Wen sighed: "It's not difficult, it's just that I saw some things, and I felt a little uncomfortable." ”

Xie Mulin was puzzled when he heard this: "What's going on?" The grandmothers, uncles, aunts, and aunts invited their mothers over to discuss important matters, but they didn't make it clear what the important matters were. Is this important thing that makes my mother feel uncomfortable? ”

Wen sighed again: "Several elders convened the female relatives of the clan to discuss the matter, in fact...... It's for the sister-in-law of the thirteenth room. She's been sick for a long time, and she doesn't know if she'll survive this year. ”

"Thirteen rooms?" Xie Mulin was stunned for a moment, and quickly reacted. The thirteenth room of the Xie clan, which is the side branch of the side branch, seems to be the concubine born to a certain concubine on the ancestor of the eight houses, and the branch established after the family is separated, the population is thin, and the family background is also very average. Usually the affairs of the sect, the second room, the third room, or even the fourth and fifth rooms, his family will not participate in it, because the blood relationship is too far away.

Xie Mulin had never seen anyone from the Thirteenth Room, and had only heard her say it when the Wen clan introduced the clan. The brick-burning kiln in Xie Jiajiao is the property of the thirteen houses.

Wen said with a sad face: "The population of the thirteenth room is very small, and now there is only one family left, and the child in charge is called Xie Jinhua, who is the same generation as your brothers and sisters, but he is only in his twenties." When he was still there, he was actually a little steward in the workshop of the old lady of our family, and he did a good job. But the old lady suddenly sold the middle school property that year, and left Huyin County with the old man and me silently, which caused people to lose their jobs. ”

Xie Jinhua's father's family background was average, and after losing the errand of the Xie family's three-room workshop, he could only find another job, so he went to the grange of another large family in the county to be a supervisor, and brought his wife over, leaving his young son to study in the clan, and only one old servant helped take care of it. His house is actually a branch of the eighth room, so the husband and wife of the eighth room at that time would take care of Xie Jinhua a little.

When Xie Pu finally had the ability to return to the clan to make up for the losses of the clan, Xie Jinhua's father had signed a ten-year agreement with the new owner and had no way to get out, so Xie Pu paid him a sum of silver, which was regarded as compensation for him.

Although Xie Jinhua's father was unable to leave his new employer, he relied on the money to buy some land and build a new house for his family, and the family's situation has greatly improved. Even Xie Jinhua had two more servants waiting for him. His parents also plan to train him to study well, enter the academy in the future, take the imperial examination, and completely change the court.

Who knew that eight years ago, when Xie Jinhua's father was building an embankment on his employer's grange to prevent flooding, he fell headlong into the flood, and his body was found on a river beach more than ten miles away a few days later. His mother also soaked in the water for more than an hour, and although she saved her life, she was left with the root of the disease. The employer had already suffered heavy losses, his family was ruined, and he could not afford to pay the bereavement money. Xie Jinhua's family's newly bought fields and newly built houses were all destroyed in the flood, and the family, which was originally called well-off, became abject poor in an instant. The fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy still has to pay for his mother's medical expenses, and his fiancée, who was originally scheduled, also broke the contract and broke the marriage. He had to abandon school and go home to support the lintel.

At that time, because he heard about the past of Xie Zehu, the old lady of the third room, who burned bricks by himself when he built a house in the past, he had the idea of running a brick kiln. So the Zongfang, the second room, the eighth room, and the third room Xie Pu each funded a sum of money to help him build a kiln in Xie Jiajiao to burn bricks, which can be regarded as having an industry. After a few years, his family gradually recovered, Xie Jinhua also married a wife and had children, and the family lived happily.

Since last winter, his mother's old illness has returned. In order to treat her, Xie Jinhua almost went bankrupt, and he couldn't be distracted to run the brick kiln business, so that the income of the brick kiln became worse and worse. Seeing that the family was about to return to extreme poverty, his widowed mother had the idea of suicide, and quietly hanged herself in the middle of the night, but was found and stopped by her little grandson who got up at night, which alarmed the whole family. After Xie Jinhua hugged his widowed mother and cried, he completely let go of all his worries and self-esteem, and went to the eighth room for help.

Wen sighed and said to his daughter: "When this happened, we had just come back, busy settling the whole family, and we had to worry about the old lady recuperating in the old house, where could we take care of the movements of the side branches?" I just heard about it today, and I feel really uncomfortable. I have known that sister-in-law for many years, and when I was a child, I learned to weave, and she even instructed me. She was only a few years older than me, but now that she looked at it, her hair was gray, and she was a little older than the old lady. Speaking of which, this is also the old lady's ...... in the past."

If it weren't for Mrs. Xie's sudden change of output and leaving, Xie Jinhua's father would not have gone out to find a job in order to make a living, and naturally he would not have died in someone else's grange when the flood came. Xie Jinhua may still be studying, and he has become famous, and he still has the opportunity to make a name for himself. His mother would not have become ill due to the recurrence of old diseases and overwork, and she would be old and haggard, and she would be seriously ill and dying.

The Wen clan had never witnessed the harm caused to the Xie clan by what Old Lady Xie had done in the past, so how could he feel better in his heart?

Xie Mulin also felt sour when he heard it, remembering that Mrs. Xie had done it again today, and she really wanted to scold. She said to Wen's with a straight face: "Since it is the old lady who harms others, we can't stand idly by." Whether it is to fund his family's medicine money or help his family re-operate the industry, it can help his family's predicament. Today, those elders invited their mothers over for this purpose, right? ”

Wen sighed: "The elders didn't think that only our family would contribute money, but just said that everyone would contribute some silver to help the clan get out of the predicament." They asked me to follow a share, and it would be good to have ten taels of silver, but I could talk to the master to see if I could let Jinhua's child enter our family's property to do things. I felt that ten taels of silver was not enough, so I added another ten taels, and I also wanted to send a few precious medicinal materials collected at home, if it could help the thirteenth sister-in-law's condition, I could also feel at ease. As for letting Jinhua come to our house to do things...... He has to take care of his mother now, where can he leave home? His son is still young, far from the age to support the portal. ”

Xie Mulin instantly thought of the cement workshop he had just conceived: "Let's discuss this matter slowly." Let's make up a sum of medical expenses first, and ask Mr. Du to diagnose the pulse of that uncle? ”

Wen smiled bitterly: "Old Man Du is the in-law of our Xie family, and Jinhua's family background was also solid in the past, so how could he not invite him to come to diagnose his wife?" But the thirteenth sister-in-law's illness is difficult to cure, so she can only slowly recuperate, and now she has to eat a single ginseng soup. It was the cost of this soup that made Jinhua's family unable to make ends meet. We also have a few ginseng sticks at home, so let's send one over for the thirteenth sister-in-law to eat, and then look at it when it's finished. ”

Xie Mulin nodded, let Wen take the idea, and then talked about the changes in Mrs. Xie's condition, the results of the follow-up examination, etc., and finally she asked Wen: "The old lady's temperament can't restrain herself at all, let her go there alone, and the people can't do anything about her, how can her illness get better?" So I thought, go to stay with her for a while, control her to eat and drink three meals, and watch her take medicine to recuperate. As long as she can get better as soon as possible, we can breathe a sigh of relief in the future, whether she goes back to Jinling City to live or moves to Songjiang or something. ”

"This ......" Wen hesitated a little, she felt that it was her responsibility to serve the sick, and there was no reason to let her young daughter come forward. She said to her daughter, "I'd better go." I am the daughter-in-law of the old lady, and she is sick, and I can't avoid it. ”

Xie Mulin hurriedly persuaded him, but he heard the voice of his eldest brother Xie Xianzhi behind him: "It's better for me to go." I am the eldest grandson of the old lady, and I want to serve the old lady, so I should come forward, how can I ask my sister to suffer this for me?! ”

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