Chapter 25: New Life
Lou Chengyi's heart was relieved, the foreign debt of more than 20 taels was nothing compared to the safety of a family!
"No, this family can't be divided! Dad, split our three rooms to drink the northwest wind? Lou Yuzhu pulled Lou Chengyi and said urgently.
Although Lou Hua was worried about twenty-eight taels of my foreign debts, he looked back and thought that there was a father lying in the house, so he gritted his teeth and pulled Lou Yuzhu to comfort: "Brother Yu is not afraid, the second brother is eleven this year, and he can go to the town to do odd jobs in a few years, and he will always be able to pay off the debt in a few years." ”
"This one, immediately divide!" Liu Ah Mo remembered the appearance of drinking the north wind in the third room after the separation, and immediately relieved his anger, and urged the old man Lou to split up.
Li Zheng was worried that Sanfang was in such a heavy debt that he was afraid that he would have to live in bitter juice for several years, but when he saw Lou Chengyi's family members, he looked resolute, and his heart had his own life, so he didn't say much.
Lou's big room is a reader, the pen and paper are ready-made, and the dining table is used as a desk by Li Zheng.
Lou Yuzhu was curious for a while, and went up to take a look, only to see that Li Zheng wrote, "The tree has big branches, and the family is prosperous." Today's three rooms are all ancient texts that chew the words, and the eyes are tired and tired for a while, so they throw it away and don't look at it anymore.
In the end, the old man Lou gave three rooms and two acres of fertile land, one acre of sand field, and one acre of vegetable field, and when he had to divide it, he was scolded by Liu Ah and scolded the three rooms for wanting to divide the family, so they couldn't divide more things, and scolded them for being clean and out of the house, etc., the old man Lou pretended to be troubled and couldn't ask Lou Chengyi's opinion, Lou Chengyi of course can't say that the score is less, all in addition to the above There is nothing practical after that, only some household goods and so on.
But when it comes to the filial piety of the New Year of the Three Rooms, Liu Ah is not polite, patting his legs and beating his chest and scolding the three rooms for how many things he has eaten in the past few years, as if the three rooms are all supported by him, and the three rooms should be honored with two hundred dollars per month, and the annual etiquette is counted separately!
Lou Yuzhu didn't look down on two hundred Wen and didn't want to be plain by Liu Ah, and cried at the moment and said that if he didn't divide the family, he didn't need to give two hundred Wen if he didn't divide the family, and the old man Lou was not in a hurry Lou Chengli was afraid that the three rooms would not be divided, so he hurriedly stepped forward to persuade Liu Ah, and finally lowered the two hundred Wen to the monthly money before the third room, that is, one hundred and twenty Wen per month. After the separation, the filial piety of one hundred and twenty wen per month is very rare in Yanjia Village, but in order to separate the family, Lou Chengyi gritted his teeth and agreed.
Lou Yuzhu saw that the separation letters had been written, and pretended not to give up and said: "After the separation, do we have nothing to do with the old house?" If we don't pay the money in the future, can we ask the old house to help pay it back? ”
As soon as he said that he would repay the money, Liu Ah was the first to disagree. "If you are separated, it has nothing to do with the old house, each family has its own family! I add this to the addition, and I add this! ”
Li Zheng only sighed when he saw the old man Lou, and said with a sneer in his heart: "Then how about 'after the third room, whether it is rich or poor, it has nothing to do with the old house and other people'?" ”
Liu nodded violently. "Cheng, that's it!"
Add this item, Li Zheng handed it to the old man Lou to see that there was no problem, so he copied two copies, in triplicate, and the witnesses Li Zheng, the old man Lou, and Lou Chengyi each pressed their handprints and kept one copy.
After the handprints were pressed down, Lou Wen took Lou Chengyi's share and Lou Yuzhu looked at each other head by head, and looked at each other and smiled after reading it.
Liu Ah Mo looked at it and sneered: "What do you see? Do you know how to read? ”
The separation letter wrote that Lou Yuzhu didn't want to entangle with a confused old man, so she turned her eyes away and didn't hear it.
Liu Ah was angry, and pointed at Lou Chengyi and scolded: "I knew that you would be angry with me with such debt collectors, and I should have put you in a bucket and suffocated to death in the first place!" ”
Old Man Lou glared at his wife and asked him to be quiet, then he rushed to Lou Chengyi and said, "When are you going to move, third child?" "The things divided into three rooms do not include the house where the three rooms live now, and it was also agreed before, the three rooms will be moved to the house at the end of the village that no one wants, and the rent will be 80 wen per month for the village.
The house at the end of the village is an old house that no one else wants, there are two rooms for supply, the rough walls, the grass roof, the beams are still old trees, and they look solid, and they may be reluctant to survive the winter, but it should not be a problem to spend the summer. The reason why Yuzhu chose it is its location, the nearest neighbors are half a mile away from the old house, close to the reservoir to facilitate their fishing, not to mention doing something else, no one found out.
Lou Chengyi was still hesitating, Lou Yuzhu had already asked the old doctor that it was okay for Fu Linshu to move slightly, so he replied on behalf of Lou Chengyi: "Move now!" "Strike while the iron is hot, leave early and be clean!
"Then it's up to you," Old Man Lou shook his hand with a gloomy face: "Move!" ”
The three rooms are all light things that were used to before, and the kind neighbor walked and brought them over, Fu Linshu couldn't go upstairs Chengyi found a few familiar men to dismantle the bed and carry it to the end of the village.
Seeing that Lou Chengyi was able to write, Lou Yuzhu and Lou Hua escorted the old doctor to the town in the ox cart waiting at the door. The first is to grasp the medicine, and the second is to buy some daily food.
When I went to the town first, I went to Renshan Medicine Hall, and the shopkeeper Zhai gave the most preferential price according to what he said before, and the Yuzhu who changed his household registration before gave his grandmother's family two taels of silver, plus the current number of two taels of nearly three taels of silver. Lou Hua is still carefully settling accounts, Lou Yuzhu has already pulled the people to buy special purchases, and the money in his hand has shrunk rapidly, if it weren't for Lou Hua's desperate stopping, it is estimated that there would be only money left to hire an ox cart to go back.
But just like that, Lou Yuzhu still felt that she hadn't bought a lot of things! Looking at Lou Hua, who wrinkled his face into a little old man with his fingers, Lou Yuzhu deeply felt that the money was not enough! It seems that his money-saving plan has to take a big step forward to succeed, and when will he be able to live a good life with a little fight of dozens of dollars a day?
After hiring an ox cart to go around the house at the end of the village, Lou Yuzhu said to the stunned Lou Chengyi: "What is Dad still standing stupidly for?" Move? The old man has to go back early! ”
"Oh," Lou Chengyi was shouted before moving things inside. There is a new pot with a little salt and a little basic seasoning, there is a new cotton quilt with two beds of new hemp mats, the bowls and chopsticks are enough, so I didn't buy it, and Yuzhu bought big bones, fine noodles and some coarse rice. Lou Chengyi is more and more frightened, forgive him for the careful thinking of the Zhuang family, I can't see people being so big-hearted, but I have the heart to say a few words, and I swallowed it back alone against Lou Yuzhu's face that was red because of his busyness.
After the things were moved, the old man who drove the ox cart away, Lou Yuzhu took the water handed by Lou Ming and took a sip. Fu Linshu had already woken up and was sitting on the wooden bed in a daze, as if he hadn't woken up from the stimulation of the separate room. "Daddy," Lou Yuzhu walked over and grabbed Fu Linshu's hand, covered his cold fingers with his warm hand, and said with encouraging eyes: "After the separation, our life will only get better and better, you don't need to worry." The most important thing for you now is to take care of your younger brother in your belly and not think about anything. ”
Fu Linshu held his brother's hand, and tears fell uncontrollably. "Okay, Daddy doesn't want anything." On the bright side of the children, Fu Linshu didn't want to worry about them anymore, but he was worried when he thought that he had spent twenty taels of black money on his uncompetitive body, and he had one or two silver every month to get money for three houses, when will this property be the end?
How can Lou Yuzhu not understand? Thinking of this, he pursed his lower lips and was secretly happy, seeing that Lou Chengyi was not in the house, he called Lou Hua and Lou Mingdao: "Twenty taels of silver are given by the nobles in the town, and it is not black money at all. When I said that I would borrow twenty taels of black money, but my father was a little hesitant and my grandfather would be suspicious, then our family would not be able to divide it. ”
Lou Hua Lou Ming's face was happy, and he felt that his body was a little lighter. Fu Linxin also breathed a sigh of relief, and nodded Lou Yuzhu's forehead: "You ghost spirit!" ”
Lou Yuzhu covered her forehead and said, "I'm also in a hurry." By the way, don't tell your father about this yet, let him be in a hurry first, so as not to post it back to the old house when the time comes. Seeing Lou Hua and Lou Ming nodded, Fu Linshu did not object and said again: "The second brother and fifth brother of the noble man who gave up my money have also seen it, and it is the young man surnamed Pei that Renshan Medicine Hall has seen." ”
Lou Hua thought about it and nodded, the nobles from Beijing must no longer care about this money.
"We're separated now, are we going to change the title? Isn't it confusing to call the second brother and the fifth brother again? Lou Yuzhu tilted her head and thought for a while, and said happily: "Just call the eldest brother and the second brother." Saying that, Chong Lou Hua called the eldest brother, and Chong Lou Ming called the second brother.
Lou Hua was stunned and nodded: "Eh! ”
Lou Ming followed: "Eh! After the end, he smiled with Lou Yuzhu, the old man with Lou Hua's eyebrows raised said that he was also happy, and Fu Linshu looked at his brother and followed suit.
Lou Chengyi pushed the door in, and when he saw that his brother was happy, he subconsciously followed Le: "What are you laughing at?" ”
Lou Ming leaned up: "Dad, we're changing our name." I am now the second brother, my brother is the eldest brother, Brother Yu is the third, and the younger brother in Daddy's belly is the fourth. ”
Lou Hua followed suit: "Dad can't call me Erlang anymore, you have to call me Dalang, Erlang is the second brother." I shouldn't have called it wrong! ”
Infected by the relaxed atmosphere among the children, Lou Chengyi nodded with a smile: "Eh, I won't be wrong." He pointed to Lou Hua: "You are Da Lang," and then pointed to Lou Ming: "You are Erlang." ”
Lou Hua and Lou Ming responded with a smile, and the joyful and carefree smile on his face made Lou Chengyi, a man who was almost collapsed, feel a lot more relieved, thinking of what if he was in debt, as long as their family was reunited, it was worth it!