Chapter 251: Borrowing
Cai Wei had the intention to kill the two women, and deliberately told Chen Yong to ignore them. However, these two women knew that Cai Wei was the eldest girl they were looking for, so they naturally would not retreat easily, so they stayed in the courtyard that night.
It was raining heavily, and Cai Wei couldn't drive people outside, so she asked Chen Yongyun to set out an ear room for them to live in, and they had a dinner.
On the second day, the rain had not yet stopped.
The sky was covered with lead clouds, and the rain was dense like silk threads hanging down, and there was no end in sight.
Cai Wei couldn't help but sigh with emotion, this damn God, there is not a drop of water when there is a drought, and there is no end to it when it is waterlogged, so it can't be even?
But sighing and sighing, she still has to think about her future life.
King Cheng does not let go of the widow Mu, this trip to Beijing is indispensable, and he can't hide.
But before leaving, she couldn't let people occupy her house. When she saw Bai Xing coming, those glowing eyes stared at the house, and when she was early in the morning, she didn't find a reason to accept it?
Now that he is deliberately collecting so many taxes, the drunkard does not mean to drink.
This is a house that she built with desperate money brick by brick, and she hasn't lived in it enough.
After making up her mind, she instructed Chen Yong to take a few people to the courtyard of the old house to catch chickens.
It rained heavily day by day, and there were more than 90 chickens, all of which were half the size, and they couldn't go out to eat grasshoppers, and how much food they consumed in a day was more than people ate, and she had to find a way to sell some of them.
Hearing Cai Wei's order, Chen Yong had no choice but to take a few brothers to put on oil coats and go to the old house.
There was no way, the adults told them to listen to their sister-in-law in everything.
They have nothing to say about this, this little sister-in-law is a scheming woman, but catching chickens is a bit overkill for their group of brocade guards.
They are used to arresting all court criminals.
However, the sister-in-law told them to do so.
Of course, Cai Wei will not favor one over the other, and the two women who came from the wine house of the prince of the country also boiled water.
Anyway, she doesn't raise idlers here.
Because those two women are the eldest lady's companions, they can be regarded as having heads and faces in the house, and they can make fun in front of the old lady, where are they willing to do the work done by the mother-in-law?
Immediately, the two of them looked very unhappy, but Cai Wei put the words there, "If you don't work, you won't have anything to eat, and if you love to do it, you can't do it!" ”
When the two women saw her throw the door and enter the house, they wanted to leave in a fit of rage, but they thought that they had promised the old lady that they would bring the eldest girl back, so they had to enter the stove room with a bitter face.
They didn't understand what the methane stove was, so they used wood to make a fire. It was damp and tight, and it took a long time to light a fire, but a gust of wind poured in from the chimney, and the thick black smoke smoked straight into their faces, spraying their white faces as black as Guan Gong.
His eyes were smoky, and tears were pouring down his face, and his face was as confused as a cat.
Seeing that Chen Yong brought his brothers to catch more than a dozen chickens, Cai Wei asked them to tie them with straw ropes, and took a pair of delicate silver scissors to cut for a while, and saw that the dozen or so chickens were spurting blood from their necks, and they were struggling with their legs stretched out.
Cai Wei quickly took a basin and asked Chen Yong and a few people to carry the chicken leg and drip blood into it.
This action frightened the two women.
I didn't expect this big girl to dare to kill chickens and bleed?
I think that the girls in the house are all pampered, and they talk about killing chickens, and even scratching the skin and getting a little blood, they have to scream in fright for a long time.
This girl has really been trained in the countryside.
Yesterday, they could be regarded as seeing the ruthlessness of this girl, compared with the few literate girls in the house, this is a sloppy and shady household, and she has all kinds of tricks.
If such a girl is accepted into the house, then she must not make a fuss in the house?
I'm afraid that the big lady and the old lady won't be able to hold back when the time comes.
But these are not things they can worry about, since the old lady told her to take this girl back, they will do it.
Seeing that half a pot of chicken blood was received in the porcelain basin, Cai Wei asked Chen Yong to put the dead chickens into a large clay basin, and turned around and whispered to the two women who were in a daze, "What are you doing in a daze?" Why don't you hurry up and scald the chicken and pluck the feathers? ”
Although the two women did the work of serving, they had never done such a dirty and smelly job, and they were very reluctant.
But for no reason, Cai Wei's words carried a deterrent effect, so that they didn't dare not do it.
So Cai Wei washed her hands and stood aside, watching the two women scoop boiling water from the cauldron and hand it over, tremblingly plucking their hair and removing their internal organs.
Although they looked disgusted and wanted to die, they had to grit their teeth desperately to endure it, lest they accidentally spit it out, and the aunt asked them to swallow it back.
Chen Yong saw that these two women were still arrogant when they came yesterday, and now they are wilting and drooping their heads as if they were waiting for their hair to fall, and they couldn't help but secretly admire Cai Wei.
Not to mention, this little sister-in-law's methods of reuniting people are really a set.
Seeing Cai Wei passing from the corridor and about to enter the house, Chen Yong hurriedly followed and asked quietly, "Sister-in-law, why are these two mothers-in-law so obedient?" ”
Cai Wei glanced back at him, and said casually, "I'm hungry for three meals, and you're obedient." ”
Chen Yong held his heart in his hands and made a grievance, "Sister-in-law, you can unjustly kill your subordinates, and your subordinates are not hungry and obedient." ”
That look, like a puppy begging for food, makes Cai Wei happy.
After cleaning up the dozen or so chickens, Cai Wei sent one to Dakui's daughter-in-law, and another to Uncle Zhang's house next door. The two families are grateful.
Because Dakui is gone, there is no man in the family to go to the mountains to hunt, and the ordinary Dakui's daughter-in-law is reluctant to spend a little copper plate, and she lives by picking and picking, and she is not even willing to eat a little meat on weekdays.
Da Kui's son is only five years old, and it is the time to be greedy, and Da Kui's daughter-in-law's gratitude to Cai Wei is even more indescribable, and there is nothing good, so she gave Cai Wei a few handfuls of dried vegetables and wild mountain mushrooms that she had dried at home.
Uncle Zhang didn't let Cai Wei go empty-handed, and gave her some wild vegetables from the mountains.
At noon, Cai Wei deliberately burned a pot of chicken soup, stewed the wild mountain mushrooms, and rolled the noodles by hand.
Chen Yong and the others used an old coarse porcelain bowl to hold it, squatted in the stove room and ate it like that.
When the two women cleaned up the chicken, they were so disgusted that they almost broke their intestines, and when they saw the chicken, where could they still eat it?
It was for nothing that Chen Yong was cheapened.
After a moment of soup and food, the big man left the dishes and chopsticks for the two women to clean up, and went into their own rooms to rest.
Who knew that Bai Xing couldn't hold it back, and came with someone after noon.
said that Cai Wei was in arrears and took her to the yamen.
Chen Yong and the others refused to let them go, and the two sides confronted each other with tension.
Cai Wei gave Chen Yong a look and whispered to remind him to go to the Chengwang Courtyard for help.
The two mothers-in-law in the wine house were being tickled by Cai Wei, so they watched idly.
Although Chen Yong didn't know what Cai Wei meant, since Cai Wei told him so, then he could only follow his wishes. So seeing that Cai Wei was taken to the village by Bai Xing's group, he turned back, rode on a horse with a brother, and ran to the other courtyard of the king that day to report the news.
Zhao Yu was waiting for Xin'er in Jingzhong in the courtyard, and when he heard Chen Yong say that Cai Wei was taken away by Li Zheng and others, he immediately became angry.
This girl was persuaded by all means to go to the capital, and he couldn't let her miss the slightest. Otherwise, he would no longer have room to turn around with his father.
She is the trump card in his hand, and she can't be sloppy at all.
That damn little Li Zheng dared to take that girl away and lock her up for a hundred taels of silver? It's like eating leopard gall.
But that girl is also strange, he gave her a hundred taels a month, and she was in a hurry in the Death Pavilion, so why wouldn't it be short of this hundred taels, right?
Why did he still let Li Zheng take her away, and he still saw that a group of Jinyi guards didn't need it, so he had to come forward?
What the hell is this girl doing?
Zhao Yu couldn't help but laugh when he thought about it. Wang Darttou, who was waiting on the side, widened his eyes like a ghost, this master he watched grow up as a child, he was usually gloomy, he rarely saw him smile when he was a child, how could he be happy when he heard a letter?
That girl is really magical!
Zhao Yu didn't care what Wang Darttou thought, as soon as he waved his hand, he shouted with a smile, "Prepare the car, go out with this king!" ”
Wang Darttou hurriedly went out to order, got into the car in the second gate for a while, and followed Chen Yong directly to the town.
As soon as he inquired, Bai Xing had already brought Cai Wei to the county yamen.
Zhao Yu instructed the coachman to turn the horse's head and drive towards the county.
Since this girl took such great pains to invite him out of the mountain, then he would give her enough face and let her enjoy it.
said that Bai Xing hired a car to take Cai Wei straight to the county yamen along the way, and sneered along the way, saying that Cai Wei was the first woman in Lijia Village to be brought into the county yamen.
Cai Wei just listened with a smile, anyway, it wasn't the first time she had been the first in Lijia Village. I used to be the first ugly girl, but now I am the first beauty.
This is the first time I entered the county yamen, and it is nothing.
Bai Xing saw that this girl didn't cry, didn't make trouble, didn't beg for mercy, just stared at him and smiled, and couldn't help but feel furious, I couldn't tell if this girl was pretending to understand in a daze.
Anyway, he is not only the Li Zheng of Lijia Village now, but also the father-in-law of the county master, although his daughter is just the concubine of the county master, but the lotus flower is beautiful and is deeply favored by the county master.
He thought proudly that when he arrived at the yamen, it was just a matter of one sentence, and he could let this little hoof be imprisoned.
Last time, when Lotus was leaving, he also deliberately explained to him, asking him to find a reason to teach Cai Wei a good lesson.
Who let this little hoof not have long eyes, knowing that Lotus is favored by the county master, and he is not in a hurry, he has to offend his daughter.
Hmph, when she entered the yamen after a while, she couldn't laugh when she was beaten down with a killing stick.
This time, if he didn't let her shed her skin in prison, he really couldn't explain it to his daughter.
Along the way, Cai Wei was turned upside down. Fortunately, I didn't vomit out, and when it was dark, I was finally pulled to the county yamen.
Because it was night, the county magistrate had already left the court, and the county magistrate couldn't afford to be promoted overnight for a small citizen like her, so she was coincidentally detained first.
Bai Xing led the people to find a tavern and eat and drink.
The prison was dark and damp, and as soon as you entered, there was a musty smell.
Cai Wei entered the women's prison, and was pushed all the way by two servants, and as soon as she entered the door, two stout prison women took her and took her to the innermost room.
When the two prison wives saw Cai Wei's slender figure, handsome face, no more than fifteen or sixteen years old, and well-dressed, they couldn't help but wonder and asked, "What crime did the girl commit?" Locked up at such a young age? ”
Cai Wei pursed her lips and smiled, "It's not a crime, it's just a tax arrears." ”
"Oh." The two jailers thoughtfully, "How much does that girl owe, why is there no adult in the family, how did she get herself in prison?" ”
The two prison wives are also well-informed, and all the women who have entered here, which one of them has nothing to do?
Where is this little girl with an innocent smile, just like not knowing the world!
"It's not much, it's just a hundred taels." Cai Wei was still grinning, holding up a finger and whispering.
"One hundred taels?" The two prison women were so shocked that their eyes were about to fall out, "Where is this tax, there are so many?" We don't necessarily have to pay a hundred taels in our lifetime. ”
Cai Wei saw that they looked like hell, and then she knew that Bai Xing was a lion who opened his mouth, bullied her and didn't understand, and opened his mouth.
"Li Zheng said that our family has not paid it for more than ten years, and it has accumulated over the years, a total of one hundred taels." Cai Wei blinked her bright eyes, and there was uncertainty in her voice.
"Hey, I can't owe that much in my life!" The two prison wives laughed, "One hundred taels, in our place, we can buy a dozen girls." Ordinary people can't save a few taels of silver all year round. In recent years, the imperial court has not paid heavy taxes, so where do you need so much? ”
These two prison wives are also on the edge of officialdom in the end, and they know a lot.
Cai Wei was full of energy when she heard this, and she originally planned to let King Cheng come forward to scare and scare Bai Xing, so that after she left, she would not occupy her family's good house. Who knew that this heard another shocking big secret.
If you continue to say this, Bai Xing must have a lot of money in private?
Then she can't be soft this time.
Bai Xing and his daughter, she didn't let them peel off the skin, so she was so sorry for them.
When Zhao Yu arrived at the county seat, it was already the beginning of the lanterns.
He led his men and horses all the way and killed directly into the county yamen.
The county grandfather Sun Fuzheng and Lotus were drinking wine and flirting in a room in the backyard, and they heard the doorman report that His Royal Highness King Cheng had arrived.
He was so frightened that the wine cup in his hand shattered, and he almost didn't get under the table.
He has also been a parent official in this county for seven or eight years, and he usually can't even see the face of the king, so how can he say that he came?
Did he do something?
He hurriedly scooped up his robe and put it on haphazardly, and ran forward in a hurry.
Lianhua didn't know what His Royal Highness King Cheng was, but he scared the old man of the dead ghost so much that he was urinating, and he immediately became interested and secretly followed.
Along the way, she held the girl's hand, walked through the two halls, and came to the front yard. Unexpectedly, they ran into Mrs. Wang and the eldest young grandmother Zeng Xiaorou, and as soon as the two of them heard the movement, they turned around and saw that Lotus also hurried over, and Wang was immediately displeased.