"Ten taels plus your 2 taels, there is still eight taels left. I don't know if I can get some flowers. Alas!" Li Zheng looked at the box in his hand with regret. All the money he had saved for most of his life was here. .
Compared to Niu Lizheng's reluctance, Grandma Chen was heartbroken.
The old man had bought some of the jewelry for her one after another. He gave Hua'er a few pieces to accompany her when she got married, and the rest were intended to be passed on to her good grandchildren. It's good now that this unfilial son has given them all to her. .
Her gold ring, her gold earrings, her...
Woo woo woo....
Unfilial son!
Grandma Chen was so distressed that she couldn't stand still, but she also knew that what the old man said could not be changed, so she simply lay down on the bed, facing the wall, out of sight.
"I'll go talk to those people." Niu Shanbao took the box handed over by his father, and then took the small cloth bag handed over by the child's mother, which contained all the family's belongings.
"Sir, we have scraped together some money. Here are twelve taels. Can you give me a few days of grace for the remaining eight taels? I will find someone to chip it in."
The strong man at the head grabbed the wooden box, opened it and counted it carefully: "Yes, although these jewelry are a bit old in style, they are not bad in weight. Even if you are twelve taels, for the sake of your sincerity in paying back the money, I will give them to you." I'll give you two days' grace. We'll come back the day after tomorrow. If your money isn't ready by then, don't blame us for being rude. By the way, don't even think about running away. Even if you run to the ends of the earth, we can do it. Find."
"Thank you, sir. Don't worry, we are here and we will never run away." Seeing that these people had given him two days of grace, Niu Shanbao was overjoyed and bent down to thank him.
"Brothers, go back and come back the day after tomorrow." The strong man smiled and said nothing. He turned around and left. Passing by the Niu Shanma who was still kneeling on the ground, he stretched out his feet and ran over his hand.
Niushan Ma's face turned red in pain, but he didn't dare to say anything, holding it in until his face looked like a monkey's butt.
Only when these strong men left completely did Niu Shanma scream in pain at the top of his lungs.
"Hmph, good job!" Unfortunately, except for Qin, no one present felt sorry for him, and instead gloated about his misfortune.
Gamblers are one of the most unsympathetic people in this world.
"Uncle, if they leave, won't they sell us?" Niu Daya bit her lip, but she still couldn't help but tugged on Niu Shanbao's clothes without looking at the couple who was supporting her.
She is already seven years old, and she understands everything she should know and what she shouldn't.
She always knew that her parents wanted sons and despised them as daughters.
Now I want to sell three of them!
"Don't worry, our family will never sell anyone. No matter how hard it is, we will never do it!" Niu Shanbao assured his three nieces seriously.
Sanya still couldn't understand people's words, she was twiddling her thumbs happily, drooling on her face, neither crying nor making trouble.
After hearing this, Erya and Daya's faces were full of joy, and they giggled, their little faces crinkled from crying, looking silly.
Niu Shanbao couldn't help but smile, stretched out his big hand and touched their little heads.
"Lock those two beasts up for me. They can't leave the room without my permission." Li Zheng calmed down and ordered his eldest son.
Having almost settled his own affairs, Li Zheng politely drove away the people watching the excitement and asked several elders to go back. Then he looked at Niu Dadu and his family apologetically: "I'm really sorry, I, I didn’t teach him well.”
"Grandpa, this is for you!" Niu Ergou had been standing with Niu Xiaodi without making a sound and didn't know what he was thinking. Suddenly he seemed to come back to his senses and stretched out his palm. There was a copper plate.
Auntie secretly gave this to me a few days ago, on the day the salesman came, saying that he wanted to buy candies for herself. But the second uncle bought candies that day, and he was reluctant to buy more for himself.
"Grandma, thank you to our two dogs. You can keep the money for yourself to buy candies." Li Zheng smiled and touched the eldest grandson's furry little head.
"Grandpa Lizheng, have you collected enough money?" Niu Caohua has been at the scene and has seen everything. She even heard their conversation in the house and knew that they were still eight taels short.
After all, Niu Xiaohua is a married woman, and eight taels of silver is not a small amount. Can she afford it?
"You don't have to worry about this." Niu Li was in a depressed mood because they all seemed to feel better.
As for whether my daughter can come up with the money, she is not worried at all.
Although the Yang family is not an official family, they are still a wealthy family. They have more than ten acres of good farmland, and their life is relatively prosperous.
Hua'er became pregnant not long after she got married, and gave birth to a son. Not long ago, she gave birth to another son. With two sons by her side, who dared to look down on her?
That is, I am holding my daughter back, alas~
"Li Zheng, are you at home?" Before he could say a few words, the courtyard door was knocked again. When he opened the door, there was a group of people standing outside, and it turned out to be the same group of people who had just watched the excitement.
Didn't they go home? Why did they come back again?
"What about that? We all discussed it and pooled some money together. We all see how Li Zheng treats us on weekdays. We can't just watch the little girl being sold, right." The speaker was Niu Tiezhu. , he was pushed to the front by a group of people, and then he scratched his head and spoke a little embarrassedly.
After saying that, he handed over a cloth bag, which was heavy inside.
"No, no, you can take the money back and we will find a way on our own." Li Zheng refused repeatedly.
How could he not know what was going on with each family in the village? How much money he had on him? The money he collected must have come from selling pigs last time. It was going to be winter soon, so everything had to be spent.
"What can you do, it must be to find flowers." The person who spoke was an old man in the village, and he was not polite at all.
"Hua'er is married. What if she is rejected by her husband's family for supporting her mother's family like this? She is the one we have seen since childhood. You can't harm your daughter like this."
"Yeah, who wants his wife to always support her parents' family?"
"..."
The villagers who usually gave him a headache looked so amiable now.
"You can't get used to that little son of yours in the future. He is lazy and not working every day, wandering around. If you ask me, he should be disciplined and disciplined more." The person who disturbed the scenery appeared, and the familiar tone was not Granny Bai.
"You still have the nerve to tell me, isn't your Qianshan the same? Your daughter-in-law has only been back for two days and she went back to her parents' home. It's not as good as others. At least Mrs. Qin doesn't go back to her parents' home all the time."
"No, I see. You have to send your Qianshan here and let Li Zheng discipline him together."
"..."
