After Ms. Liu came back to the Shen family, she seemed like a new person. She was polite to everyone. She was always scrambling to do all the housework. She was also attentive and attentive to Aunt Shen all day long. Aunt Shen was confused and felt that something was not right.
The Shen family's mosquito repellent pills and fragrant pills have always been doing well. In winter, they will start preparing materials for next spring. Today, several women of the Shen family are sorting and processing herbs in the yard. Sanqi and the neighbor's children , squatting and playing outside the door of Shen's courtyard.
Without paying attention, Sanqi fell to the ground without knowing what happened. Madam Liu hurriedly stepped forward to check. Fortunately, it was nothing serious. She just suffered some skin injuries. Shen Family Pharmacy has many Ointment for treating wounds.
After seeing the situation, Second Aunt Shen hurriedly said: "Hurry up and take him to the shop in front to apply some medicine. The child's skin is very tender, so be careful of scars."
Seeing Mrs. Liu taking Sanqi into the drug store in the front yard, Aunt Shen returned to sit down next to Mother Shen, and whispered in her mouth: "Ms. Liu comes back this time as if she is a different person. , She used to stay away from the task of sorting herbs, saying that she couldn't smell the smell, and that it gave her a headache and nausea, but now she seems like a normal person."
The second sister-in-law, Mrs. Zhao, seemed to have thought of something and laughed out loud: "Maybe the second sister-in-law has some magic elixir on her body, so that my cousins will not feel uncomfortable when they are next to you."
Mother Shen smiled and gave Mrs. Zhao an angry look and said, "Nothing big or small."
Second Aunt Shen didn't mind, and went to Mother Shen's side and continued: "Sister-in-law, you see, even my niece-in-law thinks something is wrong. This Mrs. Liu seems to be catching up with something right now. She has been following me all day long. , it’s so weird, sometimes when she looks at me, I’m afraid she’ll tie me up to exchange money one day, I always feel like she’s thinking of something bad.”
Shen's mother comforted and said: "We can think of something bad. Even if it is true, we can't control what people think in their hearts. Don't think so much. Maybe it was the incident with Zeqi a while ago that taught her a lesson. Now she still has I don’t have the energy to be afraid, and I want to curry favor with you as a mother-in-law.”
Hearing this, Second Aunt Shen felt that she had been wronged even more: "I didn't do anything, how could I scare her like this?"
Just as he was talking, he saw Mrs. Liu walking out of the back door of the medicine shop with Sanqi. Second Aunt Shen looked at her grandson's wound, and then said to Mrs. Liu: "It's cold outside, take Sanqi back to the house and wait." Come on, be careful not to touch the water."
Mrs. Liu took a look at her son's injury, then glanced at Aunt Shen who was still handling the herbs. She hesitated for a moment and said, "Sanqi, go back to the house and stay there. Auntie is working here." , if you have anything to do, call me Aniang."
Second Aunt Shen quietly glanced at Mother Shen, as if to say: Sister-in-law, look, what did I say?
Seeing this, Mother Shen glanced at the prepared herbs and said, "Okay, we've almost done it today, and we'll do the rest tomorrow. It's quite cold, so we all go back to the house to warm up." Body."
After hearing this, Mrs. Zhao and Mrs. Zhou took the initiative to take over the task of cleaning up the aftermath. Second Aunt Shen wanted to go to the main room with Shen's mother to talk about common things, but when she saw Ms. Liu following closely behind her, she also Lost my mood.
Second Aunt Shen had just picked up Sanqi and was about to go back to the house when Mother Shen reminded her: "By the way, sister-in-law, if you have nothing else to do, I will ask my second brother to rent a carriage and come back. It’s the twelfth lunar month, let’s go to town as a family, and we should also prepare New Year’s gifts for our elders.”
Second Aunt Shen naturally had no objections and said with a smile: "Okay, I'd rather go to the market with my sister-in-law. I can do it anytime, as long as my sister-in-law remembers to bring money."
Speaking of this, Mother Shen smiled helplessly. Ever since the two of them went to the town market one time and she forgot to bring money, Aunt Shen would tease her from time to time, so she replied: "Don't worry. You must remember it."
Mrs. Liu followed Aunt Shen into the house. She thought for a while and said unconsciously, "Life at home is indeed getting better and better. Now when I go to the market in town, I have to rent a carriage." Already."
Second Aunt Shen glanced at her daughter-in-law inexplicably: "It's the twelfth lunar month of winter, and the whole family, old and young, is going to the town, and a few of them will get frozen while riding in an unsheltered bullock cart."
Ms. Liu explained awkwardly: "Aniang misunderstood, I mean the day at home
My wife has gotten better. I remember that when I first married my husband-in-law, our family didn’t even have an oxcart. I heard my parents-in-law say that all the people in the opera were driven by carriages and sedans, but they were all considered to be wealthy families. The auntie is very elegant now. "
Second Aunt Shen felt that there was something in Mrs. Liu's words just now, and heard that she was alluding to Shen's mother. Second Aunt Shen calmly followed Mrs. Liu and said: "They are just country women, why don't I Look at it.".z.
These words stopped in Mrs. Liu's ears, which meant that Second Aunt Shen was not convinced by this evaluation. She immediately became energetic and continued quickly: "My daughter-in-law has never seen much of the world. In fact, when it comes to style and bearing, I am I think A-niang is more dramatic, and she looks like the mistress of the house."
"Yeah?"
Mrs. Liu nodded vigorously: "Of course it is, but sometimes, my daughter-in-law feels sorry for you."
"What a pity. Didn't you say that I am stylish and magnanimous, just like the matron in the drama?"
Mrs. Liu looked very regretful and said: "What a pity is that you, my mother-in-law, are the masters of the family. I heard that in big families, whoever is capable is in charge. As long as you are in charge of the house, my daughter-in-law can learn from you, right? Now my uncle is in charge of the house, but she is still on the same level as us."
The more Aunt Shen listened, the more she felt that the tail of Liu's fox was about to be exposed, so she deliberately sighed: "There is nothing we can do about it. When your grandma leaves, I will leave the house to you." The uncle is here."
Mrs. Liu's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she felt that she had been so groveling recently, and finally she was not fawning over her mother-in-law in vain. Now that the relationship was so close, she naturally told the truth to herself. Her mother-in-law was right, how could she not want to hold money in her hands? of.
"It's not that there's nothing we can do, but it may take some effort."
Second Aunt Shen looked very interested and asked hurriedly: "What can I do, Mrs. Liu, please tell me."
Although Mrs. Liu was very excited at the moment, she still remembered what her mother-in-law told her that she could not tell her about the separation of the family, so she said, "My mother-in-law, why don't you follow the example of my cousin? Back then, the Chu family... My daughter-in-law admires my cousin very much."
As soon as these words came out, Second Aunt Shen knew what Mrs. Liu meant. She was inciting her to separate the family. Thinking of Mrs. Liu's various behaviors after returning from the Liu family, there was no instigation from the Liu family behind this. She won't believe it.
Second Aunt Shen pretended to confirm: "Ms. Liu, you mean to separate the families. Isn't that not good?"
Mrs. Liu secretly rolled her eyes. She had made it so obvious. What else could she ask? However, she continued to persuade her: "Mom, what's wrong with this? It's only a matter of time. Look at my cousin, it’s been so long since the Chu family was divided, and no one has spoken well of my cousin.”
"You take Sanqi back first, I have to think about this matter carefully."
Mrs. Liu was happy in her heart and no longer pestered Second Aunt Shen. She picked up Sanqi and left the house where Second Aunt Shen and her husband lived.
From then on, Mrs. Liu no longer followed Aunt Shen every day, nor did she fight for work. She seemed to have changed overnight. She was the lazy and carefree Mrs. Liu before. .
On this day, the Zhang family's uncle sent some bacon and pickled fish to the Shen family. Shen's mother thought that after adding two more meat dishes in the evening, she should prepare some soju for the men in the family, so she called Shen Songjie to fetch them. Just as she was saying, He was stopped by Mrs. Liu who heard the noise.
"Auntie, it's better for me to go. Second cousin, please rest while I go."
After saying that, he ignored Mother Shen and Shen Zeqi's reactions and took the wine bottle from Mother Shen's hand. But not far after leaving the courtyard gate, he walked in the opposite direction and went straight to Liu's house.
Before Ms. Liu reached the halfway point, she was stopped by the boss of the Liu family who was waiting halfway: "Why did you come out just now? I've been waiting for you for a long time."
"You didn't ask the boy in the village to send me a message, saying that I should go home secretly. Then I have to find an excuse to come out. Brother, what do you want from me? Why are you still sneaking around?"
The eldest son of the Liu family asked, "Didn't you say you had persuaded your mother-in-law last time? How is she thinking about it? Why is there no movement at all?"
Mrs. Liu sighed and said, "I'm still thinking about it. I guess I can't save my face. Brother, is this why you want me to come out?"
Of course the boss of the Liu family would not come out to Ms. Liu. It was just a simple question. He just heard him say: "With the temperament of your man and your parents-in-law, I am afraid that even if the family is divided, you will still suffer. Brother, I’m not afraid that you’ll suffer a loss, so I’m giving you an idea.”
As the eldest brother of the Liu family spoke, he came closer to Madam Liu and muttered a few words in a low voice. But just as he started to say this, Madam Liu yelled, "What, eldest brother, are you asking me to steal the Shen family's recipe for making fragrant pills?"
"Why are you shouting? The whole village must know about it, right?"
Ms. Liu frowned, really confused about her brother's intention: "If you're not the eldest brother, if you steal this recipe, what does it have to do with whether my family will suffer a loss if we separate?"
When the boss of the Liu family learned from Mrs. Liu that the Shen family's fragrant pills were so profitable, he always wanted to get involved. Not only did he think about it, but he also mentioned it to Shen Zeqi in person. The Shen brothers naturally refused, but For the sake of his wife and brother, Shen Zeqi said that he could be invited to work in his family's traditional Chinese medicine field, and the monthly wages would be quite high.
But the boss of the Liu family couldn't see this kind of labor-intensive work, and he has always been resentful. Recently, he was instigating the separation of the Shen family, so he thought about it again, thinking about stealing the recipe, even if he didn't do it by then. If you take this recipe to a jewelry shop in town and sell it, it will make a lot of money.
But the fewer people who know about this matter, the better, so we met quietly today.
The boss of the Liu family naturally would not tell all his true thoughts, and deceived Mrs. Liu with half truths and half lies: "Are you sure that when the time comes to separate the family, all the money-making business of the Shen family can be given to your second wife? Didn't you say that Shen The family's business is all done by the brother-in-law. Even if you are half the family, you will still suffer.
It's better to steal all the secret recipes now without anyone noticing. Even if the Shen family favors one thing and the other, you can rely on those recipes to start business again, right? "
Mrs. Liu was obviously moved. She rubbed her hands and thought, "How can I steal the recipe if I haven't seen it before? I usually go to the backyard to help, but I only see those herbs."
"Then go find it. There will always be some in the Shen family's pharmacy or your man's. If it doesn't work, you always know the proportion of herbs when you go to help. Steal some of those herbs and let's go If you find a drug store in town, you can also get the prescription.
But you have to keep this matter a secret. No one can tell it, not even my parents. Otherwise, if the Shen family finds out, I'm afraid they won't even give you a tael of silver. Remember to steal it and give it to me. , this thing is not safe in your hands, put it here with me, I will keep it for you first. "
Mrs. Liu nodded and said, "Then I will find a boy from the village to report the news to you."
"It's done."
After discussing this, Mrs. Liu really took the jug and went to make a drink. The boss of the Liu family also walked towards his home. Neither of them noticed a figure flashing past in a narrow alley behind them.
