Flowers are expensive

Chapter 192 Man Xiang Proposed Marriage

Yuan's face was a little panicked, with a worried look.Mrs. Gong asked, "Auntie, do you really know Cao Chu?" Mrs. Yuan said hastily, "Knowledge means acquaintance, and Mijiaba is not far from here. ah!"

"Then you don't need to panic, you haven't done that murder thing, what are you afraid of?"

"Of course I'm not afraid..." Yuan Shi paused here, rubbing her sleeves, and said anxiously, "I'm afraid that the Cao family's nonsense will ruin my reputation... Then why did Cao Meizhi Catch me! I never offended her!"

Just as they were talking, Gao Sangu and Mei Xiang helped each other up the slope.The third aunt Gao saw Yuan Shi, and before she could take a breath, she rushed over and pointed at Yuan Shi and said, "You are still here to cool off! The messengers have come to the village and caught you, so you should confess quickly!"

Yuan stood up and said angrily: "Aunt Gao, I have always lived in Mijiaba, and I have little contact with your Cao family, and I have never had any enmity. Why do you arrest me! I can't even talk to Cao Chu. I never said it, how can there be such a thing as you said!"

"No?" Gao Sangu took the round fan in Mei Xiang's hand and slapped it twice, raising her loud voice and said, "Do you dare to swear to God that you have no relationship with Cao Chu? Do you dare to swear on your son?"

"You...you are really unreasonable!"

"Stop pretending to be a big girl here!" Gao Sangu said, spitting on the ground, and said disdainfully, "Our Meizhi saw everything about you and Cao Chu clearly! The day Cao Chu disappeared , she saw you and Cao Chu flirting with Cao Chu on the other side of Haizi Bridge, doing some shameful things!" "You're talking nonsense!" Yuan's face turned even redder.

"Hmph, let me tell you, murder pays for your life! You just wait for your life to pay for it! Who told you to marry someone who is not honest and peaceful, and wants to provoke our family Cao Chu, you deserve it! Shameless thing! Sangmenxing, deserve to die Let the man keep the pillow empty!" Gao Sangu's series of yelling and scolding made the people who folded the dogwood next to them turn their heads to watch the commotion.Yuan's face was flushed with anxiety, as if she had just stepped out of the stove, she threw away the dogwood and chrysanthemums in her hand and hurried down the mountain!

Mrs. Gong glared at Third Aunt Gao angrily, and said, "San Gu, try to be virtuous in your words, don't go too far! If that pile of bones isn't Cao Chu, I think you've been beaten by a ghost for your injustice!" Aunt Gao put her hands on her hips He sneered and said, "Even if the bones don't belong to Cao Chu, the person surnamed Yuan can't go wrong with Cao Chu secretly! Gong Yutong, you weren't there at that time! What do you know?"

"I've never seen your Cao family be so domineering!"

"You say I'm overbearing? Then the third aunt will tell you the truth!" Gao Sangu shook her head triumphantly, and shouted at the women who folded dogwood next to her, "Listen, all of you! See if I'm overbearing! My plum branch Having said that, there is a red mole on the back of that surnamed Yuan, why do you think our Meizhi saw it?"

The women didn't answer, and seemed to be waiting for the next sentence.The third aunt Gao became more active as she talked, she patted the back of her hands and said, "You are all surprised, right? If you hadn't taken off your clothes, who would have known that there was a red mole on the back of Yuan? Ten years old, but I can see clearly that the one with the surname Yuan was the one who had a private meeting with Cao Chu in the woods. Otherwise, how would we Meizhi know about her? Gong Yutong—" She turned her face away Lai said disdainfully to Mrs. Gong, "You protect your aunt without knowing anything. Hmph, how can you be sorry for your dead uncle! If you don't believe me, go home and take off her clothes and have a look!"

After Gao Sangu finished speaking, she pulled Mei Xiang up the mountain.Gong's face flushed with anger, and he dropped the dogwood in his hand to go down the mountain.Lihua quickly stopped her and asked, "Where are you going? You haven't reached the top of the mountain yet!"

"Stop climbing!" Gong turned her head and said angrily, "I have to go back and ask my aunt if this is the case! Is there a red mole on her back! How could the housekeeper know such a private matter?"

"Yutong!" Lihua called Gong Shi a few times, but Gong Shi went down the mountain angrily.Afterwards, Lihua and Hongling climbed another part of the mountain, met Moxiang and Yutao, and went down the mountain together to go home.

As soon as Yutao returned to the yard, she was busy making lunch.Lihua and Moxiang are also helping in the kitchen.Not long after, Gong walked into the kitchen with an ugly expression, and asked, "Yutao, what should I do?"

"I don't know how to get the duck's hair, I'll save it for you!" Yutao lowered her head and cut the vegetables without seeing Gong's expression.

"Just set it on fire!" Gong said angrily.

All three of them stopped what they were doing and turned to look at Mrs. Gong.Seeing her strange expression, Lihua asked, "What's wrong? Who did you quarrel with?"

Mrs. Gong snorted, twisted her mouth and said, "Who else can I argue with? Isn't it my aunt? I really didn't see it! She turned out to be that kind of person, thanks to the fact that my uncle was so kind to her when he was alive." ! Fortunately, I still feel sorry for her widow, so I helped her find something to do, I didn't expect it!"

"I didn't expect anything? You asked her, and she admitted it?"

"Does she dare to admit it?" Gong said with a kitchen knife on the cutting board, "If she dares to admit it, I want to give her two slaps! When I asked her about the red mole, she was completely stupid. Feel guilty!"

"But you can't just convict her right away!"

"Lihua, don't you believe me! Why don't you ask Yutao if you know where Moxiang has moles or birthmarks? The two of them grew up together!"

Yutao shook her head and said, "I don't know, who cares to watch that!"

"Isn't it?" Mrs. Gong patted the cutting board and said excitedly, "If my aunt hadn't had something to do with Cao Chu on that slope, the housekeeper wouldn't have looked down on her! I'm so mad! Treat her well! It's not a thing!"

Lihua hurriedly persuaded: "You can't just draw conclusions like this, maybe she has some difficulties! After all, this matter is related to her reputation, and there is no real evidence, so you can't talk nonsense. You are her own family, even more so." You can't just talk about it."

"Who is her own family!" Mrs. Gong counted angrily.

"Don't be like this, Yutong," Lihua teased her, "If you are so angry, what are we going to eat at noon? Yutao spent so much time buying so many chickens, ducks and geese, you don't clean them up, later The crowd outside who opened their mouths to eat is about to make a fuss! Today is Chongyang Festival, you should respect the elderly, don't be angry with her!" Only then did Gong calm down a little, picked up a kitchen knife and started to work.Near noon, those long-term women came with their families to have lunch.Some set the table and chopsticks, and some helped in the kitchen, coming in and out, so lively.

Yutao hurriedly set up four tables in the yard, then cleared her throat and asked, "Is everyone here and ready? If you haven't come, hurry up and call! Don't wait until dinner later to show up. , It’s a hassle to add a table now!”

Everyone in the yard laughed.Someone replied: "Steward Tao, it seems that everyone is here, only Mrs. Yuan and Mrs. Yuan are missing."

"Didn't you come?" Yutao jumped up and looked around, she really didn't come!She thought for a while and ran back to the kitchen and said to Lihua: "Madam Yuan hasn't come, do you want to call her?" Before Lihua could speak, Mrs. Gong interrupted: "Why are you calling her? It's better not to come, so as not to cause gossip. !"

Lihua smiled and said: "My hostess hasn't spoken yet, why are you in a hurry? We agreed that today is the Chongyang Festival, and she is also under my command, so how could she not come? Yutao, find Go and call out personally, and say that we will have dinner just waiting for her mother and daughter."

Yutao agreed, and when she ran out, she opened her voice and shouted: "Who should hurry up and run to call for Aunt Yuan? Come back, my hostess will reward you with two more bowls of wine. Is anyone going?" The people in the kitchen laughed first. .Mo Xiang poked her head out from the stove and said with a smile, "Yutao really looks like she's in charge! Fourth Aunt, you have really good eyesight!"

Lihua tasted a piece of fried shredded chicken with dried bamboo shoots fresh out of the pan, nodded beautifully and said with a smile: "That's right! I don't think anyone missed it, how could I help you match up with Tian Yisheng?"

"Then you should do your best," Gong interjected, "and match up Yutao and Manxiang too! I heard Mrs. Xie seemed to show Manxiang another family of girls. If she decides, it will be troublesome! "

Lihua smiled mischievously, raised her eyebrows and said, "Is it that easy to settle? Why don't you ask about the characters first? If the characters don't match, would Aunt Xie dare to settle? Even if the other party is as beautiful as a fairy, she wouldn't dare!" Hehe...everything is under my control, don't worry!"

"But what if there is a relationship?" Mo Xiang asked curiously.

Lihua stretched out a finger and shook it, and said with a sly smile: "No-yes-just in case!"

"Why, Fourth Aunt?" Mo Xiang became even more curious, "Could it be that you know fortune-telling by pinching your fingers?"

Lihua covered the shreds of meat in her mouth and smiled, put down her chopsticks and wiped her mouth and said: "It's not a skill to be able to tell fortunes by pinching fingers, but it is a skill to make people who can tell fortunes by finger pinching say what you say." !" Gong seems to have come to his senses, and smiled in surprise: "Have you made an agreement with Miao Zhu?"

"That's right!" Lihua lowered her voice and said to the two with a mysterious smile, "I told him that as long as Xie Manxiang and other girls' horoscopes are used to match, they will not match at all!"

"Hahaha..." Mrs. Gong and Mo Xiang laughed happily.Mrs. Gong pinched Lihua's arm lightly, and said with a smile, "Hey, you can think of this way too?"

"Instead of wasting your time explaining to this or that, it's better to start with Miaozhu. Don't all the wives and mothers in the village believe in Miaozhu?"

"Miaozhu will listen to you?" Lihua patted her purse and said with a smile: "It's not me that he believes in, but this thing! Miaozhu is not a god, can he live by incense? To put it bluntly, he is a A scented wax shop."

"Then you are investing a lot of money, right? Otherwise, why would he listen to you?"

"The small capital has been lowered a bit, but the big capital is still in verbal IOUs!"

"This girl! Don't let others give me a white note, but I gave Miao Zhu a white note. Does Miao Zhu believe it?"

"He's just helping to say something, spending a little bit of saliva, even if it doesn't work, he won't lose. Why doesn't he believe it?"

The three of them were talking, when Yutao rushed in with a blushing face and said, "Sister Lihua, go out quickly!" Lihua asked, "What's the matter? The Cao family called again? I'll just buy more later. A few dirt dogs, let's see if they dare to come to the door!"

"No...it's not Steward Cao's wife!" Yutao said shyly, "Yes...it's Xie Manxiang!"

"Ouch!" The three of them laughed in unison.Yutao was so ashamed that she had nowhere to go, so she rushed to the stove to fight Moxiang.Mo Xiang pushed her and said with a smile: "My little uncle is here, not a bandit, what are you doing so fast? I'm afraid my little uncle will catch you and make you Mrs. Yazhai!"

"Really!" Yutao shyly squatted beside Moxiang with her red face in her hands, "You all know how to laugh at me and bully me, and I won't tell you anything from now on!" Lihua walked out with a smile, Sure enough, he saw Man Xiang standing in the yard talking to Hai Tang.She went up and asked, "Why didn't you accompany me at home for the Double Ninth Festival today? What's the matter?"

Man Xiang led her out of the courtyard, walked to the small bamboo forest nearby and said, "Sister-in-law, can you lend me some money?"

"What are you borrowing money for? How much do you want to borrow?" Man Xiang scratched the back of his head shyly and said, "It's not much, about ten taels is enough."

(End of this chapter)