Liu Shulai, who woke up with a hangover, wanted to come over in a daze, he smelled the fragrant bedding, and then looked at the high red and bright gauze tent hanging on the top of the bed, and only after a while was it screened where he was.

Fortunately, he stayed in Chunxiang Mansion not a little often, so it was just a blink of an eye, and he came back to his senses.

When he irritably tore open the gauze tent and asked Liu Da, who was resting outside, to help find the clothes, he found that in the pile of clothes, there were actually several gaudy beads and some broken silver that he didn't look down on.

He shook off those objects in disgust, looked at Liu Da with a displeased face, and asked, "Where did you find such inconspicuous things, they are ugly!" ”

Liu Da wanted to cry without tears, and he was really a little resentful of the pot.

"Young master, this is obviously won by yourself!"

"Nonsense, young master, even if I gamble money, there is no reason for people to press such a thing for a woman." Liu Shulai stiffened his neck, smelling his clothes and being a little smoky by the fragrance, his heart was even more irritable. He glanced at Liu Da and looked at Liu Da with the eyes of a fool, "Even if your young master plays with money, it should be playing with a group of big men, at most the big masters have some family belongings on them, which one will bet on a bunch of beads brought by the girls!" ”

That's not a joke on a dead person, and besides, even if someone actually makes that bet. He definitely doesn't look down on him, and he won't play with it.

Liu Da felt bitter in his heart, "Young master, have you forgotten that last night, you drank too much with Sanshao...... And then caught two ......"

Before he finished speaking, Liu Shulai reached out and patted Liu Da's head, "Don't frame me, young master, I'm drinking too much, not stupid." Yesterday, I obviously bet on a sieve with the two skinny monkeys, haha, I didn't leave the coat that let those two wine bags and rice bags lose. ”

How to answer this, Liu Da handed the young master a cup of tea, then coughed lightly, and reminded carefully: "Young master, if the little one remembers correctly, the two thin monkeys yesterday should be the two girls from Chunxiang Building...... You and Sanshao won, but what you won was the girl's beaded flower dress......"

Liu Shulai, who had drunk a stomach of tea, choked when he heard this, and he stared at Liu Da with wide eyes.

But Liu Da continued: "The young master is better, but he grabbed a few pieces of broken silver and two beads with the third young man. Sanshao was there, but he didn't let go of anything while holding the two girls' fragrant clothes, which caused a lot of jokes! ”

Liu Shulai, who came to his senses completely, had some impressions of the drunken madness in the middle of the night last night after listening to Liu Daxu's babbling words.

He covered his forehead facelessly, and urged Liu Da to take the object away, "Hurry up, let the old bustard send the object back." It's really a misguided drink, Lao Tzu's first famous name, all of them made those two thin monkeys bad! ”

In fact, even if you return it now, what use will it be? Anyway, the rumors outside that he and Chen Sanshao would play have long been more outrageous than the other.

On the side of Taoxi Village, on the morning of the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, Lin Baoru and the Wang family calculated the accounts of yesterday's market.

Even with the sale of firewood and soap beans, as well as the fixed amount of 50 wen given by Li Xianglang, the two of them earned more than 340 yuan.

Later, the two of them went to buy a lot of food items, and also bought some bean flour and sesame oil and other items that Lin Baoru needed, and went directly to half of them. Now that I count it, the rest is only one hundred and thirty-six dollars.

"Mother, the copper plate for the second year of junior high school to buy groceries and soap beans, plus the rest of us yesterday, should be enough for five hundred Wen."

Wang nodded, and the lower kang groped through the three or five holes in the room, and then put the cloth bag gathered together on the kang table.

She saw that her daughter seemed to be a little strange about her own actions, and couldn't help laughing: "Our family didn't have so much spare money before, so my mother didn't care about collecting money." ”

"But after getting so many copper plates in Cha that day, my mother always felt that I couldn't put it anywhere. I was afraid that I would lose it, and I was worried that your grandmother would come and loot it, so I simply took advantage of the fact that there was no one to separate the strings of copper plates. She explained as she poured out all the bits and pieces of copper in the sack.

The two of them counted for a while, and only then did they count the past few days, and the family actually saved another 491 yuan.

Wang thought about it, and took out the silver horns that Mrs. Liu gave to Xiaoshan and Xiaobao that day, and the New Year's money that Lin Laohan gave to Xiaoshan. Naturally, plus the one hundred and three cents they had left a year ago, now, the small kang table was almost full.

"Mother, what kind of algorithm do you say this silver horn has?" Although she is already familiar with the life here, she still doesn't know a little about this kind of silver that Lin Baoru has never come into contact with.

Wang said with a smile: "The silver is calculated according to the weight, and my mother looks at these two silver horns, which should be enough for half a tael of silver." If it is replaced with a copper plate, it must be as little as 500 wen. ”

In this way, the money they have on hand is enough to repay the money of the banker next month.

Lin Baoru thought about it, the ancients often said that the poor should be sued, and the wealth should not be exposed. Although they now have enough money in their hands, if they return so much to the village at once, they may provoke people's eyes, and then regenerate right and wrong.

Now that the family life is finally settled, the family's head is also very good. She didn't want to become an eye-catching presence in the village, at least, she hadn't thought about being in the limelight until everything was safe.

Don't say anything from the same village, since you have the ability, you should pull others along. Nowadays, even if she has some ways to make money, it is only enough for her own family.

"Mother, we are making money now, but we can't be empty on hand. One is our way to make money, and now we have to hide it from others, otherwise we may not be able to live in peace at home in the future. Second, if there is something at home, we can also respond to emergencies. ”

Wang is not a heartless person, and when he heard his daughter say this, he understood her worries. But she really can't think about it, others say that there are many rights and wrongs in front of the widow's door, and in this poor and remote place, there are many people who are not good.

But whenever the news of her family suddenly having money spreads, I'm afraid that those people with crooked minds will have to be messed around.

If you encounter someone with bad intentions, you may even cause some trouble.

"Well, that's safe." Wang saw that his daughter had been sick since she was sick, and her words became more and more neat, and she had a charter for thinking about things, and she didn't know whether to be sour or happy.

In the past, the girl was silent, although it made her feel distressed as a mother, but more of her powerlessness and confusion. Now that the girl is getting more and more aware of things day by day, it not only makes her happy, but also makes her settle down.

She couldn't say this feeling, but in her heart, she felt more and more that her daughter had already become the family's dependence.

Wang didn't think it was a shame to admit such a trivial matter, after all, not every mother has such a blessing.

Thinking of this, Wang pondered, and when he turned around, he had to ask Aunt Lu which temple in the town was effective, and she had to go to worship the Bodhisattva. As for the sister-in-law's words that Ban Xian'er calculated the girl's disaster, according to her, it must be nonsense, that is, it is inevitable that the sister-in-law and her mother-in-law look down on her, and then transfer their resentment and disgust to their daughter.

I have to say that as an ancient person, the Wang family was subtly changed by Lin Baoru, and the superstitious idea of fate and half-immortal did not dissipate much.

The two of them spoke carefully and carefully, and prepared their words, no matter which one asked about making money, they could be vague.

After eating the previous meal, Lin Baoru explained to Cairu a few times, and then took some dried beans and a small piece of fat with the Wang family to Lizheng's house.

Originally, Lin Baoru didn't plan to follow, but the Wang family said that the family's money was earned by Baoru, so she should be allowed to go with her. They are daughters in the second room, and they can be in charge of the house like their sons.

Lin Baoru couldn't refuse, but she was afraid of hurting Wang's heart, and she was also worried that Wang's few words with no one to accompany her would make people fall into the bottom, so after a little thought, she came out with her.

Now she is also familiar with the village, and when she was looking for Cairu and Caihe sisters the night before, Lin Baoru talked to many families. So at this time, she went out with Wang, and she didn't need Wang's reminder, and she said a few words generously when she met someone.

Naturally, she first said words of gratitude, and if she met a kind person who asked her where she was going, she did not hide it, and replied to the other party according to the words discussed with the Wang family before going out.

"Auntie, I'll go to Uncle Lizheng's house with my mother to say a few words. There have been so many things in my family before, and thanks to the help of our aunts and uncles and Uncle Lizheng, now my family's life is a little slower, so I want to say thank you. As she spoke, she said with some shame on her face, "It's also that my family was in a sad situation before, and after the separation, I should go to Uncle Xie Li to help with the paperwork, which has been delayed." ”

If someone in the village needs Li Zheng to witness and divide the family, or Li Zheng takes someone to the county government to do something, he can't run away after he comes back, regardless of whether it is a bowl of sugar water or a meal. After all, even if he is the one who is in charge of the affairs of the village, he is not a saint, and even if he is not beneficial, he has to give people a face.

It's just that Lin Baoru gave him some copper plates before and asked him to be a favor. Therefore, neither she nor the Wang family later mentioned going to Lizheng's house to thank them.

But they know about it, but outsiders don't know. So now she happened to be the reason for it, no matter who she told her, she also explained the past.

The aunt just asked casually, who in the village doesn't know that the second room of the Lin family is a group of poor people? Now that she has met, she can't talk about the scars on the side, so she has to take a few gossips so casually.

"Your girl is quite clever," the aunt said, and looked at the Wang family and boasted, "No wonder the Lu family and the sister-in-law of the Ma family like it very much when it comes to your family's Baorulai, and they are all safe and caring when they talk." ”

Wang followed with a smile: "No, I'm not afraid of your jokes, now our family's mess has been smoothed out." Today, if she hadn't reminded me, I'm afraid I wouldn't have thought about this end-of-the-line affair. ”

Because they had serious business, the aunt only sighed a few words, and urged the two of them to hurry up.

Of course, there are kind people in this room, and there will be ridicule over there who have no good face for eating melon seeds. What's more, he directly asked the Wang family about the bad things that happened in the old mansion in the past few days.