The second watch, ask for pink.

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There are many houses outside the back wall of the Ji Mansion Garden, all of which are the residences of the servants of the Ji family. Further back, there is only a narrow alley across from these houses, which is the Tobacco Bag Alley. Most of the alleys are two-entry and three-entry houses, and most of them live in well-off homes in Qingyuan County.

Uncle Gu's house is in the tobacco bag alley.

This is a three-entry house, or when Uncle Gu and his family just moved to Qingyuan, Mrs. Ji gave it to Uncle Gu.

In the evening, Uncle Gu came back with Gu Lei'er.

In the past, if the father and son came back from Zhuangzi, they would definitely be full of spring breeze, but today these two people seem to be covered with frost.

Jiang was sitting on the kang, and when he saw their father and son like this, he couldn't help but be shocked.

"What's going on?" Jiang Shi hurriedly asked, "What's wrong with Zhuangzi?" ”

"You still ask!" Uncle Gu sat on the kang and said angrily, while telling the little girl to take off his shoes.

Gu Lei'er followed Uncle Gu and sat on the chair under the kang.

"I look at my father's errand in Zhuangzi, I'm afraid I won't be able to keep it." Gu Lei'er said with a wilt.

"What!" Listening to this sentence, it was like a bolt from the blue to the Jiang family. "Why can't you keep it? With the eldest sister here, who would dare to take away your father's errand? ”

The significance of Qingxizhuang to the Gu family is extraordinary. Although relying on Mrs. Ji's private and the Ji family's help, Uncle Gu's family has no worries about food and clothing, but they are only worry-free.

With Qingxizhuang in hand, it is different, the family eats fragrant and spicy food, wears gold and silver, and can accumulate a considerable amount of silver money in a year. In addition to the money, there are also the greetings and stammers of the people below, who are driven to call the old lady and the old lady.

Uncle Gu has only been in charge of Qingxizhuang for two years. The whole family has already tasted the sweetness, and they are unwilling to give it up.

"Others don't dare, but the third cousin does." It was Gu Leier who said.

"What, what is your third cousin doing on this errand?" Jiang Shi first didn't believe and was puzzled, and then said, "Then he can't stop listening to his mother." ”

"He is worthy of being the son of Old Lady Ji." Uncle Gu had already asked the little girl to take off her shoes and the coat outside, and said in a weird way. "A belly twists and turns. Our surname is Gu. Where are the opponents of others! ”

Uncle Gu is full of resentment.

In front of Mrs. Ji, he didn't get the slightest benefit. Although he later followed Master Ji San back to Qingxi Village, he was not able to change anything.

They are father and son, and they are nominally in charge of Qingxi Village. But in fact, they are just two ornaments on the Zhuangzi.

The third master of Biji treated them very well, which made people unable to find out the courtesy.

Uncle Gu and Gu Lei'er said everything about today's events to the Jiang family.

"The eldest sister let their brothers say a few words in it." Uncle Gu sighed.

"It's not going to work." Jiang was anxious, "You should still go and talk to the big sister again." It's all clear. Let's live on this Zhuangzi. You don't care, how did the money get to us? ”

"What else can I say!" Uncle Gu's tone was also anxious. "Can I still go and tell the eldest sister to stop the third child from going to Zhuangzi, so that I can do my tricks and move those wheat to our house?"

Even if Mrs. Ji favors them again. Such words cannot be said explicitly.

Uncle Gu is also angry.

"What then?" Jiang raised his hand anxiously and scratched on the kang, "The third child was not the best with you before, and he didn't care about anything." How did you change your temper? ”

"Who knows. Let's come back this time and see how good he looks. But inside I was treated differently than in the past. Uncle Gu said angrily.

He also tried to get close to Master Ji San today, and he wanted to take Master Ji San to "play", just like he used to listen to music and gamble for money, thinking that he could get closer to Guò like this, and let Master Ji San have no heart to take care of Zhuangzi's affairs again.

If it had passed, Master Ji San would have nodded happily a long time ago. But today, Master Ji San sneered at him.

Master Ji San's words are clear, he has decided not to gamble again, if anyone dares to seduce him to gamble and lose, he will be incompatible with whom.

"It's my enemy. Uncle doesn't want to be my enemy with the Ji family. ”

"What can I do?" Jiang Shi was also worried when he heard this. "I originally thought that my brother-in-law was gone, and the eldest sister was the head of the Ji family, and the second child was not close to us, and after these two years, he still had to be an official. If you go far, you can't care about your family. There is only one third child left in the family. This family almost has to be in charge of your uncle. ”

But now that Master Ji San is like this, their wishful thinking has come to naught.

Don't say anything about being in charge of the Ji family, now you have to lose even the errand of being in charge of Zhuangzi.

"What can I do?" Uncle Gu sneered, "If the eldest sister looks at me again, it depends on who you compare with." I can compare to his own son. The third child's eyes are like the eldest sister's. ”

"The eldest sister has changed her mind, he has several sons, but you are the only brother. You are the person who passed on the incense to his old Gu family! Jiang was furious.

"Humph!" Uncle Gu snorted coldly.

The family frowned.

"Otherwise, call my sister back to discuss." Gu Lei'er said suddenly.

Gu Xia'er is the eldest among the three siblings, and she is a very thoughtful person.

When Gu Xia'er was mentioned, Uncle Gu's and Jiang's eyes lit up.

"That's right, why didn't you forget, we still have Xia'er!" Jiang clapped his hands and said.

"Yes, Xia'er." Uncle Gu's sad face dissipated and changed his smile. "If Xia'er's business is done, today's little thing won't be a matter."

"If we Xia'er make a second room for her second cousin, and have a firstborn son...... Jiang calculated.

"The second child has to talk to us, too!" Uncle Gu continued, "Don't look at the third child like that, in my opinion, the Ji family is still the second child." ”

"When the time comes, don't say that you are in charge of Qingxi Village, if you give us a few more Zhuangzi, it will be a matter of a word from the second cousin." Gu Lei'er also said happily.

"At that time, it wasn't just Zhuangzi......" Uncle Gu folded his hands on his trembling belly, quite a little hesitant.

"Our house is also small, and now we can live in it. After waiting for two years, Lei'er said that her daughter-in-law shouldn't live in a bigger house. Jiang said.

"I think ......," Gu Lei'er smiled a little embarrassed, "If the second cousin becomes an official, he can also take me." ”

"Far away, what are you going to do? When he leaves, the Ji family's belongings in Qingyuan are not up to us!" Jiang said.

"It's still Lei'er's brain, and he has vision." Uncle Gu laughed, and actually agreed with Gu Lei'er, while counting down the Jiang family, "What do you know about a woman." Those who come all the way to talk are majestic. Not to mention anything else, there are at least thousands of filial piety silver in a year. ”

Those people gave more than just silver.

With such a beautiful prospect, the whole family is a little drunk.

After being drunk like this for a while, Uncle Gu came back to his senses first.

"That's all for later, we have to take care of the present first." Uncle Gu said, "I was going to find someone to make some trouble in the next two days, so forget it for the time being." Xia'er's matter is the most important, and everything else will be put forward first. ”

"If my sister wants to enter his house, the silver hired will be thousands, and he will be such a big official." Gu Lei'er said.

Compared with such easy-to-come silver, the grain that was stolen from the fields seemed to be nothing.

"You didn't say you were looking for someone, have you found someone?" Uncle Gu asked the Jiang family.

"I still need you to urge, I've already found someone, it's the old Song sister-in-law." Jiang immediately said.

"Is she doing the right thing?" Uncle Gu was not at ease.

"Take care of it, that's a capable person, can do anything, usually walk the streets and alleys, walk around are big families, to those grandmothers, misses, girls send some hairpin ring jewelry, sweat towels, she can look at the eyes, and can speak, everyone likes her. She will also say that the matchmaker pulls fiber, will also admit births, and will cry Lingling...... originally the eldest lady of the Jiang family used her well. ”

"Doesn't she have a son who works in Jiang Qingshan's house?" Gu Lei'er said suddenly.

"That's her." Jiang nodded, and then said, "Speaking of Jiang Qingshan, my second brother's incident ......."

"Let it go first, Xia'er's matter is done, and everything else is a matter of one sentence." Uncle Gu waved his hand.

"Also, Jiang Qingshan sent someone today, saying that he would let you two have time to go to him......" Jiang said again.

Uncle Gu and Gu Lei'er were silent for a long time.

"Who would have thought that he had such bad luck!" The Jiang family looked at the faces of the old uncle and his son, and also said, "He used to help us a lot, isn't that also looking at the Ji family?" There's no need for us to miss him. After that, it's nothing to break off from there. …… Originally, I also said that his Jiang Qiao'er and our Lei'er are also a good match, which will definitely not work. ”

"Who said it was broken!" Uncle Gu frowned.

The Jiang family didn't understand what Uncle Gu meant for a while.

"Jiang Qingshan, that's not an ordinary person! That's a man with a heart and eyes, and his hands and eyes are up to the sky. It's better to offend a gentleman than a villain, don't you know this sentence? ”

Jiang and Gu Lei'er didn't speak.

"In the past two days, I'll take the time to go over and see how Jiang Qingshan is doing." Uncle Gu thought about it and said, although Jiang Qingshan was unlucky, it may not be useless. "You hurry up and take Sister-in-law Song to see the eldest sister."

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On this day, Ji Xiaotang and Mama Cheng had just gone to Mrs. Ji's place to talk to Mrs. Ji, so they came out of Mrs. Ji's courtyard and walked slowly to Yixiaju.

As he walked to a small stone arch bridge, he saw in the distance that Jiang was taking a mother-in-law to Mrs. Ji's yard.

A little far away, Ji Xiaotang couldn't see the woman's face clearly, but he knew that he was not from the Ji family by looking at the clothes.

"Mama, the shade here is good, let's sit here." Walking across the arched bridge, Ji Xiaotang and Mama Cheng sat on a stone bench in the shade of a tree.

Not long after Jiang and her mother-in-law entered Mrs. Ji's courtyard, they saw a little girl come out of Mrs. Ji's courtyard and hurriedly went to Mrs. Ji's courtyard. (To be continued)

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