Traveling through the Prosperous Pastoral of Peasant Girls

Chapter 67
Liu Tao's grandma only has a title but no money, and the current basic necessities of life are too unsuitable for her status. For example, her clothes are not bright, she eats the food from the farmyard, lives in the old leaky house, and goes out in the same car. Some dilapidated carriages.The 20 taels of silver that Liu Tao's father gave her at the beginning, after buying the carriage and renovating the house, there is nothing left.

Grandma was most annoyed at Second Uncle Liu Tao, who sold him a six-acre pond for only five taels of silver, not even one tael per mu.He grew lotus roots and water chestnuts in the pond, and not only earned a lot of money, but also married a beautiful wife. If he had known, the pond would not sell him.Grandma originally wanted to use her status to frighten him after she was appointed as an official, and extort money from the two of them if they didn't vacate the house.

That guy didn't know why, but he didn't want to get in. He said, "If you want money, unless there is an imperial decree from the imperial court, you won't get a copper coin if you don't see the imperial decree. You can sue wherever you want!"

In fact, he got the news from the county magistrate and knew the reason for her reward, but he just didn't want to talk to her and was too lazy to explain to her.After the county magistrate apologized to Grandma Liu Tao, it took several days to find out what happened. He regretted it so much that he was even more reluctant to bring it up.Therefore, these things have not spread in Goudong Village until now.

Grandma saw that it was really going to die, so she wanted to open a gap from the third uncle. She knew that the third uncle had made money selling braised fish and buying skins for Liu Tao, so she proposed: "Your second brother is not here now, the money for the pension You have to give me food and pensions..."

Unexpectedly, the third daughter-in-law has become a ghost, she said: "Now we don't make marinated fish, the skins are all bought by Liu Tao, and those capitals cannot be moved. If you want food, then Take a bag with you..."

What grandma wanted was money, and if she didn't give money, it would be fine. In the end, she just had to leave twenty copper coins.

For a period of time after I first got the reward, in order to show my superiority, I would wear the imperial crown no matter where I went. Grandpa would hold Ruyi with one hand even if he was driving a carriage. Every time he went to the market, he would go to the restaurant in the town to order wine and food. Sit down, it's a pity that the money is too wasteful, after a while, don't talk about going to the restaurant, you can't even afford the vegetarian stuffed buns at the stalls.

I want to show off and have no capital. After suffering for many days, I think of my second son; my mother’s life in the poor countryside is difficult, so why did they go to the capital to enjoy the blessings? I heard from the third son that they bought a very large house and hired dozens of people. A small worker worked for the two of them, and he stuttered every day... If he couldn't, he had to go to the capital to join them.

Grandpa didn't object to the matter of entering the capital, she and Jin Li's grandma discussed it, and they hit it off immediately.

Thinking that there would be no travel expenses, he tricked his grandfather to sell the Ruyi. In order to sell it at a high price, he went to the pawnshop in Fucheng.There was no other way, so grandma had no choice but to pick off the glass and pearls on her head crown in a place where no one was around, and gave them to the pawnshop for 30 taels of silver.This is the reason why the family saw the broken basket-like crown on her head at first sight.

Liu Guangjun saw that these people were extremely arrogant as soon as they entered the door. He was afraid that they would cause trouble for his master, so he followed closely behind. Seeing their supercilious behavior, he was already angry: "You two young masters, I can tell them A few words?"

Seeing Liu Tao and Jin Yang nodding in agreement, he began to talk to them: "Do you know that the Dazhang Kingdom fought a big battle with the Northland this year? That was when our master went out with the army as a military adviser and cooperated with the commander-in-chief." With tens of thousands of soldiers, he guarded the Shuangzi Mountain Pass, one of the two gates of the Daqing Kingdom, and experienced more than a dozen fierce battles. The Dong family leaned in front of the two armies to command, and his forehead was hit by the enemy's arrowhead , and you will lose your life if you deviate a little bit.”

He poked his forehead fiercely and said: "Our other young master Liu Tao, at the most critical moment in the battle, personally and the princess put his family's cheese worth a thousand taels of silver, and ventured to the front line to comfort the soldiers for free. Also This 14-year-old young master came up with the most critical strategy, which defeated the [-] enemy troops in the Northland in one fell swoop. They don't accept the appointment of officials by the current emperor, and they don't want to give them gold, silver and jewelry. Please ask the emperor to grant officials to their grandparents and parents, these honors of yours are all earned by the lives of the two masters, don't deceive yourself and others to play prestige here..."

Liu Guangjun can only say this about the young master's grandparents.Liu Guangjun, who was originally not good at talking, saw that they came here today, and said that he was a high-ranking official without shame, so he told them the whole story and made them understand.

Seeing their embarrassing expressions after Liu Guangjun finished speaking, Liu Tao's father was also angry at their domineering just now, but since he moved to the capital, his father has also grown a lot of minds, and he doesn't want to make trouble for the relationship between blood relatives. too stiff.

Jin Yang's father was too lazy to talk to them, pretending to be sick and unwilling to speak, Jin Yang Liutao was a junior and couldn't say anything out of the ordinary.If they live in this yard, don't think they are more honest now, but sooner or later there will be troubles, and now only Dad can talk to them.

The father said: "Dad, mother, don't talk about the matter of being an official. Since you are here, you can stay here for one night. The yard we live in used to be the mansion of Prince Gan, but it is a famous haunted house. I don't care about it." Dare to let you people who are old and frail often live here, after tonight you should go to the hotel..."

Grandma said suspiciously: "Second boy, what are you talking about in a haunted house? Why are you living there all right? You can't lie to us. We defected to you and came to the capital to let your family take care of us?"

"I'm not going to lie to you, you'll know when you stay in the capital for a while, you can eat first, you can stay here today, or go to the inn tomorrow."

"Daughter-in-law, you and Yangzi need to prepare a few more places. Jinyang, your brother and sister-in-law are newly married. The place can't be too dilapidated or too cold, so as not to give you a bad reputation for Jinfu." Jin Yang's grandmother This time she didn't mention any high-ranking officials, but it was obvious that she felt unhappy after being scolded by an unknown outsider (Liu Guangjun).

The father-in-law spoke at this time: "There are plenty of vacant houses in Jin's mansion. Let you live in the small courtyard between Kuayuan and Hualou in the northwest of the garden at night, and let Wu'er heat up the kang later. The house in the past The concubine of King Gan lives here, and the environment is not bad, and it's very close to our Xikuayuan, now, let's wash up and get ready to eat."

"Ah, Jin Hui, can you talk now?" Grandma Jinsha asked in surprise.

"Yeah, grandma, my father-in-law didn't do anything immoral, and God still favored him..." Liu Tao secretly hated her for blackmailing 500 taels of silver from her family when the life and death of the golden seedlings were uncertain, and reunited with her. My grandma bullied my family together, and even wanted to pass herself on to Jinsha... So, what she said was full of thorns inside and out.

As the prospective daughter-in-law, Liu Jiaojiao heard Jin Yang's grandma mention her, so she hurriedly came forward to greet her as a daughter-in-law. Seeing that he still had parents in his eyes, Jin Yang held back his disgust and came up to greet her. The sister-in-law saluted, but Liu Tao hid aside.

They had known for a long time that these people love to take advantage of others, they will not leave tonight, and they will have to find ways to drive them away in the future, so when they were talking to the third uncle and his son, they asked Aunt Huang and Wu'er to prepare enough meals.Now that there are too many people in the family and employees, we divide meals into several places.Usually when eating, the two families and the big tiger family eat together, and it is Aunt Huang's head chef Wu'er who helps.

The old Zhao head's daughter-in-law was pregnant, so he and his son and daughter-in-law started a fire on their own.Aunt Huang's family went to eat with Lao Huang. Those who make crispy rice, leather clothes, shoes, and dairy products all have their own canteens. Even Liu Guangjun and the others also eat together with the vineyard workers outside.

The usual dinner is five dishes and one porridge (soup). Whoever wants to eat can specifically ask in advance what to eat. Jin Yang proposed to eat braised fish today, Liu Tao would like to eat spicy chicken, Erhu proposed to eat steamed pork, and the other two were yellow rice. My aunt weighed it right, it was stewed pork chops and fried cabbage.Seeing a lot of people today, Aunt Huang added a sauerkraut stewed vermicelli with tofu and scallion fried meat, and two small pickles that Aunt Huang made herself.Aunt Huang saw that these were still not rich, so she made another soup.

The two families divided into three tables and sat. Erhu's family ate in another room, so they opened two tables in the dining room. Personally, there should not be too many people on one side and too few people on the other.

Because of the large number of people, the dishes were filled to the brim. Looking at the good food that they could not eat at home during the Chinese New Year, the newcomers from their hometown secretly rejoiced that it was the right time to come to the capital.Sister-in-law (Liu Jiaojiao) sighed even more. In the past, at Landlord Yan’s house, she could only eat such a good meal during the Chinese New Year. She suffered even more during the two years when she was divorced and returned to her mother’s house. Since she married Jinsha, she has suffered even more. It's just a matter of eating bran swallowing vegetables.

Grandpa also sighed. In the past, only when the corvee was over, or when he went to help others, could he drink the last drink, or he would drink a catty of water wine during the Chinese New Year, and drink it in four or five times. How can it be like today? Big jars and bowls are enough.He felt emotional, Jinsha ate vegetables and drank wine, looked at the beautiful bride, and regained the feeling of drinking flower wine back then.

For this meal, Grandma Liu Tao was willing to eat tamales at that table, so she brought it to her face herself.Grandma Jinyang at this table was willing to eat vermicelli tofu, so she also brought over the plate of sauerkraut vermicelli tofu.Liu Jiaojiao loves fried pork with green onions, so she begged Jin Sha to bring them over.The grandfather at that table finished drinking a bowl of wine and waited for a long time for no one to pour the wine. He had to put down Ruyi to do it himself. He quickly picked up most of the fish's body dripping with soup, knocking over Liu Gang's rice bowl on the way.

Wu'er finally served a pot of spicy seafood soup. Originally, there were several porcelain spoons in it. Liu Tao's grandma, grandpa, and Liu Gang each scooped up a spoonful and drank it. They felt good. When grandpa and Liu Gang were about to drink the second spoonful, Grandma immediately brought the basin over, took out the spoon and put it aside, and started to drink while holding the basin alone. Grandpa and Liu Gang, who also wanted to drink with the spoon, knocked "clang, clang, clang" The plate urged her to put it down quickly.

Jinsha Liutao and Jinyang couldn't bear to see how they were eating, so they winked at each other, and went out to find Erhu's family to continue eating.

After dinner, Liu Jiaojiao hiccupped and asked Wu'er who was cleaning the table in private: "Wu'er, do you eat this well every day?"

Wu'er said with some disdain but proudly: "Except for the latter two dishes and soup, which are added later, breakfast is simpler every day, mostly steamed buns and rice porridge, and steamed buns and flower rolls for lunch, one cold and one hot, and small pickles There are also two, and dinner is five dishes and one congee..." Her words strengthened their determination to stay.

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