After coming out of Ning Lazi's house, Su Liu ran to the grocery store in the village. The owner of the store, Ping, who was known as the pretty widow, was sitting at the door eating melon seeds. Seeing Su Liu coming, he was startled at first, and then piled up
Stand up with a smile on your face.
"Isn't this a girl from the Su family, but is she here to make soy sauce?"
Su Liu quickly looked at Ping. She was about twenty-five or sixty-six years old. She had her hair tied up in a bun with two silver hairpins, and two pearl earrings on her ears. She was wearing a rose-red dress.
Her waist is slender, and her facial features are full of charm.
No wonder she fascinated the men in the village. She still had charm, and was a bit more beautiful and elegant than the vulgar village women.
He is so young, has a son, an orphan and a widowed mother, and is living in a grocery store without any embarrassment, which shows that he has some means.
"Sister-in-law Ping, let me buy some eggs." Su Liu stepped forward with a smile.
Pingshi was slightly stunned. Someone from her shop, Pingshi, was also chatting here. She had heard rumors about Su Liu more than once, saying that she seemed to be a different person after chopping off her fingers. It was true. Look.
This Luoluo smile is different from the humble Liuzhier who was gloomy and unwilling to raise his head in the past?
"Buy eggs, come here, pick." The customer came to the door and didn't bother to rush out. Mrs. Ping hurriedly stepped aside and led Su Liu to a basket of eggs, and asked again: "Your family also raises two or three eggs."
Mother, why are you here to buy eggs?"
There are no farmers who don’t raise chickens, unless they are really too poor to raise chickens and don’t even have the money to buy chickens. But that’s not the case with the Su family. They are considered to have little wealth in Da’ao Village. After all, the eldest son of the Su family is in the city.
I'm doing some work there!
Su Liu wanted to say that he didn't eat it, but as soon as he thought about it, he smiled bitterly and said: "Sister-in-law Ping is joking. I can't eat any of our eggs. My mother had her head broken again... just secretly."
Just to replenish her health."
Ping's movement of eating melon seeds paused, and there was a trace of pity in her eyes. How the boss of the Su family treated Chen was not a private matter in Da'ao Village. Even the daughter she gave birth to was inferior to the one born after her. Look at this
You will know it once you see it.
She also sees the second daughter of the Su family, her clothes are all good, nothing like this one, look at the patches, they are all poor people.
Su Liu did not miss her trace of pity, she felt a little happy in her heart, and pretended to be sad: "As the saying goes, if a son doesn't tell his father's fault, I can't say anything, but I beg you, sister-in-law, don't say it out loud, just know it in your heart, I
I’m going to salute my sister-in-law.” He said he was about to salute.
"Oh, look at you kid. They say you've grown up, and it's true. You're filial to your mother, and that's right. Even if I say it, only people will praise you, but you won't let me say it." Mrs. Ping was busy.
Stop her.
Su Liu immediately made a look of fear and said: "Sister-in-law Ping, please don't do it. Our three mothers will suffer again later. This is not like having nothing to eat...ah." Her voice was abrupt.
Then he stopped, as if he had said the wrong thing and covered his mouth in panic.
Mrs. Ping heard it. At this time, Su Liu's stomach growled again. She immediately understood that the Su family had gone too far.
"Sister-in-law Ping, I just picked these eggs, please calculate how much they cost." Su Liu hurriedly changed the subject and pointed to the eggs in the basket.
Sister-in-law Ping counted eight eggs, which should have cost six cents, and said, "Just give me five cents."
Su Liu sighed, took out some money from his waist, counted it over and over again, handed it to Ping, and said: "Sister-in-law Ping, I saved this money secretly, can you not tell anyone?
I came here to buy eggs, otherwise my grandma would probably accuse me of stealing money."
"Yeah, you just came and helped me wash the soy sauce vats." Mrs. Ping said, pointing to the vats drying in front of the house.
"Then I thank my sister-in-law." Su Liu smiled and bent his knees.
"Hey." Mrs. Ping waved her hand, then thought of something, grabbed a handful of candies from the basket, stuffed them into her hand and said, "Eat with your sister, don't let that silver egghead see you."
Su Liu was startled, then showed a sincere smile: "Thank you, sister-in-law."
She was sincerely grateful. Although she had taken advantage of the situation earlier and made a sad drama, hoping to use Ping's mouth to spread it, but she was really sympathetic.
When Mrs. Ping saw her walking away, she couldn't help but shook her head and said, "It's so pitiful, and such a bad fate." After that day, under Ping's publicity intentionally or unintentionally, the Su family abused their eldest daughter-in-law and was mean to their eldest grandson.
The reputation of a woman doting on her second wife spreads quietly.
Su Liu came to the door of Li Zheng's house with eight eggs in his hand, hesitating a little.
Li Zheng is in charge of household registration, taxation, land and real estate matters. Li Zheng from Da'ao Village is surnamed Zhao. He is a bit shrewd, but he is not a treacherous person.
I don't know if these eggs can knock on the door of Zhao Lizheng's house. Su Liu took a look at the vermilion door in front of him. It was really a mansion.
Without any room to think, she still held the copper ring and knocked on the door. An old man opened the door and glanced at Su Liu with squinted eyes: "Who are you looking for?"
"Uncle, I am from Dayao Village, and I have something to do with Mr. Zhao Lizheng." Su Liudui smiled.
The old man frowned and saw that Su Liu was wearing a patched coarse cloth dress. He didn't want to respond, but when he saw Su Liu's flattering eyes, he said, "Wait a minute."
The old man closed the door, waited for a while, then opened it again and said, "Come in."
Su Liu entered the door and didn't dare to look around, but he still took in the scenery of this mansion from the corner of his eye. Although it didn't have a garden like those big mansions, it was very neatly tidied up. Compared with ordinary
The farmhouse is much more exquisite.
After entering a courtyard gate, the view becomes wider. The four-room blue-brick and black-tiled house, although it cannot be called a beautifully decorated building, can be regarded as the most magnificent in the village. After all, it is a bright and elegant house.
It's strange that everyone wants to be an official. Look at this magnificence. How can a villager who has been farming all his life be qualified?
"You're the one looking for me? Hey, aren't you that six-fingered girl from the Su family? What are you doing here?" Just as Su Liu was deep in thought, a voice interrupted her thoughts.
Su Liu looked up and saw a man about forty years old standing in front of the main room, wearing a gray long Confucian shirt and two beards, looking at Su Liu.
This was Zhao Lizheng. Su Liu blinked, hurriedly stepped forward, bowed and said respectfully: "Mr. Zhao Lizheng, how are you? Su Liu took the liberty of coming to disturb you."
Zhao Lizheng was stunned. When did this girl become so polite?
He didn't think much about it and called Su Liu into the room. When he saw Su Liu offering a few eggs, he couldn't help but be even more surprised and asked: "Why is this?"
"Master Li Zheng, this is my filial piety to you." Su Liu smiled and said: "I came here today to ask Li Zheng whether the empty house in Bei'aozi can be sold? I want to buy it.
