On a summer afternoon, the air was hot and humid, and after only a few steps, sweat came out from all the pores of the body, and the whole person seemed to fall into a huge porridge pot.

The people of Beixi Village hid in their houses to rest, and even the Shiba Dogs were lazily lying in the shade, and they only moved their ears when they heard the footsteps.

Xia Qingyun came to the old mansion and was about to step into the courtyard, but saw a figure hidden behind the ginkgo tree at the door. She asked Hua Yun to go in with the gourd containing the Seven Star Spring Water and go around behind the tree by herself.

The man was engrossed in leaning at the top of the wall and looking in, not noticing that anyone was already standing behind him.

"Wu Chen!" Xia Qingyun shouted in a low voice.

"Xia Dongjia," the man was startled, turned his head and saw that it was Xia Qingyun, and replied with a bitter face.

This person's name is Wu Chen, and he is a cousin of the Qian family in the village, and he has been working in the Xia family's tea workshop, and he is also a group leader.

His fists were clenched tightly, and a piece of lotus pink poise tassel appeared between his fingers, and he understood seven points in his heart at the moment.

"What are you doing here?"

Wu Chen's face turned red, his face was covered with sweat, and his expression was anxious, "Dongjia, I'm worried about Yinglan her"

Seeing his expression and tone like this, Xia Qingyun was sure that his sister-in-law's affairs were related to him.

Wu Chen has always been good in the workshop, he comes early and leaves late every day, and he works diligently, and he is one of the people who won the two taels of silver reward this time.

Xia Qingyun didn't bother to talk to him at the moment, and he couldn't let him go, so he sent him to the workshop to wait.

Wu Chen didn't want to leave, Xia Qingyun glared at him, and shouted, "What are you still rubbing?" Blocked at the door unwillingly, if the neighborhood is seen in all directions, will the sister-in-law's reputation be gone? ”

Wu Chen walked away in three steps and turned around.

In the old mansion, sister-in-law Xia Yinglan closed her eyes tightly, and her lips were purple lying on the kang mat motionless.

The old lady was crooked at the head of the bed and almost cried. Xia Qingyun's mother was holding her on the side, rubbing her back incessantly.

Xia Qingyun reached under her sister-in-law's nose and probed, and there was a faint hint of wandering. She pried open her sister-in-law's teeth, took the gourd in Hua Yun's hand, and poured the Seven Star Spring Water into her sister-in-law's mouth.

"Where's Daddy?" Xia Qingyun asked while pinching her sister-in-law's middle.

"I just went to the hall with my second uncle and third uncle." Hua Yun replied.

Not long after the spring water was poured down, Xia Yinglan's chest rose and fell, and she woke up leisurely. She rolled her eyes blankly, found that she was still lying in her room, and saw Qingyun beside her, knowing that she had been rescued.

"My sister-in-law is awake!" Hua Yun shouted.

When the old lady heard this, she crawled over and hugged her daughter and cried, "Yinglan! What do you have to think of to die! Yinglan, you have to have three long and two short, how can your mother live! ”

Xia Yinglan let the old lady cry in her arms, staring at the roof with a blank expression, tears silently flowing from the corners of her eyes.

"Mother, mother, Yinglan has just woken up, let her be raised, I will help you go back to the house first." The mother persuaded on the side.

Xia Qingyun gave her younger brother a look, Hua Yun helped her mother pick up her grandmother, and helped her out with her mother.

"Sister-in-law, tell me something, don't hold it in your heart." Xia Qingyun helped her sister-in-law up and fed her a few mouthfuls of spring water. Xia Yinglan cried out loud.

Listening to her crying sadly, Xia Qingyun didn't feel good in her heart, and gently patted her sister-in-law's shoulder, letting her release all the grievances in her heart.

After crying for a while, Xia Yinglan stopped sobbing, took Xia Qingyun's hand and spoke intermittently.

It turned out that she and Wu Chen met in the workshop, and they had a secret affection for each other. After lunch today, she went to the village entrance to wait for him according to the appointed hour, and the two inevitably complained of lovesickness after seeing each other, Wu Chen told Xia Yinglan that her father and mother agreed to their matter, and they would find someone to propose tomorrow. Xia Yinglan happily gave the purse she made to Wu Chen.

Who knows, this scene was somehow seen by the second sister-in-law Wang. As soon as she got home, the Wang family and the Fang family were counted at the door, scolding her for hooking up with a wild man, just taking the silver money to raise the man, and not willing to give a copper plate to her nephew.

As soon as she refuted a few words, Fang broke into her room and pulled out a pair of half-made men's cloth shoes from under the kang mat, and the vicious and ugly words were more and more piercing.

When the old lady heard it in the house, she slapped her indiscriminately. She felt aggrieved, her face couldn't hold it, and she couldn't think about it for a while, so she hanged herself in her room.

Xia Yinglan complained: "Since I worked in the workshop, the second sister-in-law and the third sister-in-law couldn't stop talking about the lack of silver in front of me. I made a couple of dollars in the first month, but they borrowed more than half of it! said that it was borrowed, but it was not borrowed and not returned. After I got along with Wu Chen, I wanted to save the silver as a dowry, and refused to lend them any more. The faces of the second and third sisters-in-law are getting more and more ugly day by day. ”

Xia Qingyun sneered in his heart when he heard this. His family was divided into a single one, and the second and third uncles still salivated and begged for silver, not to mention that the sister-in-law lived with them.

It must be that the Wang family and the Fang family did not take advantage of it, and they were angry in their hearts, so they took this opportunity to squeeze on the sister-in-law.

She summoned Hua Yun to accompany her sister-in-law, and she wanted to go to the hall to listen to what they had to say.

When I walked to the door of the hall, I heard Wang calling inside, "Uncle He, Yinglan has behaved inappropriately and resented us?" ”

Xia Qingyun lifted the curtain and said coldly: "What this said makes no sense, where is my sister-in-law not careful?" ”

Seeing that it was Xia Qingyun, Wang pouted and said, "The girl's family, let's take care of some things." ”

"Idleness?" Xia Qingyun raised her eyebrows, "It's my sister-in-law who is looking for death, how can it be considered idle?" Could it be that you are only allowed to run on your heart, and I am not allowed to say a few fair words for my sister-in-law? ”

"Qingyun! You don't have to say a word. Dad got up and pulled her, "Let's go back first, your grandmother will call the shots." ”

Xia Qingyun glared at the Wang and Fang clans fiercely, dropped the curtain and came out behind his father.

The mother heard the footsteps and came out of the old lady's house. She asked Hua Yun and her father to go back first, and she and Qingyun stayed behind to accompany Xia Yinglan for a while.

Seeing her sister-in-law, Xia Yinglan felt aggrieved for a while, and cried and complained for a while. Mother and Xia Qingyun comforted softly beside them.

Who knew that the Wang family and the Fang family hid under the window to listen to them, and the more they listened, the more angry they became, and the Wang family couldn't help but scold: "A room of faceless and skinless prostitutes, it's reasonable to hook up with men!" ”

When Xia Yinglan heard this, she trembled with anger, and her tears fell down like beads with broken threads.

The mother sighed and said: "The family is so noisy, why don't you let your sister-in-law go to our house for two days first, and there will be an accident in the province." ”

Xia Qingyun was also thinking so in her heart, got up and packed a few clothes for her sister-in-law, and took her sister-in-law back to the house.

Remembering that Wu Chen was still waiting in the workshop, she asked Hua Yun to call him to the mansion.

Wu Chen and Xia Yinglan hugged and cried when they met, and in front of the Xia family, the two sincerely confessed that one would not marry her, and the other would not marry him.

The next day, the Wu family really went to the old mansion to propose.

Who knew that Xia Jian'an and Xia Jianxi would ask for a bride price of two hundred taels of silver when they opened their mouths. The Wu family is a small family, and they can't take out so much silver at all. The Xia family brothers' faces were ugly, and they sent the Wu family away with a few words.

The old lady asked the Wang family to pick up Xia Yinglan back. Xia Yinglan didn't know if she had said anything about her family, so she was worried in her heart, so she asked Xia Qingyun to accompany her.

When she heard the result at home, Xia Yinglan cried a lot and swore that Wu Chen would not marry.

Fang Shi said coldly on the side: "My sister-in-law turned out to be honest and obedient, and she went out to live for one night, but I don't know who instigated her to be like this!" ”

Xia Qingyun forcibly suppressed the fire in his heart.

Over there, the Wang family said: "Hmph, the old one hooked up with a man, taught the little one to show up outside, and now he is instigating the sister-in-law." ”

The old lady was so angry by them that she was angry, but she thought that her daughter would spill out the water sooner or later, and she would have to follow her son and daughter-in-law to support her in the future, and she had always had prejudices against Xia Qingyun's mother, so she didn't drink them, and went back to the house with a gloomy face.

As soon as the old lady left, Xia Jian'an and Xia Jianxi's two families were even more proud, you said everything I said, and the more I said it, the more ugly it became.

"Sister-in-law, let's go!" Xia Qingyun picked up her sister-in-law, "It's a big deal, you will live in our house in the future." ”

Xia Jianxi stopped him and said, "Sister, you have thought about it, if you go out of this door today, don't blame us for being a brother who is unsympathetic!" This is your own departure, and you can't take any of the family's dowry with you! ”

He knew that his mother had secretly saved a lot of makeup for his sister over the years, and he had long been thinking about picking out this money.

It is said that honest people have wilting ideas, Xia Yinglan is determined to marry Wu Chen, seeing that the second brother and the third brother obstructed in every way, and the two sisters-in-law kept scolding and swearing, they also held their breath in their hearts, and did not answer with a white face, and followed Xia Qingyun back to the house.

Xia Qingyun learned from her father and mother about the things in the old house, and finally said: "Dad, mother, I will let my sister-in-law live." Tomorrow, I will send someone to find Wu Chen, if he doesn't dislike my sister-in-law for not having a dowry, I will let my sister-in-law marry from our family! ”

Xia Yinglan wiped her tears and cried: "Big brother, sister-in-law, I have nowhere to go now, if the Wu family doesn't agree, I will only be clean when I die!" ”

Xia Qingyun frowned and said, "Sister-in-law, if Wu Chen is sincere to you, he will marry you regardless of whether you have a dowry or not." If he dislikes you, such a man is not worth marrying, let alone dying for him! ”

The mother took the handkerchief and wiped Xia Yinglan's tears, "What Qingyun said is reasonable, you just live down-to-earth." I think Wu Chen is a loyal person in his later life, and he will not do ruthless and unrighteous things. ”

The family comforted Xia Yinglan, and the rough mother-in-law came in to report, saying that Wu Chen came to find Xia Yinglan.

It turned out that he learned that the Xia family's old house wanted a large dowry, and he was in a hurry, so he looked for it.

Xia Qingyun asked in front of everyone: "My sister-in-law has fallen out with her family now, and she doesn't have a penny of dowry, what are you going to do?" ”

Wu Chenwu stood there and bowed his head and was silent, Xia Yinglan's heart suddenly became cold, and she gritted her teeth and said: "That's it, it's not difficult for me to be for you, it's me who is too stupid to take your words to heart." From now on, only when we don't know! ”