fish street dad

"What are you going to do about Mrs. Zeng's scumbag father?" Bai Chunsheng asked after swallowing a delicious prawn.

"It's just a country old man, so it's worth your nervousness? Don't worry, I've already sent someone to check on him. If you are in such a hurry to sell your daughter, how dare you deceive Mrs. Zeng while Lao Hei and the others are not in the other courtyard?" Come out, I think he is tired of living." Wang Kunfeng snorted coldly, picked another piece of fish belly and stuffed it into his mouth, "If it wasn't for your sake, I wouldn't bother to check him, From now on, whenever my people see him on Fish Street, they will beat him once! Beat him until he dare not show his face!"

"That's Mrs. Zeng's biological father after all. It's not easy for us to be so desperate, but to be honest, I think Mrs. Zeng is too weak. How dare such a biological father trust him?"

"When my people come back tomorrow, I will naturally know what's going on. This noodle is not good. Don't eat it. I'll get you some rice." Wang Kunfeng put the rough wheat noodle Throwing it aside, the hand-rolled noodles of this Tangquan, the toppings are pretty good, the fish inside are all fresh, but the hand-rolled noodles below are average, very thick, but very filling, but the taste is average, Wang Kunfeng knows Bai Chunsheng likes to eat fine noodles, so he put the noodles aside and asked the waiter to bring another bowl of round-grained rice.

Just now, on a whim, he couldn't control his strength. When he pressed people against the wall and bullied him fiercely, he accidentally caused Bai Chunsheng's legs to cramp. Now Yujie Yiba is as obedient as a big cat who has made a mistake. Serving shopkeeper Bai tenderly and attentively, he wished that even the tea after meals would be fed into his mouth by his counterpart.

But shopkeeper Bai sternly rejected it.

He figured it out, you can't give him a good look at this big cat, as soon as he relaxes, he pushes his nose to his face, which almost broke his old bone just now!

Shopkeeper Bai couldn't help but began to worry about his life in bed after marriage.

The prestige of Yujie No. [-] bully is not in vain. The next morning, the information about old man Zeng was sent to the dock office. The details of the third daughter-in-law he married were also inquired very clearly.

"To put it simply, Mrs. Zeng's life is suffering. Just after one stepmother left, another stepmother came in." Wang Kunfeng sat on the stone steps by the river, and poked snail meat with a bamboo stick for Shopkeeper Bai. Eat, and at the same time tell the things I found out in detail——

It turned out that the reason why old man Zeng divorced his second wife without hesitation was that apart from worrying that the foreign debt owed by the wife would be repaid by him, there was another very important and secret reason. It was this old pervert who had long hooked up with another widow from the next village. Because the little widow was ambiguous with her brother-in-law after her husband died, she was often beaten and scolded by her mother-in-law, so she wanted to find someone else to remarry.

Although old man Zeng looks honest on the surface, he is really good at taking advantage of women's loopholes. Seeing that the widow is pitiful, he often cares for her with gentle words and soft words, and often brings her some food and cheap hairpin flowers in private. After coming and going, the two hooked up together.

This time, taking advantage of the previous woman's mistake, old man Zeng divorced her without hesitation, just waiting to vacate the house so that he could marry a younger new lover. Although she no longer serves as a concubine to the landlord, but I heard that she went to the wharf boss Hei's house to be a embroiderer, and she can go to her daughter to ask for it if she has no money in the future.

Unexpectedly, this wishful thinking was stuck on the widow's mother-in-law's family.

After the widow's husband died, she had a good time with her brother-in-law in private, but because her mother-in-law did not want her brother-in-law to marry her widow's wife, she had to find another target and hooked up with old man Zeng.

I never thought that my brother-in-law is not a thing. Seeing that the bargain in my hand is lost, how can I give up easily?Then he urged his own mother to let the widow remarry only if the old man Zeng paid a dowry of ten taels of silver.

What a selfish old man Zeng is?Hearing the ten taels of silver, he immediately didn't want to marry. With these ten taels of silver, he could go to Ren Yazi to buy a big girl, so why marry a widow?

Who would have thought that the widow would actually be pregnant at this time, crying and clamoring that if he didn't marry her, she would be hanged by a rope outside the Zeng family's ancestral hall, one dead body and two lives, making him restless for the rest of his life!

Old man Zeng was helpless, and he was reluctant to sell his few acres of land. After much deliberation, he could only turn his idea on Mrs. Zeng again.

He usually associates with unscrupulous people, and he happened to hear someone say that the wife of the rich man in the town can't give birth to a son, and he wants to find an honest woman to go back and give birth to a son. No, after giving birth to a son, if you like it, you can stay at home as a maid, if you are not happy, I will let you pack up and leave.

When old man Zeng heard that the rich man was willing to pay 20 taels of silver, he must have a good-looking one. Not to mention his wife Xi, her small face is really good-looking, otherwise she would not have been taken by the rich man back then. Be a concubine.

Old man Zeng immediately agreed to send his daughter there, but since his daughter is still working as an embroiderer in the other courtyard of Hei Yujing's house, how can he send her there?

Thinking of the recent flood in the mountains that washed away a few trees on the family's ancestral grave, old man Zeng made a plan and lied that the tomb of Mrs. Zeng's birth mother had been washed away by the mountain torrent. If the grave was to be moved, the daughter would always have to recognize the grave of her mother. Bar?Sure enough, he successfully tricked Mrs. Zeng out!

"It's not human at all! Calling him a beast is an insult to a beast!" Bai Chunsheng was so angry that he couldn't even eat the delicious spicy fried snails.

"Don't worry, God can't tolerate this kind of person." Wang Kunfeng picked out the last few snail meat, put them on bamboo sticks, let him eat them slowly, and dragged them from the river by himself. He rubbed a few pieces of grass in the palm of his hand to wash off the spicy oil and fishy smell, and said in a cool tone, "He wants money, so let's give him the money, but if you take the money, can you If he can keep it, it depends on his own ability."

"What do you want to do?" Bai Chunsheng was very curious.

"Didn't the old woman who was abandoned by the old man bring a troublesome son? That kid is said to owe a lot of gambling debts. Tell me, if he knew that the old man had so much money in his hand, would he ..."

"Okay, you, borrow a knife to kill people! I like it! Just do it like this! He wants to simply dump the yellow-faced woman and marry a beautiful wife, and he also wants to see if he has that blessing!" Bai Chunsheng said happily.

"At that time, Mrs. Zeng has already married. According to the law of this dynasty, when a woman marries into her husband's family, unless her husband dies and has no sons who can be adopted, otherwise, her whole body and life, including the dowry, belong to her husband's family. , and have nothing to do with my natal family."

"Then why can Mrs. Gong take her dowry with her when she leaves the palace?"

"I want you to study the law carefully, you must not have read it carefully! Mrs. Gong is not a widow. The prince is still alive, but because Concubine Gong asked her to go home, she gave him a wife's letter. , but Mrs. Gong is a concubine, so she doesn't pay much attention to it, so she can naturally take her own dowry with her when she leaves. The king father will not withhold a concubine's dowry."

"Just do what you said! I'll just wait and see the good show. Let me tell you, no matter what this time, you can't let this kind of scum easily, otherwise as long as he can still jump, Mrs. Zeng, as a child, Sooner or later, he will be implicated." Bai Chunsheng said angrily.

Wang Kunfeng smiled and didn't speak. He used to think it didn't matter. Now, since Mrs. Zeng is also a member of the clerk's family in their mussel essence shop, and this clerk is quite capable, in order to let her mussel He can continue to be his little shopkeeper in such a leisurely manner, and it is impossible for him to ignore this matter.

Two days later, Wang Kunfeng found two of his subordinates who could fight, brought 50 taels of silver, and went to Taohuaao Zeng's house together with Aunt Zhou and the invited matchmaker.

Old man Zeng has been quite frightened for the past two days.Earlier, he promised the rich man's family that he would send Mrs. Zeng over for a visit within three days. If the rich man liked it, he would give him a dowry gift of 20 taels of silver. He also didn't want to go to the rich man's house to enjoy the blessings, so he didn't understand. Although it was for the 20 taels of silver that Mrs. Zeng was sent there, in the final analysis, Mrs. Zeng was a widowed woman, and it was not an option to rent a house outside. There is no man and half woman. Is it true that when I get old, I cut my hair and become a sister-in-law?

He promised Mrs. Zeng to the rich man. If she really gave birth to a son, even though she would put it under the mistress's lap, Mrs. Zeng is the birth mother of the child. If she can please the master's family, she can still stay in that house and live comfortably. For a lifetime?From now on, when the rich man dies, everything in that family will belong to Mrs. Zeng's own son. Will her son be able to wrong her biological mother by then?

I didn't expect this unfilial girl to throw herself into the river!

In the past few days, the rich man has sent people to urge him twice, saying that it will be the day after tomorrow at the latest, and if they don't send it, they won't wait.If he hadn't heard that Mrs. Zeng was famous for being beautiful, the rich man wouldn't have waited for him for a few days.

Old man Zeng was very angry. He heard that the unfilial girl was rescued by the clerk of the Baijia food shop in Yujie, and he also found it in the town, but he didn't expect to be stopped and beaten outside before entering Yujie. Dun, if he didn't happen to meet an acquaintance, he shouted for help in desperation, I'm afraid it would have been fatal at this moment.

Old man Zeng was a timid and cowardly person. After being beaten up, he dared not go to the town alone again. Unexpectedly, when he returned home, before he had time to clean the wound, the widow who was friends with him took a hemp rope, Sitting in front of their Zeng family's ancestral hall, she yelled that she was going to hang herself, telling people that she had forced her, and now she lost her innocence. If he refused to marry her, she would hang herself with a hemp rope at the entrance of the ancestral hall.

At this moment, Aunt Zhou brought someone over.

"My nephew accidentally rescued Mrs. Zeng, and ruined Mrs. Zeng's innocence. My nephew is honest, so he begged the old woman to come and propose marriage for him. He must marry Mrs. Zeng. The old woman had no choice but to run this trip. .” Aunt Zhou didn’t talk to old man Zeng, but just asked the wife of the head of the Zeng family to tell her about her visit.The matter of matchmaking was originally a matter between women in the inner house. Mrs. Zeng's biological mother died young, so it stands to reason that the female family members of the patriarch's family should come out to help make arrangements.

"My daughter has already been promised to the rich man's family in the town, but he is willing to give a dowry gift of 20 taels of silver!" Old man Zeng hummed, but he knew in his heart that the time limit given to him by the rich man had passed long ago, and there was no one there. Send someone to ask again, I think I've already bought a suitable girl outside.However, thinking of the 20 taels of silver, old man Zeng felt a pain in his heart, and immediately couldn't help but sarcastically said, "Your nephew is just a clerk in the restaurant, how much dowry silver can you get?"

"My nephew is indeed not of high status, but everyone must have heard of the name of the Baijia restaurant. It is the most famous restaurant in Yu Street in our town! My nephew can be regarded as The second shopkeeper in the shop is now, and there are five taels of silver every month!" Aunt Zhou raised her head slightly, "At first we didn't want that child to marry a widow. Poor, I will definitely ask to marry. There is no other way, as an elder, I can only come here for a while. My nephew said that he is also willing to give a dowry of 20 taels of silver."

Hearing this, the surrounding villagers were shocked.

That's 20 taels of silver!In their village, they can buy several acres of fertile land!Isn't the guy from the Baijia restaurant stupid?You don't need so much dowry to marry a girl with yellow flowers?

Hearing the envy and jealousy of the people around him, old man Zeng was overjoyed. He thought Mrs. Zeng had nothing to do, but unexpectedly, the fool who saved his daughter was willing to pay 20 taels of silver to marry his daughter!

"If Zeng's father is willing, why don't we discuss the children's marriage behind closed doors?"

There were so many people talking, Aunt Zhou thought of Wang Dalang's plan, so she offered to discuss privately with old man Zeng and the others.

Old man Zeng also wanted to take the opportunity to ask for more benefits, and was worried that other people in the village would scold him for selling his daughter, so he held on to his injured old bones and invited Aunt Zhou and others to the home together with the head of the Zeng family and his wife.

After old man Zeng divorced his second wife, there was no one in the house to help with housework, and the place was in a mess. His youngest son didn't know where he went. Seeing that there was no hot water at home, old man Zeng laughed. He said he was going to boil water and make tea, but Aunt Zhou waved him down.

"Father of the Zeng family, you are welcome. The journey is far away. The marriage is settled, and we have to go back to the town." Aunt Zhou said, and took out two documents that Wang Dalang had ordered from her sleeve, and put them on the table. Spread it out, "Father of the Zeng family, that girl of yours used to be a concubine for others, and I don't dislike her background, it's just that my nephew is a real person. As elders, we are also worried that he will be deceived by others." Alright, so, I have two documents here, one is what I just said, the bride price is 20 taels, our family has married Mrs. Zeng and returned to be the head lady."

"What about the second one? Here is a silver note of 50 taels. If you are willing, I will buy Mrs. Zeng. From now on, Mrs. Zeng will never have anything to do with your Zeng family no matter whether you are a wife or a concubine. Let's hand it over Money, hand it over."

"But, my wife, Xi Niang, is not at home now..." The old man Zeng looked at the 50 taels of silver bill with eyes shining, wishing to grab it immediately, but Mrs. Zeng is still hiding in the town, and he Don't dare to go to the town to find someone again, how can you hand over someone to them?

"It doesn't matter. The house rented by Mrs. Zeng belongs to my nephew. Now she is living in my house. As long as you put your fingerprint on this document, the 50 taels of silver note will be yours."

The patriarch's wife next to her became anxious when she heard it. This is worse than sending Mrs. Zeng to be a concubine. This is selling her daughter in a blatant manner!She wanted to speak out to stop her, but was stopped by the patriarch.

"It's only 50 taels! I'll press my fingerprint!" Old man Zeng didn't care about being said that he sold his daughter. With the 50 taels of silver, he could marry a widow, and the rest could buy a few acres of fertile land. His daughter Seeing that he couldn't catch him even if he was hiding in the town, he might as well just sell it.

Aunt Zhou sneered, and pressed the bank note on the table: "Let's talk about the ugly things first, if you recognize this document and take this money, from now on, whether Mrs. Zeng lives or dies, it has nothing to do with your Zeng family. In addition , our family will not recognize your relatives."

"This..." Old man Zeng hesitated for a moment. He still hoped that in the future he would go to his daughter to ask for some after the money was spent. This old woman can say that the future son-in-law is the second shopkeeper of Baijia Food Shop in Yujie, so he must have some on hand. It's a pity to break the relationship like this.

"If we don't want to, we won't force it." Aunt Zhou made a gesture to take back the bank note.

"Yes! Yes! I will press my handprint right away! From now on, Xi Niang will belong to your family and has nothing to do with my Zeng family!" Old man Zeng pressed the bank note under his hand.

"Hmph! Now that the matter has been settled, we have something to do at home, so leave!" The patriarch stood up and walked out. He had already guessed that the old man Zeng would sell his daughter, but he didn't expect to be so heartless. He sold Qian Niang for the 50 taels of silver without even inquiring clearly. He hated that although they had the same surname, they couldn't control their children's marriage.

If he hadn't known about Xie Dalang's details, he wouldn't have let this idiot off so easily today!

"Why did you stop me just now?" The patriarch's wife also has a violent temper. Although she gave her old man face outside, she couldn't help losing her temper when she returned home.

"I also didn't expect that it was Xie Dalang's child who asked to marry Xi Niang."

"What's the matter? According to what you mean, Xie Dalang is a good person?"

"That's not it! You don't know, I also heard from people in Yujie that Xie Dalang and the shopkeeper of the Baijia restaurant are as close as brothers, and they are pure-blooded monsters. According to the law, they have registered in the county. Not to mention the rent-free public land that the government has rewarded, he himself is a down-to-earth and willing to work, and he has never been involved in any bad habits, he is really a rare good monster!"

"Since that is the case, why did the aunt of Xie Dalang just say that she wanted to buy Qian Niang back as a concubine?"

"You still don't understand? They are attracted to Qian Niang, but they don't want to have relatives like Qian Niang's father, so they simply spend more money and break the relationship between the two families, so as to prevent her family from running to the shop every three days Hitting Qiufeng is like an old father-in-law, do you still want to beat him out? If you break the relationship, even if you beat him out, the government will have nothing to say."

"Hey! As long as that family is willing to treat Xi Niang well, I will care about his life! I think he is going to die! If he sells his own daughter, he will go to hell if he dies!" the patriarch's wife spat.

"This, this is my contract of prostitution?" Seeing the paperwork brought back by Aunt Zhou, Zeng Qianniang held the paperwork with tears and smiles, and her body felt cold over and over again.

If Shopkeeper Bai hadn't borrowed their money this time, and if it hadn't happened to be rescued by that silly monster Xie Huang, wouldn't her father have sold her to a worse place in order to earn more money?

"Qianniang, you must take this document away. If your father comes to trouble you again in the future, this document will be the proof. Now you are the wife bought by Xie Dalang, and you have broken ties with your mother's family. You can't just sell you to someone else." Aunt Zhou pressed the document heavily into Mrs. Zeng's hands.

Zeng Qianniang held the document tightly, as if she was holding her second life after being reborn.

She knew that from now on, she really owed nothing to that family and to that ghostly father.

"Xiniang, as the saying goes, nights are long and dreams are full of dreams. According to my aunt, the marriage between you and Xie Huang cannot be delayed any longer. Hurry up before your father's money is spent. The sixteenth of this month is an auspicious day, as soon as possible." Once you get married, you are the Xie family, and you have nothing to do with his Zeng family from now on."

"Thank you, Auntie! Auntie is so kind, and Qiangniang can't repay her!" Mrs. Zeng knelt down with a plop, causing Aunt Zhou to help her up in a hurry.

"What is this for? You and Xie Huang are living a good life. My aunt is happy to see it. Get up! You will be a bride soon, don't cry, Xie Huang is an honest monster, your good days are still to come Well." Aunt Zhou's eye circles were also red, this time she was a bad person once in a while, but it was to save a good girl, it was worth it!

"I just hope that he can live a good life after taking this money. I will never go back to that home again in this life." There is nothing to be afraid of!

However, what they didn't expect was that the old man Zeng had just received the 50 taels of silver, and before he had time to exchange it for silver, that night, his youngest son secretly opened the door of his house and took his mother's hand. And the eldest brother let it in.

The old man Zeng had just dealt with the handsome little widow, and was dreaming of marrying a beautiful wife and buying fertile land. Suddenly, his limbs were firmly held down. He opened his eyes suddenly, only to see the old woman who had been divorced by him long ago and her. The oil bottle suddenly appeared in his room at some point. Behind them, his own son was holding a bowl of soup medicine, looking at him with a pale face and a hint of excitement.

Ever since his mother was divorced, the old man Zeng couldn't cook or take care of him. He really suffered a lot. When he heard the elder brother said that there was a way to get his mother to come back, he immediately nodded and agreed to help "persuade" him His father.

"Old man, drink this bowl of medicine obediently, and I will serve you for the rest of your life!" Old man Zeng struggled desperately, but he couldn't resist three people holding him down. Slanted, the whole person was paralyzed on the bed, unable to even speak.

The next day, the villagers in Taohua'ao Village heard the big news. The old man Zeng sold his daughter, but his conscience found out that he was reluctant to let his own son leave his mother, and took the divorced daughter-in-law back. After the widow heard about it, she brought a hemp rope to hang herself again, but was slapped several times by the widow's eldest son, who threatened that she had an affair with the old man, causing the old man to have a stroke and lie at home. They haven't gone to her to ask for money for soup and medicine, how dare she make trouble?If they make trouble again, they will publicize this scandal. Anyway, they are not the ones who suffer.

The widow didn't dare to make any more trouble, and ran away with a swollen face.

The old man Zeng was regarded as evil, and he fell into the hands of the wicked woman and her eldest son. From then on, he lived a life that was worse than death, lying on the broken mattress covered with feces and urine, his legs were covered with For bed sores, the food is left over from the whole family. I am afraid that he will excrement and urinate too much, and the wicked woman is even reluctant to give him water. If she is not worried that someone in the village will gossip, she may have been tortured by the cruel mother and child. died.

Mrs. Zeng didn't know all this, but Uncle Mao took Bai Chunsheng to Taohuaao to watch the excitement in private. Seeing the old man's end like this, Bai Chunsheng let out a breath of anger!