Zhao Xiu and his entourage went to the temple fair in the Drum Tower, playing, shopping, eating and drinking, and had a very happy time.

Originally, they wanted to go around Qianmen Street again, but unfortunately it was late, and it was too late, and they couldn't have fun going. Zhao Wei said: "Let's go back today, and then go out of the city tomorrow." I simply went early, had lunch in the restaurant outside, and walked around after eating, just to eliminate food. ”

Zhao Yuan was so happy that he was about to jump up, and hurriedly said: "Since we are going to the outer city, just a few of us are not lively enough, why don't we call a few more people?" Brother Jun and Brother Man, they are all in the city, and Uncle Jue is also there, Uncle Jue still has a little cousin at home, and he has long wanted to come out to play! ”

The few people she said were all clansmen who came to Beijing one after another. Brother Jun and Brother Man are the children of the side branch of the outer room, and they are apprentices in the six-room firm, just like Zhao You in the outer five-room, but they were assigned to the Beijing branch. The same is true for Uncle Jue, but he is of the same generation as Zhao Wei and Zhao Xiu, and he seems to be older, but in fact, he is just a young man who has not yet reached the crown, and he is cheerful and easy to talk, and he is very good with the younger generation. His son was only two years old, and because he had already decided to stay in the capital for a long time, he brought his wife and children with him, and lived in the backyard of the six-room north and south grocery store in the outer city. Listening to Zhao Yuan's tone, he should be very familiar with them.

Zhao Xiu did not object to Zhao Yuan's proposal, and there were more people. She wasn't familiar with those people, she had only met a few times, but she didn't hate them either. Zhao Wei had no objections. He is a man, and he has more contacts with his clansmen, and he is familiar with these people. But it was Zhao Yuan's brother Zhao Huai who had a different opinion: "Brother Jun and Brother Man have errands, can they be as leisurely as you?" Uncle Jue is gone, he is the second shopkeeper, and he may be able to take a leave. But why bother? His children are still young, although there are many of us, but there are people coming and going at the temple fair, and the outer city is even more complicated. Or let the child be wronged, how do we explain to Uncle Jue? Have you listened to all the words that your mother told you to beware of abductors? ”

Zhao Yuan was on the rise, and Leng might as well be poured a basin of cold water by his brother, thinking that his words were indeed reckless, so he admitted his mistake in frustration. Zhao Xiu smiled and explained her: "It's okay." It is inconvenient for people with errands to come, and it is good for people like sister-in-law to come and have fun with their children. If you are worried that there will be a crutch outside, then let Sister-in-law go with us. Tell the mother-in-law and the servants to go out in a circle. As long as you are careful, you can't touch the child, and the kidnapper doesn't dare to approach easily when he sees this battle. If she is really not at ease, let her take the child to my house and talk to my grandmother. It's all their own family, and they don't have to be outsiders. ”

Zhao Yuan turned his tears into laughter, took Zhao Xiu's hand and thanked him: "Little aunt." You're so good, I'll tell Aunt Jue to go in a moment! ”

Zhao Wei watched them talk with a smile and reminded, "Let's go back." The carriage stopped at the corner of the street, and it was only a few steps away. ”

The group returned to the carriage with a smile, and Zhao Xiu caught a glimpse of the servant who had been quietly sent out by Zhao Wei when he met Zhao Xiang before, and knew that he must have gained. She remained silent for a while and waited until she got home. Ma took his children to say goodbye, and then asked Zhao Wei.

Zhao Wei had already asked from the servant where Zhao Xiang was living. and the situation between her and the Niu family, and it also made people connect with Bailing. Got a more detailed message. He wasn't surprised that things would turn out this way.

It turned out that on the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, Mrs. Wang suddenly took a group of girls into the west courtyard where Niu and Zhao Xiang lived, and retreated. Niu Shi saw that she was menacing, and he didn't greet her, but he felt offended, so he questioned her sharply. Mrs. Wang didn't answer, but ordered the maid's mother-in-law to search things in the house, and after searching around, she didn't find anything serious. Niu was so angry that he scolded, and a little girl named Xianghuan under Mrs. Wang stepped forward to support her and comforted her, but unexpectedly dug out a few packets of medicine from Niu's bed.

Niu originally wanted to quibble that the medicine was taken by herself and would be hidden in the bed, which was purely her personal quirk. But Mrs. Wang didn't believe it at all. She specially invited a familiar imperial doctor to come and ask him to check the effectiveness of those packets of medicine. This imperial physician has excellent medical skills, which is not comparable to ordinary doctors, and he easily discovered the harmful nature of the two packets of so-called tonics, and even Niu himself was shocked, and secretly glad that he did not take the medicine.

Although Niu prepared the two packets of medicine for herself, Mrs. Wang didn't believe that she would inject poison into herself. The Imperial Doctor has said that if you take that medicine, it will greatly weaken the human body. With Niu's crooked appearance now, these two doses of medicine will die in two days, who would do such a stupid thing? Mrs. Wang firmly believed that the medicine must have been obtained by the Niu family and prepared to harm people. No matter who she wants to harm, it is always the Wang family.

And that little medicine bag wrapped in white paper. Mrs. Wang knew that this must be the packet of medicine that her youngest son mentioned when he complained to her. After the imperial doctor's examination, it was confirmed that it was a packet of ecstasy, and it also had a little aphrodisiac effect, as Zhao Yan said, it can make the person who drinks the medicine lose his nature within the kung fu of a cup of tea. Although the effect of this medicine is not so strong that it is uncontrollable, if the drug is taken by a teenager with strong blood, it will inevitably lose his mind and become confused for a period of time. However, this medicine also has its limitations, that is, if you pour cold water on your face, the person of Chinese medicine will wake up. But this small shortcoming is not worth mentioning in Mrs. Wang's eyes, and all she thinks about is that her son was almost calculated!

was stolen by everyone on the spot, and Rao is Niu has a hundred mouths that can't be explained. Even Zhao Xiang was scolded by Mrs. Wang with very vicious words for a whole hour. She was so ashamed that she repeatedly said that she didn't know anything about it, but Mrs. Wang refused to believe it.

This matter soon stabbed Wang Dongsheng, the head of the family. In front of Wang Dongsheng, Niu once again talked about the kindness of the old county prince and Zhao Jue's care for Wang Dongsheng before his death. Wang Dongsheng hesitated for a while, but Mrs. Wang cried and shouted and threatened to take her two sons back to her parents' house, and Wang Tongsheng, the object of Niu's calculation, bluntly said that she could not tolerate living in the same house with such an insidious woman, for fear that one day if she was not careful, she would be calculated. Even the eldest son, Wang Weisheng, persuaded his father that this was Niu's own sin. It's not that the Wang family has treated her badly, besides, their ancestors and grandchildren have already been expelled from the house, and their actions are against the teachings of the old county prince, even if the old county prince is alive, he will not tolerate this kind of behavior. Wang Dongsheng made up his mind at this time. It is necessary to invite the ancestors and grandchildren of the Niu family out of the gate of the Wang family.

Wang Dongsheng spoke, and no matter how much trouble the Niu family makes, it will be useless. She wanted to talk about being seriously ill in bed, and the Wang family husband and wife directly ordered her mother-in-law to carry her into the carriage, and someone even did the packing of their luggage for them. Or Zhao Xiang was afraid that others would pack their luggage and lose something, or touch some valuables. I honestly packed the belongings of my grandparents and grandchildren.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, Niu and Zhao Xiang left the Wang family with a few girls. The Wang family's rhetoric to the outside world is that the Niu family has repeatedly asked to go back to their own homes for the New Year, saying that they will worship their ancestors during the New Year, and they drag their families with their mouths, and there is no reason to spend the New Year in other people's homes. Naturally, this is very legitimate. It's just that it doesn't come from the mouth of the Niu family. It's a pity that she was at a loss at that time, and it was not easy to argue with the Wang family, so she could only acquiesce to the Wang family's statement. Let outsiders know, and praise the Wang family's etiquette, it is too kind to keep the relatives of the old friend at home for so long.

Niu Shi left the Wang family in the carriage, and when he wanted to find the next place to live, he directly chose the Niu family's old house. Because she never looked down on the courtyard of Yongji Temple Hutong rented by Zhao Ze. And the old house of the Niu family was bigger and more decent, so she went to the latter without the slightest hesitation. After entering the door, she realized that something was wrong.

At the beginning, she gave Zhao Yan thirty taels of silver. Let him buy some decent furniture to furnish his house. But now, the old house is empty inside and out, only some old wooden furniture, not even beds and bedding, no pots and pans in the kitchen, and no utensils for boiling hot water. How can I live with people? The old man who looked at the house said that this house has been rented out since then. It's always been like this, and no one has come to clean it up. It is said that the tenant will not come until the end of the year, so there is no hurry.

At first, Niu thought that the time was too tight, and she didn't say in advance that she would come to live in the New Year, so Zhao Yan dragged things down and planned to wait until the New Year to arrange it, so she sent the girl to Yongji Temple Hutong to find Zhao Yan.

Unexpectedly, before the girl went out, someone came. It was the steward of the imperial merchant who bought the house. It turned out that Zhao Yan originally agreed to sign a lease with him, and even the contract was written, but somehow he called his master's family to hear about it, thinking that he was going to take the master's real estate as a favor and rent it to others at a low price, so the matter could only be stopped. Zhao Yan had a good relationship with him, neither surprised nor asked for compensation, he was very affectionate, and happily returned the rent as it was. Now that the new tenant has been found, he will move in after the year, so he wants to bring someone over to clean up before the Chinese New Year. The people who looked at the house mistakenly thought that Niu was the tenant, but they were mistaken.

Niu immediately jumped like thunder. At this time, she finally figured out that Zhao Yan didn't rent her mother's old mansion at all, and the contract had long been invalidated, and he just used it to coax her. He took away the money for renting a house and buying furniture, but he didn't say hello to her, what did he want to do? Did he think that she lived in Wang's house and couldn't go out, so she didn't know anything about the good things he did?!

With a breath of anger, she once again dragged the sick body and climbed into the carriage, and took her eldest granddaughter to the alley of Yongji Temple, to find the bad luck of Zhao Yan's mother and son. What was waiting for her was an empty house, the things inside, but everything that could be taken away, Zhao Yan's mother and son took it away. Probably because of the six-room carriage escort, Zhao Yan didn't even leave a cup for the Niu family, only left a letter, simply saying that they left and would never come back, so that the Niu family would treat him as a grandson who had never been him. As for the reason, it is also very simple, one is to resent the Niu family for humiliating their biological mother, Aunt Xiao Qian, so that she almost died on the way to exile; The second is that when they saw the eldest brother being kicked out of the house, they felt scared, thinking that Niu's grandmother was too domineering and ruthless, so they would rather hide away from her to avoid being tortured by her.

Niu vomited a mouthful of blood on the spot and fainted.

To add insult to injury, when the Wang family's servants and carriage left, only Niu, Zhao Xiang, three girls and an old servant were left in the courtyard. Although they brought bedding and clothes, they had a lot to buy. There was only half a bundle of firewood left in the kitchen, and there was no rice or flour left. Although they still have money, they are not familiar with this alley, and they don't know where to go to ask for a doctor.

The old servant was sent out to ask for a doctor, but he didn't come back for an hour. The thrush volunteered to go out to find someone, and this trip did not come back either. Zhao Xiang waited until it was dark, but he never saw any trace of them, and finally felt that something was wrong, so he hurriedly went to check his luggage, and found that several silver tickets were missing, and there were two hundred taels of silver. The money has always been in Niu's hands, and she handed it to her henchman Thrush to put it away. In contrast, the old servant could not even enter the house. The only one who will take the silver away is the thrush. The old servant was originally Zhao Ze's person, and later he was close to the Wang family, he never returned, Zhao Xiang had no other ideas except that he was angry that there was one less person who could be called, but the thrush took away most of their money and the whereabouts were unknown, which made her the most angry.

There are only a dozen taels of silver left on them now, but fortunately, when the Wang family drove them out, they didn't rush to kill the clothes and jewelry they had bought for them before, and those things were worth some money when they were pawned, and they were not too miserable. However, when Zhao Xiang saw that he only had these belongings in his hands, he felt that he couldn't live at all.

She barely took out a little silver, ordered Bailing to stay and take care of Niu, and she took another girl, Pei'er, out to find a medical center, and finally hired a doctor who was willing to visit on Chinese New Year's Eve. Although the doctor prescribed a prescription for Niu's, it was the New Year, and I didn't know which pharmacy would open. Zhao Xiang didn't dare to go far at night, and he was afraid that if he sent the girl out, people would not come back, so he could only go home first, let Niu only drink a little hot water, eat some hot porridge to deal with, and wait until the fifth day, the nearest pharmacy from home opened, and she took someone to catch the medicine.

Zhao Xiang was worried that he would sit and eat nothing, and he didn't want to give up decent clothes and jewelry, so he found his former friends to "borrow" silver. Feng Xiuqin gave her a taste of sweetness that time, she wanted to go to Feng's house again to try her luck, but this time she couldn't even enter the door, and was kicked out. After that, she found two other ones, and they all had the same result. On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, until Zhao Xiu and his party saw her, she had already eaten three bowls of closed-door soup.

After listening to what happened to the ancestors and grandchildren of the Niu family in the past few days, Zhao Xiu couldn't help but sigh twice, and sighed: "I really won't die if I don't do it." They were bullying the Wang family at the beginning, and they wanted to keep their reputation as a grateful newspaper, so that they could die eating and drinking spicy food in the Wang family. The Wang family is willing to support them, which is their blessing, but they are not satisfied, if they want to calculate other people's sons, they still use such indiscriminate means, no wonder the Wang family will not be able to bear it. ”

Zhao Wei smiled coldly: "It's still a short time now, if the Wang family tells them what they did, their lives will be even more difficult at that time." ”

Zhao Xiu hurriedly asked, "Will the Wang family say it?" Won't they feel like they've lost face? ”

Zhao Wei shook his head: "At this time, I can't care about face." Although the Wang family found a high-sounding excuse when they drove people out, Zhao Xiang begged people everywhere for money today, and everyone saw it. If the ancestors and grandchildren of the Niu family really only want to go home for the New Year and move out of the Wang family, how can they be embarrassed to this point? Even if the Wang family did not send them firewood, rice, oil and salt, as long as the friendship between the two families was still there, they could ask the Wang family for help. Since there is none, it must be the Wang family who swept people out of the house. Wang Dongsheng kept saying that he took them in to repay our grandfather's kindness. Isn't it just a slap in the face now? In order to clear his suspicion of treating his benefactor's relatives badly, he had to tell the reason for the expulsion. At that time, the reputation of Niu and Zhao Xiang will really stink. ”

Zhao Xiu understood, and felt very relieved. She also remembered one thing: "Bailing has been locked up in the courtyard of Yongji Temple Hutong for the past few days, so he can't come out to report the news?" It's been hard for her for half a year. If she hadn't delivered us news from time to time, we wouldn't know when we would have fallen for the Niu family's calculations, let alone rescue Zhao Ze. Now that Niu and Zhao Xiang are unlucky, let's also think of a way to get Bailing out, right? Anyway, from now on, we don't have to pay attention to the situation of Niu and Zhao Xiang from time to time. (To be continued)

ps: Merry Christmas ~~~ Happy New Year ~~~~R752