The old man Meng Fanchen was very attentive to the errand that Master Gao arranged for him to open the church, not to mention that this school was made of new bricks and tiles, freshly painted, and the windows were also bright, which was ten times better than his original grass house with a collapsed backbone. only said that he was old and dependent, he did not have to worry about food and clothing, and he could be accompanied by his favorite poems and texts all day long, which made Meng Laohan have indescribable gratitude to Master Gao.

After the children entered school, Meng Fanchen first gave each of them a red sketch of brush characters, with only three hollowed-out big red characters on it: Shang, Da, and Ren. Let them study the ink by themselves and draw black with a brush.

These children are so old that they are exposed to new things for the first time, and none of them are noisy, pursed their mouths, and used their strength to complete what the teacher teaches one by one. Meng Fanchen looked at the posture of holding the pen behind each child with his hands behind his back, and took his brush to demonstrate if there was any incorrectness. Don't look at Meng Fanchen's right hand when he holds the wine glass, he will keep shaking, but as soon as he picks up the pen, he will be calm and relaxed, as if he has caught a carving knife.

It was almost noon, Liu Yuru, Fan Ying, and Siqing came out of their own house, and they tossed in the pasture for half the night last night, and they still felt weak after getting up. Fan Ying looked at the time and said, "It's noon soon, and I don't know how Tiantian is learning in the school." ”

Siqing said, "Sister Xie is not here either, Bacheng is going to pick up Tiantian, you can ask when you come back." ”

The mother-in-law brought the food, and everyone waited for a while but didn't see Xie come back, Fan Ying said, "I'll go and see." She walked out of the courtyard and walked to the school across the street, and saw that most of the children had been picked up by their families, and only the half of the second brother's Xie family, Tiantian and Tiantian, were still there.

Fan Ying saw Tian Tian but not Xie Shi, so she asked her, "What about your mother?" ”

Tian Tian said, "Mom sent me here and left." Also took my school bag. When Meng Fanchen saw Fan Ying, he also told Fan Ying what he saw, he said, "Xie Shi was uncertain when he left, don't do anything else." ”

Fan Ying wanted to take the children of her second brother's family to the house for dinner, but saw the second sister-in-law of the Xie family hurrying over. Holding a sweet schoolbag in his hand. Xie's second sister-in-law didn't expect to meet Fan Ying in the school, and she didn't know where to put the schoolbag in her hand. Fan Ying asked, "Second sister-in-law, where is my sister Xie?" Why didn't you see her pick up the child? ”

Her second sister-in-law said with a smile on her face, "In my house, I haven't been back once since she passed the door, and I finally came home and stayed for dinner." Although Fan Ying was a little suspicious when she heard this, she could only pull Tiantian home first.

Go home and talk to everyone. Everyone was also very puzzled, Liu Yuru said, "Sister Xie's brother and sister-in-law didn't treat her well when she was in her parents' house before, why didn't the child pick up today and became a guest." ”

Cui Yan said, "She can't ride a horse either, how did she get there?" I didn't see her say anything beforehand, so we could pick up the child for her. Fan Ying asked Tian Tian again, but when the little girl was sent by her mother, she only thought about going to school. Didn't pay attention to more. just said, "In the morning, my mother, my second uncle, and my second aunt talked for a long time at the door of the school. ”

Fan Ying remembered the words of the old man Meng Fanchen. The suspicion became greater, and seeing that the door of Xie's house was not closed in a hurry when he left, he pushed the door and went in to look in the house. Except that Xie Jinlian didn't bother to clean up when she tossed and turned on the bed, and the bed was a little messy, she couldn't see anything different from usual.

Fan Ying reached out to fold the quilt for Xie Shi, and when she flattened the mattress, she heard the bed board "horn" sound. She was curious. I lifted the mattress and looked at it, and found the secret door. It turned out that Xie Shi hurriedly clamped the mattress inside when he closed the cover on the dark grid.

Liu Yuru heard Fan Ying calling in Xie's house, and walked over to see that the secret compartment at the head of the bed was an open cloth bag. Two silver envelopes were left inside, and nothing else.

Liu Yuru knew that the Xie family usually kept the family's silver in a jujube wood cabinet in the living room, and the account book and the small abacus were placed on the top of the cabinet. She went back to the living room and took the notebook and looked through it all over again. Obviously, the money under Hsieh's bed was not included in the accounts. But she didn't have any money of her own, and the silver in the bed appeared suspiciously.

She said to Fan Ying and Siqing, "You go to Second Brother Xie's house in the old village to look for Xie Jinlian, how do I feel that something is wrong with her." ”

When Xie Jinlian took a car in the ranch and hurried to the second brother's house, Xie Da and his daughter-in-law had just arrived home. However, at this time, Xie Da had already leaned on a rocking chair in a courtyard, pinched a purple sand teapot smaller than a fist in his hand, and was drinking tea mouth-to-mouth.

Listening to her sister's intentions, the second sister-in-law Xie said, "We are for the good of your mother and daughter, but you are guarding us like a thief, it seems that the words of the morning have been said to you in vain." We are my brother and sister-in-law, we really don't want you to have a few taels of silver, look," she pointed to the yard in a circle with her hand, "What is there at my brother-in-law's house?" ”

Xie said, "Thank you for the kindness of the second brother and sister-in-law, I also thought about it just now, no matter whether the tall man is a blessing or a curse, I can't do this kind of thing." It's my sister's confusion for a while, and I did this to make those people chill me...... Give me the money, and I'll take it back as if there was no such thing. ”

Her second sister-in-law listened and looked at her as if she was looking at a stranger, "Listening to my sister's tone, we are outsiders, so what are you doing in this door." ”

Her second brother Xie Da also jumped up from the rocking chair, he was afraid that the eldest brother and sister-in-law next door would hear the movement, so he pressed his throat and said to his sister, "The two of us are trying to leave you a way back, but it turns out that you think of us like this, let's go, let's go!" From now on, I will not have you as a sister. ”

Xie Jinlian gritted her teeth and said, "Just go, it's okay if you don't recognize me, but you have to return the silver to me." ”

Her second brother sneered and asked, "For the sake of you and Tiantian's future, my brother will be ruthless today, and he will also do this, so don't think about the silver matter anymore." I'm not afraid of you going around and talking, aren't you afraid that your tall family will find out and whip you hard? ”

Xie Shi only really regretted it now, if he let Master Gao know about it, she would really be angry, so she couldn't make a big fuss when she thought about it, so that the neighbors in the old village knew about this ugly incident of the Xie family, especially the cause of this incident, it couldn't be publicized.

Looking at her brother and sister-in-law's scoundrel face, she regretted it even more, seeing that there was no hope of getting the silver back, Xie Shi said hatefully, "I handed over the silver to you for safekeeping, and my lard was blinded by my heart, even if Lord Gao was from the Jiu clan, he wouldn't be able to run away from you." ”

Her second sister-in-law listened, "Sister, we are kind and kind, but we have come to curse us like this. From now on, I won't know you anymore, get out of here, and whatever happens to you in the future, we won't care about you anymore. ”

The second sister-in-law glanced at her husband again and said, "I thought that you, who are aunts, would not have to take your nephew home for dinner at noon." Who knows that you don't have a mother's family in your heart at all, and you only think about those few taels of silver. It's okay, I'll pick up the kids, and let your brother tell you the rest. As he spoke, he slowly walked out of the courtyard.

Didn't you come in vain when you left like this? How do you go back and explain to Mrs. Liu's sisters? Xie Jinlian saw her second sister-in-law come out of the house with a sweet schoolbag, thinking that she had just hidden the silver, so she got up and rushed into the house, "If you don't give it to me, you will turn it over yourself." ”

Xie Da rushed over and slapped his sister in the mouth, "Silver? What silver? Do you have receipts for me and your sister-in-law? It's really a dog biting Lu Dongbin! If you continue to make trouble, I will sue the official and break into the house! ”

Xie squatted on the ground, covered his face and cried. The second sister-in-law hid out, but she made up her mind not to spit out the three hundred and fifty taels of silver. Seeing that she couldn't ask for something soft, she was stopped by her second brother if she took it hard, and now she has no way to do it.

Xie Da saw that his slap had worked, and he didn't persuade his sister, so he went back to lie on the rocking chair and picked up the teapot. The heart said that you have deceived me from this little bit of caution! I didn't dare to cry or make trouble, I didn't dare to hang myself, and I couldn't go back to pick up my child when I was tired of crying.

He just shook the rocking chair twice, and outside the courtyard gate, his eldest brother and sister-in-law came in and saw his sister crying on the ground, "I don't come back for a trip, why did it become like this, so that outsiders should laugh at us again." ”

When Xie Da saw it, he secretly complained that his daughter-in-law didn't close the courtyard door when she left, and said with a smile, "Didn't you hear about this catastrophe that happened to my brother-in-law, eldest brother?" Tell me, can Xizhou's words be fake? This tall man is not reliable, he provoked the emperor and sent a messenger, and I am really afraid that my sister will suffer in the dark. I was telling my sister that she was scared to cry. ”

Xie Jinlian was already crying and had no strength, and after hearing the second brother say such things to the eldest brother, the eldest brother did not refute, and cried, "If you think about me, you should tell me 1510, let me discuss with Mrs. Liu and them early to make a plan, how can you do this kind of thing behind someone's back?" ”

The eldest brother Xie Guang and his family hurriedly asked, "My sister is reasonable, I don't know what is the matter?" ”

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