Fortunately, it will soon be dinner time.

After the family finished dinner, Lou Hua took out the account book and began to settle the accounts. "Before that, the remaining account was five hundred and eighty taels of silver, sixty-one taels for buying land, six taels for road repair, fifty-two taels for wages, three taels for drawings, fifteen taels for food, eighty-three taels for building seven seven hundred and eighty-eight materials, sixty-one taels for furniture, fifty taels for six glass windows, and three hundred and three hundred and thirty taels for the general ledger of expenses. Today's meal is six taels, and the gift money received is fifty-seven taels, of which twenty taels are from the grandfather, and the other big head is the young master Pei and the shopkeeper Zhai of Jiao, and the gift money in the village and the old house adds up to less than two taels. ”

Lou Yuzhu glanced at Lou Chengyi's embarrassed expression on his face with a smile, and rushed to Lou Hua Yile: "Big brother continue." ”

"In addition to the expenses, we have three hundred taels of silver left in our account."

Fu Linshu breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that there was still three hundred taels of money left, and he didn't think about interfering when he heard that the children were in charge of the accounts very well, but looking at the big money he had built the house before, he was inevitably a little worried, and now he was relieved when he heard that there was still money left.

"If you keep money at home, you can't make money, and if you spend it, you can create other values." Lou Yuzhu glanced at the rest of the people and stopped at Lou Chengyi: "What good opinion does Dad have?" ”

Lou Chengyi looked at Fu Linshu and plucked up the courage to say: "I want to buy a field, and I also want to buy a sheep to raise at home, and when your brother is born at the end of the year, there will be sheep to drink." In the past, your brothers didn't drink goat's milk for a few days when the family was poor, but now that you have money, you can't lose your brother. ”

Putting aside the sheep in advance, Lou Yuzhu asked, "How many acres of land does Dad plan to buy?" ”

"Buy five, five acres?"

Lou Chengyi has been dealing with Tian since he was born, and Lou Yuzhu didn't plan to correct him because of the concept that Tian was at ease, but he was a little funny about his cautious appearance: "Why don't you buy twenty acres." ”

"Buy, buy so much?" As soon as he heard that he was buying twenty acres, Lou Chengyi stammered. He originally wanted to grow some food for his own family and pay taxes.

"Land is hard currency, so it doesn't matter if you buy more and let it go." Saying that, he looked at Fu Linshu: "Where's Daddy?" Any good advice? Seeing Fu Linshu shaking his head and saying no, he turned to Lou Hua: "What about the eldest brother?" ”

Lou Hua had already thought about it, and said straightly: "If you want to buy a cow, you have to drive an ox cart." It is much more convenient to be able to travel and help the family farm. ”

"This can be there." Lou Yuzhu appreciated Lou Hua's eyes, and her heart finally had an urgent need for her family. "Where's the second brother?"

Lou Ming period Ai Ai asked: "Can you buy some chickens?" In this way, you don't have to spend money to buy eggs at home in the future! ”

Facing Lou Ming's puppy-like expectant eyes, Lou Yuzhu still refused ruthlessly. "No, you can't! Do you think, second brother, you are going to study in the town at the beginning of spring, who will have time to feed this chicken by then? You're not going to sue me for letting me feed it, are you? I can sue you and I won't care! The second brother thinks about it again, and this chicken can't be raised in captivity, and it needs to be released, and when the time comes, the house will be full of chicken manure, will you bear it? "Cattle raised in the backyard will not come to the front yard, in and out of the back door also go from the back door, unlike chickens, and can't control the chicken manure flying around everywhere, there will be no smell in winter, but in the summer the heat covers the smell is not too *! He's had enough of that smell in the old mansion! "But the second brother can have two dogs. You can look at the house and be alert, and you can scare those little ones even more, and you won't pull around with good training, which is better than chickens. ”

"Can you have a dog?" Lou Ming's eyes lit up immediately.

"Yes. It's just that the second brother has to take care of it in the future, and he can't take care of it in half an hour, if you don't take care of it and cause trouble to the family, you will be punished! "Fooling the child or something, Lou Yuzhu is not stress-free at all!

"Brother Yu'er, don't worry, I will definitely take care of it!" Lou Ming patted his chest and promised that as long as he let him raise a dog, he would say anything!

"Since the second brother promises, Ming'er, I will inquire which family has puppies, and I will bring you two back when I am free."

Lou Hua looked at Lou Mingle with a smile and couldn't find the appearance of the north, turned his head and asked Lou Yuzhu: "We all said, what about yourself, Brother Yu'er?" ”

Lou Yuzhu didn't answer, but calculated the account: "It should cost fifteen taels to buy cattle and a cattle cart, and one hundred and fifteen taels to buy twenty acres of fertile land, and it doesn't cost money to raise dogs, but I plan to buy an additional three acres of fertile land for the village as a sacrificial field." ”

"Matsurida?"

"Well, the land obtained is distributed to the old people in the village who have no one to rely on, or no children to support, Dad wants to think about what kind of offerings our grandfather has made to the village when he led the family to Yanjia Village? said that the great-great-grandfather of our Lou family was also from Yanjia Village, but it was all over the old Huang calendar, and there was no trace of it. But can you see which of the people in the village are xenophobic to us? Don't talk about the grandfather of the Wei family, the two Uncle Wei and your father are excellent friends, how much has Uncle Lizheng helped inside and out? We need to be grateful! ”

Lou Chengyi touched his head when he heard Hanhan: "Brother Yu said to buy it." ”

Lou Yuzhu smiled and continued to settle the account: "The total of these expenses should be one hundred and forty-eight taels, and the family pocket money plus the gift money after the grandfather's family builds a new house is fifty taels, these calculations should be two hundred taels." Glancing at the family, he said, "There are still one hundred taels left, and I plan to take sixty taels out to buy a servant." ”

Hearing this, everyone's eyes widened, among which Lou Ming was the biggest.

"I know that the Zhuang family is a little extravagant to buy people, but think about it, our family should really buy people, and we can't buy less." Lou Yuzhu organized the language and said: "The eldest brother and the second brother are going to the town to go to school, this scholar doesn't say that there are two, at least one should be prepared, right?" Daddy is pregnant with his younger brother, so many chores outside the house can't be done, plus at the end of the year, when the confinement is born, you can't always trouble the outside, right? I'm going to buy an older slave here. Besides, when I buy land in the future, my father can't be busy with 20 acres of land, and I have to do the snail business in the summer after the beginning of spring, and there will be a big red crayfish business at that time, so my father can't let my uncles help in vain, right? So I have to buy at least three, a scholar, a slave, and a prime. ”

Lou Chengyi was about to stutter, and he didn't want to spend that money to buy a servant, but he didn't know how to say it, so he scratched his ears and cheeks in a hurry.

Fu Linshu hesitated and said: "The scholar wants to buy, and he can also add a laborer, but don't add people to these chores at home, right?" In the past, the old house was not busy with all the work, and if you didn't live in the new house, you didn't have to do anything. ”

"Since you want to buy it, it's better to buy it completely, otherwise you still have to cook for Daddy to eat for the next person?" Lou Yuzhu said something funny, seeing that Lou Chengyi was still frowning, he sighed and said: "Dad, the situation of our family will only get better and better, please ask for long-term trouble, why don't you buy one, and when the time comes, we are not afraid that the other party will not be honest when the deed of sale is in our hands." ”

"However, in Lou Chengyi's consciousness, buying a servant is something that only the big families in the town can do, and their family is still a farmer who does his duty." "Originally, building such a big house was enough to attract attention, but if you want to buy another person, it will be difficult to hear the words in the village at that time."

"The mouth grows on other people, and we can't live for a little gossip?" Lou Yuzhu smiled dumbly. "Besides, the sacrificial land that our family bought for the village was not given for free, who dares to say that there is no time for old people to rely on? Even if you don't have a family member? If you don't want to make a fuss, keep your mouth clean. ”

"Me"

"Dad, I think Brother Yu is right." Lou Hua thought about it and seconded it first, but Lou Ming was a fart worm, and immediately expressed his support. A family of five is not counted as the one in the stomach, three votes in favor of the remaining two votes, is there anything else?

"That's it. Ming'er's father and I went to Li Zheng early in the morning to discuss the purchase of good land, and then went to the town to order an ox cart and look at the cattle, and by the way, I went to Renyazi to see if there was a suitable one. ”

Things were decided, the family meeting was dissolved, and the brothers went to take a hot bath. Happily washed from head to toe and then put on new clothes, I saw the three children in good spirits and radiant posture, which made Lou Chengyi just smirk, and disappeared without a trace immediately because of the awkwardness of the buyer.

Although Old Man Lou is selfish and self-centered, and Liu Ah Mo is narrow-minded and short-sighted, I have to say that the appearance of the two is not bad. The three sons of the Lou family are all good-looking, among which Lou Chengyi is the best, and it can be said that he has completely inherited the advantages of the two. Fu Linshu was originally a child of an official family, and his appearance was even more inherited, and the children born of the genetic fusion of the two would naturally not be bad. In the past, because of malnutrition, the body was thin and the face was yellow, but in the past few months, the advantage of good food and good food has immediately appeared. Outsiders are all good at Lou's family's grandmother, and Lou Hua's raising is not inferior to half a point!

Lou Yuzhu glanced at Lou Chengyi with disdain, stuffed the lantern in his hand and drove people away with his mouth open. "Daddy, go and say hello to Daddy, we don't have to watch here."

"Huh? Oh. Then you go to bed early. ”

Seeing the honest man turn around, the brothers looked at each other happily, and went to the building to light the oil lamp and whispered to the brothers.

Lou Ming lay on the bed and rolled, looking at Lou Hua with his eyes: "Brother, I'll sleep with you today." ”

Lou Yuzhu sat on the edge of the bed and pinched Lou Ming's face: "What?" Second brother scared? ”

Ren Lou Yuzhu pinched her face, and Lou Ming was embarrassed to touch her ears: "I'm not afraid, but I'm a little panicked." I've been sleeping with my brother for as long as I can remember, but suddenly I don't sleep together, and my heart is a little empty. ”

Poof, Lou Yuzhu couldn't help laughing. Since a heartless bear child still lacks a sense of security, it is a rare thing. "I used to have no place to sleep, but now that I have a place, the second brother has to squeeze a bed with the eldest brother? Shame is not ashamed! ”

"Just today! I'll promise to sleep alone tomorrow! ”

"Only by believing in you can you have a ghost!" Lou Yuzhu teased him.

Lou Ming was anxious. "I promise, if I don't sleep alone tomorrow, I'll just do it"

"What am I doing?"

"I won't eat meat for two days or three days!"

Lou Hua, who had been smiling and watching, pretended to be low and said, "It turns out that I only have three days of meat in my second brother's heart." ”

Lou Ming stared, stupid.

"Hahaha, look at the stupidity of the second brother!" Lou Yuzhu laughed.

Lou Hua also put his hand to his lips and couldn't help laughing.

"You guys!" Lou Ming, who knew that he was being teased, turned red angrily, and pointed to the two laughing and trembling people who were angry and scolded: "You are all bad people!" I'm ignoring you! As he spoke, he wrapped himself in a quilt and hid himself from anyone else.

Lou Yuzhu poked the quilt bag: "Second brother, second brother, my good second brother is angry?" ”

There was a muffled cold snort under the quilt.

"Second brother is angry and ignores us? Then let's go~~" Saying that, he made a sound of getting out of bed, Lou Hua also deliberately made a loud noise and walked away, and then walked back with his feet folded.

Lou Ming, who was stuffy in the quilt, didn't hear the sound for a long time, really thought that the two were gone, and hurriedly lifted the quilt.

Lou Yuzhu quickly pounced on Lou Ming's face, rubbed and rubbed Lou Ming's face, and pretended to be fierce in his mouth: "You dare to be angry when you are a little one?!" I can't clean you up, I'm gone! Big brother, go to the family law! ”

"Huh!" Lou Hua pressed Lou Ming's feet, and it was just convenient to take a shower and not even wear socks. "The second brother is disobedient, he should serve in the family law!" Saying that, he scratched the hearts of those two feet.

Immediately, Lou Ming's loud laughter almost lifted the roof.

Lou Chengyi, who was in the main house, hurriedly got up to take a look, but Fu Linshu grabbed someone: "It's okay, a few brothers are playing." It's rare for them to be happy, don't disturb them. ”

Hearing this, Lou Chengyi scratched his head and dispelled the idea of going to take a look.

This wing Lou Ming was tickled and rolled all over the bed, and finally laughed really without strength, and he really lay down and didn't move.

Lou Yuzhu was also happy enough, turned her head and fell on Lou Ming's stomach, and pressed him again. patted his little belly that was always shaking, and pretended to be angry: "The pillow should have the appearance of a pillow, what kind of pillow is Lao Dong?" ”

Lou Ming couldn't help laughing, and Lou Yuzhu nodded with satisfaction and went up with peace of mind.

Lou Hua looked at the two lazy cats, so he had to resign himself to pouring water. "Get up and take a sip of water."

The two brothers got up and took a sip, Lou Ming continued to lie back as a 'pillow', and Lou Yuzhu also continued to turn back to the pillow.

Look at the messy bed, and then look at the brothers who are still pretending, Lou Hua has no choice but to support his forehead. "I'm used to you!"