take a wife to support the family

Chapter 29

When the flowers are in full bloom, they are about to fall, and the apricot flowers in Xiaodonggou are no exception. They will fall in disorder within a few days. Even the little girls in Liufu still want to wear them, and Lily is not easy to deceive. earn their money.

Fortunately, once the apricot blossoms are over, the peach blossoms will soon follow. The peach blossoms are clustered together, more luxuriant and beautiful than the apricot blossoms.In addition, it has the meaning of "Ikea", and it is more popular than apricot blossom.

She brought a basket of flowers to Liu's house every day, and people who came and went could clearly see that someone wanted to compete with her for business.Lily's foundation is not as good as others', although she took the first opportunity and made good friends with Mrs. Sheng, after all, she couldn't make up for the stronger relationship of others, so she lost the deal.

Aunt Sheng is very regretful: "I wanted to earn some money for you to supplement your family, but I didn't want everyone to be jealous."

Yingchun was so angry that her eyes turned red: "Those with red tops and white tops, one day I will be rich, and I will look good with them!"

Lily was a little regretful, but not angry, stopped Yingchun: "You still have to work in this house, how can you talk like that? Besides, these flowers grow wild by nature. If people want to pick them, I can't let them pick them." Picking? It's the girls in the house, who do you want to buy, can I make the decision?"

Mrs. Sheng felt that Lily was very sensible, and said to her, "It's great that you have such a thoughtful mind, and you can do anything. Whatever our family wants in the future, I will definitely think of you first."

Lily thanked Mrs. Sheng, and seeing that the girl was still angry, she dragged her to gossip: "Is it easy for you to get up early in the morning to pick flowers? It happens to be two days off for me."

Everyone's hairpin flowers in the Liu Manor are no longer as popular as they were a few days ago. Lily originally wanted to stop, but she didn't feel too regretful that someone would steal the business now.

Only then did Yingchun nod her head: "In this case, you can rest for two more days." Her eldest sister was two years older than her, not as tall as her, thin and small, almost like her sister, all tired out.

Lily smiled again and said, "I'll go back to my mother's house tomorrow, do you have anything to say to my parents? I'll bring it to you from home."

Yingchun curled her lips, "My mother, don't you know? She wished that I would bring two liang of silver home with me every month, and not ask her for a single one. It's decided that I won't even eat, and save all the money for her! "

As the saying goes, family ugliness should not be publicized, Lily hurriedly pushed Yingchun, "Keep your voice down!"

He also quietly suggested to her: "You save some private house yourself, and I will take the rest back to my mother. Just tell her that you help me, and she will only scold me if she wants to scold me."

This is a way, Yingchun readily agreed, went to her room to find this month's salary, and asked Lily to help her bring it home.He also said to her: "If my mother hits you, don't stand next to me stupidly, run away!"

"I'm already married, how can she still beat me?" Lily thought of her mother Zhu's usual behavior, and she still made plans to run away if things went wrong. It's just foolish to suffer.

Leaving Liu Mansion, Lily went to the market to sell the first peach blossoms.Country people don't have much thought about buying flowers. Except for big families like Liu's Mansion, only the passing city people have spare money.

In less than half an hour, Lily sold a basket of flowers to the maids who got off the carriage, earning a few dollars more than selling them to the maids in the Liu Mansion.

Lily went home, took a basket with her wages for the Spring Festival, and the dozen or so Wen she earned from selling flowers today. She went to Liu Yi's house to say hello, and told Li Caifeng that she was going back to her mother's house and asked her to take care of her. Two days in my own house.

Then I asked Li Caifeng if there was anything she wanted to bring back to her natal family or to say hello, Li Caifeng smiled and said no, and Lily went all the way to Liushan Village to hunt wild vegetables.

From Qingliu Town to Liushan Village, there are only two mountains to climb, and there is only one rugged path, which is more than 30 miles. Even though she is young and has fast legs, it took more than two hours to get there.

Liushan Village is in a valley, surrounded by mountains, with only a few acres of terraced fields to make ends meet.For example, Li Caifeng's family has more sons, so they live better. They are one of the largest families in the village.Li Mi is an honest craftsman, and his family is thin, so life is extremely difficult.

Lily entered the village. When she saw people on the road, she hurriedly greeted them one by one according to the names in her memory. These people thought that the big girl from Carpenter Li’s family was different after she got married. , it looks much more pleasing to the eye now.

After walking a few steps, she heard her mother Zhu scolding her younger sister Lamei at the top of her voice: "Are you a pig? Raising a pig is more cost-effective than raising you!"

Lily walked into the house quickly, "Mom, I'm back."

When Zhu was young, she had beautiful eyebrows, but after years of hard work, her skin was thick and dark, and she had long since lost her beauty in the past, but she could still vaguely feel the shadow of her original beauty when looking at her facial features.

Seeing Lily coming back, she threw down the broom that was about to hit Lamei: "Why are you back? There is no food left for you at home!"

Lily couldn't laugh or cry when she said a word.When other people see their daughter, no matter how bad they are, they will ask if they are doing well, but Zhu's first sentence suspects that she is coming back to borrow food.Knowing that the daughter and son-in-law have no food at home, it is mean enough to return a grain without lending it.

Fortunately, this is not her own mother, otherwise she would have died of anger.She inherited most of the big girl's memories and feelings, but she was different after all.The cheap mother picked up halfway, she can also be filial to the elderly, but she won't let her bully her like a big girl.

Lamei called "big sister" in a low voice, and took the opportunity to hide in the house.

Zhu's attitude was that he refused to let Lily in, and Lily said: "Mother, Er Niu's wages have been paid, let me bring them back. Where is my father?"

Mrs. Zhu snatched the basket, digged open the wild vegetables on it, and saw the money inside, so she let Lily in, and while counting the money, she complained: "God only knows what your father is doing? I can still count on money." he?"

Lily went back to her mother's house to find her father, but Carpenter Li was not at home at the moment, so she had to endure Zhu's noise and think about her own affairs.

Mrs. Zhu has seen a lot of big girls' fugues when they are being scolded, and she doesn't force the girl to react, as long as there is one person who can listen to her complaining and complaining, it will be over.

After counting the money, she frowned: "Why is the money less than in the past? Is Er Niu a dead girl, or you?"

Lily retorted stiffly: "How much does Er Niu earn for a month's work? They don't need money for socializing with their little sisters? This time I'm starving to death, so I asked Er Niu to borrow money to buy food."

Zhu was furious: "You dead girl, starved to death and reincarnated?"

"Then I don't want Er Niu's money, mother, will you give me food?"

Mrs. Zhu didn't speak, just pretending that she didn't hear that Lily wanted to borrow food.Angrily, she put away more than 100 yuan, and urged Lamei to cook: "Your brother is hungry and wants to eat."

She never mentioned the fact that Lily returned to her mother's house for the first time after being married for several months.

(End of this chapter)