Qingyan nodded, "I hope so."
After saying that, he turned around and was about to leave. He stopped when he thought of something, and turned around and said, "In the future, if you want to be successful, you must have justice in your heart, know where justice lies, and do not give in to power or disregard its benefits.
Even if you only help insignificant people, it is still righteousness. Only by doing this can you go a long way.
Everyone has selfish motives, it depends on where you use them. It doesn’t necessarily have to be for the people, but at least it should be harmless to the people, otherwise you will suffer the consequences sooner or later.
Your brother, the village chief, has selfish motives and wants to help his father-in-law. If the money is really owed by others, there is nothing wrong with him helping his father-in-law get it back.
But if it's to harm innocent people, it's a big mistake.
I don't say that you are a god with your head up and down, but you can't do this kind of thing. If you use it in officialdom, you will be killed sooner or later, and you will definitely not be able to go far. "
Liang Yuhe listened carefully and looked educated.
He was not being pretentious, he really felt that the other party's words were motivating him, so he really listened to them.
He bowed deeply to Qingyan again and said, "Thank you for your kind words, young lady. The student has been taught a lesson."
Qingyan looked at his look and nodded with satisfaction. Just listen. He is a smart person. If there is a chance in the future, he should be able to control himself.
What she just said was actually a sentence from the Xue Minghua family's ancestral motto, which was written in the main hall of their home. She thought it was very meaningful, so she remembered it.
The Xue family is an aristocratic family in Hedong. It has been ruling the officialdom for so many generations. Xue Juzheng has been in court for several generations. The ancestral precepts of this family should be indispensable. This is the inheritance that the aristocratic family values most.
Qingyan waved to him and left directly. Before returning to the carriage, she glanced at Zhang Chunhua's yard with her spiritual consciousness.
I wanted to see if there was anything I wanted to take away with them, but the inside could be described as bare-walled. Even the table had three legs. Apart from a few tattered quilts and clothes in rotten wooden boxes, there was absolutely no need to take them away. .
Then he asked Chou Chou if the clan uncle’s family had taken anything from Zhang Chunhua’s family.
Chou Chou: "No, Zhang Chunhua's family is very poor. Didn't you see that uncle's family? It's a little better than her family. If my daughter hadn't married into a good family, she probably wouldn't have been able to get the five taels of silver." come out.
That family is all lazy and caressing about everything. There are ten people in the family and they are very careless. This money is already their family wealth. I looked at it and found that there were only a few hundred copper coins left. "
Qingyan curled her lips in disappointment, "Okay, but I can't just give those three women money. They don't even have any clothes. The two sets of clothes for the child smell of sheep manure and are very worn. I have already thrown them away. You can’t just be shirtless, right?”
Chou Chou: "There are plenty of clothes and cloths in the space. You can give them two first and then buy them when you get to town."
Qingyan: "I'm taller than their mothers, so they can't wear it either."
Chou Chou said, "Why don't you just give them two tops and jackets? Those two little peas are less than one meter tall and can just cover their ankles."
Zhang Chunhua's two children were six and four years old, probably due to malnutrition. They were both thin and small, looking like two or three years old in later generations.
Qingyan found a hidden place, entered the space with Chou Chou, and searched in the cabinet.
Ever since she opened the cabinet, she has put all her clothes in it, and it’s easier to find them in each compartment.
She found two sets of relatively thin cotton-padded jackets with separate tops and bottoms. The trousers and skirts could be worn by Zhang Chunhua, and a single-piece cotton-padded jacket would be enough.
She had bought these sets by herself before. They were all made of fine cotton and the colors were not eye-catching. They were all earthy yellow and dark gray.
Later, the materials Xue Huan'er gave her as gifts and the materials she bought together were so good that she didn't even plan to wear them herself. There was no dedicated servant to take care of the clothes, so it was difficult to organize and clean them.
There was room for Chou Chou to put the clothes directly into the large basket at the back of the carriage. She couldn't just carry them back, as that would be difficult to explain.
Before she returned to the carriage, she saw a little head poking around the door curtain. Qingyan smiled and waved to her.
She is Zhang Chunhua's second daughter. It seems that she has recovered.
The four-year-old child is already very active, but he couldn't stay in the carriage and got his head out to play.
Seeing Qingyan waving to her, she also stretched out her hand, but forgot that she was not wearing a shirt. As soon as she stretched out her hand, she retracted it due to the cold.
Qingyan was so amused by her appearance that she burst into laughter.
When Zhang Chunhua heard the laughter outside, she also leaned out and pulled her little daughter in.
Seeing that his benefactor was back, he quickly got out of the car.
Qingyan quickly stopped her, "If your clothes are thin, don't come out. It's cold outside."
As she spoke, she quickened her pace and got directly into the carriage. Before she could speak, Zhang Chunhua looked at her body. Seeing that she was not injured and her expression was not strange, she said, "I just heard Daman tell me that you were He broke into the village chief's house and brought them out, and he even touched them, were you injured?"
Qingyan smiled and said, "No, I have the skills to deal with several big men."
Then he took out the purse and handed it to Zhang Chunhua, "Hey, this is the money Uncle Qi gave him to buy your yard. It's five taels in total. You keep it and wait until you get to Zhangji Town. Do you want to settle there or not?" It should be enough to go back to your natal village and build a cave dwelling.
Zhang Chunhua pinched the plain purse in her hand and felt grateful again. However, seeing Qingyan's disapproving look, she swallowed back her words of thanks for fear of upsetting her.
Qingyan didn't wait for her to say anything else, she jumped off the carriage again and went to the back of the carriage, taking out the clothes that Chou Chou had messed up from the big basket.
Fortunately, he had put the clothes in advance, and now they are cold to the touch. If he took them out directly from the space, the clothes would be warm. The temperature in Chou Chou Space is normal, which is a bit abnormal in this weather.
Qingyan got into the carriage again with a bundle in her arms, put it down, opened it, took out a piece of clothing and stuffed it into Zhang Chunhua.
Even if we get to the town, it’s too late to make cotton-padded clothes now, and I don’t know if there are any ready-made clothes shops there. Fortunately, I have quite a lot of clothes. I can’t wear these few pieces, so I’ll wear them for you.
The tops of this outfit should be just right for both of them. When you settle down and make them fit, you can keep this for yourself. We are both about the same height, so you should be able to wear it. "
If Zhang Chunhua stood up straight, she would be about the same height as her. People here in the northwest are not short.
However, I don’t know whether it was the cold or working all year round. Zhang Chunhua was a bit stooped, so she looked half a head shorter than her.
Fortunately, Qingyan is not fat and has a very slim figure. The clothes nowadays are all loose and not particularly fitting, so she can definitely wear them.
Just when Zhang Chunhua was about to refuse, Qingyan raised her hand to stop her, directly picked up a shorter one, pulled Xiaoman, who had just put her head in and was now sitting next to her, out of the quilt, and put it on her body.
Qingyan had no experience in raising children, so she brought in cold clothes from outside and put them on the child directly.
The cold made Xiaoman shivering and shivering.
She quickly took off her clothes and toasted them by the charcoal stove before putting them on again.
The clothes were already put on the child, and Zhang Chunhua couldn't refuse anymore, so she also followed Qingyan's example and baked the clothes in her hands by the charcoal stove, and put them on Daman.
After she finished dressing the child, Qingyan handed her another set, "This is for you, just put it on."
When Zhang Chunhua took over the clothes, she felt a heavy weight beside her. When she looked down, it turned out that Xiao Man was standing next to her with a smile on her face.
Then she discovered that Youqian was also next to her. When Xiaoman poked his head out just now, Youqian must have been cuddling with her. Sure enough, even children can't resist Fuzzy.
When You Qian saw Qingyan looking at it, he crawled onto her lap and looked up at her with a fawning look on his face.
Qingyan stretched out her hand to rub its head and praised, "We are so rich and so good, and we also know how to play with the little sister."
Daman is a little older and already knows how beautiful she is. She puts on new clothes and wiggles around to admire them. Even if her sleeves are rolled up several layers to expose her little hands, she feels very happy.
She also said directly to Qingyan: "Thank you, auntie!"
Qingyan waved to her, and she ran over nervously.
Xiaoman moved aside sensibly to make room for her sister.
When Daman sat next to her, Qingyan patted her shoulder gently and said, "You're welcome. Daman and Xiaoman are so sensible and annoying, and my aunt also likes you very much."
The two little girls felt Qingyan's kindness and smiled shyly.
She hugged the two little girls and raised her head and said to Zhang Chunhua, who was also dressed: "Do you have any other people you get along with in the village who you want to say goodbye to? If not, let's leave directly. We should be able to get there before dark Arrive at Zhangji Town."
Zhang Chunhua shook her head, "No, let's just leave."
In fact, she had some little sisters that she talked about before, and they were all the daughters-in-law of neighbors. It was after the news of her man's death came that after she became a widow, it was inconvenient for her to visit other people's houses, and it was not convenient for others to visit her. So I can come and play with her.
After all, she had to take care of her parents-in-law, who were overly sad and sick, had to take care of the children, and had to do housework and farm work. She had no time to chat with anyone, so she gradually became alienated.
After her parents-in-law died, rumors spread that she was desperate, saying that she not only defeated her husband, but also killed her parents-in-law.
Immediately afterwards, the clan uncle told her that her parents-in-law owed money, and he was afraid that she would remarry with her children and insisted on making her pay back the money.
At first, he wanted her to borrow money from her parents' house and repay the money here, but she refused. She also had some doubts about the authenticity of the loan, and the two sides continued to argue for a month or two. A few days ago, the clan uncle took the clan's money back. The old man and the village chief all moved out, and then they kicked her mother out and wanted to use the yard to pay off the debt.
Later, she said that the house in the courtyard was too shabby and could not pay off the debt, so they forcibly took her two daughters away.
During this period, it was not like she didn't go to the two neighbors' houses for help. Not to mention anything else, at least they could give her a place to stay, whether it was a woodshed or a sheep pen. In such a cold weather, especially when it snowed the day before yesterday, she was living on the streets. , maybe her daughter would freeze to death before she could be rescued.
But no matter how she begged and cried outside, no one came out to answer her, so she knew what they meant.
Finally, we found a corner with leeward wind and carried it for two days with the help of collected branches.
Fortunately, she was preparing to cook when she was kicked out, and she put the fire sickle in her arms. Otherwise, she would have froze to death on the snowy night the day before yesterday.
Now that both daughters are back with him, there is nothing worth missing in this village.
Since this was the case, Qingyan stopped talking and asked the two children to go to their mother's side to get ready. Then she fixed the charcoal stove and asked Zhang Chunhua to pay attention. In the past, the rich and Chou Chou were watching, but now in the car It's hard for them to behave too outrageously if there are others.
Qingyan tied up her cloak, put on her hood, and sat in front.
She didn't have to sit on the shaft of the cart like others driving a cart, with her legs hanging underneath, so she could be close to the horse so she could control the horse.
All she had to do was sit in the front, or even wrap her body around the shed with her head exposed.
He shook the reins and asked Big Bear to turn out of the alley and onto the official road.
It was still noon, the temperature was much higher than at night, and she wore more clothes, so it didn't feel particularly cold outside.
But Zhang Chunhua felt very sorry, but she couldn't drive a car and couldn't replace Qingyan.
Qingyan saw that she was a little embarrassed and guessed what she was thinking, so she talked to them from time to time.
The money would roll here and there from time to time. Zhang Chunhua kept staring at it for fear that it would hit the charcoal stove, so she gradually forgot about it and relaxed.
The rich man came over to rub her, and Qingyan patted it appreciatively.
It is said that we can reach Zhangji Town before dark, but in fact the journey is not very far and it is not dark at all when we arrive.
This section of the official road is quite flat, with no mountain roads or undulating slopes. Apart from some snow on the ground and some slippery slopes, there are no obstacles, so we arrived in less than two hours.
It was between five and six o'clock in the afternoon when I saw the boundary marker of Zhangji Town. This is the afternoon time in the northwest. After all, it doesn't get bright until eight or nine in the morning.
After passing the boundary marker with Zhangji Town written on it, Qingyan asked Zhang Chunhua to sit outside and guide her. Anyway, she had already changed into clothes, so she was not afraid of the cold while sitting outside.
As for her tattered clothes, she didn't want to throw them away and put them away again.
Zhang Chunhua said with some embarrassment: "I have been to this town before, but it was only when I was a child, and I am not very familiar with the roads here."
Her natal family belongs to a village below this market town. There is a fork in the road before the official road. Turn right and it is still a little far away from the town.
After getting married, she would go back to her parents' home once a year during the Chinese New Year, always directly to the village. She didn't know the exact location of her brother's carpenter shop.
Fortunately, she heard from her brother that there was only one carpenter's shop in the town, so it shouldn't be difficult to find.
Qingyan nodded and drove the car directly into the main street of the town. (End of chapter)
