Zuo Shaoyang smiled and said: "It's the mule that the horse is pulling out to slip around, and after autumn, look at the harvest in the field, don't you know?" ”

Sang Xiaomei next to her interjected with a smile: "That's it, I heard that Zuo Gongzi only uses a cow to plow the ground, and he also uses a crooked plow, which looks weird, many people don't believe it and go to see it, I heard that it can really plow the ground, and it's very deep!" ”

Huang Qin chuckled: "I've heard that's not the case, people say that Zuo Gongzi is driving a cow, and he doesn't know what he is dragging, walking around in the paddy field, and the ground is turned over, but he has taken something like a comb, and he still pulls it with an ox, and the ploughed ground is smashed." I don't know what kind of fame it is. ”

Zuo Shaoyang said: "That's called raking, first plough the ground, then use the rake to crush, and then plant seedlings, so that the crops can grow well." ”

"I've never seen anything like this." Huang Qin smiled even more, "However, you can always make something inexplicably new. The whole city of Lang Zhong said that Aunt Li's stroke could not be cured, but you were stunned to be cured, generally Lang Zhong only dared to use one or two aconitum to treat the disease, and the medical book only said that at most five could be used, but you used eight, and the disease was cured. Also, when you went out of the city to rescue the wounded, you were slashed in the leg, and so much blood was shed, and the whole person became a bloody person, and they all said that you must be dead, but I didn't expect you to survive and become a role model. So, who would dare to say that you won't do another jaw-dropping thing this time? Maybe after the autumn, the harvest in your field will be one or two times more than others, but I am afraid that it will become a big news! Giggles"

Zuo Shaoyang couldn't hear whether her laughter was praise, ridicule, or both, what was going on in the head of this sister-in-law was sometimes really hard to figure out.

With the support of Sang Xiaomei and Huang Qin, Sang Mu slowly returned to the tea shop.

As soon as she entered the door, Sang Mu went straight to the bedroom, opened the large cabinet, and looked for the iron box where she stored money and jewelry. The iron box was still there, but the lid was open, but there was nothing inside.

"Where's my money!" Sang Mu's throat almost tore her throat, a tiger jumped, turned around, and stared at Sang Daddy viciously, "Money!" My money! And my jewelry! Bring! Get it! ”

The family's eardrums were buzzing.

Father Sang laughed with him: "it, this won't work, you swore a poisonous oath......"

"Swear by bullshit! Hurry up and give it to me, or the old lady will tear you up! ”

Sang Xiaomei said urgently: "Mother, Zuo Gongzi said, you can't think about money anymore, otherwise your life will ......"

"Get out!" Sang Mu scolded, "Get out of the way!" You money-loser! I'm crying before I die, and if I'm really dead, you're the one who cried to death! Get lost! ”

Sang Xiaomei's eyes were red, she covered her mouth and retreated, but she didn't dare to cry.

Huang Qin smiled and said, "Mother-in-law, it's all for your own good......"

"What a fart! If you really want to do it for my good, hurry up and give me a grandchild immediately? Raising a hen can still lay eggs, what can you do if you are such a scratcher? What else can you do besides eating and? Catch up with Ming'er's mother, let my son take a break from you, the mourning star! ”

"I'm ......!" Huang Qin was so angry that her face turned white, and she stared at Sang Wazi, but Sang Wazi hid in the lobby outside with the cat and the mouse, looking down at the ground, as if there was something rare on the ground.

Mother Sang approached step by step like an elephant, her thick nostrils pulled a bellows and snorted heavily, gritting her teeth and yelling at Father Sang: "You old thing, hurry up and return the money and jewelry to me!" ”

Father Sang said: "Child, it's not that I won't give it to you, Zuo Gongzi said ......"

"Don't mention that stinky boy to me! The old lady knows that he is bluffing me, huh! He wants to use this method to make me not ask for a dowry from their family, I bah! Dream! When my illness is completely cured, my little sister's dowry is seventy yuan, and he doesn't want to marry my little sister if he doesn't give it! ”

"Mother!" Sang Xiaomei's face turned red and white for a while, "How can you go back on your word?" ”

"Shut up! You money-loser, you want that little man to hear it, and threaten me with not treating me? I can tell you, you are the goods that crawled out of the intestines of the old lady, the old lady pulled you up with a handful of and urine, what's wrong with exchanging you for a bride price? What's not to worry about? It's not that the Zuo family can't take it out, they have already bought two shops, as well as our tea shop, and more than 100 acres of land, can they take out 70 yuan? Isn't it enough to sell the field and give me back the tea shop? I can explain, I don't want Tian, I want money, resounding cash! Moreover, the tea shop can only be discounted by twenty guan, no, no, the tea shop is old, at most fifteen, ah no, thirteen! At most, he will be discounted by thirteen times, and he will have to give me fifty-seven! I'll be able to pick you up at the door......! ”

"Mother!" Sang Xiaomei said in a hoarse voice, "In the two months of famine, our family survived on other people's food!" ”

"! I sold it to him in exchange for it! ”

"The tea shop only reached forty yuan, and we still owe thirty yuan, and later they gave us food, and we didn't have a penny confiscated!"

"That's when he sells for a high price! Five buckets of rice! It used to be sold for less than two dollars, so he used it to exchange it for my tea shop? I bought it for thirty-five dollars at my tea shop! It only took him two runs! And I need to write an IOU of thirty times! Phew! Greedy for money and sucking blood can't die well, he thinks I'll be grateful to him? He's a blood-sucking bug! I have a rod scale in my heart! Don't say it at the time, don't think I forgot, hum, I remember it in my heart! Hum! Let's settle this account slowly! Anyway, the little sister is clasped in her hand, and the old lady can't get round if he asks him to flatten! ”

Huang Qin muttered: "No matter how you count, everyone has saved our family's life!" ”

"What's wrong with help? Can you be unreasonable if you save your life? If you save your life, you can take a concubine and not give money? If you save your life, you can suck blood, you can ask for a high price, and you can drain your mother-in-law's blood and sweat all her life? Phew! - Come on! Let's figure it out, he began to give five buckets of rice, and then for two months, eight steamed buns a day, converted into one catty and two taels ......"

"Each bun weighs two taels, it should be one catty and six taels!" Huang Qin muttered, "I'm thinking about taking advantage of people again!" ”

Sang Mu raised her hand viciously and slapped it, Huang Qin hurriedly dodged, this slap was empty, Sang Mu raised her hand to chase and want to fight, but she was just recovering from a serious illness, and she was out of breath and couldn't walk after only two steps, pointing at Huang Qin and said: "You broom star, you wait, the old lady is sick, peel your skin!" ”

Father Sang laughed and said: "Child, mother, you better rest, Zuo Gongzi has said, you have to rest in bed......"

"Don't mention him to me! I'm settling accounts with him! Hum! -- His bun didn't have two taels, one at most one tael, and after all, we ate two months, and it was only six buckets of rice, adding up to a total of eleven buckets. A bucket of rice is calculated according to 360 yuan, and it is less than four dollars! I'll be generous and give him four dollars, it's done, right? If it doesn't work again, I'll buy eleven buckets of rice to compensate him! Of course not now, when the price of grain comes down after the autumn, I will pay him rice anyway! Then he has to return the tea shop to me, marry the little sister, and give seventy more, the person is his, otherwise, don't talk about it! ”

Sang Xiaomei listened with a pale face, she knew that in this way, the Zuo family would definitely hate her family very much, and if she wanted to marry Zuo Shaoyang, it would only be a dream. said in a trembling voice: "Mother, if you want to force your daughter to death, you will wait to collect the body!" With that, he covered his face and rushed upstairs.

"Listen," Sang Mu pointed at Father Sang and yelled, "Listen, what did you dead girl say?" Forcing me with death? Hey, I'm not afraid! If you have the ability, you will die, even if you die, I can't be cheap Xiaolangzhong's family! ”

Father Sang said in a low voice: "Little sister and mother, you first dissipate your anger, in the end, people have also helped us......"

"What do you say? How many of them are angry with me, and you are also angry with me? - What about the money? What about jewelry? Give me back now! Hurry up, don't let the old lady turn her face! ”

Father Sang sighed, shook his head, walked into the house, and after a while, took a small box and handed it to Mother Sang: "Oh, it's all inside." After that, he sat on the chair weakly, thought about it, and said: "This tea shop has already arrived at the people, and the little sister's dowry has also been signed and said no, you have to regret it now, can people do it?" ”

Sang Mu checked the box, and sure enough, the money and jewelry were there, and she suddenly smiled: "He will do it, I know, Wenqi is in their hands, and my illness is not over yet, so I naturally won't have a hard top with him, I will talk to him well." As long as the little sister is in our hands, this is okay, Xiao Langzhong is a lover, and he must be reluctant to give up the little sister, he will return the tea shop to me according to my request, write off the money owed to him, and send seventy yuan of money. Wait and see! ”

―――――――――――― three days later, at five o'clock in the afternoon.

In the lobby of the Qu family's old house, there were four tables of banquets, full of relatives and friends who came to celebrate. Mainly brother-in-law Hou Pu's family, Mrs. Qu's family, Miao's mother's family, Dr. Ni's family, Sang Xiaomei's family, Yu's shopkeeper's family, and in addition, there are Xue Lang's colleagues as a middle-aged doctor.

Now that the famine in the city has just ended, the price of grain is still relatively expensive, and the price of meat is even more expensive, but fortunately, the Zuo family has chickens, ducks and fish given by the general, and cabbage, duck eggs, etc., which were hidden in the cellar last time, and a clever cooking master Bai Zhihan is in charge of the kitchen and makes four tables of exquisite wine banquets.

The guests who came more or less brought the courtesy, but the gatekeeper really did not enter the courtesy, indicating that it was just a lively picture, and now everyone is very poor, relatively speaking, the conditions of the Zuo family are better. So I didn't receive a single gift. These people saw that the Zuo family really did what they said, so they didn't insist.

At the banquet, everyone took turns to toast the birthday star Zuo Gui's father, Zuo Gui's father had a good amount of wine, but he couldn't stand such a toss, it was not dark yet, he was drunk, Cao'er and Liang's helped him back to the room to rest.

The old birthday star was drunk and left, but everyone didn't drink it all, so they let Zuo Shaoyang drink it on their behalf, especially Huang Qin, and persuaded him very hard. Zuo Shaoyang is a bold person again, he doesn't need to be persuaded to drink, and it didn't take long for him to get drunk.

(To be continued)