Mrs. Li's back stiffened, she felt the sneering and mocking eyes of the people around her, her face was hot and painful, and she said with a hard mouth: "Isn't it, my aunt's family is not rich, I have to save everything, one or two silver and a prescription are already cheap, and my aunt's family also has a large family waiting to eat." ”

"Yes, yes, I heard other aunts in the village say that the sister-in-law is telling Brother Dazhu about his daughter-in-law, and Brother Dazhu can't spend money to marry his sister-in-law?" Gu Changning echoed with a sincere face, "My aunt's vision is so good, the daughter-in-law who is said for Brother Dazhu must not be bad." ”

Mrs. Li's face stiffened, and she smiled very reluctantly.

"Changning, you little clever ghost, you are so good at talking, how do you know that the daughter-in-law you are looking for by Aunt Li must not be bad?" One of the women who was washing clothes by the river asked with a smile, full of curiosity.

"Of course it's not bad, I saw that several brothers in the village were married at the age of fifteen or sixteen, Brother Dazhu was only ready to marry at the age of nineteen this year, and he must have been carefully selected, my father was also twenty out of twenty and married my mother, my grandmother said, this is because she wanted to pick a good daughter-in-law for my father at the time, which was delayed for a few years, and then selected my mother, it turns out that my mother is the top good!" Gu Changning said with a smile, "I think it's the same for Aunt Li, right?" ”

Mrs. Li's hand holding her clothes tightened, and her smile was very ugly.

Gu Changning pretended not to see it, but was still smiling, as if he really thought so from the bottom of his heart, Li Niangzi only felt that a mouthful of turbid air was blocked in her heart and she couldn't spit it out.

Gu Changning's voice fell, and someone on the other side of the aunt who had just spoken couldn't help laughing, "Yes, yes, Changning is right, such a carefully selected daughter-in-law must have a lot of places to spend money, no wonder a prescription sells for one or two silver." Eh, Dr. Li's family, your family is really short of money, and then sell prescriptions, a prescription is a tael of silver, this money is not too easy to make. ”

"You know what!" Mrs. Li finally couldn't hold back anymore, and threw the water-soaked clothes in her hand into the basin, splashing with water, and said with a cold face, "That's not an ordinary fetal prescription, it's a secret recipe from my family's old Li's ancestors, and it is easy not to spread out, and the effect is many times better than the fetal medicine sold in pharmacies outside!" Others can't ask for my family's prescription for ten taels of silver, one or two pieces of silver is already a free gift, Changning, you are young and uneducated, girls, don't know how not to chew the root of your tongue outside! ”

It was already very vicious to say that a girl who had not left the pavilion was chewing the root of her tongue, and the faces of several women by the river had not changed color, and Gu Changning had already screamed in panic.

"What? Is that prescription so precious? Gu Changning looked horrified, "This, what should I do, there was a market in Xingshui Town before, I took advantage of the market to buy a few pieces of medicine back, and I was also thinking about whether it would be cheaper to go to the pharmacy in the market, so I looked at the shopkeeper of the prescription medicine shop, what can I do now, the shopkeeper has already seen the prescription...... I'm going to talk to my brother when I go back, and I'll go to the shopkeeper of that pharmacy tomorrow!" ”

Tears were about to fall as she spoke, Gu Changning looked flustered, anxious like an ant on a hot pot, Mrs. Li was stunned by what she said and this posture, and forgot to react for a while.

"Oh, that's good!" The woman who spoke before took the opportunity to take over the conversation, "Ten taels of silver a piece, Changning, you are really careless!" In this way, don't worry, I'll talk to my guy when I go back later, and ask him to take a few burly villagers to the pharmacy to ask for an explanation, and in any case, I must let the shopkeeper return the ten taels of silver! If you don't pay it back, you will go to the yamen to sue him, ten taels of silver is not a small amount! ”

Mrs. Li was dumbfounded, this is an ordinary fetal prescription that can't even be sold for fifty yuan, why did she report it to the official?

Report to the officer?

The aunts who were also washing clothes by the river were stunned, looking at each other, their faces full of doubts, and they didn't understand how they were involved in reporting to the official.

Not only the aunts, but even the three people squatting beside Gu Changning were also stunned, looking at a loss.

Yang Jin frowned and looked at Gu Changning, seeing her gently shaking her head at herself, knowing that she had an idea in her heart, she didn't say anything anymore, but the mystery in her heart became heavier, and she didn't know what Gu Changning wanted to do.

Everyone was stunned and gave Li Niangzi time to react, she quickly came back to her senses, and "spitted" at the woman who proposed to report to the official, glaring and scolding: "Zhang, you little slut!" Chew the root of your tongue there, and you are not afraid of rotting your tongue! ”

"What Mrs. Li said is so unreasonable, I'm helping Changning come up with ideas, why do you say I'm chewing the root of my tongue?" Hearing the "little slut", Zhang's eyes were cold, he looked at Mrs. Li, smiled coldly, and said.

She knew that Mrs. Li was weak-hearted, so she showed such a suspicious and empty look, and wanted to overpower her on the head of the conversation and make her shut up.

But she couldn't get used to Mrs. Li's arrogant appearance, so she opened her mouth to help Gu Changning speak, if it weren't for that, she would have nothing to do with the Gu family, so she didn't bother to take care of other people's affairs.

Hearing Zhang's mention, Li Niangzi remembered that this matter was shaken out because of Gu Changning's mouth, and she was immediately even more annoyed, and sprinkled all her anger on Gu Changning.

"Changning, it's better for girls to be quiet, no one will want too many words." Li Niangzi looked at Gu Changning in an unkind tone.

Gu Changning endured and endured in his heart, restrained his temper, and whispered with a pretended aggrieved face: "I'm sorry Aunt Li, I didn't know that Dr. Li couldn't say anything about selling my family's prescription, so I won't mention it in the future, don't be angry, I know it's wrong." ”

Several aunts who were still watching the excitement frowned when they heard this, and looked at Li Niangzi, thinking that she was an adult to bully a girl who was only eight years old and had just lost her father, first sold someone for one or two with a worthless prescription, and now she is ruining the reputation of people and children here, which is really embarrassing.

Even the two women who came with Mrs. Li before were hesitant, squatting and quietly moving to the side while washing clothes, feeling a little disgusted with her family's behavior.

Li Niangzi caught a glimpse of this scene, her face was red and white, and she was very ashamed.

She looked at Gu Changning with an ugly smile, and said with a smile: "Changning, don't get me wrong, my aunt is not angry with you, but you are still young, don't say anything you don't know, so as not to make people laugh." ”

"What my aunt said is that Changning has written it down, what should I do with the shopkeeper of the pharmacy in Xingshui Town? He had already read his aunt's ancestral prescription, what could he do? That's ten taels of silver! Gu Changning agreed with an ignorant face, and then said with a look of annoyance, frowning.

When Mrs. Li heard her mention this matter again, her eyebrows couldn't help jumping, and she hurriedly stopped her for fear that she would continue to speak: "It's okay, it's okay, the shopkeeper just watched it, after all, he also watched it without his knowledge, don't blame him...... Of course, I don't blame you brothers and sisters, you brothers and sisters have little knowledge, how can you know the preciousness of this prescription. ”

Mrs. Li's voice fell, and Zhang couldn't help but laugh out loud, staring at the clothes he was rubbing in his hand, and deliberately sneered loudly, "Dr. Li has made a lot of money over the years, right?" You can't even look down on ten taels of silver, you usually see you and your wife saving so much, you really don't see it, tsk......"

"What's your business if my family can make money or not? The two of us are willing to live a frugal life, and you use your mouth?! Listening to her harsh words, Li Niangzi glanced at her suddenly, and said fiercely with an angry look on her face, "If your man can't make money, it's because your man has no ability!" Who made you not marry a good man! If you have the ability to say sour things, let your man also think of the law to make money! ”

Zhang's husband's surname is Yang, and he was also a wealthy family in Xinghua Village in his early years, with a hundred acres of land at home, and only one son in the family, Yang Dalang, who was also in the limelight for a while when he first married.

But the good times didn't last long, first there was a drought one year, and the crops in the field were not harvested, and the father and son of the Yang family originally invited someone to plow the land and farm, but now not only did not have an income, but also posted a lot.

Later, Yang's father suddenly became seriously ill, and he lay at home for a year, and he couldn't be cured by inviting many doctors, and in order to treat him, the family's field was almost sold out, and when there were only the last ten acres left, Yang's father finally couldn't survive and left.

The Yang family has no land, no one has been saved, and the family situation has begun to be much worse than before, there are four children waiting for dinner under Yang's mother, and life is a little more arduous.

Among these people, there is Li Niangzi.

At this moment, she was provoked by Zhang's and accidentally blurted out the words in her heart, but after speaking, she was shocked in her heart, and looked at Zhang's with a calm face, very bluffing.

"Our family is not so ambitious, for the sake of money to do anything, although our family is not as rich as before, but every copper plate our husband and wife are used steadfastly, is clean and earned, as for how the money in the hands of some people come from......" Zhang washed his clothes and twisted hard, squeezed out a "hum" from his nasal cavity, and said, "A family of orphans and widows, that money has to be cheated, and I am not afraid that people's fathers will come to the door in the middle of the night to seek justice for their wives and children!" ”

"What nonsense are you talking about! Don't go! Zhang, you stop for me, don't you hear, don't go! Make it clear to me! When Mrs. Li heard this, she was furious, and she was about to stand up and stop Zhang, who was about to go home with her clothes, and shouted angrily.

Seeing this, the two women squatting beside her hurriedly got up and stopped her, and said while stopping: "Forget it, everyone is from the same village, look up and don't look down, don't make too much trouble in everything." ”