In the backyard, in a small single room, Hua Niang knelt on the ground, the whole person kept trembling like a chicken in soup, and her upper and lower teeth creaked, which showed that she was extremely afraid.

Yuqing stood beside him, his eyes full of disdain and incomprehension.

"Hua Niang!" The fourth master walked into the small room with a strong breeze, sat on the circle chair facing the door, glanced at Hua Niang coldly, and shouted in a deep voice.

Hua Niang, who was already extremely scared, was directly frightened by the fourth master's bone-eroding voice, and sat down on the ground in fright, her eyes were full of panic, and her face was white and bloodless.

"Since you came to the mansion, the master and the side Fujin asked themselves if they were not thin on you, what made you do such a vicious thing, and actually replaced the old mountain ginseng in the ginseng soup of the side Fujin to replenish qi with a deflated dried radish!" The fourth master had already received Yuqing's reply, but because he was worried about alarming Erfu's production, he kept holding back, just letting the flower girl take it down and lock it in the room.

"The slave maid really didn't know what was going on, until the big girl of Yuqing came to find the slave maid, and the slave maid knew that the old ginseng had been replaced, and the slave maid was really innocent!"

The fourth master smiled coldly, and the temperature in the room instantly dropped by a few degrees, and even Yuqing and the others, who were just in charge of watching the excitement, also shivered.

There was a slight knock on the door, and the eldest grandmother walked in with a rosewood brocade box painted with gold in her hand.

Hua Niang originally wanted to distinguish a few words, but when she saw this thing, the whole person collapsed to the ground as if she had no bones, sobbing in a low voice.

"Hua Niang, do you know this thing!" the fourth master took the brocade box casually and asked in a deep voice.

"Know!" Hua Niang also knew that it was up to now, and it would be in vain to quibble and deny, so she said dejectedly.

The delicate brocade box of "Pop ......" was thrown in front of the fourth master by the fourth master, revealing the red flannel inside, on which was an old mountain ginseng with all the beard and hair, and the brown skin was faintly oozing red blood, just by looking at it, he knew that it was a good thing.

"This thing is wrapped in your futon, you shouldn't say that someone else put it in your room!" asked the fourth master with a sneer.

Hua Niang shook her head weakly, and said in a low voice: "The slave maid is just a little tight on hand, so she wants to sell this mountain ginseng for some silver to help supplement the family, as for the dried radish in the ginseng soup, the slave maid was really deceived!"

"It's really a good excuse, I didn't expect that there was such a talent as you in this West Courtyard!" the fourth master clapped his hands and said with a smile.

Hua Niang saw two mothers-in-law with big shoulders and round waists behind her, so she hurriedly got up, kowtowed again and again, and said: "What the slave and maid said are all true, the slave and maid are really just a little greedy, and they have never wanted to harm the master." ”

"Since you said that you didn't want to harm Fujin, then the master asked you, you have served in the Internal Affairs Mansion for many years, is it possible that you can't even distinguish between mountain ginseng and radish, or can't even distinguish between star anise and mangweed?"

Hua Niang only felt that she had fallen into a deep trap.

Time went back five days ago, Han Dalang, the head of Hua Niang's family, sent a message in, saying that he had an urgent matter to see Hua Niang, Hua Niang didn't think much about it, and directly asked for a leave from the eldest grandmother, and casually stuffed a white jade pendant a few days ago into the cuff, and hurriedly returned home.

Hua Niang was not originally a slave from the Internal Affairs Bureau, but because the family made some trivial mistakes, she changed from the original ordinary people to an inferior minion, plus she has become a married person, so she naturally can't serve in front of the masters, so she has been doing rough work in the Internal Affairs Office, and she is also a fussy because of the fourth master's opening of the house, and Erfu is a picky person, so she asked her, a person who had learned some crafts from her chef man, and lived a good life ever since.

In the days when she was on an errand in the West Courtyard, Erfu not only did not put on the master's shelf, but also had a big personality, and never treated her badly, which made her family's small life a lot better, so she was absolutely convinced by the Fujin Guerjia clan on the side.

Hua Niang hurriedly asked for leave to go home, just the door, I saw her man was nesting in the corner of the kang and smoking a cigarette pouch, the room was full of green smoke, the windows and doors were hidden, the stuffy and unpleasant smell, so that her, who had already come out of the sweat, suddenly became angry.

"Is this going to burn down the house, you don't work in the restaurant, why are you resting at home now!" Hua Niang roared loudly, staring at Han Dalang with round eyes.

"Hua Niang, I, Han Dalang, can't stand you!" Han Dalang raised his head with a sad face, and suddenly knelt in front of Hua Niang, howling and saying.

Hua Niang was stunned by Han Dalang's reaction, and then threw the small burden on her wrist on the kang, pushed the doors and windows open to disperse the green smoke in the room, dragged Han Dalang to sit on the edge of the kang, and asked Han Dalang what happened to her.

Han Dalang only felt that it was difficult to talk about it, but now he can't hide it anymore, so he can only say it one by one.

(Han Dalang is a simple man, since he was a child, he was sent to the city restaurant by his father to help the cook, and after more than ten years, although his cooking skills are not the best, he is also a famous one in the city.)

But this Han family's father is a heart and eye to the armpit, seeing that the Han family's Dalang life is good, he wants to let the old family help the second family more, but the second boy has been spoiled in the palm of his hand by the Han family's mother-in-law since he was a child, and his hands can't lift his shoulders or pick them, although Dalang introduced him to several jobs, he hasn't worked for more than ten days.

A few days ago, the father of the Han family came to the restaurant where Han Dalang was doing things with a blanket on his back, and rushed directly to the back kitchen, no matter how many people were present, a slap slapped Han Dalang in the face, which scared the people who worked in the back kitchen were stunned.

Han Dalang was even more directly beaten, and looked at the Han family father a little stupidly, but he didn't expect that the Han family father was still addicted, and slapped Han Dalang's face one by one, and after a while, Han Dalang's face was beaten like a pig's head, and the people who worked next to him reacted and hurriedly pulled the Han family's father away.

After the Han family's father was pulled away, although his hands and feet couldn't reach Han Dalang, his mouth was not idle, what was unpleasant to hear and scold, which made Han Dalang's red face immediately turn purple, and he hurriedly pushed away the people who were blocking him left and right, and dragged the Han family's father to the backyard.

The Han family made such a fuss, and the big guys naturally became curious, leaning on the doors and windows to listen to the excitement, only listening to Han Dalang trying to let the Han family's father dissipate his anger, but the Han family's father's anger seemed to be unstoppable, and he scolded endlessly, and after a while, it was said that the second son of the family was going to get married.

As soon as Han Dalang heard that his second brother was going to get married, he was naturally happy, and he was busy entrusting a brother in the back kitchen to help with the OEM, so he led the Han family's father back to the house, arranged tea and snacks, and wanted to talk to his father.

It's just that the father of the Han family didn't come to catch up with Han Dalang, but came to Han Dalang to ask for money, who made this Han family's second brother a little white face who couldn't stand it, and now he is already twenty years old, but he hasn't earned a penny, and he even took the coffin of the old couple out, and he wants to marry Han Erlang at this time, this house always has to be cleaned up, and the woman's dowry is also to be purchased, plus there are only three or five acres of thin land at home, and now it is time to buy more, and money is required everywhere, and the money naturally has to come out of the wealthy Han Dalang's family。

I heard that my father wanted money, and Han Dalang didn't search for it, and directly took out the dozen taels of silver that Hua Niang had saved before from the kang cabinet, but this bit of silver was naturally too little for the Han family's father, how could he be satisfied, just when Han Dalang was picking the door, he opened his mouth and asked Han Dalang to take out a hundred taels of silver.

But Han Dalang is just a worker, although Hua Niang can get some reward money in the house, but she can't stand the Han family's father to come to ask for money in three or five days, these years, there is not much savings at all, otherwise these two people would not have been renting a large courtyard and squeezing a yard with more than a dozen families!

Han Dalang said that this old man said that Han Dalang was an unfilial thing, and the neighborhoods on the left and right came out, and this Han Dalang saw more and more people, so it was not good for his father to continue to make trouble, so he gritted his teeth and promised to raise fifty taels of silver for the Han family's father.

The father of the Han family originally wanted to ask for thirty or fifty taels in his heart, but when he heard the Han family Dalang spit, he smiled and threw the soil on his pants, and directly stuffed the dozen taels of silver into the blanket, dropped the sentence and came to withdraw the money in ten days, and then went home humming a small tune.

The father of the Han family left happily, and Han Dalang was so worried that he collapsed on the kang, fifty taels of silver, that is the lifetime savings of a good family, not to mention that he Han Dalang did not have it, that is, all the dowries of Hua Niang are added together, and it is only a dozen taels of silver, which is still a rich family like Hua Niang's family.

Over the years, Hua Niang has not lived a few days with Da Lang, but the hard life has been enough, and Da Lang is not good to talk to Hua Niang again, so he can only go back to the restaurant with a sad face, and before he can wait for the door of the restaurant, he met a cook he knew before - Xue Ba.

Xue Ba saw Han Dalang hanging his head, and hurriedly stepped forward to greet him, although Han Dalang knew that the ugliness of the family should not be publicized, but his heart was blocked, so he said this thing 1510, Xue Ba directly laughed and played the package ticket, which made Han Dalang think that Xue Ba lied to him, after all, when he met Xue Ba a few years ago, he was just a small worker in the back kitchen!

Han Dalang looked suspicious, Xue Ba naturally saw it in his eyes, smiled and pulled Han Dalang to a small tea shop next to him, the two brothers sat opposite each other, a pot of tea, a plate of melon seeds, Xue Ba talked about his adventures in the past few years.

It turns out that this Xue Ba is a food delivery person, but the family runs a vegetable village, a few years ago because of the drought, the whole Zhuangzi grain was not harvested, and suddenly became a refugee.

The nobleman looked at him as clever and diligent, and slowly handed over some errands to him, which did not come and go but also made some silver, and also bought a yard in the city, and recently was pouring a big yellow croaker, a trip down can earn a three or five taels of silver, if you are diligent, you can run back and forth in a day.

After Xue Ba finished talking about his opportunity, he talked about pulling Han Dalang together to earn some quick money to help make up for the family, and it didn't take much time to delay left and right, in the end, it was Erlang's marriage that was important.

Han Dalang saw that what Xue Ba said was quite credible, and he was forced to lose money by money, so he asked for leave from the restaurant according to what Xue Ba said, asked a reliable buddy to do the OEM, and promised a high salary of one or two silver for ten days, so he directly packed up two clothes and followed Xue Ba on the road of a fishmonger.

On the first trip, but for most of the day, Han Dalang sent a car of live yellow croaker to a large family in the outer city, removed the barefoot travel fee, and earned five taels of silver in a blink of an eye, which made Han Dalang more confident in earning enough silver.

For four days in a row, Han Dalang sent the big yellow croaker with a water tanker truck according to what Xue Ba said, and he earned twenty taels of silver after removing the messy expenses, Han Dalang calculated that if he worked for ten days, he could not only get out the money that the Han family's father wanted, but also earn back the family's previous ten taels of silver, so he would work harder.

But people are always greedy, Han Dalang thought that the money was easy to make, so he thought that he could put some extra fish, and he could also earn more money, and bought yellow croaker with all the money he earned before, and completely returned to the pre-liberation period.

But the money is not blown by the wind, how can there be easy money, just when Han Dalang loaded two truckloads of big yellow croaker at one time and left the beach and walked to the city, this thing happened.

The big yellow croaker is a sea fish, the meat is delicious, and it has always been the table favorite of the rich and noble people in the city, but it dies when it comes out of the water, so it is transported by a waterwheel full of seawater, which is also the method studied by those who pour the fish.

Han Dalang happily drove the donkey cart full of big yellow croaker, but he didn't notice that the bucket on the waterwheel behind him was leaking, and when he arrived at the city gate, the water in the waterwheel had already leaked, not only his own twenty taels of silver big yellow croaker was all dead, but the fish that Xue Ba let him transport was also dead.

As soon as Xue Bayi heard that something had happened to the fish, he immediately changed his face, not only to make Da Lang lose the fish money, but also to beat Da Lang, and the cart of fish was one hundred taels of silver. ）

After hearing this, Hua Niang was already dumbfounded, these two carts of fish are two hundred taels of silver, if they are not returned to Xue Ba, then Han Dalang will have to go to prison.

After Han Dalang finished speaking, he smoked the cigarette pouch again, and the whole person lost his energy, which made the flower girl cry angrily and anxiously.

When Hua Niang was at a loss, the creditor Xue Ba came to the door again.

Xue Bayi heard that Hua Niang was on an errand in the Fourth Master's Mansion, so he smiled and rubbed his hands and said that big families wear gold and silver, so as long as there is a leak in his hand, it will be enough for his fish money, urging Hua Niang to go back quickly and think about it.

Hua Niang, who is honest and responsible, naturally didn't dare to take the things in the West Courtyard casually to pay back the money as Xue Ba said, but soon thought of the hundred-year-old ginseng in the small cabinet next to her bed, if it was exchanged for silver, it would definitely not be less than 1,000 taels of silver. R1152