Chapter 227

This year's Spring Festival and Lantern Festival are still in the state of filial piety, so everything is simple. In particular, the families of officials in the capital are very careful and dare not make any mistakes at this time. In the Spring Festival, Enron went back to his hometown as usual to worship his ancestors, and leisurely sent mother yang to take a trip. After the beating of Yulian, Li and Yang's mother last year, tingran and Xiuyun's status in their mother-in-law's family has been much higher. Now their mother-in-law's family are giving them a good life for fear that one will offend the aunt and end up in the same situation as Zhang's.

Zhang Jia was originally Yulian's husband's family. His family also had 20 or 30 mu of land, and a textile machine. The third child was a young boy, and he was also one of the few families in Zhang Jia village. It's just that the family is too short-sighted. If they marry the cousin of the number one scholar, they are not good to others. They force others to work all day. They even refuse to treat their granddaughter when she is ill. They are really stingy. In his early thirties, the old man of his family passed the entrance examination of Tong Sheng. In the past, the whole family was very happy. They all hoped that he would have some fortune as the number one scholar. In the future, he would also win the imperial examination, or he would live in the fuze village of Guangzong. Look at the number one memorial archway at the entrance of Linjia village. How magnificent! Who doesn't want to marry in that village? It's said that Lin's village has won two more scholars this year. I see Lin's family is up! Ouch, it's too far away. The third son of Zhang Jia used to look like a man. Who knows how bad he is inside. Who doesn't know that since Lin got married to his family, Zhang Laosan earned all his money from embroidery. My sister-in-law is so kind to you. If you don't repay her, she stops her mother from treating her niece. When she sees that her niece is not well, she doesn't ask for medical treatment. She also urges her family to sell her niece to someone else's house to marry her in the dark! Conscience eaten by dogs?

After being known by the county school, Xuezheng adults were very angry. At the moment, they said, "such an unrighteous, unfaithful and ungrateful person is also worthy of an official title?" Zhang Xian, a member of Zhang's family, also nodded after hearing that: "it should be so. Such a person will be lucky to win the entrance examination in the future. I'm afraid that he will also be a villain. He said that he had to drag down the family and change his official position as soon as possible." At this point, Zhang Laosan's career has been cut off. Several big families in the original town, seeing that he was a young boy, all wanted to make friends with him. If he went further, he would be willing to take him as the host bed. But now in addition to this kind of thing, who still looks him in the eye? It was the students who had made friends with him before, but now they hid away from him for fear that he would bring them fame. It's not about fame, it's just about the things he does. He has no affection for his nieces, not to mention his classmates?

For a while, Zhang's reputation and status plummeted. In the past, I heard that the second wife of his family was the serious cousin of Lin Zhuangyuan and Mrs. Shen. They adhered to the principle that more is better than less. These years, they never went to his house to find fault. That is to say, because Zhangjia village is close to Lin's village, the whole village suffered several times less harassment. Now it's said that his family and the Lin family have completely broken up. Lin Zhuangyuan and Mrs. Shen personally sent people to handle the separation of the two families. They know that the Zhang family is defeated. Therefore, the leaders, big and small, came to step on it when they were free, and deducted some money. Not to mention, the heaviest and most tired corvee fell on his family. That is, the village is more likely to be troubled by his family. Suddenly, the whole village was dissatisfied with his family. Zhang's Li Chang was also found by the upper authorities because of the conflict between the two families. Li Chang's wife was so angry that she came to his house to scold her. This family only now feels that the situation is serious. They thought that this affair was over, and their family also lost money. Isn't it over? How can things get worse? But what's the use of regret now? Zhang's mother-in-law still wants to go to Yulian's home to have a good life. If she can persuade her daughter-in-law to change her mind, maybe their family can get up again? But what she thought was beautiful. Now the people of their family can't even get into the village of Lin family.

As time went on, Zhang's life went from bad to worse. From a young boy who was full of ambition, Zhang became a commoner who had no fame and no future, and he was also decadent. Even Zhang Laoer was very dissatisfied with his husband and wife, who almost killed his daughter, and his brother, who was away from him. He tolerated his parents' partiality to the extreme. Niuniu is his first child. No matter how much he likes boys, he also has a kind of sincere love for his first child. But he was always oppressed by his parents and brothers. At that time, when his daughter was seriously ill, he just hesitated for a moment. If he knew that it was just a moment's hesitation, he would lose his wife and daughter. At the beginning, he would fight with his parents to the end. Especially after Zhang Laosan's fame was changed, his parents still wanted him to go to the capital to ask his wife and Mrs. Shen, so that the court could restore his fame. Zhang Laoer sneers in his heart. No one in the family cares about his daughter's life? He was completely disappointed in this family. On the surface, he agreed to the assignment of his parents and asked for five Liang silver from his mother, saying that it was used for management. Zhang Laosan wanted to go with him, but he said, "Niuniu, I'm afraid her mother is disgusting with you. If she gets angry with you, it's not easy. Why don't I go and find out the situation first and talk about you when I make her happy? " Even father Zhang said it was a good idea, so it was settled. In the evening, Mr. Zhang went back to his room and took out an iron box from under the blue brick under the bed. There was some scattered silver and copper money that his wife had saved when she was there. It was about seventy-eight Liang. And he found out all his clothes. He felt a navy blue cotton dress, which she sewed for him with the cloth from her dowry when she was there. At that time, her mother seemed to think that she was not generous enough, so she only made it for him, not for the third one. Why didn't I help refute at that time? This is my wife's dowry cloth. Why should I make it for my uncle? On weekdays, my mother says that my third brother studies in the town and makes new clothes for him every season. My elder brother and sister-in-law miss that they can make two new clothes every year, but it's not bad if they can make one in two years. Or after the lady came in, her clothes and shoes were fresh and neat. How could such a good lady and daughter lose them? Zhang Laoer is very regretful. Now he doesn't dare to see his wife. What's his face? He chose cowardice when his daughter needed to show up most. Now, he can't help but plead with her. Just as he was thinking about it, he had put a burden on his clothes, shoes and socks under the woodpile at the entrance of the Hutong. The next day, I got up early and rolled up the bedding and threw it on a big tree outside the wall. I had breakfast as usual, but I didn't show any mistakes. I also took some dry food from my family and said it was on the way. When Mrs. Zhang saw that he had taken several white flour steamed buns, she was very reluctant. She was afraid that he would annoy him and delay her little son's future. Can only stiff smile at him with steamed bread and home only a few salted duck eggs, and then swagger out of the house.

Zhang Jia people thought that he really went to the capital to beg for mercy. The whole family eagerly hoped that he would bring Lin Yulian and her daughter back as soon as possible. Zhang Laosan is anxious to sit at home. Thinking of the ridicule and cold treatment he has received these days, he still fantasizes that when the second elder brother persuades his second sister-in-law to come back, he will take advantage of her mother's family to make a comeback and trample on all those who despise him in the past. It's just left and right. It's been a few days. Why hasn't the second brother come back?