Ai Qiaohua saw Ma staring at her, and suddenly wilted.

"Mother...... You, what do you mean? ”

"What do you mean, of course, let you Ming'er go and send a letter to Yuwen Gongzi and borrow six hangs of money from him."

Ai Qiaohua's lips trembled, and she almost bit her mouth.

"Why six hanging money? Don't we owe the Wang family three hanging money......" Ai Qiao's face turned white, she knew better than anyone what kind of person her mother was, but in the past, this kind of heart and eye Ma family was used on others, but this time, it was used on her own daughter.

"Oh, it's not because of that dead girl." Ma Shi was furious, "If I really owe her money, she won't have to come to the house every day to toss...... Simply let Yuwen Gongzi help us make up for this money, he is rich and has a big business, and he will not care about this money. ”

"Yes...... But I haven't married yet...... "Ai Qiaohua waved her hand vigorously, "how embarrassed to open your mouth to ask him for money." ”

"I'm sorry, where is your usual ability, since Yuwen Gongzi has taken a fancy to you, he won't refute your face, what is the six hanging money, didn't you look at the gold and silver when he gave the dowry...... Pick any one out and it's worth dozens of taels of silver. ”

Ai Qiaohua was forced by Ma Shi to have no choice, so she had to respond timidly.

The next day, Ai Qiaoqiao came back from the stall, and as soon as the carriage entered the village, he saw two people walking on the path, pulling and pulling, as if they were arguing about something.

Zhang Wu's eyes were sharp, "It seems to be your aunt and uncle, why did they quarrel?" ”

Ai Qiaoqiao's carriage came to a stop when it came near.

Qiu Shi held a burden in his hand, and his waist twisted to move forward, Ai Tiancheng followed closely behind, pulling her arm with his hand.

"Child, calm down, our mother has no other meaning, do you want to go back to your parents' house as for making trouble......"

Ai Qiaoqiao stretched out her head curiously and called, "Uncle, what are you doing here?" ”

Ai Tiancheng was a little embarrassed when he saw that it was Ai Qiaoqiao, "Qiaoqiao, come and help persuade your aunt, she wants to go back to her parents' house." ”

Ai Qiaoqiao is even more strange, what will make such a fuss that he wants to force the Qiu family to go back to his parents' house, and the Ma family should go to Guan Yuwen Gongzi to ask for it, how can it make trouble for the Qiu family.

She thought to herself, but she half-jokingly said, "Uncle, you must have bullied my aunt again." ”

Qiu Shi saw that it was Ai Qiaoqiao, and immediately snorted and cried, "Qiaoqiao, you are so ruthless, I have been married for so many years, the child has been born, and the housework has been done, there is no merit and hard work, but she actually wants my dowry......"

Ai Qiaoqiao said: "What do you want your dowry for?" ”

Without waiting for the Qiu clan to speak, Ai Tiancheng hurriedly said, "Our mother is just just in case, in case we fail to borrow money from Yuwen Gongzi, we won't be able to repay the money owed to the Wang family." ”

"I, that's the money that your second eldest Ai Yonggui owes to the Wang family, not us!" Qiu Shi screamed, "You don't know who your mother is, you say that you are prepared for what to ...... As long as the money is in her hands, do you want to get it back? ”

Ai Tiancheng's face flushed, "Can't ...... That's your dowry money, and our mother can't deduct it. ”

"I don't believe it!" Qiu said angrily.

"I promise you." Ai Tiancheng was anxious, "If our mother doesn't use our money in the end and doesn't return your money, I'll go and ask our mother for it." ”

Hearing this, Qiu Shi stood still, gasped for breath, and glared at Ai Tiancheng.

"What you said is true?"

Ai Tiancheng nodded again and again, "Really, Qiaoqiao is here, let her testify, I will keep the money and our mother will not be greedy." ”

Qiu hesitated, as if he believed it a little.

Ai Qiaoqiao felt sad in her heart for her eldest uncle.

Ma's can return the money that he doesn't need, who believes it? I don't believe it anyway!

Ai Tiancheng had just persuaded the Qiu clan to stop, when he suddenly saw a carriage coming on the road outside the village.

The one driving in front of him was Ai Tiancheng's son, Ai Daquan.

"Daquan is back!" Qiu shouted.

Ai Qiaoqiao gave way to their carriage on the side of the road, avoiding the carriage that came from behind.

Ai Daquan was covered with sweat and jumped out of the car, "Mother, father, what are you doing here?" ”

"I didn't ...... I didn't do anything, it's not your father's urgency, so we came to the village to look at ......" Ai Tiancheng said vaguely, hiding the Qiu family's fuss about going back to his parents' house.

Qiu snorted angrily and ignored Ai Tiancheng, "Daquan, where is your second uncle?" ”

"In the carriage." Ai Daquan said, "I brought the second uncle back." ”

Qiu looked into the carriage, but there was a curtain in the way, and she couldn't see anything.

"Why don't you show up when you're back?" Qiu muttered.

Ai Tiancheng didn't notice this, and urged his son, "Hurry up and go home, your father is still waiting." ”

Ai Daquan urged the carriage into the village.

Ai Qiaoqiao's eyes rolled around.

"You want to go along?" Zhang Wu could see her thoughts.

Ai Qiaoqiao smiled, "The carriage will trouble Brother Wu." ”

Zhang Wu is absolutely at ease.

The carriage left, and she followed Qiu back to the Ai family's compound.

Ai Daquan and the others had already entered the courtyard, and when they entered the courtyard, they only heard the crying in the room.

Ma Shi scolded while crying, "You are not worrying, you almost scared your mother to death......"

Ai Yonggui said in a low voice: "Mother, it's all sons who are unfilial, which makes you two elders worried." ”

If you don't know, you really think that this family is a father and a son.

Qiu snorted disdainfully, and entered the upper room with Ai Qiaoqiao.

Ai Yonggui knelt in front of Ma Shi and bowed his head.

Old man Ai was on crutches with a dark face.

There are two burdens on the kang.

Ai Qiaoqiao glanced at it and saw that one of the bags was half-open, and it was filled with some men's clothes and the like.

Obviously, this was brought back by Ai Yonggui.

"Deyue Tower's errand really can't be done?" Ma's is not giving up.

Ai Yong nodded solemnly, "It's been closed for several days, I wanted to find another errand, these days I have been looking for a way everywhere, but I have spent all the money and failed to find an errand." ”

Ma Shi beat his chest suddenly, "God doesn't have long eyes, is this trying to force our family to death!" ”

Everyone in the room was silent, and no one spoke.

Ai Yonggui was sad enough, knelt down, opened the burden on the kang, and took out a money bag.

"Mother, this is the rest of the money, you can keep it."

Ma Shi took the money bag, poured it out and looked at it, there were only a dozen big coins.

Looking at Ai Yonggui's body again, he was wearing a coarse cloth robe, and the clothes in the baggage were all coarse cloth robes, and even the best one had patches on it.

Ai Qiaoqiao saw this, but her heart was cold.

That day in Huai'an City, Ai Yonggui was thrown out of the Red Mansion, and he was wearing silk at that time.

Now that he was home, he was crying and destitute.

Ai Qiaoqiao peeked at Ai Mingshan, she had to think of a way to let her master see Ai Yonggui clearly.

Ma said that the Wang family wanted to pay for the debt.

Ai Yonggui knelt down again and kowtowed to the old couple: "It's all the sons who are useless, and they took their money at the beginning...... But the money made me filial to my master. ”

Ma Shi exclaimed, "There really is nothing left?" ”

Ai Yonggui had a bitter face, "Mother, if I had money, would I still be like this?" Saying that, he opened all the two burdens, "Mother, if you don't believe it, just look through it, my son will definitely not hide it." ”

Qiu Shi saw that the burden was opened, and the probe went over to look.

Ai Qiaoqiao took the opportunity to lean over and sniffed, "Hey, second uncle, your clothes smell so good." ”

These words reminded Qiu, who picked up one of Ai Yonggui's clothes from his baggage and exclaimed, "This seems to be the smell of rouge...... By the way, the most expensive kind of rouge sold in Huai'an City, Peach Blossom Yan! ”