Flowers are expensive

Chapter 74 The Sad Old Couple

Man Ting's face was as calm as ever.If Tian Yisheng was frighteningly cold, then he was frighteningly quiet, like a piece of warm jade with a cold light.From his face, you can't see the slightest emotional change.After a moment of silence, he said, "Didn't she just ask you something? If you don't love me, just don't answer."

Man Sheng was stunned for a moment, and asked with a dry smile: "Oh, fourth child, are you really protecting your wife like this? Brother is kind enough to remind you, don't wait until there are gossips outside before you clean up, it's already It's over, you know?"

"It's easy to clean up gossip, but it's not so easy to clean up the work in the field." After Man Ting said this sentence with a blank face, he got up and went to the attic.

"Hey, what do you mean, fourth child?" Man Sheng didn't realize it because he was drunk.

Jin Ling'er's face changed in an instant, Man Cheng and Man Xing looked at each other, shook his head and smiled; Mrs. Zhuang stood at the door of her house and wished to slap Man Ting twice, or her fourth uncle dared to speak!Aunt Xie didn't dare to say anything about Manting, because she knew very well in her heart that it was a fact that Mansheng liked to be lazy and not work.

"Fourth, fourth, come down and speak clearly!" Man Sheng shouted, still looking at the attic.

"What are you explaining clearly, third brother?" Lihua asked with a smile, "It's not like you don't know what our family talks about, so you just say it once and never say it a second time." "Hey, I said Qin Lihua, why don't you How dare you dance here? If you have the ability, take Moxiang to Tian Yisheng's house and see if the villager's spittle can drown you two!" Man Sheng said through gritted teeth.

"Okay, we'll go in a while, and you hurry up and ask the Jin family to watch! Or, take a dog leash and tie Tian Yisheng up, and put it next to your sister-in-law of the Jin family!"

Zhuang and the others couldn't help laughing.Jin Ling'er asked displeasedly: "Fourth sibling, do you ever talk like that?"

"Isn't that learned from your sister-in-law? After listening to the first half of the sentence, I can make up the second half by myself? I can do it too! I didn't see her at the door of Tian Yisheng's house before, so maybe the cat is hiding somewhere Peeking! What's wrong? Your Jin family still restricts Tian Yisheng's freedom? Did you sell it to your Jin family?"

"No matter what, it has nothing to do with you, right? The Jin family has another saying when they go to Tian's house. What kind of business do you go to?"

"Borrowing books, can't you?" Lihua asked confidently with her arms akimbo.

"Borrowing books?" Jin Ling'er and Man Sheng asked in unison.

"Yeah, you all know how to read and write, right? I'm not necessarily inferior to Tian Yisheng in learning. We, Moxiang, have become more eager to learn recently—" Lihua patted Moxiang on the shoulder and smiled, "She said she wanted to talk to me. Learn to write, gain more knowledge, maybe I can marry a better man than Tian Yisheng in the future! I want to teach, but I don’t have any books at hand, so I asked Tian Yisheng to borrow them. I don’t know Tian Yisheng well, so I had to let Mo Xiang, go talk to him!"

Zhenshi asked half-believingly: "You went to Tian's house in the morning for this matter?"

"Yes," Li Hua blinked at Mo Xiang, "Really, Mo Xiang?" Mo Xiang immediately responded, nodded and said, "Yes, yes, mother!"

"Hmph, since you are going to borrow a book, why didn't you say it just now?" Man Sheng asked.

"Did you ask me to tell you? As soon as he entered the door, he scolded the man who seduced/seduced your sister-in-law of the Jin family. He poured all kinds of dirty water on her, and didn't listen to her, so he sent your sister-in-law of the Jin family to protect her." You have to die! Hey, third brother, isn’t Moxiang your own niece? Is your surname Xie or Jin?”

"You..." Man Sheng blushed even more.

Mrs. Zhuang said coldly: "Hmph, didn't you see him come back with a flushed face? He must have drank wine at the old man's house, and he was crazy about drinking! Oh, I said, what kind of cover really matches what kind of pot, God has already made a match, and the madness is a pair!" Just after finishing speaking, everyone except Jin Ling'er and his wife bowed their heads and laughed.Aunt Xie immediately turned her head and glared at Mrs. Zhuang. Mrs. Zhuang smiled complacently, turned and went into the house.

Lihua picked up a piece of clothing in the basin, shook the water, and said to Man Sheng: "Third brother, remember, hurry up and call your father-in-law's family. I have to go to Tian's house in a while. When I asked Tian Yisheng in the morning, he said His books are too deep, not suitable for someone like Mo Xiang who doesn't know a word, so he has to pick dozens of simple characters and write them for me, and I have to take them, so as not to waste Tian Yisheng's good intentions. By the way, tell your father-in-law to call the whole village to watch, it's lively!"

"Fourth daughter-in-law, it's enough to get a few cheap words, and talk about it!" Aunt Xie said impatiently.

"Mother, aren't you happy that your granddaughter wants to learn how to write? Maybe she can learn to write and count, and she can marry into the town and become a proprietress! Are you not happy?"

"Go as soon as you want to go, why are there so many nonsense? I didn't say I won't let you two go!"

"Oh, then let's go after drying the clothes!" Lihua smiled at Moxiang and said, "Hurry up, don't make Tian Yisheng wait too long, master scholar, you have a big temper!"

"Understood, Fourth Aunt!" Mo Xiang replied with a smile. "Hey, Lihua," Mrs. Zhuang said suddenly, "By the way, ask Tian Yisheng how many words you want. You can teach Moxiang. By the way, you can also teach us Runhu?"

"Okay, call Runhu when you come back, let's learn together!"

"That's good, that's good, hurry up!" Mrs. Zhuang ran down the steps, snatched the wet clothes from Lihua's hand and said, "I'll just do this work for you!" Mrs. Zhen also realized at this time, hurriedly She laughed and said: "Yes, yes, you go, this job is easy, just me and your second sister-in-law will do it!"

"Thank you then! Moxiang, wait for me, my shoes are wet, go get a new pair!" Lihua turned around and ran up the attic.

Man Sheng was so bored, he went back to the house unhappily, and fell asleep.Jin Ling'er rushed in with a black face, closed the door, went to the bed and pushed him hard, saying: "Don't sleep yet!"

"Oh, I have a headache after drinking, let me sleep for a while!"

"Get up and speak clearly! What did the second sister-in-law mean just now? What is it that the madness is a pair?" Jin Ling'er has not noticed it these days, and she always feels that the eyes of several people in the family are looking at her in a wrong way.

"Who knows? You can ask the second sister-in-law! Ask me what to do?"

"Xie Mansheng!" Jin Ling'er patted him a few times as if exasperated, "Get up and speak clearly! When did I go crazy?"

"Grandma, what do you want to do?" Man Sheng pushed away Jin Ling'er's hand, turned his head impatiently and asked, "Second sister-in-law is like that! You take it to your heart when she says a word? Just pretend you didn't hear it." Oh! Let me sleep for a while, okay? I'll turn over your father's house in the afternoon!"

"Don't go!" Jin Ling'er patted the table and sat down angrily, "From now on, our family will not dare to bother you, lest your brothers and sisters-in-law say that you only help our Jin family's work, Xie's family's work Throw it all to them!"

"Who said that?" Man Sheng turned over and sat on the edge of the bed and asked. "Who else is there? Isn't it your second sister-in-law? You weren't there when you were having dinner at noon. How would you know how many grievances I have blocked for you! There are so many brothers in the Xie family. I'm not afraid that you will take down a lot of work. You will have to rely on them anyway." What are you doing! Listen, isn't this just a complaint about how little work you have done?"

"Isn't it just a waste of time? How tired is the second brother? There is no separation, so do you have to count it so clearly? The second sister-in-law is a good abacus, calculating everything, for fear that others will rob her." Divided! She thought I didn't know what she wanted to do? Didn't she just want to separate the family early? After the eldest brother dies, it's her and the second brother's turn to take care of the parents. Naturally, they should occupy the bulk of the family, hum! No way! "

"I don't care about that, I really can't stay in this family!" Jin Ling'er shook her head resolutely, "Mother has already started teaching me how to make tofu these two days, I'm afraid my sister-in-law and the others will find out that she taught me at night. You have to hurry up Let’s go to the town and set up that house early, so we can leave here early!”

"Don't worry, this matter won't last long. I heard from your father today that Ma Liu plans to go to town in a few days. He has already made an agreement with Ma Liu to take me and your eldest brother."

Jin Ling'er's complexion changed for the better, and she asked with a smile, "Really?"

"Do you dare to coax you? Besides, after the beginning of spring, Maliu will go to the town. This is an old rule, don't you feel relieved?"

"How many people are going? It's better if there are more people." Jin Ling'er actually wanted to ask Manting whether to go or not.

"Besides your eldest brother and me, there are three or four people in the village, and the other is the people from the village. Isn't it just the fourth brother, Deng Kailuo, Cao Haitang and others who come and go? Ma Liu is inseparable from the fourth child when he comes out of the mountain now. And Cao Haitang. I have brought them back and forth for the past two years, for fear that I might make some mistakes along the way.”

"Isn't it?" Jin Ling'er's tone suddenly became a little sad, "When I went out of the mountain a year ago, I met a gang of vicious people, and I almost couldn't come back alone, thanks to Man...fourth uncle...that time He was the most seriously injured, lying in bed for more than a month before getting off the ground."

"You don't have to worry about me, I will take care of myself."

Man Sheng had completely misunderstood it, Jin Ling'er was not worried about him at all, but Man Ting.Thinking of the trip out of the mountain a year ago, the scene of Man Ting being carried back dying, covered in blood, immediately appeared in her mind.At that time, she almost fainted from fright, and when she returned home, she hugged her mother, Guo Shi, and cried bitterly.

It took more than two months to fully recover from the injury.Although he almost died, he won the respect and trust of the villagers and the people of the village, which is why Ma Liu and Cao Shi are afraid of him.

Jin Ling'er made a wish in Haizi Temple at that time, if Manting recovered, she would take care of Manting for the rest of her life.It's a pity that this idea is nothing but wishful thinking on her part.

"Hey, are you listening to me?" Man Sheng suddenly interrupted Jin Ling'er's wandering thoughts.She immediately came back to her senses, raised her head and asked, "What did you say?" "I asked if you have anything you want to sell? It's rare to go to the mountains, you always want those needleworkers, right? What's wrong with you? Are you still alive?" Second sister-in-law angry? No offense!"

"No," Jin Ling'er shook her head lightly and said, "I'm just a little worried about you...you going out of the mountain."

"Don't worry, with Lao Si and Cao Haitang here, nothing will happen. I'll sleep for a while, remember to wake me up!" Man Sheng yawned and lay down on the bed to sleep again.

Jin Ling'er sat where she was, staring blankly at a peach leaf falling on the window sill, feeling uncomfortable as if something had disturbed her.It wasn't until Yutao's voice came from outside that she recovered and opened the door to go out.

Yutao came to find Moxiang, she knew it without asking.Jin Ling'er was about to say that Mo Xiang had left the house, but Aunt Xie stepped out of the hall and smiled, "Yutao is here? Are you looking for Mo Xiang? She's gone out, Ueda Yisheng's house." Jin Ling'er was stunned for a moment , I didn't expect Mrs. Xie to say it so directly, as if there was a meaning that there is no wave without wind.Yutao was also very surprised, and asked, "Mrs. Xie, did Mo Xiang really go to Tian Yisheng's house?"

"Yeah, I borrowed books from her fourth aunt." "Borrowing books? Does Moxiang want to learn to read with Sister Lihua?" Yutao asked excitedly.

"That's right, you want to learn too? Then come on, your sister Lihua has to teach anyway!"

"Okay, I'll come later!" Yutao ran away with a smile.

When Aunt Xie was about to turn around, she suddenly noticed Jin Ling'er staring at her.She asked without changing her face: "What's the matter, Jin Ling'er?" Jin Ling'er shook her head quickly and said: "It's okay, mother, you can go."

(End of this chapter)