CHAPTER XX
Mrs. Liu, who was reprimanding her son with a sad face, heard the voice of the shopkeeper, and didn't come back to her senses for a while, "Who?" ”
"It's the future young lady, it's the girl in Taoxi County." The shopkeeper breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "I see that this girl has a very good impression of the eldest young master, and said that the eldest young master is not as unbearable as others say, and she and the women around her exaggerate that the young master is true temperament, which is good!" ”
Although Lin Baoru didn't say so, in the eyes of the shopkeeper, that's what it meant.
When Mrs. Liu heard this, she was immediately overjoyed. However, her eyes fell on her son, and then she thought about his virtue, and the scene when she went to someone's girl's house to make a fuss, she couldn't help but hesitate.
"Lao Liu, don't excuse this stinky boy and bluff me by telling lies!" Mrs. Liu obviously didn't believe that there would be a woman who praised her son.
Liu Shulai, who was still squatting on the ground and pinching his ears to listen to the training, was suddenly unhappy when he heard his mother's words.
"Mother, do you doubt your son so much? Just what kind of Lin girl, why can't I say that I'm good, yesterday I went to the old witch's door to splash feces, I guess she is happier than anyone else. Liu Shu looked at Mrs. Liu, who was a little dazed, and immediately got up and said proudly, "You just talk to someone, how can you not know that her grandmother and aunt are two evil women......
Mrs. Liu listened to her son's ins and outs, and couldn't help but shout angrily: "This is simply too much! ”
This time, she was not in the mood to discipline her son, so she went back and forth in the guest hall.
"How is this good, according to what you said, the girl is not happy with this family business at all, and even her mother is deceived." Mrs. Liu exhaled deeply, hesitated for a long time before looking at her son angrily, "You bastard, you make a big deal out of your life, and now everyone in the village knows that the girl has changed her marriage letter with you and is married, so she will wait for the door." You made me ......"
If things don't make a big fuss, she can still think of a way to make Liu's grandmother spit out the dowry, and no matter how bad it is, she can take a look at the girl's mother who returned the marriage book.
But now, if one is not handled properly, I am afraid that the girl's reputation will be ruined.
However, although Mrs. Liu felt that her son was out of tune, she was even more annoyed by the Liu family who answered the words and the Zhang family who pulled the strings.
The shopkeeper looked at his wife with a very helpless look, and hurriedly went up and said, "Madam, maybe it's a good couple?" Just now the girl said that cotton clothes and bedding are made on behalf of me, and I listened to it quite interestingly. ”
After that, he carefully said to Mrs. Liu for a while, "Although this generation can't make money for the shop, it's a good gimmick." There are many lonely old people and widowers in ten miles and eight towns, and there are many people who make wedding bedding......
As long as they enter the shop, they can stay as regular customers, and they are worried about whether the business will not do well in the future? It's not a big deal, but it's a novelty.
Mrs. Liu has supported the Liu family's business alone for more than ten years, so she naturally understands the meaning of the shopkeeper's words. She pondered for a moment, and the more she felt that the girl had a clever mind.
"You can ask someone to inquire about the girl's family, don't be too eye-catching." Mrs. Liu whispered.
The shopkeeper answered and hurried to find his mother-in-law. After all, women are better at inquiring about the shortcomings of the parents in the yard.
"Mother, you ask her what she does, don't want to be my daughter-in-law anymore, or you will recognize her as a goddaughter." Liu Shu looked at Mrs. Liu, and his eyes were full of inexplicable meaning.
He really didn't know which of his mother's tendons was wrong, so he had to find him a girl who didn't pull a few dirt to be his daughter-in-law.
Although he Liu Shulai didn't want to marry a beautiful little girl, he at least had the same interests. If nothing else, just looking at Lin Youzhi's appearance, he didn't believe that the Lin family could give birth to a daughter-in-law who threw his temper.
"What for! What do you say, you went to Taoxi Village to make a fuss, saying that I proposed marriage in three books and six hires, and said something unsparing, if you don't marry, how should you let that girl deal with herself? Seeing that her son still looked indifferent, Mrs. Liu gritted her teeth again, "How did I raise a bastard son like you." ”
As she spoke, she touched the tea cup on the tea table next to her, and threw it at her son, who was angry with the itchy roots of her teeth.
Liu Shulai skillfully dodged the hidden weapon thrown by his mother, and said with some lack of confidence: "That...... Then let her quit her family...... She's afraid of a bad reputation, and I'm not afraid! ”
"You, you, you're going to me off." Mrs. Liu was angry, "I have been married to such a bastard as you, how can you let the girl find a good in-law in the future?" Besides, aren't you afraid of beating singles for the rest of your life? ”
Liu Shulai muttered disappreciatively: "A single person is a single, anyway, there are many people in Chunxiang Building and Qiuyue Building who think about your son, and there are also people in the pear orchard who are worried about me!" ”
Mrs. Liu's eyes were blackened by his anger, and she looked left and right for a long time, but she didn't see a guy who took advantage of it. It's a shame that I'm not at home, otherwise according to Mrs. Liu's temperament, I'm afraid I will have to stick against Liu Shu again.
In fact, she is not really annoyed with her son. In her heart, she still favors her son, and she is even more reluctant to let her son, who has no good reputation, take on the name of being divorced again. However, she also knew that what she was worried about was the truth, and she couldn't bear to spoil a good girl for this bastard.
When she exchanged marriage letters with Liu before, she could confirm several times whether the other party had thought about this consequence. The Liu family patted her chest and promised, plus there was Wang's signature and painting on the marriage certificate, and the birthday was also happy, so she put her mind at ease and decided about her children.
In fact, Mrs. Liu originally thought very well, she didn't ask her son to marry a good daughter-in-law, as long as she was a child who could give birth. The eldest son can't be counted on, and the younger son has his own weak bones, and he can't support the family business.
Therefore, she begged her eldest son to become her own son as soon as possible, so that she could raise her grandson in her lifetime.
Who knows, with good intentions, it will encounter so many bad things.
Lin Baoru and the others didn't know that they had just gone to the Liu family's shop, and after walking for a while, the Wang family looked at their daughter without saying anything, and wanted to say a few words of relief, but they couldn't say it. Not to mention comforting her daughter, now she can't wait to find the Liu family to quit her relatives, but she still has to ask her mother-in-law and sister-in-law who are the matchmakers.
At least even if you quit your family, you have to let your daughter. Be decent, not only will Liu Shu come to find bad luck, but also quietly solve the matter.
Wang was really scared, she was afraid of annoying Liu Shulai, and she would chase her to her door and make trouble with her daughter. When the time comes, not to mention the girl's reputation, maybe she will be treated like that gentleman......
"Baoru ......"
Lin Baoru came back to her senses, saw that her mother showed a tangled expression again, and said with a smile: "Mother, what the shopkeeper said is all false, and it is not a big treachery." Besides, he can be disciplined by Mrs. Liu with a stick, and he is still a filial piety, at least he will not lose his conscience. ”
A few people wandered around the market for a while, and Lin Baoru bought some cheap dishes and chopsticks scattered, so that the three of them took a lot of things in their hands.
"Mother, you and your eldest brother will go to the place where Uncle Li Zheng told us first, and I'll go over there to buy some food to make up for it." Lin Baoru handed the lighter object to Wang, picked up a stack of bowls and said, "Come here, I heard that the cakes on the overpass are the cheapest." ”
Wang saw that there were beads of sweat oozing from her forehead, and said distressedly: "Why don't you go to your mother, you go to rest with your brother first?" ”
"It's okay, I rested a lot in the past, and now I should practice my feet when I walk more."
"Wait a minute," seeing that his daughter was about to turn around, Wang quickly stopped her, and then took out a handful of copper plates left over from the previous purchase from his sleeve pocket, "Don't buy cakes, buy a few white flour buns today." ”
The left and right have already spent so much money, and they don't care about a dozen copper plates.
She used to instigate, but because she had no money at hand, she had to honor her mother-in-law Liu on weekdays, and she had to save money to support her.
Now that the mountains are gone, their lives will naturally be better.
Lin Baoru answered, turned around and walked back. It's just that none of them noticed that when Lin Baoru received the money, they happened to be looked at by a pair of eyes in the dark.
"This is not as good as a girl with cabbage, is the daughter-in-law that the Liu family is looking for?" The person who spoke was brightly dressed, but his ears were black, his ears were gray, and the whites of his eyes were yellow, and he obviously looked overindulgent.
His eyes narrowed, and he looked at Lin Baoru for a long time, and finally said to a thin man with mung bean eyes beside him with disgust: "Don't let Ye Bai toss!" ”
"Master Zhao, it's her, the little brother just trained the people in their village to inquire clearly." The thin man said flatteringly, "Then Liu Shulai must value her, I heard that he went to Taoxi Village to help her support her." Later, this girl relied on Liu Shulai's momentum to divide the family, obviously widowed. but they received many things in the women's door. ”
When Zhao Li heard this, he snorted coldly, touched his chin, squinted his eyes, and ordered: "Find two Laizi to set Lao Tzu." ”
In just such a short period of time, the fat aunt of the Liu family's shopkeeper has already inquired about Lin Baoru's family. said that she was inquiring, but in fact, it didn't take much effort, she was the daughter-in-law of the shopkeeper, and she often helped greet the women from nearby villages who came to buy needlework in the shop, so there were also a few familiar mothers-in-law who could speak well in Taoxi Village, among which Aunt Ma was her old acquaintance.
Aunt Ma didn't have a bad heart, but she loved to show off, and before the fat aunt could say a few polite words to her, she directly said the bad words of the Lin family. When it was over, I couldn't help but praise Lin Baoru for not being confused about the child's business, otherwise the second room would let the Liu family and the Zhang family be pressed to death.
Of course, there are also people who come with Aunt Ma who look down on Lin Baoru.
"That girl said that she was capable, but she was too careful about doing things, who would dare to marry such a fierce character."
"That's not bad, no matter how you say it, the Liu family is also an elder, and Baoru's daughter is too ruthless to talk to her grandmother like that."
Others don't know, but Aunt Ma knows that the man of the fat aunt's family is the shopkeeper of the Liu family's cloth village, she is worried that others will say too much, and bad words about Lin Baoru will reach the ears of the Liu family, so she hurriedly stopped a few words and said: "Come on, what has the old Lin family done all these years, Baoru can still recognize their family, it's good......
What she said was also true, so although some people still couldn't get used to Lin Baoru's behavior, they didn't say anything in the end.
Mrs. Liu listened to the words of the fat aunt, and the irritability in her heart because of the bastard son also disappeared a lot, she raised her eyebrows and sighed: "I thought it was a stuffy gourd, but I didn't expect to be able to open my mind one day." ”