Heida Farm.

Qian Shi, a peasant woman in the border fields, was sitting in her yard sifting rice, when she suddenly saw her husband Zhu Sheng drooping his head, drooping his face, and coming back from outside without saying a word. Zhu Sheng didn't look up, and naturally he didn't notice his daughter-in-law Qian who was sifting rice in the yard, and walked straight into the house.

Qian raised his eyes and saw Zhu Sheng enter the courtyard, and looking at Zhu Sheng's sad face, he guessed that Zhu Shengzhun had eaten a closed door again and was driven back.

Qian put down the rice sieve in his hand and opened his mouth to stop Zhu Sheng: "When you see me, you don't even say hello?!" is so disgraced and busy going back to the house, could it be that the errand of the rich man Tang's account room has also been messed up by you?! ”

Qian rolled his eyes stunned, and looked at Zhu Sheng, who was unsuccessful and had nothing to do.

Zhu Sheng heard his daughter-in-law Qian speak, so he turned his head and faced Qian, he didn't even dare to raise his head, and responded timidly: "I don't know a few big characters, where can I do the job of a bookkeeper." ”

"If you don't know, you can learn! Not today, not tomorrow, as long as you are willing to learn, there will always be a time! You're just a 'no' word that pushes this position clean! You're so happy! Do you know that this is just the job of a bookkeeper in the rich man's house, but I begged the wife of the rich man Tang for a long time to get an errand. It's good that you don't know what to ask, and after a few words, you were sent back! You! How can you be worthy, my hard work! ”

Qian pinched his waist, stomped his feet, spoke and gritted his teeth, looking like he hated iron but not steel.

Zhu Shengqi retorted and explained: "I know that this is an errand that you have worked so hard to ask for me. But I really don't understand the things in the account books, even if I am lucky enough to become the account clerk of the rich man Tang this time, and hide this time, it won't be long before someone finds out that I don't know the fact that I don't know the accounts and can't read big characters. At that time, wouldn't it be even more humiliating to be dismissed again. ”

"Shame?! Are you embarrassed to say shame?! In order to get you a decent job, I wore out my mouth, opened my face, and begged people everywhere. Oh! You are a man with self-esteem, but I am a woman, and I show up all day long for your business, and I am surrounded by people in front and back, how much do I receive cold eyes? DID YOU KNOW?! ”

Zhu Sheng also knew in his heart that his daughter-in-law Qian was busy with Zhang Luo for her own affairs, and she worked hard, Zhu Sheng felt a little guilty, "I ...... Isn't there anything I can do about it? It's not that you don't know, I'm a farmer, I haven't gone to private school, I have never studied, except for my name, which can barely be written smoothly, the other words, either I don't know it, or it doesn't know me. I also want to do those decent errands, but my strength doesn't allow it! Instead of letting me be a bookkeeper who doesn't know anything, it's better to continue farming. ”

Qian gritted his teeth and sighed: "Just a few taels of ink from you, what can you do, it's not that I don't know!" But in the past two years, the harvest in the fields has not been good, and seeing that you and I are getting older, we can't do these hard jobs facing the loess and facing the sky all my life, right? You can't always live in a broken grass house, suffocate and aggrieved, and live a lifetime! You look at the Zhang sister-in-law of the Grange, her man, at first like us, was a banker, and her life was not rich, but in the past two years, you look at other men, entered the county, worked as an errand in the yamen, not only soared, but also took the wife and children of the family together, and lived a decent life. Look at our family again, since you received that broom star from Granny Yin, our family has plummeted, and life has become more and more difficult! Nothing goes well! Fortunately, I stopped the loss in time and sold the broom star into the Zuichun Building, and I could get a few dollars to recover some losses, otherwise, it is estimated that our family will be corrupted by the broom star sooner or later! ”

Qian said, and couldn't help but sprinkle the nameless fire in his heart for many years on the head of the good man who passed to her family back then.

Zhu Sheng couldn't listen to it, so he dissuaded the Qian family, "Well, what are you doing to blame someone else's child!" In the past few years, life has been tight, and the main reason is not because the weather is not beautiful and the harvest is not good. Of course, it's also to blame that I was confused for a while and owed gambling debts, so I had to listen to you and sell the child to pay off the gambling debts. Speaking of it now, I still feel ashamed of the child and the hidden mother-in-law who trusted me. I don't know what happened to that child! ”

Zhu Sheng sighed and regretted not being at the beginning.

"I heard that the broom star didn't stay in the drunken spring building for a long time, so he took advantage of the chaos to run? In this way, we don't owe her. After all, she has lived with us for so long, and in the end, it is not very normal for her to subsidize her living expenses! "The Qian family is a philistine, but he didn't think that there was anything wrong with selling the young Gongliang Er's to the Qinlou Chu Pavilion in order to make a living.

"In short, it's better not to blame a child for our family's affairs. The child has no father or mother, and he and his mother-in-law depend on each other, which is quite pitiful. I don't know where I'm wandering, or if I'm still alive or ...... Anyway, it's better to keep some morality, so as not to blow the tongue in the future when the wind is strong. ”

Zhu Sheng, who has always been a little afraid of guilt, was bold this time, and told his daughter-in-law Qian not to take the unsatisfactory life of the husband and wife on a poor child.

Seeing that Zhu Sheng dared to talk back, Qian jumped up and shouted, "You have a long ability, aren't you?!" How dare you speak to me like that! What else to say...... Let me keep my mouth shut?! Phew! She is a broom star, a lonely star, with a rough life, and she can't complain about others, that's her life! We kindly adopted her, but she turned us back and made us fall like this, I say a few words to her now, what? Shouldn't you say it?! It doesn't matter what you think, but it's just the way it is! I think, if Granny Yin hadn't kindly taken her in at the beginning, maybe Granny Yin wouldn't have worked so hard and saved up all her illness! ”

Zhu Sheng responded helplessly: "Why are you becoming more and more unreasonable!" Even if there is really anything bad in the child's life, it is not the child's original intention, and these things cannot all be blamed on one child. ”

Zhu Sheng was afraid that the Qian family would bite the bullet again and again, so he couldn't stop complaining, so he had to tell: "Don't worry, no matter what, I, Zhu Sheng, can't let my daughter-in-law starve and freeze!" Tomorrow, I will go up to the mountain with a few gentlemen in the village to chop firewood and sell it. ”

Qian Shi did not relent, and said mockingly: "As long as you go up the mountain to chop firewood and sell firewood, the little money you sell is not enough to stuff your teeth!" Counting on that money, I won't have to go with you to drink the northwest wind!" ”

When Zhu Sheng and his daughter-in-law Qian were half-red in the courtyard, a person walked in from outside the courtyard with a smile.

"Why did it get better two days ago, and it's been noisy again these days? I passed by outside the yard, and I listened to the two of you talk to me, and it was so lively, and when I came in, I saw that it was really you and my wife arguing! ”