“It’s what was sold to us.”
Song Gua jumped up and down, spitting in the woman’s face, “We gave ten taels of silver in the first place, and your family didn’t even make her new clothes, so they sent her over here.”
The woman was not shy either, “It was because my mother-in-law was sick and we didn’t have any money to buy her new clothes, we didn’t even say we were selling her.”
“If it wasn’t a sale, why hasn’t anyone come to the door for so many years? Ask anyone in our Song village, do children under the age of ten know that Daya and Erma have a grandmother’s house? Don’t tell me you are far away.”
The woman was dumbfounded by the question, her eyes flashed and she blustered towards Song Wan Yue, “Who are you, you little girl? Who are you to meddle in my affairs?”
“Me?”
Song Wan Yue sneered and pointed at Song Ming’s daughter-in-law, “She works in my workshop, who do you think I am?”
The maid over there?
“The doctor is here, the doctor is here!”
The carriage stopped outside the crowd, Song Lin jumped down and lifted the curtain, the old doctor also came down, carrying the medicine box and walked up to Daya, carefully examined the wound, and while applying medicine said, “Fortunately the wound is not deep, otherwise it would have to break the face.”
Song Ming’s daughter-in-law went forward and wrapped Daya in her arms, her hair had been pulled loose and there were a few scratches on her face, which the old doctor had treated in passing.
“The total is twenty wen.”
Song Ming went inside and brought out twenty wen, the oldest doctor took it and carried the medicine box out.
“Wait a minute!”
The old man stopped.
“Erma, go inside and bring a stool out for the oldest doctor to sit on, in a moment we will have someone here who is missing an arm or a leg and will have to ask him to heal them.”
At her words, the onlookers drew a breath of cold air, and the two men and two women changed their faces.
“Let the oldest doctor go and sit in the carriage, to save the blood from splashing on you later.”
Song Lin braced himself for his daughter.
“It’s better.”
The boss man was busy and went to sit in the carriage.
Song Wangyue looked at a few people, who couldn’t help but back away.
They dared to fight with Song Ming, but did not dare to provoke Song Wangyue. They understood that if they touched a finger of Song Wangyue today, they would not be able to walk out of Song Family Village.
“You, what do you want?”
“It just so happens that you are all here today, so let’s write the severance book.”
Several people changed their faces again, “Impossible!”
If they didn’t want their money back, their mother and father would always want it back, and if they wrote the letter of severance, they wouldn’t be able to get a penny in the future.
“Well then, let’s settle the score.”
Gu Yi, who had not spoken, walked unhurriedly to Song Wan Yue’s side and swept his cold eyes over them one by one, “Daya is our Gu family’s maid, the clothes she was wearing were made for us by the Gu family and cost five taels of silver.”
The crowd of onlookers let out a huffing sound.
“Now that she is injured, she naturally cannot work, based on two taels of silver a month, that is seventy pieces of money a day for her, looking at this injury she must rest for at least half a month, that is more than one tael of silver, plus the cost of the consultation just now and future visits, you will pay a total of six and a half taels of silver.”
The four of them went white.
Otherwise, they wouldn’t have heard that Song Ming’s daughter-in-law was working in the workshop, and they would have been eager to ask for money on the second day of the Lunar New Year.
“No, we didn’t break her head.”
The woman shouted.
“It was you guys!”
Song Gua’s voice was even higher than hers, pointing at one of the men, “He’s the one who threw the bench that hit it.”
The man took a small step backwards sheepishly, the fight was in full swing and he copied a small bench and smashed it, it was Song Ming he wanted to smash, it was Da Ya who happened to come up to him.
“It was indeed him who smashed it.”
The villagers who were watching also testified that as soon as there was a commotion at Song Ming’s house, they came over and saw it clearly.
Now they couldn’t deny the crime.
Gu Yi put his hands behind his back and looked at them askance, “Take the silver.”
Several people could not take it, and they kept backing up.
“No? Fine! Little Four, send them to the officer!”
At the sound of an official, several people were frightened, especially the two men, who had been caught in a dispute in their village years ago, and without saying a word the county magistrate had beaten them twenty times, splitting their skin.
“We’ll sign a letter of severance!”
Song Wangyue asked someone to call the village headman to come over and write the letter of severance, and several people finished putting their fingerprints on it and left in a huff.
Song Gua’s eyes slithered around a few times, and when the crowd wasn’t looking, she pulled Song Ming into the house, “I’ll tell you what, tell Daya to take off her clothes and wash them quickly, we can’t afford to pay five taels of silver.”
“Thank you Yue’er, thank you young master Gu, thank you village chief.”
Song Wan Yue stopped Song Ming’s daughter-in-law, “Tell Er Ya to go home and get some eggs, give Daya a good tonic.”
Just for a moment, Daya’s face was white from the bleeding.
“No, no, there are some at home, I’ll go and cook them for her now.”
As soon as the oldest doctor saw that it was alright, he was about to get off the carriage, when Song Lin told him to sit back down, “I’ll take you back.”
The crowd of onlookers dispersed, and Song Wangyue and Gu Yi went back home.
When Grandma Song heard the reason, she didn’t say anything in front of Gu Yi, but after the two of them went to Song Wan Yue’s house, she couldn’t help but scold those people.
There are really all kinds of people under the sky, and even people from Song Ming’s daughter-in-law’s mother’s family could do such a shameless thing, not to mention the fact that they had not been in contact with each other for so many years, which was equivalent to breaking off relations long ago. Even for ordinary people, they would not go to the family of their married daughter to ask for silver.
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“Little girl.”
Gu Yi was still excitedly fiddling with the red envelope in his hand, “I’m going to pay my respects to big sister and second sister’s house, why don’t you come with me.”
“Sure.”
Gu Yi was delighted.
“You go and talk to my father, and as soon as you get through, I’ll go with you.”
Gu Yi’s face fell, the night Master Chu was injured, Song Lin was not even comfortable with the little girl staying at their house, if he dared to come to the heel and say that he would let the little girl follow him to pay her respects, he could immediately be kicked out of the house.
“When are you going to grow up?”
“Soon, after waiting for seven, eight or nine decades.”
Gu Yi felt that the red envelope in his hand didn’t even appeal to him anymore.
“Yi’er.”
Song San Xiao lifted the curtain and stood at the doorway waving at him, Gu Yi immediately put down the red envelope in his hand and walked out, following him to the house and giving him the beaded flowers he had brought, “This was originally something I bought for my little girl, there were no suitable clothes to match, give it to Third Uncle.”
Song San Xiao was overjoyed, “Third Uncle didn’t love you for nothing, wait, when Third Uncle has money later, he will give you twenty yuan of New Year’s money.”
“Thank you, Third Uncle.”
“No thanks, no thanks, in the future, if you have such things that you can’t use, just bring them to me, whatever you want, Third Uncle doesn’t mind.”
Gu Yi, ……