After buying the house and shop, the little couple became more and more busy in the following days, and the first consideration was how to arrange and repair the two shops in the county.

The east courtyard in the county town is a standard two-entry house, like the gatehouse, the front yard, the hanging flower door and the ear room, these are generally large families, left for the family slaves to live, at a glance you know that the original family of the Lu family should be quite good.

But although the Chu family is living a good life now, it will not be to move to the county to serve in groups of slaves, and the monthly salary is two, if there are suddenly a lot of people in the family, they may not be able to adapt to it, and it is a big waste for the Chu family to take these porters and other places.

"Nearly thirty percent of the area in front of the Hanging Flower Gate, our family is afraid that we can't use it, it's a pity that it's empty, I think about whether to open up the gatehouse and build a shop, that small front yard to see two warehouses is good."

Chu Yi listened to his wife's plan and was a little puzzled: "Build another shop?"

"Well, I think that even if we have two shops in the east and west courtyards, the area of the shops needed for paper money trading is not large, and the shops that are rebuilt in the east courtyard can be done, and the larger shops in the west courtyard can also do some side transactions in the future, even if we don't do it, let's rent it out."

In fact, Shen Luzhu originally envisioned that the shop in the west courtyard would be turned into a coffin shop, she knew that Chu Yi liked carpenter work and coffins, but not everyone liked to turn hobbies into jobs, she thought that if Chu Yi wanted to do it in the future, then she would do it, if she didn't want to be like she said, it would be okay to rent it out or do some side things, so she didn't put it on her lips and changed her words.

Chu Yi nodded: "Cheng, that place is empty and empty, it is good to be able to use it, anyway, the house in the inner courtyard has to be renovated, and it is convenient to change it together, but the west courtyard does not need to be moved, the Lu family has changed it before, without those one-in-two-in tricks, the inner courtyard of the shop and the house are big enough, just repair it."

"Why don't you open a door on the wall between the east and west courtyards, it will be easier for you to enter and exit your house in the future, and if you rent it out in the future, we will lock it, and it won't take much trouble."

"Okay, listen to Azhu."

Ten days of time is not short, not long, just enough for the small couple to plan the two houses each need to change the place, as soon as the ten days arrived, Chu Yi went to the county again, checked the two houses, and directly replaced the heart lock, which is still Chu Yi a few days ago in the village of the blacksmith new.

Then he began to inquire about the construction team near the county seat, although it was a cold winter, and the outdoor masonry work could not be done, but the changes to several houses in the east courtyard of the Chu family were not small, so he wanted to take advantage of the year before to hire someone to repair the house where his family lived.

But in the winter months, there was no construction team to do work in the bazaar, Chu Yi searched for two days and still made no progress, and finally entrusted Ding An to find a guy who was willing to take the work, and the Chu family's new house finally began to start.

After that, Chu Yi began to run around the county seat and the mountain village, busy supervising the work, and also buying some furniture and items needed for the new house, and was busy for nearly a month, until the month of Layue, several rooms in the east courtyard were repaired.

The matter in the county has just come to an end, the business of the paper money shop has begun to be busy again, every household has to worship the ancestors during the month of Layue, the sales of paper money have always been the best one among the four sections, the small couple bought the house shop, and rebuilt and repaired, before and after spending a lot of money, at this time it is to start business again, it will be more hard.

Around the twentieth month of the lunar month, the processing of the ingots workshop and the copper coin burning paper stopped, and as the year approached, the business in the shop became more and more prosperous, not only the Shen family and Chu Ping, but even Jiang Juan's sisters and brothers and Zhao Cheng also came to help from time to time.

At noon on this day, after Jiang Juan's sister and brother had lunch at Chu's house, they were left in the west chamber to rest by the little couple, and while they were finally free, Jiang Juan took out a cloth bag from her arms and handed it to Shen Luzhu, who came to send a quilt to herself.

"Sister-in-law, you keep this."

Shen Luzhu subconsciously stretched out his hand, but as soon as he received it, he felt that this cloth bag seemed to be extraordinarily pressing, and when he opened it, he saw that it was actually ten pieces of broken silver: "Cousin, what are you doing?"

After saying that, Shen Luzhu took Jiang Juan's hand and tried to return the cloth bag to her.

Jiang Juan desperately put her hands behind her back and refused to take them back again: "Sister-in-law, this is ten taels of silver, you borrowed it from me to treat Xiaobao's illness, and I will return it to you today."

Shen Luzhu's face was full of disagreement: "Didn't you say it before, you don't have to pay back this silver, why is it here again today?"

Speaking of these ten taels of silver, Jiang Juan is not the first time to try to return it to Shen Luzhu, but every time she is taught a lesson, she is returned, and now Jiang Juan is saying that she will not take it back.

"Sister-in-law, can you finish listening to me first, and when I finish speaking, let's talk about this silver?"

Shen Luzhu looked at Jiang Juan, who was about to retreat to the door in order to distance himself from him, but he was still holding his hands behind his back, and couldn't help but be a little funny: "Cheng, don't go back, I'm afraid you're going to go out if you retreat."

Jiang Juan then returned to the kang and sat down, and talked to Shen Luzhu about her thoughts: "Sister-in-law, after the two of us talked about Brother Ding that time, I thought about it a lot, and I still couldn't figure it out after thinking about it for so long......

Shen Luzhu patted Jiang Juan's hand: "This kind of thing, how can you be in a hurry."

Who knew that Jiang Juan shook her head: "So, I went to find Brother Ding the day before yesterday."

"You went to the county alone?"

Jiang Juan nodded heavily: "Don't worry, cousin, haven't I already come back well."

"Next time there is such a thing, it is better to come to the house to lead the ox cart and ask your cousin or Jiang Quan to send you there than yourself!"

"Why don't you ask my cousin first, what am I looking for Brother Ding to do?"

Jiang Juan didn't wait for Shen Luzhu to ask herself, so she took a deep breath and continued, "I asked Brother Ding, he said he wanted to marry me at the beginning, is he still thinking like this now?"

"What did Brother Nading say?"

"Brother Ding said that he has always thought like this, and he has never changed. So I told him that I had a lot of things in me that were not worthy of him, and that I didn't want to waste his time, and that he should find a girl who was worthy of him."

Looking at Jiang Juan like this, Shen Luzhu couldn't say how distressed: "Cousin......

"But cousin-in-law, Brother Ding said that he didn't need a wife and then happened to meet me, but because he met me, he wanted a wife, so if it wasn't for me, how could there be any delay!"

For some reason, Shen Luzhu seemed to instantly understand the meaning of Jiang Juan's words with herself, Jiang Juan was happy with Ding An, but maybe it was because of her temperament, maybe it was Wang Tiecheng's matter that caused her too much blow, she was very inferior, so inferior that she didn't want to believe that Ding An was sincere to her, so she repeatedly refused on the grounds that she was not worthy of the other party.

Shen Luzhu only hoped that Ding An's answer would make Jiang Juan face herself.

"Cousin-in-law, I actually have a good impression of Brother Ding, but I don't dare to respond at all, I don't believe that Brother Ding will please me, I even think that maybe Brother Ding is for Yaya, because Yaya needs a mother, so Brother Ding needs a wife, and he just happened to meet me. I obviously feel that I am not worthy of Brother Ding, but I don't want Brother Ding to consider me for such reasons, so I will tell Brother Ding that I don't want to delay him. But Brother Ding said no, so I ...... Cousin, am I mean?"

Shen Luzhu gently hugged Jiang Juan, patted her back and comforted, "How come, you are just a little timid and a little afraid."

Jiang Juan wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, raised her head from Shen Luzhu's arms, and said firmly, "Even if it's very despicable, I admit it!" Cousin-in-law, I don't want to miss Brother Ding, I want to give it a try, I want to become a girl worthy of Brother Ding.

So cousin-in-law, you must accept this money, as the first step for me to change, and my cousin-in-law is not allowed to stop me. In the future, I will rely on myself, like my cousin, and I don't want to hide behind everyone all the time."

"Good! Then my cousin-in-law wishes you to become what you want as soon as possible."

Shen Luzhu originally had a lot of things to say to Jiang Juan, wanted to say that she was very good, wanted to tell her that she didn't have to feel inferior, and wanted to say that she had to firmly believe that even if it wasn't Ding An, even if there was no other

A man, she can still live well, so there is no need to be entangled, there is no need to be anxious, whether it is timid or determined, as long as she is her.

It's just that in the face of today's Jiang Juan, these words don't know where to start, it's always a good thing to want to be better, even if it's for the so-called "worthy", Shen Luzhu believes that one day, she will understand that I was born to please me, not to be trapped in others.

The Chu family's paper money shop, as usual, has been busy until the twenty-seventh day of the lunar month, before the business stopped, while the market and shops in the twenty-eighth town are still open, the family and the old and young drove the ox cart to the town to buy some New Year's goods.

Candy preserves, pastries and dried fruits, as well as window flowers, firecrackers, etc., the Chu family is always very busy before the year, all kinds of New Year's goods, are able to buy wine and buy, the family can have a rich year, and it is not easy to finish the work in the shop and workshop, and you have to be busy for the New Year.

Different from other families in the village, the Chu family's new clothes for the New Year, since Shen Luzhu married in, have been changed into ready-to-wear clothes in the shops in the town.

After more than four years of marriage, the little couple has now become a father and mother, not to mention, Chu Li has also changed from an eight-year-old child to a teenager, and Chu Xiuxiu has also become a big girl, but in front of the little couple, it seems that she always seems to be like a child.

After the New Year, Chu Xiuxiu will be sixteen years old, ancient men and women got married early, and the women in the village were even worse.

But this matter is in the Chu family, but no one is in a hurry at all, Shen Luzhu treats Chu Xiuxiu as his own sister, always thinking that she is only a teenager, and she has not seen a bigger and better world, and she can't bear to be stumped by firewood, rice, oil and salt too early.

Third Uncle Chu is not in a hurry, he only has this one daughter, so he naturally wants to stay by his side for a few more years.

Chu Xiuxiu herself is even more unhurried, she still has a lot of words that she can't write, and she hasn't read many books, how can she stay by her sister-in-law's side when she marries, and it's interesting to read and write.