Chapter 196 Poisonous oath and hidden feelings
Mei and Mei Duo were both stunned, and the room was silent.
Although Mei Sheng in front of his blood ties is the closest relative, his aunt and nephew have lived in the Gui family for many years and are in the Gui family, and they are vaguely guarded against Mei Sheng.
Who made Mei Sheng the grandson of Mei Tong and the nephew of Mei Xiucai?
Even though Mei Sheng was treated poorly by his uncle and aunt when he was a child, he is now a scholar. Even Mei Tongsheng, the grandfather, had to coax and persuade the eldest grandson. They were a family.
Also, Mei Sheng is the son of Mei Qingsong, and Mei Qingsong's death is irrelevant to the Gui family. Therefore, the more everyone praises Mei Sheng and will make a great future in the future. The more worried the Mei nephew is, and the more worried Mei Sheng will hate the Gui family because of the incident that year.
Although Gui Yuan, the "culprit", died, he had the son of Gui Chongyang. If Mei Sheng believed in his opinion and thought about "the father's debts and the son's debts were paid", then others could not say anything.
Gui Chongyang is younger than Mei Sheng and has poor health. Even if he succeeds in the trial after three years of mourning, he will start later than Mei Sheng.
Mei's aunt and nephew are deeply involved with the Gui family, and they also know that there is another hidden truth about the "Nine Dings" back then, so they did not take their anger at Gui Chongyang. But can Mei Sheng let go of his resentment?
Unexpectedly, Mei Sheng came here today not to plead for the tribe, but to mention the incident thirteen years ago.
Mei's thoughts were confused and speechless for a moment. Mei Duo asked directly: "Since you suspect him, why are you still getting married to the Du family?"
The incident back then could not stand the intensive investigation. Even if Gui Yuan had "stealed silver and ran away" before, no one could find out the truth, but later the Du family colluded with "Donggui" to prevent Guili from selling land to raise money.
After the decline of the Gui family, the Du family's foothold and rise in Mujia Village.
The Northern Yuan people who robbed the grain road and killed people were abominable, and the Du family, who could not raise money, was even more abominable.
"I was not the one who married the Du family!" Mei Sheng said lightly.
The implication is that I don’t recognize this relative!
This marriage event has always been "the order of parents and the words of matchmakers". Mei Sheng's parents died, and his biological grandfather naturally has the right to take charge of the marriage.
Mei was silent, looked at the lonely boy in front of him, and his heart sank.
If Mei Sheng holds a grudge, he will resent Du Lizheng, will he forgive the Gui family?
But was it really the only ones in the Gui family and the Du family that happened back then?
Mei gritted her teeth and came out with some pain.
Mei Duo said angrily: "Forty-five taels of silver, nine lives! Just for the sake of the position of the official position, God will always watch!"
Mei Sheng did not accept Mei Duo's words, and only looked at Mei's family and said, "Thirteen years ago, what did my aunt take the Mei family and asked my grandfather and second uncle to agree that my aunt brought her sister to the Gui family?"
Mei changed her face.
Mei Duo was surprised and looked at Mei.
Mei's face was pale, her lips moved, and she couldn't speak.
Mei Duo thought of a possibility that she could sit still, so she immediately turned over and stood up, but she didn't dare to ask.
Mei raised Mei Duo, and there was no way she could tell what she was thinking. She shook her head and smiled bitterly: "It's not my sister-in-law's business!"
Mei Duo breathed a sigh of relief and felt cold sweat on her back.
"Training grace is greater than raising grace." In Mei Duo's heart, raising the aunt who grew up is naturally more important than the biological mother he never remembers. But if the aunt really knew that her biological mother was sold, she used this condition to negotiate with Mei Duo to escape, and then concealed herself for more than ten years, even if Mei Duo could understand, she would feel sad.
Mei looked at her own niece, then at her cousin, and couldn't help looking at the new furniture in the room. If she could keep her oath and keep silent about what happened back then, she wouldn't really bring trouble to the Gui family if she didn't say anything.
Even if Mei Sheng didn't come today, Mei Shi planned to find an opportunity to give him some advice. It seems that it's not too early now.
"I can't say it!" Mei lowered her head and spoke for a long time, but she was talking about these four words.
Mei Duo was already anxious and said dissatisfied: "Auntie, what are you hiding for them? Do you think they are relatives, but they don't think you are relatives?"
Although Mei Duo hated Du Lizheng, Mei Tong's father and son did not fall behind.
Mei Sheng didn't say anything, but Mei Duo believed in his eyes. Mei Sheng came to ask this, but she didn't have good intentions and was not the same as Mei Tong's father and son.
Mei Sheng said, "Auntie 'can't' say, not 'don't want', but was forced to make a poisonous oath? And is it not conducive to the ancestors?"
It is only these methods to seal a living person's mouth, and it is not difficult to guess.
Mei's eyes turned red, her lips pursed, but she didn't say anything more.
Mei Duo frowned and said, "What other unethical things have they done?"
Mei Sheng's expression remained unchanged and said in a deep voice: "What else? Gui Yuan was not the only one who stole money back then!"
Mei closed her eyes. This was not what she said. She would not be disturbed even if her parents and elder brother were underground, right?
Mei Duo hadn't reacted at first, and after a while, she trembled and said in a trembling voice: "What does this mean?"
Mei sighed and said nothing.
Mei Sheng said: "Five taels of silver per coin. The Li family and Yang family are not well off. They can barely get together once, but it is understandable that they can't get together for the second time. The Mei family has two houses, a total of more than 60 acres of land, and they can't get together for fifteen taels of silver?"
"Fifteen taels? Why is it fifteen taels? Isn't it ten taels?" Mei Duo's mind became muddy.
At that time, the nine people who served in Mujia Village to Mongolia to transport military rations were served in the Mujia Village. There were one person in the Mei family's house and one person in the two houses. Mei Sheng's father Mei Qingsong and Mei Duo's father Mei Qingzhu. As a result, the two cousins died.
Mei Sheng sneered: "I used to draw two to one and three to two, and the eldest son's wife should draw two."
Mei Qingbai's scholar was only a scholar last year, so he naturally had to serve Ding before.
"The eldest and second houses had already separated from each other back then. The second grandfather and Shu Xiu from the village school paid the money. I don't believe that the second houses can earn less than five taels of silver." Mei Sheng said.
Mei Duo looked at Mei: "Auntie, what's going on?"
Mei then opened her eyes and her eyes were red: "At that time, the Gui family wanted to sell land to raise money, your grandparents were worried. After all, the Mei family had three children and wanted to help the Gui family. However, your grandfather always pity the poor and weak, and often helped poor students in the village school to pay the slaughter. His savings were limited. As soon as the matter of withdrawing children came out, the eldest wife had borrowed eight taels of silver on the pretext of not being rich. As soon as the matter of losing money came out, in order to raise money, the family would have made up twenty-three taels of silver, and they had to pay 23 taels of silver. But after leaving the county town, they were thieves, and your grandfather was knocked unconscious. He lay in the wild for a long time in the first lunar month, and was stained with the cold..."
"What is the evidence? Does Grandpa Second know?" Mei Sheng said.
Mei Duo gritted his teeth and said, "A day before the birth of the Ding Ding, my father was worried and dragged his sick body to Gui's house. He realized that the eldest son had paid five taels of silver to get rid of Mei Qingbai's Dingfu. The five taels were silver ingots, with the mark of a pawn shop in the town. My uncle knew that my family had lost silver, and knew something was wrong, so he took the silver to let my father recognize it... My father vomited blood and went to the Chang'an to find someone. The father and son had already hid, and only your father was packing his luggage and preparing for the next day. I didn't know anything else... My uncle once asked my father if he wanted to replace my elder brother's name and report Mei Qingbai's to the report, but my father didn't agree..."
In fact, even if Guili and Grandpa Mei Er suspected Mei Tongsheng, they just doubted Mei Tongsheng, and they were not sure.
Because everyone can go to the pawnshop in the town, it is not uncommon for the second house of the Mei family to collect money. This is also the reason why Guili just asked Grandpa Mei Er in private, but Grandpa Mei Er was unwilling to use his nephew to replace his son.
What if it was just a coincidence? What if Mei Tongsheng was wrongly accused?
When both the Mei family's parents died and were forced to marry by their uncle's cousin, they were desperate and could only use this incident to "threate" Mei Tongsheng.
Mei Tong was guilty of her own life. She only thought that Mei had evidence and accepted the "threat", and promised Mei to take Mei Duo to stay in the Gui family. However, she also forced Mei to make a pledge that she could not tell others about this, otherwise the dead Mei Er grandfather and Mei Qingzhu would not be born in their next life.
Gui Yuan stole Ding Yin and was despised by the villagers; the Mei family's behavior was worse than that.
Gui Yuan was only fifteen years old when he "ran away", and he didn't know that his family could not raise 200 taels of silver. However, Mei Tongsheng knew that he could not raise 200 taels of silver, so he could only "rob" the silver when he was given away. In order to cover up the matter, he only took out 5 taels, and even the eldest son and nephew were ruined.
Perhaps Mei Tongsheng was just looking for money at the beginning, but he didn't expect it to be so serious, but the consequences are here. If it spreads, the Mei family will be discredited, so Mei Tongsheng naturally has many concerns.
"Beast! Not a human!" Mei Duo was trembling all over.
I really didn't expect that there would be such a person in the world who did such a bad thing, but when the second wife of the Mei family broke his inheritance, he felt a little guilty, but instead gained a lot and occupied the second wife's property.
Mei's eyes were also red. When she first learned the truth, her reaction was not much better than Mei Duo. Otherwise, Mei Duo's niece, who was in her cradle, would have to be raised, and she wanted to die with Mei Tong with a kitchen knife.
Mei Sheng was still calm, Mei Duo was indignant and said, "You can figure it out, that is not only the enemy of our second wife, but also yours!"
Mei Sheng said indifferently: "It was him who took five taels of silver to the Gui family, and was he who robbed the money in the 'Jiedao'?"
Chapter completed!