Li Ziyu walked out of the county office and hurriedly walked towards Yongfu Hall. However, as soon as he walked a short distance, he felt that someone was following him.

She dodged around the corner of an alley, and waited for the people behind to follow up and take a closer look, it turned out to be Zhang Cuihua.

I saw her limping and staggering, and it was very difficult to follow, maybe she suddenly disappeared, she was a little panicked, and she was looking around to find herself.

Li Ziyu walked out of the alley, looked at Zhang Cuihua coldly, and said, "Why follow me?" ”

Zhang Cuihua was startled by Li Ziyu who suddenly appeared, but when she saw that it was Li Ziyu, she breathed a sigh of relief.

Hearing Li Ziyu ask, she lowered her head with shame on her face. After a long time, he said in a hoarse voice: "I know what I did is contemptible, but if it were to happen all over again, I would still do it." ”

After speaking, seeing that Li Ziyu was not impatient, he continued to speak.

"I have two children at home, including my mother-in-law's family of five, but there is one acre of land at home. The food laid every year is only enough for the whole family to eat for half a year.

Thanks to the child's father, who goes out to do odd jobs all year round, he can barely avoid starvation. However, a few days ago, the child's father broke his leg while working, and the only few hundred yuan in the family was not enough to buy medicine, and he owed more than one or two pieces of silver to the villagers.

Today, there was really nothing to eat at home, so my mother-in-law went into the town to sell an ancestral copper bracelet and buy some sorghum noodles to go back. However, after noon, my mother-in-law did not go back. watched the hungry stomachs of the two children, but they were so sensible that they didn't say a word. I had to go to the town to look for my mother-in-law and see why she hadn't come back.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he left the village, he ran into Li Ergou. He promised to give me ten taels of silver if he did as he said. Ten taels! I agreed to him without even thinking about it.

At that time, I even thought that if my mother-in-law really died, she would be able to blackmail you for a sum of money. It's also a worthwhile death. Hehe, Miss Li, do you think I'm ruthless? How can you possibly know the suffering of us little people? If it weren't for the fact that the two children needed me as a mother when they were young, I would have died today. I think it's worth it, a life in exchange for the lives of my two children and the child's father, it's a good deal.

Li Ziyu, I'm not saying this to make you sympathize with me, I just want to tell you that I'm not a ruthless bastard! I can't help it.

I'm mainly kneeling for you today. Thank you for not holding grudges and saving my mother-in-law's life. Please forgive me, and I want to lick my face and beg you not to tell his father about this. ”

Zhang Cuihua said. I really knelt down crookedly, and I was beaten with twenty boards on my body, and I really had the perseverance to hold on until now.

Li Ziyu stopped Zhang Cuihua when she was about to kowtow. And picked her up.

She thought a little weakly. What can she say? Reproach her? Hate her? The two children and the husband are still hungry.

However, Li Ziyu did not dare to agree with her approach.

Li Ziyu sighed and said, "Are you going to give up your mother-in-law's life for ten taels of silver?" That's a human life! ”

"Human life? Hehe" Zhang Cuihua smiled sadly, "Isn't starvation also a human life?" No matter how you die, you die! What's more, one life can save four lives, isn't it cost-effective? If anyone gave me twenty taels of silver so that my two children could live, I would not hesitate to give up my life! What's so hard about that? ”

"Haven't you thought about changing the situation?" Li Ziyu was desolate in her heart, but she asked a little disagree.

"How to change? I also wanted to find a job in a big family. But there is no introduction from someone who knows the bottom, and I can't even pay the intermediate fee. The child's father works and can't eat enough every day. Save the food at the employer's house and take it home for the children, Miss Li, I can't finish talking about it. I just wanted to go and see how my mother-in-law was doing, and give the medicine money to others. My county master may pity me for ten taels of silver and don't want to go back. I just went back to buy some sorghum noodles, and the two children at home were still waiting to eat. ”

As he spoke, he hurried forward, although his steps were still a little unsteady, but this woman's body seemed to be suddenly full of strength, and she walked so firmly.

Zhang Cuihua seemed to forget that Li Ziyu and her were on the same road, and staggered quickly, and arrived at Yongfu Hall after a while.

Of course, Li Ziyu deliberately walked behind her to see if she really came to see her mother-in-law.

Zhang Cuihua and Li Ziyu entered Yongfu Hall one after another, and when Qian Xing and Qian He, apprentices in Yongfu Hall, greeted Li Ziyu, Zhang Cuihua saw Li Ziyu.

"Miss Li!"

"Miss Li!"

As soon as Qian Xing and Qian He said hello, Xiaoshan and they also found Li Ziyu, and ran up after shouting.

"Sister! Are you back? ”

"Sister! You okay? ”

"Sister! Settled? How so? ”

Li Ziyu hugged the two little ones who threw herself into her arms and kissed them, before she said to Xiaoshan, Xiaowen and Xiaowu: "It's okay, don't worry!" ”

As soon as Li Ziyu said this, they were relieved to be in the small mountain that was originally carrying their hearts.

Li Ziyu comforted her younger siblings and asked Qian Kai, who was sitting on the side, "Uncle Qian, how is it?" ”

Qian Kaicheng looked at Li Ziyu, who came back intact, and nodded reassuringly: "It's okay, I've woken up." However, after drinking the medicine, I fell asleep again. It's just that no one from her family has come, so how can she go back? I don't know which village it is, alas, it's really sad. ”

Zhang Cuihua, who had shrunk to the side since she entered the medical hall, saw that they had finished speaking, so she came over.

"Doctor, I'm a family member, what, how much is the medicine money?" Zhang Cuihua said, took out a cloth bag from her arms, took out the silver horn inside tremblingly, and looked at Qian Kai and asked.

Li Ziyu looked at Zhang Cuihua's painful appearance, and couldn't help but sigh in her heart.

As the lowest peasants, their fate was undoubtedly sad in this ancient world where there was no personal guarantee.

Not to mention reading and literacy, even being able to eat enough is also their lifelong pursuit. In order for their children to live, they will not hesitate to give up their lives.

They are not ignorant of the preciousness of life, nor are they ignorant of good and evil. It's just that, in their perception, the lives of their children are above all else.

I'm afraid it's not just this era, no matter what era, in the mother's mind, children are untouchable existences.

Therefore, Zhang Cuihua chose to do evil without hesitation between ten taels of silver and doing evil things.

Qian Kaicheng already knew what had happened, and he couldn't treat Zhang Cuihua well. Seeing that she was digging for money and searching hard, he couldn't help but rush up angrily because he didn't want money, and said, "A pair of medicine is twenty wen, you can pay two hundred wen, take ten pairs first!" ”

"Oops! Give you money! Thank you for taking care of my mother-in-law. Thank you, doctor! Zhang Cuihua gave the money to Qian Yuan, and thanked Qian Kaicheng again and again.

"Humph! Thank me for what? Just go back and be filial to your mother-in-law! This person has only one life, but he can't withstand the deliberate collision of the carriage! ”

Qian Kaicheng thought of the unwarranted disaster that Li Ziyu encountered, and he was angry in his heart, and couldn't help but stab Zhang Cuihua a few words. (To be continued......)