She said to herself: "I asked myself, I have never done anything to regret them, but why are they always unwilling to let me go?"
Ji Mingxuan said: "Not everyone is as kind as you. Since they bully you so much, why not just move to the town?"
Zhao Huanyu shook her head. She would not be willing to leave in such a dejected manner, not to mention that it was not her fault in the first place.
And even if she can leave, her uncle and aunt may not be willing to let her go. After all, they have put in more than 20 years of hard work here.
Seeing her so sad, Ji Mingxuan felt uncomfortable. He wanted to blurt out, "Just follow me back to the capital." However, the situation in the capital was grim and there were too many people who wanted to harm him. He was really worried that he could not protect her.
"Then what do you decide to do?"
"Let's take it one step at a time. Anyway, it's impossible for me to spend more money. If they really push hard, I won't make it easy for them."
Zhao Huanyu lay down angrily, feeling angry and unable to sleep for a while, so she pulled Ji Mingxuan to talk.
On the other side, after the village chief and others left Zhao's house, they started to quarrel on the road.
The village chief was the first to speak. After all, he was short-handed, so he was somewhat protecting Zhao Huanyu: "Xiaoyu is a girl, she is still young, how much money can she have? We have all lost face tonight.
Got it!"
"No money, you said she has no money? Where does the money come from to give five taels of silver to a random person? That girl must still have money on hand, but she just doesn't want to use it to build roads in the village!"
"The Zhao family just has no conscience. When their family came to our village, our village took them in with good intentions. Who knew that when they are needed now, they refuse to do so? It's really unreasonable."
"That's right! They live in that big brick house and buy a shop in the town to do business. Maybe they can make more money! In my opinion, this family has a bad heart and is reluctant to give up that little money to contribute to the village!"
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The words of these old men were more unpleasant than the last. The village chief couldn't bear to listen and couldn't help but interrupt: "What do you mean by talking about this now? Xiaoyu said that he had saved some money before, but it was not for the village.
Are you married? Xiaoyu has had a good relationship with her brother since she was a child. It’s not impossible to spend all her family resources to save her brother. I asked you, why can’t you get along with a little girl? We are all very old.
How could you bully a little girl like this?"
"No, I'm talking about Wanji, what's wrong with you? You are obviously the patriarch of our Wan family, why do you keep talking to someone named Zhao? I heard someone say before that you collected a lot of good things from her named Zhao. Originally,
I still don’t believe it, but you are defending her every word now, is it true?”
One of the old men pointed at the village chief and accused him, and others joined in the accusation.
The village chief was so angry that his fingers were trembling. Although he had accepted the benefits from the Zhao family, what he said was fair. How could a few old men whose bodies were half buried in the ground join forces to bully a little girl?
"What nonsense are you talking about? Although I am the head of the Wan family, I am also the head of Changshui Village! It is wrong for you to bully a little girl like this. Anyway, I just promised in front of her that I will not let her
No matter which family pays a penny more, the other family will not have to pay a penny less! I will convene people to discuss this matter tomorrow. I did the math and found that almost every family had someone to help that night, and they all received it from the Zhao family.
Money, each family gave three taels of silver to build the road, and that’s how it was done!”
After saying that, the village chief stopped talking to these dead old men and quickly went home.
Several old men looked at each other, whispered a few bad words about the village chief, and then went home. Three taels of silver was not a lot for them. After all, they all had more than ten taels of silver at home.
, but it was really heartbreaking to suddenly have to come up with three taels of silver.
When the village chief returned home, he found that his wife was still waiting for him. Seeing him coming back in the snow and wind, he felt very distressed. He helped him take off his cloak, and then asked anxiously: "How is it? Xiaoyu, that kid will definitely not agree to it, right?"
?”
"Yeah," the village chief sat down and sighed, "This family's money didn't come from the strong wind. Those old people are too much. And I took them to Zhao's house tonight, which is considered a good thing.
I offended this family and even charged them so much money before, I feel really bad about it!"
As he said that, he regretted for a while. He couldn't bear the pressure at that time, so he took those old men there. But when he saw Zhao Huanyu, he regretted it. He took them there out of sympathy.
Heart, after all, he was the one who felt sorry for the Zhao family.
The village chief's wife also sighed: "Then what should we do? Those people in the village are aggressive. Now they believe that the Zhao family is rich and want them to pay more. If we speak for the Zhao family, we will definitely fall behind.
Mouth and tongue.”
"Yeah, on the way back, I gave Xiaoyu a few words of justice, and they said how much benefit I had received from the Zhao family. These old guys are so shameless! The Zhao family is generous, and they will give it to anyone who helps to plow the snow.
Money, it was so dark that night, it was hard to see who was doing the hard work and who was doing the show, but the Zhao family didn’t care so much about it, instead they started plotting against me!”
"Xiaoyu originally respected me a lot, but tonight when those people were aggressive, I didn't dare to speak up. The kid was probably quite disappointed in me. Alas, it's almost the Chinese New Year, and there's still such a fuss. This is
You are deliberately trying to make me have a bad New Year!"
As the village chief said, he suddenly wanted to light up a dry cigarette to relieve his sorrow. His wife held him down and said: "I will find an opportunity to go to her house tomorrow, apologize to him at least, and express our attitude to him.
It's not easy for you to sit in this position, you can't do everything perfectly, and you tried your best tonight, so don't feel bad."
The village chief's wife patted his hand and lay down to rest.
The village chief thought that his smoking in the middle of the night was affecting his wife's rest, so he finally put down the pipe and pot.
The next day, Zhao Huanyu, Zhao Dafu, Ji Mingxuan and Fu Yuan went to town, taking Xiao Tiedou, Er Mao and their two cousins with them and sending them to school together.
Let Wan Zhu and the others have a good rest at home today and prepare the New Year's goods. In other words, the holiday for the employees of Yuzhi Pavilion has really arrived. If it weren't for the people from Jiaren Hall causing trouble, Zhao Huanyu wouldn't want to go out today.
"Everyone from the Beauty Hall should be in place by now, right? They have made such a big fuss, and they should be looking forward to the results."
Zhao Huanyu put her hand on her cheek and speculated with a somewhat bored expression.