012: Another disgrace
"You kid, why is this so?"
Since Cheng Qing returned to his hometown, it is not the first time that the door of the second room has been crowded with so many people, Mrs. Zhu hates Cheng Qing's teeth so much, but she wants to be kind to Cheng Qing in front of everyone.
Mrs. Zhu pretended to be stupid, and Cheng Qing quickly explained her intentions:
"I don't believe that my cousin would say that kind of thing, everything is a misunderstanding, but my mother weeps every day at home for this, and Cheng Qing can only return all the gifts of the third uncle and grandmother."
Cheng Qing pointed to the cash box on the ground, very embarrassed: "The two hundred taels of silver given by the third uncle have been used up, and I made up some copper coins in a hurry, and asked my grandmother to ask someone to count the amount." ”
Scold!
If you really want to pay back the money, then send the silver back to the second room in a low-key manner.
Deliberately selected in broad daylight, but also part of the silver with copper coins instead, copper coins face value is small and large, carrying a box of copper coins swaggering through the market is very eye-catching, Cheng Qing is afraid that there are too few people who know about this, for fear that the reputation of the second room is not stinky enough.
Old Madam Zhu looked at Cheng Qing quietly, and Cheng Qing's eyes did not shy away.
At this moment, Mrs. Zhu has already determined that Cheng Qing is another Cheng Zhiyuan - Cheng Qing returned to Nanyi County to respond to her, just to make trouble for her and fight against her!
Unlike Cheng Zhiyuan, Cheng Qing is more treacherous.
The grandfather and grandson were in a stalemate, and Mr. He led a group of neighbors to 'whisper', and the voice was so loud that it could deliberately make the people in the second room hear:
"It's better to accept it, other people's orphans and widows can't afford to provoke you, so you can only hide from afar!"
"Who knew that if you received the money that day, you would be ridiculed!"
"Just two hundred taels of silver, send away the orphans and widows, and have to step on them...... Alas, people's hearts are not ancient, and the world is declining. ”
Cheng Qing blushed, "Grandmother, please take back this money, even if I don't take the funding from the old house, I will honor you well when I have the ability in the future!" ”
After speaking, she didn't wait for Mrs. Zhu to react next, left the boxes and pallets in place, turned around and left.
In the eyes of He Yuanwai and others, Cheng Qing's back was so straight, his steps were staggering, helpless and flustered, and there was a young man's stubbornness.
He is not a fool, and he is not at all unable to see Cheng Qing's scheming.
But he asked himself, if he changed Cheng Qing's situation, he would have no scheming at all, and he would really be bullied to death.
A thirteen-year-old Xiaolang has nothing to rely on except to use public opinion to protect himself and his family!
This is actually Cheng Qing's cleverness.
She wants most people to see her character.
Let a few people see her intelligence.
Let a very small number of people see her city and means.
She doesn't take the initiative to calculate the second room, she only fights back when she encounters injustice, so that even a very small number of people who have seen through her city's methods will not hate her.
Old man He retracted his gaze and shouted loudly:
"Let's quickly carry the silver in, we split up more than ten years ago, and we should have been fine, so why bother acting pretend...... What is love, leaving a way for orphans and widows to live, don't force them to death, you are doing good deeds! ”
Mrs. Zhu's eyes are not good, but Old Man He is not afraid of her.
"Outside" is not a common name, only rich and powerful gentry are called outsiders, and those who have no money and power are called old men! He can be a neighbor with the second room, and he also has a background, he damaged Mrs. Zhu, patted his robe and left.
Old Madam Zhu looked defeated:
"I don't know which one of the thousands of knives was a rumor, which made Brother Qing have a dislike with us, just carry the money back, don't make Brother Qing difficult to be a man, see the hearts of the people for a long time, sooner or later he can understand that he can't write two 'Cheng' words in one stroke, how can the second room ignore their orphans and widows?"
"Grandmother ......"
Cheng Jue looked ashamed.
Cheng Qing didn't give him a chance to speak just now!
It's because he wasn't cautious enough to do things, which caused the second room to lose face.
Old Madam Zhu patted his arm, "Although it wasn't you who frightened your eldest aunt, but you are a junior, you should take the initiative to admit your mistakes, if your eldest aunt doesn't forgive you, I won't recognize you as a grandson!" ”
Cheng Jue nodded yes.
Cheng Qing can act, can't he?
Cheng Jue was unconvinced, but he could only listen to Mrs. Zhu's arrangement.
This is to hone his character and save his reputation.
He will go to Yangliu Lane every day to ask for peace for the Liu family, and show the people of the entire Nanyi County!
Cheng Qing's repayment of the money in the second room has become the talk of the entire Nanyi County.
If there is online social networking in this era, after Cheng Qing returned to Nanyi, he really went on a hot search every few days. She didn't even get into the 'Nanyi Academy', and she was actually well-known in the county, and she was able to compete with the students of the academy in a short period of time.
This reputation, if only it were famous.
Her move to repay the money reached the ears of the fifth master Cheng, who was noncommittal and said to his wife Li in private:
"Zhiyuan's son doesn't know how to raise it, he is too fine, and he doesn't look like a thirteen-year-old Xiaolang at all."
Cheng Zhiyuan was talented in studying back then, but he didn't have the means of Cheng Qing...... Cheng Zhiyuan wants Cheng Qing's means, and the one who was forced out of Nanyi back then should be his stepmother Zhu!
Li sighed, "The second sister-in-law is not a generous person, Cheng Qing let Cheng Qi's reputation be damaged because she touched the second sister-in-law's scales, I think the second sister-in-law will still embarrass the child." ”
Also a little pitiful.
The scary thing about arsoning horses is true, and it is not false to be pointed at the nose and say that the autumn wind is coming to the door.
Although it was not Cheng Qi who said it personally, it was made by Cheng Qi's classmates and friends, what is the difference between it and Cheng Qi himself?
Liu's ankle injury is not light, after hearing the rumors, Li came to visit and confirmed that Liu's injury was true.
Cheng Qing returned the silver in the second room, and the Li family wanted to subsidize the orphans and widows again, but this time Cheng Qing refused to accept anything.
The three words "fighting the autumn wind" seem to really stab the self-esteem of young people, and from this point of view, Cheng Qing is very similar to Cheng Zhiyuan.
The fifth master is not as worried as his wife:
"It's the worm that can't help it, it's the dragon that can't hold it down, if he can't even get into the academy, he's also a dou who can't be helped."
There is no chance to be a leader, Cheng Qing's hard days of being bullied by the second room are still ahead, and the fifth master also wants to see if Cheng Qing is a student of reading.
The fifth room didn't react, Cheng Qing made the second room suffer a loss, Cheng Qi's friend Young Master Yu was really surprised when he heard about it:
"Cheng Jue, your cousin came to the door alone, and your whole family couldn't do anything about him?"
He just went back to Fucheng, and Cheng Qing made such a big fuss, and Young Master Yu was very interested in that sick seedling.
Cheng Qing is not only the mouth of the second room of the Cheng family, but also argues with him!
What's wrong, feel wronged?
Isn't it normal for people who have no support to be wronged?
Young Master Yu is gearing up, eager to try, and really wants to meet Cheng Qing for a while!