Whoever wins the crouching dragon wins the world

A Xiang's major events in life were settled in the midst of all the commotion.

The people in Shengdou usually only pay attention to eating with their heads down, and there are very few people who care about the current affairs of the state government. However, Liu Biao has ruled Jingzhou for more than ten years, and his power in the local area is growing. When he suddenly died, the whole Jingxiang was panicked.On the day of Ah Xiang's marriage, because of the bad news that the shopkeeper and He Dacheng were robbed, the shopkeeper's wife who promised to be Mrs. Quanfu did not even attend the wedding banquet. I have a lot of regrets about the wedding.

But Ah Xiang is still lucky, if the Xiamenguan battle report is sent back half a month earlier, I am afraid she will not be able to enter the gate of her husband's house as scheduled.Since Nanyang is the place where Cai Mao dispatched troops, it has been raining bitterly and windy in the city recently, and the streets and alleys are filled with the mournful weeping of widows.Many children of Niu Dalang's family lived in the army. Unfortunately, his uncle and nephew participated in the Jiangxia battle.Due to the deliberate secrecy of the upper echelon, they quietly left their homeland when the army set out, and the Niu family didn't even hear a farewell.When the news of Liu Biao's death spread, they went to the army belatedly to inquire about it, but at that time the bones of the Niu brothers had already been thrown into the mass grave near Xiamen Pass together with the others, and two living people died. Only half a penny of copper coins was exchanged for pension.

At that time, people had a strong family concept. Uncles died and nephews had to pay filial piety for one month. During this period, marriage, eating meat, banquets, and entertainment were not allowed, otherwise it would be considered disrespectful.Ah Xiang narrowly avoided the crisis of postponement of the wedding date, but she had to change into plain clothes without even recognizing her husband's relatives, and she couldn't even wear a bright flower.

The most tragic thing is that the [-]-year-old Niu old lady in the mourning hall sent a white-haired man to a black-haired man, but she couldn't get up in one breath, chasing after her children and grandchildren anxiously.

The Niu family was in turmoil for a while.

Niu Dalang is the eldest son of the eldest son of the eldest son. Ah Xiang married and obeyed her husband. Not only did she have to assist her mother-in-law in the funeral, but she also had to make a sad appearance of a filial son and grandson in front of the old lady Niu who was just like a stranger.She gritted her teeth to hone her acting skills, knelt beside the coffin and mourned three times a day, her eyes were never swollen.Even so, her mother-in-law is still angry, thinking that she, the broom star, has brought disaster to the Niu family, and often seeks her bad luck for nothing.

The old lady Niu is very old, and she originally saved up all the coffin books, but recently, due to the rapid increase in funeral affairs, the prices of all kinds of objects in the city, such as paper, white silk, and linen, have skyrocketed. If it is hindered, the far water cannot save the near fire.Seeing that half a month ago, the iron money that could buy a whole bolt of linen can only be exchanged for three feet in a blink of an eye, Aunt Niu jumped her feet anxiously——Since ancient times, the eldest son has a heavy responsibility, and it is only natural for the eldest son to support his parents, so the extra money is naturally free. As the eldest daughter-in-law, she tried to make up for it.

Aunt Niu has a stubborn personality, and she has been tired of seeing her mother-in-law for decades, so how can she take out a ladder to hold a funeral for her enemy?Rolling his eyes, he casually pushed the matter to Ah Xiang.

Axiang's new daughter-in-law has a thin skin when she enters the door, and she has heard the saying "the elders are respected" since she was a child. She can't say no when she refuses, so she can only accept the errand with a bitter face.But she also has no money.If her family was well-off, she wouldn't have let her out to show her face.Fortunately, her parents loved her daughter so much that besides accompanying them with the table, chairs and quilt, they also gave her a handful of iron money, so they didn't let her go out of the house.Ah Xiang couldn't find another way out, so she could only split half of the dowry and fill it in the funeral of the grandma.

She hid her thoughts, Niu Dalang is now doing chores for others in the library, although he is bookish, his salary is hard to make ends meet, and he will have to live in the future, thinking about his mother-in-law's subsidy is tantamount to idiotic dreams. The family went to eat northwest wind.

How to organize the most decent funeral with the least amount of money is the time to test the ability of housewives.In the past few days, she was shopping around in the streets and alleys, and almost broke her foot.

"Yesterday, Mrs. Liu's daughter-in-law sold the cloth and linen clothes left over from Mr. Kong Ming's funeral on Jingning Street, and they were all robbed in just one burn of incense." While Aunt Niu was taking a nap in the back room, Ah Xiang rubbed her hair on her knees. Painful knees, sitting on the ground and gossiping with me.

I was stunned: "When did Mr. Ziheng come back? Why haven't you heard any news?"

Ever since I knew that the two lying in the coffin were counterfeit goods, I stopped thinking about going to Zhuge's house to cry for mourning.Because Zhuge Jin and Zhuge Jun were too far away in Jiangdong to return in time, the first seven days were presided over by Mr. Shui Jing who had returned from a long journey.According to the custom, only the funeral, tying the beauties, burial, burning, sending the soul and other matters are done first, and the funeral and burial cannot be carried out until the Zhuge brothers come back to see their relatives for the last time.

It is necessary to inform relatives and friends to see off the funeral and burial, but I don’t know anything about it, could it be...

Suddenly thinking of a possibility, my jaw almost dropped: "You won't tell me that Mr. Ziheng hasn't returned yet, but Mrs. Liu is greedy for the huge profits from selling white cloth recently, so she decided to withdraw the mourning hall without authorization?" It's really dead.Can Zhugejin and Zhuge let her go if they know about it?

"You and Mrs. Liu are not new acquaintances. She has always been arrogant and unscrupulous, so why is it so strange?" A Xiang disagreed, "When Mr. Ziheng married Lin Yuejie, outsiders said that Zhuge's family didn't look like marrying a daughter-in-law, but like marrying a married woman. I'm afraid Lin Yuejie and Mrs. Liu think so too. Since Mrs. Liu dared to set Mr. Kong Ming's mourning hall in the thatched hut, he is naturally not afraid of Mr. Ziheng's reckoning after the fall. Otherwise, Mr. Ziheng will reveal everything when he comes back? Get in the way, Mrs. Liu is afraid that you will report, so she reluctantly restrains herself. In my opinion, she may not be afraid of Mr. Ziheng, but she is probably afraid of losing Lin Yuejie's trust!"

I sneered: "Then she is not afraid of me reporting it now? If Lin Yuejie finds out that she has embezzled money from the Lin family for printing stamps, her good days will come to an end."

"But you have no chance to report." Ah Xiang looked around to make sure that no one was paying attention before saying in a low voice, "Dalang has an aunt who works as a wife in the Lin family and is close to Liu. She met my mother-in-law yesterday. During the chat, Lin Yuejie guessed that Nanyang was going to fight, and was afraid of encountering soldiers, so she asked Mrs. Liu to attend the funeral of Mr. Kong Ming, and went to Jiangdong to join her after the funeral. She and Mr. Ziheng had no plans to come back for the funeral. Long, even if you want to sue, you will never meet Lin Yuejie!"

"How is it possible!" Zhuge Jun and Kong Ming grew up dependent on each other, and their relationship is very deep. It is absolutely impossible to be so heartless, unless he has long known that Kong Ming is cheating on death.

Zhuge Jun had already left home before the Chinese New Year last year. With Kong Ming's ingenuity, it was not impossible to speculate that the thatched cottage fire was a few months earlier.But I have met him so many times year after year, and he never thought of hinting to me, it is really intolerable.

I don't mind his business anymore!

Because of the grievances in my heart, I worked in the wine shop for several days. I never went to Kong Ming's "graveyard". It became a difficult sister and difficult sister, no one could comfort anyone, it was very miserable.

But unlike my broken jar, the shopkeeper's wife is not someone who gives up lightly. She has the toughness and persistence unique to a woman in her character.Since the county lord was unwilling to send troops to suppress the bandits, she used her brains to find a way out by herself, seeing people and dead bodies in life.

In the middle of the night, I, who dreamed of meeting the Duke of Zhou, suddenly heard thunder from outside the sky. My eyes were dim and my reaction was unresponsive, and I almost fell off the bed.

"Nan Shuang! Open the door!" Through the complicated dreamland, the shopkeeper's lady's voice was short and anxious, very loud.

"What's wrong?" I pulled the latch, not knowing why.

The lady in charge was disheveled, she didn't even put on her shoes properly, she just broke into the room with one foot and one foot lightly, her breath was messy: "Nan Shuang, do you know Mr. Zhou Ping? I remember his young master Man Yue invited you to dinner." Wine. His family has a private army! You go and beg him to save the shopkeeper, and I will repay you in the next life!"

My heart skipped a beat, and I suddenly said: "His family has a private army? Where did you hear that? You can't talk nonsense, you'll be beheaded!" It's common for clan members to keep slaves and maidservants, but anyone with a family background , There are hundreds of nurses, servants, and grooms in the family.But slaves and private soldiers are two different things.Although the Han Dynasty existed in name only, but as long as the court's laws were still in place, raising private soldiers would be regarded as treason.

Reporting on Cui Zhouping's raising private soldiers is tantamount to pushing him to the point of ruining his family.

"Don't care where I heard it from. Anyway, the news is solid and there is no slander." Under the dim moonlight, the shopkeeper's lady's face was green and white, gloomy and terrifying, "You just ask him to send troops and go up the mountain to find people. He If he agrees, I will remember his great kindness and virtue for the rest of my life, and I will burn incense and pray for him every day. If he does not agree—" She paused, held her breath, as if she was sorting out her thoughts, and paused word by word: "Privately Raising soldiers is a serious crime of ransacking one's family and exterminating one's family, and then he can't blame me for going to the Yamen to report and kill his whole family!"

I have never seen such a ruthless shopkeeper lady, as if she has become a completely different person, exuding a chilling and cold aura all over her body.I stared at her blankly, unable to speak for a long time.