Most people don't have many chili peppers in their collection, and after finding that they have shrunk, they fry them and eat them at home, which is not a big loss. However, the person who has a ghost in his heart and secretly collects a lot of chili peppers is dumbfounded.

Liu Erniang jumped to her feet in distress at home, scolding the Zhang family for being ruthless, knowing that this method was not right, and she didn't know a little news, causing them to lose hundreds of taels of silver.

It turned out that her daughter-in-law, Wang's mother-in-law's mother's sister-in-law's mother's family, and a tenant of the Zhang family were relatives who were in a twist and turn, and this alone could not find out the secrets of the Zhang family.

She didn't dare to provoke the Zhang family head-on now, so she partnered with several families to collect chili peppers from a relative dozens of miles away, and said that she had collected them and sold them to the Fang family on the market.

After collecting thousands of catties, he spread the method of Zhang's collection of chili peppers outside, and naturally every household did not sell chili peppers, so they kept them for their own collection, and then took them out to sell in winter.

They rushed to collect some from afar, until everyone knew how to do it, and there were no more peppers to buy outside. She was still proud at that time: let you get rich, can't buy chili peppers to see what kind of wealth you make?

Before it was October, her relatives noticed that something was wrong with the chili pepper - the skin was wrinkled and seemed to be shrinking. In a hurry, he didn't dare to make a noise, thinking that he had opened the straw, walked away, and exposed the wind, so he added straw to all the bamboo baskets, and closed the house where the peppers were hidden, and did not show a single gap.

Now it's troublesome: the pepper was just shrunken and shriveled, and now there is a phenomenon of festering.

This pepper is buried with plant ash to keep it fresh, and ventilation and drying is two. Otherwise, the wings in the backyards of the Zhang family and the Zheng family had a row of windows, but the windows were opened high, and under the eaves, the people who saw it didn't know what was going on, and they thought they were afraid that people would peek at the peppers, so they deliberately opened the windows high.

However, ordinary farmers use straw to hide peppers because the quantity is small. It is naturally better to put it in the corner of the kitchen or in the firewood shed than to keep thousands of catties of chili peppers in an airtight room, so as to preserve it until November.

The Zhang family finished the chili peppers in one go, and Chrysanthemum wanted to tell the secret of storing the chili peppers. Helplessly, the man couldn't bear to jump out, and she had to endure it.

She didn't wait long, after Liu Er's sister-in-law's mother's house found that the chili pepper was hopeless, she came to Qingnan Village in despair and told the Sun family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, which stunned Liu Erniang.

She beat her chest and felt sorry for the silver that had been lost, and scolded the Zhang family for being ruthless and not caring about people's lives or deaths. "Aren't the Zheng family and the Zhang family famously kind? Why doesn't it matter if people live or die this time? It's not a bad pepper, there are so many people, they are not afraid of people poking their backbones? ”

At this time, she admitted that the Zheng family and the Zhang family were kind-hearted families.

Liu Erniang didn't dare to shout loudly, Sun Jinshan didn't know about this at all, she and her daughter-in-law Wang secretly conspired together, and then found her sister-in-law's mother's family to do it secretly, so naturally she couldn't see the light.

However, Liu Erniang wanted to swallow this breath. She was really unwilling: this is hundreds of taels of silver!

It's not that she really spent so much silver to buy chili peppers, even if the price of chili peppers rose to five cents a pound this year, thousands of catties of chili peppers cost her more than 20 taels of silver.

But. The psychology of mortals, the calculation of accounts is calculated according to the highest imaginary income, and Liu Erniang is like this. She didn't even calculate this account according to the price of 25 wen per catty sold to the residents of Xiatangji last year, but calculated this account according to the highest price of the Zhang family's sale - 100 wen per catty.

One catty is one hundred wen, ten catties is one thousand wen, that is, one tael of silver, one hundred catties is ten taels of silver, one thousand catties is one hundred taels of silver, how much is six thousand catties?

She sat by the brazier, fingers crossed, and silently counted the account. It will be calculated that 6,000 catties of chili peppers will be sold for 600 taels of silver. Her family will divide more than 400 taels of silver, and suddenly she feels dizzy and her heart beats, and the pain in her heart is really indescribable.

The relatives and the Wang family both felt aggrieved, and several of them couldn't bear this breath, and they couldn't think of a way.

"That doesn't make them feel better. Let's quarrel. said that the tenants of the Zhang family secretly sold it to us, and we paid back the silver. Let's just say that they are uneasy and kind. Hmph, I can't make them feel better anyway. ”

So, after the discussion, there was no need to pull out the Sun family, and the relative went to the tenant of the Zhang family to shout, saying that the method he sold to himself to store the chili peppers was fake, and deceived himself of five taels of silver, not to mention, so that the chili peppers were rotten, and he pulled out the Wu family.

The tenant was also one of the co-harvesters of chili peppers, but he was also acting in the name of a relative.

These messy things spread to the Zhang family and the Zheng family, and Aoki and Huaizi were dizzy by the kinship, and while asking people to inquire carefully, they pondered with Chrysanthemum.

"It can't be the second daughter-in-law of the Wu family, right? The daughter-in-law looked very honest. Chrysanthemum sat in the fire bucket, holding the shallots to read to her, and said uncertainly.

Huaizi said with a calm face: "I'll let people inquire, first find out what kind of nonsense they are related to, and then inquire about this matter." The family surnamed Qian won't talk about it, just drive it out, but the Wu family is in some trouble. If Wu Laoer's daughter-in-law is really confused, it will be really difficult to deal with. I can't bear Wu Cheng, but he is a brother, and driving away his brother will inevitably make him feel estranged in his heart; He will not drive away, nor will he obey the congregation. ”

Chrysanthemum nodded and said, "It's going to be checked carefully." We have to use a small number of people, and it is not easy to train one, like Wu Cheng, we should pay more attention. ”

Huaizi nodded, and then laughed with the shallot.

When the news came back, Huaizi and the others figured it out, and even Liu Erniang and sister-in-law were involved. This relationship can't be covered up at all, but there are more detours. In the end, it was left that the second daughter-in-law of the Wu family was involved or not, and I didn't figure it out.

According to Liu Er's sister-in-law's sister-in-law's mother's family, it was the second daughter-in-law of the Wu family and the daughter-in-law of the Qian family who peeked at the chili peppers, and then told them about the exchange of money.

She bit and climbed so hard, but Huaizi felt at ease, so she asked Wu Cheng about it.

didn't wait for Huaizi to find Wu Cheng, and the Wu family made trouble themselves.

That night, Old Man Wu and Mrs. Wu sat on both sides of the broken table at home, and summoned their three sons and daughter-in-law to gather in the hall to talk about things.

The old man glanced at his son, daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law who were sitting on the lower bench, patted the table and glared at the second Wu Qiang and scolded: "Your daughter-in-law has done a good thing, this is to harm our whole family." It's really embarrassing to talk about the owner's affairs for five taels of silver. The old Wu family has been poor for several lifetimes, and they really haven't done such a shameless thing, but now your daughter-in-law dares to do it. ”

Wu Qiang is not as strong as his name at all, on the contrary, he is an honest man, he was scolded by his father so much that he couldn't say a word, and looked at his daughter-in-law sadly, why did he cause this trouble?

His daughter-in-law was also honest, whining and crying, got up and stepped forward, knelt down for her father-in-law with a "plop", and cursed that she had never done this.

Wu Cheng stopped his father and persuaded in a deep voice: "Dad, let's ask Qiangzi's daughter-in-law first, and we can't believe everything people say." Qiang daughter-in-law, think about it, when will you go to the east with the daughter-in-law of the Qian family? ”

Wu Zhuang, the third eldest of the Wu family, was a short-tempered person, and he interjected impatiently: "What else are you asking?" Looking at her unproductive appearance, she must have been instigated by her bullshit cousin, and she couldn't tell the difference between the southeast and the northwest for a while, so she did this foolish thing. They are all virtuous daughters-in-law that you helped your second brother marry, what is the use of being honest, I don't understand it at all. ”

Wu Cheng shouted: "Your second sister-in-law is also what you can say?" Dad and mother are still sitting here, I'm always older than you, you dare to teach the second brother and sister-in-law in front of us? ”

Wu Zhuang didn't dare to say anything, but he was still muttering quietly in his mouth, but his daughter-in-law pinched his hand and signaled him to endure it.

Wu Qiang's daughter-in-law was scolded by her uncle so that tears rippled and she couldn't stop crying; Wu Qiang sat on the stool with his head in his hands, pulling his hair in pain.

Mrs. Wu saw the second daughter-in-law kneeling on the ground, afraid that she would freeze to death in this cold winter, so she motioned to the eldest daughter-in-law to go up and help her up, give her a small bench to sit down, and let her think about it, when did she get involved with the daughter-in-law of the Qian family, what did she do.

Qiangzi's daughter-in-law got up from the ground, a little staggering, she sat down on the small bench brought by her sister-in-law, rubbing her cold knees and thinking bitterly.

The other two daughters-in-law of the Wu family looked at her very dissatisfied, feeling that it was really boring to be with this stupid family. I secretly thought in my heart, if this mother-in-law really did something sorry for the owner, and they were disliked by the owner, they would have to pry up their own man, let the father-in-law be the master, and divorce this mother-in-law.

Sisters-in-law Wu Ying and Xiaoxi also glared at their second sister-in-law with disdain, hating her for not being angry. Wu Ying was especially angry.

Qiangzi's daughter-in-law thought for a while, looked up and said to her in-laws with tears in her eyes: "In August, I ...... with my cousin is the daughter-in-law of the Qian family, who went to the owner's house and helped her mother deliver things to the young grandmother. The young grandmother didn't say a few words to me, and came back after a while. ”

Wu Cheng asked, "Have you been there this time?" ”

Qiangzi's daughter-in-law looked at the uncle and nodded stiffly, although the uncle didn't scold her, but she was scared when she saw him.

Wu Cheng asked again, "What are you not doing at the owner's house?" Just say a few words to the young grandmother and come back? What about the daughter-in-law of the Qian family? ”

Qiangzi's daughter-in-law thought for a while and said, "My cousin went with me, she didn't say anything." Oh, she seems to have gone to the thatched house, and I remember she asked the young grandmother how to leave the thatched house. ”

Mrs. Wu immediately shouted: "Isn't the thatched house of the owner's family in the backyard!" This dead mother-in-law, using you as a monkey, must have been peeked at by herself, and now she is still relying on you. ”

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