Chapter 35: The Abacus (Part 2)
"Huh?" Su Qiqiao and Xiaolian were stunned at the same time, looking at Wang Qingyun in disbelief, unable to speak for a long time.
For them, they have thought about redemption many times over the years, but they are only limited to thinking about it, not only them, but all the little beggars dream of being free and living their own lives, even if they are tired and happy.
Wang Qingyun had a kind face and chuckled, "Why do you have such an expression, just ask you if you want to?" ”
"It's not...... Grandma, are you going to ransom us with the deed? Su Qiqiao's eyes widened and he pointed to a yellowed tissue paper in Wang Qingyun's hand.
"Forget it, look at you like this, if I don't make it clear to you that you don't believe it, sit down first." Wang Qingyun shook his head and spread out the deed in his hand, which was written in black and white, with the official seal and drawing, and it was indeed a deed.
"This is the ...... I have to start from more than ten years ago, when I was still in Lijia Village......"
It turned out that when Wang Qingyun was young, he originally married into a wealthy family in Lijia Village, raising children, busy with needlework and housework, working day and night.
After Wang Qingyun passed, the family who was already well-fed and clothed lived a prosperous life, plus they had more children and got married, and after the family was separated, two large brick houses were piled up, each of which was as big as two entrances.
Originally, the life of the family was happy and healthy, but there were unforeseen circumstances, and people had good and bad luck, and her two sons were too arrogant and domineering when they went out, and inadvertently offended the magnates in the city, and pressed the youngest son to the ground and smoked him.
The powerful man was naturally furious, and in a fit of anger, he came to Lijia Village and put pressure on their family everywhere, and in the end they not only lost a lot of silver taels, but even sold the title deed.
For peasant families, the title deed is their lifeblood, not to mention the ancestral property passed down from generation to generation, not to mention the shame, the family's life is more simple, and they can only tighten their belts to live.
The house leak happened to rain overnight, who would have thought, later the family was seriously ill, coupled with the forced life, one after another to return to the West, even her two eldest sons and daughters also died, close to her sixtieth year, only she and her twenty-year-old son were left to rely on each other.
Then the broken-mouthed mother-in-law in the village gossiped, saying that Wang Qingyun's life was hard, and he had carved their family to death, and maybe even the youngest son would have to go sooner or later.
Later, the three of them became tigers, and the more it spread, the more outrageous it became, and they all said that Wang Qingyun was a broom star, and the people in the village did not wait to see them when they saw their orphans and widows, for fear of being contaminated with some bad luck, and also said that Wang Qingyun would get out of Lijia Village, not to affect the youngest son, and not to affect them.
Wang Qingyun swallowed his anger and took his youngest son, Li Zhan lived a life, married him a daughter-in-law, took care of his little granddaughter, and was originally going to get better.
But at that time, the village was ...... The two big men died, and they were still the two families next to Wang Qingyun.
The people in the village blew up in an instant, saying that she didn't leave without shame, and she had to pit others after pit her own family, even Li Zhan was not less regarded by the people in the village for this reason, coupled with Wang Qingyun's indifference, he took his wife and daughter to Qingshi Town in a fit of anger, and broke off the mother-son relationship with Wang Qingyun.
Let's go, in the end, I took everything I could at home, but I couldn't bear it, so I left a small brick house to Wang Qingyun, and came to Qingshi Town with my wife and daughter, and I had a good life, but I didn't see Wang Qingyun again.
On weekdays, Wang Qingyun can still see her little granddaughter playing with her peers in Qingshi Town, and the little granddaughter doesn't know so much, so she still gets along with Wang Qingyun, but it can only be like that, Li Zhan didn't stop it when she saw it, but he didn't let her enter the house, saying that it was a hundred times, and it didn't matter in the future.
Wang Qingyun wiped a handful of tears and said with a wry smile, "Later, I couldn't stand the gossip of the people in the village, so I came to this small shack near Qingshi Town, growing vegetables and raising chickens, at least I can support myself, but I am old, my hands are not good, and I have no ability." ”
“…… Woo woo, Grandma Wang, your experience is too miserable. Xiaolian choked up with an expression that she wanted to cry but didn't dare to cry.
"Oh." After listening to this, Su Qiqiao also felt a lot of emotion in his heart, but he had to nod, feeling unprecedented confusion and coldness, it turned out that there were more people in this world who were worse than her, and she was glamorous on the surface, but in fact, she didn't know how much suffering she had suffered to get to where she was today.
"I'm old now, I'm old, and I went to the hospital a few days ago to see it, and I said that I was weak and boneless, and I was a medicine jar in the early years, and I took medicine to continue my life, so I guess I don't have much to live." Wang Qingyun smiled indifferently, and said lightly.
"What?" Su Qiqiao's face was full of shock, she and Xiaolian couldn't see it at all, Wang Qingyun looked at his body and bones, and at first glance, he was a person who could live a long life!
"Huh?" Xiaolian was anxious.
"Okay, why are you more anxious than me? I don't want to think about it, my wife and son are over seventy, and I think I've lived long enough!" Wang Qingyun shook his head and laughed.
"Not to mention that there are no of these, the deed in my hand is the one in Lijia Village, although the house is not big, but you can get fifty taels of silver if you mortgage it, and I don't live there, this money should be enough for the two of you to redeem yourself." Wang Qingyun said bluntly.
Before the two of them could speak, Wang Qingyun smiled, "You can't let an old woman take this deed into the ground, what can it do?" No need for nothing. Anyway, you have to use it today, or I'll tear it up. ”
Wang Qingyun had a straight face and a resolute attitude.
Su Qi froze down, "That, grandma, I'll be honest, I really want to redeem myself, but I think about it carefully, I'm pretty good now, I'm mainly ...... Lack of money. ”
"Huh?" Wang Qingyun was stunned for a moment and said with a smile, "You don't want to redeem yourself, but you want to save this money?" ”
"Hmm." Su Qiqiao blushed and nodded.
She thought about it, what if she got a free body? Did she travel everywhere? Or are you in a hurry to get married? None of them. So if you want to maximize the benefits, you need to save this money for a rainy day.
Of course, the most important thing is to heal the scars on Xia Yuxi's face. Of course, before having that money, it is natural to redeem oneself first, lest Xia Yuxi cure her face and then redeem herself Wang Pozi is unwilling, and then repeat the old trick, and it will be a big trouble to sell Xia Yuxi, who has become beautiful, to the Qinglou.
So, according to her plan, save enough money, first redeem Xia Yuxi, let her be free, and then heal her face, and then she will redeem herself.
So in this way, it's just perfect.
"Well, since you said so, then you can take half of the money of this title deed." Wang Qingyun shook his head and looked at Xiaolian, "What about you?" ”
"No! I don't want it!" Who knows, Xiaolian shook her head, looked panicked, and rejected her directly.