Chapter 64: Scheming
After Chen returned from Niangniang Temple, he locked himself in the house alone, ordered the two little maids to guard the outside, and thought about how to deal with Chen Sanshun.
100,000 taels of silver, where is she going to find him so much silver now? Now that Biyan is in the hands of Chen Sanshun, Biyan knows so many things about herself, and she also knows that she recently moved the 10,000 taels that Gu Lichi put there and donated it to Niangniang Temple to make sesame oil. If Chen Sanshun asked Biyan to shake out these things in front of Gu Lichi, he was afraid that he would not say what he was the wife of the Gu family, it would be his life, and he didn't know if he could save it?
Chen was thinking about it, the door suddenly creaked open, Chen hurriedly got up to close the door, only to see Gu Lichi walking in from outside, still holding a carved box. "I heard the porter waiting, you went to the Niangniang Temple early this morning to incense, a few days ago I asked you to go to the Niangniang Temple to incense, you still don't want to go, why do you want to go this morning?"
"Gu Lang, didn't I listen to these neighbors around me, Niangniang Temple is very effective in asking for a child, Niangniang Temple's Farin Fang Tai is still a master, I just thought about going to Niangniang Temple to burn incense, hoping that Niangniang can give us another child, so that Chang'er can also have a younger brother to play with him, so that Chang'er often goes out to find the neighbor's children to play." Chen explained to Gu Lichi like this.
When she met Chen Sanshun in Niangniang Temple, she couldn't tell Gu Lichi about it anyway. If Gu Lichi knew, she probably wouldn't be able to go out again in the future, and Gu Lichi would keep her in the house.
"The incense in Niangniang Temple is good, you can go there to burn incense and get the blessings of the Bodhisattvas, it's good. As for asking for children, don't engage in those who don't have it. Now that the old lady hasn't come back yet, there is still Yang Zhen in the house, and I still have a headache about these things. Gu Lichi covered his head, supported by Chen, and sat on the couch beside him.
"Open the box and see what I gave you. You should like it. Gu Lichi said, handing the box he had just brought in to Chen's hand.
Chen opened the box and found that there were three or five land deeds inside, and the owner of each land deed had her name written on it. Chen picked up a field deed in the box, carefully studied it for a long time, only to find that this was a 300 acres of paddy field, and Chen looked at the remaining four land deeds, all of which were 3,400 acres of paddy fields, and these land deeds added up to 1,200 acres of paddy fields.
The sum of the year's harvest of these paddy fields is worth half of the grange, to say the least.
"I know that the first day of next month is your birthday, and I originally promised you that Chang'er would take you into the house before your birthday, but the old lady never came back, couldn't open the ancestral hall, couldn't go to the genealogy, and this matter was delayed. In order to make up for you, I specially gave you these paddy fields that I bought these days as birthday gifts, and the annual harvest of these paddy fields is also tens of thousands of taels. Gu Lichi tightly held Chen's hand beside him and said with a smile.
"Gu Lang, are these deeds really for me? You have already given me so many real estate deeds and shops, and now you have given me so many paddy fields, how can I repay you?" Chen said, grabbed by Gu Lichi and leaned on his arms.
"Master, this blue sky and white day, I'm afraid it's not appropriate to do this? There are so many maids and women watching outside, what if they hear the sound?" Chen leaned on Gu Lichi's arms, already blushing and looking at a loss.
Gu Lichi looked at Chen's shy appearance, smiled faintly, and then was about to pick up Chen's when a mother-in-law suddenly came outside to report: "Eldest master, the second master has returned to Chengjiang, handed over a sticker, and said that you will be invited to meet at the house tomorrow." ”
Gu Lichi stopped what he was doing, and after Chen sorted out his makeup and clothes, he called in the mother-in-law who came to report the news.
Gu Lichi looked at the appearance and dress of the mother-in-law, not like the mother-in-law in his own house, but like the mother-in-law sent from Qingyu Alley.
"When did the second master come back? Why didn't anyone come to report me? And the second wife, didn't I hear that she went to Punpu to ask the old lady to come up? Have you come back?" Gu Lichi sat on the wooden chair and asked the mother-in-law below.
"The eldest master, the second master only came back last night, and the second master thought that the eldest master should have fallen asleep at that time, so he didn't tell us to come over and disturb him. The second wife is still in Punpu, the old lady is sick in Punpu, and the second wife is waiting in the old lady, and she won't be able to come back for a while. "The mother-in-law was sent by the second master, Gu Licai, and she is an old man who has been in the Gu Mansion for many years.
When he talked to Gu Lichi, he didn't hide it, and said everything he knew.
"How could the old lady be sick? A few days ago, I heard from someone who came up from Punpu that the old lady was tough and didn't look like she was sick. "Lin's body, Gu Lichi is still clearer, even if he has a headache and brain fever, he doesn't need to be served, why do he need someone to serve him now?
"The eldest lord didn't know, when the second wife went to Punpu two days ago, she quarreled with the old lady. Xu is second wife's words were heavier, and the old lady was so angry that she suddenly couldn't breathe, but fortunately, Zhengding Lin's medical center went to a doctor two days ago, and the old lady was okay with the doctor taking care of her. Chen had already ordered the little maid who was guarding outside to move a stool in, and the woman sat on the stool and answered Gu Lichi.
Zhengding actually invited a doctor to go down? Who has such a great ability to say that the Lin family went to Zhengding to invite the doctor down? Usually, if the Lin family has any small injuries and pains, they will not order someone to hire a doctor.
"The eldest lord, the second master said, if you insist on marrying the lady next to you into the house, you can only go to Punpu to invite the old lady back, the old lady holds the medicine spoon and genealogy of the ancestral hall in her hand, only when you open the ancestral hall and go to the genealogy, the lady next to you can be regarded as a member of my Gu family. That's all the old woman said, as for whether the eldest lord can listen to it, that is the eldest master's business. With that, the woman stood up, bowed to Gu Lichi, and quickly retreated.
She came at Gu Licai's orders, so it was naturally inconvenient for her to stay for a long time.
Others were kind enough to remind themselves, but Gu Lichi still ordered the Chen family to send the mother-in-law out, and personally rewarded two heavy silver nudes.
After sending the mother-in-law to the door, the Chen family quickly turned back and complained to Gu Lichi: "It's just a rough mother-in-law, rewarding two silver nudes is already a great favor, and Gu Lang wants me to send them out in person." When I sent her out just now, how many little maids in the house were looking at me, which made me lose face! ”
"It's just that if you send a mother-in-law out, why don't you lose face? What's more, the mother-in-law who came just now is still a nurse who served me when I was a child, and I asked you to send my nurse out, what's wrong with that? Gu Lichi looked at Chen and said dissatisfied.