Rebirth of the pastoral landlady

Chapter 161
Chapter 170
Jin Xi subconsciously picked up a strand of hair that fell on her cheek, and gently pulled it behind her ear, her delicate face smiled with the corners of her eyes slightly raised, and said, "Brother Wen, don't force me, I'm really not that Chunks! Well, since you don't want it, then I won't force it, here are a few pears, take them with you to quench your thirst on the road!" After Jin Xi finished speaking, she took out two large pears from the basket beside her , wrapped it with something, handed it to Wending, and said: "This must be accepted!"

Wending had no choice but to accept the two duck pears, clamped the horse's belly with his legs, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Jin Xi looked back, the shopkeeper of the livestock store over there was sending Liang Yuzhong out, the father and daughter drove the ox cart, and set foot on the road back to the village again.

In the next two days, the matter of Zhilantang was always the topic of conversation among the common people in Changqiao Town after dinner, in restaurants and teahouses, and news came back from Wanghai County one after another.

Because of the bathing accident of Liu Yuan’s two aunts, and Fang Da’s complaint, the source of Zhilantang’s inventory has attracted great attention from the county government. Then, through multiple investigations and evidence collection, it was found that Zhilantang had [-]% of the goods in recent years. The origin is unknown, and, in the newly released borneol and toilet oil, it contains one or several medicinal ingredients that are harmful to human hair and skin.Not only that, Zhilantang also bribed customers to try to frame their peers.

For many crimes, shopkeeper Yan was spanked in the hall, and was immediately imprisoned. In the Yan family in Changqiao Town, Mrs. Yan and her two sons were as anxious as ants on a hot pot.In the end, it was discussed that he would not hesitate to spend a lot of money to open up the relationship between Huanhuan, but when Mrs. Yan rushed to the Huitong Bank in the town, she was told that the accumulated wealth of the Yan family over the years had been taken away a day earlier. With shopkeeper Yan's seal, take everything away without leaving a penny!

Mrs. Yan remembered that shopkeeper Yan's favorite concubine was Chunlian, and Chunlian would pick out all the rare and good things first. Presumably Chunlian's little hoof took the money from shopkeeper Yan's seal!
Mrs. Yan rushed home in a hurry, and as soon as she entered the door, someone came to report that Chunlian had eloped with the newly promoted young steward of Zhilan Hall, and there was no valuable jewelry on the dressing table in Chunlian's room. remain!
The next day, when Mrs. Yan took her two sons to visit the prison in the county government, she told shopkeeper Yan the worse news. The shopkeeper finally rolled his eyelids in anger and passed out!

Shopkeeper Yan is nothing if he loses the money of the gods. On the contrary, those small shops that were suppressed by him and his Zhilantang in the past have sprung up like mushrooms after rain, and they come to the county government to report and expose Zhilantang. At Zhilantang, in an instant, Zhilantang, which had been entrenched in Changqiao Town for decades, completely collapsed, and shopkeeper Yan himself not only had to accept the disaster of imprisonment, but also became ruined, and his family members were ashamed. Showed up in Changqiao Town, and finally had to sell the house, and the family quietly moved out of Changqiao Town. As for where they went, it is unknown.

After the dust settled, one day the weather was not so hot, Wen Ding took Jin Xi, and the two went to Wanghai County in a carriage to visit shopkeeper Yan.

This is Jin Xi's second visit to the prison, the first time was when she accompanied her aunt to visit her cousin in the juvenile detention center, and this time.The moods of the two times were completely different. The first time was heavy, sad and disappointed.But this time, it was in a good mood.

Obviously, shopkeeper Yan was extremely shocked by the visit of these two uninvited guests, but after the shock, he suddenly realized that he finally understood who he had offended to end up here.After realizing it, I was still shocked and unbelievable!

He couldn't even imagine that he had been in the business world for more than ten years, and he had never seen any big storms, except this time the ship capsized in the gutter, and it was placed on such a little girl as Sun Ji!

"People don't offend me, I don't offend others, if people offend me, cut the weeds and root out! In the world, only women and villains are difficult to raise. Shopkeeper Yan, I'm sorry, I, Liang Jinxi, are unfortunately such a person. You have today, you can't take care of me." You asked for it yourself, you can't blame others!" This was a long sentence that Jin Xi threw to shopkeeper Yan before she left, and it was also the first sentence she said to shopkeeper Yan.

After coming out of the county government jail, standing under the shade of a tree on the side of the road where the bright sun can't shine, Jin Xi took a deep breath as she watched Wen Ding run across the street to buy herself iced mung bean soup from a roadside stall. The tone, the mood is really good.

The two stood side by side under the shade of the tree, drinking mung bean soup, and Wen Ding suddenly turned his head to ask Jin Xi, "Xi'er, I think what you said to shopkeeper Yan just now in the prison is a bit untrue."

"Huh?" Jin Xi looked at him with raised eyebrows, he paused, and continued: "You really define yourself as that kind of difficult little girl? I don't realize it!"

Jin Xi laughed lightly when she heard the words, and said, "Brother Wen, tell me, how many types of people are there in this world?"

"Three types." Wending said: "Good people, bad people, fake good people!"

"I think there are only two kinds." Jin Xi said.

"How?" Wending asked.

"Hypocrite, what a villain!" Jin Xi said, "I don't think I can be that hypocrite, and I don't despise that hypocrite, so I can only be a real villain."

Wen Dingpin smacked, couldn't help but his eyes lit up, and said: "What a villain, Xi'er, well said, we are really the same kind of people!"

Jin Xi pursed her lips and smiled, raised the cup of mung bean soup in her hand, touched the one in Wending's hand, and said, "Okay, then I toast you because we are the same kind of people!"

The days passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, across the official road outside Jinxi's house, the golden yellow rice fields were ripe and harvested, and the harvested rice ears were transported to the large ashram in the south of the village to dry. The so-called ashram is actually a choice. A large open space, the land on the open space is relatively flat.

Every year it is the time to dry and polish the rice, which is also the busiest time of the year in Jinjishan Village except for the New Year.Adults and children all gathered in the dojo in the south to watch the chickens and drive away the birds.

When the rice was harvested, cleaned and dried, it was put into the warehouse, and the fields had already been filled with water. The old cow pulled the plow, plowed the paddy fields again, and then planted green rice seedlings.This side is to the south, with convenient irrigation and good sunshine conditions. Farmers in this area have to plant rice twice a year.

When the farming work comes to a close, it will be the [-]th day of the seventh lunar month, the Hungry Ghost Festival. In the area of ​​Jinjishan Village, the common saying is also called Ghost Festival.

On the day of the Ghost Festival, both Qian Lixiang and Sun Ji were closed for a day, and most of the shops and businesses in Changqiao Town were closed, because everyone had to rush to sacrifice to the ghosts on the day of the Ghost Festival. That is to burn incense to the deceased ancestors.

On the morning of the Hungry Ghost Festival, Liang Yuzhong’s family had a hasty breakfast and then hurriedly folded gold ingots with tinfoil. Sun did not fold them because she was a pregnant woman. According to the old custom, ghosts cannot pick up gold ingots folded by pregnant women after incineration. It's no good to go to the underworld, so Mrs. Sun sat aside and watched.

Jin Xi and Jin Rou quickly folded gold ingots, while watching Liang Yuzhong write on the paper packages made of pasted yellow paper.There is an inch-thick paper money inside the paper bag, and the ancestor's name is written stroke by stroke on the front of the paper bag, and the word "seal" must be written on the back after wrapping.These paper bags, together with the gold and jade treasures made of tinfoil, will be burned in front of the earth temple outside the village after lunch.

Jin Xi looked at the paper packages piled up on the table and thought, this is very much like a courier, but it is a courier that leads to the underworld, conveying the mourning of the descendants to the deceased ancestors.

Jin Xi looked at the devout faces of Liang Yuzhong and Sun, and took a deep breath. Before, she was a typical atheist, and she believed that death was like a lamp going out.

But ever since God made a big joke on her and let her soul come into this world, Jin Xi's world view has been subverted.

What you see and hear is not necessarily true. Similarly, what you can't see or touch doesn't mean it doesn't exist.There is positive energy and positive matter in this world, and there will naturally be corresponding dark energy and dark matter.I don’t know if such a space really exists in the dark, where our deceased relatives and friends did not perish, they just lived in a changed environment and space. In that world, they still live and inhabit as usual, unlike ours. Space is the same, has its own laws of operation?

There is really no way to study these things, Jin Xi doesn't want to go into a dead end, all she can do is piously stack a few more ingots of gold ingots for the deceased ancestors, so that they can live comfortably in that world!
For lunch, I prepared steamed fish, braised chicken nuggets, and fried rice balls with pork belly.The so-called fried rice balls are actually ground rice noodles, knead them evenly with hot water, and then make them into white millet cakes the size of water chestnuts. Use your thumb to gently press a sunken figure in the middle of the millet cakes. When both sides are golden brown in the pan, pour in the cooked pork belly and stir-fry together. When the fragrant meat oil seeps into the rice noodle balls, it can be out of the pan.

After the Hungry Ghost Festival in this area, every family will grind rice noodles and make fried rice balls. Children like to use chopsticks to eat fried rice balls together like candied haws. Jinxi also tried it. What a taste!

Before eating lunch, Sun Ji had already taken a few small bowls, picked out some of the meat and vegetables, and kept them as blessings when burning incense in the afternoon. In addition, there were some fruits, sugar cakes, and wine.

After lunch, Liang Yuzhong took sisters Jinxi and Jinrou out of the house. Jinxi carried a basket containing blessings and fruit wine, while Liang Yuzhong carried a bundle of straw, a bundle of tinfoil gold ingots, a few hanging whips and a few heavy letters. The yellow form paper 'Express', the father and daughter went to the land temple.

When the three father and daughter arrived, there were already many villagers standing there in front of the Earth Temple, some of which had already been burned, and some were about to be burned. When they saw Liang Yuzhong's family coming, they all came to say hello.

Jinxi discovered a very strange thing. Although Liang Yuzhong and Sun's family were very popular in Jinjishan Village before, it was mainly because they were good people and willing to suffer. If anyone could help, they would never refuse , When the farming season is busy, I go to work as an au pair for someone else, and I never spare any effort.

People's news is the most well-informed. It spreads from ten to ten. Liang Yuzhong's family has since been rumored to serve tea at the Tea Fragrance Pavilion in the town, and to open a shop in the town in partnership with his mother's family, and then opened a breakfast shop. Golden Rooster The villagers in the mountain village have changed their attitude towards Liang Yuzhong and the Sun family a long time ago. In addition, Liang Yuzhong went back to the village to buy land and surrounded the two magnificent courtyards beside the official road. Here comes the money.

Liang Yuzhong's family moved to a new house, and some people in the village who had no friendship in normal times went to congratulate them, and Zhang Butcher's family, who was the most stingy, also went to flatter him. Now, Liang Yuzhong's family, whether they are adults or children, walk in the village. Take a good look at it.

So, when Liang Yuzhong took his two daughters to the Earth Temple, a lot of villagers came to greet him enthusiastically. Enthusiastic villagers will naturally find something to talk about when they have nothing to say.

After burning the incense and spreading blessings on the ground in front of the Earth Temple, Liang Yuzhong hurried home with his two daughters.Old Liangtou, Liang Yulin, Liang Yuzhou, Liang Lisheng, Liang Lizhi, Liang Liqing, and Liang Libai walked up to them.

The two parties met face to face on the road, and the old Liangtou naturally asked a few questions. Jin Xi glanced at the basket that Liang Lisheng was holding in his hand. The blessings inside were nothing more than the simplest.Looking at Old Liangtou again, since they came back from Wanghai County last time, Jin Xi hasn't seen him for several days. Old Liangtou seems to have lost some weight, and he doesn't look as energetic as before.

The originally clear sky suddenly rolled with ink clouds, and thunder roared, as if a huge wooden wheel was crushing in the sky, and the north wind blew up, blowing dust on the ground, leaves, and unburned incense paper dancing all over the sky. The world seemed to be in darkness.The villagers who burned incense in front of the earth temple rushed to the village one after another.

"Father, don't delay, you go over and burn the incense and go home, it's going to rain soon!" Liang Yuzhong said.

"Hey!" Old Liang nodded, and led the big guy to speed up the pace to the Earth Temple.

"Isn't this Brother Liang? Did you burn incense with your two nieces?" After walking a few steps, a young man with a hoe came to meet him. laugh.

Jin Xi recognized this person, he was Yang Aimin, the son-in-law recruited by Cui Kongque, the eldest daughter of the Cui family. Lao Liang's family and Cui's family are related by marriage.

"Hey, it's brother Aimin, what's the matter, it's about to rain heavily, why are you still going to the fields?" Liang Yuzhong asked Yang Aimin.

"It's okay, the paddy field where the seedlings were planted two days ago is on the side of the earth temple, a few steps away, I'll go to Tianba and turn around to see the water, and I'll be back in a while!" Yang Aimin said with a smile, teasing Jinrou again, saying "Girl Rou, what delicious food did your mother cook for you at noon? Did you butcher a chicken? My uncle's family slaughtered an old hen at noon, and your aunt Peacock made soup for the old hen, so go and drink it in the afternoon! "

Jin Rou blinked her eyes, Liang Yuzhong laughed, Jin Xi looked at the sky that was getting more and more cloudy, and behind the thick clouds, there were one or two lightning bolts from time to time, and said to Yang Aimin: "Uncle Aimin, I think you should not go to the fields to look at the water for a while, it is not safe for a while to thunder and rain!"

Yang Aimin laughed, and said: "Girl Xi, it's okay. Your uncle and I have dealt with the cropland all our lives. Haven't we seen it? If it's really windy and rainy, we won't come out to work. What can the old snacks drink? Okay. Let’s not talk any more, the two nieces will come to my house if they want to drink chicken soup, the old hen for several years is nutritious, don’t look outside!”

After Yang Aimin finished speaking, he laughed and picked up his hoe and strode away. After a while, he disappeared.

"Let's go, Xi'er!" Liang Yuzhong urged, pulling the two daughters and walking towards the official road. Their family is not in the village, but on the edge of the official road outside the entrance of the village. They walked through the earth temple at a normal pace and got half a bowl The kung fu of tea.

The three of Liang Yuzhong, father and daughter stepped into the courtyard, and the sound of crackling rain fell on their heads. With a big belly, Mrs. Sun held an umbrella in one hand and several umbrellas in the other hand, and was walking towards the courtyard. He happened to meet a family of four. The people hurried into the inner courtyard.

After a while, there was loud thunder, lightning and thunder, and heavy rain poured down, hitting the rubble on the roof, making a sound like fried beans.

"The severe drought is only in July and a half. This agricultural proverb is really accurate. Since the beginning of summer, it has been a long time since it has rained like this. The tea in the tea garden behind Sunjiagou, It should grow very well next time!" Sitting near the door, Jin Xi happily said while watching the pouring rain outside.

"Although our family didn't plant the land this year, others have. This heavy rain has relieved the drought in the cotton field for several days!" Liang Yuzhong said. In the past, at this time of year, the drought resistance in the cotton field was also the worst. It's a headache, because the main house in the village has a water truck, and other houses use buckets to carry water to the cotton fields to irrigate.

A flash of green lightning suddenly pierced through the long sky, and the dark sky seemed to be split open with claws and claws. Following the lightning was a burst of tearing thunder, which made people's eardrums ache!

Jin Rou was so frightened that she cried at that time, Sun hurriedly said: "Quick, Rou'er, come and sit next to Mother! Xi'er, you also come into the room, don't sit there!"

Jin Xi moved in a little bit, and her little heart was also jumping, only to hear Liang Yuzhong staring at the place where the lightning struck just now, frowning and saying: "The thunder just now was a broken thunder, broken thunder's character Not good, where thunder is often smashed, there will always be something!"

Sun sighed and said with lingering fear: "Isn't it? I still remember that I was still a girl in Sunjiagou at that time, and it was also such a rainy day. My mother used a sickle to pull the grass in the sweet potato field in the back mountain. After I hit it, I only knew that my wrist was numb, and when I looked again, the sickle in my hand was thrown a hundred meters away, but I was so scared. After that, I never dared to go outside to do things in thunder and rain! "

"Mom, you were so lucky that time, you saved your life!" Jin Xi said, thunderstorms in summer are the most likely to cause electric shocks, one end of the sickle is made of iron, but fortunately the part in your hand is a wooden handle , or Sun's sickle should have been scratched by the light and shadow of the electric current, otherwise, if even a small amount of electric current fell on her body, it would be more than numb hands?

"That happened when I was as old as Rou'er. I heard it too. It was also said that it was thundering and rainy. An old man was driving cattle from the field to home. When he was crossing the bridge, a thunderbolt struck him , the cow was killed on the spot!" Liang Yuzhong also said.

"I hope that the thunder explosion just now didn't bring disaster to the village!" Jin Xi said.

The thunderstorm in the summer afternoon comes quickly and goes quickly. In half an hour, the clouds gather and the rain rests. The sky is as clear as a clear blue. Fresh air after the rain.

"Because the rain is over, you send these fried rice balls to Xi'er's grandma. Although they also made it, it's our kindness to celebrate the Ghost Festival." Sun said from the kitchen Take out a large bowl, which contains pork belly and fried rice balls.

"Hey, okay, I'll send it over right away!" Liang Yuzhong happily took the big bowl, and yelled at Jinxi Jinrou: "Would you two go play with me in the village?"

Jin Xi shook her head, Jin Rou hurriedly followed, the father and daughter hadn't been out for a long time, Jin Rou came back from running outside with a flushed face and rushed into the inner courtyard in one breath.

"What's the matter, the floor is slippery, don't run so fast!" Mrs. Sun was sitting on the porch of the east room making small clothes for the baby in her belly, and said to Jin Rou angrily, Jin Xi was sitting on a small stool beside her to help Sun Shi pulls the thread,
"Mother, sister, someone in the village has been struck by lightning!" Jinrou said anxiously.

"Ah?" Sun and Jin Xi were shocked, Jin Xi pressed the back of Sun's hand and said, "Mother, don't get excited, watch out for your stomach!"

Mrs. Sun nodded, calmed down, and then heard Jin Xi ask Jin Ju: "Who is it? Where did you chop it?"

"It's Uncle Aimin! It's in the paddy field beside the Earth Temple, and many people in the village have gone there now!" Jin Ju said, his eyes turning red.

Sun bit her lip and murmured: "Brother Aimin is known as a diligent person, what happened to the Cui family..."

Jin Xi frowned, remembering that he had talked to Yang Aimin at the Earth Temple earlier, and he warmly greeted Jin Xi and Jinrou sisters to his house to drink old chicken soup. Unexpectedly, in a blink of an eye...

"Rou'er, stay at home with your mother, I'll come back after a visit!" Jin Xi said, stepping out of the inner courtyard.

When Jin Xi ran into the village, she found that every household was standing on the bluestone pavement outside, and everyone was talking about the lightning incident with panicked expressions. Jin Xi followed some people to the paddy fields beside the Earth Temple From a distance, I could see the Cui family's paddy field, where many villagers had already gathered.

The crowd stood on the field ridge, Cui Kongque, the eldest daughter of the Cui family, was dragged by a bolder woman to sit on the field ridge, crying heartbreakingly, pulling the turf on the field ridge with both hands, beating and beating , with disheveled hair, so miserable.

The second daughter, Cui Xique, also cried into tears, with her arms around two little boys, the older one was about the same as Liang Libai, and the younger one was about three or four years old, the two boys were so frightened that they cried loudly.

(End of this chapter)