Thanks for the invitation: In ancient times, people shared children

Widow Mu made random guesses based on her likes and dislikes, and it looked like she wished all the men in Li's husband's family, from the old to the young, would die.

Finally, after calming down, he asked Pei Xiaohai: "Who died?"

If Pei Xiaohai knew, why would he come to ask her?

"I'll tell you when I find out."

Pei Xiaohai left without finding anything. Waiya was outside, eavesdropping on the conversation by leaning against the wooden planks. She listened openly, and even though she was seen, she acted nonchalant. She straightened her back, walked a distance away from her calmly, and then asked in a low voice, "What money? What happened? Why are you asking about this?"

Pei Xiaohai said to her patiently: "Don't ask me, I don't want to tell you. If you ask me again, I will beat you."

Waiya: ...

"Okay, then you're still going to see your parents tomorrow?"

“Who wants to see them!”

Pei Xiaohai didn't like this and retorted angrily.

But the next day, when she saw Aunt Pei, she couldn't help it again.

I saw her at Qian's liquor store. She came out, followed by a woman who looked like Yu Li. She was still carrying the basket with both hands, and when she stepped over the threshold, she lowered her head and lifted the hem of her skirt.

She was not wearing the moon-white dress, perhaps because it was dirty when she was pushed down yesterday, so she changed into another one today. The top jacket was white, and the bottom was a goose yellow skirt. There were two tea-green silk flowers in her bun, and two silver hairpins in the back of her hair. There were two small lilac earrings on her ears.

In fact, she was not very pretty, far inferior to the child's godmother named Xu, nor as pretty as Pei Zhu, but she knew how to dress up. She drew her eyebrows, put on lip balm, and seemed to have put on some powder. Her white, frost-red face was hidden underneath, making it look rosy. With her black eyebrows and bright red lips, she looked very healthy.

Her hair is a little yellow, but it doesn't matter. Many people have yellow hair. The most likable thing about her is her figure. She is so plump, fair and tender, which shows how blessed she is. She is not fat in a stupid way. Her hips are a little wide when she walks, which makes her twisting waist look beautiful.

"Thin bones but plump flesh, I guess that's what this is. What a beauty! I wonder who she is from?"

Of course, these words were not said by Pei Xiaohai, but by the merchant sitting at the wonton stall.

He had just been yelled at by Aunt Pei yesterday, and today he was staring at someone else's pawned wife. The merchant traveling with him was speechless:

"Brother Zhang, don't be foolish. There are plenty of women like this in the capital. If you like her, why not send someone to Xiacheng to buy one? Although the women in Yizhou are best from Suicheng, Xiacheng is also acceptable. There's no need to think about other people's women. Don't let them not eat meat and get themselves into trouble. This is not at home."

"Well, I know the truth, but I can't help myself. After all, she's a pawned wife, and it's just a matter of money. At worst, I can spend a little more and take her back to be a concubine. It will be considered as saving her from suffering."

The merchant named Zhang sat there upright and spoke with righteous indignation.

The fellow merchant also said, "That's true, but judging by her attire, I think her family probably isn't short of money."

"If the host family doesn't need it, then neither does the husband's family?" Merchant Zhang asked back. "Besides, look at the lady in her family. She's dressed in coarse cloth and her shoes are patched. If there's no other reason, then her family must not be wealthy, otherwise they would have to care about some respectability."

"That's true." The fellow merchants were speechless.

The two of them casually asked the stall owner.

Little Pei watched Aunt Pei and Yu Li walk away, then he moved closer, sat in an empty seat, and listened attentively.

The two merchants didn't look at her. The stall owner was a little familiar with them, and since his stall wasn't busy, he naturally didn't drive her away. He continued talking to the two merchants:

"I don't know much about this matter. She was the wife of the youngest son of the Yu family in town. Her maiden name was Li, so everyone called her Yu Li. A while ago, the youngest son of the Yu family caught a cold. He was quite a strong man, but he died a few days later, before the seventh day had passed. So the Yu family rented her out to the eldest son of the Pei family as a wife. He was the biological father of Madam Pei from the Qian family liquor store. He was an honest man, and he had nine daughters, but none of them were male. It was really pitiful..."

It's the same old cliché again.

Pei Xiaohai didn't like to hear it, and the two merchants were also impatient to listen to it.

"Who cares about that? Just talking about... Yu Li, isn't her husband's family poor? After her husband dies, she should remain a widow for three years even if she remarries. How could she be rented out to someone else before the first seven days?"

Merchant Zhang asked, seeming to be expectant.

"I wouldn't say we're poor... I have a lot of family members, but they've all married. My elder and younger sisters-in-law are at home, but they don't eat for free either."

The stall owner hesitated for a long time, finally sighed and told the truth.

"Her husband's family used to be poor, but since the youngest Yu's brother got married and the sisters grew up, things have improved a lot. They can rent out wives to others, and the sisters also engage in some prostitution. Her mother, Old Lady Yu, is a matchmaker. She used to be a matchmaker, but now she also matches up people who are single and widowed at home to make some money. People in the town avoid them.

Boss Pei was also confused. Even if he married a younger one, it would be better than marrying Li. It was true that she had given birth to several sons, but I'm afraid she herself couldn't tell whose children they were.

Look at her behavior, how can she be tolerated? If you ask me, you should not worry about her, lest she get sick."

Merchant Zhang probably didn't really listen. His eyes sparkled as he asked, "Where is the Yu family? Are her elder and younger sisters-in-law of the same character and appearance? I've been here for so long, and I haven't heard of such a good place. It's really a pity."

Stall owner:......

Fellow merchants: ...

"Ignore him. I heard that Yu Li killed two men. What's going on?"

"It seems that Yu Li had a lover and his wife who came to her house and asked her for money. Well, she had fun with it, and she spent it, so there was no way she was going to ask for it back.

The Yu family naturally refused. The youngest Yu and his brothers beat him up. His lover was in very poor health and died not long after returning. Some said that the youngest Yu was haunted by his lover's ghost, which caused his illness. Before his death, he cried out in cold every day, and even seven or eight layers of quilts were useless..."

This story is somewhat different from what Pei Xiaohai knew.

But maybe that youngest Yu was really killed by a ghost.

So Mu Shuanglin is following Yu Li now, is he trying to harm her too?

Will he harm other people?

The stall owner told everything he knew, and the merchant named Zhang finally found out where the Yu family was, and dragged the merchants with him to "pay a visit".

The stall owner sighed and happily picked up the handfuls of copper coins on the table.

Pei Xiaohai was stunned for a moment and found that Waiya was eating candy while staring at her, with unsold things on her arm.

Pei Xiaohai lowered his head guiltily.

Waiya was furious: "I've already walked around, why are you still listening to gossip? Am I the only one who wants to make money?"

Of course not, but would Pei Xiaoya easily admit his mistake?

"You can go eat candy, so what's wrong with me taking a break? Can you sell all the things by walking around?"

Not that.

Waiya also felt guilty.

It's no fun to laugh at others when you're only fifty steps away. The two children hung their heads and looked completely listless.

The stall owner, who couldn't bear to see them doing this and had just made some money, bought the remaining persimmons, but he had no interest in the remaining chestnuts.

Pei Xiaohai and Waiya asked many people but were rejected.

They couldn't stay for long, so they had to leave when they saw the sky was getting dark.

What I earned yesterday plus what I earned today totals twenty-eight cents.

There are still sixty-six coins short of five hundred coins.

Still short of 2,000 wen...

Pei Xiaohai lay in bed counting for a long time, and finally she fell down weakly.

There were still many left, so many that she couldn't count them.

But their business was over, and it was impossible for them to save enough money just by stealing Uncle Yu's firewood.