Among the crumbs, in addition to the five taels of silver sold by the brothers and sisters, there were also two silver ingots of ten taels, as well as scattered pieces of silver, adding up, there were also several taels of silver.

Gu Ming's gaze was attracted by the familiar jewelry in the fragments of the crockpot: "This ...... Isn't this my mother's hairpin and bracelet? ”

"Mine! All the jewelry is mine! Don't move!! Liu, who was lying on the kang, wanted to turn over and grab it, but he couldn't move, he was so anxious that he blushed and his neck was thick, and he let out an anxious roar.

Gu Ming picked up those jewelry one by one, lovingly brushed off the dust on them, and stroked them gently. After a long time, he looked up at Gu Qiao, his eyes were full of disappointment and sadness: "This is my mother's favorite jewelry, and I am usually reluctant to take it out and wear it." for it was given to her by the young lady of her former master's house. The mother said that these jewelry will be used as a dowry for her sister in the future. Didn't you say that in order to get medicine for your sister's medical treatment, all these jewelry were lost? ”

Without allowing Gu Qiao to speak, he staggered back a few steps, tears flashing in his eyes: "Yes, it's me who is too stupid!" Since you can connive at the evil lady of the Liu family who doesn't give her sister food, and watch her throw her sister into the Evil Wolf Valley, how can you be willing to pay for her treatment? What are the pills...... My sister just took those medicines to aggravate her condition, and she couldn't even get off the kang, right? ”

"Ming'er, I ......" Gu Qiao said with difficulty, wanting to explain, but unable to explain.

"How can you be so ruthless!" Gu Ming yelled frantically at the two of them, "Dad! Not to mention his own daughter, even a distant relative in the clan has no food to eat and no money to treat the disease, you can give him a bowl of rice and borrow him some silver to catch medicine, why can you bear to watch your daughter starve to death and die of illness when it comes to your own daughter? ! ”

"It was a year of severe disasters, the family was so poor that they couldn't open the pot, and the family couldn't survive, so they had to give up the girls in the family. But what about you? You take your mother's jewelry, and spend the money your mother has left behind, but you want to harm her daughter. You touch your conscience, who are you worth? Gu Ming picked up the silver and copper plates on the ground and smashed them heavily on Gu Qiao and his wife, shouting hysterically.

"Ye'er, she's not ......" As soon as the words reached his mouth, Gu Qiao swallowed again. At the beginning, the master's family of the Miao family suffered hardship, so they were left alone. Last time, when he went to town, someone seemed to be looking into the child's affairs. If it is made public, if someone is held accountable, he, and his family, may be implicated. No, this secret must not be known to the second person!

The Liu family on the kang shouted at the top of his voice: "Nonsense, all this silver is mine, and all those jewels are mine." You robbers, put your stuff down for me!! ”

"Shut up!" Gu Ming stared at Liu with a hateful gaze, and sneered, "Yours? When you got married, in addition to a pair of torn clothes, you only brought Da Zhuang's oil bottle. Tell me, in just four years, how did you save more than 20 taels of silver, and these jewels worth 50 taels? Could it be that silver fell from the sky and fell on your Liu family's head? ”

"All this money was earned by me and your father who were thrifty and tired. Your father bought the jewelry for me, don't believe it...... You ask your dad. Master, you say something! Liu was so anxious that he almost fell off the kang.

Gu Ming grabbed the jewelry left by her mother, and said to Gu Mo on the side: "Uncle Jiu, your family has more mountains than mine, and you are more capable than my father, let me ask you, how much silver can you have left in a year?" ”

Gu Mo glanced at Gu Qiao, who didn't dare to look at his son, and sighed and said, "Our mountainous land is barren, and a year's output is not enough for the family to eat." Coupled with the money from picking up mountain goods and selling them, it is already good to live with a few hundred dollars left. A hunting expert like Zhang Orion may not be able to leave ten taels of silver in a year......"

"Just because you don't have any money left doesn't mean others can't have left! You don't know what other people's homes are like, don't chew your tongue! There will be retribution!! Liu Shi glared at Gu Qiao with a cannibalistic gaze.

Seeing the man being scolded, Aunt Jiu was unhappy: "You are the one who deserves retribution!" Abusing the children in the front room and stealing other people's money has no intention of repenting at all. God wants to split, and I will split you first, you black-hearted person! ”

This hairpin and bracelet were worn once by the Miao family when they participated in the patriarch's fiftieth birthday, and they were coveted by many women at that time. Aunt Nine has naturally seen it.

"You say that you earned the money, tell me, what did you earn?" Gu Ming asked with a sneer.

"I ...... I...... In charge, you just watched me being bullied by outsiders, but you said something! Liu Shi turned his gaze to Gu Qiao for help.

Gu Qiao looked at the grief-stricken Gu Ming with a complicated gaze, and Gu Ye with a calm face - these two children have completely separated from themselves, and their own lives still have to go on. Looking at his youngest son hiding outside, Gu Qiao suppressed a trace of guilt in his heart and said:

"The silver was earned when I was the second shopkeeper in Yancheng. When I returned to the village with Miao, I brought 50 taels of silver, and after building a house and buying property, there were still more than 30 taels left. Your sister was weak when she was young, and she was often sick, and it took a lot of money to treat her...... As for the jewelry......"

"These jewels were left by the Miao family to the two children, I can testify!" The patriarch of the Gu family, who was supported by his eldest son, walked in from the outside.

Gu Qiao beat Liu's head to the point of bleeding, and Da Zhuang was afraid that his mother would be beaten up, so he ran to the patriarch's house for help. What Gu Qiao and the Liu family did, the patriarch couldn't see it for a long time. This time, I didn't want to come over, and I was afraid of causing trouble, so I dragged it over at this time.

The patriarch listened to the conversation in the house, and he couldn't listen to it anymore outside, so he pushed the door in.

"Miao once dragged his seriously ill body to my house for me to testify. How the property she left behind was written on a piece of paper, which I brought with me, and on which she pressed her fingerprints. Gu Qiao, come and see! You don't think I'm going to lie to you, do you? The patriarch took a piece of paper from his son's hand and handed it to Gu Qiao's hand.

Gu Qiao took it and saw that it was Miao's handwriting. It lists all the property of the family at that time: thirty-two taels of silver, a magpie Dengmei silver hairpin, a pair of rich bracelets, and a number of silver ear ornaments...... also made a special statement that the jewelry was a dowry left for Gu Ye'er.

Liu couldn't move, the expression on his face was as if he was about to eat people, and said hideously: "Gu Ming and Gu Ye'er have already gone out, they are not from our family, and these properties have nothing to do with them!" ”

The old patriarch glanced at her with disdain and said, "No matter who the Gu Ming brothers and sisters pass on, they are all the biological flesh and blood of the Miao family. What people leave behind, if they don't give it to their children, do they leave it to outsiders? His gaze swept over the staring Da Zhuang, and a sarcastic smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Gu Ming rubbed the silver hairpin with a slightly deformed tip. When he was a child, he was very naughty, and quietly took his mother's hairpin and carved words on the stone. When the mother saw the deformed hairpin, she just patted his fleshy little buttocks lightly and whispered a few words of reproach. In my memory, my mother is the most beautiful, the most gentle, and the most loving mother of my children. It's a pity that good people don't live long......

"Patriarch Grandpa, the silver left by my mother will be left to Uncle Seven, after all, they are husband and wife." Gu Qiao's words just now completely broke Gu Ming's heart. In the future, Gu Qiao was just a distant uncle of him and his sister, and that's it.

"However, these jewels were left by my mother to my sister. Although it is not valuable, it is the only thought left to us by my mother, and we must take it!! Gu Ming's tone was extremely resolute.

The old patriarch looked at Gu Qiao and asked in a deep voice, "Old Seven, do you have anything else to say?" ”

Although he was extremely reluctant, Gu Qiao was not embarrassed, and he didn't care about anything for money: "Jewelry, you ...... take it"

Liu Shi felt as if he had been cut off, and wailed: "The owner, those jewelry will be left to Xiaozhuang's daughter-in-law in the future, and they can't be taken away!" You robbers, bullies......"

"Gu Qiao, you take care of your family's troublemaker. If something happens again, don't blame me, the uncle of the clan, for being unsympathetic! The old patriarch glanced at Gu Qiao in disappointment.

At first, I was really blind and thought he was the most prominent in the clan. Look at it now, if it weren't for Miao's presence, this old seven would be a mud that can't support the wall. I heard that he has recently been very close to a few scoundrels in the village, playing money, bragging, and not doing his job. Alas! After Miao left, Lao Qi was also wasted!

No matter how Liu cried, Gu Ming still took away those jewelry. Gu Qiao regretted it incomparably, he knew that this was the case, and Liu's wound was casually wrapped in grass and wood ash. Now it's okay, a few dozen taels of silver have flew. It's all to blame on this mother-in-law, she was injured at the wrong time. Gu Qiao's dislike for the Liu family deepened a little.

Out of the gate of Gu Qiao's house, the old patriarch looked at the silent Gu Ye, pondered for a moment, and said, "Ye'er girl, your mother still has something left with me, and specially told me to hand it over to you at the right time." Now, I'll leave it to you, right? ”

Gu Ye looked at the old patriarch with wide curious eyes, and wondered in his heart: What kind of good thing is it that my mother asked the old patriarch to keep it so solemnly?

The three grandparents came to the old patriarch's house together. The old patriarch took out a box from under the cage and opened the lock with a key, revealing a slightly faded red satin swaddling cloth. The old patriarch took out the swaddling clothes, and the swaddling clothes were wrapped in a crystal smooth jade lock.

The jade lock is the best mutton fat warm jade, the texture is delicate, there is no slightest flaw, the carving is exquisite, the front is carved with the words "long life and 100 years old" in the seal book, and the corner of the auspicious pattern on the back is engraved with the word "treasure". At first glance, it is a long-lived lock with a baby, but this long-lived jade lock, even Gu Ye, who only knows a little about jade, can see its high value at a glance.