from widow to dame

Chapter 56

After Su Wen was selected as a scholar, it was obvious that the status of the Su family in the entire Wangjia'ao had been greatly improved.In the past, their family was regarded as an outsider, and Su Huiniang was a widow. The background of the family was not hard, but now it is very different. The Su family is very prosperous now, and people come to visit every day to make connections. There are many of them. I came here because of the law of Darui. If the family has a scholarly reputation, all miscellaneous taxes can be exempted. This is a great temptation for people who live on the land all year round.Su Huiniang's family had no extra land except for the vegetable plot in the yard, so the villager thought about putting their own land under the name of the Su family in order to avoid taxation.It's just that Su Huiniang seemed a little indifferent to this. Those who came to give gifts greeted them politely, and then sent them away politely. Of course, gifts are not accepted. If Su Wen wants to continue on the imperial examination, there will be no mistake They must be avoided as much as possible, so Su Huiniang would rather offend some people than have any mistakes in the future.

However, people in the same village can be dismissed, but those relatives with thick skins cannot be dismissed.

Su Huiniang looked at the women in front of her and frowned slightly inadvertently: "Mother, who are these?"

An embarrassing expression appeared on Lin's face, and he said awkwardly: "You child, why did you forget, this is your uncle, this is your eldest daughter-in-law Jiang, and this is your second daughter-in-law Kong." Su Huiniang Oh let out a sound, and made a clear appearance.But she also heard from Mrs. Lin that Su Huiniang's father had an older brother, but his elder brother was a very ruthless person. His younger brother died early, leaving behind his weak-tempered younger siblings and two children. Not only did he not help On the contrary, not long after Su Huiniang's father died, he quickly moved all the valuable things in the house, and almost forced their mothers to not starve to death. With today's her.

"Oh, my ancestor in heaven!!! You, you are Hui Niang??" The uncle's dim yellow eyes stretched a long way, and her old face like a shoehorn was full of surprise: "I am so good, Brothers and sisters, has your Hui Niang been possessed by some kind of goblin, and how can she change her body so much?"

"Sister-in-law, what are you talking about? This is our Huiniang." Lin emphasized anxiously.

Seeing how the eyeballs of the few people were about to fall out of surprise, Su Huiniang smiled, showing that she was so pleased by their funny appearance. After chatting loudly around her for a while, Su Huiniang also knew what was going on inside and outside the words. The intention of people coming here is nothing more than knowing that Su Wen has been selected as a scholar by chance, so he came to make connections.Moreover, the relationship between people is called a matter of course, and it is called bossing around.

"His brothers and sisters, it's not me who is my sister-in-law talking about you. Look at what you are doing. Wen'er was selected as a scholar. You didn't even inform us about such a big event. Tell me about your eyes." Are there any brothers and sisters in the house?"

Lin was used to being humble in front of this sister-in-law, but at this moment when she was suddenly scolded, she immediately became frightened, said a few words on her lips, and her face turned pale.

"Auntie's words are wrong." At this moment, Su Huiniang beside her said slowly, "Huiniang remembers that when the family was separated, uncle wrote the letter of justice with his own hands. You are not a relative at all, now I call you Aunt Sheng and let you sit on the kang of our house, it is already magnanimous enough, you don’t want to touch your nose!" After the experience of the Wang family, Su Huiniang also fully understands that with this kind of stupid woman who is messing around, you can't hide a needle in your cotton, hide a knife in your smile, you have to open your face and directly stab at the vitals.

"You...!!!" The old lady was choked up, her face was bruised, but Su Huiniang pulled a bamboo chair and sat down on her own. Somehow, seeing her like this, the old lady didn't swear the dirty words out of her mouth, but said indignantly to Mrs. Lin: "Her siblings, is this how you teach children? Just look at her and scold me like this." ?”

The old lady thought that if she said this, Mrs. Lin would definitely teach Su Huiniang a lesson. However, she didn't know that in this Su family, she, Su Huiniang, was the real backbone, Optimus Prime.Lin has always been obedient to her daughter, so how could she open her mouth.Seeing the atmosphere froze, the old lady's eldest daughter-in-law, Jiang Shi, spoke.

"Oh, everyone is a family, so we should be kind!" She said to Su Huiniang with a smile on her round face, "Sister, let's not talk about the past, as the saying goes Well, the bones are broken and the tendons are still connected, after all, they are a family with the same blood, so there is no overnight feud."

"That's right, that's right, I can't write two sous in one stroke!" The young daughter-in-law Kong who was next to him also chimed in.

Regarding what the two said, Su Huiniang didn't take it seriously in her heart. In order to completely get rid of the burden of their orphans and widowed mothers, the Su family's big house did it extremely ruthlessly. To make things difficult for them, Su Wen was called a sick child and a dead chicken, and Su Huiniang was called an ugly monster and a hag.They didn't have the slightest sympathy for their siblings, but now they have the nerve to find them. Su Huiniang really admires them.

Seeing that Su Huiniang is not easy to deal with, these three women focused all their firepower on Mrs. Lin. Su Huiniang was listening to their requests. What Su Wenzhong is a scholar? The matter, you have to let Su Wen burn incense in front of the ancestral grave. Of course, the ancestral grave has been in disrepair for a long time, and you, a scholar, will definitely not just leave it alone. You have to rebuild it.What else is there in the third generation of the family who also has a seed for reading, and is lacking in teaching, Mr. Su Wen, don't you, Su Wen, study in a famous school in the town?Find a way to let us in too, wait, wait, etc. Su Huiniang was listening to the requests they made, and almost couldn't laugh out loud.

Not to mention whether they can meet these requirements, just say, three words, why?
Are you kind or affectionate to our family? Why do you want us to promise you.

Several people chattered and chattered for a long time, until Sangzi said that he was dumb, and then took a short rest.And Su Huiniang also felt that she was tired of listening, she raised her head and said with a smile: "Since you keep saying that we are still a family, then we have to have the same blessings and share the same hardships, right?"

Jiang Shi and Kong Shi couldn't help nodding their heads repeatedly.

"Well, Hui Niang will not hide the truth." She sighed softly, with a trace of worry on her brows: "You don't know something, all these years, in order to support Wendi to study, the whole family has really accumulated debts. I have incurred a lot of foreign debts, since you always say that we are blood relatives, auntie, will you help us repay some of these foreign debts?"

As soon as the old lady heard this, her face changed immediately. It's a joke, they are here to "bless you", who would like to have any trouble with you.

"Huiniang, are you trying to coax us!" the youngest daughter-in-law Kong rolled her eyes and asked suspiciously.

"This is not something glorious. Why are you using it to coax you?" Su Huiniang seemingly casually pulled out a note from her cuff, and handed it to them: "Here, this is the IOU for the 200 taels of silver." Kong Shi and the others didn't answer the call, as if they were afraid of touching some bacteria, they avoided it with ugly faces. Su Huiniang smiled secretly, and stuffed it back into the sleeve without forcing it. The monthly report of "Food is the sky" taken out of the space is nothing more than that, anyway, these three people can't read at all and are just easy to deceive.

Regarding Su Huiniang and the others owed such a huge foreign debt of 200 taels of silver, the few of them immediately looked like they swallowed a fly. come up.They all came from neighboring villages and planned to stay at Su's house for a while. However, they lost their mood at this time. After a lunch of clear soup and little water, they left in a daze. Of course, when I left, I didn't forget to take the four old hens on the chicken rack and the two big baskets of vegetables in the vegetable garden.

"Mother—" Su Huiniang smoothed the folds at the corner of her skirt, and said lightly, "Do you still have the original letter of resignation?"

Lin's face suddenly turned pale.

"My daughter still remembers the first Spring Festival after her father's death. It snowed heavily that day, but our third mother didn't even have a bite to eat. My younger brother was sick and couldn't move in bed. My mother went to the uncle's house to borrow food, but was caught. A basin of cold water was poured on his head, and when he came back, he was frozen stiff..." Hearing her daughter's faint recounting of the predicament in the past, Lin's emotions quickly became sad, and her eyes turned red unknowingly, not only In this way, a wave of anger gradually filled his heart, yes, Dafang treated their orphans and widowed mothers like that at the beginning, now that his family is well, why should he help them.

Why.

Lin wiped the tears off her face: "Mum, keep it, I'll find it for you."

"Hmm..." Su Huiniang responded softly: "Mother, you have to remember, you are now the mother of a scholar, and our family is not the same as before. It's time to stand up."

Lin was taken aback for a moment, and then nodded emphatically after a long time.

Later, when Su Wen came back, Su Huiniang briefly explained the matter. The reason why she knew so clearly was thanks to Su Wen. Su Wen felt that he had ascended from hell to heaven, and in the later getting along, he unknowingly talked about many things about his original life. Su Wen must be the one who hates them the most.

"Sister, you really don't need to make false claims." Su Wen sneered and said, "Even if they just say they won't help, how can they resist us?"

Su Huiniang knew that he had resentment in his heart, upon hearing this, she smiled softly and said, "Okay, listen to my younger brother, if they dare to come again, I will let Xiao Hei go and bite them."

Su Wen became happy after hearing this.

A scholar is only the first step in the imperial examination, and above him there is a threshold "Jinshi" that blocks thousands of students.You are only eligible to become an official if you have obtained a Jinshi, so now Su Wen is not indulgent to himself. Although he has no intention of becoming an official, it is his goal to stand out and support his family. .To achieve this goal, you must study harder.Soon, Su Wen returned to his school career, and the life of the Su family gradually returned to the right track.

But when everything was moving forward safely, Shangjing, the capital of Dari Dynasty thousands of miles away, began to fall into an unprecedented storm. He was almost assassinated, and the emperor was furious, and led Jin Yiwei to hunt down the murderer. Jin Yiwei followed the vines and found out that the matter was related to several heroes who founded the country. " At those words, a group of heads were snapped off without mercy, and in an instant, the whole capital became panic-stricken. Those upstarts from the Rui Dynasty were in panic all day long, for fear that the disaster of ransacking their homes and destroying their families would fall on them.

Amidst the horrific hurricane and bloody rain, the unjust souls in the sky of Shangjing are about to appear again.And very unfortunately, among these "unjust souls" was the mighty Uncle Chen's family, so when Chen Yu received the news, the young man who always had a smile on his lips couldn't smile anymore.

"How could this be, how could this be..." Chen Yu's mother sat blankly on the pear flower wooden chair, her face was full of distraught expressions: "Is your uncle gone just like that? And your uncle, Brother Cheng, Brother Xuan , They’re gone too? The uncle’s mansion was copied?” After asking many times, Chen’s mother suddenly cried bitterly: “Impossible, impossible, our Chen family has always been loyal to the emperor, it is impossible to make such a crime. Conspiracy."

Chen Yu's eyes were also wet for a while, as if the house was falling apart, he couldn't feel better.But things have come to this, all he can do is to protect his mother as much as possible.

"Mother, although we are tens of thousands of miles away from the capital, Jinyiwei has always been like a falcon and dog. Maybe he will come to the door. According to my son, we should go out and hide for a while. When the limelight passes, my son will come." Let's go to the capital, let's make a long-term plan."

Mrs. Chen is also someone who has seen big scenes. After her son's persuasion, she knew it was not the time to cry, so she quickly asked, "But where can we go?"

After thinking for a while, Chen Yu's eyes lit up, and he suddenly said: "It's not easy to find in the old valley deep in the mountains, it's a good place to hide, my son happens to have a good friend who lives there, we can live there for a while. "

(End of this chapter)