Mrs. Donald pulled at her wife's clothes irritably, and roared in shock, "A tael of silver?!" They didn't drown, so what do they want for a tael of silver?! The eldest daughter-in-law wants silver to have a baby, and the two grandchildren want silver to go to the county private school, and they have just paid their taxes, and you want me to take a tael of silver from home now?! Do you want the whole family to drink the northwest wind?! ”

The family is in charge of the money, and the old man Tang is only in charge of farming. But now it is a matter related to the reputation of the entire Tang family, if you don't take the money out to settle it, probably the family and the village will not be able to accommodate the Tang family.

The old man was already in a bad mood because of this farce, and when he saw that the old lady refused to give money in public, and also revealed the embarrassment of having no money at home, his face was even more unbearable, and he said angrily: "There is money, there is money in the family!" ”

Mrs. Tang was not afraid of Old Man Tang, she opened her mouth and shouted, and spit Xingzi sprayed Old Man Tang in the face: "No money!" I say no money is no money! ”

The villagers couldn't help but talk about it, and they became more and more sympathetic to the two children in the Tang family's four rooms.

"One or two pieces of silver is not much for the old Tang family, right? Can't take it out? ”

"It is said that Mrs. Tang slammed the door, and the two little girls almost drowned, it seems that they really don't care about them."

"Dr. Yang will charge three dollars for the consultation fee alone, and at least two taels of silver for the medicine. What can you do with these two pieces of silver? ”

When Old Man Tang heard the villagers' discussions, he felt even more disgraced, and hurriedly said: "Even if you don't have any money for the time being after paying taxes, you can go to the county town to sell some dry goods." ”

Mrs. Donald: "Phew! The money from the sale of dry goods is for the grandson to go to a private school, so no one should use the idea of this money! ”

Song Ming has been married into the Tang family for many years, and she is clear about Mrs. Tang's stinginess, but she can't let her son be stigmatized as murdering his cousin. She looked at the two sisters in the fourth room who were skinny, and thought of their previous submissive and unassertive appearance, so she suggested: "Father, mother, the two girls are just frightened and not injured, seeing that they fall into the water, it is better to give them the chickens at home to make up for their bodies, so as to save them from taking the silver money outside and being cheated." ”

That's a wonderful thing to say.

I wasn't injured but was frightened, so I naturally didn't need to see a doctor. First, the compensation has become affordable for the Tang family, and secondly, it seems that Tang Zhuangyuan's mistakes are not so big.

As soon as Old Man Tang heard this, he immediately instructed the third daughter-in-law hiding behind the crowd: "Third daughter-in-law, quickly, you go to the chicken pen to catch two chickens and send them to the fourth room!" Then he said to the onlookers, "Folks, today's incident is all a misunderstanding, and it just so happens that Zhao Lizheng is also here, so please be a witness, it was the young lady who slid down the mountain by herself." This matter has passed like this, and I hope you don't mention it again in the future! ”

In his opinion, the two girls in the four rooms don't know one big word, and they even go to the county seat only a handful of times. Even if Tang and Rou now categorically say that they want to go to the county government to file a complaint, as long as the villagers don't help them write the complaint, they won't be able to turn the sky upside down. When they went to the county seat to let others write, they couldn't afford it.

"You're about to drown people, you don't pay a tael of silver, and you still want to use two chickens to prevaricate?" Tang Yourou sneered, his angry gaze swept over the Tang family, and finally fell on Mrs. Tang, "I want ten taels of silver!" ”

"Ten taels of silver?!!

Including Tang Youniang, all the people present gasped.

"The female doll has a lot of tone!"

"Ten taels of silver can build a room!"

"Sister......" Tang Youniang's little face was worried, and her hands holding Tang and Rou were trembling.

Tang and Rou looked unusually calm and comforted their sister: "Don't worry, this is what we deserve." ”

"You shameless money-loser, you know how to ask your family for money! You've only drunk a few sips of river water, and you're not drowning! The family can't get a penny out now, do you want to rob your eldest aunt of the money for the fetus, or do you want to rob the second uncle's medicine money for broken legs? Don't think we're going to give you your brother's money for his education! The Tang family raised you so big, just raised a white-eyed wolf, ten taels of silver, why don't you go to the Qinglou to sell?! Mrs. Tang really jumped like thunder, pointed at Tang Yourou's nose and scolded.

Where is there a place to let my granddaughter go to the Qinglou to sell?

"Ahem, Mrs. Donald, this is inappropriate, inappropriate." Zhao Lizheng finally stood up and said to Tang and Rou, "Rou girl, I have to come out and say a fair word." Neither you nor the young lady were injured, and it would be too much to ask for ten taels of silver. ”

Tang Yourou immediately retorted, "What if it's a misfortune that the young lady fell off the mountain and died on the stone? It's our fate that we're okay, and it's true that he did evil. went to the county office, and the county lord had to stand on our side! Ten taels of silver is not expensive at all for his career, but if the Tang family is not even willing to bear this amount of silver......" She raised her head with her chest up, a sneer rose at the corner of her mouth, and said her ultimate goal, "Then it's better to divide the four rooms and live alone." ”

Since the Tang family shirked for a tael of silver, she didn't say a word, looking at their ugliness coldly.

When I heard Song Ming say that I would compensate the two chickens, my heart was even more cold.

This mountain village has a serious patriarchal mentality, and when the boy is raised, he can pass on the lineage, take the talent test, and farm and work, while the girl will be the daughter-in-law of someone else's family in the future, and she will lose money. A few years ago, there was a famine due to the locust plague, and if it wasn't for the mother desperately protecting the young mother, my sister would have been exchanged and eaten by Mrs. Tang at that time.

Now, even if the silver is obtained, Mrs. Tang will only enslave the four rooms even more and exploit the money from them.

In this case, it is better to divide the family.

Old man Tang was furious: "What nonsense are you talking about!? You want to break up at a young age?! You unfilial girl, how dare you ......"

"Grandpa!" Tang and Rou choked, "I really didn't dare!" I, Tang and Rou, have lived in this world for fourteen years, and I used to be kind every day, but when I was wronged, I would only knock out my front teeth and swallow blood, and I was slandered by you as a disaster star, and all the wrong things in my family were pushed on me! But this time, Tang Zhuangyuan didn't rob me and my sister of vegetable cakes and bean porridge, nor did he throw stones when we were feeding the pigs! Rather, it is to push the young lady down the mountain, is this still a trivial matter?! Since the Tang family is unwilling to bear this money, it is better to divide the four rooms, the four rooms should have the land, the four rooms can be noted, we just need the broken house to let us live! Please stop harassing us with this little bully, and grandma don't come to enslave us again! In the future, we will go to the mountains to pick what we eat, and we will pick up linen and weave cloth by ourselves, and any birth, old age, sickness and death has nothing to do with you, even if we die, our neighbors will throw us into the mountains with a straw mat! Naturally, you don't have to lose this money! ”

Her words echoed through the valley, echoing and reverberating.

For a moment, no one said a word.

Tang Yourou felt that the young lady's whole body was trembling, and held her hand hard, giving her strength.

His words must have frightened my sister a lot.

However, in the midst of the silence, the little young lady broke the silence with a childish voice, timidly, with a trill: "The young lady listens to her sister, and Dou'er must also listen to her sister!" We split up! ”

Tang and Rou couldn't help but raise the corners of their mouths.

This sister, she likes!