"Giggle······ Giggles! ”

In the morning, the warm sun shone in the yard, the green vegetable patch, the dogs lying on their stomachs, and the flocks of chickens and ducks, the sight was full of the colors of life, and Mu Ying, who was a head taller, was holding a basin with chopped vegetable leaves and rice bran, standing in the yard to feed the chickens.

Behind him, Ma Xiuying sat and chatted with a group of women holding her stomach, and her eyes fell on the courtyard from time to time.

"Mu Ying, you spread the food and feed it in piles." Ma Xiuying smiled, "Those little ones can't be grabbed!" ”

"I got it!" Mu Ying turned around and smiled innocently.

"Sister-in-law!" Behind Ma Xiuying, a sitting young woman asked with a smile, "Can you give me some chickens, and I can raise some when I go back." When I was a child, my favorite thing to do was to serve these chickens and ducklings to my mother. The young woman said, her eyes falling on the creatures that were scurrying in the courtyard, and she could not take any more of them off.

This is Xu Da's daughter-in-law, Zhu Chongba's sister-in-law's sister-in-law, and Zhu Wenzheng's aunt, called Cui'er.

The matchmaker made by the eighth brother-in-law was picked up from his hometown in Haozhou. Cui'er is young, and she is the age of innocence. But at this moment, there is some looming sorrow in his eyes.

The husband is a general under Zhu Chongba, and he lives in a mansion in Luzhou City, and there is no shortage of gold and silver at home, and there is no shortage of subordinates. In the past, when I couldn't dream of it, why did I feel sad?

Ma Xiuying saw it in her eyes and understood it in her heart.

This is thinking of her own men, not long after they got married, the men went out to fight. A dozen is more than half a year, although there is a letter back, but how can a woman's heart be steady. Besides, Cui'er is so young, she guards a big house, although there are some relatives brought from her hometown in the family, but there is not even a person around her to talk to her heart, can she not be bitter?

This kind of suffering is known only to the woman herself. Just a month after the war, how did you survive?

Over there in Sizhou, the gentlemen will send letters back every once in a while, but those who come back with the letters are also ashes jars. How many nights, inside the mansion, you can hear the desperate cries of women outside.

These days, men pin their heads to the waistbands of their trousers. Women are not the same, hanging their lives on their own men.

"You can take whatever you like!" Ma Xiuying said with a smile, "These little things are growing up fast, raising more at home, and they also have the gas to live, and they are happy and bored." When we come back from the war, we can still stew wine! ”

Cui'er lowered her head and smiled gratefully, her eyes revealing infinite yearning.

"If you want me to say, you just can't be idle!" On the side, a woman who looked like a woman wearing gold and silver suddenly spoke, "Now that life is not as good as before, what's the use of raising these things that get up early and are greedy for darkness?" If you really want to eat meat, even if you can eat dragon meat, talk to your family, and bring it directly, and you have to make it ready-made for us. ”

She is Zhou Dexing's mother-in-law, and her temperament is the most pungent, and Zhou Dexing and Zhu Chongba have been friends since childhood.

Her words drew a chuckle around her, and the smiling women had pride in their eyes. They have reason to be proud, they are all women from the countryside, they grew up starving, and they thought that they would face the loess with their backs to the sky in this life. However, they married good husbands.

These women are the families of Zhu Chongba's brothers. Zhu Chongba's rule was that when men went out to fight, all the officers' families lived in the rear.

Men fight more, women make more trouble. Originally, they were villagers in the township, and they had some kinship with each other, and when the men were away, they would go to Ma Xiuying to talk and relieve their boredom.

"The things outside taste different from those raised at home." Ma Xiuying said with a smile, "Besides, we women, what are we afraid of, we are born with this fate!" ”

My sister-in-law seems to have something to say! Cui'er quickly looked at Ma Xiuying, lowered her head and was silent.

But the Tang River family didn't hear it, and continued to laugh, "Look at what you said, we used to be miserable, but now it's not, let's ~~"

"What's the matter now?" Ma Xiuying suddenly interrupted her, just at this time the dog lying on her stomach came over, rubbed affectionately on her lap, reached out and rubbed the dog's head a few times, and said seemingly casually, "Is there a destiny on the body?" Or is it the wife of an official family? Or the wife of a large family? ”

said, sat up straight, and continued, "Our current days are all exchanged for the lives of the masters in the family, not from us. Our men are working hard, and we women have to take care of this family, have you forgotten the hard days before? ”

Zhou Dexing's mother-in-law was sneering, and the women around him didn't dare to interject.

Although he doesn't have any reputation, Zhu Chongba is the emperor of Huaixi, and these people come to Ma Xiuying. However, Ma Xiuying has always been easy-going, and she has never said such heavy things like today.

"There are some things I don't want to say!" Ma Xiuying continued, "The days are lived by yourself behind closed doors, eating, drinking and enjoying yourself, all of which you guys exchanged for their lives. But we see it in our eyes and listen to it in our ears, and we feel that if we don't say it, we won't be able to live with the men who are fighting on the front line in our families. ”

"They are taking their lives, giving us a better life, we have to cherish our blessings!" Ma Xiuying looked at everyone, sincerely, and seriously, "Cherish blessings, it is to accumulate virtue for you." Cherish blessings, and good days can last long. They are carrying knives in front of them desperately, we can't do it at home, we can't be embarrassed, we can't bully others. ”

Ma Xiuying became heavier and heavier the more she spoke, with fire in her words, "Now is not the time for us women to put on music and pretend to be Mrs. and Grandma!" Let's put it up, what about the relatives at home? What about those who received it? Isn't it shaking too? ”

"What meat can't you eat? Eat ready-made? Ma Xiuying smiled, "It's not that I don't speak well, I don't save face for you, and I embarrass you." If you know a little bit of proportion, you can't do that! The top is good, the bottom is effective, the people in your family, in the name of this general, the name of that general, this and that outside, I am panicked! ”

The women's heads are lowered, and they probably know why Mrs. Chongba is so angry today.

The poor relatives of each family are little sheep in front of them, but they are not fuel-efficient lamps outside, relying on the soldiers and knives at home, and the local officials in the city do not care much about the names of each family, so they do some unpleasant things outside.

Otherwise, where do all those good things come from at home? Where do you get the good to wear, the easy to wear, and the good to use? The poor have no oil and water, and these things are not brought from the rich families?

However, these women also feel a little aggrieved, and it is not a big deal.

Didn't those who used to be officials and those who were rich also bully the common people?

Now that I have a knife at home, what's wrong with bullying them?

"Don't think I'm making a big fuss!" Ma Xiuying slowed down, "Now the family is bullying people with our potential, and maybe one day they will be able to kill people and prevent fire!" When the time comes, it's not the gentlemen in our family who will wipe their buttocks, and when the time comes, do you want to do it? ”

"I speak straight, don't think I'm ruthless, I'm also for everyone's good." Ma Xiuying sighed and said, "After I go back, the money that should be sent by each family will be sent, and the subordinates who should be in charge will be in charge, don't let me listen to any gossip." In the future, I want to put on a score and think about my origin. ”

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"Hey, girl, our family is not from a good background!"

In the long and narrow underground passage, Xie Guangkun held a torch and slowly came down the steps.

Xie Lian'er was supporting on the side, a little unhappy, "Dad, what is your bad background?" ”

"Don't you don't like to listen!" Xie Guangkun said with a smile, "Although our ancestors have been scholars, these generations have been businessmen. This is the way of the world, Shinong Industry and Commerce. If Zhu Wu was not the king of Han, his father would not say this. He became the king of Han, and you, the daughter of a merchant, have a low background! ”

"Does he himself want to eat? Look down on me? Xie Lian'er pouted and said, "Dad, look at your feet!" ”

With a hula, the torch was lit in a vat, and the dark underground warehouse suddenly became bright.

Xie Lian'er was stunned, all she could see was a mouthful of black wooden boxes, and countless porcelain, jade, and various treasures were placed on the shelves in the warehouse.

"Dad, where is this?" Xie Lian'er asked with wide eyes.

Xie Guangkun wiped the sweat from his head, "Our family's old book, your grandfather's great-grandfather and great-grandfather have accumulated for several generations, and the family wealth accumulated is here." As he spoke, he opened a box, and a thick and brilliant gold immediately erupted inside, "Prosperous antiques, troubled gold, our family's old books are here." ”

This warehouse is this huge treasure trove.

Xie Lian'er was speechless for a while, and then said, "Dad, our family still has so much money, why didn't you say it earlier!" ”

"Earlier, I wanted you to marry the Shen family, your eldest son and our Xie family's surname, in the future, these things will be his, what am I talking about!" Xie Guangkun sat on a box and smiled bitterly, "Who would have thought, by mistake, my daughter is actually going to be the princess of Han." Although he is a rebellious king, he is also a king. I don't dare to think about letting my eldest grandson change his surname anymore! ”

Seeing my father sitting there, he seemed to be much older, and his eyebrows were full of melancholy.

Xie Lian'er's heart softened, and she squatted in front of her father, "Dad! ”

"Dad brought you here today to tell you that these are your dowry." Xie Guangkun touched his daughter's hair and said with a wry smile, "Girl, we are not from a good background, so we will bring more money and save people to look down on." ”

"He, he's not like that!" Xie Lian'er felt sour in her heart.

"He's not, his men are!" Xie Guangkun continued, "Those people don't have other skills to read, and their skills are first-class. Do you know, why did Dad agree to this family business? ”

Saying that, Xie Guangkun paused, "From now on, Zhu Wu has stood still. Even if he is not the king of Han, he is also a prince. But, to be honest, Dad doesn't want you to marry him. The height is unbearable, marry him, you may not be really happy in this life, whether it is the princess or the princes' wives, it is not so easy to be, and life is not so easy. ”

Xie Lian'er looked at her father, as if she understood or not.

"Girl, remember Daddy's words." Xie Guangkun smiled, "To get married, you must first be virtuous." At home, these little temperaments can't be used, you have to understand the rules, be clear, you can't let your own temperament come, learn to tolerate, learn to take responsibility, learn to think about men, understand? ”

"Hmm!" Xie Lian'er nodded.

"You must also be generous and steady, behave decently and dignified, marry him, you will be a model for a Han woman in the future, how many eyes are looking at you up and down!" Xie Guangkun sighed, "You still have to be kind, be kind to your subordinates, have good thoughts in your heart, and be kind to all sentient beings." ”

"You have to be kind and not alienated." Xie Guangkun continued, "Especially those life and death brothers under him, Zhu Wu is nostalgic, and his brothers call him Fifth Brother, you have to envelop them, you have to be harmonious with them, you have to have a sister-in-law." ”

"Daddy!" Xie Lian'er cried.

"Girl, don't cry first, remember what your father told you at the end!" Xie Guangkun said, "In addition to these, you have to be ruthless!" ”

Xie Lian'er looked up suspiciously.

The father's face was fierce like he had never seen before, "Girl, you have to be ruthless, you have to be as ruthless as a tiger." If someone deliberately provokes you, rushes you, calculates you, you tear him apart. You have to be virtuous and you have to be feared, you know? ”

"I don't want to get married!" Xie Lian'er cried.

"Idiot, a woman will marry sooner or later! In fact, who to marry, these rules must also be remembered! Xie Guangkun smiled.