Before Zhao Xiang could think of a way to solve the burden of the Niu family, she first heard an unexpected news.

The mother and son of the Huo family came to Mianhua Hutong!

That day, Pei'er went out to buy medicine in fear, and when she came back, she saw them in the Mianhua Eight Hutongs next door. They seemed to be visiting someone, the son of the Huo family was driving a small carriage, and Mrs. Huo was the only one in the car, and stopped in front of a family in Mianhua Hachijo. A child from the house came out and opened the door, and was glad to welcome them in.

Pei'er used to live in the Yunju Temple Hutong with her master, and she had seen them many times, so she recognized them from a distance of dozens of feet. She is a little girl, and she doesn't know the grievances and grievances between the masters, but she only remembers that the two families once had close contacts, and it was only later that the ancestors and grandchildren of the Niu family moved into the Wang family and cut off contact with the Huo family's mother and son. She saw that although the Huo family's mother and son were not dressed brightly, they were also neat and decent, and she expected that their situation should be good, and she remembered that they also had two relatives who were officials, and they often received some help, and when they returned home, they happily talked to Zhao Xiang about it.

Pei'er whispered to Zhao Xiang and sighed: "At the beginning, Mrs. Huo thought about proposing to the girl. Although the good brother of the Huo family is not as rich as the second young master of the Wang family, he is also a very handsome and decent person. It's a pity that the girl didn't have a relationship with him. ”

Zhao Xiang's heart moved.

Mrs. Huo and her youngest son Huo Zhiliang are also family members of the criminal minister, and they are in a similar situation to Niu and Zhao Xiang. The two families used to live together in Yunju Temple Hutong, and Mrs. Huo once intended to hire Zhao Xiang as her daughter-in-law. It's just that the Niu family dislikes the decline of his family and is bent on marrying his granddaughter to a wealthy family, so he just dragged it out and didn't say anything about refusal. He also refused to admit it explicitly, but wanted to use Mrs. Huo's in-law Feng Yushi to exert pressure on the Jiannan Hou Mansion, so as to take advantage of the opportunity to gain some benefits.

Originally, Niu's idea still had some effect, but it was a pity that there was a group of pig teammates around him. Zhao Man was embarrassed by his grandmother, his biological mother and siblings. deliberately exposed the true intentions of Niu and Zhao Xiang in front of Mrs. Huo, and Mrs. Huo dispelled the idea of proposing marriage in a fit of anger. In order to take revenge afterwards, she and her sister Mrs. Feng Yushi also put pressure on Niu's landlord to force Niu's ancestors and grandchildren to move out. If it weren't for Wang Dongsheng returning to Beijing and bringing the ancestors and grandchildren of the Niu family to their homes, maybe they would have lived on the streets.

Pei'er didn't know that Niu and Mrs. Huo could almost be regarded as turning their faces at the beginning. Seeing that Huo Zhiliang was becoming more and more handsome, he knew that Zhao Xiang was worried about his life's events recently, so he said this. Zhao Xiang knew the inside story very well, but thinking that it had always been the Niu family who had been in charge of his marriage, it didn't matter if she was her own shield. Maybe the mother and son of the Huo family are willing to listen to her? Mrs. Huo liked her very much at first. Although Huo Zhiliang is the son of a criminal official, his situation is not much better than her, but he still has relatives who are officials, and he also takes good care of their mother and son, so he is not an object to consider.

Anyway, now that she is dragged down by her grandmother, her reputation has fallen to the dust, how many sons and brothers of rich and noble families can take a fancy to her? In contrast, Huo Zhiliang is right with himself. Don't dislike anyone. If you can take the opportunity to get rid of your grandmother, it will be a blessing for you.

Zhao Xiang thought so, and quietly glanced in the direction of the main room. Then he asked Pei'er to boil the medicine, but he returned to the room, changed into a clean and tidy blue jacket and blue silk skirt, recombed his hair, and swept his eyebrows. After tidying up, she looked at the mirror for a long time. After confirming that there was no problem, I went to the main room. Ask your grandmother for instructions: "The kitchen is running out of oil, and Pell is boiling medicine." Unable to leave, her granddaughter wanted to get a bottle of oil from the grocery store at the mouth of the alley. ”

Niu looked at her suspiciously: "You can't boil medicine, don't you?" Tell Pell to go! ”

Zhao Xiang replied a little nervously: "Grandmother, have you forgotten?" As you said earlier, the charcoal in our house is not fine enough, and it is the most smoked when used to boil medicine, and it will be bad if you smoke your eyes. Therefore, her granddaughter only asked Pei'er to boil medicine for the past two days, and she didn't dare to get close. Besides, the grocery store is at the mouth of the alley, just a few steps away from our house, and my granddaughter brought a few pennies over and came back in a while. ”

Niu's is right to think about it, just a few pennies, what can Zhao Xiang do with it? It doesn't cost ten pennies to get a small bottle of oil, and that money isn't enough to hire a car into the inner city. Is she still afraid that Zhao Xiang will run away?

Thinking so, she turned around and touched the keychain on her waist, opened the small kang cabinet beside her, counted out ten copper coins from it, thought about it, put back five more, and then handed it to her granddaughter: "Let's get a little oil first, and then ask Pei'er to buy it when it's finished." Then he asked suspiciously: "Didn't the Hou Mansion send us a big jar of oil?" How? Running out? ”

Zhao Xiang took the five copper coins with resentment, bowed his head and said, "Didn't you say yesterday that the oil was not delicious?" ”

Niu's was suffocated, she just casually disliked a few words yesterday, how can the oil sent by the Hou Mansion be high-grade, what good oil can the small grocery store at the mouth of this alley? How could she be used to eating? But her granddaughter had already taken the money out of the house, and she thought about it and thought it would be okay to give it a try. But she can afford to spend five big money, and she must not lose face in front of her granddaughter.

Zhao Xiang walked out of the house angrily, and when she remembered the five copper coins in her sleeve, she was angry. Fortunately, she didn't really have to go out to buy today, otherwise it would be a shame to take five copper coins. The beggars on the street are richer than her!

When she was out of gas, she hurriedly cleaned up her mood and walked out of the alley with a half-bottle of oil. On the way, she lowered her head and avoided people, even if she met those young people who were not clean in their mouths, and people whistled at her, she didn't pay attention to it, and just walked straight until she walked to the eight alleys next door.

There was a small carriage parked in front of a family not far from the mouth of the alley, and several children were playing around the side of the carriage. Zhao Xiang didn't pay attention to the two women, just staring at the carriage. The carriage was given to her sister Mrs. Huo by Mrs. Feng Yushi, and Zhao Xiang also borrowed it to sit on, so he recognized it at a glance. She was overjoyed, lowered her head and walked into the alley, and after passing the carriage, she couldn't help but look back, and then looked back and forth, found a crooked-necked tree, and hid behind it, looking at the movement at the door of the house. The two mothers-in-law on the opposite side were just chatting and didn't seem to notice her.

She waited for at least one cup of tea before the door opened, and the mother and son of the Huo family walked out under the escort of a middle-aged woman. The woman also took Mrs. Huo's hand and said, "Don't worry, in-laws." When the child is out of filial piety, I will definitely ask someone to send her. It is also a good thing that you can leave this place from now on. He choked up as he spoke.

Mrs. Huo's eyes also reddened: "Don't be like this, when the two children become relatives, we will be a family." I'll talk to my brother-in-law when the time comes. I will also take you together, and we will live together and take care of each other. When we go to the field, no one knows what we are all about, and we don't have to be careful in our actions. When your children grow up, you will be blessed. Good days are yet to come. You have to keep your spirits up. ”

The woman nodded tearfully.

Mrs. Huo asked the middle-aged woman to go back, but the woman repeatedly insisted on sending his mother and son away, so Mrs. Huo had to turn around and get into the car.

Zhao Xiang waited anxiously, and didn't have time to think about what kind of in-laws these two women were, and saw that Mrs. Huo was about to get into the car. Hurriedly walked out from behind the tree, pretended to bury his head and walked forward, and when he passed the carriage, he let out an "ah", as if he had just recognized them, and said, "Uncle Huo? How did you end up here? ”

Mrs. Huo was bowing her head and weeping, and when she heard the voice, she saw that it was her, and her complexion changed. The face immediately elongated.

Huo Zhiliang also recognized Zhao Xiang, he lowered his head and ignored it, and only said to Mrs. Huo: "Mother got in the car, right?" ”

Mrs. Huo got into the car and lowered the curtain. seemed to ignore Zhao Xiang's meaning at all. Zhao Xiang bit his lip and secretly glanced at Huo Zhiliang, and found that he seemed to be taller than the previous meeting, and he had changed into a green cloth straight jacket, thin and straight, and indeed a little handsome. She put her heart on the side. quickly whispered: "I know that Aunt Huo must still be complaining about me in her heart, but ...... Marriage events. Since the elders are in charge, I really can't ......"

Huo Zhiliang frowned. Mrs. Huo in the carriage said coldly: "Miss Zhao is too worried. You have no fate with children, and it is also the creation of our family. Now our mother and son are preparing to go to me to be Zhizhou's brother-in-law in the spring, and my sister has agreed, so that my son will worship my brother-in-law's friends as teachers, and he will be the curtain in the future, although he is not as rich as being an official, but he is also very decent. My son has a bright future in the future, and if he had made a marriage with you that day, with your current notoriety, my son would not know how to be laughed at. It can be seen that everything in this world is dependent on blessings and misfortunes. It was a bad thing at the time, but now it seems that it is a blessing for our family. Miss Zhao doesn't need to mention any marriage, my son has already been engaged to the royal family's daughter, and he will be married just after filial piety. If you are a shameful girl, don't dwell on it, and go back to your grandmother. Although she is not a good person, she has good intentions for your granddaughter. ”

Zhao Xiang was so ashamed that he was almost embarrassed, he couldn't say anything, and could only watch Huo Zhiliang drive his mother away in a carriage. When they disappeared outside the mouth of the alley, she turned her head and faced the woman who Mrs. Huo had just called her in-laws, only to find that the other party was a little familiar. If you think about it carefully, she is also a family member of a criminal official, her husband is surnamed Wang, and he was also an official in the past to the Wupin Minister, and he is a small person among the followers of King Ying. His family and daughter have also seen it, they are three years older than Huo Zhiliang, with a medium appearance, but they have some virtuous reputation. Zhao Xiang has always not taken the other party in his eyes, could it be that Huo Zhiliang is actually engaged to this woman? !

Also, the Wang family actually lives in Mianhua Hutong, and her grandparents have moved here for so many days, why don't they see this family come to visit?

Zhao Xiang was about to step forward to speak, but Mrs. Wang spat at her with disdain: "You shameless little girl, the bad things in your family have long been spread, why do you still have the face to go out?" Let me leave quickly, and defile the door of our royal family!" With that, he took two steps back and slammed the door shut.

Zhao Xiang was ashamed and angry, and the shameful laughter of the two mothers-in-law came from behind him: "I'm afraid I heard that the beautiful little brother is here, so I came here to wait, right?" Hiding behind a tree to pretend to be a chance encounter? The girl also argued that the rumored bad things were all done by her old woman, and that her young lady was a serious person. Phew! The grandparents and grandchildren are all the same, and they are all little whores who can't walk when they see a man! What kind of serious person to pretend?! "The widow of the Wang family is a serious person, and she raises a few children, so she naturally doesn't look down on this kind of little whore." "Don't say that people are scholars, we coarse people can't look down on them, what a thing!"

Zhao Xiang covered his face and ran away, crying and running home. Niu was scolding in the room: "Where did you go? Why do you go to Qianmen Street to get oil? After going for half a day, could it be that the lover went? Which bastard the hell? Speak up and see if I don't kill him! ”

Zhao Xiang ran back to the room and threw himself on the bed, crying loudly. If it weren't for Niu's obstruction, she would have been engaged to Huo Zhiliang and would have left here justifiably. Even if you can't be an official wife, it's better to be a master's wife. Now he can only condescend to the old courtyard in the depths of the alley, not only to endure the gossip of outsiders, but also to suffer from the misunderstanding and abuse of his grandmother. How are you going to live this day?!

When she blamed her grandmother in her heart, she forgot that she didn't look down on the Huo family at the beginning, and even hung Mrs. Huo for her grandmother, making the latter mistakenly think that she was about to become her daughter-in-law, and her attitude became extremely kind and ashamed. Now all she needs is an object to shirk her responsibility.

Crying and crying, she inadvertently turned her head sideways, but caught a glimpse of a paper bag placed on the windowsill, and suddenly stopped crying.

They didn't bring the bag, it was left by the previous tenant. When she first moved in that day, she wanted to throw out all the rags in the house, but was scolded by the old lady of the neighbor, pointing to the packet of medicine and saying that it was poison, and the previous tenant bought it to poison the rats, and asked her not to throw it away, which harmed the cats and dogs passing by. She casually put her hand on the windowsill.

Zhao Xiang sat up with sobs, stared at the packet of medicine, and fell into deep thought. (To be continued)

ps: The next chapter will return to the second room. 2015 New Year, New Year's Day, Happy New Year's Day~~~R655