The next day, Shen said to Zeng Ruixiang: "It's cold, and there are people in the family, so I simply slaughtered a few more sheep and put them in the snow, and the meat can't be broken. New Year's entertainment guests are also available. ”

Zeng Ruixiang was about to find someone when he heard it, Lin Kangping listened and said, "Mother, Qing'er and I went to the back mountain to drive sheep." Picked up the eggs by the way. ”

Shen Shi looked at Ziqing worriedly after hearing this, and said, "Otherwise, I'll wait until the end of the New Year." Ziqing listened noncommittally.

Lin Kangping paid attention, pushed Ziqing away with a basket, and held Ziqing's hand when he left the hospital, clasped his fingers tightly, and talked about his experience for most of the year in a low voice.

It turned out that Lin Kangping bought 500 taels of silver tea that day, and after arriving in Jingdezhen, he bought 500 taels of silver porcelain, and the rest of the silver taels went to Hangzhou to buy silk, both in the upper, middle and lower grades. The foreigner David asked for it all, saying that Lin's goods were better and cheaper than those in Yuecheng, and he especially liked the exquisite porcelain. On that trip, Lin Kangping earned five or six hundred taels of silver, and then divided some of David's foreign goods and dumped them in the capital, sold them to the shops in the capital, and earned another three or four hundred taels of silver. So during the Mid-Autumn Festival, Lin Kangping got on the boat directly in the capital and took the canal to Jingdezhen, and this trip transported all the porcelain. Originally, when he returned to the capital from Yuecheng, he wanted to take the dry road, so that he could come back to see Ziqing, but Wensan wanted to buy some dry seafood from Yuecheng and return to the capital.

"Qing'er, we now have more than 3,000 taels of silver, it used to be less than two taels of silver, and we couldn't buy foreign goods. I thought I'd buy a piece of land after the year, and I'd leave you a thousand taels of silver, and I'll use the rest for business. We also have a small fortune now. It's not like before when it was a few dozen taels of silver to do more than two hundred taels, and it doesn't matter if you lose it, but now it's different, I want to keep some back. In case of any accident, we will not be penniless, and we can turn over quickly, you say? Lin Kangping said.

"Well, you can't put your eggs in one basket."

"What do you mean?"

"If you want to fight, it's all broken, and there is nothing to eat."

"That's a new statement." Lin Kangping saw that Ziqing's mood was better and stopped. Holding Ziqing's face with both hands, he asked, "Qing'er, aren't you ready to say it to me?" ”

Ziqing thought about it, and before she could open her mouth, Lin Kangping asked anxiously, "Don't you still trust me?" ”

Ziqing looked at Lin Kangping's eyes, there was only her in his eyes, anxiety and worry were intertwined, and he slowly said the ugly things at the banquet that day, "My mother and grandmother are very worried. Afraid that I wouldn't be able to stand the humiliation and seek death, they were afraid that you would quit because of this, and my father was angry at that time. The two families were stiff, and my father threatened that even if you take 10,000 steps back, you will withdraw from your family, and he will support me for a lifetime. People out there still don't know what to say about me? What's even more ridiculous is that there are still two people who come to the door to propose, one of them is still a fool, and he didn't say a few words to ask his father and mother to marry more, and his father and mother were even more angry when they saw it. Ziqing said and learned the scene of the marriage proposal that day again, and her eyes turned red again.

"Nonsense, how could I quit because of this. I said, why did you cry so sadly when I came back yesterday, wasn't it just that he was humiliated in public? I can't spare him. Others can say whatever they like, for so many years. It's not that I don't know what kind of person you are, I've been waiting for you for so many years, and I can marry you, you don't know how lucky I am to see you and hold you. I really have indescribable joy in my heart, Qing'er, you remember, even in case, I mean in case, you encounter any accidents, don't leave me, in my heart, no matter what, you are the best, the most beautiful. ”

"You fool." Ziqing's tears rolled out in an instant, and she stepped forward to hug Lin Kangping, Ziqing cried very bitterly in Lin Kangping's arms, Lin Kang accompanied her calmly, hugged her, and secretly calculated in his heart, I don't know how long it took, I heard Zixi's shout under the mountain.

Ziqing cleaned up her mood, as soon as the two entered the door, Shen, Zeng Ruixiang and Zifu were waiting at the door, all looking at them nervously, Ziqing nodded, Zeng Ruixiang and Zifu were relieved, stepped forward and patted Lin Kangping's shoulder, Zifu looked at Lin Kangping, and asked: "Why do you feel that you are much taller than in the old years, I remember that we are not much worse before?" ”

Ziqing looked at it, but it didn't grow again, but fortunately, she thought of this when she was making clothes, and let it grow longer.

Shen hurriedly clasped his palms together, recited a word of Buddha, and then took Lin Kangping's hand and said happily: "It's high, good boy, just waiting for you to eat." ”

At noon, it was naturally fried mutton, the mutton bones were still slowly boiling on the fire, Tian saw that the sheep was killed, and ordered Zifu and Lin Kangping to take the Qiuyu family over, Ziqing remembered that in the last life, the mother loved to soak the dried cuttlefish in shreds and cook pork and chicken soup, so she put one into the mutton bone soup.

After the meal, Lin Kangping said that he had something to go out, and Shen Shi hurriedly asked: "On this cold day, I am afraid that there will be snow on the road, go home early, and we will be worried." ”

Zifu replied with a smile: "Mother, don't worry, he can't lose it, go out and do something and come back." ”

Ziqing sent him to the door, saw him untie the reins, looked at Ziqing's worried eyes, patted Ziqing's face, and said, "I'll be back in less than two hours, don't worry." And when he had said that, he rode away,

When Ziqing entered the house, she heard Zifu say to Qiuyu: "Sister-in-law, I'll teach you to play a game, the money is not much, there are dozens of copper plates are enough, you can watch us play two laps first." It's the New Year, happy and happy. ”

"Less, dozens of copper plates are not much, do you think I am like you, I have this spare money." Qiu Yu said.

Zifu smiled when he heard it, and he didn't force it, and Zilu, Ziqing, and Zishou played two laps in the hall, Zhou Yunjiang kept watching, eager to try, and asked Qiuyu to ask for copper plates, and was glared back by Qiuyu with a look, Zifu hurriedly gave him the position, the old man was going to go, Ziqing also gave him the position, and also left dozens of copper plates on the table, at this time, Qiuyu shouted in the first room in the west: "Mother, come here, Mumu is pooping." ”

Tian's heard that he hurriedly ran in, scooped some hot water and scrubbed the child himself, Ziqing suddenly remembered that Zixi was a child, he had just come not long ago, it seemed to be in his sister-in-law's room, my mother didn't know what she was busy with, Zixi's diapers were full of poop, Tian came in and took a turn, fanned it twice with his hand, said something smelly and left. Ziqing, who is still five or six years old, struggled to clean up Zixi. Thinking of this, Ziqing suddenly became interested and went into the east house to accompany Shen to gossip.

It was almost dark, Lin Kangping hadn't come back yet, Zifu was also a little anxious, walking around the room, looking out frequently, Ziqing saw it and asked, "Big brother, do you know what Kangping did?" ”

"No, you don't even know, how can he tell me what he's going to do? I just saw that it was dark, and I was not at ease. ”

As he was talking, the doorbell rang, Zifu hurriedly rushed out, and even Shen looked at it and muttered, "This kid, I have never seen him open the door so actively, when did he have such a good relationship with Kangping?" ”

Zifu smiled and Lin Kangping came in, Ziqing glanced at Lin Kangping, except for the muddy water on his shoes, he didn't see anything unusual in other places, so he put his mind at ease and put the matter aside for the time being.

At dinner, Shen drank this mutton bone broth, saying that it didn't seem to be as good as before, and the soup tasted fresher, and everyone drank it and said yes, Ziqing hurriedly said that it was because of the dried cuttlefish, seeing Shen's suspicious eyes, Ziqing explained: "Kelp can be stewed in bone broth, and it tastes very fresh, and it is the same thing in the sea, so it is not much worse." Also, the word fresh originally meant that there was fish on one side and sheep on the other, which shows that the ancestors had long known that fish and sheep were stewed together, and the taste was fresher. ”

"I'm just weird, how come you are so lucky every time, and every time you mess around, you can have unexpected gains." Zifu asked.

"That's natural, I've always been lucky and lucky, you have to hurry up if you want to shoot horses." Ziqing deliberately looked proud.

"Say you're getting fat, and you're panting, sample, give you some color, and you dare to open a dye shop." Zifu couldn't see Ziqing's smugness, and just wanted to stretch out his hand to pinch her face, but was stopped by Lin Kangping.

Zifu glared at Lin Kangping and said, "What's the matter, I'm her brother, you didn't know where you were when the two of us were teasing?" Take care of us now, it's early, Qing'er hasn't married yet. ”

Lin Kangping put down his hand when he heard this, and said, "Big brother, what are you talking about?" I'm just afraid that you'll pinch Qing'er's face. Girls have tender skin. ”

"Nonsense, my sister, can I not feel distressed?" Everyone laughed when they saw it, and they all said that Lin Kangping knew that it hurt Ziqing so early, and he made Ziqing blush.

"Ziqing, what good things did Kang Ping bring back from the capital this time?" Qiu Yu asked after laughing.

"Food, use, wear, wear, by the way, there is something you like." After speaking, Ziqing went into the house and took out the box of silk flowers, there were four more in it, and said to Qiu Yu: "Sister-in-law, you can pick two, and two more for the second aunt." ”

Qiu Yu was really happy when she saw it, took the box and said: "That year, your second aunt got married, and the pile of flowers on her head envied many people, and now I can finally wear the pile of flowers from the capital." If you want me to say, why don't you give me this pair too, doesn't your second aunt still have that pair? Besides, she doesn't really like these things. ”

"Sister-in-law, how many years has it been, and it's already old." Ziqing despised it from her heart.

Then Qiu Yu said that she had made more than 100 purses and sent them to Kangping one day. After gossiping for a while, they sat for a while and left.

Send away the old man and them, Zifu they played a few rounds of mahjong, Lin Kangping replaced Ziqing, Ziqing did needlework on the side, the new clothes of the New Year are still their own, this time Kangping brought two pure white rabbit skins from the capital, Ziqing sewed a circle of rabbit fur on the neckline and cuffs of his padded jacket, which looks like a lot of color, the winter clothes in the previous life always have such a color, Ziyu liked it very much when she saw it, and she also clamored to add it to her padded jacket, Ziqing simply sewed it on her mother's padded jacket. Zeng Ruixiang was also in the mood to laugh and joke, and said: "With a circle of hair, it looks a lot more noble." (To be continued)