Chapter 43: Who is the thief?

"Killing people to pay for their lives and paying off debts, so Mei Fuzi is now deadly, or do you want money?" Gui Chongyang said.

Everyone's eyes instantly looked at Gui Chongyang at the door, obviously a half-grown boy with a thin figure, standing at the door with a small face, but it should not be underestimated.

Everyone was inexplicably weird, is this little cub really Gui Yuansheng? Except for the appearance of the eyebrows and eyes, it doesn't look like the Gui family at all.

The Gui family that everyone mentions is naturally not the younger generation like Gui Chun and Gui Qiu, but the older generation of Gui Changhai brothers, all of whom are gentle and generous people. If you were selfish and ruthless, you wouldn't have dragged one down and ended up like this.

said that Gui Chongyang is not like the Gui family, not that this kid is treacherous, but because his temperament is sharper than the older generation of the Gui family.

Mei Tongsheng was originally good at singing and writing, and he was making a lot of noise, but he was interrupted by Gui Chongyang, and he couldn't go up or down immediately.

To say "murder pays for life", Mei Qingsong died in a military disaster, even if the blame is attributed to Gui Yuan, thirteen years ago, Mei Tongsheng used this as compensation to ask for four acres of blessed land for the Gui family, and withheld the dowry of the Da Gui family after his younger brother and the Da Gui family died one after another.

As Grandpa Zhang said, everything that should have been asked for back then was done, and now Mei Tongsheng is bringing up the old things again, just to make the villagers disgusted with the Gui family, and in front of everyone, it would be a bit too much to ask for compensation again.

But Mei Tongsheng is Mei Tongsheng in the end, and he loves money the most, now that he has the opportunity to make money, how can he be willing to let it go in vain? His eyes went over the muslin clothes on Gui Chongyang's body, and he swept Gui Wu with the corner of his eyes, thinking about the dowry sent by the Jiang family at the door, and said in a long voice: "My son is old and young, and he should have a pension silver ......."

Without waiting for Gui Chongyang's reaction, Gui Er's grandfather stepped forward, stood in front of Gui Chongyang and said: "As soon as the accident happened back then, you asked my eldest brother for compensation on the grounds that the Gui family had killed Qingsong, occupying four acres of our Gui family's tomb land; When the imperial court sent a pension silver, according to the head of each person eight taels of silver, my eldest brother received a total of seventy-two taels back. At that time, your brother-in-law was sick, and you came over on behalf of the Mei family, saying that Qingsong should have children to support, and Qingzhu also had wives and daughters, in addition to the sixteen taels that their cousins should get in their names, they took away twenty-four taels, saying that they were raising the two children. Later, under the pretext that the two families were separated from each other's lives, you divorced my daughter and withheld her sixteen dowries. When my sister and brother-in-law died of illness one after another, Shun Niang Rexiao brought a girl to our Gui family empty-handed. How much more money does this pension cost, and whose kind of money is this love? โ€

This old man, who has always been taciturn, said a lot in one breath, it was more than ten years ago, and there was no evidence or physical evidence, but his character is here, and no one will question what he said.

When these things were said, everyone looked at each other.

Some of these things are known to the villagers, such as occupying the Gui family's tomb and deducting the Da Gui family's dowry, but this is the first time I have heard of the pension silver and Xiao Gui's dowry. And not the dowry, but the silver, which was not one tael or two taels, but a full forty taels of silver. According to the land price of the year, that is ten acres of land, which can be passed on to children and grandchildren.

The silver was nominally begged for Mei Qingsong's son and Mei Qingzhu's wife and children, not to mention Mei Qingsong's son, Mei Tongsheng's eldest grandson, Mei Qingzhu's eldest grandson, Mei Qingzhu's man in the house died, leaving only an aunt and two little Mei Duo with a babbling girl.

If Mei Tongsheng really divided twenty taels of silver back then, plus the income from the fields over there, it would be enough for the two aunts and sisters-in-law to raise Xiao Meiduo to grow up. But Mei Tongsheng seized the house, occupied the land, and forcibly married the widowed nephew and daughter-in-law. If it weren't for Mei's quick decision, he directly carried his niece into the Gui family, and he would not have been sold by Mei Tongsheng.

Everyone thought about the reason clearly, and the eyes that looked at Mei Tongsheng changed.

Because Grandpa Zhang mentioned the 100 acres of good land in Mei Tongsheng's family, everyone remembered another past incident.

If you want to say that the Gui family has four people dead, it is to raise a son to cheat his father; Then why can't the Mei family make up ten taels of silver when the good land and big house are complete, and they have to follow Mei Qingsong and Mei Qingzhu's cousins?

After Gui Yuan stole the silver, not only did the older brothers of the Gui family toss and buy land, but Mei Lao Er also asked to sell land. However, it is a customary rule that when selling land, you must first ask your clan relatives, and then ask your neighbors, and you can only sell it if you don't buy both. As a result, when he came to Mei Tongsheng, he was dragged and his brother was not allowed to sell his ancestral property.

Gui Yuan is the bane, but this Mei Tongsheng is also a-stirring stick.

Mei Tongsheng noticed that everyone's eyes were strange, but he still stared at Grandpa Gui, and said cheekily: "Those are two lives, can you buy it with silver?" This pulls the child, and it is not just for the stutter to eat, Sheng'er wants to study and go to school, and the girl has also reached the age of saying that she has to buy a dowry, this is not all a place to use silver! โ€

As for the four acres of land and forty taels of silver that I was going to go to before, they are all about the old yellow calendar, what else do you want to do? As for the two sets of dowries of the Gui family's aunt and nephew, there are only some bulky furniture left, and if the Gui family bites it, let them carry it back.

Mei Tongsheng's eyes shone, and he was inexplicably confident.

Second Grandpa Gui frowned and looked at Mei Tongsheng twice, and said, "Are you old and confused?" When you were going to die and beg for a pension, you wrote a note, which said that you would end the matter with four acres of land and twenty-four taels of silver, and if you regretted it, you would pay back double the silver! โ€

The reason why Aunt Gui was suspended, the Gui family did not mention this note, that is, they knew that the two families had a deep suspicion, and it was difficult for Aunt Gui to stay in the Mei family, plus Mei Tongsheng forcibly married a widowed nephew and daughter-in-law, and the Gui family was not all the way, so Gui's second grandfather took back his daughter.

Mei Tongsheng's expression was stunned, and then he also thought of the reaction of the Gui family when Aunt Gui was suspended, and said loudly: "Nonsense, I didn't write any notes!" If you Gui family want to rip off the skin and not give the silver, just say it, why do you say that there is no proof of this death? โ€

Second Grandpa Gui didn't expect Mei Tongsheng to deny the matter, and he beat him upside down, so angry that his lips trembled and he couldn't speak.

Gui Chongyang hugged Gui's second grandfather and said, "Who said that there is no proof of death?" Even if the note is written, the natural note is still there. If it weren't for Mei Fuzi's own handwriting, that is, there was a villain who pretended to deceive the Gui family's money and land, so whether the Gui family could also take the note to the yamen to argue the truth and falsehood, and also misunderstood Mei Fuzi. โ€œ

Seeing that Gui Chongyang's attitude was so calm, not like a bluff, Mei Tongsheng's arrogance immediately weakened, but he still said strongly: "One yard is one yard, things have been priced over the years, and Sheng'er and Duo Girl have indeed reached the time to use money." โ€

This does not deny that the note was written.

Others are fine, but Grandpa Zhang sneered: "Why is it up to you to turn this over and over again?" If according to what you said, the four acres of land and forty taels of silver that I took away before should be given half of the girl? โ€

It's not that the old man is nosy, but because of the sake of the dead old friend, he sympathizes with Mei's aunt and nephew, and he can't see Mei Tongsheng getting an inch in the name of a dead man.

Mei Tongsheng snorted coldly: "A girl can't set up a household, how can there be a reason to divide the property?" There are no more rules like that. โ€

"If you don't share the property, what about the money? The girl has eaten all the money from the Gui family over the years, and where the silver is not used, isn't it all left over for twenty taels? Eight taels of them are her old son's pension, and the other twelve taels of silver are the maintenance money that you, who are the grandfather, help her ask for from the Gui family. With these twenty taels of silver, a dowry is enough, and you can also find a good family with the right door. Grandpa Zhang didn't take Mei Tongsheng's role, and still turned the conversation back to the pension money.

The corners of Mei Tongsheng's mouth twitched, and he was asked. He can confidently say "no production", but he can't confidently say that he will not give Mei Duo silver. But if you really divide the money and go out, that's what will cost him his old life.

When Mei Tongsheng thought of that possibility, his heart was like a knife, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he shook his head and said: "It is said that the ugliness of the family should not be publicized, and now that the words are here, I will not hide it." The twenty taels of silver were stolen by the Qiu family. Duan is a ruthless woman, her husband died, and she didn't keep her filial piety, so she gave up her flesh and blood and stole silver. I was afraid of hurting the girl's heart before, so I could hide it if I could, but now that it's time to use the silver, I really can't continue to hide it......"

Needless to say, this Qiu clan is Mei Qingzhu's widow and Mei Duo's mother.

Before Mei Tongsheng's words fell, he heard a sad and indignant voice: "You are lying! As he spoke, Mei walked in with an angry face, not at all as if she was usually supple.

The rabbit is anxious and bites, and now Mei is a fierce rabbit.

Mei knew that the silver had entered Mei Tongsheng's pocket, and it was a dream to divide the silver, but he couldn't do without the silver, and let Mei Tongsheng splash dirty water on his sister-in-law Qiu's head. Not to mention whether the sister-in-law Qiu is alive or dead, just that if she really carries the name of this thief, it can't be said that it will affect Mei Duo's head.

"Dragons give birth to dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, and the sons of mice will make holes", this is the default truth of the little people. Just like Gui Chongyang in front of him, no matter what his own character is, with an old man like Gui Yuan, he must be questioned and wary of by everyone.

Qiu's really became a "thief", then Mei Duo is a "thief girl", who loses a needle and thread in the future, if you don't keep it, someone will suspect Mei Duo's head, isn't that wrong?

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