The next day, the sun was a little cold at noon, and it was already late autumn, and it was almost winter. There are very few people rushing to the market on the whole street, and there are occasionally those who sell tea and fruit rice noodles, and Lao Yutou walked from the street with a fish cage for three or two minutes before selling out the fish in the cage, because everyone knows that the fish in Lao Yutou's hand is a genuine fresh fish.

Lao Yutou walked slowly towards the middle of the street, and Lao Yutou was going to look for Li Yuanqing's mother, first, to ask if there was any change in the family, if there was really a difficulty, he had to help; second, if he really wanted Li Yuanqing to learn this fishing for a living, then naturally he had to teach this hard-working child the survival skills.

It was lively from afar.

"You shrew, you shameless!" the voice of a woman who was hoarse but still wanted to shout at the top of her throat.

"I'm a shrew, what are you, come to my door and quarrel and spill?" a weak and slightly stubborn woman's voice asked in a scolding voice.

"XX, you are shameless, sell charcoal at a low price!"

"One pound of charcoal fire for three cents, I sell five cents for a catty, what shame is there for earning two cents of hard money? Do you have to be like you to sell ten cents to get face? Must be the same as you, even if you collect ten cents, you can only buy nine taels of charcoal to have a face?"

Lao Yutou hurried over, and the place where dozens of villagers gathered on the third floor and the outer three floors was Li Yuanqing's doorstep. And this voice is very familiar, and the middle-aged woman who has been questioning weakly is Li Yuanqing's mother. Lao Yutou pulled away the crowd and stood at the front, and did not rush forward to persuade him, because there is a strange rule in this place, but whenever someone quarrels or fights, he must stay away from the place of right and wrong, and even if he persuades, he must move his mouth far away, otherwise it is easy to be kidnapped together.

"Forget it, forget it, don't quarrel, it's all your own family, if there is any conflict between the two concubines, the root of the tongue is rotten in the pot, hurry back!" It was Aunt Zhang next door to Li Yuanqing's house who spoke.

"Aunt Zhang, don't you know, this shameless has nothing to do with us, this is disrupting the market, Sanwen buys two and sells it, I have to clean up such a shameless thing today!" The pungent middle-aged woman changed her voice and spoke to Aunt Zhang, because Uncle Zhang is also a very famous person in the town.

"Oh, it's all my own family, the cheap and expensive are all in others, one is willing to sell and the other is willing to buy, forget it, hurry back and listen to me. Aunt Zhang also said very politely, because this middle-aged woman is a very famous shrew in the town called Yu Shuangfeng. Even Aunt Zhang is unwilling to offend such a person casually, and although they have been neighbors for many years, Aunt Zhang is not willing to offend people who are also on the same street for this.

"Okay, Aunt Zhang is here to speak for you today, I will give you a way to live, you don't sell charcoal in the future, only I can sell this charcoal in this town, if I promise to spare your family today!" Yu Shuangfeng pointed and scolded viciously.

"Yes, yes, yes, if you dare to sell it again, you will kill your family!" Yu Shuangfeng's daughter said.

In this way, Aunt Zhang is embarrassed to speak out again, the three families are neighbors on both sides, so the steps are enough, and there is no need to break her own saddle for other people's horses.

"I don't sell it, my family is going to drink the northwest wind, even if I am killed, I will sell it!" The middle-aged woman finally stopped being weak and raised her voice to choke. The previous weakness may have been due to poverty, but now he no longer cares about ordinary patience, because if he continues to endure, he may lose even the bowl in his hand, and everything is in vain without survival and life.

Lao Yutou caught a glimpse of Li Yuanqing standing behind the door, standing sluggishly, not daring to come out, facing so many people standing outside, it seemed that he was extremely scared and ashamed. Because every boy of fifteen or sixteen years old would not easily endure the unwarranted abuse and humiliation of his mother in front of everyone, but he could endure it, because he was really afraid. His mother told him early on not to go out, because a few women outside would beat people, and they would beat men. If a man fights back, he will be arrested and sent to the yamen for trial, and if he doesn't fight back, he will be poked by such a woman, and he will be lucky for a long time. The same because of poverty and the polishing of the years, he became silent, and his father, who was sluggish and stiff in his back, also stood in the threshold and did not dare to go out, because in the face of barbarism, men are often silent and evasive, while Li Yuanqing's father was more afraid because of fear, because the law and mouth could not protect him at all.

The law is the law of the rich and the noble, but the mouth is the mouth of the poor.

Lao Yutou naturally knew that these men and women in the town were taboo, so he also secretly shook his head at Li Yuanqing, signaling Li Yuanqing not to come out, not to stand up, just stand like this, or retreat.

"You shameless thing, there is a kind of you come down, see if the old lady doesn't kill you today!" Yu Shuangfeng rolled up his sleeves and was about to rush up, but was stopped by the seven aunts and eight sisters who shouted together, whispered a few words, and stopped moving forward. Because the town is not a place outside the law, there are also yamen, and there are also court laws, if you rush into a private house for no reason, the master's family can also reduce half of the criminal responsibility for killing the person who stormed the private house, and will not kill the head and fill the life, at most it will be exiled or imprisoned to compensate.

Perhaps with such a reminder, Yu Shuangfeng no longer moved forward, but just shouted in place: "You come down, you have the courage to come down! Today, the sisters will beat you to death, see what you can do!"

"I won't come down, you come up. Li Yuanqing's mother also knew the law of trespassing into private houses, and she still stood on the threshold of the stone steps and couldn't go down. However, everyone knows that she is indeed afraid, and if she is not afraid, what if she goes down, she is afraid that this law may not reach here.

The two sides confronted each other like this, and Yu Shuangfeng had no choice but to pick up the charcoal fire that had been quietly placed on the edge of the threshold, and threw it around, intending to force Li Yuanqing's mother to come down. However, this weak family only dared to stand on the threshold, and the poor family watched all this.

"That's enough, Sister Yu, why be aggressive! Old Yu Tou finally couldn't stand it, walked forward in two steps, and stood in front of Yu Shuangfeng.

"Yo, yo, you lonely old man fishing, what's the matter with you? Yu Shuangfeng said angrily, because the old man who persuaded him was too self-conscious.

"Hmph, you are really shameless as a slut, what arrogant capital do you have as a woman who sells dog meat, isn't it just that you killed a few more dogs, didn't you earn a few more stinky money, and held a few more stinky feet of officials and officials, even I, a fish seller, can't look down on you!" Because at this moment, such a woman really makes Lao Yutou look down on him, so he can only raise his chin.

The surrounding onlookers have people from four towns and eight villages who come to the market, those who come to sell wild meat at the foot of the mountain, those who hang out in the town, those who understand things, and those who do not think it is a big deal, all of them just applaud in their hearts, and still no one wants to offend or interrupt the plot, and continue to watch this drama with great interest.

"Relatives and sisters, let's go up and kill this lonely old man together, see if he dares to meddle in his affairs!" Yu Shuangfeng knew that the old man in front of him, who had been fishing all the year round, had some strength and didn't dare to go up rashly to grab it, so he had to rely on the large number of people.

"Get out of here, a group of shameless shrews still want to bully me, a lonely widow in a foreign country, I have sent someone to report to the yamen, a group of shrews are picking quarrels on the streets, waiting for the yamen to arrest you and go to prison!"