Ruan Jiao came back, handed over the things to Aunt Liu, and gave her the rest of the copper coins.

Aunt Liu hated her: "You kid, where is the money bag?" ”

"It's about to be dropped, whatever, just have enough money." Ruan Jiao smiled, took out a piece of honey jujube cake from her sleeve, and handed it to her.

Aunt Liu was stunned for a moment, slapped her on the head, and said angrily: "Crazy you!" Spend an extra ten pennies and be sorry for the account when the time comes, and beg for a beating! ”

Ruan Jiao rolled her eyes at her: "Aunt Liu, you have a good memory, where is the excuse for the account, didn't it all settle just now." ”

Aunt Liu looked at the money in her hand, counted it again, and looked up at her suspiciously.

"I met a woman in the set, put on a beauty makeup for her, and the reward given by others, seeing that you usually take care of me, there is nothing to honor you, haven't you been talking about this life and afraid that you won't be able to eat a piece of such a cake? This doesn't take a lifetime, try it, it's delicious, isn't it? If it's delicious, I'll buy it for you. Ruan Jiao said with a smile.

"Really?" Aunt Liu looked incredulous and questioned her again.

"Aunt Liu, when did I tell you a lie? I know how to put on makeup, you know, didn't I paint Ping'er's usual makeup for her? Practiced out. Ruan Jiao smiled and broke a piece of cake and sent it to her mouth.

Aunt Liu had to open her mouth to take it, but she burst into tears.

"What's wrong? Not tasty? Ruan Jiao was shocked when she saw her crying, and hurriedly asked.

Aunt Liu stretched her sleeves to wipe away her tears and shook her head: "You stupid girl, I use you as a girl on weekdays, why are you so good to me?" But I can't take care of you, and I can't help you. ”

Ruan Jiao laughed, broke a piece of cake and put it in her mouth, and said with a smile: "What should I do, it turned out to be for this, I just lived like this, I can't complain about others, besides, I won't go on like this for the rest of my life, there will always be a day when I have a chance, I will recognize you as a godmother, let you be an old feudal monarch like an old lady, and hire ten girls to serve you." ”

Aunt Liu spat on the ground and scolded: "Talk nonsense! I've got to have that life, too! Daydreaming, dead girl, hurry up and pick up beans, and at noon I want to drink green bean pork rib soup, it's not much, that's it, if it happens, there will be a good life for others! ”

Ruan Jiao knew that she was complaining about Ping'er, so she didn't reply, she went to the yard to pick up beans with a smile, and picked up less than half a bowl of green beans, only to hear the whining cry from the grandmother's room, and couldn't help but stretch her neck to look over there, and after a while, there was the roar of the old man and the sound of smashing things in the house.

Ruan Jiao lowered her head and continued to pick up her beans, this time it was the eldest grandmother who asked for money, but the eldest grandmother didn't give it, and it started a fuss again.

Ruan Jiao picked up the beans, and when she saw the eldest man walking out of the door angrily, she turned back and pointed to the house and scolded: "Look for death and life at every turn, it's good to die, I will marry another virtuous person, and I won't have to make such a fuss every day!" Hurry up and die! Dead and quiet! ”

With that, he strode out the door without looking back.

Ruan Jiao looked at the open door over there, and could vaguely listen to the crying inside, thinking about going in to persuade her, but she secretly laughed at herself for being amorous, and this grandmother may not take her seriously.

He picked up a few more beans, but his heart was finally uneasy, but he did not hear the crying in the house, so he got up and walked over, and lay down at the door and looked through the curtain.

At this glance, the five souls lost four souls, stepped in one step, but fell to the ground, took two steps back with their hands on the ground, and shouted in a straight voice: "Help! Big grandma hanged! ”

Zhang Sheng, who was sweeping the floor in the yard, rushed in when he heard the sound, picked up a stool and stood and hugged the grandmother hanging on the beam.

When everyone called the doctor in a panic, the eldest grandmother had already woken up, lying face in, silent, and only cried.

The doctor saw it, prescribed a prescription, and said that it was okay, and he was about to leave.

The old lady paid the consultation fee and ordered Zhang Sheng to send the person out.

When the doctor walked out of the house, the old lady's face sank, and she asked in a cold voice, "Old man, why is this?" Wife, I lack you to eat, do I lack you to wear? You are looking for this way to give me no face? ”

The grandmother sobbed softly and did not speak.

Gu Zhun, who had been lying on the side of the kang staring at his mother's relatives, sobbed and replied: "Old lady, my father beat my mother, hit my mother's head with an inkstone, knocked my mother's forehead bloody, and ran away after robbing my mother's money, and my mother was so angry that she did such a thing." ”

Unexpectedly, when the old lady heard this, her face was cold, and she snorted: "How can a woman who is still in a Taoist family and her husband still be able to manage the family and not give money to a man?" It's your mother, it's not. ”

Ruan Jiao on the side smiled bitterly in her heart, what kind of logic is this? Shouldn't a woman be tired and tired of making money to feed this man who eats white food, not to mention, not to have a word of complaint, and not to be able to control the money she earns back? This is really using women as cattle and horses!

"Old lady, my mother embroidered needlework day and night, and her fingers were stabbed by embroidery needles, so she sold her embroidery work, and she was expecting to use the money to make two sets of new shirts for our brothers.

Gu Zhun got off the kang, knelt at the feet of the old lady, and cried and begged her.

The old lady's face became more and more gloomy, and she sneered: "Zhun'er, get up quickly, you can remember the words at a young age, but who taught you these words?" ”

"Back to the old lady, no one teaches the great-grandson, and what the great-grandson says is true." Gu Zhun cried and kowtowed.

The old lady got up from the chair, clapped her hands, nodded violently, and sneered: "Maybe it's me, the head of the family, who didn't educate my children and grandchildren well, so that the daughters-in-law were wronged, and I will go to the Bodhisattva to ask for sins and ask her to forgive my sins!" ”

Liu Shi turned over from the kang and knelt down towards the old lady, and his voice was hoarse: "The old lady is angry, don't listen to Zhu'er's nonsense, the granddaughter-in-law has never complained like this." ”

"Okay, don't act in front of me, it's not the first time I'm looking for death, I'm thinking about your two boys, the monthly subdivision is already a penny more than the second room, what else? All this money is deducted from my and my grandfather's division, and I don't take advantage of the public school, but this can't be more, no matter how much, my grandfather and I won't be drowned by the spittle stars of others? This heart is already boundless, what else can I do. ”

The old lady sighed, raised her hands, pulled up Gu Zhun who was kneeling on the ground, and walked out of the house.

Liu collapsed on the kang, like a nerd, tears rolling down his cheeks like beads with broken threads.

Ruan Jiao, who had been standing by the wall, felt sad, and it was difficult for her to come forward to persuade her, so she slowly retreated from the house, but refused to leave, and stood under the wall not far from the courtyard and looked into the house, afraid that she would find her will to die again.

But I saw the old lady's personal girl Chrysanthemum come out of the house, with a long face, towards the second house, and after a while, she came out and walked towards her aunt's house.

"Sister Chrysanthemum, my aunt and grandmother are not here, so I got up early in the morning and went to the neighbor's house to draw shoes." Ruan Jiao shouted behind her.

She looked back at her and nodded: "Then trouble Miss Ruan to call your aunt and grandmother back, I will also call Zhang Sheng to go to the temple to invite the grandfather back." ”

Ruan Jiao promised to go out with her, and asked softly, "Why do you have to call back?" Something? ”

"I can't know this, but I look at the old lady's appearance and I am angry enough." Chrysanthemum replied to her and went to find Zhang Sheng.

Ruan Jiao went to Aunt Sun's house next door and called Gu Xiaofeng back.

Gu Xiaofeng asked her what was wrong, and Ruan Jiao told her about the eldest grandmother's hanging.

She was stunned for a while, and laughed: "This sister-in-law is really, knowing that her dowry is small, her mother's family is sparsely populated, and she doesn't have the support of a brother and brother, but what kind of trouble, when she enters our house, she is a high climber, and she doesn't hold her little feet to be a person, but it's a trouble, what's the benefit?" Isn't it yourself who suffers? ”

"I think it's the uncle's fault this time, and I robbed the money for Young Master Sun's clothes." Ruan Jiao muttered in a low voice.

Gu Xiaofeng sneered: "No matter how wrong a man is, he is also a man, and the money in the family has to be made by them, what can we women do?" If you can't stand it, can you turn the sky upside down? “

Ruan Jiao didn't want to continue talking to her, when Gu Xiaofeng married into the rich man's house in the next town, the dowry she took away was really spread within a radius of more than ten miles, and everyone who had children sighed, they were not lucky enough to marry such a rich daughter-in-law.

But the good thing didn't last long, Gu Xiaofeng got married for only half a month, and the groom was trampled to death by his own cow! Those who are envious of the family have become jokes at this time, and the rich man's family of the partial king came back to a fortune teller and said that this Gu Xiaofeng was in a bad fate, specializing in the husband's family, first the husband, then the in-laws, and then even the uncle and even the married sister-in-law were not spared.

Therefore, the rich man's family robbed her of her dowry and wanted to sell her into the Qinglou.

The old lady was reluctant to let her granddaughter suffer, and was willing to pay for it again.

"Miss Ruan, didn't you hear Chrysanthemum say that what is so hard to move the people, even the grandfather has to invite back?" Gu Xiaofeng asked Ruan Jiao.

Ruan Jiao shook her head.

As he spoke, everyone was pleased. Ruan Jiao wanted to go back to the house to do embroidery work for a while, but she was also called to the old lady's house by Chrysanthemum and told her to listen to it too.

Ruan Jiao beat a drum in her heart, what did their family's affairs have to do with her, and she was asked to come too.

The old lady sat upright on the kang and looked at the people standing with a majestic face.

Her biological son, Gu Pingshun, wore a Taoist robe, with long hair, and made a series upwards, but his words were quite impatient: "Mother, my son has now converted to Buddhism, and he doesn't listen to mundane things. ”

"If you don't lead the Gu family anymore, then you can leave now." The old lady said coldly.

Gu Pingshun was choked by the old lady, his face turned red all of a sudden, and he went to sit on the chair wordlessly.