Chen Xuejiao thought of when Chen Xiucai was injured and his life and death were unknown, Li held Chen Xiucai's hand and told the four children who had lost in front of her, and her sad tone revealed deep regret.

In this era, a woman giving birth to a child is like going through a ghost gate, and the probability of a child surviving is not very high, and almost every family will have a child who dies at birth. Many people put it down to fate, or to the irrepressible doom of the Divine. This also gives some people the opportunity to murder their children, for example, the head of a large family can't tolerate concubines and concubines, and will buy the midwife to kill the child when the concubine gives birth, and similarly, some favored concubines will buy the midwife to murder the child when the main mother gives birth in order to compete for property.

But in the Chen family, what did the Zhao family murder the Li family's children for?

The second room has always been face-saving, and Mrs. Chen is even more over the Zhao family, she has no reason to murder the Li family's children!

The Li family has always been soft, and he has always tolerated everywhere before this incident, and under the restraint of Mrs. Chen and the Zhao family, it is impossible to have hatred with the Zhao family before.

Chen Xuemiao was puzzled, walked out of the upper door, and a cold wind blew in front of her, completely sobering up.

No matter what the Zhao family did to the Li family, they all need evidence, and after so many years, the evidence has long since disappeared. Even if there is evidence, with Old Lady Chen's temperament, she will definitely protect the Zhao family, and Old Man Chen will most likely choose to rot the meat in the pot for the sake of the peace of the house.

Chen Xuejiao lowered her head and sorted out her thoughts, and heard Chen Qiping's reading voice from the upper room: "At the beginning of people, nature is good. Sex is similar, Xi is far away. If you don't teach, sex is migration. The way of teaching. Expensive to dedicate. ”

The crisp children's voice is like a kingfisher out of the valley, clear and sweet.

In the southeast corner of the courtyard, Chen Xueru and Jinghao were doing needlework, and the sun was shining on their hair, which was extremely quiet and beautiful.

Li stood under the eaves, and people from the next village came to buy tea eggs. She smiled and exchanged pleasantries while collecting the money.

These are her relatives, Chen Xuejiao couldn't help but moisten her eyes.

Zhang's rough laughter and Zhao's weak voice came from the upper room. These two concubines wished that you tore me apart and I ate you two days ago, and today it is like a pair of mandarin duck claws hooked together.

“…… Second sister-in-law, I turned over your house two days ago, I'm sorry. You also know that I don't have any bad intentions, didn't I have no idea when I heard that I was going to sell my land and house to pay off my debts? Zhang smiled and stroked the hairpin on his head.

"We are relatives and concubines, and we should get along like sisters, have you ever seen that sisters really fell out?" Zhao sneered and slapped Zhang lightly.

"Second sister-in-law, Qi Lin will be an official in the future, you can't forget me."

"Look at what the fourth brother and sister said, this is a lot of words, you are Qi Lin's fourth aunt, and no one can forget you. By the way, I see that the powder that Xue Yao brought me to rub your face looks good. I still have a box there, and I'll give it to you later. ”

"Oh, what a good look. I applied this powder, and it was a layer of frost on the donkey poop eggs. ”

The two of them joked with each other, as if the previous unhappiness had never existed.

"Mother, the second sister-in-law has always been in poor health, and you have a lot of adults, so spare her." Zhang actually interceded for Zhao.

……

Chen Xuejiao stood under the eaves of the upper house and listened for a while, and felt that the laughter of Zhang and Zhao was very boring. There is a row of plane trees outside the courtyard. The leaves fell one after another, and a few fallen leaves swirled and landed at Chen Xuejiao's feet. She stomped hard at the fallen leaves. Ran towards the Lee family.

"Mother." Chen Xuejiao hugged Li and shouted in a low voice.

"What's going on?" Li Shimo rubbed Chen Xuejiao's head, his eyes were full of pity, "Are you in the upper room?"

Li lowered her voice, this was because she was worried that she would be wronged in the upper room.

"Mother, no, I just want to hug you!" Chen Xuejiao said coquettishly.

Li sighed deeply and hugged Chen Xuejiao's head tightly. Since hitting the little girl against the wall, she has acted and spoken like an adult, and rarely has intimate contact with herself, let alone being coquettish.

"Mother, you said before that you still have three children......

Chen Xuejiao didn't plan to ask, but she didn't hold back in the end, and the words came out of her throat.

Li's hand trembled, and Chen Xuejiao could hear her teeth chatter slightly. For a mother, the biggest pain is the pain of losing her children, but Chen Xuejiao tore open this painful wound.

"Why did you remember to ask this?" Lee's voice was irrepressibly cold.

Chen Xuejiao raised her head and happened to meet Li's confused eyes.

Over the years, after losing three children, Li has four more children, but her heart is uneasy, every child is a piece of meat that fell from her body, and it is a pity to lose any of them.

The next four children brought her a lot of joy, and the three children who died in front of her gradually became a scar condensed in the bottom of her heart, which did not hurt if she did not pick it up, and once someone picked it up, it hurt heartbreakingly.

Chen Xuejiao regretted asking this question herself.

"I just wanted to ask." Chen Xuejiao's voice was astringent, and she couldn't find a better reason to answer.

"It's been all these years." Li Shi settled down and said extremely calmly, "At that time, my mother was young, I didn't understand, and I didn't protect them." ”

Chen Xuejiao lowered her head, not knowing how to answer.

"It's okay if they're gone, maybe they'll be reborn in a good family, and don't suffer with me."

Lee's eyes were full of tears, and the bitterness in his voice could not be hidden.

The first child was tripped in the stomach by Wen Yan, the second child was born out of breath, and the third child was born well, and when she opened her eyes after she slept and found that the child was out of breath.

Especially when I think of the third child, Lee's heart is dripping blood. Such a small person, lying alive and warm beside him, if he was still alive, I am afraid that he would have married a wife and had children.

Chen Xuejiao wanted to ask the specific reason for the loss of the three children, but she couldn't bear to look at Li's sad eyes, so she had to press back.

"Mother, how much did you sell for today?" Chen Xuejiao changed the subject.

"Four hundred wen." Li smiled slightly. But there was still sadness in his eyes.

"Mother, let's pickle salted duck eggs, we won't be busy in the future. I want to sell the recipe for tea eggs. Chen Xuejiao told Li her plan.

"Sold? Sell to whom? Li asked in surprise.

"No matter who you sell it to, someone will definitely pay for it." Chen Xuejiao brushed the hair that was scattered around Li's ears and continued, "We will buy land for the silver sold, I think our family has three acres of land, and growing food is barely enough for our own family." There is nothing left, what should I do in a disaster year? ”

Lee groaned. Chen Xuejiao is right, although the wind and rain have been smooth in recent years, there is a case in everything. When Li was a child, he met people from Henan because of the drought. The crops were not harvested, and many ordinary people went to Xuzhou Mansion to ask for food, how desolate and desolate they were.

"Mother, we have to buy more land, the more land, the better, whether it is a famine or a war, land is land, and no one can take it away. When there is more land, there is more food. In case of a disaster year in the future, we will not be afraid if we have enough food. Chen Xuejiao gave Li an analysis.

Li Shi thought for a while and said, "It's still Xue Jiao who is right!" ”

These words have been thinking about Chen Xuejiao since she was divided, although her three acres of land are fertile. However, in this era, agricultural technology is backward, and the yield per mu of land is generally low. If we want to increase grain production, the most direct way is to buy more land and grow more grain.

……

In the upper room, Zhao personally knelt down and begged Mrs. Chen to forgive her for her private collection of furniture, Zhang, Xue Miao, Chen Zichang, and Chen Zigui persuaded on the side, and Mrs. Chen jumped down the steps to forgive Zhao.

Mrs. Chen's original forgiveness of the Zhao family still originated from Mr. Chen's words. After thinking about it carefully, she felt that what the old man said was reasonable, if she forced the Zhao family to be in a hurry. Qi Lin and Xue Yao must be cold, the two of them are cold, and they will lack strong support in the future.

Zhao cried and cursed and swore an oath, and was pulled up by Zhang. Because of Chen Zichang and Chen Zigui, Mrs. Chen couldn't be too ruthless to the Zhao family, so she revealed it after a few words.

Zhao took Zhang's to the inner ear amplifier, muttered a few words, opened the box and took a box of powder to Zhang.

When the two of them came out, they both had smiles on their faces, and Zhao handed Mrs. Chen three silk flowers. Mrs. Chen accepted it, her face soothed, she naturally didn't wear this silk flower, she kept it for Wen Yan.

“…… Mother, I think it's not going well in our family recently, the injury on Qi Lin's father just happened to be a loan shark again, you are old and knowledgeable, do you say that someone in our yard collided with Qi Lin's father? Zhao said softly.

Zhang's words followed Zhao's words: "No, since Xuejiao hit the wall, our family has a strange smell, first Qi Lin was withdrawn by the Sun family, and then the second brother was beaten, this is not a usury thing." ”

The Zhao family and the Zhang family discussed it in the house just now, and used words to put Mrs. Chen's attention on the big house, don't make a fuss in their nest.

When Mrs. Chen heard this, her eyelids lit and she patted her hands and said: "I said, there have been so many things recently, but it's not that I have collided with dirty things, go, call the third child, and ask him to invite the goddess at the head of the village to extinguish the evil spirit." ”

Zhao and Zhang glanced at each other, disappointed.

Chen Zifu entered the upper room, and went out again with a cup of tea.

"Auntie, my grandmother said that our family has evil spirits, so let my father invite the goddess to dance the gods." Chen Xuewa stood under the eaves and said to Li.

Jumping gods? Chen Xuejiao raised her eyelids.

After a while, the goddess followed Chen Zifu into the gate of the Chen family.

The goddess was dressed in blue and looked to be in her forties, with high cheekbones, long hair tied up, and a jasper hairpin.

Chen Zifu followed behind the goddess with a humble face, carrying a hat full of things, including incense, red paper, yellow paper, and chicken feathers

The goddess followed Chen Zifu into the door of the upper room, and Chen Xuejiao and Chen Xuewa also followed in because of curiosity.

"Old sister." As soon as the goddess entered the door, she smiled at Mrs. Chen.

"Oh, don't dare to be, sit on the kang." With a pious face, Mrs. Chen personally helped the goddess to sit down, turned around and ordered the Zhao family and the Zhang family to pour tea.

The goddess raised her ass and sat on the kang, and a pair of sharp eyes swept around the room, making Chen Xuewa bow her head in fright and tug Chen Xuejiao's sleeve tightly.

Mrs. Chen took the hand of the goddess and described the recent events in the house: "...... I just wanted to come to you and help me suppress the evil spirit in this courtyard. ”

"You should have been thinking about me." The goddess took a sip of tea, "I was invited when the eldest daughter-in-law lost her third child, that evil obstacle has already been reincarnated, and now there are so many things happening in your yard, I think it's something else that is causing trouble." ”

Zhao and Mrs. Chen's faces were slightly unnatural, and Chen Xuejiao saw it clearly.

No wonder Li heard Xuewa say that he invited the goddess to dance in the room, and entered the north wing room with a wilted expression. Anyone who treats his dead child as an obstacle is uncomfortable.

The goddess took a sip of water, twisted her fingers, jumped up and said, "Yes, that's it." ”

"What's it?" Old Madam Chen looked in awe.

"I hit the weasel spirit." The goddess's face was calm and relaxed.

"I said, that day I was untying my hands in the yard and stepped on a yellow thing, which turned out to be a weasel spirit." Chen Zichang suddenly realized.

Chen Xuejiao smiled disdainfully, Chen Zichang is looking for a reason for his messing around a while ago.

"Then how do you pack that thing?" Zhao asked.

"This is a bit difficult, the weasel spirit is at least a thousand-year-old demon," the goddess said embarrassedly.

"It's easy." Mrs. Chen felt the black box at the head of the bed and opened it, and took out a hairpin and a piece of silver from it.

The hairpin was still scavenged from Zhao's house and was not taken away.

The goddess's eyes lit up. (To be continued)

ps: I'm sorry, but the chapter after sending two hundred and four chapters should belong to one hundred and five chapters