Carpenter's Lady

Chapter 4

Mrs. Zhang has never argued with others all her life. When she was young, her mother-in-law was sometimes picky, but she endured them one by one. Now that she is a mother-in-law, she understands the difficulty of being a woman in her husband's house. She has never said aloud to her daughter-in-law. Maybe she doesn't have the mentality that her own daughter can be treated so kindly in other people's homes.Unexpectedly, after her daughter had worked so hard to serve Zhao's family for five years, Zhao Wen would instead hook up with a young lady from another family. Wanting to stop her breathing, she pointed to Mrs. Zhao, but couldn't say a word.

Zhang Mu was inside the door, and seeing Mrs. Zhang's body trembling with anger, he hurried over to support her, and patted her on the back while comforting her: "Mother, don't be angry, my daughter is fine, don't talk to them, I've cooked all the rice, and I'm just waiting for my mother to come back to cook, I'm so greedy for my mother's braised pork." Zhang Mu said, his own eyes were red, he really felt sorry for the parents of the world, Mrs. Zhang should know that his family I don't know how sad my daughter is gone.

Mrs. Zhang burst into tears when she heard that her daughter wanted to eat braised pork. She is a good daughter, a girl whom she loved and grew up like a treasure. This family has been bullied so far!How can she not hate it!
Seeing his mother and younger sister hugging and crying bitterly, the man of the Zhang family was aroused. His rationality of waiting for the head of the village to deal with it had long been forgotten, and he rushed into the yard and took a long sheep-herding stalk. The stick rushed out like the wind again, and beat the Zhao family all over the face, regardless of whether it was a man or a woman, as long as they were caught, they would be beaten violently.

The Zhao family immediately scattered like birds and beasts. Needless to say, the daughters-in-law of the Zhao family ran away on their own, and the three sons of the Zhao family did not care about their mother. He staggered and ran forward holding his head. "The Zhang family, you wait, you think that people in our Xishui Village are easy to bully!" Mrs. Zhao ran wildly, and at the same time said harsh words, not to be outdone, one of them didn't pay attention at the moment, tripped by a lump of soil, and her face He fell face down on the ground, and the sudden downward wind threw up a layer of dust.

Zhang Dalang wanted to chase them again, but was stopped by Taozi. She was also afraid that Zhang Dalang would beat them up badly, and even if they were justified, the family would have to pay for the medical expenses.Pull Zhang Dalang home for dinner without mentioning it.Everyone didn't notice that Xiaoshui, who was standing in the courtyard watching all this, secretly clenched his fists. He would beat Zhao Jiamanfu and Manding every time he saw Zhao Jiamanfu in the future!Man Fu is the son of Zhao Dalang's family, Man Ding is the son of Zhao Erlang's family, Zhao Erlang's family also has a daughter, Zhenzhen, but Xiaoshui has never cared about girls, so she is not included in the count.

In the evening, Wang Dalang came over and said to Father Zhang: "Master, my father asked me to call you over. The head of Xishui Village and Amu's former mother-in-law came and asked my father to give them an account of Xishui Village. My uncle asked me to call you over there!" Wang Dalang's uncle is the head of Shuiyang Village, equivalent to the current village head, who is in charge of a village's miscellaneous affairs. Above the head of the village is the mayor, who is in charge of several villages Conscription and taxation, and occasionally adjust the conflict between villages. The eldest father of Wang Dalang's family is Wang Lichang. His family has only one young son. He studies in the town academy and rarely comes back on weekdays. He always calls the villagers to hold meetings. They all sent the three sons of the younger brother's family to run errands.

Father Zhang and Zhang Dalang got up immediately after hearing Wang Dalang's words, ready to follow Wang Dalang.Mrs. Zhang also wanted to go there, but Zhang Dalang stopped her and persuaded her patiently: "Mother, the Zhao family has no morals. If you go, you will be angry. Just go with my father. At the Li Chang's house, they didn't It’s so easy to bully people, you just wait at home for us to come back.”

Zhang Mu also took Mrs. Zhang's arm and said, "Mom, you can stay with me at home! The chief will definitely uphold justice for us, so you can relax!"

Zhang Mu's words were right in the heart of Mrs. Zhang. The villagers of Shuiyang Village fled here decades ago, and the villagers usually have occasional suspicions, but when people from other villages bully them, they have always been unanimous. After all, everyone They are all single-family living here, so there is no guarantee that others will not bully them next time.Now Mrs. Zhang heard Zhang Mu's reminder, so she didn't insist on going over, and said to Zhang's father: "Old man, I won't go over, you can't let our family, Mu, be bullied for nothing!"

Father Zhang nodded, and followed Wang Dalang with his son.

When Father Zhang and the others arrived, they saw the head of Xishui Village and Mrs. Zhao sitting at the long table of the head of the village, with a cup of tea in front of each of them. Pour a bowl of boiled water at most. The two sons of the Zhao family stood behind Mrs. Zhao.Seeing Father Zhang coming over, the village chief hurriedly asked him to sit down.

When the head of Xishui Village saw the people coming, he said to Wang Lichang: "Old brother, you see that everyone is here, let the Zhang family give the Zhao family a gift first, and then we can discuss the compensation in a friendly manner! "Xishui Village is different from Shuiyang Village. It is mostly passed down in one line. When a village seriously continues the genealogy, it can call uncle or brother. Therefore, people with foreign surnames have always been looked down upon. For decades, refugee villages with no solid roots have never been looked down upon.

Li Chang Wang saw Zhao Li Chang's arrogance, and he could not bear him long ago. If he had known this old dog was so virtuous, he would not have wasted the good tea his son bought him, but he is also Li Zhang. , and it shouldn't be too stiff, so I immediately left the topic to Father Zhang.

"Brother Zhang, what do you think about this? The Zhao family said that your family's Amu hurt their mother and daughter. They came to ask for an explanation, but they were beaten up by the eldest nephew." Wang Lichang looked at Zhang after finishing speaking. Dad.

Father Zhang knew that the district chief couldn't completely rely on the district chief to uphold justice for them, so he immediately said: "This is because Zhao's journey is a little faster. I was planning to discuss with Wang Lichang tomorrow to go to Xishui Village to find Zhao Lichang Let me ask for an explanation. Now that Li Chang Zhao is here, I want to talk to Li Chang Zhao. The Zhao family and my family are in-laws. Both Li Chang Wang and Li Chang Zhao know about this. My son and the Zhao family The matter of San Lang and Li must have been heard by the two chiefs. I don’t want to pursue the matter of who is right and who is wrong, but the Zhao family’s mother-in-law shouldn’t humiliate my family’s Mu’er in public in the town. My family’s Mu’er became furious Although there was a mistake, there was a reason for it. No matter how wooden a person is, there is no reason to be bullied like this! Besides, when Dalang beat the Zhao family, it was the Zhao family who came to my house and insulted them. Come on, Dalang saw someone bullying his mother and sister, shouldn't he take action? Zhao Lichang's family has always had a clean and bright family style, so I would like to ask, what should the son of Zhao Lichang's family do when he sees someone bullying his mother and sisters deal with?"

Mrs. Zhao was stunned when she saw that Mrs. Zhang had said such a long list of words in a clear and coherent manner. She thought it was Zhang Mu or Mrs. Zhang who came to argue, and because of those two gourds, they must not be her opponents. Seeing two men from the Zhang family, one old and one young, coming over, I was already happy. I don't believe that these two men dare to fight, so I can only argue with her. How can these two men know how to argue with a woman? She must extort 20 taels of silver from him. She knew that Zhang Mu had more than ten taels in his hand, and asked old man Zhang to pay seven or eight taels. Who let his family teach such a shameless daughter!
Mrs. Zhao made a good plan, now seeing old man Zhang presenting the facts to her with reason, and turning around to see Li Chang Zhao's momentum has weakened, she immediately slid to the ground, "Oh, someone bullied my wife's mouth Clumsy, you don't even pay for the rituals when you hurt someone. There is no law in this world! Poor my family, Wen'er, can't get up while lying on the bed. If something happens to me in the future, what will I do for the rest of my life! Don't let the little woman decide!"

Father Zhang saw the woman on the ground, and said coldly, "Since the Zhao family insisted that we hurt her son, please ask the doctor to take a look. Although my family is easy to bully, we can't just be blackmailed by others." up!"

It was only natural for him to hire a doctor when he was injured. Although Li Chang Wang was worried that the Zhao family would take the opportunity to extort money from the Zhang family, he couldn't stop him when he saw that Zhang's father had already spoken out.Seeing Lizhang Zhao ordered someone to bring Zhao Wen over, he also sent someone to invite the doctor from the town over.The poor old man was teasing his grandson at home to wash and go to bed, and he went out in a bullock cart at night, and the driver of the cart was Niu Dalang who brought Mrs. Wang and Zhang Mu back by the way during the day. The sister-in-law has a very good relationship, and she often listens to her mother-in-law nagging about every good person in Mumei's in-law's family. She also worked very hard to pick up this guy.

Over there, when Zhao Wen saw that the head of the village sent someone to carry him there, he knew that his mother was definitely planning to extort a sum of money from the Zhang family. Did he know that Zhang Mu had more than a dozen taels of silver in his hand, and the books she brought back to her mother's house At that time, it was also bought at a high price, but this time the Zhang family will have to spit it out.Immediately, he pretended to be in pain.

When the old man arrived at Wang Lichang's house, he saw a young man lying on a stretcher on the ground, yelling in pain, thinking that the patient was really seriously ill, and he didn't care about the fact that the bullock cart knocked him to pieces, so he was busy Going up to press Zhao Wen's bruised arms and legs, after finishing pressing, he looked at Zhao Wen's face, and immediately cursed in his heart!

"Old man, I'm almost sixty, and I was tossed over by you at night. I won't say anything if someone is seriously ill. It's just a matter of rubbing it off and putting a plaster on it. Is there any need for such a big fight! "The old man blew his beard and stared angrily.

Zhang Dalang hurriedly went up to tell the whole story, and gave the old doctor a hundred dollars, but he can't offend the old man, because there is a headache in the family on weekdays, and he still invites the old man to have a look!As for the Zhao family, it has nothing to do with him.

At this time, Chief Zhao knew that he was cheated by Zhao's mother-in-law, but this was not the right time to tear things down, so he bit the bullet and asked, "Old man, let's see how my nephew needs to be treated!" The old man winked.

The old doctor seemed not to notice, and said without raising his eyelids: "How to cure it? Didn't you see how happy he was just now? The Qi is so full, I see, I don't even need plaster!"

Zhao Lichang couldn't bear to say a word, so he could only sit on the chair with his lips pursed for a while. Mrs. Zhao saw that Lichang didn't want to care anymore, so she got up and ran to the old doctor, "You are Shuiyang Who knows if you have colluded with them, my poor son was injured and could only lie in bed, and was taunted like this!" As he spoke, tears flowed down his face.

Seeing the woman making trouble so unreasonably, the old man didn't bother to say a word, and went back in the bullock cart with the medicine box on his back.

Seeing the unreasonable troubles in Zhaojia Village, Wang Lichang didn't want to answer at all, he stood up and said to Zhao Lichang: "I don't think there is anything wrong with Brother Zhang's family. The Zhao family deceived others first, and niece Zhang The fight with the eldest nephew was also due to anger. If Chief Zhao thinks what I said is inappropriate, let's go to the mayor to deal with it. The sister of the mayor's family happened to return home with Li the year before last. I want the mayor to deal with this matter. It must be more handy than you and me!"

Mrs. Zhao, who was howling, immediately silenced her voice when she heard this. Everyone in the town knew that the mayor was very concerned about her sister, but she married a wealthy family in another town, and the mayor could not stand up for her. I have been holding back, if I stab the mayor, I will not hit the muzzle of the gun.

But Mrs. Zhao didn't complain about the Zhang family being so cheap, "No matter what, the Zhang family injured my son, and the medical expenses have to be paid no matter what, not even if I stabbed it to the official, I would not accept it!"

Father Zhang and Zhang Dalang didn’t come back until midnight, except for Xiao Shui who was so sleepy that he fell asleep in his mother’s arms, none of the three women in the Zhang family slept. , but when she learned that Mrs. Zhao would not ruin Zhang Mu's reputation after she made the document, otherwise, she would feel better after paying one tael of silver at a time. willing.

The whole family went back to their rooms to rest. Unexpectedly, the next morning, a pie hit the Zhang family hard - the matchmaker proposed marriage to Zhang Mu on behalf of Ding Erye's apprentice!

(End of this chapter)