Chapter Twenty-Eight: Mess
Su Ximei distributed a few cooking cakes to Grandma Luo, who was guarding the door, and then the two girls walked towards the house with a smile and a big basket of cooking cakes, Tong Hai watched the figures of their master and servant disappear behind the corner gate before rushing to Tong's house in a carriage. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
The Tong family lives in a small remote village outside the South City Gate, and a large family of more than a dozen people is very poor.
The Tong family has three people, and the uncle has three sons and four daughters, and Tong Hai is the youngest son of the long house. But one of his two older brothers had his leg broken and the other had a fever that burned out his brain. Two of the four daughters of the long house were married, and two were not married.
The second room is the first room where Tong's mother is located, and the second master of the second room passed away early, and there is only one child in Tong Ming, that is, Tong's mother's husband and Tong Hai's third brother. Since the Tong family couldn't find a job in the capital, Tong Ming took his two sons to other places to make a living, and would send back some wages every six months to subsidize the family.
But the old lady of the Tong family passed away and spent a lot of money and owed a lot of foreign debts. Tong Hai's father soon became seriously ill, but the three-room uncle's family was clamoring to split up, occupying the only acre of land in the Tong family and saying that he wanted to support his grandmother.
The burden of a large family fell on Tong's mother and Tong Hai. After Tong's mother was kicked out of the Lingwang Mansion, the long house and the second room relied on Tong Hai's wages to work at the dock.
Tong Hai had already returned to the village at this time, but he parked the carriage at the edge of the ridge and did not go home.
He stood on the ridge of the field and stared fixedly at the carriage parked at the edge of the field, his eyes unconsciously sour, and his eyes moistened.
Last year, when the eldest lady learned that his father was seriously ill, she paid for this carriage for him.
Although this village is on the outskirts of the capital, the road into the village is sandwiched between narrow roads, in case of heavy rain, the rocks will slide, so few people usually come, unless a lot of money begging, the doctor in the city is willing to take this trip.
His father was bedridden and could not have taken him to the city without the carriage.
It seems that there is a destiny in the dark!
If it weren't for the carriage, he wouldn't have had the opportunity to take Miss Seven out of the house to run errands, let alone get such a good errand.
The eldest lady's great kindness and Miss Seven regard him as a friend from the bottom of their hearts, and he must repay this kindness well, and he will never let Miss Seven down.
And those traitors and villains who killed the eldest lady will get retribution sooner or later!
"Yo, the sixth brother is back?" A peasant woman came over with a flat pole on her shoulder.
Tong Hai rubbed the corners of his sour eyes, saw the person clearly, and called "fifth sister-in-law" expressionlessly.
The fifth sister-in-law, Fan, is the daughter-in-law of the youngest son of the third master in the third room.
Fan approached, and when he saw that his eyes were red, he pursed his lips and smiled.
"The sixth brother went to work at the dock today and was wronged again, right?" She said with schadenfreude in her tone, "Also, it's not easy to do anything now, besides, it's working on the dock, I heard that there are many people waiting to work on the dock every day, and the sixth brother is working hard, and he has to work to support two people and take care of your bedridden father, I feel aggrieved for you when I think about it." ”
In the past, the Tong family had Zhao's care, and the family's livelihood was also prosperous, and at that time, the people in the third room were trying to please Tong's mother, and the third master of the third room and his two sons could also find a good job. But later, there was no Zhao family, although the eldest lady of the Xiangfu was interested in the Tong family, but the people in the third room thought that with the Zheng family doing things behind their backs, the Tong family would not have a good time in the future.
Therefore, the people in the third room occupied the only acre of fertile land of the Tong family on the grounds of supporting the great-grandmother, and they were still clamoring to split the family.
In the eyes of the third room, it was the mother of the second room who affected them, and the three boys of the big room were inseparable from the fact that they had worked as helpers in the prime minister's house.
In the final analysis, this is also a fact, so the Tong family finally separated, but only the third room was separated, and the big room and the second room still lived together.
Tong Hai had some complaints about the three rooms in his heart, and a good family finally became like that, and he was forced to split up.
Some people in the village couldn't look down and stood up for their big house and second room, but the third room, as a blood relative of the Tong family, stepped on them when they were in trouble, and wanted to drive them all out of the house, such relatives had already made him feel cold.
So when Tong Hai listened to Fan's mockery of their big room and second room with a gun and stick, he replied unceremoniously.
"As a junior of the Tong family, I should take on the burden of taking care of the family. But there is one thing I'm afraid that the fifth sister-in-law is mistaken, I haven't worked as a coolie at the dock for a long time! The seventh lady of the Prime Minister's Mansion looked up to me and paid me ten taels of silver a month. Speaking of this, Tong Hai paused for a moment, and looked at the Fan's surprised expression, "I plan to move to the city with the people in the big house and the second room, and your third room is no longer our Tong family, so let's live by guarding this acre of land!" ”
Ten years of silver in a month?
This acre of land is not worth this money all year round!
Fan was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth, and Tong Hai had already jumped into the carriage and drove the horse to the ancestral house.
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The sun was still shining this morning, but it was drizzling in the afternoon, and it didn't stop until the evening.
The wind is mixed with a hint of coolness, and the air is also full of rich humidity.
Su De rested at the fifth aunt Jin Caidie tonight, and the Zheng family would not bother with his own interests, but he couldn't swallow this breath in his heart.
Earlier, in the flower pavilion, the servant woman listened to Jin Caidie's instigation and shouted about the seven girls.
A singer who scratches her head and poses dares to go against her blatantly! Sooner or later, this account will have to be settled!
As long as he thought of Jin Caidie's foxy goblin appearance, Zheng unconsciously clenched his fists, and his eyes showed a touch of ruthlessness.
"Mother, I originally thought that my father would blame her for the dead girl's private trip to the Lingwang Mansion, but I didn't expect that in the end, she picked up a big bargain in vain." Su Xin gritted her teeth while tasting the bird's nest and said, "It's good now, everyone in the house knows that the dead girl is my father's bloodline, and I won't be able to bully people in the house in the future." ”
Zheng listened to his daughter's unconvinced tone, but he didn't care, slowly let go of his fist, and raised his eyes to look over.
"That girl is just trying to make a good life for herself, no matter how much she tosses her mind, it's nothing more than food and clothing, we don't need to take people like her to heart." There was a hint of sarcasm on Zheng's lips, "What if the people in the mansion know that she is born to the master?" A girl without her biological mother by her side poses no threat. ”
"What do you mean - can anyone be a threat to us?" When Su Xin heard this, she hurriedly put down the silver spoon in her hand, and her eyes immediately widened when she looked at Zheng.
With their mother's status in the Prime Minister's Mansion today, who else would pose a threat to them?