Flowers are expensive

Chapter 178 Pressing Xie Manxiang

"You only care about that little vixen, and don't care about your parents' life or death?"

"Hey, third aunt," Li Hua said with a light smile, "Why do you say that you are dying? You have such a good pearl in your sleeve pocket, and you can sell it in the town, and you can get it for a lot of money. Silver is enough to feed and drink your family for a year!"

"I asked my son for money, what are you doing? Shouldn't he be a son with money to subsidize the family? He is the only son in the family, and we can't rely on him when we get old!" Ling's silver ear pendant said, "Ask her to take it off and give it to me! That ear pendant is worth two copper coins, right? It's just right to sell it to your father to see a doctor, hurry up!"

Hong Ling subconsciously covered her ears, shook her head and said, "This cannot be given to you..."

"Why can't you give it to me? Where did your friend send it to you?"

"Which one of you, Sangu, gave you the pearl?" Lihua asked with a smile.

Third Aunt Gao's face turned red again, she held her sleeves and argued, "Qin Lihua, stop talking nonsense!..."

"I can't see it!" Lihua looked at Gao Sangu with her chin and said with a smile, "Sangu is still a lucky person! Take a closer look, in fact, apart from her waist getting fatter, Sangu's face is still in good condition. He’s probably in his 40s. Wouldn’t it be surprising if someone with a bit of a greasy taste fell in love with him?” “You...don’t talk nonsense, Qin Lihua!” Gao Sangu panicked, “Where...where is there What master? If you want to ruin my reputation, I will..."

"That's it? Just hit me with that pearl in your pocket? Or call your hard-nosed old man?"

Master come to clean me up? "Ewha asked with a playful smile.

"Hahaha..." Moxiang Gong and the others burst out laughing.

"Third Aunt, you just asked Haitang and Hongling for money. That's right, that's what a son and daughter-in-law should do. But, you have to see how you, a mother-in-law, treat your daughter-in-law, right? You just splashed Hongling A pot of water, should I leave some money for soup and medicine?"

"She has the nerve to ask me for money?" Senior Aunt Gao said disdainfully.

"She's sorry, I'm sorry! She and Haitang are both members of my courtyard now, so why don't my hostess talk to you? You hurt someone under my command, so I naturally want to talk to you It's just right——" Lihua snapped her fingers at Gong and said with a smile, "Yutong, help me get the abacus, and Sangu and I will settle the account carefully!"

"I'll go, Fourth Aunt!" Mo Xiang grinned and ran to get the abacus.

Aunt Gao San was stunned for a moment, then sat down opposite Li Hua and said, "Are you really counting? Hmph, let me see how you count!" Mo Xiang brought Li Hua's small abacus and put it on the stone table.Li Hua bowed her head and counted, "You hurt Hong Ling, the soup and medicine cost 250 Wen, and you delayed Haitang's work for half a day, [-] Wen..."

"Wait!" Gao Sangu asked with golden eyes shining, "Haitang's salary is 250 Wen a day?"

"No," Lihua shook her head and smiled, "The rules here are quite special. If you miss work without reason, you will be fined five times the day's wages. Haitang's daily wages are only fifty yuan."

"What? Don't you have such a harsh employer?" Gao Sangu said with great disappointment.

Lihua flicked her beads and said with a smile: "My rules are not limited to these! Your old man doesn't work here, why are you so anxious? Let me do the math! Besides Haitang's, you also delayed Hongling's work. Baiwen, besides, you came into the house and used my basin to pour water from my well, which counts as fifty yuan; besides, you also sat on my stool..."

"You have to count this too? I think you are crazy about money, right?" Aunt Gao San was so angry that she couldn't speak.

"What do you care about me?" Li Hua pushed the last bead up vigorously and said, "You came here uninvited and touched my things, so of course you have to pay for it! You just think this is your home. Is it the farm managed by plum branches? There are no rules there, but there are many rules here! If you can’t afford it, please don’t lift your feet into this yard in the future! Anyway, you saw it, you should pay me eight hundred in total A copper coin, pay or write an IOU?"

Haitang turned his face away, ignoring this troublesome mother.Mo Xiang and the others knew that they were leaning forward and backward!
Mrs. Gong yelled: "San Gu, what is eight hundred taels? You still have several hundred taels in your sleeve pocket! Take them out and sell them to Lihua, so that Lihua can give you a few hundred taels. Take a bamboo basket Pick it back, what a show!"

"I want you to take care of it!" Gao Sangu hurriedly got up and said, "It's not that easy to cheat my money! Isn't it just a broken yard? Next time you invite me, I won't come!"

Lihua smiled and said: "Even if this is a thatched cottage, it belongs to my own family. If you step here, you will be considered a burglar. If you sue the government office, you will be the one who suffers! What's wrong? Are you going to run away? Okay, seeing Brother Haitang and Hongling today, I will write down this account for the time being. But I will put the ugly words first, Sangu, if you do something to Hongling next time, I will have to follow the new account and the old account. You get it together!"

Aunt Gao San knew that she couldn't take advantage of it, so she blushed and ran out of the yard in a panic, fearing that Lihua would ask her for money again.Gong followed her out and shouted loudly: "Sangu, run slowly! Be careful that the pearls in your sleeves fall out, it's hard to pick another one in the wilderness!"

"Hahaha..." Lihua and the others laughed so hard that they couldn't straighten up.

Lihua pointed at Gong Shi and said, "I didn't expect that your small mouth can be sour!" Gong raised her eyebrows and said, "Who made her go too far! As soon as I entered the door, I saw Hongling and wanted to beat me. Stop it, otherwise there is only a basin of water for Hongling?"

Haitang said apologetically: "I'm sorry, Lihua, my mother has such a temper." Lihua smiled and said, "The person you're sorry for is not me, but Hongling. Brother Haitang, I didn't blame you, in case Third Aunt Gao hurt Hongling and hurt the child in her belly, I'm afraid you even want to die."

Haitang nodded and said: "I understand what you mean, I won't let my mother mess around again next time. I will go back to Cao's house and make it clear. In fact, I was sold to the village when I was five years old. I don't deserve to mention the word "raising" except for one time. My sister has worked so hard to raise me since I was born." Mrs. Gong counted with her fingers and said: "When you were born, the housekeeper Mother is only ten years old, right? Does she have the ability?"

Haitang nodded and said: "Anyway, since I can remember, my sister has taken me with me, and carried me when I went out to work. My parents seldom took care of me. Later, when I grew up, the family couldn't live anymore. She Afraid that I would starve to death, I simply sold the farm.”

"That's really rare!" Mrs. Gong couldn't help feeling, "The housekeeper is quite capable, and it's a bit of a loss to marry Ma Liu. It's a pity, who made her have a father who was addicted to alcohol? Otherwise, why did you marry Ma Liu at the age of 22? Who would marry her after hearing that she has such a father?"

"Although my sister is a bit fierce, her heart is not bad."

"If she wants to be evil, she won't show it in front of you," Lihua said with a half-smile after receiving the words, "Okay, don't worry about the housekeeper, help Hong Ling in to rest."

Hai Tang helped Hong Ling into the house, Gong Shi was busy making lunch, and Yu Tao followed her to help.Lihua went back to her room with the little abacus, and Moxiang walked in, took out a small wooden box from her satchel and handed it to her, saying, "This is from Zuzu."

Lihua was a little surprised, raised her hand to take the small wooden box, opened it, and found six milky white balls inside.She hurriedly asked: "What can you do for me?" Mo Xiang smiled and said: "Zu Zu said you are weak and haven't seen you conceived for so long, so I specially made this body-replenishing ball for you."

Lihua frowned and asked, "What kind of meatball is this? Is it famous?"

"Zuzu didn't say anything, he just asked me to give it to you. By the way, the fourth uncle is at Zuzu's place!"

"What is he doing there?" Li Hua was taken aback, no wonder she didn't see Yuan Yin's shadow all morning, so she went to Xie's house.

"I don't know," Mo Xiang shook her head while playing with the abacus beads, "The two of them are locked in the room talking, and they didn't let me hear it. They must be plotting some big business again! Fourth aunt, you accept me as an apprentice!"

"Don't you want to be a female doctor? Why do you want to change your career again?" Lihua put the box away and temporarily put it aside.

"I can learn both!"

"What are you doing after learning so much? Are you rushing to make money?" Li Hua slammed the table after saying this, pointed at Mo Xiang and asked with a smile, "Oh! I remembered! Should Tian Yisheng chase after Qiu Wei? Gone? Is there a shortage of money?"

Mo Xiang nodded embarrassingly and said: "I have collected all the money. I have 12 taels at my place. Grandpa Tian also saved six taels from selling fish and herbs. The total is 21 taels. Shangzhou is enough. Don’t you have to stay there for a few days? If you don’t eat well and stay well, it will delay his exam, so I want him to go early and find all the inns that he should stay in, so as to save time.”

"Yo! I haven't been married yet! All the money from the private house has been subsidized to him?" Lihua covered her mouth and smiled, "No wonder I didn't let me tell you how much money I shared with you last time. Is it true that if you have a man, you don't want your parents?" Mo Xiang picked the abacus beads, and said a little shyly: "Isn't that Yi Sheng's tight use? If you miss Qiu Wei, you will be in big trouble! If my mother finds out, I used the little private house to make up for Yi Sheng's money. I'm afraid I'll have to chatter with Grandpa Tian again! Don't you know, when I look back at Lier, my mother thinks that the Tian family is short, and has been nagging me for a long time!"

"Doesn't she like Tian Yisheng very much?"

"After all, my mother has a knot in her heart. Although Yi Sheng said that she will take care of her and her father in the future, she still wants to recruit Yi Sheng to the door. After you left, she will be with me. It's been two or three times, and I just ignored her. It's the third aunt's fault for talking about it, and it's okay if she didn't mention it at the dinner table that day."

"Jin Ling'er?" Li Hua thought for a while and said, "I don't know where she is now. How is your third uncle?"

"Drink the wine! Otherwise, put on a dead fish face, as if the whole family owes him. He said that he wanted to go to the third aunt, but neither grandparents nor grandparents allowed him. He said that if he didn't come back in three months, he would go to the Jin family's ancestral grave." If he burns a divorce letter before, he and his third aunt will be done, and another one will be married. The Jin family is also true, so let’s just leave and get away with third aunt.”

"Who knows if Jin Ling'er is what she wants?" Just as she was speaking, the voices of Mrs. Zhuang and Mrs. Zhen rang out in the courtyard.The two picked a bamboo basket of fresh fruits and vegetables from the vegetable field and sent them over.Lihua hurriedly went out to meet her, and asked Mrs. Gong to come and carry her into the kitchen.Runhu also came and called fourth aunt sweetly.Lihua responded and asked Moxiang to take Runhu in to get some fruit to eat.

Mrs. Zhuang sat on the stone bench with her stomach stretched out, resting her breath and said, "You have just moved, and mother said that there is nothing good for you, so let us go to the field to pick some vegetables, enough for your fellows to cook. It's over."

"Why did you guys deliver it yourself? I knew I should have asked someone to pick the vegetables."

Zhenshi pulled up her sleeves, wiped off her hot sweat and said with a smile: "It's not far away, so I came here with my back on my back. Mother originally wanted to come with us to see your new yard, but don't worry that the third child is in the house and said Come back another day!" She looked up at the courtyard for a week, smiled and nodded repeatedly: "This courtyard is not bad, although it has not been lived in for a long time, it is probably new after cleaning. Lihua, how much did you pay for it?"

"I bought it for 30 taels of silver."

"Hey, it's a good deal," Mrs. Zhen said to Mrs. Zhuang with an envious look on her face. "Single-family house, such a big yard is enough, and six or seven people will not be crowded. I don't have such a good life." If you live in such a nice courtyard, you can only expect us, Moxiang, to live in it." Zhuang said with a smile: "Are you still worried about this? When your family, Yisheng, is the number one scholar in high school, I'm afraid the imperial palace can live in it too!"

(End of this chapter)