"Okay." Chu Yunniang could understand Liu Wuxiu's mood and readily agreed.

"Yun Niang, my family is rich, last month I harvested rice in the rain, I was drenched in a lot of rain, infected with wind and cold, and my health has not been very good, let alone going to war, I am afraid that even if I am stationed at the border pass, I will also be blown by the cold wind of the border plug, which will deepen the wind chill on his body and give birth to a serious illness."

"I heard that you have a piece of jade pendant left by her father in your hand, can you take it to the pawnshop in the township, mortgage some money, lend it to me, buy some herbs, send it to the border pass, and save my family from money?"

"Don't worry, when my family comes back with money and the family has saved money, I will definitely help you redeem the jade pendant." Wang Chunhua was afraid that Chu Yunniang would not agree, so he deliberately added, and after finishing speaking, his face was full of expectation, just like a person who had fallen into the water, and finally saw a piece of wood in front of him.

Chu Yunniang could also understand her feelings, and said softly: "I'm sorry, Chunhua, I can't agree to your request." The jade pendant left to her by Zhi'er's father is the only proof that Zhi'er will grow up and return to the family and recognize her relatives, which is related to the happiness of Zhi'er's life, and there is no room for any mistakes. ”

"However, I embroidered handkerchiefs a few days ago and earned twenty copper plates, and although I have all the money left on me, I am willing to lend them all to you."

After speaking, Chu Yunniang took out twenty copper plates from her arms and handed them to Wang Chunhua.

Wang Chunhua unceremoniously accepted them, but she said with some unconvincing: "Twenty copper plates are far from enough to buy medicine." Human life is at stake, that piece of jade pendant is just a mortgage, not a sale, I said, I will help you redeem it later, besides, Zhi'er is only seven years old now, and it is still too early to grow up, are you still afraid that I and my family have money, and we are not able to redeem her jade pendant before she grows up? ”

"Anything, of course, is in your own hands, the safest. Pawnshops are not reliable at all, don't say that my mother can't trust it, I can't trust it. Aunt Wang, don't embarrass my mother, the jade pendant is mine, as long as I don't agree, she can't be the master of this matter. Xiao Qiongzhi didn't like Wang Chunhua's aggressive attitude very much, and couldn't help but interject to reject her.

"What do you know about a little girl? If a pawnshop is not reliable, will anyone take something to do it? Go, play while playing, adults, children don't interfere! Wang Chunhua got up in a hurry, and waved at Xiao Qiongzhi as she spoke.

Xiao Qiongzhi was going to be amused by her arrogant attitude.

She didn't bother to pay attention to Wang Chunhua anymore, turned her head to Chu Yunniang and said: "Mother, it seems that the eldest girl is not sick at all, it is the eldest girl who saw that the eldest girl did not buy a jade pendant for the eldest girl, so she was jealous of the jade pendant that my father bought for me, and I had to take the opportunity to find an excuse to make me have no jade pendant, it is really bad, I want to tell the patriarch and grandfather about this matter, and let him judge it!" ”

After saying that, she ran out of the door unequivocally and went to find Zhou Yuandong.

After Zhou Yuandong understood the situation, he immediately called two prestigious old men in the clan and rushed to Xiao Qiongzhi's house together.

Unexpectedly, Wang Chunhua had already slipped away with the big girl at this time, leaving only Liu Wuxiu, with the dog and the stone.

Of course, Liu Wuxiu had a gap with Wang Chunhua, and when he saw Zhou Yuandong and others coming over to understand the situation, he naturally wouldn't miss the opportunity to stab him.

She waited for Chu Yunniang to tell them what Wang Chunhua had done before, and then she specially added a sentence to Zhou Yuandong: "As soon as Wang Chunhua heard that Zhi'er was coming to you, she left, but when she left, she said that Yun Niang refused to lend her the jade pendant, and the two families would break off their grievances in the future, including the few pieces of mountain land that her father-in-law had given to Brother Dazhi before, and they would also have to be taken back, which is really bad." ”

"Those pieces of mountainous land were given to Dazhi by the clan when Dazhi helped the clan to open up the wasteland before, and Zhou Youqian's father had a meritorious contribution to the wasteland at that time and also wanted it, but when it was proposed, the clan had already made a decision, and he could only make up a few pieces of other mountainous land for him, how could the rich mother-in-law count those pieces of mountainous land as their family?" An old man with prestige in the clan who came with Zhou Yuandong felt that Wang Chunhua was too shameless, so he interjected.

"This mother-in-law who has money to marry has always had a lot of troubles, so don't pay attention to her. When the money comes back, I will go directly to him to ask for an explanation. Zhou Yuandong was very calm and didn't put this matter at ease.

Xiao Qiongzhi was a little uneasy, and asked: "Patriarch Grandpa, if Aunt Wang takes advantage of my father's absence and takes advantage of my father's absence to dominate my family's mountains in the spring next year and doesn't let us grow things, what should we do?" ”

"If she dares to do this, I will deal with her according to the clan rules and expel her from Zhoujia Village." Zhou Yuandong replied solemnly.

"Okay, thank you, Grandpa Patriarch." Xiao Qiongzhi was satisfied.

However, about the matter of Yu Pei, she was still a little relieved.

In the evening, when there were no outsiders at home, she discussed with Chu Yunniang: "Mother, the so-called not afraid of thieves stealing, just afraid of thieves." The last time I searched for the body of the old shrew, the movement was a bit big, but I am afraid that many people now know that my father left a jade pendant for me. It's better for you to hide my jade pendant in another place, and then get a fake jade pendant and put it in the five-drawer cabinet to fill it up and hide people's eyes. ”

Chu Yunniang thought for a while and said: "The way to get a fake jade pendant is okay, when there is a merchant in the village to come over, I will spend a copper plate and quietly find a merchant to buy a piece, but the place that can be locked at home is only a five-drawer cabinet, and the other places are not locked, so it should be even more unsafe." ”

"Mother, the locked place is the most unsafe place, because, as long as you are a habitual thief, you must know that ordinary people are used to putting important things in boxes and cabinets to lock up and hide things, so they deliberately learned how to unlock to steal. Relatively speaking, it is the places that cannot be locked, or places that people do not expect, that are safe places to hide things. Xiao Qiongzhi said seriously.

"For example?" Chu Yunniang was inspired, her eyes lit up, and she asked curiously.

Xiao Qiongzhi said: "Mother, didn't you buy back cotton and cloth last time, and plan to make cotton clothes and shoes for me?" You can consider sewing the jade pendant directly into the upper layer of my cotton shoes. ”

"Good! That's it! It's about to be winter, I have taken the time a few days ago, cut the cloth for you to make cotton clothes and cotton shoes, and the cotton is also even, and tomorrow, I will do it, sew the jade pendant into it as soon as possible, and put it on your feet in case you have a long night of dreams. After Chu Yunniang finished speaking, she touched Xiao Qiongzhi's head lovingly.

Xiao Qiongzhi leaned her head into her arms and poked her armpits with her hands to make her laugh.

In the afternoon of the next day, Chu Yunniang sewed a set of cotton clothes and cotton shoes.

The jade pendant was sewn by her into the upper layer of the left foot of the cotton shoe.

There are a few green peonies embroidered on it, and the cotton inside is also very evenly filled, so it is not visible to the naked eye at all, and there are other things like jade pendants inside.

In order to make the two shoes symmetrical, she also specially stuffed a pebble of the same size as the jade pendant into the corresponding part of the upper of the right foot.

When Liu Wuxiu came over with dogs and stones, he happened to be in time for Xiao Qiongzhi to try on cotton clothes and cotton shoes.

Liu Wuxiu couldn't help but sigh for a while: "Yun Niang, you still have a plan, you have prepared cotton and cotton cloth for Zhi'er to make cotton clothes and cotton shoes early, and when the weather turns cold, you will make a change for her." ”

"Wuxiu, you've won the prize. The weather has just begun to turn cold, and it is completely too late for you to go to the countryside now and buy cotton and cotton cloth for the children to make cotton clothes and shoes. Chu Yunniang glanced at the thin clothes on the dog and the stone and reminded her.

"I've been there this morning. It's just that I didn't expect that the price of cotton and cotton cloth has nearly doubled in recent days. I was going to pay each of them to make two new sets of cotton clothes, but now I can only make one set for each person. Liu Wuxiu said with some frustration.

"So, Aunt Liu, apart from the increase in the price of cotton and cotton cloth, has the price of other things increased?" When Xiao Qiongzhi heard this, he suddenly thought of something and asked curiously.