This trip out cost a lot, and I spent ten taels of silver in one go.
I felt so distressed at the beginning of autumn. When I got in the car, a pair of distant mountain daisies were still frowning tightly.
"Money is a bastard. If you don't spend it, you won't feel comfortable. Liqiu, don't feel bad about the money. I will discuss wages with that stinky Taoist priest Nanfeng tomorrow, and I will definitely defraud him of a big sum."
Li Qiu shook his head: "Since Taoist Master Nanfeng sincerely wants to build the Laojun Temple, Brother Chang'an, you should work for him in a down-to-earth manner and don't engage in such frivolous things. You can't be sloppy in front of the gods."
Gu Changan chuckled: "I don't believe in gods. Gods are all lies. If there are gods, how can there be a saying that good people don't live long and harm the world for thousands of years?"
He was sharp-tongued and knew a lot of fallacies, but Li Qiu couldn't defeat him, so he closed his eyes and calculated how many days it would take to make a wedding suit.
She never made her own clothes.
Mrs. Liu was stingy, and the clothes she gave her were all leftovers from Mrs. Liu's own use. With a little alteration and mending, she could make do with them for a long time.
Mrs. Liu never taught her needlework, and she learned her needlework from Qiu Ju.
But in the dream, Li Qiu learned a lot of acupuncture skills in Hongxiu moves, and Nv Hong did an outstanding job.
Even so, she never made a set of clothes by herself.
The whole body of the red girls in the brothel is used to serve men, so there is no need for the red girls to make their own clothes.
How to make wedding clothes is really a big problem.
Gu Changan, who was sitting in the front driving the car, hummed a little tune from time to time and said something to Li Qiu when he thought of something.
"Tomorrow I will go to the uncle, third uncle and fifth uncle. We will go to Laojun Temple together and settle down the wages with Nanfeng. Then we will go to the blacksmith shop in the town and order two hoe-headed hoes and two large irons. Pot, install the stove, there is no door lock at home, let the blacksmith build a lock for us..."
As he spoke, he shook his head again: "Forget it, we can't use the lock yet. Our courtyard walls are all collapsed. It doesn't make any difference if we lock the door or not. After we get married, we still have to build the courtyard wall first. Liqiu, please calculate how much this will cost."
The world is not peaceful, and the court is very strict about ironware. Nowadays, the price of an iron pot has doubled compared to last year.
Ms. Liu kept talking about it at home, and even warned her that if she dared to lose her machete when cutting wood and pig grass, her skin would be ripped off.
"These must be bought, and the courtyard wall must be erected first. If you go out for something, I, a woman, am at home by myself without a courtyard wall, and I will feel very panicked."
"Okay, then I'll buy stones first."
Li Qiu hurriedly stopped him: "How much does it cost to buy stones? Let's dry the adobes at home and build the courtyard walls with adobes first. When we have more money, we will repair the collapsed houses. Let’s build another stone courtyard wall.”
Gu Changan nodded happily: "Okay, I will listen to you."
Li Qiu felt happy.
She picked a man at random, but she didn't expect this man to be so reliable.
Whatever you say to him can be discussed and discussed.
With money in hand and a reliable man, Li Qiu's heart returned to its original place.
Holding a small bundle filled with fabric in her arms, she tilted her head and fell into a daze and fell asleep.
Unexpectedly, I dreamed of the man wearing the fang mask again.
This time Mrs. Liu also appeared in the dream.
Mrs. Liu had a gloomy face, opened and closed her mouth, pointed at Li Qiu and cursed vigorously.
He scolded Li Qiu for being a vixen with coquettish hoofs and a man-eating weasel who didn't spit out bones, and told Li Qiu to quickly show his true colors.
Liqiu woke up from her dream. The more she thought about it, the more frightened she became. What bad move was Mrs. Liu brewing?
This old godly woman is non-stop every day. It seems that she needs to be called into Zhang's house as soon as possible to find something for Mrs. Liu to do.
As soon as we arrived at Laojun Temple, it got dark.
The two of them ate some lunch leftovers in the car and continued on their way.
When we arrived at Zhang's house, the doors of Zhang's house were closed.
Li Qiu knocked on the door for a long time, but no one answered.
"Everyone in the Zhang family is pretending to be dead," Gu Changan angrily said, "Liqiu, get out of the way. I will kick this broken door open and ask them to spend money to install a new door."
Just after the first kick, there was movement in the yard.
Mrs. Liu supported her waist and limped to open the door. When she saw Li Qiu, her old face dropped: "Hey, you still know how to come back? I thought you ran away with some wild man."
"Auntie, who are you talking about?" Gu Changan leaned against the door and glared at Mr. Liu fiercely, "If you can't speak, then don't speak. I see you like this. Did you get beaten by Uncle Zhang again? Zhang My uncle beats you because you have a bad mouth. If you say a few less words, you will be beaten less often."
"My old man won't hit me!"
Mrs. Liu rolled her eyes in disgust at Gu Changan: "You are the kind of scoundrel who beats people all the time. That little bitch in Liqiu followed you blindly, so just wait and be beaten every day from now on."
Zhang Laowen did not beat Mrs. Liu, but behind closed doors, Zhang Laowen beat Mrs. Liu very hard.
Li Qiu clearly remembered that one time, Zhang Laowen beat Mrs. Liu until she urinated and fecesed, and she lay on the kang for half a month, but told the public that she had accidentally fallen.
None of the neighbors wanted to expose her. In fact, most of the villagers knew that Zhang Laowei was a bad person.
"Brother Chang'an, please go back," Li Qiu stuffed the small bundle into Gu Changan's arms and whispered to him, "The money is all here, keep it carefully. There is also needle, thread and fabric in the bundle. You can go next door to find it early tomorrow morning. Uncle, leave the fabric at your uncle’s house, I will go to your uncle’s house to do some sewing tomorrow.”
Mrs. Liu, with her sharp ears, caught everything Li Qiu said. She didn't catch anything else clearly, except that she was going to do needlework next door tomorrow.
After closing the courtyard door and hearing the movement of the donkey cart outside, Ms. Liu immediately pinched her waist and scolded Li Qiu.
"Little bitch, where did you go wild today? You haven't been home all day long. You haven't even gotten married yet, and you hooked up with Gu Laizi. You're not ashamed! I've been hungry on the kang waiting for you all day! "
Li Qiu went straight to Qiu Ju's house, bolted the door from the inside, and was met with dismay by Mrs. Liu.
"Doesn't Mom have hands and feet? Can't she cook by herself? I'm not the only living person in the family. Where are the eldest brother and sister-in-law? Where are dad and third brother? They don't care about you? Tsk, tsk, tsk, it shows how annoying Mom is. I couldn't move while lying on the kang, but no one was willing to serve my mother."
"I think you should really reflect on yourself. Are you doing too many bad things that have made people angry and your own children despising you?"
These words made Ms. Liu's face turn blue, and she jumped on her feet and cursed for a long time.
Li Qiu was too lazy to pay attention to her, and there was gradually no movement in the yard. It seemed that Mrs. Liu was tired of scolding and went back.
That night, Beginning of Autumn still had an uneasy sleep. The man wearing the green-faced fang mask kept turning over and over again. When he woke up in the morning, his face looked ugly.
Qiu Ju came back to get a change of clothes, and when she saw Li Qiu's face, she was startled: "Li Qiu, are you sick? Pack up quickly and follow me to the second sister-in-law's place. Someone from her mother's family has come, and her medical treatment is very good."
