When he walked to the threshold, he stopped again, turned his head and warned Du Chensheng: "I can tell you, he is now a junior Sanyuan, he will be a person in two years, and he will be a jinshi in a few years, and he has a bright future." If you dare to talk nonsense outside and ruin his reputation, I will never spare you. I'm in a hurry, I'll die with you, pull you to the front of the underground father, and let him teach you a hard lesson. ”

With that, he flicked his sleeves and turned to leave.

Du Chensheng didn't move, he sat there with a cloudy face, for a long time, he seemed to have made up his mind, walked out of the house, found Niu Shi sitting in the next room, and said, "Let's go, go back." ”

Seeing that the old man's face was more ugly than ever, Niu hurriedly followed him out of the door and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?" ”

Du Chensheng looked at her, hesitated for a moment, and told Niu what Du Jinning said just now.

Niu Shi immediately exploded when he heard this.

She has been sitting in the small third room for the past two days, although she is sitting at the top position, but who in Zhuangzi and familiar people does not know the relationship between their old couple and the small third room? Therefore, the women who came and went flattered Chen, but they were lukewarm to her, at most they spoke perfunctory words, and turned their heads to talk to Chen affectionately. So she's not having a good time these days. can think about what the eldest daughter-in-law said to her, and Du Jinning had to take her over to enjoy the happiness when she became an official in the future, so she endured this embarrassment.

She couldn't bear it anymore.

If Du Jinning is prosperous, she will not be able to touch the light, and the little third room is going to move to Fucheng to eat and drink spicy food, but the old couple will stay in the village coldly, and they will have to think about it for a long time if they want to eat meat, what is the meaning of living this kind of life?

Moreover, she has lived with the old man for most of her life, and the old man now tells her about it, doesn't he just want her to make trouble?

Whatever, since there are good days that don't let them go, then everyone should not live a good life, see who is afraid of whom! Even if Xiao Sanfang wants to leave and go to live a good life without them, then they have to bite a big piece of meat. Without a hundred taels, no, without three hundred taels of silver, they don't want to get rid of the two elders like this.

After seeing that there were still many guests outside the courtyard of the house, and there was also a Xiucai from a nearby village, she simply slapped her face and cried: "Old man, how can this be done." People look at our scenery, and our grandsons have been admitted to Xiucai, but who knows that our grandson has been admitted to Xiucai, so he dislikes us old people and wants to drive us out. ”

She had a very loud voice, and this howl was heard not only by the Du family's small third room, but also by the courtyard of the Dong family. Everyone came to see what was going on.

Du Chensheng's eyes flashed with satisfaction, but his face showed an anxious look, he stepped forward and grabbed Niu's, and scolded in his mouth: "Old woman, what are you doing here?" Hurry back. ”

The old couple have been married for decades and have long been very tacit.

Niu Shi twitched her arm, pushing Du Chensheng almost stumbled, she hid her face and cried again, her voice became higher and higher: "My grandson has said that he doesn't recognize us, don't I even have the qualifications to be sad?" Don't stop me, make me cry for a while. ”

When Chen saw Niu crying in front of so many people, he knew that something was wrong.

If Du Jinning doesn't take the road of the imperial examination, this will naturally be no problem for Du Chensheng and his family. Just look at Yao and Du Jinshou. They don't rely on the old couple to eat, so not only do they ignore them, but even do something with them, Du Chensheng and the Niu family can't help them? The relationship between rural children, mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law is about the same. As long as the old people are not starved to death, beaten to death, or abused to death, it is difficult for other families to say anything. At most, they don't have a good reputation.

But the reader is very important in this regard. If you have a reputation for unfilial piety, no one will guarantee you, and you will not even be qualified to participate in the imperial examination.

This is also the reason why Du Jinning had to perfunctory them even if he signed a severance document with Du Chensheng.

Now that Du Jinning has just taken a small three yuan, he has a reputation for unfilial piety, and he is not sure what will happen in the future.

She grabbed Du Jinning, who had just come out of the house, and asked in a low voice, "What did you say?" Why did they get into such a fuss? ”

"Didn't say anything. I just told my grandfather not to talk to me about grandchildren, and no matter what happens to me in the future, he doesn't want to get any benefits from me. Du Jinning said expressionlessly.

"You ......" Chen looked at Du Jinning, wanting to blame her for not stabbing the hornet's nest at this time, but the incident had already happened, and it would be useless to blame. She nodded and said to Du Jinning: "Don't be afraid, leave this matter to your mother." ”

With that, she turned around with high morale and squeezed into the crowd and walked towards Niu's.

Du Jinning's reputation is important, but her reputation is not important. Saying that she is not filial to her in-laws, so what? Even if Du Chen divorced her on behalf of Du Yuncheng, she has Du Jinning and three daughters, what are she afraid of?

But before she squeezed into the center of the crowd, she heard a sneer, the laughter was no less than Niu's voice, and it was like a silver bell, very pleasant to the ear.

Then Du Fangling's voice rang out: "When my brother was just born, you said that he was going to drown him; If my mother hadn't stopped me alive, my brother's life would have been killed by you. Over the years, he hasn't eaten a grain of your Du family, it's all my mother and my eldest sister who worked tirelessly as a cow and a horse, and then saved the grain from his mouth to raise my younger brother.

What's going on? Now that he's out of the picture, you want to come to the house to be an old lady and an old lady, right? I didn't promise you, so you sang and wrote well here, didn't you? I said, can you be a little more disgusting? The second aunt sold more than a dozen acres of land handed down by her ancestors, and you don't dare to let one go. Now we are making trouble, we haven't eaten a grain of food from your family more than ten years ago, but have raised you for more than ten years, right? Is this a pinch that picks up the softness? Do you want to bully people like this? ”

Saying that, she turned her face to the lively human: "You say, which old man, grandson got Xiucai, got Xiao Sanyuan, is not happy for his grandson and proud of him?" But if you look at these two people, it seems that they have a grudge against their grandson, intending to ruin his reputation and ruin his future. Is this a grandfather or grandmother? This is clearly the enemy. ”

At this time, it was the second day of the flowing water banquet, and the officials and squires of the yamen, as well as the showmen and classmates of the academy in the county, and some of them were aiming for the name of Xiao Sanyuan, or wanted their sons and grandsons to make friends with Du Jinning, or wanted to marry the Du family. They didn't know the inside story of the Du family.

began to listen to Niu's crying, and saw Du Fangling, an unmarried girl, stand up, not only did not comfort her grandmother, but sneered again and again, and her impression of the Du family was very bad, thinking that she had exposed the true face of the Du family.

But when they heard Du Fangling say this, they also reacted.