Fifth Brother Xia has had a good time in the past two years, and now this small courtyard with three entrances was also newly bought last year. Although it was purchased by a businessman, he was also a scholar, and he was also a scholar, and he was also promoted when he was young. But because there was no one to support him in the officialdom, he was quite unsatisfactory. So he changed careers and started a business, not wanting to do it well.

Because of this, this small courtyard was cleaned up very elegantly by the previous owner. The outer courtyard was used as the fifth brother's study and hospitality place, and I listened to Xiao Xia's mother-in-law's construction yì planted a small gourd stand in the corner of the front hall, taking the meaning of its blessing, and sometimes drinking wine with three or two colleagues and chatting under the vine, which is also a pleasure.

A small garden was also built in the middle courtyard. The fifth sister-in-law added a lot of flowers and trees at four o'clock, which was also exquisite and elegant. If the fifth brother sets up a banquet in summer, it is mostly here.

Because the fifth brother has few masters, he usually sets meals in the fifth sister-in-law's room. After the light rain came, I felt that the room was stuffy, and it happened that the autumn was crisp at this time, so I often put the rice in the small courtyard.

The woman thought that she rushed in through the side door, but at this time she had been grabbed by the princess of the outer courtyard and was dragging her out.

As soon as Xiaoyu shouted, the woman knelt on the ground and howled: "The girl has asked me to speak, don't drag me anymore." ”

Hearing this, Xiaoyu hurriedly stood in front of the fifth brother and looked at the woman curiously. But I saw that she was twenty-seven or eight years old, and her clothes were very plain, wearing an indigo gown, and only a silver earring on both ears. It's just that at this time, the clothes and hair are torn out of shape. The princess ignored her, and held her arm, waiting for the fifth brother and sister-in-law to speak so that she could be kicked out.

The fifth sister-in-law saw that she was busy and asked Zhong Min to take Xiaoyu to the back.

Xiaoyu was pulled out by Zhong Min, and faintly heard the fifth brother say to the woman: "What grievances does this sister-in-law have, why don't you go to the government office to complain? Why did you run to my house?"

Xiaoyu hurriedly grabbed Zhong Min: "Sister Zhong, let's hide here and listen to what they say." ”

Where Zhong Min is willing to listen to her, he will pull her to the back house. Xiaoyu looked at her angrily and said, "Why are you so stupid, you don't know how to die in the future." ”

Zhong Min couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, and Xiaoyu took the opportunity to run back and hide at the base of the wall to eavesdrop.

When the woman heard this, she wept and said, "I just want justice, and I don't want my man to be arrested by the county lord to beat the board." ”

The fifth brother sighed, stroked his chin and said, "Sister-in-law, it's better to go to the county master, I'm just a secretary, and I don't dare to care about these things." Even if I take care of it, your husband may not be willing to listen to me. If the old man knows, he will sentence me to be nosy, and I will be dismissed from my position as a secretary, and my family will have an old snack. ”

When the woman heard this, she also felt that there was some truth in this, and she couldn't help but turn her head to look at the fifth sister-in-law again.

The fifth sister-in-law hurriedly shook her head: "I'm just an inner house woman, how can I give you justice, you better go to the county master." ”

The woman stayed for a long time, but she didn't know what to do, and for a moment tears fell from her eyes.

When the princess saw her and dragged her out, the woman wept, "Even if you can't give me justice, it's good to give me an idea." ”

Seeing that she was pitiful, Xiaoyu turned back to Zhong Min who came with her and whispered, "That woman is very pitiful, and she doesn't know where her home is, if she wants to ask for something, she should come to me." After that, he sighed as if he was in shape.

Zhong Min only snorted softly when he heard this.

After a while, the princess came back and said, "I have driven the woman away." I told the porter to be careful, and it seemed that he was going to the county office. ”

The fifth brother shook his head, it was getting late at this time, and he didn't know if the county master would be promoted. Thinking about it, it would be better to go and see, the fifth sister-in-law hurriedly grabbed him, snorted at the princess and asked, "Seeing that woman looks like a backstreet merchant, do you know what happened to make it like this?"

Mrs. Wang pursed her lips: "It's not from their family, we all call her Sister-in-law Chen, and her maiden name is Wang." Now the merchant is clamoring to divorce his wife. ”

Xiaoyu was taken aback when she heard this, and looked back at Zhong Min to speak again, Zhong Min thought she was croaking, and hurriedly raised her index finger: "Shhhh

Xiaoyu had to turn her head. I heard the fifth sister-in-law ask: "How can this be, didn't she give birth to a son? ”

Then the princess replied, "But that's not it, alas." The merchant Chengri's family was selling goods outside, and the family was handed over to this daughter-in-law. She is also a very strong and capable one in the neighborhood on weekdays, and she thinks that the merchant hooked up with a widow outside. ”

Xiaoyu's eyes widened when she heard this, and she hurriedly looked back at Zhong Min. Zhong Min was also taken aback, but she and her father traveled north and south since she was a child, but she didn't think that Xiaoyu couldn't hear such a thing. Xiaoyu muttered to Zhong Min: "What do you want my fifth brother to do with such a thing, you have to find the father and mother of that stinky man." ”

The princess continued: "She can't get along with her in-laws every day, in fact, she is not a bad person, but she is too spicy and strong." The man is not around, and there are some things at home that she can't do as a woman, so it is inevitable that she will have some resentment, and her mouth will not be very good. We often hear her in-laws complaining outside, and this time it comes out that her in-laws are naturally reluctant to help her. ”

Xiaoyu pursed her lips when she heard this, turned around and said to Zhong Min: "It's easy to do something like this, just find your mother's brother to beat him." ”

He mysteriously approached Zhong Min and said, "I heard my mother tell my father, during the Chinese New Year this year, you will recognize my brothers as brothers." In the future, if you are bullied at your in-laws' house, just come to our house to find my brothers, hmph, make sure to beat them all over the ground to find teeth. ”

Zhong Min was embarrassed when he heard this, and hurriedly pointed inside, and Xiaoyu turned his head with a smile.

But I heard the princess continue: "She only thinks about her own life in her life, but whenever there is something in her mother's family, she hides it, that is, a few days ago, her brother married his daughter, and almost made a dowry with some money, so she was stunned and refused to help her." Alas, it was all self-made. How can you live so alone!"

Xiaoyu scratched her head, she had no idea for a while, and said to Zhong Min: "Why don't you take her son to the county government to cry?"

The fifth sister-in-law sighed when she heard this: "It's only the child who suffers." ”

Mrs. Wang shook her head: "Madam, don't you know that she is very doting on her children. was so spoiled that he didn't know that the sky was high and the earth was thick, and he refused to help her at all. Her son, who was also eight or nine years old, actually helped his father and said: Which man does not have three wives and four concubines? Listen to what the son said to his mother. She is also at a dead end, otherwise she can't ask to come to our house. ”

The fifth brother shook his head when he heard this, and teased the fifth sister-in-law and said: "In my opinion, you are even more powerful than the head catcher in that county. I'd better go to the county office. ”

Zhong Min pulled Xiaoyu and walked to the backyard, and said as he walked, "You don't have any ideas." ”

Xiaoyu snorted and said, "Why not, I simply let the merchant take a concubine." In the future, let the little concubine serve her in-laws, and she followed the merchant out to sell goods. ”

"Aren't you afraid that the concubine will harm her child?"

"Then it's okay to get together, I think she is a willing worker, although she is old, if she can learn a lesson and marry someone in the future, she will definitely live better than this merchant's family." ”

Zhong Min couldn't help sneering when she heard this: "She has been abandoned like this, where can she marry a good family." ”

Xiaoyu shook her head: "Although this world is difficult, it is not that there is no way to live. It's just up to her to see if she can be ruthless. ”

"I saw that the woman was at the end of her rope. ”

"I think the merchant is on the road to a dead end. ”

"Humph!"

"Humph!"

"What are you two arguing about?" the fifth sister-in-law's voice suddenly sounded behind her.

Frightened, the two of them hurriedly silenced, and suddenly said in unison: "Oops, I forgot to eat because I was so noisy." After that, the two looked at each other and couldn't help but laugh again.

The fifth sister-in-law shook her head when she saw it, and hurriedly asked people to heat up the meal, and several people just ate it.

After a few days, I heard from the fifth brother that the county lord had been sentenced, but the Wang family refused to let the merchant take a concubine, and finally the two had to separate.

Xiaoyu praised the Wang family for being ambitious.

Zhong Min said that the Wang family had only one way to die.

Xiaoyu said that the merchant's house was a dead end.

After a few more days, the merchant married the widow and entered the door, and within a little more than a month, he heard that the son had been beaten badly. The queen mother can always catch his mistakes, either disrespectful or stubborn, and she doesn't do it herself, just looking for the merchant to teach him.

The son also knew the benefits of his mother at this time, and went to find the Wang family several times. The Wang family can't either, her father teaches her son a lesson, and she has nothing to say.

When the fifth sister-in-law heard this, she sighed with Mrs. Wang and said, "If there is a stepmother, there will be a stepfather." ”

Mrs. Wang also nodded and said, "That's not the case." ”

After the newlywed, the merchant went out to sell goods again, and the stepmother became more and more ruthless, but she was very kind to her in-laws and stepsons in front of her, so that people couldn't find the slightest mistake. The merchant's parents also had hardships, and the son was even more frightened by the beating, so he slowly became disciplined. The neighbors were amazed when they saw it.

After another two months, the Wang family married again with a dowry, although he was not very willing, but there was no way. I can't always stay in my mother's house, but this time I married a widower and had a few acres of thin land. Because of the death of his parents, the neighbors passed on his life to defeat his parents, wife and children. Then the Wang family has nothing to pick, this good guy is still good. If you just kill yourself like this, it will be a relief, and you will be relieved from her, so you will get married.

By the time Xiaoyu and the others went home for the New Year, the merchant's new daughter-in-law had been pregnant for more than three months, and even the Wang family heard that she was also pregnant.

Neither Xiaoyu nor Zhong Min guessed correctly.

This year, the New Year of the Xia family is really lively, although the sixth brother is missing, but Zhong Min and the second brother's friends have been added, and the seventh brother has come back from the house. Xiaoyu followed behind Brother Qi and kept asking what the Fengxiang Mansion was like. The seventh brother gave Xiaoyu the novelty knick-knacks and trinkets he bought in the house.

Later, the second brother went to the forest to hunt a few times, and finally got the fox skin that Xiaoyu wanted.

The Fang family gave another New Year's gift as usual this year, and specially prepared one for Xiaoyu, which was not unusual, but it was just some brocade jewelry. Xiao Xia's mother-in-law teased Xiaoyu and said: "Now I will use your brothers to prepare a dowry for you, just these objects, ten miles and eight villages are unique." ”

The mother-in-law who accompanied her was Xue Gongzi's own subordinate, and she was also very polite, and she must personally greet Lao Xia and Xiao Xia: "What our young master ordered, we must ask the two wives to say goodbye." ”

is also a well-spoken person, and praised several brothers of the Xia family as dragons and phoenixes among people: "I have never seen such a sensible good child, everyone is so outstanding, filial piety, and etiquette." Both of them are blessed men. ”

When Xiao Xia heard this, she couldn't help but praise Xue Gongzi, Fang Gongzi, and Wu Gongzi.

The woman said, "Alas, don't you know, my uncle's wife has had a very bad year. Young Master, you also saw it that day, alas!"