reborn widow

Chapter 2

Li Fuman has four sons in total. The eldest son, Li Song, left home at a young age and has not returned yet. The youngest son, Li Tong, died again. He now lives with his second son, Li Yu. During the slack season, he would go out with a dung basket every day after dinner. Digestion, by the way, pick up animal manure and take it home to accumulate manure.Today, he accidentally saw the third daughter-in-law Wang coming to Gui Qingqing angrily, so he paid attention to it. Li Fuman only stood up when he saw Wang leaving.

Gui Qingqing said: "Father, do you have something to do? It's getting late, if you have something to do, why not talk about it tomorrow..."

"I'm fine." Li Fuman said: "Fourth daughter-in-law, it's wrong that it's your third sister-in-law today. I'll ask her to return the two taels of silver to you when I go back."

Gui Qingqing hurriedly said: "No need, dad, it's only two taels of silver, and it will eventually be spent."

Li Fuman sighed, carried the dung basket and left without looking back. When Li Tong was seriously ill, Gui Qingqing took good care of him and did her duty, and she was always very filial to him when she entered the Li family. Said, but there is a steelyard in my heart.

Gui Qingqing heard her father-in-law's footsteps gradually drifting away, feeling a little puzzled in her heart, what's going on?In the previous life, there seemed to be no such scene.

When the sun showed half of his face, smoke rose from the sky above Lijia Village, and Tie Dan's daughter-in-law stood in front of the wooden door holding a big frame and shouted, "Sister-in-law Si, do you still want to go to the county seat?"

Gui Qingqing wiped her hands with her apron, and hurried out to greet her, "Of course I'm going, why are you so early?" She quickly untied the rope tied on the wooden door and let Mrs. Tian come in. Mrs. Tian put the big frame on the ground, Gui Qingqing noticed that the frame was covered with a piece of cloth, and there was a chicken chirping inside, so she asked, "Are you going to sell this chicken in the market?"

"Yeah, earn some pocket money." Tian asked, "Sister-in-law Si, don't you raise some chickens?"

Gui Qingqing smiled and said, "Let's talk about it later. It's a problem for me to eat alone, let alone raising chickens." Even if she wanted to raise chickens, she would not buy them from Tian. Well, maybe everyone in the village will know about it tomorrow, and they will say that she loves petty gains.

Gui Qingqing changed into the clothes when she went out, and Tian complained: "Sister-in-law, you said that there is no one who is not partial to the elderly. When I gave birth to my eldest daughter the year before last, it would be nice to have an egg in my confinement. Now the second brother and sister are also in confinement, and the mother-in-law killed all the hens that laid eggs, so she gave birth to a baby boy! Who wouldn't give birth..."

Gui Qingqing smiled and said nothing, it was difficult for an upright official to decide on housework, so she dared not intervene indiscriminately.Tian muttered for a long time, and seeing that Gui Qingqing didn't speak, she became dumb. The two of them left Lijia Village together. At the entrance of the village, they met Li Mantang driving an ox cart to the market. Several women were sitting in the cart. On that day, my sister-in-law Mantang was also in the ox cart. Seeing the two of them, she hurriedly called them to get on the cart.

Lijia Village is only seven or eight miles away from Qingpu County. The ox carts travel slowly, and it takes half an hour to reach the county town. Everyone chatted and laughed along the way, and arrived soon. The houses in the county town are more grand than those in Lijia Village.

Gui Qingqing has lived in the county for nearly ten years, but she hasn't been on the street much. Even when she goes out, she usually sits in a carriage. She looks at the rows of green brick and tile houses, Zhuge Qihu, and revisiting her old place. Gui Qingqing doesn't know. What is it like.

There are people coming and going on the street, and there are various stalls on both sides of the street, displaying a dazzling array of food, clothing and other things.

Brother Mantang said: "We are going to catch two piglets, we have to change the front hoof of this old cow, and we need to buy some miscellaneous things. It will probably take two hours. If you finish the work, You can go to the gate of the city and wait, if you are in a hurry, you can go back by yourself first."

Everyone agreed, and went to their own affairs. Gui Qingqing touched the copper coins in her purse. Originally, she wanted to buy a piece of better material to embroider a lamp screen for sale. That thing should have just come from the capital now, and it might be sold. The price was good, but the two taels of silver were taken away by Wang. The copper plates in her hand were not enough to buy materials, so she had to embroider the purse first.

Gui Qingqing was looking for silk and satin village, she walked and watched alone, she accidentally raised her head, and saw Song Ziqiao, her face turned pale immediately, she hurriedly turned around, suddenly remembered that Song Ziqiao didn't know her now, but she couldn't let him See, if he went to Gui's house to buy himself again, wouldn't it be troublesome?

It just so happened that the stall next to it sold curtain hats. She grabbed one and put it on her head. The stall owner said, "Two hundred dollars each."

The veiled hats are worn by young women from rich families. Gui Qingqing is dressed in coarse cloth, and wearing a veiled hat is a bit nondescript, and at two hundred dollars each, a third of the money will be missing in her purse. Her flesh was in pain, and she didn't dare to take off the veil at the moment, so she hurriedly counter-offered, "I'll buy it for 120 yuan."

"No, how can it be so cheap? At least 160 yuan."

At this time, Song Ziqiao happened to walk up behind Gui Qingqing, and he said to someone while walking, "Song Que, we have to wait for this matter, we'll do it when the fat man can't hold on any longer, and the price will be okay then." Press again."

Seeing the two walking away, Gui Qingqing looked left and right. It turned out that she had unknowingly walked near Rui Shengxiang Silk and Satin Factory. His distant brother, Gui Qingqing, had dealt with him when he was in charge of the Song family's business, and he was a veteran of the mall.

Seeing that Gui Qingqing didn't say whether to buy or not to buy, the stall owner selling curtain hats got a little angry, "Are you going to buy it or not? If you don't buy it, don't stand here and affect my business..."

Gui Qingqing came back to her senses, quickly took off the veil and put it on the booth and said, "I'm sorry, the price is too high." She turned and walked in the opposite direction to Songziqiao, remembering that there was a silk and satin shop not far from Ruishengxiang, It's called Heng Shengxiang, and Heng Shengxiang's boss is a fat man. Could it be that the fat man Song Ziqiao mentioned just now is him?Gui Qingqing pondered this possibility while walking. She remembered that the Song family's weaving and dyeing business was a business that was exchanged from Fatty Yuan. surplus.

The shop of Hengshengxiang Silk and Satin Shop was a bit deserted, but the staff was very enthusiastic. Gui Qingqing bought some cloth heads suitable for making purses, as well as needles and threads, and asked their boss Yuan Hongxi casually. Unexpectedly, the fat man was not there. Disappointed.She went to the embroidery workshop to look at the fashionable embroidery products, bought some silk threads for tying, added some seasonings, and bought a few rapeseeds by the way, until there were not many 600 copper coins left. Only then did we rush to the gate of the city.

When we arrived at the gate of the city, we met Li Mantang's ox cart. When everyone got into the cart, Mantang's sister-in-law asked Gui Qingqing impatiently: "Guess who we met earlier? You never thought of it."

"Who did you meet?" Gui Qingqing was still thinking about Song Ziqiao's scheme, a little absent-minded.

Sister-in-law Mantang said: "Meet your uncle Li Song, he is back, originally your brother-in-law Mantang wanted him to go back in our ox cart, but he refused, so he left first."

Gui Qingqing couldn't help being stunned. Last night, my father-in-law didn't say that he would come back.

Sister-in-law Mantang went on to say: "Oh, his appearance is really frightening. There is a scar on his face. He looks very fierce. If he didn't call you Brother Mantang, you wouldn't be able to recognize him. I'm on the sidelines." I was too scared to look at him..."

Gui Qingqing smiled, she had seen Li Song before, his eyebrows and eyes were similar to Li Tong, but his lines were much stiffer, he was also bigger than Li Tong, and the scar on his face was actually not that scary, remember Later he also opened a shop in the county town.

Mantang's sister-in-law said to herself: "I heard that he has been away from home for more than ten years, and he will be 25 this year, right?"

Gui Qingqing nodded, "It seems so, I heard my father-in-law talking about it before."

Everyone chattered about Li Song in the bullock cart, and the sister-in-law laughed and said, "Your father-in-law should be happy now. By the way, why did your elder brother leave home?"

Gui Qingqing said: "You should ask Brother Mantang about this, right? I hadn't entered Li's house at that time, and the family members refused to tell me later. Brother Mantang must be clear. I heard that you were good friends at that time."

Li Mantang slapped the whip in his hand, and said with a smile: "Actually, it's nothing. It's just that when a group of us went to the county town to play, we met a dude. He saw Li Tong's good looks, so he came up." He made a fuss, and even said he wanted to buy Li Tong back to be a child prostitute. Li Song became angry when he heard it, and beat him up. Once I left, I haven’t come back for more than ten years.”

Gui Qingqing suddenly realized, no wonder her husband always squeaked and refused to tell her why her uncle left home every time, but it turned out it was because of him.

"Is that dude dead or not?"

"Of course he didn't die, it was just a false alarm, and he woke up when he was brought home."

Everyone in the car sighed for a while, and soon the ox cart arrived at Lijia Village. Gui Qingqing got out of the car and just walked to the door of the house, and saw the wooden door of the house was open. In the yard, there was a person digging the ground with a shovel. It was Zhang Fugui , when he saw Gui Qingqing came back, he shouted: "Osmanthus, the second sister is back."

Gui Qingqing said: "It turns out that my sister and brother-in-law are here. When did they arrive? Did you bring Zhaodi?"

Osmanthus fragrans has already greeted her from the house, "I didn't bring Zhaodi, we'll be rushing back later." She looked Gui Qingqing up and down, and said with a smile: "Sister, don't worry if you look like this, come in and let's talk .”

Gui Qingqing smiled and said: "Brother-in-law, you can come in and sit down too, I will turn over there when I have time."

Zhang Fugui refused, "Sisters, talk, I'll finish reading in a while."

Osmanthus took Gui Qingqing and left, "He's a big man, he can't be tired from doing that kind of work, come in and I have something to ask you."

Gui Qingqing and Osmanthus entered the house, and Osmanthus pointed to a piece of white cloth on the kang and said, "This is the cloth I wove myself. You can keep it for underwear. I also brought you a few eggs and a little pickle……"

"Sister, your mother-in-law will be upset if you bring so many things."

"No, my mother-in-law has a knife mouth and a bean curd heart. I said I wanted to come and see you, but she gave it to me." Osmanthus took her sister's hand and smiled, "Guess who I met today?"

Osmanthus fragrans is the second person who asked her to guess who she met today, and Gui Qingqing thought to herself, "Isn't it because I met my uncle?"

Osmanthus smiled and said: "So you know? Qingqing, is your elder brother married? You have been a filial piety for Li Tong for a year. It's time to find a suitable person to marry."

(End of this chapter)