Ma returned to the house and sat for a while, until her mother-in-law urged her to sleep peacefully, and she did not come back to her senses. She looked at her mother-in-law, "Aunt Ying, when I was away, did Miss go out?" ”

The mother-in-law, who was known as Yinggu, replied respectfully, "Mrs. Hui, Miss has never gone out." ”

Ma Shi was puzzled and said to himself, "Then where did she hear all the rumors?" ”

When Ying Gu heard this, she immediately knelt on the ground, "Please punish Madame, the old slave has not returned to Madame for something." ”

Ma Shi was silent, staring at Yinggu who was kneeling down with joy or anger. When she got married, her father and mother bought a dowry maid for her as a façade. Yinggu looks average, and there is a faint birthmark the size of copper wire on the left side of her face. Therefore, when my father and mother bought this dowry maid, I was not worried about what my uncle would do to the dowry maid. She has been married to Gu Yunfu for many years, experienced poverty, tasted wealth, and now is down, from beginning to end, she has kept Yinggu by her side, and Yinggu has always been loyal.

Yinggu knelt on the ground, and didn't dare to raise her head, "Mrs. Hui, there is a girl named Lotus in the Song family on the left, when Madame is not away, she will come over from time to time to find Miss to talk, and it will be an hour to sit." ”

Ma asked lightly, "What did they say?" ”

"The young lady doesn't let the old slave serve in front of her, but always drives the old slave to stand at the gate of the courtyard."

Ma Shi is angry, but she is not the kind of person who shouts, and her voice is always lower than others, "If you dare to hide such things, you should be punished." ”

Yinggu's head was close to the ground, and she said in a trembling voice, "Madam, there is one more thing, the old slave has to report to Madame no matter what." Seeing that Ma Shi didn't say anything, she knew that Madame was listening, so she said, "I'm afraid, it's not only Song Lotus who is rapping in Miss's ear, but also the second young lady." ”

Ma Shi chuckled in his heart, "What did you say?" ”

"Yesterday, the old slave passed under the window of the young lady and overheard the words of the second young lady pouting the young lady. When the old slave wanted to listen carefully, the second young master suddenly coughed behind the old slave. In this way, there was no movement in the house. After a short time, the second young lady came out of the young lady's house, rewarded the old slave with a slap, and warned the old slave not to talk too much, otherwise he would pull out the old slave's tongue. ”

Ma Shi tightened the handkerchief in his hand, and his body trembled slightly with anger, "Is this after the master came, or before?" ”

"After that."

"The second young lady slapped you, the second young master is there?"

"Yes."

"What does the second young master have to say?"

He didn't say anything, but turned and went into the house.

"You get up first, I have something to ask you tomorrow."

Aunt Ying thanked her and left the house.

Ma closed his eyes and wept silently. After crying silently for a moment, she wiped away her tears, opened the cage, took out two boxes, and put them on the bed to check. A box contained the gold and silver jewelry she had accumulated over the years, most of which Gu Yunfu didn't know. In addition to five silver bills of one hundred taels, there were also gold ingots, silver ingots, and scattered pieces of silver.

These were accumulated by her with great difficulty, and they were not searched by Gu Yunfu. After all these years as a husband and wife, she had already seen through the man Gu Yunfu and made some precautions, otherwise, what would she do to protect her children. It's just that over the years, the children have been used to living a rich life, and they can't bear a little hardship. The child will have other thoughts, and she will have no other way but to be sad.

I couldn't sleep all night, and after breakfast the next day, Ma called all the children to the room.

Gu Qingjia seemed to anticipate something, and put his young daughter on his lap lonely, just staring at his daughter playing with his fingers, without saying a word.

Gu Qingquan sat next to Gu Qingjia's subordinates, although he didn't speak, his eyes were not idle, observing the faces of his mother and eldest brother, and from time to time he looked at the cage that Ma placed in the house. Behind him stood his wife, holding their seven-month-old son in the crook of her arm.

And Gu Li, with a sad expression, sat far away from Ma's, and no longer saw the usual intimacy.

Ma looked at the children's expressions one by one, and instructed the Ying Gu behind him, "Open the cage and take out my money box." She said, placing a key on the table.

Ying Gu agreed, took the key, lowered her head and went over, and quickly held a box to Ma's.

Ma asked Aunt Ying to put the money box on the table, and then, in front of her children, she opened the money box and looked at the children. I saw that her eldest son did not raise his head, but only teased his daughter on his knees; Her second son and her mother-in-law, Zhang's eyes were shining, and their eyes were glued to the money box, as if they could no longer pull it out; Her daughter, the daughter she loved with all her heart, her face was not good, she stared at the money box, bit her lip, and wanted to speak several times, but in the end she held back.

Ma's heart was transparent, he sighed, straightened his back, and gracefully took out the same thing from the money box, put it on the table, and then raised his head, "You also know that your father basically took away the private room in his mother's hand in order to repay the debt." These are the ones that my mother hid and hidden, and then I left. She pulled the jewelry to the side, "Two pairs of gold bracelets, three gold hairpins, four pairs of earrings, plus the one on the mother's head, is the only jewelry left in the mother's hand." She picked up two more silver tickets, "two silver tickets of one hundred taels, ten taels of gold ingots, fifteen taels of silver ingots, and the scattered silver will not be counted." As she spoke, she put the loose pieces of silver into the moneybox.

Gu Qingquan's face flashed with disappointment, but his lady Zhang Shi stared at the gold bracelet and the golden hairpin with straight eyes.

Gu Li couldn't hold back after all, "Mother, what are you going to do when you take out all your belongings?" What she is most worried about now is that her mother has given all her belongings to her eldest brother and second brother, but she has lost her dowry.

Ma no longer had the heart to coax his daughter gently, "Two hundred taels of silver tickets, ten taels of gold ingots, and fifteen taels of silver ingots, all converted into silver taels, that is, three hundred and fifteen taels of silver." The three of you brothers and sisters are all the meat that fell from your mother's body, and it is the meat of your mother's heart. If you are willing to follow your mother, your mother will have to plan for you. Don't worry about these jewelry, my mother won't give it to you. As she spoke, she put the jewelry into the box one by one.

Gu Qingquan's mother couldn't help it, "Mother, the mother of other families, if you have good things, you will share them with your children." When I got to my mother, why was it different? ”

Ma sneered, "Zhang, my mother didn't divorce you, a daughter-in-law who loves to tell right and wrong, you should have snickered, and you still want to take away your mother's jewelry, you are not afraid of the wind flashing your tongue!" ”

Zhang's face immediately turned pale and he lowered his head.

Gu Qing coughed uncomfortably and didn't speak.

Ma put away the silver ingot, "Three hundred taels of silver, divided into three, one hundred taels." Jia'er gets one hundred taels, Quan'er gets one hundred taels, and the remaining one hundred taels are mother's. If you want to take it and take your sister to live, you have to take a part of it out and buy a dowry for your sister. ”

"Mother." Gu Qingquan frowned, he thought that he could get one hundred and fifty taels.

"Mother." Gu Li was in a hurry, "What can you do with a hundred taels of silver?" In addition to the daily expenses, what kind of dowry will be purchased with that little bit of silver? It's a bit shabby. ”

When Ma heard this, he immediately threw the silver ticket and gold ingot into the money box, and closed the money box with a snap, "It's too little, go and ask your father." ”

As soon as these words came out, the scene suddenly fell silent.

Suddenly, Gu Qingjia's daughter on her knees stretched out her hand to Ma's and grinned, calling out to her grandmother indistinctly.

When Ma saw it, his heart softened, "It's still grandmother's Hui'er intimacy." ”

Gu Qingjia stood up and put her daughter on Ma's lap.

Ma hugged his granddaughter and scratched her little nose, looking very happy.

Gu Qingquan stretched out his hand and poked his mother-in-law Gu Zhang's arm. Gu Zhang came back to his senses, squeezed out a smiling face, and sent the son in his arms to Ma's front, "Mother, your precious golden grandson thinks about you very much." ”

Ma ignored it, and just teased the little granddaughter Hui'er in his arms.

Gu Zhang's blushed a lot, glanced at little Hui'er, smiled at Ma's wryly, and refused to retreat. She scolded secretly in her heart: The old thing, if you don't hold the golden grandson, you actually hug the money and goods, what a fool.

At this time, the child in Gu Zhang's arms farted, and then a foul smell spread.

Ma didn't raise his head, "Don't you take Cong'er to clean up, why are you standing here stunned?" ”

Gu Zhang's heart was angry, but he was actually very afraid of Ma's mother-in-law, so he hugged the child and hurried down.

Gu Qingquan wanted to ease the atmosphere, "Mother, Zhang's is straightforward, she has always been quick to talk, she has no bad intentions, she ......"

"Aunt Ying, tell Young Master and Miss Sù how Mrs. Ben originally planned to divide this family." Ma interrupted the second son's words and came with such a sentence.

Ying Gu agreed, lowered her head and spoke, "Back to the eldest young master, the second young master, and the young lady." Mrs. said that when the children are older, they don't like to be controlled, and it is inevitable that some demon moths will come out. Moreover, Mrs. feels that her health has been getting worse and worse recently, and her energy is limited, and she is afraid that she will not be able to control anyone. But Miss Young Master came out with Mrs., and Mrs. couldn't ignore Miss Young Master, so Mrs. had the idea of separating the family. ”

Gu Qingquan was about to speak, but Gu Qingjia kept a calm face and held him down, preventing him from interrupting Yinggu silently.

Ying Gu said again, "Madame originally planned to divide the property in her hand into three, the eldest young master accounted for one, the second young master accounted for one, and the lady took the young lady to take one share. Besides, which of the eldest young master and the second young master is willing to support his wife, the lady will live with whomever he wants. But there is one thing, the lady will keep the share of the money for the young master and continue to manage the family business for him. When the young lady got married, the young master who flattered the lady had to add ten taels of silver, and the young master who did not support the lady had to add twenty taels of silver. ”

Gu Qingjia was silent, and Gu Qingquan couldn't sit still.

Ma patted her sleepy granddaughter on the back and added, "I am a mother, and I will stay and continue to live in this rented courtyard." And he who had gone out took with him the money he had shared, and put in order his belongings, and moved out of here after three days. In the future, fend for yourself! Whether you live a good or bad life depends on your own ability, and you can't help your mother. ”

Gu Qing was uncomfortable, "Mother, don't be angry, this is good, what kind of family is it?" Besides, Daddy's ......."

Ma Shi interrupted him, "Quan'er, that's all you can get from Wei Niang. To take it or not to take it, to talk back tomorrow. Besides, don't mention your father, miss your father so much, go back to your father, don't think about currying favor on both sides, both sides have to be good. Although you are born to your mother, but what is your mother's character, you also know that your mother can't rub sand in her eyes. ”

Gu Qingjia stood up and hugged the sleepy daughter in Ma's arms, "Mother, the child will support you, and the child will watch his sister get married." You don't have a good complexion, I'm afraid you didn't sleep well last night, don't think too much, lie down and rest for a while. ”

Hearing this, the dark clouds in Ma's heart finally dispersed a little, "Okay, mother, rest." ”

Gu Qingquan didn't move, as if he intended to stay alone to talk to Ma. Guli is also a boring and immobile place.

Gu Qingjia glanced at his younger brother indifferently, "Qingquan, come here, eldest brother has something to say to you." Li'er, you come along. ”

Gu Qingquan hesitated, and when he saw that Ma asked Aunt Ying to help him and walked to the bedside, he had to stand up and go out with his eldest brother. Gu Li moved his lips, and he didn't know what to say for a while, so he followed out.

Yinggu waited for Ma to lie down, and said lightly, "Madam, you are overthinking, sleep peacefully, and it will be fine." ”

Ma sighed lightly, "Keep an eye on the second young lady, don't let her have any more demon moths." ”

Ying Gu responded, tucked the quilt corner for Ma's, did not forget to put Ma's money box in the box and lock it, put the key under Ma's pillow, and went out lightly.

Ma Shi received the key and lay down in the quilt and wept silently. Because she knew that her beating did not work, and that someone who had moved his mind would definitely leave her. The wings are stiff, the heart is big, and nothing can be kept. It's so big that I can't help it!

It was very cold outside, but Yinggu, who was standing in the courtyard and quietly listening to the movements in each room, felt that people's hearts were colder than the weather.

The eldest young master said: Qingquan, you died as soon as possible and took away your mother's thoughts of one hundred taels of silver, stay honest with me, and don't play those ridiculous tricks between your father and mother. And you, Li'er, don't listen to the nonsense of those rap women, and don't know how to raise some demon moths in the sky, which makes my mother sad.

The second young master said: "Big brother, you naturally want to say that. You are the eldest son in the family, whether it is a father or a mother, but if you have good things in your hands, you will definitely give them to you, and you will not share them with these brothers below us. Let's just talk about the eldest brother marrying a wife, not to mention that he spent more silver than me, and the sister-in-law's background is also a head higher than Zhang's. Besides, what my mother just said, my mother knew that it had always been the eldest son who supported her father, and she even said that, which seemed to give me a choice, but in fact, there was no room for me to choose.

The young lady said, "Big brother, I don't do it, why do you all have a hundred taels and I don't." I followed my mother to occupy only one hundred taels of silver, and there are so many flowers every day, and when I get married, I am afraid that I will not even be able to take out a dowry of fifty taels of silver, so I will not do it. Look at Qingshu, she lives in such a big mansion and has a lot of silver in her hand, and her dowry is not ten thousand taels, but at least a few thousand taels. I don't compare with her, and I don't ask for much, but I want a dowry of one hundred and fifty taels of silver.

Ying Gu closed her eyes, turned around after opening her eyes, and was about to go to the kitchen to have a look, but she was startled when she saw Madame standing behind her expressionlessly, "Madam, you ......"

Ma Shi didn't speak, as if he was much older, moved to a door, pushed the door in.

Gu Zhang, who was eavesdropping with his ears on the crack of the door, was hit by the door pushed open by Ma, screamed in pain, covered his ears and half of his face and took a few steps back.

Ma closed the door with his backhand, stepped forward in a few steps, raised his hand and slapped the other half of Gu Zhang's face.

Gu Zhang's beaten Meng cried, "Mother, why did you beat me? ”

Ma was ruthless and rewarded Gu Zhang with a slap.

Gu Zhang howled and cried bitterly, waking up Cong'er, who had not been asleep for a short time. The woman's cry and the child's cry resonated.

Gu Qingquan, who heard the movement, broke into the house.

Ma Shi caught up, opened the bow left and right, snapped twice, and rewarded the second son with two slaps.

Gu Qing's eyes were red, he didn't want to think about it, he raised his hand to fight back.

A large hand reached out from behind him, grabbed his wrist tightly, and shouted, "You dare." This is the first time Gu Qingjia has been angry, and the first time he has glared at people fiercely.

Gu Qingquan was stunned, and when he saw Ma's disappointed look, he immediately knelt on the ground, "Mother, mother, it's unfilial, it's unfilial, please don't be angry, don't hurt your body." ”

At this time, Gu Yunfu, who smelled of wine, came, and kicked the courtyard door, "Open the door, open the door, don't have long eyes, Lao Tzu is here, dare not open the door to greet him, open the door." ”

Ma's eyes, which were heartbroken, turned red, and he shouted uncharacteristically, "Aunt Ying, bring a kitchen knife." ”

Everyone misunderstood, and they knelt down and begged Ma to spare Gu Qingquan.

Ma pushed Ying Gu away, went to the kitchen by himself in a hurry, and took the kitchen knife on the board out of his hand. Everyone was in front of Gu Qingquan, but they didn't want to, Ma hurriedly walked to the courtyard gate, pulled the door bolt and opened the door, "Gu Yunfu, I, Ma, will chop your pig and dog into meat puree today." She shouted, but she swung a kitchen knife and slashed at Gu Yunfu outside the door.

In fact, when he saw the kitchen knife, Gu Yunfu's wine woke up. It's just that he never thought that the mild-tempered Ma would behave like this. Frightened, he turned and ran.

Ma Shi had tears in his eyes, holding a kitchen knife and chasing after him, "You are not as good as a pig and a dog, it is just a matter of taking away your brother's property, for the sake of silver, you want to push your own daughter into the fire pit, and also pick up your own children to learn badly, I chop you, I chop you ......"

No one expected that a mild-tempered person would be forced to be in a hurry, and once it broke out, it would directly escalate to desperate. When Gu Qingjia and the others reacted, Ma bravely chased after the blessed Gu Yunfu wolf.

It is common for husbands and wives to quarrel and fight, but it is rare to chase and cut with a kitchen knife, especially when a wife chases and cuts her husband. There are all small families nearby, and soon, there are more people to see the excitement. Of course, the knife doesn't have long eyes, and whoever dares to go up is standing in the courtyard and stretching his neck to watch.

Gu Yunfu cried and ran away, and he didn't forget to scold a few words in the middle, "The stinky woman raised by the butcher's family is really not a good thing." He forgot the fact that he couldn't get a lady back then. He was able to marry Ma because his hometown sent back the news of Gu Yunhu's fortune, so he was deceived and reluctantly married the niece of the butcher's family and the daughter of the poor Xiucai family.

Because my father was born in Xiucai, Ma's self-cultivation is very good, and he is literate and hyphenated. Now she can't take care of much, and she desperately wants to cut down Gu Yunfu, who ruined her life.

Even if they are relatives and children, there are relatives who are distant and close. Even if it is a parent, there are filial and unfilial. This has always been the case.

Gu Li didn't leave the hospital, she only felt ashamed, and felt that her father and mother had lost her face, so she went back to the house and threw the door and refused to come out again.

Gu Zhang hugged his son and snorted gloatingly, went back to the house to stay warmly, and did not move forward.

Mei'er hesitated again and again, risking the possibility of being beaten and scolded by the young lady, went to the eldest young master's house, hugged Hui'er, who was awakened in fright, and coaxed softly, and looked out anxiously from time to time.

Gu Qingjia, Yinggu and Gu Qingquan chased after Ma's family. Gu Qingquan couldn't even run away from Aunt Ying, and what he said was all good, but he was far behind. Only Gu Qingjia and Yinggu, these two rushed forward wholeheartedly. Gu Qingjia ignored the danger of being injured by a kitchen knife, and when Ma chased Gu Yunfu sideways to cut, he hugged Ma from the side, "Mother, mother, don't be like this, mother, calm down, mother, you still have children, you still have Hui'er, don't be sad, mother, mother." The blade slashed and cut through Gu Qingjia's sleeve.

After a moment of excitement, Ma's who had entered a state of madness regained his senses, his body softened, and the kitchen knife in his hand fell to the ground, "Jia'er, Jia'er, Jia'er......" The person was already in tears.

At this time, Yinggu arrived, cried and called out to Madame, and quickly picked up the kitchen knife on the ground and hid behind her.

Gu Yunfu, who was shrunk into a ball and trembling under the wall of other people's courtyards, wanted to scold a few words, but he trembled his lips and couldn't scold for a while.

At this time, a patrolling catcher heard the movement and rushed over and asked what was going on. Gu Yunfu's feelings were a little more stable, pointing to a few scratches on his clothes, ready to sue Ma.

Gu Qingjia couldn't hide the disgust on her face, helped her mother, squeezed away her father, and explained to Zhukuai, "Misunderstanding, it's just a quarrel between husband and wife, misunderstanding, misunderstanding, it's a complete misunderstanding." ”

Gu Yunfu refused to give up and wanted to speak.

Gu Qingjia sank his face, "Dad, things are big, and no one's face looks good." ”

Gu Yunfu sneered.

Gu Qingjia turned his face and smiled when he spoke to Yu Kuai, "I shocked everyone, I'm really sorry, I'm sorry, it's a little meaning, after a hard day, drink a drink to warm up." As he spoke, he motioned to Aunt Ying to give him the silver.

As soon as Yinggu touched the money bag, she remembered that she had no silver on her body, and her face was anxious.

Gu Qingjia understood, "Dad, hurry up and get wine money for a few big brothers." ”

It's really not good. Gu Yunfu reluctantly took out the money bag. Gu Qingjia supported his mother with one hand, snatched his father's money bag with the other, took out almost a tael of broken silver, and stuffed it into the hands of the catcher.

The leader of the catcher actually patted Gu Qingjia's back, picked up the silver in his hand and left.

As soon as he left, Gu Qingquan, who had been watching from a distance, came over quickly, wanting to pick up the money bag in Gu Qingjia's hand. Gu Qingjia stuffed the money bag into her mother's hand, "Mother, let's go home." Then he helped his mother and went home.

Gu Yunfu wanted to get the money bag back, but when he saw Yinggu turning around and shaking the kitchen knife in his hand, he didn't dare to open his mouth in fright, and quickly slipped away.

It didn't take long for the news to reach Qingshu's ears one after another. Qing Shu thought she had heard it wrong, she also thought that in this world, she was the only woman who would fight with people with knives, guns, etc., but she didn't want that Ma, who was gentle in her bones, would chase and cut her husband on the street. If this is not a play for others to see, then Gu Yunfu's ability is too great, and he has forced people like Ma to the point of cutting people with kitchen knives.