After a while, the results of this blockade spread all over Liuwa Town. Liuwa Town has one more thing to talk about, and Uncle Zhou and Old Man Li, the two parties to the gambling fight, still have some aftermath to talk about, so they went to find another place to chat.

At this time, Sister Li Yue's heart fell to the ground, and she got four taels of silver in the gambling gold. Either way, it's a cause for celebration.

So he took Li Moyi and Li Yuejiao, first went to Zheng Tu's meat case and cut a knife of meat, three fingers wide of fat, then made a pot of wine, and bought two boxes of shortbread, as well as a bag of fine tobacco, which were naturally taken back to honor Grandpa.

Then when the three sisters and brothers passed by the tailor's garment shop of Yao's tailor, Yuejiao wanted to go in, this girl remembered the new clothes for the New Year, she knew that the family was in difficulty, and she didn't dare to mention the idea, but she won the silver at this time, so how polite is it. As soon as I entered the shop, I stared at a piece of fine fabric of water-red plum dots, and my footsteps never moved again.

"No, our family is filial." Sister Li Yue shook her head.

Yue Jiao'er flattened her mouth, and finally chose a piece of fabric with blue flowers on a white background on the side, which looked very elegant, and then Sister Li Yue smoked a few pieces of plain clothing for a few small ones at home, all of which were ordinary muslin, compared to the satin that Li Jinfeng bought today.

However, the New Year can have new clothes, which has already made Mo Yi and Yuejiao happy.

After paying the bill and putting away the fabric, Sister Li Yue looked at the whole shop, and sure enough, there were a lot fewer bright clothes, and now there were a lot of plain clothes, and there were a few rolls of white linen on one side of the counter.

"Mother-in-law of the Yao family, it's almost the New Year, why is the color of your clothes in this shop getting more and more plain, and the bright colors are still made some time ago, right?" At this time, a customer on the side asked Mrs. Yao.

"It's going to be the New Year soon, and I've bought almost everything I should buy, and then I have to backlog until next year to make glamorous clothes, and when the weather is hot, the bright clothes are dazzling, and it's not as good as this plain color, so we have to make clothes before the time." Yao Niangzi opened her mouth quickly, but she said it thoroughly, but she hid the real reason.

As she spoke, she also gave Sister Yue a look that she knew and I know, and Sister Yue naturally replied with a knowing look, only to feel that Aunt Yao's mouth can be said to be alive.

However, speaking again, Aunt Yao's explanation also makes some sense.

Sure enough, the customer nodded: "Yes, yes, it's this reason, then I have bright colored clothes at home, this time I will buy two more plain ones, and it is just right to wear them after spring." ”

So, Aunt Yao sold two more plain clothes.

Sister Yue arched her hand at her, said that business was prosperous, and then took her younger siblings back home in the afterglow of the sunset.

I still thought in my heart, Grandpa should be back, after gambling before, Grandpa and Uncle Zhou had another place to talk, and Sister Li Yue was naturally inconvenient to disturb Grandpa at that time.

At this time, as soon as he entered the courtyard, he saw that Grandpa had returned, squatting on the earthen wall in the middle of the two courtyards, still squinting and weaving bamboo baskets, as if the fierce gambling game before had nothing to do with him.

At this time, he was holding a bamboo basket between his legs, weaving it with one hand, and smoking tobacco from the cigarette pouch with the other hand and putting it into the tobacco copper mouth, but the cigarette pouch had long been deflated, and the two fingers twisted out were just some tobacco powder.

"Grandpa." Sister Li Yue shouted on the side, holding Old Man Li's empty cigarette pouch, pouring out the powder in it before, and then putting the tobacco she had just bought into it.

"Heh, this is a rainy day." Old man Li took a hard puff, and then spit out a puff of smoke into the sky, which was very satisfying. Then he turned his face sideways, and saw Sister Li Yue's eyes, and couldn't help laughing, although he won the gamble, he still had to negotiate some things with the Zhou family afterwards.

So he said: "It's okay, but, as you said yourself, you have to keep the great filial piety, keep it for three years, so, you can't get married for three years, and after three years, you will be nineteen, and then I don't know which good person you can marry, I really don't know if it's right or wrong for you to insist so much this time?" ”

"Naturally, it's right, my granddaughter is the eldest sister, and there are some responsibilities that cannot be shirked." Sister Li Yue lowered her head and said.

"Well, that's right, it's not in vain that you can think like this that your father loves you, Mo Yi is thirteen years old, and in another three years, sixteen years old, he will be able to take his father's job, and then it will be time for him to support this family." Old man Li said.

Li Boxian, the son of the Li family, that is, Li Yuejie's father, is a showman, but he is not the kind of powerless, when he was young, the canal repaired the embankment, and recruited river workers from the villages on both sides of the riverbank. The foreman who managed the river workers made him a recorder of the river patrol, and he was not a civil servant, so he didn't have to work hard every day, and then he was promoted to the chief of the river workers step by step with his hard work, and became an official official in the yamen, which can be passed on to future generations.

Therefore, in principle, when Li Xianggong died, he left the next quota, and when Mo Yi was sixteen years old, he could top this quota, of course, this is only in principle, and the specific position is not easy to say, although Mo Yi won the quota in his previous life, he did hard work.

In order to repair the dry river reservoir, he carried bags of sand and gravel on his back every day, and at a young age, his back was like an old man. Therefore, Sister Li Yue doesn't care if she can take the job, and she doesn't care if she doesn't do that kind of river work.

However, in the previous life, soon after the new emperor ascended the throne, in order to alleviate the emptiness of the treasury, he would establish a customs clearance in the area of Liuwa, and collect taxes on the ships that came and went.

It would be good if Mo Yi could seize this opportunity, but now it's just thinking about it, it's easy to know.

At this time, Sister Li Yue still nodded along with Grandpa's words, "Hmm." Then he asked curiously: "Why did Grandpa gamble with Uncle Zhou today, it is said that with my idea, the Zhou family will not disobey." ”

"You girl, the ghost eyes are not small, but the bottom is a little tender, your idea, the Zhou family throws a mouse bogey, don't dare not disobey, but have you ever thought about the future, the Zhou family is yin by you, this scene can be passed, but if the Zhou family is bad behind your back, how many of you sisters, no father and no mother, can you prevent the Zhou family?

Besides, the marriage contract between you and the eldest young master of the Zhou family this time is in an uproar, if it suddenly doesn't happen, others don't know how to talk about it in private, and the Zhou family will definitely push all the faults on you for the sake of their own face, what will you do then?

Therefore, the Zhou family has to withdraw from this marriage, but it can't offend people ruthlessly, and at least, we have to withdraw from this marriage openly, so that others have nothing to say, so I jokingly said today that you are going to make a big fuss in court, and then I played out the gambling debts and gambled to eliminate them, and carried out in public, willing to gamble and lose, who has anything to say. Old man Li said.

"Thank you, Grandpa." Sister Li Yue was moved when she heard this, she was taking one step at a time, but her grandfather had already calculated many steps for herself.

Originally, Sister Li Yue was going to ask Grandpa about gambling, but seeing that Grandpa didn't say a word, she didn't ask anymore, and then thought that Grandma was sick when she was angry, so she asked again: "Is Grandma feeling better?" ”

"It's okay, don't worry, your grandma is not really sick, she is pretending, grandpa is rich after all, your grandma is the head of the family, she pretends to be sick, so that grandpa can take over this matter naturally, so, you girl, don't blame your grandma, your grandma said that it is also for your good." Old man Li looked at Sister Yue again.

Loaded? Grandpa's words surprised Sister Li Yue for a while, and then thought about what happened at noon, at first, although Grandma was angry, she didn't feel any discomfort, but later, as soon as the matchmaker appeared, Grandma suddenly fell ill, and then handed over the matter to Grandpa.

So, is it really pretended? The more Sister Li Yue thought about it, the more true it became, Grandma was not as she thought before, completely ignoring her own life and death.

"Grandpa, I know, the Zhou family is a big family after all, marrying into the Zhou family, no matter what, don't worry about food and clothing, grandma often says, life is in the world, food and clothing are two words, grandma actually wants me to be full and clothed." Sister Li Yue replied with some sadness.

"It's good to know, it's good to know, but your grandma's temper can't be helped, you don't have to take it to heart." Old man Li nodded with a smile on his face, although Mu Ne's face was more amiable.

"Grandpa, I know, I hope Grandma won't be angry with me for too long." Sister Li Yue smiled, reborn in a lifetime, Sister Li Yue found that some injuries were not premeditated as she thought in her previous life, and most of the time they were caused by some different concepts and methods of dealing with the world.

Of course, Sister Li Yue also understands in her heart that this time her grandmother's pretending to be sick is generally for the sake of her grandfather, otherwise, with grandma's stubbornness, she thinks that it is her sister Yue's good, and she has great benefits to her second uncle, so where is she willing to compromise easily.

In short, the grandmother and granddaughter have been estranged for a long time, and they can't get close for a while.

Sister Li Yue can still see these things clearly. It's just that Grandma still cares about herself, and the resentment and hatred accumulated in her previous life have faded a lot.

Then Sister Li Yue handed the wine and shortbread she bought to Grandpa, and then lifted the meat on her hand and said: "Grandpa, it's cold outside, and it's dark, you can make this basket tomorrow, I'll make dumplings tonight, and I'll send them to Grandpa and Grandma in a while." ”

"Want, get." Old man Li smiled.