After the spring ploughing, many strong laborers in the village went to the city to work for a short time, and most of the people left in the village were old and weak women and children. When they are free, many people in the village habitually come to do some manual work under the big tree, and the Li family, the head of the family, chats about some gossip.

It was almost noon, and the crowd slowly dispersed, leaving only the Dawang family and Huaihua's sister-in-law Li family.

Da Wang was holding the soles of his shoes and chatted with Huaihua's sister-in-law Li without a word.

"Did you say that Mrs. Liu has returned to the village, and she hasn't seen her for a long time? Even Baogen's mother didn't go out. Li asked.

"Who knows? I didn't listen to the sound, so I didn't go out and hide. "The king didn't raise his head, doing her thousand-layer low." I haven't seen Xiao Anzi since Liu Baogen beat her last time, and if I want to say that they don't come back, the eldest sister and brother are better. "Mrs. Liu's practice of neither apologizing nor apologizing, she really looks down on her.

"That's what I said, the two eldest girls are also pitiful, Liu Dayang and his family are so good that they just go, how can they live if they are left." Li sighed and continued: "It's good if she doesn't come back, there will be one less-stirring stick in the village." "She doesn't like the Liu family either, the old sa plop is cheating, the little one is so fierce and ruthless, look at the beating of Xiao Anzi, it's only good now.

"Yes! They are often seen looking for food outside. "It's not that the village doesn't want to help them, it's just that Mrs. Liu is too hateful, as long as whoever gives Liu Daya something to eat, she will let whoever raises the two little ones, and the half-grown child eats the poor old man, and no one in the village has a bad life, who can afford it.

Da Wang continued, "If you want me to say, there are gods in heaven and earth, and there is retribution in the end, you see Liu Baogen, this is not a strange disease, I think this disease still has to attack." "The Great Wang's schadenfreude is full of hatred.

Li knows that there is a conflict between the Dawang family and the Liu family, she also knows the inside story, the Dawang family and the Liu family are also relatives who have not come out of the five suits, the two families are close to each other, the wall is next to the wall, it should be friendly and neighborly, but last summer the Dawang family laid eggs and hens flew into the courtyard of the Liu family, and begged in the past, Mrs. Liu did not give it, she had to say that it was her family, the two families made a fierce fuss, and the village chief was alarmed, but Mrs. Liu did not give it, and the raw one was detained, and this matter was known to everyone, and since then the Dawang family has hated Mrs. Liu, the two families are constantly contradictory, all kinds of noise, each has its own wins and losses, and the Dawang family even spread the news of her family to the whole village, just to vent a bad breath.

"Son of the Son, who are you making your shoes for?" Li is holding an embroidered bandage in his hand and is embroidering a peony flower. Look at the thousand-layer bottom in the hands of the Taoist Wang, the size is not large, like the size of his kid, but she knows that she only did it for her son last month, and she won't make another pair, the countryman will only have a pair of shoes in a season, and if they are worn out, they will make up for them, and they can't make up for new shoes, and they don't want to change two pairs of shoes to wear.

"It was Xiao Yatou who asked me to make it for his nephew." Da Wang said, thinking that the shoes are beautiful in her heart, Xiao Ming promised her a manual fee of 30 wen for a pair of shoes, 60 wen for two pairs of shoes, she can finish it in less than five days, and it is much better to earn 60 wen than selling eggs and embroidered handkerchiefs, and embroidered handkerchiefs take three days but only 20 wen, and you have to make no mistakes. Thinking in my heart, I didn't stop in my hands, and I threaded the needle neatly, but in one morning, more than half of the mille-feuille bottom had been absorbed, and one shoe could be made in one day.

The Dawang family didn't let Xiao Ming give the manual fee, and she had to hide it, for fear that this job would be robbed.

"It's Xiao Yatou, you said that Xiao Yatou is so capable, and she can't make shoes." Li didn't believe it, and quietly asked Dawang. I can't help but think about it, I can't make shoes, so it's a little worse to be his daughter-in-law, which girl's baby can't make clothes and shoes now, and she has to teach her well when she marries in the future.

"What's there, Xiao girl can make money, what kind of shoes can't be bought." Da Wang's smiled, with a look of disdain, Li's little caution was written on his face, and he wanted to ask Xiao Ming to be his daughter-in-law, either she underestimated his second son, or there was no man worthy of Xiao Ming in the whole village.

"As far as your son is concerned, he is not worthy." Da Wang's family said directly, his son looks average, but he is not worthy of Xiao Ming.

"What's wrong with knowing medical skills, you see whose daughters in these ten miles and eight villages show up like her, women's firewood, rice, oil and salt, husband and son are the right way." The Li family is still unhappy, and looks down on her son, "Besides, Xiao Ming has no father or mother, and there is no one in the family who is in charge, who will marry her in the future." ”

"Why not, Xiao Yatou is good-looking, and she knows medical skills, and the men who want to marry her in the future can line up." The Dawang clan was not convinced, and fought back.

The two almost quarreled over the issue. Unbeknownst to her, a horse-drawn carriage slowly walked into the village and stopped beside her.

"May I ask the two sisters-in-law, how to go for the Xiao family." The coachman jumped out of the carriage and asked the two men in the dispute

"Xiao family, which Xiao family?" Li Shi looked at the luxurious carriage in front of him and did not react.

"On the east side of the river, at the foot of the green mountains, you go straight along this road, and you see a wooden bridge, and after crossing the wooden bridge, walk a few dozen meters to the Xiao family." Dawang's neatly pointed out the way for the coachman, and there was only one family surnamed Xiao in the entire Liujia Village.

Looking at the back of the carriage in the distance, Da Wang proudly glanced at the Li family who was in a daze: "Look, I said that Xiao Ming's girl is not simple." No one from the city has found it, and the chariot is worth a lot of silver. ”

"Humph! It is not necessary that he came to see a doctor. Li said, unwillingly packed up his things and left.

When the carriage came to a stop at the wooden bridge, the coachman looked at the wooden bridge, which was narrow and dilapidated and could only accommodate two people, and could not pass the carriage. I had to say to the people in the car: "Master, this wooden bridge is too narrow for the carriage to cross." ”

"No defense, let's just go over" The curtain opened, and the person inside was Min Fangqi, the shopkeeper of Guangjitang.

The coachman Lin Bo hurriedly stepped forward to help Min Fangqi get out of the carriage, put the gifts in the car, two skins of silk and satin, and a few snacks in his hand, and followed Min Fangqi across the wooden bridge.

Looking at a desolate place in the east of the bridge, where weeds grew everywhere, Min Fangqi said with pity: "I didn't expect the Xiao family sisters and brothers to live in this place. "I think his little grandchild will be pampered and protected in every way when he is born, and he has never suffered the slightest grievance, but Xiao Ming has to run for life.

As soon as the two arrived at the door of Xiao's house, they heard a dog barking.

Under the eaves squatted a black dog, whining in its mouth, black hair all over its body without a trace of variegation, pointed ears standing towards the sky, dark green eyes full of warnings, leaning forward, as if ready to attack at any moment.

"It's a wolfdog." Min Fangqi was quite surprised when he took a closer look, he had seen a lot of young masters in the capital raising this thing.

"Wolf, be careful, sir." Frightened, the coachman Lin Bo stood in front of Min Fangqi.

"Stand still, as long as you don't move forward, it won't attack us." Min Fang said in unison, reassuring the frightened coachman. didn't expect Xiao Ming to raise such a fierce beast, and his cognition of Xiao Ming went to a new level.

"Maomao, stop." Xiao Yu heard the voice and ran out, and quickly stopped it.