Chapter 72: Severing Relations
"Mother-in-law, big brother." Liu Acan called them very politely, and then told his mother-in-law and eldest brother, "Ke'er and I are only temporarily living here, and we will go back to Liujia Village after we finish paying off our debts next year." ”
"Paying off debts?" Li Yuerong twisted her eyebrows, not understanding what Liu Acan meant.
"Yes, Ke'er is pregnant, the family has no money to buy meat, and seeing Ke'er getting thinner and thinner, I can't borrow some silver from Xiao He." Liu Acan tried his best to talk about himself and Ke'er miserably.
The corners of Liu Xiaohe's lips rose, and this guy had a bit of a brain.
"How much did you borrow?" Li Yuerong didn't care about her daughter, but cared about how much Liu Acan borrowed.
"Five taels." Liu Acan replied truthfully, and then said, "It's already used up." ”
As soon as she heard that it had been used up, Li Yuerong angrily scolded Liu Acan.
"You two are really losers, you will run out of five taels of silver, how will you live in the future?"
"When I pay off my debt next year, I may have to borrow some money from your mother-in-law, otherwise Ke'er's children won't be able to give birth."
Li Yuerong's face changed, as if she was avoiding the plague.
"If you can't give birth, don't give birth, your sister-in-law will have a baby next year, and I don't have spare money for you." After Li Yuerong finished speaking, she looked at Liu Xiaohe, "You woman is really vicious, and your own eldest brother is also calculating like this." ”
"Compared with you, I, Liu Xiaohe, am ashamed of myself." Liu Xiaohe scoffed.
Li Yuerong's face turned red, and she didn't know whether she was angry or ashamed, but how could she be ashamed of being a mother who forced her daughter to die, she must be angry.
Liu Xiaohe ignored Li Yuerong and turned his head to look at Chen Keer.
"Do you still want such a mother?"
Chen Ke'er instantly understood the meaning of Liu Xiaohe's words, and she pursed her mouth and was silent.
Li Yuerong scolded.
"You poisonous woman, you actually want Ke'er not to want me as a mother."
"If I had a mother like you, I wouldn't want to, like a vampire." She said it with great emotion.
The ancients were foolish and filial, even if they broke off the relationship, when they wanted to be filial, they could not be filial, so why endure and endure.
To put it bluntly, the excessive oppression of parents is still caused by themselves, and if they blindly endure it, they will only be squeezed to death in the end. If you want to change, you can only be ruthless.
"I'm going to the yamen to sue you." Li Yuerong intimidated Liu Xiaohe.
Liu Xiaohe didn't laugh angrily, he had no fear, and made a gesture of please: "Whatever, you can sue me now." ”
Seeing that she was not afraid of seeing officials at all, Li Yuerong twisted her eyebrows and looked at Chen Keer and Liu Acan, she still said the same thing.
"If you don't give me five taels of silver today, I won't leave."
Chen Keer laughed, laughing so sadly, Xianggong said this, as if she hadn't heard it, she actually asked for five taels of silver.
She can see that her life is not her life, in this case, what kind of love does she have?
"If you want five taels of silver, you can do it." Chen Keer spoke.
Liu Acan twisted his eyebrows and didn't understand what his daughter-in-law was going to do, but he didn't open his mouth to stop it, and his daughter-in-law wouldn't harm him.
When Li Yuerong heard that there was a play, a greedy smile appeared on her face, and she stretched out her hand to her daughter.
"Bring it then."
Seeing her mother like this, Chen Keer made up her mind.
"Take these five taels of silver, and from now on, I, Chen Ke'er, will no longer be your daughter."
"You bastard, what are you talking about?" Chen Qi scolded, feeling that his sister was going to turn the sky upside down, and she really wanted to cut off relations with her mother, and at the same time glared at Liu Xiaohe fiercely, it must have been her instigating her sister.
Chen Ke'er laughed again: "You don't treat me as a human being, why should I care about affection, so today you took five taels of silver, then we will have no relationship in the future." ”
Liu Xiaohe was very pleased that Chen Keer said such a thing, in fact, she did not instigate Chen Ke'er's six relatives not to recognize it, but just let Chen Ke'er's family see the mistake clearly, if it is changed in the future, I believe Chen Keer will not ignore them.
Li Yuerong had a calm face, but Chen Qi was angry, if it weren't for Liu Xiaohe's people here, he would have to clean up this daring sister.
"Mother, this is the last time I call you Mother, if you think about it, then I will give you five taels of silver."
Li Yuerong looked at Liu Xiaohe and Liu Acan back and forth with a pair of thief eyes, and finally looked at her daughter, she decided.
"Okay, give me ten taels, and your life and death will have nothing to do with us in the future." Liu Xiaohe doesn't care about his eldest brother when he gets rich, and he may have to harm her in the future, so Li Yuerong has a balance in his heart.
"Ten taels?" Chen Ke'er looked embarrassed, because she and Xianggong only had a total of five taels of silver, where did they get ten taels?
Liu Xiaohe saw Chen Keer's difficulty, ten taels of silver was difficult for Liu Acan and his wife, but it was not difficult for her, so he proposed:
"There is no basis for words, and a few witnesses are also needed to set up a written evidence, so it is better to invite the village chiefs of Liujia Village and Chenjia Village to come over and be a witness so as not to be a scoundrel in the future."
"Liu Xiaohe, don't go too far." Chen Qi roared angrily, feeling that this woman was really excessive.
Liu Xiaohe looked at Chen Qi and said sarcastically: "Where did I go too far?" I'm just proposing a few witnesses. Lest anyone in the future who will not admit his account and play a scoundrel, could it be that you really have the heart of a scoundrel? ”
Chen Keer looked at Liu Xiaohe.
Liu Xiaohe smiled at her and said: "Ten taels of silver will be counted as I will lend to your husband and wife, and you can pay it back to me in the future, or you can help me do a few years of work to pay off the debt, as for the two village chiefs, if they are not willing to come, then tell them that as long as they come, they can get one or two silver, Ge Ling, go and bring the carriage over." ”
"Yes, ma'am." Ge Ling turned and went.
This is a literal meaning, if it is said to Li Yuerong's mother and son, let Li Yuerong know that Liu Acan and his wife will have no income in the future, so that Li Yuerong will not come to find fault again.
Liu Xiaohe's rich and arrogant appearance was so angry that Chen Qi's face turned green.
"You're rich?" Chen Qi said.
"It's amazing, you have the ability to become as rich as me." Liu Xiaohe went back, with a rhythm that wanted to anger Chen Qi to death.
Chen Qi is really angry, such a woman must clean up well in his house.
"Ahem, that Xiao He, just ask the village chief of Liujia Village." Liu Acan proposed that as for the money, he would work to pay off the debt as Xiao He said.
"The village chiefs of both villages testified to ensure that there would be no trouble in the future." It's not that she is small-hearted, but she asks the village chiefs of the two villages to take insurance.
"Xianggong, listen to Xiao He." Chen Keer said to Liu Acan that she also felt that what Xiao He said was reasonable, and as for money, she could do more embroidery.
Liu Acan saw that his daughter-in-law said this, he nodded, Ge Ling brought the carriage over to Liu Acan and came in, and sent Bao'er, who was crying in his arms, to his wife.
Liu Xiaohe took Bao'er, Bao'er immediately stopped crying, and the little guy couldn't help but talk about eating the little meat.
"Haha, it turned out that I was hungry, Bao'er is good, my mother will take you back to drink milk." She touched Boa's nose slightly.
Li Yuerong sarcastically: "A picked up child is raised like a baby, but he is like this to his own eldest brother, you and I are not afraid of being punished by God." ”
Chen Keer was about to explain that Liu Acan and Liu Xiaohe were not related, but Liu Xiaohe stopped him.
"Heh, maybe this child was born to a wild man outside by her, and then said it was a child who picked it up." Chen Qi said with disgust.
"Ge Ling, cut out his tongue." Liu Xiaohe teased the child without raising his head.
"Yes, ma'am."
Ge Ling didn't hesitate this time, and when Chen Qi opened his mouth to speak, he quickly pinched Chen Qi's tongue with his fingers, and attacked Chen Qi's chin with his other hand, hitting him hard from the bottom up.
Burst~
"Ah~"
Ge Ling pushed back, bowed his head and said, "Madam, my tongue is cut." ”
Looking at the blood on Ge Ling's hands, he said with disgust: "Next time, you must not let yourself be stained with blood." ”
"Yes." Ge Ling said.
Li Yuerong looked at her son covering his mouth and hands full of blood, and was so frightened that he sat on the ground and screamed, much better than Chen Ke'er, but his face turned pale and he didn't scream.
"Killed, killed......"
"Shut up, don't even want your tongue anymore." Liu Xiaohe raised his head in warning.
Li Yuerong immediately shut up, covered her mouth with her hands, and looked at Liu Xiaohe in horror.
Ge Ling glanced at Chen Qi on the ground and reported, "Madam, he fainted. ”
He has control over the length of his tongue so that it doesn't kill people, at most when they faint from pain.
Li Yuerong looked at her son who was motionless on the ground, crawled over tremblingly, looked at his son's mouth full of blood, turned pale with fright, stretched out his hand to probe his nose and then relieved his heart.
If her son dies, then her life is really over, and she will still count on her son to support her in the future.
"Ge Ling, you watch here, Liu Acan will call me when he comes back."
"Yes, ma'am."
Liu Xiaohe hugged Bao'er and left, as soon as she left, Li Yuerong felt that the air was much smoother, because Ge Ling was here, she didn't dare to trouble her daughter.
The wait is always long, Liu Acan went to Chenjia Village first, and it was good to persuade the village chief of Chenjia Village, and then went to Liujia Village along the way, this time it didn't take much time.
When I returned, it was already an hour later.
Zhang Yunsheng and Nantian were also at home, and they didn't go out again when they knew about the family.
Liu Acan led the two village chiefs into the door, looked at Chen Qi who was motionless on the ground, and when he saw the small pool of blood, he twisted his eyebrows and walked to his daughter-in-law and asked in a whisper.
"What's going on? Big brother, he doesn't ...... It can't be dead, right? ”
"No, just fainted." After a long wait, Chen Keer's heart has calmed down.
Liu Acan breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that Chen Qi was dead.
When the two village chiefs saw the people on the ground, they were not calm, and the two asked together.
"Ah Can, what's going on?" Village Chief Liu asked Liu Acan, who was in his sixties.
"Li Yuerong, what's wrong with your Chen Qi?" Village Chief Chen asked Li Yuerong, who was 70 years old.
"Rest assured, people are not dead." Voices rang out from behind them.
The two village chiefs turned their heads at the same time, looked at the woman who walked in with the child in her arms, and frowned.
"Xiao He, what's going on?" It was Village Chief Liu who spoke.
"It's nothing, I invited you two here today to ask you to do a favor and be a witness." After Liu Xiaohe finished speaking, Zhang Yunsheng took out two pieces of paper and handed them to the hands of the two village chiefs.
Although most of the rural people are illiterate, the most basic requirement for a person to be a village chief is to be literate, so she showed the contract to the two village chiefs.