Every time Butcher Liu did it, Qingming, the owner of Buzhuang, would bring her medicine and food.

The two who came and went also became acquaintances, and sometimes they talked to each other. From Qingming's mouth, Liu Jing listened to a lot of anecdotes from all over the world.

One day, Butcher Liu lost money in the gambling house, and in order to raise gambling funds, he sold Liu Jing to Zhou Yuanwai in the east of the city as the thirteenth concubine.

Zhou Yuanwai is now over 60 years old, his family is engaged in the business of goods in the north and south, and in the early years, he went south and north without caring about enjoyment, and after the year of confusion and successor, he began to indulge in the desire of men and women. On average, one concubine is accepted in a year and a half.

Liu Jing has just grown to twenty-eight years now, slim and elegant, and Zhou Yuan has coveted it for a long time, and fifty taels of silver will be bought from Liu Butcher.

As soon as Butcher Liu went home and told his wife and daughter about it that day, the Liu family blew up.

Liu's mother, who has been weak all her life, is rarely tough.

"That week, you can be our Jingjing's grandfather, how can you sell Jingjing to him!"

Butcher Liu was annoyed by the noise and slapped Liu's mother to the ground.

"Stinky mother-in-law, Lao Tzu is the head of the family, and the money losers will have to marry sooner or later, instead of finding someone to marry, it is better to marry Zhou Yuanwai, and you can also get some money for Lao Tzu to spend. ”

Liu's mother's love for her daughter disappeared under her husband's beating and scolding.

Liu Jing hid behind the door and took the conversation of her parents into her ears. Liu Jing gritted her teeth so that she didn't cry on the spot.

It was night, the moonlight was like water, Liu Jing wiped her tears in front of the window, and Qingming next door heard the movement and knocked on Liu Jing's window from the outside.

"Miss Liu has encountered something difficult, I don't know if I can talk about it next. ”

Because of Butcher Liu's relationship, Liu Jing did not have a friend in Luyi Lane. Only Qingming can still say two sentences.

It is a lifelong matter, and Liu Jing can't solve it by thinking about it alone, so Qingming asked, and he got out with him.

Qingming heard it with anger in his heart.

"What age are the staff members that week, if my uncle is short of money, I still have some silver left in the house......

"He is a bottomless pit, even if he is given a mountain of gold and silver, it is not enough for him to gamble. Brother Qingming, don't let your money fall into his hands. ”

Who is his father, Liu Jing knows very well, he is really helpless when he is in the quagmire, Qingming is just a warm-hearted neighbor, there is no need to pull him down the quagmire.

Qing Ming pondered for a moment and spoke with a trill.

"Miss Liu, if the silver can save you, I am willing to pay ten times, I only hope that you can be saved from the fate of being at the mercy of others. ”

"It's useless, if you're willing to pay tenfold, he will ask you for a hundredfold, and that person is a bastard. Brother Qingming, thank you, I am very happy to be a neighbor with you for the past few years. ”

Liu Jing didn't want to talk more, so she resolutely closed the window, leaving Qingming alone to hurt her spirits.

On the second day, the Zhou family came to urge the marriage. Zhou Yuanwai asked people to throw ten taels of silver to the Liu family, and asked Liu Jing to buy a few clothes, and come to greet his relatives in a few days.

Butcher Liu snatched the ten taels of silver from Liu Jing's hand, went to the gambling house that night, and did not return all night.

Early the next morning, before Liu Jing's mother and daughter got up, Liu's door was knocked on.

"Sister of the Liu family, go and see your man, his body was found on the moat, and now someone has reported to the official. I'm coming back to call you, go and see, and claim people back!"

Hearing the word corpse, Liu's mother fainted with a sore leg.

Liu Jing settled the people and went out with the only silver left in the family.

Qingming waited outside the door early.

"Miss Liu, I know everything about my uncle, this place is not close to the moat, and it is not easy to walk, so I asked someone to prepare a carriage and send Miss Liu over. ”

At the moment, Liu Jing can't care about the false etiquette of men and women. thanked Qingming, and Liu Jing got into Qingming's carriage.

The two rushed to the scene, and the scene was already full of people watching the excitement.

Qingming took Liu Jing to squeeze into the crowd and saw Butcher Liu's soaked corpse. With more than ten years of memory, Liu Jing recognized Butcher Liu at a glance.

"This is indeed my dad. ”

Qingming stepped forward to check the government and the officials and the people who found the body, and asked the little servant to hire a board car to transport Butcher Liu's body back to Luyi Lane.

Butcher Liu died horizontally, and he couldn't enter the door according to the rules. Can only be parked outside the door.

Liu's mother woke up and threw herself on the corpse of Liu's butcher and cried bitterly.

"Child, her father, you are gone, how can our mother and daughter live. ”

Liu Jing was unmoved, turned around and rummaged through the house, and boiled a large pot of tea to entertain the guests.

Liu's mother cried pitifully, no matter how prejudiced the neighbors usually had against Butcher Liu, they all remembered that their mother and daughter were miserable, and they were enthusiastic to help take care of Butcher Liu's funeral.

Liu Jing came out with tea, just in time to hear the neighbors chatting.

"Did you hear about it? Brother Liu fell off the moat because he drank too much wine and stepped on the air, and lost his life in vain. ”

"I can see, where Brother Liu stumbled, there is a thick layer of ice, and there is no other place!"

Speaking of this, several people's faces became mysterious.

"Brother Liu has offended a lot of people outside, and I heard that he still owes other people's gambling debts. He can't pay back the money, and it's not impossible for the other party to kill him in a fit of anger!"

"Then why didn't the government investigate?"

"How to check this, Brother Liu has been in a mixed place all year round, and no one knows who he has offended. What's more, the Liu family's family can't even get some money, how can the officials do these thankless things. ”

Several people were talking happily, and when they turned their heads, they saw Liu Jing standing behind him with a teapot, and they were shocked.

"Big ...... When did you come, eldest niece?"

"When I first came, I made a pot of tea to wake up your uncles. ”

Liu Jing pretended not to hear the discussion of a few people, calmly put the teapot on the table, and turned over a few large bowls from the kitchen to make teacups, and added tea to everyone.

Seeing Liu Jing's expression, he looked indifferent.

Several people also believed that Liu Jing had not heard anything.

After entertaining tea, Liu Jing counted the family's money again.

The money she was going to make just now didn't work. Now it is just used for purchasing, a simple banquet.

Liu Jing was about to go out with the money and bumped into Liu's mother head-on. Seeing that her arms were bulging, Liu's mother stretched out her hand to pull the person in front of her.

"What's in your arms, and where are you going?"

Liu Jing took a step back, moved away from Liu's mother, and took out the copper plate and broken silver in her arms and put them in front of Liu's mother.

"I see that I still have some money left in the family, and I want to use it to buy some meat and vegetables, hold a banquet, and send my father to the funeral. ”

Mother Liu snatched the silver from Liu Jing's hand.

"Your father is right, you are a money loser, and now that he is dead, how will we live in the future, you have to use the only money left in the family to buy vegetables and entertain those outsiders. ”