Marrying into a poor family

The third aunt looked at Qin Xi blankly. Although she tried her best to show that she didn't know what was going on, the panic and hesitation in her eyes betrayed her.

After all, she is a village woman, and even her calculations are limited. She was able to fool the Su family with her years of friendship, but how could she fool Qin Xi, who had returned from rebirth and distrusted everyone?

Qin Xiang took out a cloud incense stick from the wooden box on the table, lit it, and then inserted it into the Guanyin lotus incense holder.Qin Xiang's peripheral vision was always on Sangu, and seeing that she seemed to have no feeling for the fragrance at all, she was relieved of her doubts. It seemed that Sangu had never been exposed to the incense of ecstasy.

"Third aunt, I will leave as soon as the incense burns to ashes, and I will never see you again." The last words were said to Third aunt, and she only gave her time to burn the incense.

A sense of urgency and fear surrounded San Gu. She panicked for a moment and stretched out her hand to shake it. She didn't know whether she wanted to say that there was not enough time for a stick of incense, or that she had nothing to say.

Xiaomei glanced at San Gu from the side and persuaded: "San Gu, my wife has given you time, you must cherish it. Think about it, what is more important than your son?"

The third aunt is just such a son. For her son, she is willing to do anything, including harming her friend who she has not seen for many years.

Sangu's lips kept trembling, and her eyes kept staring at the burning incense. The spring breeze outside made the incense burn extra fast. After a while, a piece of incense ashes fell off, and was blown away by the wind, never to be seen again.

Not sure what she was thinking of, San Gu shivered all over. Her stiff neck moved slowly, and she turned to look at Qin Xi, who was talking to Xiaomei in a low voice.

The sun shines on Qin Xiang's left cheek, giving her skin a transparent porcelain white color. Her eyes are slightly squinted with a slight smile. She holds her chin with one hand and looks at Xiaomei with an indescribable feeling. Come leisurely and lazily.

She was very similar to her mother when she was young, but they were a little different. At least, when Su Daya was young, her brows were always furrowed and her face was sad.

At that time, both of them lived a tiring and miserable life, but they were able to accompany and encourage each other. When they saw others suffering, it seemed that their own suffering was less.

Later, Su Daya was sold, and she got married after a few days of discomfort. With the birth of her son, she lamented countless times that her life was better than that of Su Daya.

But when she saw Su Daya that day, her previous sense of superiority was gone, because what she saw was a young and beautiful Daya with a smile on her face. She was well-dressed and surrounded by servants. Sitting there she was the center of attention. .

Looking back at her, she has rough and tan skin, a shabby cloth and some white hair on her temples. The gap between them is as big as two worlds.

Although she never showed it, Su Daya was still enthusiastic, but only she knew how jealous she was of Su Daya.

While the third aunt was fighting between heaven and man, Li Siniang came over, with Xiaoju and Xiaolan behind her holding three pieces of cloth each.

"Madam, the new materials just arrived from Hengxiang Clothing Store, please decide what to do with it, madam?"

A few days ago, Qin Xiang asked Li Siniang to go to Hengxiang Cloth Shop to look at fabrics. The shopkeeper said that a batch of good materials would arrive in the next two days, so she waited.

Qin Xiang turned around and looked. In Xiaoju's hands were green and green water-patterned thin silk, sandalwood-colored Fangsheng pattern cotton, and black and vermilion dark water-patterned thin silk. These were made for Xiao Chenyu's early summer shirt; while the ones in Xiaolan's hands were more gorgeous. , green Ruyi pattern, jade water pattern, tulle gold honeysuckle pattern thin silk, this is the fabric of Qin Xiang and Su.

These fabrics had a faint luster in the sunlight, which showed that they were not ordinary things.

Qin Xiang glanced at the incense and saw that it was almost finished burning, so she quickly said: "The sandal-colored Fangsheng pattern cotton is made of narrow sleeves, which is more convenient for reading and writing in daily life; the other two pieces are made of wide sleeves, suitable for participating in Party. As for my mother's dress, you can take it and let her make her own decision."

Li Siniang agreed and was about to leave when she saw San Gu suddenly stand up and rush towards Qin Xiang. She was so frightened that Li Siniang hurriedly took a step across to block San Gu. Xiaomei also jumped up quickly and before she could rush over to protect Qin Xiang. , and saw San Gu falling to her knees with a plop.

Everyone thought that Sangu was going to attack Qin Xiang, but she just begged.

"Qin Xiang, for the sake of your mother and I growing up together, please let Qian Gouer go. My dog ​​did nothing wrong. You shouldn't catch him!" "He didn't do anything wrong? No way. Well, I heard that he did a lot of evil things?" Qin Xiang patted Li Siniang who was standing in front of her, waited for her to move away, then looked at San Gu and said coldly: "San Gu, the incense will burn out immediately, you If you don't say anything, I will leave. As you can see, I have a lot on my plate and I don't have time to chat with you."

The third aunt also looked at Xiang, sighed deeply, and said: "That day, a stranger came to my house and asked me to go to Su's house and said that your mother was back. I haven't interacted with her for many years. I thought it was my mother who sent someone to look for me, so I hurriedly put down my work and returned to my mother’s house.”

Qin Xiang waved to Li Siniang, and Li Siniang left with the two girls.

Qin Xiang motioned to Third Aunt to continue.

Later, the third aunt went to Su's house and met Su. The two were particularly happy to see each other, and they were even more sad when talking about their childhood and what happened over the years.

During those two days, Third Aunt was sincerely friends with Su, but later the man came again, gave Third Aunt ten taels of silver, and asked her to go to the county to ask Su to offer incense at the Guanyin Temple. The point was that as long as Su was When he took it to the old nun, he gave her another 40 taels of silver.

As for what you do after you get it?The third aunt didn’t know anything about it.At that time, she was obsessed with dozens of taels of silver, and she agreed like crazy.

Before she could finish her excitement, the man threatened her and her family that if she revealed even a single word, he would not even care about the lives of her family.

The third aunt persuaded herself that with this money, she would be able to let Qian Gouer marry her daughter-in-law back home, and she could also repair the dilapidated and leaky house.

However, in the dead of night, she would still worry about Su Shi, but after so long, Su Shi was fine, so she felt relieved.Until the news of the old nun's escape came, Sangu began to have trouble sleeping and eating again.

But she waited and waited, and finally received the news that her son was missing.The third aunt immediately thought of Qin Xiang. She was a little afraid of Qin Xiang when she saw Qin Xiang in the courtyard of the Su family that day. The look in her eyes as she looked at her was still fresh in her memory.

Two more days passed, and the third aunt, who had been living like a year, finally came to see Su, and the situation was like this.

"You took a total of 50 taels of silver?" Qin Xi asked.

The third aunt nodded vigorously: "Yes, only 50 taels. And the man also said that the old nun just wanted to defraud Da Ya of some money. Who told her to wear gold and silver, she must have made others jealous."

"My mother wearing gold and silver is not a reason for you to deceive her, nor is it a reason for you to make excuses for your selfishness and greed; besides, as far as I know, the things my mother gave you are almost worth 50 taels, right? "

Qin Xian thought of the old nun's 200 taels of silver notes and valuable agarwood again in her mind. It seemed that the old nun was not easy to fool, so she spent a lot of money.

The third aunt was ashamed and anxious. Regardless of her age, she kowtowed and begged: "I am obsessed with money and I deserve to die. But my son really doesn't know about this. You can do whatever you want with me. I will never do it." I don’t have any complaints at all, I just ask you to let him go.”

"What are you thinking, betraying my mother for 50 taels? If you come to me privately, I will definitely be grateful to you. I will give you not just 50 taels, but even 100 taels. Our two families will keep in touch for a long time in the future. , is the benefit you get just 50 taels?"

The third aunt was scolded so hard that she couldn't raise her head. Then she heard Qin Xiang ask in a deep voice: "Does the Su family have anything to do with this?"

The third aunt raised her head and shook her head blankly: "I don't know. The Su family and I have no contact."

"So, do you still remember that foreigner's accent?" Qin Xiang asked again.

"I don't remember. It's not our accent here, but it shouldn't be far away. Anyway, we can all understand it."