Xiangzi's full name is Guo Guixiang, and his hometown is in Zhangye County, Gansu. His father is Guo Baichuan, and his mother is Cheng.

Guo Baichuan is a scholar, living on the courtyard left by his ancestors and a grocery store.

Since the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the idea of gaining fame has been completely dispelled. On weekdays, in addition to taking care of the shop with his wife, he likes to read some idle books. The days are also plain and comfortable.

The Guo family's houses are not too many, and they are not too good. But the courtyard is chic. Not only does it occupy a large ground, but the flowers and trees inside also have a unique view. Although it is not up to the ancient trees, the small bridge flows. But it is also full of flowers and plants, and the trees are in order. In the center of the courtyard alone, two hundred-year-old pines and cypresses, and a piece of the corner of the courtyard, the strange stone with a high person, decorates the courtyard, simple and elegant.

Next door to the Guo family is a rich man surnamed Zhao. The street front of the Zhao family is the largest pharmacy in the county, and behind the scenes, opium is also bold. In the county, it is also one of the largest households.

The Zhao family has coveted the Guo family's courtyard for a long time, and they have also beaten around the bush many times, and they have mentioned it openly and secretly. But the Guo family just said: If you have more money, you won't buy it if you have less money!

In the blink of an eye, Shoko was thirteen years old. In addition to studying at school, his father also taught him poetry, calligraphy and painting in his spare time. Xiangzi is studious, and her brain is bright, although she is only thirteen years old, she has more things than a teenage doll. The couple like a baby, full of hope that when their son grows up, he can have a good life.

However, there are unforeseen circumstances in the sky, and people have good and bad luck. The Zhao family has a nephew who works in the provincial capital, and I don't know who the Zhao family gave money, so the nephew of the Zhao family became the county magistrate of Zhangye.

Not long after, Guo Baichuan was taken away by the police station for the crime of gangsterry. Xiangzi Niang is called every day, and the earth is not spiritual. I really didn't have to do it, so I asked for the Zhao family. Rich Zhao shyly sow's belly, and looked at Xiangzi Niang with squinting eyes. So as a difficult look, he shook his fat head and said, "It's not easy to get it." Nowadays, as long as it is stained with a bandit word, it is difficult to do it. ”

Xiangzi Niang cried and begged: "Shopkeeper Zhao, you can do it well, save my family Baichuan!" As long as the hundred rivers are released, anything can be said. ”

The rich man Zhao rolled his eyes, and then walked towards Xiangzi Niang, and leaned together lightly. He smiled strangely and said, "Your business is my business, can you not help?" ”

As he spoke, his hand was pinched on Xiangziniang's thigh. Xiangzi Niang took two steps back in panic, and her grief-stricken face was already red with shame. Rich Zhao sneered at her, and said, "That's it, find my nephew tomorrow, let him think about it, and you wait for the letter at night." Xiangzi Niang thanked her and walked out of the Zhao family.

After holding the lamp, Xiangzi Niang settled the baby to write, and then came to the gate, looking in the direction of Zhao's house, looking worriedly.

At this time, she didn't want to go back to the house, and she couldn't go to Zhao's house. I can only wait anxiously at the door.

After touching a meal, I saw the rich man Zhao, walking duck steps, shyly holding the belly of the sow, and dangling out of the gate leisurely.

Xiangzi Niang's heart suddenly rose to her throat. hurriedly greeted him, but when he saw the rich man Zhao, he waved his hand impatiently. Motion, to go into the house and say. Xiangzi Niang wanted to speak and stopped, so she had to be cowardly, and followed the rich man Zhao into her own door.

The rich man of Zhao squinted at Xiangzi, who was writing. Xiangzi Niang willingly hurried to let the baby go to the back room to write. When Xiangzi closed the door, the rich man Zhao picked his yellow and green front teeth, and said unhurriedly: "Things have a life, but you also know that you have to spend money to ask for someone." Rich Zhao made a helpless look.

When Xiangzi Niang heard that there was a living mouth, her face immediately lit up. While making tea for the rich man Zhao, she said eagerly: "As long as you can do it, it doesn't cost much." After a pause, she cautiously probed, "How much?" ”

Rich Lord Zhao pursed his fat lips, stretched out a slap and said, "Get this number." ”

When Xiangzi Niang heard that, her legs were weak and she sat down on the chair. Nervous, and frustrated, he whispered, "So many! ”

Rich Zhao rolled his pig's eyes, shook his fat head and said, "People are recruiting, the case has been reported to the province, and if it is approved, it will definitely be beheaded." If you want to get people out, you have to not only fight up and down, but also find a substitute for the dead ghost and close the case. It's hard. ”

Rich Zhao said, shaking his fat head, showing the appearance of an expert. Xiangzi Niang cried in frustration and said, "He was wronged." ”

Rich Zhao smiled disdainfully and said: "Wronged or not, let's say that it doesn't matter, the situation will be decided." ”

Xiangzi Niang wiped it, and finally couldn't hold back her tears, and said sadly: "Be busy, why do you get so much cash." ”

Rich Lord Zhao made a compassionate and uncomfortable look, and sighed in his mouth. The sow's eyes are shining, but they are staring at the roof. Xiangzi Niang seemed to understand something, and jumped up from the chair "suddenly", and said in a begging tone: "Don't you want to buy my yard?" Or not? ”

Rich Zhao squinted at Xiangzi Niang, scratched the top of his bald head, and said with a sad face: "In the past, I had this plan, but now I ......."

Xiangzi Niang pulled her crying voice and begged eagerly: "Help, please." ”

Rich Lord Zhao lowered his head and pondered for a while, as if he had made up his mind, slapped his knee heavily with a fat slap and said, "You make up two hundred yuan first, and I'll figure out the rest." ”

When Xiangzi Niang heard this, she tried to squeeze out a stiff smile on her face, and even made a promise.

Xiangzi Niang scraped together, even sold her jewelry, and finally scraped together two hundred yuan.

In the afternoon of that day, the Zhao family sent someone to bring a message to Xiangzi Niang to bring the real estate deed to his house.

When I entered the door of the Zhao family, I saw that the rich people in the county were all there. Rich Zhao first said a set of nonsense, compassionate. got to the point: "Is the money with you?" ”

Xiangzi Niang, hurriedly presented the two hundred silver dollars and the real estate deed. Rich Zhao had a pair of pig eyes, flashing with bright light. Sweeping his eyes like lightning, the title deed on the table, grinning with satisfaction, and said to Xiangzi Niang: "The things are also neat." Hi! In order to help you, I have another spare property. It took up a lot of money. ”

Xiangzi Niang hurriedly got up and thanked the rich man Zhao. Then, timidly, he asked, "When can you release people?" ”

Rich Zhao seemed to be confident, and said briskly: "Don't worry! Send the money today, and release it tomorrow. However, you still have to sign the contract. As he spoke, he handed her a piece of paper on which he had written.

Xiangzi Niang is literate, she read it hastily, it is nothing more than a public buy and sell, and there is no turning back. Xiangzi Niang said in her mouth: "It should be, it should be." Then he reached out and picked up the pen, which had already been ready to stop, signed and pressed his handprint.

At this time, the rich man Zhao propped up his fat body, offered his hand to several guests, and said with a smile on his face: "Please also testify." ”

So they flattered and drew a charge at the witnesses in turn. After everything was ready, the rich man Zhao waved his hand at Xiangzi Niang and said, "Go back!" Waiting for someone to pick up tomorrow. ”

Xiangzi Niang got up and thanked her, and was about to turn around and leave, but as if she suddenly remembered something, she suddenly turned around and said, "Shopkeeper Zhao, you have to leave me some time, I don't know where to move a mile." ”

Zhao Caizhu made a benevolent appearance and said, "Don't worry, don't worry." It's all the neighbors, give you a month, is it enough? ”

Xiangzi Niang, who was so grateful, left the Zhao family.

It was almost noon, and a carriage stopped in front of the grocery store. Xiangzi Niang hurriedly rushed to the front of the car to take a look, Guo Baichuan was lying inside, and there was only one breath left.

It seems that Guo Baichuan has been severely punished, and there are not a few pieces of good meat left on his body. The blood stains dried on my body, and I couldn't even take off my clothes.

With tears in her eyes, Xiangzi Niang cut her clothes with scissors and carefully wiped her body with warm water. Smeared with trauma medicine, he didn't even dare to wear clothes, wrapped a clean cloth sheet, covered the quilt, and was a little relieved.

When it was almost dark, Guo Baichuan opened his eyes with difficulty. He glanced suspiciously at the room, and when his eyes fell on Xiang Ziniang, his expression began to get excited. He opened his eyes in astonishment, his lips were chapped, and he said wrigglingly, "This is our house?" ”

Xiangzi Niang hurriedly stepped forward, held his hand, and choked up: "It's our family, you were put back." ”

Guo Baichuan's spirit suddenly lifted up. Then he muttered to himself, "Impossible! No way! They won't let me go easily. ”

After a pause, as if he suddenly remembered something, he reached out and grabbed Xiangzi Niang's arm, and said with a frightened and eager expression: "What are you doing?" Did they just let me go? ”

Xiangzi Niang wiped away her tears, pretending to be relaxed and said, "They want to grin five hundred oceans." ”

Guo Baichuan asked in surprise, "Where did you get all this money?" ”

Xiangzi Niang sighed helplessly, and said in a wry voice: "I sold the yard to the Zhao family, and made up another two hundred oceans." ”

When Guo Baichuan heard that, he was so anxious that he stretched his neck and wanted to sit up. Xiangzi Niang hurriedly pulled a quilt and put it under his back.

Guo Baichuan gasped very hard, and the sweat of the bean was like beads with broken threads, rolling down from his face. In his chest, it was as if something squirmed and was pressed back again. He tried to calm down for a while, and said in a low voice, "You are confused! They arrested me for our yard! It's not a pity for me to die, in the future, you two mothers and sons, how can you live......"

Guo Baichuan began to gasp strongly again, and Xiangzi Niang gently rubbed his chest with her hand, and said in her mouth: "The yard is not good, let's find a way." You're not good, but what can we do? ”

Guo Baichuan's eyes widened, angry and desperate. The hand scratched blindly in the air, and the voice shouted in grief and indignation: "Robber! Bandit! ”

The neck stretched forward suddenly, and a mouthful of bright red blood sprayed into the opposite wall with strong pressure. The gray lime wall suddenly left a chrysanthemum-like red, and then the person fainted again.

Jiang Langzhong checked the pulse, called Xiangzi Niang to the outhouse, and said with a solemn expression: "Prepare for the future." ”

When Xiangzi Niang heard this, she was shocked like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, her body shook dizzily, and she tried hard to stabilize it. begging: "Jiang Langzhong, save him!" ”

Jiang Langzhong sighed deeply and said, "The internal injuries are very serious, and the liver is still bleeding. Originally, it could have lasted ten days and a half months. Now he is in a hurry again, and the bleeding in his body has intensified, and he is afraid that he will not survive for three days. ”

Xiangzi Niang's head, as if it was being hit by ice cubes flying in the air, hit it hard, and her body was softly spread on the ground. She had no way to ask for help, and she wanted to cry without tears. I thought that even if the family was bankrupt, as long as I could save my husband, I could live slowly in the future. If you think about it, you will end up with both personal and financial resources.

She wanted to go with her husband, maybe life in another world would be better than now. However, she couldn't. She can't be ruthless, leave Xiangzi alone, she can't let Xiangzi live alone in this gloomy world.

Just after the first seven days, the rich man Zhao shook his fat body and came to Guo's house. First, the cat cried like a mouse, and was merciful for a while. Squinting at the sow's eyes and saying, "Hi! This orphan and widow, what can I do in the future? ”

Xiangzi Niang, who had numbed her expression with grief, cleaned up the messy things in the house. He said to himself, "God, you have to give me a way to live!" ”

The rich man of Zhao, with a sow-like belly, came to Xiangzi Niang. A pair of pig eyes stared at her with squinting eyes: "Otherwise, you simply move to my courtyard, I have a spare house." Don't let you do rough work, that is, support me, protect your mother, and don't worry about food and clothing. ”

Xiangzi Niang raised her stone-carved face, stared at the rich man Zhao with a stiff gaze, and said in a hoarse and tired voice: "Give me a few days, pick up the goods in the shop, and move over." ”

When the rich man heard this, a pimple appeared on his fat face, and he muttered vaguely: "Don't worry, don't worry." ”