The old lady is reborn

Dazhu's wife said this and looked at the sky: "Farmers get up early and go to bed early, and my legs can't stand it in winter.

You two brothers should also go to bed early, otherwise the two buckets of hot water in your room will get cold soon.

There are candles and flints on the table in the room."

After saying that, she turned and walked forward, heading towards the daughter's room mentioned at the beginning.

But just as she took a few steps, Dazhu suddenly rushed out from his room and blocked her way.

"What are you going to do?"

"No, I'm not going to do anything. It's just that, as the saying goes, young couples grow old together... In the past, I made mistakes.

Now that we have grandchildren, you should stop dwelling on the past.

Let's live well together. I'm alone in that room... and I want to talk to someone.

Your daughter is asleep, so don't go to her room."

Dazhu's wife looked at him and said, "Just now, you snatched money from me."

"I was addicted to alcohol, not taking the money to spend on other women.

Ever since she moved away and got married, I have had less contact with her. When we lived in the same village before, I was inevitably bewitched by her. Later, I saw her less and had less contact with her, and I never did such a stupid thing again.

I know you hate me, but no matter what, we have been married for 20 years. As long as you can let go of those trivial things, wouldn't it be nice for our family to live in harmony and reunion?"

Dazhu's wife looked at him and said, "Why?

Why should I pretend nothing happened?

You want someone to talk to too?!

I still remember those nights when I couldn’t sleep because of hunger. They were long, cold, and I worked hard all year round but couldn’t even have a bite to eat. But we had enough at home.

Why should all this just pass away just because you say a word now?

My leg is still lame, and I thought it would be healed after you said all these words. "

She ignored him, dragged her lame leg forward, and suddenly turned around and said, "It's not that you don't contact her anymore, it's that she feels that she can't get any more money out of you by squeezing you anymore.

After all, you are just a farmer. Even if you sacrifice the lives of our three children, you won't be able to squeeze out much money. Her efforts are in vain. She is targeting men who are more lucrative.

She doesn't want to talk to you anymore, but she still flirts with you every two or three months, giving you a false sense of joy. Maybe you've gotten used to it after a while."

As she said this she went into another room.

Dazhu looked at it blankly, looking somewhat dejected, as if he didn't want to go into his own room. He sat down on the doorstep, in a daze.

Yao Siyuan hesitated for a while and then stepped forward: "Are the gossips your wife told us true?

Did you and your husband use the money that Lu Yiyi used to buy earrings to treat your child's illness?

How did your wife's leg get injured?"

Dazhu stared at Yao Siyuan blankly and sighed heavily: "The money for my son's medical treatment was borrowed by my wife from her parents' home.

How could I steal Lu Yiyi's money? At that time, I just wanted to make her my idol. I only dared to take my wife's money. Taking my wife's money is not stealing."

As he spoke, he glanced at Yao Siyuan and Gong Yuanliang, then turned his eyes away and ignored them. No one knew what he was thinking as he sat alone in the night that was growing colder and darker.

Gong Yuanliang felt that it was getting colder outside, so he pulled Yao Siyuan and the two of them went into the house.

"I heard her admit it herself. The money was borrowed from her parents' home. Do you believe it now?"

Yao Siyuan said: "I have lived with her for almost twenty years, and I still don't believe she is such a person."

Gong Yuanliang said: "We have known each other for a longer time. If I remember correctly, you came to discuss this with me.

Marry this girl. It seems that she has something going on with another man, and the main branch of the Yao family has not hidden it from you.

Don’t marry. If you don’t spend a penny to get married, you will never have the chance to marry a wife again.

There is no need for the Yao family to lie, right? You later saw that she was good-looking.

She has spent most of her time in the old house in Dongyang Prefecture these years, while you were working two jobs outside and also took on the job of transporting gold.

What can you know when we are together so little?

With all the benefits his family gets from being the housekeeper in the old house of the Marquis of Dongyang, and your constant supply, how can she still look down on Dazhu?

What Dazhu gained by risking his entire family's life for her was nothing more than a barn's worth of food and a pair of red jade earrings that she had long since disdained.

Moreover, if Dazhu's wife died first, the two children would not let her go."

Yao Siyuan said: "After all, she has been married to me for these years. Even if she was young and ignorant before marriage, and made some mistakes, as long as she lives a stable life after marriage, it will be fine."

Gong Yuanliang asked: "Tell me honestly, you suddenly came to me and asked if I wanted to go to Kyoto. Apart from going there to avoid the limelight, what else did you want?

If Lu Yiyi wants you to do it, you must think it through. Do you think I really want to go to Kyoto for fun? I am worried about you."

Yao Siyuan remembered that Lu Yiyi asked him to kill the wife of Marquis Dongyang, and asked him if he could kill this woman if he really had the chance within five steps.

If this woman hadn't investigated the gold transportation matter and refused to let it go, all the people involved wouldn't have to be beheaded. I'm afraid the whole family would have been implicated.

Since this is the case, I am going to die anyway, so I might as well risk my life and kill the wife of Marquis Dongyang to avenge myself.

Yao Siyuan originally had no such intention, nor did he think he could kill a noble lady.

But after listening to one or two sentences today and one or two sentences tomorrow, I gradually became shaken.

Before leaving, he thought to himself that if he got accurate news in Kyoto that he would be beheaded and his family would be implicated, then he would just give it a try.

I'm going to die anyway, so if I can kill that woman it will be revenge for myself and my family.

After listening to Gong Yuanliang's words, he felt as if he had been hit on the head. He suddenly realized that if what Dazhu's wife said was true, then she had asked Dazhu to kill his wife.

Now she is asked to kill the wife of Marquis Dongyang. Is she using men to get rid of those women who make her unhappy?

But the words repeated to you by someone you trust do have a huge influence.

For no apparent reason, I felt angry and hateful, and I really felt that the woman deserved to die.

Although he was shaken now, he still shook his head at Gong Yuanliang: "It's nothing, don't worry about it. We are just going to avoid the limelight and see what Kyoto is like."

The next morning, when they were about to leave after breakfast, Dazhu's wife asked, "Yesterday you asked about the sisters Lu Yiyi and Lu Xiaolan, did you know them?"

Yao Siyuan didn't want to tell Dazhu and his wife that he was Lu Yiyi's husband. He was stuck here for a moment and couldn't answer.

Suddenly I remembered that Lu Yiyi had told me that her sister, Lu Xiaolan, had married a grain official in Yancheng and was living a good life.

So he planned to say something to cover it up: "We have an acquaintance in Yancheng, and he has a good friend who is a grain official.

I heard that he married a girl from your area, named Lu Xiaolan. We actually didn't know which village she was from, we just asked casually when we got here, and we didn't expect it to be true."

Unexpectedly, Dazhu's wife suddenly became happy after hearing this: "Then you still want to go to Yancheng, right? I made shoes for Xiaolan and her children. How about you take them over for me?"

In the past, when I asked people from the village who went out to bring things to her, she would always ask people from the village to bring some back for me.

Please help me carry these shoes over, and don't tell me you will stay in this village again."

After saying that, he turned around and went back to the house, packed up a bag and handed it to them.

The two looked at each other, and Gong Yuanliang almost laughed out loud. In fact, Lu Xiaolan was Yao Siyuan's sister-in-law. If the two sisters had a good relationship, they would not have been so isolated from each other that they would have been like strangers.

He took the bundle and said to Dazhu's wife, "Okay, I will definitely bring the things here."

When Dazhu's wife saw that they agreed to help, she quickly made a stack of pancakes and put them in their food.

Gong Yuanliang smiled and said, "I am a very curious person. I will always keep something in my mind until I hear the whole story and understand it clearly.

Yesterday I heard that your daughter was going on a blind date, but there were some conditions that some people might not agree to. Can I ask what those conditions were?"

Dazhu's wife said helplessly: "She wants to find someone from another village, but the condition is that he settles down in our village. She wants to stay with me.

Isn't that equivalent to marrying into the family? Which family would agree to that?"

"Then why not just find one in this village?"

"This girl is stubborn. She won't look for someone from her own village. Actually, there is something going on here.

Ergou's son in the village likes her, and everyone knows it. He threatened that if anyone marries his girl except himself, he will be against that person for the rest of his life.

My girl knew that Ergou was just like her father. He always sided with Lu Yiyi. Because of Lu Yiyi, my two children were also troubled.

She was determined not to marry into Ergou's family, so she spread the word that she was only looking for someone from another village."