After scolding the Qian family, Mei Changan turned to the Qian family's father and mother again: "Father-in-law, mother-in-law, you have also seen what happened today!" My father came to our house for the first time for so many years, and he only lived for less than a month, and he was treated like this, and in the winter, he didn't even burn the kang! This is the rule of your Qian family? ”

Qian's father was so ashamed that he couldn't raise his head, and only pleaded in a low voice: "Good son-in-law, my family Ruyue is confused for a while, if you don't look at anything else, just for the sake of Jin Hai, forgive her this time?" I'll give it to you for her, and I'll accompany my in-laws! It's all our fault that we didn't teach our daughters well—"

While begging, he pulled Qian Niang's sleeve with his hand and gave her a look.

Qian Niang saw her daughter covering her face and crying, while looking at herself with pleading eyes, and then looking at the anger on the face of the Mei family, especially her son-in-law, she suddenly became short of breath.

Now the two of them are living on their daughter-in-law and son-in-law, if the daughter-in-law is really divorced, what can they do?

Thinking about it like this, she was heartbroken, and said simply: "I rely on me for this matter, I hid it from my daughter and didn't let my in-laws burn the kang." But I can't help it, this father-in-law got sick as soon as he came, and three or four doctors a day changed it, and the money was faster than burning paper. ”

"Now the son-in-law has not gone to the yamen to work for the sake of his father-in-law, and there is no income in the family. We ordinary people, where can we afford such a throw? Besides, this son-in-law runs outside every day, and the family is counting on my daughter alone. I have to boil medicine, cook, and change my father-in-law, and I can't wash it three times a day. ”

"My daughter was also pampered and raised since she was a child, where did she suffer like this? The firewood prepared by the family last year was not enough, and in the house of my father-in-law, the smell was really bad. I'm going to burn the kang, and I can't go in anymore. I hid it from my daughter, saying that I was going to burn the kang for her, but I didn't burn it! ”

"Son-in-law, you are also considerate and considerate of your daughter-in-law, look at her hands, this cold winter is washing the bedding and clothes for her father-in-law, and her hands are frozen and cracked! You don't feel distressed, I feel distressed! As he spoke, he simply ran to Qian's side, hugged her and cried.

Mei Changan stumbled and made a helpless look: "Mother-in-law, you ...... You're ......."

Mei Xiaotong watched their family perform coldly, and when she saw that they really felt that they were excusable, she spoke: "My in-laws said that my daughter has been pampered since she was a child, and she lives on her daughter-in-law, why don't your mother help you when you have to wash clothes, cook, and boil medicine?" Watching? This is your pampering, your heart hurts? ”

"Besides, even if my father is sick and spends more money, it is justified! My father's son was also admitted to Xiucai, and the money spent on him for so many years is not enough for the medicine money these days? This Mei family's money, when will it be your Qian family's turn to call the shots? ”

"I also change my father's bedding and clothes three times a day, when we haven't seen them before? The futon

The traces, the smell of the house, I'm afraid you haven't washed it, right? Do we fool our group of people, or do we fail to see when we are blind? ”

After saying that, the cries of Qian and Qian Niang choked on their throats, and the mother and daughter hugged them stiffly, neither getting up, nor continuing to hold them.

Tianhu has been looking at Mei Zhongzhong in the room, and when he saw Mei Zhongzhong's eyelids moving slightly, he had the intention of waking up, and hurriedly shouted out: "Milk, auntie, it seems that the master is about to wake up-"

At this time, everyone couldn't care about quarreling, and hurriedly ran to the wing where Mei Zhongzhong lived.

When he went in, Mei Zhongzhong slowly opened his eyes under the attention of everyone, blinked blankly, and then saw Mrs. Li and Mei Xiaotong who were watching him along the kang, and showed a smile with great difficulty: "You-you guys are here-" As soon as he finished speaking, he closed his eyes and fainted.

"Daddy—"

"Lord—"

The room was suddenly in chaos, and only Mei Xiaotong remained calm and sober.

She gave Mei Changan a look and withdrew.

Mei Changan was very up-to-date, and he hurriedly withdrew, with just the right amount of anxiety and panic on his face: "Little sister, what did you call me out?" ”

"Dad's illness, which doctor did you invite? How so? Mei Xiaotong asked directly.

"I invited the most famous doctor in Shou'antang in the county, and said that he was not accustomed to water and soil, and prescribed medicine, but it always didn't work after drinking——"

Mei Xiaotong directly interrupted him: "Go and invite another doctor." ”

"But even the doctor in Shou'antang can't help it, and his doctor is the most famous in this county, and even the county magistrate's mansion invites their doctor to see a doctor. As soon as other doctors heard that it was the doctor of Shou'antang, they didn't see it well, and they didn't dare to come to the door! Mei Changan was very embarrassed.

Mei Xiaotong glanced at him and shouted directly into the house: "Third brother, come out." ”

Mei Changqing hurriedly came out.

"Third brother, you go find a doctor right now and show your father." Mei Xiaotong commanded directly.

Mei Changqing immediately nodded: "I'll go right away!" He turned around and walked out of the courtyard gate.

Mei Xiaotong entered the wing room: "Fourth brother, first carry my father to the upper room, let him warm up, don't freeze!" ”

"No! The upper room is where my parents and I live! Why do you want to let a patient live, he is so-" Jin Hai's remaining words were covered back by Qian.

Jin Chai glared at Qian with angry eyes, he couldn't believe that his own mother didn't help him, how could he let such a dirty patient go to live in the upper room?

Qian pinched the golden hairpin fiercely and said in a low voice: "Shut up!" Do you want a reputation? ”

This has to be spread, when the granddaughter's disgust and grandfather are dirty and don't let him enter the house, Jin Hai's life will be ruined. Jin Hai watched Mei Changgui and Tianlong wrap Mei Zhongzhong in the quilt and carry her to the upper room, and threw away the dirty bedding

Come out.

Mrs. Li asked the direction of the stove house again, ran in, boiled a pot of hot water, scrubbed Mei Zhongzhong's body, changed into a set of clothes that Mei Changgui carried, and finally lay down comfortably.

Tianhu is also very eye-catching, Mei Changgui and Mrs. Li are in it to scrub Mei Zhongzhong's body and change clothes, he hurriedly ran out to the stove house, lit the fire, boiled the remaining water in the pot, found a handful of rice in the stove house, threw it into the pot, boiled out a big bowl of thick rice soup, and brought it to the room.

Jin Hai stared so hard that his eyes were about to come out, and he was stopped by the Qian family.

The family was like an outsider, looking at the Mei family as if they were at home, and they didn't talk much, and after a while, they took care of Mei loyally.

The Qian family wanted to go in several times, but Mei Xiaotong was guarding the door, glaring at him coldly, and he didn't dare to step forward.

It was Mei Changan, who praised Mei Xiaotong casually: "Thanks to my mother and little sister, otherwise I, a man, wouldn't know how to serve my father!" Fortunately, you are here, Dad doesn't have to suffer, and I don't have to worry about it! ”

The Qian family next to him also endured the shame and said: "Little sister, this time it's my fault!" You shouldn't have listened to my mother, you neglected your father! When my father wakes up, I'll compensate him! ”

"It's not enough to pay for it, you really have to have this heart, No, this quilt is dirty, dismantle and wash it!" Mei Xiaotong sneered. Qian gritted her teeth, and was a little hesitant, she was born - love clean, in addition to herself and the officials, there is also a golden hairpin, and she has never even washed her father's clothes.

This made her wash the filthy bedding, and it was better to kill her.

But now, she didn't dare not wash, so she had to turn her head and habitually go to see Mei Changan.

Mei Changan nodded at her and motioned for her to accept it.

In Mei Changan's opinion, although the bedding is very dirty, he doesn't want to wash it himself, he naturally feels that it doesn't matter, and he still dislikes Qian's grinding.

Qian's mother knew that her daughter's little temperament was a little bit, so she hurriedly stepped forward: "This matter is mine, I will compensate my in-laws, I will wash this bedding!" ”

As he spoke, he gritted his teeth and picked up the futon, dragged Qian's father to the side, first removed the sheets and quilts, and hung the quilt inside under the eaves to blow the wind.

Qian Niang went to the stove house to boil hot water to wash the bedding, and Mei Xiaotong looked at the wing room where Mei Zhongzhong lived: "The house where my father lived, don't you clean it up?" ”

His eyes were fixed on Qian, and he understood very well, so he asked Qian to clean up.

Qian had no one to help, so he had to grit his teeth and go in, and after a while, he covered his mouth, ran to the corner of the wall to search his intestines and scraped his stomach and vomited, only to vomit the remaining water, dizziness, and the whole person was weak.

Mei Xiaotong looked at it coldly, not sympathetic at all.

If they have a little conscience, whether it is for Mei Zhongzhong's contribution to Mei Chang'an over the years, or for the sake of using him to coax his family to come, they should be loyal to Mei a little better.

Don't say anything else, she dislikes dirty clothes and mattresses and doesn't change them

Pardonable. If you don't do it yourself, what qualifications do you have to ask your daughter-in-law to do it?

But they didn't even burn the kang, if they hadn't arrived, they were afraid that Mei Zhongzhong would be so sick that he would freeze for a few more days, and he would die.

It's so dark!

Jin Hai looked at Mei Xiaotong angrily, if his eyes could kill, it is estimated that Mei Xiaotong would have died several times.

Mei Xiaotong didn't bother to look at Jin Hai at all, and followed into the wing room to pack Mei's loyal package.

Mei Zhongzhong's package was messy, just a few changes of clothes were stuffed in it haphazardly, and the silver ticket he gave him and the broken silver given by An Huahao were not even found.

came out with a calm face, and it happened that Mei Changqing invited the doctor.

I didn't care about anything else, so I asked the doctor to go to the upper room first, and rested for a while before asking him to take Mei's pulse.

Mei Xiaotong pulled Mei Changqing into the courtyard and asked in a low voice, "Where did you find a doctor?" Why did it take so long? ”

Mei Changqing wiped his sweat: "The second child is living in such a shabby place, there is not even a pharmacy nearby, let alone a doctor." I asked someone in the alley for a long time, and when I heard that it was for the Mei family to ask for a doctor, I shook my head and said I didn't know. I ran a long way to ask the place, this is the nearest doctor, so I invited someone back. ”

Mei Xiaotong's eyebrows jumped, and she suppressed her anger: "Third brother, let's see what the doctor says." ”

Doctor Liwu had already finished taking the pulse, and Mrs. Li and Mei Changgui were watching with blank eyes.

The doctor said slowly: "The old man probably ate something unclean, if he was quietly hungry for two days at the beginning, it would be good to clean it." I guess I didn't take it to heart and ate greasy things, but it got worse. The old man is old, and he can't stand this tossing for a while, so I will prescribe two doses of medicine and drink it for two days before taking a look. ”

Mei Xiaotong asked suspiciously: "It's not that you can't adapt to the soil and water."

Is it? Why did you eat something unclean again? ”

The doctor showed surprise: "The old man is the first time to come to our Qicheng?" ”

Mrs. Li nodded.

"Then it's no wonder, when I first arrived, I didn't adapt to the water and soil, and I ate something inappropriate, and my spleen and stomach couldn't stand it." The doctor nodded.

"Doctor, when will my father be well?" Mei Changgui asked cautiously.

"Let's take two doses of medicine first." The doctor pondered for a moment and then said.

Mei Xiaotong chuckled in her heart, and when the doctor prescribed the prescription, she hurriedly sent it out: "Doctor, let's follow you to get the medicine?" ”

The doctor nodded.

Mei Xiaotong whispered an explanation in Mei Changqing's ear, and stuffed him with a silver ticket, asking him to send the doctor back and catch the medicine back by the way.

When he came in, Mei Zhongzhong just woke up in a daze, and was being helped up by Mei Changgui and feeding him rice soup.

The rice soup is thick and fragrant, and now the temperature is just right, Mei Zhongzhong drank half a bowl in a daze, and

I slept through.

Seeing that Mei Zhongzhong slept peacefully, and her face looked better, leaving Tianhu to watch, everyone retreated.

The courtyard was cold, Mei Changan rubbed his hands with his feet, and when he saw that everyone had come out, he hurriedly invited him to the next room.

Qian was cleaning up the house, and Mei Changan motioned to Jin Hai to pour water: "Go and pour water for your grandmother, aunt and two uncles to drink, they have been in the house for a long time, and they haven't even drunk saliva." ”

Jin Hai rolled his eyes and didn't want to move, but was glared at by Mei Changan, and went out reluctantly.

The room was a little cold for a moment.

Mei Changan coughed and was about to speak, when Mrs. Li took out something directly from her arms and slapped it on the table: "Say, what's going on?" ”

Mei Changan and everyone looked at it together, wasn't there the two hundred taels of silver ticket stamped with an invalid stamp on the table?

The muscles on Mei Changan's face twitched, and her face was still very calm: "Mother, what's going on?" "What's going on? You ask the old lady what's going on? Mei Changan, you little rabbit cub, it's okay, go back and pretend to be a big guy, speak better than sing, say what you make money outside, and make up for the money you used to sell the land! That's what you made up? Get a discarded silver ticket to coax the old lady, right? Mrs. Li threw the silver ticket in Mei Changan's face.

Mei Changan blinked, caught the silver ticket, looked at it for a while, and then smiled bitterly: "Mother, I really don't know!" This silver ticket was entrusted to me by someone else, thank me! I looked at the large denomination at the time, and I thought about saving it and taking it back, so I didn't look closely! Who knew it would be invalid! ”

"Mother, don't worry, I'll find that person! It's so hateful, he tricked me into doing things for him, and even got a fake silver ticket to fool me! ”

A look of righteous indignation after being deceived.

But now, none of the people present believed his words.

Mrs. Li directly didn't talk nonsense to him: "Okay, you said that you were deceived if you were deceived!" The old lady doesn't care, you pay two hundred taels! ”

"Mother, where do I have such silver in my hand now, aren't you embarrassed for me? Dad spent a lot of money to see a doctor, and this big snack doesn't cost money? I live in the county town, and I even need money to drink saliva, where can I get such a large sum of silver! Mei Changan cried poorly.

"You fart! The old lady told you that if you don't give money, the old lady will go to the gate of the county government to publicize it for you now! See how you have it in the future

Stay in this county town with your face and do things for the county lord! "Why did Mrs. Li come to Qicheng with her, after all, she is loyal to Mei, and it is one thing to be worried.

More importantly, of course, I came to ask for silver!

Since the second child said to do things for the county master, she will go to the county master! It's not easy to do a good job, and it's not easy to do it badly?

Mei Changan looked panicked, he knew that his mother-in-law could really do it when he said it! If you really want to go to the county government to make a scene, even if you do it in the future, your reputation will stink.

Gritted his teeth and said, "Mother, don't worry."

！ I'll raise money for you in the next few days, and promise to pay you back one or two when the time comes, okay? ”

"When is that time? What are you going to do if you stick the old lady to the Year of the Monkey and the month of the horse? Mrs. Li asked after her.

Mei Changan pressed the resentment to the bottom of his eyes, and took a deep breath before saying, "Don't worry, mother, I'll make it up for you in just a few days." ”

Mrs. Li stopped talking.

After Qian finished spitting out the water, it took a long time to have some strength, went to the stove house to drink some water, and then came out, and faced Mei Chang'an, who came out with a blue face.

"That matter can't be delayed, you'll take your little sister around the street in a while!" Mei Changan said in a low voice.

Qian nodded.

He rubbed his cheeks to make his face less stiff and ugly, and then walked into the house: "Mother, little sister, you see, you came suddenly, there is nothing to eat in this house, and this lunch has not yet settled." Mother, you rest at home, I'll go out and buy some good food and come back. ”

Mrs. Li snorted coldly, which was a tacit acquiescence.

Qian turned his head again and took Mei Xiaotong's hand very enthusiastically: "Little sister, you see that you rarely come to the county seat, why don't you go to the street with your sister-in-law?" It just happened to tell me what my mother likes to eat, and do you have any taboos in the family? ”

Mei Xiaotong frowned and shook off Qian's hand: "I'm tired and don't want to go out." ”

"Little sister, this county is lively, it's rare for you to come here, and my sister-in-law just took you to see it. There are a lot of women's jewelry sellers on the road, very beautiful, you go out with your sister-in-law, and your sister-in-law buys you a gift, okay? Qian did not give up and continued to lobby.

Jin Hai was anxious when he heard this: "Mother, why did you buy it for her?" If you want to buy it, buy it for me! You didn't even buy me new jewelry for the Chinese New Year! ”

Mrs. Li didn't want her daughter to go out, what is there to visit in the county? Haven't you ever shopped at home? It's been a few days since you were on the road, and you can't rest?

But as soon as he heard Jin Hai's words, he immediately came to the spirit: "Girl, go!" Why don't you go? You pick an expensive one, a beautiful one, and let her pay for it! ”

Now as long as she can dig up the meat of the second child, Mrs. Li is very happy.

(End of chapter)