"Chu! Don't be so shameless. You must pay for the scrap money, otherwise we won't leave today. I want to see how you can do this business!"
"That's right, I won't leave, let's see how their business goes!"
"Come on, come on, everyone, give me all these scraps of paper money and pile them up at the door of his shop, surround me, and let me see who can still go in and buy them after looking at this pile of scraps!"
Seeing that Uncle Chu's family refused to let go, those people clamored to fight to the death with the Chu family. They called out to their companions who came with them, and in a few seconds they used the copper coins and burning paper they brought to surround the shop door!
The fat aunt stood on tiptoe and looked forward, curled her lips and complained to Shen Luzhu and Qian behind her: "Tsk, tsk, tsk, these people really buy a lot, look at how many of them can be placed around the door of the shop. Circled!"
Mr. Qian also shook his head and said: "There are only five or six people in total. Even if one person is from the same family, it is not necessary to buy so much paper money. The more these people look at each other, the more they look like they are here to extort money!"
Grandpa Chu was very angry when he saw this fight, but there were five or six strong men on the other side. If he insisted and refused to let go, he might suffer a loss. After thinking about it, he took two steps forward to discuss with the leader: "The paper money is all good, no problem. If you don't want it anymore, we'll just refund it to you. We all live in the same village, why do we have to make such a fuss?"
The leading middle-aged man smiled contemptuously: "Retreat? Oh, Mr. Chu, what are you kidding me here? Your family sells such defective products to the villagers, and you want to take them back so easily? This But the evidence is so easy to give to you! Besides, tomorrow is the Qingming Festival. Now you can return the paper money to me. What will we people use to burn to our ancestors tomorrow? People during the Qingming Festival will not visit the graves of our ancestors. When the time comes, the blame will fall on your family!"
"But, don't you think this paper money is bad? If you don't return it..."
"My eldest brother is right! It's already this hour. Where do you want us to buy the paper money we need to use tomorrow? We can only deal with this crap of yours first. But we can't just swallow this loss. Get down!"
What else does Mr. Chu not understand at this time? These people are here specifically to extort money. They said that paper money is not good, but they still refuse to return the money. If they don't return the money, they still have to make a fuss in front of the shop. Isn't that right? It’s just an obvious attempt to extort money!
Mrs. Wang was completely out of patience by the troubles made by these people, and she was afraid that if this matter continued to drag on and affect her business, Grandpa Chu might put the entire debt on her. Besides, she took it very seriously. I don’t want to make concessions to these people. If I let them succeed, what if other people come to make trouble tomorrow?
"What on earth are you going to do? There is nothing wrong with the paper money in our house. You have come here several times to buy paper money. Every time you have not rummaged around to find it and looked carefully before buying it back. How long have you been here? Okay, now I’m saying paper money is bad! I told you I’d give it back but you didn’t do it. I think you’re just here to extort money!”
When Shen Luzhu heard Wang's words, she felt that this eldest uncle was really smart. From her point of view, that family was just here to extort money. Not to mention that she had looked so carefully a few times before, maybe she was there. I specially picked the ones with creases inside!
"Please keep your mouth clean. Who do you think is trying to extort money from you? You guys are selling junk goods, right?"
"You are so sarcastic, who said these are junk goods! These are fine copper coins and burning paper!"
One side is refusing to pay even if I beat you to death, and the other side is planning to extort money. You and I are fighting each other, and no one is willing to give up first.
Shen Luzhu and others watched for a long time, both sides were still arguing. They had seen the excitement, and it was estimated that there would be no result in the argument for a while, so they took the lead to go home.
Later, I heard from the fat aunt that the two sides were in a stalemate until very late that day. In the end, Uncle Chu's family was defeated first. Not only did they lose a lot of money to those families, they even couldn't get back the paper money. !
Over at the Chu family's new house, everyone in the family was constantly at odds with each other because of this incident. While Wang was frowning all day long, the Chu family's old house was already busy with Chu Ping's marriage.
The grandfather's family next door and the fat aunt's family are both easy to get along with. The two families treat each other very well.
The children are very satisfied and cooperative, so Chu Ping's engagement this time was unexpectedly and reasonably smooth. Before May, he had completed the process of Nacai, Wenming, Naji, and so on. The entire process of accepting the application and applying for a date was set on the eighth day of June, and now all that was left was to prepare for the wedding of the two of them.
It stands to reason that from the moment the two families get engaged to the day of the wedding, the bride is very busy. She has to prepare a new wedding dress and dowry at home, and she also has to learn how to take care of the housework in her husband's family. At this time, even the daughter of an ordinary farmer's family would never leave the house or leave the house.
Yuan Shuang appears to be different from ordinary girls. She is also busy making her own wedding dress and new gifts for everyone in her husband's family after the wedding. But at least half of the time, she is not at Fat Aunt's house, let alone her. It was her maternal grandfather's house or the house where her mother-in-law lived, but it was in the wing room, the yard or the paper money shop of the Chu family's old house. In short, as long as Yuan Shuang was not at Fat Aunt's house in those days, shen Luzhu would definitely be able to find her. Find Yuan Shuang!
Speaking of which, this matter is also the good intention of Fat Aunt and Qian. Yuan Shuang has been neglected by her mother since she was a child, so she lacks many things that a newlywed mother should know. Originally, it was most appropriate for the fat aunt to teach her as her aunt, but the wedding date of the two of them was very tight, and the fat aunt was also busy with other trivial matters, so she was really overwhelmed.
But if Yuan Shuang was sent to her maternal grandfather's house, it would be inconvenient to travel both ways, and she couldn't rush to her future mother-in-law before marriage to learn how to run a household in the future. Fat Auntie would discuss this with Mr. Qian. I went there, but I always felt that it was not suitable. In the end, I hit it off and decided to let Yuan Shuang follow Shen Luzhu. It was convenient for young people to communicate with each other. Besides, Yuan Shuang could also be asked to spend more time with Shen Luzhu, his cousin-in-law, in advance. , it will be easier to integrate into the Chu family in the future.
For this matter, Fat Aunt is willing, Qian is willing, Yuan Shuang is willing, and Chu Ping is even more willing!
As for Shen Luzhu, after the Qingming Festival, the business of the paper money shop was off-season. Now that the family is divided, Chu Yi no longer makes coffins, and the few acres of land allocated to the family have also been sublet, so he can use his free time When there were more people, Chu Yi took the initiative to take on most of the work at home, so Shen Luzhu had more leisure. It was naturally the best to have more people to do more things, not to mention that she liked Yuan Shuang very much. girl.
Everyone is happy except Chu Yi! Originally he had no opinion on this matter and listened to his wife as usual, but a few days after Yuan Shuang came to the old house, Chu Yi gradually felt something was wrong.
Although when the young couple was at home before, they were not the only ones who stayed together. There were always people around them, but at least the two of them always stayed in the same space. No matter what Chu Yi did, whether he turned his head or turned around, he was always there. Can find a wife.
But when Yuan Shuang came, because they were younger siblings, and they were making Yuan Shuang's wedding dress, it was not appropriate for Chu Yi to stay aside, so most of the time only Shen Luzhu and Yuan Shuang were there. Together, Xiuxiu could stay aside. It didn't matter that Chu Li was still young. Third uncle would always go to the workshop to watch when nothing happened. Only he, Chu Yi, spent a lot of time with Shen Luzhu. He shortened his life and seemed to have completely become a loner, which even made Chu Ping a little uncomfortable to look at in the past few days.
"Cousin, cousin! Did you hear what I just said?"
Chu Yi continued to count the paper money sent by the workshop, and responded calmly: "Yes."
Chu Ping looked at his cousin inquiringly and asked tentatively: "Cousin, what do you think I just said?"
Chu Yi then put down what he was doing and glanced at Chu Ping with a very unfriendly look. Although he didn't say anything, Chu Ping felt that his cousin was swearing!
"Uh... cousin, remember to remind my cousin and Yuan Shuang to drink this chicken soup. I'm leaving!" After Chu Ping said that, he put down the chicken soup, turned around and ran out of the paper money shop!
Chu Yi looked at the chicken soup thrown down by Chu Ping, paused for a moment, reached out to pick it up, then pushed open the back door of the shop and walked towards the guest room in the west wing.
Shen Luzhu was embroidering mandarin ducks for her new wedding dress with Yuan Shuang. When he looked up, he saw Chu Yi walking over with something in his hand. Before anyone could reach the door, he pulled up his shoes and ran to pick someone up. :"You came?"
Chu Yi's face, which had been gloomy for a long time, finally warmed up the moment he saw his wife.
He took out the other hand that wasn't holding the bowl, gently rubbed the top of his wife's head, and said with a smile, "What are you doing running out here?"
"I'll pick you up! What is this? It smells so good!"
"My aunt made the chicken soup. I told you to go next door for dinner tonight. It's just been cooked. I'll bring it over for you two to try!"
Shen Luzhu blinked his eyes and said deliberately: "How embarrassing! You even specially served a portion for me and Yuan Shuang first. I should have taken advantage of Yuan Shuang. Auntie was afraid that Yuan Shuang would be gone soon. I couldn’t get a drink after leaving, so you brought it here specially, right?”
Chu Yi raised his eyebrows slightly when he heard this: "Yuan Shuang will be leaving soon?"
"Well, it's said that Fat Aunt specifically told me to go back early this morning."
Chu Yi nodded: "Then you drink the soup first, and I'll go back and check the shop first."
"Um!"
The young couple had dinner next door in the evening and chatted for a while. They returned to the east wing of the Chu family's old house and finally had a moment of alone time. Chu Yi came back with hot water as usual and planned to go back to the east wing of the Chu family's old house. We soaked our feet together, but as soon as we opened the door, we found that my wife had already fallen asleep with her upper body lying on the kang!
Chu Yi placed the basin on the ground, bent down and supported his body with one hand, hanging above Shen Luzhu, and touched her cheek lightly with the other hand: "Azhu, get up and wash your feet."
Shen Luzhu was not very deep in sleep. Chu Yi woke up as soon as he finished speaking: "Why did I fall asleep?"
"You've been going to bed earlier than before. You must have been busy during the day with Chu Ping and his family getting married!"
Seeing what Chu Yi said so seriously, Shen Luzhu couldn't help but smile and said, "I'm just helping Yuan Shuang embroider. The main thing is to chat with her in that room. I'm not tired!"
Chu Yi nodded, pondered for a moment and said, "Is it possible that you are thinking about me?"
