CHAPTER XVII
However, Lin Xiuyue really couldn't do it, when Lin Zhiyun first arrived at their house, under the oppression of the Wang family, she did teach her to weave and embroider with Lin Luoxing, but she was not interested in these things, and she would only make a peace buckle so far. But Lin Zhiyun actually made up such a complicated network when she injured her hand, so she didn't even have an excuse to refuse.
Under Xu Bowen's expectant gaze, Lin Xiuyue could only pick out some silk threads and go back, and even forgot to buy ready-to-wear clothes. When she arrived at Du Fuzi's house, Lin Xiuyue hated it even more, because the two girls of the Du family were praising Lin Zhiyun's ingenuity. What kind of ability does she think Lin Zhiyun has? Which lady needs to weave and embroider by herself? That dead girl was born a slave and just died!
When the two of them arrived at Du Fuzi's house, Shen Junchuan and Lin Zhiyun had already left, and there were still two fresh carp and some melon and fruit wine sent by the Shen family and his wife on the table. In contrast, the two taels of meat cut by Xu Bowen looked very shabby.
Xu Bowen himself also felt embarrassed and a little resentful.
Originally, Shen Junchuan couldn't afford to buy these things with so much money, but he first used the box of books to defraud him of a sum of money, and in the end, he didn't really give him the books. Now that their Xu family is still struggling, but the Shen family has bought it in a big way, doesn't he Shen Junchuan feel that he is too much?
However, Shen Junchuan really didn't feel that he was excessive, in his opinion, the money was originally owed by the Xu family to the Lin family. Even when he came to the door for the second time, he gave such a heavy gift, which was deliberately angry.
"Bowen is here, sit down." Du Fuzi saw that Xu Bowen was no longer as enthusiastic as before, but there was still some politeness, "It just so happened that Fang Jingliu sent the book he copied, you can take it back." ”
Xu Bowen frowned: "Jingliu is the word that the master gave to Brother Shen?" ”
Du Fuzi has a good reputation in the town and even in the county, and if he can give him words, he can also be looked down upon by other students. However, Xu Bowen asked Du Fuzi to pick up the words for him several times, but Du Fuzi politely refused, so that Xu Bowen's words have not been decided until now.
"Where did I take it? This is what his father-in-law took back then! ”
Du Fuzi said the events of the year with a smile, and then said: "Lin Fuzi is a person who loves to take words, and he also thought of one for you back then, called Xingyuan." It is said that if you read 10,000 books and travel 10,000 miles, you should not only be knowledgeable, but also go far. I've always thought this word was good, but you don't like it? ”
This is also the reason why Du Fuzi has never agreed to take words for Xu Bowen, because he is very satisfied with the two words taken by Lin Qingshan. But Xu Bowen wanted to borrow his name, and now that he married Lin Xiuyue, he wanted to completely break away from Lin Qingshan, so he naturally didn't want to use Lin Qingshan's words.
Xu Bowen smiled dryly: "It's not that I don't like it, but I haven't traveled far, and I may not have that opportunity in the future, I always feel weak when I call this name." ”
The smile on Du Fuzi's face faded, thinking that Xu Bowen said this tactfully, but didn't he still like it? However, he really thinks this word is good, and what Xu Bowen really asks for is not a word with a good meaning, but wants to borrow his name, right?
Du Fuzi was a little disappointed, this was the only one in their town who was admitted to Xiucai. Originally, he was very optimistic about Xu Bowen, but according to Xu Bowen's temperament, he would not go far in the future.
Xu Bo heard that his face was not good, and he didn't dare to say what he was going to say. He only felt that now Du Fuzi's heart was biased towards Shen Junchuan, and he couldn't treat him fairly at all.
After going back, Xu Bowen said to Lin Xiuyue: "I heard that you are better than your cousin in everything in terms of female popularity, in this case, you can also make the silk flowers that your cousin made for the two girls of the Du family, right?" I think Du Fuzi loves his two daughters the most, and if you can win the hearts of the two Du girls, it will also help me. ”
Of course, Lin Xiuyue also wanted to help Xu Bowen, after all, only if he was well could he be an official wife! But she doesn't know anything about it! In the past, when she was in the Lin family, she had also seen Lin Zhiyun use rags to make silk flowers, but at that time, the silk flowers made by Lin Zhiyun were very ordinary, and one flower could be sold for two cents. Her mother didn't think that silk flowers were making money, so she didn't let Lin Zhiyun do it anymore. But look at the two silk flowers in the hands of the Du family girl today are more beautiful than the twenty Wen in the Markham Building! That was actually made by Lin Zhiyun?
The more Lin Xiuyue thought about it, the more angry she became, she didn't expect Lin Zhiyun to be a traitor inside. Her embroidery skills were better than they had imagined, and even the silk flower tie was better than she had shown before. Since she has such a ability, why didn't she help their Lin family make more money in the first place? It's actually cheaper than those outsiders of the Shen family!
No, she has to tell her father about this matter and let her help her solve it!
Lin Xiuyue verbally agreed to Xu Bowen, and secretly ran back to her parents' house to ask her parents for help the next day.
When Wang heard this, he was also very angry: "Okay, that cheap girl, it's really a eater!" She eats our family and uses our family, but she dares to keep a hand? ”
Lin Qinghe glanced at her dissatisfiedly: "Isn't it to blame your mother and daughter for being too breathless?" If you had been nice to her when she first came to our house, she might not have hidden anything. But what have you done? ”
Wang was speechless for a moment, shrunk his head and didn't know how to answer.
Lin Qingshan did entrust Lin Zhiyun to the care of his only brother before he died, and Lin Qinghe also promised to do well at that time, although Lin Qingshan was not at ease, he had no one else to entrust. And Lin Qinghe is willing to raise Lin Zhiyun, naturally because of Lin Zhiyun's ability to weave cloth and embroider.
He knew that Lin Zhiyun's mother had learned from Fucheng Jinxiufang in the past, and Lin Zhiyun had also learned a lot from her mother Yan, if she brought this niece back to her home, she would be able to help her subsidize her family. Therefore, when Lin Qinghe first brought people back, he was very kind to Lin Zhiyun.
At that time, Lin Zhiyun was still young, and she didn't understand the sinister hearts of people, and saw that the uncle seemed to be good to her, so when the uncle asked her church sisters to embroider, she also agreed, and even took the initiative to embroider a few purses for the Wang family to sell. Even the Lin family begged to marry the Shen family, and the embroidery sent to the Shen family was all sent by Lin Zhiyun in the name of Lin Xiuyue after the embroidery.
But Wang couldn't hold her breath, she saw that Lin Zhiyun embroidered a purse that could be sold for twenty wen, and the two pieces of cloth she knitted could be sold for five hundred wen, and she no longer refused to pretend to be charitable, so she asked Lin Zhiyun to weave and embroider cloth and embroidery day and night to make money for her.
Lin Zhiyun saw that her aunt and cousins suddenly changed their faces, and naturally she had a heart, and she would never show her true skills in front of people again, and she was very glad that she had not taught Lin Xiuyue and Lin Luoxing special embroidery methods.
Lin Xiuyue also regretted a little when she remembered the past, although the Wang family was mean, she listened to Lin Qinghe's words very much, it was she who couldn't see Lin Zhiyun getting better, so she asked the Wang family to tear her face with Lin Zhiyun in advance.
"But what's the use of talking about that now? Daddy, help me figure it out! If the Xu family knew that I was useless to them, would the Xu family still be kind to me? Lin Xiuyue said urgently.
Wang said helplessly: "What else can we do now?" We've cut off that dead girl, what else can we do with her? ”
Lin Luoxing, who was only fourteen years old, smiled on the side: "Why is my father confused? Didn't you plan to ruin your second sister's reputation before? I think it's the right time. At the beginning, it was not you who mentioned it, but the second sister took the initiative to bring it up. She has been in our family for so many years, and it is impossible to say that she suddenly broke off her family. Daddy and mother went to Shen's house to make trouble with her again, and talked about how she was so lazy over the years, and how hard our Lin family raised her, if she was afraid of face, she would not continue to listen to her father. ”
Wang's eyes lit up: "Xing'er is right!" I think that's what I have to do. ”
Lin Xiuyue also nodded and said, "Since she has been carrying her reputation for being lazy for so many years, what's the point of continuing to carry it?" It's not that easy to turn over. ”
So the next day, when Lin Zhiyun also taught Shen Junyao to make silk flowers, the Wang family came to Shen's house to find Lin Zhiyun.
For the Wang family, Lin Zhiyun was naturally unwelcome, and she didn't want to entertain at all. But there was no way, the visitor was a guest, and it was her elder, she couldn't really turn people away, so she had to pinch her nose and welcome people in.
The Wang family didn't really want to go in, this house was dilapidated and old, and there was a strange smell, and he didn't know how Lin Zhiyun lived. Probably this is the life of a natural maid, right? Not only is the craftsmanship good and you can only help others work, but even the place where you live is so shabby.
"Forget it, I won't go in, and I don't know if this place can be inhabited." Wang was both proud and disgusted.
He Shi's face turned white when she heard this, but she thought that this person was Lin Zhiyun's eldest aunt, and she couldn't say anything.
"Since Aunt Lin doesn't want to come in, then please go back. It's dirty and messy here, and I'll have to make a fire to cook in a while, which is not suitable for entertaining Aunt Lin. Lin Zhiyun said coldly.
Wang hurriedly said: "Yun Yatou really doesn't take my aunt in her eyes now?" A mouthful of Aunt Lin, who doesn't know and thinks we have nothing to do with each other? ”
Lin Zhiyun said with a smile: "Isn't it okay?" At the beginning, we broke off our relatives in front of many people, and there is still a record in this matter, doesn't Aunt Lin want to regret it? ”
"What if I just regret it? It's your fault! Our Lin family has worked hard to raise you for so many years, but as a result, you are not only ungrateful, but also want to break off your family, what is the reason? Wang said hatefully, "You have always been lazy and lazy, but now you are still ungrateful, if you are known by the villagers, do you still need to be a man?" ”
Lin Zhiyun said with a smile: "Whether I'm lazy or not, Aunt Lin doesn't know." If you want to blackmail me with this kind of thing, I advise you to save it. We just need to gather all the folks in one place, and I will cook a meal or embroider a few flowers for everyone in public, and then all the rumors will be self-defeating. ”
Wang didn't expect Lin Zhiyun to think of such an idea, so he immediately ignored it and said: "Aren't you afraid that I will go out and say that you are not innocent for a long time, so the Xu family is willing to change relatives and don't want you?" ”