The orphans of the Huo family hung a heavy reward to avenge their father, and it was soon spread everywhere by good deeds. In addition to admiring the filial piety of the orphans of the Huo family, everyone is full of eagerness, that is worth thousands of gold and silver, but it is not a small amount, if you have it, it is a paddy field can also buy 300 acres!

If someone is unhappy, it is naturally the rest of the Huo family, especially Huo San and Huo Liu. The two of them were originally cousins, and their grandfather and Huo Zuoyu's grandfather were brothers, so the two were the closest people to the Huo family and Huo Chongcheng. When Huo Zuoyu was alive, the three families often moved around, the two of them were not in harmony, it was Huo Zuoyu who mediated, and now Huo Zuoyu is gone, and it involves Wanguan's family wealth, and the two don't know how many times they have fought openly and secretly. Now that they heard Huo Chongcheng say this, although they were unhappy in their hearts, but in front of the relatives and friends who came to mourn that day, they couldn't say that Huo Chongcheng was filial piety and was wrong, so they could only endure it.

Huo Liu's heart was the most unhappy, he was anxious, and he was more reckless than Huo San, so in this Zhuangzi, he had faintly put out half of the master's shelf, that is, he was facing Huo Chongcheng, and he was also shouting and scolding, but his daughter-in-law also advised him to restrain himself, so as not to push Huo Chongcheng to Huo San's side.

"It's that you don't know the severity, but now it's good, not only has it not ended up, but it makes outsiders laugh!" After dinner that day, the two of them went to chuang, and his daughter-in-law couldn't help complaining: "Your eldest nephew is not an ordinary child, he is smart when he is young, and he has been messing around with your dead ghost fourth brother for many years, and he has started to be in charge of the house a few days ago, how can you be a reckless man?" ”

"Shut up, Hugh is noisy!" Huo Liu snorted.

His daughter-in-law closed her mouth, but after a moment of silence, she nagged again: "That's Wanguan, Wanguan...... You said that if we had so much money, the slave would have to put on two pairs of pearl and green heads, and the tattered bed at home would have to be replaced, and the wooden bed in Qingyuan Mansion was famous far and wide (Note 1), follow you, a poor man, ...... slave."

"Smack!"

Huo Liu gave her a slap in the face, and finally blocked her complaints, she turned around, wailed and cried against the wall, crying so that Huo Liu was upset, got up and put on her clothes, and strode out of the door.

The moon shadow is sufficient, the cool breeze is blowing, if Huo Liu is a poet, he may chant the sentence "bright moonlight in front of the bed" or "the evening breeze crosses the long street" at this time, but he only barely recognizes his own name, and there is not so much poetry in his mind, there are some yellow and white glittering things turning.

He was also present when the county magistrate entered Huo Zuoyu's bedroom that day, and saw with his own eyes the gold, silver, and copper coins piled on the table. Although Huo Zuoyu made a fortune by suing for others, Huo Liu did not believe that these gold and silver money were obtained in the lawsuit, and he always felt that some of the money was of unknown origin. But he didn't care where the money came from, and he was most concerned about where it would go.

Just now, his daughter-in-law said that with this money, he would add pearls and emerald noodles and change the red lacquered wooden bed, but he even thought about the concubine. But Huo Chongcheng had an idea, so he shocked his daughter-in-law's pearl and green wood bed and his concubine, which made him feel how not to feel aggrieved.

"The boy of the fourth brother's family can have such thoughts, if it is really his species, he is as bent as him." Thinking of his fragrant and soft concubine, Huo Liu secretly scolded, and suddenly his heart moved: "Now that the courtyard is in a mess, why don't I go and see where the gold and silver will be placed, and if it is convenient, bring a few things back...... This is not from an outsider's family, the fourth brother's surname is Huo, and my surname is Huo, his family's gold and silver, I naturally have a part! ”

Thinking so, he listened in front of the door, and there was silence and no sound in the left and near. He quietly opened the door and bent his waist towards Huo Chongcheng's courtyard.

The two families lived not very far away, but after a while, he came to Huo Chongcheng's village. In the past, there were several dogs in the farm, but the last time the murderer came, he poisoned them all, which was convenient for him. He looked left and right, and with the help of a tree next to him, it took a lot of effort for him to climb the courtyard wall.

Under the moonlight, the courtyard was quiet, only the chirping of insects. Huo Liu jumped down, and with a tom sound, he startled himself, and hurriedly found a bush to get into, not daring to come out for a long time.

At this time, he already had some regrets in his heart, but he had come and gone, and he had taken such a big risk, how could he return empty-handed, he thought for a while, gritted his teeth and was about to stand up, when he suddenly heard the sound of shrinking outside, and he immediately retracted.

After a while, he saw someone probing his brain on the wall, Huo Liu secretly gritted his teeth, he had already thought that this was his own family, and the person who came to probe his brain was not coveting his own money! The man crawled in clumsily, and after he landed, Huo Liu suddenly pounced on him with a punch, the man snorted, but he didn't dare to scream, turned his face, and the two of them were stunned.

"It's you!"

It was Huo San who came, he and Huo Liu had the same thoughts, and after whispering, both of them also understood, and the two sides hugged each other and rolled around on the ground and fought, although they were both beaten a few times, but they were afraid of alarming the people in Zhuangzi, but no one said anything.

After fighting for a while, the two of them lost their strength, Huo San thought that Huo Chongcheng had already promised the ten thousand pieces of gold and silver to others, but his own family was fighting with his cousin here, he felt that it was not worth it, and he was about to discuss with Huo Liu, when the two of them acted together, they heard faint footsteps outside.

Huo Liu also heard this voice, and this time it was not a person's voice, the two of them looked at each other, and they both showed horror on their faces.

They all remembered the man who killed Hozoyu.

The two of them held their breath and shrank into the bushes, the newcomer was much more agile than they were, and in a moment they heard a few swishing sounds, and seven or eight men jumped down from the wall. When the two saw that they were carrying bright knives in their hands, they didn't dare to breathe, they were originally entangled and fighting with each other, but now they hugged each other.

One of them made a hand gesture, the rest nodded, and the rest of the people waited to touch the room, except for the one who made the hand and the other man who stayed by the wall.

Huo Liu wanted to scream, but Huo San held his mouth tightly, the two looked at each other, and then looked at the knives in the hands of these men, Huo Liu softened.

When they saw those men enter Huo Zuoyu's bedroom, they were all sorry for the gold and silver that day. But in the blink of an eye, a series of exclamations came from the bedroom, and then more than a dozen torches were lit, and the doors on both sides were slammed open, and there was a shouting and killing sound everywhere.

Note 1: The wooden bed in Qingyuan Mansion is the Ning-style bed of the talented lady that Mr. Lu Xun wrote.