Chapter 209: Lu Fu
ps: If you want to hear more of your voices and receive more of your suggestions, search for the WeChat public account "qdread" now and pay attention to give more support! The Li family immediately wanted to find the matter of Shi's parents: "It is always a merit to reunite people's flesh and blood, so I quickly asked someone to find his family." ā
Chen Xuejiao stopped her: "Mother, my father just came to the house, and he hasn't taken a breath yet, this matter is not in a hurry, anyway, the stone has settled in our house, and the coming day will be long, and I will look for it slowly." ā
When the hired car came, Chen Xiucai came out of the upper room, stuffed a cloth bag into Li's family, and pointed to the cage on the ground: "You can clear the contents of these boxes and count the gifts of each family." ā
Li told him: "Seeing that it is the August Festival, you are not at home these days, pick up Qi An and come back as soon as possible, rest at home for a few days, and my mother still has to go back once." ā
Chen Xiucai said with a smile: "That's right, those two big boxes are for your father-in-law and mother-in-law, and your three brothers and nephews and nieces have them, you can check them." He pointed to the cloth bag in Li's hand, "The keys are all in it, and there are things for you in the box, you take them out first, if you like them, you can keep them, and if you don't like them, give them away." ā
Li Shi listened to a hint of sweetness in his heart, the people in the countryside are so particular about it, and the things they bring are better than those in Baitu Town, if she is allowed to give it away, she will not be able to.
The coachman outside was already urging, Chen Xiucai took the stone to the carriage, Li was afraid that Qi An would not eat well, so he brought a basket of food to the stone, Qi Ping was also going to go, and was picked up by the stone into the carriage.
As soon as her husband left, Lee entered the house. Looking at the boxes in one place, my heart was worried.
"Mother, where are these boxes placed?" Xue Jiao clicked on the boxes on the ground, there were seven in total.
Xue Ru, Jing Hao, and Dragonfly stood next to Xue Jiao, looking at these boxes with the same curiosity. They lived in the country, and they had never seen so many chests, and they were all sewn from leather, not to mention the contents of the boxes. Just looking at the material of the box is worth a lot of money.
"I'm worried too." Li touched the key in the cloth bag.
"I see it that way. Let's open the box first and see which things are our own and which things are given away. For example, some fabrics and satins are placed in the embroidery workshop, and when the clothes are cut, some jewelry is stuffed upside down and stuffed into drawers, under the bed, and on the top of the beams. You can put things. "Xue Jiaoti yƬ.
Li glanced at Xue Jiao approvingly, there was only this way. Now I feel more and more that my house is not enough to live in.
Because of the rain last night, there was a lot of mud under the chests, but fortunately the boxes were skinned and could not be immersed in them. Li opened the cloth bag in his hand and took out a bunch of keys, and poked open the keyhole one by one.
Except for two of the seven large chests, which were specially placed with silk cloth, the other five contained jewelry, medicinal herbs, and spices, especially the spices that were stacked in a black place, and they choked their noses through the cloth. Lee scrutinized the contents of the box. A piece of silk, the color and style are not available in Xuzhou Mansion. I don't know if it's Su silk or Shu brocade, there are more than a dozen horses in total. There was a small box pressed under the cloth, shaking it and jingling, knowing that it was gold and silver, Li didn't dare to open it, or Xue Jiao took a few looks, and the silver ticket was pressed with a gold collar, although the folk customs in the countryside were simple, Li was still worried that Lu Fu would be a bad thief, so he hurriedly panicked and let Xue Jiao take the silk and hide it under the bed.
An ebony cane inlaid with jade, presumably for Old Man Li, has a delicate forehead wipe under the cane, a row of pearls the size of a little thumb embedded in the head, and a fox-eye gem the size of a fingernail in the middle, with shiny satin edges rolled on both sides, decorated with silver fox fur. Li was shocked on the spot, and he couldn't help but complain in his heart that her husband spent money indiscriminately, wiping her forehead with such a valuable amount, and she didn't want to think about whether Mrs. Li was a rural peasant woman or not.
Xue Jiao grinned on the side: "It's still my father's filial piety, and I know how to buy things for my grandfather." ā
"Such a valuable thing, don't talk about anything else, just talk about how much the beads on the forehead are worth, your grandma took it and was worried that someone would take it away, and it was pressed under the box." The husband thinks about his mother's family, and Li likes it in his heart.
"Regardless of whether grandma wears it or not, dad has a father's heart. Mother, why did you say that your father gave your grandmother such good things, and she didn't value you. Xue Jiao touched the fox fur on her forehead, if it is said that this amount of silver is worth really not much, the fineness of this pearl gem is only seventy percent, but it is already a top rich thing for the countrymen. This morning in the pot house, Xue Jiao saw Li Shi asking what Shi said, and knew that she was worried that her father was rich and noble, so she seized an opportunity to convey to Li how much Chen Xiucai cares about you.
Xue Jiao and Jing Hao also nodded.
Sure enough, when Li heard Xue Jiao's words, the corners of his eyebrows and eyes were full of smiles, and his mouth was different: "He just brought a chicken feather to your grandma, and your grandma is also happy." ā
Li took Xue Jiao to look at them one by one, and one by one they fell into locks again, waiting for Chen Xiu to come back and divide things.
Later, Cai's took Xuewa, holding Xueyan in his arms, and saw a box on the ground, his surprised mouth grew up, and a box had not yet been locked, Cai's eyes glanced at a crown inlaid with gold and jade, and his heart fluttered in shock.
Cai's Suri is a little shrewd, but his heart is right, since the boxes are stacked in the house, the Li family has no intention of hiding it from Cai's.
"My good man, big brother has made a fortune." Cai patted his chest.
Li grabbed a handful of fruit through the box and gave it to Xueyan: "I don't know if I'm rich or not, no matter what, we have to live the same life, your eldest brother has suffered a lot outside, I burned his feet last night, and the calluses under the foot board are several layers thick, and he can't twist it with scissors." ā
Li remembered the wound on Chen Xiucai's shoulder, the calluses under his feet, and six of his ten toes were worn out, all of which were mixed in the flesh and could not be pulled out, and he cried in front of the child and Cai.
"Yes, the eldest brother looks so literate in the past days, and going out to run the boat is not as good as those who ran goods outside in the past." Cai thought of Chen Zifu, who couldn't beat a fart with three sticks on weekdays, so he went out to walk the streets with tofu. At the beginning, I blushed and couldn't shout, but now don't say that shouting is bargaining, if it wasn't forced by life, who would have to do business, not to mention that the eldest brother is running a boat, a little careless, not to mention the capital. It's even possible to take your life.
Cai originally saw Chen Xiucai handing things to his home one by one. It's not a taste in my heart, and I secretly complain that my man is useless, and now I think about it. It is not easy for the big house to be a family, the eldest brother is running a boat outside, and the sister-in-law and the children are staying at home, which day is not afraid. If you encounter a water bandit, you are not as lucky as last time. How sad is the family with a small wife. Now I feel that I have a small business, and I don't want to be rich and expensive, but more practical.
However, Cai's is really happy for the big room, and in the hearts of everyone in the upper room, her third room is a grasshopper screwed together with the big room. Now she is glad that her family has always been close to the big house, anyway, when the big house is developed, the left and right will pull the three rooms. Sanfang doesn't have a son, and with the support of a big house in the future, he is not afraid of what others say.
In the upper room. When Old Man Chen saw that his son had gone home, he was naturally happy in his heart. After a series of events, he valued his eldest son more and more.
He took out a few coins from the box and called for the big egg: "You go to the town to beat half a catty of wine, cut two catties of pig's head meat, and I will have lunch and drink." ā
Big Egg took the money and was going out.
Old Mrs. Chen stretched out her hand to stop the big egg, and squinted at Old Man Chen: "It's not a year, what kind of wine and meat do you drink, you go crazy, there are only a few pieces of silver at home, you go crazy." ā
The money box in the upper room has been empty recently, and the remaining thirty taels of silver from Mrs. Chen were taken by Chen Zigui to find Chen Zichang to do business. In recent days, news has come that Chen Zichang rented a shop to sell all kinds of dried fruits, saying that he would go home to pick up Mrs. Chen to enjoy the blessings after making a lot of money.
The news of his son's making money did not wait, but the eldest son of the previous birth came back, not only came back, but also brought a small servant to act as the master, Mrs. Chen was naturally angry in her heart, seeing that the old man Chen was happily smoking a cigarette pouch, and he was excited to go to drink and cut meat, and his heart became more and more depressed.
"What's the matter, you have to eat meat during the New Year? Our family hasn't eaten meat for a long time, and the last time we ate meat was the sauce elbow sent by the eldest daughter-in-law, and now we will also open the meat. "Old man Chen swallowed the clouds and spit out the fog, this tobacco leaf was brought by the boss from Shudi, and he gave it to him as soon as he came home.
Old Mrs. Chen was about to explode, the old man died, and a sauce elbow would subdue his heart.
"You think that people give you sauce elbow to be filial to you, that's when people can't eat it and throw it out before they give it to you, just feed the kitten and puppy the same reason." Mrs. Chen was worried about her little feet, and as soon as she opened her mouth, she didn't have anything good to say.
Big Dan looked at Mrs. Chen and then at Old Man Chen, and didn't know if he wanted to go to the town or not.
Old Man Chen was in a good mood and didn't pay attention to Mrs. Chen, what kind of person is the eldest daughter-in-law, can he not know? Even if the mother-in-law treats her badly, she sends meat and vegetables to the upper room in the same way, and does not give it to him alone, and waved her hand at the big egg at the moment: "Hurry up, you can buy sugar balls for the rest of the money." ā
The big egg happily agreed, and got out of Mrs. Chen's armpit, and the angry Mrs. Chen tiptoed after and scolded.
Here Li was worried that there was no place for the boxes on the ground, and Cai patted his thigh: "If sister-in-law reassures me, some unimportant things will be placed in our house first, and there is still half an empty space in our house." ā
Li looked at the upper room and stopped talking.
Cai's immediately understood Li's thoughts, if the box was put into the third room and lived in a courtyard, where could the box be hidden, I was afraid that if I went to the room, I would make a fuss.
As soon as Li wanted to speak, he saw Zhang knocking melon seeds and going to the upper room from the door.
Li and Cai looked at each other and stopped talking.
At noon, the early morning meal was warmed up and considered a meal.
In the evening, Chen Qi'an has not come to the house, there is a wave of people come in to ask for the lottery, it turns out that the government has tried to release the list, a total of 30 children, Chen Qi'an won the eighth place, the family has to scatter wealth and food, and the sun sets before it disperses.
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