Wang Feng and the others glanced at each other, then smiled and pulled the shopkeeper out. Zhang Gui thought that the two of them had gone to settle the bill, so he fell back into bed and was stunned. He guessed for a while that it was a thief on the road, and for a while he wondered that Wang Feng and the others had done it, but in the end they both felt that it was wrong. He is not a fool, although he is unwilling to admit it, but in the end he still suspects Ye Mei's head.

This night, he was thinking about borrowing some travel expenses from Wang Feng and the others tomorrow, and when he had to go home to settle accounts with Ye Mei, he took the money and rushed to Kyoto, but he had time to enter the examination room. It was not easy to stay up until dawn, but before he could open the door and go out, the innkeeper came first with two young men.

It turned out that Wang Feng and the others used the excuse that they didn't have much cash in their hands yesterday, so they went to the bank today to exchange the silver ticket and then settle the bill. No, this morning the two took advantage of the dawn to pick up the package and run away.

The shopkeeper was afraid that Zhang Gui would also run away, so he rushed to block the door. Zhang Gui remembered the usual flattery and deference of Wang Feng and the others, and he was so angry that he couldn't wait to catch them and bite them twice.

The innkeeper had seen Zhang Gui's pile of pebbles yesterday, and he would be polite knowing that he had no money to pay the bill, so he commanded the young man to take away most of the silk and satin clothes in Zhang Gui's box, and finally asked Zhang Gui if he wanted to stay for two more days.

Zhang Gui looked at the messy boxes, where would he still live again, and moved out after picking them up indiscriminately. The innkeeper didn't keep him, and called the young man to help him throw his box to the side of the road and dispersed.

Zhang Gui sat stupidly on the box, thinking about going home but had no travel expenses, and finally moved the box into a pawnshop not far away. The pawnshop shopkeeper was a poison-eyed and black-hearted man, and when he saw Zhang Gui being kicked out of the inn, he knew that he was cornered. As a result, the satin clothes became rags in his mouth, and the fine Nanmu square box became an old thing.

Although Zhang Gui was born in a peasant family, he has never dealt with such a person in the market since he was a child. He had the heart to argue with the pawnshop shopkeeper, but unfortunately he was dizzy before he could speak, and somehow he came out with a set of four treasures and two taels of silver.

He stood on the street and was exposed to the sun, and he also understood that he had suffered a loss, but he was proud, and he didn't want to admit that he was actually cheated by a talented man. In the end, I had to find a small inn to settle down, and I took a few pairs of wind and cold medicine, and finally recovered from my illness. It's a pity that after this toss, his two taels of silver were completely gone.

Fortunately, the proprietor of this small inn is not bad, and kindly borrowed him a set of tables and chairs, and persuaded, "Since the son is a showman, he will definitely be able to write letters, so it is better to go to the market and earn a hundred and ten wen a day." ”

Zhang Gui felt that it was a shame to sell words, but he had no money in his hand, so he had to bite the bullet.

It just so happened that the market was bustling on this day, and there were many people who wrote letters. Zhang Gui wrote three letters within a while of sitting down, earning fifteen yuan. While he was rejoicing, the seven or eight big men swaggered in the distance, shouting for the various vendors on the side of the road to pay the money. When I arrived at Zhang Gui, those big men looked like a fresh face, and they asked for one or two silver when they opened their mouths.

Zhang Gui had heard that there were some scoundrels in the market who bullied the people and collected money, but he didn't want to meet them in person today. One of them has no money, and the other thinks that he is a talented person, and these people dare not do anything to him. So he straightened his chest and loudly reprimanded these big men for being rampant and domineering, and they had no national law, and they would inevitably end badly.

It was very novel for those big men to hear that someone was resisting at first, but then they were so annoyed that they reached out and pulled Zhang Gui down, and they punched and kicked each other. Zhang Guier could protect his head, but he couldn't protect his buttocks, so painful that he shouted, "I am a Xiucai, and if you beat me, I will go to prison." ”

The big men sneered, "Just like you, you are poor and sour, and you are still a talented master, then we are the county master." Saying that, their feet were heavier, and Zhang Gui wanted to say something but suddenly felt a huge pain in his left leg, and immediately rolled his eyes and fainted.

When he woke up again, he was already lying in the stinky ditch by the roadside. Touching his left leg, which was so painful that he was unconscious, Zhang Gui guessed that it must have been broken by those big men. He also lost his temper, gritted his teeth and half-crawled to find the front of the mansion, hoping that the official inside would make the decision for him. It's a pity that those officials saw that he didn't even have a penny of money, and he was covered in a foul smell, so how could they let him in. But after three or five feet, he was sent back to the side of the road.

Zhang Gui was in pain and hungry at this time, and his heart was full of despair. There is a steamed bun stall not far away, and the steaming white fat buns are neatly arranged. A father and son took out four pennies and bought two, and ate them sweetly.

Zhang Gui stared at the bun in the child's hand, wishing that he could stretch out a small hand in his eyes and snatch the bun. The child was a little aware, and when he looked around, he saw Zhang Gui with a salivating face. He rolled his eyes and was about to take a big bite, and he was hungry for Zhang Gui.

It's a pity that the child didn't have the right head in his mouth, and he actually bit his finger at once. The child cried in pain, and the bun fell to the ground. The child's father was distressed that the two pennies were gone, so he reached out and slapped the child twice. The child cried and pointed at Zhang Gui to shirk it, "Dad, it was that person who scared me, so I dropped the bun..."

The child's father turned his head and saw that it was a beggar on the side of the road, stepped forward and raised his foot to kick it fiercely, and scolded, "I asked you to scare my son, a stinky beggar, you still turned the sky upside down." ”

Zhang Gui curled up and let the man kick and beat him. It was as if he didn't feel any pain at all, and all he could see was the meat bun that had fallen to the ground and been taken away by the wild dogs.

It seems that since he can remember, the first time he ate meat buns was made by Pu Cao's sister-in-law, with cabbage and salted meat filling. Pucao was distributed to the young man in the pharmacy, Uncle Li San, who did carpenter work, and then he and Taohua Shanzi, but she herself was not willing to eat.

The buns were so fragrant, big pieces of salted meat, he thought that if he could eat meat buns every day, he would have no extravagant hopes.

However, later, his sister-in-law made a fortune growing vegetables, and the life of the family was getting better and better, why did he become more and more proud and vain? The silver was spent like water, just for people to praise him a few words, where was the comfort?

Thinking about it now, it was all my sister-in-law's hard-earned money, which was earned by hard work every day full of mud and water. He used to look down on his sister-in-law, and always thought that he was full of poetry and books, and if he wanted to make money, it must be very easy. But today, when I ended up in such a situation, I realized that I was useless as a scholar.

Looking back on this, he felt more and more remorseful. Why did you lose your heart and bring such a tolerant and kind sister-in-law, why did you despise her as a slave, why didn't you see her praised, why did you hate her for being better than yourself...

Thousands of remorse, all kinds of chagrin, this moment all surged into Zhang Gui's heart. The wind and cold, which had never healed, and the serious injury of his broken leg, made him faint again.

The two officials in front of the palace looked at him from a distance, and they were a little scared when they muttered a few words together, in case this beggar was really a talented old man, and died under his nose, they couldn't say that they would be affected.

The two of them scraped together dozens of dollars, waved their hands and found a carriage to pull Zhang Gui out of the city and threw him into the ruined temple where beggars gathered.

Zhang Gui was lying on the rotten grass pile of the ruined temple, burned to the point of complete ignorance. In the evening, the beggars returned to their lodgings with the day's hard-earned gains, and suddenly they saw that there were more people and felt the novelty, and they gathered together to touch and see, and realized that this person was very sick. So he had no scruples, and scrambled to take off all the clothes that were still intact on Zhang Gui's body. At the end, he sat down in one place, poured the leftovers into a crockpot, lit a fire and boiled them, and each person had a bowl of snoring and drinking sweetly.

After eating and drinking, the beggars also had an interest in gossiping. This speculation said that Zhang Gui looked white and clean, Xu was the private school gentleman who stole the young lady and was kicked out of the door, and the businessman who said that Zhang Gui was a businessman who was robbed by thieves. In short, they finally concluded that Zhang Gui is now a homeless person waiting to die.

Although Zhang Gui was in a coma with a high fever, for some reason he was extremely disgusted by this sentence "homeless", and cried and retorted loudly, "I have a home!" With that, he lost his strength and muttered something in a low voice.

A beggar squatted down curiously to listen carefully, and finally raised his head and said, "This man said that he was sorry for his sister-in-law, could it be that he had an adulterous affair with his sister-in-law?" ”

The beggars laughed, and after laughing, they were afraid that Zhang Gui would die in the temple, so they carried him together and threw him to the side of the road.

Zhang Gui faintly felt that the cold under him was abnormal, and the only trace of clarity in his heart told him that Xu is life is about to end here.

He used to hear the old people in the village say that God has eyes, and good and evil will be rewarded in the end, but at that time he thought they were ignorant. But now I know that there is really retribution in the world, and he is completely to blame for this fate. The only thing he regrets is that he can't go home to kowtow to his sister-in-law to make amends, and he can't watch his only sister grow up and get married...

The night dew was heavy, and Zhang Gui was lying in the grass like this, waiting for the end of his life. Until, a wheelbarrow creaks from a distance and accidentally passes over him...

In Nangou Village, July this year is much busier than usual. In previous years, at this time, you can take a break from the summer by pulling weeds for the bud valley, but this year, the beans and eggplants in the vegetable fields have just been stopped, and it is a good time to replant cabbage and potatoes. Adults and children from all over the family are all busy.

Pucao no longer has to be distracted to take care of the vegetable field, so she runs more diligently to the rice field. After all, this is related to the honor and disgrace of her and Fang Jie, the Chu family and Prince Kang's three families, whether to be rewarded or imprisoned for punishment, all of which are tied to these two acres of watery and oily rice.

Of course, she occasionally has to deal with some unexpected things, such as Mrs. Chu who came to look for her daughter. In other words, Mrs. Chu thought that her son-in-law had been in Beijing for five or six days, but she still didn't see her daughter return home, so she went to the city to pick up people in a hurry. But the courtyard had already been retired by Ye Mei, and the main family was rented to a new family. Naturally, she didn't see her daughter, so she naturally found Nangou Village in a hurry.

Pu Cao is not a fool, where can she tell her the truth, just say that Ye Mei used to take Xiaoque in and out, but now the two families are living separately, and she doesn't know it anymore.