001 Orphans

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Chen Xiang's family regrets this, they can be infected with the epidemic when they go out to buy vegetables, what a good life this must be. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Chen Xiang's family is not surnamed Chen, but married to a second shopkeeper named Chen Xiang, so this person is called Chen Xiang's family.

Chen Xiang's family was surnamed Lu before marriage, and he was a domestic slave in the partial branch of Nanyang Lu, who was sold into the house at the age of six, and followed the second lady in the house at the age of twelve, Lu Zhanyi, and served until the death of Miss Lu Er.

It stands to reason that Miss Lu Er is a serious and good master, gentle to others, able to write and calculate, and after marrying a concubine of the Chen family in the capital, she also manages her family and saves a lot of property.

It's a pity that a corruption case of a cleatery between the factions of the court took away the Chen family's concubine, and Miss Lu Er made a quick decision, and while doing the funeral, she secretly sold the family property in her hands to her mother's family, and planned to take a pair of children back to the Chen family's hometown to guard the ancestral grave.

First, to avoid the covetousness of the Chen family, the tree is good for the shade, but after all, she is a concubine daughter-in-law, and this big tree is not on the same root, there is a fart, her husband is the best example, when she needs to take the blame, she was the first to be dumped, her life is gone, and she is still a fart cold.

Second, go back and forth to get money to open up the joints, flicker and fool the old clan elders who are old-fashioned and only want money, keep it for three years, and give their son a filial piety, isn't it also a way.

Chen Lu's family is also capable in the women's family, but after all, they are women and children in the house, they grew up in the prosperous Nanyang City since they were born, and it is also smooth sailing to marry in the capital, and they have not suffered many sins by relying on the banner of the Chen Mansion to do business, and they have not experienced many obstacles and suffered many crimes, and they have not gone through the wind and waves, and they also know about the things in the temple, and finally they still underestimate the group of rat wolves in the old mansion of the Chen family.

Just went back to a year has been quite flat, Chen Lu with two children and a few old servants to live in the old house arranged by the clan, Chen Lu has always been obedient, in addition to raising children, the original business received a seven, seven, eighty, eight, and one heart at home to the ancestors in the capital Chen Mansion embroidered ornaments, the ancestors believed in Buddhism, Chen Lu changed the pattern to embroider all kinds of scriptures to the ancestors, not far away from the past, back can get some reward back.

Chen Lu knew in his heart that this reward must not have been ordered by the old ancestor, and the scriptures she embroidered were afraid that she didn't even enter the courtyard gate of the old ancestor, and it must have been sent by the old ancestor's subordinates according to the system, but as long as there is still this willingness to deal with the meaning, it is enough for Chen Lu to go around in his hometown.

Chen Lu's clan is holding the old ancestor of Zhangzhou, and at the same time currying favor with the elders of the clan, but unfortunately the Chen family is a bit big, there are a lot of people and a little miscellaneous, and they will all be sent out to break through if they are talented, and there is a group of old, weak, sick and disabled people who are left to play here all day long.

Chen Lushi is a widow with two children, it is difficult for a woman to support, and it is inconvenient to go out with the big hat of filial piety, so there are many inconveniences.

A year later, Chen Lu's only sister-in-law was infected with wind and cold in a spring rain, intermittent and bad, but at this time, the poor relatives in the hometown came to fight the autumn wind several times, and the aunt's wife from the old family came to the door every day to order Chen Lu's daughter-in-law, Chen Lu's moved suspicious, but it was a pity that it was difficult to sing alone, and several rounds finally fell into the wind.

The silver sent into the clan's hometown is like flowing water every month, but every time one thing is solved, one thing is followed, and Chen Lu's family finally understands that this is grinding off her flesh and blood little by little, and when the skeleton is left, she directly serves the stewed soup.

Chen Lushi wanted to leave, but he couldn't move, it was easy to get in and difficult to get out, and there was no man in the family, but there was no pillar.

Chen Lu's family lasted until the beginning of the fifth year, but finally contracted lung disease, and went in a heavy snowfall in winter, and by the way, he also took his son away, leaving a few domestic servants to guard the courtyard.

After Chen Lu's left, the clan quickly reclaimed the courtyard, and the servants fled in all directions, and several of the old servants were not found, and Chen Lu's concubine disappeared with them.

Chen Xiang's family is one of the servants who escaped, it stands to reason that Chen Xiang's family is the Lu family's servants, and it is not up to the Chen family to stay or stay, but who let the courtyard of Chen Lu's family turn over the bottom and not find a dime of silver, Chen Xiang's family and another old housekeeper have become the most wanted criminals in the Chen family.

Chen Xiang's family was bitter, seeing that they had fled back to the border counties outside Zhangzhou, the silver tickets and seals hidden in the baggage, and Chen Lu's family letters were just as bad as letting her hide them all the way and bring them back.

There is also the only daughter of Chen Lu's family, Chen Mintao, who is only a little over six years old, and when she first went to the Chen family's old house, she was only a little younger, and she followed herself all the way, from Miss Jiao to a wood-burning girl, dressed in tatters and guarded by the bed, and when she woke up, she immediately pulled a hand towel with water, wiped her face and hands, and was well-behaved and sensible.

Chen Xiang's family couldn't hold back, and a line of tears slipped into the placket of his clothes along the corners of his eyes, "Girl, the old woman is useless, I want to send you back to Beijing, but I didn't want to get sick until now, and the old woman is afraid that she won't be able to finish this last journey... Chen Xiang's mouth was dry, and the saliva eased down, she still had a lot to explain, her mind was messy, her head was dizzy, and she didn't know where to explain for a while, "My family is the second shopkeeper of the Chen family cloth shop on the mine street, my eldest son is an apprentice in it, it turns out that I am the only one left in the Lu family's domestic servant, you enter the house to find a way to find my eldest son, he will be able to help you contact the relationship of the Lu family in Zhangzhou, Chen Mansion originally got close to the lady is the third lady in the second room of the Yan Branch, if you have a request for her, for the sake of the lady's face, She will be able to help one or two, your grandmother, the old lady of our third room is also from Nanyang, although she will not be too close to you, and she will not kill you for no reason, if you can, please her and live in her yard, our third room lady is a mean and calculating, you avoid her, you will be in the Chen Mansion in the future, you must not fight with other young masters and young ladies, you have to retreat, because you have no roots, you don't retreat, you have to suffer, Mrs. dragged me, asked me to send you back, my wife is useless, it is at the door of the house, But ......"

Chen Xiang's strong face was dizzy and nauseous, and he searched his stomach to talk about the relationship in the house to the little girl by the bed over and over again, no matter whether she remembered it or not, Chen Xiang's family didn't say less along the way, and I don't know which ones were repeated and which ones were not said, and sometimes they could say their surnames, not to mention the intricate network of relationships in the big house, but Chen Xiang's family couldn't take care of it anymore, she wrote a letter home all the way to a place, and it was a month since she arrived in Zhangzhou, and she hadn't seen anyone pick it up. She had fled all the way, trembling, at this moment to the end of the crossbow, no doubt, no doubt, the family must have suffered a change, so she hurriedly searched the intestines and hung the capital, while there was still a breath, the bamboo tube poured beans like a brain forced to the little girl sitting on the side of the bed.

The little girl listened quietly and obediently, sometimes handing water to change hand towels, and taking care of the hour, decocting medicine to Chen Xiang's family, Chen Xiang's family watched her grow up, never dressed in brocade and food, but also made the slave and maid grow up, the first time she waited for someone, she was worried in her heart, and there was no weight in her hand, and the medicine was decoctioned when it was good and bad, but she did her best, because she knew ignorantly in her heart that this Chen Xiang's housekeeper's mother was her only reliance in the end.

Chen Xiang's family looked at her so well-behaved, although the wife at home was partial to her son, but she was also a baby daughter, how could she have suffered such a crime, and she still hurt from childhood to adulthood, she couldn't bear it, the more she talked, the more sleepy she became, the old tears were rampant, and she dragged her hand like a return to the light, not letting her leave the bedside, but she couldn't breathe when she opened her mouth, and she couldn't make a sound.

When Chen Mintao saw it, she was anxious, pulled away Chen Xiang's hand, turned around and ran out, to find the cow doctor on the other street, Chen Xiang's family lost her breath at the moment she ran out of the courtyard door, and the last sentence she spit out was as light as a piece of paper, floating in the empty room, so that the sun was shining, and there was no ash left.

A quarter of an hour later, Chen Mintao dragged Dr. Niu back to the yard, Dr. Niu glanced at the bed and shook his head and sighed, seeing that Chen Mintao was crying pitifully, and hurriedly left without asking for the outpatient fee.

Chen Mintao was left in front of the corpse and an empty room, cried for an hour, fell asleep, woke up at midnight, ignorant and didn't know how to put his hands and feet, took a piece of the leftover scallion pancake from the table and chewed it coldly, hard teeth, but silently chewed without saying a word, just chewed half of it and felt weak hands and feet, slowly fell down and fell asleep.

After less than half an hour, the courtyard jumped into two black shadows one after the other, and went straight to the inner room, one person took out the rope and tied Chen Mintao with light hands and feet, and packed it directly into the bag, while the other person searched the body of Chen Xiang's family on the bed from the beginning of entering the house, and the more he searched, the more irritable he became, and he didn't even turn out a silver horn after a long time.

Black Shadow Armor spoke, "No silver? ”

Black Shadow B, "Impossible, flip it over again!" This dead old mother and a beautiful little girl, the dog slave surnamed Chen are so worried that there must be a mountain of silver hidden in their bodies! ”

Black Shadow Armor, "If you want to say that the silver mountain is not necessarily, I guess that they are afraid that something will fall into the hands of this old woman, so they hurriedly asked us to intercept it here!" If there is only Yinshan, he would not have come up and intercepted it himself, why should he ask our brothers to take over this transaction, when did the surnamed Chen do the thing of giving away favors for nothing? ”

Black Shadow B obviously hesitated, "If you want to say that, it makes sense... Oh no, I fell for the trick surnamed Chen, he hinted that there must be oil and water to be fished in this business, I'm afraid that the oil and water are fake, and the handle is true, our brothers are on the way of others! ”

The black hard armor said again, "Okay, it's not, I don't think this old mother and the little girl will have any origins, otherwise it won't be the turn of the dog slave surnamed Chen to cook, anyway, I also accepted him a piece of silver, and the things promised him were also done, and this little girl can also have a head if he resells it, and our brothers are not without a head in the territory of Zhangzhou, if they really go away, they will be counted as a bunch of two and five to the head of the surname Chen." ”

The two of them laughed, and sounded extremely cautious in the dark night, and after the idea was agreed, the two of them were unconvinced to scrape the walls and cabinets in the house, and finally found the silver in the crack of the loose brick.

Black Shadow rubbed the silver in his palm, and snorted, "Why am I talking so little, the rush is to ask people to cut off their beards, the old immortal surnamed Niu, sure enough, sold more than our news!" The search in this house is called a clean one, and we didn't even leave a piece of it with words! A mouthful of spit spewed out, and he cursed fiercely.

Black Shadow Armor sighed, "It seems that there is really nothing left, yes, buddy is here to admit it, anyway, there is a girl, I see that this old mother is a servant, this little girl is the master, maybe she still has goods on her, go, take it back and toss it slowly." ”

In the dark, Black Shadow B nodded, then hid the silver he had found, and Chen Mintao opened the courtyard door on his back and ran away, while Black Shadow Armor closed the door from the inside and jumped out of the wall again.

There was a loud sound outside the street, the moon was not round or bent, and a corner peeked out of the black clouds, and through the cracks in the windows, there was a light in the deserted room.

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