Chapter 43: Anger
Lin Changqing and Aunt Li came out of her cousin Lin Changsheng's house, and the two didn't speak along the way, until they were in their own house, Lin Changqing spoke, "I didn't expect Wen Shanniang to do such a humiliating thing." It's just that she doesn't admit it, and she can't do anything with her without evidence. But you can't let Xiaozhu be such a young child suffer, and when the time comes, Xinmi will come down and make up for her from our house, so that she won't be too aggrieved. You have to talk about it. Lin Changqing was also helpless, but such a superb relative could only consider himself unlucky.
Aunt Li came to Lin Zhu's house, she always felt that she couldn't treat Lin Zhu as a child, coaxing would not work, she could only tell the truth. When this kind of thing happened, Aunt Li felt very sorry for her.
Lin Zhu saw that Aunt Li came over so late, and knew that she must have asked her to come into the house for the sake of early trouble. Aunt Li, who sat down, did not beat around the bush, and directly told them about going to Lin Changsheng's house to inquire about Wen Shanniang, and also told Wen Shanniang and Steward Lin about their grievances. Although Lin Zhu already knew that Wen Shanniang had done the stealing of the crops, she still quietly listened to Aunt Li's words, but when she heard that Aunt Li wanted to take rice out of her own house and give it to her, she hurriedly refused, thinking that Wen Shanniang's silver hairpin was still in her hand, if Wen Shanniang insisted on not admitting her mistake and returning the stolen rice, then she would not return the silver hairpin to Wen Shanniang, so Lin Zhu took a big advantage, so she couldn't ask for Li Niang's rice.
But Aunt Li felt sorry for her little girl being bullied, and her own family had not been able to get justice for her, so she insisted on giving it, Lin Zhu had no choice but to take out the silver hairpin, "Auntie, this is the person who stole the crops and fell into my field." "Aunt Li took it and took a look, isn't this Wen Shanniang's hairpin? She looked at the hairpin in disbelief and then looked at Lin Zhu, "This, this is Wen Shanniang's hairpin," sighed, and sat on the chair dejectedly, "It's true that she did it now," paused and looked up at Lin Zhu, "Xiaozhu, in fact, although the eldest mother suspected that she did it, but to ask her, she said so resolutely that she didn't do it, and the eldest mother still had some luck in her heart, but she couldn't rely on it now." "Aunt Li is really disappointed in this younger brother and sister, originally she always worked against her own family, and her speech was not good, Aunt Li can understand, Lin Changqing became the village head, she is not happy, and sometimes she will not go to her heart when she finds something. But this thing is too out of line, if people know that she stole other people's crops, how can this family raise its head in the village.
Aunt Li left a little sadly, and when she returned to her house, how to tell Lin Changqing about this, Lin Changqing was very angry and scolded Wen Shanniang for being an ignorant mother-in-law, and immediately wanted to go to Lin Changsheng's house to understand with him, but Aunt Li hurriedly stopped him, so that he persuaded Lin Changqing and asked him to think about how to go to Lin Changsheng's house tomorrow morning.
Lin Zhu sent Aunt Li, holding the black beans, sitting in the room, just now Aunt Li's words made her heart full and warm, the first warmth in this world was from Aunt Li, she liked Aunt Li very much, and Ruyu, and Qing, including Lin Changqing, this kind of thing happened, Aunt Li and Lin Changqing were more embarrassed, Wen Shanniang was a relative of his family, but she still told her the ins and outs of the matter, in fact, she could completely conceal it. Since this is the case, the face of the Lin family must be saved for them, and after thinking about it, Lin Zhu decided that as long as Wen Shanniang came over to admit her mistake, he would return the silver hairpin to her, and there was no such thing. Lin Zhu, who had made a decision, also returned to calm.
The next day, early in the morning, Wang Shudun father and son arrived at the back of the courtyard of Linzhu Zhuang, the dry land of Linzhu is here, part of the field is soybeans, part of the field is sorghum, and it is time to harvest, so they hurriedly got up, in order not to repeat the situation of yesterday, they finished harvesting first, and sent the crops back to the farm yard in the evening.
Because it is dry land, the harvest is not very good, and three acres of land is much better than those two acres of rice. In order to finish the work in the field, the three of them kept working, and they were not even willing to rest at noon, until all the soybeans and sorghum were collected in the farmyard, it would be dark, Lin Zhu was very grateful to them, in fact, they could do it again the next day, and they could earn an extra day's money. Lin Zhu was once again moved by their kindness and simplicity. Not only did he make them more than a pound of meat left in the family, but he also baked oil cakes and made bone broth, which was enough for their family to eat. The wages of the three people were originally 30 wen per person per day, a total of 270 wen for three days, Lin Zhu gave 300 wen, Wang Shudun and the three of them said that they would not accept the extra 30 wen, but Lin Zhu persuaded: "Uncle Wang, the silver hairpin that the second brother Wang picked up in the field can be worth a lot of money, but it was given to me, I wanted to sell it and divide it, but now this matter is related to the village chief's family, Aunt Li is very good to me, I don't want her to be embarrassed, as long as the person comes to admit a mistake, I will return the hairpin to her, so these 30 wen is my heart, Take it. Wang Shudun saw that she said something like this, so he accepted it, his own family is not rich, and it is a good thing to have more than 30 Wen.
The three of them happily left Lin Zhu's house, and Lin Zhu also made an appointment with them to invite them over when they could threshh the rice, and they also dealt with soybeans and sorghum.
The work in the field was taken care of, and Lin Zhu was also a little easier. In the past few days, she has been drying wolfberries at home and found that some of them are ready to be sold, so she put away those dried ones, and also picked up all the different grades, ready to find time to go to the county seat to sell them. After calculating the money in hand, the money from the last sale of wolfberries has been spent, and the whole ingot of silver has been moved, so the matter of selling wolfberries is much more important.
A few days later, Lin Zhu went to the village chief's house to find Aunt Li about it, but if he wanted to go to the county, he had to use Lin Dazhu's ox cart, and now was the time when the farm was busy, and he would definitely not be free. Lin Zhu wanted to go by herself, but Aunt Li was not at ease, in order to persuade Aunt Li, Lin Zhu spent a lot of effort, but she just didn't let go and agreed to Lin Zhu to go on the road alone.
Lin Zhu also had some nothing to do, so he had to do some housework at home, clean the yard, feed the chickens, water the vegetables, and turn the wolfberries. Because there is no special place to put wolfberries in this house, she has to put the sun-dried wolfberries into the space.
When Lin Zhu was tidying up the vegetable field, he found that the cabbage planted some time ago had grown, and the time was not much shorter than that of the cabbage planted by ordinary rapeseed from planting to seedling, but the vegetable seedlings were much stronger. The leaves are green and shining, and Lin Zhu took out some small vegetable seedlings and threw them to the chickens, who ate very happily and were more popular than other dishes. This discovery made Lin Zhu feel that this batch of dishes would definitely be stronger than before.
In this way, Lin Zhu stayed at home and was busy for several days, but the person she thought should come never came. Originally, I didn't have a good impression of Wen Shanniang, but now I'm even more disgusted. And there is no movement in the village where she is looking for a hairpin, is she really so generous, even if this silver hairpin worth a lot of money is lost, she will not feel distressed?