Speaking of An Huahao, Mrs. Li asked: "Hua Hao went out early in the morning, can you come back today?" ”

Mei Xiaotong shook her head, An Huahao left in a hurry in the morning, and she didn't bother to ask.

Mrs. Li watched Mei Xiaotong take out a small box to pack up the odds, and her mind moved.

Since Mei Changan stole the title deed and sold it, Mrs. Li has been more cautious in hiding things.

Now that she has moved to Mei Xiaotong's house, she no longer has to hide a little bit and Tibet a little like before.

So she hurriedly commanded Mei Xiaotong to move the box down, and she touched a small cloth bag from the corner of the box.

After a while, he touched a few pieces of broken silver from the package.

What clothes, what box compartment, and shoes, everything you can think of, and what you can't think of where things are hidden, all hide Mrs. Li's private money.

Finally, a small pile was gathered on the kang.

Mei Xiaotong is almost convinced, so many places, if you have a poor memory, you will probably forget it if you hide it.

In such a big winter, in order to find out all this private money, Mrs. Li was also tired and sweaty.

The two mothers and daughters sat on the kang and began to take inventory.

In the end, in addition to the gold jewelry, and the one hundred taels of silver tickets given by Mei Xiaotong last time, bits and pieces, the monthly money of Mrs. Li's three people, and the living expenses on weekdays, Mei Xiaotong occasionally gave Mrs. Li a little bit of silver for her to spend, and she didn't touch a penny.

After all, there are about twenty taels.

After Mrs. Li counted her private rooms, she pushed Mei Xiaotong: "It's all for you!" In the future, my mother will be raised by you, let's two mothers, what private money do you hide? It's all yours! ”

Where is Mei Xiaotong willing to ask: "Mother, what are you talking about?" In the past, my mother raised me young, but now I raise my mother and I am old! My mother's money is kept for my own use, and I will give my mother one or two silver every month for pocket money. You just have to rest assured that the girl can afford to raise you! ”

Mrs. Li still refuses to accept it: "I'm up to heaven now, where can I spend money, you take this money, your father's foolish ghost is partial to his daughter, I am also partial to my daughter, although I didn't pay you dividends, but take this money to buy a few acres of land, and I can also subsidize you a little ...... every year"

"Mother, who said you didn't pay dividends? Our mother's share will be yours in the future! Mei Xiaotong said busily.

After thinking about it, he explained: "I gave my father that dividend, one is to let the three brothers and sisters-in-law rush to raise their father, don't fight with me!" ”

"Besides, whether Dad can keep the dividends is a matter of two words. Didn't you see the third brother and already divided half of it? I don't think my sister-in-law is necessarily convinced, and she has to make trouble. And the eldest sister, so pitiful, dad can't make up for her? When the time comes, this dividend will be the fat in everyone's eyes, and everyone wants to take a bite. ”

The rest of the words need not be said.

Mei Xiaotong is not a virgin, she has endured it for so long, no matter what the reason, but she pays for this family

Out is real.

As a result, when it came time to break up, everyone took her contribution for granted, so she was not to blame.

It doesn't matter if she has money or not, whether she needs to leave her a dowry money at home, but she doesn't even have this heart, what else is there to say?

At that time, she also thought that as long as one person could say a word for her, she would have another way to divide the family, and she would pull the Mei family again.

It's just a pity that there is no one.

Except for Mrs. Li's mother-in-law.

When Mrs. Li heard this, she paused and patted Mei Xiaotong on the shoulder: "You are a bad girl, you have a lot of ghost eyes!" As long as the two of us know about this, don't talk about leaking! When you go out, you say that you feel sorry for your father, do you know? ”

She said, why is her daughter so generous, obviously the most loss!

Feelings, this set is here!

The uncomfortable idea in my heart disappeared immediately.

In the second half of the morning, it was almost dark, and An Huahao drove back in the carriage.

didn't say a word of greeting, just said that he had something to say.

Mrs. Li hurriedly asked Mei Xiaotong to accompany him to the courtyard over there, and went to cook by herself to make some hot noodle soup for her son-in-law.

Mei Xiaotong saw that An Huahao's expression was quite calm, and followed him to the courtyard of An's house.

The kang in the house was still warm, An Huahao asked Mei Xiaotong to sit on the kang, it was too cold in the room, and he went to burn the kang again.

Only then did he sit next to Mei Xiaotong and asked first: "How is the separation today?" ”

He went to the town today, firstly, because he had something, and secondly, he deliberately avoided it, after all, although he was a quasi-son-in-law, it was better to avoid suspicion at this time.

Mei Xiaotong explained the situation.

An Huahao showed a smile in his eyes: "You have a problem for my uncle again, you, you really don't suffer at all!" ”

said so, but the tone was full of connivance.

Mei Xiaotong pouted: "When this dividend is so easy to get?" If the elder brothers are really filial to him, he will also have a bowl of water, and with this red money, no one can provide for him well, and be an old lady, better than everyone in the village. But if he is confused, who will not give this silver to, then the days after him will be enough for him to grind! ”

An Huahao touched Mei Xiaotong's hair and nodded: "Xiaotong is right!" It's time for Uncle to learn a lesson! ”

As he spoke, his voice changed: "It's best to distinguish this family before the year, don't wait until the new year." Mei Changan is coming back! ”

"When? What did you get out of this time? Mei Xiaotong immediately became vigilant.

An Huahao nodded: "I went to the town this time, the news from outside, if there is no accident, Mei Chang'an will be able to come back a year ago, and now he has arrived in the provincial capital, take the waterway to Jing County, it will not take a few days, and then from Jing County to Lingshan Village, at the latest will be able to arrive on the twentieth day of the lunar month." ”

An Huahao had ordered his subordinates to collect news from Mei Chang'an.

I listened to Lu a few days ago

After the news came from the steward, he immediately found an opportunity to send a message to his subordinates, so that he could summarize all the news of Mei Changan as soon as possible and pass it on to him.

I went out today, firstly, for this, and secondly, the gang of mountain bandits who made trouble last time were unwilling to be taken under him last time, so he also took advantage of the situation to give them to the Yu clan who freed up his hands later.

Yu was already a powerful woman, and she suppressed Qian Dahao in a few months.

After she took over this gang of mountain bandits, she sold them to those private mines, and these places didn't fill in dozens or hundreds of lives every year?

The mountain bandits went for a few days, only to know that they were powerful, there was no way to go to the sky, there was no way to enter the ground, and they were tortured for half their lives, so they let An Huahao's subordinates buy them back.

Since then, these mountain bandits have sold their lives to An Huahao.

This time, An Huahao went to arrange a place for these well-nourished mountain bandits.

It just so happened that the person who reported the news arrived today, and after An Huahao heard it, he hurried back. According to the news, Mei Changan followed the Gao County Commander at the beginning, and was finally assigned to Qicheng two hundred miles away.

At the beginning, Gao Xianling began to treat him as an ordinary friend. Later, I slowly took a fancy to him.

After all, Mei Changan looks like a talent, speaks very well, and really has a way of behaving in the world.

Gradually, Gao County ordered a lot of things to Mei Chang'an, vaguely meaning to cultivate him.

This can annoy a person, that is, the first master of the Gao County Order, he originally introduced Mei Changan to the Gao County Order, but later found that the Gao County Order valued Mei Changan more and more.

How can this be done, everyone relies on the high county order to eat, and if you value you, you will inevitably say that you will ignore me.

This first master is also a very capable person, his face is quiet, and he still calls Mei Changan a brother and sister, but behind his back, he has always wanted to find Mei Changan's handle.

It just so happened that at this time, Mei Xiaotong's words that let the dart bureau go out finally reached Qicheng.

The first master immediately realized this opportunity, and Mei Changan wanted to meddle in a very important matter, this thing could not be done by non-confidants, if he was allowed to take away this errand, he was afraid that the first master would have to give way.

Therefore, this master found an omission of Mei Changan, and passed Mei Xiaotong's words to the ears of Gao County Ling.

This master has a niece who married Gao County Ling as a concubine, and she was very pampered, and as soon as the pillow wind blew, Mei Changan was dismissed by Gao County Order.

Of course, the rhetoric sounded good, and the severance money was also given.

If it is someone else, he will return to his hometown with the severance money, or find another errand.

But Mei Changan can't do it, he got this opportunity because he went bankrupt, and now he has only been following the county order for a few months, and he has already seen what he longed for at the beginning, power and money.

This is how he let go, not to mention, after he came out, he knew that the world was vast, and a showman was nothing

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He also doesn't have any connections, and if he doesn't get the county order, he can't find another errand if he wants to.

Therefore, he took the severance pay, but refused to leave, and stayed in Qicheng, often inviting his former friends to dinner together, wanting them to say good things and let him go back.

These friends, to be honest, also have Mei Changan, who is not used to seeing Mei Changan, who is high-profile on weekdays, and who are even more afraid of causing trouble, if they speak for Mei Changan and offend the first master, they will not be able to keep their position.

Besides, on weekdays, they are not even as good as Mei Changan's status, seeing that Mei Changan originally had to be favored by the county order, they were all taken away by the first master, not to mention them?

didn't dare to speak for Mei Changan.

There are also some people, Mei Changan invites guests to dinner, every time he arrives, he eats to his heart's content, and he also promises Mei Changan that he will find an opportunity to say good things about him in front of the county master.

But this opportunity has never been reached.

Until Mei Chang'an's money was almost spent, there was no improvement.

Especially when I met the master several times, I hugged him before going out, and looked at his eyes like looking at ants.

Mei Chang'an is a scheming person, the city is deep, and his face is not obvious, and later he made a lot of effort to get drunk with an old man next to Gao County Ling, only to know that the niece of the master was the concubine of the county master.

No wonder this first master is so arrogant.

Mei Changan felt that he seemed to have found the key, he was good-looking, stood out with a good demeanor, spoke softly and kindly, put down his body, and talked to the mother-in-law in the mansion of the county magistrate a few times, and then set out important news.

Gao Xianling loves beauty the most, down to a young girl about ten years old, fifteen or sixteen years old in the middle, and even seventeen or eighteen over twenty, as long as he looks beautiful, he will not refuse.

Outsiders don't know about him, because he married the niece of an adult in Beijing, and he kept it a secret on weekdays, pretending to be sanctimonious.

This time it was far away in Qicheng, far away from the capital, and as soon as he came, he was with the local Haoqiang and the same dust, and a Haoqiang gave him a teenage prostitute, he liked it very much, and it is said that he had to hold this concubine in his arms every day.

It's just that he is a person, but he doesn't love beauty for long, and within a few days, this favored concubine was thrown aside.

He is a county parent official, how many people are staring, someone sees the signs, and also sends a beauty, who is also spoiled for a few days and thrown aside.

Later, I found out that this Gao County Ling loved a woman from a good family, especially the kind of jade from a small family, who was running errands outside, and when she saw a beautiful woman, she wanted to accept someone as a concubine.

Mrs. Gao naturally knows, but now that she is far away from her relatives at home, she is all from the county order of Gao, how can she manage it?

Moreover, no matter how much Gao Xianling loves beauty, he will not shake her identity as Mrs. Dafang, not to mention, he changes beauties too quickly, at all

It can't threaten its own position.

So he simply turned a blind eye.

The first master knew this, and secretly brought his distant beautiful niece and sent a small sedan chair to the county mansion.

Now the most favored person in the house is said to be this aunt.

Mei Changan still doesn't understand.

For him, it is not a problem that Gao Xianling loves beauty, if Gao Xianling has a style of breaking his sleeves, he can't say that he can recommend himself.

It's a pity that he doesn't have a beautiful niece who can be given to the county order as an aunt.

He remembered that there was a niece in his hometown, who was only eight years old and had not yet grown, and the last time he went back, the little girl had dark skin and hair like straw, so she couldn't be called a beauty.

Although he got important news, Mei Changan felt more and more that there was no hope, could it be that he was about to give up?

When Mei Changan returned home, she just saw her daughter coming out of the house.

Mei Changan and the Qian family have been married for many years, and they have such a daughter, named Jin Hai, who is ten years old this year, and she grew up pampered like a pearl and jade on weekdays.

Mei Chang'an already looks like a jade tree in the wind, plus the Qian family is not bad, Jin Hai is also a beautiful little girl, plus pampered, and Mei Changan taught her to read, but she has developed a dustless temper, for the little girl whose family background is worse than her own, the eyes can't wait to turn to the sky.

Jin Hai used to be in the Mei family, and it was also high, except for his father and mother, who looked down on everyone, especially the old aunt in the family, who was obviously fat and ugly, and she didn't even look at it on weekdays.

But every year when I go back to Mei's house during the Chinese New Year, I see that everyone wants to spoil my aunt's fat and ugly girl, and even my father is very soft on her, and if she says the wrong thing, she will be trained.

I hated Mei Xiaotong in my heart.

Since following her father and mother to Qicheng, the little girls she has been dating are delicate and weak, wearing gold and silver, much stronger than the girls in the countryside. In addition, Mei Changan was favored by the county magistrate for a period of time, she was the most outstanding in appearance among those little girls, and others listened to her parents at home, so she made Jin Hai proud for a while.

Who would have thought that later, Mei Changan was dismissed, and she went to find those little sisters again, everyone ignored them, and their words were still ugly.

was so angry that Jin Hai didn't go out for several days and was bored at home.

At this moment, seeing Mei Changan coming in, he called out to his father sullenly.

Mei Changan's eyes lit up, now Jin Hai is barely a big girl, the family has never treated her badly, she eats well and dresses well, and she looks similar to a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl in the countryside.

Mei Changan is a scholar after all, and he believes in those truths the most, after Jin Hai was seven years old, he rarely cared about it, and the woman avoided her father.

Even if I see it on weekdays, I don't see it much.

I had something in my heart today, and I looked at it twice, but I found that my girl was already slim and had the posture of a girl unconsciously.

hair

It was black, because he was stuffy at home, he only inserted a hairpin made of rice beads, and wore a green cotton jacket and cotton skirt, which made his little face look more and more pink.

Mei Changan nodded and went into the house.

At night, lying on the kang, Mei Changan asked Qian tentatively: "Jin Hai is also a big girl, should she look at others?" ”

Qian was worried when he said this, a few days ago, his man was valued by the county master, and how many people begged to hire Jin Hai.

But after his man was dismissed by the county magistrate, immediately those people ran away.

Besides, with Jin Hai's appearance, she is reluctant to marry her casually, so she has to find someone with a reputation to be worthy.

As soon as the Qian family said this, Mei Changan was silent for a while, and then said tactfully, today I learned that the niece of the first master was an aunt to the county master, and she was very favored.

Who is Qian, he has been with Mei Changan for more than ten years, and as soon as he listens to the words, he knows what Mei Changan means.

Immediately turned over and sat up from the kang and expressed his resolute disagreement: "No! How old is our golden hairpin, how can we be concubines? Besides, didn't we say it at the beginning, just with the appearance of Jin Hai and literacy, it is not better to find a famous wife to be the main house in the future than to be a concubine? ”

Mei Changan couldn't make up her mind for a while, and she was really reluctant to give this girl who had been carefully cultivated for more than ten years to be a concubine.

But if you don't find a way and return to Gao Xianling on an errand, how long can you survive?

Seeing that Mei Changan didn't speak, Qian Shi hurriedly said: "I can tell you, I promise you everything else, but you can't send Jin Hai as a concubine!" Besides, everyone is sending a niece, and you don't have a niece, why don't you send your niece and send your own daughter so ruthlessly? ”

Mei Changan said irritably: "Didn't I think about it? But only the third child has a girl in his hometown, you haven't seen it, black and thin, can you give it away? ”

Qian was not convinced: "Anyway, you can't send my daughter!" You want to give your nieces or sisters, it's up to you! ”

Mei Changan patted the edge of the kang and thought about herself, her niece was black and ugly, but she still had a sister, but she was also black and fat.

I can't get any of them!

If you really want him to send his daughter, he is now a showman, and he also wants to save face, send his niece to say that it sounds good, and send his daughter, then it is called selling his daughter for glory.

flipped on the kang overnight, and the next morning, Mei Changan went to drink.

(End of chapter)