Xue Qianxun helped his grandmother to go to the Buddhist hall, Xue Qianxun didn't keep a straight face and didn't speak, and explained to the old lady with a humble attitude: "Grandma, I don't want to get married now, and I know what my life is, and I don't want anyone to die because of me.

"Okay, if you think so, you are a good man of our Xue family, grandma doesn't force you, everything depends on your own wishes, as long as grandma can see you marry your own son before closing her eyes, I can go underground to explain to your grandfather with peace of mind," Mrs. Xue looked at the eldest grandson, Xun'er grew up beside her since she was a child, and her appearance and personality were similar to her grandfather, and she felt even more sorry for this grandson, and she could only nod her head and agree to his such pleading.

After Xue Qianxun sent his grandmother to the Buddhist hall, he went out to wait for her, leaving only his grandmother to talk to the abbot of Qingyuan, and the abbot of Qingyuan smiled and said to Mrs. Xue: "Master Xue, the old man has congratulated you on your birthday,"

"Hey! The abbot won't tell you, I didn't want to celebrate my birthday, and then I wanted to be a daughter-in-law for my grandson, so I made a temporary decision, just now Xun'er told me that he has no plans to start a family now, so I dispelled this idea, "Mrs. Xue personally poured a cup of tea for Qingyuan."

"Old donor Xue, in fact, I came to congratulate you on your birthday this time, and brought you something that makes you happy, yesterday I pinched my fingers and counted your grandson's life, your grandson's life is slowly changing, your grandson and the person who is destined to meet, if you are often with this person, you will also be contaminated with her blessings,"

Old Lady Xue hurriedly asked, "Can the abbot deduce who this person is?" Where is home? ”

The abbot of Qingyuan said with a smile: "This is a heavenly opportunity, it can't be revealed, everything is fate, you can't stop what you should meet, you can't stop it, you shouldn't meet it, you can't become a husband and wife even if you are together, there are still things in the old temple, so it's goodbye,"

Old lady Xue kept the abbot of Qingyuan, but Qingyuan had already made up her mind, so she got up to see him off, and walked to the door, Qingyuan saw Xue Qianxun standing at the door, and said to Mrs. Xue: "Old benefactor Xue, you stay, why don't you let your grandson send me,"

Mrs. Xue disagreed, so she said to her grandson: "Xun'er, you can send the abbot master for me,"

Xue Qianxun used to accompany his grandmother to incense on the mountain, and he respected the abbot of Qingyuan very much, the abbot of Qingyuan was knowledgeable, insightful, and a bodhisattva, whenever Xue Qianxun was in a bad mood, he would go to the mountain to talk to Master Qingyuan or play chess, and purify the depressed things in his heart.

Xue Qianxun smiled bitterly at the abbot of Qingyuan and said, "Master, it's fortunate that you are here today, otherwise I wouldn't know how to end it,"

Qingyuan shook his head and said: "The monks don't speak, what I said to Old Benefactor Xue is not a lie, I see that your face is different, you have indeed met the person you are destined to do, only this person can relieve your wife's life,"

Xue Qianxun had long been out of mind about this matter, and said meaninglessly: "Master, as the saying goes, sometimes you have to have it in your life, and you don't have to ask for it in your life."

Qingyuan didn't say anything, so Xue Qianxun sent him to the door and left.

Xue Qianxun returned to the main hall and asked Sanshun to open a few jars of jujube wine for his father, second uncle, and grandmother to send to their tables, Jiang was giving his mother-in-law another cloth, and Shen poured a glass of wine for his mother-in-law, and said with a smile: "Mother, this is the jujube wine that Xun'er didn't know where to buy it, just to give you a taste on your birthday." ”

Mrs. Xue smiled and said: "It's still Xun'er's heart, then I'll take a sip, and it's not in vain for him," tasted it in her mouth, the sweet wine tasted unusually sweet, making people drink a sip and want to drink it again, and said: "Yes, this wine is really good, you concubines don't have to serve me, sit down and eat together, I have a maid to serve me," and said to the intimate maids behind him, Chunxin and Chunyue: "You go and serve the eldest lady and the second lady for dinner, and I will be served by Ah Tao here,"

He also instructed Chun Xin to fill the wine glasses for Shen and Jiang and the other ladies and ladies, and said, "My old lady tastes this wine very delicious, you should also taste it,"

Shen and Jiang tasted it separately, it was really good, and they praised it one after another: "This wine is really good, drinking it in your mouth makes you feel that the aftertaste is endless,"

Mrs. Xue was very happy today, and couldn't help but drink a few more glasses, Shen and Jiang hurriedly got up and said, "Mother, you don't want to be greedy anymore, I'll let Aunt Tao send you back to rest!" ”

Old Madam Xue nodded, then took Aunt Tao and the other maids' arms and left, leaving the Shen family and the Jiang family to take care of the ladies and young ladies on the table.

The New Year is getting closer and closer, and Tang Tiezhu and Li are becoming more and more anxious, not in a hurry to buy New Year's goods, but to take the silver ticket to the town to exchange for silver.

On the day of the new year, the Li family left Tang Qing'er to take care of her younger siblings at home, she and Tang Tiezhu took out the silver ticket buried under the stool, Tang Tiezhu put the silver ticket in his arms, and then went to the town with the Li family.

When I arrived in the town, I finally found someone to find out where Jufeng Qianzhuang was, and there were not many people who saw Qianzhuang, so the two walked in, and the shopkeeper greeted warmly: "Guest, are you saving money or withdrawing money?"

Tang Tiezhu was worried that the silver ticket in his arms was fake, and stumbled and said, "I'm here to exchange silver," and took out the silver ticket from his arms and said, "This is a silver ticket of one hundred taels, look at it,"

The shopkeeper glanced at it and said, "This is the silver ticket of our bank, may I ask if the official is going to take it all, or how much to take out?"

Tang Tiezhu and Li glanced at each other, and were stunned by each other's words, Tang Tiezhu signaled how much money Li should take, Li eased up, and said with a slight stutter: "This one hundred taels...... a hundred taels of silver, divided into ...... Divide it into two silver bills of thirty taels, and the remaining forty taels are cash silver, and we will take them,"

The shopkeeper gave Tang Tiezhu and Li two cups of tea, asked them to wait for a while, and then went to the back of the shop to find the shopkeeper, less than two quarters of an hour, the shopkeeper took two silver tickets of thirty taels and forty taels of broken silver, handed them to Tang Tiezhu, Li deliberately glanced at the value on the silver ticket, and Tang Qing'er wrote the same, and the official seal on the seal was the same as the official seal of one hundred taels of silver, so he bowed to Tang Tiezhu, and the two kicked the money into their arms respectively, and then walked out.

Tang Tiezhu and Li were excited, but they didn't dare to be too public, they hurriedly hired an ox cart to go home, it was not safe to kick so much money in their arms, it was better to get home quickly, so they hired an ox cart to go home, of course, these are what Tang Qinger said to Li, not afraid of 10,000, just in case.

When the two finally got home, Tang Qing'er watched her father and mother enter the house with a red face, and guessed that the silver ticket must be real, she jumped up with joy, took her mother's hand and said, "Mother, the silver ticket is real, it has really been exchanged for silver,"

Li nodded with a smile, and Tang Tiezhu was even more excited to pick up his daughter, put it on his shoulder and said: "The fact that jujube wine can be sold for so much money is all the credit of my daughter, and my daughter is the lucky star of our family, hehe." ”。

"Dad, where is my credit, didn't you and your mother help?" Tang Qing'er didn't dare to take credit, so she was busy distributing the credit to everyone.

The cold wind outside the house is fierce, Zhang's alone in the house, feeling a little cold, since the winter came, the third daughter-in-law Ma has been pregnant for more than four months, almost not out of the house, the kang in her house is burning warm all day long, so in the house to make some small objects for the baby who will be born, Zhang wants to go to Ma to talk to her, put on a thick old cotton jacket and go to Ma's house.

Passing by the old family's house, hearing the laughter inside, quietly walked to the window and got up, pricked up his ears to eavesdrop, because the wind outside was too loud, Zhang's listened intermittently, just wanted to listen closer, but accidentally was mixed by the branches under his feet, his face was directly attached to the cold wall, Tang Qing'er was held in her father's arms, and happened to hear that there seemed to be a sound outside, so she leaned on her father's shoulder to prop up and look outside, just saw the shoulder of the red cotton jacket that her grandmother often wears, and bit her father's ear and said: "Dad, Did I see my grandmother eavesdropping outside? ”

"What? Your grandma is eavesdropping outside," Tang Tiezhu was stunned by his daughter's mistake, and then turned back to Li Shi and pointed out the window with his chin, and said silently: "Mother,"

Li could only shake his head and smile bitterly, and changed the topic according to the dissatisfaction in his heart: "There are still a few days before the New Year, and the jujube wine has also been sold for some money, tomorrow I will go to the town to make a set of clothes for my father and mother to wear, and I have to buy some things for Master Zhou, and the couplets for the New Year are all written by Master Zhou." ”

"Yes, yes, this matter should be sooner rather than later, tomorrow you and I will go to the town to buy some things for the New Year," Tang Tiezhu knew that this was meant for the Zhang family.

Sure enough, Zhang, who was eavesdropping outside, heard that everyone was going to make clothes for her and the old man, and a smile appeared on his face, so he stopped squatting in the corner of the wall and secretly left.

Tang Qing'er saw that her grandmother was gone, and whispered to his father, "Grandma is gone," and then covered her mouth and said, "Grandma, like me, loves to listen to the corner,"

The speaker had no intention of listening, Tang Tiezhu put his daughter on the ground and said to the Li family: "What is this, my family is still sticking to the foot of the wall to eavesdrop on us, which is a lot of laughter." ”

Li Shi thought about it, and said with relief: "We also have money in hand now, after the New Year, you will go to Lizheng's house and talk to him about buying a land number, we have exchanged half of the silver tickets into silver, do you think I should send it to the second brother now or give it to him in a few days,"

Tang Tiezhu thought about it and decided to send it now, after all, it is not safe to keep the money at home, the Zhang family can eavesdrop on them by sticking to the wall, and they can go into the house to rummage through things while they are not at home, Tang Qing'er and her father's thoughts coincide.

Li put the money in the sewing frame and went to the second brother's house, Sun was sewing and mending with an old dress, Tang Tiexiong was talking with the children on the kang, and saw the sister-in-law coming over, busy putting on shoes, Li waved his hand and said no need to toss, let him sit on the kang, take out the money from the needlework frame and put it on the kang, Tang Tiexiong and his wife were stunned by the sister-in-law's move, and stared intently at the silver placed on the kang.