Chapter 35: The Fourth Grandfather
Seeing a few cheerful little girls, Xia's heart was so entangled.
Before leaving, Qinggao didn't like to play with the little girls in the village. She was also afraid that Lili would be rude by the little girls in the countryside, and she didn't want her to have more contact with them. But now, Lili is much happier with them, and the crisp laughter is rare before.
Either way, she's happy......
However, what if Lili really becomes like a country girl, and then becomes a spicy country daughter-in-law in the future. Thinking of the beautiful shadow like the fairy of the Moon Palace that had been a long time ago, Xia's eyes welled up with tears again, she quickly lowered her head and secretly wiped it away, and went back to her house.
The laughter outside the window came in from time to time, and Xia's heart was chaotic and extremely contradictory.
Finally, when it was completely dark, the little girls got up and went home. Da Huang, who was having fun with Dangdang, didn't want to leave, and was called away by Dani.
When the house was quiet, Xia breathed a sigh of relief.
At night, Xia Li lay in bed for a long time and couldn't sleep. Li Darang solved it, it's time to buy a younger brother, and he has to find a way to make some money.
She thought about what kind of recipe to sell, and it was best to have a relationship with the shopkeeper He of Yixiang Restaurant. He is a slave of the big official's family, and they all say that the prime minister is a seven-rank official in front of the door, and ordinary people still dare not mess with him.
The food of this era is very rich, and there are so many dishes in the restaurant of a single county, such as frying, cooking, frying, sauce and marinade, and the name is also very good. Unless it is "invented" or extremely amazing like ice powder, the same dish is changed, and people will only pay money to buy it when their heads are broken.
Just like the improved version of Mao Xuewang, although it has been unanimously praised by Liu Gongzi and Young Master Zeng, there is no secret recipe for this dish, and people will make it after eating it. Even if you sell it, a few taels of silver will reach the sky, and it is really unnecessary.
She thought about it for a long time and came to the conclusion that it seemed that it was not easy to sell a restaurant than to open a private restaurant by herself.
Xia Li thought of a good way in the middle of the night, and fell asleep in a daze.
The next day, even if Xia Li doesn't sell recipes, he has to go to the county seat. One is to accompany Xia's embroidery to get embroidery, the other is to visit the fourth grandfather who is a scribe in the county government, and the most important thing is to go to the tooth shop to see.
After sending Dangdang to the mountains to play, Xia Li took out eight silver ingots of one tael from the cabinet.
It costs about six to seven taels of silver to buy a healthy little boy. Thinking that she was also going to do human trafficking, Xia Li was full of guilt, in her previous life, she hated traffickers who had lost her conscience the most.
When Xia saw Xia Li take the silver, he hurriedly asked her to put it back, saying that he had brought enough money, and the silver would be kept for her as a dowry in the future.
Xia Li didn't argue, and honestly put it back. As soon as Xia's little silver is spent, he has to spend his own silver.
Xia Li's mother and daughter packed up, only Xia carried a basket, and each wore a hat to catch a car at the entrance of the village.
At this time, it was already early in the morning, and the sun was shining brightly. The ox cart was the second trip, and the first trip was pulled to the county seat at the beginning of the hour.
Today is May 30th, and both the yamen and the school are on holiday, and there are more people who go to the county seat to sell things. As soon as they sat up, there were a dozen people crowded, and the ox cart left.
Due to the hot weather, many people in the countryside do not have the habit of washing their hair and bathing every day, and the smell of sweat makes Xia Lizhi frown. Thinking about it, this ghost weather, ice powder must be selling out.
When they came to the county seat, they first went to the Chunniang embroidery workshop to hand over the embroidery, and then took a few small embroidery. In a month and a half, he only earned 400 yuan, which made Xia a little sad.
They pulled a piece of silk for his fourth grandfather in the embroidery workshop and bought a pair of silk flowers for his granddaughter, which cost more than 200 yuan. I spent another 100 wen to buy a jar of good wine, and 20 wen to buy a pack of dim sum, and the money that Xia had worked so hard for so long was almost gone.
Xia sighed in distress, saying that he had less embroidery work, and he still had to do more in the future.
Xia Li often said, "Mother, we still have so much silver at home, and I will earn more money......
Xia sighed, "More money, how can it be so easy." ”
Xia Li said proudly, "Mother, wait, even if I only think of one way to make money a year, one way to earn ten years of money." ”
Xia was amused.
The fourth grandfather's house is in Qihe Hutong in the north of the city, which is a small courtyard house, and the people living nearby are all relatively decent middle-class people in the county.
Seeing that it was the two of them, the fourth grandmother smiled and pulled the two of them to the upper room. He also shouted loudly, "Old man, Xingwa and Aya'er, look who is coming." ”
Xia is a person who is liked by this family, generous, gentle and polite.
The fourth grandfather is called the fourth master of Xia, and he has three daughters and one son. The three daughters have already been married, the only son Xia Ming is twenty-five years old, he is working as a tent for a shop, marrying his wife, and has two sons and one daughter, the daughter Xia Aya is seven years old, the eldest son Xia Xing is five years old, and the youngest son Xia Wang is just a few months old.
As soon as the words of the fourth old lady fell, the two children rushed out of the upper room, shouting "big cousin" and "sister away".
Everyone entered the house, and Xia Shi and Xia Li saluted Master Xia Si, who was sitting on the circle chair. Mr. Xia Si was in his forties, white and chubby, and wore a half-worn silk gown.
Xia Shi took out the gift, and Master Xia Si said angrily, "Your orphans and widows are not easy, why spend so much money every time." Take it back, take it back. ”
Xia smiled softly, "Fourth Uncle is polite, I have always remembered how much you helped me and my family." The silk can only be worn by people in the official office like the fourth uncle, the wine is Lao Jiang alcohol that the fourth uncle likes to drink, and the head flowers and pastries are bought for the two children, which is not worth much. ”
The fourth old lady laughed and said, "Lan Niang has always remembered love like this. Ouch, the girl is getting more and more smart. ”
Several people laughed for a while, and Xia told Xiao Yang's trouble with her family again, and she cried when she was sad.
Master Xia Si's face sank, and he snorted coldly, "My old brother is a good man, but the mother-in-law who can marry is not worried, and the daughter-in-law married by the son is even more worrying. It is not easy for you widows to be unemployed, and you have also helped your mother's family a lot, why are they so dissatisfied. ”
The fourth old lady snorted coldly, "The people of the old Yang family are greedy, and they don't treat their daughters as people, and the roots are there." ”
Xia also said that he still wanted to adopt a son, so that the family could stop. But they didn't dare to adopt the big bear and the three leopards, for fear that the Xiao Yang family would be arrogant and occupy the family business, and then the two of them would have no way to live.
Master Xia Si nodded and said, "If you want me to say, you should have thought about it a long time ago, there is no man in the family." It is right not to raise the children of relatives, and it is not possible to support more than one...... Don't worry, if your mother makes too much trouble, I will come forward to beat your father, and I always have to give my daughter a ......way to live."