Chapter Twenty-Three: Killing Chickens and Monkeys

When Li Wei heard this, he immediately showed the waist card of the yamen to prove his identity, and glared at Mrs. He.

Mrs. He was shocked: I didn't think that when she was a child, this girl was as soft as a quail, and when she was angry and beaten, she would only secretly go to her mother's spirit to wipe her tears.

Once framed by his wife, he was anxious by the unknown master and jumped into the pool. is such a good thing to be obedient and easy to handle, and now it has become so powerful!

Actually, she didn't understand.

When people are facing a desperate situation, they are like a sheep being forced to a cliff, jumping off the cliff is to be crushed, and if they don't jump, they will be eaten by wolves.

Want to live without being thrown to death or bitten to death? The only way to do that is to turn yourself into a wolf. Bites the other side, maybe there is still a way to live.

A sheep is a sheep because it is bred in captivity. There is a warm shed to shelter it from the wind and rain, and there is enough food and grass for it to eat and drink.

Therefore, a sheep can never grow fangs and sharp teeth, its fate is always to be eaten, even if it is not a wolf, there are other animals to eat it, this is the fate of being a sheep.

There are also smart sheep who don't want to be eaten, so they have to be ruthless, give up the warm shed, abundant grain and grass, and settle the captive life. Go outside and break through, fall and bump, and it is possible to make a way out.

It has suffered a lot of injuries, it has enough experience in fighting, and the hardships of life have made it grow sharp enough teeth and claws on its own. Even if you don't eat others, at least you won't be eaten by other animals.

The same is true of life.

Besides, none of the things she has been through these days are not crisis-ridden. After going through this, the mind is always harder than before. Even if she used to be a piece of wood, now she has grown three points of thorns!

Mrs. He was scolded by Chu Qingruo like this, and her angry face turned red and blue. I remembered my wife's words: even if she is coaxed and deceived, she must get someone back.

took a deep breath, secretly wrote down this account in her heart, and when she returned to the old mansion, she was not afraid that she would not have a chance to settle slowly with her!

People in the world are often like this, when they see something that is easy to handle, they naturally want to handle it. If she has been pinched a few times, one day she can't hold it anymore, and she will have to hold a grudge and think about revenge.

Such a person never thinks about it, and he shouldn't see others being easy to handle, so he thinks about holding others.

Seeing that Mrs. He, who had always been domineering, was so deflated, the women she brought behind her all looked at each other, and a few of them couldn't sink, and as soon as their legs were weak, Chu Qingruo knelt down first, put her hands on the ground and bowed down.

Mrs. He looked back and saw that the few useless things behind her had all knelt down, and she had no choice but to kneel down and fall to the ground. Reluctantly, he shouted with them:

"I've seen Miss, and the minions have saluted Miss."

Chu Qingruo just glanced at them coldly, and didn't make a sound to let them get up, just let them kneel and hang them, while he casually played with the cup in his hand.

After a while, she felt that she was almost dry, so she slowly asked, "Mother He, Mrs. Xiulian asked you to come to me, why did you come to find me?" She never called her the eldest lady, in her heart, the eldest lady of the Chu family will always be her mother!

Mrs. He knelt on the ground for a long time, but she didn't see Chu Qingruo open her mouth and call them up.

The countryside is the countryside, and even the ground is so bad!

She muttered indignantly, there were still some gravel on the potholed ground, and her knees ached from her knees, even the eldest lady had never treated her like this.

But now in order to coax this little hoof back, I can't take care of it much, and if I have any grudges, I will count it back, and my own eldest lady will support her.

Mrs. He covered her leg that was bitten by Ah Yan and lay on the ground with difficulty, endured a sigh of relief, and replied in a soft voice:

"Back to Miss, the old lady felt a little unwell in the autumn. I thought it was too cold to get sick. Who knows that the times are good and sometimes bad, and when I first entered the winter, I couldn't afford to get sick, and I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to survive the New Year.

Now it's all relying on the hundred-year-old ginseng to hang on to her life, waiting for the young lady to rush back to see the last! These old ladies have always remembered Miss, and even now, they still shout Miss's name on the sickbed every day. ”

As he spoke, he took out a letter from his bosom and presented it to his head with both hands.

Mother Zhou walked down the steps, reached out and took the letter and handed it to Chu Qingruo. She opened the letter and looked at it, and it read, "Grandmother is critically ill, come back quickly!" "The six Juanxiu characters are not my father's handwriting at first glance.

Chu Qingruo was furious in his heart: Good you Cao Xiulian! If my grandmother was really critically ill, my father would definitely repair the book himself, and would never borrow the hands of others. You sent a slave with a fake letter from home to trick me into going back?

If I am filial and believe that my grandmother is critically ill, I will obediently go back with you. If you don't believe it, it is a great unfilial piety, and you have a fair and honest reason to force me back. Once you are accused of unfilial piety, I am afraid that even my relatives can be handled by you in the future.

What a trick! Looks like you're planning to make me obey and obey!

Putting away the letter, Chu Qingruo stood up suddenly, took the empty cup in Zhou's mother's hand, and slammed it on the ground in front of Mrs. He.

The cup shattered a big gap, and the fragments bounced to Mrs. He's forehead, making a cut, and blood flowed.

Mrs. He covered her forehead with her hand, shocked and angry: "It's so decent, why did Miss hurt people for no reason?" If Miss can't say that she is ugly today, and the slave is punished by the eldest lady, she will have to go to the master to explain it to the young lady! ”

After speaking, he stalked his neck and made a look of immortality.

Chu Qingruo sneered, waved the letter in his hand and said sharply: "Okay! Grandmother is critically ill, such an urgent matter, you slave actually came to the door without reporting it first, and did not submit a letter to the family.

On the contrary, he twisted and pinched Joe, pretending to be majestic, and taught my subordinates a lesson for me first!

Come on, come on, quickly pack up with me, fulfill your wish, and I will go back to Beijing with you to meet my father! I want to see if you can afford to eat in front of your father! ”

Mrs. He took a mouthful of old blood in her throat: I was interrupted by you several times, and I want to say that you don't let me say it, but now I don't report it first and don't submit a letter to my family.

On second thought, it was true that the old lady was sick, and it was false that she was critically ill. This family book is a fake made by the eldest lady, if it really stabs the old lady, curses the old lady, with the old man's temperament, I am afraid that even the lady will follow the good fruit to eat.

If Mrs. is implicated, it is still herself who is unlucky.

Thinking of this, he could only swallow this mouthful of old blood alive, leaned down and made amends again and again: "It's the slave who deserves to die, it's the slave who doesn't do things well." ”

"Even if you know your sins, then go down and get twenty boards." After speaking, she glanced at Li Wei.

He immediately nodded knowingly, put down the sword in his hand, went to the kitchen to find the thickest firewood, pulled over a bench, and pointed to Zhang's mother and several other women, who were still lying on the ground, stunned: "You, and you, come and press her." ”

Li Wei is not a person from the Chu family's house, so he doesn't care what you do, even if the eldest lady of the Chu family they said comes over, as long as Chu Qingruo speaks, he will be able to do it!

So his board is as solid as beating the prisoners in the yamen! A board was beaten, and the skin of Mrs. He was not counted, and she was pierced with wooden thorns on her buttocks.

After beating her board, Chu Qingruo quietly winked mischievously at Mother Zhou.

Mother Zhou immediately understood, and deliberately said to a few of them seriously: "Miss is kind and sympathetic to you all the way to pick her up, and you have worked hard along the way, please find an inn to rest by yourself, and then hurry after recovering from your injuries!"

The young lady is tired and needs to rest. Is there anything else to do? If you don't, quit. ”

After speaking, he took out two dimes of silver from his sleeve and threw it to them, turned around and returned to the room with Chu Qingruo, closed the door, it was simply full of posture!

After beating herself with twenty boards, she stabbed her in the buttocks, and then threw two dimes of silver to them like a send-off, but she became a compassionate master?

Mrs. He was finally so angry that Chu Qing couldn't bear it anymore, and she spit out a mouthful of blood and fainted. When the women who came with them saw that the Lord's heart had collapsed, they hurriedly lifted her up and carried her out.

In the evening, Li Zhutou came back, and Zhou's mother made a table of dishes, and the two families got together to eat. At the table, Second Brother Li told Li Zhutou about today's events, and everyone was angry.

Li Zhutou pondered for a moment and put forward his opinion, her stepmother must have other plans for such a conspiracy, so he thought that Chu Qingruo's grandmother was seriously ill must not be true, so she ignored it.

Zhou's mother's opinion is different from his: "What if the old lady is really seriously ill?" Not to mention what outsiders say, just say that my young lady is afraid that she will not be able to live for the rest of her life. ”

Chu Qingruo listened to them quietly, ate silently, and didn't say a word, in fact, she was very conflicted at the moment. What Uncle Li and Zhou's mother said was reasonable, she had two thoughts in her heart, so she couldn't make up her mind.

Seeing that she was silent, Uncle Li knew that she was conflicted, so he gave her another idea: "Qingruo, if you really can't pay attention, why don't you go to Master Yi to discuss?"

He's the smartest man in the county. I see that you have nothing to talk about, so why don't you go to him, maybe he can give you a useful idea. ”

Chu Qingruo felt that this was also a solution, compared to the ugliness of her family, she was more worried that Cao Xiulian would stumble on her marriage, then her life would be over.

"Hmm. I'll go find him tomorrow. ”