Shen Luzhu and Chu Yi sent Jiang Juan away, and they were not in the mood to continue to go out of the stall, so they collected the paper money stall in advance. Chu Yi returned to the backyard to continue working, Shen Luzhu moved a small stool to sit aside, Chu Yi couldn't persuade his wife, and was afraid that she would be cold, so he took the stove in the stall and let Shen Luzhu roast the fire.

"Chu Yi, Xiaobao will be fine!"

"Yes!"

Seeing that Shen Luzhu was no longer silent on the side, a little sullen, Chu Yi thought for a while and said, "I haven't seen my aunt and cousin since I was eight years old!" ”

"Is there something going on at my aunt's and grandfather's house?" Shen Luzhu vaguely guessed that cousins and sisters didn't recognize each other, and Jiang Juan's cousin was in urgent need of money if she had an accident at home, so she didn't go to her grandfather's house, but came to find a cousin she hadn't seen for many years.

"Well, it's broken!"

Chu Yi's aunt Cui Ying, the youngest daughter of the Cui family, married Jiang Er from nearby Zhutun Village at the age of sixteen, and gave birth to a daughter Jiang Juan in the second year of marriage.

The daughter had no children and lost her husband, and the Cui family was worried that Cui Ying would not have a good time in the Jiang family, so they planned to take her and Jiang Juan home, but the Jiang family did not agree to Jiang Juan going to Cui's house, and Cui Ying was reluctant to have her daughter, so she had to give up on this matter!

But who would have thought that the news came out the next year that Cui Ying was going to get married, and it was none other than Jiang Er's widower brother Jiang Da, who died and took his daughter alone!

As soon as the news came out, the Cui family hurriedly found Cui Ying for verification, worried that she was forced by the Jiang family, and planned to snatch her daughter back directly!

As a result, Cui Ying told Cui's grandmother that she was voluntary, and she wanted to marry Jiang Da!

For this matter, the Jiang family is naturally happy, the two sons of the Jiang family, the younger son is gone, the eldest son has no daughter-in-law, and only a granddaughter is left, if Cui Ying marries Jiang Da, first, the two granddaughters do not have to worry about having a stepmother in the future, or the mother remarries and becomes a fatherless and motherless situation, and secondly, it also saves a sum of money to re-marry the eldest son.

Cui Ying was determined to get married, and the Jiang family enjoyed it, but the Cui family tried their best to stop it!

"My grandparents were angry and cut off the relationship with my aunt, and I haven't seen them since!"

Shen Luzhu couldn't help but sigh a little after hearing this: "Chu Yi, we must always be good in the future." ”

"Good!"

Two days later, Jiang Juan sent a message to someone, saying that the child had woken up and the fever had subsided, but his body was still very weak, Jiang Juan was taking care of it, and he couldn't pull out, saying that the child would be completely better in a few days, and he would definitely bring the child to the door to thank him!

Hearing that Xiaobao had turned the corner, Shen Luzhu and Chu Yi breathed a sigh of relief!

In this wave of the Winter Clothes Festival, the copper money burned paper and the newly listed silver ticket paper money earned a lot more than the previous Midyear Festival!

Like last time, after the peak of the Winter Clothes Festival, Shen Luzhu's paper money stall stopped again, after all, making money is to live a good life, and the combination of work and rest is a must.

Seeing that it was about to be November, and the weather was getting colder and colder, it was really a crime to set up a stall outside, Chu Yi thought about building a small brick house for Shen Luzhu outside the courtyard gate, next to the courtyard wall, and then set up a small kang inside, and then use it as their small shop in the future, so that they don't have to suffer in winter and summer, and Shen Luzhu naturally raised his hands in favor of this matter.

So taking advantage of the slack of stalls, Chu Yi quickly bought bricks and tiles, found a few village masons, and started construction!

At the beginning of November, the new shop was finally built, and not only did it build a kang inside, but also built a counter with bricks, which was much larger than expected, so that in addition to selling goods normally, it could also store paper money, killing two birds with one stone.

The shop has just been covered and is damp, and it can't be put into use immediately, so it needs to be burned on the kang for a few days.

Before dinner that day, Shen Luzhu was busy with Grandma Chu in the stove room, Chu Yi came out to give the stove in the shop firewood, Chu Yi just locked the door of the shop, and saw that someone entered the yard at some point, and the cat was sneaking around, quietly closing the door of their house!

At this time, the sky was already slightly dark, Chu Yi was a little unable to see clearly, and was about to quietly walk behind him to grab a face, Chu Li pushed the door and walked out of the third uncle's house!

The thief heard the movement and was about to run away from the gate, but when he turned around, he saw Chu Yi, who was already blocking the courtyard gate, and he could only run in the opposite direction in a panic.

Chu Yi chased the man all the way to the backyard, the thief had already climbed the courtyard wall, and when he saw the person behind him chasing closely, he panicked for a while, and fell directly from the courtyard wall, limping into the twilight.

In the house of Chu Yi and his family, the drawers of the kang cabinet and the dresser were opened, and things were turned over everywhere, even the two big wooden boxes brought by the Shen family were opened, and the money box that Shen Luzhu usually used to go out of the stall was also found, and it was being overturned and thrown on the ground at the moment!

When Chu Yi entered the house, Shen Luzhu was busy counting the losses, Xiuxiu and Chu Li helped pack up the things in the house, and when Grandpa Chu saw Chu Yi coming back alone, he knew that he had let the thief run away, and asked, "Can you see who it is?" ”

"The raw face is only known to be a young man of medium height, on the thin side. I fell off the wall in the backyard and scraped the crooked neck tree outside the yard, so I should have been injured! Chu Yi said and took out the rags taken from the tree, the cloth was drenched in blood, and the injury should not be light.

Grandpa Chu sighed: "Seeing that the end of the year is over, I'm afraid that there will be more petty theft, and the family is doing business, so it will naturally be targeted, and those who come out and go in in the future will pay attention to it, but do you know what you have lost?" ”

Shen Luzhu was relieved after inspecting the few places where the two of them put silver coins on weekdays: "Those copper coins in the money box are gone, and everything else is still there!" ”

Third Uncle Chu knew that the little couple were buying and selling copper coins on weekdays, and when he heard that the money box was gone, he couldn't help but be a little anxious: "It's all gone?" How much does that have to be? ”

"Third uncle, don't worry, I didn't lose much, fortunately, I went to the town a while ago, most of them were replaced with silver tickets and hidden, and the jewelry and other things are still in the dark compartment, and there are some weekday change left in the money box, and it has cost a lot to build a house recently, and it will be at most two taels of silver!"

Fortunately, she and Chu Yi were used to it, and every once in a while, they would go to the town to exchange most of the silver coins for silver tickets, and Chu Yi was still under the kang cabinet, making a mezzanine with a small wooden board, and the silver tickets exchanged were hidden there.

The thief only rummaged through the cabinet, but did not find that there was a mezzanine between the cabinet and the kang surface. Shen Luzhu's jewelry was also locked in the dark cabinet of the dresser, and it was really a blessing in misfortune that it was not found.

Third Uncle Chu breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this: "There are a lot of two taels, fortunately, everything else is fine, when you encounter this kind of thing, even if there is only one article, it is a bad feeling!" ”

Grandma Chu listened, and at the same time, she breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time, she was afraid in her heart, fortunately, the old man was in the room at the time, and she found it early, otherwise the silver she saved would have suffered!

After dinner, after cleaning up the messed up house, Shen Luzhu discussed with Chu Yi, went back to buy a big lock, and locked it as long as the person was not in the house in the future, although the loss this time was not particularly much, but two taels of silver to do anything is better than being stolen!

Chu Yi felt that they should be being targeted: "At that hour, there were people in every family, and they knew that there were people, and they went directly into our house." ”

"You mean, the thieves are coming for us? Also, our business is booming, no one in ten miles and eight villages doesn't know, it must be stepped on in advance, then he only found two copper coins this time, Chu Yi, do you say he will come again? ”

Knowing that their family had money and stepped on it well, but they didn't steal much, Shen Luzhu felt that the thief wouldn't just forget it!

"I'm going to catch him again!"

The new shop was baked for a few days, and Shen Luzhu's paper money shop reopened, and it was sent every day, but no thief was ever seen, I thought it might be that person was cowardly, and he was almost caught last time, so he didn't dare to come again.

Who knew that on the third day of the lunar month, when Zhao Cheng came to send copper coins to burn paper, he brought a message: "When I first came, I met someone, in the backyard of your house, lying on the wall to probe his brain, I guess he is not a good person, and when he sees me shouting that he is covered his head, he will run!" ”

Hearing this, Chu Yi put down the burning paper he was carrying in his hand: "What kind of person?" ”

Zhao Cheng recalled: "I'm not tall, I'm quite thin, my face is covered and I can't see it clearly, but I shouldn't be very old, ah yes, my feet seem to be a little lame." At the end of the year, those who are in debt and have itchy hands have to think of making money for the New Year. ”

"Don't worry, you should pay attention to it at home!"

Chu Yi sent Zhao Cheng out, went back to the shop, and continued to accompany Shen Luzhu to sell paper money, the newly built shop was sheltered and warm, and when there was no one inside, he chatted a few words, and it was not difficult to arrive.

"The daughter-in-law of the Chu family, help me take the knife and copper money to burn the paper, and ask for three more silver tickets and paper money, this has built a new shop, it looks different from the previous stall, and even the counter is there!" The man said and put the money directly on the newly built counter.

Seeing Chu Yi hand over all the paper money, Shen Luzhu put the money in the money box: "Yes, it's a lot more comfortable than before!" By the way, auntie, if you want to buy paper money recently, don't come on the day of Laba, there is no one at home that day! ”

Shen Luzhu's words are a little strange, this paper money business is not like selling groceries, why would someone come to buy it every now and then.

However, the aunt from the neighboring village patronized the gossip, how could she still think so much: "What about the Laba Festival, why is there no one at home?" ”

"I'm not at home because of the holidays, and I plan to go to the town with my family to go shopping, and also taste what the laba porridge in the shop in the town is like!"

Throughout the afternoon, Shen Luzhu almost met people and said, don't come to buy paper money that day, there is no one at home!

Some people responded with a smile on their faces, but they didn't think so, isn't it just porridge, can you still eat dragon meat? In the end, the business is booming and making money, and after a Laba, the whole family has to go to the town, look at her!

There are also more familiar ones who will ridicule Shen Luzhu, and let her come back and tell everyone how different the laba porridge in the shop in this town is different from the one cooked at home!

And after hearing this, I couldn't help but regret a little, I knew that the life of the Chu family could be so prosperous, how good it was to marry my daughter in the first place!

It doesn't matter what others think, anyway, it won't be long before there is no one in their family on the day of Laba, and they should know what they shouldn't know, they should know everything!