The next day, Shen Songjie returned to Shen's house before lunch, just as he and Zhao said, and after a long rest, he picked up his hoe and wanted to follow Shen Zeqi and others into the mountains.
"Second cousin has just been working hard for a long time. He was not at home this afternoon to have a good rest. What kind of mountain did he go to?"
Shen Songjie carried the hoe nonchalantly and walked out. As he walked, he said: "It's just a trip to the town. How can we be so tired? You kid looks down on your second cousin and I am not strong enough? I don't believe it. Let's compete in a while!"
It happened that Mother Shen and Mrs. Zhao filled water from the kitchen and said to the men of the Shen family: "Zeqi, don't talk to your second cousin. He is just a loser. You should pay more attention when working in the mountains." , don’t fall or trip!”
Mrs. Zhao also took the opportunity to say, "Aniang is right. I feel more at ease when I run to town every day instead of doing work at home. I think in the future, whether I go to town or go into the mountains, You can’t ask him to succeed alone, so my cousin has to work harder, please help me keep an eye on him!”
Shen Songjie heard that his mother-in-law and his wife were talking more and more outrageously. He complained to Shen Zeqi dissatisfiedly: "Why does it sound like I'm younger than you? I already think of you as your father!"
"Now that you know that you are the one who is going to be a father, you should be more reliable!"
"I know, Mom!" After Shen Songjie responded, he joked to Shen Zeqi beside him: "Let's go, cousin, from now on you are my cousin, you protect me!"
Even though Shen Songjie is very smart in his work on weekdays, but when it comes to these trivial matters concerning the shortcomings of his boss, the Li family, if Mrs. Zhao hadn't been there to remind him, he would have to wait for someone to make trouble in front of him before he could find out later. Discovered later. But Mother Shen was different. After everyone left the courtyard, she took Mrs. Zhao to the kitchen.
"What happened in the past two days?"
Mrs. Zhao didn't want to say any more, so she pretended to be stupid and said, "What's the matter, grandma? Everything at home is fine, what can happen? Besides, grandma, aren't you at home every day?"
Mother Shen shook her head, not believing what Mrs. Zhao said: "I don't know you yet. When my second son was running outside all day long last year, I didn't see you saying anything about being worried. That's because you still had a baby in your belly. Well, why do you want Zeqi to watch over you today?"
"Auntie, it's okay. I just followed your words and made a joke!"
Seeing that Mrs. Zhao was unwilling to say anything, Mother Shen thought that her second son was having sex outside and was discovered by her daughter-in-law, so she asked Shen Zeqi to follow him to the town to have a look, so she sent Mr. Zhao there. He tugged at his side and asked in a low voice: "Tell me the truth, is that bastard Shen Songjie playing tricks outside? If he really dares to give me something to do, the old man and I will break his legs." !」
Mrs. Zhao didn't expect that Mother Shen had completely misunderstood the matter, and she felt dumbfounded. For the sake of her husband's legs, she finally told Mother Shen what she heard in the courtyard the day before, as well as the conversation between the couple at night. Said.
"...My daughter-in-law felt that this was not a big deal, so she made the decision herself."
Mother Shen nodded: "You are right. She has already taken this matter seriously and accepted it as a dead end. It is unreasonable to reason with her now. As your sister-in-law, you cannot be as knowledgeable as her. Just be more generous. That's right! It's okay to let the two of them work together. If something happens, the two brothers can take care of each other."
Mrs. Zhao turned her head and looked arrogant: "Then I guessed wrong. I am not generous to your daughter-in-law at all. Tomorrow I will go to town to get the thickest silver bracelet. Who is calling me?" My husband-in-law does a job that is both prestigious and profitable, so as a wife, I have to match his status, right?"
Mother Shen laughed and scolded: "You are teasing me!"
In the shop in front of the Chu family's old house, Chu Yi had just added some charcoal to the stove when a sharp-eyed aunt with a long face saw him: "Hey, boy from the Chu family, is the stove in your house full of charcoal? Why not?" Mix some straw with firewood and burn it, it costs a lot of money, the man’s family just doesn’t know how to live, why don’t you know how to talk to the Chu family’s daughter-in-law, no matter how rich you are, you can’t spend it like this!”
Seeing this, Shen Luzhu smiled and replied, "Yes, Auntie, I'll talk about him later."
Although he said this, Shen Luzhu had no intention of really saying anything to Chu Yi. All the farmland in his family this year was hired out, and there was no such thing as straw at all.
There were several carts piled in the backyard, and Chu Yi bought the coal specially because he heard someone said that a kang that only burned coal would be warmer and the smoke would be smaller, so that it wouldn't harm Shen Luzhu and the child in her belly.
Chu Yi felt sorry for her and did this for her own good. She would not pour cold water on her husband-in-law. It’s not like her family couldn’t afford the coal this winter!
When the aunt mentioned this matter, she just wanted to start a conversation. When Shen Luzhu agreed, she stopped talking about this matter and started talking about what she really wanted to do. What she was talking about: "Daughter-in-law of the Chu family, I heard someone say that your aunt was beaten so hard by your relatives that she couldn't even get off the bed. But is it true? What's the reason?"
It was already the end of September, and the Winter Clothes Festival was just a few days away. There were already more villagers in the shop buying paper money. Standing near the counter, I heard someone mention the gossip that had been spreading in several villages recently. They all became interested and pushed forward.
Chu Ping, who was originally standing by the counter to help, saw this and hurriedly stopped him: "Hey, eh, eh, don't squeeze, don't squeeze. If the aunts and ladies at my counter are squeezed, you will have to pay for it!"
One of the ladies at the front waved her hand towards Chu Ping and said, "Hey, don't be a spoiler. I also heard that there seemed to be a fight with someone from Hexi Village, but I didn't know that she was actually the daughter-in-law of the Chu family and a relative of your family. Ah! What is going on? Tell us, everyone is waiting to hear it!"
"That's right, that's right, I've also heard about this. Isn't it that Mrs. Wang has had a bad idea again?"
After Shen's mother and Aunt Shen came here, Shen Luzhu had heard several versions of rumors about this matter, but none of them were as outrageous as the one he heard just now. He was about to say something. , but saw the thin and long-faced aunt speak again: "What's the bad idea? I didn't hear about that. What I heard was that you, the Chu family's wife, and the elders over there are trying to grab this paper money business, but Just grab business, why did you beat someone in the end?"
If it weren't for the fact that this aunt with a long and thin face looked nothing like Mrs. Wang, Shen Luzhu would have almost doubted whether this person was pretending to be the aunt. These few words would have made her position too obvious: "Auntie This is a rumor I heard from somewhere. I don’t know anything about my own family, so how can it be true? Auntie, please don’t believe these rumors easily in the future!”
The slender-faced aunt didn't know whether she came here to cause trouble on purpose or was taken advantage of by someone. After hearing what Shen Luzhu said, her reaction became even more intense: "How could it be fake! That's clearly what happened, Chu My wife, are you afraid that people will say you hit your elder, so you don’t recognize her?"
"This is clearly what happened? Why are you so sure, Auntie? Could it be that you were at the scene and saw it with your own eyes? In that case, why don't you come and teach us what happened at that time? I will also follow you. Come on, let’s hear what’s going on!”
The moment they saw the lanky face, everyone looked at her and hurriedly waved their hands to deny it: "I heard about it, I heard it from others!"
Chu Ping chuckled: "Hey, aunt, where did you hear about it? You probably heard about it from my cousin who was beaten to the point of being unable to get off the bed!"
When the villagers onlookers heard this, they all burst into laughter: "In this case, this person is really unfamiliar, he doesn't look like someone from our village!"
"Could it be that the Wang family really sent him here to cause trouble?"
"It's true, it's not like Wang has done something even more wicked before!"
"Just take people's money!"
The slender face turned red and denied it: "Who did the cashier, you are the one who did the cashier! I told you I heard it, I just happened to ask, if it's not, then it's not!"
After saying that, he pushed through the crowd and left the shop without even buying any paper money.
Upon seeing this, Chu Yi stood up directly and said to the villagers present: "Dear aunts and ladies, we are just like everyone else. We only listened to what others said. We don't know what is going on. But this matter really has nothing to do with my father-in-law’s Shen family.”
Chu Ping also echoed: "That's right, my cousins have already broken up and their relationship has been broken up. Why would you tell them such a shameful thing? I
Look, if you ladies really want to know what’s going on, you should ask the people over there! "
"Hey, I heard a lot of rumors, and I just heard that person asking again, so I just wanted to join in the fun!"
"It's just a small talk, how can you really ask the real person? You kid is always making jokes."
While Chu Ping was talking, Chu Yi turned to Shen Luzhu and said, "Azhu, there are too many people here. Do you want me to accompany you back to the house to lie down for a while?"
Shen Luzhu knew that Chu Yi was afraid that he would be disturbed by these aunts and ladies. He looked at the crowd buying paper money, nodded and said: "It's okay, I'll just ask Xiuxiu to accompany me. It's almost noon, you After selling these things with my cousin, we should come back and have a rest."
"Listen to Azhu."
Chu Xiuxiu supported Shen Luzhu, who had been punched in the stomach several times, and walked out of the shop from the back door and walked towards the couple's house. Chu Xiuxiu still remembered what happened in the shop just now, raised her head and asked: "Sister-in-law, just now Is that person really brought by the aunt? What does she want to do? Why doesn’t it stop after so many things have happened? "
Shen Luzhu didn't particularly care about Cai Cai's affairs: "It's probably true, maybe there have been too many negative rumors about their family in the village recently, so I wanted to find someone to spread some good news about them and turn the situation around. Xiu Xiu doesn't have to Mind you, my aunt's reputation is already there. You see, just like just now, everyone will automatically and consciously feel that it must be my aunt who has done bad things again. If everyone knows again, those rumors that are bad for us are caused by my aunt. If it comes from the side, no one will believe it!"
"Well, my cousin is right, no one will believe us if we ignore them!"
Shen Luzhu didn't completely guess it this time, because this idea was not what Wang had thought of, nor was Wang asking someone to implement it. She was scared to death last time, and because of Chu Ren's failure and the paper money transaction I was worried about the breakup for a long time, and then I was beaten again at Xie's house. After I returned home, I was bedridden again. I was boiling soup and medicine all day long in the kitchen of Uncle Chu's house, which was very far away. You can smell a strong smell of Chinese medicine.
What the lanky face said actually came from Li's mouth. Chu Ren failed again, the paper money business was completely stopped, and the fight between the Wang family and the Xie family was spread all over the village. Even Li Xiucai Both her mother-in-law, Mrs. Yuan, specifically asked about this matter, and said that the current situation was very unfavorable to Chu Ren, and she had no choice but to take this approach.
They made up a lie, saying that Chu Yi and his wife connived with the relatives of the Shen family to injure Mr. Wang in order to grab business. While they wanted to find an excuse and excuse for their own family, they also thought that if they could use this to get the old man. Since the transactions at the house have been suppressed, will it be possible for my family to take back the paper money transactions in the future?
