The snow piled up in a few moments, and the narrow alleys were covered with snow, and the leather boots creaked against the snow. The oil-paper umbrella held felt heavy after a while, and the entire umbrella surface was covered with snow, so the Li family and his party needed a side umbrella from time to time to let the snow on the umbrella slide to the ground.

"Grandpa, Auntie, I'll call the door first." Out of the alley, in front of Sibao Street, and then through Sibao Street, you will arrive at the door of the Li family's mansion belonging to the eight-room house. Zhen Niang took the first step.

"Okay, slow down." Zhao said. Slippery roads on snowy days.

The snow just fell, and it was not frozen, in fact, the road was not slippery, Zhen Niang held an umbrella and hurriedly walked through Sibao Street, turned a corner, and arrived at the door of her own house, just about to knock on the door, the cold door opened, two men wore robes, wearing hats and scolded out of the house, walked in a hurry, almost hit the head with Zhen Niang, fortunately Zhen Niang hid quickly.

Then there was the voice of his eldest brother in the house: "You two are scolding, I have already given the money to my mother-in-law, you two big men, it is difficult to slander my Li family." I can tell you, don't make up your mind about the money in your mother-in-law's hands, otherwise, it will be no problem for me, a brother-in-law, to teach the two brothers-in-law a lesson, don't provoke me, see if I dare to beat you. ”

As he spoke, there was a rush of footsteps.

Zhen Niang listened to this, and she was even more surprised in her heart, her eldest brother has always been good-tempered, but now he said such hard words, obviously the two brothers of the Du family are afraid of what they have done, and even honest people like their eldest brother are angry.

It's just strange again, why did the Du family brothers come back? Then I thought about it, it must be the new emperor who ascended the throne. This amnesty. that their sins were forgiven. It's really cheap for them.

Zhenniang remembers. Later, when Wanli ascended the throne, Zhang Juzheng vetoed the amnesty of the new emperor's accession to the throne, precisely because this article was very unreasonable.

At this time, the Du brothers heard Li Dalang's voice in the house, so they snorted, spit into the snow in unison, and heard the footsteps to the door, so the two fled and left, but they didn't even notice Li Zhenniang, who almost bumped into before.

"Yikes. The sister is back, what about Daddy and Grandpa? At this time, Li Dalang had already arrived at the door, and he only saw the backs of the Du brothers, and his face was not very good, but he turned his face and saw Zhen Niang, but he was surprised.

"Grandpa and my mother came with me, Daddy is going to be a step late, and I will be behind, and my eldest brother will go to meet me." Zhen Niang said with a smile, and then raised her chin at the Du brothers who were far away: "What's the matter with them?" ”

When I heard Zhenniang ask the Du family brothers. Li Dalang's face was ugly, and he waved his hand: "I'll talk about it later." I'll pick up my grandfather and mother first. ”

Li Dalang said and strode out.

Hearing what her eldest brother said, Zhen Niang didn't ask any questions, and when she entered the house, the six-catty sister-in-law came out, took the things in Zhen Niang's hand with a happy face, and shouted to the house at the same time: "Old lady, Zhen Niang, they are back." As he spoke, he patted the snow on Zhen Niang's hair and said, "This snow is really big today." ”

"No, fortunately, this time has come, if you are on the road at this time, it will be troublesome." Zhenniang replied.

The Wu family in the house was boiling a fire at this time, and when she heard the voice of the six-catty sister-in-law, she was also surprised by a "oops, oops", and hurriedly greeted her, while Zheng and Du helped her.

I didn't mention the greetings of the meeting, and after a while, Li Dalang greeted the old shopkeeper Li and others and entered the house. Brother Xi pulled Hui Guan'er and Xiao Guan'er, who were still stumbling and still unstable, and went directly to turn over the salute. I went looking for something to eat.

And Zhen Niang went into the room to change into dry clothes and came out, Du Shi was busy serving hot tea, while Zheng Shi went down to the kitchen to cook a few poached eggs.

"By the way, I came all the way just now, as if I saw the Du family brothers, what's wrong? Are they okay? Coming back? At this time, the old shopkeeper Li suddenly asked.

It turned out that when the Du brothers walked back before, they also met the old shopkeeper Li, just said hello with a smile, and left in a hurry.

Zhen Niang was still thinking about her eldest brother's words before, and she was also listening with her ears pricked up at this time.

"The new emperor ascends the throne and amnesties the world, and they will be fine." Li Dalang said in a sullen voice, and Du Shi on the side lowered his head, not daring to look at the eyes of the old shopkeeper Li.

"This amnesty is really good for no reason, is it possible that as soon as you, the emperor, ascend the throne, all the villains in the world will be guilty, it doesn't make sense, isn't this appeasement of bad people?" Wu muttered.

"It's really cheap for them." While the Zhao family took a bite of the poached egg, he said with some indignation, the pressure on the Li family was really not small in the original accident.

The old shopkeeper Li knows his wife best, and it has always been better to have more than one thing, but now he said such a thing, obviously something should have happened at home, otherwise he would never say such a thing.

Then he frowned again: "Is there something going on at home?" ”

And this is also Zhenniang's doubt, especially at this time, when her grandfather asked, her sister-in-law's face turned pale and uneasy, and it seemed that the matter was really not small.

"Hey, it's nothing...... The younger generation is not sensible. Looking at Du Shi's expression, Wu Shi waved his hand a little unbearably.

It's just that at this time, Na Du knelt down with a snort: "Grandma don't have to scruple, this thing is to be said." So saying, he told the story of the matter.

But it turned out to be the Du family brothers so shameless, they just came back, and saw that the Li family oil mill is now doing a prosperous business, I heard that there is a big customer in Nanjing, and the entire tung oil business in Huizhou is almost occupied by Li Dalang alone, and the two brothers are angry.

actually found a group of ruffians and went to the Li family oil mill to make trouble, not to say that the Li family oil mill was theirs, originally they were bullying Li Dalang's Mu Ne.

It's just that today's Li Dalang started his coal furnace business, then as an inkstone business, and later took over the oil mill, which is also starting from the most difficult situation step by step.

In addition to being wooden, that character has added an unyielding force, otherwise. The business at Uncle Xi's side in Nanjing. Li Dalang will not be so convinced.

In short, today's Li Dalang is no longer something that the two brothers of the Du family can fool around. In addition, he himself is strong and strong, and the workers in the oil mill also have a lot of strength. Therefore, in that fight, the Du family brothers did not please at all, and they were beaten by Li Dalang, not to mention, and even dragged to the yamen, Li Dalang even found a few more tung oil poisoning, and planned to sue the Du family brothers. The court can pardon it, but the bitter lord can sue again.

In the end, the Du brothers relented. was also beaten with twenty canes, and since then he has never dared to trouble the Li family again.

The matter was settled, but these two brothers were really not things.

That Du Da's lady was not a girl from a good family, and she followed Du Da because she said that there was an oil mill industry outside, so she had a place to live with him, but she didn't expect Huizhou, so she learned the truth about the Du family and knew that it was a big pit.

However, because she gave birth to a son, the Shen family held her on weekdays. And the few money I got from Zhenniang's sister-in-law Du Shi were all pasted on her. She knew it well when she arrived, so she lived with Shen's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law behind closed doors. With a petty official, those days were smooth.

But I didn't think that as soon as the Du brothers came back, the days of peace and happiness were gone, and Du Da was deflated here in the Li family, so he became addicted to gambling, and he lost the money, and almost gave his daughter-in-law to the gambling house, his daughter-in-law is not a fuel-efficient lamp, seeing this situation, knowing that the days could not be passed, he kowtowed to the Shen family, rolled up some broken silver at home and ran away.

After that, the Du family brothers broke the jar and broke it, and they recognized some people, fox friends, and dogs, and they did not do much to dig pits, but the money was mostly left hand in and right hand out, and there was no money, but they forced the Shen family to go to the Li family to get money.

It's endless.

The Li family doesn't want to pay attention to this, but the Shen family is the mother of the Du family, and it is really pitiful to ask the two sons to force them like this, and Li Dalang can't really ignore it. zuihou, then found a Chinese person again, and said that he would give Shen three taels of silver every month, which was the living expenses of her and the little official. Do it everywhere in the open. In this way, the Du family brothers can't say that they want to borrow the Shen family to come to the Li family to get money. After all, three taels of silver, a family of four, a month's living expenses are more than enough.

In this way, the Shen family can be regarded as peaceful.

It's just that these two brothers often take advantage of this festival to borrow money from the Li family, which is also the scene that Zhen Niang saw at the door of the house at the beginning.

"There's no king's law yet?!!!" As soon as she heard Du Shi say this, Zhao was angry, she didn't expect that she was in Nanjing, and her family actually made such a show. Na Du just knelt there and cried.

"Get up, I can't blame you for this. This is in the past, but you brothers should be on guard and don't be confused anymore. Old Shopkeeper Li said to Du Shi. But he also knocked a sentence.

"Grandpa, granddaughter-in-law knows." Du Shi wiped his tears and stood up. Zhenniang also sighed, her sister-in-law has such a pair of brothers in the stall, it is really helpless. Merely......

Thinking about it, Zhen Niang twisted her eyebrows and said to her eldest brother: "Big brother, do you have a lot of evidence and witnesses in the original case file?" "This is not afraid of thieves stealing, but afraid of thieves, obviously this Du family brother is not dead.

Now they can't do anything about themselves, but if they have a chance, they will have to take a bite if they can't keep it, so they have to be on guard at all times.

"Well, they all have it, who doesn't know about their affairs in Huizhou, they have long been notorious." Li Dalang said with a calm face.

"But no matter what, you can't have the heart to harm others, and you can't have the heart to prevent people." Zhen Niang said, the pits in the mall are one after another, if there is no such defense heart, then it will be pitted one day.

"Well, big brother knows." Li Dalang nodded.

As he was talking, the concierge led the mother-in-law of Xiaowenyou, the seventh room, Sun, to come over, and Sun followed her sister-in-law.

The Li family had just finished the conversation between the Du family brothers, and Du's eyes were red from crying, and he was not good at seeing people at this time, so he dragged Hui Guan'er into the house.

The two of them came over to ask about Sun Wenjie. To tell the truth, as soon as Sun Wenjie's matter reached Huizhou, the sister-in-law of the Sun family was frightened, nearly a thousand taels of silver, where could she pay for it. I only hate that she was blinded by weishenme lard at the beginning, and she was bent on letting Wenjie enter the ink workshop, that kid was hanging on his son, so it's no wonder if something doesn't happen?

It's just that since the incident happened, she hasn't seen Wen Jie's kid come back, nor has she sent a letter home, so her heart has not been stable for a moment.

This time, on the way, I heard that Zhen Niang was back, so I pulled Sun and came to Zhen Niang to inquire. Of course, there is also the intention of interceding in the face of the Sun family.

Zhenniang also knew her thoughts, just right, before coming, Sun Wenjie asked her to bring a letter to Sister-in-law Sun, so she took it out of the package and handed it to Sister-in-law Sun.

Sun's sister-in-law was illiterate, so she gave the letter to Sun, and Sun opened the letter, which was the process of the original ink mold incident, as well as the handling of Zhenniang, and now his determination to work hard.

The sister-in-law Sun was still thinking about it, but now that she saw that her son was actually angry, she finally let go of the heart she was carrying, and Sun Wenjie also said in the letter that as long as he worked hard, it was not a problem to be in charge, but it was a good thing for Sister-in-law Sun to listen to.

Although she begged Sun to let Sun Wenjie enter the ink shop, she made a lot of excuses and put a lot of thought into it, but in fact, what she wanted was just that her son could be a steward in the ink shop and learn a skill. Now, if the son can do it by himself, then no one who is a mother will have an opinion.

And Sun, who thinks that Zhen Niang's handling is to give her face, is also very happy, which makes her have face in front of her sister-in-law.

zuihou, Zhenniang said that she would go to the seventh grandmother tomorrow to say goodbye, and Sun left happily with Sun's sister-in-law.

………………………… (To be continued......)

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