411 Borrowing
Her husband's infidelity didn't make others despise her, at least never for Su Mu.
The second sister-in-law's words made him break out in a cold sweat, just one sentence contained multiple layers of meaning, he carefully analyzed, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that it was widely implicated, and the uneasiness in his heart instantly spread all over the body, the second sister-in-law was clearly picking on him to disappoint the sisters-in-law, and there was no room for turnover to declare his dissatisfaction, and with the nature of dividing them into his opposing position.
A strong woman definitely has weight when she says strong words, and a strong woman who says weak words is even more powerful. Especially my respected sister-in-law.
If it weren't for Ruan Wanxian, he would have the heart to kneel.
Su Mu could only deal with it in the most stupid way, at this moment he didn't dare to have the slightest recklessness, and said honestly: "Second sister-in-law, you must not say that, otherwise I can only kneel." If you have any comments on Su Qi, please explain it to the second sister-in-law. ”
Zhang said: "There is a sister-in-law, naturally it is not my turn to teach you a lesson, but you have to remember that there is only one man in this family, we are all weak women, the Su family is now suffering from internal and external troubles, and it is precarious. My sister-in-law only asks you one thing, are you a man from the Su family?"
Su Mu said firmly: "I am." ”
He understood that the second sister-in-law was talking about internal worries, which was to give birth to a boy for the Su family. As for external troubles, he thinks that they can be solved by force, but his dantian can't be hard, and he can't be a martial artist, and it is true that as the second sister-in-law said, the only thing he can help the family with is to have children.
The second sister-in-law squeezed him without a crack in a few words, but she just gave birth to a child, judging from the current situation of the Su family. Is it still a man? And the only man. That's all I can help with.
"You go out first. We have something to say to Wan Xuan. ”
The second sister-in-law looked at the sister-in-law's eyes, and only after getting the approval of the sister-in-law did she say to Su Mu.
Su Mu walked out of the room slowly, boiled a pot of water in the kitchen, and walked towards the back garden.
No matter how beautiful the moonlight is, no matter how quiet the lake is, he has no intention of playing, and he will never appear here at this time.
There is a field across the wall from the garden. It was originally rented to a tenant at home, but I don't know what year it began, and some of the ancestors were buried here, and generations of coffins were laid here. Over the centuries, the tomb has grown in size, and the land has become a cemetery dedicated to the burial of the deceased. Master Su's three brothers and six sons are buried there.
During the day, I don't feel anything, but at night there is always a ghostly aura coming from the other side of the wall, which makes people's scalp tingle.
In the past few years, the Su family has been falling day by day, and Su Mu secretly wants to solve problems for the family, but he always can't intervene. Although the men in the family are dying, some of the forces are still there. I don't have to worry about outsiders bullying me for a while, and now the most lacking thing is money. Several businesses outside have been closed because of the untimely turnover of silver, and a few others have been deceived by the bookkeeper in collusion, and it seems that they are already embattled, and the expenses of the family are large, and the hundred-legged insects will be stiff after a long time.
In order to understand the Su family who saved the candle in the wind, he even had a big rebellious idea to dig the ancestral tomb!
It's just a floating thought, and even the concrete steps have not yet taken shape. Even if the Su family is so poor that they can't open the pot, even if there are many treasures in the tomb, they can't beat the idea of their ancestors.
There are only two ways in his young heart, either to be a martial artist or an official.
Martial arts is what he dreamed of, but his physique was not good, and he died early.
The civil official had some hope, but since the sixth brother was abducted by the 'fox demon', the sister-in-law asked him to quit school and go home to take care of family affairs. The dream of being an official also collapsed.
In this world where men are in charge, Su Qi followed his sister-in-law and sister-in-law to go out to handle everything, such as signing contracts with tenants, receiving foreign guests, donating silver to the school, visiting the mayor's house, and sacrificial affairs at home.
Therefore, in addition to giving birth to children, Su Qi's role in the Su family is still quite large.
But these effects were insignificant to Su Mu, and even the source of his inferiority. The sisters-in-law only need him because he is a man, not because of his unique abilities, such as excellent eloquence, outstanding literary talent, and intimidating martial arts...... Neither, just because he's a man. But then again, he doesn't have any special abilities at all.
Walked to the kitchen with distressed steps, and knocked on the door with hot water.
It was the sixth sister-in-law Li who opened the door. Among the many sisters-in-law, she is the most quiet, likes to paint, is good at music and rhythm, tastes poetry, and also writes, and is a woman who is proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Undoubtedly, these four hobbies are all about one person, so she is used to being alone and likes to be alone, which directly creates her quiet character.
She had been sitting in the room like an idler without saying a word, and when she heard someone knocking on the door, she was the first to open it, while the sisters-in-law continued to talk enthusiastically with Ruan Wanqian in the inner room unconsciously.
"Sixth sister-in-law, you are weak and late at night, if you are tired, go back and rest first. ”
Su Mu saw that the sixth sister-in-law looked gloomy, so she said thoughtfully.
"Today is the big day of the Su family, my sister-in-law is happy, sit for a while, and also touch the joy in this room. Li smiled slightly.
"It's okay, I'll pour my sister-in-law a cup of tea. ”
He deliberately went to the cabinet inside and took out a new set of cups, and by the way, he listened to the wind in the inner room, and just heard the second sister-in-law say in a calm tone: "It's not easy to be a woman of the Su family, but it's not difficult to subdue the seventh child, I know which way he's going before the kid goes out, listen to the sisters-in-law's yes, within a few days, keep the seventh child obedient to you." ”
Su Mu was stunned in his heart, and secretly worried about how his sisters-in-law would let Ruan Wanqian deal with him.
He wanted to continue listening, but he was afraid that the sixth sister-in-law would be suspicious, so he simply made a gesture of intercession to her.
Li and Su Qi are the closest in age, and they usually have a few words in common when they meet, but after all, she doesn't forget which camp she belongs to, and seeing that her sisters-in-law didn't find out that Lao Qi is coming, she had to remind: "Sisters, Lao Qi is here with a pot of hot water." Come out for a hot cup of tea. ”
Su Mu, who was standing sneakily at the door of the inner room with one ear and a teacup in his hand, hurriedly walked back. The clouds loaded lightly began to pour tea. At the same time, I didn't forget to glance at Li and blame her for not being interesting enough.
Lee smiled apologetically.
Sister-in-law Liang walked out first, and said with a calm face: "Old Seven, sister-in-law put the words here, I will come over tomorrow morning, if the red cloth on the bed has no color, I will ask you." ”
Several sisters-in-law came out one after another, and the geese stood on both sides of the Liang family. Su Qi only felt an invisible and tangible pressure rushing towards him, nodded stubbornly, frowned and asked, "Sister-in-law, what is the red cloth?"
There was silence in the room.
Xu Shi laughed first, quacking very happily.
"Okay, today is your big day, we won't sit anymore, and we'll go back. The sister-in-law didn't look at Su Qi and walked away.
The third sister-in-law, Xu Shi, had a playful expression on her face, and secretly poked out a hand when she walked past Su Qi's side. pinched his waist and said with a smile: "Why don't you teach your sister-in-law first?"
Su Mu's face turned red. said: "No need for the third sister-in-law." ”
Xu snorted and laughed, pushed his head with his hand and said, "Stupid." ”
After the sisters-in-law left, Su Mu strode into the inner room and removed Ruan Wanxi's hijab.
"When did you put it on again? ”
His attitude has changed greatly, Ruan Wanxiao was slightly surprised, sisters-in-law, you are persuading her, although she promised to be kind to Su Qi, but after all, she couldn't pull her face, but she didn't expect him to come first to show her goodwill.
She is not an ignorant person, and of course such a big step has to take a step.
"The hijab was meant to be lifted by you, otherwise it would always be a disease to talk about it in the future. ”
"I had a bad attitude before, don't take it to heart. ”
Ruan Wanxuan slowly pulled off the golden hairpin, let her hair loosen, and took off the pearl earrings, and said: "I am not the previous Nan Nier, you are not the former seventh brother, I am your mother, you are my father-in-law, that is, husband and wife, if I am angry with you, won't I be able to get along with myself?"
"What did the second sister-in-law teach you?"
"It's not. ”
Ruan Wanqian poured a little hot water, washed off the heavy makeup with a towel, tied a simple knot in her waist-length hair, and lay quietly on the bed, looking at the red gauze tent on it without squinting.
Su Mu also briefly freshened up, looked at Ruan Wanxuan who was lying on the inside of the kimono, and said, "Sister-in-law said that you can only sleep when the red clothes are removed, you get up, I will help you take them off." ”
This is the established process that the sister-in-law said to them, and the bride's red dress must be taken off by the father-in-law. She had been told beforehand, but she was just too embarrassed to speak.
She was already half a head shorter than Su Qi, but she knelt on the knee-high bed but was half a head shorter than him. It can be seen that this girl has a pair of enviable long legs at a young age.
Su Mu carefully unbuttoned the button, untied the third one, and saw the long-life lock that brought her from childhood to adulthood, which was very eye-catching. There was also a thin red rope around Bai Nen's neck, it was not a belly pocket, and he had only seen it when he was a child, it was the longevity charm that Nan Nier's mother asked for her in the temple.
Nannier developed earlier than her peers, and her chest was uneven very early, and she was restless and nervous at this time, which was very tempting.
She likes Su Laoqi and has never ruled out having something to do with him.
Su Mu didn't want anything to happen to her, he was determined to divorce her in the future, so that she would still be a yellow flower girl when she remarried, so that the other party would not dislike her. He didn't care if she understood his good intentions, anyway, it was for her good.
took off her blouse and skirt for her, it was midsummer, Ruan Wanxuan only wore shorts underneath, and as soon as she took off her skirt, her pink and white thighs were exposed, she shyly hid in the quilt and covered her head tightly.
When she was a teenager, a girl was always precocious than a boy, and she knew exactly what was going to happen tonight, and her heart was eager and timid.
Her shyness was very inexplicable in Su Qi's eyes, it was yesterday that they bathed in the river together and let the Buddha go, at that time, they were naked and not shy, what is this?
Su Mu then also went to bed and lay side by side with her. In the same bed, neither of them dared to make a big move, and occasionally whoever touched it immediately retracted like an electric shock, and the atmosphere became more and more embarrassing.
Insomnia that night.
Su Mu knelt in the hall, sitting on the left and right with the third sister-in-law, the fourth sister-in-law, the fifth sister-in-law and the sixth sister-in-law, and the eldest sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law staring at him with majestic faces, each holding a feather duster in their hands, no one spoke, you and I pumped him on the shoulder.
The two of them didn't feel the slightest pain in their bodies, and the dusters crackled, and it took more than 20 other sisters-in-law to intercede before they stopped.
"Do you know why I hit you?" Liang watched as beads of sweat the size of beans fell from his forehead. The Tao of Compassion.
"Yes. ”
Su Mu lowered his head. After a while. Said: "Sister-in-law, you don't understand this feeling, Nannier and I grew up together, no different from my own sister, I didn't agree to marry her at the beginning, and when I thought that our family was indeed short of money, I had nothing to say." But now that she wants me to have a baby with her, I really can't do it. ”
The sister-in-law said earnestly: "Old Seven." You don't know the blessing in the blessing, Wanxia is what I grew up watching, there is no beauty in the town, and she is quick in doing things and talking, and she is not cowardly at first glance. She is also in love with you, when she was six years old, she braved the heavy snow and carried a box of flower cakes brought by her father from the south for you to eat, she was wholeheartedly good to you, why can't you see it?"
Su Mu didn't know how to explain to his sister-in-law that the love in his heart was not good enough for him. What I care about is that heart-warming feeling, and it's a pity that I don't have that feeling in Naniel.
He had no choice but to keep his head silent.
Liang bowed his head angrily and sighed. Thinking of the mess at home, and then looking at the uncompetitive old seven, I couldn't help but shed tears.
The second sister-in-law said: "Sister-in-law, don't be angry, just let me tell him a word." Lao Qi, I sue you, as a man of the Su family, you have responsibilities that you must bear, you don't look down on Nan Nier, and you may have an ideal wife in your heart, but I sue you, you are not qualified to think about that, Nan Nier is your wife, don't even think about anyone else. You can't see what kind of situation our family is in? Don't make that little temperament, what kind of love and affection, you don't have the right to choose! You still don't know how heavy the burden is on your shoulders? The second sister-in-law's words are a little ugly, but they are all true, you have the Ruan family's silver on one side and the Su family's blood on the other, do you choose or not?"
I have to say that the second sister-in-law's words had a thunderous effect on him, which can be described as a wake-up call.
He looked up at his sad sister-in-law, and deep guilt spread in his heart, yes, the Su family is like this, what qualifications does he have to pick Naniel? He also knows that Nannier is not unworthy of him, in terms of appearance and family background, Nannier is too worthy of him, only because of his sister's preconceived concept, he resists like this. Just like the second sister-in-law said, he is a man of the Su family, and he has responsibilities on his shoulders!
"Sister-in-law, second sister-in-law, don't be angry, I know it's wrong, I'll change it, I'll change it immediately, I'll go back and have a baby with Naniel." ”
Liang cried with joy when he heard this, looked at him with relief, and then looked at Zhang gratefully. It's not a shame that everyone praises her for her sharp mouth, and she can touch a person's heart in just a few words, and the Su family is really blessed to be able to marry such a daughter-in-law.
The third sister-in-law, Xu Shi, on the side, saw that the two sisters-in-law were discouraged, so she hurriedly came over and carefully took off Su Qi's shirt and smeared the medicine.
When it comes to cherishing men, no one can compare to her. However, this medicine was prepared in advance by the fourth sister-in-law Qu Shi, she is good at medical skills, and she has never invited Lang Zhong at home, and whoever is sick is prescribed a prescription and ordered the little girl to go directly to the hospital to grab the medicine.
Xu Shi blew on the hot air while smearing, and said worriedly: "Does it still hurt?" Go back and have a good rest, put it aside in advance, and talk about it in the evening." Don't hurt your muscles and bones again. ”
Su Mu looked embarrassed when he heard this, nodded and smiled ugly.
Sister-in-law Liang smiled angrily and said: "Xu Yaya, don't make a mess here, he just said that, can he really let him go to the sex now? ”
"Grandma, it's wrong!
A maid suddenly barged in, looking anxious.
"Didn't anyone teach you the rules?
The maid's face turned red, and she lowered her head in fear and whispered: "Seventh Grandma's family has come, and she has carried away all the seven boxes of silver and two dowries that were given yesterday." ”
Liang Shi was taken aback and said in surprise: "What?
"Back to the eldest grandmother, I didn't say anything, the housekeeper of the Ruan family brought three carriages, and as soon as he entered the courtyard, he carried the boxes. ”
"I don't even plan to take a picture? Besides, how can I send someone back and pull it back? Prepare the car and go to Ruan's house. ”
Zhang grabbed her and said: "Sister-in-law, don't worry, the shopkeeper Ruan is not a person without proportion, the two families have just gotten married, and there is no reason to turn their faces overnight, let's wait at home, he will give an explanation." ”
Liang Shi said distressedly: "That's the silver that helped the Su family tide over the difficulties, what should I do if I take it all away? Even if a box is left to relieve the urgent need, the Ruan family is too desperate to do things." ”
Zhang was right. About an hour. The housekeeper of the Ruan family is here again.
The housekeeper of the Ruan family is very interesting. The surname Fang Minggang, the name does not set off the character of the person at all, but it is very sleek, exquisite, and he takes care of the daily operation of the Ruanjia gambling house, and the business can be described as smooth sailing.
In his first year, he made the mistake of being angry with a man and seduced a married woman. At the same time, he played with a girl who had not grown up, the former was angry, and the latter was enough to be angry. After the incident, he could not escape, and was grabbed by the girl's father, tied to a tree and smoked for a day and a night, and threatened to cut off the root of his desire in public three days later.
Everyone is looking forward to it, waiting for that moment to come.
But somehow, Fang Gang escaped. In order to walk with a backbone, it seems less cowardly, and a few big characters are carved on the tree. Come back to take revenge in the future, etc., but I don't know that it makes people look even more cowardly.
He fled like a beggar to Jinhuang Town. I stole a few coins of silver at night, and the next day I came to the largest gambling house in the town, Jinhuang Gambling House, to try my luck, but the result was normal and I lost everything. It should also be his career, this person is usually used to stealing chickens and dogs, and he seems to have telepathy for some people who are not right-hearted, and he can see at a glance who has bad intentions, he will keep those people who are out of the old face with a weak heart in his heart, and when Ruan Hong, the owner of the golden gambling house, appears, let those people appear one by one in front of him, Ruan Hong was shocked, praised him, and immediately left him to work in the gambling house, and became the second leader of the gambling house in less than two years.
Steward Fang glared at his triangular eyes, and said with a sly smile: "Grandma Liang, something happened in the gambling house, and a large sum of silver is urgently needed, and the matter is in a hurry, and it is too late to tell the eldest grandmother. Our lord asked me to tell you that as long as the Ruan family passes this hurdle, they will definitely send the silver as they are. ”
Zhang's face sank, and said: "Steward Fang, then I want to ask, Old Man Ruan's family has a big business, is it difficult for a little thing in the gambling house to make him bankrupt?
"Second grandma, it's really urgent...... This, alas, where to start......"
Fang Gang heard that Zhang's mouth was tricky for a long time, and he couldn't be provoked, this time it was the Ruan family who did something wrong, and implemented the handle, and when he came, he thought about how to deal with Zhang's on the way, but who knew that he was counted down by her, and his mind became a paste, and he couldn't even say a complete sentence.
Zhang's eyebrows were pressed, and he said coldly: "Let's start with you leading people to carry silver." ”
The Liang family also hoped that the Ruan family would bring in the silver, and they didn't want to make a fuss, so they said calmly: "Steward Fang, what happened to the gambling house?"
Fang Gang had some clue at this time, slapped his thigh, and said: "Something is wrong! I came to tell you grandma about this, the Ruan family has encountered a hard nail this time, three days ago there was a bald man in the gambling house, not only rude, but also sloppy as a beggar, but this reckless man, sitting in the village for three days in a row, won all the money in the gambling house! This kind of rare thing I have encountered for the first time in my life, you say it is not strange, he has bet all the money, but he has never lost once, do you say this is not a plague god!"
"Is there such a thing?" Su Mu said in surprise.
Fang Gang came to his side with a rich expression, took his hand and said, "Seventh Master, you are a middle and high master, it sounds evil, right? That man is really going all-in to win, he is old." ”
Zhang sneered: "Steward Fang, I know a little bit about the rules of your gambling bank, the player has never sat in the bank more than three times, how can he be allowed to be a banker for three days?
"Second grandmother Mingjian, one sentence is on the point. We do have rules, but this man is a hard stubble, he has kung fu, he has to sit in the village, and forced our master to play with him, we are begging grandpa to tell grandma, Gao Xiang is burned for him, he just won't leave!"
Zhang hesitated: "Isn't this blatant blackmail? You have raised so many thugs and you can't touch him?"
Fang Gang showed fear in his eyes, looked left and right, as if he was afraid that the man would hear it, and whispered: "That man moved his hands and was a tiger! A slap passed, and the two strong men lay on the ground for a long time and didn't get up! ”
"Can't you see a flaw?"
Fang Gang said bitterly: "It's strange here, Master Ruan and I are cheeky and can be regarded as experts, what old man hasn't seen before?" ”
He glanced at the Liang family, and said with a bitter face: "Grandma, Fang has a reluctant invitation here, and I hope that grandma will help us for the sake of the two families." ”
The Zhang family was anxious first, and pointed at him and said, "I said Fang Gang, you really have a face, do we need to borrow your money if our Su family wants to get the silver?"
"Second grandma, I'm not here to borrow silver, I'm here to borrow someone. After that, he glanced at Su Mu without confidence. (To be continued......)