Cao Bamei said: "After Chen Jinhong recovered from his illness that time, he was sick again in a few days. ”

"I said that I went to the dock to bring tea to your third cousin, and the water on the pier was full of muddy smell, and then I caught up with the rain and got drenched, and when I came back, I fell ill again, and I was even more sick."

"Your third brother came to borrow money from your second brother and discussed how to build a store in the county town and sell some simple woodworking supplies."

"Little Maza, little table, hoe handle, bucket or something." Cao Bamei said.

"Oh?" Yang Ruoqing raised her eyebrows.

"Then did my second brother borrow money?"

"Your second brother borrowed it, and I borrowed twenty taels of silver from them in one go." Cao Bamei said.

Twenty taels of silver?

Yang Ruoqing was even more surprised, "How big is the shop?" ”

Cao Bamei said: "It's probably like the grandmother of the old mansion has two rooms in the east house and is together." ”

"I've been to see it, and most of the front is used as a shop, and a small piece of space has been circled in the back, a bed has been built, and the place I rented before has been refunded." She said.

Yang Ruoqing asked the approximate location of the shop again, and it was separated from her own Tianxiang Building, across the fireworks alley behind.

She calculated in her heart and said: "That place is not a prime location in the city, it is a bit biased, according to the low price and the flow of people, the annual rent is only four taels of silver." ”

"As for the carpentry, the third cousin has all the tools, and he only needs to spend a little capital to purchase some wood, and then talk to the yamen and those people on the street a little."

"After calculation, the capital does not exceed ten taels of silver. In this way, they still have six taels of silver left in hand as working capital. ”

"These, not counting the money they already have......"

"Hehe, why do I feel that my second brother has become the golden hen that laid their golden eggs?" Yang Ruoqing teased with a smile.

Cao Bamei said: "Twenty taels of silver, I won't hide it from you, I and your second brother have saved forty taels in addition to the ones that have been spent." ”

"Originally, we planned to wait until we had saved enough sixty taels, so we would go back to the village to buy a piece of land, build a new house, and move out of the old house."

"Because the eldest brother will not marry the Li family girl at the end of this year, he will also marry in the spring of next year,"

"It's not good that so many people are crowded into the old house, going in and out of one door."

"It's okay now, there are only twenty taels left in the family, and I don't know how long it will drag on to build a house, it's really annoying!"

"What's even more annoying, it's not here yet!" She said.

"Where's that?" Yang Ruoqing asked.

"Could it be that my second brother lent money to the third brother and they did it without you?" She asked.

Cao Bamei shook her head: "That's not it, the money earned by your second brother is all handed over to me for safekeeping." ”

"What annoys me is, that Chen Jinhong, during this time, I always asked your third brother to invite your second brother over for dinner under various excuses."

"When I go back, I have to persuade your second brother to drink, your second brother and I have not had children since we gave birth to embroidery."

"Last time, the two of them saw an old Chinese medicine doctor together, both of them were taking medicine, they couldn't drink, they were still like this, so annoying......" Cao Bamei said.

Yang Ruoqing said: "Since this is the case, you should make it clear to them." ”

Cao Bamei said: "This kind of thing, how can you be embarrassed to speak?" It's not like the problems elsewhere, the part that gave birth to a baby, was known to be laughed to death. ”

Yang Ruoqing was speechless.

But then he also expressed understanding.

Not to mention the obscurity that the Zhuang family in this era did on this piece is shelving in the new society of modern medical progress.

A woman who is infertile is the object of criticism in the circle of friends.

I finally mustered up the courage to go to the hospital for a check-up, wearing sunglasses and a mask, for fear of being bumped into by an acquaintance.

Ay!

"Second brother, this time, they are really generous to the third brother." Yang Ruoqing couldn't help but sigh.

"All the money from building a new house from my family will be used to help them open a shop."

"If they take care of the shop in a down-to-earth manner, it's nothing, I'm afraid that they will not change their minds, and when the time comes, they will pit you twenty taels of silver, which is not a small amount!"

Yang Ruoqing said again.

Liu took his four children to live, and the cost of eating, drinking, and Lazar was 500 yuan a month.

The cost of a year is six taels of silver, and then counting the clothes for the four seasons and visiting relatives and friends when they are sick and taking medicine, it costs nearly ten taels of silver a year.

Liu's consumption standard is the best expense in Changping Village.

In the eyes of everyone, this is a great extravagance and waste.

For other ordinary families of five, the cost of a year is less than three taels of silver.

Yang Yongjin lent out twenty taels with this move, which is the cost of an ordinary farmer for six or seven years, but it is not a small amount.

"There is a way that my brother settles accounts clearly, has he made an IOU?" Yang Ruoqing asked.

Cao Bamei said: "The IOU was played, but I didn't say when I would pay it back, and there was no interest." ”

"I felt a little uncomfortable, so I muttered a few words to Yongjin."

"He's still a little unhappy, saying that Yongzhi is a brother with him, what interest does a brother want?"

"But let my second sister-in-law fall into the infamy of picking the door, if I ask more, maybe I will think that I am deliberately provoking their brotherhood!"

After listening to Cao Bamei's words, Yang Ruoqing also nodded in agreement.

"My second brother's temperament is the same as my father and my fifth uncle." Yang Ruoqing said.

"For the sake of their brothers, it is possible for them to scatter all their family wealth, you see that my father and fifth uncle worked hard to plant crops for my uncle to study, so that the fourth uncle can be idle."

"So, you and my second brother, don't talk about it for the time being." She said.

Cao Bamei nodded.

"Also, I don't know if I'm thinking too much, or what," Cao Bamei said.

"I always think that Chen Jinhong is deliberately pretending to be at your second brother's place." She said.

"Outfit?" Yang Ruoqing was surprised, "What is she pretending?" ”

"Pretending to be pure?"

"Pretending to be virtuous?"

"Isn't it easy and empathetic?"

Yang Ruoqing asked several in one breath.

Cao Bamei said: "I quietly paid attention, when I watched her alone, she was just like that, not talking much, lazy and lazy." ”

"But when your second brother went, she was in a good situation."

"Wearing an apron and rushing in and out, pouring tea for us, and taking snacks for embroidery, virtuous, enthusiastic, and generous."

"Coax your second brother and third brother to be very satisfied, that ability, I feel more and more that I can't learn."

Looking at Cao Bamei's depressed look, Yang Ruoqing didn't know how to comfort her.

It is difficult for a clean official to cut off family affairs.

The second brother and the third brother are brothers, and Cao Bamei and Chen Jinhong are concubines, and these delicate relationships between them, as cousins, are not easy to interfere too much.

"What, Qing'er, what do you think I should do?" Cao Bamei asked.

Yang Ruoqing said: "The silver, Heng and Zhi are also lent out, and they also use it to open a shop, it is unrealistic to ask for it, and it also makes the second brother unhappy and destroys the relationship between your husband and wife." ”

"What about you, don't say anything now, the only thing you have to do is to firmly grasp my second brother's heart."