15. Save money and spend it as you please
"Come to my house to get something for dinner, it's not lunch yet, what's the hurry!" Song Lingxue retracted her thoughts that had drifted out of the clouds and said to Liu.
After speaking, he suddenly remembered and asked, "Is the lunch ration enough?" ”
Liu Shi was stunned for a moment and hurriedly said, "Enough, mother, what do you want to eat at noon?" ”
"You roll out some noodles, then go to Widow Zhu's house to buy two catties of oil shuttle meat, come back with two catties of lean meat, and then pull a few green vegetables, and make a pork oil residue to pour noodles at noon." Song Lingxue felt a little drooling as she spoke, she was speechless, this body hadn't eaten meat for a long time, just by saying it, she couldn't help swallowing her saliva.
After speaking, he ignored Liu's jaw-dropping expression, turned around and went back to the house, removed the key from his waist, opened the cabinet door, turned out a small wooden box, and used a small key to open the small lock on it, revealing a few broken silver and a few strings of copper coins inside.
Song Lingxue recalled, and was still a little surprised, the few pieces of broken silver in it added up to about five taels, and those strings of copper coins were all five hundred wen a string, and in addition, the original owner also hid some silver in several secret places in the house, each of which added up to more than a dozen taels of silver, and put it in the village, which was a huge amount of money.
It's just that Song Lingxue knows that this is what the original owner prepared for the third son's entrance examination, and the third son will marry a daughter-in-law and the dowry of the two daughters in the future.
Song Lingxue unloaded a hundred coins from one of the copper coins, packed it with a very old lotus, locked the cabinet, and went out to stuff the purse into the hands of Liu, who was still in a daze.
"It's also a neat way to work on weekdays, why are people so stupid, they don't hurry to buy things when they get the money, and they still cook lunch when it's late." Song Lingxue pretended to be angry and shouted a few words, Liu came back to his senses, held the purse tightly, and was afraid of losing it, so he quickly stuffed it into the placket of his arms, and pressed it twice with his hand before he breathed a sigh of relief.
Song Lingxue was speechless when she saw her unproductive appearance, and said: "Widow Zhu is the most detained, and her son Yao Xiaoliu is okay, but you still have to take a clear look to prevent Widow Zhu from being honest again." ”
"I'll save my mother, I'll go now." Liu said to Song Lingxue, seeing her nodding, he pressed his chest tightly with his hand, went into the stove room and took an oval willow basket, and then went out.
Song Lingxue looked at her cautious appearance, smiled helplessly, and turned around and went towards Shi Lan's house.
After eating this morning, she explained to Shi Lan, and later took her second sister-in-law He to embroider in the house, and she didn't have to pay attention to what happened outside, Shi Lan was obedient, but He was good at gossiping, how could she miss it when it was so lively just now, and secretly looked at it by the window for a long time, and naturally saw Song Lingxue giving Liu's purse.
This son's yard is very quiet, and the houses in the countryside are all built of adobe bricks and mud blanks, and they are not soundproof, so when I heard that I was eating pork oil residue noodles at noon today, I was so excited that I couldn't wait to go over and take the money in Liu's hand, she ran over to buy meat, and picked the fat and thin pork belly.
After listening to it, he not only recalled the feeling when he used to eat meat, but forgot to go back to the kang to pick up the embroidery for a while, until Song Lingxue came in, he suddenly remembered, and quickly ran to the kang and picked up the half-embroidered handkerchief.
"The second child's family, I've been embroidering all morning, and I haven't even embroidered a flower, so I'm embarrassed to pick up the window and listen to right and wrong?" Song Lingxue glanced at the handkerchief in He's hand, snorted coldly and said, and then looked at the eldest daughter's side where there were already several embroidered handkerchiefs and purses, and said with some distress: "Shi Lan, you look carefully, don't be too anxious, your mother is distressed." ”
"Don't worry, mother, I'm awake so much, I won't embroider when it's dark, and it's still a waste of eyes to light the lamp and boil oil." Shi Lan smiled softly and said to her mother.
"It's good that you're awake." Song Lingxue nodded, and glanced at the two twin sisters who were playing with rags on the kang, but at the age of one and a half years, they couldn't babble completely, and they couldn't walk steadily, so they frowned and said to He:
"The second family, teach the second and third girls to learn to talk when they are fine, don't let the two of them play on the kang at every turn, let Dabao and the eldest girl take them around the courtyard when they are fine, they are almost two years old, and they can't walk steadily, this will work."
He Shi pouted without a trace, and returned with a smile on his face: "Got it, mother." ”
For those little Jiujiu in He's heart, the original owner is Men Qing'er, so Song Lingxue naturally knows it clearly, although this daughter-in-law is more literate and knowledgeable than most rural daughters-in-law, but her eyelids are too shallow, and she is lazy to eat, so she often disobeys the original owner's mother-in-law.
"You don't go anywhere in the house for this part, and do embroidery work with your eldest sister." After Song Lingxue finished speaking, she looked at He's reluctant look, raised her eyebrows and said: "You don't have to be like this, in the future, if you do embroidery work with your eldest sister, I will let Shi Lan remember that if you don't sell ten yuan, I will give you a reward of one penny, and no matter how much money you save in the future, it will be your own private money." ”
The reason why Song Lingxue said this is because the original owner was too strict and too selective before, and no one in the family was allowed to save private money, whether it was the money earned by a few men in the family who went out to work, or the money earned by the women in the family doing some small work, or the one or two articles of happy money that the children robbed when there was a happy event in the village, they all had to be handed over.
This also led to the second daughter-in-law He, who was already lazy, even more lazy, she thought that it was the same to do more and less, anyway, even if she worked extra hard to make money, she didn't have her share.
Song Lingxue just grasped He's psychology, and knew that she was a shallow eyelid, so she came up with such a reward policy, which was the same as her previous company's affairs, there were benefits to be taken, and the people below were naturally motivated.
"I've been lying in bed for a few days this time, and I've figured out some things, my family is too tightly buckled by me on weekdays, and I will make some changes in the future, but you all cheer me up one by one."
After Song Lingxue finished explaining, she glanced at the delighted He family, and then at the eldest daughter Shi Lan, and said with a smile: "Shi Lan too, for every ten cents you earn for your embroidery work, you will leave a penny, save a small treasury by yourself, you can buy whatever you want, anyway, when it comes to the money in your hands, my mother doesn't care." ”
"Mother, can you also buy flower cloth and come back to make clothes?" He asked, it wasn't the mother-in-law who was most annoying to her in the past, and she didn't buy her cloth with flowers and colors to make dresses, and she and her father didn't have any money in their hands, so they always wore dresses that were either gray or dark blue, and the only set of red jacket flower skirts when they got married had been washed white.
This made He's who loved beauty since he was a child very uncomfortable, and he also had a few troubles with her man Yao Shizhu, and in the end, Yao Shizhu secretly hid a few pennies and bought her two cheap silk flowers.
"When it comes to the money you have saved, you have the final say, you can do whatever you want, you can spend it as you like, but you can't just daydream, the work in your hands is not faster, what do you save money." Song Lingxue skimmed the half-embroidered handkerchief in He's hand, reminded with a smile, and then looked at He's suddenly full of fighting spirit, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, and thought: Xiao'er, I can't cure you!