After the third day of the first lunar month, it is the day for families to visit relatives and friends.

There are not many relatives and friends in the capital in their house, so they have been idle in the past few days of the New Year.

Just when Shi Jinxiu was thinking about whether to give Duchess Zheng Guo, Sister Fuzhen and Lin Sanye a New Year's greeting, Mrs. Zhang in the concierge came to report: "Girl, a young man came to the door with an old couple and said that he was looking for you." ”

A young man brought an old couple?

Also specified to find yourself?

Shi Jinxiu was very strange, searched through her memory, and didn't remember whether she was such an old couple or not.

She had to follow Mrs. Zhang to the gatehouse.

I saw that everyone who came was dressed as ordinary peasants, wearing coarse cloth jackets of loess color and homespun shoes on their feet.

Shi Jinxiu first looked at the elderly couple, only to see that their dark faces were full of traces of time.

And next to these two stood a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy, perhaps the reason for working outside all the year round, he not only had a dark complexion, but also gave people a sense of robustness.

Shi Jinxiu looked at the three of them suspiciously, and asked for a long time, "You three are looking for me?" ”

The two old men were all terrified, but the young man who looked a little shy spoke: "You are the fifth girl of the Shi family who asked my brother to sell herself?" ”

Prostitution?!

Shi Jinxiu couldn't help but widen her eyes.

It's so decent, who did she let sell herself?

"This little brother, you can eat things indiscriminately, but you can't talk nonsense, who do you say I let sell myself?" For this inexplicable accusation, Shi Jinxiu did not admit it.

Of course it's my brother! Xu Li! The boy retorted unconvinced.

Shi Jinxiu found that the young man's eyebrows and eyes were somewhat similar to Xu Li, but Xu Li had more bookish gas than him.

"You are ......," Shi Jinxiu looked at the three of them carefully.

"We are Xu Li's father and mother......" Seeing that the young man was about to speak badly again, the old woman hurriedly took the lead.

Hearing that they are Xu Li's family, there is naturally no reason for people to speak in the gatehouse.

"I think you're mistaken." Shi Jinxiu invited the three of them to the study in the outer courtyard, and asked Du Juan to serve refreshments, "I didn't let him sell himself." ”

As soon as her words fell, the old woman knelt down for her: "Girl, we countrymen don't know how to speak, but I beg you to spare our second son!" We'll give you back! Please return to us the deed of sale of our second son. ”

As she spoke, the old woman trembled and took out a stack of silver tickets from her arms, which was the one Shi Jinxiu gave to Xu Li years ago.

Shi Jinxiu looked at it and felt a little crying and laughing.

"Aunt Xu, you get up first." Shi Jinxiu hurriedly stretched out her hand to help the old woman, "There is really a misunderstanding here!" Xu Li is my brother Shi Nan's classmate and friend, how could I let him sell himself? ”

"It's not a sell-out...... Then ...... this money" Aunt Xu looked at the silver ticket in her hand in disbelief.

"That's what Xu Li deserves." Shi Jinxiu smiled slightly with Aunt Xu, "He helped me take care of my business for half a year, and this is my honorarium to thank him." ”

"Honoraria? You can't pay that much, can you? Xu Li's brother looked disdainful, as if Shi Jinxiu was lying.

This time, Shi Jinxiu felt more and more strange.

She kindly asked Xu Li to go back with the money, why did this money inexplicably become "selling money"?

"Aunt Xu, can't you tell me, who told you that this is the money that Xu Li sold himself?" Shi Jinxiu frowned and asked.

"This ......" Aunt Xu's face showed a look of embarrassment.

"Mother! What's so bad about that? It's spread all over the village! Have you been able to hide it for a while, but for a lifetime? Xu Li's brother stood up and said, "We heard this in the village!" said that my brother not only sold his body, but also made a child prostitute for your family! ”

"What?!" As soon as he heard the word prostitution, Shi Jinxiu couldn't help but take the case.

Who would be bored enough to spread such rumors in the village?

Where is this slander against Xu Li? This is clearly slandering your own family!

"Uncle Xu, Aunt Xu! I don't know how your village spread this matter, I can only tell you that both Xu Li and our Shi family are innocent in this matter. Shi Jinxiu said with a straight face, "Although I don't know how that rumor came about, and what the rumor-mongers want to do, I will definitely find a way to find out about this matter, and return Xu Li's innocence, and also give me an innocence!" ”

"As for the money, you two elders will collect it first! If you don't dare to spend it now, then wait until the day the truth is revealed! Shi Jinxiu's expression was firm, which made the old couple of the Xu family hesitate.

When they were about to discuss a day or two, the boss of the Xu family stood up and said, "Dad! Mother! You can't listen to her! If she wasn't a clever person, how could she convince her brother to do such a thing? ”

Obscene?

Shi Jinxiu, who heard someone say for the first time that he was acting like a subordinate, suddenly changed his face: "Don't you understand talking to you in a good voice?" Only people with dirty minds would believe such dirty words! Xu Li is a person who wants to be admitted to the Jinshi! What kind of thoughts do you have in slandering him like this? ”

Shi Jinxiu, who scolded this sentence, also suddenly understood, he didn't know the people in their village, and there was no need for the other party to go to a rural place to discredit himself, where they could only discredit Xu Li.

As for the reason, it is very likely that he wanted to ruin his reputation.

Thinking of these days, Xu Li has to take care of the incense shop for himself during the day, and he has to study the Four Books and Five Classics with Shi Nan at night, which is much harder than the people next to him.

He worked so hard, but he couldn't get the understanding of his family, and Shi Jinxiu suddenly felt cold for him.

"Don't speculate for more than half a sentence, I don't have anything to say to you." Shi Jinxiu, who was quite enthusiastic before, straightened his face and served tea.

Aunt Xu wanted to say something, and Nie Pozi, who had been guarding outside the house before, entered the house.

As soon as the three of them saw her dress with her cuffs tied and trouser legs tied, they knew that she was a practitioner, so they didn't dare to make a mistake.

But when he was leaving, the boy dropped a sentence: "I will come again!" ”

was provoked by these three people, Shi Jinxiu only felt that his blood was surging.

Regardless of the original intention of the rumor-monger, since she has been involved, she has no reason to ignore it.

"Mama Nie, you also heard what happened just now, do you think there is a way to find out the person who is making waves behind it?" Shi Jinxiu asked about Mrs. Nie.

The Nie Pozi laughed: "The girl is really dark under the lights, leave such a thing to the Zhenfu Division to do, and in less than three days, you can find out the person who spread the rumors!" ”

Shi Jinxiu shook her head when she heard this: "No, for my business, I have troubled adults many times!" ”

"If that girl can trust the old woman and me, I have a way to find out that person!" Nie Pozi patted Shi Jinxiu's chest and said.