I'm very sorry, Xiaocun hasn't been updated in the past few days because of too many things, and I kneel down to beg for your understanding.

As she spoke, a thirty-four-five-year-old woman wearing an indigo oblique muslin jacket and black muslin pants blew over like a gust of wind, and bowed to Li Ziyu and his party with a smile, as if she had not seen relatives for a hundred years.

Li Ziyu looked at Mrs. Zhang's familiar behavior, and smiled slightly: "Mrs. Zhang, what kind of goods do you have here?" I'd like to buy a few maids, and if there's a suitable one, I'll want to introduce them. ”

When Mrs. Zhang heard this, her rectangular face turned into a flower, and she hurriedly instructed her man, saying, "Go quickly, be in charge, call out a few good goods in the house, and let the young ladies and young masters pick and choose." ”

"Hey!" The man agreed, and hurried to the backyard.

Only then did Li Ziyu have the opportunity to observe the courtyard pattern of Mrs. Zhang's house and found that it was a courtyard with six main houses. The middle of the front yard is very spacious at a glance, there is no building, but a wing room is built against the east wall, and people can be seen walking inside. There seem to be a lot of houses in the backyard, but I can't see what the pattern is.

After a while, a few neatly dressed and clean little girls came from the backyard, and they stood in the yard in a proper manner, with low eyebrows and worried waiting to be selected by the employer.

Li Ziyu looked at these little girls one by one, carefully studied their expressions, and picked out five little girls from them. After thinking about it, it is very likely that the family will buy land in the suburbs of Beijing in the future, and should buy a few more farmers who can take care of the crops, so he asked Mrs. Zhang: "Do you have any croppers here who can farm?" ”

"Yes, yes, yes. I'll have everything here, and I'll have a lot of people who can farm. When Mrs. Zhang saw that Li Ziyu was still buying other people, she couldn't close her mouth happily. He hurriedly ordered the old man to go and call the new family who had arrived yesterday and all the other people who could farm the land.

After a while, a group of men and women in relatively neat clothes came from the backyard, ranging in age from sixteen or seventeen to forty or fifty. These people stood in the courtyard with a little restraint, with apprehension and hope on their faces.

It's just that before Li Ziyu could ask carefully, he heard a sudden voice from the crowd, "Xiaoyu? Are you Xiaoyu? I was wrong, be merciful and let me go back! He said. A thin-faced woman stumbled up and knelt in front of Li Ziyu with a "plop". Before she could see what the woman looked like, two more men ran out of the crowd. knelt behind the woman and kowtowed to Li Ziyu together.

Xiaoshan and Xiaowen glanced at each other, and a sneer appeared on their faces, as if they were not surprised.

Li Ziyu listened to the woman's voice and was a little familiar. Take a closer look. It turned out to be Ma from Yangcaogouzi Village, that is, Du Qingjiang's wife. Kneeling behind her were none other than Du Qingjiang and his son Du Wangcai. It's just that at this moment, the family of three looks a little embarrassed, not to mention the tattered clothes on their bodies, their faces are yellow and thin, their cheekbones are prominent, and their expressions are sluggish, as if they have suffered a great disaster.

Li Ziyu couldn't help frowning and asked, "Are you the uncle of the Du family?" How did you end up here? ”

It's no wonder that Li Ziyu feels strange. Since she returned home from the capital, after the war. She is bent on promoting the corn husk weaving process that she knows in modern times, and the people in Lijiazhuang and Yangcaogouzi Village are all in charge of Chai Bin, and she really doesn't know about the departure of the Ma family.

Ma Shi knelt on the ground and cried, ashamed and didn't dare to look up at Li Ziyu, he drooped his head and pleaded: "Xiaoyu, I was wrong, I shouldn't covet the thousand taels of silver, I shouldn't be ungrateful, I'm not human, please spare me for the sake of our village, let us go back with you." I don't dare any more, I promise to return the thousand taels of silver when I go back, and I beg you to let us go back. ”

Du Qingjiang knelt behind Ma Shi and said nothing in shame, his head stuck in his crotch, trembling and kowtowing. Du Wangcai cowered and knelt behind his father, his face was a dead gray.

Li Ziyu glanced at the Ma family and didn't understand what they meant. And the 1,000 taels, when did they lend 1,000 taels of silver to the Du family, or did they steal 1,000 taels of silver from their own family? What's going on?

Xiaoshan and Xiaowen walked over and stood behind their sister, Xiaoshan whispered angrily in Li Ziyu's ear: "Sister, don't pay attention to her, they are to blame, no wonder others." ”

Seeing that her sister was looking at them inexplicably, Xiaowen sneered and said, "Sister, do you know? Didn't this family live in our house when the Liao army came over? I don't know how she found out that the 1,000 taels of silver tickets hidden on the beams of our old house were secretly taken for herself. Later, the villagers settled in Lijia Village, and after you went to the capital, the family actually proposed to leave Lijia Village and make a living independently. Originally, this was nothing, but what made people wonder was that after they left, they couldn't wait to buy a lot of high-end clothes in Zhangkou Town, and ate and drank in the restaurant, like they made a fortune, can they not be targeted? As a result, the 1,000 taels of silver tickets were gone, not to mention, and people were knocked out and sold to people's teeth, what do you say this is not retribution? “

Only then did Li Ziyu suddenly remember the 1,000 taels of silver tickets he had hidden in the old mansion. Thinking of their kindness in taking them in, but their actions of revenge, my heart was cold, and I looked at them coldly and kowtowed, with no expression on my face.

Ma Shi cried so much, it was really unbearable to look back on the period of being wantonly insulted, frightened, scared, and dark, and regretted that his intestines were blue, and he kept kowtowing and crying: "Xiaoyu, I was wrong, you forgive me, please help me for the sake of us being a villager!" Woo・・・・・・"

Ma really regretted it, and he knew that he would not be greedy. Thinking that he really lost his conscience, Xiaoyu kindly contained his own family, but when he found the cloth bag taken out by the mouse on the roof and opened it to see that it was a thousand taels of silver tickets, he was overjoyed and put it in his arms without thinking about it. One thousand taels, my family can't earn so much money in two lifetimes, can you blame yourself for being greedy? However, who knows that if you have money and will suffer bad luck before you can enjoy it, is this retribution?

Li Ziyu looked at the blood on the foreheads of the three members of the Ma family, and then heard the miserable cry of the Ma family, but in the end she was still moved by compassion and said, "Okay, you guys get up." But let me save you, and you have to repay the thousand taels of silver you owe to my house, are you willing? “

"Yes, yes, yes! As long as you let us go back to Lijiazhuang, I am willing to pay back your family's 1,000 taels of silver, but I ・・・・・・ I am penniless now, can you allow me to ・・・・・・・ for a while" Ma Shi raised his crying yellow muscle, haggard and old face, and asked timidly.

She really has had enough of this kind of involuntary life, and in the past few years, the three of them have been annoyed by their insistence on being together, and they have suffered a lot and changed several owners. I heard that the people of Lijiazhuang and Yangcaogouzi Village are now amazing, and each person can earn dozens of taels of silver every year. If you don't leave, won't you be able to make a lot of money? It's a pity that there is no regret medicine in the world, and she now hates her greed at that time. However, when I think that my family still has to bear a debt of 1,000 taels, I feel uneasy and uncertain, I am afraid that I will not be able to pay it back until I die, right? (To be continued.) )