78_78910 A few days later, Sister Ding sent someone to send gold and silver thread and fifty taels of silver, as well as a beautifully decorated box.

Li glanced at the gold and silver threads, and knew that Sister Ai was a big deal for her mother's illness. Li didn't have such eyesight before, at most he could distinguish the material of silk, cotton and linen, but the shop has been open for a long time, and he has seen a lot of satin brought by large households, and he has developed a pair of fiery eyes, and he can see the value of this silk thread with a glance.

Such a thin silk, such an eye-catching luster, but this is the first time I have seen it.

There are rules in the embroidery workshop, if you use the silk thread of the embroidery workshop, the price is one percent more expensive, if you bring your own silk thread, then look at the size of the embroidery image according to the size of the manual fee. Although Sister Ai asked for the largest size of the medicine Wang Ye's embroidery, at most thirty taels of silver would be paid for the handwork, but she gave fifty taels.

The maid smiled, she didn't come to think that the Li family was a country woman, she must have seen the money, but she didn't expect to be rejected by her, and the refusal was generous and decent, and the sentence that the eldest lady rewarded your embroidered friends with good embroidery couldn't be said.

"There are four hairpins in this box for the three young ladies in the family and the other two inkstones for the two young masters." The maid opened the box, there were four hairpins and two inkstones lying side by side, three of them were ordinary and elegant silver hairpins, it was rare to see the inkstone, and the color was good.

The three young ladies naturally refer to Chen Xueru, Chen Xuejiao, and Chen Xuewa. Miss Cousin is quiet.

Li pondered for a moment, but did not immediately pick it up.

"This is a thank you gift from the eldest lady." The maid's smile became brighter and brighter.

"The eldest lady is polite, since this is the case. Mother, let's take it. Chen Xuejiao said with a smile on the side, since people brought these things, they couldn't take them back, and took the box from the maid's hand.

The maid secretly breathed a sigh of relief, if she really came back as she was, the eldest lady should blame her for not doing things well.

The maid carefully explained Sister Ai's request for the portrait to the Li family. Li nodded as he remembered, and then put forward his own opinion.

When it was getting late, the maid got up and said goodbye. When he got into the carriage, he turned his head and suddenly said: "Aunt Chen's sister-in-law arrived in our house, and I heard that Aunt Chen was giving her Zhang Luo's marriage, talking about the youngest son of King Peng's Changshi, but the youngest son had already married the eldest girl of the Zheng family."

Whatever the maid's intentions were. As soon as the news came out. Everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Chen Xuemiao has nothing to do with the merchant since then, if there is really a problem, then there will be a trouble, Chen Xuemiao and the sum of the merchant's world at most make up a pair, then what should the other girls of the Chen family do, a girl who sent a good family and the merchant who wandered the streets and alleys can't figure it out, and the three girls who didn't go out of the Chen family were covered in dirty water before they passed the door. And how to behave.

However, Li sighed in the end: "There are two concubines in one door, and it is difficult to say it." Xue Yao is really bad at home, it's not enough to be a concubine, but she pushed her sister into the fire pit, although Xue Miao passed through the merchant's incident, and the two of them didn't really do it, find a small business in Xuzhou Mansion, and marry a serious husband and wife is still possible, no better than the concubine of the youngest son of Changshi. ”

Chen Xuejiao didn't sympathize with Chen Xuemiao in her heart, but in her heart, Xueyao did not do this authentically, and thought for a while and said: "Who does she put in her eyes now, you didn't listen to the second aunt's usual chat, in order to sit in the position of the head grandmother, she tried every means to curse the grandmother of Dingfu to death, I see her ruthlessness, and it is not surprising that she sold her sister for her own future at a critical moment." ”

In the evening, Li went to the third room to send a hairpin to Xuewa, and Cai's praised the eldest lady of Dingfu and her grandmother, how much is the hairpin worth, it is rare that people with what kind of identity can they still think of them, and said that it was Xie Sanfang's gift to entertain Mama, which is also too polite, what kind of hospitality is not entertained, and a cup of tea is served.

After the Li family mentioned Xue Yao's marriage to Xue Miao a little, Cai's family, like the Li family, first scolded Xue Yao for being a bad belly, and then said: "...... I don't have any hope for Xue Miao's girl, she didn't pit our girl into the ditch to Amitabha. Although Xue Yao's mind is a little poisonous, it is indeed a good way out for her to be sent to the Changshi Mansion, if it is an ordinary small family, she can't stand her on a whim and runs away with the merchant, wouldn't it be even more tricky for us. ”

What kind of family is Changshi, a wealthy family, once she goes in as a concubine, it is difficult to come out, even if she has such a mind, she can't make waves.

The two of them talked for a while, and then mentioned Xueru's birthday.

“…… I didn't want to do it for her, but in the end, I said that my daughter's house can still make a birthday at home...... In previous years, eating an egg on her birthday depends on the old lady's face, this year I discussed with your eldest brother to make her a lively birthday, especially your eldest brother, who discussed it with me as early as January ago. Li looked out the window, the sky was overcast, as if another rain had fallen.

"It's really right, I thought about not having that condition in previous years, but now that the family has the conditions, I won't give her a lively scene." Cai's smiled and echoed Li's, "When the time comes, will we make our own banquet at home, or go to the town to book." ”

"I still have to discuss this with your eldest brother, anyway, there are still ten days."

"Ten days is not far away, and it will be here in a blink of an eye."

The two of them were talking, and Old Man Chen and Old Lady Chen in the upper room were also talking about Xueru's birthday.

In previous years, when Chen Xiucai was at home every day, the father and son couldn't say a few words a year. Since Chen Xiu went out and came back, I didn't expect the father and son to become warm.

Dafang bought a house in the town and was renovating it, and Chen Xiucai specially invited Mr. Chen to get ideas during the day. In fact, the idea of the big house has already been taken, and he was invited to go just for a respect.

The children in the upper room took him by the arm, pointed to a small courtyard with pavilions and pavilions, and said, "In the future, grandpa can come to live here, and it will be his own home." ”

He ignored the big house for a few children for so long. Unexpectedly, they were the most filial to him.

Old Man Chen looked at the new courtyard of Shangfang, and Chen Xiucai ordered a table of wine in the town to invite Old Man Chen to eat, and hired a carriage to send him back. All the way back, I saw digging the river pond, only to be in a trance It was already winter, remembering that Chen Xueru was raised when digging the river pond in the cold weather, and just sat down at the door of the house and said: "Unconsciously a few grandchildren are so old, I remember that Xueru was raised when she first entered the winter, and it was her birthday in a few days." I want to give her some gifts. ”

When dinner was being set up in the upper room, Mrs. Chen was so angry that she put the chopsticks in order before she spoke: "It's right." She is considered an adult this year, and when she marries someone in the future, she will be a member of the Han family. ”

Old Man Chen raised his eyes, unexpectedly, Old Lady Chen was so happy this time. I'm afraid it's the last time Xue Ru was engaged. He beat his wife hard. The old wife felt guilty in her heart, so she found an opportunity to repair her relationship with the big house.

Old man Chen told her to go to the town to find a good tailor, cut a few new clothes for Chen Xueru, and then find a goldsmith to make a golden lock or golden hairpin, and sighed after the order: "Xueru has grown so big, we haven't given her anything good, she is the first child in the big house, and she should have given her a pair of silver locks when she was born." ”

Although Old Man Chen did not say it explicitly. But it really refers to Mrs. Chen's stepgrandmother's unkindness. It doesn't matter if it's a rich family or a poor family. Whenever there is some surplus in the family, a long-life lock will be given to the newborn baby to ask for a long-lived and wealthy kindness.

At that time, Li had three children who died in front of him, and when he arrived at Xueru, he was considered a firstborn daughter, and on the day of giving birth, he also pulled a basket of clothes and was sent to Xiaohuai River by Mrs. Chen to wash. The winter came early that year, the river froze, and Li smashed the ice with his stomach, and after washing his clothes, he couldn't stand up at the waist, and his calves were hot, only to know that he was red.

Pedestrians on the road sent her to their home, and Mrs. Chen was still complaining that Li's clothes had been washed for so long and that she had delayed making lunch. Li hurt all afternoon, the snow did not fall until the evening, the first cry attracted the first snow, when there was no rain in the whole autumn, the wheat in the field was dry and wilted, everyone said that the snow was like the snow god descended to earth.

Mrs. Chen didn't want to leave a mean reputation, early the next morning, just waiting for Li's mother's family to come, she took a basket of eggs to the north wing to see, nothing else, not to mention the longevity lock, not even the small silver bracelet that the poor people played, leaving only a basket of eggs, in front of Mrs. Li and others, said that it was to make up for the Li family.

At that time, Qi Lin had just been born for three days, there was a stove hanging in the upper room, the fire was burning, there was an old hen in it at any time, the fragrance of chicken was spreading, Zhao drank soup and gnawed on chicken legs, and the soup was salty, the chicken was not tender, and it was also confinement, Li could only eat two eggs a day, if it wasn't for Mrs. Li to watch, the chicken, fish, meat and eggs brought by the Li family were scavenged by Mrs. Chen.

Mrs. Chen's face was gloomy, she had long forgotten that Old Man Chen treated his grandchildren in the second room well, and there were only things in his eyes that Old Man Chen wanted to give Chen Xueru, and she forgot all about how much her own granddaughter had taken.

"Just make clothes for her, I still have two satin horses given by Xue Yao here, and they can match your precious granddaughter if you take them out." It's just that you said to make a golden hairpin, and the family has a total of all this silver, where to find the extra money and insert gold and silver for her. Mrs. Chen didn't eat anymore, and when she spread her hands, she was about to get angry, "What kind of life are people doing, what kind of life are we living, you lick according to other people's cheeks, but you can see if people look at it." ”

Old Man Chen didn't reason with Old Mrs. Chen, coughed twice, and fished out a broken wooden box under the bed, which had already saved a lot, all of which were given to him by the eldest son, and there were more than 20 taels at every point.

Old Mrs. Chen watched him take out the box, and her face turned white with anger. This box has been placed under the bed since she got married, the key and only the old man Chen has, every time he opens the box and never lets her open it, gradually she understands that this box is left by the dead Liu, who cried and made trouble when he was young, let the box be thrown away, but the old man Chen was unwilling, and he was in a hurry to divorce her. No matter how powerful Mrs. Chen is, she also knows where Old Man Chen's bottom line is, such as this box, she never dared to mention it, but the knot in her heart is knotted in the end, and now when she sees him take it out, she is so angry that she wants to pick up a hammer and smash it.

Old Man Chen ignored her, took a small ingot of gold and handed it to his wife: "This one is one or two, or the boss sent it at that time, and asked the gold shop in the town to play more carefully. ”

Mrs. Chen was so angry that she almost bit out a mouthful of blood, Old Man Chen was not so generous to other grandchildren, she couldn't cry when she pulled her cheeks, Qi Lin was admitted to the head of the case, and he just bought the four treasures of the study, so he could spend a few dollars.

Old Man Chen knew that she was angry, so he didn't look at her, and when he saw Zhang's staring at Jin at the table, he explained a few words to Zhang's and then washed his feet and scalded his feet to rest. Mrs. Chen pinched the concubine in her hands, pinched her fingerprints with both palms, slammed the table fiercely, and sneered at Zhang: "Old immortal, you value the children born in front of you so much, and throw us all into the well." ”

Zhang's got a lot of benefits from Dafang, but she was a person who couldn't distinguish between right and wrong, seeing that Old Man Chen gave Xueru a big golden hairpin, she pouted and echoed Mrs. Chen: "The gold and silver caves at home can't stand this bad method, the money is given to Dafang, how can the big egg say daughter-in-law in the future." ”

"There's a way to do it when the time comes." Old Man Chen coughed a few words inside, so frightened that Zhang quickly shrank his head and ran away, not even cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks.

Mrs. Chen sat at the table for a while, the food was already cold, and Zhang Shiju turned it over with chopsticks.

And the snoring sound of Old Man Chen was already heard in the back room, and the old lady Chen jumped on the corner of her forehead, almost couldn't stand up, and slammed the table and broke out: "The cheap embryo is also worthy of wearing gold and silver." Phlegm was lost and emptied the house for her. ”

cried again and suffered from his own life, he didn't have a good son, gritted his teeth and pulled out the Zhao, Zhang, Cai, and Li families and scolded them all over again.

It was until the middle of the night, and the old man Chen lay on the bed with half-squinted eyes, no matter how the old lady Chen scolded, he didn't say a word, and he made up his mind to give Xueru a golden hairpin as a birthday gift.

The gongs and drums also need to be matched with a mallet, and when Mrs. Chen saw that Mr. Chen was lying on the bed like a dead man, she scolded and scolded and was tasteless, and she cried again, and went to bed to rest peacefully.

The courtyard is so big, and Mrs. Chen's voice is so high, this scolding can't hide from everyone, except for Zhang's, no one around you knows why Mrs. Chen scolded so hard. (To be continued......).