Chapter 42: The Old Bottom Is Exposed

When he returned home, Fanning got on his father's boat, along with his grandfather Fan Dachuan and his fourth uncle Fan Tongzhong.

Fortunately, it was not dark, Fan Ning sat on the bow of the boat and fished with a fishing line, and the fourth uncle Fan Tongzhong also took a fishing line to fish on the other side.

His grandfather, Fan Dachuan, sat in the canopy, napping with his eyes closed, but his ears were pricked up, and he kept in his ears the conversation between the two outside.

"Ning'er, how did you know Zhu Daguanren?"

"How did I know Zhu Daguan, it was the master of the courtyard who helped invite him."

"I want to invite Zhu Daguan to have a cup of tea, can you help me pull the strings?"

"Fourth uncle, you have to be confident, you have already communicated with him today, you go and invite yourself, I support you!"

"Ning'er, there is another important question."

"Fourth uncle, don't speak, ah! I caught a fish. ”

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After listening to it for a long time, Fan Dachuan finally couldn't help but burst out with a sentence: "Little slippery head!" ”

After dark, the boat finally slowly moored on the dock in the village, and Fan Dachuan was exhausted and went home with the support of his youngest son.

"Ning'er, let's go!"

Fan Tiezhou tied the boat and walked home with the oar and his son.

Although Fan Tiezhou was also full of questions, he understood his son, and if his son didn't want to say it, it was best not to ask.

"You're back!"

Zhang Sanniang heard the footsteps of her husband and son, and hurriedly opened the courtyard door to welcome her.

"Mother, we're starving!" When Fanning saw her mother, she immediately cried out.

"There is food and vegetables, wait for it to heat up and eat it."

Zhang Sanniang couldn't take care of her son for the time being, and hurriedly asked her husband, "How was the talk?" ”

"It's settled, the third child went back with his father-in-law, and lived in peace."

Zhang Sanniang was stunned, "Isn't this the same as the original?" ”

"It's different!"

Fan Tiezhou shook his head, "The Lu family completely confessed, the two families wrote an agreement, Niuniu and his surname, Tie Niu planted 100 acres of land every year, of which 80 acres of income belonged to Tie Niu, anyway, a normal son-in-law should have, he has it, the squire, Li Zheng and Zhu Daguan all signed and detained, I estimate that Lu Yuanwai is also afraid that when he gets old, the third child will retaliate against him." ”

"Looks like he's not stupid! But who is Zhu Dayuan? ”

"You have to ask Ning'er about this, it's the big squire he invited."

Zhang Sanniang turned her eyes to her son suspiciously, and she suddenly remembered something a hundred times more important than the divorce of the third child.

She stepped forward and grabbed her son's ear, "You little rabbit cub, follow me!" ”

"Mother, what are you doing? It hurts! Let it go. ”

"Lady, why are you pulling Ning'er's ears?"

Zhang Sanniang angrily dragged her son to the guest hall, where the oil lamp was lit, and she saw that the small square table was full of white flowers.

Not only was there silver on the table, but Fanning's treasure chest had also been dug up, and the mouth of the box was open, and there were all kinds of treasures inside.

Fanning thought to himself, 'Gross! 'Suddenly, when did my mother become a hound?'

Fan Tiezhou was also dumbfounded, "This.... What's going on? ”

"Ask your precious son, from his room."

Fan Tiezhou looked at his son suspiciously.

Fanning scratched his head, "Strange! Who put this in my room? ”

Zhang Sanniang was angry and funny, and knocked her son's head.

She suddenly 'poof!' I couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"My son is so funny, he actually asked who put it?"

Fan Tiezhou laughed dryly, stepped forward and picked up a silver ingot and looked at it.

"Same as the silver last time, Raozhou's official silver, Ning'er, you found another Taihu stone for Zhou Yuanwai?"

Fanning secretly gave a thumbs up, who said that his father was not smart, and he knew the whole leopard at a glance.

"That's right, I found him a superb Taihu stone in Qishi Lane, and he gave me two hundred taels of silver."

Zhang Sanniang raised her eyebrows, "A broken stone, you are embarrassed to ask for two hundred taels of silver, you are too greedy!" ”

"Mother, if that Taihu stone is taken to the capital, it will be sold for at least five thousand taels of silver, and I have already suffered a lot."

"Five thousand taels!"

Zhang Sanniang's head was a little dizzy, she really couldn't calculate what the concept of five thousand taels of silver was?

"You can buy 10,000 sheepskin jackets!"

Fanning understood her mother's eyes and muttered quietly.

"Dad, when will we have five thousand taels of silver!"

Zhang Sanniang sighed weakly, "Don't want five thousand taels, I'll be satisfied with one thousand taels of silver." ”

"The one on your wrist is worth at least 100,000 taels of silver."

Fanning suddenly noticed that his mother had actually put the string of purple jadeite on his wrist.

Zhang Sanniang screamed, pointed to the bracelet, and asked with wide eyes, "How much silver do you say this is worth?" ”

Fan Tiezhou's face was solemn, he picked up his wife's wrist and looked at the beads, and said to his wife: "This should be jadeite, very valuable, I saw it in Changzhou jewelry shop more than ten years ago, and the price of such a piece is 2,000 yuan, and it is far from this dazzling." ”

"I don't wear it anymore!"

Zhang Sanniang hurriedly wiped off the bead string and put it on the table, avoiding it like a snake and scorpion.

"Ning'er, you must tell Daddy, where did you get this?" Fan Tiezhou asked very seriously.

"This was given by the emperor to the third grandfather, and the third grandfather gave it to me."

Fan Ning pushed Fan Zhongyan's head no matter what, it must be right.

"Daddy, although this bead string is valuable, it can't be sold, let alone said, it will kill you, so I buried it and didn't tell you."

Fanning glanced at her mother in confusion, she had covered half a foot of soil, and she was able to find it, which was really admirable to her.

At this time, Zhang Sanniang had recovered from the extreme fright of 100,000 taels of silver.

"Is your mother the kind of person who doesn't understand? If you had said it earlier, I would have worn it on my hand? ”

She reached out to knock her son's head, but Fanning dodged it in time, "Mother didn't show it to others, right?" He asked warily.

Zhang Sanniang's face flushed, "I originally wanted to show it to the lady of the Liu family next door, but it just so happened that you came back." ”

"What are these?" Fan Tiezhou asked, pointing to the other items in the box.

"It's all a gift from someone else, congratulations to me on the first place in the exam, the fan was given by Zhu Daguan, the agate jade gourd was given by the master of Liu Yuan, the two topaz rings you know, and a piece of white jade was given by Zhou Yuan."

Fanning half-truths and half-truths casually nonsense, this kind of thing can't be proved anyway.

"Then put it away!"

Fan Tiezhou said: "These things are souvenirs, and I think it's best to bury them." ”

Fanning stepped forward and put a few treasures into the treasure box and closed the lid.

After all, Zhang Sanniang is a country woman, and the life of 100,000 taels of silver is too far away from her, she can't imagine it, and she has no interest.

On the contrary, it took two hundred taels of silver to make her eyes light up for a while.

She piled up two hundred taels of silver together, and said to her husband with a smile: "Father, let's build a new house with this silver!" I want to build a big yard, the kind of five-room tiled house, and marry Ning'er as a daughter-in-law in the future. ”

Fan Ning listened to his mother's three words and did not leave his daughter-in-law, he said angrily: "This is the capital I am going to open a medical clinic for my father." ”

"What kind of medical clinic to open!?"

The husband and wife spoke in unison, but the meaning was different, Fan Tiezhou was unhappy and denied, but Zhang Sanniang was questioning.

Fanning hurriedly told his mother his thoughts, he knew that his mother was in charge of the family, and as long as his mother made a decision, his father had to go if he didn't go.

Listening to Fan Ning's thoughts, Zhang Sanniang didn't say anything, this matter came suddenly, she needed to think about it.

At this time, she suddenly remembered that the father and son had not eaten yet, and complained to herself repeatedly, "Look at my memory was eaten by a dog, and I actually forgot to give you a hot meal." ”

She turned around and ran to the kitchen, and Fan Tiezhou said to her son: "I'll talk about the opening of the hospital later!" ”

Fanning nodded and said to his father, "Daddy, there's something I want to ask you for." ”

"What's the matter?"

"That's right!"

Fan Ning scratched his head and said: "I promised to find someone else a high-grade Taihu Lake stone, can you say hello to your former fishermen, catch a good Taihu Lake stone, I will buy it at a high price!" ”

"You're looking for a stone for that little lady!" Fan Tiezhou said with a smile.

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After eating, Fan Ning was so sleepy that he couldn't open his eyes, and dragged his calm body to sleep, and the treasure box could only be disposed of tomorrow.

Fan Tiezhou and his family were lying on the bed talking.

Fan Tiezhou told his wife in detail what happened today.

In fact, Zhang Sanniang didn't care about what happened to Fan Tieniu in the end, she only cared about whether to pay the other party's silver, and losing the silver meant that several brothers would share it, so she didn't do it.

Hearing that there was no need to lose money, her interest quickly shifted.

"You said that Ning'er and that little lady have a good relationship?"

"It can be seen that Ning'er and her have a good relationship, Ning'er is standing next to her, and the two have been muttering and talking."

"How's it looking?" Women always get straight to the point when it comes to this aspect.

"That little lady is quite good-looking, and I have never seen a little girl as smart as her."

Zhang Sanniang's eyes suddenly flashed, "His father, do you say that Ning'er and her can ......?"

"This is impossible, I heard my father say that the Zhu family is the richest man in Pingjiang Mansion, and we can't climb high."

"What's not to climb? Our Ning'er is not bad, in the future, Ning'er will be admitted to the Jinshi, I may not be able to look down on them? ”

"What if I don't pass the exam?"

"You're a dead brain!"

She poked her husband's forehead, "You forgot, I still have a bracelet worth 100,000 taels of silver, why can't I marry her?" ”

Fan Tiezhou didn't dare to say anything, when did the bracelet become hers again?

Zhang Sanniang began to imagine the scene of her son and the little lady worshipping the church, and the more she thought about it, the more beautiful it became, and she couldn't close her mouth with a smile.

"What are you thinking, sleep!"

Zhang Sanniang's beautiful scene wishes to be 'sleeping' by her husband! Brutally interrupted.

But she remembered a real thing.

"Dad, I've thought about it, you can really open a medical clinic!"

Fan Tiezhou hurriedly turned over and said to his wife: "The child is talking nonsense, do you take it seriously?" Besides, I just changed the passenger ship. ”

"People in the village come to you for any headache and brain fever, don't you see it very good! Why can't you open a medical clinic?

Besides, opening a medical clinic is more profitable than you driving a boat, and you have status, Ning'er can't tell others in the school, my father is a boatman, you have to think about the child! ”

His wife's last words moved Fan Tiezhou, and he slowly fell into deep thought.

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