The little girl wrinkled her little face with tears in her eyes: "Grandma, you promise Yan'er, you will give whatever you want, Yan'er wants gold, gold three, gold!" ”

Grandma Gui frowned and thought about it, and said with a straight face: "Don't mess around, Yan'er, grandma doesn't have the same gold!" ”

"Liar, grandma obviously has it, woo~~ Yan'er likes gold!" The little girl said she would cry, and the tears would fall down! Grandma Gui looked at her granddaughter's pitiful appearance, and comforted her while helping her wipe her tears: "Yan'er is good, don't cry or cry, is it okay for grandma to buy Yan'er flowers and make beautiful clothes?" ”

The little girl struggled with her little body and cried: "Don't want it, I want gold, I want gold!" ”

"Nonsense! We ordinary people, how can there be any gold! The old village chief came out of the study and stared at Yan'er with a straight face. The little girl seemed to be frightened, and she almost didn't breathe when she sobbed.

When her brother Peng'er saw the old village chief, he immediately stood up and saluted respectfully: "Grandpa, don't be angry, my sister is small and ignorant, she heard Aunt Rulan next door say that grandma has a set of gold jewelry, and it will shine when she sees the light, but it looks good, and my sister wants it!" My father and mother have told us not to say it, but my sister didn't remember it for a while, please don't blame my sister! ”

Grandma Gui glanced at the old village chief, sighed and said, "Forget it, old man, the child is small, he is not sensible, and he just listens to others chewing the root of his tongue!" ”

The old village chief snorted lightly and didn't say anything, Grandma Gui helped Yan'er, who was still sobbing, wipe her tears and said in a low voice: "Yan'er, that's all gossip from other people's tongues, don't believe them, ah!" ”

Grandma Gui thought for a while and said: "Peng'er, you go back and tell your mother, grandma really has good things here, and they will be left to you children and grandchildren in the future, and they can't be brought into the soil, so tell her not to dig out her mind and worry about it, ah!" ”

The little boy was a little nervous and stammered, "No... No! Grandma, my mother didn't say anything! ”

Grandma Gui smiled, didn't mention it again, helped Yan'er wash her hands and wipe her face, led her to the small table, dipped the apocarpus with chopsticks and fed it to Yan'er, and said: "Peng'er, Ling'er, you also eat quickly, this avocale should be dipped in sugar while it is hot to be delicious, and it will be hard when it is cold later, eat it quickly, ah!" ”

originally thought that this was the end of the matter, but three days later, in the evening, Ling'er returned home, and the old lady beckoned her to help carry glutinous rice, planning to go to Xiaohuzi's house to borrow stone-ground glutinous rice noodles.

The habit here is to eat glutinous rice flour noodles made of glutinous rice noodles before and after the New Year, indicating that the family is reunited, and the coming year will be full and complete, Ling'er's family has not eaten glutinous rice balls for many years because of poverty, this time the old lady specially went to the village to change twenty or thirty catties of glutinous rice, saying that she would make up for all the leaks in previous years, but the work of grinding rice balls and noodles is more troublesome.

Ling'er's family does not have a stone mill, so naturally he can only go to other houses to borrow it, because there are not many people in the village who have a stone mill, and there are people queuing up for each stone mill to use, and the old lady waited for four or five days before it was her turn, so she urged Ling'er to go quickly, and strive to grind out all the twenty or thirty catties of glutinous rice tonight.

There are also some rumors about Ling'er's strength in the village, but she didn't dare to overdo it, so she changed the grinding with the old lady, and every time she pushed herself, she called Xiaohuzi to help, and Xiaohuzi didn't have to make much effort, just use a handle.

After working so busy for an hour, the glutinous rice was only half ground up, at this time the sky was getting dark, and there were already women who had eaten and ran around, and Xiaohuzi's family also came a lot, some stood and chatted, and some were kind enough to help Ling'er's mother and daughter take a hand, but none of them were idle, and they smiled and said some short gossip about the east and west.

The others were nothing, but the mysterious discussions of several women attracted Ling'er's attention: "Hey, have you heard? The old village chief's Aunt Gui has three sets of gold, gold step shake, gold earrings, and gold bracelets, all of which are pure gold, and they are shining gold when they see the light, but they are eye-catching! ”

"Wouldn't it? When the old village chief split the family, all the family property and land were divided, how could there be any gold and three things? ”

"Hey, you don't know this, that thing was Aunt Gui's dowry back then, so naturally it can't be regarded as a family property!"

"Dowry?! What is the origin of Aunt Gui's family? There are not many people in our town who can afford to accompany Jin San! ”

"Listen to my mother-in-law, Aunt Gui's mother's family was a big landlord near the provincial capital, the dowry boxes were full of them, and when they were opened, they were full of high-quality goods, and there were a lot of gold and silver jewelry, but this set of gold three kinds was the most outstanding, not only the style was good, the weight was sufficient, and I heard that there were some origins!"

"Where did it come from?"

"You just break it blindly, although the village chief's family is in a better situation, but the old village chief has opened a private school for so many years, and he can collect a lot of money every year, and there are still a lot of fields at home, which are handed down by the ancestors, and it is said that people seem to live on dowry!"

"I'm not talking nonsense! I don't know where the Jin San came from, but Aunt Gui's family is not bad, and the old people in the village know it, if you don't believe it, ask it! ”

Several women chattered and argued, most of them were full of doubts, and some daughters-in-law said: "Sister-in-law Zhu, you said that Aunt Gui's mother's family is solid, why didn't I see other people's mother-in-law wearing gold and silver, but he was covered with patches, which looks much worse than Aunt Gui's family!" ”

"Hey, this is not simple, naturally her mother's family failed, I heard that there was a lawsuit more than ten years ago, which made their whole family bankrupt, Aunt Gui filled in all her own dowries, and kept that set of gold three things!"

Hu Ziniang sneered: "Sister-in-law Zhu, look at you like that, as if you have seen the three golden things!" Even if Aunt Gui really has the three things of gold, it is also their own thing, why are you in such a hurry? ”

Sister-in-law Zhu, who was the first to reveal her voice, blushed and said, "How can I be in a hurry, you yourself don't believe what I said!" I'm thinking, the old village chief has already divided the family for several sons, who will end up with that set of gold and three things? That set of things is not a vulgar thing, and it can be worth hundreds of taels of silver to say the least! ”

"A few hundred taels of silver! Not so much, right? ”

"There must be, a few days ago, my sister-in-law wanted to go to the right gold earrings, and when I asked the price, the gold had risen several times compared to before, and now it costs fifteen taels of silver to exchange for one or two gold, and I heard that it will rise!"

"Really? That's gold! Aunt Gui's daughters-in-law are blessed! ”

"It's hard to say, when the family was separated, Aunt Gui's sons and daughters-in-law all pushed back and didn't want to live with the old man, I don't think Aunt Gui may be willing to give them good things!"

"Aunt Gui is old, who else can she give if she doesn't give it to her children and grandchildren?"

"Don't forget, Aunt Gui still has two daughters!"

"That's right! If I have that good thing, my son and daughter-in-law treat me like that, I won't give it to them, but give it to my daughter! ”

"Can't you? Isn't it in the hands of outsiders for the girl? ”

"Look at what you said, what kind of outsider is a girl? Didn't Aunt Gui bring that thing from her mother's house? ”

"No, I think even if Aunt Gui is willing, her sons and daughters-in-law will not agree!"

"Yes, yes, no wonder I saw Aunt Gui's four daughters-in-law running to their yard these days, I heard that she left her two children by Aunt Gui's side, wouldn't she just go for the golden three?"