Rebirth of the pastoral landlady

Chapter 160 Counterattack
Chapter 170: Counterattack
"Old woman, what do you know? You, are you hiding something from me?" Old Liangtou caught Tan's voice, and saw the clue from her remorse and grief, sat up suddenly and grabbed Tan. Shi's arms shook vigorously a few times, and he asked with red eyes, "Say it, say it, you should hurry up and say it!"

Tan lowered her eyelids and sobbed, "When Hui'er was five years old, you and Lao Jiang and Lao Qin from the village trafficked timber to the county town, and you only came back after half a month. At that time, the eldest daughter-in-law just After giving birth, the young boy is still resting on the bed and unable to get up. The second daughter-in-law has just entered the house and is not familiar with the housework. Even if she is familiar with it, it is no use. Boy Sheng and Meier are both toddlers, and I do all the housework at home, so there must be something I can't care about..."

Old Liangtou interrupted Tan's self-confession at the beginning impatiently, and said angrily: "Don't talk about it, just say what happened to Huier!"

"What are you doing, urging you to die? I'm about to say it right now!" Mrs. Tan gouged out the old Liang's head, and said, "It was winter, and it was very cold outside, so I boiled it in a big pot because I needed to wash clothes. The hot water was scooped in a small wooden bucket and placed beside the laundry tub in the middle of the yard. Meier had a stomachache after eating too much, so I rushed to get Meier some paper to wipe her butt, not noticing that Huier and the fourth child never After playing outside, Hui Er sat down in that wooden barrel..."

"Ah?" Old Liang's fingers holding Tan's arms suddenly tightened. The five-year-old child sat down in the steaming water, so delicate genitals, can it not be scalded?In all honesty, old Liangtou had always held a trace of doubt about Liang Lihui's infertility and sexual intercourse, but now that Mrs. Tan went back to the past, the old Liangtou's last trace of doubt was shattered.

Liang Lihui didn't lie. The eldest grandson of his old Liangtou, who was most proud of the scholar, was the only candidate who was entrusted with the hope of revitalizing the family. He was really an inhuman waste!
"Later, did you ask the doctor to see it?" Old Liang asked with red eyes.

"Please, it's Dr. Li from the village. Fortunately, the child is not sitting deep. He is wearing thick cotton trousers. At most, he will burn red or burn some skin. It will not be a serious problem. We will see you. The doctor said so, so I didn't think too much about it at the time, and I was afraid that you would get angry when you came back, so I hid it immediately, and later, seeing that Hui'er was still bouncing around like before, I forgot about it ..." Tan said this, wiped away his tears and snot, and said: "Damn it, if I knew that it would bring such bad results to Hui'er, I wouldn't have kept it from you at that time, my child so Little, even if something really goes wrong with the scald, there will still be time to fix it in the future, unlike now, it's a foregone conclusion..."

Old Liangtou let go of the hands holding Tan's arms in grief, and lay on his back on the bed like a piece of dead wood, his eyes were wide open, staring at the old cloth, the patched tent was in a daze, and Tan covered it. Mouth, weeping softly.

The cool breeze of the summer night came in from under the propped up windows, and the moonlight sprinkled like water on the ground in front of the old couple's bed. It became more and more quiet and cold, with a lifeless despair in the bleakness.

At the same time, in Liang Jinlan's room in the front yard, Mrs. Yang was helping Liang Jinlan pack her changed clothes. Liang Yulin sat on a chair beside her with his feet hanging down and watched. The atmosphere in the room was extremely depressing.

"Mom, can't you plead with grandma for me anymore? I don't want to go to the damn Qingming Nunnery, I don't want to stay in such a place and suffer!" Liang Jinlan's eyes were red and swollen like peach pits, and she pulled Yang Shi's arm begged coquettishly.

"Mother, the people living in the Qingming Nunnery are all old nuns. I ran over, and the folks in this village didn't think that I was going to become a nun and become a sister-in-law? Then what will I do in the future? Even if I am a dying woman , I also want to be a remnant flower and willow in the world of mortals, I don’t want to shave my hair and knock on wooden fish every day, I’d rather die!” The more Liang Jinlan spoke, the more sad she became, tears rolled down like beads with broken threads.

Yang's heart was so sad that she hugged Liang Jinlan's thin shoulders, crying heartily.

Before Mrs. Yang could speak, Liang Yulin who was sitting on the side said helplessly: "Lan, don't blame your parents for being cruel, it's really your master who has really moved this time! Your uncle and Mrs. Hong, one is expelled from the house, and the other is going back to her mother's house. If we don't do anything to our second room, we can't explain it in the village, we met Li Zheng on the way back to the village earlier, and Li Zheng expressed his concern about this matter again, alas!"

"Father, didn't you also say that the uncle was expelled from the house, and the master was just doing it for publicity?" Liang Jinlan raised her pear-like face with rain from Yang's arms, and said in disbelief with her mouth curled.

Liang Yulin snorted, and said: "That's why I didn't plead with your father so cruelly. Now our old Liang's family is on the cusp of the crisis, so you should do your best to show yourself and go to Qingming Nunnery to stay for a while. Wait until this matter cools down a bit, and then I will take you home!"

"That's right, Lan'er, you should go to Qingming nunnery to stay for some grievances, and act as if you are repenting for your sins. Master Puyun in Qingming nunnery used to come to our village for alms every twelfth lunar month. The women in the area around Jinjishan Village believe in Qingming Nunnery, and they would go there to ask for money during Chinese New Year and holidays. Your father accompanied your grandfather to the county town a few days ago, so he sneaked to Qingming Nunnery to honor Mrs. Puyun , Master Puyun said too much, if you want you to go boldly, she will naturally cover you!"

Liang Jinlan felt a little relieved after hearing Liang Yulin and Yang's assurances.

The day after Lao Liangtou came back from Wanghai County, he asked Mrs. Tan to cook a table of meals at home, and specially invited Li Zheng and several respected elders from the same village to come to Lao Liang's house, and the villagers naturally came to watch and listen. explain.

With thorns on his back, Liang Yuju knelt in the main hall of Lao Liang's house in front of everyone, and Lao Liangtou stood aside, facing the ancestral tablet of Lao Liang's family on the shrine, counting the stakes of his unfilial son Liang Yuju. Then, in front of everyone, put a fat cross on Liang Yuju's name from the family tree of the old Liang family, and publicly announced that Liang Yuju would be expelled from the old Liang family, and the debt of 500 taels of silver would still belong to Liang Yu Ju, the responsibility for managing the Liangji shop in the town is transferred to Liang Yulin, who will be assisted by Liang Yuju. The rest of the old Liang family's houses and fields are not involved, and all the interpersonal contacts of the old Liang family have nothing to do with Liang Yuju. , everyone is witness!

Li Zheng and the village elders invited to testify were all satisfied with Lao Liangtou's move, and praised Lao Liangtou's understanding of righteousness and righteousness in killing relatives.

After the old Liangtou announced the punishment of Liang Yuju, he resolutely gave a letter of divorce to the old scholar Hong who came from Hong's house.The daughter raised by the Hong family has bad character, misbehavior, and committed the crime of incest. The old Liang family wants to divorce, and the Hong family is at a loss if they refuse to accept it. , and then left Lao Liang's house with the crying Hong family and returned to Hong's village.

Old Liangtou strikes while the iron is hot, and announces that Liang Jinlan, the granddaughter of the second bedroom, is willing to go to Qingming Nunnery to lead a monk to serve the Bodhisattva in order to wash away her sins, pray for the family and the villagers...

All the onlookers were shocked by the last incident. No one expected that the old Liang family was really willing to send a young girl like Liang Jinlan to a place like a nunnery. It was really more difficult than death. of!But thinking that if Liang Jinlan can really pray for blessings and bring blessings to the whole village, that would be good. At present, many people in the village look at Liang Jinlan again, which is different from the disgusting look they had when they learned that she was raped and defiled. No, not everyone can do such a spirit of sacrifice. Liang Jinlan's image in everyone's minds suddenly changed quietly.

Jinxi came home from work in the town in the evening, and when she heard what Sun and the others said at dinner, Jinxi's eyes widened a little, she was a genius this morning, Ma Maliang got up and let Liang Yuzhong send her to the town, Because Butcher Zhang will send ten catties of pork belly to Qianlixiang every morning from now on, the first time he receives Jinxi, he has to rush there earlier, and he has to explain some things.

After Liang Yuzhong sent her to the town, he drove the ox cart back home. He made an appointment with Chunzhu and Daniel, and this time he was going to build the pigsty and chicken coop in the side yard.Jin Xi secretly sighed, if she knew that there would be such a wonderful show at Lao Liang's house in the morning, she would definitely stay in the village in the morning.

"Mother, where is Qingming Temple? Is it far from us?" Jin Xi turned her head and asked Sun.

Mrs. Sun smiled slightly, and said: "Not ten miles to the north of Wanghai County, there is a lonely mountain, and there is a nunnery at the foot of the mountain, that is Qingming Nunnery."

"Qingming Nunnery?" Jin Xi murmured: "The name of this nunnery is so familiar, I seem to have heard it somewhere."

Sun covered her mouth and smiled, Jinxi suddenly remembered, and said: "I remember, before mother was pregnant with the third and fourth child, Granny often whispered to parents, saying that they should take time to go Go to the Qingming Nunnery to worship the Bodhisattva, and ask the Bodhisattva to bless your mother to conceive as soon as possible. Well, that's right, what Gapo was talking about is the Qingming Temple!"

Mrs. Sun looked at Jin Xi with a smile, her face was flushed with blush, Liang Yuzhong glanced at Mrs Sun's big belly that looked like a big watermelon, and said with a smile: "The Avalokitesvara of Sending Children in Qingming Nunnery is said to be effective. , people in the area of ​​Wanghai County all believe in it. It is said that the son-giving Guanyin there is responsive to the requests of good men and women who go to ask for a child. To tell you the truth, your mother and I really went to Qingming in private An, hehe, it really came true!"

"That's right, so there's still this one!" Jin Xi was delighted, and said again: "Since the Bodhisattva has allowed parents to fulfill their wishes, then we will go to the Qingming Nunnery to recover together when the mother gives birth to the third and fourth children." , add sesame oil!"

The matter of Lao Liang's family came to an end for now, three days passed in a blink of an eye, three days no different from usual, but during these three days, Jin Xi and Wending did a lot of things in private.

Early in the morning three days later, the residents of Changqiao Town got up and washed as usual, had breakfast and started their own business.However, on the street with the most traffic and traffic in Changqiao Town, the entrance of Zhilantang's shop was completely blocked.

Jin Xi didn't go out to watch, she only needed to sit and watch Qianlixiang, and she could hear the details about what happened at Zhilantang from the diners who came in and out.

"Have you heard? Someone rushed into Zhilantang to smash the shop!"

"The shopkeeper Yan of Zhilantang is one of the top ten small rich men in the town. He is rich and powerful. Who is so bold? Why?"

"It is said that the people who smashed the store were the Liu family. The reason seems to be that the Liu family bought fake products from Zhilantang!"

"The Liu family? Is it the Liu family who has a son who serves as the prefect's master in Qing'an Prefecture?"

"Isn't that right? I heard that two aunts of Liu Yuanwai's family used the fragrant soap from Zhilantang, and something happened. In a rage, Liu Yuanwai sent someone to smash Zhilantang. I heard that he would go to the county government office to report it. Zhilantang sells fakes!"

"..."

Jin Xi was concentrating on her busy work, but she was sneering in her heart, wondering if the shopkeeper Yan of Zhi Lan Tang liked the big gift carefully prepared by her and Wending?
In less than half a day, the news of the accident with the latest batch of Zhilantang's new batch of summer sterilizing and antipruritic borneol fragrant soap spread to every corner of Changqiao Town, and many villagers who came from the countryside to buy it also knew about it. The news of the accident in Zhilantang.

"Hey, have you guys heard about it? Zhilantang has hit the iron plate this time. It was the third aunt and the fourth aunt who had an accident in Liu Yuan's family this time. I heard that they were a pair of sisters. It was Liu. On Yuanwai's fiftieth birthday, the magistrate gave him the gift, which is the most favored by Yuanwai Liu."

"Third Yiniang is said to have good skin and flesh, a lychee-like person who wants to peel it off, since she took a bath twice with Zhilantang's borneol fragrant soap, her lychee flesh-like skin has turned into lychee skin !"

"Tsk tsk, I heard the news from a granddaughter of my family who works as a maid at Liu Yuan's house. The fourth aunt is even more unlucky. The fourth aunt's hair is like a cloud, because she used the latest hair shampoo that Zhilantang promotes. Lu, that hair fell off in handfuls, and half of her head was almost bald... Now, these two aunts are crying and making noise, looking for death and life, and Mr. Liu's heart and liver are hurting, no, they are angry Immediately, I sent the family servants to smash Zhilantang, and threatened to send the shopkeeper Yan to justice, and find out the bad supply source behind Zhilantang!"

"Ah, this is going to uproot Zhilantang, but then again, the shopkeeper Ren Yan is not a vegetarian. After occupying Changqiao Town for so many years, he has made a lot of money, so there must be old roots behind him. It's not so easy to be kicked!"

"No matter how rich and powerful Shopkeeper Yan is, he is no match for Liu Yuanwai, who is backed by officials from the government. Their son is in the government office, so he can talk to the prefect. No matter how rich and powerful Shopkeeper Yan is, when he meets an official, You have to crush it to death!"

"..."

At noon, the hot topic of discussion among customers who ate Liangpi and fried rice in the shop still revolved around the matter of Zhilantang.

After a while, another person rushed in from the outside and said loudly to the inside: "Your news is too slow. I just came from there. Guess what, the county yamen just came to the yamen and took the shopkeeper Yan. Going to the county seat, shopkeeper Yan's mother-in-law and two concubines of shopkeeper Yan are chasing behind and crying! Do you want to go and see the excitement?"

As soon as the visitor said this, the Qianlixiang shop exploded immediately, and many diners got up and rushed towards the door without caring about the cold noodles and fried rice that they had just eaten a few mouthfuls...

At dusk, Jinxi was heading towards Jinjishan Village in Liang Yuzhong's ox cart. Liang Yuzhong went in to the livestock warehouse at the west entrance of the town, leaving Jinxi to sit outside in the ox cart to wait.

At this time, as the sun was setting, the sky above the undulating hills in the direction of Jinjishan Village seemed to be on fire. In Xi's clear eyes, there seemed to be two clusters of flames burning.

"Xi'er, what a coincidence!" Jin Xi was staring at the ever-changing sunset over there in a daze, when a familiar male voice sounded from her side, Jin Xi was slightly startled, and when she turned her head, she saw that Wen Ding had disappeared at some point. When he came here, he was dressed in a soft white robe, sitting on a group of black horses with whips in his hands, his black hair was pulled up high, his eyebrows were sculpted and his eyes were handsome, and he was looking at her with a smile.

The sunset is beautiful, and Wending sitting on the horse in front of his eyes is even more handsome. The setting sun reflects on his face, which is cold and soft, and his smile is as warm as jade.

Of course, if he gets rid of his ruthless attitude, then from the current perspective, he really complies with the sentence of being as gentle as jade.

"I was looking at the sunset, I made Brother Wen laugh." Jin Xi looked away, smiled, and said, judging by his attire and demeanor, he should have just come back from somewhere, with a dusty look on his face, but Hua Yi But no dust!
"The evening glow also makes you look so fascinated, no wonder I didn't even respond to calling you a few times." Wen Ding laughed softly, and said: "If I let them go, they will have already set off now, and they will meet in the morning tomorrow." Wouldn't you be happier if you sent a complaint to the county government?"

Fang Da was the son of a bitch who came to Sun Ji to ask for an explanation for the dew and oil back then, and he was also the man who wore a turban.

Jin Xi's eyes lit up, and she said, "Brother Wen, so you have arranged everything we discussed earlier?"

Wen Ding nodded and said, "Well, everything is ready. Witnesses, testimonies, and evidence are all ready."

"In order to make the evidence more convincing, I also forged a piece of ironclad evidence that the shopkeeper Yan used to bribe Fang Da, help him sell and frame Sun Ji-a silver note of ten taels of silver!" Wending said, and took it out of his pocket. He took out a bank note and handed it to Jin Xi for review.

Jin Xi took the bank note and looked at it carefully, she couldn't help being surprised, and said: "This bank note is so realistic, it also has the seal of Huitong Bank and the seal of the treasurer Yan himself on it! If it wasn't for your preconceived ideas The ten taels of banknotes are counterfeit, I'm afraid I will take it seriously, brother Wen, you are really clever, Xi'er admires you! May I ask how you did it?"

Wen Ding's eyes were piercing, and he coughed slightly embarrassed when he heard the words, and said: "How did you get it, um, that...that's not important, the key is that this bank note is enough evidence to prove that Shopkeeper Yan really bought the buyer. It is enough to frame the customers of Changqiao Town and frame Sun Ji! However, based on these alone, at most, shopkeeper Yan and Zhilantang will be given a small punishment, and their foundation cannot be shaken at all.

Jin Xi smiled, and said: "Now we have added Liu Yuanwai's bargaining chip. Even if shopkeeper Yan has deep roots, he can't match Liu Yuanwai's big Buddha. Of course, if even this can't shake shopkeeper Yan, don't we I also prepared a generous gift for him..."

Wen Ding raised his eyebrows and smiled lowly, looked at Jin Xi, and said, "The last move is the most damaging, you can figure out the loss! However, I appreciate it very much!"

"Both each other, Brother Wen is dressed in this suit, it's already dark, where should we go?" Jin Xi asked.

"Well, it's not too big for them to set off to the county tonight. I have to go there overnight and explain to them again, so as not to go to court tomorrow and be scared to the ground by the Fenghuo stick before the trial. When the time comes Our plan is in vain!" Wen Ding teased, even though he said so, there was no trace of worry or anxiety on his face, some It's just the calmness of winning.

"It's such a hot day, and I have to rush to the county seat all night, I feel exhausted just thinking about it!" Jin Xi looked at Wending and said, people have no obligation to run comfortably in such a hot day, they are all For helping herself, Jin Xi is very grateful.

Wending shook his head with a disapproving smile, and said, "Don't feel guilty, I didn't go to the county just to help you, I also have my own business, well, it's almost time, let's say goodbye!"

"Brother Wen, wait a minute!" Jin Xi suddenly remembered something, and called to stop Wen Ding who was turning his horse's head.

Wen Ding was sitting on the horse. Hearing the sound, he turned his head and looked at Jin Xi in surprise. Jin Xi took out a handkerchief with a camellia flower embroidered on a white background from the bottom of his sleeve, and handed it to Wen Ding, saying, "This handkerchief is from Sun Ji. The newly purchased new product, this kind of cotton fabric absorbs sweat very well, this piece is reserved for you, Brother Wen!"

Wen Ding's eyes lit up, and then he returned to normal. He was not in a hurry to pick it up, but asked with a faint smile, "I want to know, did you give me this handkerchief alone, or did they all have it?"

The material is good, and the embroidery on it is also good. Boys and girls in Wanghai County are now very popular wearing this kind of clothes in summer.

Jin Xi thought that good things should be shared with those closest to her, so she added a few extra items when purchasing, so that everyone would have a share, and naturally Wending's share was indispensable.Jin Xi was slightly stunned, and said truthfully: "My uncle and the others, as well as Qinya, have one piece for each of them, and I also have one piece. This piece is reserved for you, Brother Wen! The shopkeeper of the fabric shop who sells these veils told me that these veils The flower pattern on it came from Fucheng."

Wen Ding nodded, looked at Jin Xi with a faint smile, and said seriously, "I didn't embroider it yourself, I don't even want it."

This made Jinxi embarrassed, and said with a dry smile, "Brother Wen can tease me about other things, but the embroidery is a penny hard for a hero! Don't talk about embroidery, just use embroidery needles to sew something." Clothes, I don’t even know how to do it!”

"No, I can learn slowly. As long as it is embroidered by yourself, I like it no matter what kind of strange things you embroider." Under the sunset, Wen Ding sat on the horse, looking at Jin Xi who was sitting on the ox cart, with a tone of voice Slowly but extremely seriously.

(End of this chapter)