Rebirth of the poor elder sister-in-law

Chapter 174 Inquiry ([-])

Fang looked at Ye Qing's leaving back in a daze, the atmosphere in the room was quiet for a while, a little scary.

Liu Man'er covered her hands, she didn't know why she suddenly slapped Ye Qing, although she didn't regret it now, but she also felt that what she did was not right.

Fang Shi is still here, it's not her turn to teach Ye Qing a lesson, not to mention, Ye Qing is no younger than her.

"I'm sorry." Liu Man'er took a deep breath, walked in front of Fang, and said, "It's all my fault. I shouldn't have hit him. I didn't know that I wanted him to come back and stay with you well." How did it become like this?"

Fang didn't speak, but waved his hands helplessly.

Liu Man'er didn't say much, but walked out silently. Many things were beyond her control, and she also wanted the family to be well, but she obviously didn't have the ability.

That's it, as long as you don't feel ashamed.

After returning to her room, Liu Man'er felt a little uncomfortable lying on the bed. These days, her body is not very good. She has been running around all the way, which only made her dizzy and nauseous. all kinds of things.

She felt that if this continued, she would definitely get sick too.

A little tired, I simply don't want to care about anything, just want to lie on the bed and sleep for a while.

As soon as she lay down, Han Fang knocked on the door and said that the watermelon was cut up, and she would send two pieces for her to eat. She said that she didn't have an appetite and let her eat it by herself.

As a woman whose husband is away and the eldest sister-in-law at home, her mother-in-law is seriously ill. There is no one she can rely on in this family, but everyone around her has to rely on her.

Taking care of her mother-in-law, uniting with uncles and sisters-in-law, raising children, maintaining the family, and everything, she has to figure out a way.

She is actually a lazy person, a lazy person who is happy with the situation, and she doesn't want to make herself too tired, so she hired a servant at home and asked her second brother to help.

But even so, she still feels a little tired now. This kind of tiredness seems to emanate from her bones. She is so tired that her bones are soft, so she has no support all over her body. She just wants to just collapse on the bed and lie quietly.

However, after a while, I still have to get up, make wine, visit the Fang family, and take care of Ye Tianchen.

Originally, I planned to go to the county seat these few days, and wanted Ye Qing to come back to take care of Fang Shi for two days, but now Ye Qing can't come back to take care of Fang Shi, and she was a little worried about leaving Fang Shi alone at home , can only trouble Ye Feng to stay at home for a few more days.

Although he is only a young man, after all he is a member of the Ye family and a scholar. If something happens suddenly, he should be able to handle it. With him at home, Liu Man'er can at least feel at ease.

Fang Shi has always been a person who doesn't hold grudges, so he greeted Fang Shi and said that she was going to the county town tomorrow, Fang Shi didn't say anything, but just told her to be careful on the way.

The next day, she went to the county seat alone. This time she went to the county seat mainly to buy some tonics such as donkey-hide gelatin and bird's nest for the Fang family, and then to calculate the accounts for the past two months, and finally asked about the Yan family.

The weather is getting hotter and hotter, the business in the past two months is naturally not as good as before, and the expenses in the two months are only 50 taels of silver. It will be worse, but compared to other shops, it is also very good.

A bonus was given to Liu Yunsheng and the third girl in the shop, and she took the money to go shopping in the street. Apart from buying the things she had planned in the morning, she also wanted to buy some gifts to see Steward Wu and Sister-in-law Wu. .

Some people sent some things to the snack shop, and she walked to Guanshi Wu's house with gifts. As a servant of Yan's family, Wu's house is in the back alley of Yan's family for the convenience of work.

When passing by the wall of Yan's courtyard, Liu Man'er was inexplicably sad. The pair of stone lions at the gate of Yan's house were still as majestic as ever, but with the vermilion gate and the white seal pasted on the gate, they felt inexplicably A sense of loneliness came.

Rise and fall, honor and disgrace, change day and night, this speed, Liu Man'er has not yet reacted.The white walls and blue tiles are still the same. I think back to the time of New Year's Eve, when we went to see a play together in Liyuan. Unfortunately, in the blink of an eye, things have changed. How can people accept this.

Slowly walking across the courtyard wall, and passing a narrow alley, Liu Man'er stopped at a house, the brown courtyard door looked a bit old, Liu Man'er stretched out her hand, knocked on it lightly, soon there were footsteps Come.

"Who is it, here it is." The woman came to open the door while talking, she was startled when she saw Liu Man'er, and said: "Ah, sister Liu, you are here, this is really a rare visitor."

This Sister-in-Law Wu has a good relationship with Liu Man'er, so she naturally knows Liu Man'er's maiden name, she always likes to be called Liu Man'er like this, it always seems more intimate compared to the somewhat cold title of Shopkeeper Ye.

"Sister-in-law Wu must know that I went to another place some time ago, no, I will come to see you and Brother Wu as soon as I come back." Liu Maner raised the gift in her hand, and sister-in-law Wu saw it and said, "Come as soon as you come." , What are you waiting for a gift, it's really too polite."

"The courtesy is light and the affection is heavy. It's fine for my sister-in-law not to take offense." Liu Man'er smiled slightly, and followed sister-in-law Wu and I to her home.

With the gift to open the way, the smile on Wu's sister-in-law's face became more enthusiastic. She led Liu Man'er forward: "Don't look out, we are so familiar. Next time, just come directly. If you are really sorry, give me Just bring two roast ducks from your shop."

Liu Man'er smiled and said, "Okay, I will write it down."

The two of them entered the house while they were talking. Sister-in-law Wu took the gift from Liu Man'er and put it on the top of the cupboard at the entrance. She asked Liu Man'er to sit down, and while making tea for her, she said, "It just so happens that you, Brother Ang, are at home today. , but at this time he is taking a nap, I'll call him right away."

"Hey, don't be so busy, Brother Ang just let him take a nap. It's fine for us sisters to talk. Anyway, I don't have anything to do today. I just need to go home before dark." Liu Man'er said quickly.

But Sister-in-Law Wu still went to call Guanshi Wu, she signaled Liu Man'er to sit still, opened the curtain and went into the back room, Liu Man'er heard her shouting a few words to Guanshi Wu, only woke up Guanshi Wu.

There was a quarrel in the room. Obviously, Manager Wu felt very upset when he was disturbed, so he scolded Mrs. Wu a few words, but when he heard that it was Liu Man'er who came to visit, he muttered again, saying that the news came as soon as he changed his clothes.

The curtain was lifted, and Sister-in-Law Wu came out, looked at Liu Man'er, with a bit of embarrassment on her face, sat down and refilled Liu Man'er's tea, and then said:

"Sister, you should know that a lot of things have happened in this county recently, especially the Yan family, which was confiscated by the court. You know what your brother Angus does. Now that the Yan family is gone, he is gone for a while. I haven't found any good employers, and I'm staying at home for the time being, so I have a bit of a temper, and now I'm like a child, still angry about getting up."

The commotion in the room just now was a bit loud, and Mrs. Wu was afraid that Liu Man'er might misunderstand, so she explained a few more sentences.

"You picky woman, what nonsense are you talking about here!" As soon as Sister-in-law Wu's words fell, Manager Wu came out with her clothes on.

Liu Man'er turned her head to see Guanshi Wu, and she was also taken aback. In the past, Guanshi Wu was kind-hearted and fat. Every time she saw him, she always tidied herself up properly, full of pomp and spirit.

But this time when I saw Steward Wu again, his clothes hadn't been buttoned properly, his beard was disheveled, and his shoes were pulled back.

"Hey, shopkeeper Ye is here." Seeing Liu Man'er, Manager Wu bowed his hands to her, but Liu Man'er felt very uncomfortable doing it in such a manner, as if it was mocking.

"Brother Wu, don't make fun of me." Liu Man'er waved her hand, signaling to Steward Wu that there is no need to be like this, and then opened the stool to let him sit down, and then said tentatively, "How are you, Brother Wu?"

"Don't talk about it, I'm just a bereaved dog now." Guanshi Wu was not putting on airs, but his words were full of disappointment. He waved his hand and said, "Now you are the only one who comes to see me."

Liu Man'er comforted her, "Why do you say that, Brother Ang, your abilities are here. Even if you are temporarily unemployed and at home, it is not something that others can underestimate."

After Wu Guanshi heard this, his expression turned bitter, and he said, "I'm not afraid of your jokes. In the past, when I walked on the street, people would call me Mr. Wu or Wu Guanshi, but now, not only no one pays attention to me, they even call me If you want to pooh and spit in my face, I don't even want to leave the house now."

"Brother Ang, don't worry about it. These villains who are stalking people, why do you care about them? If you think like this, then I dare not come to this county." Liu Man'er joked about herself.

It is true that the world is always harsh on women, and women always have to bear more pressure when they come out to show their faces, but Liu Man'er has survived, and now the shop is handed over to Liu Yunsheng, but no one said it.

Liu Man'er can also understand Guanshi Wu's mood. In the past, Guanshi Wu worked in Yan's family. Although he was just a servant, he was respected in this county. Looking back at that time, when he walked to the street shop, who was wrong? Is he respectful?But now, those people who flatter him want to humiliate him in front of him, how can this not be embarrassing?
This incident also sounded a wake-up call for her. As the saying goes: relying on mountains will fall, relying on everyone will run away, only relying on oneself can be regarded as good.

But she forgot about this before, just because it was too difficult to get a foothold in this ancient times, so she wanted to make friends with big shots. Now her big shot has fallen, and her restaurant is gone. Of course, compared with her, Wu Guanshi The situation is even worse.

"Shopkeeper Ye is really good at comforting people." Manager Wu knew the difficulty of Liu Man'er's shop opening at the beginning, and thought of all the misunderstandings and indifference she had received in the past, he felt a lot more comfortable in his heart.

"Okay, just open it up if you want to. These people don't need to bother at all. When you get rich, they will have to beg you." Liu Man'er took a sip of tea. The tea is the most common rough tea. Compared with the tea that the butler drinks, there is indeed some difference.

"The shopkeeper Ye is here today not just to see me, is it?" Steward Wu looked at Liu Man'er, but he already knew her purpose in his heart.

Putting down the teacup, Liu Man'er didn't make any detours, and said bluntly: "I like to go straight, this time, apart from visiting Brother Ang, I also came here for the affairs of the Yan family. I would rather listen to the matters of the Yan family." I’ve said it, but the specific reason, you have to tell me, Brother Wu.”

(End of this chapter)