Judgement

Chapter 87 Lost Abacus

Chapter 87 Lost Abacus

Sun Xueli's visit to teachers and friends during the past half month was a lie to Guan, but in fact he went to Yingtian Mansion.There are many wealthy businessmen in Yingtianfu City, and he sold the jewels and jade articles he got from Tang Ergou for 3 taels of silver.

After getting the money, he played and sang every night on the Qinhuai River, and after half a month of being happy, he remembered to go back to Mudu after the money was almost exhausted.

"Nephew, what are you laughing at?" Guan asked puzzled.

"I admire my aunt's charity like a bodhisattva's heart, her benevolence and righteousness are beyond the sky." He said so, thinking in his heart that the opportunity has come again.

Guan Shi was so praised by Sun Xueli to prepare to serve him with bean curd. "Auntie, you don't have to be busy. In February, I will go to Gusu City to refer to scholars. I may not have time to come here. Come and eat Auntie's bean curd after I am busy." Sun Xueli turned around and talked with the busy Liu Xiuxia greeted her, took her leave and left.

Seeing that Sun Xueli was busy with his studies, Mrs. Guan didn't dare to delay, after all, there was only one scholar in Mudu Zhuangzi...

After the tofu shop closed in the evening, the three of them finished their dinner.Without saying a word, Xu Ruoyi started to scoop out the soaked soybeans from the earthen vat, and stood in front of the stone mill in the corner of the house, holding the handle with both hands, and the 100-jin stone mill was turned by him like a windmill.It turned out that Liu Xiuxia had to work for two hours, but he was done with one stick of incense.After the soybeans were ground, they carried the big urn containing the pulp, poured it into the iron pot in the kitchen to cook the pulp, and waited for Liu Xiuxia to order the stew.

After Liu Xiuxia cleaned up the dishes, Xu Ruoyi had almost boiled the soy milk.With this helper, Liu Xiuxia's mother and daughter obviously felt a lot more relaxed.

Liu Xiuxia saw that Xu Ruoyi who was lighting the fire in the stove could not hide her star-browed and beautiful eyes although she was dressed in coarse linen, she said with a smile: "Mr. Xu, Mudu Xiaozhuang is not as good as Lin'an's son. Are you still used to living here?"

Xu Ruoyi sighed: "The sensuality of Lin'an Mansion is not as quiet as this place, where all the beauty is gone and only the heart is filled with sorrow."

"My son must have read a lot of books at home, right? What you say is different. A man has ambitions everywhere. You should also go to the exam to get fame like Brother Sun. When you have fame, you can become an official. The official will be able to punish the enemy for your family." Liu Xiuxia's unintentional remarks made Xu Ruoyi enlightened, and she was desperate to be caught in the end.Only an official career can have the opportunity to face the saint. Although it is a narrow escape, it is better than being a frightened bird now.

Xu Ruoyi raised her head to look at Liu Xiuxia who was cooking. Liu Xiuxia rolled up her sleeves to reveal a forearm like a tender lotus root. Against the backdrop of the hot mist from the boiling iron pan, her cheeks were as pink as a finger and she was as beautiful as a fairy.Xu Ruoyi took out a stick of charcoal and drew a beautiful picture of Liu Xiuxia on the ground...

Liu Xiuxia inadvertently noticed that Xu Ruoyi was looking at her, then hurriedly lowered her head not knowing what she was doing, she suddenly moved her lotus steps to Xu Ruoyi's side lightly out of curiosity, and looked down, she couldn't help being stunned.On the bluestone, between several strokes of charcoal and wood, there is a beautiful woman with long flowing hair covering her face halfway, her head and moth's eyebrows are like autumn water, looking forward...

Xu Ruoyi raised her head to look at Liu Xiuxia again, only to find that she was already beside her, her eyes met, Xu Ruoyi was so embarrassed that she stretched out her feet to erase the painting.

Liu Xiuxia said anxiously: "Uh..." But she was so ashamed that she didn't know what to say, so she turned around and continued to order stew.The two of them were silent, but Xu Ruoyi wiped the painting...

The next day, Xu Ruoyi was chopping firewood early in the morning, and Liu Xiuxia came back from the morning market to buy vegetables.Xu Ruoyi put down the hatchet in his hand, bowed his head in the past and saluted, "Young lady, what happened yesterday was so abrupt, Xu Ruoyi is not a prodigal son, it's because I couldn't help it..."

Liu Xiuxia chuckled, took out a package from the basket and gave it to Xu Ruoyi, and ran back to the shop.Xu Ruoyi opened the bag and saw that there were several books and a stack of high-quality half-baked rice paper from Jingxian County. Inside the rice paper were three brushes from Huzhou Prefecture.

Liu's Tofu Shop opened its shop door and began to do business.But the people who came to buy bean curds today were different from usual. After entering the door, they all looked at Guan's mother and daughter and Xu Ruoyi.Xu Ruoyi wiped the table as usual, and didn't care how people looked at him.Liu Xiuxia was too busy selling bean curds by herself, and she didn't care about the eyes of others.It's just that Guan, the cashier, noticed that today's diners are very strange...

Liu Xiuxia only got some free time when she was lighting the stew at night, and had a few words with Xu Ruoyi who was making the fire.

"Miss, why did you think of buying painting paper for me today?" Xu Ruoyi has been wanting to ask since the morning, but it's inconvenient to be busy with work.

Liu Xiuxia shyly said: "I saw Mr. Xu's vivid painting, he must be a literati. I found a book stall in the market this morning and bought some books and paper for you. I don't understand these things either. The semi-cooked rice paper is the best for drawing, so I bought it, but I know something about making tofu, this paper is still raw and cooked?"

Xu Ruoyi smiled and said: "Well, there is a distinction between raw and cooked rice paper. If the ink drops are scattered on the paper, it is raw rice paper. If the ink droplets are completely absorbed into the paper and do not disperse, it is cooked rice paper. Half-baked rice paper It’s just that the concentration of ink and miniaturization can add more charm to the painting.”

Liu Xiuxia never knew that the same blank paper could have so much attention. She praised: "Young Master Xu, you know more than Brother Sun. Two months later, the school in Gusu City will start to take exams. Young Master and Brother Sun, let's go together." If Xu Ruoyi wanted to be an official, he wouldn't need to be a scholar...

For several days in a row, the people who came to Liu's Tofu Workshop were not eating bean curd, but came to see the three people in Liu's Tofu Workshop, and various rumors began to spread on Mudu Zhuangzi.It was said that Xu Ruoyi and Liu Xiuxia had an affair, some said that the Guan family was immoral and greedy for Xu Ruoyi's young and handsome talent and took him in the tofu workshop, and even more that the two daughters were serving the same husband... Anyway, there are all kinds of things to say. Not a good word.

When Guan heard these gossips, he was so angry that he passed out on the spot.The business in the tofu shop was also quite slow, and the old neighbors all took a detour when they saw Liu Xiuxia shopping for vegetables.The Guan mother and daughter made it difficult for these rumors to gain a foothold in front of others. They washed their faces with tears all day long and wished they could die.The only person in Zhuangzi who is happy about this is Sun Xueli, who is behind the whole thing.Sun Xueli knew that the people in Mudu Village respected the mother and daughter of the Liu family, but it would be gossip for a widowed mother and orphan who left a man at home, but no one in the village believed that the mother and daughter of the Liu family would have any troubles. .Sun Xueli found a beggar Huazi in Gusu City, gave him ten taels of silver and asked him to go to Mudu Zhuangzi to spread rumors.As long as the momentum is bigger, I will give another ten taels of silver. Huazi doesn't know Sun Xueli, but she knows silver. 20 Two taels of silver Hanako would not come if she wanted a lifetime meal. Hanako found more than a dozen more Hanako to explain the matter, and promised to give them three hundred cash each after the matter was completed.

These dozen or so Huazi went to Zhuangzi to spread rumors and make troubles, and they vividly described the scandal of Liu's mother and daughter.What is said is heard, and what is said by more than a dozen people has become true.It is inevitable that some people in the village who are full and have nothing to do will follow suit, as if they witnessed the whole thing with their own eyes.The three married daughters of Liu's family in Shuo Jinzhuang were ashamed to meet people in Zhuangzi, and cut ties with their natal family as soon as they gritted their teeth...

Everything was as perfect as Sun Xueli had calculated, killing without blood, it would not take a few days to hear the news that Liu's mother and daughter committed suicide.But after waiting and waiting, there was no news of the Liu family's suicide, so Sun Xueli planned to add more fuel to the fire.In fact, the mother and daughter of the Liu family really wanted to commit suicide, but Xu Ruoyi stopped them.

Xu Ruoyi calmly said to the mother and daughter: "Originally, I was going to leave Mudu in spring, but now that something like this happened, I refused to leave. There must be someone Instigation. The intention of that person is to force you to death. If you really commit suicide, you will fall into the villain's tricks. As long as you hold your breath, the rumor will be destroyed within three days." The mother and daughter felt that what Xu Ruoyi said It seemed to make some sense, so I temporarily let go of the idea of ​​seeking death.

Three days later, in the middle of the night, I don't know who started it, but people from No. [-] quietly came outside Liu's Tofu Shop. "Boom" kicked open the door of Liu's shop, and in the front hall, Xu Ruoyi was only wearing a small jacket and covered with a thin quilt, sleeping on a bed made of tables. And the lock.It didn't mean that the three of them slept on the same pillow. The people in the village saw the mistake and blamed Liu's mother and daughter and left in embarrassment.

From then on, no one believed the rumors in the village anymore.Sun Xueli didn't expect that Xu Ruoyi would really sleep in the front hall where the wind was blowing from all sides, and if one plan failed, he would make another plan.

At midnight on the second day, five big men rushed into Liu's Tofu Shop with knives.Xu Ruoyi knocked down one of them with one punch, and the five big men were all beaten to the ground without a cup of tea.Guan Shi and Liu Xiuxia got up when they heard the sound of fighting in the front hall, but they didn't dare to open the door.They waited until the sound of fighting outside the house subsided, and then opened the door and walked out together.

The five people in the outer room were all begging for mercy, and Xu Ruoyi stepped on the back of one of them with his toes.The mother and daughter only heard the person being trampled cry out in pain: "Grandpa, please forgive me, someone paid us some money to knock the three of you out. On the bed. When the sun rises, someone will come..."

At dawn, a Huazi brought thirty people from Zhuangshang to Liu's tofu workshop to catch rape. When he saw Xu Ruoyi and Liu's mother and daughter glaring at Huazi, there were five people tied up on the ground.Seeing that the situation was not right, Huazi who took the lead wanted to slip away, Xu Ruoyi flipped over and jumped in front of that Huazi, swiped his legs and hooked that Huazi was thrown backwards.Before Xu Ruoyi could make a move, Huazi told the truth about the rumors and troubles caused by people's money...

Although Huazi didn't know Sun Xueli, everyone in the village already knew that Liu's mother and daughter were innocent.After beating those Hanakos and driving them out of Mudu, Guan fell ill because of the shock and grievances of these days...