The Sweet Little Fulang

For a moment, Lu Gu forgot to breathe.

When he saw Shen Xuanqing's cold and hard expression with anger, his mind buzzed, and he seemed to have hallucinations in front of his eyes, and he had already imagined that he would die under sticks and fists.

In a trance, he didn't know where he was, and he didn't know about Shen Xuanqing slamming the door out angrily. It wasn't until an anxious cry sounded from the door that he came back to his senses.

Several people surrounded the door, and after seeing that he was not Lu Wen, Wei Lanxiang fainted from anger.

"Mother! Mother, don't worry, don't worry."

Shen Yan and his sister-in-law Ji Qiuyue hurriedly supported the fallen Wei Lanxiang. The aunts who helped in the village still had a few dishwashing workers, so they immediately came over to help pinch the person. The originally happy Shen family Immediately became a mess.

Wei Lanxiang woke up quickly, she took a breath, looked at Lu Gu in the room, and said angrily, "Who are you?"

Lu Gu stood up suddenly, at a loss, being watched by so many people, his tears were streaming down but he didn't know it, his eyes were wide open and it was difficult to breathe, he couldn't even speak for a while, he was extremely cowardly.

"This seems to be their family's Lu Gu, who was born to Lu Daxiang's first daughter-in-law."

Lu Gu stuttered and couldn't speak. Fortunately, someone recognized the aunt who helped her. She is from the village next door to Anjia Village. Before she got married, she often walked with the girl from Anjia Village. Yes, I only have a vague impression of Lu Gu, and I only recognized it after looking at it for a while.

Hearing this, Wei Lanxiang became even angrier. For the sake of this marriage, the family has been busy for a long time, so I don’t want to talk about it. Guangcai gift took out 20 taels, not to mention the things that were hired at the beginning, which one is not money ?

Besides, since her husband died, their family has only recently gotten better.

Three years ago, Shen Shunfu accidentally slipped and fell when entering the mountain in the winter, broke his leg, and fell into the pond.

Although he fell into the shallow water at the edge, he struggled to climb up, but falling into the icy water in winter, no matter how angry people are, it is enough.

His clothes were soaked, he was terribly cold, and his legs were broken and he couldn't climb far.

Later, some people in the village who went up the mountain to cut firewood heard some movement, and rescued Shen Shunfu, who was bruised from cold.

For this injury, he spent a lot of money just to see a doctor and get medicine, and sold a lot of things. Unfortunately, he still couldn't be saved. He hung up all kinds of good medicinal materials, and his life lasted for a month and a half, but he still went.

Life at home was difficult for a while because of lack of money, but luckily Shen Xuanqing and her elder brother Shen Yaoqing were struggling. At that time, they were fifteen and twenty, and they were both young men with the strength to endure hardships.

Shen Xuanqing worshiped the old hunter in the mountains as his teacher when he was ten years old. Fortunately, he had already learned the craft. After his father died, he left the teacher. He went to the mountains to hunt by himself. I will go to nearby towns or counties to do part-time work to carry heavy bags. After two or three years, my hands will no longer be so tight.

Seeing that the days are getting better and better, Wei Lanxiang sees that the second son is eighteen, and the marriage should have been settled long ago, but because of the delay in the past few years, how can a good family's twin daughter be willing to suffer for a poor family? .

Besides, Shen Xuanqing was only fifteen when he followed his elder brother to tighten his belt and work hard, but he was just a half-grown boy.

When Shen Shunfu was there, their family was doing pretty well, so even Shen Yaoqing had never experienced such hardship when she was 15 years old. She felt sorry for her son and didn't want to be perfunctory about his son's marriage. It was not until this year that she fell in love with Lu Wen. Betrothed to Shen Xuanqing.

The bride price of 20 taels was aimed at Lu Wen's good looks and knowledgeable manners. She spent 20 taels, and the Lu family actually married someone else. How can she swallow this breath?

"Let's go! Come with me to your Lu family to reason. I'll see what Lu Daxiang and Du Hehua have to say!"

Wei Lanxiang pushed away the person who was supporting her, and walked out as soon as she pulled Lu Gu past her. She was so angry that she couldn't care that Lu Gu was staggered by her.

She walked halfway and said to Shen Xuanqing: "Go, bring me the marriage certificate!"

The good marriage became like this, and the rest of the Shen family couldn't bear it. After Shen Xuanqing got the marriage certificate, they all went to the Lu family to argue.

The leftovers in the yard hadn't been cleaned up, and Wei Lanxiang became even angrier when she saw it. You must know that her son had been busy for more than a month to get the dishes for today's banquet.

Shen Xuanqing has hunting skills, and the dowry and bride price cost a lot of money. He can't help but feel a little tight. In order to save money on the wedding banquet, he started preparing early.

There are ten dishes and one soup on each table, including stewed chicken nuggets and stewed wild pork, a bowl of sliced ​​pig heart and lung, a bowl of liver offal, spicy fried rabbit meat and a plate of steamed fish. There are six meat dishes alone. Like this, plus four vegetarian dishes and a bowl of meatball soup, it can be said to be a rare richness.

Even in those affluent villages, weddings are not necessarily as generous as the second bedroom of the Shen family, and there is so much meat and vegetables.

Many people in the village couldn't put down their chopsticks at the mouth of the table in their house, and their mouths were full of oil. Not only the children were disregarding their dignity, but even some adults were like this, for fear of picking less than others.

Most of the meat and vegetables are due to Shen Xuanqing. Except for the chickens raised by his family, he hunted five or six pheasants on the mountain, chopped them into pieces and mixed them with the domestic chickens, so he didn't have to kill the laying hens at home. The rabbit was chased by him in the mountains with two hounds.

It was hot in summer, in order to keep the rabbits and pheasants from spoiling, Shen Xuanqing put in a lot of effort to catch them alive, and kept them at home for a long time.

He also killed wild boars, wild boars in the mountains are not easy to mess with, especially male wild boars with tusks, thanks to his good luck, after seven or eight days in the deep mountains, he used the trap he dug to kill a big one .

There were not enough pork heart, lung and liver for more than 30 tables, so Shen Xuanqing went to the town to buy some more. As for the more than [-] fish, he caught them in Qingxi River.

It is true that things in the mountains and waters do not cost money, but it is not easy to get anything.

To prepare for this, he has not stopped for more than a month. He is dark and thin, and almost falls asleep every night, but when he thinks of marrying his husband, he puts on a face without much expression, but his heart is full. It's warm and bold.

Ever since the family got better, Shen Xuanqing still lived in the mountains and hunted. Every time his mother brought him dry food, she would say something, if she married a daughter-in-law or a husband, she could let him eat a mouthful meal.

Like other men, he had no other ideas in the past, just work hard to make the family live a better life. When he grew up, he saw people of the same age marrying wives and having children one after another, and his mother kept nagging, Shen Xuanqing gradually became concerned about marrying her husband.

The two of them living together in the mountains seemed to be more lively, at least someone talked.

So after the marriage with Lu Wen was settled, he didn't say anything, but he was happy in his heart, and he felt it was worth it no matter how tired he was.

Unexpectedly, when he took off the red hijab and saw another pair, all his joy seemed to be extinguished by a basin of cold water, and he didn't even understand why this happened.

Lu Gu was dressed in red, and Shen Xuanqing, who was frowning tightly, didn't change her clothes, and attracted attention as soon as she went out.

Seeing the angry face of Wei Lanxiang pulling the new husband, the villagers were puzzled, how could the Shen family become like this on a happy day.

At the entrance of the village, I met a few young men who were chatting. Shen Yaoqing, who was left behind, briefly said a few words to them, and those people followed them.

Looking for work in other villages, they may suffer from being weak. In addition, they heard that the people in Qingxi Village were fooled. These people have a good relationship with Shen Yaoqing and the brothers, so naturally they share the same hatred.

A group of people rushed towards Anjia Village and killed them.

When I arrived at Anjia Village, I saw the bridegroom officer and the new husband in red clothes. Some people were still muttering that it was not time to return home. Only after seeing Lu Gu's face clearly did they suddenly understand.

Almost being dragged all the way, Lu Gu stumbled and stumbled, but luckily he didn't fall.

His eyes were full of fear, his eyes were red, he didn't know what to do, his thin body looked very thin against the loose clothes.

This suit was made for Lu Wen. He was thinner than Lu Wen, and it didn't fit him at all.

The Lu family was not far from the village, even if someone wanted to give them a tip, it would be too late, plus the group of young men were all staring, almost no one wanted to meddle in a place where they could see and cause trouble.

The courtyard door was kicked open violently, Lu Gu's heart trembled, Wei Lanxiang pulled his arm and entered the Lu's house, and said angrily, "You come out of the Lu's house!"

Du Hehua poked her head out of the window, but quickly shrank back because of this angry reprimand.

"Du Hehua! You made it clear to me today, my son married Lu Wen from your family, how could he become Lu Gu?"

Out of anger, Wei Lanxiang, who usually speaks in a soft voice, was forced to raise her voice a lot, so that the people of Anjia Village around could hear it clearly.

She took out the red paper with the marriage contract written on it from her bosom, unfolded it and held it up and said, "It's clearly written on it, it's your family Lu Wen, not Lu Gu!"

"I would like to ask you, what kind of heart does your Lu family have?"

"Look at our orphans and widowed mothers who are easy to bully? I'll tell you Du Hehua, don't think about it!"

Wei Lanxiang became more and more angry as she spoke, her hand holding the marriage certificate was shaking, at this moment Du Hehua flinched out.

Looking at this group of people, she couldn't help being afraid, but she also didn't want to be scolded like this. There were so many people watching the fun outside, where should she put her face?

Anxious and ashamed, she saw Lu Gu in a hurry, and immediately pointed at Lu Gu and scolded: "Well, you shameless, I said that I couldn't find anyone early in the morning, so it turned out that you carried me into the sedan chair , you shameless bastard, see if I don't beat you to death today!"

Du Hehua was used to venting her anger on Lu Gu, she didn't hesitate to beat and scold him, she picked up the wooden stick in the corner and threw it over to beat him.

As soon as Lu Gu saw the stick, he subconsciously hid back, his face was even whiter than before.

But when she got there, Du Hehua was frightened back by the stares of several young men.

"Auntie, I'm not talking about you, you will be struck by lightning if you tell lies."

Shen Yaoqing's daughter-in-law, Ji Qiuyue, saw that she was confusing black and white, and wanted to beat someone at the moment, how could she bear it, and sneered, "Who's auntie who is wearing his clothes? His face was painted by his mother-in-law." Yes, is it possible that Auntie doesn’t know?”

Wei Lanxiang continued to curse: "Are you dead? Let him wear Lu Wen's clothes?"

He asked again: "Where is Lu Wen? Ask him to come out for me. I want to see how capable Lu Gu is. Lu Wen still doesn't know if he is pushed into the position of new husband."

Ji Qiuyue echoed loudly: "Yes, let Lu Wen come out. Our family married Lu Wen, so Lu Gu will send it back to you. Lu Wen has to follow us back."

"Let Lu Wen come out." The two aunts who were friends with Wei Lanxiang also pointed to each other and shouted: "I've never seen Shuang'er get married and hide at home, replaced by someone else. Your Lu family's work is really new." .”

Du Hehua couldn't beat her, and she couldn't speak her mouth a few times. Seeing that the situation was not right, she immediately changed her face, sat down on the ground and started crying.

"Damn my heart, what crime did I do to spread such a heartless thing..."

She cried and cried, and she didn't know who she was scolding, and she beat the ground while crying and scolding. In short, she just refused to say where Lu Wen was.

Most of the village women who are unreasonable and messy are like this. Ji Qiuyue is not surprised, she just said: "Auntie, you don't let Lu Wen come out, I can go in and look for it by myself. It is only natural for our new husband to go back with us." thing."

But Du Hehua turned a deaf ear to it, and yelled ouch, ignoring the dust all over her body, crying more and more terribly.

When Ji Qiuyue saw her like this, she knew that Lu Wen was probably not in the Lu family anymore, but she still didn't give up. She went in and searched around and came out soon. Not to mention Lu Wen, she didn't even see Lu Daxiang.

"What happened here?"

Bao Zhiru, the head of Anjia Village, rushed over after hearing the news, and behind him were some young and strong men from the village.

The people of Qingxi Village were crowded in the yard. Du Hehua saw the village head coming, and immediately cried through the crowd: "I beat someone, I beat someone, if you don't come, Third Uncle, I will be beaten to death by them."

Bao Zhiru is 62 years old, and he can be regarded as a respected senior. Because he is the third eldest, people in the village often call him third uncle, even people in nearby villages call him that.

Wei Lanxiang glared at Du Hehua, and after Bao Zhiru came in, she took the marriage certificate and cried, "Third Uncle, our family married Lu Wen, it's written on it, but they married Lu Wen." Gu, isn't this bullying, I can't swallow this breath."

Bao Zhiru could read the characters, and after holding up the red paper to read it under the sun, he looked at Lu Gu who was wearing a wedding dress, and frowned.

This matter is not easy to handle, even the people in Anjia Village know that the Lu family doesn't care about it at all.

Bao Zhiru thought for a while, in the end it was the Shen family who had a reason, and if it really brought trouble to the county government office, the master in the mansion saw that there was a marriage certificate, so naturally he wanted Lu Wen to go to the Shen family, so he said, "I said Lotus, since there is a marriage certificate as proof, you can't be confused."

Hearing this, Du Hehua got up from the ground, cried and said, "Third Uncle, you don't know, our family Lu Gu is so big, but we don't even have a marriage proposal. How did I meet his own mother, if it wasn't for him, I would have given him such a good marriage?"

"I was confused for a moment. Seeing him crying pitifully, I nodded softly."

"I thought, whoever you marry will live behind closed doors. Besides, it's not the same when the lights blow at night."

Suddenly it happened to him, Lu Gu was at a loss for what to do, after hearing what his stepmother said, he subconsciously shook his head, that's not the case, he didn't want this kind of marriage with his stepmother.

Being so angry at Du Hehua's nonsense, Wei Lanxiang scolded directly: "Fuck your mother! Your Lu family is fooling people, treating others as fools, or something. I want to marry Lu Wencai." I gave a heavy gift of 20 taels, otherwise who would be taken advantage of!"

During the quarrel, Lu Gu didn't dare to speak at first, but Shen Xuanqing, who was a few steps away from him, glanced at him, and the frowning and cold face of the tall man made him terrified.

He knew right away that Shen Xuanqing was wondering if he asked his stepmother for a marriage.

Not only Shen Xuanqing, but also other people will look at him like this. When the Shen family was discovered, Lu Gu was already embarrassed enough, his soul was light and floating, as if floating in mid-air, no one without a word could make him feel at ease Come down, now that the stepmother has turned black and white, his face and dignity, which were already on the verge of falling, were completely torn apart in front of so many people, and there was nothing left.

"Mother, it's obviously Brother Wen and the people in the town..."

It's summer now, but Lu Gu seems to be shivering from the cold, his voice is not loud, but Du Hehua, who has been paying attention to whether he can talk nonsense, immediately became furious and shouted: "Good you shameless little whore! You Good short-lived mother, you didn’t learn it, but you learned how to harm people! I don’t know whose bastard, I raised you with good intentions, and it’s no worse than your food and clothing, but now you come to harm our brother Wen .”

The words Ye Zhong made Lu Gu's face turn pale completely, his feet were limp, his body swayed a few times, and he managed to stabilize himself.

Du Hehua scolded him more and more badly, even Wei Lanxiang couldn't stand it anymore, and when she was about to stop him, she heard Shen Xuanqing speak.

"Enough!" He took a step forward, brows still furrowed, and said in a deep voice, "Your Lu family regretted the marriage first. Since Lu Wen doesn't want to marry, I won't force it. It's just that the 20 taels of gift money cannot be in vain. For you guys."

Wei Lanxiang pointed at Du Hehua and said angrily: "Yes, there is also the previous betrothal gift, which one was not bought with money? Your family, Lu Wen, took our money and clothes, but ran away on the wedding day, took the money and refused to marry People, your Lu family has taken over all the good things you co-authored, how can there be such a lawless thing in the world?"

"It's impossible for our family to give the money, and we can't even see a person, so we can pay back the money!" Ji Qiuyue was also very angry, and the more she said, the more excited she became.

Du Hehua blushed when she heard the word "repay the money", not because she was ashamed, but because she was in a hurry, it was a whole 20 taels of silver, and it was already in her hands, if she had to pay it back, it would kill her!

"You whore, big or small, I'm talking to your mother, it's your turn to shout here?" She pointed at Ji Qiuyue's nose and cursed.

Ji Qiuyue didn't faint from the anger, she was so angry that her face was flushed and she gasped, Shen Yaoqing hurried over to help her and let her speak smoothly.

"Du Hehua, you!" Wei Lanxiang pointed at Du Hehua with trembling hands and scolded angrily.

"Auntie, you can eat indiscriminately, but you can't talk indiscriminately."

Shen Yaoqing helped his daughter-in-law to look at Du Hehua, his face was livid, he was tall, and there was irrepressible anger in his sullen voice, which made Du Hehua subconsciously shut up.

Ji Qiuyue is not resigned, she has never suffered this kind of anger, she is originally a lively temperament, she usually speaks lightly and quickly, but now she is getting angry, she speaks even faster, and repeatedly scolded: "Auntie is not a whore. The twins born to my aunt are prostitutes, and they got mixed up with the people in the town, if my aunt is really ashamed, she should hang herself right now, or she will be sorry to your ancestors of the Lu family!"

An innocence is undoubtedly important to Shuang'er and the girl. How could Ji Qiuyue know this? Humiliate her innocence first.

Hearing this, Du Hehua was like a cannonball being lit, her neck was flushed and her feet jumped up and scolded: "You traitor, frame me with empty words, Brother Wen, see if I don't tear your mouth apart!" !"

She rushed over and raised her hand to hit Ji Qiuyue, but Shen Yaoqing grabbed her arm and threw it to the side. She fell to the ground, and immediately burst into tears, yelling that she was going to die.

When a group of young men from Anjia Village saw people from another village move their hands, they stared and were about to fight.

Ji Qiuyue saw them glaring at Shen Yaoqing. On the other side's territory, if they really fought, only the people from the Shen family would suffer, so she sneered and said quickly: "Sure enough, you are overbearing in Anjia Village. Shuang'er only needs to receive the dowry money and does not need to marry. Even if we come Theories are also subject to beatings, I see that the reputation of your Anjia Village spreads, how many people will be poked in the back, I don't believe it, there is no justice in this world!"

After all, Bao Zhiru is the head of the village, and this matter is the Lu family's fault. If such absurd things are spread, it will indeed damage the reputation of their Anjia Village. Besides, the people in Qingxi Village were beaten today. After he went back, he gathered a group of people to come over. When the incident became serious, the county government knew about it. Although he was a bit thin-faced, it was inevitable that some people would laugh at him behind his back.

He pressed his hand, signaled the people in Anjia Village to calm down, and said, "Okay, okay, this matter has come out, what kind of words do you call back and forth, if you have something to say, talk about it, don't be so angry."

"Third Uncle, we don't want people anymore, but we can't give them money for nothing." Wei Lanxiang wiped away her tears and said with hatred.

Since it was the Lu family who regretted the marriage first, it was only natural for the Shen family to ask for a refund of the dowry money. In this way, the matter would be over. Bao Zhiru looked at Du Hehua.

Before he could say anything, Du Hehua howled, sat on the ground and patted his thighs and cried: "God damn it, I've been unlucky for eight lifetimes. When something like this happens, I'll be carried away by you in the morning." , You didn't send them back until now, your Shen family said that you are a good person, but secretly you may have taken him away, but now it's good, people told you to take over from the Shen family, this time If you ask me for money, how can I live?"

Du Hehua cried and yelled, without even a word on her mouth, she just yelled indiscriminately.

"Du Hehua! You fart!" When Wei Lanxiang heard that she wanted to frame her son regardless of Lu Gu's innocence, she couldn't bear it, so she picked up the stick that Du Hehua had just thrown on the ground. Having never experienced this kind of uselessness, he picked up a stick and beat him.

"It's worth beating!"

Lu Daxiang's younger brother, Lu Dahe, and his two sons were originally watching outside. After all, the Lu family was ignorant, but when they saw a fight, everyone in the village watched him. A middle-aged man with a good relationship rushed in together.

Du Hehua usually has a loud voice, but now she howled like a pig after being beaten, so that the wimpy waste Lu Daxiang who had been hiding nearby couldn't help but jumped out, pretending to have just returned from working in the field, holding a hoe Angrily, he ran into the courtyard gate and fought with the people of Qingxi Village.

The situation changed in the blink of an eye, Bao Zhiru was so angry that his beard could stand up, and the young men he brought listened to his words and were fighting, otherwise, if the hoe and stick were mixed together, they would surely die if their eyes were red.

The courtyard was a mess, the men were wrestling together, and Lu Dahe's daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law also rushed in, otherwise they couldn't just watch Du Hehua being beaten and scolded by Wei Lanxiang, Ji Qiuyue and two village women.

When no one noticed, Lu Gu lowered his head to avoid the crowd and went out.

Even if someone knew that Du Hehua was talking nonsense just now, but even his own mother said that, so what about his stepmother, Du Hehua has raised him for these years, no matter how much he beats and scolds at home, he is always the same outside. Okay, act like a good stepmother.

A Shuang'er was sent back on the same day when he got married. He had no face in the first place, and now he is saying that he has lost his innocence in front of so many people.

Not long after, someone ran in from the village, shouting as he ran, "It's bad, it's bad, Lu Gu jumped into the river!"