Chapter 1033: Dementia
Tong Bolai and Wen Asan were muttering in the room, and Wen Niangzi was lying behind the wall and listened to all their conversations. When I heard my husband say that only his name should be allowed, but not the truth, he felt unhappy.
has already been embarrassed by standing on the street with both bare buttocks, what is Wen Niangzi afraid of now? Not to mention the unbearable past that she looked back on half a lifetime in advance, she deliberately walked out with a calm face and shouted: "Dead turtle, you are a man, you have no ability to make money to support your family, just rely on your mother to hook up with men to live, are you ashamed?" Sue you, I'd rather go begging for food by myself than let you eat soft rice again. ”
Now Wen Asan is finally decent, for fear that the neighbors will hear the ears of the wall, so he hurriedly begged with a smile on his face: "Don't shout, I'm just gossiping with Lao Tong here, and I didn't say that I want you to sell yourself to support your family, don't be angry." You don't believe it? Just ask the old boy. ”
One said that he walked out quickly, and thirty-six plans were the best plan, which meant that Uncle Tong would persuade him.
Sure enough, as soon as she turned his back on his eyes, Wen Niangzi was not angry, and discussed with Tong Bolai in a low voice: "Your calculation is nothing more than to muddy the water, so that you can take the opportunity to catch fish, can you hide it from me?" But if I don't make it difficult for him, he will always keep the word "occupied" in his heart, and guard against the two of us all day long. Now, I can see that the turtle doesn't have me in his heart at all, let's leave him alone for some time, and when he can't make money, he still has to come to you to take care of it. ”
Tong Bolai's eyes lit up, and he hugged the woman who still had charm, and reached into the skirt with a big hand, and soon Mrs. Wen's eyes were like silk, and she was out of breath.
"Slow down, oops!" Wen Niangzi gasped, bowed her body at his mercy, and said intermittently: "When the time comes, you will say that the people who set up the bureau must have me change my mind, and let him beg me again and again." So I asked him, 'I'm afraid I'm willing.'" You have to suspect that I am on good terms with others, and there is endless noise at home, no matter how you explain it, it is useless, in case you make enough money, who will I go to with a letter of resignation? If you have to force me to do this for a living, I must first write a document that he forced me, and my mother will do her best to be able to do my best, and I will not be angry for the rest of my life. ’”
Tong Bolai said convincingly: "The lady has a plan, she really beat Zhang Liang, and I should act according to the plan." ”
Four or five days passed. There are seven events in the family that are missing, and the money earned, first, Wen Asan is reluctant to use it, so he keeps it as a coffin book, and secondly, he needs to play the Quartet to open a gambling game, and he is not alone to earn it, and third, it costs money to move and open a casino.
There is no running water to support daily expenses, so anxious that Wen and Ah are in a hurry, and it happens that the official messenger came to extort him. paid a large amount of protection money, and had to negotiate with Tong Bolai again.
Tong Bolai followed Mrs. Wen's instructions and said, "It's useless to look for me, I have to nod my sister-in-law to do this." Elder brother. Go and beg your sister-in-law, otherwise our family will have to drink the northwest wind. ”
Wen Asan had no choice but to beg his wife again, but Wen Niangzi refused to live or die, so she had to spend money to buy food and drink every day. The scoundrel on the road was so anxious that his eyes flowed.
Mrs. Wen felt that it was time and forced him to take the bait. Wen Asan secretly sighed that he was hungry and did not choose to eat, people are poor and short-lived, not to mention writing a letter of guarantee, he is willing to write a thousand, anyway, his wife is not sleeping with others once or twice, she is reluctant to live with Tong Bolai in private all day long, it is better to sleep with the fat sheep.
In this way, the Wen family returned to their old business, Tong Bolai turned into an idler, and went around to solicit gamblers. Mrs. Wen was greased and powdered at home, dressed up very charmingly, and the gamblers who seduced her were fascinated and ran to Wen's house every day to gamble and fool around.
Wen Niangzi said that there was a shortage of rice at home, and immediately some people rushed to send rice, saying that they wanted silk, and some people sent silk, and during the day high rollers gambled outside, and came in at night to stay overnight, and kept giving some tips.
In less than a month, the Wen family was lively again and made a lot of money. Someone asked Wen Asan who was gambling, "What do you call this beautiful lady in the house?" ”
Wen Asan said seriously: "This is Lao Tong's wife, the younger brother and Lao Tong knew each other in the old days, and the two of them borrowed my room to live, all to make ends meet." ”
Because the gang of people in the past did not come and go, these people believed it, but Lao Tong was a turtle smiling and smiling all day long, and his good wife made money for Boss Wen every day, which was a big fool, and everyone speculated that Boss Wen had already had a leg with his wife.
Of course, it's none of your business, and no one has the heart to say it, not to mention that Tong Bolai cares? In fact, on the contrary, Wen Niangzi was busy and had a lot of fun with Tong Bolai when she had the opportunity, and now she doesn't avoid Wen Asan.
Wen Asan is a man after all, so he inevitably finds his wife to have sex, but Mrs. Wen doesn't give him a good face, and she doesn't let her husband get close to her.
After a long time, Wen Asan was dissatisfied, and on this day, with a little bit of alcohol, he scolded at home, beat his wife, and expelled Tong Bolai.
scolded for a while, mentioned the deed of sale, and kept calling the slave. Tong Bolai was not afraid of him now, so he couldn't help but step forward and scold, asking, "Where is the deed of sale?" Who are your minions? ”
"Not good." Wen Asan hurriedly walked into his wife's room, looked for the deed of sale everywhere, but couldn't find it, and asked his wife to hand it over.
Wen Niangzi scolded: "What kind of deed? Hell yes, no. ”
"You dogs and men, do you still want to rebel?" Wen Asan had a premonition that something was going to happen, and he didn't want to get drunk, so he staggered and fell asleep on the bed.
Wen Niangzi said to Uncle Tong: "When he made money, he forgot the agreement, and he went out tomorrow, and he wanted to cut him back." My reputation is gone, and you have to wear a hat for him for many days, but you won't be laughed to death? I think that people will not be destroyed for themselves, it is better to find a way to be a good person, and you and I will be a long-term husband and wife for a lifetime. ”
Uncle Tong said: "This dead turtle, as a result, his life is too vicious. I have an ancestral recipe for dumb medicine, and when I go to the pharmacy to buy it, synthesize this medicine, mix it in tea, and pour it into tea. If it works, he loses his mind and becomes a fool, even though he lives and dies, what about it? ”
Wen Niangzi shouted angrily: "You have this recipe, why didn't you say it earlier?" Really, go get it and don't let him wake up. ”
I don't know if there is this medicine, or Wen Asan was unlucky and had a stroke, anyway, the next day, on the third pole, Tong Bo came to take a look, Wen Asan's eyes were crooked like a puppet, he couldn't say anything, and he was groggy and became a waste all day long.
Wen Asan harmed others and himself, and now he didn't even have to do a live turtle, so he became a demented turtle, and gave his wife and property to Tong Bolai for use.
In the winter of November, at night, in the guest hall of the Tong family's compound on the former rich side, a fire was lit at the foot of the wall, and a pot of swill that would be fed to the pigs tomorrow was cooked, exuding a smelly and fragrant mixed smell.
Firewood should be saved to cook rice, reluctant to burn, so the big iron pot for boiling swill was placed on the stove, and the embers in it were used to burn the pot, and the smoke and dust in the room made people tear and snot.
It was nine o'clock in the evening, and the family who should have been in the bed as a custom should have gotten into the bed, but they still refused to sleep.
Master Tong, who has been pampered all his life, has almost dropped the honorific title of Tong Lao Dad to "Tong Lao Yu" this year, and he has grown old in just one year, curled up on the back chair in the guest hall, wearing a hood that he doesn't even need to take off when he sleeps, only revealing a thin face with white eyebrows, his hands wrapped in the cuffs of a green cloth robe, his feet wrapped in cotton trousers, and wearing big cotton shoes like coffins.
This year's year is unfavorable, first offended Xu Hao for no reason, sent Zhong Lai, and then the eldest son was jealous with others in the Qinglou, and his companion lost his hand and injured people's lives, the deceased was actually the son of a high-ranking official, and his son was dismissed, and he was compensated for 5,000 taels of silver.
First, the youngest son buried at least 3,000 taels of the Tong family, and with these 5,000 taels, the Tong family was suddenly greatly injured. Xu Hao fell into the well again, and publicly let the second son's inspection disappear, and soon the trees fell and scattered, the walls fell and everyone pushed them, and the Tong family relatives seized the fields one after another, claiming that they were handed down by their ancestors, and they were taken away by the Changfang Strategy.
This incident made a big fuss and alarmed the government, and Xu Hao also summoned the county order to ask him to investigate thoroughly, but the prince ignored it, and there was no movement in the court.
Wang Siliu and other tenants, who had Xu Hao's support, sued one after another, and counted how the Tong family took advantage of natural and man-made disasters to make money for the land. The county decree broke off the lawsuit and allowed the families to redeem the land with the former principal, so Xu Hao gave everyone silver free of charge and forcibly bought back his land at a price far below the market price.
That's not all, in the past few months, all kinds of old things have been constantly exposed, what usury, bullying and dominating the market, occupying people's girls, forcing maids to death, etc., but also the Tong family will kill themselves for many injustices, and the real estate in the county has been sold one by one and paid fines, and even the ancestral house in the big yard is only one-third.
The guest hall was forced from the side of the main hall to the northeast corner of the rear, and the old man Tong was roasting on fire and his eyes were demented, and the quiet place against the wall set up his patriarchal throne. The chair next to him was piled up with the eldest son who disliked the rural environment, hunched over, no longer looking high, wearing a torn jacket and trousers, and the jacket was shining on the cotton coat of his father, who exposed cotton, and a pair of goldfish shoes without a head and tail on his feet.
Anyway, the two of them still have some savings left, and they have a trace of decency. But he had nothing left, and he was listless, with his hands on his shaggy head resting on his knees.
On the chair next to him, sat the thirty-year-old brother, who was considered the backbone of the Tong family, and since the accident, he had been frowning for half a year and rarely spoke.
The wives of the two also lost the dignity of the young grandmother, sitting in the chair in the corner, one squinting, the other half-bent on the chest, breastfeeding.
The candles in the house were very dim and dark, and no one wanted to see each other's weeping faces anyway, and everyone in this family seemed to be afraid of light, and they all liked this dark environment, not children.
Except for the occasional spitting and coughing, all five of them were going to melt into the darkness, silent, as if they were about to be extinguished like the embers of fire.
No one had the heart to sleep tonight, and no one dozed off, as if they were waiting for something. (Want to know more exciting news about "Ordinary Bright Days"?) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner, select Add Friends to add an official account, search for "Qidianzhongwenwang", follow the official account, and never miss every update! qdread) (to be continued......)