Liangyue Farm Gate

Chapter 49 Two taels reward money (seeking the first order!)
The third watch is asking for the first order, the first watch!
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This matter passed, and there was no news in the afternoon.

In the evening, Guan Wen lay on Li Xin's lap and let her massage his head. He closed his eyes and listened to Li Xin's account of what happened in the afternoon. After listening carefully, Guan Wen frowned, "Xin'er, so If you hide it and don't tell Steward Cui, will the madam be unhappy?"

Li Xin said with a smile: "Guan Cui said that Mrs. Cui and Miss Cui are kind people, so they must understand our difficulties."

To put it bluntly, Li Xin and Guan Wen were just part-time workers in Cui's family. They contributed their labor and Cui's family paid for it. The calculation was very clear.But Li Xin would not be willing to tell them how to make some snacks for nothing.They are not children of the Cui family, so they have no such obligation.

Guan Wen was still a little worried, and raised his head, "What if I offend someone?"

"will not."

Li Xin pressed his head, put his hands on his shoulders and kneaded him, and said softly: "You also think too narrowly of these rich people, no matter how kind they are, in their eyes Ah, we are all ordinary people, so they won't care about anything with us. Just put your heart in your stomach, you're so tired every day, and you still think about these things, don't you feel more tired and flustered?"

Guan Wen snorted twice, being pinched comfortably by Li Xin, he didn't speak, and said vaguely: "You should also be careful..."

Li Xin smiled and said nothing, suddenly remembered something, patted Guan Wen's chest, and said with a smile: "I haven't told you yet, Mrs. Cui's family rewarded two taels of silver, and now we add it to our work this time." The wages, add up to at least four taels of silver..."

Before he could finish speaking, Guan Wen got up from the kang, knelt on his knees, put his hands on Li Xin's sides, and asked her with bright eyes: "What did you just say?"

"What am I talking about?" Li Xin patted his head inexplicably, "I said that we will have four taels of silver at least after this trip, so we don't have to sell the pigs at home. Four taels of silver is enough for the fourth brother to marry a wife son."

Guan Wen was still a little confused: "Why did you get two liang of silver more..."

"Didn't I tell you just now that I got the money from Mrs. Cui's family?"

Li Xin happily looked at Guan Wen's rare naive look, burst out laughing, pressed his shoulder and said, "Lie down obediently, I'll rub it for you again, there are red marks on your shoulders... "

Earlier, when Li Xin was talking about the afternoon, he just said that Mrs. Cui's family rewarded the money, but Guan Wen didn't care much about it. He thought that the reward was only a few copper coins or something, but he didn't expect that this reward would be rewarded with two taels of silver. .

Guan Wen was a little excited, and repeatedly confirmed with Li Xin: "Really?"

Seeing that he still couldn't believe it, Li Xin simply took out the money in his purse and handed it to him, "Here, it's all here, do you write the letter now?"

Guan Wen took the two pieces of broken-cornered silver and weighed them in his hands. His expression returned from excitement to calm, and he solemnly put the money back into Li Xin's palm.

"What's wrong?" Li Xin frowned slightly, "You keep it!"

"You earned it, you should take it..."

Guan Wen smiled lightly at her, grabbed her hand before Li Xin could react, rubbed the palm of her hand lightly and heavily for her, and sighed: "Xin'er, you are really capable... you Are you tired too? You cook and wash dishes during the day, and you have to do something for me at night..."

Li Xin pursed her lips and said with a smile: "Isn't it all what I should do? Well, if you feel guilty in your heart, you can rub it for me more."

The daughter-in-law spoke softly, and Guan Wen naturally liked to listen more, so he hurriedly responded, squeezed her hand seriously, and climbed up her arm, pressing his thumb along the back of her neck. The shoulder line slid down and pinched, with moderate strength.

Li Xin raised his head slightly, squinted his eyes and said, "The technique is not bad."

"I've seen pigs run before I've ever eaten pork. Anyway, I've learned a lot from you these days." Guan Wen replied with a smile, and lightly patted her on the back, sighing a little. He said in a low voice: "Fourth brother brings his wife back, it's a big deal. The matter of Axiu..."

"I told you that there is no hurry, I have to come one by one, I keep mentioning it all the time, frowning, I have become a little old man." Li Xin turned his back to him and said jokingly: " Didn’t you still look at the two young men working here in the past few days? It’s hard to find a three-legged toad, but it’s hard to find a two-legged man?”

Hearing what she said was interesting, Guan Wenle let out a sigh and said, "Could it be that I just take one of them home after I see it?"

"Don't, it's not that Axiu is looking for the door."

After saying this, Li Xin and Guan Wen both laughed out loud.Li Xin turned her head and patted him, "Don't be rude, don't rush the marriage, it's useless to rush. Axiu is a good girl, don't worry about finding a good husband's family."

Guan Wen thought about it for a while, and for some reason, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he asked Li Xin, "I remember sending you to draw that... the scholar who knows what?"

"Wei Xingzhi." This name is not difficult to remember.Li Xin raised his eyebrows, "Why, you want to make him and Axiu together?"

"I'll ask."

"Ah Wen, don't be too hasty. Everyone looks at everyone the way a brother-in-law looks at a sister-in-law." Li Xin said seriously: "If you want to find a husband's family for Axiu, you should find someone who knows everything about it. That's good."

"I know." Guan Wen nodded in agreement.

The couple babbled for a while, Li Xin took out the two taels of silver and handed it to Guan Wen after thinking about it, and said, "Take it away, I still have some scattered copper coins around me, and I usually don't need money." Seeing that Guan Wen was about to push it back, Li Xin pouted and said, "Take it, my father-in-law said hello before we left, and said that we should go to my aunt's place when we have time, and it would be better if you had money by your side."

Speaking of this matter, Guan Wen only took the money, and sighed.

Li Xin said: "When this work is over, let's buy some delicious food and drink to meet my aunt. Speaking of which, except that I met my aunt twice on the wedding day, I didn't even give her a gift. My aunt is also considered a relative." Elder, it’s better to go and have a look. Take this time to take me to find out the family, we are all relatives, and we still have to move around from time to time.”

Li Xin and Guan Wencheng's relatives, the Guan family, also came, gave some gifts, sat down for a while, and left before dark.Li Xin only met her twice, and had no in-depth contact with her.

But looking at Guan Wen's expression when he mentioned his aunt, it's not hard to guess that Guan Wen has a pretty good relationship with Guan's aunt and nephew.

Before I heard it, when Guan Wen was running the darts, he guarded the door for the Guan family, and often helped them out, so that those punks could not continue to harass them.Now that Guan Wen left, those punks might be ready to move again and come back to continue to bully the Guan family.

"My uncle is not in good health. Fortunately, Changhui and Changsheng are old enough to be the pillars. Otherwise, my aunt's life would be miserable."

Guan Wen put away the two taels of silver, rubbed Li Xin's little hand and said, "My aunt loved me when I was young, and she was very kind, and she wouldn't say a word when being bullied. Uncle is also an honest person, The couple did some small business in this town, and they used to be able to get by. If it wasn't for that uncle's leg was broken..."

Li Xin vaguely heard that Uncle Guan Wen's uncle Zhao Guangming had his leg broken, but he is not very clear about the past.Hearing his start, I thought for a while and asked him, "What's wrong with my uncle's legs?"

"He was honest. He saw a few punks on the side of the road selling some fake gadgets to passing merchants. He was afraid that the merchants would suffer. He was beaten. According to my uncle, someone may have kicked him too hard, and the bone was broken. After that, my uncle stayed on the bed all day, and the doctor also said that his leg could not be healed.”

Li Xin frowned, "Then those gangsters didn't lose money or anything? And those merchants, uncle's experience has something to do with them, and they didn't say anything?"

Guan Wen sighed, shook his head and said: "People are like that, who cares? Those gangsters are also timid and afraid of getting into trouble. Two of them ran away, and the other two were beaten to death and said they were not kicked by them. My uncle was also honest and said no. I remember who kicked his legs back then, so we can only put this matter on hold, and the two of them gave some money, but it was useless."

"Then, what about the merchants?"

"Businessmen?" Guan Wen snorted coldly, "Businessmen are all for profit. Whoever wants to share this kind of thing will have no time to hide. My aunt also went to them. I sent the money, but the next day my aunt went to look for it, and the person disappeared. After all, it was just a passing merchant, and no one knew it, so I could just forget about it.”

"It's not unusual for a businessman to seek profit." Li Xin said with emotion.

"At that time, Changhui Changsheng was still young, and all the burdens of the family fell on the aunt, and the family lived very hard." Guan Wenchang sighed, "Fortunately, it is the end of it now."

Guan's husband, Zhao Guangming, is no longer young in bed, but his two children have grown up, and there are two more laborers in the family. Although life is tight now, it is still okay. Compared with previous years, his life is really better. Many, even without Guan Wen's cover, no one would dare to bully the Zhao family easily.

The couple chattered about the Zhao family's affairs for a while, and fell asleep when they couldn't bear the sleepiness.

After a few days, everything was calm. Mrs. Cui and Miss Cui didn't tell Li Xin what to eat, and Cui Guanshi never came to Li Xin.But what's funny is that at that time, the maid next to the young lady who gave Li Xin the bounty money came to Li Xin several times, looked at her helplessly, and pouted, as if expressing her dissatisfaction.

This little maid looks like she is only twelve or thirteen years old, and she already has a pretty appearance.Li Xin thought, the maid is twelve or thirteen years old, and the young lady is probably not too old. Li Xin is not annoyed when she sees this maid looking at her as if accusing her every time. Yes, but every time the little maid ran away with a look of disgust.

This can be regarded as one of the joys Li Xin found while working in the Cui Mansion. At night, he described the maidservant's jealousy and dissatisfaction to Guan Wen, which made Guan Wen laugh and say that she was "stingy".

(End of this chapter)