Chapter Thirty-Eight: The other courtyard buys a maid and gives ten taels of silver
"Stop!"
Mrs. Li walked out of the house with a dark face and scolded sharply: "My old woman is not dead yet, so it's not a shame to make a fuss." ”
"Mother-in-law, she was the one who beat me."
Liu Cuihua sued first.
"I hit you?"
Wu Juan shrugged his shoulders and pretended to be innocent: "Who saw it?" ”
"Nope."
Ye Xiuyan's sister and brother shook their heads in unison.
"You see, the children can testify."
Wu Juan crossed his arms around his chest and mocked coldly: "Obviously, you fell by yourself, and you still want to rely on others." ”
"The second daughter-in-law."
Mrs. Li scolded sharply: "You don't have to be unforgiving, Cuihua is right, since you have already broken up, you are not qualified to meddle in the affairs of the Lao Ye family." ”
"Mother."
Ye Jian's eyes were dissatisfied: "We don't want to care, we just listen to the child's crying pitiful, come and ask what's going on?" ”
"Mingjie is going to the state capital for the exam, and he needs fifteen taels of silver to make a coil."
Mrs. Li was confident: "The family is poor and can't afford to raise the money, it just so happens that your brother brought back the news, the other courtyard bought a maid, signed a death deed and gave ten taels of silver, such a good opportunity, how can you miss it?" ”
"Annex?"
Wu Juan frowned: "What other courtyard?" ”
Ye Jian leaned forward and explained in a low voice: "It's the place where my eldest brother and I went to help this time, saying that it was a noble man from Kyoto City, a courtyard built in the countryside, and when I left, I did hear that I was going to buy a batch of little maids, I thought our family would definitely not sell our daughter, so I didn't tell you about it." ”
"A noble person from Kyoto City?"
Wu Juan's heart tightened: "What person, do you know?" ”
"I don't know who I am."
Ye Jian glanced at his daughter-in-law, a little annoyed: "The steward of the overseer has a very strict mouth and refuses to disclose any information. ”
"Why did you buy a little maid?"
Wu Juan glanced at the fourteen-year-old girl, puzzled.
"That's what the steward said."
Ye Jian said honestly: "Big families buy maids, they all have to be young, disciplined since childhood, obedient and understand the rules, older people have many rights and wrongs, and the wrong ones have brought the young master with bad thoughts." ”
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Wu Juan's heart was gloomy: "Poor Erya is only ten years old, a few months older than Xiuyan, and when she meets her black-hearted father, her whole life will be ruined." ”
"Phew, you're pretending to be so tall, talking about the girl."
As the couple was talking, Liu Cuihua suddenly spat and shouted maliciously: "Just because you two look so cold, can you give birth to a daughter like Yan Yatou?" I don't know where I got it from? ”
"What did you say?"
Ye Jian and his wife were furious when they heard this, and Wu Juan kicked her over and kicked her away.
"Bang."
Liu Cuihua smashed her head down on the ground, a big bag swollen on her forehead, and blood broke through the skin.
"Oops, oops."
She screamed in pain, but still didn't shut up, her bloodshot eyes flashed with the pleasure of revenge: "It's useless for you to beat me, everyone in the village says so, don't believe you go out to ask, no one believes that Yan Yatou is the daughter of the second brother." ”
"Sister-in-law."
Ye Jian's fists were clenched tightly, resisting the urge to beat people, and scolded: "Besides, don't blame me for ignoring the brotherhood with my eldest brother." ”
"It's useless for you to kill me."
Liu Cui's head was bleeding, and she had already fallen into madness: "The truth can't be changed, the bigger Yan Ya is, the less like you." ”
"You yourself understand what happened back then, there was no matchmaker and no hiring, a woman was brought back from outside, and she was still with a child, even if she was bitten to death and said it was your daughter, no one would believe it."