Chapter 7: Be careful
Zhang couldn't sit still when he thought about it, but now is the busy farming season, if he mentions this matter with the old man at this juncture, it will not make him angry, or after the busy farming, he is mentioning the matter of separating the family with him.
Tang Qing'er would have jumped up happily if she knew that her grandmother had begun to plan the separation of the family, this farming busy, everyone was busy for nearly half a month, and finally cleaned up the dry fields and paddy fields before the heavy rain came, this half month, all the people in the family seemed to have taken off a layer of skin, the men harvested the bud rice, and the women picked the bud rice in the moonlight at night, and had to remove the rice and sorghum rice, and the officials of the government came to collect taxes again, and the villagers were busy with the grain harvested in the autumn, and most of the grain was taken away by the officials.
Tang Qing'er watched the grain in the granary be pulled away by the officials, there was only half left, fortunately, there were still some sweet potatoes, sorghum rice and a small amount of bud rice and rice, if the family did not work hard in winter, two meals a day, they could survive until spring.
At night, when there was no one, Tang Qing'er secretly told her mother Liu Sanniang's third girl to go to the town to be a concubine for her grandfather's family, and her mother glanced at her lightly: "You don't want to do this, do you!" Tang Qing'er knew that her mother had known about this matter for a long time when she heard her mother's tone, too! Living in a village, there are always some mothers-in-law in the village who love gossip and talk about people's rights and wrongs everywhere.
Tang Qing'er was speechless, why did the two of them whisper, her mother was so unemotional, and asked her directly if she also wanted to be a concubine for others, in order to firmly state her position, Tang Qing'er sat up straight, straightened her shoulders, and said crisply: "I won't go, I like farming the most, I am going to marry farming in the future, I can plant whatever I want, and I don't have to be afraid of paying taxes, there is always rice and white flour to eat all year round,"
Li put his arms around Tang Qing'er and said with a smile: "You fool, my mother will not let you go to other people's concubines, that place is not for people like us, you don't know if you are eaten by others, but your mother will not bear to let you marry a farmer, my mother knows the hardships and tiredness of farming in this life, and my mother hopes that my mother's Qing'er will be satisfied if she can marry someone who opens a small shop in the town,"
Tang Qing'er really couldn't understand her mother's thoughts, and asked her to say that she had dozens of acres of land, and she couldn't make a fortune with her brain, so she didn't believe in this evil, but Tang Qing'er didn't dare to continue talking about this topic, after all, there were still many years before she got married.
Since marrying into the Tang family, when she first got married, she and Tang Tiezhu did not have a penny in their hands, in recent years, Tang Tiezhu will go to the town to do some odd jobs or do some odd jobs after the busy farming every year, and there are three hundred yuan a month, and you have to pay some money to Zhang's family, and there are more than 180 yuan left in your hand, plus you sell embroidery yourself, Li's old lady sees that her family is not divided, and it is not good to give her things often, can only secretly give her some money, and she has also saved five or six taels of silver over the years, all of which have been saved behind Zhang's back, and if Zhang's family knew it, she would definitely use it to confiscate.
Tang Qing'er saw that the Li family was idle, so she took wood and stones to the mountains to dig wild vegetables or pick wild fruits, and sometimes she was lucky enough to pick some mushrooms, and when it was her turn to cook, she would make them for everyone to eat.
Today is very lucky, Tang Qing'er used a stick to pick up the grass, actually saw four eggs, which made her very happy, since the weather was cold, the chickens at home did not lay eggs much, so that Jiao'er and Tiger Tou, every day can only eat the same cakes as them, but they are still young, must soak the cakes soft before they can be eaten by the two children, four eggs are just for a few little guys to eat, quickly and carefully picked up, kicked into the arms, wood and stone are also very happy, and also picked up a wooden stick, All the places in the grass have to be turned over, hoping to turn out a few eggs, seeing that the sky is a little dark, Tang Qinger took her two younger brothers back to the house, and waited for a while to secretly give her mother when people were not paying attention, and let her mother steam a few egg custard for a few little babies to eat.
When I got home, I saw my aunt and uncle who hadn't shown up for a long time, my aunt Tang Mei got married when Tang Qing'er was very young, and she went home very few times, there was a dim sum shop in the town, and there were no people in the shop.
Aunt Tang Mei brought a lot of pastries over, it should be all things in their store, when she saw Tang Qing'er come in, she took her hand, praised her, and stuffed her with a piece of lotus seed cake, and gave her two chestnut cakes of wood and stone, which made Tang Qinger inexplicable, so she had to look up at her mother, and saw that her mother's face was as usual, so she let her aunt hug her, to be honest, Tang Qinger really has no feelings for this aunt, after all, she is not born with her father, there must be a diaphragm.
Tang Mei saw that the family was gathered in this living room, so she gave her mother a look, Zhang's understanding, turned her head to Li and Tang Tiezhu to praise Tang Qing'er, this also confused their husband and wife, after all, Zhang was very unhappy with Tang Qing'er back then, and secretly didn't know how many times she scolded, now Qing'er can help the family, Zhang's number of times she opened her mouth to praise Qing'er can be counted with one palm, today is so abnormal, seeing that the aunt and uncle are back, with a different smile on their faces, they can't help but get nervous.
No matter what the mother-in-law was, Li nodded or smiled, and didn't reply too much, and the aunt Tang Mei couldn't stand it, and said to Li directly: "Sister-in-law, I have a good thing to tell you about this time." Without waiting for Li's answer, Tang Mei said to herself: "There is a rich Qin family in the town who wants to recruit maids, and it is also for his only son to recruit maids, I see that Qing'er looks good, and he is quite old, stay in the Qin Mansion for a few years, if he is favored by Young Master Qin, then he can become Young Master Qin's concubine, then you and your eldest brother will be able to live a good life in the future,"
Without waiting for Li's answer, Tang Tiezhu, who listened to Tang Mei entertaining herself and talking for a long time, said angrily: "Whoever you love goes, our Qing'er will not go, don't say this in the future, let me hear such words again, don't come with your brother-in-law in the future, even if you come, don't call me eldest brother,"
Tang Mei heard her eldest brother say this, and held her breath in her heart, if it weren't for the fact that Xianggong was an only son here, most of his relatives would not move around, that is, the few families who often walk, the daughters were either too big or too small, and they did not meet the requirements of the Qin Mansion at all.
None of the others in the room spoke, so Ma Shi said excitedly: "This is a great thing, sister-in-law, you are usually a very clever person, how can you be stupid when it comes to a critical time," Ma wanted to say more, but was dragged by the head of the house, and sat back unwillingly.
Tang Mei heard Ma's words, smiled at her, usually didn't look at Ma's directly, at a critical time, there was still a person with brains, looking at her eldest brother's indifferent expression, she turned her eyes and said to Li, "Sister-in-law, the third daughter-in-law can understand this truth, why don't you understand, this is obviously a good thing, you can't listen to the eldest brother, if Qing'er enters the Qin Mansion, a month's regular money will be half a tael of silver, if you do a good job, the years will be more, and the example money will slowly rise, Where do you say to find such a good thing, don't you? "I touched the prime minister again, he opened his own dim sum shop, he can speak well, as long as he opens his mouth, things can be done.
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