"You're not false at all!" Du Mei took out a gilded hairpin from himself and threw it on the ground with a clatter.

Xu Shi looked at the hairpin on the ground and was dumbfounded for a moment: "This is not mine!" ”

"Of course I know, it's not yours. For so many years, I have never seen my mother have jewelry, let alone hairpins. Du Mei helped Xu sit down.

"How did you find out?" The trembling Xu held Du Mei's hand.

This time the danger was avoided by luck, but as the saying goes, if you are not afraid of thieves stealing, you are afraid of thieves, if you can't find the initiator, you can't keep it all and next time.

"I swept the floor this morning, and found something bright in the brick under the bed, so I swept it out, and I wanted to wait until I came back from cooking for the old man, but I didn't expect it to happen." Du Mei patted Xu gently.

"This is all your father's blessing in heaven." Xu's tears fell again.

"Mother, I've been at home these days, and I haven't seen anyone coming." Du Mei asked suspiciously.

"Hey, that day, you and Du Ying went to see the bean dregs, and your aunt came to the house by chance and wanted to ask me to help Du Zhuo embroider clothes." Xu thought about it, and Zhou had been here these days, and the courtyard of the second room was latched every day, and ordinary people couldn't enter the house.

"How can you help her embroider? Does she hurt us less? Du Ying was angry.

"Du Ying!" Du Mei's voice was stern.

"I'm sorry, mother." Du Ying knew that her mouth was fast, and immediately apologized.

"It's all bad for my mother, my mother can't pull her down, and she can't get rid of her." Xu is always too soft-hearted and is often bullied by the big room and the third room.

"Then why did she leave again?" Du Ying's voice softened.

"She knocked over my needlework and the threads were scattered, and she was embarrassed to not even embroider her clothes, so she left." Xu already knew in his heart that Zhou must have taken the opportunity to pick up silk threads and hide the hairpin under her bed.

"The eldest aunt has never been a shrewd person, she is a pig in the alley, straight to the point. If the third aunt did this, there would be some truth, but she ......" Du Mei groaned.

"It must have been that stinky man who called him her, aren't they cousins?" Du Ying scoffed.

"We have no grudge with him for a long time, and no enmity for a long time, why did he harm my mother?" Du Tao said indignantly.

"The eldest aunt framed her mother like this, how much benefit did this man give her?" Du Gui also wrinkled his face and meditated.

"Mother, you say, will it be the two of them that you bumped into?" Du Mei had a flash of inspiration, although she didn't know what it was, but it was certainly disgraceful.

"Little girl's family, don't talk nonsense!" Xu's has been feeling bad about this for the past two days, Zhou is Erjin's sister-in-law after all, and she doesn't want to think about her like this in her heart.

"What are the two of them?" The three small ones, all ignorant, kept asking.

"Okay, don't talk about it, in the future, let's be careful." Xu interrupted them.

Although Pan Youan's matter is not substantiated because there is no evidence, it is over. But what he said was like a plague, quietly spread in Dujiagou, and through private word of mouth, different versions were conjured up, and mysteriously spread to other villages.

On this day, Du Mei and Du Ying went to cook for the old man as usual, but they didn't expect that the old man didn't go out to sell tofu, but seemed to be waiting for them at home.

"Meizi, don't come to me in the future

Cooking, my okara was ordered for someone else. The old man looked puzzled, frowned, and made his words clear.

"What's going on? Our food is not delicious? Du Mei asked suspiciously.

"No, hey, don't ask, it's all my fault, greedy for money." The old man waved his hand again and again.

Seeing that the old man seemed to have something unspeakable, Du Mei stopped asking, and the two sisters turned their heads and went home.

The ducks have been cut off from an important source of food, and the family's food supply is strained again.

After a few days, Du Mei couldn't bear the doubts in her heart, she got up early in the morning and secretly followed the old man to the town, she wanted to see who had robbed the okara.

Du Mei hid in the corner and quietly observed, but saw that other people's tofu was sold out early in the morning, and no one cared about the old man's tofu stall.

A woman was late, and when she saw that only the old man was selling alone, she didn't buy tofu, so she turned around and left.

"Auntie, I just moved here, may I ask, which tofu is more delicious here?" Du Mei stopped the woman.

"You're new here, no wonder. Tofu is actually the same, only this person's family hires a prostitute's daughter to help, how can we serious people buy it, it's disgusting! The woman whispered, as if it were a shame to mention it.

"You! ......" Du Mei just wanted to have a seizure, but after thinking about it, these people didn't know the inside story, but it was just a rumor, and she couldn't explain it one by one, so she suppressed her anger.

Even the old man's tofu can't be sold, so can't the embroidery collected by Yunshang Embroidery Village be sold? Since Du Mei was in town, he inquired about it.

Yunshang Embroidery Village is the only shop that sells embroidery in Sheshan Town, the door is very lively, Ye Qing received the goods in ten miles and eight towns, the price is fair, and he has become famous, and the big girl and the little daughter-in-law are willing to sell the embroidery to him. There are also those who can't wait for him, so they send them to the shop by themselves.

Du Mei was about to raise his feet to enter the store when he heard a familiar voice talking to an old woman inside.

"I want the embroidery of the Du family's Xu lady." She glanced inside, and it turned out to be Dr. Zhong. When they talked about her family's embroidery, Du Mei listened with his ears pricked up.

"Hey, Doctor Zhong, I want to say, your vision is not bad. This lady embroidery, even if it is in Jiangling City, it is difficult to find, but this silk pouch is not an object for top wearing, you have bought more than a dozen. The old woman's voice was skeptical.

"These people in front of them listen to the rumors that have been spread falsely, and they don't know the treasures. I know their family anyway, and if I can help them, I can help them a little, otherwise I wouldn't have forced other people's orphans and widows to death. Zhong Yu's voice was low.

"I've heard about them, and it's really not easy." The old woman shook her head.

When Du Mei heard what they said, his heart was hot, and he didn't enter the store, but turned around and left.

The old man would rather say that he was greedy for money than tell what was going on with him. Ye Qing's little shopkeeper never refused to accept her family's embroidery, and the price was high every time, and Dr. Zhong directly spent money to buy the embroidery.

Du Mei turned all the way, thinking of the kindness of these people to them, and was even more determined to make a good example and plug the dirty mouths of those who chewed the root of their tongues behind their backs.

Tomorrow is Qingming, Xu's mood is not good, the humiliation and slander suffered a few days ago, so that she misses Erjin more and more, at this time she is in the courtyard, Shen Si does not belong to the ground with the yellow table paper to fold ingots, ready to pay tribute to the deceased husband.

Du Gouzi

With a limp leg, the thief saw Xu sitting alone in the yard, so he stepped forward to shamelessly harass him.

"In the spring, the cats and dogs bark happily, and the little lady sits sadly, who do you think?" Du Gouzi has coveted Xu's for a long time, and he used to be protected by two golds, and he couldn't touch the edge. Now that he saw that the reputation of the Xu family was spreading outside, he wanted to take the opportunity to tease.

As soon as Xu Shi heard this angry voice, she knew that it was Du Gouzi, she didn't look at him, and went home with her things.

"Hey, you stinky and shameless person, you still pretend to be chaste in front of Lao Tzu, and you don't inquire, what kind of reputation do you have outside!" Du Gouzi touched his nose and scolded.

"You are really a peony flower and a ghost, and you are not afraid that the black girl will swallow you alive!" Mrs. Cao came with a basket and sneered.

"Nonsense, if I don't sleep with her, won't I be bitten by that vicious dog." Du Gouzi has words.

"You're really good enough, you dare to touch her? Now the old man's tofu can't be sold, Yunshang Embroidery Village is about to close down because of her embroidery, and the girl and daughter-in-law of a serious family want a broken shoe embroidery! Mrs. Cao spat the ground.

Pedestrians came and went on the road, and I saw these two people chattering endlessly in front of the door of the second room, and Xu listened to it in the house. Those foul words made her heart like ashes, she thought about two golds, and she was even more afraid that her stigma would bring her four daughters, and she suddenly thought of one death.

As if she had been redeemed, Xu was trapped for a long time, and the thought of death instantly shone on her like a ray of light, and she hoped that all the sins and ugliness would dissipate with her leaving.

The thought came suddenly, strongly. Xu immediately lifted his spirits, changed his clothes, and freshened up. Seeing Juniper asleep and putting a kiss on his cheek, a tear fell uncontrollably.

But she still didn't hesitate to carry a basket full of paper ingots, bowed her head and hurried to the river beach, and met Fang Shi calling her on the way, but she didn't seem to hear it, and her feet didn't stop.

How many days have passed, and under the mountain forest, Erjin's grave has been overgrown with grass, and the whole soil bag is full of green.

Xu knelt down in front of the grave, ignoring the mud and water on the ground, she lit the paper ingots she brought.

"Erjin, I'm going to accompany you, are you happy?"

"I should have come to accompany you a long time ago, but it was delayed for Juniper, and now that their sister and brother are fine, I don't have anything to worry about."

"Erjin, I have never failed you, you must believe me, right?"

"If I leave with you, I can only bitter the plums, but I can't help it. I live, but I can only make them even more lifeless! ”

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The wind fueled the fire, and the paper ingots burned with golden flames, reflecting Xu's pale face and two lines of tears. She has the determination to die in her heart, whether it is to prove her innocence by death, or to exchange the death of her mother for her child's life, it is the only resistance that this woman can make in the midst of all mouths and money.

The yellow table paper ingots burned out, still maintaining the shape of the ingots, and when a gust of wind came, it rolled a few times, and it shattered into light-colored ashes.

Xu's tears dried up, and she solemnly kowtowed three times on the ground.

Straighten his clothes, straighten out his sideburns, and Xu didn't look back to the ground, and stepped into the mouth of the fish in one step. The river in spring is still cold, but not as cold as her heart. She closed her eyes and walked forward, only to feel the water gradually spilling over her knees and over her waist...... 2k reading web