Chapter 23 Section VII

Zhaodi fell asleep again, Gu Tiancheng took off the cotton robe with collar frame, took his wife's mirror in front of the lamp pot and looked at it, there was a wound on the corner of his right eye, which was bruised, but the rest was fine, no injury. His wife asked again: "Why did you tear your clothes to pieces? Could it be that you really met a stickman! ... The money donated to the official, can you give it to Uncle Yuan? ... The fifty taels owed by Uncle Yao can't Have you received it?..." When he thought about the past, he really felt that it was wrong; he shouldn't have listened to Uncle Yuan's advocacy and used the land to donate to officials, so as to get all kinds of things later.But it was his Uncle Yao who encouraged him to listen to Uncle Yuan.Therefore, his answer was: "Why do you still ask? I just suffered from the loss of these two people! Without them, my tens of acres of land, even if I get out of my temper, will not be like these days. It's so fast! In the end, I was bullied by a whore, and I suffered this!..." He grabbed the hookah, ate it hard, and told the whole process from gambling in the provincial capital until he was beaten. , without any concealment, told her everything.

Although his wife is an honest and ignorant country woman, besides being extremely hard on herself, and even reluctant to take medicine when she gets sick, she has another advantage, that is, "no offense to my master".This was not taught to her by anyone, and she had never read any biblical biographies. It can be said that she brought it from innate.She instinctively believed that being a wife should only do a few things: one is to do housework that men do not do; Scolding, the fourth is to work hard on yourself, and you must not be the same as men in clothing, food, and daily life; moreover, it is a man's business, no matter whether it is good or bad, you will never be allowed to interfere. Whatever he wants, you should not only obey him, but also help him .

So ever since she married Gu Tiancheng, her world was limited to the enclosure of the farm, and her thoughts were only on how to be conscientious and frugal.She does not know her husband's disposition, nor her husband's behavior.She only knows one thing, that is, she has been married for thirteen years and only gave birth to a daughter to her husband. Not only is she sorry for her husband, but also for the ancestors of the Gu family.She only knew that it was her own fault for not having a son, but she didn't know that her husband had contracted a serious disease of infertility four years after marrying her. Not only did she not know this, but her husband and many others How do you know?Therefore, her husband obviously went out whoring, and she thought she couldn't ask about it. She also thought it was right for her husband to ask for a concubine, and she also hoped to have a son as soon as possible. There are people who wear linen and mourning, and there are people who stretch fiber, otherwise they are lonely ghosts; since I got sick, I think so.This time when Gu Tiancheng went to the province, he asked his concubine by the way, she told her husband.

She is such a compliant country woman, so her husband's affairs will never be hidden from her. No matter whether it is good or bad, if you have done anything outside, you must tell her in detail; or if you are angry, I can't help but use her to vent, she always listens, accepts, and feels at ease, never feeling wrong.Recently, because she was suffering from tuberculosis, he was also a little bit worried, so when he knocked on the door tonight, his heart softened, and he never kept beating and scolding her like before, and after talking about it, he never scolded her.While she was grateful, she didn't feel that there was anything to blame for her husband's inability to go whoring, gambling, being taken away by others, and giving away most of the family like this. Angry, the one who is angry is Liu Sanjin, a bitch, why is she playing tricks? Since her husband likes her so much, why doesn't she just follow her?

After Gu Tiancheng confided his heart, he felt a little refreshed, so he discussed his revenge plan: "Sell the place as hard as possible, still go to look for Uncle Yuan, donate a lot of officials, and find a way to connect with the county in Chengdu County. Please ask the official to issue a signed ticket, lock Luo Waizui, Zhang Zhankui and others with a chain, smash their buttocks first, and then put them in the cage to stand dead!... Only when they see them standing dead with their own eyes Get this bad breath in my heart!..." His wife said, "What about the bitch?" "Liu Sanjin?..."

This is really hard to deal with!According to his wife's wishes, he still got it to be his concubine, "As long as she can have a son, don't worry about her!" After clearing up his past, present, future, all facts and delusions, I thought of asking his wife: "Why, after taking Dr. Zhang's medicine, I can't get up in reverse?... Can't get up, how many days?" After coughing for a while, she replied: "Today, I got up during the day, and it was hard in the afternoon!... My chest is so painful from coughing!... If you want to remember, just cough!... Teacher Zhang's medicine is too expensive , I only took one pair,...I don’t want to take medicine, it’s a waste of money.”

"How many medicinal chickens have you eaten? They all said it was very effective." His wife seemed to have been electrocuted, and she hit the quilt with one hand, and sighed: "Don't talk about chickens anymore!...Today, because of chickens, I suffered a bad temper...that made me feel better. ... Alas! People are good at being bullied,... Ma Shan is being ridden by others!..." Gu Tiancheng was also taken aback and said: "Damn, today you too..." "It's better to come to the door to bully people!...It's Mrs. Zhong Yao!..." Mrs. Zhong Yao, that oily and dark woman who is nearly thirty years old, is still coquettish, and she has been flirting with Gu Tiancheng since last year.As soon as he heard about her, he paid attention and asked what happened.His wife coughed again, and she couldn't help being a little emotional when she said it. After talking for a while, the matter became clear.It turned out that his wife had obtained a prescription for medicinal chicken, and the herbal medicine had been prepared, but she was reluctant to kill the chicken.Until this morning, Zhaodi went to play in the forest pan and came back to say that there was a dead chicken in the forest pan.When Aaron picked it up, it was killed by the weasel, but the blood was thrown away, and it was still edible.Zhaodi said it was Zhong's chicken.Logically, regardless of which family it belongs to, since the weasel is in the forest, it is considered foreign money.She asked Aaron to wash it out, put the medicine in the chicken belly, and just steamed it.It's only because of the quick talk of recruiting younger brothers, she went to Zhong's house to play, and when talking about the chicken, Brother Zhong Yao didn't say anything, but Aunt Zhong Yao refused, and rushed over angrily, insisting that she had a good mouth, and ordered him Aaron went to steal it.Ah San came back from the market, and insisted on a few words with her, "Look, she's the only one! I drove Ah San to slap her, but Ah San was afraid of her and hid. It didn't count that she brought the medicine chicken back. I also snatched one of my laying hens, and said that it would be unreasonable to ask you when you came back. It made me so angry that I immediately felt heartbroken and couldn’t get up. I’m not angry with her for anything else, Why did you take my hen away?..."

Gu Tiancheng was silent for a while, and then said: "Sister-in-law Zhong Yao was fine at first, but because she voted for the Zeng family's tenant, the Zeng family was taught, and no one dared to mess with her, so the Zhong family became troubled." His wife said: "I don't care if I'm taught or not,... all I want is my hen." "It's easy. I will definitely go back tomorrow and steam the herbal chicken for you." "Ah! Please don't pay your life debt!... If the disease is cured, it will get better by itself..." Eight According to Mrs. Zhong Yao, the chicken was killed by a weasel, but it was not dragged in his forest pan, but by her fence.A dead chicken, it doesn't matter if you eat it, her man said the same thing; but she thought about it, Mrs. Gu San usually spends a lot of time, she is not human at all, and she will curse for a long time if she fishes some fallen leaves in her forest pan.Living here for two years, how stingy she has been.To be honest, now that I have arms, I am not afraid of hard work!So a dead chicken that doesn't matter at all, if someone else eats it, it's fine, there's no need to make a noise there; because it's her, and because Master Gu Sangong is not at home, she is at ease, so she went to fight, she Now I don’t dare to go wrong, and when I saw Ah San being beaten, I hurriedly said, “It’s over if you pay for your chicken!” Mrs. Zhong Yao smiled triumphantly and said, “Then I won’t say anything, just catch the hen and go away. Actually, it's just to be angry with her. We can't do anything like this. Lord Sangong, if the hen is here, I still won't return it to her. "

Gu Tiancheng knew her intentions, but he couldn't help but miss his wife a little, so he said with a smile: "Sister-in-law Zhong Yao, why are you so serious with her? Pay her back! For my sake!" Mrs. Zhong Yao examined him, hurriedly leaned over, and stretched out her hand to touch his face.He instinctively dodged and turned his face away. She said angrily: "What are you hiding? I think your face is blue? Is it because the chicken hit her and asked me to look at your face?" He said: "You are just talking nonsense! She dared to hit me? There is no law! This was injured by the same person yesterday!"

"Is it the same thing?" "After you let me take the chicken back, I'll tell you slowly. It's really a long story!" She opened her eyes wide and said, "Why are you protecting her like this? She asked you to come and ask for a chicken, but you insisted on taking the chicken back, but I won't follow you, let me see!" "Look at her falling ill, she will die of anger if she doesn't take the chicken home." "If you die of anger, you will die of anger. It has nothing to do with me! She paid me for the chicken, but I can't think of it, and calling a man to come back again, it's too shameless!"

Her man also persuaded: "If you don't look at the face of the monk or the face of the Buddha, just send it off to Lord Sangong." "That's even more unacceptable! If someone asks him to beat him, he doesn't say a word, he just asks for a chicken. If he looks down on him like this, why should he care about him!" Gu Tiancheng didn't dare to disobey her again, so he could only tell her what had happened in the past few days.She couldn't help being furious, raised her brows, and cried out: "This is really hateful!... Untie your clothes and let me see if you have any hidden wounds on your body.... Are you going to spare them? whore?" Gu Tiancheng shook his head and said: "Forgive them? That's not okay? I've already made up my mind to try my best to lose my family, and this tone is going to come out!" Then he told him what he thought last night. The youngest Zhong sucked on the short-leaf smoke and said, "Then it's better to sue them in the yamen." His wife bumped back to him casually and said, "What do you know? People like them, in the yamen, do you have anything to say?" She said to Gu Tiancheng again: "Your idea is not a good idea. Is it worth it to lose your family just to vent your anger?" Gu Tiancheng said: "If it's not like this, how can we beat them down?" Brother Zhao just found it, threw himself into her father's arms and said, "You said you're going to buy cloud cakes with me today!" Gu Tiancheng hurriedly hugged her on his lap and sat down, stroking her disheveled hair and said: "That was the one who lied to you last night, and I will definitely buy it from you when I go to the city the next day... Mom didn't get up, today even the hair root No one combs it." Mrs. Zhong Yao suddenly became courteous and said, "Come on brother, I'll comb with you." Sure enough, she went into the room to take out the comb. When combing her hair, she said: "Zhaodi is almost twelve years old, and in half a year, he will be able to keep his head! It's just that he is so big and his feet are not covered! Your mother is really small-eyed, ignorant, and she loves her. It's not that distressing!" Gu Tiancheng said: "Can you do me a favor, please?" She smiled and said: "I'm not your little wife, wild wife, even your daughter's feet will work on me!" After finishing speaking, there was another haha. The youngest Zhong didn't think much of it, but made Gu Tiancheng timid. Fortunately, when the topic changed and it was about revenge, Mrs. Zhong Yao suddenly said with a touch: "Master Sangong, I remembered, why don't you go to our master's Mrs. Zeng, as long as she says something to the foreigners and writes a letter." Send the letter to the yamen, and I guarantee that it will not count if you get angry, and you don’t have to pay back the debt of two hundred taels of silver!" Gu Tiancheng jumped up violently, clapped his hands together and said: "This is a great idea! No matter how fierce they are, as long as there are foreigners in their heads, they can kill them." Mrs. Zhong Yao said proudly: "Is this a good idea?" Gu Tiancheng couldn't help but give her a long bow.Then he asked her to greet him at his cousin Yuan's house, forced her to kneel, straightened her waist, stretched her right arm, and spread her legs apart. : "Mrs. Yao is troublesome! I would like to greet Mrs. Yao! I would like to thank Mrs. Yao! I also have a rooster under my house. When I turn back, I will ask him to give it to Mrs. Yao, and ask Mrs. Yao for a reward!" So another greeting. The Zhong family couple even laughed wildly when they recruited their younger brother.Mrs. Zhong Yao laughed so much that she held her stomach with one hand, and patted his shoulder with the other hand repeatedly, saying, "You...you...you...you... learn some strange... appearance!...what a name!..." Gu Tiancheng himself also laughed and said: "Don't you know? This is the official school. All officials are like this. It took me a lot of effort to learn it. You said it was weird!" After a long time, Mrs. Zhong Yao held back her smile and said, "This kind of arrogance to the officialdom is really disgusting. Thanks to you for learning!... Are you still thinking about becoming an official?" "The one who doesn't want to be an official? But it's bad luck, and he made do with others. If Biaoshu Yuan didn't leave, he wouldn't be a master at this time! Set up a mansion in the provincial capital, and the sedan chair goes out and the sedan chair enters! Mrs. Zhong Yao held up a Buddha and said: "Amitabha! Fortunately, you lost. If you really became an official, can we still be so affectionate? It seems that you still don't want to go to Mrs. Zeng, I am grateful People like that!" Gu Tiancheng hurriedly said: "Don't say that! I'll be an official, dare to forget our sister-in-law Yao? If we spare such a person, God won't allow it! Sister-in-law Yao, didn't you see that I was beaten yesterday?" It makes me sad to think about my appearance! You just ask Brother Zhao, what kind of clothes are I wearing?" The youngest Zhong wrapped up another stick of leaf tobacco and smacked, "Master San Gong, do you recognize our Master Zeng?" Gu Tiancheng said in astonishment: "Me?... I don't recognize it!" "Then how are you going to find her?" "That's right!" He stared at Mrs. Zhong Yao in a daze.Mrs. Zhong Yao just laughed.