Chapter Forty-Eight: My Cousin Learns the Arts
Dr. Lin drank it all unceremoniously, put the cup on the table, looked left and right, and saw that there were no outsiders at home, so he whispered: "Liuya, is there something wrong with Wanyan, why don't you always believe it?" ”
As soon as Qingbao saw him coming, he guessed that he was here for the matter of evening smoke, and since he moved here, he had never boarded the door of Yueyue's house again, so the matter of delivering letters for the two of them was interrupted.
To be honest, Qingbao is reluctant to send them letters, when she didn't understand the rules of this society before, she could help them pass on the letter without fear, after all, in the eyes of modern people, sending a letter is a trivial matter.
But now that he gradually understands this society, Qingbao knows that in this society, a woman who commits adultery with others, and after being caught, she will definitely die, even if she does not really achieve good things, just a letter is a dead end. And the role of ventilating the messenger usually does not end well.
In the Water Margin, Wang Po, who led the needle for Ximenqing and Pan Jinlian, how experienced she was, wasn't she clicked by Wu Song?
For the sake of his own life, Qingbao didn't want to do that disgraceful thing.
Wanyan saved herself, but that incident was not enough for her to repay with her life.
"Since I moved, my mother won't let me go out to sell candy, and I haven't been to Sister Wanyan again." Qingbao used Huang Liuniang as an excuse to fulfill his lie that he didn't go to see Wanyan.
; Doctor Lin took out a letter from his arms and said to Qingbao: "Good Liuya, help Uncle Lin again this time, I have something important to say to Wanyan." ”
This letter, Qingbao is not accepting, nor is it not accepting.
Take it, if there is one, there will be two, and if there is two, there will be three, and they will have to let her deliver the letter in the future.
Don't pick it up, Dr. Lin is not bad to himself, last time he fainted, he also helped himself speak.
Qingbao hesitated for a long time, and when she saw Dr. Lin's eyes full of pleading, she couldn't help but soften her heart again.
Qingbao agreed to help Dr. Lin deliver the letter, so he had to fill half a basket of candy and go to the back door of Yueyue's house to sell it.
Because the Xia family has changed from retail to wholesale, they haven't sold sugar on the streets for a long time, Qingbao just screamed a few times, and it attracted several children to buy sugar.
Just as Qingbao was sending the children, he saw the back door of Yue Yue's house open, and two women walked out of the door.
The woman in front of her, who was about twenty [eight] or nine years old, was neatly dressed, meticulous, richly dressed, full of majesty, with a serious face, and did not smile.
And behind her, what followed suit was the evening smoke that Qingbao was looking for.
The stern woman saw a few children surrounded by Qingbao, so she didn't come over, nor did she call Qingbao over, but stood quietly at the door and asked Wanyan behind her: "Seventh sister, do you love the candy she sells more and more?" ”
Wanyan lowered her eyebrows and whispered back, "Yes." But this little sister hasn't been here for a few days, and Yue Yue has been talking to me several times. ”
The stern woman said, "Okay." At that moment, the more you buy, the more you buy. ”
Wanyan didn't speak again, just stood respectfully behind her, looking at Qingbao who was selling sugar.
Qing Bao naturally saw the two of them and heard them talking, she speculated in her heart that Wanyan was so afraid of this woman, thinking that this should be the Fang family's main lady, right? Yue Yue once said that her mother was the biggest in the family, so it is obvious that this strict woman should be Yue Yue's mother.
I really didn't expect that such a lovely Yue Yue would have such a strict mother.
But if you look closely, the mother and son actually look really alike.
Mrs. Fang waited for the children who bought candy to leave, and then she beckoned Qingbao and said, "Little sister, come here, I'll take a look at your candy." When she said this, she deliberately softened her voice, probably for fear of scaring Qingbao.
After Qingbao approached, Mrs. Fang saw that Qingbao's sugar was wrapped in paper, probably relieved of the hygiene problem, and said to Qingbao: "I want all this sugar, Wanyan, give her money." ”
With that, she turned around and went back to the hospital first.
Wanyan carried the basket and said loudly to Qingbao: "Little sister, I don't have any money with me, you wait here for me, I'll go and get the money." I'll bring the basket in first, and I'll bring it back to you later. ”
Qing Bao saw that Mrs. Fang had entered the courtyard, and took advantage of the evening smoke to catch the basket, and quickly stuffed the letter in her sleeve into the hand of the evening smoke.
Wanyan stuffed the letter into her sleeve, said to Qingbao in a low voice, "Ming'er is here to get the letter", and hurried back to the yard with the basket.
Qingbao looked left and right, and saw that there was no one else on the street, so he breathed a long sigh of relief.
Touching his violently beating heart, Qing Bao sighed, it seems that he is not competent for the work of this underground party.
After waiting at the door for a while, a little girl came out with a basket and said to Qingbao: "Candy seller, this basket is for you." Here's half a tael of silver, that's enough for your sugar money, right? You don't have to look for the rest, our lady said to reward you. ”
Reward......
Qingbao frowned, this word sounded really uncomfortable.
But there's no way to be uncomfortable, this is a society with strict classes, and it's better to get used to it earlier.
Back at home, Qingbao said to Dr. Lin: "Sister Wanyan has someone by her side, let me go and get the letter tomorrow." ”
When Dr. Lin saw that the letter was sent out, he said goodbye with a thousand thanks.
After he left, Qingbao decided to help them one last time tomorrow, and from then on, he would not leave the door of his house and say nothing to do this dangerous work.
When Huang Liuniang and Xia Shouping came back in the evening, it was not only Huang Liuniang and his wife who jumped out of the car, but also the big tiger of the uncle's family and the leash of the fourth uncle's family.
How did they come
What's going on?
Qingbao subconsciously looked at Huang Liuniang, Huang Liuniang's face was really as Qingbao expected, very gloomy, just like the weather before the storm.
The four pillars didn't notice that Huang Liuniang was angry at all, but they just saw their cousins who they hadn't seen for a long time, and they screamed and pounced on them, and gave a warm welcome to the big tiger and the tether.
Although cousins often fought in the past, how could the children have an overnight feud, and they hadn't seen each other for a long time, at this time, when they met at first glance, they were naturally very affectionate.
Xia Shouping took down two small bags from the back, which were probably clothes, and Qingbao realized that Dahu and Lianzi came to live with their parents. Thinking about it deeper, Qingbao's face was also a little ugly, could it be, they wanted to learn this sugar-making technique, right?
Thinking of Xia Shouping's cowardly appearance, he must have not resisted the joint pressure of Mrs. Xia's aunt and aunt, so he brought their children.
He came up with sugar by himself, not Xia Shouping, what right did he have to let it out?
At this moment, Qingbao's heart was full of anger!
It's not that she's selfish and doesn't want to pull her family, but she's angry, and Xia Shouping didn't take her seriously, this sugar production was something she came up with, can't he discuss it with her?
Xia Shouping put the nephews' baggage into the house, and walked over to Qingbao who was standing at the door and said, "Liuya, your cousin hasn't eaten yet, you go and clean up some food for them." After the confession, I drove the carriage and went to Huang's house to return the car.
Qingbao ignored him, closed the door angrily, and went back to the house to find Huang Liuniang.
Huang Liuniang had already gone back to her bedroom, and when Qingbao went, she was leaning on the quilt, staring at the window blankly, not knowing what she was thinking.
"Mother, why are Brother Big Tiger and Brother Tie Zi here?"
It's okay that Qingbao didn't ask, but as soon as Qingbao asked, Huang Liuniang's dumbfounded eyes suddenly rolled out huge tears.
"Liuya, my mother is sorry for you, this method of making sugar was originally thought of by you, but my mother is useless, and my mother will play with the prestige of her mouth, and my mother can't control anything." Huang Liuniang cried very sadly, but her voice was relatively depressed, as if she was afraid that the big tiger and the tether in Erzhu's house would hear it.
Qing Bao saw that her crying face was full of tears, took the cloth towel, and went to the kang to help her wipe the tears on her face.
Seeing that her daughter was so considerate, Huang Liuniang hugged Qingbao, and even cried a handful of snot and tears.
In Huang Liuniang's crying, Qingbao understood the whole thing.
A few days ago, after the eldest uncle Xia Shouye went back, he told his family that the third brother's family had made a fortune because of boiling sugar, and the red-eyed Yang family immediately made a plan, she united with the Zhang family and went to tell Mrs. Xia about it, Mrs. Xia naturally hoped that her sons would become rich, and said at that time that when the third son came back, she would definitely tell the third son about it.
Sure enough, after Xia Shouping and Huang Liuniang went back, Mrs. Xia proposed to let Xia Shouping teach the sugar making technology to her eldest son and third son, and if you have money, you must earn it together. Xia Shouping has been afraid of Mrs. Xia since he was a child, so naturally the old lady said what was what, so she nodded and agreed.
Afraid that Huang Liuniang would not teach her skills seriously, her old man originally wanted to come to Qingbao's house to supervise Huang Liuniang in person, but later heard that the house where her son lives now was rented by the Huang family, so she gave up.
The old lady was probably afraid that her son and daughter-in-law would leave, and her grandson would be taken care of by her.
At this moment, what else can Qingbao say?
met such a filial father, except for thinking that she was unlucky, she had nothing to do.
Now, Huang Liuniang cried into tears, Qingbao had to suppress the anger in her heart, and comforted Huang Liuniang in turn: "Mother, don't cry, they are already here, it's useless for you to cry." If you think about it from another angle, the uncle and the fourth uncle's family have learned to make sugar, and they can make money by themselves, which is better than coming to our house to ask for money. ”
Since these poor relatives can't get rid of it, it is better for everyone to get rich together, so that they don't have to be like wolf dogs staring at fat, maybe they will come up and bite one day.
Anyway, the candy market is huge, and if they want to learn, teach them.
Although he was helpless, Qingbao could only comfort himself like this.