In the courtyard, the Zhao family, the Liu family, you look at me, I look at you, each elected a few people to enter the hall in turn. The people in the courtyard were also reluctant to disperse, and one by one they stretched their necks as if they could see more carefully and listen in detail. There were also a few bold villagers, neither the Zhao family nor the Liu family, who followed the crowd into the house, standing in the corner of the door with the intention of listening.

Mrs. Zhao is 78 years old, the oldest in the village, her hair is all white, and her waist is a little unable to sit straight. The Zhao family is a big surname in the village, and the old lady Zhao was originally the patriarch of the Zhao family, and the people in the village respect him very much, and they all respect him as the old lady Zhao.

Old lady Zhao and Li Zheng sat down, old lady Zhao coughed, and the room suddenly fell silent.

"The two of you are also too disagreeable, today, Li Zheng is looking at my face before staying for you to mediate. If you don't want to solve it, go to the county government to solve it. After only two sentences, Old Lady Zhao coughed. coughed for a while before he stopped and continued, "I'm listening here, Chief, and I'm sorry for you to listen and give a sentence." If they don't accept it, don't worry about it. ”

"Old lady Zhao has worked tirelessly for your Zhao affairs, you weigh it." Li Zheng dusted off his sleeves and said with a stern face, "I'll repeat it again, I ask whoever says it to speak, and the others don't speak, and if you open your mouth again, you will go to the yamen to solve it." ”

"You speak, you speak."

Looking at Li's sword-sharp eyes, Hu Ziniang's voice became lower and lower, so low that it was almost inaudible.

Li Zheng asked in a straight voice: "Wang Zhang, your family has decided to withdraw from your family?" ”

"Whoa!"

Li Zheng asked Sanya Niang again: "Zhao Wang's family, your family doesn't want to quit your family." ”

"Don't retreat, quit my family, who will marry." The third girl shouted loudly.

"The Liu family wants to quit, but your Zhao family is unwilling to retreat. According to the law of Liu Zhang's family, your Liu family can't retreat. ”

Liu Zhang's family immediately became anxious when he heard this, and shouted loudly: "Why is her family unwilling to retreat, and the Liu family has withdrawn from her relatives before." ”

Li Zheng said: "That's because the Liu family is easy to talk and is willing to take a step back." Your family retreats and doesn't care. Zhao Wang's reluctance is also reasonable. ”

"But you can't force my family to marry her! Besides, Liu'er, we are also doing good deeds. Liu Zhang quibbled.

When the third girl heard this, she wanted to go up and beat him, but was caught by Zhao Danian. The third girl shook Zhao Danian a few times and didn't let go.

Li Zheng and Old Lady Zhao glanced at each other, frowning at each other, but neither of them spoke.

Old lady Zhao stroked his long white beard, pondered for a long time, and said, "It seems that the key is Sanya's marriage." ”

Old lady Zhao glanced at Li Zheng again, Li Zheng shook his head, old lady Zhao thought about it and said, "Sanya's marriage, I'll find a good one." Sanyaniang, what do you think? ”

"How old are you?" Zhao Shishi muttered.

"Presumptuous, how can you talk to the old lady?" Zhao Dahe roared. Zhao Dahe is the patriarch of the Zhao family and the eldest uncle of Sanya.

Zhao Shishi glanced at the angry Zhao Dahe, and Sanya's father Zhao Danian, Zhao Danian glared at her fiercely and didn't take his eyes off, Zhao Shishi lowered his head and said in a voice that he could almost hear: "I'm not wrong." ”

Li Zheng thought for a while and said, "If Old Lady Zhao doesn't find it, I'll take it and continue to look for it." Sanyaniang, what do you think? ”

Sanya Niang turned around at a few people, and said with a pout: "I don't know what the Year of the Monkey and the Moon are like." Besides, his Liu family said that he would quit his family, who would want to retreat from my family's loss and no benefits! ”

Li Zheng asked: "Then you will be given benefits, are you willing to retreat?" ”

"This?"

The third girl was stunned, would she like to?

Li Zheng saw that Sanya Niang was stunned, and continued to persuade: "Zhao Wang's family, you see that this Liu family is unwilling to marry, and your aunt Liang has not had a good time marrying in the past, as the saying goes, 'a twisted melon is not sweet', you see, you put forward conditions, and everyone discusses." ”

Oh, yes! How to marry like this, although I got forty taels of silver, my daughter was not happy. Don't talk about this, in the past two days, it has been rumored that Liu'er and the belly are Fuda, and he said that he is a kid in the belly, and this Liu family is such an only son, it seems that he is going to marry Liu'er. It seems that this thing will not be able to be done if it is not relented. The third girl has a little ninety-nine in her heart.

The third girl looked at the child's father, and then looked at the child's grandmother and grandfather, and couldn't make up her mind.

"This, this, the child's father, his grandmother, his grandfather. You see? Zhao Shishi asked hesitantly.

Zhao Danian said to Li Zheng: "Let's discuss." ”

Li Zheng nodded, leaned in front of Old Lady Zhao and said inconsequential words. The Liu family looked at the Zhao family with fear, not knowing what the outcome of the discussion would be.

Zhao Wang's family discussed by the wall.

Liu Zhang looked at the group of people from time to time. Keep rubbing your hands together. I wanted to open my mouth a few times, but when I saw Old Lady Zhao and Li Zheng sitting in the middle of the hall with a serious face, I had to close my mouth again.

"Chief," Zhao Shishi spoke, "My family is not an unaffectionate family, his family wants to retreat, it stands to reason that my family can not retreat, this is because Li is busy with this matter, even the old lady is alarmed, let's discuss and take a step back, his family wants to retreat, but my family has done nothing wrong, this marriage gift money can not be refunded." I retreated, and I thought my family had done something wrong. You say, I'm right? ”

As soon as Zhao Shi's words were finished, Liu Zhang's was anxious, it was a lot of silver, and he hurriedly said: "Why don't you return this money, this money for marriage, if you don't get married, you have to accompany it." ”

Zhao Shishi glared at her, and mocked lukewarmly: "If this companion is a companion, if your family marries, my family will accompany the money." Do you marry? ”

"This ,......" Liu Zhang was so silent by the third girl's rhetorical question that he couldn't speak.

Liu Zhang looked at his mother-in-law, and then at Lizheng, he didn't dare to take Zhao Shi's words, so he only looked at Huzi's grandmother anxiously. Huzi's grandmother didn't have a good word for a while, so she didn't speak.

Li Zheng then asked: "Liu family, what do you say." ”

Liu Zhang's had no choice but to play the sad card, and said with an embarrassed face: "Li Zheng, my family has given the Zhao family forty taels of silver, this, this can't be married, and if you set a kiss for forty taels, it's gone!" ”

When the people in the courtyard heard this, they were all stunned, forty taels of silver to marry a daughter-in-law?

Li Zheng already knew that the Liu family also borrowed two taels of silver from his daughter-in-law, and Li Zheng's daughter-in-law's surname was Liu, and she was a cousin to his family. Li Zheng choked angrily: "Why don't you marry back?" ”

"That's what I'm talking about."

Zhao Shishi also came to his senses, and said proudly: "People don't want to marry, and the money still wants to go back, and there is no such cheap thing." It's not our Zhao family that's at fault. ”

Hu Ziniang looked at her mother-in-law, the old lady raised her head, stammered and said: "Chief, this thing is not authentic for my family, but these forty taels are all borrowed from relatives with great difficulty, and Huzi still has to marry a daughter-in-law, these forty taels are really a bit too much for the Zhao family to stay." ”

After listening to Huzi Niang and Grandma Huzi's words, the people in the yard began to whisper.

"Wow! Forty taels! That's a lot! ”

"The third girl asked for forty taels, and the Huzi family agreed."

"How much land can you buy with so much money!"

"Yes, this daughter-in-law is really expensive."

……

Li Zheng didn't raise his eyes to look at her, just looked at the people whispering in the courtyard.

The old lady had no choice but to bite the bullet and say, "Look, my family doesn't want forty taels of silver, ten taels, ten taels as compensation for her family." ”

Zhao Shi spat at the old lady and said, "Phew! Whoever asks for your compensation, you ask for food when I am in my house. ”

"Then, then give five taels more, fifteen taels can't be more." The old lady hurriedly answered.

"You think you're buying groceries, and Wen is bargaining."

"This is not a counter-offer, I am also very sincere, I can eat fifteen taels for two or three years."

"You are still sincere, you are sincere, you marry my third girl back to be your granddaughter-in-law. Okay, don't have to be that broken, your eyes are also blind. ”

"You're swearing."

"Alright, alright." Li Zheng looked at the two people who were arguing again, and shouted at him. When the two people who were already blushing stopped, Li Zheng spoke: "I'll be the master, choose a middle number, you each take a step back, and twenty taels of silver as compensation for the Zhao family." Can you agree? ”

"Lizheng, this is too much......"

"Lizheng ,......"

The Zhao family and the Liu family both opened their mouths to speak, and they didn't seem to agree, and Li Zheng didn't wait for them to speak, he suddenly stood up with his hands behind his back, glanced at each side expressionlessly, and was about to go out.

"Lizheng, this, my family agrees, agrees. Yes! Tiger mother. Huzi's grandmother looked at Li Zheng with a cloudy face, and quickly agreed to Li Zheng's suggestion, and glanced at Hu Zi's mother.

Hu Ziniang nodded in amazement and said, "Yes, we agree." ”

Li turned around and looked at the Zhao family like an iron pot.

"This ,......"

Zhao Shishi glanced at Li Zheng, who had a serious face, turned his head again, looked at Zhao Danian, and pushed his waist with his arm.

Zhao Danian looked at Zhao Shi's family, and then at Zhao Shanqing, only to see Zhao Shanqing nodding lightly. Zhao Danian also nodded at Zhao Shishi. Zhao Shishi still didn't seem to be satisfied, and said with indignation in his tone: "Then do what Li Zheng said!" It's a bargain for you. You ......"

"Huh?" Rimasa snorted heavily from his nose.

Zhao Shishi closed his mouth unwillingly.

Li Zheng stood there and said sternly: "The silver of the Liu family's relatives in this matter is forty taels, twenty taels will go to the Zhao family, and twenty taels will be returned to the Liu family." Today, I testified with Mrs. Zhao, returned the money and then returned the marriage certificate, this matter is over, in the future, no more fights and troubles for this matter, if anyone commits another crime, don't blame me for not paying face. ”

"Yes, it's all right."

"Yes."

"Yes."

……

In a chorus, the Zhao family took out twenty taels of silver out of the original forty taels and gave it to the Liu family. The Liu family took the silver and let the clansmen disperse.

Li Zheng saw that the Liu family was gone, said goodbye to Mrs. Zhao, raised his feet and walked out.

"Oh my tank! ……”

Li Zheng stepped over the broken porcelain piece and walked without stopping.

"What's going on?" Ri is talking as he walks with his hands behind his back.