Xu pulled Aunt Wang aside, afraid that his man would hear him, so he suppressed his voice and said, "I've seen it, I went to the inn to sit on the way back, and came back with new shoes, saying that it was given by my daughter." ”

Aunt Wang asked, "Did you give the silver, Ling Chaofeng is so rich." ”

Xu snorted: "I didn't see a single copper, only the clothes and shoes he was wearing, two large bags of tobacco, and a cotton jacket for Wenbao Wenjuan." I turned my baggage inside and out, and that's it, treating me like a dead man. ”

Aunt Wang smiled: "I'm afraid that it was given silver, teach him to hide it and not give it to you." ”

Xu Shi scolded in a suppressed voice: "If this is the case, I have no hope for this family, I have listened to you for the past few days, and I haven't made trouble with him, and he also pretends to be deaf and dumb, and he doesn't reason with me about this matter." I was so anxious that my intestines were itching, and I really wanted to quarrel with him, and ask him how to compensate me for my hard work for more than ten years after giving birth to such a faceless and heartless daughter. ”

After the Mu foreman finished his work, Wang hurriedly went over to say hello, thanked him again and again, and then dispersed and went home for dinner.

Wenbao was studying in the school, and he hurriedly pulled a few mouthfuls at noon and ran out, Xu was afraid that his son would be hungry, so he chased him out and made a nest for him.

The son said disgustedly: "I don't want to eat wotou, I want to eat steamed buns and meat buns, I want to eat dumplings, mother, why is my father back, we are eating worse and worse?" ”

"Shut up, don't talk nonsense in front of your dad." Xu scolded his son and quickly drove him away.

Foreman Mu didn't hear it in the house, he was asking his daughter: "Wenjuan, do you want to study?" ”

Xu Shi entered the door and listened, so he shouted: "Come on, what school does the girl go to, not to mention that we can't afford it, you don't earn as much as a year, you can only study for Wenbao tightly, how difficult is life, are you at home, every day big fish and meat enjoy Qingfu?" ”

Foreman Mu sighed: "If you don't spend your money, of course your life is not easy." ”

Xu Shi was immediately furious, pulled her daughter down from the table, let her go out to eat, and said to her husband angrily: "What, are you worried about your eldest daughter's one hundred taels of dowry?" I have raised her for more than ten years, and I don't spend money or effort, but you dig her mother out of the ground and ask her why she didn't take your daughter away with her. I'm a stepmother, thankless, and I'm being pointed at everywhere, is it easy for me? ”

Foreman Mu glanced at her: "Okay, how can you talk about this." ”

Xu Shi cried and laughed: "Okay? Where is it, you open your eyes and see, who is running this family, you make so much money, if it weren't for my frugality, the family would have collapsed a long time ago. I work so hard, but no one says that I am virtuous, and complains that I hide the silver and don't give it to the family, what do I want the silver to do, it's not for your son, Wenbao is the seed of your old Mu family. ”

A good meal, boring, Foreman Mu put down the dishes and chopsticks, took the cigarette stick to smoke, and sighed: "Then what do you want, how can you be satisfied?" You used to look at Xiaowan unpleasantly, but now that people are married, what are you still making trouble? ”

Xu wiped away his tears and came up and said: "I married her so well, you also saw it, in this case, doesn't she know that she should pay a subsidy to her family?" You are her father, you go and open your mouth, and let her give the family ten taels of silver every month in the future. ”

"Ten taels a month? You are crazy! Foreman Mu said angrily, "How much do I earn in a year." ”

"Isn't it because you earn less that I let you count on your daughter?" Xu grabbed his arm and said, "You go and ask her, she will definitely give it to you, Shopkeeper Ling is so rich." ”

Foreman Mu snorted, knocked the cigarette stick on the kang, and said, "I'm feeling strange, which tendon is wrong for you, or you can't move your legs when you see a hundred taels of silver, why did you marry Xiaowan to Lingxiao Inn?" What kind of character is the shopkeeper Ling, no one in ten miles and eight villages doesn't know, think about it yourself, in the future, you still want to calculate Xiaowan to toss her, you touch your neck, are you not afraid that Ling Chaofeng will break it with one hand? ”

Xu Shi was frightened, and his hands unconsciously protected his neck, and the scene of Wenbao being picked up by Ling Chaofeng and falling to the ground that day made her still scared when she thought about it.

Foreman Mu said: "You must think, that Ling Chaofeng is a man-eating monster, marry Xiaowan in the past, toss day and night and live for only a few years, you change to another family, and no one can afford a hundred taels of dowry." I didn't expect it to be as good as you wished, Xiaowan had great luck, God found her a good man, and since then she has been wearing gold and silver and drinking spicy food, and has been held in the palm of her man's hand. ”

Xu's face turned red, and he said hatefully: "When it comes to your mouth, it becomes like this, why don't you say that I just want her to be good, so I married her." ”

Foreman Mu laughed: "It's easy for me to ask for money, but people are not stupid, you have to think clearly, don't mess with them one day, the old and new accounts will be settled with you, you used to beat the children to death, if they retaliate, do you want to be sucked to death?" ”

Xu Shi looked at the man in a daze, and Foreman Mu persuaded her: "I'm not scaring you, if you want to make trouble, just go and make trouble, it's a big deal, I'll rush home to collect your body." ”

Hearing these words, the woman was frightened, and after eating, she pulled the discussion with the family next door, and Aunt Wang also had a cold thread on her back when she heard it, and said: "Xiaowan is really lucky, in the end, she looks good, otherwise Ling Chaofeng will not be in love." ”

Xu Shi was indignant: "Is it just that, I can't get it?" ”

Aunt Wang's eyes rolled and she said: "Xiaowan is soft-hearted and soft-eared, let's calculate slowly, there must be a way, don't worry." As for her father, after all, he is his own man, you serve him well, and when he is happy, he still doesn't listen to you? ”

Xu Shi was even more unhappy, and said softly: "I'm old, I can't get up hard tonight, so I hate it." ”

Aunt Wang laughed, and the two whispered, discussing going to the town to get some tonic for Foreman Mu.

In this compartment, there are no guests in the inn as always, after eating, Xiaowan and Aunt Zhang picked cotton in the backyard, she was very careful and very careful.

Aunt Zhang said: "Auntie will make a new mattress for your bed, and sleep warm in winter." ”

Xiaowan said with a smile: "I came to the inn, and it was the first time I slept on a cotton mattress, I used to live in a firewood room, and I slept on a straw mat in winter, and I never wore cotton clothes." ”

Aunt Zhang asked distressedly: "Then how did you spend the winter?" ”

Xiaowan was not miserable, but said with a smile: "I sew it into my clothes with reed wadding, pick up the chicken feathers and duck feathers scattered on the ground on weekdays, wash them and dry them, and sew them into my clothes in winter, which is quite warm." ”

Aunt Zhang struggled to insert the scissors in her hand into the wooden bench, and her face turned blue with hatred: "I didn't meet you last time, if I meet your stepmother next time, I must tear her face, step on her ground and kick her." ”

Uncle Biao happened to come and said with a smile: "Ouch, who bullied my lady, which one are you going to kick, tell me." ”

Xiaowan smiled: "It's not good to blame me, I made my aunt anxious." ”

Aunt Zhang was still very angry: "Look at Su Su's mother, she is also a stepmother, Aunt Chen gave up her life for her stepdaughter, your family is so vicious, why didn't God thunder and kill her, I'm angry." ”

Uncle Biao smiled and turned around and stroked his wife's back with his hand: "Don't be angry, I'll give you a smooth breath." ”

Aunt Zhang's face turned red, and she shook the scissors in front of him: "Get out, don't get in the way of my work." ”

Seeing Uncle Biao leave honestly, Xiaowan was silly on the side, recalling the first day he saw Uncle Biao, he was carrying a sack of blood, and thought he was going to transport the corpse to bury, and then he was carrying half a big fat pig and shaking his bloody hand to greet her, so rough and domineering, anyone who saw it would be afraid.

It's just such a person, so gentle and considerate to his wife and his own people, there are really a lot of wonderful things and wonderful people in the world.

That night, Uncle Biao cooked sesame rice balls for supper, Xiao Wan went upstairs with rice balls, and when she entered the door, she saw Ling Chaofeng writing a letter at the desk, she asked, "Xianggong, do you eat rice balls?" ”

Ling Chaofeng said: "I wrote a letter and came to eat, you eat first." ”

Xiaowan sat at the table by herself, eating the white and fat rice balls one by one, which was so sweet that her heart was delicious.

When I came to the inn, I knew that there are so many delicious things in the world, and I knew that I had a snack in the afternoon, and I was hungry and had a supper at night, and my life could be so good.

Ling Chaofeng finished writing the letter, Xiaowan also finished eating his rice balls, he sat down to eat supper, saw her looking at him with a blank eye, so he handed the spoon over, Xiaowan really opened his mouth to eat, but Ling Chaofeng retracted his hand and put it into his mouth.

"Bully......" Xiaowan muttered, Ling Chaofeng teased her again, this time without waiting for herself to withdraw her hand, she grabbed it with both hands and put it into her own mouth.

"Go back and eat as a little fat man, and I will be able to sell you." Ling Chaofeng said.

"You can't bear it." Xiaowan ate the rice balls, tasted them carefully, and said after eating, "I'll eat less tomorrow." ”

The two talked and laughed and ate glutinous rice balls, Ling Chaofeng said that he wrote a letter to send it to the capital to solve Su Su's matter, Xiaowan listened to Xianggong this time, so naturally she didn't ask much, but she had a curious thing.

"My aunt loves me, and I almost treat her as a mother in my heart." Xiaowan said, "At first, I thought that Ershan was the son of my aunt and uncle, but it wasn't, Xianggong, my aunt and Uncle Biao are so affectionate, why don't they have children, or are they not here?" ”

Ling Chaofeng asked, "Have you asked Aunt Zhang?" ”

Xiaowan shook her head and said, "I'm embarrassed to ask." ”

Ling Chaofeng said: "When the time comes, when the opportunity comes, they will naturally tell you why." I can tell you, but I think it's better for you to let them say it themselves. ”

Xiaowan asked again: "What about Ershan, he is also a child without a father and a mother?" ”

Ling Chaofeng smiled: "Why are you so many tonight?" ”

Xiaowan said: "Aren't you curious, I've been married for a long time, and I only know where you come from, and I've been together since then, and I'm going to tell me sooner or later, why don't you say it earlier." ”

Ling Chaofeng touched her head: "Because they all love you." ”

Before the words fell, the door of the inn below was slammed loudly, who came in the middle of the night, Xiaowan didn't wait to go downstairs, and said to Ling Chaofeng: "Xianggong, I will never be nosy." ”

Ershan had already opened the door, and the young woman who broke in, dressed decently, but looking tired, took out a piece of silver and slapped it on the table, and said, "Man, please open a room, I want to stay in the hotel." ”

Xiaowan stood upstairs and looked at it, feeling as if she had seen this girl somewhere.