Village Flowers and Female Scholars

After Xie Yuangu's "illness" recovered, Xie Yan had no reason to continue to go up the mountain to pick wild goods and dig herbs. Every day, he followed Cao E either to cut rice, dry the rice, or pound the rice. Instructing him to go down to the ground to loosen the soil and pull the weeds, he was as busy as a spinning top.

Xie Yan couldn't imagine that as a farmer in this era, especially for the married daughter of Cao's family who had no status, how could they persist in the endless labor of a lifetime.

Before crossing over, I was also working hard for my own career, but here is forced labor, and the results belong to others, and the senses are no different from slaves.

Xie Yan thought about the money buried in the cave, which added up to a little over one or two dollars, and was restless in her mind when she would have time to go out, find wild goods, or find other ways to make money.

At the same time, we must be wary of the actions of the so-called fiancé's Fang family, and hope that they will not withdraw the marriage so quickly, let alone come forward to propose marriage.

It's just that before she found an opportunity to make money, things came to her.

When Xie Yan and Cao E were called back from the field, a large group of people had already gathered around the gate of Cao's house, with dark heads, it was not a good thing at first glance.

Sure enough, when someone saw Xie Yan, mother and daughter appearing, they both showed pity or meaningful expressions on their faces, and a large group of people talked about it, looking very bad.

Hearing someone reminded that Xie's mother and daughter had returned, a woman with disheveled hair emerged from the crowd, with snot and tears on her face, and a sharp cry from her mouth. She locked on to Xie at the first sight. Yan, hunched over like a mad dog and rushed forward.

"You bastard star of Kefukefu, give back my son's life, give me back Bo'er—"

"How can Shangyan Village have such an ominous evil star like you—"

"You little bastard, it's all your fault, otherwise I, Boer, wouldn't have died—"

Although Xie Yan has seen many big scenes, she was still taken aback by the actions of the woman in front of her, but after all, she is not Xie Jinniang in her original form, and she will not stand there in vain and be bitten by others. , turned sideways slightly and let it fly away, the woman fell to the ground, wiped a piece of cloth off her knee, and wiped the blood.

Seeing that the woman was in vain, the pain of losing her son and the pain in her knee made her desperate, and there was no one to help her, so she just lay on the ground rolling around, grinning and crying loudly stand up.

The onlookers pointed and looked at Xie Yan with less friendly eyes.

Xie Yan recognized the woman in front of her. She was the daughter-in-law of the Fang family in Wutong Village next door. She was originally Xiao Pan, the mother of Xie Jinniang's cheap fiancé, Fang Wenbo.

Seeing the big movement in front of him, combined with the words Xiaopan yelled just now, and the pointing and pointing of these onlookers, Xie Yan turned his head slightly, and probably guessed what happened.

Fang Wenbo is dead!

But Fang Wenbo is dead, so what does it matter to her, Xie Jinniang?

As the words "Kefu" and "unlucky person" came to his ears, Xie Yan couldn't help but feel chills in his heart, because the death of Mr. Cao and his father Xie Rongsheng had already locked Cao E's family in On the pillar of shame, now that something happened to Fang Wenbo, it is logical that Xie Jinniang is also blamed.

As a complete materialist, Xie Yan sneered without even thinking about it: "I am the one to blame for your son's death. I have been busy in the fields today and have not gone anywhere. There are all witnesses and evidences. Where are you going to kill your son?"

As soon as Xie Yan said this, there was an uproar in the crowd. You must know that the married daughter of the Cao family came back with two oil bottles. Because of her unknown identity, apart from being bullied by the villagers, even the Cao family treated them Hitting or scolding, the mother and son have always been submissive and did not dare to say a word out loud, but they did not expect that at this moment, the girl who was only 15 years old would actually sneer and retort Xiao Pan's words.

The Fang family is not the only one that came from Xiaopan, her husband Fang Laoer and mother-in-law Laopan also came. Laopan has a younger sister who happens to be married to the Liu family in Shangyan Village, so there are many people who come here this time It's on their side.

Fang's second child was still expressionless at first, but when he heard Xie Yan's words, his face immediately flushed, and he walked up to Xie Yan, stretched his face and said: "You and your mother still have That little bastard was originally an unknown person in Shangyan Village. Your mother beat the eldest brother of the Cao family to sickness and eventually died when she was born. Your younger brother killed his father when he was born. Now it’s your turn to kill your fiancé. face sophistry."

Xiao Pan who was lying on the ground also scolded with a ferocious face: "At the beginning, I kindly wanted to help you, so I got married, but I didn't expect you, a little bitch, to repay my son with such kindness and revenge. Well, I think we are being retribution because we are too good-hearted, woo-hoo-god-God is really short-sighted--"

Xie Yan took advantage of the short time just now to observe the whole crowd carefully, and roughly divided them into three groups. One group was the Wutong Villagers represented by Fang's family. Seek justice; a group of people from the village, represented by Li Zheng, have not made much comment for the time being, but some of them are gloating to see the fun, and the last group is the Cao family, sitting in a dark face. Chu was silent, but his eyes were full of viciousness when he looked at Cao E, mother and son.

Xie Yan and Cao Shi stood together, feeling her mother's hands shaking uncontrollably, feeling distressed, Cao E was really kind to the two children, and when she was working, she rushed to do the heavy work, eating Leave everything to her and Xie Yuangu, let her experience the long-lost maternal love, even if there is no such relationship, she will not be able to let go in such a situation.

And the young Xie Yuangu had already guessed what was going on, hugged Xie Yan's thigh so frightened that he didn't dare to breathe out, his small mouth was deflated and he was about to cry at any time.

Xie Yan gently touched Xie Yuangu's soft hair, and handed him over to his mother to take care of him. He took a step forward and stood upright in front of Fang's second child, with a clear voice without any timidity: "If you hear what you hear, you will believe it. Thank you." Your son is still a scholar, not to mention how my mother and younger brother are, just the matter of your son, how he died, who the murderer is, you don’t go to the murderer but come to me a weak woman to settle accounts, this is not bullying us Orphans and widows have no one to rely on, and they still bully us. There is no one in Shangyan Village.”

As soon as Xie Yan said this, the expressions of the surrounding group of people instantly changed. Everyone had heard about Cao E's mother and son being unknown, but they said it in private. No one dared to bring this matter to the fore. .

It's just that what she said put Shangyan Village and Wutong Village to which the Fang family belonged. The two villages belonged to each other. One, if you have a real story about Jinniang Kefu, you have to show it to everyone to see the comments, and you are so empty-mouthed, then you are bullying us that there is no one in Shangyan Village."

As soon as the leading young man said that, other young people also choked, and Li was crossing his arms to wait and see what happened.

What I didn't expect was that the old Pan of the Fang family was limping and not to be outdone, he squeezed into the crowd and cursed: "The Cao family's bad sons, the whole family is a broom star, whoever provokes them will die, could it be that all of you Everyone in the village wants to be buried with him!"

The old woman in the country cursed people with curses, no matter how poisonous she was, and now she cursed the whole village, and the people around her fell silent.

Mrs. Cao saw that the situation was not good, and she was not to be outdone and said: "The water poured out by a married daughter is not our Cao family. Our old Cao family has always been kind. What's more, there are three real people, how come we are protecting these cheap hooves?"

Lao Pan immediately grasped her words and said: "Since it's not your Cao family, then people from Wutong Village want to take this little bastard away and burn the spirit of my grandson in heaven. You must not stop me!" on."

When Cao E heard this, her face turned pale with shock, she stepped forward and stretched her arms to protect Xie Yan, like an old hen guarding her cubs, her teeth were clenched to expose her veins, but she didn't say a word when she shed tears not come out.

Xie Yan gently comforted and patted her mother's arm, pulled her behind her, raised her chin and said, "How confused you are, you don't know that killing people pays for their lives. The three of us, mother and son, have never hurt anyone in the slightest. , you took me as a sacrifice, according to the laws of the Jin Dynasty, not only you will pay for your life if you kill someone, but you can’t stay out of the matter if you instigate your collaborators. Your Lizheng in Wutong Village and Lizheng in our Shangyan Village will also be because of you. If you are punished for your actions, if you are not afraid, just let your horse come here."

A group of people in the village, one generation after another, are mud-legged. How many people can understand the law. In the past, private fights also happened from time to time. , but if there is a real incident of human life, if someone goes to report to the officials, they may be paraded through the streets and beheaded.

The brave villagers who followed Wutong Village were a little dumbfounded when they heard these words, and the row of people standing in front couldn't help taking a step back.

Li Zheng, who was standing by the side, looked at the little girl in front of him thoughtfully, and it was a little bit meaningful. When he saw it, it was almost time, so he stood up and spoke, and asked, "Second Fang, what are you doing early in the morning?" Just gather people from half the village to our Shangyan Village to make trouble, indiscriminately demanding people's lives, but I ask you, how did your son die?"

As soon as Lizheng said this, the Fang family fell silent, and the dozen or so villagers around them also instantly became dumb.

"Why, did he die suddenly?" Li Zheng raised his voice.

Fang Lao Er's lips twitched a few times, and Lao Pan's on the side became impatient, and cursed: "How did you die? I was beaten to death by the bandits on the mountain. If it wasn't for the little hoof of the Cao family, my dear!" How could Sun go to the top of Tongshan, and how could he be beaten to death."

Xie Yan sneered, was glared at by Li Zheng, and then fell silent.

Li Zheng said with displeasure in his eyes: "Fang's second son, this is your fault, what is your son doing wandering around Tongshan when he has nothing to do, you know, the villages near us and the bandits on Tongshan have always kept the water in their hands. Now that you went to someone else's base and were beaten to death by the bandits in Tongshan, you didn't report to the government to let the government suppress the bandits and arrest people, but you came to our village to find someone to take the blame, what's the reason for that!"

Only then did the villagers of Shangyan Village know that Fang Wenbo was actually beaten to death by bandits, and they became displeased with the villagers of Wutong Village in an instant, blaming them one after another.

But the old Pan refused to accept it and cursed and said: "Your village specializes in vixen, if it weren't for the female talent in your village to ask Bo'er to go out together, Bo'er would not go in the direction of Tongshan, and he would not be killed. Woohoo— —my poor Beau—”

Everyone was shocked, but they never thought that this matter would be involved with a female scholar in the village!