Chapter Seventy-Seven: How to Hide So Much Silver?
"Later, my mother heard that Brother Ergou asked me to come here to help, saying that it cost fifteen yuan a day and a meal, so she happily let me come over, but I didn't expect it...... She ......"
The next words, Mei Sanmei didn't say it, but Tong Shuangxi could guess it.
There was silence between the two, I don't know when, Tong Shuangxi fell asleep, and when he got up the next day, the water tank in Mrs. Wang's house was full of water, and the firewood in the kitchen was also full.
"If it weren't for the fact that this kid didn't dare to touch the food at home, he probably would have made breakfast."
Mrs. Wang said to Tong Shuangxi with emotion on her face.
Tong Shuangxi didn't know what to say, the girl was a good girl, but ......
"And she's going home?"
Tong Shuangxi cares about this.
Mrs. Wang also just got up and didn't know this, so she could only shake her head.
After breakfast, Qin Wu came over, and Mrs. Wang and Tong Shuangxi were just concerned about her sister-in-law's situation.
"The doctor said, if the fever can't go down last night, then prepare for the future, fortunately survived, the doctor said, now you just need to slowly recuperate, and if you don't do that hard work in the future, you will be similar to ordinary people."
Qin Wu's eyes were obviously bruised and swollen, but he looked a lot more energetic.
"That's good, that's good, as long as people are fine, they are all people with children and grandchildren, what else do you need to do!"
Qin Wu's sister-in-law is also almost fifty years old, with three sons and five grandsons, and she has also reached the age of happiness, so Mrs. Wang said this.
Qin Wu also hurriedly said yes.
Mrs. Wang talked to Qin Wu for a while about yesterday's incident, and heard that Qin Ergouzi had a quarrel with the Mei family because of Mei Sanmei, Qin Wu raised his eyebrows and said, "Let's go to the kitchen first." ”
Qin Lao Neng took Qin Ergou to the town early in the morning to buy. Qin Ergouzi didn't mention the Mei family when he saw Qin Wu's family.
The kitchen where the cooking took place was far away from the house of Mrs. Wang's house, and when the three of them arrived, it was quiet.
"Looks like the kid has gone home."
Mrs. Wang sighed and said.
Tong Shuangxi saw that the kitchen door was locked, but there was a lot of firewood outside the kitchen, and it looked like it had just been chopped this morning.
"This kid has done so much work early in the morning, and he doesn't know what time he will get up."
The more she looked at these, the more sorry she felt.
Qin Wu didn't speak, only asked some details about yesterday's events, and got busy with Mrs. Wang and Tong Shuangxi.
In the past few days, Tong Shuangxi deliberately let Tong Shuangshuang stay at home and go out less, after all, the Tong family still thought that Tong Shuangshuang had been sold to those fathers-in-law, and Tong Shuangxi didn't want to cause something in the stall of military service.
Tong Shuangxi and Tong Shuangshuang are just the most ordinary people, if something really happens because of this matter, people like them can only be used as cannon fodder.
Busy days always go by quickly, and before you know it, the sky has begun to snow.
The goose-feathered snow covered the village jungle overnight, and early in the morning, as soon as he opened the door, Tong Shuangxi was captured by the white world.
In his previous life, Tong Shuangxi had seen such goose feathers and heavy snow when he was a child, and since he went to school in the south, he has never seen such a snow scene.
"Auntie, Xiaoshuang, come and see!"
Tong Shuangxi couldn't help but shout.
Mrs. Wang and Tong Shuangshuang were lying in the east room and the west room, and no one wanted to come out of the warm bed.
"Little joy! You better hurry back to bed, don't freeze to death, such a ghost weather, freeze to death, that is not even a doctor! ”
Mrs. Wang couldn't help but chatter.
The snow outside is still falling, and although Tong Shuangxi is a rare snow scene full of snow, he will not really rush into this snow to be frozen.
After closing the door again, Tong Shuangxi took off his shoes and entered the quilt again, and after a while, Tong Shuangshuang also wrapped the quilt and entered the east house, saying that he came to be with Mrs. Wang and Tong Shuangxi.
In the countryside of this era, except for those large families who can lay floor heating and burn charcoal pots, ordinary people like Mrs. Wang can only hide in the quilt to survive the cold winter.
Therefore, this wintering quilt is very important.
Fortunately, Mrs. Wang and Tong Shuangxi went to the town early to buy cotton and put on a few thick quilts.
"I don't know if steward Wen has food on the back mountainside, with such a heavy snowfall, it is difficult to go down the mountain."
The mother-in-law and grandson were lying in the bed chatting.
A month ago, the house in the back mountain was finally completed, and except for a few stewards who stayed behind to finish up, the rest of the people had already gone back separately.
The more than 20 people near Mrs. Wang's house also went back, and the sheds were all dismantled, and the cooking work of Mrs. Wang, Qin Wu and others also stopped.
"Those fathers-in-law moved in, and I heard Brother Ergou say that Steward Wen had prepared things for the winter early in the morning, and their big house, the maids, women, and maids were all waiting, so where do we need to worry."
Tong Shuangxi saw that Mrs. Wang was really worried, and couldn't help but joke.
Through the quilt, Mrs. Wang patted Tong Shuangxi hard, and scolded with a smile: "You girl, you are a hard-hearted girl, although the fifty taels of silver are returned, the favor still has to be remembered, and besides, ......"
Tong Shuangxi knew what Mrs. Wang was going to say next, so she couldn't help interrupting her words and said: "I know, I know, Steward Wen is very kind to us, our family must keep it in mind, and we will ...... in the future."
Before the words were finished, Mrs. Wang, Tong Shuangxi and Tong Shuangshuang's mother-in-law and grandson couldn't help laughing.
After the completion of the project on the back mountainside, Steward Cai settled accounts with Tong Shuangxi as soon as possible.
In addition to the wages paid to Qin Lao Neng, Qin Wu's family, and Qin Ergouzi, Wang Pozi, Tong Shuangxi, and Tong Shuangshuang's mother-in-law and grandson received a total of sixty-seven taels of silver.
Coupled with the rest of the mess before, there are still seventy-two taels of silver in the house.
On the day when the accounts were settled, Mrs. Wang took Tong Shuangxi to return the fifty taels of silver that Steward Wen had given before, and Steward Wen didn't say anything, and happily accepted the fifty taels of silver.
When they returned home, the three of them looked at the twenty-two ingots of silver on the bed, and felt that they were dreaming!
"With so much silver, where should I collect it?"
Mrs. Wang was the first to worry about this matter.
Tong Shuangxi thought it was funny, but Tong Shuangshuang on the side was serious and discussed the matter of hiding silver with Mrs. Wang.
"No, no, how can these three broken houses in the family hide so much money."
After discussing it, the mother-in-law and grandson still didn't come to a result.
This night, the twenty-two taels of silver were held in the arms of the princess and slept all night, and the next day, the princess got up and began to complain of back pain.
Because of this incident, Mrs. Wang was not less laughed at by the Qin and Wu clans, so naturally she didn't mention it later.