Sun Xueli's visit to his teachers and friends during the past half month was a lie to the Guan family. In fact, he went to Yingtian Mansion. There were many wealthy businessmen in Yingtian Mansion City. He would use the jewels he got from Tang Ergou.
The jade was sold for thirty thousand taels of silver.
After getting the money, they played and sang on the Qinhuai River every night. They were very happy for more than half a month. After the money was almost spent, they remembered to go back to Mudu.
"My dear nephew, why are you laughing?" Guan asked in confusion.
"I admire my aunt for her kindness and bodhisattva-like heart, and her kindness and righteousness." She said this, but what she was thinking in her heart was that the opportunity had come again.
Mrs. Guan was so praised by Sun Xueli that she prepared to serve him beans. "Aunt, you don't have to be busy. In February, I will go to Gusu City to consult scholars. I may not have time to come over. I will wait until I am busy with this.
Come back later to eat aunt's tofu pudding." After saying this, Sun Xueli turned around and said hello to Liu Xiuxia who was busy, and left.
When Guan saw that Sun Xueli was busy with his studies, he did not dare to delay. After all, there was only such a scholar in Mudu Village...
After the tofu shop closed in the evening, the three of them had dinner. Xu Ruoyi began to scoop out the soaked soybeans from the earthen jar without saying a word, and stood in front of the stone mill in the corner of the room, holding the handle with both hands.
He turned the stone millstone like a windmill. It turned out that Liu Xiuxia needed to grind for two hours, but he finished grinding the soybeans in a stick of incense. After grinding the soybeans, he took the large vat of pulp and poured it into the iron pot in the stove to cook the pulp.
Wait for Liu Xiuxia to order some marinade.
After Liu Xiuxia had put away the dishes, Xu Ruoyi was almost boiling the soy milk. With this helper, Liu Xiuxia and her daughter felt obviously much more relaxed.
Liu Xiuxia saw Xu Ruoyi lighting the fire in the kitchen, although she was dressed in coarse linen clothes, but her beautiful eyes and eyebrows could not be concealed. She smiled and said, "Mr. Xu, Mudu Xiaozhuangzi is not as good as the one where the young master of Lin'an Prefecture lives. Is he still used to it?"
Xu Ruoyi sighed: "Lin'an Prefecture, a land of sensuality and sensuality, is not as quiet as this place. All the beauty is gone, only the heart is full of sorrow."
"Young Master must have read a lot of books at home, right? What he said is different. A man has ambitions in all directions. You should be like Brother Sun and take the exams to get the honors. Once you have the honors, you can become an official.
The official can punish the enemies of your family." Liu Xiuxia's unintentional words gave Xu Ruoyi a revelation, and she realized that she would eventually be caught. Only by becoming an official can you have the opportunity to meet the saint. Although it is a narrow escape, it is still better than being a frightened bird now.
Strong.
Xu Ruoyi raised her head and looked at Liu Xiuxia who was ordering the stew. Liu Xiuxia rolled up her sleeves to reveal a tender lotus root-like forearm. Against the backdrop of the hot mist of boiling slurry in the iron pot, her cheeks were as pink as a snap and she was as beautiful as a fairy. Xu Ruoyi
He took out a piece of charcoal and drew a beautiful picture of Liu Xiuxia on the ground...
Liu Xiuxia inadvertently noticed that Xu Ruoyi was looking at her and hurriedly lowered her head, not knowing what she was doing. Curious, she moved lightly to Xu Ruoyi's side and lowered her head. She was stunned. There were several strokes of charcoal wood on the bluestone.
There was actually a beautiful woman with long flowing hair half covering her face, her head was furrowed and her eyebrows were like autumn water, looking forward...
Xu Ruoyi raised her head to look at Liu Xiuxia again, only to find that she was already beside him. Their eyes met, making Xu Ruoyi embarrassed and stretched out her feet to erase the painting.
Liu Xiuxia said anxiously: "Uh..." But she was too shy and didn't know what to say, so she turned around and continued to order the marinade. The two of them remained silent, but Xu Ruoyi still let Xu Ruoyi wipe the painting...
The next morning, Xu Ruoyi was chopping firewood, and Liu Xiuxia came back from buying vegetables at the morning market. Xu Ruoyi put down the hatchet in her hand, bowed her head and saluted: "Yesterday's incident was outrageous, girl. Xu Ruoyi is not a prodigal, it's just because he couldn't help himself.
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Liu Xiuxia chuckled, took out a package of things from the vegetable basket and gave it to Xu Ruoyi, then ran back to the shop. Xu Ruoyi opened the package and saw that it contained several books and a stack of Jingxian County's Best Half Life
Rice paper, three Huzhou Prefecture wool brushes are sandwiched in the rice paper.
Liu's Tofu Shop opened its shop and started doing business. However, the people who came to buy tofu today were different from usual. After entering, they all looked at Guan's mother and daughter and Xu Ruoyi. Xu Ruoyi was as usual.
She was just carrying dishes and wiping the table, and she didn't care how people looked at her. Liu Xiuxia was too busy selling bean curds, and she didn't care about the eyes of others. But the cashier, Guan, noticed that today's diners were very strange...
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Liu Xiuxia only had some free time when she was ordering gravy in the evening, and she could chat with Xu Ruoyi who was lighting the fire.
"Why did the girl think of buying me calligraphy and painting paper today?" Xu Ruoyi had been wanting to ask since the morning, but it was inconvenient because she was busy with work.
Liu Xiuxia said shyly: "I saw Mr. Xu's vivid paintings and he must be a scholar. I found a bookstall in the market this morning and bought him some books and paper. I don't understand this either. The stall owner said that he was from Jingxian County, Anhui Province.
What kind of half-raw rice paper is the best for drawing, so I bought it, but I know a little bit about how to make tofu. Is this paper also available in raw or cooked form?"
Xu Ruoyi smiled and said: "Well, rice paper can be divided into raw and cooked. If you put ink droplets on the paper and the ink spreads out, it is raw rice paper. If all the ink droplets are absorbed into the paper, it will not spread out. It is cooked rice paper. Half-raw rice paper."
Just condensing the ink and miniaturizing it can add more charm to the painting."
Liu Xiuxia never knew that there were so many details on the same blank piece of paper. She praised: "Mr. Xu, you know more than Brother Sun. In two months, the school in Gusu City will start taking exams. Mr. Xu and
Brother Sun, let's go together." If Xu Ruoyi wanted to be an official in the past, there would be no need to take the scholar exam...
In the past few days, people who came to Liu's Tofu Shop were no longer eating tofu but came specifically to see the three people in Liu's Tofu Shop. Various rumors began to spread in Mudu Village about Xu Ruoyi and Liu Xiuxia.
There was some talk of cowardice, some said that the Guan family was immoral and greedy and admired the young and handsome Xu Ruoyi and took him in the tofu shop. Some even said that the two women were serving the same husband... Anyway, there were all kinds of things, but there was not a single good word.
When Mrs. Guan heard these gossips, she was so angry that she fainted on the spot. The business in the tofu shop was also much lighter, and the neighbors took a detour when they saw Liu Xiuxia buying vegetables. Mrs. Guan and her daughter let these rumors spread.
It was difficult to stand in front of others, and he was in tears all day long, wishing he could die. The only person in Zhuangzi who was happy about this incident was Sun Xueli, who was behind the whole thing. Sun Xueli always knew that Mudu Zhuang was the master
People respect the Liu family and their daughter, but leaving a man at home for a widowed mother and an orphan is undoubtedly gossiping, but no one in the village believes that the Liu family and her daughter will do anything. Sun Xueli is in Gusu City
I found a beggar Huazi, gave him ten taels of silver and told him to go to Mudu Village to spread rumors. As long as the reputation was bigger, I would give him another ten taels of silver. Huazi didn't know Sun Xueli but he knew the silver. Twenty taels of silver to Huazi.
He wanted to have food for a lifetime, so Hanako found more than a dozen Hanako to explain the matter and promised to give them three hundred Wen each after the matter was completed.
These dozen or so libertines went to Zhuangzi to spread rumors and stir up trouble, telling the scandalous story about Liu's mother and daughter as vividly as possible. What was said was heard, and what was said by more than a dozen people became true.
It was inevitable that some people in the village who were full and had nothing to do also followed suit, as if they had witnessed the whole thing. Everyone said that the three married daughters of the Liu family in Jinzhuang had no shame to see anyone in the village, and they just gritted their teeth and started talking to their parents' families.
Broken off the relationship...
Everything was as perfect as Sun Xueli calculated, killing without blood. In a few days, he would hear the news that the Liu family and his daughter committed suicide. However, after waiting and waiting, there was no news of the Liu family's suicide. Sun Xueli planned to go there again.
To add some fuel to the fire. In fact, the Liu family's mother and daughter really wanted to commit suicide, but Xu Ruoyi stopped them.
Xu Ruoyi calmly said to the mother and daughter: "Originally, I was going to leave Mudu in the spring, but now that something like this happened, I refused to leave. Rumors have popped up in the village and they are coming fiercely. This must be someone.
Instigated. That person’s intention is to force you to death. If you really commit suicide, you will fall into the villain’s plot. As long as you keep your temper, the rumors will be self-defeating within three days." The mother and daughter felt that what Xu Ruoyi said
It seemed to make some sense, so I temporarily gave up the idea of seeking death.
Three days later, in the middle of the night, I don’t know who started it, but person No. 100 quietly came outside Liu’s Tofu Shop. He kicked open the Liu’s shop door with a bang, and all he could see was the front hall.
Xu Ruoyi was only wearing a small coat and covered with a thin quilt and slept on a bed made up of tables. The inner room was locked from the inside. It was not said that the three of them slept on the same pillow. People in the village thought that Liu was wrong.
Both mother and daughter left in disbelief.
From then on, no one in the village believed the rumors anymore. Sun Xueli never expected that Xu Ruoyi would really sleep in the front hall where the wind was blowing from all sides. If his plan failed, he would try another one.
At midnight the next day, five big men rushed into Liu's tofu shop with knives. Xu Ruoyi knocked down one of them with one punch, and all five big men were beaten to the ground without a cup of tea. Guan and Liu Xiuxia heard this in the front hall.
There was a sound of fighting inside and everyone got up, but they didn't dare to open the door. They waited until the sound of fighting outside the house subsided, then opened the door and walked out together.
The five people in the outer room were all begging for mercy, and Xu Ruoyi stepped on the back of one of them with her toes. The mother and daughter only heard the person who was stepped on scream in pain: "Sir, please forgive me. Someone paid us to come and rescue you."
The three men will be knocked unconscious, the woman will be raped, and then they will put the three of you on the bed together. When it gets dark, someone will come..."
At dawn, a Huazi brought about thirty people from the village to Liu's tofu shop to catch a traitor. When they saw Xu Ruoyi and the Liu family's mother and daughter looking angrily at the Huazi, there were five people tied up on the ground. The leader was
Seeing that the situation was not right, Huazi wanted to run away. Xu Ruoyi turned over and jumped in front of the flower. He swept his legs and hooked the flower. The flower was thrown to the sky. Before Xu Ruoyi could do anything, the flower was going to be paid by others to spread rumors.
The truth of the matter has been told...
Although Huazi did not know Sun Xueli, everyone in the village already knew that the Liu family and her daughter were innocent. After beating those Huazis, they were driven out of Mudu. Guan suddenly fell ill because of the fright and grievances she had experienced these days.