"Do you have anything else to add about your son's marriage?"
Shopkeeper Xu asked.
"My son is a scholar. If he wants to get a good name in the future, his family will not force him to go into business."
Li Jinniang added.
Shopkeeper Xu wrote it down on the paper very seriously. After he finished writing, he showed it to Li Jinniang and said, "If you think it's OK, just put a fingerprint on it."
Li Jinniang raised her eyelids, glanced at it, and sneered: "Shopkeeper Xu, please don't coax me, I can't read."
Shopkeeper Xu put the paper on the table and said calmly: "It seems that your son's marriage is not done."
Shopkeeper Xu stopped saying another word to Li Jinniang and called to the waiter: "Have you finished counting the one thousand taels of silver that was settled in Huaicheng yesterday?"
The waiter said respectfully: "Go back to the shopkeeper, you have to ask Bai Sanzhuang about this. He is always responsible for the accounting."
Shopkeeper Xu nodded and said he understood.
When Li Jinniang heard about the one thousand taels of silver, her eyes already gleamed.
Darling, just one day's accounting is worth a thousand taels of silver, which is not bad.
Shopkeeper Xu seems to have more furniture than expected.
Fortunately, he raised Xu Jiaojiao, a stupid daughter, and all the money will come from him in the future.
Greed got the upper hand in Li Jinniang. She pulled away the paper full of words and said, "It's okay if I press my fingerprints, but I have to find someone to read what you wrote."
Shopkeeper Xu said calmly: "Please do it."
Li Jinniang took the paper and walked outside. She happened to meet a down-and-out scholar on the street. She pulled him away and asked him to read what was written on the paper.
The down-and-out scholar read it one by one. Every time he read it, Li Jinniang became a little happy, and in the end her eyebrows started to fly.
It seems that Shopkeeper Xu really loves her daughter. Her son took advantage of her this time.
After the scholar finished reading in the street, Li Jinniang pulled the paper and couldn't wait to tell shopkeeper Xu that she wanted to have her fingerprints pressed.
"Everyone heard it just now. This paper is about Li Jin's marriage that she discussed with me. I didn't lie to her." Shopkeeper Xu said to the pedestrians on the street.
Most of these people came home from the Lotus Festival on the banks of the Huai River for dinner. I heard that there were thousands of colorful lanterns on the Huai River at night, and they had to rush back to enjoy the lanterns after dinner.
Passing by Shopkeeper Xu's shop, I saw that Li Jinniang was still there.
So I stopped to watch the excitement.
The melons that appear during this year’s Lotus Festival are more beautiful than in previous years.
The story about Li Jin and Widow Liu has spread throughout the town, and I'm afraid the only person who doesn't know about it is Li Jinniang.
Everyone watched Li Jinniang's performance with a pessimistic attitude, only finding it funny.
I wonder who is more powerful between these two inefficient lamps when she and Widow Liu are facing each other.
In order to prevent long nights and long dreams, the daughter of the Xu family ran away. Li Jinniang took the ink from the waiter's hand, pressed her fingerprints, and patted her chest to express that if Li Jin regretted the marriage, she would break her son's legs.
"Hey, Aunt Li, you don't know, your old son is really good at finding you such a good match. Not only is your daughter-in-law one of a thousand, but she will also be able to upgrade your seniority after paying homage to her. Waiting to become an ancestor." One of the fierce businesswomen doing business on the street said.
Li Jinniang looked pleased with herself, thinking that the other party was sincerely complimenting her.
However, Xu Jiaojiao has her own golden light, and she is not just one of the most wealthy children in the world. Jin'er got married to her, so she was naturally upgraded to Mr. Li; and she is naturally the oldest ancestor in the family, she He has even planned how many maids will be required to serve him when he goes out.
Everyone laughed and said nothing.
But Li Jinniang also said: "Everyone will come to have a wedding banquet then."
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a big barefoot man carrying someone on his back to the door of Xu's shop, followed by a crying woman. When the man came over, there was a fishy smell that hit his face.
Li Jinniang fanned the air in front of her in disgust.
The barefoot man put the person in front of Li Jinniang, knelt down and said, "This must be grandma. Dad fainted with joy and said he was most afraid of you, so he carried him to you."
Li Jinniang was just about to start a scolding, but she mistakenly recognized the wrong person. As soon as she took a look, she realized that the person rolling on her heels was none other than her son Li Jin.
"Jin'er..." Li Jinniang didn't care to think about the barefoot man's marriage behavior. She was so frightened that she squatted down and cried out loudly while pinching the person with her hands.
"Mother..." Li Jin slowly woke up.
"My God, Mr. Li, you are finally awake. This slave has been worried to death." Widow Liu wiped away her tears and stepped forward to wipe Li Jin's face with a handkerchief.
Li Jinniang recognized Widow Liu, the fish seller, and she couldn't turn her head.
What happened? Widow Liu called Li Jin Mr. Li and kept calling her slave.
How shameless was it to ruin her son's reputation with the dirty talk she learned from behind closed doors.
"What are you doing?" Li Jinniang asked Widow Liu.
Widow Liu stood up and blessed Li Jinniang, calling her mother-in-law, which made Li Jinniang dizzy.
"It's like this. You and Mr. Li got it right. He fell into the water at the Lotus Festival and almost drowned. It was the slave who tried his best to save him from the water. He said that if he could survive, he would let me make terms with him." Liu The widow smiled at Li Jinniang and said with a shy face, "I have no other request, I just want to pledge myself to you and serve Mr. Li every day from now on."
After hearing this, Li Jinniang spit on Widow Liu's face, and the sound of scratching her ears sounded: "Shameless, you don't take a pee to take a look at yourself, you are just a cucumber, you are worthy of being painted green?"
"Son, don't you know how to swim? How did you fall into her hands? Is it because the old widow plotted against my son?" Li Jinniang asked angrily.
Li Jin closed his eyes tightly at this time and remained silent.
"Aunt Li, Widow Liu didn't lie to you. Everyone saw your son fall into the water, and it was she who rescued your son." Shopkeeper Chen, the owner of the bun shop, said standing in the crowd.
Widow Liu cried bitterly and pulled Li Jinniang's sleeve: "Your son looked at my whole body and put his head in my arms. It is said that there are many disputes in front of widows. Now that I have lost my virginity, I will no longer live, so it is better to do it head-on." die."
Li Jinniang wanted to kill Widow Liu, and said angrily: "My son is still a young child, and you are a veteran widow, and you are still here pretending to be a martyr for me. If you hit me, hit me now."
Widow Liu started to cry, slapping her thighs and lamenting the misfortune of her life, scolding Li Jin for not being a human being and ruining her reputation.
Li Jinniang jumped to her feet and scolded: "You have a damn reputation."
Widow Liu's son, the barefooted man, was unhappy when he heard Li Jinniang scolding her. The old man pulled Li Jinniang and said, "Why are you so anxious? For a man of my age to have a pretty boy like your son as his son, your family has taken advantage. Why are you scolding my mother instead?"
Li Jinniang almost held her breath.
Widow Liu's daughter-in-law held the two children, pushed her to Li Jinniang's side and said, "You are so lucky. All your hard work was not wasted, and you got a big son and two great-grandsons in vain. You will be living together for four generations." I’m still not happy about it.”
Li Jinniang angrily stretched out her hand to scratch Widow Liu's daughter-in-law's face. How could she not be Widow Liu's opponent?
It was only then that she realized that her son was just afraid of being plotted against.
He turned to Shopkeeper Xu and said, "Businesskeeper Xu, you don't care if they slander your son-in-law like this? We just made arrangements to get married."
Shopkeeper Xu smiled and said, "Don't mess around with your father-in-law for your son. Are you thinking about the marriage matters? Which one is related to my family's engagement?"
Shopkeeper Xu has a smile on his face, he likes to see you fall from a high place, and the higher you climb, the harder you fall.
Shopkeeper Xu threw the paper filled with marriage details to Widow Liu, and the private school student who followed Li in read it out loudly.
Li Jinniang thought about it and realized that the woman written on the paper was not Xu Jiaojiao, but Widow Liu.
Li Jinniang was about to scold Shopkeeper Xu, but Widow Liu came up to pester her and said, "Mom, please let me in. I will treat you as an old lady."
