Bianshanhan [farming]

The autumn harvest here in the border town is over, while that in Yangshu Village has just begun.

Chen Dingxin and Liu Daguang also came to help early. Laoniuwan's harvest has dropped a lot this year, but they made a lot of money by making green bricks and tiles, so they don't worry about the future.

When they came, they pulled a cartload of rice and brought 20 taels of silver. The food was for the Li family, and the silver was for Li Qingwen. Without him teaching how to watch fire, they would not be able to earn this silver.

He had worked as a coolie for that old thief for so many years, and received a lot of advice when he returned to the village. Chen Dingxin and the others suffered a lot of uselessness. Only this year, they finally turned around!

Li Maoxian took the rice, but did not take the money. After the autumn harvest, he loaded a cart full of sorghum rice, six jars of syrup and a few sheepskins, and asked Chen Dingxin to take them back.

Chen Dingxin refused to do anything, and Mrs. Chen blocked the door, saying: "Why, it's too little, I'll pack another bag for you."

In the end, Li Maoxian and Li Qingrui sent them to the ditch before returning.

When the Chen family brought new rice, Mrs. Chen would make it for Mrs. Jiang, and the two little grandchildren could eat two meals, and the rest would still be sorghum rice.

A few months after Mrs. Jiang gave birth, Mrs. Chen never let her get involved in the housework, and she had to watch over her little granddaughter at night and let her sleep for a while.

Mrs. Jiang wanted to rush to do something, but she stopped her, saying: "Having a baby is detrimental to your vitality, if you don't rest well, it will easily leave the root of the disease in the future."

Chen's back pain was caused by suffering after giving birth to her child. She has suffered this herself, so she naturally doesn't want Jiang to follow in her footsteps.

Mrs. Jiang was also anxious, fearing that she would relapse into old troubles when she was tired, so Mrs. Chen took out the ointment that Li Maoxian had brought back from the border town, "This is a good thing. If you rub it for a quarter of an hour, your waist can be warmed up overnight."

After taking the medicine prescribed by Dr. Lu, and using this ointment, she felt lighter.

Seeing that she didn't seem to be trying to be brave, Jiang stopped fighting and said: "I heard from father and others that there is such a good doctor over there, so I feel more at ease."

Mrs. Chen also nodded, the border town is desolate, but if you don't go out, you don't have to be afraid of wolves, tigers and leopards, but you are afraid of getting sick. Now you are fine, there are doctors, and you have planted medicine...

Don't say that the two sons don't want to come back, she wants to see them.

Every household in Yangshu Village does not have much land, and the autumn harvest is fast, but when the harvest is over, everyone is not happy at all.

When the officers and soldiers came to harvest the autumn grain, the village often heard crying.It's all life-saving food, hand it in, how will you live in the coming year.

Li Maoxian hadn't been home for a while, and had been called away all the time. This morning, just as he was leaving the house, two half-grown children came in a panic at the entrance of the village.

The two children were dressed like beggars. After entering the village, they looked around for a long time and knocked on the nearest gate.

The woman who opened the door frowned and waved her away, "Our family doesn't have any extra food, so you can go."

Along the way, I don't know how many times I heard such words. The two tried their best not to let the tears fall, and said: "We are not beggars, just want to ask my aunt if this is Yangshu Village, and whether Li Maoxian's family is here..."

The woman was taken aback when she heard the words, and she came out and closed the door, "This is Yangshu Village, you are looking for Li Maoxian...I will lead you there."

Mrs. Chen took out the washed diapers in the house to dry, heard someone calling outside, wiped her hands on the clothes, walked to the door, and saw her sister-in-law from the same village standing outside, followed by two ragged, Dirty half-baby.

Before she could speak, the two boys cried: "Auntie, Auntie, I'm Yuehao, something happened to our family, my mother asked me to go back to the village to find you..."

It turned out to be two nephews from far away in Nanyang County. Mrs. Chen was taken aback. She quickly pulled the two children into the yard and thanked the woman. The woman also knew that his family was busy, so she politely left.

The remaining food is definitely not enough to eat, and the price of food in the county has risen again. The elders in the village are discussing, asking the young and strong of each household to go outside to find work. There is still another winter. If you can go out Earn some money to supplement the family.

Few people in the village go out and go far. They went to the county seat for a few days and found nothing. They knew that Li Maoxian had been to Fanyang City several times this year.

Now the people in the village are remorseful, and they should follow them to the border town. Guo Daquan and the others went there for a few months, and Li Maoxian asked Li Maoxian to bring back a few taels of silver. If they had gone earlier, they would have money to buy food by this time.

However, it is too late to say this now, Li Maoxian has just returned, and he will definitely not go to the border town again, they still missed it after all.

While talking, Li Qinghong came over and said that there was a visitor at home.

The villagers knew that the Li family would not send someone to look for Li Maoxian if it was not an urgent matter, so they all spoke up and asked him to go back to entertain the guests first.

When Li Maoxian came back, Liu Yuehao and Liu Yuelai had finished crying and called uncle with red and swollen eyes.

The two of them had already washed their faces and changed into Li Qinghong and Li Qingfeng's old clothes. They no longer looked like beggars when they first arrived, but the wounds on their faces were even more shocking.

"Uncle, my mother has been arrested, and they said she will be beheaded..." Liu Yuehao said with a terrified expression, choked with tears.

Knowing that something happened to his sister's house, Li Maoxian's expression darkened, "Speak slowly, what's the matter?"

"My, my mother was taken away by the officials. She stabbed a thief with a bad mouth. I, my father didn't know where to go. He came to the door and asked for 200 taels of silver..." Liu Yuehao hoarsely said, Said: "Our family couldn't make up that much money, so they said they would cut off my mother's head..."

Li Maoyu was born good-looking and capable. After marrying Liu Dacheng, he took good care of everything inside and out. The neighbors in the neighborhood are so envious. There are people who can't see others living well, so they spread rumors about Li Maoyu and who Whoever flirts with each other is not a serious person at first glance.

Li Maoyu's pungent temper naturally scolded those gossipers bloody. She had a feud with some women on the street, and those women tried their best to tell lies, saying that they saw someone dancing in the middle of the night. On the wall of the house, these children are not like Liu Dacheng at all...

Hearing these gossips, Liu Dacheng felt a little sullen after all, but instead of going out to teach those people a lesson, he started drinking sullenly.

Li Maoyu yelled at those who spoke ill of her with a willow stick, and her own hair was ruffled. When Liu Dacheng saw her embarrassed appearance, and then looked at the faces of her two sons who had been injured in a fight with others, she felt a little bit in her heart. The fire was sent to Li Maoyu.

At first it was just a noise, but then they moved their hands. Li Maoyu knocked Liu Dacheng's head, and Liu Dacheng injured her arm.

The meager savings all paid for the medicine.

Although Li Maoyu came from a humble background, she was loved by her parents and brother-in-law since she was a child, and she has never suffered such grievances. She married too poorly. If she hadn't had children, she would have wished to leave this family.

She was very angry and didn't want her family to know that she was living like this, so she never told Li Maoxian.

Li Qingrui saw her injured arm. Later, when Li Maoxian and Li Qinghong came to the door, Liu Dacheng hid in fear and did not dare to see them.

Li Maoxian and his father and son searched in Nanyang County for three days before they found him and asked him why he did something to the woman who gave birth to him.

Liu Dacheng was afraid of Li Maoxian. He knew that this uncle was not easy to provoke, and he knew he was wrong. He knelt down at that time, crying and saying that he was not human, and he would never dare again. .

He also cried and apologized to Li Maoyu. Li Maoyu's heart softened, and he also interceded with his brother.

Li Maoxian talked to Liu Dacheng a lot of words with earnestness and earnestness, and finally saw that he really repented, so he came back.

After he left, Liu Dacheng really didn't dare to drink indiscriminately anymore. He didn't want to listen to the gossip of his neighbors, so he simply went to work in the next county.

As soon as Liu Dacheng left, the words made by those women became even more ugly, saying that Liu Dacheng didn't need to make money, anyway, there were so many people who helped him and raised his wife and children for him. (Note: 1)

Without the man at home, those gangsters in the streets and alleys became ill-willed, wandering around Liu's house all day long, causing gossip to spread everywhere.

Li Maoyu went to look for Liu Dacheng and asked him to go home, otherwise he would not be able to live in the future.

Liu Dacheng didn't want to go back to make trouble, and the two quarreled again. Liu Dacheng stiffened his neck, "Isn't your elder brother capable? Go back and find him!"

In the end, he just felt ashamed to kneel down to his brother-in-law last year, and this year he used the Li family to speak out from time to time.

Li Maoyu was completely disappointed, she said: "You come home with me, without my brother, I naturally have a way to make those people shut up."

As she said, Liu Dacheng was dragged by the two sons and had no choice but to go home.

Li Maoyu took him to a family who usually likes to pour dirty water on her. The woman in that family knew that Liu Dacheng was a waste, so she didn't take him seriously at all, and said squintingly: "Why are you back, aren't you The daughter-in-law has a big belly and can't find her father?"

Li Maoyu asked the two sons to drag the woman, beat the woman up and down, dragged her to the street by the hair, and called for someone to come out.

When the commotion got to the point where all the neighbors came to watch, she took out the knife in her sleeve, inserted it directly into the woman's stomach, and said to her surroundings, "Whoever dares to chew my old lady's tongue in the future, I will crawl into the underworld." Come out and stab each of you to death!"

Everyone on the street was dumbfounded, and they were stunned for a long time, screaming and running away.

Li Maoyu pulled out the knife and handed it to Liu Dacheng, "This method is guaranteed to be safe, and you don't have to hide it in the future."

Liu Dacheng was so frightened that he sat down on the ground and almost peed his pants.

Li Maoyu held the blood-stained knife and pointed at Liu Dacheng. For a moment, she wanted to stab him, but she finally lowered her hand when she looked at the child next to her.

The family didn't dare to approach her, and didn't kick and beat her until the officers and soldiers came to arrest her.

Before being taken away, Liu Dacheng was nowhere to be seen. Li Maoyu asked his two sons to come to Yangshu Village. They cried and shouted, stumbled and walked for two hundred miles to find their uncle's house.

Listening to the crying of the two brothers, there was a complete silence inside and outside Li's house.

Li Maoxian's face turned pale. He originally thought that he would go to Nanyang County again this winter, but in the end, he didn't go, and his sister had such a big event.

Without thinking about it, Li Maoxian got up and asked his two nephews to wait. He went to Li Benshan's house.

Gritting her teeth, Chen scolded those gossips, while comforting her two nephews, she packed up her things.

Without taking a bite of lunch, Li Maoxian and Li Qingrui took more than 30 brothers and nephews from the same family to Nanyang County.

Nanyang County is not small, and it is noisy every day. There is an Osmanthus Alley in the corner of the county seat. Most of the people living here are poor families. The sounds of children crying, women cursing and men snoring.

Stressed in the house, the women and old people in Osmanthus Alley like to sit out during the day, carrying benches or futons, sewing clothes at the door, packing shoe soles, and talking about their parents.

These days, there are no people at the door of every house in the alley. It's not because of the cold, but because a murder happened here a while ago.

Witnessing the daughter-in-law of the Liu family stabbing a knife into a person's stomach, the people who went back were terrified.

Because the one who got knifed likes to spread rumors, everyone dare not talk nonsense outside now, and only sigh a few words when the door is closed.

"Liu Dacheng's daughter-in-law is really ruthless. If it weren't for that stinky wife of the Zhao family who hid two pieces of cake in her clothes, she would have poked her intestines to pieces..."

"You deserve it if you poke her to death. Her mouth is full of sinful virtues. Over the years, her family's affairs have not been arranged behind the scenes. I want to give her a few blows. I'm afraid that I will get into this stinky shit and bite me in the future." Don't let go."

"Now that I think about that day, I don't feel so scared anymore. I feel very refreshed and happy... But the Liu family's daughter-in-law may be in trouble this time. The Zhao family will sue her for murder. Not only will she be punished, but she will also be compensated for the injury."

While talking, someone came into the house again, "Shut the door to me when you leave the house. Someone from Liu Dacheng's family has come. I heard that it is his daughter-in-law's natal family. I don't think this is over yet. Our family can Don't scratch it."

The speaker's heart tightened, and he didn't dare to say any more, but he also looked out through the crack of the door curiously.

Diagonally across from her house was Liu's house, and I happened to see twenty or thirty men coming in and out, all with sullen faces, looking a bit scary.

Li Maoxian took people to Nanyang County, and the two nieces who lived in relatives' homes dared to go home. When they saw their uncle and eldest cousin, they naturally cried bitterly and almost couldn't breathe.

Mother had an accident, father didn't know where to hide, brother and younger brother went out, the two of them have been in fear these days.

Li Qinghong comforted the two of them, Li Maoxian and Li Qingrui went to the Yamen in Nanyang County, and after finishing the housekeeping, they met Li Maoyu in the prison.

Li Maoyu was wearing prison clothes, looking very haggard, holding back tears, said: "Brother, I made a big disaster this time, but I don't regret it, but I have to worry about you."

When Li Maoyu was a girl at home, she was hot-tempered, and occasionally quarreled with the villagers, and when she couldn't keep up, she would secretly look for Li Maoxian, with her brother blocking her, so she could avoid being scolded by her parents.

She had been married for [-] years, and now she was killed, and she had to call her elder brother all the way to deal with the aftermath, so naturally she felt various feelings in her heart.

"If you really think of me as a big brother, you should have told me these things earlier." Li Maoxian sighed, "Let's eat first, we'll talk about it later."

Li Qingrui put the cloth he brought on the ground, took out the food from the food box one by one, put them on the cloth, and said, "Gu, I heard that the elder jailer said that you haven't eaten for several meals, so fill your stomach first."

Li Maoyu was holding the rice, unable to eat in one bite, tears streaming down her face.

She didn't know what she did wrong, why she was maliciously slandered, why she fell into such a useless man, and why she fell to where she is today.

She was out of breath from crying, and her hands were shaking non-stop. Li Maoxian took the bowl from her hand and said, "Eat after crying."

Li Maoyu, who had been holding on all this time, finally couldn't help it, and burst into tears, "Brother, brother, my, my life is too, too bitter..."

She didn't want outsiders to see the jokes. When she was gossiped about, she never showed timidity. If a man was unreliable, she would fight back by herself. In the end, she wanted to kill the fish, but in the end, the scumbag survived, but she was in deep prison. She felt that she It's better to be dead than alive!

After being suppressed for too long, Li Maoyu's tears seemed to flow, and she was crying heartbroken.

Li Maoxian knew that she had been wronged a lot these years, so he didn't persuade her, just listened to her cry.

When the sun was about to set, the jailer came and said they should go.

Li Maoxian stood up, and said to Li Maoyu who was lying on the ground, unable to cry, "You stay in the prison well, and I will take you back to the village after I get things done outside."

After leaving the prison, Li Maoxian did not leave in a hurry, and invited the head arresters and guards of the county government to drink and ask them to take care of Li Maoyu.

The officials told him that the woman who was stabbed by the knife did not die, but her family killed Li Maoyu and wanted to kill her, so she insisted on paying her life and compensation.