Chapter 84: Reunion after the catastrophe
"Mother? Mother! Mother...... "Du Mei reflexively hugged Xu Shi tightly, this kind of loss and recovery was too surprising, she must hold on firmly.
Xu silently hugged Du Mei, tears pouring down. She heard the trial in the inner room, and how stupid she was, thinking that death would solve everything, but asking her fourteen-year-old daughter to file a complaint for herself.
The people who didn't leave in the courtyard were all surprised that Xu had come back from the dead, and Fang didn't care about wiping his tears, so he hurriedly ran back to tell Du Tao and Du Gui that he met Du Shu on the way and urged him to go to the river beach to report the good news.
Du Ying got the news and ran all the way to the patriarch's house, but one of the shoes ran away, and he was carrying it in his hand, so he didn't have time to wear it. Du Tao and Du Gui also came with Juniper in their arms.
The sons and daughters of this family hugged each other in Du Huaibingtang's house, crying and laughing. The pain of sudden loss and the joy of the aftermath are mixed together, and the bittersweet and bitter tastes are full of bitterness.
"Come and thank the county lord and the patriarch!" Xu wiped the tears of each child and led them to salute.
"Mo Xie Mo Xie, it is the duty of this official to uphold justice for the people." Shen Zhanghua waved his hand.
"It's all Meizi's big dog with human nature, if it weren't for it, we're afraid we wouldn't be able to save your mother." Du Huaibing stepped forward and helped the kneeling Du Mei sisters up.
Hearing this, Du Mei hugged the black girl who came out behind Xu's and rubbed her head against it affectionately. The brunette sticks out her tongue and licks her hand tenderly.
It turned out that Xu was bent on seeking death, and saw that the water had reached his waist, his feet slipped, and he sank into the water. At this time, the black girl caught a pheasant on the mountain of Shewu, and was coming down from the mountain forest, and when she saw her fluttering in the water, she dropped the pheasant and pounced into the water to save her.
Rao is a black girl with high strength, but she can't use it in the water. Xu choked on water and fainted. The brunette bit her clothes and took her to the shallow water, but she couldn't move ashore.
The black girl ran all the way, and happened to meet Du Huaibing accompanied Shen Zhanghua of Zhixian County, and went to the river beach to see the three acres of thin fields of Du Mei's family.
The officials had never seen a big dog like a calf, and they were afraid that it would hurt the county lord, so they drove it away with a killing stick. But the black girl would rather be beaten, and she bit Du Huaibing's pants and didn't let go.
In Dujiagou, adults and children are afraid of black girls, except for being close to Du Mei's family and Du Shu, no one else can get close to them, let alone beat them.
Du Huaibing saw that the black girl was so abnormal, so he followed it, and the black girl ran for a while, and stood down to wait for them, as if it was a very urgent matter. When Du Huaibing and Shen Zhanghua hurried to the river beach, they saw Xu's eyes closed tightly, and his face was pale lying in the shallow water.
It was important to save people, and several officials carried Xu up with all hands and feet, these were all men, so they had to be carried back to Du Huaibing's house first and handed over to Yin and her daughter-in-law.
Shen Zhanghua sat in the hall and asked Du Huaibing about it, and Du Huaibing's old face was a little unbearable. In the past few days, he accompanied the county lord to ten miles and eight townships to see the growth of wheat and rape, but he didn't expect such a big mistake in the family.
In the inner hall, Yin's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were busy with pinching the tiger's mouth, and Xu's woke up slowly, Yin helped her change her clothes and let her drink a big bowl of ginger tea.
When he was in a hurry, Du Mei chased Du Gouzi and broke in......
The whole thing is like this, with a hundred twists and turns, more coincidental twists and turns than the excerpts, but the ending is good and surprisingly satisfying.
Xu took Du Mei's sister and brother home with a thousand thanks. Du Huaibing sent away Shen Zhanghua, the magistrate, and sulked at home alone.
"I'll have dinner early today, I'll ring the bell later." Du Huaibing smoked a bag of cigarettes and said to Yin.
The bell that Du Huaibing said was hung in the ancestral hall of the Du family, and it could not be moved unless it was a major event. The last time the bell rang was more than ten years ago, when the Dashun Dynasty was in civil strife.
After dinner
The melodious bell rang through Dujiagou. Whether the Du family was working in the fields or just serving the rice bowl, they all left what they were doing and rushed to the ancestral hall. Soon, many people gathered in the open space of the ancestral hall.
"What's going on?" The villagers inquired about each other.
"I don't know." A man touched his head and said.
"Stop talking, listen to what the patriarch has to say." A man in front of him turned back and warned.
"Speaking of which, our Dujiagou has been in Sheshan Town for hundreds of years, even in Qinghe County, and it is also famous. Today, the ugly things we did have disgraced the faces of our ancestors! Du Huaibing stood in the dim light of the ancestral hall and slapped himself in the face.
"I've been away from home for a few days, and I actually let a foreigner force my daughter-in-law to jump into the river! What's even more intolerable is that there are still Du family members as accomplices! Du Huaibing said sternly.
The audience was silent, and some people lowered their heads.
"This time, although the county lord punished Mrs. Cao and Du Gouzi, everyone, lie in bed at night and think about what you have done in this matter!
It's not a big deal to watch the excitement, and I'm not afraid to flash my tongue when gossiping! If this continues, is this Du family ancestral hall still a place to unite people's hearts? Is it time for the century-old Dujiagou family to die! Du Huaibing's eyes looked around sternly.
……
In the middle of the night, Yanwang's Mansion
Chu Lin and Song Shaohuai drank, cup after cup.
"It's all me coming back late!" Chu Lin's eyes were red.
"Life and death are fate, wealth is in the sky, I heard, I haven't found ...... yet" Song Shaohuai's words of persuasion were not finished.
"Master, not dead, not dead......" Ye Qing ignored Zhao Ji'an's obstruction and broke in.
"Your master is very good!" Song Shaohuai was afraid that Ye Qing would touch Chu Lin's moldy head, so he kicked him to the ground.
"Who didn't die!" Chu Lin asked eagerly with a glare.
"Mrs. Xu of the Du family was saved by her big dog!" Ye Qing, who fell to the ground, didn't have time to get up.
"Wine, haha." Chu Lin turned sadness into joy.
Ye Qing went down with the wine.
The two brothers continued to drink, and Song Shaohuai was naturally with him to the end, until he was drunk and fell on the table, and he didn't figure out why Chu Lin liked the country girl.
"Ye Qing, I need a four-leaf embroidered plum blossom screen here." Chu Lin met Ye Qing in the study for the first time.
"Oh." Ye Qing's mouth responded. I thought to myself, this is not simple?
"As long as it's this stitch." Chu Lin pointed to a royal blue cotton robe hanging in the study.
"This, this is Xu Niangzi's method." Ye Qing stepped forward to check the pattern on the placket. He is extremely smart, he has studied with Mrs. Shi, and for a while, he has been able to distinguish different embroidery methods.
This is a bit difficult, Xu Niangzi doesn't accept large items, not to mention four screens, even if she likes to wear clothes and quilts, she doesn't accept them. Ye Qing's eyebrows furrowed.
"In addition, there is some old rice in the field, you go and dispose of it." Chu Lin changed the subject.
"This ......" Ye Qing's little head was confused, didn't he sell embroidery, why did he still sell rice, or Chen?
"You can't do it?" Chu Lin raised his eyebrows.
"Let the slave think about it." Ye Qing stubbornly agreed.
"It doesn't matter how long the screen is embroidered, remember to use this stitch." Chu Lin emphasized again.
"The slave knows." Since there is no time limit, can you discuss it with Xu Niangzi? Ye Qing bowed and retired, thinking in his heart.
"Let's go to Sister Ruyi to receive the reward." Zhao Ji'an saw Ye Qing come out and said to him.
"Whoa." Ye Qing made a gesture and went down.
"Master...
Zhao Ji'an turned around and entered the study. He heard them talking outside the door, and there was obviously a carved screen of red sandalwood in this study.
"You still want to persuade me?" Chu Lin said in a deep voice.
"The subordinates don't dare." Zhao Ji'an retreated wordlessly. This master's temper, he still shouldn't mess with it.
"Plum ......" Chu Lin stroked the robe, and groaned in a low voice, full of pity and reluctance.
Two days later, Pan You'an, Du Gouzi, and Mrs. Cao, under the joint escort of the soldiers of the Beijing patrol battalion and the officials of Qinghe County, began to parade through the streets from Dujiagou. At the front of the procession, one of the officials struck the gong, and the other announced the results of the county trial.
Because they are from their own tribe, most of them watched from afar, and the street procession passed through the courtyard of the second room, and the Du Mei sisters only looked at it coldly through the courtyard gate. Xu was in the house and did not come out.
When the team arrived at Sheshan Town and other villages, they didn't have such a good chance, and the angry onlookers threw rotten vegetable leaves and mud all over their heads. Especially the widows who have been hurt by the gossip seem to have a place to vent, but they are so strong that they spit on them.
The three-day street tour passed quickly.
On this day, Du Mei called Du Ying to get up early in the morning and rushed to the town, the old man's tofu stall business was still not good, and the two sisters walked up together.
"Old man, we'll help you sell tofu." Du Mei said with a smile.
"No, no, I can do it alone." The old man's face flushed.
"You're being affected by us, how can we be happy?" Du Mei whispered.
"How do you know? Nothing. The old man waved his hand again and again.
"Tofu is sold, fresh and white!" Du Mei opened his throat and shouted, his voice was as tactful as a yellow bird.
"Come and buy it, it's delicious and not expensive!" Du Ying also continued to shout.
"Hey, where did these two girls come from?" The woman who frequented the vegetable market asked.
"We are from Dujiagou, my mother was wronged, everyone still comes to buy the old man's tofu, it's really fragrant and slippery!" Du Mei said generously.
"Oops, I saw those bad guys parade on the street, you mothers are so pitiful." A woman said sympathetically.
"Yes, the county magistrate admits your mother's innocence." The other granny said.
"I admire you the most, dare to go to the county lord to complain!" A little girl gave Du Mei a thumbs up.
"I'll have a piece."
"I'll get three."
……
Everyone rushed to buy it, and after a while, the old man's tofu was snatched up. Du Mei and Du Ying helped the old man close the stall and prepared to go back to Dujiagou.
"Thank you, Meizi, I was bad for the past few days, so I shouldn't have disbelieved you." The old man said regretfully.
"What's the matter, it's because we can't sell your tofu." Du Mei comforted him.
"Meizi, today's bean dregs, do you still want it?" The old man was a little embarrassed.
"Yes! We'll cook for you tomorrow. Du Mei smiled brightly.
"Good!" The old man also laughed, the haze of these days was finally about to dissipate.
"The duck has something to eat again." Du Ying felt that today's wind was blowing extremely warm.
A piece of paper flew out of nowhere, fluttering and falling in Du May's hand. Du Mei picked it up and looked at it, and Pan You'an's three words attracted her attention.
"This kind of tabloid is handed down from Gangneung City, and the rich people here read it from time to time." The old man is illiterate, but he understands the market.
"Then I'll keep it, go back and see, what new things are written." Du Mei folded the tabloid and put it in his pocket. 2k reading web