Chapter 3: Selling a son to repay his kindness
Quanshui Village is not wealthy, it is full of low adobe houses, and there are even many thatched houses.
The only two blue brick and tile houses are particularly conspicuous.
One of them belongs to the village chief's family, and the other belongs to the Shen family.
Su Ying and his father have relied on each other for many years, but they have heard him say a lot of old things in the village, including the Shen family.
Shen Mo's father's name is Shen Jinbao, and he has an uncle, who is his father's twin brother, named Shen Zhaocai.
In a plague twenty years ago, the silent grandparents did not survive it, because they were worried that their youngest son, Shen Jinbao, who was also infected with the plague, would not be able to turn a blind eye until he died. It wasn't until Shen Zhaocai repeatedly promised that he would take good care of his younger brother that the couple finally closed their eyes and entered the coffin.
At that time, the Shen family was also a poor family, and Shen Zhaocai was only a teenager, and he couldn't even find a way to make money, and because he remembered his oath to his parents, he was desperate, and finally changed his body for a few taels of silver for his younger brother to treat his illness, and he followed the old eunuch into the palace.
also owes Shen Jinbao a lot of life, and with his brother's few taels of silver to sell his body to grab medicine, he really survived.
After a few years, the world was in turmoil, wars broke out, and Shen Zhaocai was still worried about the safety of his younger brother in his hometown in the palace, so he wrote a letter and asked someone to take his younger brother to the capital.
Fifteen years ago, not long after the new emperor who changed the dynasty and won the battle ascended the throne, Shen Jinbao came back with his wife and monk's infant son, and also brought the death of his brother Su Zhaocai.
"Fortune is distressing in this life." Su Wenhai's eyes were filled with tears, "I have grown up and purified myself, I will suffer greatly, and I finally survived the nine deaths, but who knows that I still haven't survived the war." He is a eunuch, whose eyes are in the way, and how did he die tragically in chaos...... In the middle of the war. ”
"Rebels and thieves" are a big rebellion, and finally they still don't dare to say it.
"Here we are." Finally arrived in front of the blue brick and tile house, Su Wenhai coughed violently again, and only after the cough stopped, did he knock on the door a few times, and turned around and told his daughter, "Everything has a father, don't be afraid." ”
Just this sentence made Su Ying couldn't help but redden.
In her previous life, she also had a father, but she never received her father's love. When she was seven years old, her father led other women into the house and drove them out. On the eve of the college entrance examination at the age of seventeen, her mother died of illness, and her father not only did not appear at the funeral, but also did not even have a word of comfort for her, her biological daughter.
Since then, Su Ying felt that men were unreliable, and she made up her mind not to marry for the rest of her life at a young age.
But now, she has experienced a father's love from Su Wenhai that she has never had.
Su Wenhai was worried that she would not be liked by her stepmother, and in the more than ten years since the death of her original partner, she never thought of remarrying. Even if the villagers said ugly words such as "no household" behind their backs, he never wavered.
When she had a sudden emergency when she was a child, it was her father who carried her on his back and walked at night in the heavy rain to see the doctor.
Her father held her up with both hands for a whole night, and the father and daughter were saved when they were found by the villagers the next day.
Daddy's hand was scrapped at that time, and after so many years, the weather was a little cold, and the injury made him miserable.
It is precisely because of this that the father and daughter live so poorly.
Su Ying's beauty is true, but everyone is poor, who would dare to marry the daughter of a desperate family, and have to raise an extra burdensome father-in-law in the future?
Su Ying was reminiscing about the past when he heard his father's words full of apologies.
"It's Dad who dragged you down." Su Wenhai put his hand on the door and nose, feeling very guilty about his daughter.
"Everything will be fine." Su Ying turned her back and sniffed.
At this time, there was movement in the courtyard.
"Here we are." The door opened, and Cai's saw the father and daughter stunned, and hurriedly rubbed their hands to lead the person into the house, "It turned out to be Brother Su." He turned around and greeted softly into the house, "It's the benefactor Brother Su who is in charge." ”
"Don't dare to be, don't dare to be." Su Wenhai's heart warmed.
Su Ying's heart was also filled with warm currents, and she greeted politely, "Auntie." ”
Fortunately, with Cai's "benefactor", things will not be too difficult.
Su Ying couldn't help but feel guilty about his silent words today, and at the same time made up his mind that when he survived the hurdle in front of him, he would definitely repay the Shen family.
There was a cry of pain like a ghost crying wolf in the room, and Shen Jinbao, who was like Maitreya Buddha, walked out, still holding a rolling pin in his hand, and led the person into the house with a smile.
"It turned out to be Engong, what a rare guest, please come in."
"Uncle." Su Ying shouted and followed into the house.
After all, what he wanted to talk about was his own family business, so Su Ying learned to be shy like his original body.
Cai Shi saw her embarrassment, and after serving Su Wenhai tea, he took Su Ying to the back room to talk.
Su Ying had met Cai a few times before, and always felt that her every move was different from that of an ordinary peasant woman.
The two exchanged polite greetings, but neither of them paid attention to the conversation in the living room.
"Brother Jinbao, when you and your husband shouted benefactor, I was cheeky and agreed. You also know that I have always only chewed words and words very sour, and I can't say a few good words and polite words, so I will get straight to the point and say what I mean. ”
Su Wenhai is actually weak at the moment.
It is true that he is the life-saving benefactor of the Shen family, but what he saved at the beginning was Shen Jinbao's brother Shen Zhaocai.
But what he wants now is Shen Jinbao, or let his son marry his daughter.
The lifelong event of his son's life, and he didn't dare to guarantee that his benefactor's name would work.
Shen Jinbao saw that his benefactor was uneasy, so he added tea and said kind words to appease.
"Brother Su is the life-saving benefactor of my Shen family, and the eldest brother specially told him before he died, but whenever Brother Su speaks, no matter what we need our Shen family to do, even if it is to go to the soup, I don't dare to shirk. Brother Su, if you have something to say, just say it. ”
Shen Jinbao's attitude was very clear, and there was no perfunctory intention at all, but it made Su Wenhai, who was ready to repay the favor, even more guilty.
But thinking of his daughter's matter, he still had a heartbeat and couldn't retreat.
"Here's the thing......"
Su Wenhai made the ins and outs of the matter clear, and the expression of emptiness and expectation continued to play out on his face in turn.
Before the Shen family and his wife could express their position, there was a pig-like howl from the other room.
"Father, mother, you can't sell your son to repay your kindness."
"Shut up!" Shen Jinbao roared, and after hearing that his son was no longer making trouble, he said apologetically: "This kid is disrespectful to Master Lu, and he was found at home, I can't be angry, I just beat him up, I'm afraid he won't be able to get out of bed to see you at this time." It's rude, in-laws. ”
In-laws?
Both father and daughter were stunned.
The silence next door was silent, but there was a wail, "It's over, it's over." ”