Chapter 30: Good Intentions Are Calculated
Fan Si was still shouting and threatening: "I've poured all the oil." No more dead ends! ”
Ling Xiu'er pulled the door latch open, and the people outside surrounded her.
Fan Si saw that the person who opened the door turned out to be a petite lady, her eyes were full of teasing, "Yo, little lady, it was your man who asked you to serve Uncle Ben?" ”
Ling Xiu'er didn't want to talk nonsense with him, and frowned: "Since you are a relative of the county lord, you must also know that my husband is appreciated by the champion Lang, and it can be regarded as a bit of affection, so there should be room for negotiation in this matter?" ”
Fan Si looked displeased, he couldn't imagine that the Li family still had such a backstage, and the name of Zhuang Yuanlang even gave him some face from his brother-in-law.
"In this case, I naturally want to sell face to Zhuangyuanlang, but the Li family owes me money, and it is natural to repay the debt. If you make up the money you owe me earlier, I won't make any more trouble, otherwise ......" Fan Si looked Ling Xiu'er up and down with bad intentions, "Where Li Zhao is hiding, I will burn the fire!" ”
Li cried beside him: "You are talking nonsense, we don't owe you any money at all!" ”
Fan Si didn't care: "In this way, if you can get together thirty taels of silver for me within three days, this matter will end here." ”
"Thirty taels?" Ling Xiu'er was taken aback: "This is not a small amount!" ”
Fan Si's face showed fierceness: "If you can't make it up, then don't blame me for burning down your Cao family's house." After speaking, he took a group of younger brothers and left.
Fan Si's scoundrel Ling Xiu'er had also heard of it, but now he didn't take off his arms and legs, so he turned to Li Shi and said, "You also heard it, let's get together 30 taels and send it to him as soon as possible." ”
"Even if they sold me, I don't have the thirty taels." Li wiped his tears and straightened the folds of his hairpin skirt: "Xiu'er, you are a good person to the end, help your sister-in-law get the 30 taels together, anyway, you have such a good relationship with Zhuang Yuanlang now, this money is not difficult for you." ”
Ling Xiu'er was angry: "How can you be so shameless? Who just begged me to help you! Mother-in-law, you can also say something! ”
Li's face is not afraid of boiling water: "Anyway, I don't want money, I want to die, it's a big deal that he burned us all with a fire, and also burned your Cao family's house, and our family will reunite in the next life." ”
Mrs. Wang also had a headache: "Xiu'er, our house can't be burned, you have to quickly make up the money." ”
It's useless to regret that you're soft-hearted now, if Cao Yu knew that she was reckless and soft-hearted, she would definitely be angry with her!
Why is she so stupid, Xianggong is still studying in the academy. She can't let such a thing distract him, and she should take responsibility for the mistakes she made.
Next to him, Li Zhao also opened his mouth, "The matter was negotiated by your Ling Xiu'er, and the money naturally has to be returned by your Ling Xiu'er!" ”
In the face of these unreasonable relatives, Ling Xiu'er couldn't even say anything to refute. That night, Ling Xiu'er worked overtime, stayed up all night and saw forty or fifty hairpins in the basket, and felt difficult, and she was still far from getting together thirty taels.
Seeing the sun rising outside, Ling Xiu'er rubbed her tired eyes and cheered up to go to the county school to deliver food.
Cao Yu saw Ling Xiu'er's eyes surrounded by black green, and pinched her face distressedly: "You, you always don't grow meat, you should eat more and work less, didn't you sleep well last night?" ”
"It's okay, you can worry about your studies, I can eat and sleep." Ling Xiu'er gave Cao Yu a relieved smile and rushed to the morning market with a basket full of hairpins.
Xu spent a lot of blood making hairpins, and Ling Xiu'er was dizzy along the way, and finally came to the morning market to sell for a while, and then her back was sweating and her legs were weak.
Ling Xiu'er held her head, only to feel that her head was getting heavier and heavier, and her eyes were black, so she fell down.
"Oh no, someone fainted!"
Sun, who had returned from the Buddha's return, was walking home, when suddenly Bihe beside him pointed to a place and said, "Madam, it seems that someone has fainted over there." ”
Sun was born with a virtuous heart, and walked over with Bihe, and found that the basket on the ground was very familiar, and he sighed in his heart, isn't this Ling Xiu'er's flower basket?
Bihe glanced at the crowd and exclaimed, "Madam, it's Miss Xiu'er." ”
"Xiu'er? Here's what's going on! ”
Zhang Ze's home.
Zhang Ze took a break today, and when he saw his mother coming back with an uncertain expression, he hurriedly asked, "Mother, what's wrong?" ”
Sun didn't care about explaining, and hurriedly said: "Ze'er, you go and ask for a doctor, Xiu'er fainted on the street." ”
Zhang Ze was taken aback: "She fainted?" It doesn't matter! Realizing his gaffe, he immediately changed his words, "I'll go and ask for a doctor." After inviting the doctor, Zhang Ze didn't forget to let Cao Yu be informed.
As soon as Cao Yu heard that Ling Xiu'er had an accident, she hurriedly ran to Zhang's mansion and saw Ling Xiu'er lying on the bed. Holding her cold little hand, Cao Yu blamed herself for being useless.
Sun comforted on the side, "Don't worry, I've already asked the doctor to take a look, and I fainted due to lack of qi and blood." This kid goes out early in the morning to sell flowers, and he must be overworked......"
Cao Yu was still puzzled why Ling Xiu'er was so good that she was lacking in qi and blood, until she saw half of the buds left in the flower basket, and instantly understood everything.
He endured the mixed tastes in his heart and saluted Sun: "Thank you Mrs. Zhang for your great kindness, Cao is grateful." ”
Sun Shi waved his hand and sighed, "It's not in the way, how much do you care about Miss Xiu'er, I have ginseng and deer antler here, what do you need, just ask." ”
Sending Sun away, Cao Yu sat in front of Ling Xiu'er's bed, looked at her sleeping, and painted her appearance with her eyes.
The little face with a big slap was pale and distressing, and he couldn't remember how many times she had been injured because of him, as if she hadn't had a good life since marrying him.
His heart was pulled by self-blame, and it was very sour.
Ling Xiu'er's eyelids moved slightly, and when she opened her eyes, she saw Cao Yu staring at her, and there was so much emotion in her eyes that she couldn't dissolve.
"Xianggong ......"
"You still know that I am your father-in-law, why do you want to hide it from me?" Cao Yu's voice deliberately cooled.
"I ......" Ling Xiu'er wanted to speak weakly, lowered her eyes and didn't dare to look at him, "It's all my fault, so that Xianggong is worried about ......"
But no matter what Ling Xiu'er said, Cao Yu didn't speak or look at her. She couldn't help but be a little flustered, she was most afraid that the Xiang Guild would be angry with him and almost begged: "Don't be angry with me, okay?" It's all my bad ......."
Ling Xiu'er pulled the corner of his clothes and shook it gently, her voice with a hint of crying because of panic.
Then he fell into a warm embrace, Cao Yu seemed to embed her into his body, and said softly: "Xianggong is not angry with you, but angry with himself, angry with me and I didn't take good care of you, and always let you get hurt." ”
"I didn't mean to hide it from you, it was I who foolishly believed the Li family's nonsense. Now Fan Si threatens us to burn down our house if we don't get together thirty taels for him......"
Ling Xiu'er told Cao Yu about being calculated by Li's mother and daughter in 1510.
Cao Yu frowned, it was Li again.