Chapter 15: The Grasshopper Shakes the Tree
The Nguyen family quickly regretted the decision they had made last night.
However, in an hour, the news that Li Yuanwai, a large household in the south of the city, bought the right to use Miss Nguyen San's lantern and kite was spread throughout Binh Duong Province through the streets and alleys of hawkers.
Li Yuanwai was originally a wealthy family in the south of the Yangtze River, and when he was old, he returned to his roots to develop an economy, and he always had to sell some treasures from time to time, and he was very sought-after after being transported to the capital.
I heard that he was going to use the lantern kite for the lantern festival on Tanabata, not only in Binh Duong Province, but all over the country.
"How much did Li Yuanwai spend?" Ruan Yanzhe drank thick porridge and asked the steward.
"Fifty thousand taels."
Ruan Yanzhe gritted his teeth, smiled and said to the old lady: "It's a little meaning, we can afford it." ”
The steward wanted to speak and stopped: "Third master, it's 50,000 taels...... Gold. ”
"Bang dang!"
The maid shrugged her shoulders in shock, and when she saw that the stool leg was broken, Ruan Yanzhe fell to the ground and did not move, and rushed up in a swarm to grab an arm and pull it up. The voices of the three masters and the doctors were chaotic, and they couldn't tell the difference.
Old Mrs. Ruan leaned back in her chair and stared blankly.
A good breakfast turned into a pot of porridge, and the eldest lady stopped discouraging the dishes, ordered someone to invite a doctor, and instructed the mother-in-law to clean up the mess, but also took into account the mood of the old lady......
In a dizzy mood, she suddenly remembered her daughter Miaoqing's reminder that the third sister has grown up, don't look at her with old eyes.
When Wen'er told Ruan Miaoling the news, Gu Ren was coming in with two loads of wood, and Wen'er's voice was lowered and silent.
Ruan Miaoling tapped the table twice with her fingertips.
"Ah, and then the doctor saw that the third master was frightened." Wen'er naturally said from the place where Fang Cai stopped, she knew what Miss Fang Cai meant.
General Guren can be trusted, so her attitude towards Guren in the future can be closer.
"Do these ladies want square heads or round heads?" Gu Ren stepped on the wood with one foot and held a saw in his left hand, and his momentum was like a rainbow.
asked: "General, you should be cutting people's heads on the battlefield, why don't you get a BMW for the slave?" ”
Ruan Miaoling gestured at the wood for a while, and then looked Gu Ren's body up and down, "This time, compare Uncle Ren's size to one." ”
"Order!" Gu Ren grinned, he heard the young lady say that if this wooden man is made, he will be able to compete with real people.
On the road planted with golden cinnamon on both sides, Wen'er asked in a low voice: "Miss used a wooden man to attract General Gu to stay in the mansion, will he be discovered, aren't the generals who can fight proficient in trickery?" ”
Ruan Miaoling casually folded a branch of osmanthus and pinned it to Wen'er's bun, and said with a smile: "I didn't use the way of a soldier, but a sincere heart, how could Uncle Ren find out." ”
"Besides, Uncle Ren and his subordinates stay in the mansion, and the people of the Eastern Mansion will not dare to act rashly even if they look at me as a silverfish again. The old lady is most afraid that the big tree of the Ruan family will be destroyed in one fell swoop, she has endured it for more than ten years, and there are only a few months left before my marriage, and she has to endure it desperately. ”
Wen'er also learned to put the osmanthus hairpin between Ruan Miaoling's sideburns, and said with a smile: "I'm afraid that our Xifu will be too noisy, and the old lady can't help but braid." ”
After that, she stuck out her tongue and winked, "Miss, you should say that the slave can't hold the door again." ”
Ruan Miaoling was so sunburned that her face was red and a little hot, but she still gave Wen'er a hairpin full of gold cinnamon before letting go, "Punish you for going to the door like this to pick up the gold sent by Li Yuanwai." ”
Wen'er hugged his fist "Deling", and suddenly learned the actions that the two of them often did when they were playing when they were children, and hugged Ruan Miaoling's neck, "Miss is really ...... She is the best lady in the world. ”
Ruan Miaoling twisted a flower between her fingers and watched Wen'er run farther and farther, and the sound of dense drums kept coming from her chest, expanding circle by circle, and then expanding......
After a while, she slowly raised her hand and touched the place that was touched by the question, which was fresh and warm.
Gu Ren was still humming and sawing wood in the courtyard, and there were hundreds of brightly colored paper kites floating in the sky, and Ruan Miaoling looked at them one by one.
The natural vigilance made Gu Ren's skin tingle, and when he raised his eyes, he saw the third lady standing among the flowers staring at him, did he come to check the post?
Thinking of this, the saw in Gu Ren's hand pulled faster and faster, and the sawdust quickly piled up into a small hill.
Ruan Miaoling couldn't stand the sun and simply went back to the house, and when she came to the door, she smiled and said: "The days are still long, what is Uncle Ren anxious about." ”
Two maids came up to serve tea and pour water, and carefully served Gu Ren.
"It's not tea." Gu Ren had a bitter gourd face, and the two thick eyebrows came together, wondering how the tea in the bowl was sour.
The maid said that it was the tangerine peel soup that the young lady ordered to boil.
Gu Rencai remembered that Miss gave a bag of tangerine peel a few days ago, but he thought that the cough was a minor illness and could be endured, so the medicine was useless. No wonder the young lady looked at him so strangely, was she worried that he was the same as the general?
……
"Old lady, third master, something is wrong!" The steward trotted all the way, pulling his sleeves and fanning the wind again and again: "Three, the third lady's 50,000 taels of gold have arrived, and the people outside are crowded, and the doctor can't get out at all." ”
Ruan Yanzhe, who was lying on the spring bench, raised his neck and said hoarsely: "Mother, we shouldn't have ...... last night"
Old Lady Ruan glared at him and said, "What should you not do, can you bear to let Miaoyi apologize to her?" ”
Ruan Yanzhe naturally couldn't bear to let his children suffer, but so much gold Ruan Miaoling couldn't use it up alone, so it would be good to give a little to Dongfu.
"Old lady, third master, third lady sent 10,000 taels to Xu's house." The family came to report the news, and when he saw that the steward was still there, the family hurriedly added: "It's gold." ”
Ruan Miaoyi listened to it for a long time after folding the screen, and finally couldn't help but come out and ask: "How could Li Yuanwai spend 50,000 taels of gold to buy such a ridiculous thing?" The third sister is crazy, is it possible that Li Yuanwai is also crazy with her, I don't believe it. ”
The steward said, "The carriage and horses are just outside the door." "I can't believe you.
Old Madam Ruan didn't say a word, her eyes moved away from Ruan Miaoyi and back.
"Mother." Ruan Yanzhe pounded the spring stool, "Our warehouse is gone." ”
If you don't seize this opportunity, you won't have anything to do with it. Ruan Yanzhe closed his eyes and didn't look at his daughter Miaoyi's red eyes, "Miaoyi, you will be wronged once, otherwise we will starve to death before the New Year comes." ”
"Dad, don't we still have a restaurant in our house, as long as the restaurant business is good, we don't have to starve to death." Ruan Miaoyi tried her best to find a way, she would never apologize to Ruan Miaoling, the matter started because of Ruan Miaoling, why should she apologize.
"Without the third sister, can't we survive?"
Ruan Yanzhe stroked his forehead, he really couldn't live without Ruan Miaoling's East Mansion, and the General's Restaurant he opened was just a decoration, which was built up by a sum of silver in the West Mansion.
There was no way to beg her father, Ruan Miaoyi went to ask the old lady, but the old lady let her pull and didn't move.
"Miaoyi, prepare to apologize to your third sister."
A thunderbolt exploded on a sunny day.
Ruan Miaoyi was so shocked that she sat on the ground and was stunned, and it took a long time to come back to her senses before she understood what the old lady meant, and covered her face and sobbed.