Chapter 20: Finding Faults
It turned out that Wang Yapo lived diagonally opposite the Jimin Pharmacy, so when Zeng Rong and Granny Liu stood at the door of the pharmacy and looked at the plaque on the door of the pharmacy, Wang Yapo recognized Zeng Rong.
Seeing Zeng Rong enter the pharmacy, she remembered that day Zeng Rong said that day that he would dig herbs and sell them, so she stood curiously at the door of the pharmacy and eavesdropped, she wanted to know how much money Zeng Rong had earned in the past half a month.
Who knew that this eavesdropping made her hear a big secret, it turned out that the kid surnamed Ouyang really had a head and tail with this little girl, and actually came to the pharmacy owner to take care of Zeng Rong, a stinky girl.
No wonder she saw that something was wrong with these two people at Zeng's house that day, if she didn't rely on it, how could a twelve-year-old girl dare to propose to move out and live, and boasted that she wanted to buy herself.
Hmph, the stupid in-laws of the Zeng family believed this, and they really let the duck that was about to be cooked fly, lost so much money in vain, and caused her to bear a bad reputation in vain.
This breath has been holding in her heart for half a month, and it is easy for her to seize the opportunity today, she will never let go of this stinky girl.
"Ouch, who am I? It turned out to be the eldest girl of the Zeng family, the eldest girl came to the town to sell medicinal herbs? How, how much money has your good friend earned with you these days, and at the end of the year, can you get the dowry? ”
"This mother-in-law, you are also a person with a house full of children and grandchildren, please accumulate some virtue for yourself and your family. People just look at me pitiful, and they can't bear to see me being sold to that kind of dirty place by some scheming old pious woman, so they reach out to help me, unlike some people, who have a dirty heart and can only think of those dirty things. Zeng Rong didn't want to deal with this princess, but she was afraid that her and Ouyang Si's reputations would be affected because of her own indulgence.
"You, what are you talking about, you stinky girl." Mrs. Wang was angered by Zeng Rong's words, she was a person on the street, and she was doing Ya Po's business, so she naturally didn't want to ruin her reputation, so she quickly ridiculed her.
"I'm dirty, no matter how dirty I am, I'm going straight, I don't steal or rob, what I'm doing is Yapo's business, you love me, don't put any dirty pots and dead pots on my head, I tell you, I can't blame me for your affairs, I was entrusted by your father and mother to sell you, if you want to blame your father, blame your father and mother, Hugh has to talk nonsense here to ruin my reputation."
"Really? There is a god three feet above your head, you dare to swear to the sky, saying that it was not you who bewitched my mother to sell me? Do you need me to learn what you said at the time? Zeng Rong gave the other party a look.
Sure enough, Wang Yapo had a weak heart and didn't dare to swear, but after all, she was a Yapo with many years of life experience and experience, and her ability to mess around was much higher than Zeng Rong's, so she quickly changed the subject, jumped up and scolded Zeng Rong, saying that Zeng Rong disliked the poor and loved the rich, and obviously said that he would exchange relatives with a hunter, and he disliked that people were one eye, and wanted to climb a scholar, but the scholar couldn't come up with a dowry, so her parents wanted to sell her for some silver to her eldest brother to marry Yunyun.
The quarrel between the two quickly attracted a lot of neighbors to come and see the excitement, and Granny Liu saw it and pulled Zeng Rong's clothes, "Child, let's go back." ”
She was a widow for many years, and she had been in the town all year round to buy vegetables, so most of the people in the town knew her, and she was afraid that she would be implicated.
Zeng Rong is not a real child, as soon as he heard it, he understood what Granny Liu meant, and took a deep breath, "You don't have to change the topic, I just ask you, do you dare to swear, do you have the courage to swear?" ”
"That's right, the little girl is asking you if you dare to swear, what are you doing with all this?" The two guys from the pharmacy helped Zeng Rong say something.
"What's the matter with you? Could it be you ... ”
Zeng Rong guessed what this mother-in-law was going to say when he heard it, and hurriedly interrupted her: "For the sake of your age, I will call you mother-in-law again and send you two sentences, people are watching the sky, even if you don't plan for yourself, you should plan for your children and grandchildren, as the old saying goes, it's not that you don't report it, it's not that the time has not come, I advise you to be more restrained." ”
After speaking, Zeng Rong didn't go to see this mother-in-law, and directly pulled Granny Liu and left.
What a bad day.
Fortunately, Zeng Rong was not confused, came out of the pharmacy, and remembered going to an embroidery shop, and bought ten handkerchiefs from the embroidery shop for 100 yuan, and went to a cloth shop after coming out, and spent 60 yuan to buy a four-foot white muslin, intending to use it to make two obscene pants, no way, the weather is getting hotter and hotter, and she really can't bear this kind of life without even obscene clothes and pants.
After returning from the town, Zeng Rong quickly put down Mrs. Wang, first put the cotton cloth he bought into the water, put it outside to dry, and then helped Granny Liu choose vegetables and wash vegetables to prepare dinner.
When she was busy, she suddenly heard a noisy movement outside, which would be the end of school, and she didn't pay attention to it at first, knowing that all men in the academy except for her and Granny Liu were men, so she rarely went out at this point in time.
But after a while, she heard someone calling her name, and then she heard Tian Shuilan's scolding.
"Ah Rong, you dead girl, you come out with me and say, where did you spend all your money today, my mother and I haven't added a new dress all these years, it's good for you, if you earn money, you don't take it to pay your second brother's tuition first, but you can spend it yourself, do you have a daughter like you and a sister like you? The house is almost unable to open the pot, do you still have a conscience, do you have... ”
"Shut up, I promised to give you ten taels of silver by the end of the year, but how long has it been before you have repented? Do you need me to find the patriarch and the third uncle to find out whose fault it is? "It's about himself, Zeng Rong can't hide anymore, so he has to go to the door of the stove.
It turned out that Zeng Rong and Granny Liu had just left the town on their front feet, and Wang Yapo went to Zengjia Village on their back feet, and told Tian Shuilan what they had just seen in the town.
Tian Shuilan heard that Zeng Rong had earned less than 200 yuan in half a month, which was too far from the ten taels of silver at the end of the year, but Zeng Rong didn't say that he saved the money, but spent it all, where could she sit still?
Isn't that clear?
Zeng Rong didn't really want to earn money for the family at all, she was just delaying time, thinking that when the person surnamed Ouyang won the show, she would come to the door to propose, and with the title of Xiucai, even if she didn't give a bride price, or symbolically, her head of the family would be eager to marry her daughter.
With the talented master as her son-in-law, her head of the house is still not allowed to walk sideways in the village?
Also, Zeng Fuxiang's family affairs will be much easier, and even Zeng Guixiang's tuition fees will be considered for reduction and exemption as appropriate, but this matter is not good for her and her children at all, because with the Xiucai master to rely on, her right to speak in the Zeng family will definitely be greatly reduced.
And the most important point, she was the one who almost forced Zeng Rong to death, Zeng Rong and the descendant surnamed Ouyang could spare her?