The first thing that the couple waited for was not the catkins, but the horse steward in the house. "Butler, what's the matter so anxious?"

It is a matter of the safety of the old lady in the house, can Steward Ma not be in a hurry, he wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead because he ran too fast with his sleeve. waited until he was out of breath before he spoke: "It's the new mother Li invited by the master, she is a Yama who specializes in collecting people's lives." If anyone keeps her, the family will definitely be ruined. ”

"Nonsense, Mother Li is just a nurse, what can she do." The horseman drank and scolded the steward. Before inviting Li's mother, he inquired about her reputation for a few days before deciding to ask her to come back to be a nurse for the little son. What's more, Li's mother was recommended to him by his friend Feng Yuanwai, others don't believe it, but how can he not believe it as a friend.

"Master, what I said is true, and now it's all over the outside. In the morning, Mawang's family went out to buy, and when they heard about it, they came back in a hurry to find me. If you don't believe it, the old man called Ma Wang's family over to confront him. Steward Ma pointed out the door, "He's outside the door." ”

"Call him in." The horseman should listen carefully to what he can say, if he makes it up, he will never use such a subordinate again.

Ma Wang stood under the eaves, his eyes daring to look at him. It's good to be an outsider, but it's terrible to get angry, and he has to think about what to do.

"Ma Wang's family, the master told you to go in." The mother-in-law at the door lifted the curtain and said to him.

"What did Mother Li do? Tell you to come back and break your mouth. "It's about his friend's reputation, and he has to interrogate it carefully.

The old man has a good relationship with Feng Yuan, and Mother Li is recommended by Feng Yuanwai, and Feng Wang knows. It was because of this that he pushed the housekeeper over to remind the master. Steward Ma is a slippery head, on the grounds of the safety of the whole house, he has to pull him along, the key is that he can't refute, so he has to come over hard.

Sure enough, the old man was angry.

Ma Wang recounted the news he heard one by one: "The Li family outside the city was the first to invite Li's mother into the mansion to take care of the sons and girls in the mansion. Mother Li can talk and will come to things, and the whole house praises her. often carry this and say bad things about that, and pry the other to join the dispute. Over time, the peace in the backyard is shattered. After that, Li's mother retired on the pretext of keeping it secret for others, and turned to the Liu family in the south of the city, the Song family in the west of the city, the Wang family in the east of the city, and finally came to our house. Everywhere he went, he used his tongue to harm others. ”

This can only show that Mother Li is a person who likes to provoke trouble, and it has nothing to do with what you said about the destruction of her family. If his heart is right, it is useless to let outsiders pick it out, and in the final analysis, it is still selfish. The horseman listened for a long time, it turned out that it was like this, and it was worth all the fuss. Besides, Li's mother is now unable to move, and their Ma family is a good family, so they have to take care of her somewhat, which can be regarded as accumulating some blessings for the future of their children and grandchildren.

"Master, I'm not done yet." Ma Wang continued: "Except for our family, which is fine, the rest are not good at all. Their families are defeated, and they are scattered. Now the four families are in one place, and they tell each other what happened to them, and they want to go to the county lord's mansion to confront Li's mother and the master's friend Feng Yuanwai. ”

"Master, Aunt Liu is here." Cherry saw that the atmosphere in the room was not right, whispered, and stood behind Madame.

The horse member who was angry waved his sleeves and said: "Let her go back to her own courtyard and think about it behind closed doors, copy the house rules a hundred times, and if she doesn't finish writing, she is not allowed to sleep." "I wanted Liu to kneel outside the door, but after thinking about it, as soon as she was out of confinement, he punished her for kneeling, which was not good for her health. Whoever calls him a good person, a good person should think more about others.

Things all started because of the Liu family, it would be good if he didn't offend her, and the horse crew was happy for himself. For a person who can't read big words, asking her to copy the house rules a hundred times is considered an alternative torture.

Liu Wu didn't know what he had done wrong, and as soon as he arrived at the main courtyard, he heard a loud shout from inside. Then she was ordered to go back to the hospital to copy the house rules.

The booklet of the family rules was sent by the mother-in-law next to the lady, "Aunt Liu, this is the family rules of the house with a total of twenty pages, which is not much, and it is almost copied in one night." ”

She can't even write, let alone give her one night, even three nights she may not be able to finish writing. "Master, why is he angry? What am I doing wrong again? ”

The mother-in-law sighed and said, "The master is just angry with you." Don't think about it, copy it quickly! ”

Liu Wu thanked her mother-in-law and asked someone to prepare paper and ink. Liu's mother couldn't help, Liu Zhi'er was kicked out, and when she went back, her father married her. Liu Ye'er can't count on it, she would rather watch the child for her than write for her, and the only one who can rely on her is herself.

Supplement the paper, pick up the pen and draw on it stroke by stroke. Fortunately, the horse driver taught her to practice calligraphy for a few days, so she would not be unable to find the door to write.

Not long after he left the horse clerk to ask questions, he heard a message from his subordinates, saying that a government official came to the door to invite him and Li's mother to go to the government office. Ma Yuan's foreign wife Wei said: "The family looks up to Mrs. ”

"I know, sir." Wei also wanted to borrow Li's mother's hand to rectify the whole house, but now the abacus has failed, and his heart is not very happy.

Li's mother still can't stand up, and was carried to the county office on a stretcher.

Above the public court, the county lord slapped the waking wood majestically, which frightened Li's mother. "Wang Li, what you have done is already known to the official. Now I ask you, do you admit or disagree with the charges pointed out by the four families of Li, Liu, and Song Wang? ”

Mother Li saw the four families who were glaring at her, and then looked at the charges presented in front of her, and her eyes rolled and thought about fainting. And the guard standing next to her had already experienced, and immediately choked her people, making her want to faint.

For the sake of her life, she quibbled: "The eldest lord allows the concubine to speak in detail." What they say has nothing to do with concubines! The concubine was a weak woman, and she did not instigate them to harm people's lives; Second, he did not steal his property. They are ruined and have nothing to do with the concubine, they just want to find a reason to rely on the concubine. I can't keep my ancestors' family business, so I came to find the fault of my concubine, how can there be such a reason in the world. ”

When the people outside the court heard this, they also reasoned. These four families were noisy all day long, either men beat women, or women pinched each other, plus the crying of babies, and the sound spread far and wide, so that the neighbors could not live in peace.

Ma Yuanwai said: "County master, what Li said is reasonable. The four families of Li, Liu, Song and Wang did not cultivate virtue themselves, so that the husband and wife were separated. If the husband and wife are not in harmony, the family will not be harmonious, if the family is not harmonious, everything will decline, and if everything is declining, the family will be ruined. From this point of view, most of the causes are due to the four protagonists of Li, Liu, and Song, and the Li family is just an inducement. ”

"Outside the horse, wait until the day your family is broken to say that the matter has nothing to do with the Li family. You are in time for the Li family to come to your house, if it is another month and March, can you still talk to us with a smile? Li De almost wanted to beat this horse member out of his anger, if this was not a public court, and he was dragged again.

"Outside of the horse, although the three of us are not as rich as your family, they are also a small rich family. Before Li came, the husband and wife were harmonious and everything went well. After the Li family came, there were always more disputes in the family for no reason. She did not instigate them to harm people's lives and steal people's money. But the advantage of the tongue is comparable to the edge of a knife, which makes people unable to guard against it.

She first instigated the concubine room in the family to fight with the main room, saying that the main room wanted to take her son and harm her life; Later, he said with the main room that the concubine wanted to seek her position, and both sides lobbied. As soon as the main room found out that there was such a thing, he had to take precautions against the concubine's room; The concubine thought that her life was not guaranteed, as she said, so she desperately fought against the main room.

If a third party joins, Li will plan again to get her involved and stir up trouble. The head of the family has never cared much about the backyard. For the pampered person, it is natural to take more protection, which gradually attracts the dissatisfaction of others.

Li sits firmly in Diaoyutai and is the person who attracts people from all walks of life. She promised to do something for a lady or aunt, and the reward was to send her out of the house safely. After that, what happened had nothing to do with her. That's why we came to sue Lee.

She is very perceptive and loves to play tricks. If this person continues to stay in Brother Ma's mansion, I'm afraid Brother Ma will be the next us. The most learned of the four explained to the horseman.

The horseman shook his head and disagreed with what he had said. He said: "The affairs of the backyard should be in charge of the wife, and the husband only needs to make up his mind on major matters, so as not to disturb people's hearts." The concubine's room doesn't know how to do things in proportion or reason, doesn't the wife's room know either? That's why a wife should be a virtuous man. If a good wife is there, there will be few family disasters. Dare to ask the four brothers, is the wife of the family virtuous? ”

Among the four, Li De was the most irritable, "You, you, you, you are excusing her." He had little ink in his stomach and couldn't find the right adjective, so he only had this one sentence over and over again. The other three blushed and became empty-hearted.

"It's about your pain points." The horse member said to the county lord above the high hall: "My lord, this Li Liu, Song and Wang Sijia, as far as I know, the wife of a man gossips everywhere and does not mention it, and he loves to tell right and wrong. And he is strict with the concubines, and he doesn't care about the children. The Li family just did the same thing as them, so why did they blame the Li family for the matter? ”

The county lord slapped the wood again and asked the four people in the hall: "What else do you four have to say?" ”

Li De opened his mouth and shouted: "My lord, the Li family's crime cannot be forgiven. Although my wife is not virtuous, she is a good steward and a good housekeeper. It's just that sometimes the mouth is a little broken, and he likes to gossip. But this Li family clearly has the intention of murder, causing my wife to die tragically, the concubine room to be separated, and the children to be supervised by a mother. If she hadn't picked them, how could they have died innocently. ”

Li Shi seized the loophole in his words and said: "Master Li's words are wrong, the concubine is just a person like Mrs. Ling, and they all love to talk about it. Most of what they said didn't take it to heart, who knew that they were all serious, and they couldn't complain about the concubine.

Speaking of this, it reminds me that Mrs. Ling said that the widow of the neighbor Wang family had a good relationship. If she ties a veil to her head, it means to invite her husband in. Someone took this matter seriously and asked the maid in the house what happened that day, and it partially matched. In fact, it was just two little servants carrying a large fan screen into her yard, and she did have a silk handkerchief tied to her head that day.

How the widow died, I think Li should know better than me. ”

Li De didn't know that his mother-in-law's favorite gossip was that the neighbor Widow Wang, a joke wiped out the life of the widow Wang. For this reason, his mother-in-law restrained for a while.

"Master Li, I think Widow Wang's family should settle accounts with you, it was your mother-in-law's jokes that caused Wang Xiucai to lose his mother." Li became angry, and pointed to the next person: "Lord Song, your mother-in-law often says that the aunts in your own house can manage whatever they want, and they are allowed to obey and do not dare to resist." Someone came to study, went back to do it, and caused several lives. Your mother-in-law also comforted people and said that it was just a cheap life, and it would be enough to buy one or two more to please her husband. ”

Song Sheng, who was named, couldn't refute what she said, his mother-in-law was indeed a bit domineering. For the aunt in the house, she has to do more needlework if she is beaten or scolded, and if someone can't stand it, she will buy a few more to add to the aunt in the house. And he acted as if nothing had happened, and he had fun as he could.

Before it was their turn, the remaining two people couldn't stand hiding behind people, burying their heads low, afraid that the Li family would see them.

"Lord Liu." Lee shouted.

Liu Sheng didn't dare to respond to her, and before she was about to tell her ugly things, he hurriedly said to the county master: "My lord, we won't tell you." ”

"Yes, yes, my lord, we won't tell you. We're going to withdraw it. Wang Sheng followed.

"Bold, do you sue if you want to, and don't sue if you don't want to? Think of this place as a place. The county lord slapped Xingmu heavily, which frightened the four people present again.

The Li family is certainly at fault, but the fault of these four people is even greater, if Ma Yuanwai hadn't asked the housekeeper about the behavior of these four families in advance, he was afraid that the Li family would have to shed his skin if he didn't die, and now it depends on how the county master judged these five people, and sold them to his friends a face.

"Come on, each of them will be beaten ten boards, and they will be put in a cell for the time being. After the official investigates all the circumstances of the matter, the trial will be made. ”

After that, the horse crew didn't participate anymore. He did his duty and saved Lee's life. What the consequences will be, it all depends on what Li does.

Li's incident gave Ma Yuanwai a wake-up call, and when he returned to the house, he summoned all the people in the house and strictly ordered: "From now on, the government is not allowed to gossip." If there is a broken mouth, he will be driven out of the house without any compensation. ”

Liu Wu wrote for a long time, his hands were sour, and his eyes were dazzled, so he wrote less than twice. It takes 98 times to write this, and how many days it takes to write.

Thankfully, she was finally let out of the yard, and now listening to Ma Yuanwai's words, she felt a lot more kind, and looked at him with gratitude.

Ma Yuanwai looked at the Yingrun admiring eyes cast by the Liu family, touched his beard, squinted at her for a few breaths, and was happy in his heart. He beckoned Ryu to come forward and speak.

Aunties get out of the way and let catkins come forward. "Sir." She called.

"Liu, you have suffered an unjustified disaster, and it is also me, a master, who has no insight into people. Here, I apologize to you, I hope you don't blame Madame, Madame is also a kind heart, I can't bear to let you suffer. The horseman apologized to the catkins on behalf of his wife.

Wei also said: "The most, Liu, blame us for not finding out the origin of the Li family, so we took people into the mansion." ”

The old lady's words made the catkins a little confused. Good and decent, apologize to her. Besides, Li's mother never touched her child at all.