Chapter 21: The Reputation of My Mother
"Don't you see the dried fish hanging under my porch?" Han Beiqing explained with a smile while picking Yue peppers: "The smell of fish in the pond is too strong, use Yue pepper to get rid of the fishy smell." ”
The second girl nodded, with some flattering admiration: "Your dried fish is better than mine." My mother also showed me what secret recipe you have. Said it must have been a spice sent by your grandfather's family in the city. It's spicy and fragrant, and it's still crispy and crispy. ”
"It's weird, saying that your family has done so much, you must take it out and sell it for money."
Erniu's words attracted Han Beiqing's attention, and she picked the pepper with her hand.
Turning his head, he couldn't help but ask, "What did your mother say?" ”
Only then did Han Beiqing know that the aunt next door had already set her sights on her. I'm afraid it's not Aunt Zhu alone, but the people in the village who are already eyeing their own family.
"yes, you know. Didn't my grandfather's family have a grocery store in the county town, and they sold everything. My family's small dried fish is taken to my grandfather's house, and he asked him to help sell some of the price. ”
Saying that, Han Beiqing raised his head and sighed: "My mother hasn't come back yet, she also wants to sell for more money." ”
The village is talking bad about Wang Sanniang all day long, and she is to blame for how Wang Sanniang is arranged. But the Han family can't stand these rumors, and the reputation of women in this era is greater. Han Xiucai can't divorce his wife yet, and if he divorces his wife, it will have a greater impact on a pair of children. For example, Han Beiqing will discuss marriage in the future, and Han Jin's road to the literary and scientific examination will also add unnecessary trouble.
Erniu didn't understand this, she just thought that what Han Beiqing said was the truth. She had heard people in the village talk about Han Beiqing's mother who was not a serious person, and she was blind to such a good family of the Han family.
Today, when I saw Han Beiqing take the initiative to mention her mother's visit, her eyes lit up, and she asked curiously: "Nan, why doesn't your mother go home?" The people in the village said that your mother raised men in the city. ”
Han Beiqing looked embarrassed: "What do you say, can you still cover other people's mouths?" ”
"But aren't you angry? Your mother is obviously selling dried fish in the city to subsidize the family. It's really bad for them to say that about your mother. The second girl looked righteous and spoke for Han Beiqing.
Han Beiqing looked at Erniu with a light smile: "Of course you don't get angry, everyone has their own faults, what is there to be angry about." They speak ill of my mother, but it's just because my mother is a merchant and loves money. And my father is a scholar, so a scholar should be a high student. How can it be contaminated with copper stench? ”
The second girl looked at Han Beiqing suspiciously, her eyes were full of incomprehension: "Nannan, you know so much, you deserve to be Xiucai's daughter." ”
Han Beiqing rolled his eyes, and said in his heart that there was something he didn't understand. After thinking about it, the little girl in front of her had no experience and was illiterate, and everything she saw and heard was the village in front of her. What do you expect her to understand?
After picking enough peppers, Han Beiqing pulled the second girl home. When passing by the entrance of the village, trouble came.
"Han Xiucai's family?!" There was a woman at the bottom of the big locust tree at the entrance of the village, Shana, who was shouting with a wicked smile on her face.
Han Beiqing looked at the group of women who chewed their tongues, and guessed in his heart that they seemed to be gossiping about their own families.
blessed everyone, and said very politely: "Hello aunts." ”
"Hey, it's worthy of being a little lady of the Xiucai family, this magical style is different." There was the thin-skinned woman who hurriedly put down the work in her hand and greeted Han Beiqing with a smile.
But there are still people who don't know the number of etiquette, and when they see Han Beiqing's proper etiquette, they have a little contempt.
"What's the difference, it's just that it's just poor. The country girl makes some city people's style all day long, and laughs to death. The woman who spoke rolled her eyelids to heaven.
Han Beiqing didn't know who the mean woman in front of him was, and glanced at the second girl beside him suspiciously. The second girl immediately leaned into her ear and whispered: "Nan, this person is the daughter-in-law of Mrs. Qian." Do you know Mrs. Li? It's someone who doesn't deal with your grandmother. ”
Han Beiqing nodded clearly, knowing how to deal with it. She turned her head to look at Erniu, and said with a light smile: "You know why my father said that reading makes people know etiquette, right?" ”
The woman didn't know what Han Beiqing said, but she also knew that she was scolding herself. With a face on the side, he raised the sole of his hand and made a gesture to hit someone: "Dead girl, who are you talking about?" ”
Han Beiqing's black and white eyes glared at her: "I'm talking about an uneducated person, what is my aunt doing in such a hurry?" ”
Poof, a few women around burst out laughing.
The woman's face turned red, and she gritted her back molars: "Your mother is uneducated, and she lives in her mother's house all day and doesn't go home, I'm afraid that she is raising a man outside." ”
"My aunt likes to spread rumors about others so much, does your mother-in-law know?" Han Beiqing raised his eyebrows, and there was coolness in his eyes.
"What do you know? It's not been a day or two since your old Han family was embarrassed, why can't you talk about it? Do you think my mother-in-law will help you speak? ”
Han Beiqing chuckled at the corner of his mouth, his face was calm but his tone was extremely threatening: "Seven out: no children, one also; obscenity, two also; Don't worry about aunts, three also; Tongue, four also. ”
"My aunt has committed seven crimes, I don't know if Granny Qian will divorce you. The upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked, and the aunt also has a daughter at home, but don't ruin the marriage of the sisters. ”
After saying that, Han Beiqing turned around and left, and the angry woman stood in place and crossed her waist and scolded: "Your mother only committed seven crimes, and your mother should be retired by her mother-in-law before she went home." ”
"You say that my mother raises a man, but is there any evidence? Do you have a certificate? Is it male or female? Is there any physical evidence of a female? If you can't take it out, then let's go to the yamen to find the county magistrate to break it. ”
How can a quarrel in the countryside make a big deal out of it? It's just a few scoldings.
Who would have thought that Han Beiqing would tell Mrs. Han about it when he returned home.
"Sue to the county government?" Mrs. Han slapped the table angrily and angrily scolded Han Beiqing for having nothing to do.
"There are long-tongued women in every family, and I haven't seen anyone go to the county office. What do you want the people in the village to say about us? Where are your grandmothers, me, and your father's faces? Mrs. Han patted her face, angry that Han Beiqing was ignorant.
"It's because the people in the village are saying that it's getting worse and worse to hear. My mother hasn't stolen men now, and people say so, which day will it become true in the future? In other words, we can't talk about it. Han Beiqing was resolute.
Seeing Mrs. Han's expression, Han Beiqing used her nirvana: "It's really not a way for my mother not to come back." Just let the Wang family know our family's attitude. If she really doesn't want to go back to this home, then break up in two, don't delay the future of my father and brothers. ”
Only the core interests can move people's hearts, and sure enough, Mrs. Han's cloudy eyes emitted a gleam....