When Li Shi heard these words, his heart was like a knife, and tears fell like beads of broken threads.

Mama Fan hurriedly asked the two mothers-in-law to step back, took out a piece of silk and handed it to Li's: "Madam, don't be sad, you don't know the old lady's temper." It's been all these years, and my uncle treats you so well, let's live our own life seriously, no matter what others say! ”

She glanced at the pile of things that had been returned, and took out a pair of women's shoes with fragrant clouds, rice beads, embroidered with five-color auspicious clouds, and the words "Nothing else, only these shoes were embroidered by Mrs. for the old lady with a needle and a thread, and how many thoughts are in it." It's a shame that it's dirty with muddy water. ”

Before he could say a word, Li became more and more sad. Mama Fan raised her hand and gave herself a mouth in annoyance: "Look at this old mouth, I can't speak more and more, and my wife is even more sad." ”

But not to mention that Mama Fan was carefully comforting Li Shi outside, and Qing Dai, who was playing with clothes and climbing inside, pricked up her ears to hear these words, and couldn't help but be very surprised and angry: Who is so presumptuous and dares to be so contemptuous and teach a lesson to his mother?

It turned out that this old lady was Lai's father. This old man Li is named Zhang, but he has been a son of Hongwu for three years, but he has repeatedly failed since he was lifted, and he has no choice but to become a doctor of official science and teach for 20 years. Because of his solid knowledge and uprightness, he was recommended as a county school teacher. Every year, he received dozens of stones of rice and grain, and he became an official seriously. Since then, he has opened his mouth for "etiquette and benevolence" and closed his mouth for "the teachings of the saints". It's just that I didn't let people engrave a few golden words "I am a saint" on the door of their heads.

Just because Mrs. Li only gave birth to a daughter that year, there was no news. Old lady Li was bold and took it for granted that she spent five hangs to buy a concubine. He gave birth to another son, named Li Ruchuan. It's just that Li Zhang's income is already meager, and a family of three can survive frugally, and if there are two more people, they will be a little stretched. Li Zhang hugged his son to Mrs. Li's room, turned around and sold the concubine to a passing cloth merchant.

At that time, Li Haizhu was still young, and she was very envious of the sold Erniang, who could eat enough in other people's homes, so she could have meat to eat. You don't have to look at the only bowl of meat on the table at home that can only be your father's, and the others can't even see the broth. If the mother wants to buy three chickens for the child to eat, the father will denounce it as "greedy for appetite", and the mother, who has always regarded her husband as the sky, does not even dare to complain.

When Li Haizhu grew up, her stunning appearance attracted countless courtesy. Old man Li only has the word "official" in his eyes, but he really hopes that the dowry will be more generous so that he can keep it for his son to marry. So compared the quantity to the quantity, and picked up Sun Zhangyang. Although Sun Zhangyang is just a move, he is young and smart, and his future is limitless. is also the dowry of the Sun family, but it is far beyond other families. Near the Slender West Lake, there is a house with a garden, a rice grain shop, a silk shop, and gold and silver utensils that cannot be folded for one or 20,000 taels of silver. Even Li Haizhu's dowry was arranged by the Sun family. also bought Li Haizhu two grandmothers, four-room family members, and eight dowry girls. Master Li didn't even have to handle the banquet to send his daughter out of the pavilion, and he also made a big bet of wealth, which is really heartfelt. Turning his head to think that it was not the work of a scholar to run a shop for profit, he sold the two shops for 18,000 taels in a row, and kept the silver tightly in his own hands. There is no living money for the shop, and he complains about why the Sun family didn't give a Zhuangzi in the first place.

Unexpectedly, after his daughter got married, Sun Zhang Yang decided to abandon his career and concentrate on business. made Master Li tremble with anger and scolded his son-in-law for being "willing to be obscene". rushed to Sun's house to bring his daughter home and marry again. If it weren't for Li Haizhu's death to fight and say, "Martyrs don't marry second husbands", this old Taoist had nothing to say, and he was really distressed about the dowry that he wanted to spit out, so he flicked his sleeves: "Our Li family is a scholarly heirloom, and we don't associate with pawns and peddlers!" Since then, I have no relatives of yours! From then on, he held the shelf and never interacted with the Sun family again.

Li Haizhu felt sorry for her mother's age, and she had to take care of the housework herself, and left one of the bride mothers bought by the Sun family at home before getting married, so that her mother would have less hard work. was reprimanded by Li Zhang: "It is a natural duty for a woman to be in charge of the middle feed, how can she be indulgent and disgusting, greedy for pleasure!" My family never feeds people who eat rice for nothing. Leave this mother-in-law at home, and give her an extra chew grain, and send her away quickly! Li Haizhu had no choice but to give up, knowing that the money in his father's hand was to be brought out of the money, and his mother didn't even want to see the shadow. Every once in a while, when the old master Li was not at home, he secretly sent some food and money to his mother, so that his mother could relax in her hands. It's just that he was accidentally discovered by Li Zhang, and he wanted to make a thunderous blow. He suspected that the copper stench of the Sun family had polluted the nobility of his Li family.

Li Haizhu thought that at her mother's age, she had worked hard all her life and fell ill, and now she doesn't know when she will be relieved. Look at Mama Fan is still dressed in satin, and the hairpin rings on her head are still gold. In the Sun family, it is Mama Fan, and there is a little girl serving, Pingsuli, which food and clothing are not good! The number of times the poor mother eats meat in a year is limited, and her life is not as good as that of Mama Fan! What's more, if the mother's illness can't be well recuperated, I'm just afraid

The more Li Haizhu thought about it, the more sad she became, and she couldn't help but pull out a handkerchief to cover her mouth and sob. Although Sun Zhangyang and others have been repeatedly persuaded by others, as long as they think of their mother, they are naturally lonely, and they have not been interested in it for many years.