Chapter 39: The Hunt for Silver
Thinking of Du Chensheng's words that he would send her to study, her eyes flashed, she checked the doors and windows, made sure that they were all closed, then went under the bed, took out the four treasures of the study and the manuscript, and continued to write her script, until she heard the voices of Chen and her sisters, and then stopped writing.
The Chen family came back with a lot of planks on their backs.
Originally, after the wood on the mountain was chopped down, it still needed to be dried for a period of time before it could be sawed into boards, but Chen often went to help people carry wood, and people knew her situation, so they directly replaced her wood with dry planks, and also helped her get the mortise and tenon joints right.
And Yao's side, she had already been instructed by her mother-in-law to cook the meals of a few people in the third room at night, and she was full of questions, but when she asked her mother-in-law, her mother-in-law ignored her at all, and only told her to do it, and also told her to be better to the little third room in the future, which made Yao's confused, and at the same time muttered in her heart, thinking that the wind direction at home had changed.
This time, seeing that Chen came back with so many planks on his back, she couldn't help but shout in the courtyard: "Yo, where did my brother and sister make a fortune and buy so many planks back?" Didn't you go up the mountain and pick up the silver? ”
Sure enough, as soon as he heard the words "fortune" and "silver", Niu walked out of the house and looked at the wooden plank that Chen and the others were carrying.
Yao's looked at his mother-in-law, and then at the people in the third room, his eyes flickered, waiting to see Niu's attitude.
"Second aunt, you just got rich. I watched you hide a piece of silver in a crack in the wall yesterday. Du Fangling responded.
She hates Yao the most. Although Du Chensheng and the Niu family did not want to see them, if it were not for the Yao family's instigation, they would have turned a blind eye to the people in the small third room at most. It is because of Yao's constant picks that they are often beaten, scolded and punished. To say that Du Chensheng and the Niu clan were dissatisfied with Xiao Sanfang because of their son's death, and Yao's approach was purely vicious by nature, and it was not good to see people.
As for whether Yao's silver was hidden in the crack of the wall, it was not something she could control. If the Niu family can't find it, it can only mean that the Yao family has transferred the silver, but she is not talking nonsense.
"What are you talking nonsense? Who hid the silver in the crack of the wall? When Yao heard this, he jumped like thunder, but his heart was empty.
She really hid the silver in a hole in the wall.
But how did the three girls know about this?
Niu's gaze turned to Yao's.
Xiao Sanfang's ordinary food oil, salt, and even the clothes, shoes and socks she wears, and the wooden planks used to nail and repair the cowshed, she knows that the third daughter-in-law went to carry wood for people in exchange. As long as the three daughters-in-law don't hide a penny of private money, she will open one eye and close one eye, and let them go.
If she doesn't allow the little third room to get these, these things will have to be asked for her. After all, the fields at home are all cultivated by the mother and daughter of the third room, but all the rice and grain are collected by the family, and the Chen family and others have no oil and salt to eat, no clothes to wear, so they should be from the family. Besides, if you don't have oil and salt to eat, you don't have the strength to work. This one in and one out, which is more important, she is such a shrewd old lady, and she naturally calculates clearly with a small abacus.
But the second daughter-in-law's private hiding of silver is serious, and this is definitely a challenge to her authority as an old lady in charge. As a family member and an old lady who values money more than anything else, she has never allowed her daughter-in-law to hide private money in her hands.
"Did you take it out on your own initiative or did I search for it myself?" She asked Yao.
"Mother, I really don't have any private silver, don't listen to the nonsense of the three girls. She just can't see us well and wants to instigate the relationship between our mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. Seeing that the Niu family believed it, Yao's heart suddenly panicked, and he hurriedly pointed to the heavens and the earth and swore an oath.
Niu ignored her and went directly into Yao's and Du Yunnian's house.
If it was usual, she might have let Yao go. The eldest daughter-in-law is from the city, and she doesn't go back to the old house a few times a year, so she can't rely on her; The people in the third room have been treated harshly for so many years, and the third daughter-in-law doesn't hate them and the two elders, but it is in vain to think that if there is a sickness in the future, they want to rely on her. There is only a second daughter-in-law, although she is lazy, greedy, and a troublemaker, but she has respected her and the old man over the years. Now she is better, and when she is old and has a sickness, she can also serve and serve the two elders.
But she just learned that Du Chensheng was going to send Du Jinning to school, although she might not be restrained, but to buy books and the four treasures of the study room that she usually uses...... It all costs money, doesn't it? Where does the money come from? If she doesn't get it out of the second daughter-in-law at this time, her heart and liver will hurt to death.
In order to soothe her wounded heart, she couldn't care whether her second daughter-in-law was dead or alive.
When she entered the house, her brass eyes swept into the room, and she banged directly on the wall, and in a short time she pulled out a brick from the wall, and then stretched her hand in, and a piece of broken silver weighing about a penny appeared in her hand.
Niu didn't give up and continued to knock on the wall.
When Yao saw it, he almost fainted, firstly because he felt sorry for his silver, and secondly, he was afraid of his mother-in-law's punishment.
Du Jinning, who heard the movement and came over to see the excitement, was suddenly startled when he saw this situation. She hid the silver in the hole in the wall, thinking it was safe, but she didn't expect that the hole in the wall was actually a place where everyone had the same ambition to hide the silver.
She was worried that after the Niu family knocked on the wall of the second room, she also knocked on their room, and saw that the Yao family and the Chen family were watching the Niu family looking for silver, so she quickly pretended not to be interested in the onlookers and went back to her room.
In order not to arouse the suspicion of the Niu family and Du Chensheng opposite, she did not dare to close the door. Fortunately, the wall tiles where she put the silver are in the corners of the inside, and they are invisible only from the outside if they don't enter the house. She quickly pulled out the bricks, took out all the silver and the rest of the coins, stuffed the bricks, and then climbed out of the window, hiding them all in the grass in the alleyway behind.
Turning back into the house, she grabbed the "Book of Filial Piety" in her hand and went out to watch the excitement again.
At this time, the Niu family next door had successfully extracted four bricks in the wailing of the Yao family all the way, and harvested two silver coins and one hundred and twenty-five copper coins.
The Yao family lost their money and had to face punishment, and they hated Du Fangling so much.
Her method of revenge is also simple and rude: "Mother, mother, there are three rooms, there are three rooms, and I see that the third brother and sister also hid money." I don't know if it's on her, or it's hidden in their room. ”
Hearing this, Du Fangfei and Du Fanghui were fine, but Chen and Du Fangling were startled.
Do they know that Du Jinning still has sixty dollars on him. If they are searched out by the Niu family, what awaits them will be one day of punishment and two days of hunger.