that the elders of the Du family hate him.But Du Fangfei is a good granddaughter, and she is also the eldest granddaughter of the second elder of the Du family, so she is in the way of their eyes, and if she is to marry the fool Meng who likes to beat people, isn't this forcing her to die?The heart of the elders of the Du family is not made of meat, why is it so dark?

Du Chensheng and Niu were uncomfortable being watched by everyone, so they lifted the cotton curtain and went into their own room.The crowd couldn't find anyone to despise. When they saw Du Yinsheng, they couldn't help but said to him: "Old Master Du, can't you take care of the affairs here? This is a human life."

"Two." Someone corrected, "Now it's another one." It was Du Fangfei.

"That's right, if this continues, the Du family's three families and five people will die, and I'm afraid not one of them will survive."

"No matter what kind of enmity or grievance, we can't ignore human life like this. Our Taohua Village has always been simple, harmonious and peaceful. If this matter gets out, we will be ashamed to see others, and other villages will not Are you taking us as a joke? In the future, when boys in our village marry wives, they will all be affected."

"Yeah yeah……"

Hearing these words, Du Yinsheng's face turned black.

Although Taohua Village is a small village with a small population, it has a good reputation. There are no other reasons. Gain started here 60 years ago. Seeing that there was no hope for the imperial examination, the village's failed scholars set up private schools in the village.Because there were not many Shuxiu received, many villagers sent their sons to study.Although not many of the children who study have achieved fame and fame, the most promising one is Du Jinning's dead father, Du Yuncheng, who was selected as a scholar at the age of 23, but because of their literacy, most of them can find good jobs in the county .

For this reason, everyone is competing to learn and read. Every household in the village who can afford food is willing to send their children to study for a few days to learn a few words.Therefore, the overall quality of Taohua Village is better than that of other villages, and the economic conditions are much better than other villages, which attracts the envy of other villages.And because the harvest in the village is much cheaper than that in the county, no matter it is the next-door village or the village farther away, there are some who send their children to school.For this matter, the people of Taohua Village are very proud to go out, and naturally they want to maintain the reputation of the village more and more.

Now that Mr. Du's younger brother in Taohua Village is so ruthless, he tortured his grandson and granddaughter to death, the reputation of Taohua Village is likely to plummet, and Du Yinsheng himself has no face to be a teacher in a private school.

Without saying hello, he lifted the curtain and entered Du Chensheng's room, and slapped Du Chensheng on the face.

"Brother..." Du Chensheng was stunned by the beating, and he covered his face and looked at Du Yinsheng in disbelief.

The relationship between their brothers has always been very good, even when they were naughty and had conflicts when they were young, the elder brother never beat him.Now that he is old and old, he is already in his fifties and sixties, yet he is still slapped by his brother, which shocks him.Moreover, in front of everyone, how will he deal with himself in the village in the future?

Those who lifted the curtain to watch the excitement saw the slap, and couldn't help secretly screaming.

"Take out the money and get medicine for Brother Ning first, and we'll talk about other things later." Du Yinsheng said with a dark face.

Du Chensheng also knew that he had gone too far in this matter today, which aroused the dissatisfaction of all the villagers, so he didn't dare to say anything, so he turned around and told Mrs. Niu to take the money.

But Niu was reluctant, mumbling in his mouth, opened the cabinet to take out the money, counted each one twice, and handed over ten Wen.

Du Yin was so angry that he was so angry that he shouted at Du Chensheng: "A human life is worth ten cents? If you don't want to stay here, get out of Taohua Village as soon as possible."

Du Chensheng was also angry that the old lady didn't wink, it's fine to be stingy on weekdays, but now she's so stingy in front of the whole village, wouldn't that be a joke for people to laugh at again?
He yelled at Niu Shi, "Bring out a hundred dollars."

When Niu heard about the one hundred yuan, he quit immediately, and shouted back at Du Chensheng: "Where do you have a hundred yuan at home? You don't know how much food is expensive if you are not in charge of the family. The first one handed over the three hundred coins to Brother Shou , Brother Nian borrowed it in the city. Now there are only fifteen coins left in the family, do you want to do it?" Then he took out another five coins from his sleeve, threw them on the ground, turned around and walked in angrily. inside.

(End of this chapter)