Li Shi was startled when he heard this, the lotus root clip had just been half fried and there was still half a basin left, the chicken that had been split in half on the board was still dripping, and the ginseng that Chen Xiucai handed home had not yet had time to cut it, and when he heard this, he hurriedly changed his apron, walked out with wet hands and asked, "Why did you beat someone?" ”

Xue Jiao was studying big characters clinically, and when she heard Dongping's hurried voice, she put down her pen and ink and strode out.

"I don't know the specific situation, or Aunt Zhao came to my house to find my mother and said that the embroidery workshop beat people, my mother rushed to the embroidery workshop first, let me come to the eldest concubine here to report the news." Dongping ran all the way, covered in sweat, excited by the chilly autumn wind, and felt weak, Xueru poured a bowl of noodle tea early and handed it to him to drink, and the Aunt Zhao in his mouth was Zhao Yiming's mother Xu.

"Who will hit someone in the blue sky and white day?" Li looked panicked and said to a few children, "I'll go to the embroidery workshop first." ”

Xue Jiao's eyes narrowed into a slit and comforted Li: "Mother, don't panic first, it's definitely not a big deal, I'll go with you." “

Who dares to go to the embroidery workshop to beat people, Xue Jiao calculated one by one in her heart. Baitu Town said that big is not big to say small and not small, because every woman will spin and do embroidery work, so there is no formal embroidery shop in the town, only in the grocery store or silk shop to sell some embroidery work, at the beginning of the lease of the house to open the embroidery workshop, many shops in the town are not optimistic, shake their heads and say that it is destined to lose money, it is difficult to see that the embroidery workshop has made money, set off a storm of trouble. Chen Xuejiao thought about it and denied this idea, Chen Xiucai is one of the few scholars in Baitu Town, and it is rumored that he has made a fortune, it is human nature to be cowardly with money, so he doesn't dare to make trouble casually, even if he is not afraid of Chen Xiucai's reputation. You should also be afraid of the reputation of the Han shopkeeper, the Han family is one of the richest families in the town, usually the neighbor shop pù has an accident, he will push him out to preside over justice, everyone says that he and Chen Xiucai are inextricably linked, who dares to make trouble in the Han family's territory.

Li Shi walked to the door and did not forget to turn his head and instruct Xue Ru: "You stew that half of the chicken, cut it and put the long ginseng in it." Wait for your brother to come back and bring him a bowl. ”

Qi An studied hard day and night, and he was going to participate in the autumn festival in a few days. Li stewed a bowl of chicken soup for him every day to replenish his body.

The embroidery workshop is in the innermost part of Yangliuzhi Alley, and the Li family and Wen Ying's aunt and sister-in-law rented the money they had saved from the house in the three-entry courtyard and set up more than a dozen embroidery sheds. First of all, only those women whose husbands' families do not allow their mothers' houses to go back to their homes are hired to do the work. An empty house was vacated again, there was an embroidery shed, and the cloth and silk thread had to be bought elsewhere, and the Li family exchanged the silver ticket that Chen Xiucai brought home into silver. Silk racks and spinning wheels were purchased, and people were hired to spin and weave cloth. This embroidery workshop is the first one in the town, plus the embroidery is alive and fresh, and it is in the limelight in the town for a while, and Wenying's grocery store has opened up a single one. A new booth was opened, specializing in selling embroidery work.

Now there are seven or eight lonely widows in the embroidery workshop, and those lonely widows have lost their mother-in-law's family and their mother's home. Usually, it is not good to shrink your head to the crowd, so you can only stand by the green lantern ancient Buddha. Now that the Chen family has opened such an embroidery workshop, it is not to give them a way to live, all of them are hard, and they are not taboo to gather in one place, but they also know their hearts and lungs, and they can have a place to speak, and almost all the hard-working people in all villages in the town go to the embroidery workshop to beg for a living.

Li and Xuejiao trotted all the way to the town, passing through the front street and bypassing the back street, and the road was paved with square bricks, which had long been uneven, and the protruding bricks were one higher and one lower. Chen Xuejiao wore a pair of shoes with soft-soled buckle loops on her feet, and her feet hurt, but she and Li Shi did not wrap their feet to walk fast.

As soon as the mother and daughter went around to Yangliuzhi Lane, they heard the man's scolding, the woman's crying, and Wenying's reprimand.

As he approached, there were people in a circle on the inner and outer three floors, and Wen Ying's voice came over, with an angry trill: "You said I kidnapped your daughter-in-law, which one is your daughter-in-law?" The embryo of the next work, I don't look at whose realm this is, and I look like a crooked melon and cracked jujube to come here to beg for a fight. ”

Wen Ying was fierce when she was petty, Xue Jiao went into the crowd to take a look, at this time she was crossing her waist and scolding a man with sloppy clothes and a sloppy beard, and when she saw Li and Xue Jiao squeezing in, she breathed a sigh of relief in her mouth.

Xu also scolded and gritted his teeth: "The little woman raised her, how can she not be struck by lightning." ”

A grumbling cry came, Xue Jiao looked down and saw that Xu was guarding a woman, the woman was wearing a blue crepe dark pattern dress, her loose bun was torn apart, and a silver inlaid bead hairpin was not dropped, and five clear fingerprints on a smooth face, her head leaned on Xu's arms and cried bitterly.

This woman is an embroiderer in the embroidery workshop, named Lan Niang, and her mother's home is at the entrance of Maoshan Village.

The sloppy man was scolded by Wen Ying and Xu Shi on both sides, and his neck and mouth were unclean: "The one lying on the ground is my daughter-in-law, I can beat if I want, I can scold if I want, who can help me." ”

When Li heard this, he stepped forward from the crowd: "You said that she is your daughter-in-law, but what kind of evidence is there, Lan Niang has already reconciled and divorced from you, so is it a gust of wind to release the wife approved by the government." ”

The man not only looked at Li's eyes, but when he saw that she was wearing a silk dress, he was scared in his heart. Li has the silver in his hand, and her husband is running a business outside, opening his own shop and making money, no longer like before, there is always a string on his face, and now his back is straight, and the whole person is tall, and he has a sense of majesty in the crowd for a while, and he raises his eyebrows with a Ling Ran aura, and his voice is not as loud as in the past, and he is afraid of arguing with people.

"Sister-in-law, you came just in time, this person drank a few mouthfuls of cat urine today, and made trouble here, not only beating Lan Niang, but also smashing a spinning wheel." Wen Ying went up and pulled Li's hand and didn't let go, pointing at Lan Niang's ex-husband and gritting his teeth.

"What kind of shop are you, why are all lonely and widowed women being recruited, could it be that you are doing such a secret business." Lan Niang's ex-husband said angrily.

"Kill a thousand knives!" Li Shi has never scolded people in front of outsiders like this, and his eyes turned red when he heard such bastards' words: "You caused a fuss yourself, but you said something else." ”

When Xue Jiao heard this, she was even more angry, and suddenly rushed to the Li family and pointed at Lan Niang's ex-husband and said: "Our embroidery workshop is doing a serious job, how can you be such a scoundrel talking nonsense, we have the red deed of the government, it is difficult for you to dare to oppose the government, if so, why don't we go to the government to confront us." ”

Lan Niang's ex-husband heard Xue Jiao mention going to the government to confront him, and his heart became weak immediately, and he was still a dead duck with a hard mouth: "I'm here to ask for my daughter-in-law today." ”

Chen Xuejiao stared at him and sneered, turned to the crowd of onlookers and said: "My mother and my aunt opened this embroidery workshop, and invited all the lonely widows who are not allowed to rely on the mother-in-law's family. ”

Everyone who said a few words nodded straight, Yangliuzhi Lane was not a commercial street, and the neighbors who lived around it were all old neighbors for decades, and they had nothing to do to talk about the lonely people in the embroidery workshop, everyone only had sympathy, and now they all nodded and agreed.

"If I suffer a thousand knives, if I am killed by a head-butt, the entire embroidery workshop in the province will be stigmatized because of me." Lan Niang suddenly cried, "This is my ex-husband, all the aunts, sisters, sisters, and sisters, all of you are the same woman, if I can really live in my husband's house, I will not go to the path of harmony." This ex-husband gambled on the house, the furniture, as soon as there is money in his hand, it is either gambling or prostitution, I persuaded two sentences, and beat me to death, the seven-month-old child in my belly was beaten by him and aborted, this is not counted, my mother-in-law in front of me is an open-eyed woman, I don't know who I listened to, and sold my dead child as a crude drug into the pharmacy...... The most shameful thing is that he lost the money and sold me to a sixty-year-old bachelor in the village as his wife, and I was dragged and beaten by him for three days, and if I hadn't fought hard, I would have died......"

Lan Niang said while crying, speaking of the dead child, the whole person suddenly went crazy, broke free from Xu's arms, struggled to run to her ex-husband, took advantage of his defense, and bit down on his arm, the blood at the corner of his mouth overflowed, and the man howled like a pig and did not forget to kick Lan Niang's stomach, Lan Niang bit hard and did not let go.

The crowd exploded, some sighed and some scolded, and some women who hugged their children to see the excitement shook the children in their hands and scolded the ex-husband through gritted teeth. Bastard, his own flesh and blood were actually sold into a crude medicine shop, what is the experience made, and he doesn't know if he dies and the eighteenth layer of hell is tolerated.

Those embroidery girls are all in tears, yes, which woman is not young and green, looking for a wishful husband to marry at the age of shallots, and never do anything else in his life, but in the end, it is the moon in the mirror, and he has to live on his own at the age when Fanghua is gone.

Without waiting for Li, Wenying, and Xu to go to Lan Niang, the onlookers followed and pulled Lan Niang's ex-husband's arm, and the stout man standing among the women saw him bullying a lonely widow woman like this, and his blood surged, and he pressed his ex-husband's legs and feet under the instigation of his wife, and the ex-husband was pressed to the ground and couldn't move.

was making a lot of trouble, and the shopkeeper Han came with a person dressed in soaphorn, and at a glance he knew that it was a head catcher.

Everyone didn't wait for Lan Niang to speak, and they were about to gossip.

"Such indiscriminate people should be killed."

"It's not just that you should be killed, it's better to be filmed to death in the streets."

The head catcher already knew about this public case, and with the help of the shopkeeper Han, he immediately complied with the people's will to lift the collar of Lan Niang's ex-husband and shouted: "Go!" ”

The ex-husband was so frightened that he sat on the ground, and the blood on one arm was gone, and the majesty of beating people before was gone.

"Escort into the class room first, but the embroidery shop must be certified by a person." The headcatcher politely saluted the Li family.

Everyone smashed Lan Niang's ex-husband with the rotten vegetable leaves: "Our neighborhoods are all witnesses." ”

Originally, Lan Niang wanted to be a witness in person, but she was like this, she was afraid of biting her eyes, and she had the heart to kill her ex-husband without waiting for him to speak, this state was really embarrassing. In the end, it was Xu Shi who patted her chest and followed the head catcher, she was present when she beat someone and smashed the spinning machine, she had a sharp mouth, as if telling a story, and presented the beginning and end of the matter word for word. (To be continued)