CHAPTER XXI

Gu Xiaofeng felt that her sister-in-law couldn't propose marriage in person, so she had to go to the old lady to face this stubble, but she never thought that the Liu family would stop talking about marrying. This made her really unable to figure out why, and wanted to ask her, but it was difficult to speak, so she had to keep it in her heart.

Ruan Jiao dried a lot of flowers and plants, made two boxes of rouge out, and went to the county seat for a reason, and the squire's wife who had already smelled Ruan Jiao's name rushed to buy it.

After turning home for a while, Gu Xiaofeng smiled and said, "I'll come back when I order tea, will this be sold?" ”

"Auntie, it's not for sale, it's for a hundred wen!" Doucao shook the money bag and smiled back at her.

Gu Xiaofeng clasped her hands together, chanted Amito, and said with a smile: "God has eyes, let this child have this ability to make money, and it is expected that he will not suffer any big hardships in the future, even if I am not guarding in front of her, I can rest assured." ”

Doucao grinned and grabbed a handful of money from the money bag, and without counting it, he stuffed it into his aunt's pocket: "Grandma, keep it for tea to eat." ”

"What kind of master and what kind of servant, it's not enough for your master to throw money out, and now there is one more of you to carry it, which is really annoying!" Gu Xiaofeng took out the money in his pocket, put it into the money bag again, and said with a smile: "I have saved it all, and I will marry in a beautiful future in the future!" No one's anger is not affected. ”

Ruan Jiao came back from fetching water, and when she saw the two of you pushing me in the middle of the ground, she smiled and said, "What are you doing?" Didn't you fight over something? Doucao, this is your fault, you should let your aunt and grandmother be. ”

Doucao pouted and said with a smile: "Girl, rouge was sold for a hundred dollars, and I wanted to give it to my aunt and grandmother, but she refused to ask for it, saying that I couldn't save the money." ”

"Give it all to my aunt and grandmother, let her keep it, it's not a matter to put it here in my place, I can rest assured if I put her there." Ruan Jiao said with a smile.

Doucao smiled and untied the money bag and handed it to Gu Xiaofeng, and said with a smile: "Grandma, you don't want to give you a handful, it's okay now, you have to keep it." “

Gu Xiaofeng took the money bag and nodded: "That's it, I'll save it for you, you two dead girls, none of you will live, if you have money, you will scatter it everywhere, and you won't plan for yourself at all, how good is this." ”

The three of them were talking, only to hear a heart-rending cry from Wenxiu's room!

"What's the matter?" Gu Xiaofeng screamed, ran out, and just walked into the courtyard, but heard the second master roaring in the room: "Yu Zhong, hurry up and ask the doctor!" ”

Yu Zhong ran out of the door in a panic.

At this time, it also alarmed the old lady, and the old lady walked panting with the silver bottle and asked what was going on.

Gu Yuliang's eyes were red, and he stomped his feet and said, "Old lady, when you see red, I'm afraid the child won't be able to keep it!" ”

When the old lady heard this, she also panicked, gasped heavily, grabbed the hand of the silver bottle, and shook her body, almost pulling the silver bottle down.

"Old lady, don't panic, don't panic!" Gu Yuliang hurriedly stepped forward to support her, and put her into a chair in Wenxiu's room to sit.

Wen Xiu was lying on her back on the bed, covered with a sheet, her face was yellow, and she was crying like a tearful person, but when she saw the old lady, she didn't scream, but her tears flowed more diligently.

"Good boy, it's okay, the doctor will come in a moment, it's okay." The old lady coaxed her, and when she saw the list covered by her, she couldn't help but despair.

After about a cup of tea, Yu Zhong led the doctor into the door, and the doctor made a diagnosis, shook his head and sighed, saying that it was late, the fetus must not be saved, and it was a blessing to try his best to save the adult.

Gu Yuliang was also anxious when he heard this, so he called the doctor outside, and stuffed the whole ingot of silver into his sleeve, asking him to save his life.

The doctor prescribed the medicine and came out, he personally took it to the pharmacy to grab the medicine, and when he came back, he went to the kitchen to boil it in person, but he didn't go back to the doctor, as long as he kept an eye on it.

In the evening, a stillborn baby came, but it was a male fetus that had become a shape, Gu Yuliang saw it, and cried more and more and forgot to sleep and eat, and couldn't wait to follow this unborn son.

Feng Shi also cried in front of the old lady with red eyes, because he said: "My belly is not angry, I can't give birth to a boy, fortunately my sister has it, I am also happy, I have been serving with all my heart in the past few months, and I called the doctor to prescribe tocolytic pills, and I didn't dare to slack off for a moment, who would have thought that it would be like this again, it was really unbearable." From now on, eat fasting and pray for the Buddha, and bless my sister to give birth to a boy for the second master as soon as possible. ”

The old lady saw that she was crying pitifully, and persuaded her that giving birth to a boy and a girl was a gift from God, not a human being.

Originally, this matter was like this, but in the evening of the next day, when Ruan Jiao was sitting under the eaves with a medicine mill and pounding the petals, Gu Xiaofeng came out of the old lady's house with an angry face, walked up to her, and said hatefully: "Sure enough, I guessed it, I was ordering eye medicine in front of the old lady, saying that Aunt Wen had an abortion because of the rouge you gave!" ”

Ruan Jiao didn't care, continued to tinker with the pollen in her hand, and said with a faint smile: "Old lady, do you believe it?" ”

"She is an old man, her ears are soft, she believes in them or not, but she doesn't listen to them." Gu Xiaofeng sat beside her and replied to her angrily.

"Auntie, you don't have to worry, the clean ones are self-purifying, I haven't done it, my heart is open, and I'm not afraid of what they say." Ruan Jiao persuaded her.

"By the way, I remember, you said that it was made of honey and eggs that day, and it was edible, how did I forget this stubble, I told the old lady to go, and it is expected that Aunt Wen will not be able to use up the box in the past few days, this is physical evidence!" Gu Xiaofeng got up to leave, but Ruan Jiao hurriedly grabbed her shirt and dragged her back.

"What are you doing, do you have to bear the charge of harming people!" Gu Xiaofeng asked her.

Ruan Jiao dragged her into the house, pushed her to a chair and sat down, stretched out her finger and pointed in the direction of Ping'er's house, and said with a wry smile: "The old lady is a smart person who understands everything, even if they say anything, they won't believe that I did it, I have no grievances with Aunt Wen, why do you want to hurt her with such a bad idea?" I don't have the intention of marrying the second master, doing such a harmful thing, but I don't have nothing to do if I have enough to eat? It's just like that, I'm just afraid of hurting her, after all, I've been here for a few years, and she's never blushed with me, always my sister and sister call me short, and I always think about me when there's good food and fun, if I fall out for this little thing, but it's not embarrassing? ”

Gu Xiaofeng sighed, her face sad: "The second sister-in-law is too, how can she do such a thing!" It's a good male fetus, it's gone, no matter how bad it is, it's the second brother's flesh and blood, and when the child is born, it will be sold or sent, and Aunt Wen will be taken away. ”

Ruan Jiao followed with a long sigh: "According to me, it's always a man's no, even if there is a beautiful girl at home, but she always thinks about going out to hunt wild food, second/grandma is a strong person, she may not agree after a good discussion, how can she not be angry if she presses her head like this." ”

Gu Xiaofeng stared at her face and pursed her lips and smiled.

"What are you laughing at, am I wrong?" Ruan Jiao asked her, she was silent, and picked up the embroidery brace to embroider by herself.

After a few stitches of embroidery, I heard someone call outside.

She walked out, came back with a spring breeze on her face, and took out the new clothes she had just made from the cabinet and asked Ruan Jiao to help her change them.

"What's so urgent?" Ruan Jiao asked her with a smile while arranging her skirt.

Gu Xiaofeng looked left and right at no one, and then chuckled: "That man is here, Aunt Liang asked me to go over and take a look." ”

Ruan Jiao was a little reluctant in her heart, so she said: "Auntie, just look at it twice and say a few words, where can you know whether a person is good or bad, and marry like this without getting along, I always feel that I can't rest assured." ”

"Fool! That's not how the woman got married? That is, you, who were picked up by the eldest brother, still have the opportunity to get along with the famous children for all these years, or you are a child daughter-in-law, even worse, you have to see the face of your in-laws since you were a child, and your life is even more difficult. Gu Xiaofeng said with a smile.

"In my opinion, it's better to find a confidant to go over there and ask him privately about what he is like, how the previous lady died, and it's not too late to remarry after inquiring." Ruan Jiao said seriously.

Gu Xiaofeng was stunned, and couldn't help nodding: "What you say, it sounds really reasonable, but there is no such confidant who can be trusted." ”

Ruan Jiao was not convinced, and patted her chest hard: "Auntie, am I not the one who can be trusted?" Don't worry, I'm going to the mountains to pick flowers and plants with the bean grass, and I will go to the cross slope one day to ask for you. ”

Gu Xiaofeng stretched out his hand to poke her forehead, and said with a smile: "This dare is good, then this matter, my aunt and grandmother can count on you, whether it is good or not, just wait for you to come back and tell me." ”

Ruan Jiao wanted to help her put on makeup, but Gu Xiaofeng refused, because she said with a smile: "It's not the first time the big girl gets on the sedan chair, everyone gets together just to live, I don't wear makeup, I just show him what I really look like, after all, it is not the life of a mother to be together in the future, I have to run for a living." ”

Ruan Jiao stuck out her tongue at her and grimaced.

My aunt and grandmother are not very old, only twenty-three after the New Year, but because they have been married once, they wear a plain bun all day long, wearing a plain gown, like a half-old woman, if you don't seriously talk about age, Ruan Jiao also thinks she is a half-old woman.

Saying that, Gu Xiaofeng changed her clothes and walked to Aunt Liang's house next door.

Aunt Liang was cooking a fire under the kitchen, and her daughter-in-law Liang Ming's short shirt was tucked in her pants, with a knife in her hand, and she was chopping a chicken. In the courtyard ran two half-sized girls with horns, holding long branches in their hands, shouting and drinking, and when they saw someone coming in, they stopped and stopped, but they stared at her, giggling.

"Xiaofeng, here, come in and sit down." When Aunt Liang saw her, she wiped her hands on her apron and came over to greet her with a smile.

Gu Xiaofeng responded, followed her into the inner room, and when she passed the hall, she saw a man sitting next to the table of the Eight Immortals, burly and honest-looking, playing with the child in his arms, the child reached out to grab his turban, and ripped the hair on his forehead, he was not annoyed, he held the child's fleshy little hand, and grinned. Seeing someone walk in, he hurriedly stood up, bowed slightly, and put a smile on his face, Gu Xiaofeng hurriedly covered his face with a handkerchief and walked past him.

Aunt Liang let her into the inner room, deliberately lifted the door curtain so that she could see the man in the hall clearly, and went to pour tea for her to eat, and asked her quietly with a smile: "Look, but it's okay?" There is no way to compare with your first one, and your first dead ghost is not picky except for a short life. ”