256 door-to-door borrowing [second watch]
"Xianggong, your face is so strange, but you are angry with Xiao Baibai?" Ding Qinghe saw that she had already settled the account, and after she called Shi Zhu Geng several times, Shi Zhu Geng just didn't answer, so he was curious, no, she guessed.
"No, I'm fine!" Shi Zhugeng shook his head, he didn't dare to tell the lady that he wanted to go to the army for some training, after all, to join the army, you have to endure hardships, maybe you may die, the lady will definitely not agree, forget it, the so-called more is better than less, don't talk about it.
"But I look at your face very badly!" Ding Qinghe is not stupid.
"Lady, I may ...... Ay...... Because of that medicine, otherwise why wouldn't it be good to ...... with the lady for a month" Shi Zhugeng was depressed when he thought of this.
I can't have sex with my wife for a month! When this happens to any man, he will feel depressed.
"Don't worry, I'm good at medicine, I'll come up with a good way! Xianggong, I'm going to Jinding Academy tomorrow, I don't want to study for another year next year!"
"The day after tomorrow, my little nephew's full moon wine, will we all go to the family? What should we do in this medicinal food shop?" Shi Zhugeng remembered that tomorrow would be Shi Xiangju's youngest son's full moon wine, and he said early in the morning that his uncle was going to attend.
"Otherwise, you can go alone. "Ding Qinghe didn't really want to eat full moon wine.
"Lady, it's not very good, my mother knows, and she will definitely say that we don't know how to be polite, so let's close for a day after tomorrow." Let's just rest, Da Zhuang and they are also working hard, let's rest!" Shi Zhugeng immediately made a decision.
Ding Qinghe felt that Shi Zhugeng was right, this money is endless, since he has decided so, and she and he should indeed have a day off.
After the two agreed on this, Shi Zhugeng went to talk to Da Zhuang and the others about the decision to have a day off the day after tomorrow, and everyone was naturally very happy.
Xiong Bai knew that he was not happy, and he was unhappy if he wanted to stay alone in the house on this day.
"We can't take you to the Full Moon Bar!" Shi Zhugeng asked him with a smile.
"Then what should I do if I starve to death alone the day after tomorrow?" Although he won't starve to death, he just can't see these two people too much.
"You're starving, I'll wrap the wontons for you, you can eat the wontons if you want, as well as the cold noodles, and the chili sauce is also ready, you just need to mix and eat it yourself, but after a day's work, Xiao Baibai is so reluctant to leave our husband and wife?" Ding Qinghe had already guessed that Xiong Bai would be crooked, so he had already prepared his rhetoric.
"Hmph!" Xiong Bai felt that he had been bullied to death by this peasant woman, and he thought to himself that when he went back, what kind of gift should he give her?
Oh, that's nerve-wracking.
Xiong Bai is not the only one who is nerve-wracking, but also the Yang family and Shi Polang.
"Zhu Bao's father, we are the child's maternal grandfather and grandmother, this decent pair of small silver bracelets can't be used, so some relatives of the Zhu family will definitely gossip. "The Yang family is really trying to save face, maybe it's about to be the child's full moon wine, so the Yang family is so anxious.
"I heard that Zhu Geng and his family have opened a medicinal food shop in the county and the business is good, why don't we go and ask them to borrow some silver money to buy a silver peanut pendant for our little grandson to wear?"
"Zhu Geng's side is not a big problem, but I'm afraid that the Ding family is stingy, and he may not be willing!" Yang was worried in her heart, at this time, she regretted that her relationship with Ding Qinghe was not very good, at least not as good as the relationship on the surface.
"What's the difference between this and what is unwilling? Our family Zhu Geng and his daughter-in-law are both reasonable people, I think we can still ask, or, I will go to Guijiao Bay and ask the two of them in a while?" Shi Polang pondered in his heart and wanted to ask Shi Zhu Geng and Ding Qinghe to borrow money.
"Okay, then you go to Guijiao Bay, I remember that Zhu Geng rarely eats salted fish, you bring half a piece of salted fish over, if the weather is hot, it won't be delicious, it's still May, just eat." "Yang thought about it and wanted to go to the door to borrow money, it's not good to go empty-handed, right? If it was in the past, she thought that it would be natural to ask her son to get money empty-handed, but the current situation is much worse than before.
"Okay, I'll go to Guijiao Bay in a while and wait for Zhu Geng and the two of them to come back!" Shi Polang snorted, then turned around and lifted the curtain and went to the earthen stove room.
He went to the urn in the earthen stove room and turned out two pieces of salted fish, which were before the winter, Yang used two big silver carp, washed and salted after killing, not to mention, when there was no fresh meat and vegetables in winter, the salted fish pieces were put on garlic, dipped in some vegetable oil, and steamed in the steamer to eat, the taste is still good.
Now that it's May, there are still two pieces of salted fish left in the Shi family's old house, Shi Polang picked a large piece of salted fish, wrapped it in lotus leaves, and put it in a bamboo basket, he wanted to take it to Shizhu Geng's house for a while.
Shi Mujin doesn't have to worry, she is doing a good needlework now, and she usually makes some small belly pockets, small clothes, and small shoes for Shi Xiangju's youngest son and Shi Hongmei's unborn child in her free time.
"Zhu Geng's father, you wait, before you go to Guijiao Bay, go to our field to get two melons and bring them there, I remember that Ding likes to eat. The Yang family thought that his grandmother would be beautiful in front of the relatives of the Zhu family, so he could only hope that Ding Qinghe and his family would lend them money.
So when Shi Zhugeng and Ding Qinghe went back, they saw Shi Polang at the gate of their house who was carrying a bamboo basket, sitting on the steps at the door, waiting for them to go back, and the couple looked surprised.
"Dad, why are you here?" Shi Zhugeng was very shocked, mainly because he saw that Shi Polang didn't look like he was kicked out by the Yang family, and he guessed that he might have something to do, because the bamboo basket he was carrying looked heavy.
"Father-in-law, you must be thirsty, I'll go boil water for you, and let Xianggong talk to you!" Ding Qinghe said to Shi Polang with a smile.
"You just came back, there are a lot of things in the shop, just rest, I'm not thirsty anyway. Shi Polang shook his head and politely refused.
"Then how can it be done, you must have been waiting for us for a long time, oh, father-in-law, you are here, you don't have a sip of water to drink, and others will know when you turn around, don't say that I and Xianggong are not filial to you, okay, father-in-law, you go into the house with Xianggong to rest first!" Ding Qinghe sometimes thinks that looking at Shi Polang is more pleasing to the eye than looking at Yang's, so on the face, she is still willing to be filial to Shi Polang.
Shi Polang smiled and bowed his head, so he didn't shirk anymore, so he slowly followed Shi Zhugeng into the hall to rest.
"Dad, what's in your bamboo basket?" Shi Zhugeng smiled and helped Shi Polang to sit down on the chair, and then smiled and took the bamboo basket handed by Shi Polang, he asked curiously.
"Your mother is worried about the two of you, saying that she asked me to bring you two a taste of the salted fish she pickled before the winter, as well as the melon she planted. Shi Polang struggled for a while, and finally said.
Why is my mother suddenly so good to herself and her mother?
Shi Zhugeng felt that this matter was not simple!
"Dad, is there something wrong with you and your mother?" Shi Zhugeng thought to himself that he would not go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, but this father suddenly came with a gift, I am afraid that it is not a good thing.
"Zhu Geng, you also know that since our family separated, your mother and I have also grown older, and our bodies are not as good as before, and now there is still one of your sisters who has not yet been married. This house is a place to make money, and the day after tomorrow your little nephew's full moon wine, our family is the grandfather's family, don't follow the ceremony, it's really unreasonable, I and your mother mean to make a silver peanut pendant to give to your little nephew. Shi Polang saw that Shi Zhugeng asked, so he stubbornly told him one by one.
"This idea of giving silver peanut pendant is very good. Shi Zhugeng answered casually.
"But it's just these two days, if you go to hit the silver peanut pendant immediately, I'm afraid it won't be too late, so your mother and I want to ask you two to borrow some silver, and I will go to the county seat to buy a silver peanut pendant tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow, I can also be in the Zhu family for your eldest sister." Shi Polang pondered it for a moment and spoke again.
"This ...... This is a matter of borrowing money...... I ...... with the lady's medicinal food shop" Shi Zhugeng was a little reluctant.
"Of course I know that your medicinal food shop has just started, and your mother and I are not such scoundrels, we won't borrow money and not pay it back, you just need to lend us a hundred yuan, and when we have the money, we will pay it back!" Shi Polang remembered Yang's instructions before he went out, and she said that she must borrow money.
"Dad, that's not what I meant-" Shi Zhu Geng's face was difficult, and halfway through his words, he suddenly felt difficult, and then looked out of the door from time to time, just hoping that the lady would know for a while and not be angry.
"I said Zhu Geng, don't tell your father, you are a gentleman, you can't even be the master of the father's mouth to borrow money from you!" Shi Polang saw that Shi Zhu Geng hesitated and didn't say anything, and he was still pushing, he was very unhappy in his heart, and said a little angrily.
"Dad, this money can be borrowed, but I have to discuss it with my mother, because I don't open the medicine shop alone. Shi Zhugeng knew that his father would definitely not want to return empty-handed when he came to the door this time.
"Father-in-law, I've boiled a pot of hot water, just to make tea for you and my father-in-law. Ding Qinghe heard the dispute between father and son when she stood outside the door, and she was smart not to go in immediately, but waited for a while before coming over.
"Well, come in!" Shi Polang heard Ding Qinghe's voice, and felt a little annoyed, thinking about the daughter-in-law of others, but the little daughter-in-law who listened to the man's decision, how could this woman of the Ding family let Zhu Geng listen to her?
This kind of trivial matter of borrowing money, and it is actually necessary for a big man to discuss it with her, a woman?
"Lady, I'll make tea. After Ding Qinghe put down the teapot, Shi Zhugeng got up and took some coarse tea, put it in the teapot and began to brew.
Ding Qinghe stood on the edge of the stone pillar with his head down.
"Lady, let's sit down together, you're working too hard today. Shi Zhugeng smiled and took Ding Qinghe's hand and sat down on the bench he was sitting on.
"Oh, why are there two muskmelons? But my father-in-law brought them to our house today?" Ding Qinghe shook his head with a smile, and looked at the two muskmelons lying in the bamboo basket on the side.
"Yes, my father brought salted fish and muskmelon, salted fish for me to eat, and melon for your lady. Shi Zhu Geng saw that Shi Polang was not salty and snorted, and knew in his heart that Shi Polang was blaming himself for not agreeing to lend him money immediately, knowing that he might be angry with him.
After listening to Shi Zhugeng's explanation, Ding Qinghe smiled.
"Then thank you to your parents-in-law, you two have worked hard. "Ding Qinghe is also used to talking about scenes.
"I said Zhu Geng's daughter-in-law, is Zhu Geng in charge of the affairs of your small family, or is it up to you as a woman?" Shi Polang snorted, then stared at Ding Qinghe coldly, and asked.
"What does that depend on?" Ding Qinghe was not shocked when she heard this, but she got up and poured two cups of tea for Shi Polang and Shi Zhugeng, of course, she also poured herself a cup of tea.
"The day after tomorrow, your little nephew's full moon wine, your mother-in-law and I didn't have time to save money to play silver jewelry, so I thought of asking the two of you to borrow money to turn around first, and then wait for me and your mother-in-law to sell eggs and make silver money, and I will pay you back." However, for such a small matter, Zhu Geng, a gentleman, still wants to ask for your opinion. Hey, what do you say, daughter-in-law Zhu Geng?" Shi Polang's tone was very stiff, which showed how angry he was in his heart.
"Xianggong, what Xianggong said is right, you can make your own decisions about this matter!" Ding Qinghe thought to himself that Xianggong would listen to him in everything, which was indeed very good, but this kind of thing should also be his own decision.
"Dad, my lady and I have only been open for a few days, and we really haven't made much, if you want to ask us if we borrowed 100 yuan, I can borrow you 50 yuan if I have a full calculation, and the remaining 50 yuan, you can ask the second brother or the third brother to borrow it!" Shi Zhugeng pondered in his heart that if he refused to lend money to his father, his father would say that he was not filial, but if he really lent him a hundred yuan to his father, his mother would definitely be unhappy, so he compromised it, fifty yuan, if the father did not pay it back, the mother would feel that the amount was small, and she would not talk about him.
Ding Qinghe looked at Shi Zhugeng with appreciative eyes, thinking that this matter of borrowing money was handled well, originally if Shi Zhugeng really didn't handle it well, she would only be willing to lend out fifty yuan at most, but now this is just right.
"What? You two are so good that you have opened a medicinal food shop, but I heard that your medicine food shop is doing a prosperous business, and you are making money every day! Why do you only take out such a small amount, only fifty yuan?" Shi Polang almost vomited blood when he heard this.
"Father-in-law, what you said is not right, how many days have I and Xianggong's second medicinal food shop been open, think about it yourself, if this business is really going to make money every day, what are I doing when Xianggong and I close so early? You see that the sun has not set yet!" Ding Qinghe laughed when she heard this, and she was not angry, but she stretched out her slender jade hand, pointed at the sun outside the window, and explained to Shi Polang with a smile.
Ding Qinghe said in her heart Fortunately, she wanted to come back early today to review her homework, so she came back a little early.
Looking out in the direction pointed by Ding Qinghe, Shi Polang had to nod, in fact, he also knew one sentence in his heart, everything is difficult at the beginning!
It is not easy for Zhu Geng and Zhu Geng's daughter-in-law to open a shop, but the life of the two of them is always a little better than their old couple dragging an unmarried daughter together.
"Dad, this is fifty yuan, you have to put it away, you just said that in the future, you two elders will have silver money to pay us back, I said forget it, this fifty yuan, just when I and my wife are filial to your two elders!" Shi Zhugeng saw Ding Qinghe winking at him, and he knew how to speak.
"Okay, good, you are really a good son of our old couple. Shi Polang originally thought that the fifty yuan would be returned, but now that he heard Shi Zhugeng say this, his heart was naturally excited, as if he had picked up fifty yuan for nothing.
So as soon as Shi Polang got the fifty yuan, he didn't stay any longer and went back immediately.
"Lady, don't you blame me for giving my father fifty yuan for nothing, right?" Shi Zhugeng felt a little sorry in his heart, and couldn't help but accompany his wife Ding Qinghe, who got up early and was greedy to earn money.
"Fifty cents is your filial piety to them, I understand, but I am afraid that there will be more and more such filial piety in the future. Ding Qinghe worries that people's greed is endless.
"No, this is the last time, in the future, if my father or my brother and sister-in-law ask our family to borrow money, let's write an IOU as you say!" Shi Zhugeng heard this and said seriously.
"I hope you can do it. Ding Qinghe was worried, she still felt that Shi Zhu Geng's heart was too soft.
"Lady, I promise you can do it. Shi Zhugeng replied sonorously.
"By the way, my father-in-law and mother-in-law both know that we have to prepare a full moon gift for my little nephew, so what should we give to my little nephew?" Ding Qinghe is so busy that he really doesn't know what gift to give?
"I've been ready for a long time, this child is growing up fast, can't I change my clothes? I spent twenty dollars to buy two horses of festive cotton, and we will take them as gifts when the time comes. Shi Zhugeng said with a smile.
"Oh, Xianggong, you are so smart!" Ding Qinghe praised him when he heard this.
"Thank you lady for complimenting her husband, haha......" Shi Zhugeng was very happy in his heart.
"Then tomorrow you want to give Xianggong you steamed salted fish to eat?" Ding Qinghe took out the salted fish wrapped in lotus leaves from the bamboo basket, his nose wrinkled, obviously this fishy smell is strong enough.
"Yes, whatever the lady burns, I will eat, by the way, the lady wants to eat melon now, I will wash it for you and cut it for you?"
"Okay, let's cut it all down, let's eat together. Oh, save some more bear eggs!" Ding Qinghe reminded him with a smile as he remembered a cute blind bear at home.
"That's natural, no matter what you say, the bear egg is a part of our family!" Shi Zhugeng smiled and hummed.
Here in Guijiao Bay, the couple are very happy to talk and laugh.
It's just that over the Shi family's old house, the Yang family saw that Shi Polang only borrowed fifty yuan to come back, and immediately pointed out that Shi Polang couldn't do anything.
"I said Zhu Geng's father, why are you so stupid? Why did you only borrow fifty yuan?" Yang saw that Shi Polang hung his head and was silent, so he questioned again.
"This is Zhu Geng's filial piety to the two of us, we don't need to pay it back!" Shi Polang slowly explained after waiting for the Yang family to finally take a breath and not scold.
"Oh, why didn't you say it earlier?" Yang was very surprised when he heard this, and immediately asked.
"Why didn't you say it earlier? As soon as you saw me get back fifty yuan, you scolded me with your head and face, and I didn't have a chance to explain at all!" Shi Polang said in his heart, did I talk about you tigress? I was depressed in my heart, and I regretted that I married the Yang family, but now that I am a lot older, he doesn't dare to learn from his in-laws Ding Futou to make peace and divorce, and marry a little wife, heheda.
"You idiot! That fifty yuan is not enough for our family to buy a silver peanut pendant!" Yang began to worry again after being happy for a while.
"Why don't I ask Zhu Bao again, Zhu Gui opened his mouth to borrow money?" Shi Polang wanted to borrow again after borrowing it once.
"Zhu Gui's house is far away from our house, so let's do it, after dinner, you go to Zhu Bao's house in the back for a run, borrow a little and come back to buy a silver peanut pendant." Yang nodded, feeling that Shi Polang was right.
"I heard last time that you don't need a hundred yuan to get a silver pendant, I estimate that seventy yuan is enough. Shi Polang actually knew that there was still a little silver at home, so in fact, fifty yuan, and a little bit of his own family went to the gold shop in the county town to buy a silver peanut pendant worn by a child.
"You say you're stupid, right? This is our nephew, our eldest daughter finally got pregnant, I think how many pairs of prescriptions I secretly got for her to conceive a boy, and now she finally got what she wanted, as our grandfather's family, is it too little to get only one silver peanut. I'll buy a pair of silver bracelets on the wrists of children!" Yang frowned, feeling very sorry for Shi Xiangju, because Shi Xiangju had three daughters in the first three children.
"Okay, just listen to you, there is still a piece of salted fish left in the earthen stove room, do you want to take it to Zhu Bao to eat?" Shi Polang asked the Yang family.
"Well, take it to Zhubao's house, you remember to tell him well, it's to borrow, not to beg!" Yang was worried that Shi Zhubao would listen to Ning's words and not lend them the old couple's money, so she carefully told Shi Polang.
"Zhu Geng, damn it, I'm not that stupid! What are Zhu Bao and Ning doing with braised chicken feet, how much will they make a little money!" Shi Polang thought in his heart.
"Dad, mother, I've already made dinner, you should come out for dinner quickly." Shi Mu Hibiscus knocked on the door and shouted.
"Oh, Hibiscus is so diligent today, and he has already made dinner!" Shi Polang exclaimed.
"You think that the Ding family is capable, and our daughters are not bad!" Yang said happily when he heard Shi Polang praise Shi Muhibiscus.
"Well, you have a point. Shi Polang replied with a smile.
So the two elders lifted the curtain one after another and walked to the hall.
Not to mention, Shi Mujin has already placed the meals, dishes and chopsticks, and is waiting for the old couple to sit down for dinner.
"Well, this scrambled egg with leeks is good today!" Yang said, taking a bite of it.
"Oh no, no, father-in-law, mother-in-law! Oh no!" it was Shi Xiangju's husband Zhu Weilang who was eager to shout, and he ran over with an anxious face at this time and knocked on the door with a bang.
"What's wrong with my son-in-law?" Shi Polang went to open the door, only to see Zhu Weilang sweating profusely and panting.
"Can the fourth brother and sister be?" Zhu Weilang doesn't come often, so he doesn't know that the Shi family has been separated, even if he and Shi Xiangju are in the same room, he rarely asks about Shi Xiangju's mother's family.
"What are you suddenly looking for the Ding family?" Shi Polang asked suspiciously.
"I was going to look for Fuji Langzhong, but Fuji Langzhong went to the next village for a visit and has not come back, Fuji Langzhong's family said to let me find the fourth brother and sister, saying that the fourth brother and sister are Fuji Lang's apprentices......" Zhu Weilang said nervously.
"What's going on? Is my daughter sick? Or is Xiao Lang'er sick?" Yang threw the chopsticks with a snap, walked out quickly, and asked Zhu Weilang angrily.
"Yes...... It was Xiao Lang'er who was sick, and he ...... His forehead was very hot, so I wanted to ask the fourth sibling to come over and see Xiao Lang'er. "Zhu Weilang is his only son, otherwise he wouldn't have rushed out to invite Langzhong.
"Then I'll accompany you to Guijiao Bay!" Shi Polang couldn't care about having dinner now, and hurriedly urged Zhu Weilang to go to Guijiao Bay to seek medical treatment.
When Yang heard that his little nephew was sick, he was not in the mood to eat dinner, so he took a few bites and asked Shi Mujian to withdraw the meal.
"Hibiscus, you have left food for your father. When he comes back in a while, you can heat it on the stove and give it to him!" Yang instructed Shi Muhibiscus.
"Mother, why is Xiao Lang'er so unlucky?" Shi Muhibiscus was not happy in her heart, she originally thought that she would be able to see her little nephew the day after tomorrow, she was looking forward to it, and now she is making such a play, hey.
"How do I know, and I don't know how Kao's treats your eldest sister!Hey, it really makes me worry about death, why doesn't your eldest sister know how to take good care of Xiao Lang'er?" Yang died in a hurry, she was worried that Shi Xiangju's mother-in-law Kao was going to mention the matter of letting her son-in-law divorce his wife.
Yang's worries are not wrong, in ancient times, it was very dangerous for children to have a high fever and would die young, so once Shi Xiangju has no son to rely on, wouldn't the foolish Zhu Weilang have to obey the mercy of his old lady Kao's to divorce his wife and marry another?
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