Over the next two days...

Under the instruction of his father, Pei Hongyu continued to go to the gambling house to pretend to be stupid, or wanted to borrow money to gamble again, or asked like a fool if he could pay back some money.

He pretended to be stupid and stunned, and even Qian Yousheng thought that he was not in a bad brain, so he called a few people under his command to carry him to the canal, press it in the water and sober up...

Pei Hongyu drank enough river water and was thrown back to Song's house...

Seeing this, Pei Yingli was also convinced of his guess - someone in the Qingsha Gang must have been eyeing the foundation of the Song family!

So he quietly packed up his things and prepared to go back to Xiyang first, and then make plans with the roundabout method of retreating into advance...

He had a plan in his heart, but his wife Xu didn't know it, and when he heard that his son was almost drowned, Xu cried and scolded her husband for being cruel...

And Pei Yingli was thinking about his own method of ensuring harvest in drought and flood, so he didn't have the heart to quarrel with her more, and he was dizzy from the noise, so he scolded Xu.

Xu was dissatisfied with her husband's cruelty, so she cried and found her daughter Pei Xueyan...

Pei Xueyan was busy dealing with the trivial matters after the old man Song left, and when she saw her mother crying and crying to find her, she thought something had happened, so she hurriedly took her back to the room to ask.

"Snow goose, you can save your brother."

Seeing that there was no one else in the house, Xu Shi dragged Pei Xueyan's hand with a sad face, and cried: "Your father is ruthless, you can save your brother." ”

"What's wrong?"

When Pei Xueyan heard that he wanted to save his younger brother, he frowned and asked, "But Hongyu is causing trouble outside?" ”

"Snow geese, you know..."

Xu wiped the corners of his eyes and said, "Your younger brother is still young, so he has been playful since he was a child, but his nature is not bad." ”

"A few days ago, our family came to help take care of Mr. Song, he just arrived here, and he was a little more playful, so he went to the gambling house to play a few games."

"Your brother is simple-minded and doesn't know the sinister world, so he was tricked by the people in the gambling house and lost 30,000 taels in the bet! That's 30,000 taels! ”

“……”

Pei Xueyan was a little distracted when she heard this, and after coming back to her senses, she asked with a face full of disbelief: "Hongyu lost 30,000 taels of gambling money outside??" ”

She knew that her younger brother had been involved in gambling since he was a child, and before he went out, she had repeatedly admonished her parents to discipline her younger brother more...

But every time, I was prevaricated by my parents with words such as 'men have some preferences and normal', 'it's just a small fight, don't worry about it', 'he's still young, it's normal to play harder', 'don't your heart that shouldn't be'.

This time, when she heard her mother say that her brother had lost a full 30,000 taels outside, she realized that her defeated brother could gamble so much! So fierce!

"yes!"

Xu Shi wiped his tears while secretly observing her expression, seeing that there was an indescribable disgust in his expression, he cried at the moment: "Your brother is young, he was deceived." ”

"The feathers are all crowned! Still young!? ”

Pei Xueyan suppressed the anger in her heart and said: "I am out now, and I don't object to you two elders favoring him, but when is this happening, and you still speak for him?" ”

"So what can I do?"

Seeing that his daughter was also accusing herself, Xu Shi cried even more sadly, and scolded while crying: "The Pei family is only a male brother in this generation, who will help you if you don't help him as a sister?" ”

"Now that I'm going out, I won't recognize my mother's family when I marry into the Song family, right? I conceived in October and raised you, so I raised you with such a conscience? ”

“……”

Pei Xueyan was dizzy from the noise, but she was angry but couldn't do it, so she could only ask with a long sigh of relief: "Mother, I want to ask, how do you want me to help?" ”

"How can I help?"

Xu Shi didn't make a fuss when he heard this, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and said: "Your brother owes 30,000 taels outside, and he was almost drowned in the river, this money can't be taken out, can you still take it out?" ”

“……”

Pei Xueyan wanted to laugh when she heard this, and said: "Hongyu has been favored by you since he was a child, and now he has lost 30,000 taels of gambling money outside, but you let my sister, who has already gone out, take out 30,000 taels to help him?" ”

"If you don't help him, who will help him?"

Seeing that there was a thorn in her words, Xu Shi also seemed to have exploded, and reprimanded: "Now that the Song family is dead, isn't the Song family's property in your hands?" ”

"This Song family has so much property, it's not worth 100,000 taels but it's worth 80,000 taels, so you can take out 30,000 taels to help your brother tide over the difficulties, and your conscience will let the dog eat it?"

“……”

Pei Xueyan bit her lower lip and didn't say a word.

Since she was a child, because her parents were partial, she didn't pay attention to it, and she had some resentment in her heart, and after she grew up and was 'married' to the Song family like a plague, her feelings for her mother's family fell to the freezing point...

But after all, it is a blood relative who broke bones and tendons, and a few days ago, Old Man Song was seriously ill, and his mother's family came to visit and help, and the feelings that fell to the freezing point were also slightly eased.

Pei Xueyan is not stupid, she can feel the change in her parents' attitude towards her, and she also knows the truth that nothing is done to be courteous or a thief...

She's been on the lookout, too...

But as a child and facing blood relatives, she still has a trace of illusion in her heart, and she never wants to believe that there will be such calculating parents in this world.

Now, she really didn't see her parents' calculations, but she saw things that were not much more reckless than their calculations...

She felt a chill inexplicably...

Chilling.

At this moment, the door was pushed open, Pei Yingli walked in with an annoyed face, and scolded his wife: "Who asked you to come to Xue Yan to mess around?" ”

"Am I messing around?"

Xu said with a face full of grievances: "Hongyu is her own brother, Hongyu is almost drowned in the river now because of the gambling debts, why can't she help if she has the ability to be a sister?" ”

"You ......"

Pei Yingli gave her a look and reprimanded: "Xue Yan has already gone out, and now it is the Song family, helping is love, not helping is duty, you don't mess around here!" ”

"Am I messing around?"

Xu's beloved son was heartfelt, and he was blamed one after another for being angry, how could he still understand his eyes?

"Isn't she a piece of meat that fell off my body? What happened to me asking her to help Hongyu? She is a woman's family, and she has so many properties in her hands, and in the end, she has to be cheap......"

"Say a few words to me!"

Before she finished speaking, Pei Yingli slapped her in the face with a shake of her hand.

Seeing that his wife was covering her cheeks with a look of disbelief, and the daughter on the side was also looking at her with a different face, he reprimanded his wife with righteous words: "The snow goose has gone out, I don't owe you or me anything!" I have my own way to solve Hongyu's troubles, you know!? ”

“……”

Xu covered his cheeks, although his face was full of grievances, but when he heard her husband say that there was a way to solve his son's troubles, he didn't say anything more.

"Daddy......"

Pei Xueyan saw that her father was quite reasonable, and she couldn't bear it, so she stepped forward and admonished: "Let's sit down and say something, there's no need to do it." ”

"It's okay..."

Pei Yingli waved his hand and said, "Xue Yan, the Pei family's family is unfortunate, your unsuccessful brother has caused trouble outside, but he has caused you trouble." ”

He sighed as he spoke, and said, "Now that Old Man Song's future affairs have been dealt with, this time my father is here to say goodbye to you..."

"You're going back?"

Pei Xueyan frowned slightly and asked, "What should I do with the gambling debts that Hongyu owes outside?" ”

"You don't have to worry..."

Pei Yingli said disapprerovingly: "That kid in Hongyu lost so much money because he was tricked, and gambling has not been on the table since ancient times. ”

"Our Pei family doesn't have much foundation in Heyang, but we still know some people on the one-acre and three-point land in Xiyang, as long as we go home, those people don't have the courage to ask for accounts."

"It's ...... too"

Pei Xueyan nodded suddenly...

"But my father is still worried about you..."

Pei Yingli was speechless, and said meaningfully: "The other party must have a plan, and Hongyu is not familiar with life here, obviously not the main target of the other party, what I am worried about for my father is that the other party knows our blood relationship, and wants to use this matter to plot your Song family's property." ”

"This ......"

Pei Xueyan was said to be tight-eyebrowed, and after thinking for a while, she responded: "It's really possible!" ”

"You've got a snack for this..."

Pei Yingli glanced at Xu Shi as he spoke, gave her a look and said, "I have already packed up my things, hurry up and go back, don't be embarrassed here." ”

Xu was woken up by that slap, Xu also saw his eyes this time, and went out without saying a word.

"Snow goose, it's time to go back for my father..."

Pei Yingli sighed and said self-deprecatingly: "I originally wanted to help on this trip, but I didn't think that this favor would help, but it caused you trouble." ”

"That's a big deal..."

Pei Xueyan shook her head and said: "The Song family is also a bit powerful in Heyang County, although the old man is gone, the Song family is still there, and the idle people don't dare to do anything to the Song family." ”

"I'm afraid that the other party is not an idle person..."

Pei Yingli shook his head secretively, and said: "Now the rivers and lakes in Heyang County are dominated by the Qingsha Gang, be careful in everything, you can't make a mistake." ”

"Qingsha Gang......"

Pei Xueyan nodded with a slight movement in her eyes.

"Now that you know, the father is relieved."

Pei Yingli smiled and nodded, and just wanted to turn around and leave, but he seemed to 'suddenly' think of something, and said: "By the way, in a few days, it will be the day of the Pei family's ancestors." ”

He pondered for a while, and asked amiably: "Although Xueyan is out of the house, after all, you are still surnamed Pei, you haven't been back to your parents' house for two years, won't you go home this time?" ”

“……”

Pei Xueyan couldn't help but be in a trance when she heard this...

She has been a dispensable marginal figure in the Pei family since she was a child, and the Pei family's ancestor worship is a major event of the local Pei clan, and those who can be invited are all young heroes or prestigious clan elders of the Pei family.

She clearly remembers that when she was a child, she watched the ancestral temple fair lively and wanted to play, but her parents said that she was a girl and was not suitable to go...

Then I took my brother to...

Because she was still a child, she secretly ran to play, secretly ate a piece of pastry at the temple fair, and called her parents after being discovered...

was slapped by his father in front of many clans surnamed Pei, and scolding him was a shameful thing.

She still clearly remembers that when she was eight years old, she was slapped by her father and her nosebleeds came out...

Since then, she has not been to the Pei family's ancestral temple fair...

Now that many years have passed, after Pei Xueyan married into the Song family, she usually can't even see a single member of her mother's family, let alone someone asking her to go back to worship her ancestors.

I never thought that after becoming the widow of the Song family, my father would take the initiative to invite me back to the Pei family to worship my ancestors...

She pursed the corners of her lips and shook her head, and said, "I am now the widow of the Song family, and going back to worship my ancestors will only discredit my ancestors, so I won't go back." ”

“……”

Pei Yingli's heart suddenly burst when she heard this, and she didn't seem to expect that she would refuse so simply in the face of her invitation...

However, he is also an old man, and he is a little anxious, and he said with a worried expression at the moment: "Xue Yan, for my father to know, when I married you to the Song family, you had some resentment in your heart..."

"But that would also be a father's helpless move."

"At that time, you also knew that the family's business was declining every day, and my father still owed Mr. Song a sum of money, and there was really no way to make this decision..."

"In the past two years, my father's heart has also been tormented, and I feel shameless to face you, if you want to hate, you can hate your father alone, but don't hold a grudge against the Pei family."

“……”

Pei Xueyan was not a person with a heart like stone, but now when she saw her old father's posture, her heart was also a little touched.

"Dad, don't think about it..."

She sighed and said, "The old man just left, and there are still a bunch of future affairs for me to deal with in the Song family, and I definitely can't go back to Xiyang with you this time." ”

"It's okay..."

Pei Yingli saw that her words were soft, and hurriedly smiled: "There is still half a month before our Pei family worships the ancestors, this time I will go back with your mother and your brother first, and then send someone to pick you up when I get home, don't worry." ”

“……”

Pei Xueyan couldn't refuse, so she only bowed her head slightly and said, "That's okay." ”

"Hehehe, good, good..."

Pei Yingli was also happy when she saw that she agreed, and said with a slight smile in her eyes: "As soon as Old Man Song left, someone coveted the foundation of the Song family, you, just go back to your mother's house to avoid the eyes of those people." ”

After that, he turned around with a smile...

That night, the Pei family took advantage of the starry night to go out of Heyang County.

Stay until the second day...

Qian Yousheng was also a little surprised when he got the news that the Pei family left in the starry night, and secretly thought that the Pei family was quite timid, and they ran away first before they could use their own means...

However, he also knew that Liu Shen's purpose in killing pigs was to drive away the Pei family, and this time the Pei family ran away was already a perfect achievement, and he also saved a lot of trouble.

So Qian Yousheng didn't think much about it anymore and sent someone to the dock hall...

At this time, Liu Shen was still practicing...

In the past half a month, in addition to going to the Song family every day to worship Master Song and going to Qian Yousheng to see the pig killing, he has devoted himself to cultivation at other times...

During this time, he penetrated another meridian.

The Eight Veins and the Twelve Meridians have been connected to nineteen, and only the last meridian is left to penetrate the limbs and hundreds of bones, breeding internal forces...

People yearn for things and things that they don't have, but they have at their fingertips, and the same is true for spiritual practice.

Now that he is only one foot away from entering the second realm of martial arts, the feeling that he has already stepped into the threshold with half a foot, but there is still half a foot parked outside the door makes him angry, and naturally he is more and more wasted and forgets to eat, striving to step into the foot outside the door that is still staying.

Just as Liu Shen was practicing, he suddenly heard a knock on the door, and then came from outside the door: "Hall Master Liu, Hall Master Qian has something to say..."

"Come in..."

Liu Shen saw the door open, and then he took his work.

"Hall Master Liu..."

Hu Qiang, who was guarding the door at the entrance of Qian Zhuang Hall, came to his side with a smile and said, "The master of Qian Hall said that the family surnamed Pei ran away overnight last night. ”

"Oh?"

Liu Shen raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and asked curiously: "I remember that this is only the third day, what means did Hall Master Qian use to drive that family away so quickly?" ”

"It didn't take any means..."

Hu Qiang smiled and quipped: "The one surnamed Pei is also a soft egg, yesterday he went to the gambling house as if he lost his mind, and was pressed by several of our brothers in the river to drink water, and almost drowned, maybe he was afraid, I heard that he disguised himself last night and ran away overnight." ”

“……”

Liu Shen nodded thoughtfully and asked, "What about the young grandmother of the Song family?" Nothing, right? ”

"Nope."

Hu Qiang shook his head and said: "After you explained a few days ago, I found a little clever brother to pay attention to the Song family. ”

"I have a heart..."

Liu Shen bowed slightly, patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Later, you will go to the account office at the entrance of the dock to take some silver in my name, buy some good wine and meat for those brothers, and divide some silver for each of them, just say that they have worked hard these days." ”

"Hey, hey, hey~"

Hu Qiang's face was overjoyed when he heard this, and he arched his hand with a smile: "Then I will thank Hall Master Liu for the appreciation of a few brothers first." ”

"Yes, go ahead..."

"Okay~"

Liu Shen saw Hu Qiang leave with a smile on his face, and he also secretly sighed that the thing 'power' is really an aphrodisiac for all men.

A small deputy hall master of the Qingsha Gang can have such power, so what kind of charm is the power in the hands of the leader of the Qingsha Gang, the leader of the Cao Gang, the court officials, and even the emperor?

Thinking that Pei Xueyan went to Tongda Hall, he packed up his clothes and went out.

There is a saying in Liu Shen's Su Hui memory called 'Don't miss a good woman, don't let go of a bad woman', and he has always felt that it makes sense.

And a woman like Pei Xueyan obviously belongs to the former, so he naturally doesn't want to miss it.

But he also knew that because of the identity of the widow of the Song family, Pei Xueyan had always been a little burdened when she got along with him, and the relationship had always been maintained at a very delicate point.

Let's talk about friends, more than that;

said that it was the person he liked, as if there was another layer of tulle, hazy and not very real.

Now that Old Man Song has left, and before leaving, he also agreed to marry Pei Xueyan to himself, and the matter is already busy, if you don't tear off that ambiguous veil at this time, when will you wait!?