Wen Yi was stunned, gritted her teeth secretly, and suddenly relaxed again.

What if Wen Hui and Wen An come back? The sixth room is no longer what it used to be. My grandmother's health is improving, and she doesn't need to ask Mrs. Wang to see a doctor, she just needs to take medicine and tonic slowly; The family's situation is also becoming more and more prosperous, the monthly rice and grain delivered by the clan is just a symbol, the six houses are not only self-sufficient, but also surplus, and the grandmother will occasionally help the poor clansmen in a few rooms, who else in Gu Zhuang dares to underestimate their grandchildren?!

Since she no longer has to rely on the long house to live, and Wen Hui and Wen An's status is noble and prominent, she only needs to treat each other politely, neither need to be careful everywhere, nor deliberately flatter, if she feels unbearable, just ignore it, and don't need to care about it at all.

Thinking so, she lightly instructed: "In this case, just wait a little, if they refuse to give way, just urge a few words, and don't quarrel with them." If they are unreasonable, we can just go around to the back of the village and enter the village. After thinking about it, he said: "Mother Xu and Mother Guo are in the carriage behind, no matter which one of them, please go back to the village and report to your grandmother first, so as not to make her old man anxious." ”

Even if he went to follow the sound, Dong Lai couldn't sit still anymore, and hurriedly confessed his guilt to Wen Yi, so he got out of the car and went to the back. Mrs. Xu who followed the car was Dong Kui, Wen Yi wanted to send her to do things, and others looked at her, but Dong Kui didn't dare to take the big one. After a while, Tomhock turned back and whispered, "Grandmother the slave has gone into the village." Wen Yi nodded.

The carriage group in front of him did not move for a long time, Wen Yi waited and frowned, seeing that Lian Shun had not come back, and was about to call someone to urge again, when he suddenly heard a shouting and scolding sound in front of him, lifted the corner of the curtain and looked forward, by the moonlight, he faintly saw a group of rectangular family members carrying a ragged man to this side, the man cursed loudly, and was plugged with horse manure by the family without scolding two sentences, and he was speechless for a long time, and the family members laughed. The leader also shouted at him: "Let you learn a lesson!" The next time I go out, I have to bring my eyes, and I don't look at whose frame it is, and I hit it! Do you think our Gu family is one of those small households with no roots and no foundation?! If you bump into it, you can get the money?! Blind your dog's eyes! Don't talk about our young master, even if it's our brothers, stomping your feet can shock you away! Why don't you get out of here?! ”

The man struggled a few times, barely spit out the horse manure in his mouth, and said in a hoarse voice: "That slandered you?!" It was you young master who hit me! I finally grabbed the medicine, and now it's gone, hurry up and accompany my medicine! ”

The family members just laughed, and the leader kicked him in front of the door and scolded, "Get out! If you don't get out, I'll send you to the official! Sue you for blackmail! The man was kicked and covered in blood, and he angrily struggled to beat someone, and was punched and kicked by the housekeepers, and he lay on the ground and couldn't get up.

Wen Yi frowned when she heard this, although she didn't know what was going on, but the family of the long house was too arrogant, right?! If that person is intent on blackmailing, why doesn't he act in broad daylight?! If it's too late today, and this is the intersection of the road in and out of Gu Zhuang, and he hits the Gu family's carriage on the Gu family's territory, will that liar be so stupid?! If you want to slander people, you should choose it in the daytime, why bother to beat people like this, and deliberately humiliate them?! If people look at it, it is a reason, and it is not a good reputation. Wen An was a person who didn't know how to do things back then, and after four years, he still hasn't grown at all!

She had a deep prejudice against Wen Hui Wen'an's sister and brother in her heart, and saw that the family of the long house beat people very hard, so she was sure that they were bullying people, and when she saw that the person's face was full of blood, she couldn't bear it, so she whispered to the coachman: "Tell the people in the long house to be more restrained, the old lady is the most pitiful to the poor and the weak, they are good, and they have not yet entered the village to play a prestige!" ”

The coachman received the order and drank the few family members: "You don't look at the place when you beat people!" Just drive people away, what are you going to do with him?! The good reputation of the eldest old lady and the second lady for kindness has made you lose it, is it a face?! ”

When the family members heard this, they took the lantern and walked over to look at it, and exclaimed, "Who am I?" Guo Qingxi, have you only been back in the sixth room for a few days? It's shaking?! The matter of our long house, it will be your little coachman's turn to intervene in time?! ”

Guo Qingxi sneered: "The one who is going to take care of your long room?!" I'm just afraid that you will talk nonsense without knowing the gravity and collide with my master! ”

The leader glanced at the carriage, his eyes were suspicious, thinking that the old lady in the sixth room had a fate, and the second wife of her own family would give three points when she saw her, and she was not a character on the stage, in case she annoyed the sixth old lady, the master above would not protect him, and it was himself who suffered in the end. He hesitated, waved his hand, and walked away.

Shisu saw them leave through the crack in the curtain, and turned around and said angrily: "I even forgot to say hello!" Something that doesn't have rules! ”

Wen Yi didn't answer, only looked out the car window again, the person who was beaten just now was gone, and he didn't know when he left. He frowned, feeling that since the man was able to walk on his own, he must not be seriously injured, and he was a little relieved. At this time, Lian Shun came back and said: "The carriage in front is ready to enter the village, and our car can start after a while." Wen Yi nodded, and Zi Su immediately sent a message to Guo Qingxi to prepare for departure.

Before the convoy moved, a mother-in-law was sent over to pass the word: "Miss Six heard that Miss Nine is the day after tomorrow, and I think I haven't seen the sisters for a long time, so let Miss Nine go over and talk." ”

Wen Yi frowned, and both the hollyhock and the perilla showed different colors. She raised her hand to stop them from asking, and without lifting the curtain, she replied through the carriage: "The sixth sister has returned from afar, and she should have gone to greet her, but now that the angel is late, and it is outside the village, people come and go, and there are many inconveniences, so that people can see it, I will inevitably laugh at our Gu family's daughter for not having rules, and ask my mother to compensate for me." The sixth sister and the seventh brother have been on the road for a day, and they must be tired and tight, so I will take the two of them to rest, and I will visit again. ”

The mother-in-law was stunned, and her tone was a little impatient: "Please tell Miss Nine by herself, our Miss is worried about Miss Nine, so she asked the little one to invite, and she is still waiting!" Besides, there's no one here."

Wen Yi sneered in her heart, but there was no expression on her face, she just said lightly: "I still have a grandmother waiting at home, presumably the eldest uncle and grandmother are also anxious to see the sixth sister and the seventh brother, although the sisterhood is deep" She gritted her teeth, "But it's not good to make the elders wait for a long time, isn't it?" Then he raised his voice: "Mother Guo is here?" ”

The other mother-in-law who was originally sitting in the back carriage had already heard the voice, got out of the car and came over, and when she heard the words, "The old slave is here", Wen Yi ordered: "The wind is cold on a cold spring night, it is difficult for this mother to come here to spread the word, hard work, give this mother a reward, let her drink some wine at night to ward off the cold." Mrs. Guo took out a purse in response, stuffed it into the mother-in-law, and said with a smile: "Old sister, you have worked hard to pass on the word, this is our young lady's reward for you!" "I pinched my hand.

The woman's face was different, and she looked at it darkly, and when she saw that there were also five coins of silver, she couldn't help but be happy, and after looking at the coachman and the male servant standing next to her, as well as Mrs. Guo, she found that although they were servants. The clothes on his body were not shabby, they were similar to the third- and fourth-class servants in his own house, and he was slightly surprised in his heart.

She remembered that the sixth room was still shabby a few years ago, not to mention rewarding, even the clothes that the young lady wore when she went out may not be dressed by the big girl next to the young lady. It's only been a few years? Why are there so many more slaves, and they are richer?

Thinking about it like this, she felt that she was short of hands, and she still spoke in a hard tone: "This little Miss Xie Jiu is rewarded, but Miss Six is there" Thinking of Wen Hui's temper, she looked embarrassed, for fear that if she didn't get things done, she would be punished.

Dong Kui carefully looked at Wen Yi's face, and then interjected: "Miss Sixth must also be in a hurry to see the eldest old lady, so it's not good to delay." Our young lady has already said that she will visit another day, and my mother just needs to pass the word. ”

The woman thought to herself, "What does this say?" If her own young lady insists on seeing Miss Nine, doesn't it mean that she is not in a hurry to see the eldest old lady, and she still intends to ask the elders to wait for a long time?!

Wen Yi coughed lightly: "What else does this mother have to say?" If not, don't delay, the sixth sister must be in a hurry to go home. ”

The mother-in-law was excited, smiled dryly and bowed and pushed it down, and couldn't help muttering in her heart: The sixth room looks really shaking, otherwise how could Miss Nine have such courage to dare to invite Miss Six?!

Wen Yi sent her mother-in-law away, and sat quietly in the carriage, waiting for the convoy in front of her to set off. Sure enough, it didn't take long for the carriage in front of her to move, but she told Guo Qingxi and the others in the long room to go away and leave.

Dong Que and Shiso glanced at each other, the former secretly pushed it, and the latter said carefully: "In the past, when the second wife of the long house came to ask the old lady to say goodbye, the slave maid chatted with her girl, and I also heard that this sixth lady has a bad temper, and people are still very arrogant. “

Hollyhock also chimed in: "Isn't it? What is this place? On the avenue, she casually asked someone to see her, but the young lady hesitated slightly, and the woman showed her face. If it weren't for Guo's mother's reward for blocking her mouth, I don't know how rude the mother-in-law would be! It's that her family officials are bigger, and who is more noble than the sisters in the family? That's rude! ”

Wen Yi glanced at them, and said, "You came late, I don't know what his family is doing, so I will bless one here, and when I go back, you tell others what I said, and tell them to be careful." The sixth sister and the seventh brother of this long house, acting differently from the fifth sister of the second uncle's family, you can only treat each other politely, try to avoid it, even if you are wronged, don't talk back, after I am free, if you have any dissatisfaction in your heart, don't say it outside, it's best not to say it at home, for fear that if you don't take precautions for a while, it will be spread to the ears of the people in the long house, and you will be held accountable, and it is you who will suffer. If you hear someone say something like that, you should not pay attention to it, no matter what side of the matter is. Remember?! ”

Dong Que and Shiso both bowed their heads in response, and looked at each other, both a little apprehensive.

Seeing this, Wen Yi sighed in her heart. It's not that she deliberately scares them, it's just that she has seen a lot in the past few years and understands more things, and she doesn't want the people around her to be used.

Not long after, Guo Qingxi reported that the Changfang convoy had entered the village far away, and the Liufang group had just marched to the village.

The intersection of Zhuangqian Road quickly returned to calm, and suddenly a cold wind blew, and a black shadow trembled out of the corner, and snorted towards the back of the carriage: They are not good people! If you are a really good person, you should teach those evil slaves a lesson, and then pay a lot of medical expenses for a good life!

He raised his sleeves and wiped his face, and then limped back to the side of the road in Zhuangkou, lay down and sniffed, groping on the ground, and after a while, he tacitly agreed on a handful of soil, which was mixed with medicinal material crumbs. He threw away the soil angrily, and suddenly heard someone coming out of the village, and hurriedly turned and ran.

He walked along the side of the avenue, looked around cautiously, shrunk his head and walked four or five miles, and saw in the distance that there was the Pingyang City Gate in front of him, and he turned into the path, walked another two or three miles, and came to a small village. He didn't go to the village, but walked along the perimeter to the door of the most remote opinion earthen house in the southwest corner, looked back and forth, and pushed the door in.

The room was lit by a dim oil lamp, and a woman who was described as haggard was sitting by the earthen kang, and when she saw him come in, she only looked at him with a blank face. She was wearing a patched red dress and green dress, her hair was messy, and only between her eyebrows and eyes could you vaguely see a little bit of her past appearance.

The man reached out and took the teapot to drink water, but the tea was cold, he frowned, and asked the woman in a cold voice, "How is the child?" Is there any better? ”

The woman sneered and didn't speak. He was annoyed, slapped her, knocked her to the ground, and went to see his son on the kang, who knew that after a wipe, the child's body was cold, and his soul suddenly flew away: "What's going on?!" Wasn't it okay before I went out?! ”

The woman struggled to get up and said coldly, "You've been out for a day!" I said that I would come back with medicine during the day, but when is it now?! You think he's beaten with iron?! I can't stand it for a long time! ”

The man slapped him backhanded: "I told you to take care of him!" I despise you, a, who deliberately harmed my son while I was away! ”

The woman's face was swollen, she couldn't bear it anymore, and cried: "You killer of a thousand knives!" At the beginning, you said so many good things, coaxed me to quietly deceive the bustard, rolled up and ran away with you, and before you reached the mountain, your nest was ended! You spent all my body and sold me to others as a concubine, and when I saw that the man had a good temper and took me with me, I also accepted my fate! Who knows if you don't do good deeds, I will be swept out of the house by sweat! Later, I saw that you were willing to do casual work and earn some money to support your family, but you were honest, so I lived with you in peace, but when you turned around, I didn't know who you had a heavy baby with, and I brought it back and asked me to raise it! I ate and drank well, and treated your son badly in time?! Now you're useless yourself, you can't catch the medicine to save the child, so you say that I hurt you?! I'm fighting with you! "Then pounce on it.

The man pushed her away and said fiercely: "You! If you can't give birth to a child yourself, dare you blame me?! If you make any more trouble, I'll beat you to death!

"Then you're fighting?!" The woman shouted, "You know I'm a bitch and can't have a baby, why did you lie to me in the first place?!" If I knew you were such a bastard, I would rather be a bitch for the rest of my life than go with you! What kind of goods are you looking for?! There's still your wanted warrant in the yamen! I'll tell people to go, you are the mountain bandit Liu Chongba, and ask the government to arrest you and cut off your head! ”

The man was in a hurry, pounced, grabbed his neck with both hands, stopped her from continuing to scream, and went to cover her mouth again. After pinching for a long time, the woman struggled, struggled, and slowly didn't understand. He shivered at a gust of wind and found that the woman had died.

He took a step back, sat on the edge of the kang, and touched the stiff and cold corpse of the child, and a hateful look burst out in his eyes: they were all those hateful rich people