"Don't dare, don't dare!" The old lady of the Li family shook her head again and again, "Our family has a bookcase of eight treasures with sour branches and wood inlaid with luodian handed down from our ancestors, and my wife is as precious as a family heirloom...... I gave it to my mother. ”

The old lady of the Li family gritted her teeth and wiped her tears, and she really frightened Feng's mother.

Let people go in and move out, and take a look.

The workmanship is very fine, and the materials are also the best in the mahogany, but this pattern process, the knowledgeable can see at a glance that it has risen in recent years.

Seeing that they really can't come up with the money, they can get back a mahogany cabinet, and they won't run this trip in vain.

Mother Feng approached Li Xiucai, took a sip, took the cabinet, and led her talent to leave in a mighty way.

Yun Erni looked at the cabinet, the more she looked at it, the more familiar it became, and lowered her voice, "Yun Xiu, isn't that the token that my father exchanged with the Li family before?" ”

In love with Xiucai's family, Yun Carpenter specially ran several wood merchants to get a piece of sour branch wood with good quality and texture, saying that Li Xiucai would develop in the future and could be kept as an heirloom.

Why did it become an heirloom left by the Li family's ancestors in a blink of an eye?

Coupled with the Feng mother who could smell from the smell of fat powder, and the rough-looking slender waist sister, Yun Erni almost understood that the third sister's family business, it was a fire pit.

"Yunxiu." Yun Erni called her, and when she saw her bowing her head and being silent, she hurriedly looked down at her.

Yun Xiu buried her head in her knees, hunched her back, and twitched one after another.

"Yunxiu, you're okay, if you want to cry, you can cry." Yun Erni gently patted her back one by one.

With a sudden, Yun Xiu stood up, helped her second sister away, wiped her tears and walked towards Yun Xiucai's house.

"Yunxiu...... Yun Xiu, you ......" Yun Erni stood in place and called her, at this time, I don't know whether to catch up or wait here.

Yun Xiu walked behind Li Xiucai, grabbed the clothes on his back, and turned the person around.

"Li He'an, you make it clear to me!"

"What did you say?" Li Hejia looked at her innocently as if he didn't know anything.

"Why was the cabinet that my dad was beating removed?"

Li He'an's ears turned red all of a sudden, "Robbers, those people are robbers, they came to my house for no reason, they went into the house and moved the cabinet, I couldn't stop them!" ”

Yun Xiu's eyes were red, she looked at him hatefully, and said, "What about your slender waist sister?" ”

The old lady of the Li family said loudly: "Yunxiu, you misunderstood, that thin waist is here to accompany the old woman, she is a fool, her brain is not bright, everyone looks like her fiancé who died early, my family and An Jie are very self-conscious, after all, they are people who have read books, compared with those rural villagers......"

At this time, the old lady could still speak with her eyes open, and Yun Xiu was so angry that she didn't remember any reason.

stepped forward and spat the mother and son, "You mother, you really don't want to have any face at all, the drunken Red Mansion Feng's mother has come to the door, you can still make up nonsense here as if nothing happened, it's really shameless and invincible in the world......"

And said: "You old lady is also a conscienceless, I serve you with all my heart on weekdays, you make me more comfortable than your own son, even a chimney is broken, you think of me to repair it, the result?" White-eyed wolf! You take my family's things to pay off your son's prostitution, are you sorry! ”

The old lady of the Li family was scolded by her nose, and her face sank suddenly.

Knocking on the crutches, he said bitterly: "How can there be a cat that doesn't steal?" You girl, I only think that you are obedient and sensible, but you don't think about it, in the end, it is from the village, there are no rules! He'an, do you just watch your daughter-in-law who hasn't passed through the door scolding your mother? ”

Li Xiucai has always listened to his mother, and when he suddenly saw his mother being scolded, he was also anxious.

Without saying a word, he stepped forward and pulled Yunxiu, and slapped her in the face.

"Li He'an! You do this kind of thing, and you still have the face to hit me? Yun Xiu covered her face and glared at him angrily.

ran out crying, and Yun Erni also carried the basket and strode after it.

Li Xiucai looked at the figures of the two people in the distance, and felt a little uneasy in his heart, his Yue family is a sincere person, and his family still expects the Yun family to help him with food and drink all year round.

walked up to Mrs. Li, took her arm, and asked, "Mother, she wants to go back and tell her father, what should I do?" ”

Mrs. Li snorted coldly, supported her son with one hand, and walked into the house with crutches in the other, and did not forget to comfort her son: "Don't worry, she doesn't dare!" ”

This girl from the Yun family has a high spirit. This kind of embarrassing thing that worries her father, she just knocks out her teeth and swallows it in her stomach, and she won't tell her father.

When the sisters returned home, Yunxiu hastily ate lunch, and then put on her hat and went to work in the fields.

Her eyes were red and swollen, and she lowered her head for fear that Erniang would see the clues.

Yun Erni looked at her back and sighed, she should have told her family about this, but on the way back, Yun Xiuqian told her that she was not allowed to let her family know.

At night, Yun Xiu went back to the house early to sleep, but she couldn't fall asleep when she lay on the bed.

She has something in her heart, and the scene during the day makes her nauseous, especially Mrs. Li's sentence 'How can a man not steal fishy', on weekdays, she is energetic to say that her husband and son are scholars, and they are very clean.

Now that his son has done such a thing, she is still protecting her son in the end.

Yun Xiu suddenly remembered the dream she had that day, in the dream she chose to jump into the well instead of crying to her mother-in-law, but now that she thinks about it, she has saved a humiliation.

She was thinking wildly, when she suddenly heard a sound in Erniang's room, and saw through the window that the light was on.

Then I heard the hurried shouts outside the courtyard, "Carpenter! Carpenter! "Shouting and banging on the door.

The carpenter came out to open the door, and Erniang didn't forget to complain in the house: "It's a big night, report the funeral!" So urgent! ”

Yun Xiu lifted the quilt lightly, sat by the window, and looked out through the crack in the window.

The person who came was Wang Baozheng from the town, and Yun Xiu had seen it.

The winter before last, the snow covered her legs and neck, Li Xiucai's mother called her to pick up dry firewood, this Wang Baozheng was holding a bangzi, and early in the morning, he knocked on the horn to let him be careful of the fire candle, and I heard that Li Xiucai and their security were under his control.

Wang Baozheng didn't enter the house either, standing at the gate of the courtyard, pulling the cloud carpenter, looking anxious: "Carpenter! Your showman's family is ruined! ”

When Yunxiu heard this, her mind was coaxed, and it was all black. He lost sensation on his legs and sat on the bed, his hands hanging limply on the edge of the window.

Erniang said that Wang Baozheng really came to report the funeral.

"Dead! How...... Why ...... it" Cloud Carpenter stumbled as soon as he spoke in a hurry.

Wang Baozheng knew what he meant, and explained in a few words: "This afternoon's torrential rain has collapsed the north wall of the prison, and several vicious thieves escaped and took Li Xiucai as a hostage. The county magistrate was wise and mighty, how could he be frightened by the thief, the thief was annoyed and angry, and stabbed Li Xiucai to death with a knife. ”

"That'...... What about the mother-in-law? "Li Xiucai is dead, what can he do if he still has a blind old lady. In the county, shouldn't it be for his family Yunxiu to marry Li Xiucai's old lady to support her for the elderly.

"How can there be any mother-in-law? After the officers and soldiers rushed up and tied up the robbers, the old lady of the Li family reached out and touched her son's blood, as if she could suddenly see it, and hit the blade in the hand of the county master. I didn't even have time to say a word, so I ran out of gas. ”

I don't blame the old lady of the Li family for being like this, she lost her husband when she was young, and the pain of losing her husband made her eyes cry blind. can survive strongly, and can still pull his son to be admitted to Xiucai, he really came on his knees.

It can be said that she poured all her life's hard work into Li Xiucai, Li Xiucai died, and her life was in vain.

"Then what are you calling me for?" Yun Carpenter was puzzled, since the Li family is dead, it is related to the thieves who escaped from prison, and the county has arranged the funeral, why did he come to their family again?

"The county lord takes pity on your Yunxiu unmarried and widowed, and asks you to rein in the Li family's mother and son, and the Li family's real estate and land are also given to you to add Yunxiu's dowry."

When the mother and son of the Li family died, the neighbors came out to watch, the county lord disregarded human life, insisted on catching the thief, and the spread of the word hindered the official reputation, the master gave the idea to let the relatives collect the body of the deceased, and then give the inheritance to the relatives, and the county lord could also have a good reputation of being honest and loving the people.

The poor Li family fled back then, and there were no relatives outside the family of three, so it was cheaper for the Yun carpenter.

Yun Carpenter hurriedly took a piece of clothing and went to the town with Wang Baozheng, and the order of the county master was greater than that of Erniang.

Moreover, Wang Baozheng said that Li Xiucai's family's real estate estate county master may have given it to them in front of everyone.

With the money, Erniang was very happy, and before leaving, she didn't forget to take fifty copper plates for Wang Baozheng as a hardship fee.

Yun Erni also got up, and when she heard the conversation outside, she asked in a low voice, "Xiu'er, the thief who killed Li Xiucai, could it be her brother with a thin waist?" ”

During the day, she looked at the slender waist with a big waist and three thick, even if her brother escaped from prison to avenge his sister, it would not be surprising.

Yun Xiu sat there, but was silent.

Yun Erni reached out and touched her, and found that she was slumped there with cold hands and feet.

"Xiu'er, what's wrong with you?" Yun Erni hurriedly stepped forward and shook her to bring her back to her senses.

Yun Xiu leaned against the wall, and after a while, she eased up, and tears couldn't help but flow out.

Yun Erni noticed that there were water stains dripping on her hands, and touched Yun Xiu's face, "Xiu, are you crying?" ”

"Second sister." Yun Xiu shouted, but couldn't speak anymore.

Since she was a child, her father told her that in the future, she would go to the Li family to be a wife, as long as she honored her mother-in-law well, Li Xiu was a good child of filial piety, and she would not be treated badly when she was developed.

Even if Xiucai and her mother love to take advantage, she always instructs her to do that, thinking about it in the future, Li Xiucai will be admitted to the lifting of people, and she will be able to be the wife of lifting people, and there is a hope for this day.

didn't think about it, let her see that incident during the day, she was at a loss, hesitating to tell her father, how could the Li family be wiped out in an afternoon?

The hesitation is gone, and the hope is gone, but this feeling of having nothing makes her feel even more uncomfortable!

"Cry, just cry." Yun Erni stroked Yun Xiu's back and whispered.

Although she didn't understand the bitterness in Yunxiu's heart, she had seen with her own eyes that when her third sister talked about the good days in the future, the expectation and shining stars in her eyes were hope, hope for the future.

That hope was shattered twice in one day.

Sini was woken up by the sound of her two sisters squirming, rubbed her eyes, and sat on the bed with her feet crossed, her eyes closed one by one.

In my sleepy eyes, I saw that the third sister who loved to laugh the most in the family cried like a shrimp, shrugged her shoulders, curled up in the arms of the second sister and whimpered quietly.

got up in a daze, went to the small drawer that her father made for her on the windowsill, took out the candy she hid during the New Year, and stuffed it into Yunxiu's hand. "Third sister, eat sugar, don't cry after eating sugar."

Sini didn't know that her third sister's bitterness couldn't be sweetened by ten pieces of sugar.

The next day, when the clouds rose, the sky was already bright.

I cried all night last night, and I will fall asleep at dawn, not necessarily asleep, or I may be tired from crying and fainting.

At this time, Zi Yunxiu couldn't see the scene in front of her clearly, her eyes were swollen, and she could see her upper and lower eyelids, which were transparent and glowing with water.