Looking at the sister-in-law who became more and more unreliable the more she talked, Qiao Shi secretly pursed her lips, and she made a decision. One day, taking advantage of the fact that the mother-in-law and sister-in-law were not paying attention, I had to go to the second sister-in-law's house to ease the relationship with them.

The next day is the first day of the Lunar New Year, when the adults have to visit relatives and friends, and the children put on new clothes and visit the neighborhoods. When they go home, everyone will have a full pocket full of fruits and melon seeds, and some people with better conditions will even prepare some maltose for their children.

So this day is the most anticipated and favorite day for the little ones. Mai Xiaohuan followed the second sister to the neighbor Aunt Huaihua's house and Zhao Tuhu's house to worship the New Year, and she didn't want to go any further.

Mai Wang took his two sons to the house of several relatives and village chiefs in the same village to pay New Year's greetings, and after turning around, he still went to kowtow to his mother Mai Liu. It is impossible to have New Year's money, and Mai Yonghai is not rare, this morning, my mother gave herself a lot of money! As far as grandma's stinginess is concerned, it would be good to be able to give ten copper plates.

"Is the second brother here to deliver silver? And what did the village chief ask your family to do yesterday, you can't swallow good things alone! "Wu was reprimanded by his mother-in-law yesterday, and he was scolded by his husband when he went back to the house at night, and he was looking for a place to vent at the moment!

Mai Wang stood in the courtyard and wrinkled his eyebrows and said: "Your Xiaoling was not injured by us, if you mention the matter of losing money again, everyone will go to the yamen to find the county master to give a comment." ”

As soon as Wu heard that he went to the yamen, he hurriedly closed his mouth in fright, hum! When he finds a way to get back the note of the drawing, and then mentions the matter of compensation, he will be charged an interest of one penny of silver a month, and after a year, he will have more than twenty-one taels of silver.

When she had imagined enough, she found that everyone was gone, and everyone knew in their hearts that if there was no silver yesterday, there would be no hope for today and in the future.

After Mai Wang went home, she was dragged to the cellar by Mai Xiaohuan, and she wanted to take advantage of the fact that she was not leaving now to tell her family about the cultivation method of sweet potatoes, and the two of them also discussed the planting time and the places that need to be paid attention to. Mak encouraged Daddy to grow more cash crops and less sorghum and soybeans, which were not worth much.

Mai Wang, who has been busy in the field for most of his life, although he agrees with the little girl's idea in his heart, he can't accept it for a while, his silence is the best answer, Mai Xiaohuan decided to save money to buy land by himself, and will be the largest female landlord in Xirui in the future.

The second day of the Lunar New Year is the day when the married girl returns to the door, in previous years, Mai Xiaoyuan either sent someone from the family to send some things, or she would not come back until the tenth day of the Lunar New Year, and her answer was always that the family was too busy to leave.

So on this day this year, Shan Cuihua didn't make any preparations, and only took the two female cats to talk in the house. The two aunts and grandmothers of the Mai family also returned to the door today, and the life of other families is getting better and better, but these two families are getting poorer and poorer. A few years ago, they could still be seen wearing new clothes back to their parents' house, but later they became washed white old clothes, and last year the children of the eldest sister's family actually came back with patched clothes to pay New Year's greetings.

When eating, I saw the meat and went up to grab it, and after eating the meat on this table, I could go to another table to clamp it, and I couldn't accept it if I was cheeky. Only Mai Wan and Mai Yonghe passed by in the family today, and Mai Yonghai refused to go, saying that he would rather skip lunch than look at the faces of several cousins, which made people sick to their stomachs.

When Mai Wang arrived at the eldest brother's house, Mai Qiaoyue and Mai Qiaoyun had already heard from their sister-in-law Wu about their family's awkward affair with their mother, and the two of them originally wanted to get some benefits from Mai Wang's family! Now it seems unlikely.

When he was annoyed, Mai Wan appeared with his eldest son, looking at the two of them, they were all brand new clothes, and Mai Yonghe still had a purse hanging on his waist, is this going to be a rich man?

Mai Qiaoyue couldn't help but whisper to the old lady, why should she offend the second brother's family, the entire Mai family has the best conditions, and the richest is their family. I was in urgent need of relief, but my mother and sister-in-law ran away from the God of Wealth.

"Second brother! Come and sit down, you look like a rich man in this new dress, and your brother-in-law has never worn clothes of this material! ”

Mai Wang's footsteps paused, as soon as she entered the door, the eldest sister stared at this dress, did she want to let herself wear her underwear home for a while?

This is the clothes that the daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law sewed for themselves, and they can't give anything to others, not to mention that they only have one set of clothes, but their relatives have a lot of them, who is it good for?

He pretended not to understand the eldest sister's words, took out more than a dozen red paper bags from his arms, divided them, Cui Xiuhua hurriedly opened them and looked at them, and said disgustedly: "Why are there only twenty copper plates, what is enough to buy!" ”

Before coming, my mother said that I would go to my second aunt to ask for a piece of flower fabric to make a new skirt, and the cloth given by my grandmother last time was sold by my father, and I exchanged it for a small bag of grain and a jar of wine, and the sisters were sad for this for several days!

Mai Xiaoling rolled her eyes and took the copper plate into her arms, those two dead girls made such a big sin for themselves, and the second uncle only gave a few copper plates and wanted to send himself away, thinking about it beautifully.

The expressions of several nieces and nieces were all seen by Mai Wang, and when she was about to go out in the morning, the second daughter said that she could just put ten copper plates in each red paper bag. She said that even if she put a tael of silver in it, no one would appreciate it and thank her. I don't believe it, the poor eldest sister and sister's family conditions are not good, and I want to give the children a few pocket money, but I didn't expect it...... Ay! In the future, I will never be good at asserting myself.

Mai Qiaoyue happily collected all the New Year's money from the six children, one hundred and twenty yuan! Buying multigrain and black noodles is enough for the family to eat for a while. From beginning to end, no one mentioned giving Mai Xiaofang or Mai Xiaohuan New Year's money, as if Mai Wang should share the money, and Xiaofang and Xiaohuan are not their juniors.

Fortunately, the children of their own family don't care about this, the two daughters sold rabbits last time and shared nearly one or two pieces of silver, if you count the things given by the county guard and Tang Yu, they are richer than the family!

Seeing that Shan Cuihua and the two eye-catching granddaughters didn't come, Mai Liu's didn't toss anymore, and the Wu family disliked the sisters-in-law for not working hard, and then laughed at Qiao's Han son for getting in the way. The whole family counted her talking a lot, if it wasn't for Mai Liu's training her again, she wouldn't have shut up when the meal was served.

Just picked up the dishes and chopsticks here, Mai Yonghai shouted at the door: "Dad, eldest brother, my mother asked me to call you back, the eldest brother-in-law and eldest sister are here." ”

The rich man Dou came, although Mai Wan was unwilling to face his "old" uncle, it was better to go home than to listen to the sister-in-law scolding the chickens and dogs.

When eating, just watch the children of the eldest sister's family shaking in front of you, and a plate of dishes is waiting for you to come back to your senses, and you can't even see a single meat foam. This meal was awkward and breath-holding, no wonder the youngest son refused to follow him for anything.

"Yo! Rich Dou and Xiaoyuan are here, Yongjiang, Yonghu, Xiaoling, Xiaohui, why are you still sitting stupidly, go and pay a New Year's greeting to Dou Rich Lord! "Wu envy his children for having this opportunity to pay New Year's greetings to the rich man, and he can't let the children go empty-handed during the New Year, so go back empty-handed! It is possible to reward a tael or two taels of silver if you are happy. If only I were a junior, what a chance to make a fortune!

The joints that Wu can think of, Mai Qiaoyue and Qiao's naturally want to think of it, and they also pulled up their reluctant children and pushed them out of the door, hoping that they would be able to bring back surprises later.

So Mai Wang walked in the front, followed by a large number of people, and before he got home, before Mai Wang opened his mouth to speak, it was like a pot boiling behind him, and more than a dozen children began to pay New Year's greetings to Dou Liangfu and Mai Xiaoyuan.

This group of children greeted Dou Liangfu before they remembered that there was a higher rank Shan Cuihua sitting next to her, and Cui Xiuhua took the lead in giving her a perfunctory New Year's greeting.

"Huh!" Mai Xiaoyuan was happy, I really don't know if these people have long brains, they snub their mothers like this, and they still want to get benefits from themselves, is it possible? Mai Xiaofang quickly picked up the four ingots of silver on the table, which was the New Year's money given by the eldest sister and the eldest brother-in-law to their sisters, two silver ingots of five taels each.

"Silver!" Mai Yongbo rushed over to grab the silver in Mai Xiaofang's arms, and his mother said that if he has silver, he can buy a lot of meat, and he can save it to marry his daughter-in-law. Although he didn't know what it meant to marry a daughter-in-law, it must be a good thing to see his mother's happy appearance.

Dou Liangfu originally looked down on the Mai family, if it weren't for the fact that Mai Xiaohuan was recognized as a righteous daughter by the county guard, and their sisters were about to go to Qingcheng County to accompany the county lord to study, how could they give the Mai family such a big face, and on the second day of the Lunar New Year, they ran to this poor and remote place.

The two members of the Dou family trotted over to hold Mai Yongbo and dragged him out, Mai Xiaoyuan felt that his relatives were very embarrassed, and ordered the maid with some anger: "Give each of them ten copper plates, let them go out quickly." ”

There are only ten copper plates, and there are not as many as the second uncle (second uncle) gave! Cui Xiuhua and Mai Xiaoling wanted to refuse with backbone, but they couldn't say anything when they came to their mouths, they were afraid that Dou Liangfu and his family were on the one hand, and those like the Cui family were already about to be able to open the pot, and their backbone was not proportional to the sixty copper plates at all.

After receiving the copper plate, the family members of the Dou family watched them go out, and Dou Liangfu began to teach the Mai Xiaofang sisters the secrets of how to deal with the big people, and how to gain the favor of the nobles as quickly as possible......

These two dead girls are going out again? The character I'm going to see this time seems to be more powerful than the county guard! Is it possible? Who believes? If not, how could the rich man say something like that?

With a stomach full of questions, more than a dozen people returned to Mai Xing's house.

"How! How much money does the rich man Dou give you? Wu asked eagerly.

Mai Xiaoling "snapped" and slapped ten copper plates on the table, and the wicked man counted Mai Xiaoyuan down first, not that she had no opinion on Dou Liangfu, but she didn't dare to mention the name of that person at all, because he and the people around him were too scary.