The Mid-Autumn Festival was still hot, but after the crops in the field were harvested, the Liu family's new house was built, and the weather gradually became cooler.

"Then don't sell it, no one eats it when it's cold, anyway, there aren't many wild loquat in the cellar, I'll take it over and feed the pigs later."

In order to keep it fresh, Liu Guiyuan collected all the wild loquat in the cellar of the fourth grandmother's house, and after this period of consumption, there is not much left.

The dog baby nodded, stared at her without speaking, Liu Guiyuan knew that he was waiting for the settlement to give the money, and said with a smile: "The last account, you can't be mistaken, you call the fourth grandmother to come together." ”

When the fourth grandmother came to her house, Liu Guiyuan and her second sister read the account alone, one person counted the money, this month's income is not high, a total of only eight taels and six dollars and five cents, and if it is divided in half, the family will take four taels and three dollars and two and a half cents, that is, 4325 dollars.

In total, this year, she relied on the wild loquat in the back mountain, and she earned thirty-three taels and seven dollars and five cents when she was full, of course, part of this money had already been spent, and the remaining part was mixed with other income, and finally her family still had thirteen taels and eight dollars.

After settling the accounts and sharing the money, Brother Dog still didn't leave, and the fourth grandmother said that she wanted to borrow seven taels of silver to redeem Xu Shanmei who was in Yang's mansion.

"Isn't it twenty taels of silver for redemption?"

Liu Guiyuan was very puzzled, as far as she knew, Brother Gouwa had already saved twenty taels, and this amount was the price at which Xu Shanmei was sold back then.

"To ...... Forty...... Two, less...... Don't let it go...... Person. ”

Brother Dog was afraid that she would not be willing to borrow money, so he hurriedly explained.

The fourth grandmother sighed and said slowly: "Twenty taels is just the money to buy a good sister, I went to Yang Mansion with the dog baby to find the second housekeeper, and begged for a long time before agreeing to release the person, but it costs double the money." ”

The people in this Yang Mansion are really black-hearted, and even a housekeeper thinks about making money by law! In other words, people with a little money are a little black-hearted!

Liu Guiyuan borrowed seven taels of silver from the fourth grandmother, and the two were so happy that they thanked them again and again, and drove the mule cart to the Yang Mansion in the town to ransom the people that day.

It wasn't until the evening that Xu Shanmei came out of the back door of the Yang Mansion with a small burden, and when she saw the four grandmothers and the dog baby who had been waiting outside the door for a long time, she instantly cried into tears, no matter how good the Yang Mansion is, it is not as good as her own family, from today on, she is free

"Okay, good sister, don't cry, the days will be fine, let's go, let's go home."

Under the moonlight, Xu Shanmei sat next to the fourth grandmother, looking at the dog baby brother in front of her, and the family of three walked home.

The next morning, without taking care of eating, the fourth grandmother led Xu Shanmei to the courtyard of Liu's house, knocked on the door of the courtyard and entered the courtyard, Liu Guiyuan was sweeping the floor,

Before the fourth grandmother could speak, Xu Shanmei knelt down as soon as her legs bent.

The first thing she learned in Yang Mansion was to kneel for people, and now that she is out of the mansion, she no longer wants to kneel to anyone who has nothing to do with it, except for Liu Guiyuan, who saved her!

"This is Sister ..... Shan! Get up quickly, don't kneel me, how old am I! ”

Liu Guiyuan was so panicked that he dropped the broom and hurriedly went to help Xu Shanmei. Xu Shanmei was a stubborn girl, and she insisted on it for a while, until the fourth grandmother shouted to her to get up and not to fold Liu Guiyuan's sale, and then she slowly got up.

When Liu Hongzao and Liu Huahua heard the movement, they were a little panicked for a while, until Xu Shanmei got up, and then ran to her to follow the persuasion.

"Good sister, we are all from the same village, look up and don't look down, it's nothing to help, don't kneel, we are in the countryside village, and we are out from time to time."

Liu Hongzao and Xu Shanmei are not familiar with each other, but they know each other, so they patiently persuaded her on the side.

Xu Shanmei's nose was sour when she heard this, her father and stepmother sold her to the house for money, but Brother Gouwa, the fourth grandmother and them paid money to ransom her, how could she not remember this kindness.

"I won't kneel in the future, but I can't help kneeling because I'm grateful, where, this is for you." Xu Shanmei took out an agarwood-colored square sachet from her arms and said: "I was on an errand in the house, I didn't save a few dollars, this sachet was given by Mrs. casually, I think the color is quite good, so I gave it to you to wear, all of my heart." ”

Liu Guiyuan took a look, this should be a satin sachet, the fabric is excellent, a pair of mandarin ducks are embroidered in the center of the front, but the top and bottom are embroidered, embroidered lotus, lotus leaves, and raised flowers on the edge of the pocket, almost a dozen eyes, Liu Guiyuan liked it, and said:

"This sachet is really good-looking, then I'll take it, thank you, Sister Shan."

Liu Guiyuan tied the sachet around her waist in front of her, this sachet was bigger than the sachet embroidered by her eldest sister, and there were spices in it, which smelled weird and good, and wearing it was like carrying a bottle of perfume on the body.

Xu Shanmei was very happy to see her accept the sachet, so she chatted with her about the reason why Mrs. rewarded her sachet, it turned out that she followed the mother-in-law in the kitchen to buy outside, bought ice powder back, Mrs. was afraid of heat, eating ice powder comfortably, and asked someone to reward a sachet casually.

She described the past, Liu Guiyuan and her two sisters listened to it with relish, and the fourth grandmother saw that the four of them were chatting speculatively, so she went back to make breakfast with a smile.

"What about the others, the two people who went to the Yang Mansion with you, Liu Xiaoqing and Tian Miaomiao, how are they doing in the mansion?" Liu Huaanhua asked curiously.

"Liu Xiaoqing? She and I weren't in the same place, I helped in the kitchen, she sprinkled in the backyard, and occasionally met just nodding and not talking much, but she didn't sell herself, and she could go home after three years. ”

Xu Shanmei's stepmother Jin and Liu Xiaoqing's mother Jin are two sisters, and they have this awkward relationship, even if the two meet, they won't talk much.

"What about Tian Miaomiao, I remember that she entered the house voluntarily, and the family conditions are okay, what is wrong with her now?" Liu Guiyuan has a good impression of Tian Miaomiao.

"She? Oh, she is not called Tian Miaomiao now, the Seventh Young Master renamed her, what is her name Cailian now, I heard that this name started from a poem, as for what poem I don't know. ”

Xu Shanmei doesn't even know the words, how can she remember the poems, this is all what she heard from others, and she just told them for fun.

Liu Guiyuan didn't want to know what the poem was, she was only curious about why Tian Miaomiao was so good and good why she changed her name, and when she gossiped about it, she opened her mouth and asked: "Why did she change her name, was she appreciated by the Seventh Young Master, so people gave her a new name?" ”

Xu Shanmei nodded hurriedly, thought for a while and shook her head, and finally said: "It's not just that the Seventh Young Master appreciates it, but there is also a reason, it seems that her name is the same as that of a girl who married out in the house, so it stands to reason that she has to change it to a new one." ”

The four of them chatted for a while, until Liu Lianzi in the house cried, and Liu Hongzao remembered that her sister was still lying on the bed, so she hurriedly went into the house to hug her, and at the same time, the dog baby came over and called Xu Shanmei to go back to eat.

Liu Huahua and Liu Guiyuan have become familiar with Xu Shanmei, and immediately asked her to come over to play often in the future.

I thought that Xu Shanmei had redeemed herself and would be able to come to the bitter end from now on, but she didn't expect that on the third day she returned to Huashi Village, her father and mother came to the door, saying that she wanted to take her daughter home.

At that time, Liu Guiyuan was watching her eldest sister sew clothes in the house, and the second sister came in from outside and said that Xu Shanmei was going to be picked up.

When he arrived at the fourth grandmother's house, Liu Guiyuan saw such a scene, Xu Shanmei's father dragged his daughter to go home, Xu Shanmei was unwilling, hiding behind the dog baby, Xu's father (Xu Jiaxiang) scolded the dog baby for abducting his daughter, and the fourth grandmother stood aside to persuade her, but Jin said that the fourth grandmother abducted her daughter, and she was not well-intentioned.

"I'm such a good girl, what's the reason for living in your house?" Xu Jiaxiang raised his fist angrily.

"Phew, your daughter has already been sold to the house, which was redeemed by my family for forty taels of silver, and it has nothing to do with you!" The fourth grandmother spat at him.

"Hey, his fourth aunt, what you said is not right, the good sister is the daughter of my family, who in the village doesn't know? We take our daughters home, do we want you to nod? Kim stuck his waist and looked unforgiving.

No way! With a shout, Brother Dog Wa took out a half-burned chopping wood from under the stove, and was about to chop it at Xu Jiaxiang, Xu Shanmei and others followed, and the scene became even more chaotic for a while.

Liu Guiyuan saw that this posture was wrong, and called her eldest sister and second sister to watch here, turned her head to find the village chief, and only halfway through, she met the village chief Tian Youren and several other villagers, who were hurrying towards this side.

As soon as Liu Guiyuan trotted, he told the dog baby's family that he had spent forty taels of silver to ransom people, and the surrounding villagers couldn't help but smack their tongues and exclaim: Obediently, forty taels, this money is enough to marry a daughter-in-law to build a new house! ”

Tian Youren nodded, indicating that he understood, and when he arrived at the fourth grandmother's house, he first asked someone to pull the two emotional parties, and then asked them one by one.

"Xu Jiaxiang, I haven't asked you yet, there is no shortage of food and clothing at home, why do you want to sell your daughter?"

Tian Youren asked him with a stiff face, there are poor families in their village, and at most they will send their children to work in the house, but they can be sent back in two or three years, but there has never been a precedent for selling people.

"Village chief, I didn't mean to sell my daughter, I really did a good sister to her, she was a little hard, at that time my daughter-in-law was pregnant with a child in her belly, and she was always unhappy, and then she ...... Later, I really didn't have an idea, so I sent my daughter away, but the next day I regretted it, heaven and earth conscience, I really regret it. ”

Under Xu Jiaxiang's explanation, the villagers only knew the reason why Xu Jiaxiang sold his daughter, it turned out that Xu Shanmei's stepmother Jin always said in front of Xu Jiaxiang that his daughter's life was hard to defeat people, especially his parents, at first Xu Jiaxiang didn't believe it, and then his mother-in-law said a lot, Xu Jiaxiang believed it a little.

In the first half of the year, Jin was pregnant with her third child, and her pregnancy was unstable, just in time for Hua's aunt to come to the village to recruit a little girl.

For the sake of the child in Jin's belly, Xu Jiaxiang said that he would send Xu Shanmei to the house for a year or two, but Jin said that his two sons were about to grow up and get married, so it was better to sell his hard-working daughter for some silver and build two big houses at home, and the two boys would be easy to talk about in the future.

Xu Jiaxiang didn't have any idea, and under the persuasion of the Jin family and the Hua family, he finally signed the deed of sale of his daughter, and only after his daughter was taken away did he wake up and regret that he had really sold his daughter.

Yesterday, he heard that his daughter had returned to the village and lived in the dog baby's house, so he brought the Jin family to ask for someone early, and the daughter of his Xu family returned to the village and did not live in her own house, what does it look like to live in the Liu family?

"Dad, even you say that my life is hard, is it really my life? If that's the case, then my stepmother, no, why did the Kim family still have a miscarriage? Xu Shanmei's eyes were red at this time, and she asked her father angrily.