I am a ruler in troubled times

Song Peiyu turned her head to look in Song Jingjue's direction. The lower half of her face was almost transparent under the sunlight, but the upper half of her face was completely in shadow, making Song Jingjue unable to see Song Peiyu's expression clearly.

However, after all, they grew up together since childhood, so Song Jingjue knew Song Peiyu was in an extremely bad mood without saying anything.

The last time Song Jingjue saw Song Peiyu in such a bad mood, it was an old lady who managed the Song family's cloth village with the highest income year after year. She thought she had made contributions to the Song family. head on top.I don't know where the old lady made a mistake, and she actually blocked Aunt Liu's yin and yang.

Song Peiyu and Song Jingjue happened to pass by, and they listened to the ugly things the old woman said in the dark.

At that time, Song Jingjue had just got the new sword in his hand to play with, and immediately wanted to scare the old lady by pretending to miss it, but was stopped by Song Peiyu.

Song Jingjue, who was still young and ignorant, was facing Song Peiyu's current humility, restraint, and perfect smile.

If it was Song Jingjue now, he would understand that this was Song Peiyu's extremely bad mood, and the perfect smile on his face was just to cover up his bad mood and his urgency to do something.

Back then, Song Jingjue thought that Song Peiyu dragged him away because he didn't want to make things worse, so he secretly planned to find Song Peiyu's troubles with his family and vent his anger on Song Peiyu.

When Song Jingjue was looking for trouble, he never bothered to waste any extra nonsense, and just a word of discussion made his peers who went to class with him go home with a full head every time.

Of course, Song Jingjue didn't get any benefits either. He beat two of his peers one after another until he dared not go to school anymore, and he didn't escape his fate.

His father did it himself, and there was no room for resistance.

Song Jingjue covered his head full of bags, and immediately went to find Song Peiyu who had been locked away for many days. He couldn't wait to make Song Peiyu happy with the experience of the two unlucky people who separated, but he was in vain.

Then things started to develop in a direction that Song Jingjue didn't expect.

Song Peiyu closed the door for a few days not because she was in a bad mood or feeling unwell, but because of a sudden whim, she summoned skilled craftsmen to research a new spinning machine.

With the new spinning machine, one person can spin as much yarn as twelve people with the old spinning machine in the same period of time.

At the insistence of Song Peiyu, who was the only one who had blueprints, instead of getting the new spinning machine, the branch of the Song family's thirteen cloth shops was divided into five cloth shops, which were handed over together with the new spinning machine. In the hands of another branch that had an old grievance with the branch.

In less than half a year, Song Jingjue heard that the branches that originally operated all the cloth houses of the Song family were suppressed by the branch with new spinning machines. There were only three cloth houses left in their hands, and even the old lady at home could not stand up. I got sick in a hurry, so I had to send it to Zhuangzi to raise it.

It took less than half a year from one of the most beautiful branches of the Song family to the family with their tails between their legs.

It was only then that Song Jingjue realized that his usually sick Uncle Qi, who was always sick, liked the kindness of others the most, and his smile that day was extremely angry.

"Come out with me." Song Peiyu threw the upset marble to Song Jingjue, and walked straight to the door.

Song Jingjue arched his bone and knocked on the marble in his hand, but found nothing unusual. It was even more strange that Song Peiyu would care about such an ordinary stone, but he didn't dare to touch Song Peiyu's bad luck at this time.The rabbit in his arms, which was originally regarded as a baby, turned his head and threw it on the ground, striding to catch up with Song Peiyu.

Song Peiyu and Song Jingjue learned from Li Shuanzhu that Liu Shan's house was the southernmost house in the village.

On the way to Liu Shan's house, Song Jingjue saw that Song Peiyu seemed to be in a better mood than when he was at home, so he couldn't hold back his curiosity, "Who is Liu Shan? What's wrong with this person?"

Song Peiyu turned her head to look at his silly nephew, raised her chin and pointed in the direction of Song Jingjue's hand, "This is taken from the purse that Sister Fang gave me."

The irrelevant answer made Song Jingjue stunned for a moment, and then realized that Song Peiyu was wearing a rag-like thing around her waist, presumably it was the 'purse' that Song Peiyu said was a gift from Sister Fang.

Song Jingjue's heart was suddenly sour, and he completely ignored the point of Song Peiyu's words. He looked at Song Peiyu's purse in a daze, and sighed from the bottom of his heart, "This purse is really unique. Sister Fang must have spent a lot of thought. No, the first purse is still reserved for Sister Fang as a souvenir, and I will send it back to Sister Fang for you."

'Snapped'

A crisp sound.

Song Jingjue had a red mark on the back of his hand as he was about to pull the purse.

Song Peiyu stopped and looked at Song Jingjue with a more subtle gaze, "The boy named Liu Shan gave this stone to Sister Fang, and asked Sister Fang to take good care of his 'heirloom'."

"Huh?" Song Jingjue was stunned.

He is 14 years old this year. Last year, when the family was discussing marriage with Song Jingming, they took him with him by the way. Not only did he accompany Song Jingming to many homes as a guest, but his father and mother also frequently took him to many places where they had never met before. People go to dinner.

Even without these experiences, Song Jingjue still knows what it means for someone to inexplicably hand over a 'family treasure' to a little girl who has never been with him for safekeeping.

Such a big toad, how dare he miss his sister? !

Song Jingjue ran to Liu Shan's house angrily, and only remembered when he saw the closed gate. At this time, the villagers were either opening up wasteland, or looking for wild vegetables and fruits nearby, and they were hardly at home.

Song Peiyu unhurriedly picked a leaf big enough to cover his head and face, and after a quarter of an hour, he saw Song Jingjue circling outside Liu Shan's house.

It was Liu Shanniang Li Shi who went home first. She took advantage of the good weather to wash clothes, and in order to compete with others for a good place, she accidentally slipped and fell by the river.

Although he occupied the best place, he became the slowest one because of his back pain, and he was squeezed by other people several times, which made him very angry.Seeing that there were only a few beans left in the grain tank, I felt a little bit more wronged in my heart, cursing and cursing while working, feeling that my life was extremely miserable.

Song Jingjue stood at a place separated by a wall from Mrs. Li, his expression gradually changed from anger to embarrassment.

He never thought that someone could speak so vulgarly.

Song Peiyu who was beside Song Jingjue didn't look well either.

He also didn't expect that in this world, he could still see the scene of swearing and swearing happily, and starting to make up pornography.

The two uncles and nephews really couldn't listen to it, and they didn't want to talk about the so-called "family heirloom" with the woman Li, so they went around the neighborhood for a while, and returned to Liu Shan's house, just in time to meet Liu Shan and Liu Tian. Face to face.

Guilt flashed across Liu Shan's dark face, and he subconsciously hid behind Liu Tian.

Liu Tian, ​​on the other hand, greeted him cheerfully, "Brother Song is here for an outing? Can you let my Shanzi accompany you? It just so happens that he is about the same age as my nephew and can still talk to my nephew."

Originally turned around, calmed down a little, and began to consider whether they cared too much about Sister Fang, so the two uncles and nephews who had misunderstood Liu Shan saw Liu Tian's expression and couldn't wait to post it up, so they insisted that the ten-year-old Liu Shan said that he looked like Song Jingjue's peers, so there was something he didn't understand.

"I'm here to look for..." Song Peiyu glanced across Liu Shan, who lowered his head timidly, and landed on Liu Tian's face, "You."

Liu Tian's eyes turned to the right unnaturally, and immediately regained his previous enthusiasm, "Come in, let's sit down and talk slowly if we have anything to say." As he spoke, he pushed Liu Shan who was always hiding behind him.

Liu Shan bumped into Song Jingjue's waist in two staggered steps, and apologized repeatedly, covering his painful head, "I'm sorry, I didn't see you, are you okay?"

Song Jingjue didn't even move a footstep, watching Liu Shan's ugly behavior condescendingly, the cold air in his eyes became more and more substantive.

Poor Liu Shan was caught between Song Jingjue's and Liu Tian's fiery eyes, retreating or advancing, he didn't know how he got into the house.

When Mrs. Li heard the voice outside the door, she was impatient for waiting a long time ago. When she saw the person finally entering the door, she cursed in a hoarse voice without even seeing her face clearly, "My ancestors brought a life-begging thing. I don't know when I get to the door. Hurry up!" Come back, it took me eight lifetimes of misfortune to marry you, a beggar, and gave birth to a..."

Liu Tian's pupils shrank, and he raised his hand to hit, "Crack!"

Li Shi was beaten so much that she almost fell to the ground, and was about to slap her when she was kicked in the chest again.

Liu Tian said viciously, "Smelly woman, you are so crazy when you have guests at home."

"I'll fight with you!" Li Shi got up from the ground with disheveled hair, "I..."

This time, Mrs. Li finally saw the numb faces of Song Jingjue and Song Peiyu, the ferocity in their eyes turned into blankness, and then quickly turned into a distorted smile.

With her face still red and swollen, she casually brushed her loose hair twice, and said enthusiastically, "Isn't this Brother Song and the eldest nephew? I'm looking forward to you. Just as I finished cooking, you are here. Hurry up." table."

Song Peiyu and Song Jingjue didn't want to eat the meal cooked by Mrs. Li, they went straight into Liu's leaky house.

Li Shi and Liu Tian looked at each other behind Song Peiyu and Song Jingjue, their cloudy eyes were full of the same surprise and calculation, even Liu Shan, who had always been afraid of Song Peiyu and Song Jingjue, gradually relaxed.After the cowardice faded away, the expression on Liu Shan's face was almost the same as that of Liu Tian and Li Shi.

Song Peiyu stood at the door and looked at the mess in the house, and walked towards the only open space, while Song Jingjue stayed at the door, kicked the Liu family on their knees precisely after they entered the door, and closed the door by the way.

Having seen Li Shi's slapstick skills, Song Jingjue didn't give them any chance, and before the three men could react, he tied them up with local materials and stuffed their mouths with rags.

Holding the cracked marble with two fingers in front of Liu's family, Song Jingjue said coldly, "Do you recognize this thing?"