Zhuang Rou followed Dashu from afar, watching him running in front with Candy holding him, and kept looking back to see if she was chasing him.

He turned into the path next to him, and Zhuang Rou took a few steps and turned in. From a distance, he saw the figure of the big stake flashing into a dilapidated courtyard.

Although the houses around here are not gorgeous, the most are blue bricks, and most of them are made of mud bricks, the small gate and small courtyard are still quite adept. The courtyard where only large piles flashed into it was not even decent coarse cloth window paper, and it was hung with some unsightly rags.

Compared with other people's tiled roofs, the roofs of this house are all made of straw. There are some melons and vegetables planted in the yard and two or three hens are raised. There are many pits cut by chickens on the mud in the yard, and chicken shit is everywhere.

Being able to be so poor in the village is either lazy or having a patient at home. Zhuang Rou thought about it and walked over and stood in front of the fence where the broken bamboo strips were inserted.

"Is anyone?" she shouted into the broken room. Through the door that closed but still had a large gap, she could only see that it was pitch black inside, and even the light could not be penetrated in the broad daylight.

No one talked to her, and she shouted again: "Big stake, I saw you."

At this moment, the door opened and a thin woman with a sharp expression came out from inside. She stood in the yard with fierce eyes with her eyes raised. She looked up and wanted to start cursing.

Crash.

Zhuang Rou had a smile on her face and said nothing, but she just slid a handful of copper coins from her hand. They shone brightly in the sun and all fell on the mud in the yard.

The woman's words were blocked in her throat. She rushed over and picked up the copper coins on the ground with a quick move. She even picked up the mud with her hands too fast. She put the copper coins in the corner of her clothes and wrapped them in her arms. Her eyes widened with fierceness, "This is mine, it's mine to fall into my yard!"

Her voice was not nice and a bit extremely sharp, but it could directly benefit from the momentum of quarrels.

Zhuang Rou didn't say anything, but just took it into her arms, threw the copper coins in the yard, and looked at her with a smile.

The woman wanted to pick up the copper coins, but she thought the matter was too strange and stood there without moving for a moment.

He was eating candy, and he poked his head out of the room. He saw copper coins on the ground that he could not touch. He rushed over like a wolf pounced on food, grabbed the copper coins with mud and chicken shit, and hurriedly asked his mother for the merits, "Mom, I have picked up the money!"

"Come here!" Dazhuan Niang grabbed him, protected Dazhu behind him, and stared at Zhuang Rou with malicious intentions.

At the same time, Zhuang Rou gave her a bright smile. This time, what she took out from her wallet was no longer copper coins, but two or three taels of broken silver. She still said nothing, but just threw it into the yard.

The fear in Dazhun's heart surpassed greed. She grabbed Dazhun tightly, fearing that the woman would take her baby son away as soon as she let go.

"What do you...what do you want to do? The child's father will come back soon and will break your legs when the time comes!" She stuttered and scared her, and suddenly a woman came, standing outside her yard and throwing money inside. Such a strange thing looks terrible.

Zhuang Rou smiled and said, "It's nothing. I just wanted to find out something. I thought it would be best to find you, so I came."

Dazun Niang naturally knew what she meant, because she loved to gossip and liked to talk about other people's affairs behind her back. But now when she encountered such a strange thing, she didn't dare to say it anymore, and forced herself to shout, "Go away quickly, I don't know anything!"

"There are twenty taels of small bills here, plus the broken silver and copper coins on the ground. As long as you tell me what you want to know, it will belong to you. If you don't want to, it doesn't matter. I think there should be people in this village who want to make this money." Zhuang Rou had four small bills on his finger, all of which were worth five taels of silver bills, and they could be traded directly in the store.

"Small banknotes? That's a silver bill, right? Twenty taels!" Dazun's mother was stunned. That was a total of twenty taels of silver. She married into this family and the most she had seen was the four taels of silver she had obtained from selling the land last time.

This is twenty taels, plus those broken silver, it can be twenty three or four taels. If you spend twenty taels to buy four acres of thin land, you can still have three or four taels left, which is enough to repair the broken place. With the four acres of thin land, you won’t be hungry next year!

She quickly calculated in her mind that if she had Tian, ​​she would not go hungry and life would be better.

Zhuang Rou shook Xiaochao and said, "Let's go, your house is too dirty. Just take care of it if you have nothing to do. Find a riverside land that no one disturbs me and tell me what you know. These twenty taels of Xiaochao are yours."

The opportunity was not missed. Dazhun's mother snatched the copper coins from Dazhun's hand, picked up the broken silver on the ground, and entered the house without even the chain, but hid it quietly. She grabbed the candy on the table, stuffed it out of the house and let it go for Dazhun for him to play with, so she took Zhuang Rou out.

I didn't know what she was going to ask, and I didn't dare to go to a remote place. Dazun Niang thought about it and took Zhuangrou to the hillside behind the village, found a slope and sat down.

There are many bushes here, and the villagers sitting under the hillside cannot see them, but they can see them below. They are not afraid of people hearing them when they speak. Even if there is any accident, they will be heard by the villagers as long as they shout.

Unexpectedly, she was so careful, but life was like that, and it seemed that there were some reasons. But Zhuang Rou was not interested in this. She sat down and looked at Dazun's patch skirt and said, "I want to know about Lin Laicai's family. The more detailed the better. If I can satisfy me, I might have added more money."

"Lin Lai Cai Family?" Da Bao Niang didn't expect that she would ask this. She thought it was something strange and could not think of it for a long time, but she was just a Lai Cai Family whom she had cursed behind her back countless times.

This was really easy to deal with. She pulled her hands and started talking excitedly, and spreading rumors and criticism.

Zhuang Rou reached out to let her stop, "What I want to hear is real, there is no need for you to exaggerate, you just need to tell the truth. I am not here to seek revenge, so there is no need to add fuel to the fire."

"That girl spent so much money, it would be a waste to inquire about such things." Dazun Niang said frankly. She had never seen such a generous person before.

"I want to marry his girl, so I came here to inquire and spend some money to ask clearly. It is better than marrying someone who is unfamiliar with me to go back." Zhuang Rou explained with a smile.

When Dazun heard this, he immediately said with disgust: "Girl, all the girls from Cai's family are adopted, and they are not biological children. They only took back a three or four-year-old girl a few months ago. What's the point of marrying them? Those girls who have been married don't even go back to their parents' homes, they are all ungrateful."

"Does their family have no biological flesh and blood and love adopting children so much?" Zhuang Rou asked casually.

"Yes, but that happened decades ago. Both of them were only seventeen or eighteen years old when they got married. At that time, they encountered a severe drought and had nothing to eat. They gave birth to a son in a difficult situation. They died not long after they lived." When it came to mention this, Dazun's tone became much softer as a woman.

"I heard that I was injured at that time and I couldn't give birth to it later, so I adopted so many girls after life."

Zhuang Rou pulled out a grass and bit it in her mouth to let her continue talking. Dazun Niang said everything she knew. Lin Laicai is a person in the village, and his ancestors have lived here for generations.

Dazun Niang is also from the village, so she is naturally so familiar that she can’t be more familiar with her. She just has to steal the ancestral brochure to show her, pointing at the ancestral people one by one and telling her.

This has been a long time since Dazun's mouth was so soft that he kept talking until the evening. Smoke was floating in other people's chimneys, and she kept talking here.

Some things are repeated, and there are many slander and curses outside. It seems that she has a lot of opinions about the Lin Laicai family's spoiled daughter and more than 40 acres of fertile land.

"Do you forget to say anything?" Zhuang Rou interrupted the enthusiastic Dazhuan and asked seriously.

Dazun Niang realized that it was getting late and she should have gone back to cook. So she thought about it carefully and said, "No more, I've said everything I know."

Zhuang Rou handed her Xiaochao, "Okay, Xiaochao will give you, but don't tell others about my meeting with you. Otherwise..."

"I will definitely not say it, I promise!" Dazun Niang didn't know why, but she always felt that this girl who looked not old would make her feel scared. Sometimes, she was just smiling, but just looking at her eyes made her feel cold on her back.

She took the cash and looked at it for a long time but couldn't confirm whether it was true. She had never seen such a good thing before. She couldn't tell it or let others know it. Thinking about it, there were at least a few taels of silver. She just asked a question and was useless, so Dazhun's mother happily put away the cash.

Zhuang Rou also asked her to leave first, so that no one else could see the two sitting here. Dazun Niang looked happy and went back as happily as she was getting married back then.

"I'm really tired when I listen to the woman chatting." Zhuang Rou stood up and walked towards the entrance of the village. When she got there, Dad Lin was still waiting for her.

As soon as she got in the car and leaned in, she asked the donkey cart to go back to Douhu County. At this time, the yamen could already leave work. She wanted to go back and ride home, but she couldn't work all night and never go back.

The little prince won't go there. He was seriously injured and recuperating. He didn't have to bother him with such a trivial matter of a carriage hitting someone.

If Zhuang Rou wanted to go home, she had to enter the city in front of the city gate, so neither of them had dinner in Beimen County. She just bought a few cakes on the street and sat in the car to rush to Douhu County.

The sky gradually darkened, and later I would have to rush to the road with lights at night. The donkey cart was walking hard on the official road, and suddenly the sound of horses galloping from behind. Dad Lin looked at it, and jumped out of the cart in fear and pulled the donkey cart to the side of the road.

"What's wrong?" Zhuang Rou poked her head out in confusion, and saw a group of people riding horses and running straight from behind. When the person approached her, she realized that it was a group of eunuchs, which were different from those they had seen in the past. They all had knives hanging around their waists.

In a moment, the horse had already arrived at the donkey cart, and its speed had not diminished. It ran away from her and raised a burst of dust on the official road.

Zhuang Rou covered her mouth and nose with her hands, watched them leave, and then said, "Dad Lin, they have already walked away, so let's go back soon."

"Okay." Dad Lin sat back in the car, picked up the whip and drove forward in the donkey cart.

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Chapter completed!