Zhuang Rou followed the big pile from a distance, watching him run in front with the sugar fart, and kept looking back to see if she was chasing her.

Seeing him turn into the path next to him, Zhuang Rou walked a few steps and turned in, and saw the figure of the big pile flashing into a dilapidated courtyard from a distance.

Although the houses around here are not gorgeous, the best ones are blue bricks, most of which are made of mud bricks, but the small gate and small courtyard are quite passable. Only the courtyard where the big pile flashed into didn't even have decent coarse cloth window paper, and it was hung with some old cloth that couldn't be seen.

Compared with other people's tile roofs, the roofs of this house are paved with straw, some melons and vegetables are planted in the yard, two or three hens are raised, and there are a lot of pits dug out by chickens on the muddy ground in the yard, and there are chicken feces everywhere.

To be poor like this in the village, either lazy or sick at home, Zhuang Rou thought about it and walked over and stood in front of the fence inserted by broken bamboo sticks.

"Anyone?" She shouted into the dilapidated room, and through the closed door, which still showed a large gap, she could only see that it was pitch black inside, and there was no light in the daylight.

When no one spoke, she shouted again, "Big pile, I see you." ”

At this moment, the door opened, and out of it came a thin but sharp woman, standing in the courtyard with a fierce corner of her eyes. I saw her cross her waist, and as soon as her chin was raised, she wanted to start scolding.

Crash.

Zhuang Rou had a smile on her face and didn't say anything, but just slipped a handful of copper coins from her hand. They shone brightly in the sunlight and all fell on the dirt floor of the yard.

The woman's words were all blocked in her throat, and she rushed over with a lunge, and picked up the copper coins on the ground with a sharp move, and moved too quickly to pick out the mud in her hand. She put the copper coin in the corner of her ragged clothes and wrapped it in her arms, and her eyes widened fiercely, "This is mine, and it is mine if it falls into my courtyard!" ”

Her voice is not good, and it is unusually sharp, but it can be used to quarrel and directly take advantage of the momentum.

Zhuang Rou didn't speak, just took it into her arms, threw a copper coin in the courtyard, and looked at her with a smile.

The woman wanted to retrieve the coin, but she thought it was too strange, and stood still for a moment.

When he was eating candy, he poked his head out of the house, and saw that there were copper coins on the ground that he couldn't touch, so he rushed over like a wolf pounced on food, and grabbed the copper coins with mud and, and hurriedly asked his mother for credit, "Mother, I have picked up the money!" ”

"Come here!" The big pile mother grabbed him, protected the big pile behind her, and stared at Zhuang Rou with bad intentions.

At the same time, Zhuang Rou also gave her a bright smile, and this time it was no longer copper coins that came out of the money bag, but two or three taels of broken silver. She still didn't say anything, just threw herself into the courtyard as well.

The fear in the heart of the big pile mother prevailed over greed, and she clung to the big pile, afraid that as soon as she let go, the woman would take her precious son away.

"You...... What do you want? The kid's dad will be back soon, and he will break your leg when the time comes! She stammered and frightened, and suddenly a woman came running up, standing outside her yard and throwing money inside, such a strange thing was terrible to look at.

Zhuang Rou smiled and said, "It's nothing, I just wanted to inquire about something, and I thought it was best to find you, so I came." ”

Da Zhuniang naturally knows what she means, isn't it because she loves to chew her tongue and likes to talk about other people's affairs behind her back. But now that she encountered such a strange thing, she didn't dare to talk about it, and shouted: "You hurry up, I don't know anything!" ”

"Here are twenty taels of small bills, plus the broken silver and copper coins on the ground, and if you tell me what you want to know, it will all be yours. If you don't want to, that's okay, I think there are still people in this village who want to make this money. Zhuang Rou had four small bills on his fingers, all of which were silver bills with a value of five taels, which could be traded directly in the store.

"Small bills? That's a silver ticket, isn't it, twenty taels! Da Zhuniang was stunned, it was a full twenty taels of silver, she married into this family, and the most she saw was the four taels of silver that she had sold her land in exchange for last time.

That's twenty taels, plus those broken silver, it's enough to have twenty-three or four taels. Spend 20 taels to buy four acres of thin fields, and there are still three or four taels left, which is enough to repair the broken place of the house, and with those four acres of thin fields, you won't starve next year!

She quickly calculated in her mind that Tian would not be hungry, and her life would be better little by little.

Zhuang Rou shook the small bill and said, "Let's go, your house is too dirty, it's better to take care of it if it's okay." Find a riverside where no one disturbs, and tell me what you know, and the twenty taels are yours. ”

The opportunity must not be missed, the big pile mother snatched the copper coin from the big pile, picked up the broken silver on the ground, and entered the house did not dare to put it in the chain of homes, but quietly hid closely. grabbed a handful of sugar on the table, went out of the house and stuffed it into the big pile for him to play, and took Zhuang Rou out.

I didn't know what she was going to ask, and I didn't dare to go to a place that was too remote, so after thinking about it, Da Zhuniang found a slope on the hillside behind Zhuang Rouling's village and sat down.

There was so much bush that the villagers sitting on the hillside couldn't see them, but they could see below. He is not afraid of being heard, even if there is any accident, as long as he shouts, he will be heard by the villagers.

I didn't expect her to be so careful, but there seems to be some reason why life can be like that. But Zhuang Rou was not interested in this, she sat down and looked at the patch skirt of Da Zhuniang and said: "I want to know about Lin Laicai's family, the more detailed the better, if it can satisfy me, I may add silver." ”

"Lin Lai's wealthyman?" Da Zhuan Niang didn't expect to ask this, and thought it was a strange big thing, and she couldn't think of it for a long time, but it was just this kind of rich man who she usually scolded countless times behind her back.

This is really easy to do, she pulled her sleeves and talked excitedly, and all kinds of rumors and criticisms came as soon as she opened her mouth.

Zhuang Rou stretched out her hand to make her stop, "What I want to hear is true, I don't need you to exaggerate, you just need to tell the truth, I'm not here to seek revenge, I don't need to add oil and vinegar." ”

"That girl spends so much silver, it's too wasteful to ask about this kind of thing." Da Zhuan Niang said bluntly, she had never seen such a bold person.

"I want to marry a girl from his family, so I came to inquire and spend some money to ask clearly, it is better than marrying someone who doesn't know the roots." Zhuang Rou smiled and explained.

When Da Zhuan Niang heard this, she immediately said with disgust: "Girl, the girls from the rich family are all adopted, all of them are not biological, and they only brought back a three or four-year-old girl in the last few months." What's the meaning of marrying back, those girls who married out didn't even go back to their parents' homes, they were all white-eyed wolves. ”

"Don't their family have biological flesh and blood, so they like to adopt children so much?" Zhuang Rou asked casually.

"Yes, but that was decades ago, when they were only seventeen or eighteen years old. At that time, there was a great drought, there was nothing to eat, and it was very difficult to give birth to a son, which did not live long before he died. At the mention of this, Da Zhuniang's tone as a woman softened a lot.

"I heard that I hurt my body at that time, and then I couldn't give birth, so after my life was better, I adopted so many girls."

Zhuang Rou pulled out a grass, bit it in her mouth and let her continue. Da Zhuniang told everything she knew, this Lin Laicai is the people in the village, and his ancestors have lived here for generations.

And Da Zhuan Niang is also a person from this village, so naturally she is too familiar to be cooked, so she has to steal the ancestral tree to show her, and she pointed to the ancestral people one by one.

It's been a long time, and the big pile mother has been foaming at the mouth, and she hasn't stopped talking until the evening, and the smoke is floating in the chimneys of other people's houses, and she is still talking here.

Some things are just repeated, and there are a lot of slanders and curses on the outside, and it seems that she has a great opinion on Lin Laicai's pampered daughter and more than 40 acres of fertile land.

"Anything else you forgot to say?" Zhuang Rou interrupted the interested big pile girl and asked with a serious expression.

Da Zhuan Niang realized that it was getting late, and she should have gone back to cook a long time ago, so she thought about it carefully and said, "No, I know everything." ”

Zhuang Rou handed her the small banknote, "Okay, the small note is for you, but don't tell others that I have met you." Otherwise......"

"I won't say it, I promise!" Da Zhu Niang didn't know why, she always felt that this girl who didn't look very old would make her feel scared. Sometimes she was smiling, but just looking at it made her feel a chill in her back.

She took the small bill, and after looking at it for a long time, she couldn't confirm whether it was true or not, she had never seen such a good thing before. I can't tell it and I can't let others know, think about at least a few taels of silver, even if I ask a word and don't waste my strength, the big pile mother happily put away the small bill.

And Zhuang Rou also asked her to go first, so as not to let others see the two sitting here, Da Zhuanniang's face was full of joy, and she went back as happily as she did when she got married.

"It's really tiring to listen to the woman's small talk." Zhuang Rou stood up and walked towards the entrance of the village, and when she got there, Daddy Lin was still waiting for her.

As soon as she got into the car and leaned in, she let the donkey cart go back to Douhu County, at this time the yamen was already ready to leave work, and she wanted to go back to ride home, and she couldn't work all day and night without going back.

The little county king won't go there, but he is recuperating from a serious injury, so there is no need to trouble him for this kind of trivial matter of the carriage hitting people.

If Zhuang Rou wanted to go home, she had to enter the city before the city gate was closed, so neither of them ate in Beimen County, but just bought a few cakes on the street, and sat in the car to eat while rushing to Douhu County.

It was getting dark, and it was going to be the night of the lantern, and the donkey cart was walking the official road, when suddenly there was the sound of horses galloping from behind. Father Lin took a look, and immediately jumped out of the car in fright and pulled the donkey cart to the side of the road.

"What's wrong?" Zhuang Rou came out with a puzzled probe, and saw a group of people riding horses running straight from behind. When she got closer, she realized that it was a group of eunuchs, different from those she had seen in the past, and these knives were hung from their waists.

In a moment the horses were already at the donkey cart, and without slowing down at all, they galloped away beside her, raising a cloud of dust on the official road.

Zhuang Rou covered her mouth and nose with her hands, watched them go away, and said, "Daddy Lin, they have gone away, let's go back quickly." ”

"Okay." Daddy Lin sat back in the car, picked up the whip and drove the donkey cart forward.