Chapter 24: Nian Lu
The mother-in-law didn't know if she hadn't heard of Tai Sui, or if she didn't trust Li Lincai's father and daughter.
She didn't look closely at the Tai Sui in Li Yao'er's mouth, and shook her hand and refused.
"Don't, don't, dare to send any mess here, and don't look where this is. ”
As she spoke, she waved her hand to send Li Yao'er away.
"Hurry up, hurry up, if you don't go for a while, the housekeeper will see you, and we will have to eat and hang up. ”
Li Yao'er originally set up a stall here with full expectations, but she didn't expect to encounter such a situation.
She was mixed with disappointment and loneliness in her heart, and she was so sad in her heart.
If Tai Sui can't sell it, he won't be able to repay the third uncle's money, and his father will definitely not owe the third uncle, and then the family should sell things again.
The only things left in the house now are some pots and pans, bedding, all of which are inseparable, and these things are not worth a few dollars, so it is difficult to sell the land for seven dollars of silver!
But people don't want to be too old, and she can't force it to others.
Li Yao'er's eyes full of anticipation, after hearing the mother-in-law's refusal, instantly dimmed, and the whole person seemed to have lost her spirit, and lowered her head wiltedly.
Li Lincai was also disappointed in his heart, and he reached out to collect the Tai Sui in a depressed spirit.
The mother-in-law saw that the two of them knew each other, so she didn't care about the two of them, and turned her head to greet the girl on the side.
"Nianlu, let's go. ”
The girl who was called Nian Lu did not leave according to her mother-in-law's words, but looked at Tai Sui who Li Lincai was wrapping with doubts, with a thoughtful look.
The woman did not pay attention to her look, and after saying hello, she walked forward, and after taking two steps, she noticed that the girl had not followed, and looked back at the girl.
Seeing her expression, the mother-in-law couldn't help but follow her gaze and look at the things in Li Lincai's hand.
Before, she heard Li Yao'er say that she sold Tai Sui, how could she know what Tai Sui was when she was in charge of clothes, she only knew that in this mansion, it was not her own business, and she should not interfere at will, otherwise she would not be able to eat and be easy to cause trouble.
It was because of her that she was not interested in what Li Lincai's father and daughter were selling.
Nianlu is different from this old woman, she is a relative of this mother-in-law who is even bent around and has some relatives, and in the Qian Wang's Mansion, she serves the old lady of the Qian family.
Although she is only a third-class maid in the old lady's yard, she is much more knowledgeable than this woman.
When she heard Li Yao'er say Tai Sui before, she vaguely felt that this name was a little familiar, and she couldn't help but look at the so-called Tai Sui on the ground.
When she saw the milky white crystal clear thing on the ground, she couldn't even tell what it was made of, so she showed such a look.
But she was just a little curious, she still had something at hand to go out to run errands for the old lady, and she didn't dare to delay too much.
And she was a young woman who had not passed through the door, even if she was a farmer, she couldn't take the initiative to talk, so she only stared at Tai Sui for a moment, then came back to her senses and beckoned her mother-in-law to leave.
"Auntie, let's go. ”
The mother-in-law was just aroused by Nian Lu's expression for a while, and did not take Li Lincai's father and daughter and Na Tai Sui seriously.
Hearing Nian Lu greet her, the woman quickly looked away and walked towards the alley with Nian Lu.
With such kung fu, Li Lincai had already put away Tai Sui, took Li Yao'er's hand, turned his back to the two mothers-in-law, and walked towards the other end of the alley.
Nian Lu left Baiguo Lane and walked all the way along the street, all the way I couldn't help but think in my heart, where I had heard the word Tai Sui.
I didn't think too much about it, even my mother-in-law was talking to her beside her, she also answered absent-mindedly, and walked like this for a hundred or ten steps, she suddenly stopped, and finally remembered, where did I hear Tai Sui!
Xia Fan once went to Yunfeng Temple with the old lady, and Xuancheng Zhenren, the master of Yunfeng Temple, once mentioned it to the old lady,
It is said that thousands of years ago, when there were still immortals on the earth in the world, there was a god named Tai Sui, and mortals could prolong their lives by eating it!
It is also said that the Tai Sui of this era is not the real Tai Sui at all, just a mortal thing with the shape of Tai Sui.
The real Tai Sui is the incarnation of the Tai Sui God in the mortal world, with powerful divine power, mortals only need to eat one bite to eliminate all diseases, if you can eat it for a long time, it is not a problem to live two or three hundred years old.
When the old lady is old, she likes to listen to some legends of immortality and try to be auspicious.
Xuancheng Taoist took what he liked, and specially picked up the legend of Tai Sui, saying that it was to make the old lady happy.
Under his mouth, the real Tai Sui is the only treasure in heaven and on earth!
He also swore a promise that when he got the right result one day, he would go to Penglai Wonderland to pick Tai Sui for the old lady.
Coaxed the old lady so happy that she gave him up 200 taels of sesame oil money that day!
Xia Fan complained indignantly about that Xuan Chengzi in private, saying that he was a businessman in a Taoist robe, with a copper smell in his eyes and eyes, and he was the most worldly.
Nian Lu listened to it funny and asked at the time, did the old Taoist priest say what Tai Sui looked like, she didn't remember what Tai Sui looked like before, but now she remembered it, and she even remembered the words of Xia Fan to describe Tai Sui.
He said that the real Tai Sui was born as crystal clear as jade, as clear as ice, tasteless to smell, sweet to eat, and like a chicken to the touch, which is the purest and purest thing in the world. ”
"Tell me, how can there be such things in the world, isn't Xuan Chengzi just bragging? ”
As the memory emerged, every word of those words echoed in Nianlu's memory, and then remembered what she had seen at the back door before, Nianlu's heart began to beat like a drum.
What she saw just now was not the Tai Sui in Xuan Chengzi's mouth.
Is it true that there is a Tai Sui in the world?
Thinking of Li Yao'er's innocent expression and Li Lincai's honest appearance, Nianlu intuitively felt that a great opportunity was waiting for her to pick it up!
Thinking of this, Nianlu didn't hesitate anymore, she grabbed the mother-in-law beside her violently, took out a small bag of silver from her arms and stuffed it into the mother-in-law's hand and explained.
"Auntie, I suddenly remembered that I was in a hurry, and I couldn't go to fetch the old lady's clothes today, so I bothered my aunt to run for me. ”
After speaking, she didn't wait for her mother-in-law to react, turned around and walked briskly like Baiguo Alley.
The woman took the silver and looked strangely at Nianlu, who was hurrying away, before turning around and walking down the street.
Nian Lu hurried back to Baiguo Lane, only to see that the alley was empty and there was no father and daughter.
Nian Lu couldn't help but feel anxious.
In his heart, he secretly said, "That father and daughter will not be long away from the alley, and if you are lucky, you should be able to catch up." ’
Thinking like this, Nianlu couldn't care about the image anymore, and as soon as she lifted her skirt, she took a step forward and chased out.
A moment later, she stood panting at the mouth of Baiguo Alley, and saw two figures, one big and one small, drooping their heads on the distant avenue in the daylight.