Shi also laughed: "Father, my daughter only now understands that what her father taught is that medical skills are still useful, and those poems are useless at all, and they are not thirsty when they are thirsty, and they are not full when they are hungry." Mingzhu is stronger than me, and my current housekeeping is managed by Mingzhu, who is much better than me. ”

Cui Shi was happy when he said this: "Really? Mingzhu, are you so capable at such a young age? ”

Mingzhu was embarrassed: "What's this?" I have few people in my family and few housework, so it's easy to manage just a few things. ”

Cui Shi nodded, yes, how much can such a young girl do? If she knew that Mingzhu would also manage the Grange store pù and the like, she would be surprised.

At this time, the eldest lady of the Hu family spoke: "Father, mother, it's not too early, my sister has worked hard all the way, let's start setting up a meal, right?" ”

Cui nodded hurriedly, and the family went to the dining room to eat. Mingzhu is the dining room that Hu Zhili personally led to, which shows his love for Mingzhu.

As soon as Mingzhu entered the dining room, she found that the food had been served, and the maids and mothers-in-law were waiting in a bunch, of course, the eldest aunt, the second aunt, and the third aunt did not have seats, and they had to serve their in-laws. There were also a few young people in the dining room, it turned out to be the children of the three uncles' families, there were cousins and cousins, and after they met Mingzhu and Hu one by one, the family sat down to eat together.

The food is OK, Mingzhu is eating while watching, the furniture between is a little old, but the materials are very good, that is, the chairs, curtains, tablecloths and the like are very new, and the materials are too general. Mingzhu looked at it and thought to herself, her stepmother is really like a god, and her grandfather's house really needs to be rearranged. It seems that the silk and the like they brought are very useful.

After eating, everyone did not disperse, and they all went to Cui's upper room to talk. Most of them are talking about things after farewell, Cui's focus is on asking Hu about the matter of the Xu family after parting, Hu Zhili focuses on asking about Hu's resettlement of the victims, the old couple has different priorities, competing to ask, Hu has to answer this for a while and answer that for a while. Mingzhu looked at it and laughed.

At this time, Cui remembered something and asked the eldest lady Jin: "Old family, have you cleaned up your sister's house?" ”

Jin hurriedly said: "It's all cleaned up, and it's still in Qiuxiangyuan where my sister used to live." I had it painted the other day. It's just that the things arranged on one side are managed by the second brother and sister, I don't know if the second brother and sister have done it? ”

The second lady Lin Shi hurriedly said: "Mother, I have put all the furniture away, but there is a shortage of things in our house now. I can only keep it simple, just let the two of them sleep in a bed, I really can't find the second one, you must know that our second girl, the third girl still sleeps in the same bed, and the house can't allocate money to buy furniture now, and the serious girl in her house doesn't have a bed yet. ”

Cui's face changed as soon as he heard this: "The second family." What do you mean? ”

When Hu heard this, he was very angry, it turned out that someone in the family would really dislike her.

Hu Minlu, the second brother of the Hu family, changed his face: "Lin, my mother asked you something, and you just said it, what did you do with it?" ”

Lin pouted for a moment and said, "I'm telling the truth, my mother asked me to take care of the things in the house, but what are the things in this family?" Our family business has long been confiscated, and now although the court says that it will be returned, what has it been sent? It's all broken tables. Broken chairs that no one wants, just like the big carved step bed in my room that was accompanied by my mother's family, now, it's just a broken bed, that's not it, the family's money has not been distributed, the production of Zhuangzi has already been collected, and it will take next year to collect rent. It's the same with shops. But there are more people who fight the autumn wind, and they can't cope with it together, so they come together again. There is nothing in this serious girl? The girl surnamed Hu has to have anything along the way? When we girls came back, we didn't see our father, and my mother liked it so much. I didn't see my mother tell me to clean up the yard and move furniture, but the person surnamed Hu came halfway to clean up the yard and move furniture, and everything was the best. ”

Cui's body trembled: "Lin, what do you mean by this?" Who is fighting the autumn wind, this is your serious sister-in-law, it is the blood of me and my master, what are you doing? ”

Hu Zhili's gloomy face, Hu Min said angrily: "Lin, we all went to the northwest back then, you didn't go, you were picked up by your mother's family, so many years of serving your parents are sisters-in-law and three brothers and sisters, I can't raise my head, now we are all back, your family sent you here again, I read that you have also guarded me for so many years, or your mother's family took care of my children, I will accept you, and let you be a dignified lady, but you are so unvirtuous, I think, I still send you back to your mother's house." ”

Lin's face changed dramatically when he heard this: "Are you going to divorce me?" My mother's family picked me up to live in the capital so that our children would not suffer, is it easy for us for so many years? Now you want me to go back to my parents' house without a word, and you have no conscience. ”

Cui Shi and Hu Minlu were about to quarrel with Lin, Hu Shi had already stood up, and said calmly: "Mother, second brother, second sister-in-law, don't quarrel for me." I know that it's all because I'm a divorced person, originally I was divorced, which is not good for this family, and it will affect the future of my nieces, and now I am bringing my children home, which is not right. But we don't have to provide for us at home. We can feed ourselves. ”

Cui's heart ached when she heard this, her daughter was still so stubborn and strong, she was a woman who had left, although she had a seven-grade salary, how could she do it without her mother's support? It's all this unvirtuous Lin family, she didn't agree when she was married to the second child, because she felt that the Lin family's tutor was not good, and there were many fierce women, and now it looks like this, it is all the old man's wrong mandarin duck score, and the second child's marriage is not good, and he found a negative man for his only daughter, which is really eye-catching, thinking of this, Cui's glanced at Hu Zhili hatefully.

Hu Minlu hurriedly said to his sister: "Sister, don't be angry, even if I leave the Lin family, I can't let you live outside, so who have I become?" Sister, didn't you forget jì, when you didn't go out of the cabinet, our two brothers and sisters were the best? ”

As soon as Hu Shi heard the tears, and was about to speak, Hu Minlu's children had already rushed over and begged Hu Minlu: "Father, please calm your anger, your mother has always been unintentional, you can't divorce your mother." ”

Mingzhu just thought it was funny when she looked at it, their mother was unintentional, and their mother and daughter were not pitiful, fortunately, their father-in-law and mother-in-law helped them get back their mother's dowry, and they were a bit of a family in the past two years, if they really ran away penniless, they would really be bullied by this second aunt. Now, it's funny that the second aunt has become a victim.

Hu Shi shook his head and said: "Second brother, don't be angry with your second sister-in-law, I didn't want to move out by myself, I came back easily, and I was going to honor my parents for a few days and enter filial piety." ”

Hu Minlu was relieved when he heard that his sister was not leaving, and Cui Shi and Hu Zhili were also relieved.

Hu Shi continued: "Father, mother, in addition to the reason why I returned to the capital this time is to fulfill my filial piety to the second elder, there is another reason, that is, I want to give this to you. ”

After speaking, he took out a thin piece of paper from the Yamato bag embroidered with bamboo and closed on all sides, and handed it to Cui.

Cui Shi took it and looked at it, and was shocked, it was actually a silver ticket, with 40,000 taels written on it.

Cui's face sank and handed the silver ticket to Hu Zhili, Hu Zhili was also startled, Hu Zhili asked, "Yuefen, why do you have so much silver?" ”

As soon as she said this, the eldest lady and the second lady were shocked, this sister-in-law took out a silver ticket, she was a divorced woman, how could she have a silver ticket, and there were a lot of things to listen to the master's words. Lin began to regret it in his heart.

Hu Shi said calmly: "Father, mother, you loved me back then, and we also had some property in our house, so you bought me a dowry of 50,000 taels of silver. However, I married a negative man, Zhongshan wolf, for so many years, because I don't know how to manage the housework, Xu Zhijie is in charge of the money, he used my dowry to make a fortune, and also raised the outer room, and later because of something happened to our family, I was not allowed to go home, and let the concubine abuse me in every way and swallow my dowry. In those years, Mingzhu and I relied on our mother and son to do some needlework for dinner, but they spent a lot of time drinking. Later, I met Yuefang's best friend, Mrs. Chen, Bai, who helped me and recognized Mingzhu as her goddaughter. Later, I divorced, and when I left, Master Chen helped me get my dowry back. Later, Bai's sister taught me how to manage the chores, and together we made some money from the dowry. I am now living a good life in Deqing, I have a house, a shop, and I have been rewarded by the imperial court, and I have a good fortune. finally didn't embarrass the Hu family. I heard that my father and mother were coming back, and I thought that the house must have been in ruins, and it was just when the silver was used that I came back with the pearl. First, let the child recognize his parents, I have not been filial piety in front of my parents for so many years, and I should also do my filial piety. Second, he wanted to bring back the 40,000 taels of silver, so that he could use them for his family. ”

As soon as Cui Shi heard it: "Silly boy, the dowry we gave you was yours at the beginning, what are you going to do with it?" In your current situation, it's always good to have a little money around, so what are you giving us for? Now that your father has been reinstated, and your brothers have become officials, and you have a good fortune, although it is a little more difficult at the beginning, it will be better in the future, where can I ask for your silver, although your dowry is given by us, but if you don't give it to you at the beginning, it will be confiscated. ”