Chapter Eighty-Seven: Appraised
The eldest aunt immediately smiled and said, "Okay, you can discuss, discuss well!" We stayed here before it worked! ”
The second aunt said angrily: "I don't have the money to raise a group of white-eyed wolves in my house!" ”
"Who did you say? Who is the white-eyed wolf? You say it clearly; The eldest aunt rolled up her sleeves again and looked like she was scolding the street, Song had a headache, and held her forehead with one hand and whispered: "Linglong, let's go, let's go home!" ”
When the two aunts heard this, they immediately stopped, and the second aunt stopped the two: "Don't, third sister, it's rare for you to come back, don't you have a good reunion with your mother?" ”
Speaking of this, Song thought for a while: "Second sister-in-law, if not, let my mother live with me, how about my mother will raise me in the future?" ”
"This ...... How does this work? After all, you are a married daughter's family. ”
"Second sister-in-law, I am my mother's biological daughter!"
The second aunt's face changed, she turned her head to look at her sister-in-law, and coughed lightly: "I can't be the master of this matter, why don't my sister stay for a few more days, and wait for your second brother to come back in the evening and ask him what he said?" ”
"That'...... It's okay, then our mother and daughter will bother the second sister-in-law for one more day. ”
"Third sister, don't say that, the house is ......" The second aunt looked like she wanted to speak and stopped, and the eldest uncle next to her looked at her, she couldn't say it directly, so she took her mother's hand and said:
"Third sister, you go to accompany your mother, I will deal with the affairs of the house."
"Okay, there's a second sister-in-law!"
Linglong helped his mother to walk to the backyard, this backyard is actually quite small, there are only five rooms in total, one for the old lady, one for Song Qiaoer and one for Song Meier, one for each study, and one for the eldest son of the second uncle, Song Anbang.
Before, Linglong's mother and daughter lived in the front wing, and the maids were all squeezed. There is only one empty room opposite, and the others have their own arrangements.
The eldest aunt and mother are here, and they don't know how to arrange to live in, and it seems that most of them and their mother will move to the backyard tonight to squeeze in with their two cousins.
This noisy family is really annoying, if you don't persuade your mother, wait for the second uncle to come back and rush home overnight, anyway, it's not very far.
Linglong was thinking about it in his heart. I heard the annoying voice behind me: "Third sister." Wait for me, I'll see my mother too! ”
The mother turned around and saw the eldest aunt coming over with a smile. She was followed by two little girls.
The mother nodded politely to her: "Sister-in-law, you just came back, why don't you rest first!" ”
"I'm fine, it's not what it used to be. Don't look at me like this, you have to do rough work in the country. Look at my hands, they're all calloused! Alas, I think when our Song family was not defeated......"
Seeing that she is going to talk about it for a long time, it is nothing more than crying poor and asking for money again!
Linglong Lala's mother: "Mother." Let's not stand at the door, go in and see my grandmother, shall we? ”
The mother nodded: "Also, sister-in-law wants to go in?" ”
"Of course. I came to see our mother, I haven't seen her in years. How can you feel at ease if you don't look at her? ”
"Let's go, let's go in together."
A few people entered the room back and forth, the room was not big, Linglong and a few of his mother's maids stood at the door with interest, but the two little girls of the eldest aunt followed in, and there was no place to stand.
Although it was only a small detail, Linglong and her mother noticed it, but the eldest aunt didn't care, and walked quickly to her grandmother's bed as soon as she entered the door: "Mother reads;!" My daughter-in-law is back to see you! Mother, are you okay? My daughter-in-law is so worried about you! ”
The eldest aunt's voice was not small, and after calling a few words, her grandmother did not react, and she reached out to pull her grandmother's sleeve.
"Sister-in-law, don't be, my mother is weak and sleeps a lot, and she often falls asleep when she sits and sits! Let her rest! ”
"Huh? How so? When I left, my mother's body was obviously fine! How do you take care of this younger sibling? It must be that she is lazy, and she doesn't care if she loses her mother-in-law, what can her mother-in-law do? Really! If I knew this was the case, I should have taken our mother to the countryside together......"
Linglong didn't like the tone of this aunt's speech, everything was someone else's, all the credit was her own, everyone in the world owed her, and it was natural for others to give her.
Not to mention whether the second aunt calculated her mother's dowry, just based on the words of the two of them, Linglong instinctively felt that the second aunt was much better than the eldest aunt.
"Auntie, why didn't you bring your grandmother over in the first place?"
The eldest aunt was muttering about how hard she had worked over the years, and how difficult it was to raise a few children, when she was suddenly interrupted by Linglong, she blinked and glanced at Linglong: "Third sister, ...... is this?" ”
"Oh, this is my second daughter Linglong!"
"Oh? When did you give birth to such a well-behaved daughter? I don't even know! ”
Linglong twitched the corner of her eyes, and her mother was also a little embarrassed: "Sister-in-law, I gave birth to Lingqiao and Linglong before I left Beijing, and they were exactly two years old when I left Beijing, have you forgotten?" ”
The eldest aunt was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized: "Oh! When I think about it, look at my brain, it's getting more and more useless! By the way, by the way, when you left, I also sent someone to send a pair of golden locks to the two little girls! It's grown so big in the blink of an eye! Tsk, that's fast!
Hey, third sister, if I'm not mistaken, you've been away from Beijing for fifteen years, and this kid is seventeen and almost eighteen, right? Why aren't you married yet? ”
Linglong's brain was hot, his face suddenly changed, and he stared at his aunt with a cold face, but the other party didn't seem to notice, and still muttered:
"Third sister, don't think I'm a sister-in-law, I have to marry after fifteen, stay and stay to become an enemy, don't say that I spend money for nothing, I may not be able to get a high price in the future, I just look at the same people, don't be too picky!"
"Sister-in-law, Linglong ......"
"Mother!" Linglong deliberately interrupted his mother and laughed angrily at the eldest aunt: "Auntie, what kind of family do you think I can marry at such an age?" What kind of price can you get? ”
Mother looked back at her, Linglong shook her head at her, she just wanted to listen to her aunt and see what she was worth in her eyes? The eldest aunt looked Linglong up and down, and nodded again and again:
"This girl looks good, but she's older, but it doesn't matter, it's okay if the main room doesn't become a steproom, how can you not be a concubine, don't think about turning over for the rest of your life.
There is a rich man next door to our Zhuangzi, with a lot of money on good land and thousands of acres, I think this girl is very suitable, and she must not suffer if she marries. Not to mention, it must be no problem to ask him for a dowry of thousands of acres. What's more, the wife in front of Zhu Laocai has already given birth to two sons, Linglong can give birth if he can, and if he can't, he can still have a good life......"
Mother's face became more and more ugly, and Linglong couldn't help but want to get angry even if she was mentally prepared, but looking at the serious appearance of her eldest aunt, Linglong laughed angrily: "May I ask the eldest aunt, how old is that Zhu Laocai?" ”
"It's not too big, it's just in your early forties;!"
"You ......" Linglong was so angry that she was hurt internally, her mother pulled her to sit down, patted her hands, and said to her sister-in-law with a smile:
"Thank you sister-in-law for your care, my family Linglong has already been engaged."
"Huh? Already engaged? Which household? How much dowry does the other party give? Don't lose money. ”
The anger in Linglong's heart arched one after another, if it weren't for her mother pulling her, she really wanted to scold this woman and turn her head and leave.
The mother was quite calm, she held Linglong's hand and said with a smile: "It's okay, the dowry is still down, but the small gift has already given thousands of taels of silver, and it shouldn't be a disadvantage to my Linglong." ”
"It's a few thousand taels for a small gift! The dowry is not as good as 10,000 taels! Not bad! Third sister, you girl is worth raising! Alas, I am relieved to hear you say this, the eldest of my family gave birth to three daughters in a row, and the second family also has two, a total of five, not too much, if you have 20,000 taels per person, tsk, there is still a number! What a deal! ”
The eldest aunt pinched her fingers and counted to herself, and high-fived and cheered happily. This kind of person...... was really speechless, Linglong's mother and daughter glanced at each other, and there was a helpless wry smile in their eyes.
Linglong secretly thought that fortunately, this eldest aunt's family had already been defeated, otherwise she would not know how to arrange her mother, this person is really annoying, no wonder the second aunt is so unkind to see her.
Linglong muttered in his heart, and raised his eyes to see that his grandmother didn't know when to open her eyes, and she was looking at her mother fixedly.
"Grandmother, are you awake?"
As soon as Linglong called like this, everyone turned their eyes to look at their grandmother, and the eldest aunt took her grandmother's hand enthusiastically: "Mother! I'm back, look at me, I'm your eldest daughter-in-law! ”
Grandmother glanced at her, pushed her hand away without a trace, and said lightly, "What are you doing here?" ”
The eldest aunt was stunned for a moment: "Oh, mother, look at what you said, I am your daughter-in-law, even if my family's uncompetitive family goes early, don't you still have grandchildren?" ”
Hearing this, my grandmother's eyelids moved, and my eldest aunt was overjoyed: "Mother, I brought my grandson and your great-grandchildren back to see you!" ”
Her grandmother looked up at her: "Great-grandson? ”
"Yes, the eldest daughter-in-law is useless, and she gave birth to three female babies, but the second daughter-in-law gave birth to two children in a row, and they are outside, do you want to take a look?"
There was a ripple in her grandmother's eyes, she looked at the door and didn't speak, her aunt's eyes rolled, and she walked to the door with a smile and beckoned: "Come, Ancai daughter-in-law, bring Decai and Defu in, the old lady wants to see her great-grandson." ”
A moment later, a young woman in her twenties came in with two children of four or five years old, still holding one in her hand.
The two boys came in first and stood in the corner, and when the eldest aunt saw the swaddling clothes in the young woman's hand, she was not happy and said, "What did she do with a girl?" The old lady wants to see her great-grandson! Take it out, it's another money-losing goods! ”
The eldest aunt couldn't help but say that she took the swaddling clothes and stuffed them into the hands of the maid at the door, and pulled the woman in the door, but the young woman turned her head anxiously to see the baby girl who was crying in her swaddling clothes.
The eldest aunt scolded: "What are you crying about? My mother has raised you for so long, and I don't know how to give you food and clothing? Lose money! (To be continued)