Chapter 49: Three Years of Selling Yourself
Zhang Miaomiao caught ten taels of silver, and when she saw that she didn't speak again, she frowned and was stunned.
Looking at Zhang Miaomiao, who was standing still, Liu Xiaohe raised his eyebrows.
"Not leaving? Want to stay for dinner? ”
Zhang Miaomiao shook her head and expressed the doubts in her heart: "Don't you need to write an IOU and a deed of sale?" ”
After hearing this, Liu Xiaohe understood, and said with a smile: "If you lie to me, there are a hundred ways to make your life worse than death." ”
I don't know why, obviously she was laughing, but Zhang Miaomiao felt scared, and her body couldn't help but tremble.
Zhang Yunsheng was thirsty, and when he came back to drink saliva, he also brought a bucket of water to everyone to drink. Walking in to see Zhang Miaomiao in front of his daughter-in-law, he walked over quickly.
"Zhang Miaomiao, what are you doing?"
Looking at the nervous Zhang Yunsheng, Zhang Miaomiao didn't feel good in her heart, she Zhang Miaomiao was not a beast, and she couldn't eat people.
Looking at Liu Xiaohe, who seemed to be smiling, she said very seriously: "I won't cheat." ”
She bet that Liu Xiaohe wouldn't, at most she would be called like a cow, if this is the case, she will not lose, you must know that a person who sells himself as a slave all his life is only a dozen or twenty taels, and some are only a few taels. She's only been selling for three years, and this sale has made a profit.
After Zhang Miaomiao finished speaking, she turned around and ran away from the courtyard.
"What is she here for?" Zhang Yunsheng asked.
"Nothing, what are you doing when you come back?"
"Thirsty, drink water." So saying, he went into the kitchen.
After a while, he came out with a bucket of water, and there was a scoop in the bucket.
"Wait."
Zhang Yunsheng looked back at his daughter-in-law.
"You put the ladle down for me and bring a bowl over." The water scoop is used to scoop water to eat and drink at home, and she feels uncomfortable thinking that everyone in those people uses this to drink water.
Zhang Yunsheng was stunned for a moment, then took the water scoop back to the kitchen and then took a bowl out, the daughter-in-law seemed to have a habit of cleanliness, except for the things he used, she would not use it after others used it.
In the evening, the family was eating at the dinner table, Zhang Xiangru looked at his eldest son and put down the dishes and chopsticks in his hand.
"Da Niu, Ming'er, you go to Chun'er's house to propose."
This made everyone stunned, except for Zhang Miaomiao, of course.
"Mother." Zhang Daniu called.
"It's twenty taels of silver."
"Where did the money come from?" Zhang asked curiously, and the two brothers also wanted to know, and looked at their mothers.
"Miao Miao borrowed it." Speaking of this, Zhang Xiangru has a calm face, although it has only been three years, but who knows what will happen in these three years.
The three of them turned their eyes to their daughter and sister, Zhang Miaomiao buried her head in eating, and she didn't plan to speak, she was afraid that she would cry when she opened her mouth, and then her father and brother would return the money.
"Who borrowed it?" Zhang Qiaozi was very serious, and the air around him was a little colder.
"Yunsheng's daughter-in-law." Zhang Xiangru replied, and then said, "You don't have to pay it back, but our Miao Miao belongs to her for three years." ”
"No, the money will be returned." Zhang Qiaozi directly refused.
"Mother, I don't want this money, even if I marry Chun'er, I feel uneasy." Zhang Daniu had a calm face.
"That's right, just like our family used to do to Zhang Yunsheng, that woman doesn't know how to torture our little sister in the past three years." Erniu disagreed.
"She won't." Zhang Miaomiao raised her head and spoke.
"She said she wouldn't?" Zhang Erniu asked his sister.
Zhang Miaomiao didn't say anything, which means that Liu Xiaohe didn't say anything to her.
At this time, only Erniu and the others were silent.
"Then return the money, our family doesn't want it, let my father go to work tomorrow, and I'll go hunting in the mountains."
Erniu also sometimes goes into the mountains to hunt, but every harvest is not very good, so they don't make a living from this, but occasionally if they want to eat, they will go into the mountains to get a pheasant or hare or something to come back to fight tooth sacrifices.
As soon as Zhang Xiangru heard that his son was going hunting, he hurriedly stopped him: "No, a few days ago, the next village went into the mountain and died a cripple, if you enter the mountain, it will be your mother's life." ”
"Mother, I'm not married, you can pay back the money." After Zhang Daniu finished speaking, he got up and left.
Seeing his son like this, Zhang Xiangru felt uncomfortable, blaming Chun'er's mother, where do ordinary people get so many taels of silver, at most they can take five or six taels and buy something, but Chun'er's mother expected that Da Niu and her Chun'er would be happy, and deliberately said twenty taels of silver, isn't it fatal.
"Alas, it seems that our big cow has no chance with Chun'er." Zhang Xiangru said and turned her head to look at her daughter, "After eating, my mother will go with you to return the silver." ”
Zhang Miaomiao didn't speak, because she was also scared in her heart, but seeing her eldest brother and her father like this, she felt even more uncomfortable.
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Liu Xiaohe ate and ate in the yard, and when he saw Zhang Miaomiao's mother and daughter coming, he just raised his eyebrows, and then stood in place and looked at them.
"I'll give you back the ten taels of silver." Zhang Xiangru walked up to her and handed her a piece of silver.
Liu Xiaohe didn't answer, and the corners of his lips rose.
"It seems that it is necessary to write a deed of sale, Xianggong, go and bring the pen, ink, paper and inkstone." The last time I went to the bazaar, Zhang Yunsheng bought it, now it just comes in handy.
Zhang Xiangru's face was a little ugly, did Liu Xiaohe mean that he would not take back the silver?
Zhang Yunsheng, who was called in the kitchen, immediately came out, glanced at Zhang Miaomiao's mother and daughter, and then went to the room to get pen, ink, paper, and inkstone.
"Daughter-in-law, you're all ready." Zhang Yunsheng put the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone on the table in the hall, and the ink was polished.
If the daughter-in-law wants pen, ink, paper, inkstone, she must write, and since she writes, she must grind the ink.
Seeing this, Liu Xiaohe smiled with satisfaction, she picked up the pen and was about to dip Zhang Xiangru into ink before she spoke.
"My Miao Miao doesn't sell herself, please let my Miao Miao go, and we will give you back the silver."
"From the moment Zhang Miaomiao agreed to sell, you have no room for remorse, I won't accept this silver." After Liu Xiaohe finished speaking, he began to write the deed of sale, and the handwriting with a brush was very good, so that Zhang Yunsheng couldn't help but admire, and she handed the pen to Zhang Miaomiao after she finished writing.
"Let's sign it."
Zhang Miaomiao looked at the deed of sale, and was also amazed by the beautiful words on it, she didn't expect Liu Xiaohe to write so beautifully, although she didn't know what was written, but it was really good-looking.
Seeing that Zhang Miaomiao didn't take the pen for a long time, Liu Xiaohe sank his face.
"It's okay if you don't sell it, then you have to pay me back double the silver taels, that is, twenty taels."
Zhang Yunsheng was stunned, he was still confused.
"You...... You're making money. Zhang Xiangru blushed and said.
Zhang Miaomiao's eyes widened in surprise: "You didn't say this." ”
"That's because you didn't listen to it and took the money and ran away."
Zhang Miaomiao's expression was as if she had eaten, and finally she pulled her mother's sleeve.
"Mother, I'll sell." After saying this, she looked at Liu Xiaohe, "In the past three years, you can't let me do things that violate morality and lose my innocence." ”
"This is for sure, I don't want to bloom in the flower building, and besides, if you go to the flower building to be a subordinate in your appearance, I don't think others will want it."
"......" Zhang Miaomiao's mother and daughter had a dark face, but they didn't dare to be angry.