Chapter 42: Buying Wang's Family
Natsu pulls Haru into their room and tells her the good news without waiting for Haru to ask. "Ginseng was bought." As he spoke, he opened the brocade box.
"This is ginseng?" Koharu wanted to reach out and touch it, but then gave up and buckled the brocade box for Konatsu to put away.
"What's wrong at home? The gloomy faces of each were as if someone owed them money and didn't pay it back. Xiao Xia went to the kang and asked casually whether he wanted to do it or not.
"Uncle is back, I heard that I haven't paid my grandmother's money for two months, and this time I asked for money, saying that Brother Nengwen is reading well in the town, and he is very appreciated by father and son." Koharu told everything he knew.
"What does Shen Neng's reading have to do with money? It's harder to get grandma to dig out money than to climb to the sky! Xiao Xia suddenly had an idea, maybe she could use the big house, and her family proposed to start a stove alone, and her grandmother would never agree. If the big house is proposed, it may still be possible, but now the rest of the Shen family is afraid of him!
"Uncle is short of money? Did grandma give it? ”
Koharu shook her head. "I don't know the specifics, but the old man with a long face when the uncle left. You didn't meet Uncle when you came back! He just went out and you came back not long after. ”
Looking at Koharu's nervous appearance, Konatsu gave her a reassuring look. "I came back from the trail, but I didn't meet it. Let me sleep for a while first, and I'll give you something to watch at night. ”
I slept until dark this night, and was woken up by Xiaoqiu's little paws. Touching her little face, there is still no two taels of meat, and she will definitely make up for it when she fires alone in the future.
Shen Zhong's family's dinner couldn't be simpler, sweet potato porridge with pickles. As for what to eat in the upper room, it will definitely not be like this.
"Mother, you can make dinner today! Grandma, they also eat so simple? ”
Shen Zhong's body stiffened, and Xiao Wang's eyes dodged. Xiao Xia knew what was going on, and Mrs. Jia changed her method to deduct the food in the second room again.
Xiao Xia drank the porridge in the bowl in one gulp, and then went down to the ground and walked out. This posture frightened Shen Zhong and his wife, and they both thought that Xiao Xia had gone to find trouble in the room again.
"Xiao Xia, don't go!" Xiao Wang was so frightened that he couldn't hold the bowl in his hand.
Xiao Xia turned around suspiciously, and saw that her father and mother were looking at her pitifully, and felt ridiculous, was she so terrifying? "I just went to the thatched house and drank a belly of gruel, how could I not run to the thatched house."
Xiao Xia smiled and walked out of the West Chamber, and the smile on his face disappeared when he went out, the people take food as the sky, and they must improve the family's food.
Xiao Xia sat in the courtyard for half an hour, and now that her father and mother are out, the Shen family saw her almost all of her indifferent attitudes, and they didn't know whether they were weak or afraid, which Xiao Xia didn't care.
Xiao Xia waited for a long time and finally blocked the eldest aunt Wang in the thatched house, the Wang family saw her and saw her no different from seeing a ghost, so frightened that her legs trembled, it seems that the Shen family still believes that she is possessed by a monster.
"Auntie, it's better not to make a big noise." Xiao Xia deliberately showed his gloomy teeth, using the moonlight to scare people, and people like Wang who had ghosts in their hearts were naturally too scared.
"Xiao Xia...... The eldest aunt was wrong before, and she must be careful in the future. "The Wang family regrets it very much, I knew that I wouldn't come out and go to the thatched house by myself, Shen Xiaoxia wouldn't plan to take revenge, right? You won't eat yourself, will you? The head of the family just left, now is to eat her no one will find out, is it to see that she has a lot of meat, so I eat her first, she has always been proud of a fat body, the people in the village who have her rich, now I can't wait for this body of meat is not herself. Wang's brain made up for himself to scare himself, if he hadn't urinated just now, he would have been scared to pee by now.
Xiao Xia knew what she was thinking when she looked at Wang's appearance, and watched her pull her sleeve with her hand that had just gone to the thatched house, and slowly pulled out her sleeve in disgust. "I heard that the eldest aunt is very short of silver now?"
When Wang heard this, why did he mention silver? But she is really short of money, and the head of the family came back this time for the silver, but the old woman's silver is more important than her life, so she gave fifty wen and sent the head away, and Neng Wen is now short of money!
"What do you want?"
"Uncle help me do something, this silver is yours." said that there was a tael of silver in the palm of his hand, and the silver was not big, but it was only a small piece enough for a family to live for two or three months.
Wang's eyes were shining when he saw Yinzi, and the feeling of fear just now had already been thrown out of the clouds. Reaching out and wanting to grab it, he was dodged by Xiao Xia and put the silver into his arms again.
"How can you help?" The Wang family is now thinking about how to make the silver their own.
"Grandma is now starting to withhold the food in our second room again, so I plan to let our second room fire alone in the future, you go and tell grandma about this matter, if you persuade grandma, I will give you another silver tael after the matter is completed." How is it? ”
As soon as Wang heard this, he immediately agreed, looking at the one or two silver in his hand, the head of the family only earned 800 wen a month, and when the matter was completed, there were two taels of silver, which was simply a good thing for pie in the sky. But that's not right! How can there be so much silver in the second room?
Xiao Xia looked at Wang's appearance of being happy, puzzled, and entangled for a while, and guessed Wang's thoughts. Xiao Xia can still see Wang's facial expressions, just that meat bun face, how rich the expression is, it is also those folds.
"If you tell Grandma about this, you won't be able to get a tael of silver!"
After being reminded by Xiao Xia, the Wang family was shocked that if he let the old woman know, he would not want to keep the one or two pieces of silver in his hand now, and wait for the matter to be done. It's not too late to find another opportunity to sue the old sadist about the second room.
"Okay, you just wait for the good news from the eldest uncle!" She is still sure of this matter, the old woman is very disgusted with the second room at this time, as long as she provokes it, it can be done. "What about a tael of silver?"
"Auntie, don't worry, this tael of silver will also be yours." Xiao Xia spread out another tael of silver in his hand, looked at Wang's heart itching, and left with great energy.
Xiao Xia took off her clothes when she returned to the house, and she had to wash her well tomorrow......
Wang stayed directly by Mrs. Jia's side after breakfast the next day, and was courteous before and after the saddle. If she had slipped away a long time ago, how could she not attract the attention of the shrewd old lady Jia. Mrs. Jia thought that it was for yesterday's matter of asking for silver, and she was unmoved by how attentive the Wang family was. But it's still quite an eyesore for a fat body to always be dangling in front of your eyes.
"Say it! What's up? ”
"Mother, don't you think that the second room is becoming more and more alienated from us?" Wang's flattering stepped forward to rub Mrs. Jia's shoulders and legs.
Mrs. Jia thought that the Wang family had come to please herself for the sake of silver, but she didn't expect to mention the second room, which is now taboo in the Shen family.
"What? What are your thoughts? ”
"I feel like I'm going to eat in one pot a day, and I really want to get as far away from that evil girl as possible. Mother, or you can give the second room some food and let them start a fire by themselves. The second brother of the second family in the second room is regarded as labor, and the others will not only eat for nothing, but also harm our old Shen family. Just give a laborer's food. The rest of the grain can be sold for some silver, no. Wang shook off all the words he had thought of last night.