The road from Africa to Europe

Chapter 290 Ruby
Mother-in-law Fang Nanny actually likes to criticize others, I am afraid she will always remind the future son-in-law and wife how much they have paid in total. After a long time, it will definitely be disgusting. The last thing a man loves is such a person who likes to point fingers .

She remembered that people in the village mentioned that a certain family took painstaking efforts to confess their son-in-law, but after a few years, when something happened to the woman's natal family, that good son-in-law changed his face and quickly took several concubines as wives. Died not long afterward.

The good son-in-law married another beautiful wife, and later had children and lived a very good life.Many people suspected that his wife's death was not normal. When she died, someone happened to have seen the corpse. Her body was so thin that she didn't have much flesh, it was as scary as a skeleton.Doubt is suspicion, but since he was not related to the dead woman, he did not pursue the truth of the matter.

Hongyu shivered when she heard about it. She suspected that she and her own mother lacked a string in their heads. She thought she was very smart, but she was actually a pawn in someone else's hands. She knew that her mother, Nanny Fang, had done a lot of bad things, didn't she? Good guy, but Niangqin was really nice to her before.

As a daughter, she always has to repay the kindness of her upbringing, so that after her mother dies, she wants to get her a coffin for her to be buried in the ground. If there is no coffin, the impoverished Nanny Fang will end up being Wrap it in a mat and bury it.

Hongyu thought about it, and searched the place where she lived, and found that there was nothing valuable, no penny, all the furniture was worthless, and there was nothing in the house that could be pawned.

It can be said that the poverty is so extreme that it is impossible to buy even the worst coffin. Hongyu couldn't help crying, crying for her dead mother and herself whose future is unknown.

At that moment, she didn't want to live anymore. She was too tired to live. The two of them, mother and daughter, were not very used to doing farm work, so they lived in such a miserable state.

During this time, Hongyu once complained about her mother. If she hadn't been so greedy, she wouldn't have been able to have a house to live in and food to fill her stomach.

Why count others?The quarrel between them caused the relationship between the mother and daughter to cool down sharply, and no one likes to be honest and criticize alone.

Mother and daughter no longer know each other, just like strangers under the same roof, but after Hongyu found out that her mother had passed away, she realized that she still cared about her mother.

But it is too late to say this now, she is the only one living in pain in this world, she is thinking in her heart: what will happen in the future?
After Hongyu knelt on the ground and cried a lot, she finally relieved the pain in her heart for a while, thinking about getting a coffin for her mother.

She thought for a long time but couldn't think of any good solution, and finally she decided to ask Ling Xiao, hoping that she could show mercy and help.

Ling Xiao looked at Hongyu after hearing this, and asked slowly: "Hongyu, do you think I should give it to her? Is she worthy?"

After hearing this, Hongyu's body trembled suddenly, her tanned face turned red, and her ears were feverish.

She knew her mother's behavior, and also knew how bad what she did was to the Tao family.

betrayal!Poison!Wanting each makes the victim unable to forgive that person.

If she were a big lady, she would probably hate Nanny Fang from the bottom of her heart.

She knelt on the ground, tears streaming down her face, in despair.

But without anger, she herself is not entitled to that.

Thinking clearly, Hongyu felt that she should not disturb the lady at all.

I can't even cry anymore, all this is the retribution I deserve.

At this moment, she understood: good will be rewarded with good, evil will be rewarded with evil, it's not that there will be no reward.

Ling Xiao said lightly: "Go down, do what you want, think about how to live?"

Hongyu woke up after hearing her voice, she knelt on the ground and kowtowed heavily.

She wanted to talk to the eldest lady about the terms of the exchange, even if she was a cow and a horse for the rest of her life.

But before she said it, she found that she couldn't come up with anything that could be exchanged with Ling Xiao.

She knew a few characters when she was young, but now it seems that she only knows it, and she has not practiced any calligraphy.

The frightening thing is that I haven't read for these years, and now I think about it and realize that I have forgotten a lot of things I learned before, which is not much better than Bai Ding.

In addition, when I think about it, my female celebrity is so-so, not proficient at all, because Nanny Fang never thought of letting her daughter be an embroidery lady.

You must know that the embroiderers embroider every day, which may lead to excessive use of eyes. In this case, when they are old, or not too old, their eyes are not good. Mother Fang doesn't want her daughter to do this. There is no way to do it.

Hongyu used to think that all she wanted was beauty, but only now did she realize that she basically knows nothing, and belongs to the kind of person who has big eyes and empty hearts.

Without that face, slender figure, fair and smooth skin, she would be the most ordinary woman inside.

She used to be superficial and proud of her beauty, but after years of tempering, she realized that beauty is a bit cheap.

There are also beauties staying in the Qin Building of the Chu Pavilion, and many of them were sold in. She was very likely to be sold in by the Tao family.

After all, the Tao family did not choose to retaliate against Nanny Fang for doing such a horrible thing as poisoning, which is definitely very kind.

This is an important reason why she didn't make trouble in the village and worked honestly. She was a little afraid of falling into a dirty place.

People in the village said that there was a family in the neighboring village who sold their daughters to kilns in order to earn more money.

Later, the girl was covered with internal diseases, and all parts were rotten and buried alive.

After hearing this, Hongyu was horrified, she didn't know that sometimes beauty is not a blessing.

In addition, she remembered that she had seen Madam sell disobedient maids into brothels.

She was too young to know the conflict of interest.

After she found out, she felt that if it wasn't for being too fat.

She would rather be the way she is now than attract the attention of others.

There was a big change in Hongyu's heart, and she no longer wanted to listen to her mother in everything.

And when she knew that Ling Xiao didn't agree to her request, Hongyu didn't even think about revenge.

revenge for what?First of all, Hongyu knew how much she weighed, and knew that she didn't have that ability.

Hongyu, who knew the truth, didn't feel that Ling Xiao should get a coffin for Mother Fang, how could it be possible?

She herself thought that the eldest lady was a very nice person, and she was definitely magnanimous for not cutting Nanny Fang to avenge her family.

There was a trafficker in the village not long ago, trying to capture the children of the village, but was beaten to death with sticks by the people in the village, and finally turned into meat sauce.

Afterwards, the leftovers were taken away by the people in the village, and they didn't know where to throw them. I was afraid they would become the belly of wild beasts. After that, no one in the whole village talked about it. Death is dead for nothing.

Hongyu knew well what Nanny Fang had done, and she failed to try to be a part-time human trafficker. Fortunately, her own mother did not confess this idea at the time.

She thinks that it is very good to let her mother live for a few more years, isn't it a bit of a hardship?It's normal to suffer a lot, it's atonement.

Although she wanted to get a coffin for her mother, Ling Xiao didn't want to talk to her at all, Hongyu naturally understood.

Standing up in a daze, she thought that if she knew this was the case, she should eat less and save some money.

You can buy a coffin for Nanny Fang. It's too late to say this now, and she has no money.

After she went back, she was going to bury Fang Nanny, but when she got home, she found out that no one knew about it.

They finally carried a very thin coffin, which made Hongyu very happy.

Just like this group of people buried Nanny Fang on a hillside.

After that, Hongyu thought about dying, but she didn't die in the end.

She went on living, and then found herself slowly losing weight.

After several years of labor after losing weight, her whole person has changed a lot.

No longer the slender and attractive woman, her whole body has become rough.

On the contrary, Hongyu is very happy about this, and feels that living like this is much better than the previous her.

Later, with Ling Xiao's acquiescence, she married a man in the village, who was a very hardworking man.

Hongyu was very happy when she got married, and since then she has a new home, and she can live a good life.

Before she got married, she went to see Nanny Fang underground, she never thought that her life would be so tortuous.

She used to think that she would become the pet of a certain man, but what she didn't expect was that she would end up marrying a farmer.

If someone had told her the news a few years ago, she would have been so angry that she would have killed herself. How could such a proud person like her marry a farmer?
Now it seems that this is her best destination, mother, don't worry, I will live a good life, and I will not repeat the same mistakes and get retribution for doing bad things like you.

Ling Xiao didn't pay much attention to Hongyu later, but she never thought that Hongyu would marry an ordinary person. Hongyu was no longer what she used to be. Ling Xiao thought about it and asked someone to send her a pair The silver bracelet is a congratulatory gift.

When Hongyu received this generous gift, her hands were trembling. If she received this bracelet when she was young, she might not have cared about it at all, but after experiencing so many things, she realized how precious it is to be able to get kindness. She didn't care at all, but now she knew how precious this gift was in a small family.

She was very emotional for a while, and wanted to cry, crying for her young self, crying for the days when she was ignorant, but at the same time she wanted to laugh, she had come out of the illusion of concubine, and she was about to start A new life, some people say that a woman reincarnates for the second time when she gets married, and she wants to start her new life with a smile.

She looked at the pair of silver bracelets again and again, and finally put them away on purpose. She would not carry this pair of bracelets with her, because they were too eye-catching, and might cause trouble. They would only be placed at the bottom of the box. Will take it out and have a look.

The reason why she did this was that this pair of bracelets reminded her of the past, but Hongyu didn't recall the past. She wanted to look forward after the death of her own mother, Nanny Fang.

Ling Xiao used to pay attention to Hongyu's situation, and seeing that she was living well, he didn't disturb her life anymore. The death of Nanny Fang brought the poisoning incident to an end.

She paid more attention to other issues, and there were a few more families near the other courtyard. It was the reward for doing good deeds, and a child found a family.

The family was in a panic, and the child was lost on the way to escape. Later, Ling Xiao asked people to find them, and only then did he know that the child was alive and well.

The so-called loss of the child is because the child's biological parents died in the flood, and the child was lost while fleeing.

There is only one grandfather who is still alive in other places. He has been looking for the child's grandfather for several years.

Only then did he finally find his eldest grandson in another courtyard, but the child was determined not to follow his grandfather, he wanted to stay.

Grandpa thought for a while, there was no one in his hometown, and he was old again, and he didn't know when he would leave.

In the end, he stayed near the other courtyard. He was considered a well-known scholar.

After staying here and seeing the children's learning situation, I felt a little itchy in my heart.

Later, he recommended himself to teach the children to read, and Ling Xiao agreed after thinking about it.

This way, she can do her own thing, which is good.

Now she has a mask on one side of her face.

Everyone thought she was covering up the scars on her face.

Later, I often put on Taoist attire, although I didn't go to become a monk.

It can be regarded as half a Taoist family in practice, and the younger brothers of the original owner gradually accepted it.

In this way, there is no need to consider marriage issues before the original owner returns, which is quite suitable.

After a period of thinking, the Tao family's second wife is now planning to go to the local government to become an official.

Ling Xiao didn't pay much attention to it and stayed in the small village. People around here generally wouldn't offend the Tao family.

Several years passed, Ling Xiao lived very peacefully, the body passed Jiji, and the original owner still did not come back.

The relatives of the original owner didn't come back either, they were all out of town, and their family rarely went to the capital, where most of the people were powerful and powerful.

It's just that one day a servant from Weiyuanhou's mansion suddenly arrived and gave her an invitation card. When she opened it, she said it was the original owner's cousin Twelve Niang Ji.

Invite Ling Xiao to attend the Jiji ceremony in the capital, Ling Xiao thought for a while, although she seldom went to the capital, but no matter what, she still took advantage of Weiyuanhoufu.

Only then will there be less harassment in life, so she still needs to go and see, as for Saburo and Goro, don't go, they should stay and study hard.

Saburo and Goro are all young adults. Under Ling Xiao's training, they are good boys with both civil and military skills. The two of them will enter the officialdom one day, so we should pay attention to their personal connections.

This time it was Ling Xiao's plan to test. Speaking of which, Ling Xiao didn't know much about the Weiyuan Houfu. She only knew that it was the husband's family of the original owner's mother-in-law and cousin, and it was related to a certain extent, but the honorable ones belonged to the relatives. A kind of pride, Xia's mother once went to give gifts, but she didn't care too much.

In the past few years, Ling Xiao, Saburo, and Goro did not pass by on the pretext of keeping their filial piety, and later because of their facial injuries, they did not go there very much. The Tao family and the Marquis of Weiyuan have always been in touch with each other, but they are not too cold.

Originally, she planned to wait until the two younger brothers were promising before contacting them. After all, the younger brothers followed the route of civil servants, and Xungui's family usually belonged to military officials, so it didn't matter much.

The two brothers thought that if their sister had no facial injuries and wanted to marry someone, they might persuade their sister to contact more people in the Hou Mansion.

Since their elder sister's face was damaged, they would no longer think about her elder sister's marriage. Anyway, their elder sister seemed to want to become a monk and become a Kun Dao.

What can they do?But this time, the twelfth mother of the Marquis of Weiyuan, Jiji, invited her to come over, it would not be very good if the elder sister didn't go.

For some reason, Ling Xiao, the twelve mother on the invitation, has a feeling that she should be the one she met a few years ago.

I don't know why I went to another hospital to see myself?Obviously, there is no chance for the two of them to meet each other.

When she looked at Ling Xiao, she had a feeling that she was looking at Ling Xiao but she was looking at another person. This feeling was really weird.

Little Taozi from the village sold herself to the Hou Mansion, and later redeemed herself in Kuaishi to marry.

Fortunately, she has not been very outstanding in the Hou's mansion, that is, the second-class maid.

In the end, he was able to redeem himself without any problems.

And Xiao Taozi paid more attention to Ling Xiao before. '

Because Twelve Niangs would remind Xiao Taozi every time.

Especially when she went home to rest, she paid more attention.

Xiao Taozi naturally asked her family to pay attention to the situation and wanted to know.

The family didn't say much about Ling Xiao. This is the master's house, the tenant's station master's house.

Twelve Niangs didn't say anything after learning about Ling Xiao's disfigurement, she just asked for a bottle of ointment.

Ling Xiao was a little curious after receiving it, wondering why Shier Niang cared about her so much?Is it because the two look alike?

Why is she paying so much attention?Ling Xiao didn't quite believe it, but because the entire Tao family hadn't fallen, Ling Xiao didn't think about pursuing it.

If Twelve Niangs didn't have any malicious intentions, why bother?This time Jiji was also specially invited by Shi Erniang, so Ling Xiao decided to go to see how the situation was.

As for the gift, Ling Xiao took out a fan, which was a round round fan with double-sided embroidery, and it was a beautiful Persian cat.

(End of this chapter)