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A layer of autumn rain and a layer of cool, the autumn rain is long, and the autumn is long.

The autumn rain that lasted for ten days took away the last trace of summer heat, the weather became slightly cooler, and after a new rain in the mountains, it was no longer pure green, but a little more yellow and brilliant red.

The project of pickling duck eggs by the villagers of Baishui Village also ended with the disappearance of this autumn rain, but its impact was far-reaching, and the price of duck eggs in the entire Linshui Town rose sharply, rising to the same level as eggs.

At the beginning of September, it was a crisp autumn season, and this morning Mr. Liu and Liu Boyu went to the mountains to cut down trees, preparing to take advantage of the good weather to dry and burn charcoal.

Although the climate in Jiangnan is warm, it is still quite cold in November and February, and there are only one or two heavy snowfalls every year.

"Dead girl, accompany the money, you can't wash two clothes, what's the use of giving birth to you, I knew I should have thrown you into the urine bucket and drowned."

Under the drying rack in the courtyard, Guo scolded Qingzhi with a piece of clothing in his hand, and there seemed to be a knife hidden behind the heavy haze in his eyes.

Qingzhi had tears in her eyes, and she didn't dare to breathe when she shrunk her body.

She didn't understand why her mother had changed her hexagram in just one day and became more terrible than before, always pinching the flesh hidden under her clothes when no one was around.

Mrs. Liu heard the scolding, and hurriedly came out to persuade: "Third daughter-in-law, what are you doing, Zhi Ya is still young, if you can't teach it slowly." ”

Guo Shi threw the clothes in his hands in the wooden basin, crossed his hands on his waist and said: "Mother, don't spoil her anymore, she is over ten years old, except for eating and playing all day long, she can't do even work, what kind of work does someone else's daughter have such a big family?" You look at her flesh. ”

As he spoke, he pinched Qingzhi's arm a few more times.

What she said seemed to have some truth, but Mrs. Liu couldn't find fault for a while, and she was stunned and didn't know what to say.

Liu Qingyan was digging sweet potatoes with Xie Shi at this time, preparing to dry sweet potatoes, so that when she heard Guo's words, she would definitely refute: What kind of work will you do when you are so old.

"Take the clothes and wash them for me."

Guo Shi poked Qingzhi's head hard, causing Qingzhi's body to tilt to the side and almost fall to the ground.

Qingzhi took the laundry basin to the river, and shed tears all the way, she had washed the clothes very cleanly, why didn't her mother say that she hadn't washed them.

Xie Shi and Liu Qingyan came back and saw Qingzhi's red and swollen eyes, and hurriedly asked what was going on.

Qing Zhi cried and kept shaking her head, refusing to speak.

Xie was about to go to find Guo, but was stopped by Liu Qingyan. If they go to fight with the Guo family, the Guo family will vent on Qing Zhi even more.

After lunch, Liu Qingyan and Xie were ready to continue digging sweet potatoes, and a middle-aged man dressed in linen and filial piety and holding a reed pole came to Liu's house to report the funeral.

The middle-aged man is Mrs. Liu's nephew, and the eldest brother of Mrs. Liu's mother's family died yesterday.

Mrs. Liu has a total of six brothers and sisters, and Mrs. Liu is the last in the line, and her eldest brother is more than seventy.

As the saying goes, "people are rare in their seventies", those who passed away in their seventies are considered happy and mournful, although Mrs. Liu is sad, but she also knows that people can't escape at this age, so she cheered up to mourn.

When my uncle passed away, my nephews and grandchildren naturally wanted to go.

Old Man Liu immediately asked Liu Boyu to go to the school to call Liu Bowen back, except for Liu Lanqing, who had already gone to take the exam, the whole family went to Mrs. Liu's maiden Jiangjiazhuang that afternoon.

According to local customs, the mourning lasts for three days, and the younger generations take turns to hold a vigil for the deceased at night.

Guo kept watch the night before, and the next afternoon she was clamoring to go back, saying that she would not wake tonight, and there was no place to sleep here, so she went home to sleep for one night, and rushed over to send her uncle up the mountain early tomorrow morning.

Mrs. Liu's family has many relatives, this time all the people are here even if they can't live on the floor, the young ones are looking for the corner of the firewood pile to squint for a while, and there are also those who come back in the morning in the evening, Jiangjiazhuang is only six or seven miles away from Baishui Village, and it is not possible to get up early and rush over.

Mrs. Liu was in a state of sadness, how could she think about anything else, and without thinking about it, she handed over a large set of keys to Guo's family.

Guo Shi left and did not appear again until the end of the funeral.

At first, everyone thought that Guo was lazy and didn't want to run more. Old Man Liu was furious, and when he went back, he asked Guo to take the letter of resignation and leave.

Liu Boyu was angry and went back to Baishui Village first, saw that the door of his yard was locked, and went to his neighbor to borrow a hammer to smash the lock open, and after entering the house, he found that the room was messy and some of Guo's things were gone.

When the physically and mentally exhausted people returned home and learned the news that Guo had run away, their hearts became more and more heavy.

Liu Qingyan heard Mrs. Liu say that she gave all the keys to Guo's, and a bad feeling suddenly swelled in her heart, Guo's dead mother-in-law was afraid that she had been planning for a long time, her eyebrows frowned, and reminded Mrs. Liu: "Grandmother, go and see if our family's silver is still there." ”

"Yes, old woman, go and see." Old Man Liu also panicked, if the silver is gone, how should the family live.

Hearing Liu Qingyan say this, Xie also thought of his private money, so he went back to the room to check.

The silver saved at home and the deposit for the duck eggs totaled more than 400 taels, and Mrs. Liu was locked in a vermilion lacquer box and locked in the suitcase, which opened the suitcase and disappeared for a long time.

More than four hundred taels, even if the whole family does not farm for ten years, it is enough to worry about food and clothing, and now such a large sum of silver is suddenly gone, who can accept it.

Mrs. Liu, who had just experienced the pain of bereavement, turned pale, and fell to the ground as soon as her body became weak.

Master Liu hurriedly stepped forward to support him, and said to Liu Boyu in a deep voice: "Go and invite the patriarch to come." ”

There is only one reason why the married woman took away her husband's money and ran away, that is, there was adultery outside, and Guo stayed in the village every day and never went anywhere else, and the adulterer was likely to be from the village, so he had to use the power of the village chief to verify.

Liu Boyu's face sank like water, and he went in response, it was his mother-in-law who ran away with the silver, and he couldn't push it.

Qing Zhi shrank quietly to the side, her eyes glazed and confused, not sure what was going on at home.

Her young mind has been destroyed by the Kwok family to withstand any wind and rain, and the fickle face of the Kwok family has left a deep fear in her heart, and she is often awakened by nightmares, in which the mother will smile at her tenderly for a while, and then suddenly turn into a demon and pounce on her.

Xie Shi came out of his room and said to Liu Bowen with a bitter face: "Xianggong, the private silver and jewelry I saved are gone." ”

Liu Boyu smiled helplessly, and comforted him lightly: "If you don't have it, you will earn it slowly, and I will buy jewelry for your husband in the future." ”

"It's all my fault, I shouldn't have been so careless to hand over the key to the third daughter-in-law." Mrs. Liu leaned on Mr. Liu, and she was already in tears.

Liu Qingyan admires Liu Bowen's open-minded personality very much, seems weak and polite, but has a resilience to take responsibility, and resolutely gave up the opportunity to continue to take the exam to be a master to support the family, this kind of courage is not everyone can have, many pedantic scholars are still insisting on their beards and hair, but they don't care about how difficult their families are.

"Grandmother, it's just that I lost some silver, and I will earn it back in the future, and our family is not short of food to eat, so the silver should be taken away by the weasel." Liu Qingyan explained Mrs. Liu like this.

Her words sound childish, but they are in line with her current age.

At the moment, what I am thinking about is: money, if it is gone, it will be gone, and then it will be earned, it is just a little harder, and it seems that it is impossible to live a leisurely life for a few years, and it is a natural hard work. But who can live without being tired is only the difference between body and soul.

"You have a big heart, is it easy for your mother and me to do embroidery work to save that little private silver." Xie Shi glared at Liu Qingyan, but his tone did not mean reproach.

Liu Qingyan went over and grabbed Xie's arm and said, "Mother, I will definitely learn embroidery with my heart in the future, and I will help you save money for your private house after learning it." ”

Xie Shi laughed, nodded Liu Qingyan's forehead and said: "You still help me save money for my private house, I can embroider the dowry before I get married, I will thank God." ”

When the mother and daughter broke up like this, Mrs. Liu felt a little relieved, "Yan girl, most of the silver is earned by you making salted duck eggs." ”

"Grandmother, then let's continue to pickle duck eggs to earn silver, and earn another ten four hundred taels back." Liu Qingyan said with a smile.

"Whoa." Mrs. Liu wiped her tears and smiled.

Patriarch Liu heard Liu Boyu tell him what was going on, and hurried over.

"Brother Dehui, I have already asked Qin Yanzi to lead someone to the village to verify, if it is really done by the village man, I will definitely not spare him."

Old Man Liu's face was tense, and he sighed and said: "Our village has always been clean of village rules, and there has never been such an immoral thing, I am afraid it must be the man in the village." ”

Patriarch Liu's face was solemn, there was such a woman in the clan who was immoral, how could he, the patriarch, have a good face, and he must be rectified in the future.

There are more than 100 households in the village, and it is not easy to verify them one by one, and there is no result until sunset.

"Dad, except for the men in the village who are there all the year round." Diligent son to report.

"Brother Dehui, do you want someone to go to Guojialing to have a look."

As soon as Patriarch Liu said this, he felt that he was very stupid, what woman would take away her husband's money, and then run to her mother's house to wait for someone to catch her, but he really couldn't think of where else the Guo family could go.

Liu Boyu's eyes were cold, and he gritted his teeth and said: "I'll go in person, and by the way, I will send the letter of resignation, whether I live or die in the future has nothing to do with our old Liu family." ”

The most unbearable thing for a man is to wear a cuckold, and now that such an obvious hat is worn on his head, it can be seen how tormented he is in his heart.

Patriarch Liu pondered for a moment and said: "It's getting late today, I'll call more people to go with you tomorrow, even if you go alone, even if the slut is at home, you can't bear her." ”

Liu Qingyan had a guess in her heart but didn't want to say it, she would rather let Liu Boyu believe that Guo was just absconding for the money than that he would wear a hat that laughed for the world, and it would be difficult to raise his head and be a man in the future.