268. Escape from marriage
How dare Mingyue accept her worship, jumped up and jumped to the side, hid sideways behind Shi Gui, put her hands on Shi Gui's shoulders, and said in her mouth that she didn't dare, and her waist was bent and her legs were bent, for fear that Qiu Niang would really kneel to him.
Shi Gui put his hands on Qiu Niang's arm and pulled her up, but Qiu Niang was bent on worshiping: "After receiving such a great kindness, I have nothing to repay Engong, and from now on, a pillar of incense will be held in the morning and evening to pray for Engong." ”
Mingyue's face turned red, she couldn't stop looking at Shi Gui, she stammered and couldn't speak, or the green calyx saw some doorways, Mingyue's eyes never left Shi Gui, he didn't dare, I was afraid that it was not polite, but really didn't dare.
Shi Gui Lucalyx grabbed Qiu Niang one by one, Shi Gui had a belly to ask, but Qiu Niang remembered her son, pulled Shi Gui and asked where Xizi was?
Shi Gui told him what happened after Xizi was rescued, and after following Mingyue for all these years, he lived in the barracks, and he just recognized his sister, and she didn't live in one place yet, she was a slave again, and when she was redeemed and left from the country, she lived with Xizi and the two.
Qiu Niang cried when she heard this, although Shi Gui probably skipped the matter of Xizi, only mentioned how he can eat and sleep now, he has grown a lot, his pants are short, he can eat very much, he can eat twenty or thirty wontons at a dry meal, and he can stew chicken and meat, and he can eat two or three bowls of rice mixed with soup.
The more Shi Gui said this, the more Qiu Niang felt that Xizi was suffering: "You both are suffering, and when I think about it, it hurts like a knife cutting meat." After saying it, I felt that it was inappropriate, Mingyue was still there, not to mention that Xizi suffered with him, and he was full of apologies, and said to him: "If it weren't for Engong, my child wouldn't know where he was, what to do for a living, I would be a cow and a horse in the next life, and I wouldn't be able to repay this kindness." ”
When Qiu Niang was sold, she heard the man say a sentence, saying that such a child with fine skin and tender meat should be sold to a good place, trained the piano, chess, poetry and books, and then learned to sing two small songs, maybe she will be liked by the nobles, and in the future, she will eat and drink spicy food, wear gold and silver, and never worry about it for a lifetime.
Qiu Niang almost fainted when she heard it, she couldn't wait to bite off a piece of his flesh alive, and she was easily saved, when she reported to the official to look for someone again, where was there still the shadow of the boat, she was muddy for a few days, and the water and rice were inexhaustible, just afraid that her son would fall into the dirty realm, if she met that person again, she couldn't wait to eat him alive and chew his flesh to relieve her hatred.
Qiu Niang said while chanting the Buddha, her hands were closed, and the grand wish made in front of the Bodhisattva would be rewarded one day, and her thirty years of life would be folded, as long as she found the child, even if she died immediately, she was willing.
Shi Gui listened and sobbed softly, Mingyue couldn't help but look at her, the mother and daughter sat behind the stove, the stalls were all supported, the things they made had to be sold out, the green calyx had to be busy with the stove and the guests, Mingyue took over the work of entertaining guests, running back and forth, with a towel on her shoulder, it really looked like a running hall.
Qiu Niang held Shi Gui's hand tightly, refused to let go for a while, stroked her face again, touched her hair, and was afraid that her hands would be thick, and her face would be scratched, laughing and crying, I didn't know how many Buddhas I thought, Shi Gui accompanied her tears, and asked for a long time: "How can my mother be with the green calyx?"
How did Qiu Niang's green calyx meet, the letter was clearly written, but it was also with Qiu Niang with the green calyx, otherwise Shi Gui would have asked the two female guests a long time ago, and he would not have been questioned like this by the shopkeeper of the warm shop.
Qiu Niang pulled her: "I only knew Chen Niangzi, she led you away, and never forgot her appearance for a moment, after all these years, I still recognized her at a glance, but she, knowing that I am your mother, I know you, I know you, it turned out to be in the same room with you, you gave her a chain, and she still remembers it for many years." ”
Shi Gui even gave the green calyx a chain, but she didn't remember it, Qiu Niang touched her head: "My children are all good children, and they can't be wrong anywhere." ”
Lu Cao remembered that little affection in her heart, and remembered that Shi Gui taught her how to deal with things, and gave her money when she left, if she didn't have that money, she wouldn't have been able to go down at all when she first returned to Chen's house, and she couldn't please Chen Niangzi.
Qiu Niang looked at the busy figure of the green calyx and sighed: "Who knew that she would be the daughter of Yao's teaching, poor one, such a vicious person, who took the family assets and didn't treat his daughter well." ”
Qiu Niang's own experience is sour, and she also shed tears when she heard the life experience of the green calyx, pitiful for her begging for life at a young age, as old as her daughter, and suffering the same hardships.
Qiu Niang didn't eat tea and rice during the days, it was the green calyx to take care of her, otherwise she wouldn't have lived now, the two lived in one room, Qiu Niang gradually got better, and she had to do some money to survive and repay Chen Niangzi, fifteen taels of silver is not a decimal, where can Qiu Niang save this money.
Chen Niangzi's money was also the first to receive the rich family, pick someone to get some reward money, the principal is folded in it, and there is no need to spend money to make a living, although later I got the reward money to smooth out the account, but Qiu Niang lives in Chen's house and eats in Chen's house, and she can't pay nothing, or plan with the two green calyx, the principal of the green calyx, the two people set up an early stall, and the chicken and fish double fresh wontons are sold.
Qiu Niang wants to come to Jinling and has to raise travel expenses, the two have worked hard for more than half a year, regardless of the wind, frost, snow and rain, they have set up a stall, and slowly saved some money, the wedding date of the green calyx is getting closer and closer, and she is getting more and more anxious, Qiu Niang asked her, she said that she didn't want to marry Chen Dalang.
Chen Dalang turned out to be an Ansheng person, when the green calyx was young, it was common for him to be unclear with the girls who bought and sold, Chen Niangzi also cooked two, and the places where they were sold were naturally not good, she was afraid, she was afraid that Chen Niangzi would sell her too.
She is a person who has no one to collect, she doesn't even remember where her hometown is, she was sold by her stepmother, and she was sent out by the Song family, only Chen Niangzi can rely on, she waits like a mother-in-law, she can work since she was a child, and do needlework and tie, she still remembers how Shi Gui saved money, and let her save a sum of money.
Green Calyx followed Qiu Niang to Jinling this time, that is, she escaped, Chen Niangzi took her as a child daughter-in-law, but Chen Dalang's character is really unbearable, he will eat and drink when he comes back, and he will sleep when he is drunk, and he will sleep when he is drunk, and he has been sleeping next to Chen Niangzi, and there has been no one at home, so he didn't come to knock on Green Calyx's door.
When Qiu Niang's green calyx was in a room, and the family's livelihood was broken for two months, Chen Dalang smashed the door with his fist as soon as he was drunk, and the green calyx shrank in the room and shivered, Qiu Niang hugged her, and the two of them shrank on the bed, holding a table and stool against the door, Chen Niangzi scolded two sentences first, and the more he didn't open his mouth later, he couldn't knock it open, and he would go to sleep when he was tired.
Mrs. Chen also wanted to do the marriage for them, so she asked Lu Calyx to be the head lady, and persuaded her: "When he becomes a family, he will take care of it, and he will never do those bastard things again." ”
Green Calyx hung her head and didn't speak, but she was scared in her heart, it turned out that no one was with her, no one dared to be brave, and when there was Qiu Niang, the two of them started business together, there was money in their hands, and they had guts in their stomachs, I don't know when this day was a head, there were few people on the dock who didn't beat their wives, Chen Dalang was good at drinking and gambling, and the lawsuit was because of gambling money, and Green Calyx trembled when he thought of marrying Chen Dalang.
Qiu Niang returned Chen Niangzi's food and lodging silver, saved more than half a year's money, planned to go to Jinling City to find her daughter, packed up her things and prepared to leave, Chen Niangzi also asked her to stay a little longer, ate the green calyx wine and left, the wedding dress was all set, but Chen Dalang was entangled with the girl who had not been taken off after buying it, and closed the door.
Qiu Niang looked at the green calyx and sat on the edge of the bed in a daze, and asked her, "Do you want to come with me?" The green calyx doesn't owe anything to Mrs. Chen, she doesn't owe anything to Mrs. Chen, she doesn't owe any money, and secondly, she has been cooking big and small things in the family for many years, burning the stove, sweeping the yard, buying vegetables and carrying water, everything is green calyx, just to thank her for her containment, and it should be paid back after seven or eight years.
Green Calyx has never had this thought, staring at Qiu Niang with wide eyes, Qiu Niang touched her hair, she is still the age of a little girl, less than fifteen years old, she is going to marry Chen Dalang, don't do business, the family is counting on the old lady's livelihood, if Lu Calyx marries him, this life is over.
Green Calyx didn't think about it, as soon as Qiu Niang's words came out, this idea took root in her heart, but she was reluctant to Chen Niangzi, but she knew in her heart that if she refused to marry Chen Dalang, Chen Niangzi would not be able to tolerate her.
also took the words to ask Mrs. Chen, pulled her sleeve and said that she was afraid of Chen Dalang and wanted to make her a daughter, Mrs. Chen laughed: "If you become a husband and wife, you will not be afraid." ”
The green calyx knew that there was no hope, sat all night, made up his mind to go with Qiu Niang, two stalls are a day, from early morning to evening work to come back, packed up clothes, hid the money saved in the car, put a pot on the top, clothes in the bucket, pushed the car out, pushed all the way to the dock, got on the boat that left the port in the morning, and waited until Chen Niangzi pushed her son to wake up to find it, and the boat had left the port for almost a day.
It is not easy for two women to get on the road, the green calyx made a widow dress, recognized Qiu Niang as a mother, followed her to Jinling City to find her sister, she was only fourteen years old at that time, looked small, there were people on the road to beat their ideas, along the way several times almost encountered danger, the two women were unarmed, tried their best to make up their minds, this journey has been more than a year, just arrived in Jinling.
The green calyx was still afraid that Chen Niangzi would come out to find her, and the two of them hid and hid, stopped and stopped, and when they arrived in Jinling City, they were all exhausted, and they couldn't afford to live in a warm shop for fifteen wen a day.
The last bit of money on the body, all used to do business, did not think that the business of Jinling City is better than other places, Lu Calyx entrusted someone to write a letter, sent a letter to the Song family, afraid that Chen Niangzi sued the official, even did not dare to use her real name, Qiu Niang named her, also surnamed Shi, called Meihua.
Shi Gui didn't expect that the green calyx would have such an encounter, the girls in the courtyard thought that she had made good luck and found relatives at home, Shi Gui had seen Chen Dalang, at that time he was not clear with Yinliu, and after many years, he had not changed his temperament.
She shook Qiu Niang's hand: "Now that it's out, it's fine, and in the future, we will never be separated as a family." Qiu Niang hugged her, her son found it, but her husband didn't know where it was, she thought about Yu Pozi once, gritted her teeth with hatred, and touched Shi Gui's hair: "The Bodhisattva took pity on me, so that I could have such a day, and I will be in one place in the future, and I will not be separated." ”