The peasant's daughter-in-law of crossing

Chapter 68

Yingniang really couldn't think of anything at home worth Zhou Lizheng's visit, and thought he was talking about collecting taxes and grains, so she asked: "Zhou Lizheng, taxes and grains are always collected after the wheat is harvested, Could it be earlier this year?"

"I would like to harvest it earlier, but the grain is still growing in the ground, can it be harvested?" Zhou Lizheng said flatly.

Hearing his tone, Yingniang felt that something was wrong, she stood beside her with frowning eyes and waited for him to continue.

Zhou Lizheng glanced at Yun'er, looked up and down again, and then turned to Yingniang, "Who allowed you to take in refugees privately?"

Yingniang was dumbfounded, and after a while she realized that he was referring to Yun'er, and hurriedly explained: "She is not a refugee, but a girl from the Li family in Wuzhou. Because the Li family has too many servants, so many girls are not needed. And sent her to my house."

"This girl has no relatives and no reason for you. Your family has nothing to do with the big family in Wuzhou for dozens of generations, and she doesn't have a document signed by the government to move into Xuejia Village. This is not a refugee but a What! If every household took in refugees like you at will, wouldn’t our village be in chaos? When there are too many refugees, stealing or promiscuity will happen, can you take this responsibility?” Zhou Lizheng said seriously.

When Yingniang heard this, she couldn't help but feel ashamed.It is said that the household registration system in modern society is too strict, which brings a lot of inconvenience to people, but in this ancient time, the household registration system was even stricter.It's just Yun'er, who actually got involved with stealing and fornication.

Yun'er was labeled as a refugee, and she felt extremely uncomfortable. She stood beside her with her head drooping, with a panicked look on her face. She really didn't want to be driven away.Xiaonuan in her arms was still playing with the hair on her head with both hands, which made her scalp hurt, and she didn't make a sound.

Yingniang looked at Zhou Lizheng seriously and said: "According to your opinion, if I take in refugees, what kind of punishment will I have to suffer?"

"A fine of [-] cash, and the refugees will be dismissed within three days. If you don't do it within the time limit, I will report to the chief official in the town, and then someone will come to ask her to leave."

Zhou Lizheng saw that Yingniang's face was not good-looking, so he explained: "It's not that I deliberately made things difficult for you. How dare I, a little Lizheng, condone something that is expressly prohibited? Who will bear the burden for me when the blame is placed on the top? People fleeing from famine in the mountains went to Jiangjia Village, but they only dared to stay for three or two days. I remember that one year, because of the rain, the road was difficult to walk, and they delayed for ten days. I found them and drove them all away. This girl has stayed in your house for nearly twenty days. If someone hadn't told me, I would still be in the dark."

Zhou Lizheng was willing to explain because of Yingniang's face, after all, Yingniang used to be the leader of the weaving workshop, and now she is earning money by taking jobs from Wuzhou, so she has a good reputation.

But with such a cold face, his attitude towards Yingniang is pretty good.Usually, he is harsh to other families, if other families keep homeless, he probably will directly scold them.

Yingniang was very hesitant at this time, Aunt Yao handed Yun'er to her, she couldn't let Yun'er be driven away like this.

She thought carefully about what Zhou Lizheng said, and when she heard what he said about Qi Shan fleeing famine, she suddenly thought of Zhaodi.Because Zhaodi married Zhongping, she became a member of Xuejia Village as a matter of course, and was registered in Xuejia Village's household registration book.

"Zhou Lizheng, you don't need to worry about this, Yun'er won't cause trouble for you. She is fifteen years old and is about to get married. It will only be a few months, so you should help take care of it first. She is alone A weak girl will not cause any trouble in the village."

Zhou Lizheng looked at Yun'er again, and saw that she was indeed a big girl, and it should be true that she was going to get married. "Which family has she been mentioned to? If possible, let her marry earlier. You don't have any relatives or reasons with her, so why raise her like this?"

"I was entrusted by a friend, and I will do my best to protect her. Yun'er is thin-skinned, and I can't say in front of you who I matched her with right now. When Boming returns home, I will Just ask him to go to your house to deliver the one hundred Wen as a fine, so that he can discuss this matter with you in detail."

Yun'er was really ashamed when she heard what Yingniang said, she blushed and carried Xiaonuan into the courtyard gate.In fact, she was still aching in her heart because she was afraid of getting married and others would dislike her.

Zhou Lizheng felt that this matter could be big or small, and that a girl waiting to be married really did not pose any hidden danger, not to mention that he heard that Bo Ming would go to his house at night, and he could understand the meaning of it.Although he is not an open-minded person when it comes to money, he occasionally accepts some benefits to supplement his family.

Zhou Li was just letting go, "Okay, let Birming come to my house to talk to me in the evening." He walked away with his hands behind his back.

Zhao Di was listening like a cloud, "Sister-in-law, who did Yun'er promise to kiss?"

Yingniang dragged Zhaodi into the yard, "Yun'er didn't say goodbye to anyone, isn't this just a casual lie, otherwise Zhou Li can let Yun'er go?"

Yun'er was slightly relieved when she heard that Yingniang said it was just a lie.

Zhaodi was still in a hurry, "How can we keep this kind of thing a secret?"

"As long as you are willing to spend money, and someone is short of money, are you afraid you won't be able to hide it?" Yingniang also heard that Zhou Lizheng would occasionally accept gift money.He dare not show favoritism in big matters, but he can still take care of small things.

Zhaodi finally understood a little bit, and hurried to the backyard to pull the cart, where the cow was already mooing in protest.

In the evening, Birming came to Zhou Lizheng's house.In addition to the one hundred cash fine, he also brought another bolt of silk and a tael of silver. The money was given by Aunt Yao, so it was naturally spent on Yun'er's affairs.

How could Birming have done this kind of gift-giving before, and regardless of whether it was right or wrong, he couldn't get rid of it in this respect.But he couldn't bear to let Yingniang do this kind of thing, so he bit the bullet and came.

Bo Ming didn't say much, he put the things on the table of Zhou Lizheng's house, and then politely presented a fine of one hundred cash, then bowed and left.

After Bo Ming left, Zhou Li was tossing the piece of silk, frowning at the lack of courtesy.When he picked up the cloth and saw pieces of silver rolling down, he was stunned.As a Lizheng, he received three buckets of grain and one hundred coins a month, and his life was not very affluent. He had only seen two or three times of silver when he grew up.

He weighed the silver in his palm, and finally smiled on his face that could hardly smile.

When Birming came home, Yingniang was sitting under the oil lamp making tiger shoes for children.Looking at such small and cute shoes, Birming couldn't help but take a closer look, "How big do you think our baby's feet will be when he is born? Are these shoes a little small?"

Ying Niang carefully looked at the shoes in her hand, "It's not small, and Xiao Nuan's shoes are not much bigger than this. Zhou Lizheng has settled that matter?"

"It should be fine. Anyway, I didn't say anything, and he didn't say anything. We just said a few polite words to each other."

Yingniang knew from Boming's description that this matter should be completed, "Now he won't drive Yun'er away, but Yun'er will marry someone sooner or later. What do you think of Liang Zi? I see Liang Zi is down-to-earth. , is a person who lives a life. Yun'er also seems to be a diligent and virtuous person, isn't Liang Zi just looking for someone like this?"

Although Bo Ming felt that this pairing was reliable, he felt that Liang Zi had already divorced his wife once, so he had to be cautious this time, "One day I will ask Liang Zi and tell Yun'er the truth, I can't hide this matter Him. If he doesn't mind and looks up to Yun'er, it's a good thing. If he dislikes it, it's better not to make this marriage, so that Yun'er won't feel wronged and Liang Zi won't regret it. "

Ying Niang nodded and said: "Well, that's what I was thinking too. In the end, both of them should be happy, and there should be no reluctance."

The two were talking when their door rang.Hearing someone knock on the door, Yingniang and Bo Ming knew it was Yun'er.In this family, only Yun'er knocks on the door so gently.

"Come in." Yingniang put down the shoes in her hand, while Bo Ming went to stay aside.He knew that Yun'er would not dare to get close to any man, so he stayed away first.

After Yun'er came in, she knelt down when she saw Yingniang.Yun'er is a current person in Li's residence, she usually kneels and kneels when something happens, she doesn't feel anything.On the other hand, Yingniang couldn't bear it any longer, so she quickly pulled her up.

"Yun'er, you are not allowed to give me such a big gift in the future. We are a small farming family, but we don't have these rules. If you have anything to say, just say it." Yingniang moved her a spring stool, "Sit down .”

After Yun'er sat down, she clenched her hands tightly, opened and closed her small mouth for a long time, and then said, "Sister Ying, I don't want to marry. With my body, whoever marries is harming that person. I stay in If this place really brings trouble to you, I'd better go."

"Where is the trouble, Zhou Lizheng probably won't come looking for it again, don't take this matter to heart, just stay in my house. Even people who have been divorced and returned to their natal family can remarry, why don't you marry like this? "

Yun'er choked up and said: "Don't all women want to die forever? With my body that has been ruined, I should have killed myself. I don't have the face to live. I didn't seek death, and I just can't see it if I live with ease. People, why bother to marry and discredit others?"

No wonder she's always been in a trance recently, because she blamed herself for not seeking death?Yingniang hurriedly comforted: "This is Li Min's fault, he is the one who deserves to be damned, not you! If any woman is bullied by a scoundrel man and reports to the police, that scoundrel man will have to go to jail .Could it be your fault that you were bullied just because you are a girl of the Li family? You are not allowed to have such thoughts of committing suicide in the future. You are well-behaved and docile, and someone will definitely like you. I won’t despise you, and I will love you well.”

like?Yun'er was very confused when she heard it, she felt that this word would never happen to her.She is used to being a servant, she only knows how to serve others, she really doesn't know what she likes or not.

At that time Li Min was on top of her, she scratched and beat her, crying and begging for mercy, but they refused to let her go.Don't men always bully women, don't they take women seriously, and after being bullied, they are abandoned like shoes. Where does the word like come from?

Yun'er lowered her head and said: "No one will like me. If Zhou Lizheng doesn't drive me away, Sister Ying, you can sell me to someone else's family. If you can sell me for money, I can help your family. Anyway, I'm used to serving others, and I'm not afraid of being present anymore, so let's live my life like this, anyway, it's a lonely life."

Yingniang can't say anything more, Yun'er has never experienced emotional matters, and she doesn't know what it's like to be liked by a man she loves, so she won't believe it if she tells her at this moment.

"Don't worry, I won't marry you casually. If the other party doesn't really like you, I will never let you marry blindly, so you can stay at my house with peace of mind. It's getting late, you can go back to sleep. "

Yun'er got up, bowed to Yingniang before turning around and going out.Her habit of being a girl is really hard to change.

Sitting alone in front of the house, Shuchang was extremely bored and kept sighing.He found out that Yinyue had gone to her eldest sister's house, and he wanted to pick her up, but hesitated.

Yinyue didn't want to listen to her elder brother and sister-in-law, but he had to.Just because of Yinyue, he felt a lot alienated from his eldest brother and sister-in-law. Needless to say, his second brother was already very tired of him and Yinyue.

Even the fourth younger brother, who was closest before, stopped talking to him, and the more Shuchang thought about it, the more depressed he became.If he was in a hurry to bring Yinyue back, and Yinyue clamored for him to go to Ge's house, he and his brothers and sisters-in-law would really not be like a family in the future.

Just as he was sighing, he saw a familiar figure walking over slowly, with his head drooping.

Shuchang rushed to meet him, "Yinyue, are you back?"

"Could it be that you still want me to die outside?" Yinyue replied wearily, and went back to the house.

Seeing that she came back by himself, Shuchang felt much more at ease, so he hurried over to pour water for her. "Yinyue, you are going to be a mother soon, you are not allowed to run around in a fit of anger in the future, do you know how worried I am at home?"

Yinyue drank the water dully, as if she was thinking about something, she answered him abruptly after a while, "Why didn't you pick me up because you were worried about me? It made me suffer at my eldest sister's house."

"Didn't your eldest sister always love you?"

"My elder sister loves me, but I can't stop a bunch of people in her family from hating me. It's okay for me to be angry with that woman surnamed Zheng. This morning, just because my sister gave her a compliment, she He even stretched out his hand and slapped my elder sister in the face. Also, that stinking surname Ge usually likes my elder sister more when he says something, but when something happened, he didn't say a word for my elder sister. My elder sister suffered like this for nothing. A slap in the face, you said she had a good life."

Yinyue began to cry as she spoke, "I already knew that being a concubine would not end well. I thought that my eldest sister would be different from other women if she was lucky enough to meet a good man. From this point of view, what is there to do?" It’s different, but it’s better than the current people, you can still cry after being beaten and scolded, you don’t have to cry like the servants and you can’t cry, you can only bear with it and go to work.”

Seeing that she and her eldest sister were both angry at the Ge family, Shuchang felt very uncomfortable, so he took out a handkerchief and handed it to her, "Don't cry, I have already said that the Ge family is not easy to mess with, you still don't believe me You also said that you want me to go to Ge's house as a guard, do you understand now?"

"After all, isn't it because my eldest sister has no support in the Ge family?" Yinyue sighed again, "Forget it, you better not go, I know you well. You don't want to look like this Said to support my elder sister, as long as I don’t cause trouble for her, it’s fine. When that stinky Ge knew that I was going home, he pretended to tell you to go quickly, bah! Who cares! My elder sister was beaten At that time, he stood aside and looked at it dryly, stinky stuff, useless stuff!..."

Thinking of the scene where her elder sister was beaten, Yinyue was so angry that she kept cursing.

She cursed and cried again, "My elder brother is too disappointing. He has been in the Ge family for so many years, and he hasn't done a decent thing, and he has caused troubles. My eldest sister can't rely on him , and even took care of wiping his backside. If you were shrewd, thoughtful and tough, I would let you go, maybe you could really help my eldest sister, and you could become a big supervisor. But you just... ..., you don't even dare to refute the words of your eldest brother and sister-in-law, you just listen to what you listen to. Sigh... I don't want to expect anything from you."

Yinyue just cried, cursed and sighed.Shuchang was not very good at comforting others, so he just listened from the side.Listening to Yinyue's words, he suspected that he was not shrewd, has no ideas, or was tough, but he endured it, because he was indeed an incompetent person.

Yinyue came back so quietly, and didn't bother to ask Shuchang to go to Ge's house. After Yingniang and Boming knew it, they were relieved and didn't mention it again.When Yinyue saw the two of them, she also called her eldest brother and sister-in-law, as if what happened last time hadn't happened at all.

Five days later, the family's cow gave birth to a male calf, which was worth more than a female calf. It was sold for [-] Wen, which happened to be [-] Wen for the family.

Yingniang went home with [-] Wen, and distributed some to Zhongping's and Shuchang's families, so she didn't have much left.

Recently, Boming and his three younger brothers started weaving reed mats and making cattail fans, because the wheat harvest will be in half a month, so we have to hurry up and make more weaves while we are not busy.Because the construction period for digging the river in front of the village stopped suddenly, the four brothers had so much free time to make these things at home.

All the villagers thought it was just a temporary downtime and didn't take it seriously.However, there were many gossip reports that the river would not be dug and would be dug next year.This is really some people's joy and some people's worries, because they are naturally happy to be able to rest if they stop working.But after the suspension of work, the villages farther away have been looking forward to a river for many years. Could it be that this time it has failed again?
Yingniang was thinking, isn't the purpose of digging a small river to drain the water from the reservoir, and suddenly stopped digging halfway through, isn't this an unfinished project?What kind of thing is it to say that we have to wait until next year?

At first she thought that everyone didn't need to dig the river, and they could finally rest, which is not a bad thing to say, and she hasn't thought about it deeply yet.After that, there were more and more gossip, and Yingniang vaguely felt that this matter was not so simple, as if something big was about to happen.

Half a month later, Bo Ming took the reed mat and cattail leaf fan to Wuzhou to sell them, and returned with some money.After that, every family began to harvest wheat, and after a period of time, they harvested sorghum, and then they were busy hauling grain to pay land tax and population tax.

In the hot summer season, after everyone finished all these tasks, almost everyone was exhausted and paralyzed.

The Birming brothers have no time to rest, because the four of them are busy planting soybeans these days.Yingniang's younger brother, Genzi, also came to learn, and has been staying at her house recently.

Genzi is not as thoughtful as his brother Zhuzi, and he is more obedient. He studies very seriously, and he doesn't dare to speak nonsense, and he is very respectful to Yingniang.It may be because he hasn't eaten much good food at home, so he didn't behave inappropriately when he came here except for being greedy.

When everyone had almost forgotten about digging the river and was busy working on the soybeans, a big event came suddenly.

Because Zhou Li received the silk and broken silver from his family before, he hurried to inform their family when he got the news, saying that the Holy Majesty is going to build a separate palace in Yunzhou. Tens of thousands of people went to do corvée.Whether it will be done for a few months or a year or two, no one dares to make a conclusion, because no one knows what this other palace will be built.

In order not to delay the people's farming, the court only recruited males between the ages of fifteen and twenty.Zhongping is not yet twenty years old, Shuchang is just eighteen, and Ji Wang is sixteen.In other words, three members of their family had to serve corvee.This time the whole family was almost terrified.

Zhou Li is just a person who never forgets to do things when he gets money, he said that he will find a way to let only one of them go.The reason for reporting to the higher authorities was that their brothers had lost their fathers and mothers when they were young, and there were many pregnant women and babies in the family. If there were three of them at once, the family would lose its pillars and be unable to live.

This reason is more or less reliable, if it is detailed, it should not be dismissed.It's just that someone has to go to one of them!Among Zhongping, Shuchang and Jiwang, who should go?

(End of this chapter)