Before leaving, Mrs. Wang personally brought a small baggage, which was a full hundred taels of silver.

These two taels of silver are enough for ordinary people's families to eat for a month, let alone more than one hundred taels.

Liu Meiniang excused herself several times to no avail, but Mrs. Wang said with a cold face, "The Taoist saved my wife's life, and there is nothing to repay." If you don't even accept this little bit of heart, then you deliberately make my wife unhappy. Either the Taoist chief thinks that this one hundred taels is too little, and he can't look at it. ”

Liu Meiniang couldn't, so she had to accept the one hundred taels of silver.

After Liu Meiniang said goodbye to the palace, she went to the river in all directions.

There is an old banyan tree not far from the river, and I don't know how many years it has grown. Nearly half of the main trunk of the banyan tree has been hollowed out by ants. But it's still alive, very tenacious.

The tree hole is very large, there is no problem in hiding a person to go in, and Liu Meiniang's previous clothes are placed there.

This was also discovered by Liu Meiniang by accident.

She looked around and saw that there was no one, so she changed her clothes.

Liu Meiniang breathed a sigh of relief and slowly walked back to the small thatched house of the Zhang family along the path.

In these days of staying in the palace, eating and drinking spicy food almost raised Liu Meiniang's mouth. Looking at the small thatched house in front of you, the gap in the quality of life is not ordinarily large.

Zhang Li was carrying a bamboo basket with some coarse cloth clothes and soap horns in it, and it seemed that he was going to the river to wash clothes.

Zhang Li's age is about the same as Mrs. Wang, but she looks more than ten years old. The wrinkles on the face could not be covered by any means, like deep ravines. Zhang Li's back was also slightly hunched, and his sideburns were even grayer.

Liu Meiniang couldn't bear it. She sighed.

"Mother." Liu Meiniang shouted from afar.

Zhang Li raised his head, and was stunned for a moment when he saw that it was his eldest daughter-in-law, and then he was about to put down the basket and run over, and almost tripped over the raised stone on the ground. Fortunately, Liu Meiniang quickly helped her hand and didn't fall.

"Mei Niang, are you okay? Where are you going these days? But the mother is in a hurry......" Zhang Li pulled Liu Meiniang to look up and down, and tears appeared in his eyes as he spoke.

Liu Meiniang's heart was sour, "I'm sorry, mother." I was the one who went out to hide from the Wang family before, and I didn't think about it that much. ”

Although Liu Meiniang crossed over, and there was no way to completely regard Zhang Li as her biological mother, she was still very sad when she looked at her low spirits.

As soon as he said this, Zhang Li finally mentioned a little spirit, "Yesterday, the second lady of the palace asked people to come and withdraw from their relatives. Wang Dayi also came, but the expression on his face was ugly, saying that it was your birthday and Master Wang's restraint, and entering the door at that time might lead to disaster. The reason is a little ugly, but it's better than if you marry and suffer......"

Liu Meiniang smiled and nodded, "I heard about it, so I came back in a hurry today." This matter can be regarded as solved, and we can continue to live in peace in the future. ”

Zhang Li's lips moved twice when he heard this, and he looked like he wanted to speak and stopped.

"What's wrong, mother?" Liu Meiniang blinked, "Just say it, it's okay." ”

Zhang Li grabbed the corner of his clothes, hesitated for a moment and then said, "Although the Wang family said that they wanted to withdraw from the marriage, Wang Dayi said that Ji Han's gambling contract in the gambling house was still counted, and he asked us to compensate the Wang family for thirty taels of silver." Mei Niang, where did we get the thirty taels of silver......"

Thirty taels of silver is not even a dime a dozen for the Wang family, but for the impoverished Zhang family, this is tantamount to an astronomical sum.

The wrinkles on Zhang Li's forehead deepened, as if they were about to be carved into her face.

Liu Meiniang never expected to have such a hand.

Judging from her understanding of the second lady, the other party would never ask for this mere thirty taels. Presumably Wang Dayi ate kickbacks in private, and he didn't dare to say more, so he said a figure like thirty taels.

The one hundred taels of silver in Liu Meiniang's hand were placed in the space of the jade pendant by her, which was less than money, and she would not use it as a last resort. Moreover, the Zhang family's poverty situation is well known, and suddenly taking out thirty taels will definitely arouse the suspicion of others. This is not the scenario that Liu Meiniang wants to see.

So she decided to mobilize the Zhang family to make money to pay off her debts.

"Mother, what about the little ones?" Liu Meiniang looked in the direction of the thatched house.

Zhang Li sighed, "I've gone to the mountains to find food." It's almost time to come back. ”

The family is really poor and can't open the pot, and there is only a little brown rice left from before. The greens are not visible at all. They had no land to plant, so they had to go to the mountains to find food.

Zhang Li didn't have a penny in his hands, but he always had to keep a little money on his body. In case these children have any kind of pain, they won't even be able to grasp the medicine at that time.

It is better to be miserable, the children of the poor are in charge early. Zhang Jihan should also be honed and honed.