Chapter 25: Reach Out and Take It
Yan Lingxi sat down again, her eyes calm, but she stared straight into the eyes of the eldest grandmother, and from those eyes, she had already seen the answer.
"Sister-in-law," the three-room couple didn't know when they were already standing by the door, "this girl is right, you should answer." Big brother is kind to us, even if we have half of our spare strength, we will not chase you for money. ”
Grandma Shu's eyes were swollen so much that she cried for half a night. The eldest grandmother was even more angry when she saw her like this.
These shameless things!
She glanced at the third room and the people, and finally fell on Yan Lingxi.
Look at what they were all wearing, their rags, their faces were peeled, their shoes were showing their toes, where did these grizzled things come from?
She snorted mockingly, and deliberately glanced up and down at Yan Lingxi: "You girl, I didn't say you, although you are still young, but you also pay attention to your own name, you see that your toes are exposed, where can a girl's feet be seen casually?" So poor that you don't even want your face, and you still want to redeem yourself? Do you have any money? ”
In a word, everyone's eyes fell on Yan Lingxi's feet. In this world, a girl's foot is indeed a private part, and many daughters from poor families rarely go out because they don't have a full set of clothes and shoes. But poor families don't pay so much attention to it, and no one usually cares about a hole or something.
In the crowd, some people felt that the eldest grandmother was not authentic, so they glared at her angrily but did not dare to speak, and some people stared at Yan Lingxi playfully.
Yan Lingxi didn't care about them, raised his legs and put his feet on the stone table under the gaze of all kinds of eyes, and then leaned against the wall behind him, sitting very comfortably.
She happily moved the toes that were breathing freely, and said, "Rich! ”
"Did you steal my money?!"
In the crowd, Yuhong stared at Yan Lingxi resentfully and shouted.
Hey, there's this stubble.
Yan Lingxi felt very funny, and deliberately teased her: "Then you can go and see if you have less money?" ”
Yuhong ran back when she heard the sound, and came back with a small box the size of a palm.
It wasn't the box that Xiao Lingxi saw before, the box was much bigger than this, it seemed that Yuhong's money was really coming from the wrong way, and she didn't dare to show it to everyone, so she hugged a few to slander her.
"Once upon a time, there were still two large silver ingots that I had worked so hard to save, but now the silver ingots are gone, and only this little bit of broken silver remains!"
There was only a little bit of silver inside, and when everyone looked over, many people began to doubt Lingxi.
They chattered about what they said "no wonder" and "not clean".
Take it early and take it late, Yan Lingxi flipped his hand and put the gold ingot heavily on the stone table.
There was a "bell" on the ground, which was terrifying.
How many people present have never seen the entire gold ingots in their lives, their eyes are straight, and the brilliance of the gold makes people dizzy.
People have gold, such a big piece! Who scarces your little silver?
Someone coaxed Yuhong:
"Sister Yuhong, look, is that your thing?"
"Before, you slandered people for stealing water, and now you say that people steal money, didn't you lose two silver ingots? Why, in the hands of Lingxi, the cubs have become gold? ”
Although most of them are not familiar with Lingxi, who has not been scolded by Yuhong's mouth? Listening to the singing and harmony of these early ones, and looking at Yuhong's face, they laughed happily.
Yuhong was also stupid, she estimated that Lingxi would take out ten taels or twenty taels of silver at most, where would she have thought that she still had this thing in her hand!
She subconsciously wanted to refute, but was stopped by a look from the grandmother.
The eldest grandmother swallowed her saliva quietly, not to mention these people, she hadn't seen gold for a long time. She didn't care where Yan Lingxi got this thing, she just wanted to hold it in her hand anxiously.
"I'll sell!"
As he spoke, he reached out to take the gold ingot.
Yan Lingxi's eyes widened, forgetting that this was a greedy person for money, and he quickly copied the gold back.
"Grandma doesn't think I'm going to ransom myself with these ten taels of gold, right?"
She was really surprised, a girl of a few years old was worth ten taels or eight taels of silver, which was ten times the price, what did she think?
There was a laugh in the courtyard, followed by a burst of laughter.
The eldest grandmother also reacted, her face darkened, and she started at first glance: "Then how much are you going to come out?" ”
"Ten taels of silver!" Yan Lingxi did not hesitate.
If you want to ask herself, she doesn't want to give them a penny, but they won't give up if they don't get any benefits, pulling back and forth, wasting a lot of time and energy. Originally, she used to buy ten taels, and Yubo had an account there, Yan Lingxi saw it, and now he gave them ten taels, so he should feed the dog to make it clean.
"Ten taels is not good, what's the matter, fifty taels!"
The eldest grandmother pouted and shook her head, her heart was disappointed, but she couldn't take her eyes off the piece of gold.
Yan Lingxi is ready to spend a while talking to them, no matter how clean he is, he can't let them make money, it's time for him, want to be happy in front of me? Dream!
She was full of food and drink today, sat steadily, and talked back and forth with her grandmother, not tired at all. The two of them broke a little bit, until they reached twelve taels.
Yan Lingxi continued to shake his head.
She watched her grandmother's fiery eyes gradually turn cold, and knew that if she went any further, she would not be very attractive to her, but she wanted to care about these two taels, so she didn't give it to her, and made her uncomfortable!
She pulled out a few tattered pieces of paper and began to read aloud with emotion:
"On the twenty-second day of May, I bought five catties of pork and one penny of silver; buy six catties of mutton, two dollars and seventy yuan; buy eight catties of vegetables, sixty-four wen; Take eight eggs at home, according to the town's listing price of 16 Wen; Take three cabbages at home, and the listing price of the town is 12 Wen; Killing a chicken at home, I don't know how much, I don't know how many pennies it counts; asked Lao Li's family to borrow a fish, but I don't know how many pennies it counts; I don't know how much rice and white flour I polish, I don't know how many pennies I count......"
The back is full of fragmentary accounts, either they are not weighed, or they don't know the price, and they all "don't know how many pennies to count".
The eldest grandmother was stunned, and only after a while did she react and look at the third room, isn't this what they have eaten these days?
"You...... Are you really counting with me a copper plate and a copper plate? She pointed her finger at the three-room couple.
Sanfang actually decided not to compare this truth, so he threw away the written accounts again, and then he saw Yan Lingxi's hands, and was accused by his sister-in-law, and the couple were blushing, and they didn't know how to explain.
"This was thrown away by someone for scrap, and it was supposed to be burned with firewood, but I picked it up." Yan Lingxi deliberately showed his pride, looking at the eldest grandmother's black and red face and feeling very funny: "And isn't this what you asked the family to calculate for you?" Don't want it now? ”
After hearing Yan Lingxi's explanation, the three-room couple breathed a sigh of relief and said no more.