Flowers are expensive

Chapter 188 Settling Accounts With Cao

"I think you are crazy about money!" Gao Sangu said as she straightened her clothes.

"What are you afraid of? You are rich! You are rich, aren't you?"

Third Aunt Gao's face darkened, and when she was about to grab the conversation, Gong yelled, "That's right! The Third Aunt is a rich person! She's playing with pearls in her sleeves! A pearl bigger than a finger, Yoyo! No one in the village is richer than her!"

When Cao Shi heard this, she was instantly stunned!She turned her head to look at Third Aunt Gao like an electric shock, but Aunt Gao hurriedly avoided her gaze.

Just when Mrs. Cao was stunned, Mrs. Gong provocatively said again: "Aunt Gao, why don't you say anything? It happens that there are so many people today, so you old man can find it out for everyone to see! Let us vulgar people also see what can be done." Pearls worth a hundred taels!"

"It's worth a hundred taels!" Everyone in the courtyard started discussing, and they all looked at Aunt Gao in amazement.

Gao Sangu's blushing face suddenly turned purple, and she was so embarrassed that she yelled at Gong Shi: "Hey! You bitch is really good at talking nonsense! Which dog eye of yours saw that I have pearls?"

"Hey! What are you hiding? It's not about robbing your old man, take it out and see what's there? I was not the only one who saw it that day, Lihua, Moxiang, that's right, your own sons have seen it, don't believe it , Ask Haitang and Hongling!"

"Put your mother's fart on!" Gao Sangu was so anxious that she couldn't choose what to say.

When Cai Luo heard this, he became angry and shouted: "You old thief, keep your mouth clean! There are pearls that you don't dare to recognize, where did you steal them from? Humph! Lihua—" He raised his head and said to Lihua, "Didn't you Do you want to report to the officials? Anyway, ask the young master of the Zeng family or the eldest master of the Wang family if they have dropped pearls? Who in this village can have such a valuable thing, and the designated source is unknown!"

Aunt Gao San was a little flustered, and she didn't dare to look into Cao's eyes full of anger, she was so anxious that she didn't know what to say.At this time, Mrs. Cao understood the origin of the pearl, she was angry and resentful, glared at her mother fiercely, then turned to Deng Kailuo and said, "Go and ask! Quickly ask! You are not afraid of the oblique shadow, but you are afraid of going No way!"

"Yes! Yes!" Gao Sangu hastily echoed.

"This is so strange!" Deng Kailuo said to the people next to him, "Where did Gao Sangu get this pearl? Could it be that Cao's housekeeper gave it to me? Oh! It's really good for Ma Liu to be a steward! It's only been a few years, and it's worth a lot of money." The hundred taels of pearls were given to the old mother-in-law! How rich and generous!"

Everyone in the yard covered their mouths and laughed.Cao's face darkened, a little embarrassed.Haitang hurriedly came over to persuade him: "Sister, you haven't figured out the matter of the bones yet, so you brought your mother to ask for someone, it's not justified!"

"Damn boy, you don't care about your own family if you have a master, right? Speaking of which, that's your cousin too!"

"Isn't it just a pile of bones? How do you know if it is?"

"You..." Mrs. Cao became a little anxious, and raised her hand to hit Haitang.

Lihua sat cross-legged on the table, and said to Mrs. Cao: "Housekeeper, we won't talk about Pearl. I don't care if you and Third Aunt Gao know it. But, look What should I do with this pile of things in my yard? After all, you are the housekeeper of the dignified Wang family farm, so you can leave without patting your butt?"

"Do you still want to settle the score with me?" Mrs. Cao pointed at Mrs. Deng Kailuo and Mrs. Gong, "They didn't fight just now? Deng Kailuo did it first!"

"If you and your mother don't enter my yard, can they do it? Housekeeper, this is not your farm, and you can break in at will just because you are strong enough to beat a man! If you want to Pat your ass and leave, then I don't agree. Isn't there a young master in charge of Wang's farm? I'm going to ask that young master. His housekeeper takes a few servants to go around arrogantly all day long. ?"

"I'm talking about reasoning, it's your people who will do it first!" Cao Shi argued eloquently.

Lihua propped her chin and asked with a smile: "Where did you start talking about it? Did you start talking about the pile of bones being your cousin? To put it bluntly, you think the bones Is it your cousin? I would like to ask, did you watch Aunt Yuan murder your cousin? If you saw it with your own eyes, why did you wait until his bones were found to catch the murderer plausibly? What did you do earlier? Go? If not, then it’s just your guess. I can guess a hundred versions, do you want me to tell you one by one?”

Cao was so angry that the two pieces of flesh on his chest trembled, and his hands trembled slightly, as if a deep scar in his heart had been uncovered.

"Housekeeper, let's talk about it when someone from the government comes! What if I make a mistake and bury him in the ancestral grave, what if the water and the soil are not acclimatized? Maybe I will come to you! Two, what do you think?" Li Hua asked The two relatives of the Cao family said, "Whether the bones have been dead for more than 60 years, [-] years, or [-] years, can you tell clearly? Anyway, when the matter is found out, you can fight if you come to me." It’s worth it! Otherwise, is it worthwhile for you to be beaten for nothing because of an unknown person? Isn’t that a joke for the folks to see?”

Both of them hesitated a little, turned their eyes to Cao and asked, "Meizhi, you said that the pile of bones is Cao Chu, can you make a sound for this?"

Lihua answered with a smile: "If she can set the tone accurately, it can only mean that she knew that the bone was Cao Chu early on, or else she can communicate with the bone!"

"What nonsense are you talking about, Qin Lihua!" An inexplicable fear appeared on Cao's face, and even the voice of scolding Lihua trembled.

"I guessed it," Li Hua said with a smile, "you can guess wildly with a broken finger, why can't I guess? Housekeeper, don't tell me you're right?"

"Speaking of your size!" Cao's face turned from black to green, and she dragged her to the third aunt, "Mom, let's go!"

"Wait!" Lihua jumped down from the table and stood in front of the two of them, "You want to leave before you settle the bill? You want to run away after smashing something else? The housekeeper thinks she is a bandit or a robber." Woolen cloth?"

Third Aunt Gao pointed at the pear blossom and said, "I think you got into the hole of the copper coin! Withdraw money for everything..."

"With unreasonable people like you who don't mention money, should I mention the words "folks from the village"? Who said that I am a foreigner just now. Since I am a foreigner, I can't take care of so many such feelings. , or more money!"

"How do you want to count it? Are you all counting on me? Don't think about it!" Cao said resolutely.

"You brought the person here, and you are wearing the name of a housekeeper. If I don't ask you, who will I look for?"

"We weren't the only ones who broke things, didn't they do anything?" Mrs. Cao said, pointing at Mrs. Gong, Mrs. Yuan and Mrs. Deng Kailuo.

"That's very simple, calculate the total, wouldn't it be over after four or three?"

"Forty-three? You have a pretty good idea!"

"I won't bother with you anymore, housekeeper!" Lihua suppressed her smile and said, "It doesn't make sense to tell you now, so I'll go to the farm to talk to Ma Liu and Young Master Wang! I'd rather Let's see if Young Master Wang can allow you, an unreasonable person, to be the housekeeper of the village. You are shameless, but the Wang family's Poetry and Book Praise House has more face! Okay, I will go to the village right now, and I don't bother to talk to you nonsense!"

Li Hua was about to turn around and leave, when Cao called her to a stop, and said with a slightly guilty expression: "Okay, do the math, I can't afford it! Four or three points is four or three points!"

"Well!"

Moxiang consciously went to get Lihua's abacus.Lihua sat down on the edge of the stone table and made a quick calculation: "24 broken bowls, [-] broken plates, [-] soup bowls, [-] pairs of chopsticks, [-] spoons, [-] stir-fried vegetables, and [-] winter melon stew. , three dishes of fermented bean curd, oh, yes, there is also a big spoon!"

"Gone?"

"There are more!" Lihua raised her head and smiled.

"What else?" Cao asked anxiously, "That's all the things that are broken on the ground, can you conjure up two things for me?"

"And the wages of Yutong and Yutao, don't they count?"

"I have to count their wages on my head too? Qin Lihua, how can you settle accounts like this?" Cao was a little angry.

"My place is different from the Zhuangshang. The Zhuangshang bought people, and I hired people here, so I have to pay the wages according to the price! Yutong and Yutao worked so hard to make such a table of dishes for you to ruin. Turn around They have to work overtime to make a table, and I have to pay overtime, can I not ask you to settle the bill?"

"What fee? Overtime pay? Where did you get this nonsense?"

"Housekeeper, don't say I'm unreasonable if you have short-sightedness! You've been ordering people around on the farm, and you're using the servants bought by the Wang family as your own servants. Naturally, you don't know that there are rules for hiring people." You have been in the mountains for a long time, and you don’t understand the market outside. I’m not kidding you, but this account still has to be calculated like this!” After finishing speaking, Lihua lowered her head and clacked on the abacus, closing the sum and saying, “It’s a neat calculation. The total is seven taels of silver, the four of you will share four taels, plus the debt owed by the third aunt who went back to my place to make trouble, a total of four taels of silver and eight hundred copper coins. For the sake of Haitang and Hongling, I Wipe off the change and charge you four taels!"

"Four taels!" Gao Sangu was even more excited than Cao Shi, and almost jumped up and grabbed Li Hua's abacus and lost it, "You are the robber and bandit! Such a small thing costs us four taels of silver, and it is worth hundreds of copper coins at most! You Random calculations, you can't count!"

"Every transaction here has its source and its price. I won't waste half a copper coin from you. If your old man thinks I'm messing with my calculations, I'll make a list and send it to Ma Liu for him to have a look at it himself." All right!" Lihua had noticed from just now that Cao Shi's expression was not right when pearls were mentioned, and she didn't seem to want Ma Liu to know, so she simply prescribed the right medicine and went to Cao Shi's dead point.

Sure enough, when Lihua said this, most of the anger on Cao's face disappeared.She suppressed her anger and said, "No need, just develop a list and show me!"

"It's easy to say!" Lihua ordered Yutao to fetch a pen and paper, and asked Yutao to make a list according to what she said.I saw Yutao picked up the pen in a dignified manner, and wrote a list without much effort.Someone nearby praised in surprise: "Hey! Yutao can also write bills! This is a great improvement!"

Yutao handed the list to Mrs. Cao and said, "Housekeeper, take a look, it's all here."

Mrs. Cao took it over, looked at it with a frown, and asked angrily: "Is the four stir-fried vegetables and a bowl of winter melon stew worth so much money? Are Gong Yutong and Yutao's wages so much? They are all a hundred yuan One day? Qin Lihua, stop coaxing people! Just pretend I don't understand!"

Lihua got up and smiled and said, "If you don't believe me, ask the people here how much they are paid. All the people in charge here are paid more than [-] Wen, and Yutong and Yutao are considered low. The work is also sixty yuan a day. Housekeeper, you have been in the manor for a long time, and you don’t know anything about the outside world. You can just talk about it in front of me. If you talk about it in front of others, your face It’s a big loss! In a few days, I will pay wages here, if you don’t believe me, you can come and see for yourself!”

Mrs. Cao was holding the bill, so angry that her nails got stuck in her flesh.But she knew in her heart that if Qin Lihua made trouble in the village, she might not be able to explain to Ma Liu about Pearl.This time, she can only admit it!She angrily stuffed the bill into her sleeve pocket, took out three silver coins from her purse and slapped them on the table.

"Yutao, bring the waiter (ancient weighing tool)!" Lihua said.

"Aren't you the hostess? You can't weigh it even if you weigh it with your hands?" Cao said sarcastically.

"It's better to make an appointment with waiting time, that thing is not humane, lest you say I'm unfair again." Li Hua made an appointment with the three silver coins with waiting time, and when she had four or two, she took out another Six qian silver was used to find supplies for Cao's family.Mrs. Cao grabbed the silver from the table, turned around angrily and left immediately.Aunt Gao San hurriedly followed her and left.

(End of this chapter)