Mingyue pulled the quilt hard, Yin Cai let go of Song Jiaojiao's hand without force, hurriedly grabbed Mingyue's sleeve, and begged: "Mingyue, I'm your uncle, you have to help me, leave your little sister-in-law, okay?" ”

Mingyue laughed bitterly, yesterday the old mansion just signed a letter of consent to remarry with his family, the Liu family married the Li family, the Song family or the Han family, all of which have no half-penny relationship with the Yin family, to put it nicely, it is the Yin family who is generous and let the Liu family remarry; To put it mildly, it is to sell the whole family of the third room into bundles for thirty taels of silver, and even the meager land and adobe house are folded for eight taels of silver, in this case, where is there any uncle and nephew relationship, if it weren't for the fact that Yin Cai was quite good to the third room before, Mingyue might not even bother to look at him.

Mingyue sighed, looked at Yin Cai with pity, and finally shook her head, directly waved Yin Cai's hand, and walked out of the house.

Yin Cai chased two steps, his hand stopped in the air, he didn't know whether to continue chasing, he didn't think about Song Jiaojiao's change of clothes and clothes, he went back to the kang to find clothes, and saw a large piece of blood on the kang mat.

Back home, Mingyue carefully put Song Jiaojiao on the kang, and asked Han Xing to ask Lang Zhong in the county to see a doctor and grab medicine, Lang Zhong sighed and shook his head, saying that Song Jiaojiao's body was too empty, and she had to use some tonic medicine for long-term conditioning, otherwise she would run out of oil, run out of energy, run out of blood, not only her body would be damaged, but even the hope of having a child would become slim in the future.

Mingyue naturally did not allow this kind of thing to happen, and did not hesitate to let Lang Zhong prescribe ginseng, He Shou Wu, motherwort and other blood-replenishing medicinal materials, a full month's supply, the medicine money alone cost nearly twenty taels of silver, hearing Song Jiaojiao's heart was worried, tears flowed straight down, and finally knew why Lang Zhong shook his head when he was in the Yin family's old house, this disease is not ugly, any prescription prescribed by Lang Zhong is almost the same, the difference is only the precious tonic inside.

After seeing the disease, the accommodation has become a problem, the three-room house is not big, only a big kang, and now it has squeezed Liu's, Xiaocui, Mingyue, Xingxing, Mingyang and Song'er, sleeping sideways every day, not daring to get up or turn over in the middle of the night, for fear of kicking people and stepping on people, and now there is a sick and weak Song Jiaojiao, touching it may cause secondary bleeding, and there is nothing to bear, Mingyue had to lead Xiaocui and take twenty eggs to the mandarin duck's house to spend the night.

The original Mandarin Duck Niang was against Mandarin Duck and Mingyue getting along together, after all, Liu's and Mingyue's reputation was too unbearable, and when Mandarin Duck was looking for her mother-in-law's family, she was naturally worried that Mingyue would damage her daughter's reputation.

After several incidents, Liu's reputation has improved, and Mandarin Duck Niang's impression of Sanfang has also changed, besides, Mingyue is also very generous to the Mandarin Duck family, and there will be rewards for requests, so the two families are getting closer and closer.

Now the only thing that the Mandarin Duck Niang can't rest assured about is Mingyue's fierce temper, for fear that the Mandarin Duck's arrogant personality will be infected by Mingyue into a fierce woman, which will affect her and her marriage.

At night, Mingyue slept on a kang with Mandarin Duck and Xiaocui. It is rare for three girls to stay on a kang head, and they have endless words in their hearts.

Mingyue asked the Mandarin Duck Gang to find out if there were any people in the village who wanted to sell their houses, bought a house to survive this difficult few months, and then wanted to build a house in the spring of next year.

The mandarin duck pondered for a long time, from the west of the village to the east of the village, and from the south of the village to the north of the village, his eyes lit up, and he nodded, but he suddenly shook his head, sighing longer and helpless than the bright moon.

Listening to the mandarin duck speechless for a long time, Xiaocui said with a flash of inspiration in her mind: "Mingyue, when I first came to the village, I saw a bluestone house next to our house, and there was a horse stone in front of the house. How can there be one in our village? Later, when I passed by, I looked through the crack in the door, and found that there was a big bluestone house with three or four rooms, dusty, weedy, and even the window paper was broken. ”

Listening to Xiao Cuiyi's reminder, Mingyue also remembered that next door to her grandfather's house on the right side of her house, there is a well-groomed house, which occupies a small area, but it is different from the fence wall of the villagers, the high courtyard wall and gatehouse, the mottled wooden door with lacquered iron, is always locked, revealing the indescribable mystery and vicissitudes of life, if it is a bluestone house inside, it is a good thing to drop the house from the sky, so as not to build a house in the spring, warm in winter and cool in summer, much better than adobe houses.

The mandarin duck shook his head into a rattle, waved his hand again and again, and realized that Xiaocui and Mingyue couldn't see it at all, so he quickly opened his mouth and said, "No, absolutely not!" I don't want to live in that ghost yard if I don't want to live!! ”

Ghost yard? Xiao Cui couldn't help but feel cold, shrank into Mingyue's quilt, hugged Mingyue's arm tightly, and her teeth trembled.

The three girls of the same age suddenly felt that the air in the dark night was a little colder, and their breathing was short, the mandarin duck lowered her voice, and her body involuntarily approached the two, and whispered about the secret of the "ghost yard".

After listening to the mandarin duck, Mingyue breathed a sigh of relief first, thinking that it was a strange event such as "headless corpse case" and "knocking on the door in the middle of the night", but it turned out to be lowered a notch.

Five years ago, more than 30 families in Xiangyang Village were sick at the same time, vomiting and diarrhea, the medicine stone was ineffective, and the symptoms were similar to the plague, which attracted the great attention of the imperial court.

The illness of the Sun family is the most serious, because every night in the middle of the night, the Sun family will come to the ghost crying wolf howl, after more than ten days, when the plague is lifted, the official opened the door of the Sun family to be sealed, the Sun family except for a son missing, the rest of the people died in the hospital, rotting, unrecognizable, after the pestle for an autopsy, it was found that the Sun family had been dead for seven days, and in the seven days after death, people could hear the sound of the Sun family crying wolf at night.

What's even more terrifying than this is that Sun Shishi, the youngest fourteen-year-old son of the Sun family, is obviously locked in the courtyard together, but he can't find anyone alive or dead. So the more it spread, the more weird it became, and finally it became a taboo for the whole village.

The Sun family from other towns rushed to collect the corpses, and the house was sold and returned to their hometowns, and they had not been here for all these years, perhaps, even they knew very well in their hearts that this house had become a murderous house, and no one dared to buy it.

After a long time, no one in the village mentioned this house, and the naughty baby approached the grandson's house, and the parents would scare and say, if you go to play again, be careful that the sun stone catches you, and the babies will never go to the door of the grandson's house to play again.

The geographical location of the Sun House is good, located on the west side of the big banyan tree in the village, one side is close to the crossing, and the other side, that is, between the Mingyue family, separated by the Cheng grandfather's family, the Cheng family is poor, and the old couple has a son and two daughters.

The two daughters have been married for many years, and a son joined the army with Yin You six years ago, and there has been no news for many years, leaving the daughter-in-law Xiaocheng and the nine-year-old grandson.

The family is honest, in the old saying, it is a person who can't press out a fart, and there is almost no sense of existence in the village, because of Liu's special reputation, the three-room Yin family is regarded as a "lewd-nest", such as avoiding snakes and scorpions, when Liu went out, their whole family hid, and when Liu hid at home, they quietly went out.

Although the two families are neighbors, they are still strangers than strangers, so so far, Mingyue has only seen small achievements from a distance through the fence wall, and has not even said a word.

If it weren't for waiting for his son to come home and the family was poor, it is estimated that the family would have left this ominous place where "there is a murderous house on the left and a prostitution nest on the right".

Mingyue is very fond of the Sun family's house, after all, this is the only house in the village that is sold out, and it seems to be very spacious and atmospheric, only a yard away from the current house of the third room, and not far from the field at the foot of the mountain, taking up the time and place she thought, uh, in addition to people, and ghosts are quite "and".

Mingyue secretly made up her mind, and tomorrow she would ask Hai Dazhuang to buy a grandson's house, and saw that the mandarin duck and Xiaocui were so frightened that their wrists trembled, and a layer of fine beads of sweat in the palms of their hands soaked Mingyue's left and right arms.

Mingyue remembered what happened in the old mansion during the day, and in order to divert the fear of Xiaocui and Mandarin Duck, she asked suspiciously: "Xiaocui, Mandarin Duck, why did my grandmother want you at the beginning, I heard my father say that you suddenly don't want it anymore, why?" And my uncle, when he persuaded my aunt to go back, he said that my aunt couldn't support herself, especially if she had to pay an extra two taels of silver, what did this mean, I heard it in the clouds! ”

The mandarin duck was better, but Xiao Cui's hands were even more trembling, different from the previous trembling of fear, this time it was angry. I only heard Xiao Cui exhale angrily, and her little mouth bubbled like a popping bean: "Don't mention it, your grandmother is not afraid that I won't be able to marry or sell, and I will have to pay two taels of silver every year!" I also look down on Xu Xiaocui too much, why can't I get married!! ”

Belch? What's the situation? Mingyue was stunned, with the further explanation of Mandarin Duck, Mingyue was dumbfounded, it turned out that she was fourteen years old and had become a "senior woman who hates to marry a girl".

Qi State has been plagued by natural disasters and military disasters for many years, and the population has declined rapidly, so the emperor has exhausted his brains to think of a way to rapidly increase the population of Qi State, and issued a new decree---- all young girls who have reached the age of fifteen must marry, if they are not married, at the age of sixteen, they must pay a poll tax of two taels of silver to the court every year; Those who are over 20 years old and unmarried need to pay a poll tax of five taels of silver to the imperial court every year! If you are over 25 years old and unmarried, the court will appoint a husband's family!!

Ming Yue wants to cry without tears, she is the same age as the mandarin duck, and she will be fifteen after Chinese New Year's Eve in ten days, if she has not married this year, today next year, she will start paying the poll tax! And Xiaocui has reached the age of fifteen, and she has just been redeemed, as long as she goes to the yamen to pass the deed, she should start paying taxes!

No wonder Yin Cai was afraid that Song Jiaojiao would not be able to support herself after being retired!!

No wonder he said that his three daughters married with the Liu family, and the Zhai family was not too embarrassed!

No wonder Yin Dianwu doesn't want Xiao Cui to live or die! And Zhai also deeply agrees! It turned out that Xiao Cui was inferior to herself and had become a real "money-loser!!

Mingyue feels that she is more tragic than any person who crosses, not only from the material level, but also from the spiritual level, just like ---- hate to marry now, before the age of twenty-five, it is good to say, if you can't get married at the age of twenty-five, you will be assigned by the court to pockmarks, falls, widowers, etc., only you can't think of it, you can't do it! Anything is possible!!