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MTL - The Sweet Little Fulang-Chapter 2
For a moment, Lu Gu forgot to breathe.
When he saw Shen Xuanqing's cold and angry expression, his brain buzzed, and he seemed to have hallucinations in front of him. He had already imagined that he would die under the stick and fist.
In a trance, he didn't know where he was, nor did he know Shen Xuanqing angrily slammed out the door, until an anxious cry rang from the door, which brought him back to his senses.
There were several people around the door. After seeing that he was not Lu Wen, Wei Lanxiang fainted.
"Mother! Mother, don't worry, don't worry."
Shen Yan and sister-in-law Ji Qiuyue hurriedly supported Wei Lanxiang, who had fallen. The aunt who helped in the village and a few others who did the dishes didn't leave. Seeing this, they immediately came over to help pinch people's heart. The originally happy Shen family was happy. There was chaos.
Wei Lanxiang woke up quickly, she took a sigh of relief, looked at Lu Gu in the room, and said angrily, "Who are you?"
Lu Gu stood up, at a loss, and being watched by so many people, his tears flowed without knowing it, his eyes widened and it was difficult to breathe.
"This seems to be their Lu Gu, born to Lu Daxiang's first daughter-in-law."
Lu Gu stammered and couldn't speak, but fortunately the aunt who was helping recognized him. She was from the village next door to Anjia Village. Now, I only have a vague impression of Lu Gu, and it took me a while to recognize it.
Hearing this, Wei Lanxiang became even more angry. For the sake of this marriage, the family had been busy for a long time and didn't talk about it. She took out 22 taels of honorable gifts, not to mention the things she hired at the beginning. Which one is not money?
Besides, since her man died, their family has only been getting better recently.
Shen Shunfu accidentally slipped and fell when he entered the mountain in winter three years ago, broke his leg, and fell into the pool of water.
Although he fell into the shallow water on the edge, he struggled to climb up, but falling into the biting ice water in the winter is enough for anyone who is angry.
His clothes were soaking wet, and he was so cold that he couldn't crawl out very far with a broken leg.
Later, some people in the village who went up the mountain to chop firewood heard a slight movement and rescued Shen Shunfu, who was frozen blue and purple.
For this injury, it cost a lot of money just to see a doctor and get medicine, and sold a lot of things. Unfortunately, no one was rescued. All kinds of good medicinal materials were hanged, and it lasted for a month and a half.
Life at home was difficult for a while because of lack of money. Fortunately, Shen Xuanqing and his elder brother Shen Yaoqing were both able to live up to their expectations. At that time, they were fifteen and twenty, and they were both young men who had the strength to endure hardships.
At the age of ten, Shen Xuanqing worshipped an old hunter in the mountains as a teacher. Fortunately, he had already learned the craft. After his father died, he left the teacher. He went hunting in the mountains by himself. I would go to a nearby town or county as a day laborer to carry a large bag. After two or three years, my hand is not so tight anymore.
Seeing that the days are getting better and better, Wei Lanxiang sees that her second son is eighteen, and the marriage should have been settled long ago, but it was only because of delays in the past few years, how can a good family's twin daughters be willing to suffer for someone who has no money .
Besides, Shen Xuanqing was only fifteen when he tightened his trousers and worked hard with his brother, but he was only a half-year-old boy.
When Shen Shunfu was there, their family life was pretty good, so even Shen Yaoqing had never suffered this kind of hardship when she was fifteen years old. She felt bad for her son and didn't want to perfunctory about his son's marriage, until this year she fell in love with Lu Wen. , betrothed to Shen Xuanqing.
The 20 taels of dowry was for Lu Wen who was good-looking and knowledgeable. She spent 20 taels, and the Lu family actually married someone else. How could she swallow this breath?
"Let's go! Go to your Lu family and reason with me. I see what Lu Daxiang and Du Hehua have to say!"
Wei Lanxiang pushed away the person who was supporting her, pulled Lu Gu over and walked out, extremely angry, how could she 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 had turned into 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 for theory.
The leftovers in the yard hadn't been cleaned up yet, and Wei Lanxiang was even more angry when she saw it, knowing that the dishes on the feast today were brought by her son who had been busy for more than a month.
Shen Xuanqing has hunting skills, and he spent a lot of money on betrothal gifts and betrothal gifts. He couldn't help but be a little tight. In order to save a little on the wedding banquet, he started preparing early.
Every table is served with ten dishes and one soup, including stewed chicken nuggets and wild boar, a bowl of sliced pig heart and lungs, a bowl of liver miscellaneous, as well as spicy fried rabbit meat and a plate of steamed fish. There are six meat dishes alone. In this way, plus four kinds of vegetarian dishes and an old bowl of meatball soup, it can be said that it is rare and rich.
Even in those wealthy villages, wedding events are not necessarily as generous as the second room of the Shen family, and the meat and vegetables are so rich.
The banquet hall of their house makes many people in the village unable to put down their chopsticks, and their mouths are full of oil. Not only children are disregarding their decency, but even some adults are like this, for fear that they will be less than others.
And most of the meat dishes are attributed to Shen Xuanqing. In addition to the chickens raised by their family, he beat five or six pheasants on the mountain, chopped them into pieces and mixed them with the chickens, so there was no need to kill the laying hens at home. The rabbit was driven by him in the mountains with two hounds.
It was hot in the summer. In order not to let the rabbits and pheasants go bad, Shen Xuanqing put a lot of effort into catching them alive and raising them at home for a while.
He also beat the wild boars. The wild boars in the mountains are not easy to mess with, especially the male wild boars with tusks. Fortunately, he was lucky. After seven or eight days in the deep mountains, he used the traps he dug to hack and kill a big one. .
There were not enough pig hearts, lungs and livers for more than twenty tables, so Shen Xuanqing went to the town to buy some more. As for the more than thirty fish, he caught them in the Qingxi River.
It is true that there is no money in the things in the mountains and waters, but everything is not easy to come by.
In order to prepare for these, he has not stopped for more than a month. He has become dark and thin, and he almost falls asleep every night. However, when he thinks of marrying a husband, he has a face that is not very expressive, but he is still in his heart. It's hot, and there's a rush.
Ever since the family had gotten better, Shen Xuanqing still lived in the mountains to hunt. Every time his mother gave him dry food, he would always say something, if he married a wife or husband, he would be able to eat a mouthful of hot food. meal.
Like other men, he had no other ideas in the past, he just needed to work hard to make the family live a good life. When he got older, he saw people of the same age marrying wives and having children one after another, and his mother kept talking about it from time to time. Shen Xuanqing gradually became interested in marrying her husband.
It seems to be more lively when two people live together in the mountains, at least someone is talking.
So after the marriage with Lu Wen was settled, he didn't say anything, but he was happy in his heart, and it was worth it no matter how tired he was.
Unexpectedly, when the red hijab was lifted and saw another pair of children, all his joy seemed to be drowned out by a basin of cold water, and he didn't even understand why it happened.
Lu Gu was dressed in red, and Shen Xuanqing, who frowned tightly, did not change his clothes, and he attracted attention as soon as he went out.
Seeing Wei Lanxiang pulling the bridegroom's face full of anger, the villagers were puzzled, how could the Shen family be like this on a happy day.
At the entrance of the village, he met a few young men chatting, and Shen Yaoqing, who was left behind, said a few words to them briefly, and those people went with them.
If you go to other villages to find trouble, you may suffer a loss if you are weak and weak. In addition, it is heard that the people from Qingxi Village have been fooled. These people have a good relationship with the Shen Yaoqing brothers, and naturally share the same enemy.
A group of people rushed towards Anjia Village and killed them.
When they arrived at Anjia Village, they saw the bridegroom and the bridegroom in red. Some people were still muttering that it was not the time to return to the door. It was only when they saw Lu Gu's face that they suddenly realized.
He was dragged away almost all the way, and Lu Gu stumbled and stumbled under his feet, but luckily he didn't fall.
His eyes were full of fear, his eyes were red, he didn't know what to do, and his thin body looked very thin against the loose clothes.
This dress was made for Lu Wen. He was thinner than Lu Wen and didn't fit at all.
The Lu family was not far from entering the village, and even if someone wanted to tip them off, it was too late. In addition, the group of young men stared, almost no one wanted to meddle in their business and cause trouble where they could see.
The courtyard door was kicked open with a kick, and Lu Gu's heart trembled. Wei Lanxiang pulled his arm and entered the Lu's house, her face full of anger: "From the Lu family, come out for me!"
Du Hehua poked her head out of the window, and quickly shrank back because of this angry reprimand.
"Du Hehua! You made it clear to me today that my son married your Lu Wen, how could he become Lu Gu?"
Out of anger, Wei Lanxiang, who usually speaks softly and softly, was forced to raise her voice a lot, which made the surrounding Anjia Village people hear it clearly.
She took out the red paper on which the engagement contract was written, unfolded it, and said, "It's clearly written on it, it's your Lu Wen, not Lu Gu!"
"I want to ask you, what is your heart in Lu Jia'an?"
"See how our orphans and widows are easy to bully? I tell you Du Hehua, don't you think about it!"
Wei Lanxiang became more and more angry, and her hand holding the marriage certificate was shaking. At this moment, Du Hehua flinched.
Looking at this group of people, she couldn't help but be afraid, but she didn't want to be scolded like this. There were so many people watching the fun outside, where should she put her face?
She was anxious and embarrassed, and when she saw Lu Gu, she 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 she carried me on the sedan chair , you shameless thing, see if I don't kill you today!"
Du Hehua was used to taking Lu Gu's anger, so she didn't hesitate to beat and scold him.
As soon as Lu Gu saw the stick, he wanted to hide back subconsciously, and his face was even whiter than before.
But when he got to the front, Du Hehua was frightened back by a few young men staring at her.
"Auntie, I'm not telling you, but you will be struck by lightning if you lie."
Shen Yaoqing's daughter-in-law Ji Qiuyue saw that she was turning black and white, and she was going to beat someone now, how could she bear it, and sneered: "Whose aunt is wearing his clothes, can you know? His face was made up by the old woman. Yes, is it possible that Auntie doesn't know?"
Wei Lanxiang followed and scolded: "Are you dead? Let him wear Lu Wen's clothes?"
He asked again: "Where is Lu Wen? Let him come out for me. I want to see how talented Lu Gu is. If he is promoted to the new husband's seat, will Lu Wen still know."
Ji Qiuyue echoed loudly: "Yes, let Lu Wen come out. Our family married Lu Wen, and 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 the opposite side and shouted, "I've never seen Shuang'er married and still hiding at home, replaced by someone else, your Lu family's work is really fresh. ."
Du Hehua couldn't beat her, and she couldn't even say that she opened her mouth several times. Seeing the situation was wrong, she immediately changed her face and sat down on the ground and began to cry.
"I've made a fool of myself, what kind of sin have I done to spread such an unconscionable thing..."
She cried and grabbed the ground, and she didn't know who she was scolding.
Most of the unreasonable village women are like this. Ji Qiuyue took it for granted and said, "Auntie, you won't let Lu Wen come out, but I can go in and find it myself. It's only right and proper for our new husband to go back with us. thing."
Du Hehua turned a deaf ear, screaming, ooh, ooh, and she didn't care that she was covered in dust, and she cried more and more terribly.
When Ji Qiuyue saw her like this, she knew that Lu Wen was probably not at Lu's house, but she still didn't give up. She went in and searched for a circle and came out quickly, not to mention Lu Wen, not even Lu Daxiang's shadow.
"What happened?"
Bao Zhiru, the head of Anjia Village, came after hearing the news, and behind him were some young and strong men in the village.
The people from Qingxi Village were blocking the courtyard. When Du Hehua saw the village chief coming, she immediately cried across the crowd: "I beat people, I beat them. If you don't come, Third Uncle, I will be beaten to death by them."
Bao Zhiru is sixty-two years old, and he is considered to be highly respected in his old age. Because he is the third oldest, the villagers often call him the third uncle, and even the people in the nearby villages call him the same.
Wei Lanxiang glared at Du Hehua, took the marriage certificate after Bao Zhiru came in, and wiped her tears and cried, "Third uncle, our family married Lu Wen, it's all written on it, but they married Lu Wen over here. Gu, isn't this bullying, I can't take this breath."
Bao Zhiru recognized the characters, held up the red paper and read it under the sun, then looked at Lu Gu in a wedding dress, his brows furrowed.
It's not easy to handle this, even people in Anjia Village know that the Lu family doesn't account for it at all.
Bao Zhiru thought about it, it was the Shen family who was justified, and if it really went to the county government office, the master of the government would naturally want Lu Wen to go to the Shen family when he saw the marriage certificate, so he said, "I said Lotus, since you have the marriage certificate as proof, you can't be confused."
Hearing the words, Du Hehua got up from the ground, crying and wiping away her tears, 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 can I see his mother, if it wasn't for him, how could I give him such a good marriage?"
"I was confused for a while, and when I saw him crying pitifully, I nodded my head softly."
"I thought, whoever you marry will live behind closed doors. Besides, it's not the same when the lights are blown at night."
Suddenly it came to him, Lu Gu was at a loss, and after hearing the stepmother's words, he subconsciously shook his head, that's not the case, he didn't ask the stepmother for this marriage.
Being so angry that Du Hehua was talking nonsense, Wei Lanxiang scolded directly: "Fuck you motherfucker! Your Lu family fools people and treats others as fools, what's the same, I'm going to marry Lu Wencai I gave a heavy gift of twenty taels, otherwise who will be taken advantage of!"
During the quarrel, Lu Gu didn't dare to speak, but Shen Xuanqing, who was a few steps away from him, gave him a look, and the tall man's frowning and cold face made him terrified.
He knew at once that Shen Xuanqing was wondering if it was the marriage he asked his stepmother for.
Not only Shen Xuanqing, but other people would look at him like this. When the Shen family was discovered, Lu Gu was already embarrassed enough. After coming down, now the stepmother has turned black and white, so that his already crumbling face and dignity have been completely torn apart in front of so many people, and there is no more.
"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 jumped into a rage and cursed: "Well, you shameless little prostitute! You! The short-lived mother is good, you didn't learn it, but you learned to harm people thoroughly! I don't know who the wild seed is, I raised you with kindness, and I didn't miss your food and clothing, but now you are here to harm our brother Wen. ."
The word "wild seed" made Lu Gu's face lose the color completely. His feet were soft, and his body shook a few times, barely able to stabilize.
Du Hehua scolded him more and more harshly, and even Wei Lanxiang couldn't stand it anymore. Just when she was about to scold him, she heard Shen Xuanqing speak.
"Enough!" He took a step forward, his brows still furrowed, and he said solemnly, "It was your Lu family who regretted their marriage first. Since Lu Wen doesn't want to marry, I won't force it. It's just that the 20 taels of betrothal money cannot be used. Free for you."
Wei Lanxiang pointed at Du Hehua and said angrily: "Yes, and the dowry in front of you, which one wasn't bought with money? Your family Lu Wen took our money and clothes, but the wedding day ran away, and you took the money and didn't marry. People, co-authoring good deeds has taken up all of your Lu family, how can there be such an unruly thing in the world?"
"We can't give money to our family, and we can't even see a figure, so we can pay back the money!" Ji Qiuyue was also so angry that she became more and more excited.
Du Hehua blushed when she heard the word repayment, not ashamed, but anxious, that was a full twenty taels of silver, and it was already in her hands to ask her to return it, it would kill her!
"You are no big or small prostitute, I'm talking to your mother, it's your turn to yell here?" She pointed at Ji Qiuyue's nose and cursed.
Ji Qiuyue didn't faint from anger, but she was so angry that her face flushed red and she gasped for breath, but Shen Yaoqing hurried over to help her and let her calm down.
"Du Hehua, you!" Wei Lanxiang's hands were shaking as she pointed at Du Hehua and scolded angrily.
"Auntie, you can eat rice indiscriminately, but you can't talk nonsense."
Shen Yaoqing supported his daughter-in-law to look at Du Hehua, his face was ashen, he was tall and tall, and there was uncontrollable anger in his voice, which made Du Hehua subconsciously shut up.
Ji Qiuyue is not submissive either, where has she ever suffered from this kind of anger, she was originally a lively temperament, she usually spoke lightly and quickly, but now she was getting annoyed and her mouth became even quicker, and she repeatedly scolded: "My aunt is not a prostitute. That aunt's two sons are prostitutes, and they are all mixed up with the people in the town. If my aunt is really ashamed, she should hang it now, or I will be sorry for your Lu family ancestors!"
A clean reputation is undoubtedly important to Shuang'er and the girl. Ji Qiuyue didn't know about this, she just couldn't bear it. She clearly agreed to marry, but she regretted it, co-authored and played their family like monkeys, and it was also Du Hehua. Humiliate her innocence first.
Hearing this, Du Hehua was like a lit cannonball, blushing and scolding her neck and jumping feet: "You bastard, falsely accusing my brother Wen in empty vernacular, 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 shoved her to the side. She fell to the ground and immediately burst into tears, shouting that she was going to die.
When a group of young men from Anjia Village saw people from other villages move their hands, they stared at them and were about to fight.
Ji Qiuyue saw that they were glaring at Shen Yaoqing, on the other side's territory, if there was a real fight, only the people from the Shen family would suffer, so she sneered and said quickly: "Sure enough, you are overbearing in Anjia Village. The theory will also be beaten, I see the reputation of your Anjia Village spread out, how many people will be stabbed in the spine, I don't believe it, there is no justice in this world!"
After all, Bao Zhiru is the head of the li, this is the Lu family's fault, doing such absurd things, if it is spread out, it will indeed damage the reputation of their Anjia Village. Besides, the people of Qingxi Village were beaten today. When he went back, he gathered a group of people to come over, and the county government knew that the matter had gotten bigger. Although he was a bit thin, it was inevitable that he would be ridiculed by some people behind his back.
He squeezed his hands, motioned the people of Anjia Village to calm down, and said, "Okay, okay, this matter has come out. It's like calling and talking about it. If you have something to say, you don't have to be so angry."
"Third Uncle, we don't want people anymore, but the money can't be given to them in vain." Wei Lanxiang wiped away her tears and said with hatred.
Since it was the Lu family who regretted their marriage first, it was only natural for the Shen family to propose to return the betrothal money. In this way, the matter was over. Bao Zhiru looked at Du Hehua.
Before he could say anything, he saw Du Hehua howling, sitting on the ground clapping his thighs and crying: "God **** it, I've been in bad luck for eight lifetimes, and this kind of thing happened to you in the morning. You didn't send it back until now. Your Shen family said that you were a good person, but behind the scenes, I was afraid that someone had been occupied a long time ago. Ask me for money, how can I live?"
Du He lace cried and shouted, without even a door to open his mouth, he just shouted indiscriminately.
"Du Hehua! You fart!" When Wei Lanxiang heard that she would frame her son regardless of Lu Gu's innocence, how could she bear it, she picked up the stick that Du Hehua had just thrown on the ground. Having never suffered from this kind of cowardice, I picked up a stick and hit it.
"It's okay to beat people!"
Lu Daxiang's younger brother Lu Dahe and his two sons were originally watching from the outside. After all, their Lu family was unreasonable, but when he saw the fight, everyone in the village was watching. A middle-aged man with a good relationship entered together.
Du Hehua usually has a loud voice, but now she was beaten and howled like a pig, causing Lu Daxiang, who was hiding nearby, to jump out, pretending to just come back from work in the field, holding a **** Angrily, he ran into the courtyard gate and scuffled with the people of Qingxi Village.
In the blink of an eye, the situation changed. Bao Zhiru was so angry that his beard could lift up. The few young men he brought with him listened to his words and started fighting.
There was a mess of porridge in the yard, the men scuffled together, and Lu Dahe's daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law also came in in a hurry, otherwise, we couldn't watch Du Hehua being beaten and scolded by Wei Lanxiang, Ji Qiuyue and two village women.
Before everyone noticed, Lu Gu lowered his head and avoided the crowd.
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 all these years. Okay, act like a good stepmother.
A pair of children was returned the same day after they got married, and he had no face at all, and now he is saying in front of so many people that he has lost his innocence.
Not long after, someone ran in from the head of the village, shouting, "No, no, Lu Gu jumped into the river!"