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The Liang family moved away, which made Qi depressed. She couldn't cheer up for several days, and Liu also lamented that it would not be easy to meet and chat with good sisters in the future.

Xie Erniang and Shunniang breathed a sigh of relief. They discussed this matter in private, thinking that Liang Sanlang would also make peace with Xinghua when the Liang family moved away. Moved earlier.

Shunniang found someone to clean the new house, and bought some small samples, curtains and other things to decorate.

Originally planned to move in in December, but now they can move into the new house two months in advance.

Entering October, Shunniang announced the news of the move to her family, including Mrs. Liu and Mrs. Qi, who were all overjoyed, and everyone began to pack their things in their houses.

This time the mood of the people moving was different from before. After all, this time the Xi family was going to move into a livable mansion.

Mrs. Liu looked through the almanac and picked an auspicious day for moving. On the sixth day of October, the Xi family happily moved to the house in Wutong Lane.

Because this house is a three-entry house, it is bigger than Sister Song Yu's house that Shunniang originally rented, so she was the first to enter the house, and Shunniang arranged it as an outer courtyard, which will be used for receiving guests in the future, as well as the two boys at home. The yard where I live is also here.With such a large private house, it must be necessary to hire a porter and a cleaning boy, so Shunniang transferred Shi Shi and his son to be the porter, usually to open the door and sweep the floor or something, and hired a porter to clean the house. His name is Ping An, and he was asked to help Shitou and his son clean the door and sweep the floor in the outer courtyard.There is also a carriage house in the outer courtyard, because Xi's family is an ordinary person, not qualified to use a carriage, so there is a mule cart parked there, which is usually taken care of by Shi Shi, whether it is Shun Niang or Xi's family, if they want to go out, Shi Shi will drive the cart.It's just that Shitou spends more time with Shunniang, Xie Erniang and others need to say hello to Shunniang in advance before Shitou can drive them off.

Shunniang didn't buy an extra mule cart, and it was because she thought that businessmen should spend more money and save money.Now that her income level needs to buy an extra mule cart, it is not impossible to have an extra coachman, but she thinks this expense is a bit wasteful.

After all, when the women of Xijia usually go out, they just go shopping nearby and buy some daily necessities and vegetables.

The mule cart did not buy an extra one, but Shun Niang, the servant girl, hired one, and she and Ping An went shopping for vegetables.

Originally, they thought that when they moved in, the sister-in-law and wife could continue to buy vegetables as before, but after only a few days, Shunniang realized that this was not possible.Because the neighbors living in this alley do not have their own housewife with a basket to buy vegetables.

The maid Liao and Pingan went to buy vegetables together, and when they came back, they helped Qi and Erniang Xie to cook, washed the dishes after eating, and waited in front of Erniang Xie when she was free, listening to her orders to do some sweeping things.After all, the house is so big that it cannot be cleaned by Erniang Xie and Mrs. Qi alone.There is an extra small garden behind the third room, and the two of them have to go to the back garden to clean up every now and then.

As for the second hospital, it was lived by Shunniang and Xie Erniang, two children, and the nurse Chu.

The third person living in the courtyard is the old lady Liu, her attendant Xing'er, sister-in-law Qi and Hui'er.Because Kecheng has already entered school, Shunniang and Xie Erniang arranged for him a courtyard in the first courtyard. He lived in the courtyard when he came back from studying the Hua clan.This made Qi somewhat reluctant, but she also understood that Shunniang's arrangement was reasonable. When her son came back, she could only go to his yard to see him.

Shunniang continued to rent Sister Song Yu’s house that she had previously rented. She changed the main room there into an office for receiving business partners. You can also take a break upstairs.

As for the east and west rooms in the courtyard, they were given to Qu Dalang and his wife and Mr. Shun Niang, who was in charge of the accountant later.

In this way, the guys living in the outer courtyard can also live in a more spacious place, Shunniang's charcoal business is doing well, and more hired workers are hired than before.Now Shunniang bought the ox carts for sending raw materials and charcoal, and the mule carts for meeting guests.

After moving into a new home, Shun Niang also invited guests, and set up a banquet directly in the courtyard, inviting skilled chefs to cook the noodles.

Dozens of tables were made, and quite a few people came, besides the friends of Shunniang and Xie Erniang, Xie's in-laws Xie's family, Xie's in-laws Lu's family, Liang's family, and Heixi from Zaoshu Street. Neighbors who come and go.

Everyone congratulates the Xi family on moving to the big house. From then on, they can live and work in Bianliang with peace of mind. The family business is getting more and more prosperous, and the children and grandchildren are promising.

Xie Yi and his wife couldn't be more happy. Before they ate, Erniang Xie accompanied the two of them to walk around the mansion. While walking around, they praised the mansion. What's more, their vision is not bad. Sure enough, the son-in-law is a capable man. of.

They also said that Xinghua is nothing. Now that she got a thousand dollars because of reconciliation with Liang Sanlang, she has become the richest man in Yangliu Town. The Hu family no longer deals in groceries, and even building a new house is not comparable to the house of her daughter and son-in-law. .

Xie Erniang also recently learned about Liang Sanlang and Xinghua's reconciliation from Qi's mouth.

Mrs. Qi told her that this was what Liang Erniang said when she came to visit recently, and Liang Erniang also said that Xinghua was going to Chunsheng.

However, Liang Erniang didn't say anything about Liang Sanlang's reconciliation with Xinghua and the fact that she gave her a thousand strings.Probably Liang Erniang thought that Yang Deyi had given out the one thousand guan money, and that the money came from a wrong place, and it would be a shame to say it out, so she couldn't open her mouth.

After Liang Sanlang reconciled, Liang Erniang insisted on separating the family from her younger brother, and asked Lao Lao from the area of ​​Anping Street to testify and separated the family.

After a few days, Liang Sanlang moved away. He told Liang Erniang that he bought a small house not far from Anping Street with the money in his hand. If Liang Erniang misses him in the future, he can visit him.Because Keshi was worried about his son, he followed him to the small house he bought to take care of his daily necessities.So only Liang Erniang, her daughter Xiu'er, and the woman she invited to help with the work, Shen Shi, were left in the shop on Anping Street.

At first, Liang Erniang was still a little unaccustomed to it. Suddenly, two people were missing from her side, two pairs of bowls and chopsticks were missing from the table, and familiar voices were also missing in the room.When I went to bed at night, I felt that the silence in the room was uncomfortable.In the first few days, she inexplicably missed her brother and mother who moved away, and wanted to take her daughter to visit them, after all, they lived not far from Anping Street.But the business in the shop was inseparable from people, and she couldn't spare time to go there. After a long time, she got used to the life without her younger brother and old mother by her side.

Fortunately, Shen Shi, a woman in her early thirties who died of her husband and son, was a talkative person. With her to work and talk with her, Erniang Liang felt that life was not so difficult.

Because she is really good at making tofu, and it is easy to do business without deception. The tofu shop opened, and within half a month, the business was as good as the tofu shop on Zaoshu Street before. long queue.Most of the people who bought tofu from her place became repeat customers, and whenever they thought of buying tofu, they would definitely come to her place to buy it.Now her goal is not to make a lot of money, open a chain store, and let the Qi family live with her in the future.

Xi's family is getting richer and richer, and Qi's living conditions are getting better and better.

This made Liang Erniang understand that no matter how hard she tried to do this tofu business, she couldn't buy a two thousand guan mansion like Xishun for the Qi family to live in, and let her live a life of slavery.

Even if Mrs. Qi would say that as long as she was with her, she would not care about the living conditions, Erniang Liang would feel that she had been wronged.

What's more, Mrs. Qi has never said that, and she can see that Mrs. Qi is more concerned about her two children, and has said more than once that no matter what, she will not leave Xi's family.

Now she figured it out, if Mrs. Qi could live the most comfortable life by staying in Xi's house, why should she force Mrs. Qi to leave Xi's house and be with her.

If she can live the current day well without having to bear such a heavy goal, do a good job in business, take good care of her daughter, and live every day steadily, she herself will be at ease.

It is the best state of life to be comfortable both times.

After she figured this out, she was relieved of anxiety all of a sudden, and became relaxed and refreshed, and she lived every day with great joy.

Of course, she did not stop communicating with Mr. Qi. Every ten days and a half months, she still took time out to let Mrs. Shen guard the shop, and she took her daughter to visit Mrs. Qi, and the two sat together to eat tea and gossip .

Xi's family moved to the mansion in Wutong Lane, she also came to congratulate her with a gift, and sat with Qi's to chat and laugh.

Xie Erniang was quite surprised when she found out from her parents that Xinghua and Liang Sanlang had reconciled and got a thousand coins.

When I told Shunniang about this while lying on the bed at night, Shunniang said that the money was given by Yang Deyi, because the Liang family alone couldn't get it out.And Shunniang also said that Xinghua is a sensible person, and she got money and a son, which is much better than continuing to entangle with Liang Sanlang.

Xie Erniang said: "Compared to money, I still value people. If you give me [-] guan, I won't let you go with other women."

Shunniang laughed at her for talking nonsense, and she was not Liang Sanlang. She met Sister Song Yu when she was the poorest, and she didn't rush to post it.

Speaking of Sister Song Yu, Xie Erniang suddenly asked Shunniang if she had seen the person sitting next to Sister Song Yu during the dinner today.

"I see, isn't it Mrs. Cao and Mrs. Feng?"

"Do you think the three of them are a little strange?"

"...Oh, where did I start with this? I wanted to greet the gentlemen, but I didn't look carefully..."

"I can't tell, but I just feel it's a bit subtle, as if Mrs. Cao and Mrs. Feng don't like each other."

"Looking at each other and hating each other? This... Do you mean that the two of them quarreled, or did they fight for Mrs. Song."

"I think they are for Mrs. Song, but I think Mrs. Song spends more time looking at Mrs. Feng."

Shunniang suddenly thought, belatedly, whether Cao Qihong and Feng Zhen fell in love with Sister Song Yu, and Sister Song Yu didn't pick anyone out of the two of them, so Cao Qihong and Feng Zhen regarded each other as rivals in love .

"Shunniang, which do you think is suitable for Mrs. Song or the two of them?"

"Oh, let me think about it. I think it depends on who Miss Song likes more. It's better to have a pleasing relationship."

"Speaking of it, I'm the luckiest. You are my official and I am your wife. We can be together so openly. But Mrs. Song, Mrs. Cao, and Mrs. Feng, if they also like women Otherwise, we cannot be together in an open and aboveboard manner.”

"Who says it's not? Hey, that's fine, let's forget about others and go to sleep, a moment of spring night is worth a thousand gold."

"Ah."

Indoor sports every night is Xie Erniang's favorite, Shunniang doesn't mention it, she still pesters Shunniang, especially after moving into their new home, Xie Erniang's mood is particularly high.

The two became lingering.

……

Just as good nights are short, good days pass very quickly.

Since moving into the new house in Wutong Lane, a year has passed quickly, and it has been five years in Jiayou.

During the Double Ninth Festival, Shunniang accompanied her family to admire chrysanthemums and drink cornel wine in the back garden.

This year, Shunniang's business went smoothly, and the sales of coal from the two charcoal shops doubled. This put her plan of earning [-] yuan to buy a manor last year on the agenda.She planned to accompany the wife, the old lady and others after Chongjiu, and then go to see some manors on the outskirts of Bianliang that were to be sold, and if there was something she liked, she would buy it.

The whole family was chatting and laughing in the back garden under the autumn sun, admiring the chrysanthemums and eating wine, but the servant woman Liao Shi, who was guarding the second gate outside, ran in with a pale face and told that the yamen came outside and wanted to find Shun Niang say.

As soon as these words came out, the Xi family who made Yan Yanyan stopped laughing and looked at Liao together.

Shunniang first asked Liao, did the yamen outside tell her why they came to see her?

Liao shook her head and said she didn't know, but those people were polite and didn't barge in, they just asked Shun Niang to go out and talk.

Shunniang couldn't figure out why a government servant came to her, so she comforted Erniang Xie and the others, and then went out. Erniang Xie and the others were naturally very worried, so they stopped drinking and enjoying the flowers, and sent Liao to go out with her As soon as he entered the main hall of the courtyard, he waited outside and inquired about the news.

Liao followed Shunniang and stopped outside the main hall when she entered the courtyard. She saw seven or eight government officials followed Shunniang into the main hall and sat down.

The little servant brought tea in safely, poured a bowl for those yamen servants, and then backed out.

In the main hall, Shunniang heard the leading yamen introduce herself as a member of the Kaifeng government office, and the boss sent him to ask Shunniang to go to the yamen.

Shunniang asked what was the reason, and the clerk said that someone had reported that Shunniang had colluded with gangsters to block the road and robbed money, and then recruited the gangsters into a gang to trade charcoal.

Upon hearing this, Shunniang understood who had the accident. It must have happened to the brothers from the Lei family who robbed her and Heiwa at the foot of Mount Heshan. The people who were robbed by them must have discovered them and went to the yamen. Report them.When she hired the brothers from the Lei family, she had considered this point and made all the preparations, so now she heard the yamen sitting across from him talk about this, and asked them to wait and go get some things by herself. Just follow them to the yamen.After all, she also knows that even if she argues with these people in front of her, they are still following orders, and they will definitely take her to the yamen.

The leading Yacha asked Shunniang to get it, and when she brought it, he went with them to the Kaifeng Yamen.

Shunniang entered the Secondary Courtyard again, went directly to the main room to open the box, and took out the letter of guarantee and the employment contract from the brothers of the Lei family. She wanted to take these two things to the Kaifeng government office. Don't involve yourself in it.

Xie Erniang, Liu Shi and the others were a little scared when they heard that the yamen servants wanted to invite Shunniang to the Kaifeng government yamen, and they were still accused of colluding with gangsters.

Shunniang comforted them and said that there should be nothing wrong with them, and reassured them. However, she still made an arrangement. If she was really involved, she would ask Xie Erniang to go to Feng Zhen for help. Zhen is a member of the government. If she came forward, the governor of the Kaifeng government office would have to be taboo, and would not dare to handle it impartially.Xie Erniang agreed, let Shunniang take the stone with Ping An, and someone would take care of her if something happened, and someone would come back to report the letter. She went to open the box separately, took dozens of coins out, and asked Shunniang to take it with her. If something happens, you can also give it to those yamen, so that they don't embarrass her.

After receiving the burden from the lady, Shunniang took the letter of guarantee and employment contract written by the brothers of Lei's family and walked out.

As soon as she entered the courtyard, she handed her burden to Shi Shi to carry it on her back, and the leader of the Yamen asked his subordinates to lock her with a chain, and led her to the Kaifeng government office.

The leading yacha said that this was also done according to the rules, please don't mind Shunniang.

Shunniang told them to follow the rules.

Before these people came to take Shunniang to the Kaifeng government office, they knew that Xi's family was related to some officials and eunuchs in Bianliang City, so they were relatively polite to her, and no vicious people came to lock her up.

But even so, Shi Shi took some money under Shunniang's instruction to honor these people.

These people also generously accepted them, and of course their attitude towards Shunniang was much better after accepting them.

Shunniang felt that she had been a human being in two lifetimes, and her hands had never been locked by such a pair of cold chains.

Even though I had the letter of guarantee written by the Lei family brothers and the employment contract with me, I was still a little apprehensive.

After entering the Kaifeng government office, when he looked at the Kaifeng government official sitting in the hall, he was no longer Bao Zheng, known as "Bao Qingtian", but a new face.On the way to the Kaifeng government office, Shunniang listened to the servants around her say that the new Kaifeng government official's surname is Wu, and his single name is Kui.It was only after the opening of the year that he became a scholar of the Imperial Academy, and he had the right to know the Kaifeng mansion.Before becoming the prefect of Kaifeng, this Master Wu was a magistrate and had a history of transshipment between Zhejiang and Zhejiang.

In the hall, besides Wu Kui, the new governor of Kaifeng, Shunniang also saw the three brothers of the Lei family, and a roe-headed mouse about forty years old, dressed like a businessman.

After paying homage to Mr. Wu who was sitting in the hall, another small official told the reason why Shunniang was summoned to the Kaifeng government office.

The file read out by the clerk mentioned that the person who reported the collusion between the three brothers of the Lei family and Shunniang was called Gou Yan. He was a charcoal businessman who traveled between Heshan and Bianliang.It was once robbed by the Lei family brothers, but because of fear, they did not dare to do charcoal trading, and changed to other livelihoods.This year he was entrusted to buy charcoal in Heshan, and found that the three brothers from the Lei family who had robbed him were actually trading coal. He inquired and found out that they were in partnership with a man named Xishun.He said that Xishun was in the same gang as the three brothers from the Lei family, and that Xishun's charcoal business was started by robbing other merchants.When he found these thieves, he would of course sue them in the Kaifeng government office. He asked the Kaifeng government official to make the decision for him, bring Xishun and the three Lei family brothers to justice, and give him justice.

As soon as the little official finished reading, Wu Kui asked Shunniang if she had any excuses.

Shunniang said that what the little official read was not true, and after she finished speaking, she took out the letter of guarantee and employment contract she had brought, and asked the official to present it to Wu Kui.

After reading it, Wu Kui said that the letter of guarantee and the employment contract did not prove that Shunniang was innocent, because the three brothers of the Lei family had recruited Shunniang before she entered the yamen, and admitted that they had colluded with Shunniang, and that they had robbed Gouyan and others. businessman, and partnered with Shunniang to do charcoal business.

After hearing this, Shunniang looked at the three brothers of the Lei family, and asked them angrily why they framed her. It was clear that she had kindly asked them to abandon the dark and turn to the bright and live a good life, but in the end they came to bite her back.

The eyes of the three Lei family brothers flickered, and they did not dare to look at Shunniang.

Wu Kui heard this and said: "Xi Shun, don't say that the brothers from the Lei family confessed to you as an accomplice, even after hearing what you said just now, I don't feel that you have been wronged. Because you know that the brothers from the Lei family are robbers, It should have been reported to the government at that time, but you hired them to deliver charcoal for you. This is called sheltering the gangsters. It is not wrong for Gou Yan to tell you that you are in collusion with the gangsters. Come here and put Xishun in prison. After everything is found out, you can choose a day for sentencing .”

Immediately, a Yamen servant came up and took Shunniang down, and the three brothers of the Lei family were also taken down. As for Gou Yan, who came to accuse the Lei family brothers of colluding with Shunniang, he was also told not to leave the Kaifeng government office before the sentence was pronounced, and let him live. In a place reserved for plaintiffs, be summoned at any time.

Shitou and Pingan, who were guarding outside, saw that Shunniang had been imprisoned, so Shitou asked Pingan to go home to report, and he went to the prison where the prisoners were detained in Kaifeng government office.

Also relying on the management of stones, Shunniang, who was thrown into a large cell with several prisoners by the yamen, was taken to another small cell with a single room, and the stones could also be sent in for quilts and food.

Ping An hurried back to report that Shun Niang had been detained by the Kaifeng government in prison, and Liu Shi and Qi Shi burst into tears, panicking and bewildered.Although Xie Erniang was also panicked, she thought of what Shunniang said before leaving, so she changed her clothes and came out, took the car and went directly to Renyi Street to find Feng Zhen.

She went to Feng's mansion, and didn't see Feng Zhen who came back from duty until it was dark.

Feng Zhen heard her talk about Shunniang being detained by the Kaifeng government office, so she agreed that she would go to the Kaifeng government office tomorrow, find Wu Kui, the governor of the Kaifeng government office, and carefully inquire about the details, so that Shunniang will not be wronged. .