The ox cart traveled slowly, and finally approached the fork in the road between Yujia Village and the town, and there was a sweaty shrewd merchant on the side of the road, about sixteen or seventeen years old, and the load of goods was full of rouge gouache, wooden combs and bronze mirrors and other small objects that women and children loved.

Lan Ya had an idea, asked Liu Yuan to park the ox cart on the side of the road, jumped off the ox cart, walked to the front of the merchant's load, and picked up all kinds of gadgets in a similar way.

Lan Ya's dress was shabby, but the merchant did not look down on it, and enthusiastically introduced the goods.

Lan Ya seemed to be interested in picking up a small bronze mirror, and the little face that was shining strangely, although the shadow of the light was more than enough to see clearly, he still excitedly took it and asked, "How to sell this?" ”

The little merchant smiled: "The little girl has the same good eyesight as the little girl in the town, I don't know that you think you are a lady in the city, this is the little brother just from the town's butterfly love flowers, no more, no less, twenty copper plates." ”

Lan Ya said with a bitter face: "Little brother, the twelve copper plates that the daughter of the main family in my village just bought from the merchant was exactly the same. ”

Lan Ya wants to deceive the other party to see if the little merchant is Cheng Erlang, if so, by the way, learn about the person; If not, it would be easier to do, peers are light, and it is more able to find out about starting a family.

The merchant snatched back the small mirror unhappily, and his face turned pale *: "Little girl, it's not the little brother who scares you, my Lin Si sells a bronze mirror, and the real silver goods are sold in two, Cheng Erlang sells a long-term business, and the eldest daughter and little daughter-in-law don't know how much he coaxed away." ”

When Liu and Yue heard it, why didn't they understand the meaning of Lan Ya?

Liu Shi pulled down his face and said, "This little brother doesn't speak well?" Buying and selling, buying and selling is not benevolence and righteousness, how can this business not turn its face? Although your peers are enemies, you haven't offended you! ”

Lan Ya saw that the Liu family was on the road, and her little face was also teased, and she said unhappily: "Mother, let's wait for the merchant from Quanshui Village to come tomorrow and then buy it, or the merchant is sincere." ”

When the merchant heard this, he was also angry, and said in an unkind tone while lifting the burden: "Be kind to be a donkey's liver and lungs, and I will also be for your good." ”

Yue's also heard that the door was sewn, and he hurriedly said: "Brother merchant, don't be angry, the eldest niece is proud of the small mirror, you don't let the price, and you don't let us go to the merchant to buy, it is inevitable that there is a bad tone, you tell the aunt, if what you say is reasonable, I will pay for this small mirror to buy for my eldest niece, not bad for those copper plates." ”

When the little brother saw that Yue's family was a cool person, and looked at the white and pure orchid buds, he felt a little unbearable, and put down his burden and said: "Auntie, I walk the streets and alleys, and no news can escape my ears." Last year, a girl in Lijia Village who was playing pigweed disappeared, do you know? ”

Hai's mother's family is from Lijia Village, but I listened to Hai's conversation when he returned to the village, and told his daughters not to be left alone, Lanxiang is popular, and several girls of the same age in the village have told it again, so the whole village knows about it.

Liu Shi was surprised: "Lin Shanglang, didn't a hunter find the corpse when he went into the mountains to hunt later?" ”

Lin Lang looked around and said: "The person who found the corpse is the third child of the Cheng family, and he also blackmailed the old Liu family for two taels of silver!" What do you think, if a person dies in the mountains, how can he be a whole corpse, and the wolf has already let the wolf dig out nothing, but the daughter of the Liu family has not been bitten anywhere, but her body is blue and purple, and her clothes are torn, it looks like, it looks like ......"

The Liu family and the Yue family are both here, how can there be anything that they don't understand, the Yue family looked at the embarrassed little brother who couldn't speak, and said: "However, this is not necessarily what Cheng Saburo did?" ”

Lin Lang glanced at Lan Ya mysteriously, and the bird whispered to Hai's ear: "Auntie, tell you about home, my cousin lives in Quanshui Village, when he was drunk, the bird quietly told me that he liked the daughter of the Liu family for a long time, but it was a pity that the brothers of the family picked it up." I poured him two glasses of wine before saying that when the daughter of the Liu family died, the red belly pocket she was wearing was gone, and many people in the village saw the red thing in Cheng San's arms, but I was afraid that it was the red belly pocket. It's just that the people in the village are afraid of Cheng Saburo and don't dare to sue the official, Cheng Erlang will also be a man, and he will shoot some pheasants or something for the people in the village, everyone will stop talking, but no one will dare to marry his daughter to a family. ”

Secretly glanced at Lan Ya again, and saw that the little girl was listening with her ear sideways, and lowered her voice again: "Auntie, I see that you are also a cheerful person, and the eldest niece is not strong, so I will be a kind person, let's say nothing, don't say it is me." At the beginning of spring, Cheng Boss married a daughter-in-law, but he was hanged in less than a month, the four brothers of the Cheng family cried, like a dead old lady, Cheng Saburo's face was scratched, and it was a woman's nail at a glance, and the village people rumored that Cheng Boss's daughter-in-law was forced to wait for Cheng Saburo at night, was insulted, and hanged. Two months ago, I entrusted a matchmaker to the family, saying that as long as the family marries the daughter, the family will marry the sister, the dowry is 20 taels of silver, and the dowry is 20 taels of silver. Forty taels of silver inside and out. ”

Lan Ya took out the copper plate from his arms and bought the four small mirrors of the little merchant in one go, so that the little merchant couldn't close his mouth with joy.

Sending away the little merchant, Yue's face was embarrassed and silent, and he didn't know how to repeat this dirty thing to Lan Ya that was not suitable for children, Lan Ya shook his head and said: "Auntie, I heard it all, let's talk about it, the family is a group of outlaws, it's not easy to provoke, let's just don't hear about these things, let alone spread it." ”

After speaking, they got into the ox cart first, and several people were silent all the way.

When I returned home, I heard a quarrel from a distance, and Lan Ya was afraid that Zhang would be forced by Sanguang and Hai to agree to marry Lan Xiang, so she hurriedly pushed the door into the courtyard.

I saw that in the yard, there was a person sitting on the broken horse, with a cape and a sharp voice, and he was pointing at Yu Sanguang with his hand and scolding: "You are an ungrateful splasher, I saved you two with the front foot of the house, and you turned your face and didn't recognize people with your back foot, what's wrong with my Zhi'er, I can read and break words, and my illness has also improved, it is her blessing to be able to see your orchid, it is said in the play, the grace of saving life, there is no way to repay it, you should make a promise with your body." I didn't mention it, you just married Lanxiang to another village, you have no conscience, this is forcing our old Chen family to death......"

Lan Ya couldn't help but roll her eyes, a family didn't send away, and another old Chen family came to the family, which was not easy to send.

He approached Hai and said, "Mother, what's the matter?" ”

Hai Shi said with a sad face: "It's not your aunt, when I see Lan Xiang, I flirt with a gun and a stick, I can't be angry, so I quarrel twice, but she is not happy, seven hundred years of millet and eight hundred years of bran in the small intestine, noisy, and said that Lan Xiang is a good thing to kiss the big bolt, I haven't figured out what's going on, and the people who watched the excitement told the old Chen Pozi about your marriage, and the old Chen Pozi was killed, and you had to let your eldest sister marry Chen Xiaozhi as a house." In this way, it is better to marry the third child in a family. ”

Lan Ya hurriedly stopped the Hai family, who was about to talk back, and said in a low voice: "Mother, don't impulsively agree to marry your sister to a family." Didn't you see that Chen was the only one scolding here today, and my grandmother's temper could stand it? She just wanted you to be unbearable, so she agreed to start a family. I've inquired about starting a family, and I can't marry if I die. Whoever you love marries whoever marries, my sister can't. ”

Seeing the sadness on his daughter's face, the Hai family knew that he would definitely inquire about the bad things about starting a family, so he pulled up Mrs. Chen and said, "Sister-in-law of the Chen family, who did you listen to?" Although my family Lanxiang is thirteen, she has no intention of marrying at all, let alone starting a family, you must have heard it wrong, I assure you, Lanxiang has nothing to do with starting a family. ”

Mrs. Chen was overjoyed, brushed her hair and wanted to stand up, then sat on the ground again, and said suspiciously: "You, what you said is true?" You dare to swear? ”

Hai raised three fingers in a row, and was about to swear, when Zhang came out with a curtain, glanced at Hai fiercely, and shouted: "Loser girl, get out of the way!" ”

Then he pointed at Chen and scolded: "You are an old shameless person, and you don't look at whose house it is, dare to go to Lao Yu's house to spread wild?" What are you? Do you want to marry the daughter of my family, the silver in your hand? Can you afford a dowry? The old family came with twenty taels of silver, do you have it? Also, your Xiaozhi doesn't look down on my Lanxiang, what's good about your Xiaozhi? Live today and die tomorrow, let my granddaughter stay alive and widowed? If it was good, your daughter-in-law wouldn't run away with anyone! If you don't get out again, I'll shoot you to death with a big broom......"

Zhang really took a big broom and began to beat people, and slapped it on Mrs. Chen's face again and again, drawing several bloody lines.

When Mrs. Chen originally lived in the village, her courage was surprisingly small, and she looked like a nest, but Chen Lian's hand was broken because of the third room of the Yu family, and Lan Ya tolerated her everywhere, and she had some extra money in her hand, so she was a little arrogant and couldn't find the north, and she coerced each other.

Mrs. Chen shouted as she ran: "You are bullying our orphans and widows......

Zhang's waist crossed, guarding the hospital door, and shouted: "Your family is still orphaned and widowed? When did Chen Lian die, how come I don't know? Or do you want to go out of the wall with red apricots, curse your family Chen Lian to die early and become a widow, thousands of people ride thousands of people across the ......."

Mrs. Chen was so angry that her face turned pale, and she flicked her sleeves and ran away.

After beating Chen away, Zhang glanced at Hai with an unhappy face, and scolded: "Don't you come in to discuss the family affairs of starting a family......"

Hai Shi worriedly tugged at the corner of Yu Sanguang's sleeve, and said in a deep voice: "Ya'er inquired back, because before Ya'er had time to elaborate, he said that killing him would not allow Xiang'er to marry into a family." ”

Yu Sanguang followed the Hai family into the house with a gloomy face, ready to be scolded by the Zhang family at any time and couldn't raise his head.