The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and the acquaintances in the trees scream endlessly during the day, and in the evening they seem to be tired of shouting, and finally rest for a while. It didn't rain for a long time, and all the leaves wilted, and the whole Jinling City looked steaming.

In the morning, it will be a little cooler, and the street sellers of rouge gouache, herbal tea, spices and pastries, as well as farmers who come to the city to sell vegetables and chickens and ducks, all take advantage of this time to shout, and it is very lively. The business of the shop was booming, and the towels on the shoulders of the little two were wet several times, and they were powerless to shuttle between the guests.

Li Xiucai of the medicinal herb shop took out a row of money and threw it on the table, he is an old customer here, fixing a bowl of soybean milk, a fritter, and four taels of pork and cabbage stuffed buns every day, he just finished the account book of the month yesterday, so he was in a particularly relaxed mood today, and couldn't help humming a little song.

The shopkeeper in a brown shirt handed over a cage of white and fat buns, and took out a bowl with a missing corner to serve soy milk to Li Xiucai, Li Xiucai frowned and said: "Qin Er, can't you change the bowls in your store, all of them are missing corners and rotten edges, my mouth is meaty, and not made of iron, you will pay for it?" ”

Qin Er slammed the bowl and said, "Change the bowl? Are you paying? If you pay the money, I will exchange it for you, are you worthy? After saying that, he took a sip. As the so-called Xiucai met the soldiers, it was unreasonable, Li Xiucai was slightly embarrassed and said: "I said Qin Er, what are you doing in such a hurry, eating gunpowder." ”

Qin Er also felt that his tone was too heavy, and he sighed and said, "Xiucai, you have a good life, there are still two ancestral houses left on the ancestors, unlike our hard lives." ”

Li Xiucai was trying to brag about it, but he thought that he had only won a show talent in the exam for many years, and he didn't know anything about running the family property, and he relied on his ancestral house and his smart and capable child daughter-in-law to have today's good life, so he said stupidly: "What's wrong with you, there is an official matter in the family?" If something happens, I'll write you a letter. ”

Qin Er cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks on the side table and said, "Write a story? Are you going to sue Jiang Chengjin, the little overlord of the Jiang family, for me? ”

Li Xiucai immediately shook his head and said, "Why did this little overlord provoke you?" "In Li Xiucai's cognition, the identities of Jiang Chengjin and Qin Er are 108,000 miles apart, and it stands to reason that the two will not have any intersection, could it be that Xiaobawang eats buns here and doesn't give money? That's outrageous, isn't it?

Qin Er sighed again, and seeing that there were no more guests now, he simply pulled out the bench next to Li Xiucai and sat down, seeing that this posture was going to have a long chat. Qin Er said: "In the past two years, there have been many trades between the two dynasties, most of them have taken the official road, and the advantage of the official road is safety, but what you know is that the income is a little less, so many businessmen do not take the official road at all, but take the underworld." ”

Li Xiucai nodded, this is common sense, you have to pay a lot of taxes to take the official road, except for the cost of carriage and horses, the income is too little, so the businessmen of the two dynasties have secretly drawn a few underworld roads for trading, this kind of thing is not uncommon for the official to prohibit, and in most cases, one eye is turned and one eye is closed.

"My nephew's family farms in the Jiang family's Zhuangzi in the suburbs, and my nephew also followed the caravan to deliver tea a few years ago." Qin Er took a sip of water, the expression on his face was still indignant.

Li Xiucai was a little confused, what does a tea delivery have to do with Jiang Chengjin?

Qin Er said: "My nephew's family is also a scholarly family, but now the family is in the middle of the road, and can only help the Jiang family to farm. My nephew has a sister-in-law, five years younger than her, who can go up to the hall and down to the kitchen, has a good appearance and a good temperament, but because the family was poor and did not have a marriage when he was a child, he was somehow taken a fancy by the Jiang family, and wanted to be the main house lady for Jiang Chengjin. ”

Only then did Li Xiucai pick up the conversation and said, "I'd rather be an old nun than a wife of Cheng Jin of the Jiang family." Jiang Chengjin is like that, who is willing to give his innocent girl to him as a scourge? ”

Qin Er slapped his thigh and said, "It's not!" Can my sister's family agree? Naturally, I thought of a way to push it, now it's okay, I don't know which bastard leaked in front of Jiang Chengjin, caught my nephew to go to the underworld, my poor nephew is still in prison, and his sister-in-law can only agree to this family business in order to save her own brother. ”

"Iniquity! What a wickedness! Li Xiucai seemed to see the well-informed and knowledgeable niece of Qin Er, and immediately felt a pity, a flower was inserted into the cow dung like this.

Qin Er, the big man, also had red eyes, and said: "My brother-in-law has fainted several times because of this, there are a few good things in your Taoist officialdom, all of them are in the same stream, pity my niece, alas......"

The owner of the bun shop saw that there were customers and Qin Er was still gossiping with others, so he hurriedly raised his voice and shouted, "Qin Er, you don't have long eyes!" With so many guests, there is no place to sit, but you sit up! ”

Qin Er secretly wiped his eyes and went back to work.

Because Jiang Chengjin's marriage is approaching, Liu has been so busy these days that his feet don't touch the ground, and he walks and talks like the wind. Cao's family, as Jiang Chengjin's biological mother, is particularly happy, because although her daughter-in-law is not high, she treats people no worse than everyone's ladies, and she is generous. What's even more rare is that this bride was the first to be taken in by the Liu family, and at first the Cao family was worried that their son would not look down on her, but after the two met, Jiang Chengjin agreed to come down.

Originally, this in-law was not very happy, and he excused himself in every possible way, but later Jiang Chengjin came up with his own idea, and finally finally decided on this family matter.

Liu discussed with Cao for a long time this night, and was running into her husband Jiang Liangzheng, who had come back from drinking, she personally poured a cup of tea for her husband, and asked casually: "The Criminal Department and Dali Temple have been busy recently?" ”

Jiang Liangzheng let out a "hmm", looking very tired.

Liu Shi was a little distressed, and said with a little reproach: "No matter how busy the Criminal Department and Dali Temple are, it is also their business, what does it mean to call you over all the time." ”

"Madam, do you know that the case involved this time is precisely related to border defense, so I want to go. Sixty-three people from thirteen families in a village on the edge of Xinyang were slaughtered in one night, and these people were neatly killed, and the people killed were ordinary people. Jiang Liangzheng said.

Liu Shi sat in front of the dresser, and Zhu Hai's hand, which was disassembling her head, stopped, and she said a little uneasily: "Haven't the three kings been guarding nearby?" How could something happen? ”

"It is precisely because the Three Kings have been there that it makes people feel uneasy, it is not like a murder, but a provocation." Jiang Liangzheng said.

Although Liu was a smart woman, when she heard these bloody things, she was a little timid after all, and she asked: "Xinyang is so close to Xiyi, could it be that Xiyi's people did it?" ”

Jiang Liangzheng neither admitted nor denied it. Liu hurriedly said: "Master, I've been panicking lately, and I always feel that something bad is about to happen. Now that the marriage between Chu Tao and Cheng Jin has been decided, alas, there are still Chu Ying and Chu Ju who have not yet decided to marry......"

Jiang Liangzheng held Liu's hand and said, "Madam, don't worry, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, and the two girls are not unable to get married, what is the hurry." In the end, there is no separation, everyone wants you to take care of this, and it also breaks your heart, Mrs. has worked hard. ”

When Liu heard her husband say this, the grievances in her heart immediately disappeared.

Early the next morning, the Liu family rushed to the Cao family's house in a hurry, and the two daughters-in-law of the Jiang family had recently had a good relationship like sisters who had been separated for many years. Since Guo Ming was squeezed by Liu's family, Jiang's mother was extremely dissatisfied with this daughter-in-law, but Liu's didn't care at all, no matter how Jiang's mother shook her face, she still couldn't help but ask An to serve on a regular basis.

Liu was refreshed, his face was full of wind, and when he came in, he saw Chu Ying standing in the house and dividing the line with a few girls, and hurriedly said: "Oh, Sister Ying, the work of dividing the line is so eye-consuming, you just ask someone to do it, this body is not better." Chu Ying saluted Liu and said obediently: "It's already much better." ”

Cao Shi opened the curtain and walked out of the back room, and said with a smile: "It's been much better these days, and I'll call the doctor to come over in the afternoon to check the pulse." ”

Liu Shi took Chu Ying's hand, looked at Chu Ying carefully, and said with a smile: "People have lost a lot of weight, you have to make up for it, I found a good ginseng from the warehouse when I came, and I will make it up for you." ”

Liu Shi also said: "Chu Ying's body was better when she was a child, much stronger than her peach sister's body, do you remember that time, so many children in the family were infected with wind and cold, and she was very good alone, how did she grow up but her body was still weak." ”

Cao said: "Who said no, if you say you are sick, you will be sick, and you can't tell the doctor why you come over, but you don't think about tea and dinner all day long, and you have lost a lot of weight." ”

Liu and Cao don't know, Chu Ying is suffering from lovesickness, she has read poetry and books since she was a child, her appearance is beautiful, everyone has to say hello when they see her, so she inevitably thinks a little self-consciously, and does not take ordinary men to heart, so since she was a child, she secretly vowed to marry the best man in the world. That day, when she learned from her mother, the news that Sun Yihao proposed to Chu Tao naturally made her grief-stricken.

In fact, it's very simple to think about it, ordinary vulgar things naturally can't enter the eyes of talented women who are proud of themselves, only a talented man like Sun Yihao who is proud of his talent will give Chu Ying a sense of sympathy, not to mention that Sun Yihao is outstanding, upright, well-behaved, and can't rub sand in his eyes, which is in stark contrast to his brother who is not a weapon, and the fall of Chu Ying is also said to be in the past.

Mother doesn't say that she also knows, Sun Yihao's love for Chu Tao's sister is cut off and won't look away, Chu Ying doesn't feel that she is inferior to Chu Tao, but it's just that each flower is in her own eyes, not to mention Sun Yihao, Chu Tao's temperament even likes herself, how can she fight, she can't tell her mother, Chu Tao can't look down on herself to pick it up, she can't do such a shameful thing, she can only be sad alone. e8

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