Chapter 144 is a matchmaker

"Auntie!"

Li Xiaoliu pushed open the door of his house, and as soon as he came in, he saw Aunt Liu next door coming to the door again.

Over the years, since his father's accident, he has spent all his family's savings since he was rescued from prison. Later, it all relied on my father's colleagues to help a little, that is, it was just a personal exchange. In addition, his father went to Liaodong thousands of miles away, which made the family even worse.

For these, his mother has no complaints at all. On the contrary, he always said that he enjoyed happiness with his father when he was young, and now he should suffer a little. It's just that he has seen more than once that his mother secretly took out her dowry, jewelry and furniture in the house and sold it in exchange for a little food and daily necessities.

He is the eldest in the family, and he has two younger brothers and a younger sister behind him. Even in this situation, the mother gritted her teeth and provided for the two younger brothers in the family to study.

Last year, he secretly took the restraint that his mother gave him to his private school teacher, and ran to the house of his father's former colleague, begging others to find a job for him, so that he could enter Jinyiwei and do a job. But it was that time that he returned home in brocade clothes and clothes, and his mother lost her temper with him for the first time.

At night, he slept in a daze, and felt a rough hand caressing his cheek. Even though he had woken up, he still didn't dare to open his eyes, nor did he dare to look into his mother's disappointed eyes.

Even with such a small amount of money from him, his meager income as a fan is still not enough to support the family. Therefore, in addition to the father's room where he could not get out of bed, there were fewer and fewer furniture in the remaining rooms. Now there are people, that is, to sit in the courtyard for a while. Even the last time my aunt came over, my mother had to be cheeky enough to go to the neighborhood to borrow a teapot and teacup.

Now, Aunt Liu, who is the loudest and most talkative on this street, is sitting under the pomegranate tree in the yard, chattering with her mother, and her little sister is standing behind her mother with an aggrieved face.

"Oh, isn't Xiaoliu back? You've been out running every day, but you haven't been back for days. "Aunt Liu is about the same age as her mother, but she is like a wine lady in a restaurant, brushing a big round face as white as a dead man, and the mouth should be the most inferior lip fat, which is stained on the front teeth. The big mouth opened and closed, as if it had drunk human blood.

"What big case do you have?" Aunt Liu said with a smile.

"Auntie hasn't seen you on the street in a few days. If you are not satisfied, I will ask our shopkeeper to talk to our Zhao Qiguan in this area, and I will also adjust it for you. ”

After that, he turned his head to Xiaoliu's mother and said:

"Li Sun, don't blame Xiaoliu, the shopkeeper of our family is also now, Zhao Qiguan from the guard office comes every day, and the two of them are either drinking at home or someone is invited to eat, and they are not at home for a few days and nights."

Xiaoliu's mother responded helplessly, but quickly stood up and put down the bandage in her hand to mend people's clothes. Seeing that Li Xiaoliu had changed his clothes, he thought he was wearing the official uniform of his colleagues, and said with a smile:

"If this official dress is dirty and torn, take it home, and my mother will wash it for you. I haven't eaten yet, but I haven't eaten and I'm going to make you a little. ”

Li Xiaoliu shook his head and explained:

"I ate it in the yamen, and I brought you and my sister back a little heart and fruit." As he spoke, he handed over the wax paper package in his hand. These are all put in his yamen official office in the past few days, at first he thought that it was brought back by others after the wrong meal, but he didn't expect that in the following days, there will be every day.

In addition to dim sum and fruits, there are also a lot of tea cans in the room. When he returned, he wrapped some for himself like a thief. At this time, he also handed it to his mother.

"There's also a little tea for Daddy."

There were a little tears in my mother's eyes, but she rubbed her eyes with her hand, didn't take the tea, and just said with a smile:

"And you don't eat big fish and meat, what do you do with this Raushzi. Don't hook up your father's tea bugs, and you're clamoring for me to buy tea to drink. After a while, Xiao Qi took the official master back from the doctor, and you gave it to him directly. ”

Li Xiaoliu's father was buried in a snow cave in Liaodong for a day and a night, and he had no experience. After I came back, my legs were painful and I couldn't walk, and I had to go to the clinic next door for acupuncture once a month.

"Xiao Jiu'er."

Li Xiaoliu looked at the little girl of his own family who was wronged, and now she is thirteen years old, and she has completely inherited her mother's beauty, and she is like a lotus flower. This is the treasure of their three brothers, even when they are at their poorest, every time the three of them come back from outside, they will find a little flower and grass as a gift for their little sister.

"Whoa."

Li Xiaoliu stretched out his right hand, which was already sweating, clenched his fist and scraped Xiao Jiu'er's tall nose with his index finger. Then he put his fist under Jiu'er's nose.

It's a little game for their siblings. Every time a small gift is small, they will hide it in their fists for their sister to guess. If it's big, they'll always hide behind them.

Jiu'er didn't guess in a hurry, just smelled the fragrance and looked at the big bag of snacks in her mother's hand. This made Li Xiaoliu a little troubled and sad.

Unexpectedly, at this time, Aunt Liu, who was left aside, spoke again.

"Hey, tsk. These nine are beautiful, why can't they walk when they look at the food? The eldest lady told you that this time the eldest lady introduced you to the third master who was the head of Zhao Ji Grain Store in Willow Hutong. Li Sun, don't look at Zhao Sanye's age, but the last time Jiu'er went to buy noodles, Sanye fell in love with it all of a sudden. Didn't I just find an old man to come and tell you about it. The third master said, as long as Jiu'er is willing to go over to be a concubine, he can pay off the thirty taels of foreign debts outside your house in one go. ”

Aunt Liu accepted the strips of the third master's three stones of japonica rice, and now she holds it in her arms. She swore that it would work out no matter what. It's really not a big deal to let the shopkeeper invite Zhang Qiguan of Jinyiwei to drink once, and let Zhang Qiguan come forward as an official of Jinyiwei.

As soon as Jiu'er heard this, tears flowed down again.

Last time, she got out with the help of kind passers-by, and when she got home, she didn't dare to talk to her brother, said her mother. originally thought that this matter would pass like this, but who knew that Aunt Liu would still come to the door to propose marriage today. Thinking that he might have to be a concubine for that old man with a face full of sores and a limp, Jiu'er wanted to die.

However, Jiu'er also knows the situation in her family. My father has to see a doctor. The second brother and the third brother still have to study, although the eldest brother who likes herself the most and reads the best books also goes to Jinyiwei now, but when she thinks of the debts accumulated in the family for many years, and when she thinks of the way her mother worries about the food at home every month, she also feels that she should do something for the family.

"Aunt Liu, Jiu'er is still young."

Li Xiaoliu's mother said with a smile while opening the snack package that her eldest son had just given her.

She is the lady in charge, and of course she knows what is going on on the street. Zhao Sanye's concubine died inexplicably for less than a month, and the one who was a mother was willing to send her daughter to the tiger's mouth. Who doesn't know that there is a Shanxi vinegar lady in his family who is like a man-eating tiger?

"This is brought back by Xiaoliu, and you will pack some for Aunt Liu later."

But I really can't turn my face with Aunt Liu. The man in her family is the chief, whether it is the guarantee of his own loan from the outside, or some sewing and mending work that can be picked up on weekdays, he is inseparable from others. It's not that she didn't want to leave, and a sister of her handkerchief also came to persuade her last time, saying that she couldn't sell the house to Changping County, saying that it was easy to find a job, and the government was fair. However, let her sell the ancestral property of the Li family, and she couldn't tell her husband about it.

"Cut ......"

Aunt Liu couldn't look down on the leftovers that this kid didn't know where to pack back, and pouted disdainfully.

"I said Li Sun, you Jiu'er is not too young, it's not that I speak badly............"

Before he finished speaking, Li Xiaoliu heard a few gurgling sounds of saliva. first Jiu'er's, then Aunt Liu's. My mother didn't, but looking at her expression, she should blame herself for being too fast, and her words were a bit full.

Li Xiaoliu rarely eats dim sum on weekdays, but he doesn't know whether it's good or bad, but he thinks it's delicious. But his mother and Aunt Liu are knowledgeable, and they may not have eaten on weekdays, but they have also seen them in front of the restaurant where dignitaries and nobles haunt.

"This is a fried silver ingot?" Aunt Liu asked with a sputtered saliva.

"Li Sun, you see that you have said it, then the eldest lady will be embarrassed today." As he spoke, he took out a handkerchief from Huaili, stretched out his hand, and put it into it.