Xie Zhai, Rongshu Lane, East of Liuyun County
It was early for the New Year's Eve dinner at the Li family's old house. After the meal, Wang Can took Li Jun with him, caught up with the ox cart and entered the city before it got dark.
After the two arrived at Xie's house, the sky also darkened.
After Wang Can lit the lantern and candle, he said to Li Jun: "Brother Junzi, please help boil some hot water and wash the pots and pans. I'll clean the house. My brother-in-law is not at home, so we can't leave him alone." The house is covered in dust for the New Year.”
"good!"
Originally Wang Can had no intention of coming over, but after Li Yuan and the children were gone, she felt empty inside and always wanted to find something to do.
No, after thinking about it, I think it would be better to come to Xie's house.
First, this is where her sister Yuan and her two children will live in the future.
Second, they are about to get married. Now that no one is here, it is not appropriate to leave the house covered in dust during the New Year.
Third, she didn't know when they would come back. Although she heard it was the third year of junior high school, as far as she knew, Lu Yin was in the sixth year of junior high school.
If I rush back on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, I will definitely not be able to travel overnight because I have children, so I will probably get home around the tenth day of the Lunar New Year.
It is definitely inappropriate to get married on the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month.
It's good that there are elders in the family who can help with things, but unfortunately there are no elders in the Xie family.
Therefore, only brothers like them can help.
Wang Can is not the only one who has this idea.
While she and Li Jun were busy, not long after, the voices of Jiang Pingan, Yan Jiao and others were heard outside the door.
"Brother Xie, are you at home?"
Li Jun, who was halfway through washing the dishes, hurriedly walked out of the kitchen. When he opened the door, he saw Yan Jiao and Jiang Ping'an coming over.
He wiped his hands subconsciously and went to help Gao Wu.
Unexpectedly, he was avoided.
"Junzi, no need to help me, I'm fine."
Li Jun paused and looked him up and down.
After a while, he asked: "Is it really okay?"
You seem to be in good spirits, but weren't you so ill that you kept coughing a few days ago and couldn't even get out of bed?
"Okay! Didn't Brother Xie get the medicine from the miracle doctor again? I was cured within two days after taking it. Now the burned areas on my body are much better."
As he spoke, he stretched out his hands that became a little ferocious and waved them in front of Li Jun's eyes nonchalantly.
And Yan Jiao took the opportunity to ask: "Junzi, you are not at home today on New Year's Eve, why are you here?"
"My sister and brother-in-law went to Fucheng and will come back after the New Year. Cancan thought about coming over to clean up the house, so she came."
Yan Jiao smiled and said, "What a coincidence, that's what we thought too. I originally thought that Brother Xie would be back in the next two days, and I kept paying attention to this place. Unexpectedly, he didn't come back, and then I thought about coming over to help clean up."
Jiang Pingan also echoed: "I thought so too. When I came here with Su Jin, I met Brother Gao Wu and Sister Jiaojiao."
Wang Can had just finished cleaning the room where she and Li Yuan usually slept, and heard the noise and came out.
Seeing everyone standing at the door, she knew what was going on as soon as she rolled her eyes, and immediately said: "They are all here to help? Then come in quickly, why are you standing at the door? Brother Junzi, please boil more hot water. Jiaojiao Sister, Sujin, come over and help clean the east wing. Brother Gao Wu, don’t touch these things, just sit in the main room and rest. Brother Ping An, could you please help clean the yard. The remaining firewood has not been chopped. Help me chop. If you're tired, just rest and let Brother Junzi do it."
After hearing her instructions, everyone started busy.
Wang Can himself took the broom and entered the main room.
Xie Yanzhi currently lives here, but her sister Yuan will also live here in the future, so she has to clean it herself.
Just this cleaning quickly caused problems.
Leaving aside the fire bed directly facing the door, she leaned on the wooden bed on the left side. When she bent down to clean the bottom of the bed, she first felt something swept near the corner.
Then she changed the angle to scan, and saw a string of copper coins, about eighty coins.
But it must have been a long time, the copper plate was covered with a thick layer of dust, and the color was hard to see clearly.
If it hadn't been strung together with wires, she estimated that the copper plates would have been scattered all over the floor by now.
When she put the bunch of money on the table and continued cleaning, she felt something was swept out from under the bed on the left side.
She thought about what she had heard about Xie Yanzhi's bad luck, and immediately gritted her teeth and moved the bed away bit by bit.
Oh, there are several mud lumps under the huge bed.
Putting aside the copper plates before, now in this land, these lumps of mud are all broken silver.
If she hadn't been sharp-eyed, she wouldn't even have known it. This was money!
After Wang Can picked up or dug up all these.
She found that these added up to more than one tael of silver.
Just a bed cost so much money, so she immediately looked elsewhere.
After she restored the bed to its original state, she lit an oil lamp on the table in the room to make sure there was more light.
No one would have thought that Wang Canzhi just cleaned Xie Yanzhi's room and the money he picked up from the ground totaled more than three taels of silver.
Besides the ones under the bed, she picked up the most around the table in the middle of the room.
Almost all of them were around the stool legs, and they were still pressed into the mud by the stool legs.
Other than that, it's just the area next to the door.
After finding the money and cleaning the house quickly, Wang Can put all the money into a big tea bowl and took it out.
Li Jun was already chopping firewood. When he saw her calm face and a bowl of food in her hand, he asked, "Cancan, what's wrong?"
Wang Can came back to his senses, glanced at the contents of the bowl with a complicated expression, and then looked at Li Jun.
"Brother Junzi, I just helped my brother-in-law clean the house. How much money do you think I found?"
When Li Jun, Jiang Ping'an and Gao Wu, who was idle in the main room, heard that they found the money, they couldn't help but think of the money that their brother Xie always lost for no reason.
At that time, he was extremely unlucky. Even at home, he would lose money and never find it.
Co-authored, and now they have been found, and they are still in his own room?
The three of them thought like this and walked towards Wang Can.
When I saw the lumps of mud in the big tea bowl, I suddenly understood.
Li Jun reached out and took the big tea bowl, then went into the kitchen and washed it with hot water.
After the dust and mud on the surface of the silver were washed away, he looked at the money and looked at Wang Can with bright eyes for a while.
"Cancan, if you can make so much money to clean my brother-in-law's room, you can definitely do the same in the study. Come on, I'll go with you. If we can scrape together six taels of silver, then we can help him make the wedding a decent one. of."
At that time, they will treat the money as given by their brother Xie in advance, and then ask them to help buy a table and so on.
As for his sister's dowry, although she went to Fucheng to buy it, her grandparents also helped prepare some at the old house.
Such as quilts, washstands, wooden basins, descendant buckets, etc.
