Hu Li walked leisurely on her way home.
She, Chen Ping, Chen Hong, Chen Jinzhu, all the money earned from mopping the family was in her pocket. The feeling of touching the banknotes with her hands was so comfortable.
She knew that Orion gave Chen Yulian 120 yuan, and she also knew that the 20 yuan in his pocket was nothing, but Orion didn't know how long it would take to save up to get the 120 yuan meeting gift. What about her? In less than 10 days, 20 yuan was received.
As long as Chen Jianghe continues to work hard and continues to lead the whole village to do business, he will be able to compete with the wealthy Orion in two or three months, not to mention that they still have farmland for 7 people, and the harvest is not a small income.
"Can you please stop fussing with Yulian in front of outsiders in the future?"
Seeing entering the alley, Chen Jinzhu said what he had been brewing in his heart for a long time.
Hu Li knew what this meant, and felt that she was embarrassing Chen Yulian in public - this kind of behavior was considered to be a public scandal. Chen Jinzhu was a gentleman after all, so of course he couldn't lose face.
"I won't argue with her? With your nephew making such a fuss, who else doesn't know that our family is bullying them? Tell your nephew first!"
"If you didn't embarrass Yulian, why would he say those things in front of the villagers?"
Hu Li paused and said angrily: "Chen Jinzhu, whose side are you on?"
Chen Jinzhu turned into a wilted cucumber and dared not speak.
"In the future, I won't ask them difficult questions about mother and son. We have to see if they can pass the mayor's test." Hu Li's expression was very coquettish when she said this, with light in her eyes and corners of her mouth. Smiling and raising his eyebrows to the sky, he looked several years younger.
Chen Jinzhu said: "What do you mean?"
"Who is Ji Feo? Ji Feo is the adopted son of the mayor. Lin Yue is trying to undermine Chen Jin Shui in front of so many people. Will he just let it go?"
"This... can't be true. How could Brother Jin Shui be so serious with a child?"
"We'll see if it happens."
Hu Li gouged him out, feeling that the man was too stupid and didn't even understand the simplest principle of killing a chicken to scare a monkey.
Does this have anything to do with age? No! It has something to do with behavior and something to do with nature.
"I don't think Ji Feo will listen to Brother Jin Shui on this matter. Ji Feo is not that kind of person."
"He will definitely listen."
"Why?"
"Because he is Brother Jinshui's adopted son." Hu Li dropped these words and ducked into the courtyard.
…
At the same time, Luo Yuzhu was also discussing the issue of Chen Yulian's mother and son with Chen Jianghe.
"Don't give your Yulian girl more money in front of the villagers in the future."
"Why?"
Chen Jianghe couldn't understand. Didn't he just give Chen Yulian 10 cents more? It was understandable that Hu Li would stir up trouble. Everyone in the village knew that her aunt and sister-in-law were not getting along, but Luo Yuzhu and Chen Yulian were not related, so why did they also embarrass an orphan and widower? Mother, logically speaking, she should pity them.
He still remembered that Luo Yuzhu told him when he was running for his life that her father was a bastard who was addicted to gambling. He didn't care about the life or death of the mother and daughter in the past, and later sold her to human traffickers. Thanks to her cleverness, and It takes tenacious perseverance to survive to this day.
Luo Yuzhu said: "What I mean is that when doing business, brothers should settle accounts clearly and not leave it to others. If someone says that my family is also poor, please give me a few more cents. What will you do? A Pay extra for everything? Also, you act so generous, maybe others will suspect that you ate a lot of money in the middle."
Chen Jianghe said: "You... are thinking too much."
"Why do I think too much? This is a very practical question." Luo Yuzhu said: "And didn't you see? Your uncle's face is dark today."
"My uncle still hates you, why don't I have dinner with you here?"
"That's different."
"Why is it different? That's how things are, and I can't be unreasonable, right? You see, there is some truth to what the child said."
"Chen Jianghe, I am helping you analyze the stakes."
"But I feel like I did nothing wrong."
Dongdongdong~
At this moment, there was a dull knock on the door outside.
Luo Yuzhu went over to open the door latch, looked outside, and found that it was Chen Daguang. He brought bad news that Chen Jinshui was ill.
Chen Jianghe could only say goodbye to Luo Yuzhu with reluctance, and rushed back to Chenjiacun, where he saw Chen Jinshui lying on the bed with a wet towel on his head.
In the old man's words, he was made mad by Chen Yulian and Lin Yue. No matter what, he was still a mayor and a very shameful person. That boy was so angry with them in public that he provoked the relationship between father and son.
Chen Jianghe quickly comforted the old man and asked him to relax. As his adopted son, how could he seek the position of his adoptive father? Moreover, he was really not the material to be an official. He was worrying too much about this matter.
Chen Jinshui took a step back and said that it would be good to recommend him to take over as the mayor. After all, we are a family sooner or later. However, the current situation is still a bit unclear and the situation may be repeated one day, so he should continue to do it himself. The mayor wanted to be blamed for something that happened. Then the topic changed to the root of the disease, saying that he set a fire and ran away, and the county came to arrest him. What should we do? Come forward, I got this disease in the study class, so I said that I was very familiar with it.
When Chen Jianghe learned about this situation, he was deeply shocked. Chen Jinshui took the opportunity to make a request, asking him not to associate with Chen Yulian and her son in the future. After all, everyone knows how sharp-tongued that kid is. Maybe one day he will do it again. With your own army, you can survive the illness this time, but you don’t know next time. Secondly, although Chen Yulian is his cousin, her family situation is no different from that of a thirty-four or five-year-old widow. If she gets too close and is too attentive, others will gossip.
Chen Jianghe didn't like to hear this, but so what if he didn't like to hear it? Chen Jinshui went all the way to take the blame for him, so she could only hold her nose and admit it, and promised not to take Chen Yulian with her when doing business in the future, but if she did it herself...
Chen Jinshui said there was no need to worry about this. Chen Yulian had grown up watching her, and she knew her temper very well. If something like that happened, as long as he didn't ask for it, she would be embarrassed to ask for work.
Next, the adoptive father and son discussed his marriage to Qiao Gu, which made Chen Jianghe very frustrated and disgusted, but he had nothing to do. Just like Qiu Yingjie said in the TV series, if Chen Jinshui is his biological father , this matter is easier to handle, but the point is not that in the early 1960s, when he was short of food and clothing, it was Chen Jinshui who picked him up from the wild and raised him, and helped him take the blame for the disease. How could he repay such a favor? Even if he and Qiao Gu are unwilling, what can they do? He can't do anything ungrateful.
After the conversation, Chen Jianghe began to distance himself from Luo Yuzhu, and no longer asked Chen Yulian to come over to help him whenever he found a job to make money.
Of course Lin Yue knew what Chen Jinshui said to Chen Jianghe. He was quite surprised. He felt that the old man had a lot of tricks. In the TV series, he pretended to be sick to force Chen Jianghe to marry Qiaogu and alienate Luo Yuzhu. Here, pretending to be sick can kill three birds with one stone. bird.
First, test Chen Jianghe's obedience and affection for his adoptive father to determine whether Chen Jianghe really wants to replace him.
Second, everyone knew that Chen Jinshui was angry with him. Afterwards, Chen Jianghe distanced himself from Chen Yulian, which would be considered as a filial son who did not want a similar situation to happen again. He did it as a last resort and had nothing to do with Chen Jinshui.
Third, break up Chen Jianghe and Luo Yuzhu, and the excellent adopted son becomes a home-based son-in-law, and they become even closer. In this way, all the problems between father and son will be solved.
…
The twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month.
Little New Year in the South.
The village has already had a New Year atmosphere. Children wearing winter clothes held incense sticks, lit the fuses of firecrackers, covered their ears and ducked aside until they heard the sound of "Peng". Several people cheered as if they had won a battle, but their faces were frozen. Little rosy girls would let out high-pitched screams and tell boys who were trying to scare them with firecrackers to stay away or tell their parents.
"Pingping, come here, try on the new clothes mom bought you."
As soon as Hu Li entered the courtyard, she shouted to the back room.
Chen Yulian, who was scooping water out of the urn, raised her head and saw Hu Li pushing the bicycle that she had brought from her parents' home. The black leather bag on the left side of the handle was bulging. I don't know what it contained. There are kilograms of bacon, while on the shelves behind there are iron rods of yams, a net bag of incense sticks, and half a bag of flour.
She knew that Hu Li shouted to her on purpose.
Although the profits of the second and third batches of mops are not as high as those of the first batch of mops, and the cloth from the county textile factory has become a hot commodity, with prices rising higher and higher, Hu Li's family of four followed Chen Jianghe. I made a lot of money. I heard the couple settling accounts in the back room two days ago. From October to February, they saved more than 100 yuan in four months.
"Hey, Mom." came the energetic reply from the main room, and Chen Ping ran out to meet her and help unload the New Year's goods from the bicycle.
"Ping Ping, let me tell you, the later you buy these New Year's goods, the more expensive they will be. After the New Year, you will be 18 years old, and you can get married and have a wife in your old age. You must learn to budget carefully in this life."
This is also meant for Chen Yulian, because she hasn’t prepared any New Year’s goods yet. As for the reason, it’s very simple, one word: poor!
Since Lin Yue had a fight with Chen Jinshui, Chen Jianghe stopped playing with her. Without the income to make mops, Chen Yulian could only go back to the Chinese medicine shop in the next village to continue doing odd jobs. She also made many pairs of cloth shoes in her free time. , preparing to sell them in the market to earn some New Year money.
This thing is sold in nine out of ten families, so it is surprising that it can be sold well, so in Hu Li's opinion, Chen Yulian will definitely not have an easy year.
"Mother……"
A call came from the door. Hu Li and Chen Ping turned around and saw Lin Yue walking in from the outside carrying a pole.
What is surprising is that what is hung on both ends of the pole is not the cloth shoes and tiger-head shoes for sale, but a big pig's head, three carp and two ducks, as well as new year's goods such as peanuts, melon seeds, and red shrimp candies.
And he didn't come back alone. He was followed by a middle-aged man in a woolen coat, carrying two bottles of Shuanggou Daqu in his left hand, and a cardboard box sandwiched in a creaky nest on the right. Judging from the outer packaging pattern, it contained hairtail fish.
This person is...the hunter from Dongyang County? Has this mysterious man finally appeared?
