Chapter Seventy-One: Help Send Away
Pumpkin pursed his lips and smiled, this scene is really interesting, the person who roared fiercely last night is now completely gone.
"Mother, my hands are uncomfortable, and I have taken out several pieces of garbage, can I not pour it tomorrow."
Sister-in-law Liu's daughter began to shout, and Sister-in-law Liu snorted unceremoniously, "If you don't want to work, get out of the village, if you want to get married, you can go and ask for food!" ”
"I, I'll just take out the trash." Liu's sister-in-law's daughter carried two bags of garbage on her back, and looked at Zhang Chuchu with pitiful eyes from time to time.
"This sister often scolds me for being a big-bellied fat woman, and she took the lead in calling me ugly last night, why do you look at me like this now, I won't become mine if I look at it again."
"Sister, she's just a villain, I want to pretend to be pitiful and let you help talk, slightly~"
Pumpkin pulled Zhang Chuchu into the house, and as soon as they left, the two catchers came over with Yuehua, and Liu's sister-in-law was sharp-eyed and deliberately laughed.
"Yo~ Isn't this the child daughter-in-law rescued by the Zhang family? What's wrong? Was he bullied or beaten by Zhang's family? ”
She had a loud voice, several people came over to see, and the two catchers took the opportunity to ask where the Zhang family was, and they saw this person at the entrance of the town when they went out of the street in the morning, and they were not in good spirits, and they shouted Peach Blossom Village, and they dragged it over.
"The Zhang family is a big family in our village, you see, the garbage we take out is theirs, and they return it."
"Smack!" Sister-in-law Liu opened her mouth to ridicule, and was slapped a few times by her man, so she didn't dare to speak.
"Two officials, this is my mother-in-law, the Zhang family went back to the village last night, she entangled half of the village to grab things, and scolded other people's granddaughters, so she was punished for dumping the garbage in the whole village, don't listen to her."
"This eldest brother, can you take us to Zhang's house to ask, the girl here is gone, someone has to take care of her, she looks like she is thirteen or fourteen years old."
"This is the child daughter-in-law bought by the Li family, which family has had a hard time these years, the Zhang family saw that she was pitiful and ransomed her, I don't know why, she lived in the Zhang family."
Liu's sister-in-law's man pointed in the direction of Zhang's house, and the two catchers dragged Yuehua over, Zhang Chuchu asked Pumpkin to call someone, and she waited at the door.
"Little sister, this is the Zhang family, right?" The two catchers saw Zhang Chuchu and asked casually.
"Yes, this is Sister Yuehua, we thought she had gone home."
"Yo, I really know, let's ask something, are you at home?"
"Yes, grandma, they're here, it's too cold outside, the two officials come into the house and talk."
"Yes, I know how to sympathize with people at such a young age, let's go into the house."
The two caught quickly and dragged the moon flower in, this woman didn't know what she had eaten, she didn't know what she had eaten, she looked at a few taels of meat, it was quite heavy, and she didn't know if she was wearing thick clothes.
Wu Qingguo poured tea and greeted people, and when the two of them were about to drink hot tea, they talked around the stove. The two catchers saw that the Zhang family had three small points, a big boy and an old woman, and it was immediately strange.
"Auntie, there are no men in your family?"
"Yes, my youngest son looks like a teenager, and he is seventeen years old. The eldest son died last year, and the eldest daughter-in-law took the eldest granddaughter to remarry, leaving me and the younger granddaughter, these two children are so pitiful, our family has a stutter, and we adopt it temporarily. ”
"Oh, it seems that you are a kind family, I heard from the people in the village just now, this girl has something to do with your family?"
"Her name is Yuehua, and she is the daughter of the Su family in Shangou Village, and we kindly helped her redeem herself, but she said that her family was poor and would not go back."
Wu Qingguo told all the things that happened when she saw Yuehua, including how she looked pitiful, to the time she lived in Zhang's house, and the two of them quickly asked why Yuehua ran to the town, and Wu Qingguo sighed directly.
"It's because Fang Fu invited our family to see the lanterns, and we raised them when we saw her pitiful, our family is also poor, where can we support so many people, or the eldest brother's family can live in a brick.
However, I cheekily went to ask Fang Fu to see if I could accept her as a maid, she was not high-spirited, we could only go to a few people to see the lanterns, and left as soon as dawn, she chased after her, saying that she wanted to take a beautiful carriage, we are from the village, Fang Fu kindly invited, where can I lose my courtesy. ”
The two catchers began to wonder, Fang Mansion was a big family in the town, how could they ask the people of Shanye to go to the mansion. Wu Qingguo tried to be as simple as possible, and the two of them quickly understood.
After Zhang Daqi and Lin Chunhua heard about it, they hurriedly got dressed and came down, and the people in the village had a lot of mouths, and it was passed to the ears of the pillars, and they thought that they were in trouble by beating their daughters-in-law, so they went to the door of Zhang's house to eavesdrop with trepidation.
"Two officials, we are all serious people, we spent money to redeem Yuehua, she relied on our family, I was going to send it away after the New Year, but yesterday she ran out, we thought we would go home and leave it."
Lin Chunhua entered the house and told the matter first, and she didn't know where Yuehua went, if something bad happened, don't want to put the charge on their backs, it's enough to be benevolent and righteous.
Zhang Chuchu saw that there were more people in the family, so he pulled Pumpkin and Wang Tingjian into the house to make room for the adults.
The two catchers hurriedly asked them to sit down, and it was not a big deal, "Don't be nervous, everyone, we met someone when we were patrolling the street, and since we found someone, you can take them in for the time being." ”
"Official, can we not take it in, when the weather is good, we want to do some business, such a person, where do we dare to accept it, if she is busy doing things, she suddenly runs to cause trouble again, won't we have to suffer."
"Well, who's in her house?"
"Yes, my father and mother are here, and there are younger brothers and sisters, we are old, our granddaughters are young, and my youngest son is a scholar, and he doesn't have much strength. Besides, if he is sent home, I guess the villagers will gossip about us again. ”
The two catchers took a look, and could only think that they were unlucky and sent to the ravine village, Wu Qingguo also knew some etiquette, and asked them if they wanted some fees, the two catchers were also honest, they were all doing things for the people, and they didn't need money, but Wu Qingguo still gave them ten cents to drink tea.
"The family is poor, just buy less noodles when we do business, we will set up a noodle stall at the entrance of East Fourth Street, and the officials will come to cheer if they have time."
"Okay, does she have any luggage?" The two catchers were embarrassed, and they collected the tea money for nothing.
"No, when she was kicked out of the Li family, the pillar said that she was slow to do things, and the tattered baggage she brought was winter clothes, and she was taken away by her father and mother when she returned home, and our sister-in-law gave her a piece of clothing made when the girl was still at home, so that she could spend the winter."
"Oh, I see, if you don't need anyone at home in the future, or if the other party is not honest, don't meddle in your affairs, it's not easy to eat well these days."