Chapter 23: The Pendant

Shen Luzhu was talking, he was coquettish in Chu Yi's arms, calmed down, took three taels of silver and a piece of fabric he had just bought, and went to the main room. Originally, she planned to make two summer shirts for each person in the family, but now that she is angry, Grandpa Chu and Grandma's will be left to Grandma Chu to make it herself!

In the days that followed, Shen Luzhu and Chu Yi completely rested, chatting with Uncle Chu every afternoon, taking Chu Li to read books, or Shen Luzhu taking Chu Xiuxiu to make clothes for the family together. I was really bored, so I brought wine and meat to Shen's house for a day, or called Chu Ping and Zhao Cheng to come to the house to eat wine, and life was quite comfortable.

It's the end of July in a flash, and Shen Luzhu has no intention of going out of the stall at all, fortunately, everyone bought a lot of them during the Midyear Festival before, but no one has come to ask, but outsiders don't ask, Grandma Chu is a little puzzled, why is this break not over!

The fifth day of August is Shen Luzhu's birthday, although the big cadres don't like to celebrate the birthday of the young, but Shen Luzhu still plans to celebrate a little, and deliberately got up early to make himself a bowl of longevity noodles, and boiled several eggs, and shared them with everyone.

At noon, together with Chu Yi, I took Chu Li, who was out of school, and went back to Shen's house for an afternoon, and then returned to Gushan Village after dinner.

Shen Luzhu washed and sat on the edge of the kang, shaking his feet and trying to dry the water on it, Chu Yi went out and poured dirty water back, and took a small wooden box in his hand and handed it to Shen Luzhu.

"For me? What is it, a birthday gift? Shen Luzhu was a little surprised, he didn't expect that there were still gifts to receive!

Chu Yi sat beside her and motioned for her to open: "Open it and take a look!" ”

The lid of the wooden box is drawer-type, Shen Luzhu pulled out the lid, and saw that there were a dozen pieces of wood inside, a little puzzled, looked at Chu Yi on the side, took two out, only to find that Chu Yi actually made a deck of playing cards for her out of wood!

It was some time ago, Shen Luzhu was really bored at home one day, so he talked to Chu Yi about the playing cards in his previous life, and still said that he saw it in an unknown travelogue, thinking that if he could have a deck of cards, it would be good to play together when he was bored!

Chu Yi was quite interested at the time, so she asked her to talk in detail, but she didn't expect to make it quietly: "Chu Yi! Are you a god in the sky? The kind that makes a wish come true! ”

Shen Luzhu once again saw the strength of his man's craftsmanship! It's really wood that can make everything!

"Well, but only yours!" Chu Yi really likes the reaction that Shen Luzhu gives him every time, his enthusiasm is like a fire, as if what he gave her is not a few pieces of wood, but a mountain of gold and silver, and he will be addicted to it when he sees it once, and people can't wait to hold everything in front of her!

"That fairy princess, does the little girl need to repay her vow?" Shen Luzhu has occasionally called Chu Yi Xianggong recently, on the one hand, she has indeed slowly adapted to it, on the other hand, thanks to Chu Yi, every time she wants to call her husband, she will think of Lao Niang and Lao Tzu, which is really a bit of a bad scenery.

"How?"

Shen Luzhu couldn't stop laughing at Chu Yi, then suddenly climbed on Chu Yi's shoulder, kissed him on the mouth, and asked with a red face after kissing, "Is this okay?" ”

Chu Yi clenched his fists and coughed: "Cough, then I still have something to say, I also made the printing plate you said before!" ”

In fact, he suddenly remembered it a few days ago, so he tried it, although he made it, he hadn't tried it yet, he thought that he wasn't in a hurry to come out of the stall recently anyway, so he didn't rush to tell Shen Luzhu.

"The one with the silver bill?"

"Hmm!"

"Chu Yi! I declare that from now on, you will be Shen Luzhu's favorite god! No, it's the only god you believe in! How could I have such a powerful husband as you? "Shen Luzhu himself is about to forget something, Chu Yi has already done it!

"No more vows?"

"Chu Yi, you've learned badly!"

In this way, in addition to being greasy and crooked every day, the little couple has a new entertainment activity, every morning Chu Yi makes a coffin, Chu Li goes to the school, Shen Luzhu pulls Chu Sanshu and Chu Xiuxiu to play poker together, there are more people in the afternoon, and the five of them get together, anyway, there are a lot of ways to play, no matter what, there will be bursts of laughter in the courtyard of the Chu family from time to time!

Every time the eldest aunt Wang went back to the old house recently, she had to be at the door of the main house with her mother-in-law, looking at a few people sitting in the courtyard playing cards, frowning for a long time, and then muttering: "Why don't you set up a stall?" ”

Grandma Chu has been getting more and more worried recently, even if they don't set up a stall, Shen Luzhu hasn't given the money in August, she seems to be a nobody, which makes Grandma Chu a little anxious, and if the money doesn't kick into her pocket for a day, she always feels not very steady.

On this day, Grandma Chu was cooking lunch in the stove room, looking at Shen Luzhu who was working on the side, she finally couldn't help it, and asked Chu Xiuxiu to pick two handfuls of green vegetables and take her away, turned her head and asked Shen Luzhu: "Shen, should I give the money for August?" ”

"Oh, money, grandma, don't worry, isn't it that you haven't earned money in August, when you get out of the stall and earn money, your granddaughter-in-law will give it to you immediately!"

"And when are you going to come out?" Seeing that August is almost halfway over, and she has been resting for almost a month, she doesn't see it at all, the Shen family has the intention of going out of the stall!

"Grandma, isn't it the Mid-Autumn Festival soon, let's talk about it after the festival!"

Grandma Chu was blocked back, and in a blink of an eye, it was the Mid-Autumn Festival, and Chu Ren's family also rushed back from the town a day early.

The family banquet of the Mid-Autumn Festival is usually Grandma Chu in charge, assisted by the eldest uncle, and Shen Luzhu and sister-in-law Li in the lobby are on the side.

The two squatted outside the stove room together to choose vegetables, Shen Luzhu supported his knees with his hands, and half stood up, wanting to slowly sore and numb legs, and inadvertently glimpsed that Li seemed to be wearing something on his chest, with some yellow in the white, and was about to go forward to see more clearly, Li also stood up.

Li Shi stood up straight, slowly cleaning his hands, and looked at Shen Luzhu, who was half-squatting opposite, with his eyes lowered. Shen Luzhu looked at the half-selected dishes in the basin, and then looked at the Li family, who seemed to be unintentionally aiming at him, sister-in-law in the lobby, shouldn't she feel that she was lazy!

Shen Luzhu wanted to explain, but after looking at the eyes of his sister-in-law in the lobby, he didn't know what to say, so in the end he could only admit that he was unlucky, squatted down and continued to choose vegetables silently!

Shen Luzhu finally remembered, the pendant that her grandmother said last time seemed to look like this, no wonder she always felt as if she had seen it somewhere last time, wasn't it the Dragon Boat Festival, when she saw it at her sister-in-law in the lobby!

Although she didn't see it very clearly, she always felt that it should be the one her grandmother said, so special, there shouldn't be two that are so similar, but why is this pendant worn on the sister-in-law in the lobby?

Originally, Shen Luzhu planned to find an opportunity to take a closer look and see clearly, but until the Mid-Autumn Festival was over, Brother Lobby's family returned to the town, and she couldn't find a suitable opportunity.

Xu is sister-in-law in the lobby decided that she was a lazy person, always staring at her, like a thief, she stopped a little, and the sister-in-law in the lobby immediately stopped what she was doing, there was really no way, she couldn't just let people take it out and show her!

Chu Yi noticed that something was wrong with Shen Luzhu in the past two days, and he was always frowning, as if he had something on his mind: "What's wrong, unhappy?" ”

Shen Luzhu hasn't thought about this matter yet, whether to talk to Chu Yi or not! It's also a little bit of a way to speak, what if it's just a little like it, and it's not a thing at all?

Even if it's one, what if it's given away by the mother-in-law herself? There are too many uncertain factors, so let's wait for her to be sure, and then say to Chu Yi: "Chu Yi, do I look like a lazy person?" ”

"How so."

"Yes! The lobby sister-in-law stares at me every time she works, as if I don't look at it for a while, I will be lazy, although I am a little lazy, but I will definitely not be lazy Well, this is a quality problem! Saying that, I remembered the way Li looked at her, it was really insulting!

Chu Yi pinched his wife's puffy little face, a little helpless, how could she be like a child.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival and sent Chu Ren's family away, Shen Luzhu lived a fairy life of visiting the door, eating, and playing cards. When Chu Ping came over, Uncle Chu was still resting in the West Chamber, Shen Luzhu and Chu Yizheng were playing cards in Chu Li's room with two small ones, and when they saw Chu Ping coming, they beckoned him to sit down together.

Chu Ping took the cards handed over by Chu Yi and played with them, the last time he came to his cousin-in-law to teach him, not to mention that it was quite interesting: "Cousin, cousin-in-law, is the stall in front of our house going to happen?" My grandma and aunt have muttered several times in the past two days, saying that they asked me to ask what's going on, but what's the difficulty? ”

"It's a stall, it's still going to come out, it's just not time yet...... King! Win! Shen Luzhu was dedicated to two things, chatting and winning another game!

Chu Ping was amused when he heard it: "So, then can't I rest for a while?" I have earned six or seven taels for a month, not to mention, I can still rest for so long in one breath, it has to be my cousin and sister-in-law, my cousin-in-law will do this kind of work in the future, but I have to think about my younger brother! ”

"It's easy to say, let's talk about it, we can rest for a while, cousin, you can't do it!"

"Huh?" Chu Ping looked at Shen Luzhu a little confused, then turned his head to look at Chu Yi, what do you mean?

Chu Yi patted Chu Ping's shoulder: "Let's go, let's go talk to Zhao Cheng." After speaking, without waiting for Chu Ping's reaction, he took the lead out of the room, and Chu Ping saw this and hurriedly chased after him.

Shen Luzhu accepted the cards and reshuffled them: "Then let's change the way we play, how about losing the sticker?" ”

Chu Yi went out for a trip, but returned home after more than an hour, and then continued to play cards in Chu Li's house like no one else.

Grandma Chu now feels a headache when she hears the sound of them playing, and seeing that the Mid-Autumn Festival is over, not to mention that the stall has not even entered the goods, the two empty rooms are still the same as the previous Midyear Festival, as if this business is yellow!

But she couldn't ask too blatantly, every time she could only take advantage of the cooking in the stove room to spend Chu Xiuxiu, and then quietly asked Shen what his plan was: "You guys can't get out of this stall?" How long has this been off? ”

Shen Luzhu still replied consistently, not in a hurry, and waited: "Grandma, don't you know, during the previous Midyear Festival, it really exhausted me, isn't it thinking, just take advantage of the fact that there are no sacrifices or festivals now, just take a good rest, Grandma, what's the urgency?" ”

Grandma Chu was annoyed and didn't move: "I can have anything urgent, just remember to give money!" ”

"Eh, grandma, didn't we say okay, according to how much you earned, now the granddaughter-in-law doesn't know how much to give you, if you give less, it's not good, you say yes, grandma?"