Chapter 171

"It's really out of tune."

Zhao Fusheng said quietly.

This sentence immediately resonated with Kuai's third daughter-in-law, and she slapped her thigh:

"Who's to say it isn't? But my man defended his brother and beat me up at the time. ”

"He may be distressed that his brother has lost his father."

Zhao Fusheng said.

"I don't want to think about who my father died for!" The third daughter-in-law said contemptuously, and then she realized that there was something wrong with her attitude, so she immediately shut up, and said indignantly:

"I feel sorry for my brother, but I don't feel sorry for my daughter-in-law."

"I pity him for killing pigs outside, often cut down on food and clothing, and don't let him touch his hands when he goes home, and I do it alone in the field, who knows that he beat me for the fifth child, and this matter is not my problem, and I have to let the sixth uncle judge when I go to the sixth uncle."

"What did the sixth uncle say in the end?" Zhao Fusheng already knew the result, but he asked knowingly.

The third daughter-in-law said:

"What else can I say? Everyone defends the fifth, and the sixth uncle persuades the family and everything is prosperous! ”

When she mentioned this question, she was a little annoyed.

"But Uncle Sixth is really good, he is very fair, he offered to compensate my family for a piece of cloth, let me not fight with my man, and told us to go back and live in peace."

Zhao Fusheng could see that she was very satisfied with this solution.

However, Zhao Fusheng's purpose is not to make her comfortable, but to make her more angry, and she will lose her mind and reveal some related topics when she is angry.

The third daughter-in-law was angry about this incident back then, but she was satisfied with the way the sixth uncle handled it, so Zhao Fusheng took this as a breakthrough:

"Does Kuai Lao Wu approve of such a solution?"

"He's a fart!"

I don't know why, the anger in the heart of the third daughter-in-law that had already calmed down began to detonate again because of Zhao Fusheng's unintentional words.

She couldn't suppress the anger in her heart anymore, and said irritablely:

"This dog thing, when you don't wake up for a day, it's ridiculous."

On the side, the eldest daughter-in-law tried her best to give her a look, but the third daughter-in-law was carried away, ignoring the eyes of the eldest sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law's behavior of pulling her sleeves, she shook her hand and shook the second sister-in-law's hand away:

"Do you think this stealing cloth is just one of the ridiculous things he's done? He often steals wherever he goes, defecates and urinates at the door of others, is caught and beaten, and sometimes steals something, and the sixth uncle brings money to redeem people. ”

"We are close to several families, and we have never locked the door before, but there is such a person as him, and I dare not let go of my eyes since then, I am afraid that once he passes, something will be missing in the house."

It's disgusting!

Kuai's third daughter-in-law didn't say it explicitly, but her expression unabashedly revealed such a message.

When people are angry, they have no reason, and what she says comes from the heart.

Of course, it is possible for her to hide her true state of mind with anger, but Kuai's third daughter-in-law does not have such a city government and does not have such wisdom.

"Not only my family, but my sister-in-law's family has also been stolen, and he also stole the dowry for his future wife who was full of silver. And my fourth brother and sister's family, on the day of the wedding, a pair of copper-plated earrings that her mother's family married were stolen by this dog when they took advantage of the chaos, and they had already drunk wine when they found it. ”

Several other women couldn't stop her, and the scandals in the family were revealed one by one, so they had to nod awkwardly.

But as Kuai's third daughter-in-law complained, several women couldn't help it, and they talked about Kuai's fifth absurdity.

"When I drank outside, I slept wherever I went, and sometimes I was picked up in a basket."

"There is no one in the nearby villages who don't know him, and he is full of smell."

"Don't love cleanliness. When I first got married, he got drunk and walked to the wrong door, and he slept in my bed without washing his feet, and when he woke up, he vomited all over my bed. The fourth daughter-in-law also complained.

“……”

Zhao Fusheng listened patiently to the chatter of several women, and gradually achieved his goal:

"That Zhuang Siniang is quite miserable."

"yes—"

Speaking of which, several women let out a long sigh:

"It's a pity that the fourth lady has such a person."

"It is said that a woman's marriage is like a second reincarnation." Zhao Fusheng threw out the topic again, and quickly got a response from Kuai's third daughter-in-law:

"Who's to say it isn't? The fourth lady didn't go well with the fetus for the first time, and her father-"

She pursed her lips disdainfully and looked at the eldest lady:

"Who doesn't know about the banquet in Fengmen Village that your lord mentioned earlier?"

"Zhuang Da and his wife took their children to fight the autumn wind, but they blamed their daughter for eating too much and beating the children in front of everyone." After speaking, she asked:

"Sister-in-law, did you say?"

At this point, the eldest daughter-in-law simply didn't hide it, and nodded:

"At that time, everyone looked down on these two couples, and those with a discerning eye couldn't see that the fourth lady didn't move the chopsticks at all, so she fed her younger siblings, and as a result, her mother said everywhere that she was gluttonous."

"She's not that kind of person."

Several women all agree with Zhuang Siniang's character.

"Her family is not good, and she didn't marry the right person-"

The third daughter-in-law said again.

After she said this, the second daughter-in-law who spoke the least on the side stretched out her elbow and hit her again, which hurt a little and knocked back the third daughter-in-law's reason.

She realized that she had lost her words under anger and said too many things that should not be said, and if she looked back and found out, I was afraid that the two couples would quarrel again.

When I secretly regretted it in my heart, I wanted to say something to change the subject.

Zhao Fusheng saw her inner thoughts, and asked again:

"I heard that the family behind the Kuai Wu family lives in Kuai Huaide?"

"Yes, yes, yes." Kuai's third daughter-in-law was very eager to put aside her anxiety about saying bad things about Kuai's fifth daughter-in-law, so she answered Zhao Fusheng's question very enthusiastically:

"Speaking of this Kuaide, the adults don't know, he-" She paused deliberately.

Zhao Fusheng said:

"I heard that he still hasn't married a wife?"

"Yes, his father died early, the family was poor, my father-in-law helped his family a lot when he was alive, and his mother told him to remember this kindness before he died."

Before Zhao Fusheng came, several daughters-in-law of the Kuai family made up their minds to keep silent in the face of problems and never say much, but at this time, several people could not control themselves and kept talking.

"He is indeed obedient, often helps our family to do some chores, sometimes lucky to go up the mountain to pick some mountain mushrooms and wild vegetables, but also give us a point, but after a long time, there are more favoritism for the old five families."

When the fourth daughter-in-law heard this, Leng might as well interject:

"Who made the hook of the old five families?"

Zhao Fusheng pretended not to hear what she said, and said curiously:

"I heard that the two are the same age?"

"Wilder is older." The third daughter-in-law nodded:

"His family has no money, he can't marry a wife, this is a good child, he began to remember his mother's instructions, and has been helping the elders, because the old five families are the poorest, so he helps the old five families the most."

Zhao Fusheng went straight to the point:

"He is about the same age as Zhuang Siniang, Kuai Wu is not in tune, as the saying goes, men and women should also avoid suspicion, they are so close, not afraid of other people's gossip?"

"How is there no gossip? Everyone laughed at the fifth child for being a turtle and wearing a green hat on his head. The third daughter-in-law said.

Her words verified Zhao Fusheng's previous guess, and sure enough, there was another reason behind Kuai Huaide's report that Zhuang Siniang stole people.

"Do they really have anything to do with each other?" Zhao Fusheng asked directly.

"How can that?" The big lady spoke up at this time and shook her head:

"After all, it's two generations apart—"

"So the two are innocent?" Zhao Fusheng said again.

She deliberately said that the matter was black and white, which really aroused the reaction of several daughters-in-law of the Kuai family, and the fourth daughter-in-law couldn't help but say:

"That's not so innocent."

"How?" Zhao Fusheng looked interested.

"They talk like this, and everyone in the village sees jokes, but Huaide doesn't know how to avoid suspicion at all, he often goes to his house to carry water for Zhuang Si, and goes up the mountain to chop firewood and sends it to her house, who doesn't know his intentions?" The third daughter-in-law was a little dissatisfied.

"So Kuai Huaide fell in love with Zhuang Siniang because of pity, and he was not even afraid of the rumors in the village to please her?" Zhao Fusheng said.

Kuai's third daughter-in-law immediately retorted:

"Then I don't think it's right, if there is no woman to seduce, how dare a man?"

Zhao Fusheng laughed:

"Zhuang Siniang is the daughter-in-law of the Kuai family, and you are concubines, if she has a bad reputation, people will only say that your daughter-in-law of the Kuai family is not decent."

When the third daughter-in-law heard this, she suddenly woke up, thought about it, and explained:

"Our daughter-in-law of the Kuai family has no misconduct."

"Actually, the fourth lady also refused, Huaide sometimes sent firewood, but she didn't open the door." The fourth daughter-in-law also realized the key point in Zhao Fusheng's words, and hurriedly explained:

"Sometimes the two of them meet head-on from afar, and she always has to choose another way."

"Yes, yes, once I was talking to her at home, and she heard the door opening next door, so she got up and locked the door, afraid that Wilder would knock on the door." Kuai's third daughter-in-law also corroborates.

The second daughter-in-law nodded silently:

"The fourth lady won't take a fancy to Huaide, after all, she is a junior."

"But Huaide may have been single for a long time, pestering her, causing rumors in the village, when I went back to my parents' house, the neighbors next door heard about it and came to inquire about me." The eldest daughter-in-law also felt very dissatisfied when she mentioned this old incident.

"Who's to say it's not?" The fourth daughter-in-law said:

"Spoil my family's reputation, and I'll avoid it when I see Huaide from then on."

The more I asked, the more interesting it became.

Zhao Fusheng's eyes were full of interest.

The clan system in Kuailiang Village is well implemented, and these villagers have an unusually firm sense of family, and they are consistent with the outside world, but each person has his own selfish desires in his heart.

For Kuailiang Village, Zhao Fusheng and his entourage are outsiders, so the villagers defend the whole village; And for people surnamed Kuai, Kuai Huaide is his own person, and the rumors between him and Zhuang Siniang are naturally Zhuang Siniang's fault.

But if you take the daughter-in-law of the Kuai family as an example, Kuai Huaide has become an outsider again, and Zhuang Siniang is her own person among the five brothers of the Kuai family......

The selflessness and selfishness, tolerance and xenophobia, and fickleness of human nature are vividly displayed in this short dialogue at this time.

"That is, Kuai Huaide has the intention to seduce Zhuang Siniang, Zhuang Siniang is worried about the reputation of the Kuai family, and does not want to entangle with him." Zhao Fusheng deliberately put Zhuang Siniang into the camp of the daughter-in-law of the Kuai family, and when these few people heard this, they had no objections, and they all nodded in unison:

"That's right."

Zhao Fusheng suddenly sighed with emotion.

She just wanted to learn about Zhuang Siniang's past from the villagers, but she needed to ask questions in a roundabout way in order to get a barely fair comment.

"Since Kuai Huaide likes her, and always comes to her, wanting to win the favor of Zhuang Siniang, why did he finally report her and cause her to die in ruin?" She finally cut to the chase.

The third daughter-in-law said:

"What else could be the reason? Isn't Siniang not like him, but she likes that foreigner? ”

"Hate because of love?" Zhao Fusheng pretended to be surprised.

"What right does he have to hate out of love?" The fourth daughter-in-law said disdainfully:

"It's just a villain."

"What do you mean by that?" Zhao Fusheng asked her.

The fourth daughter-in-law was looked at by her, and her expression suddenly perked:

"My lord, you said that if you please a woman, you must always take into account her feelings, is this the reason why your lord said?"

These gossips should not be told to outsiders, and it is not a glorious thing for Zhuang Siniang to steal people.

It's strange to say, when they talked to Zhao Fusheng, they felt that they could tell her anything, and after they started, they couldn't stop talking.

"There is a lot of gossip in the village, others don't say much about Kuai Huaide, but behind the scenes, they point fingers at the four ladies, isn't this very good?"

The eldest daughter-in-law also said.

"If it's really good to her, shouldn't you avoid suspicion and let her ears be quiet? As far as he shows off, he is afraid that people will not know about this ugly matter, and he will not know that he is ashamed! ”

The other three concubines all nodded after listening to the sister-in-law's words:

"What's more, the fifth child heard people laughing at his green-hat turtle outside, and when he went home, he did his best, and beat the fourth lady, beating her head and bleeding, and her body was blue and purple, and she smashed it when she took something, and we all went to persuade her many times."

Whenever this time, Kuai Huaide hid in the house and kept silent, and afterwards found an excuse to quarrel with Kuai Lao Wu.

The third daughter-in-law said:

"Once, he used the excuse of asking the fifth child to repay the money, but the fifth child still didn't come out, so he beat the fifth child. The fifth person drank and went crazy, didn't know how to restrain himself, and shouted loudly, saying that the money he borrowed was the accommodation of the fourth lady and would not be repaid. ”

When several concubines heard this, they kept shaking their heads and sighing, very speechless about this absurd and humiliating thing.

"It's a shame that everyone in the village is watching."

The eldest daughter-in-law also said dissatisfiedly:

"How can there be a reason for juniors to beat their elders, it's really the opposite."

"After a long time, the people in the village don't look at the fifth daughter-in-law seriously, and treat her as a frivolous woman."

The second daughter-in-law, who had been silent, also added.

Zhao Fusheng suddenly felt a little pity for Zhuang Siniang, who was struggling to survive in such an environment.

"Kuai Huaide is doing this, Zhuang Siniang can't avoid him even more?" She deliberately maliciously guessed:

"Does he want to ruin the reputation of Zhuang Siniang, so that she will be cornered, so that she will simply break the jar and break it, and have an affair with him?"

"The fourth lady is not such a person."

The second daughter-in-law said quietly.

Zhao Fusheng looked at her, she was about the same age as the eldest daughter-in-law, and her face was also full of sorrow.

Among several daughters-in-law, the eldest is the most calm and has ideas, several concubines listen to her, the third is spicy and outgoing, and can't stand the excitement of others, and the fourth daughter-in-law is both obedient and timid, but also hides her broken character.

Only the second daughter-in-law is the most silent, very cautious in her words and deeds.

But Zhao Fusheng believes that what she said is closest to the truth.

If such a person does not speak, it must be true, because she may be worried that gossip will contaminate right and wrong.

"She's more diligent in avoiding Wai Waide?" Zhao Fusheng asked her, and she nodded silently:

"That's for sure, but how can the two families live next to each other?"

"This matter is related to the decency of Kuailiang Village, so Uncle Sixth won't solve it?" Zhao Fusheng asked.

"Solved." The second daughter-in-law nodded a little restrainedly:

"The sixth uncle privately pulled the eldest brother, the man of my family, the third child and Huaide to discuss, saying that he wanted everyone to pool money to build a new house for Huaide and let him move over."

Uncle Kuai Sixth knew that the situation was serious.

He understands the situation of Zhuang Siniang, and he also knows where the root of the problem is, "He proposed that Huaide was old, and there was no woman in the family who was not decent, so he wanted to find him a daughter-in-law, and asked the sixth uncle to help find him." ”

“……”

Zhao Fusheng was stunned when he heard this, these two couples really can't learn a lesson.

"Is it the last thing to do?"

The corners of her mouth twitched, and she asked.

"Good things don't go out, ugly things spread thousands of miles, he is entangled with a married woman, whose good daughter is willing to marry such a person?" Kuai's third daughter-in-law asked rhetorically.

"Since that's the case, why did Zhuang Siniang offend Kuai Huaide again and let him report Zhuang Siniang?"

Zhao Fusheng was not in a hurry to ask the details of Zhuang Siniang's fornication.

She started from the subtleties, and lowered the hearts of the four concubines of the Kuai family little by little, asking from the shallow to the deep.

The four of them replied to the present, and the heart defense and the bottom limit were repeatedly broken, at this time, listening to her question, the four turned their heads and looked at each other, and the third daughter-in-law suddenly shouted:

"Second sister-in-law, it's better for you to say."

This woman is very interesting.

She is loyal to her family, loves her husband and children, and her evaluation of Zhuang Siniang is also very complicated, and this sentence also shows her careful thinking.

She said the most under Zhao Fusheng's questioning before, and she was probably worried that she would be blamed by her husband and uncles afterwards, so she also wanted to pull other concubines into the water.

Among several people, Kuai's second daughter-in-law spoke the least, if she was talking about the grievances between Kuai Huaide and Zhuang Siniang, everyone would be fellow travelers, and no one would blame anyone for talking too much.

Zhao Fusheng couldn't help but want to laugh, Kuai's third daughter-in-law's calculation was exactly what she wanted, she looked at Kuai's second daughter-in-law:

"You can say it."

The second daughter-in-law nervously wanted to stand up, but Zhao Fusheng motioned for her to sit and talk back.

She twisted her legs twice nervously, and her body stiffened.

"Where do you want to start?"

"Zhuang Siniang's affair with others, Kuai Huaide reported her to Uncle Kuai Liu, because the two families live next to each other, so he was the first to get the news?"

Zhao Fusheng knew that these villagers were stiff-minded, and it was best to ask as many questions as possible to communicate with them, so that she would not worry about talking about other things—this was the lesson she had learned from dealing with Zhuang Laoqi.

"It's more than that." The second daughter-in-law pressed her hands her thighs, so nervous that the muscles in her cheeks were shaking:

"Actually, it's actually that stranger who lives in Huaide's house."

No one had mentioned this inside story before, Zhao Fusheng looked uplifted, and motioned for her to continue.

"I don't know if adults know, our village, our village is rich in white soybean-"

The second daughter-in-law doesn't seem to be very good at communicating with people, coupled with nervousness, she stammered, and when she said this, she turned around and pointed in a certain direction:

"It's in the mountains behind, Bai Su, that kind of flower—"

"It's so big," she said, with her thumbs and four fingers apart, merging together to make a bowl the size of a bowl.

"The flowers that bloom and then dry them and sell them to others can be sold for a lot of money, and we go up to the mountains to pick them every year."

Seeing that Zhao Fusheng didn't interrupt her words, she gradually became bolder, and she spoke more fluently than before:

"Many outsiders know that we have white su here, and they often come from far away to buy such things, and sometimes borrow them to live in the village."

There are wineries and guesthouses in the village, but because some guests are far away from Wan'an County, they spend a lot of time on the way back and forth, and they think that the inn is too expensive to stay for a long time, so they often negotiate to give the villagers a sum of room and board to live in the villagers' homes.

"After Huai Deniang's death, he was a bachelor, and his family didn't have much money, and in March and April this year, a foreigner surnamed Chen came to live in his house."

Kuai's second daughter-in-law has a complicated expression:

"This man is in his forties, and he is a man who sells goods from the mountains, and Huaide began to see that he spoke politely, and that he was single, without relatives or friends, and gave him a lot of room and board, so he allowed him to live at home."

Zhao Fusheng asked:

"This is the stranger who has an affair with Zhuang Siniang?"

In this ghost case, she has almost inquired about the details before and after, and she also has a certain understanding of Kuailiang Village and Zhuang Siniang's past and life, but Zhuang Siniang's fornication with others is a taboo in this village.

Most of the people who were indirectly or directly related to this matter were silent about it, and it was not until this time that it was finally mentioned from the mouth of the second daughter-in-law.

The second daughter-in-law was a little at a loss, and when the third daughter-in-law heard that such a big thing came out of the mouth of the second sister-in-law, she breathed a sigh of relief and nodded:

"Yes."

This acknowledgment was followed by a good solution.

As soon as the principles that the four concubines adhered to in their hearts were broken, they no longer had any worries about what they said later.

"Zhuang Siniang really had an affair with him?"

Zhao Fusheng began to be a little unconvinced:

"Didn't the second sister-in-law say that he was in his forties? This senior lady is nearly twenty years old, old enough to be her father, right? ”

"That's what people say when they're old and traitors." The eldest daughter-in-law said.

"Will coax women, some are means." The fourth daughter-in-law also answered.

"After he moved in, he saw Huaide harassing the fourth lady, and once pulled him to persuade him, saying that he couldn't do this, it would tarnish the reputation of his elders, and quarreled with Huaide."

If Kuai Huaide hadn't collected the money at that time, and some of the money was used to pay off the old debt, he would have driven this stranger out long ago.

But even if they didn't evict them at that time, the pair of tenants and the owner could be regarded as turning faces.

"Huaide doesn't give him a good face, outsiders buy rice and cook rice by themselves, they don't eat with him, and the two avoid each other when they go in and out, and they don't deal with each other."

Several families live closely, and these movements can be hidden from outsiders, but they can't hide from the four concubines of the Kuai family.

"Later, there was a time when the fifth child beat the fourth mother, he came out to say fairly, and he almost fought with the fifth child." Kuai's third daughter-in-law also said.

The second daughter-in-law nodded and added:

"At that time, the fifth bastard was shameless by him, and scolded: 'Could it be that you also want to my daughter-in-law?' ”

"The surnamed Chen slapped him, knocked him out of a tooth, he fell to the ground and howled, and then the sixth uncle came forward to mediate, and the surnamed Chen lost a few big bucks to the fifth child before the matter was over."

“……”

Although Zhao Fusheng had heard a lot of Kuai Wu's ridiculous things, when he heard this, he still couldn't help but feel speechless about Kuai Wu's behavior.

"It sounds like there is no intersection between him and Zhuang Siniang, why in the end-" Zhao Fusheng deliberately asked halfway, and the fourth daughter-in-law said:

"My lord, listen to me, this matter can be seen by anyone with a discerning eye, and outsiders talk a lot, but the fifth child must be deliberately slandering, five big money-" She pursed her lips and shook her head again:

"Siniang may know about this and feel embarrassed, she knows the old five virtues, so she wants to take the money to pay back this person."

The third daughter-in-law sneered:

"Come and go, don't you just deal with each other?"

"Once, there was no rice in the fifth family, and the fourth lady couldn't open the pot, and her house was full-" The eldest daughter-in-law said this, with a confused look on her face:

"What's the name of the girl in the fifth family? Full-full-"

Zhao Fusheng's pupils shrank: It seems that the concubines of the Kuai family can't remember the name of the daughter of Zhuang Siniang.

"Anyway, his girl didn't have anything to eat, and the fourth lady didn't want to borrow rice and grain from us, so she said that she would pack up her things and go back to her parents' house."

When she went back to her parents' house this time, anyone with a discerning eye could see that she was borrowing something.

Zhao Fusheng remembered everyone's evaluation of Zhuang Lao Qi's uncle and his wife, and shook his head:

"She's going to have to come back empty-handed, right?"

"Yes." The eldest daughter-in-law nodded:

"How to go, how to get back, pity her little girl, crying with tears on her face, when she came back, she was hugged, and she didn't wake up yet."

"She still has a wound on her face and a dark corner of her mouth, and I bumped into her at the entrance of the village and saw her laughing as if she was about to cry." The fourth daughter-in-law said.

"Went back to my parents' house and was beaten?" Zhao Fusheng asked.

The third daughter-in-law nodded:

"Her brother and sister-in-law are amazing. Back then, her father and mother married her to Kuailiang Village, wasn't it just for the autumn wind in the future? As a result, the autumn wind didn't hit, and the daughter may have to borrow something when she goes back to her parents' house, her father's iron rooster, borrowing some millet is afraid that the chicken will scrape oil on the toes, so can it work? ”

"I've borrowed it all over the place." The eldest daughter-in-law sighed:

"What can a woman's family do? Adults can withstand hunger for a day or two, but how can children do it? ”

When a few concubines spoke, Zhao Fusheng noticed that Kuai's second daughter-in-law did not participate in the discussion, but she had been listening, and when she heard this, her lips moved, as if she had something to say.

When Zhao Fusheng saw this, he looked at her:

"How do you solve this problem later? Did the sixth uncle help? ”

"Uncle Sixth is not a cash cow." Kuai San Niangzi said.

"I don't know about the back, anyway, I didn't ask our family to borrow it." The fourth daughter-in-law also shook her head.

"It's a foreigner with the surname Chen—"

The second daughter-in-law whispered.

"What?"

When the eldest daughter-in-law heard this, she was taken aback:

"Second child, did you see it?"

The second daughter-in-law nodded silently:

"The stranger gave the girl a piece of bread, and carried her out for a walk, and coaxed her well."

Among the five concubines of the Kuai family, this woman who doesn't talk much sees many things in her eyes:

"When the fourth lady saw her daughter being coaxed, the whole person seemed to collapse, sat down on the ground, watched the outsiders take the nine girls away, covered her face and cried for a while."

After speaking, she added:

Since then, she has also repaid the kindness of the stranger by doing simple handicrafts for him.

After going back and forth, the two intersected more, and after a long time, something finally happened.

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