There is an alley outside the corner gate of the Jingshi, called Mullet Alley. In the early afternoon, a woman hurried down the alley with a basket of vegetables.

She was half-bowing her head, and she was already trying to turn her face sideways towards the place where no one was, but she was only halfway through when she was stopped.

"Hehua damn it!"

When a thin woman saw her coming, she beckoned from afar.

They were all adjacent to each other, and the other party took the initiative to say hello, and Liao Sanniang couldn't avoid it, so she had to smile and say hello to the person.

She put her pace fast, and wanted to hurry through this section, but she was already a beat slower, and the other party had already shouted: "Oh, Hehua mother, don't be in a hurry to go, I have something to ask you!" I heard Dongtou Zhang Er's family say that your family resigned from the yamen, what's going on? ”

Although she was thin, her voice was very loud, and as soon as she screamed, half of the alley was spread, and many doors quietly pushed open half of the doors to look out.

Liao Sanniang couldn't, so she had to turn around and say, "I'm busy at home, I'll talk to you another day." ”

Rao was already moving very fast under her feet, or following the sound of the wind, she heard the thin woman behind her talking to the others.

“…… What Zhang Erjia said, it can't be wrong, his family originally wanted to say that the little daughter of the Shen family, who knew that when such a thing happened, how could he dare to come to the door? According to me, this Liao Sanniang also has a bad fate, how many people went to her house to propose marriage? Pick and choose, choose this one, a stinky temper, I can't speak, everyone else has been promoted, he is the only one who sits on the cold bench every year, it's a pity that Liao Sanniang's face is gone! If you marry anyone, you won't have to suffer this hardship......"

Liao Sanniang couldn't hear it, and walked home quickly with the vegetable basket.

She pushed the door and entered, and saw that her husband was sitting on the patio washing the ruler, wiping and wiping with a cloth, wiping and wiping only the same place, obviously absent-minded.

Liao Sanniang sighed secretly in her heart, but said with a smile on her face: "Boss, I bought carp and sheep's head meat today, why don't you ask He Hua to call her Uncle Gao's family to come over for dinner?" ”

Sitting on the patio was Shen Cunfu in the water prison that day, and when he heard his wife speak, he slowly came back to his senses, but he shook his head and said, "Don't go to his house to arch the fire, his mother-in-law is making a lot of trouble, and when she sees Hehua, she will blame me again." ”

"I bought it all back...... Liao Sanniang persuaded, "Jiang Meizi's temper, you don't know it, the knife is mouthy and tofu-hearted, but you can say a few words verbally." ”

Shen Cunfu shook his head and said: "Don't scream, he only went to Dongshan Village to show people the well during the day, and he wanted to leave a good meal to eat, and there was nothing to call it." ”

Seeing that her husband was so depressed, Liao Sanniang didn't have much to say, because it was not early, she called her daughter Shen Hehua out, and the mother and daughter worked together to clean up a table of good dishes.

When I bought it, I had a few more people, but now people don't come, but the fish and meat can't be put away, and when it should be done, it's past the meal.

The family then sat down at the table to eat.

Shen Cunfu didn't have much appetite, so he just poured a bowl of the wine he brought and ate it with mutton.

Liao Sanniang persuaded him: "A table of dishes, eat more, I don't go home to eat on weekdays, it's easy to be free now, why do you only remember to drink?" ”

Shen Hehua also pushed the two plates in front of her father over, and said, "Daddy, in the past, you loved to eat this fried sheep with Li frozen fish head, but today my daughter made it, and I didn't see you move chopsticks." ”

His wife and daughter are so considerate, even if Shen Cunfu is depressed in his heart, he has no choice but to force a smile, eat a few bites, and praise a few words.

However, he was uncomfortable, he used to eat three bowls of rice, but today the food is cold, and half of the bowl that has been filled once has not been touched.

After finishing the meal, Shen Hehua packed up the dishes and chopsticks and went to the kitchen to wash the dishes, and Liao Sanniang made a cup of tea for her husband.

Shen Cunfu sighed: "I'm useless like this, but I've dragged down the three of you, mother and daughter." ”

Liao Sanniang said: "What is this, where is it useless?" ”

Shen Cunfu said: "You are giving me dignity, although I have rarely gone out these days, I also know that the people in Zuo Jin's mouths are talking about some gossip - it is really useless, and I have not asked your mother to live a good life, and there are few times when I come back." ”

He didn't drink it, but put the tea cup back on the table, and said: "I've figured it out, and I've made it clear to Gao Ya, he went to Dongshan Village in the past two days to explore the way, and the two of us have more or less a craft, and they used to be unpopular in the capital water prison, but now they are out of the house, although they are not much rich, but they can beg for food, but it is not difficult." ”

He pointed to the kitchen and said, "Sell a few handfuls of strength to work for a year or two, and earn a decent dowry for Hehua." ”

Liao Sanniang endured it for many days, and never dared to ask, but now she heard her husband say this, obviously she didn't plan to go back, a sentence turned over and over in her stomach many times, and in the end she still came out of her mouth, and asked: "It doesn't matter if our family eats more, sometimes we eat more, and sometimes we eat less, only Uncle Gao...... Can't you go back? I can hear Jiang Meizi say that the second boy of his family is still thinking about finding an opportunity to enter the capital water supervisor as a clerk in the next two years, and now that he is leaving, can he ask the master to help? ”

Although Shen Cunfu had been home for a few days, as soon as he mentioned He Zhu's book, he suddenly became angry and scolded: "What is there to go to in that place where maggots are raised?!" ”

Liao Sanniang saw that he had such a big temper, how could he still speak, so he had to shut up.

Shen Cunfu also woke up and scared people, so he breathed a sigh of relief, and said: "I have already torn the dough with that side, and I don't want to talk to them anymore, Gao Ya is a brother, and he will go in and out with me, and if I have a bite of food in the future, I will have a bite of food for him." ”

However, after he said this, his face also turned gray, and he didn't know what to think of, and he looked at the ruler in the corner and was stunned.

Liao Sanniang knew that her husband had been in the capital water prison for decades, and she really had feelings, but she couldn't wipe her face and said cruel words, she didn't know what was going on, and she couldn't comfort her, and she was about to go back to the room, but she suddenly heard someone shouting outside.

"Hehua mother, someone is looking for you to be in charge!"

During the day, the thin woman banged the door and shouted loudly.

It's so late, who else will come?

Isn't that the one who talks a lot, what opportunity is he looking for to probe his brain?

Something happened at home, Liao Sanniang was already annoyed by these gossips, but she had to step forward to answer the door, opened it, and was about to ask, but she didn't see the thin woman, only to see a person opposite carrying a lantern, and asked, "But Shen Gong's house?" ”

The tone was full of people in the water prison, and the voice was also very familiar.

Liao Sanniang looked at it fixedly, but she had a rare impression, as if she was also a water worker in the capital water prison, and she had eaten at home in the past, but it was too long and she didn't remember it very clearly.

She nodded busily and said, "Yes!" But I don't know ...... you."