Chapter 48: Du Lizheng, who took advantage of the fire
Mei has been unable to sleep or eat these days, because she is afraid that Mei Tong will take care of her father and son. She will give birth to Mei Duo’s surname. Even though the father and son have never raised her, they are qualified to marry her directly.
The second wife of the Mei family only has the bloodline of Mei Duo. If she can't protect her, Mei will not have the shame to see her parents and elder brother when she goes underground.
Gui Wu would only think that Gui Chongyang was very scheming, but Mei’s family was grateful.
Gui Chongyang was a little embarrassed and whispered: "It's all a family, what's there to thank? Auntie is heretic."
Mei nodded with tears in her eyes: "Yes, it's the family, it's the aunt who said the wrong thing."
He looks like a little white rabbit again, and there is no such thing as being in the Du family just now.
Gui Chongyang picked on the corner of his mouth and became more and more obedient.
Gui Wu looked at the two aunts and nephews who were stupid and rolled his eyes.
It's really a ghost. My eyes were blocked by eye poop before, how could I think that Mei's cousin was cowardly and bullied? Being able to keep her own land deed under the greed force of Mei Tong's father and son, can support her door with the status of "looking for the poor", serving the old and stroking the young, Mei's personality is far more tenacious than everyone sees.
The two people in front of them look like their relatives and nephews.
Mei Duo heard the noise in the room and picked out the curtain.
Mei's eyes turned red when she saw it. Mei Duo couldn't help but feel nervous, and she became more and more nervous, and she didn't dare to ask for a moment.
"Add to add food to the evening!" Mei's eyebrows and eyes were curved, and she couldn't suppress her joy.
Before Mei Duo could react, Mei shook her Chinese letter: "It's done, no one can control your marriage, so my aunt will make the decision!"
Gui Chongyang also smiled and said, "I have one more year left to go to the hairpin, and my cousin can embroider the dowry!"
Mei Duo reacted and felt that her heart was about to jump out. She didn't care about shame. She took the document and read it again before she smiled.
The two women in front of him were both medium-sized talents, but this smile made Gui Chongyang feel hot. He couldn't help but finally made a request that he had been thinking about for several days: "Aunt, I want to eat rice tonight, white rice!"
After enduring these few days, Gui Chongyang really couldn't stand it anymore.
Eat this coarse grains for one meal or two meals to adjust, and eating them every meal is really hard to swallow.
Gui Chongyang held back and believed that Mei Shi could see some of it, so he also used two-mix noodles to steam buns and pancakes, but that was also two-mix noodles. Gui Chongyang was not old, but he claimed to be a man and was used to taking care of women and children, and refused to eat alone. The two-mix noodles steamed buns and pancakes also gave Mei Shi, and Mei Duo, and in the end the three of them shared it.
Gui Chongyang had silver in his pocket, but he had thought that he would buy rice and flour directly to improve his life, but he always felt that it was not good, so he restrained his desire to eat.
Gui Chongyang's opening spoke attracted the attention of the other three people present.
The boy who usually looks like a little adult finally showed a little childishness at this time. He touched his stomach and said, "The family is not short of money. I will eat better in the future. I will still be healthy. My cousin also needs to make up for it and give me a little nephew early."
Mei Duo blushed, spitted Gui Chongyang at a glance, and went to the kitchen to prepare food.
Mei Shi said with a heartache: "It's all my aunt who is wrong. I've known that you can't get used to it, so I still make some. In the future, I'll tell my aunt directly what you want to eat."
Gui Chongyang said embarrassedly: "What can I eat from my aunt and cousin? I don't know why, I'm so hungry these days, and I'm greedy. I remember that there are saliva in my mouth."
Mei felt more and more distressed when she heard this.
What else can it be? Because he insisted on filial piety for his father, Gui Chongyang did not eat meat. He couldn't get used to those coarse grains, and he was a small bowl every time. He was in his teens and was in his stomach when he was growing up. He had no oil and water in his stomach and could not eat enough food, so he naturally became hungry quickly.
Gui Wu did not take a lot of money and said anything like giving rice and flour, and only advised Mei: "The money was not saved. Duo Yatou's business was gone, and the rest was open source. Since Chongyang came back, the family had a backbone. He was not talking about being the patriarch? Whether it was Shu Xiu in Chongyang or Duo Yatou's dowry, he would worry about it himself! You, an aunt, also enjoy the blessing of your nephew!"
Gui Chongyang likes to hear this most. He really thinks that Gui Wu is a well-informed person. He nodded quickly: "Yes, yes, my aunt will spend money in the future, so she won't have to worry about money anymore."
Mei lives a frugal life, but she is not that stingy personality. Since both uncle and nephew said it, he nodded and said, "Okay, I've heard about the Double Ninth Festival, just waiting to enjoy the blessing of the Double Ninth Festival, and I'll make white rice tonight!"
The grain I often eat at home is sorghum and millet, but I also prepared a few kilograms of white flour and rice to wait for guests to eat or make a patient meal.
Gui Chongyang was very happy, but it was full of expectations for a moment.
Mei spoke and left Gui Wu. Gui Wu shook his head and said, "I'll forget it, your brother and sister are still waiting at home. But while the farming season is now slack, the house should be cleaned up. Last time, I said I would start again, but what does my cousin mean?"
This house repair and reopening are two different things. The former can cost more or less money; the later rebuilding of the house will make the disposal more expensive and it will be a bit eye-catching. Mei has a lot of concerns and can't help but hesitate.
Upon hearing this, Gui Chongyang immediately looked at Mei and prayed a little: "Aunt, the house is short, it is so ventilated and stuffy, and there are also tide insects that make me unable to sleep well..."
This is not a lie. Not only are there many tides, mosquitoes and ants in the house, but it is also because there is no ice and it is so hot that it is hard to be. Gui Chongyang was tortured and dark circles appeared.
Seeing this, Mei immediately threw all her concerns behind her and nodded, "Then let's get up again..." Speaking of this, she paused and said, "It's the twelve year of Chongyang this year. If you have filial piety, you should be a marriage. You have to prepare the house and you can cover it with fifteen taels of silver!"
Mei's family had saved two stagnant coins. Gui Chongyang gave ten taels of silver for household use. With the sixteen taels of silver I got from Mei Tongsheng today, the eight taels of Mei Duo must not be moved. The remaining total was only eighteen taels of silver plus two stagnant coins. He was willing to take out fifteen taels of silver to build a house, which was a big deal.
It is naturally enough to build three new houses in the village, but if you build the two houses you were thinking about before Gui Chongyang, it would be a far cry from building them.
Gui Wu was curious and couldn't help but go to see Gui Chongyang's reaction.
Gui Chongyang's eyes lit up and said, "I can use my aunt's money, don't I have 40 taels left? That one."
"That silver can't be moved anymore." Mei said seriously: "Whether it's land or buying a small shop in the town, you can get an income."
Gui Chongyang whispered: "Aunt, except for those fifty taels, I still have some money, so I don't have to be so tight."
Mei touched Gui Chongyang's head and said, "The bigger the head, the bigger the hat. The Gui family's life is about to get up now, so it's not adorable to be too arrogant. Even if this time, my aunt would say that it was built with 16 taels of silver, so that it would save some verbalism."
Otherwise, the Mei family's aunt and nephew, each with five acres of land and eight taels of silver, would have to stop in the future, and matchmakers from all over the country would come to the house. What kind of family can be said to be a wife when they look at the dowry? If they encounter a scoundrel, they will have to make a grudge even if they refuse.
Mei will not marry again, and Mei Duo will have a whereabouts for life. Of course, it is better to have less than more things than to have more things.
Gui Chongyang nodded and expressed his understanding of Mei's words, but he still missed the house that had been two times. However, he also made a decision. Even if he could not build it at once, he would have to plan the place. After two years, the Gui family was established and would not be afraid of jealousy, and then build one or two more.
It is rare to be willing to listen to others and not stick to one's own opinions. Gui Wu saw it and felt deeply in his heart. He was able to raise such a son and his cousin was not a fool. It would be a pity if he had not had the past.
Thinking that the old parents at home were not yet relieved, they were still repelling Gui Chongyang, Gui Wu said: "Before the old house is back up, repair the second house first. When it is repaired there, you can move in for a few months. It will be cheaper to move back when the new house is built."
Mei hesitated, and Gui Chongyang didn't say anything. Obviously, both aunts and nephews knew the attitude of the old couple.
Gui Wu said: "Let's see how to live there, and I'm not going to stay here for a few days when I'm repairing the house."
"I'm cheap, just let my second sister-in-law come and live with us." Mei said happily.
The second room is three main room, two rooms at the east and west wings. Even if the house is repaired, it will not be repaired at the same time. Most of the time, the room is repaired first and then the room is repaired.
In that case, the second house would have to install a room in the room and free up one for the old couple to temporarily live there. Guiwu and his wife were not easy to move; if Guichun came here, she would have to live with Gui Chongyang. Not only would she have to study in Gui Chongyang, it would be inconvenient to be under the same roof as Mei Duo; the only person who could come out to live was Yang.
Yang was Mei Duo's mother-in-law later, and Mei was naturally willing to let their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have more contact.
There are only a few people in the Gui family at the moment. Gui Wu hopes to take the opportunity to resolve the knot in his parents. As long as the two families get closer, it doesn’t matter who comes to live there.
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Dulizheng's house, living room.
The table that had been interrupted before started again. Mei Tongsheng was heartbroken and ate half a pot of wine one after another, his tongue was silenced, and he muttered: "That's sixteen taels of silver, sixteen taels! That girl took it away, and she held it tightly, and couldn't deduct a penny. She still had ten acres of land, and even if she picked up the fields for her, it was worth more than forty taels of silver. She was really old and could see anything. The Gui family was so heartless. This kind of docile child had learned bad things when he went in. He didn't have such a temperament before."
Du Lizheng was "um" and "ah" casually and perfunctory, not convinced her. The Mei family planned to tell Mei Duo to the Hong family. It would be strange if the Mei family did not respond.
"My silver, I only receive 3,600 yuan from the village school every year. Two stone corn, and those sixteen taels of silver are the wages of how many years!" Mei Tongsheng was still talking nonstop, his eyes becoming more and more blurred.
Du Li was watching carefully and whispered: "Yes, it's a loss. If you can make up for this money, then you can make up for ten acres of land, wouldn't it be a loss?"
Mei Tongsheng said with a sad face: "Where can I find a supplement? I thought Mr. Hong would have a big income of dozens of taels, but now it's ruined."
"I'll make it up for you." Du Li said happily.
Mei Tongsheng had his tongue wide, but he still listened to this sentence. He immediately smiled and said, "Good brother, I know you feel sorry for me... You are my biological brother..."
Du Li smiled and picked up the wine cup and said, "Now I'm happy, then let's go one of us brothers?"
"Go and I'm dear brother!" Mei Tongsheng held the wine pot, trembling wrists filled with wine, and drank it in one sip.
"Okay, since you are happy, let's have another one!" This time, Du Lizheng poured wine for Mei Tongsheng.
Mei Tongsheng shook: "When he went to the Gui family, Lin family, I will recognize the Du family from now on..."
Needless to say, the Gui family is an enemy, with thorns in their eyes and thorns in their flesh; the Lin family is another rich family in the village. Although they are also outsiders, they cannot resist having relatives as officials, and no one dares to underestimate them. Life is prosperous, which can only make people secretly jealous.
"I'll love you, our two families are one." Du Li was smiling and poured another glass of wine for Mei Tong.
Mei Tongsheng was already talking nonsense, and Du Lizheng put down the wine pot, got up and took a few pieces of paper, as well as a few silver ingots of large and small.
"This is a receipt. If you sign and press your handprint, you will give it to you the silver." Duri Zhengdun Dunshan tempted.
Mei Tongsheng didn't need Du Lizheng to say anything else, and directly hugged Yinzi in his arms: "Yinzi, this is my lifeblood..."
As for the receipt, Mei Tongsheng didn't even look at it. He was afraid that Du Lizheng would regret it, so he snatched the brush, wrote his name crookedly, and then put his handprints happily, then hugged the silver ingots, tilted his body, fell on the kang, and fell asleep "huhhh".
Du Li held the "receipt" in his hand and glanced at Mei Tongsheng contemptuously. If Mei had not made a precedent, he would have never thought of this.
Chapter completed!