Chapter 173: Distant Relatives
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"Who hit this?" Seeing this, Mei Duo's eyes immediately turned red, and she asked sharply, "Your father?" Your uncle? Or are you aunty? β
As for Mei Xiaoba's stepmother, she has always been docile and virtuous in front of people, and she will not be so ruthless.
This voice immediately alarmed Gui Chongyang, who was copying scriptures in the study, and Mei, who was in the kitchen, and both walked out.
It was not dark yet, and the slap prints on Mei Xiaoba's face were very obvious, they were the handprints of adults, so Mei Duo did not suspect that it was the hands of Mei Xiaoba's two cousins.
Gui Chongyang's face also sank, and he stepped forward and said, "You are going to deliver something, and after dinner, what is in the way of your aunt?" β
Mei Xiaoba's aunt is an extremely difficult one, not much better than Mei Xiaoba's stepmother, before Mei Xiaoba went to visit her grandparents, because she was left to eat once, she was nagged by Mei Xiaoba's aunt several times.
Mei Xiaoba drooped her head and didn't say anything.
Mei Shi was also annoyed, endured his anger and said, "Is it still a mistake to send them something?" What the hell is going on? If you don't say it, we'll go and ask!" We are good children, why do they say they will beat them? "Anyway, I'm going to go to Lame Xiaoba.
It's no wonder that Mei Xiaoba was born before his death, and he was the heir of the Mei family's second room, so the relevant upbringing naturally did not need to be decided by his own parents.
To put it mildly, Mei Xiaoba's Laozi received money and rice before his succession, and set up a document, Mei Xiaoba's life and death marriage has nothing to do with them, and he is already someone else's child.
No one picks on beating one's own children, and it makes no sense to beat other people's children.
Seeing this, Mei Xiaoba hurriedly grabbed Mei Shi and said, "Auntie, don't ask, I'll ......" Speaking of this, she took out a piece of paper from her arms.
Mei Shi took it and looked at it, and said suspiciously: "Isn't this the recipe for the black hair ointment?" β
This recipe was copied by Gui Chongyang from miscellaneous books, and Mei Xiaoba remembered his grandparents and told Gui Chongyang that he copied a copy.
Mei Xiaoba hesitated for a moment and said: "I sent black hair ointment over, the fifth brother said that this thing is expensive, and there is no one in the town to sell it, so I want to go to Tongzhou City to buy it, and it costs a few taels of silver." My aunt asked me for a recipe, saying that she could take it to the town and sell it. I didn't take it out...... The eldest lady asked me to come back and steal it, I said no, this is Brother Chongyang's recipe, if you want to sell it, it should be sold by Brother Chongyang, she said that I lost my conscience and slapped me......"
What kind of elder is this?
Mei's expression did not improve, still frowning, and said, "When she does it, others will watch?" β
Mei Xiaoba shook her head and said: "My grandmother stopped me, my grandfather was annoyed, and smashed the jar, saying that since it is two families, it will be clearly divided, so that the eldest mother should not worry about other people's things, and also told me, don't let me go again in the future, every time I make trouble, let me live a good life with my aunt......" In the end, the voice was inaudible.
In the end, it was a ten-year-old child, and it was inevitable that he would be wronged, and tears came out.
Mei Duo stretched out her fingers, poked his head and said, "Cry! And the face to cry! Is this the first time I've told you this? The old man is an understanding person, and you also have a long memory, since you hate you over there, you will move less forward in the future! β
Mei sighed and said: "Since I am worried about it over there, I won't die like this, and this period of time will not pass." β
"Hmm." Mei Xiaoba choked and nodded, but she still didn't forget the recipe, and whispered: "Brother Chongyang, Brother Yang Sange will also give the paste directly, what if this recipe is really valuable?" β
In Gui Chongyang's eyes, this recipe is naturally not as important as Mei Xiaoba, but since he knows that this recipe can be sold for money, there is no need to cheap Mei Xiaoba's aunt.
Gui Chongyang was quite pleased with Mei Xiaoba's choice, nodded and said, "Okay, then leave the recipe and only send black hair cream." When the recipe is sold, buy delicious food for Hachi. β
Mei Xiaoba shook his head and said: "I don't want to eat it, I can really sell it for money, and Brother Chongyang can eat Dongzi vegetables, and I don't need cabbage and tofu all day long." β
Seeing that it was almost October, the vegetable field was cleaned up early, and the cabbage radish stored in winter was also put into the vegetable cellar. In the town market, there are Dongzi dishes, I bought them once a few days ago, but the distressed Mei is enough to choke, Mei Xiaoba remembers, so he said so.
Gui Chongyang has always loved to think a lot, and he is also very guarded, but in the face of Mei Xiaoba's pure heart, his heart is also warm, and he said with a smile: "I can really sell it, let's not buy Dongzi vegetables, let's build a hole and grow vegetables ourselves!" β
Before buying shops and houses in the town, Gui Chongyang spent about the same amount of gold and honeysuckle. It is to buy the six hectares of land of the Du family, all of which are borrowed tensors.
Gui Chongyang was unwilling to drag on the debts, so he took the top of Nanjing's small village.
Tensor wants to discount Nanjing Zhuangzi at a high price, and wants to find some silver to Gui Chongyang, where is Gui Chongyang willing to ask for it? In the end, it was pushed. As a result, there was not much money in the Gui family's house, so Mei Xiaoba heard that this recipe could be sold for money, so she immediately stayed on her body and didn't take it out.
If Aunt Mei knew that the recipe for the black hair paste she was worried about was on Mei Xiaoba, the Gui family didn't take it seriously, and Mei Xiaoba planned to send it over, but I was afraid that she would vomit to death.
Gui Chongyang's proposal was immediately approved by the other three.
It's okay in summer and autumn, there are a lot of green vegetables in the vegetable garden, and if you do it differently, Gui Chongyang can still eat a full meal. In recent days, the vegetable field has been harvested, and only a few winter storage vegetables are left, in exchange for those few things, Gui Chongyang's meal is getting smaller and smaller, and he sees that his cheeks are thin and collapsed.
Gui Chongyang was a little embarrassed, it wasn't that he was a picky eater, he really had no appetite.
After everyone discussed the Dongzi cuisine, Mei went to the kitchen to get a hot towel and put a face on Mei Xiaoba.
The atmosphere in the room sank again, and after all, he was beaten.
"Auntie, you can't be beaten in vain!" Mei Duo said unevenly: "There are one and there are two, if you don't warn you, be careful that you have to make inches over there!" β
Mei Shi had already made a decision in his heart, and said, "I'll go to talk to the old man tomorrow morning." β
Gui Chongyang said on the side: "My aunt also mentioned it, and asked them what they meant, do they really want to force us to take the land?" β
The fifty-five acres of land that Gui Wu bought from Mei Xiucai before were all tenants of the Mei family, and Gui's second grandfather wanted to be a man and leave a line, and specially instructed Gui Chun not to change tenants.
The generosity of the Gui family did not fall well.
Because of this land transaction, the Mei family had a lot of complaints later. If it weren't for the fact that the Gui family had a relationship with the county order yamen, the Mei family would have borrowed the rule of "land sales, ask the clan relatives first", and would not recognize the legality of the previous transaction.
Of the fifty-five acres of land, half of them are owned by Mei Xiaoba's uncle.
Mei nodded and said, "I know." β
It's not that Gui Chongyang and Mei's don't talk about human feelings, but they don't feel at ease, and they are worried that Aunt Mei will be bad.
This house is full of women and children, if they really think about stealing books, this room full of books will be lost three or five copies, not to make people feel distressed to death.
Instead of raising the other party's thief's heart and guts, it is better to warn directly.
I don't know what Mei said the next day, anyway, it was honest for the time being, and nothing happened like Gui Chongyang's worries.
However, Gui Chongyang was worried about the safety of his family, and discussed with Mei's about raising a dog.
It happened that the female dog of Yang Wu's family gave birth to a litter of cubs, and Gui Chongyang hugged one at home.
There was an extra little milk dog, and he immediately won Mei Xiaoba's favor, and directly made a small nest in Mei Xiaoba's house, eager to watch it day and night.
Because the Lantern Festival has a name, Mei Xiaoba thought about naming the little milk dog too, but after thinking about it, she didn't think it sounded good, so she asked Gui Chongyang to help.
Gui Chongyang also pondered for a while, and wanted to name the little milk dog "Little Six", four people in the family and one cat, and the little milk dog was exactly the sixth.
Mei Xiaoba naturally shook his head, he was "Little Eight", and the puppy's name was "Little Six", which seemed to be an older brother.
In the end, it was Mei Duo who called the shots, and because the little milk dog had golden hair, he named it Jinzi.
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In the blink of an eye, it was the first day of October.
According to the custom of Sanhe County, every household must burn cold clothes and worship their dead relatives; The living also officially changed their cotton clothes and pants, and the fire wall and the big kang were also officially burned.
It's winter.
Because it was the day of the village school, Gui Chongyang and Mei Xiaoba were at home, ready to follow Mei Shi and Mei Duo to Mei Tongsheng's house to eat wine.
Just before Xiu Mu, Mei Tongsheng also emphasized the matter of the wedding card once or twice, and the words were all about the need to notify the family, and it was necessary to arrive.
Mei Xiaoba was still worried about the lack of money at home, and when she saw Mei's red seal, she couldn't help but feel distressed: "Auntie, do you really want to give this money?" β