Chapter 14: Confrontation
It's a pity that Zeng Rong didn't expect that because he didn't know whether it was because he was innocent or stupid by nature, his eldest brother actually believed the words of this Ya Po and hurriedly thanked Ya Po.
Fortunately, when Zeng Rong was so angry that he was about to open his mouth to scold, Ouyang Si accompanied the patriarch and Zeng Youqing over.
The patriarch's insight is much stronger than that of others, and when he heard this, he asked suspiciously, "Is there such a good thing?" I heard that the nurse of a big family in the city is only four or five hundred dollars, a maid, not a death deed, can give as much as eight hundred dollars? ”
"Or the patriarch Ah Gong understands, isn't it that this Aunt Wang and my mother want to fool me, saying that they are looking for me to find an errand in the city, but in fact, they want to sell it, and the two of them are afraid that they will even negotiate the price." Zeng Rong learned the previous conversation between the two people.
"Patriarch Grandpa, I really don't dare to keep this family, maybe when my mother will sell it, I don't care if I am sold, but it will affect the reputation of our entire Zeng clan, outsiders have heard about it, and they can't laugh at us, we still boast of ourselves, admit ourselves, think that we are cultivating and reading people, and the women in the clan are actually sold to that kind of dirty place, in the future, how can the children of the clan participate in the imperial examination, how to gain a foothold in the officialdom?" Zeng Rong said.
She knew that only by pulling the entire Zeng clan into the water could she have a chance to mobilize the patriarch to intervene to stop this.
"You mother-in-law, is what this kid said true?" When the patriarch heard that he was going to sell Zeng Rong to that kind of dirty place, he was immediately angry.
He has been the patriarch for so many years, so he naturally knows the harmfulness of this matter, not to mention anything else, his son is now a county magistrate in a neighboring county, and his grandson is a Xiucai, who will also study in Fuxue, and is planning to participate in the autumn festival next year.
Not to mention the patriarch, Zeng Youqing next to him was also angry, his grandson was also studying, he and Zeng Rong were still close branches, if Zeng Rong was sold, his grandson would definitely be more affected than the children and grandchildren of the patriarch's family, first of all, the innocence of the family background is unreasonable.
"Didn't you say that you would change your parents? No matter how bad it is, it's okay to sell it to be a maid, why do you have to drive the child to a dead end? After all, it wasn't you who gave birth to it, if you want to be so vicious again, I'll let Da Chun leave you. Zeng Youqing reprimanded angrily.
"In this sense, we can't affect the reputation of the clan because you are a woman." The patriarch nodded in agreement.
"Patriarch, his third uncle, this matter is really not what Ah Rong said, Aunt Wang really found a good errand for Ah Rong, and I also agreed to listen to this errand seriously. His third uncle wants to say this, but he really wronged me, I have been married into this family for four years, I have been in charge of housework, giving birth to children, I have not enjoyed any blessings, but I have suffered for four years, woo, that's it, you still dislike me, and you are going to divorce me after listening to a few words from a child, I want to ask you, which crime did I commit? Tian Shuilan sprinkled as she spoke.
"What the hell is going on? Why did you make trouble again? As soon as Zeng Chengchun entered the door, he heard his wife's cry and ran in in a hurry.
After learning about the cause and effect, he believed Zeng Rong's words a little, because his wife muttered to him a lot last night, saying why Zeng Rong was so sure that he could earn ten taels of silver a year, how could she be a little girl who couldn't do this thing that everyone together couldn't do? Most of it was an excuse that Zeng Rong came up with in order not to be sold.
To be honest, he didn't believe that his child could earn ten taels of silver a year, but he couldn't bear to sell the child, the child had already died once because of this, and if he died again, who knows if he would be saved by this luck?
Rather than this, it is better to take Zeng Rong to change relatives, so that the eldest can marry a family, as for the cost of the second child's study, take your time, such a big family, as long as you are diligent, there will always be a way, right?
It's just that at this point, Zeng Chengchun must be talking to his woman, and he is also afraid that the elders of the clan will really let him divorce his wife in anger, because he is like a mirror in his heart, he really divorced this wife, and it is impossible for him to marry again in this life.
And although Tian Shuilan has a lot of selfishness, he is sure of one thing, she is honest and sincere in living with him, no, even the child gave birth to one for him and conceived another.
"Ah Rong, didn't you hear it wrong? Your mother promised me yesterday that she would not sell you, and said that she would wait for your ten taels of silver to live. Zeng Chengchun put the fault on his daughter.
"Dad, how could I have misheard? This week's family affairs were obviously made up by Aunt Wang temporarily, do you really believe that there is such a good thing? If you don't believe it, ask the patriarch Grandpa, if there is really such a good thing, it will not be our family's turn, what is the relationship between us and Aunt Wang? The two of them agreed to take me to Anzhou City on this ground, and then raised me for two or three months, saying that they would sell me far away after raising me to be white and tender, and they said to the outside world that I was working in the city, and after a year or two, they would find a reason to say that I was sick and died, and outsiders would not suspect her. Zeng Rongke didn't care about thirty-seven twenty-one, and directly pointed out Tian Shuilan's selfishness, and it was also Zeng Chengchun's selfishness.
"Da Chun's family, isn't that what you say?" The patriarch asked with a dark face.
"Yes, no, oh, no, no." Tian Shuilan saw that she was deceived by Zeng Rong's words at the beginning, and subconsciously responded, but she quickly came back to her senses and hurriedly denied it, but her attitude said everything.
"Aunt Wang, my mother admits it, if you lie again, I will go out and ask the patriarch and my third uncle and the elders of the clan to take me to the old man Zhou's house together, I want to see if there is really such a good thing waiting for me, I don't need to sign a death deed, and I still have 800 yuan a month, if this is the case, I will accept this errand." Zeng Rong struck while the iron was hot and forced Wang Yapo.
She didn't believe that there was such a good thing.
The maids of the big families have no monthly money at the beginning, just eat and live, and they have to mention the third-class maid before they can give the monthly money, the second-class maid of the Xu family only has 500 yuan, the first-class maid can get 800 yuan, and the first-class maid has to stay up for a few years, they are all henchmen around the master.
The most important thing is, who buys a maid is not a dead deed?