Notes on Leisurely Living in the Farm

Chapter 43

Although Madam Wu was a slave, she was the most capable servant of the county magistrate's wife, and even the magistrate had to respect her a little.

Cheng's sharp denials and accusations made her extremely displeased.

"Second Mrs. Shen, people keep their eyes open, not to tell lies."

Because of the certainty, and to avenge the long-standing grievances, Cheng invited all the important women and children in the clan.Yiyou scanned around, the second uncle, grandma and several aunts were there.

Seeing the corner of the wall, her expression changed, Cheng really did everything she could, and even invited her natal sister-in-law over.This person is none other than their biggest competitor in selling steamed stuffed buns, the daughter-in-law of the youngest son of the Cheng family, Mrs. Zhao.

This person is not very good at making buns, but he is good at spreading gossip.Relying on the advantage of running around in the market, she can always inquire and disseminate various news in time.

The meaning of Cheng's inviting her here on such an occasion is self-evident.

While she was observing Cheng Zhaoshi, she also looked up at her from the other side.Looking at each other, Cheng Zhao gave her a malicious smile.Yiyou came back to her senses, remembering that when Changsheng was pushed down the white stone pile, it was she who helped Cheng Hua escape the possibility of being blamed.But according to the thinking of Cheng's family, they will definitely hate her for exposing this matter and damage the relationship between the two families.

She grinned, she didn't need to worry about this kind of person, she had enough strength to settle everything.

Stepping forward quietly, she smiled at the luxuriously dressed old lady in front of her: "Mother Wu must be tired from a long journey, so why don't you sit down and have a rest and talk."

The room was busy with someone who was awakened to move the embroidery pier for Mama Wu, Yiyou maintained a lukewarm smile the whole time, and did not bow her head.

Cheng did not expect that things would take a sudden turn for the worse.Looking at the things brought by the fourth sibling, whether it was a box or a snack, she had never heard of it.

She had heard earlier that Mrs. Xiancheng was useful to Erya, so she was polite and defensive, but now she suddenly realized that it turned out that she had taken a fancy to this dead girl's craftsmanship.

While she was angry, she was relieved: "Mother Wu, we didn't agree at the beginning. If Erya does this well, Mrs. Xiancheng doesn't care about our Shen family's previous mistakes."

The carefully flattering tone made Wu's mother look down on her.Having been in a position of less than one person and more than [-] people in the county for decades, there are many people who are sycophants.At the beginning, she might find it new, but now, she likes the second girl of the Shen family, who is beautiful and discerning, but not servile.

"kindness?"

Yiyou closed the box, and asked with some doubts: "What did the second aunt say about the Shen family? Didn't Siya do this incident alone? The second uncle, grandma, eldest aunt, and third aunt are all here, but the niece is bold. Ask, when will Si Ya represent the entire Shen family?"

"That's impossible."

The quick-talking Second Uncle replied in this way, why should the entire Shen family wipe the bottom of Si Ya's troubles.

"The second aunt, the ins and outs of this matter are already clear. It's nothing more than Si Ya's work in the county government, causing trouble, and you are trying to convict your niece."

Cheng was speechless for a while, what should she say?Let's talk about it, my daughter's calculations are not going to succeed, and the incident that hurt her is revealed, so she should not be a human being in her life.

No, she had to find another way to make Er Ya have to bear this matter.

Just when Yiyou was about to make persistent efforts, the sound of crutches came from outside the door.

"What are you talking about so lively, you don't know how to call me this old lady."

Cheng's eyes lit up, Yiyou frowned, grandma had been silent for a while because of Aunt Liu's affairs, and now she came out again, her arrogance was even worse than that of her second aunt.

"Mother is here."

The old lady entered the room, walked around Mama Wu without drooping her eyelids, and sat directly on the top.Holding on to the dragon's head and walking stick, she glanced around, and finally her eyes fell on Yiyou.

"Old lady, I haven't been out of the ancestral house for a long time, but I don't know that the Shen family's sky has changed color."

Decades of accumulated prestige, although it was lost due to the turmoil a month ago, some still remain.Everyone in the room stood upright, silent like a cicada.

Yiyou was just stunned for a moment, and soon returned to normal.The old godmother is just a grasshopper after autumn, and she will be happy for a few days.

"Ah, do you think so?"

After looking at the sky carefully, she shook her head firmly: "When my granddaughter was in the county, I once heard from Dr. You Fang that some people are old, their eyes are dim and their brains are not working well, and they will make mistakes when they look at things. Anyway, my granddaughter Now, the blue sky and white clouds in Yunlin Village are the same as usual."

"I haven't seen you for a few days, but you have learned a lot, and even the most basic etiquette and filial piety have been completely forgotten."

Using this trick again, she spread her hands, showing innocence: "As the saying goes, loyalty is harsh to the ears. Everyone in the Shen family knows that the granddaughter has been serving grandma for a few years. Why do you think so now?"

The old lady stuck in her throat, not knowing how to refute.Looking at Mama Wu sitting in front of her, she simply changed the subject: "The Shen family has raised you for many years, since you are so sensible, then go with Mama Wu."

Madam Wu stood up and tried to smooth things over: "Ma'am, I just want Miss Erya's pastry."

The old lady gave her a sideways glance: "I exchange Erya in the name of the Shen family, and mother still agrees?"

Mama Wu hesitated, this deal was sure to make a profit but not a loss, she couldn't make a decision for a while.

On the contrary, Li Shi, who stood firmly behind her daughter since entering the room, stood up with a sneer on her face: "I have never heard that the Shen family can dispose of my daughter Li Yunniang casually for no reason!"

The old lady patted the table: "Old Si's, did I ever ask you to speak?"

After experiencing many changes, especially after having money and confidence, Li's back also stiffened: "With me here today, no one can take Erya away. Mama Wu, if the county magistrate insists on doing this, Then we have to add up the peony cakes.”

"Oh, this unfilial daughter-in-law is going to piss me off."

Looking at the sun, Yiyou felt anxious.But seeing the old lady like this again, she still stopped and stepped back.

"Mom, I have a headache. Grandma's eyes look like she wants to eat me up."

Sitting on the ground, she covered her head and shouted loudly.The old lady shouted, and she raised her voice.

"Erya, what's the matter with you, Erya, did you not fully recover from the injury you suffered last time at your grandma's place?"

The mother and daughter cooperated tacitly, and for a while they overshadowed the old lady's limelight.It goes without saying that everyone likes to see young and supple girls and old men with chicken skin and white hair.

"Bastard! I have learned a lot from cheating and abducting!"

Mrs. Li jumped up: "Mother, last time you forced Erya to bump her head to death, what else do you want now. She is like this, and you still want to trade her for Siya. What Siya did, we will do it today." Just talk about it."

"Fourth sibling, please speak up if you have something to say."

Cheng's dissuasion had no effect at all, Yiyou held her mother's hand, which was agreed between the two of them while they were doing needlework last night.

"She failed to seduce Mrs. Pei, so she was transferred to the back kitchen by the county magistrate's wife. Then, for her own calculation, she tricked Erya away. Fortunately, Erya accidentally changed the tea, otherwise it would be my daughter who is being spoiled now.

Mother Wu is here, so she will find out whether what I said is true or not.To put it bluntly, it would not be an exaggeration to immerse the daughters of Shen's family in such a bad manner, even if they were directly immersed in a pig cage.Whoever wants to save someone finds a way by himself, and if he wants to hook up with my Erya, first ask me if the kitchen knife in my hand agrees! "

After finishing speaking, she really took out a kitchen knife from her arms.Because he often chops vegetables, there is a cold glow in the knife.

Standing in front of Yiyou with her not strong body, she has the aura that one man is in charge of everything.Yiyou, who was rolling on the ground, gradually calmed down, opened her tear-filled eyes, and cried out in a crying voice:
"mother."

"Mother is here, no one wants to bully you."

Cheng's heart was ashamed, and he gave his sister-in-law a warning look.

However, the old lady held on, and knocked over with a crutch on the head of a dragon: "Siya is your niece, you just don't know how to save face for her. And Erya, that is your own sister, since you have already found out, why don't you stop her?" Instead, she was pushed into the fire pit."

If she had known that the old lady had a high skill in messing around, she couldn't hold on at this moment.

Helping the mother to stand up, the mother and daughter held a kitchen knife together: "Grandma, how can there be an aunt in the world who respects her niece, abandons her biological daughter, and does everything possible to save face for her niece? As for me, Si Ya hit me on the left cheek, Could it be that I want to stretch out the right cheek and hit her?"

"You are reasonable, you are sisters?!"

"Because we are sisters, I didn't expose her immediately."

"Then now, if you let her go to the county government to change her back, isn't that the best of both worlds?" This is the old lady and Cheng's in unison. Reasonable thing.

"Siya has the best of both worlds, who will bear my loss?"

"Nie Zhan, I really shouldn't have given birth to the fourth child back then, so I wouldn't have your family of Nie Zha!"

Yiyou shook her head, and looked outside at the sky, Erbo and the others should come back after going to the ground, it's time.

"You can't say that. If my father is a villain, what are grandma and uncle?"

Li's expression became tense, and this moment was finally coming, but the evidence that the daughter said had not been obtained yet.After shaking her head for a while, she decided to wait and see what happened.

"Don't hold back your mouth, please ask the family law."

The most beloved and promising son, as well as herself, were pointed and scolded by the lawless junior, and the old lady had no patience anymore.

Anyway, Liu's matter has been discovered, so she has no scruples at this moment.

"Mother Chun, wait a moment."

The slow and leisurely tone came, and the voice was full of threats.What he said in the morning worked. Mother Chun, who had turned around, seemed to be frozen, and she couldn't move her legs.

"Grandma, my niece accidentally heard what happened back then, don't you really know?"

Back then, the two words were sensitive words in the Shen family recently, and when these words came out, everyone in the room stretched their ears. Could it be that apart from the patriarch, is there anything else that they don't know about?

The old lady froze, what's the big deal?Could it be that one?
No, it's impossible!She handled it cleanly, and Fuhai hadn't mentioned it for many years, even his daughter-in-law didn't know about it, let alone the girl from the fourth family.

"Looking at grandma like this, I'm afraid you have thought of it? The Shen family's reputation of farming and studying for hundreds of years may be completely ruined in your hands."

The old lady's crow's feet eyes were wide open, and even Mrs. Cheng noticed something was wrong.Having been in the Shen family for so many years, if she doesn't know this secret, then it must be a major event.

"Erya, don't be awry, come here first today."

Yiyou put on the arrogant look she had when she was the second wife of the Chen family, and raised her cheek with one finger: "What are you afraid of, this matter has nothing to do with the second aunt."

"What happened more than ten years ago, I don't know if it's true or not. Today, everyone is here to listen to it."

Everyone in the room looked curious, but the old lady could no longer describe it as nervous after hearing the words for more than ten years.It must be, Fuhai was lying in his arms at that time, as wronged as a three-year-old child, repeatedly confessing.

For this reason, she made up her mind to sell all the servants in that batch to a Ren Yazi who specialized in border crossing.I thought that the matter would disappear without a trace, but I didn't expect that it would still be a hundred secrets and a sparse one.

"you you……"

At this moment, she really felt dizzy. If this matter was revealed, not to mention the two patriarchs, the lives of her children might be lost.

Yiyou took the kitchen knife, waved it and inserted it on the table.The crisp sound of knives and wood intersecting came, and the cold light stimulated the nerves that were almost in a coma. The old lady had never had a greed for life or death that hated herself.

"More than ten years ago, the weather was like this. My aunt got married. As the eldest brother of the direct relative, it was naturally the second uncle who sent him off. Speaking of it, it is really hereditary. Siya likes to use that medicine, and some people like it too."

"Shut up!"

There is no way to turn back when you open the bow. The old lady's unreasonable reasoning just now has wiped out the last trace of family affection in her heart.

"It's impossible for me to see the specific situation in person, but in the most precious box in someone's study, there is a hidden treasure from the beginning.

At the beginning, I didn't know what the bright red bloodstains were, but my mother taught me when I realized that I was going to blame Si Ya. "

"I heard that the white yuan handkerchiefs used for the wedding are all from the hands of the bride herself. Let's find out if what I said is true or not."

It would not be an exaggeration to say that what Yiyou said was earth-shattering.

Although Yiyou's generation of Shen family has no shortage of daughters, daughters of the previous generation are really rare.Especially the old lady's only daughter, Shen Fu'ai, was an existence that Aunt Liu dared not provoke.She is deeply loved by Mr. Shen, and she is an existence that Aunt Liu dare not provoke.

Although she followed the old lady's tough appearance, relying on everyone's love, her generous dowry still attracted countless people to scramble for it.The old lady was afraid of wronging her daughter, so she chose thousands of options, and finally married her back to the Cheng family, making her the daughter-in-law.

How could such a person have an affair with his elder brother?Everyone at the scene was shocked. If this matter got out, it would be much more serious than Siya climbing on the bed.

Yiyou looked at Cheng Zhaoshi from the corner of her eye, and it was time to test her relationship with her sister-in-law.No matter how far it spread in the end, the person was invited by Cheng, and has nothing to do with her.

"Nonsense, today I will kill you bastard."

Shen Fuhai rushed in with red eyes, he came back by coincidence, he heard those words clearly just now.Among all the members of the Shen family, his favorite was his younger sister, and he would dream of her since he was a child.He wanted to pour medicine to relieve her pain for the first time, but in the end he really couldn't hold back.Even so, he never regrets that you have such a past.

But now, things are in front of everyone.It was too late to be surprised why this matter was found out, and now he is full of anger after being exposed.

"How could you hurt Fuai so much, I'll kill you!"

Pulling out the kitchen knife, she directly held a knife in her hand.The painful experience of being held down by an old mother to perform a needle-throwing dance before her rebirth, and all kinds of selling buns after her rebirth, all made her deeply understand the importance of force.

After steaming the buns, she practiced a few tricks in her previous life when she watched the martial masters of the Chen family wielding knives.Although it is a false handle, it is better than nothing.

"Second brother, you dare to touch my daughter's finger! Shen Fuxiang let you, doesn't mean our whole family has to be slaughtered by you."

Li Shi took out a kitchen knife from his bosom again, and the originally fat robe was now empty.The kitchen knife is obviously more advantageous than the stick.

"Fuhai, stop!"

Ever since her son yelled the word "Fuai", the old lady knew that the situation was over.Although she hated the fourth child's family deeply, she could not allow her son to be charged with killing his closest relatives no matter what.

"You go out first, there are mother and your daughter-in-law here."

Looking desperately here, Shen Fuhai also woke up from a dream.Isn't it just a piece of yuan handkerchief, burned on fire, who can convict him without evidence?Although he was extremely reluctant, he had to do this for the sake of Fuai's peace in the future.

"I listen to my mother."

The mother and son sang and cooperated well, and Yiyou didn't grow up eating dry food.Before the second uncle turned around, she ran towards the door with a kitchen knife.

"Mother Chun, here's the key to the study."

With her full momentum and the threat of a kitchen knife, she easily snatched the key from the dazed mother Chun.The Shen family's ancestral house is not big, so she ran to the study in two or three steps, opened the door, and went straight to the brocade box on the top floor of the Bogu shelf.

"Bring it to me."

It's all come to this point, either you die or I die.Yiyou cherishes her life, no matter what, she can't give up this opportunity.

"Second Uncle, the clean is cleared by itself, why are you nervous?"

Shen Fuhai has been the patriarch for many years, although he is pampered, he is still a grown man.Ke Yi Yousheng was dexterous, she walked out of his creaking nest, and she rushed into the yard.

At this time, the people in the main room had already come out, Yiyou scanned around, but did not find Mrs. Cheng Zhao.Knowing that the old lady was powerful, she did not dare to slack off at all.

"The Shen family is ugly. I didn't want to talk too much. But the second aunt was too deceitful and tried to kill me many times. Open the box and you will know."

Hiding behind her mother, she was afraid that the night would be long and dreamy, so she directly inserted the key in.

In the eyes of everyone, the box was opened, revealing a brocade handkerchief, fine and yellowed cotton cloth, which was immediately recognized by interested people as the dowry prepared by the old lady for her beloved daughter more than ten years ago.

But the little red plums on it almost blinded everyone's eyes.

(End of this chapter)