The day after returning from Cui's house, Jiang Juan's family of five came to the door, and the young couple hurriedly invited people into the reception room of the West Chamber, and the two families sat in the room and chatted eagerly.

"Why did my aunt and uncle come here today?"

Aunt Cui took the package she had brought all the way and handed it to Shen Luzhu: "I heard that you went to A-Niang's yesterday, I guessed that you have been here for three months, did you go back to tell A-Niang and them the good news, why don't you hurry over and give you joy today!"

The elders of both men and women will send gifts with special meanings, such as red eggs and brown sugar, new shoes and hats sewn for the little baby in the womb, and if there are children in the family who have not yet reached the age of the dragon, they will also take a piece of underwear that the child wears on weekdays and send it together, which is ready to be used for the newborn to make Momofuku quilts.

Aunt Cui began to prepare these items as early as after she learned from Jiang Juan that Shen Luzhu was pregnant, but at that time, the little couple was still keeping the good news from the outside world, and it was not good for them to send it directly to the outside world, so they waited until today.

Inside the package are two pairs of small socks worn by babies, a newly sewn quilt and a tiger head hat, a few puppets for children to play with, and a small treasure blouse, these things were quietly sent by the Shen family and the aunt next door, the Qian family, but when Shen Luzhu picked up the tiger head hat, he was still amazed, and looked left and right to see what he liked: "This is made by my aunt?" This tiger is vivid, and these puppets are so good-looking, they look better than the stitches of the ready-to-wear shops in the town!"

Aunt Cui waved her hand: "If you are ten years younger, let alone this tiger head hat, it is a puppet to make a bed of puppets for the golden bumps in your stomach, your aunt and I have no problem, but now the eyes are not good, the rough sewing and mending are done, I can't do such a delicate work, I only made the quilt and socks, and the rest are made by Juan'er!"

Shen Luzhu was even more pleasantly surprised when he heard this: "It's been so long, I didn't know that my cousin still had such skills!"

Jiang Juan smiled embarrassedly: "It's just a few puppets, it's not a craft, so don't boast about it!"

Aunt Cui pulled Shen Luzhu to look left and right: "Juan'er said that you can't eat a little oily now, and you have to retch for a long time when you smell the smoke of stir-frying, look at this person is boiled thin, and my aunt also brought you a lot of happy eggs and brown sugar, if you can't eat it, you can use the brown sugar to cook a sugar water egg to eat, and some green vegetables and fruits planted in your yard, your family has hired out the farmland, and these are not planted in the yard, it is inconvenient to eat, if you like to eat, you can ask Ayi to pick them in the yard of your house!"

"Thank you, aunt, aunt doesn't have to worry too much, I see that I have indeed lost some weight, but there is no problem with my body, my grandfather and aunt will come over to me every ten years to take a look, it's just a normal pregnancy reaction, maybe it will be fine after a while!"

Aunt Cui nodded: "That's so, but you still have to pay more attention to it, and your double body is not as usual."

After caring about Shen Luzhu's body, the men went to the hall to sit and drink tea and chat, and only the mother and daughter of the Jiang family were left in the house to accompany Shen Luzhu, in addition to Chu Xiuxiu, who was coaxing Xiaobao to play, and several people chatted and chatted, and talked about Ding An and Jiang Juan.

"The previous Ding Zhutou incident, my family Juan'er was still living in Luzhu for almost ten years, and I knew that you were pregnant at that time, I can't let her bring Xiaobao to trouble you!"

"What did my aunt say, my cousin came over to help me do a lot of work, and she chatted with me all day long to relieve my boredom, I wish my cousin would take Xiaobao to live with me forever!"

Aunt Cui laughed and teased: "If you really let Juan'er and Xiaobao stay with you all the time, this village can't say that I have kicked out my own daughter and grandson!" But then again, Ding Zhutou came to you here, and I also heard Juan'er learn from me, my aunt has to thank you and Ayi for this, thank you for thinking about Juan'er everywhere, if you change people, you have to pack people and send them to Nading's house, Juan'er can have your cousins and sisters-in-law, it's her blessing!"

"When my aunt said this, she just met me and Chu Yi, Juan'er is her own cousin, and she must protect her! Besides, we couldn't help anything, mainly still

It's Ding Zhutou who is a reasonable and good person."

Aunt Cui sighed: "Yes, this Ding Zhutou is indeed a good person, originally we had some misunderstandings about others, thinking that this is an official in the county government, which is what our ordinary people can afford to offend, we don't give people face like this, I'm afraid it will annoy people, who knows that we think people badly, not only did they get angry, but they also told us sorry, what a good person!"

Shen Luzhu saw that there was a follow-up to this matter, and hurriedly asked, "Cousin went back and talked to Ding Zhutou?"

Jiang Juan nodded: "After I went back from my cousin-in-law, I felt a little sorry for Brother Ding no matter how I thought about it, people were kind to me, but I refused to see him like a plague god, and then I heard that Brother Ding returned to the village during the Zhongyuan Festival, so I went to Tian's house and compensated Brother Ding."

"So you're talking about it completely?"

Jiang Juan stopped saying this, a little hesitant, and a little embarrassed, as if she didn't know how to speak, and only shook her head for a long time before she shook her head and said, "I told Brother Ding, I just want to take care of Xiaobao now, and I have no intention of remarrying...... It's just that he said that he was also sincere, and I hope that if I change my mind one day, I can consider him......

"That's fine, after that, my cousin won't have to hide anymore, live according to your own ideas, we are all on your side."

"Well, thank you, cousin!"

In the days that followed, Shen Luzhu still raised the fetus at home with peace of mind, with Chu Yi and Aunt Han taking care of him every day, accompanied by Yuanshuang, Jiang Juan and Chu Lixiuxiu to relieve boredom.

Chu Yi followed Shen Songjie and Shen Zeqi brothers from time to time to run around the mountains and county seats, and finally signed a lease deed with the county government near the end of July, and contracted 20 acres of land halfway up the mountain on the east side of Hexi Village.

On the day the lease was signed, the young couple took Uncle Chu and a few people, and the whole family drove the ox cart to the Shen family in Hexi Village, and the two families made an appointment together, planning to celebrate together.

Before the meal, Shen Songjie stood at the dinner table and announced: "Today, while everyone is here, I have something to say about Ze Qi, when I was doing this mosquito repellent business before, it was me and Ze Qi who had nothing to do, and wanted to do some private work by themselves, thinking that it was good to earn some pocket money, but I didn't expect it to be bigger, this matter can't be done by the two of us alone, thanks to Lu Zhu and my brother-in-law, and thanks to the help of the family, so I just thought, this business will not be my own private work in the future, Half of them belong to Luzhu and Ayi, and half belong to our family!"

The brothers had never revealed to anyone in the family before that they wanted to return the business to the family, so everyone in the Shen family was a little stunned when they heard it: "Songjie, you mean that you want to return to our family for the half of the business with Zeushi?"

"That's right, Grandpa, this business family helps all day long, today the eldest brother and Grandpa will check a prescription and make a pill, Ming'er Daddy and the second uncle will help go up the mountain to reclaim, Grandma and the second aunt have to help us divide and settle the accounts, the whole family is busy, how can it be considered us!"

Regarding the decision of his younger brothers, Shen Chuanbai was a little disagreeable: "If it doesn't work, it's just a matter of reading the medicine book and making some pills, where can I help something!" I spend all day in the pharmacy, and you two are busy with the business yourself, and if I return home, then I won't take advantage of you both for nothing!"

Shen Zeqi looked at his wife Liu Shi with disbelief on his face, and persuaded loudly: "What we sell is medicinal oil, medicinal wine and medicinal pills, and the lobby brother has made all these money-making items for us, how can it be called taking advantage!"

"That's it, if you say so, big brother, when you didn't do this business before, the family didn't rely on grandpa to take you to the pharmacy in addition to farming, and over the years, if you say that you take advantage, then it is me and Ze Ushi who take advantage of you, big brother!"

The juniors in the family are harmonious, and Grandpa Shen, as the elder, is naturally the happiest one, listening to the words of the brothers, he stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Okay, okay, you guys don't want to blame each other anymore, it's just a family with different divisions, what you divide is ours!"

Hearing that Grandpa Shen not only agreed, but also made up his mind, Shen Songjie was so happy that he sat straight on the chair and replied, "Thank you, Grandpa!"

After the meal, the Chu family was sent away, the Shen family returned to peace again, and the Liu family helped clean up the stove room, so they hurriedly returned to their house with Shen Zeqi under the pretext that Sanqi was a little sleepy.

"Xianggong, why didn't you discuss this matter with me in advance?"

Shen Zeqi drank some wine tonight, his face was a little red, but he was quite sober, thinking of the fact that half of the transaction was given to his cousin before, his wife Liu knew about it, so it seemed that the transaction was going to the family: "The lady is talking about the business going to the family?"

Liu nodded: "It's such a big matter, why don't you discuss it with me in advance?"

Shen Zeqi touched his nose, it was true that he didn't think about this matter so much, but he felt that the second cousin made sense, and the two of them made up their minds: "This time it is indeed my fault, I should have informed you in advance."

Liu knew that this matter was now a foregone conclusion, and he couldn't change anything, so he could only say: "It's not to blame Xianggong for this, it's just that I feel that this business has changed from private work to family, and it is not as convenient as before, but since it has changed, it can only be like this!"

"Does the lady think it's not as convenient as before?"

Liu hesitated for a moment and said, "It used to be a private job, and the silver was held in his own hands, but now that it has become the family's, this silver naturally has to be managed by the family......

"The lady is too worried, the aunt has always been generous and pampered to us juniors, if you have anything you want, just tell the aunt directly."

Liu looked at her innocent husband, thought about it and swallowed back the words in his heart.