Flowers are expensive

Chapter 177

Before reaching the gate of the courtyard, Lihua heard Gao Sangu's characteristic bright voice: "Father and mother will follow their son when they get old! If you don't go back, your father and I will move here, and your family will also be here. Unmarried girls, we all move here together, you should pay for the expenses, and you should also pay for the girls' dowry, Hai Tang, you can figure it out yourself!"

"Mother, if I have something to say, I'll talk about it when I go back to Cao's house. Where are you going to make trouble? This is Manting's house!" Haitang persuaded. "Then I can't control it! I'll follow you wherever you are, anyway, you can't leave my mother alone!" Gao Sangu raised her voice and shouted.

"No one said that I don't care about you!" Haitang said anxiously, "I'm only staying here temporarily in Manting. It's a job he hired. You live with me. What do you mean? Hongling and I still want to Those who are filial to you, stop making trouble and go back first!"

When Lihua walked into the yard, Third Aunt Gao was sitting under the small orange tree in the yard with a face like a lump, her jaw slightly raised, with a fighting hen expression.When Haitang saw Lihua, he felt even more embarrassed, and hurriedly said, "Lihua, I'm going to persuade my mother to leave now, so I won't cause you any trouble."

The third girl raised her neck and said immediately: "No one can persuade you! Unless you, Cao Haitang, don't recognize my mother today! From now on, I will live wherever you live, and I will eat whatever you eat. You should ask Hongling to serve you." You have to let her take care of you! Don’t think that a big belly is a big deal, who hasn’t had a big belly? When I was pregnant with Meizhi Meixiang, I was still busy working on the stove for eight months! She is only six months old now. Is it so delicate? You really got used to it! I won’t leave! No matter what, I won’t leave!”

"Mother..."

"Don't persuade, Brother Haitang!" Lihua glanced at Third Aunt Gao, and said to Haitang, "Go to the fields first, and I'll take care of it here. Where's Hongling? Why haven't you seen her?"

"I'm changing clothes in the house!" Haitang said guiltily, "Just now my mother was in a hurry and splashed the water from the basin on the red water chestnut, but I didn't stop..." "It deserves it!" Third Aunt Gao scolded through gritted teeth , "Little vixen! An uneasy and kind thing! After leaving Zhuangzi and becoming a free agent, I want to live a comfortable life alone outside! Dreaming! Haitang is the seed of Cao's family. There are two old people in Cao's family, and a sister-in-law wants to take care of her." ! She wants to stretch every morning, she wants to be beautiful!"

"You are too much, Third Aunt Gao!" Mrs. Gong did not expect that after she left, Hongling would pour water on Third Aunt Gao, pointing at Aunt Gao involuntarily and scolding, "Hongling is your daughter-in-law anyway. You are still pregnant with your grandson! You are so cruel to pour water on her? If you are not afraid of hurting her, you are not afraid of hurting your grandson?” “Bah! Whose grandson? Whose son? The plant belongs to our Cao family!" Gao Sangu spit on the ground and said, "Who doesn't know what she used to do? Qin Lihua can't erase what they did before no matter how much she can talk! Do you know whose seed is in her belly? I won't recognize it!"

"That's really... really unreasonable!" Gong said with his hands on his hips.

"Who are you scolding for being unreasonable? Let me tell you that the surname is Gong. In terms of seniority, I belong to your elders. Is it okay for your natal family to be uneducated? Or is it that the Deng family didn't take care of their daughter-in-law at all? How dare you scold me again?" Try, I will tear your mouth apart!"

"If you want to fight, who is afraid of whom?" Gong was really angry, and wiped two sleeves as if to start a fight.

"Don't fight her yet, Yutong!" Lihua stopped Gong Shi and said, "If you fight her, if you hurt her finger, she will have to say that you broke her rib! Why bother to fight with yourself?" Are you unhappy?"

"But she's really pissed off!" Standing behind Lihua, Mrs. Gong pointed at Senior Aunt Gao and scolded her.

The third girl stood up from the stone bench with a whoosh, pointed at Mrs. Gong and threatened with a vicious voice: "Don't you dare to point again! Try to point again! I won't bite off your fingers, I will follow your surname." ! A shrew who has no rules! The Deng family can't teach you, so my old lady will call you!"

Mrs. Gong also got angry, jumped up and shouted: "Whose old lady are you rushing at? You want to go back and rush to your little shrew Cao Meixiang! Who in the ten miles and eight villages doesn't know that Cao Meixiang is a little shrew? For this matter , that family just rescinded her marriage earlier and refused to marry her, so you have the nerve to scold others here?"

"Fuck you!" Gao Sangu yelled angrily, took off her right shoe and threw herself at Gong Shi.Haitang hurriedly stood in the middle, pushed Sangu Gao's shoes while pushing her and said, "Don't make trouble! Isn't it embarrassing?"

"Who are you throwing away? How dare you call me ashamed when your mother raised you so big? Cao Haitang, you are so heartless! You don't deserve the surname Cao!" Third Aunt Gao was not soft-hearted at all, and slapped Haitang vigorously with her shoe.

Haitang didn't fight back, but just blocked it with his arm.Gao Sangu became more and more violent, took off her other shoe, and beat her with both hands, as if she wanted to beat Haitang to death.Hearing the movement, Hong Ling walked out of the room to take a look, and quickly shouted: "Mother, don't hit Haitang!"

"Damn goblin," Gao Sangu turned her head and shouted as she ran to Hongling, "it's you, the goblin who has been a scourge for thousands of years! My son can't go back home, so he's living a good life with you outside! I'll beat you to death!" You! Kill you!" Lihua took a step ahead, stopped Gao Sangu, and pushed her back hard.Moxiang and Yutao, who were standing by the door looking dumbfounded, came to their senses, and hurried over to support Hongling.

Third Aunt Gao took two steps back, leaned back, and sat down on the ground.She took her shoe and slapped it on the ground twice, and said furiously as she got up: "I can't take care of you? I can't take care of you and my surname is Gao! Wait, wait, I will slap you both to death like a bedbug." Goblin!" Gao Sangu rolled up her sleeves while cursing, as if vowing to fight Lihua to the death.Just as she rolled her sleeves excitedly, a white bead rolled out.Lihua looked down and said in a slightly surprised tone, "Hey! Third Aunt Gao, you are really rich! Where did you get such a big pearl?"

Third Aunt Gao's expression changed, only then did she realize that the pearls that had been hidden in her sleeves had fallen out.She rushed to pick it up in a hurry, but Gong Shi took a step ahead.Mrs. Gong held it in her hand, looked at it again and again and asked, "My God! What a big pearl! Lihua, how much is this worth?"

"It's worth a lot of money!" Yutao stared at the pearl and said enviously, "Last time I saw that the young wives in Zeng's mansion wore such big pearls around their necks! It's so beautiful!"

"Yes!" Mo Xiang nodded with a golden light in her eyes, "It's white and big, so pretty!"

"Give it back to me!" Gao Sangu rushed over and stuffed it into her sleeves.

"Isn't this pearl worth a hundred taels at least?" Li Hua asked with a smile while looking at Sangu Gao's flustered expression, "Sangu, where did you get such a good pearl?"

"I want... I want you to take care of it!"

"I don't care, I'm just asking, is your old man now eating pearl powder for beauty like the people in the city? You are really rich!"

"Nothing like that!"

"Who are you coaxing?" Lihua said with a smile, "That pearl looks like a high-grade east pearl, and you can't buy it for a hundred taels. Sangu, don't tell me, you bought that pearl yourself. !"

All three of Yutao burst into laughter. "She can afford it?" Gong said with a sneer, "I'm afraid she can't afford such a good pearl after selling the yard of her house? Aunt Gao San, tell the truth? Where did you steal it?"

Gao Sangu blushed for a while, stretched her neck and shouted at Gong Shi: "Who stole it? Your whole family is the thief!"

"Then tell us, where did the pearls come from?" Lihua said with a slight smile, "Don't tell me that you found the clam shells at Haiziqiao recently. The pearls are marine at first glance, Haiziqiao That little water can't raise such a big pearl."

"Yes, mother," Haitang also asked strangely, "Where did you get such a pearl? It looks expensive, don't you..."

"Not your size!" Gao Sangu interrupted Haitang in a panic, "It's not...I didn't steal it..."

Lihua sat down on the stone bench, crossed her legs, held her chin, looked at Third Aunt Gao with a smile and asked, "Then you have to tell me the source, right? It's okay if you don't, we all know anyway, Third Aunt you Now you are a rich man! One pearl in your sleeve can be worth several acres of land in my two broken yards, and you still come here to live and eat, is it unreasonable? It kind of insults your status as a rich man!"

Aunt Gao San really regretted it at this time!If I had known earlier, I should not have carried this pearl on my body.Ever since she brought the pearl home yesterday, she felt uneasy about putting it anywhere, after much deliberation, she still felt that it was safest to put it in her sleeve pocket.But just now, he was in a hurry to get into a fight with Lihua, and forgot about the pearl, so he revealed his treasure.Now that these people know about it, there is no way to hide the matter of Pearl.She rolled her eyes and made up a pretense: "I picked it up! I picked it up in the woods a few days ago!"

Kung put her hips on her hips, smiled and said sarcastically: "Oh, where did you pick it up, Sangu? Where do pearls grow in the forest? It grows so big, I never heard that there are trees that can grow pearls in the forest! If this is the case, Zique Village would have been renamed Pearl Village long ago! Your old man’s pretense is full of holes everywhere!"

Lihua and the others all giggled.The third aunt was so embarrassed, she waved her hands vigorously and said, "I can't tell you! Why should I tell you where I picked it up, can you pick it up later? Anyway, I didn't steal it or rob it, you don't care!"

Lihua nodded and smiled, "That's right, we don't care if you have pearls or not, but I can care if you come here and make trouble. Speaking of which, Brother Haitang was redeemed by us, and the contract of prostitution is still with me. You heard Is it true that when the owner bought a young servant, he still has to take care of his old lady and sister, and subsidize her dowry? If you become an owner in the future, I don’t know how many people will rush to your door to beg you to take him in! But I won’t eat this It’s a pity, you should give up that heart!”

Third Aunt Gao frowned and asked Lihua, "I heard from people in the village that Haitang and Deng Kailuo's deeds of prostitution have been paid back, so stop coaxing me!"

"The original one was returned, but another one was picked up, what can you do?" Lihua glanced at Haitang and said with a smile, "Why don't you ask Brother Haitang yourself?"

Hai Tang hurriedly nodded and said: "It's another one. I said it just now. I work for Lihua and Manting, and I'm not free! If you continue to mess around like this, I'm afraid the whole village will Everyone will laugh at you!"

"Hmph!" Gao Sangu gave Haitang a dissatisfied look, half-believing in what he said, who knows if this kid is coaxing her with Qin Lihua under pretense?However, she couldn't do anything right now, so she said to Haitang: "That's fine, if you don't go back to live with your mother, I won't make it difficult for you. Your father is not in good health recently, so you need to make up for it. You have to take out two dollars." Right! It’s a good thing we raised you, don’t you have any filial piety?”

"What's wrong with dad?" When Cao An Haitang was mentioned, he became furious, "If he takes a sip from the wine jar, he will surely live a long life!"

"Where does a son talk like that? Come on! Bring it! This is what you should be filial to your parents! If you tell me this, no one in the whole village will laugh at me, right? Which one is not like this?" Senior three After tucking the pearls into her sleeve pockets, Auntie stretched out her hands confidently and asked Haitang for money.

Haitang doesn't have much money, and Hongling is pregnant with a child, so all the money is spent on Hongling's health.He shook his head and said, "No more, mother! Where can I get so much money for you? Hong Ling is still pregnant with a child, so why not spend money?"

(End of this chapter)