The old lady is reborn

After the butcher built four new graves, he bowed three times in front of Cao Yu's grave, sprinkled some grave wine, burned some paper money, and then left.

The two women waited for the butcher to leave, and then cried bitterly in front of the four new graves. Seeing that it was getting late, they carefully identified the place. They supported each other, wiped their tears, and left in a hurry.

The two came to a house and pushed the door open with trepidation. Qian Sanxi and a strange man were waiting for them.

Qian Sanxi said to the two men, "Why did you come so late? I thought something happened.

This is your fake husband. He is real in the household registration. He is just like you. He has some unspeakable reasons and needs an identity to conceal his identity.

You will first live in this house as a husband and wife with one concubine.

I don’t care how you live your life on weekdays, but you must at least have a room decorated so that you and your wife can often live together.

Chat with each other more, and be able to talk about each other's hobbies and birthdays.

My work is now done, and both of you must remember to come to my shop in three days to pay the remaining money."

Seeing the polite manner of the strange man, the two women felt relieved and said to Qian Sanxi, "I understand." After exchanging greetings with the man, they went into the house first.

After seeing Qian Sanxi leave, the man who came in later said to the two of them, "Give it to me?"

The two women were puzzled and asked, "What do you want?"

"Money. Silver bills and jewelry, anything valuable, just bring it out and put it on the table."

One woman didn't understand what he meant and asked again, "Why should we give you money?"

The man laughed and said, "You two have come to Qian Sanxi. If you don't give me money, I will report you two to the government office right now."

The two women looked at the man with great vigilance: "You insist on taking this road to a dead end, what good will it do you to report us?

Aren’t you also exposed?”

The man sneered and said, "I'm the one who cheated Qian Sanxi, you two really believed me? I don't have any big handle, or I have done something serious that I have to hide here under an assumed name.

I'm just a scoundrel who discovered how to make money, a good way to do it.

I'm not afraid to tell you the truth, he is not the only one doing household registration business. In the past few years, I have been traveling around the counties looking for women like you who need a place to stay and a partner.

I have never failed. Hurry up and do it. Two women like you who bought fake household registrations are committing a very serious crime. You can be safe by paying some money, but why are you hiding it?

I got mad and we broke up."

When the two women heard this, they looked at each other in surprise. Their mother-in-law, Peng Huan, had handed over almost all of her parents-in-law's life savings to them. But this money was needed to raise two children. How could she give it to this man?

So the two women asked, "Big brother, we are indeed in trouble and have no choice but to take this step, but now that we have taken this step, we have been forced to the end of our rope.

Although we are women, we have to fight for our lives to survive when we reach a dead end. Big brother, please don't push us too far."

The man sneered, "You two are threatening me. Even if you two are not physically fit, can you beat me?

I am also barefoot and not afraid of those who wear shoes!"

A woman asked, "How much do you want?"

The man said, "Give me 90% of the money you have, and I will help you to continue this show.

Don't have any big dreams and think that there will be some good people for you to meet.

Things have come to this point, how can I meet a good person? Do good people need to buy a household registration?

The woman hesitated and handed over a banknote. The man took it and looked at it, then angrily said to the two men, "Do you think I'm a beggar?

I have worked so hard for so long, and you two just prepared a banknote and sent me packing?"

Before the two women understood what was happening, the man dragged them over and snatched the banknotes from them.

After several struggles and tugs, the man nonchalantly pushed the two women away. He was already holding the banknotes in his hand, flipping through them one by one with satisfaction, as if he was calculating the total in his mind.

Then he said, "You two don't have much money. It's my bad luck, but I'm in a good mood. I won't argue with you."

Then he shouted, "Hurry up and boil some water and cook! I'm hungry."

The two women said, "We have to go to Qian Sanxi to pay the remaining money in three days. If you take it all, how can we pay the bill?"

The man smiled and said, "How you pay the bill is your business. Now the money is mine."

The woman said angrily: "Are you still a human being?"

The man said, "You two have gone so far as to buy fake household registrations, and you still want to find good people in this circle? Good people don't come here."

The two women had no choice but to swallow their anger and light the fire to cook.

One of the two said, "Let's fight him. What can we do with this kind of person?"

Another person said, "We are both pregnant. It depends on the long term, as mother-in-law told us.

Not to mention that we may not be able to beat him, even if we did, why would mother-in-law go to the trouble of arranging things for us? It would be better for us to go with our husbands today, which would save trouble."

When the two of them thought of what they had seen today, tears rolled down their cheeks again.

The man suddenly came in and said, "One of you stays here to light the fire and cook, and the other one goes to the corner to buy half a catty of liquor."

A woman angrily said: "Where do we have money to feed you? You have robbed us of all our money, haven't you?"

The man sneered: "Don't pretend to be poor. I have seen many people like you. There is no place on your body that can't hide silver and money.

From now on, you two should just do your work and serve me well, or I will go to the government office and say a few more words if I get upset."

The two men had no choice but one of them had to light the fire and cook while the other opened the door to go out to buy wine.

She felt angry and her eyes were red again. What kind of people were her parents-in-law and husband? And what kind of person was this person she met now?

The woman opened the door and walked out, but happened to meet a strange man.

The woman turned around and tried to close the door, but the rogue's voice came from inside: "Stop pretending to be a rich lady. Have you ever cooked before?"

This scolding was heard by the strange man at the door, who looked at him strangely.

At this moment, the woman in the house retorted helplessly: "You robbed our banknotes and asked us if we knew how to boil water and cook. If you can, why don't you do it?"

There was a loud slap, and the woman seemed to have been slapped in the face. The man cursed, "Did I give you face or courage? You thought I didn't dare to do anything, right?

Are you stupid or have you not woken up yet? From now on, I am the master of both of you. Think about what you want to say first.

Are you unhappy that I don't beat you today?"

There was a sound of angry resistance from the woman inside, as if the two had started fighting. The strange man at the door suddenly rushed into the house.

The woman who was going to buy wine saw someone rushing in, so she hurriedly followed him in. She was so flustered that she did not forget to close the door.

The man strode in and went straight into the kitchen following the sound. The scoundrel was swinging his arm towards the woman in the room and slapped her in the face again.

The woman put her hands in front of her lower abdomen and retreated to the corner of the room.

The man who entered the room later kicked the scoundrel to the ground and started beating him with punches left and right.

The scoundrel was stubborn at first, swearing while resisting, but gradually he was no match for him and began to beg for mercy.

The man held on to the rascal and refused to let go, asking the two women, "Do you have a rope?"

The two frightened people searched the house busily and actually found a rope that was probably a clothesline and handed it to the man.

The man tied up the scoundrel and stuffed a piece of cloth he picked up into his mouth, which was probably a kitchen rag.

He reached out and took the banknotes from the ruffian and returned them to the two men.

Then the man said to the two women, "I am He Zhong, the coachman of Madam Huguo."

The two women were flustered for a moment, but there was a hint of surprise on their faces. They thought she wouldn't care... Remembering their current names and identities on the household registration, they came over to greet her, "Shen Jingzhu" and "Su Lan".

He Zhong said to them again: "If you two trust me, how about moving with me to a different place?"

The two men looked at the ruffian, then looked at each other and nodded repeatedly.

He Zhong said: "Wait a moment."

Soon a carriage came to pick them up, and the ruffian was knocked unconscious and thrown on the carriage. He Zhong handed a dagger to Shen Jingzhu and He Lan, saying, "If he wakes up in the carriage, let me know."

They came to a farm and entered. Two maids came over. He Zhong said to Shen and Su, "These are Xi Que and Bai Ling. They are responsible for taking care of your daily life.

I will come here once every two weeks. If you need anything, you can talk to Xi Que Bai Ling, or you can let me know when I come."

Then he bowed again and said, "I still have to deal with the man in the carriage, so I'll leave first."

At this point, the two of them settled down on this farm in a daze as if they were falling into the clouds.

The food here is excellent, the clothes and bedding are comfortable, and the people on the farm are all kind. The two people who were nervous at first gradually relaxed, with gentle and peaceful smiles on their faces, and began to sew small clothes for the baby in their belly.

But when they first moved in, they said they were going to leave after three days. They went to Qian Sanxi's shop and found out that their partner was a scammer, so they decided not to go back to the house.

Qian Sanxi said: "I will investigate this matter and deal with it. You don't need to stay there anymore. Just pay 70% of the original amount."

Qian Sanxi checked with the underworld and found out that the man was indeed a gangster who preyed on gangsters and specifically targeted women. He hated him in his heart: I worked so hard to earn this, but this man earned more than me, and he ruined my reputation and destroyed my business.

So according to the rules of the underworld business, someone killed the fly.

Not long after this was said, someone caught the scoundrel.

This scoundrel had just been released by He Zhong, and he ran two blocks in ecstasy and ran into the person who was looking for him.

Several people took him to an underground gambling house and asked him to return all the money he made from cheating others, but he was unwilling to do so and wanted to bargain.

He was forced to sit on the gambling table by those men, who forced him to gamble his hands, legs and eyes until he risked his life.

He died in an illegal gambling den. Before his death, because of the special nature of his bet, people with a special interest in it kept raising the bet. It was like he earned a lot of money for the underworld with his life.

After hearing this, Qian Sanxi shook his head and sighed: He is a smart guy but has no conscience. He could have lived a long time in the underworld.

But those who make a living as independent operators in the underworld either have special skills or know that they cannot keep all the money they earn alone.

……

A few days ago in the enclosure, Rong Huaian heard Princess Anyang say that the arrangements for preparing gifts for the Emperor and Empress were to be made by orally telling the soldiers in the camp, but the messages to the four princes were to be written on paper.

Later, he learned that Anyang was also going to "grab" a gift for his brother and sister-in-law, and his brother smiled and gave him another paper book.

It's weird that I have to write down something that everyone knows.

After hearing this, Huai'an asked the princess if she wanted to see the paper book.

Huai'an opened it and read it carefully. The words were very simple, only two sentences, but if you look closely at these two sentences...

"Each prince will find a gift in the enclosure..."

Huai'an asked, "Princess, is it possible that the Empress has already prepared four gifts and hidden them in various places in the enclosure, and just wants the princes to find them?"

After hearing this, Anyang smiled slightly and said, "This is interesting." Then he asked someone to tell the four princes who had already set out about Rong Huaian's idea.

The other teams were still skeptical, pondering the meaning of the paper. The Second Prince's team immediately started looking for it as soon as they heard about it.

The first team to find the gift was indeed the Second Prince's team. When the prince heard that he might just have to find a ready-made gift and didn't have to go through the trouble of getting one himself, he heaved a sigh of relief. After all, it was somewhat embarrassing to always be at the bottom.

Our team may not be able to compete in hunting, but it is not certain whether we can find things.

It is rare to find someone as ambitious as Luoxue in the Second Prince's lying team.

After knowing that this competition had turned into a treasure hunt, Luoxue felt that the White Team she was in still had a chance to refuse to lie down and stand up.

She took the lead, holding a small crossbow and shooting at the tall trees at random.

He then quietly complained to Lin Yindi about his master's lack of sensibility: "Why tell these three teams about this? It won't be too late to tell them after we find one copy, no, all of them, first."

Wouldn't that be a way to avenge the previous shame?

Lin Yindi asked her why she shot arrows at those trees.

Luoxue said that when she was a child, her father liked to hide things high up, but she was too short to reach them.

Are all fathers in the world probably the same?

……

The second prince's men first discovered two riddles hanging on a tree trunk, guessed the answers were moon and lake, and then rushed to Moon Lake.

When they met the treasure guards, the Second Prince's team rushed forward in an extremely unsportsmanlike manner. More than 20 people rushed forward, some stretched their legs, some pressed their hands, and some pressed their heads to hold down the three treasure guards. There was no literary or martial arts competition at all. They just took the box and ran away.

Rong Huaian and Lin Yindi felt a little embarrassed, as their group included people from all teams, all watching.

Only Luoxue was overjoyed, and anxiously urged the people in the Second Prince's team who were holding the fireworks to quickly send off the signal.

The other three teams got the news and started treasure hunting instead.

The Second Prince's team opened the treasure chest and found a gorgeous phoenix robe. It was obviously for the Queen.