Chapter 12: Daddy's News

Zhen Niang carried scallion pancakes, peanuts, sugar balls, and a box of pear paste candy into the door.

The scallion pancake is for Xi Ge'er, I buy a lot of peanuts, keep some at home, and Shui Bo also send some, as for the pear paste candy, it is naturally for grandparents, and the sugar ball is for Xiaoguan'er.

Xi Ge'er had a dog nose, and he had smelled the fragrance of scallion pancakes for a long time, and when he reached the door, he snatched the scallion pancakes in Zhenniang's hand and put them in his mouth.

"How to eat alone." Zhenniang stood at the door and slapped him.

"My second sister learned, and the second sister used to eat alone." Xi Ge'er is all learning from you.

"Then have you ever seen the second sister eat alone these days?" Zhen Niang glanced at him and asked.

"Nope." Brother Xi hung his head and said.

"Then why don't you learn?" Zhen Niang asked rhetorically.

"Oh." Brother Xi nodded, took the scallion pancake out of his mouth, only tore the piece that entered his mouth and threw it into his mouth, and the rest was wrapped in oil paper and distributed to everyone for a while.

As the sister and brother spoke, they entered the courtyard and closed the courtyard door.

As soon as the door was closed, Brother Xi pulled Zhen Niang's sleeve again: "Second sister, be careful when you enter the house for a while, my mother is angry, scolding you and grandpa for being fools." ”

"This is so haode, what is my mother scolding me and grandpa for?" Zhen Niang looked at the house with a side face, in order to save money, the mother didn't even light the oil lamp, only lit a few pieces of pine bark with pine resin, the house was full of smoke, and it was impossible to see the figure in the house from the curtain that was lifted.

"I don't know very much, but when the second sister didn't come back before, Uncle Nine's cousin Zhengyan came to send money to our family, saying that it was time for you to get the money, but you didn't ask for it, but Uncle Nine asked him to send it, but he let Grandpa drive him out, and the money was also lost, and my mother scolded angrily when she found out, saying that you and Grandpa are fools."

Xi Ge'er said indistinctly.

Zhen Niang understood at this time that it must be the money she returned, and Uncle Jiu asked Cousin Zhengyan to send it again.

In fact, it is very simple for Zhenniang not to want that money, because no matter how good the grade of those bituminous coal burns, it is also burned from the tung oil of Li's ink mill.

There is an agreement, so zuihou, she can't collect the 50,000 yuan, only the processing fee and the extra six taels of bituminous coal money, that is, more than 10,000 yuan.

Zhenniang thinks she deserves it.

Obviously, Uncle Jiu is not a trustworthy person, even if he made a price, he also had to fulfill it, so he asked Cousin Zhengyan to send it again, but he didn't want to be kicked out by his grandfather.

And Grandpa apparently thinks the same thing as her.

Zhen Niang thought about it, so she took Xi Ge'er into the house, but Xi Ge'er slipped away, knowing that the old lady was in a bad mood and didn't stay in the house, so she slipped to the side of the kitchen.

Sure enough, as soon as Zhen Niang entered the house, before she could speak, her mother's finger of Zhao pointed directly at her face: "Why did I give birth to such a stupid girl as you, the surname Zheng is so kind to you, why do you want him to go down the steps?" I don't want the money sent to my hand, but your grandfather is as stupid as you, in the past, your grandmother and your father were angry with me, but now, you are angry with your grandfather. ”

Zhao said, but his eyes were red.

"Mother, I don't want to let the Zheng steward go down the steps, I received the material from the Li family's ink workshop, and the bituminous coal should have been given to the Li family's ink workshop, which included the processing fee and the price of purchasing excess cigarette materials were all said before, although Zheng was at fault first, but he could not represent the Li family's ink workshop, this is a matter of faith." Zhen Niang explained, and then said with a smile: "Don't worry, my daughter has made a lot of trouble today, not to mention the seventh grandmother, even the ninth uncle will also give the first place to Steward Zheng, and the daughter will not suffer." ”

"It's up to you, you're justified anyway, let's call everyone to dinner." After a while, Zhao sighed and waved his hand, but the whole person sat there tastelessly.

"Hmm." Zhenniang nodded, and went into the kitchen to help set the dishes and chopsticks.

For a meal, Zhao was eating with his head bored, except for scolding Zheng for not being authentic, to see what happened to him, there was nothing else to say, after eating, Zhao threw away the bowl and entered the house again.

Zhen Niang took the dishes and chopsticks, and when she was washing the dishes, she saw the eldest brother carrying water in, so she pulled her eldest brother and asked, "Eldest brother, does my mother have something on your mind?" ”

Li Dalang nodded, and then said in a sullen voice: "Today, Huaide of the Fang family at the entrance of the city gate has come back from Suzhou, and my father asked him to bring a bunch of money back, and I heard Huaide say that my father is working on the wharf at the mouth of Suzhou Creek, and he is moving goods there, and my mother is panicked when she hears it." ”

It turns out that this is the case, Zhen Niang understands, the mother is distressing her father, although these years, the father is very unreliable, but the two have been bumping and bumping for nearly 20 years, and the relationship is also growing in this bump and bump.

No wonder my mother is going to get angry today, thinking that my father is moving goods on the dock, it is really not easy to make a lot of money, and I and my grandfather also pushed the money out, how can my mother not be angry.

"What are you two muttering in the kitchen?" At this time, Zhao came over and saw Zhen Niang and Li Dalang talking, so he said angrily, and said to Zhen Niang again: "Go and see if there is still hot water in the water room?" Give your grandparents some foot soaks. ”

"Hey." Zhen Niang nodded, carried a big copper kettle and prepared to go out, and saw Zhao standing in the courtyard, sweeping back and forth with a broom in his hand.

"Mother, I heard the storyteller on the street say, since this person was born, the blessings he should enjoy and the suffering he should suffer have been doomed, my father is too blessed in the first half of his life, and now he has to endure hardships, and when his father's hardships are finished, he should enjoy happiness again." Zhen Niang said.

"You girl, a bunch of crooked reasoning, okay, go get water, you deserve your father's hardship, don't suffer and don't know how difficult it is to make money." Zhao said, remembering the hard work of Zhen Niang lighting cigarettes before, and then being made difficult by others, and the hardships of life are not enough for outsiders.

Thinking about it, he was ruthless, and said to Du Shi, who was holding the laughing official and coaxing him to sleep: "Zhengliang daughter-in-law, in the past two days, let's vacate more places at home, build two more shelves, raise more silkworms this year, mulberry leaves are not enough, let's run around the mountains, and there are a lot of wild mulberries on the mountains." After saying that, he went back to the house in a hurry.

Du Shi didn't reply, just stood stunned for a moment, and then went back to the house with Xiaoguan in his arms.

Zhen Niang carried the big copper kettle and went to the water room again.

"Zhenniang, I know that you are going to come to fetch water, so I left hot water for you." The night was already dark and dreary, Shui Bo sat on the stove of the water room and yawned, and when he saw Zhen Niang coming, he hurriedly took the big copper kettle in Zhen Niang's hand.

"Xiexie Shuibo." Zhen Niang said, and took out a piece of salt-and-pepper peanuts wrapped in oil paper from her pocket and put it on the stove: "Uncle Shui, this pack of salt-and-pepper peanuts will give you wine to eat." ”

"You girl, what's this polite." Shui Bo blew his beard and glared.

"This is Fali City, begging for praise, Shui Bo can't help but accept it." Zhen Niang smiled.

Shui Bo squinted his eyes: "Okay, okay, I heard about something today, there is a good craft that is stronger than anything else." ”

Zhen Niang smiled and waved her hand, and then turned around with a copper kettle, a small small city, and a little thing could be spread all over the sky.