Mrs. Xu decided to give her granddaughter a silver lock under her silver collar, but she still listened to the opinions of her three sons.
"San You" said: "Mom, do you still remember that you and the old aunt at the table went to Mao'er Mountain to give Tian Xin'er a life order? People say that our Tian Xin'er has a short horoscope and a short life. If possible, it is best to get one Long life lock. You also cursed the other party."
The original person had a deep memory of this incident.
That year, Tian Xin'er seemed to be attracting evil spirits. She would always wake up in the middle of the night and point out the window and say that someone was thinking about her and looking at her.
She went out with a kitchen knife, slashed and cursed, but it didn't work anymore. That year, she filled the table and asked around, then gritted her teeth and went to read her granddaughter's fortune.
Little did she know that the fortune teller said all disgusting things. He also said that the fortune teller was short of life, and that he would do a lot of work in the future. Anyway, there was no good word. The more she listened, the more annoyed she became. She became so angry that she beat the master away. , he said as he beat him, "I can't kill you, and I almost didn't come back from Mao'er Mountain."
However, after a brawl, it was true that he spent money to tell fortunes and buy a diaphragm. How could he not become suspicious.
Then the three of them made a mahogany sword for Tian Xin'er because they couldn't afford it, and said that if the three swords were combined into one, they would definitely be able to slay demons.
For this reason, Youyin was young at that time and accidentally injured his hand while carving peach wood. There is still a scar on his extended ring finger that was left from that time.
So the family finally had some money left. Before their three sons left for Fucheng, they discussed with her privately that they wanted to get rid of the resentment in their hearts and wanted their mother to buy a silver necklace for their niece during the Chinese New Year this year. Because this is best given by grandparents. Then replace the three small peach wood swords tied together by my niece.
They are all polished, Xu Tianxin has worn them for too many years.
Mrs. Xu took into account that girls from wealthy families here are very particular. For example, girls from wealthy families should keep the items drawn from the Hundred Days Lot, including the longevity lock and other things once they grow up. Until the wedding day, they will be packed into a box and taken as a dowry.
Her Tian Xin'er didn't have much to bring with her when she was a child, and it was her three uncles who came up with the idea from the bottom of their hearts. It's hard for all of them to be as careless as a vat and still think about this matter. We can't hurt the uncles who have struggled to use their brains. We just decided to buy this as a gift this year.
However, Mrs. Xu still knew her granddaughter. She specially asked her three sons to go shopping in Fucheng. After all, cardamom does not mean it looks good just because it is heavy on the neck. She did not let her buy such exaggerated styles.
So it was beyond Xu Tianxin's imagination.
She really liked the silver collar when she took it out of the box.
A long-life lock with the words "Baijia Baosuo" written on it is tied to a thin silver ring.
"grandmother……"
"do you like it?"
"My uncle and the others went to Fucheng to buy it for me?"
The trademark on the box is exactly the name of the store that Xu Tianxin and Mrs. Xu had hesitated to go into live broadcast when they went to Fucheng: Jubaozhai.
At that time, the two of them decided not to go shopping, so as not to wear too shabby clothes and be scolded by others, and be seen by thousands of people on live broadcast. Why don't you quarrel with others then? That's not a cool article. People watching the live broadcast don't just hold their anger and hold it in.
But I wanted to slap the other person in the face, but given the situation at that time, I really didn’t have the strength. I don’t even dare to say, “I can afford it after I see it.”
So it's better not to go in and wander around, if you can't afford to offend me, you can hide.
Unexpectedly, in just a few months, the uncles went to Jubaozhai for them and their grandchildren, and even started to buy some.
If there is no following...
Xu Youyin smiled and said to his family:
"You don't know, but my heart is actually beating a little bit when I pay the bill. After all, this thing is different from buying food.
My second brother repeatedly confirmed that it couldn’t be any cheaper?
My third brother carried it in his heart all the way back, afraid of losing it.
I am not as good as my two brothers. They repeatedly ask the waiter to weigh the weight, and they find me annoying. They say it is the lightest weight in the shop and there is no mistake. "
Yes, the silver necklace is the least expensive item in the shop, but it is deeply liked by Xu Tianxin. Even though she bought a big gold ring for her grandma, she herself doesn’t like very exaggerated styles.
At this time, Xu Tianxin lowered her head and asked Mrs. Xu to untie the three peach wood swords for her.
Three mahogany swords that have been blackened and polished and tied with red thread.
From now on, it is like a new life that needs to be replaced, and the days to come will be put into a box for collection.
Xu Youliang, Xu Youcang, and Xu Youyin were a little embarrassed to come forward, but their mother refused to let them wear it. He said that the three uncles asked him to buy it, so they should wear it instead of the mahogany sword.
In the end, Xu Laoer stepped forward, and when he put on Xu Tianxin a silver necklace that symbolized warding off evil spirits, eliminating disasters, and praying for blessings, he surprised everyone and said seriously: "My niece Xu Jiatian Xin'er will be free from illness and disaster from now on. May you live a long life.”
"good!"
Xu Tianxin held the mahogany sword tightly in his hand, wore a thin silver collar with a silver lock around his neck, and responded solemnly and loudly, making the whole room laugh.
At this moment, Mrs. Xu climbed onto the kang, leaning on the kang mat, and smiled.
She asked why the gold ring given by her granddaughter looked familiar.
During the Spring Festival of the year when her modern son died, he mailed her a gift home.
I called and said: Mom, I used to ask you what kind of jewelry you like, but you always said you didn’t like it. You were busy working, combing and shaving your hair.
My son can't go home during the New Year, so I bought you a plain ring. I didn't buy a gold ring with flowers on it, which might not look good. However, my son’s birthday is engraved on it, so it’s considered a custom-made one, so don’t dislike it.
How could you possibly dislike it.
During the Spring Festival of that year, she placed the gold ring on the console on the north balcony, happily making dumplings while watching it, and was reluctant to wear it.
Unexpectedly, after the Spring Festival that year, her son never came back, and she was even more reluctant to wear it. The gold ring was still new until she came here.
Mrs. Xu did not expect that the gold ring her granddaughter gave her this year would also have her son's birthday engraved on it like the gold ring.
It can only be seen that gold here likes to be inlaid with jade or something. Even if it is not inlaid with anything, it will not be too plain. There will be the word "Fu Shou" on it. The granddaughter could only choose the one that was the closest. It had no words on it, only a moire pattern, and her son's birthday was customized on the inside.
The moiré pattern is also very good, really good.
Mrs. Xu thought to herself: There is such a song, what is it called: "You said I am like a cloud... You said I am like a dream... You said you want to travel far..."
Even if I never see my son again, it's all just missing him.
After all, the so-called death of a person does not mean death when the body is gone. As long as the people who miss him are still there, it doesn't mean that his son is gone.
Mrs. Xu secretly used the hand with the gold ring to wipe her eyes with a smile, then deliberately opened her fingers to swing her wrist to reveal the gold ring and showed it off loudly: "Dabao, you have to wear your breasts well this time. You can buy me nothing in the future." If you don’t save them anymore, wear them all so you won’t regret it.”
My intestines are full of regret, and my son didn’t want to wear it even after buying it for a day.
In a word, the grandfather and grandson knew exactly what the other wanted to express. Xu Tianxin smiled and rolled his eyes and said: "It seems that my uncles bought it for you, and you will also like it, and you should wear it often."
"What?" Mrs. Xu was surprised this time. She didn't expect the three brats to be "double agents."
She asked her sons to give Tian Xin a surprise, and they gave her another surprise: "What did you buy? Take it out and see, do you have money to buy it?"
"Mom, you also know that our three brothers are very poor." Xu Youyin took the opportunity to complain with a smile.
The three tall sons stood in front of the kang and took out very small gold earrings.
"Mom, please accept it." After Xu Lao Er said this, he looked back to find his wife, not forgetting that Yu Qin Niang also pulled her by the arm in front of Mrs. Xu.
Mrs. Xu took it with both hands, and the smile on her face was no less than when she received the gold ring in modern times.
It was also the Spring Festival, it was the same time to eat dumplings, and I also received a gift from my son. This time it was from my three sons.
Despite her young age, Yu Qiniang already has fine lines at the corners of her eyes caused by hard work and years of hard work.
Yu Qiniang's eyes had fine lines from laughter. She was bending down to remove the firewood sticks from the ears of Mrs. Xu who was sitting on the edge of the kang, and put them on carefully. This thing is too expensive and she doesn’t know how to wear it yet. She shouted nervously: “Tian Xin’er, come here and help Auntie see how she wears it, right?”
Xu Tianxin was even happier than Mrs. Xu and hurriedly said that she wore it like this.
When preparing New Year's gifts, Xu Tianxin actually considered buying them all, including gold hairpins with birthday dates engraved on them and Arabic numerals anyway.
But when her three uncles found her privately and took out the scraps of silver they had saved, and asked her whether she would scold them for spending money when they received gifts, Xu Tianxin changed her mind.
The idea is to work with my uncles to dress grandma up little by little.
In this regard, she cannot take advantage of modern knowledge just because she earns money a little faster than her uncles. It only makes sense to buy a little bit for grandma with my uncles.
She looked at the silver coins that were so broken that they couldn't be broken anymore, and guessed that she had saved them by giving private jobs to several uncles, or that her grandma had asked her to buy leftover food from her daily life, including the silver coins that she had given her aunt to buy at Wan's house. The leftovers of soy sauce tofu were all put together.
So where is the money? This is the mind.
She came up with the idea to buy gold earrings.
Unexpectedly, what my uncles bought were earrings. They were not too big, and they looked like earrings when they hung down on the earlobes. They were so beautiful.
And when asked the reason why she changed her mind and didn't buy Jin Doudou earrings, her uncles also told her a reason, which made Xu Tianxin very moved.
That meaning...needs to be said by the uncles themselves.
At the same time, the three Xu brothers looked at the old lady who had been following Shale.
"grandmother."
"Huh?" The old lady raised her eyebrows and wondered how to use a formal title.
"This is for you."
The old lady stared at the golden earrings, and the smile on her face suddenly froze: "What?"
Xu Youliang took a step forward, and while bending down to imitate his wife, he also took off the firewood sticks from his breasts and ears, and said: "I bought gold earrings for you and my mother, because I heard about the jewelry seller in the city. The waiter said...Fourth brother, what did he actually say?"
"He said, in fact, what we pay attention to here is that earrings are the dowry given by the mother's family to the daughter. Even if they are made of wood, you should prepare a pair. The earrings are still there. I prepare these because I hope my daughter will visit her mother's family more often. If the waiter doesn't say it, We are careless and don't know that there is such a saying. I think my second sister-in-law also has it, right?" Even if the second sister-in-law's pair is made of wood, it proves that the waiter's statement is not deceiving people.
In three and a half sentences, Xu Youcang revealed the answer to the mystery: "You and my mother, you don't have a natal family..."
Mrs. Xu's natal mother passed away when she got married.
The old lady was even worse. She lost her biological mother when she was only four years old. When she was seven years old, her stepmother was sold to the family of the king in the county to work as a maid in exchange for ten kilograms of white flour. After that, I never had a natal family again. Twenty-two-year-old Wang Yuanwai wanted to celebrate Mrs. Wang's longevity and merit, so he let a group of people come out to marry Xu Yushui.
So the three brothers gritted their teeth and stomped their feet, and decided to buy two pairs of gold earrings for a little money. They saved money for their mother to stay in two inns and buy food along the way, and deducted a little from the payment before buying them.
It can be seen that Liu Jingdong did not lie when he wrote a poem about how hard it is to sell goods. His father still didn't believe that he couldn't stop him. Liu Laozhu said that your mother was worried about your aunt Xu's son traveling thousands of miles. He was always well prepared for the troubles. It's not like we never went out. Why are you so busy?
The three Xu family members wanted to give the old lady and their mother that "hope for their return" as a gift. Although no one had prepared this for them, and no one's parents expected them to return it. But if others have it, we should slowly buy it and forget about the regrets of the past.
After the three grandchildren explained everything to each other, the old lady felt that she had nowhere to hide, because she wanted to cry, but she was also afraid that her daughter-in-law, who was celebrating the New Year, would think it was unlucky for her to cry.
Besides, she doesn’t need to be disliked, and she can’t shed tears. Our family has a business, and if something goes wrong, it will affect our money making.
The old lady's expression was a little distorted. She was afraid that she might cry excitedly when she opened her mouth. She pushed away her second grandson's hand that was trying to put on her earrings and started looking around.
Mrs. Xu was confused: "What are you looking for?"
"Give me eight taels of private money. Give me all." The old lady was so excited that she couldn't wait any longer. Money is something you will never take with you when you are alive. Why are you saving money if your children and grandchildren are so filial? Only those who are afraid that their children and grandchildren will be unfilial will be defensive.
This statement made the room burst into laughter again, and he fell into his old habit again. He would give it to others if he only had two in hand, and finally got back four acres of land.
"You'd better let your filial grandsons put them on quickly. The children are waiting."
After a while, the Xu family burst into laughter again, because the old lady was asking Xu Tianxin: "Ke Xin'er, does it feel good if I wear it?"
"Bring it on, beautiful."
When the old lady was eating dumplings, she held her chopsticks in one hand and couldn't help but touch her left ear, which was wearing an earring, and said to Old Madam Xu, "My ears look bigger than yours."
Mrs. Xu thought to herself: Mine is heavier than yours. When I first put it on you, I weighed it carefully. Mine is solid.
"You are the grandma of the children. Isn't it normal for them to be bigger than mine?" She looks good wearing them, and others will only praise her for how filial her sons are.
"Poof!" The old lady coughed.
"Oh, look, you're so happy that you choked with laughter. How about we finish laughing before eating?"
"That's not necessary. Hehehe, I'm a little hungry."
However, the above has not been given out.
Xu Tianxin gave Yu Qiniang a set of ginseng powder facial wipes and teeth cleaning set, gave Sister Dayue a set that included bath beans, and gave Zhaozhao a set with a wooden comb.
Years later, Xu Zhaozhao would always mention today again and again every New Year. Maybe she was the only one who didn't send a gift today, which was a pity for her.
Lin Yue gave Mrs. Xu a pair of slippers for going in and out of the kang shop. Xu Tianxin made gestures before drawing them, and she sewed them. Give the old lady a pair of kneepads.
And Sanfei deliberately waited until he finished eating the dumplings before taking out the gift.
"Nai, our three brothers made the wooden hairpins, I carved them, Dafei polished them, and Daniao waxed them. I wonder if you appreciate them."
Dapeng, Dafei and Daniao stared at the old lady Xu happily wearing the peach wood hairpin engraved with the word "Fu". The three brothers thought together: they wanted to exchange milk for gold, just like the uncles and Tian Xin did just now. What can I do to have that day?
As for the gift the three brothers gave to the old lady, they also had a private chat with Xu Tianxin. It was an artifact of a wooden squat toilet. The upper part is sewn with ragweed and rags and is removable and washable. This way, the old lady's hemorrhoids are more serious, and Tian Xin cannot cut them off without a scalpel for the time being. With this, she can squat.
Xu Tianxin looked at the old lady and thought: I have to give my gift late because I have to cut off the hemorrhoids tomorrow.
At this time, Xu Youyin came into the house carrying a large pot of frozen persimmons: "Come here, the persimmons are as you wish."
Xu Tianxin then also stepped into the house and stepped into the basket: "Come here, eat pomegranates, reunion, good luck, more children and more blessings."
On the Xu family's hot bed, the whole family was looking at the frozen persimmon basin and then at the rare pomegranate. We didn't know what to eat.
"Hey? Don't bite the skin, it's too milky. I have to leave the skin to be dried and used as medicine."
Updates have not been timely recently. I didn’t want to explain that it is a private matter after all, but I am afraid that there will be a sudden interruption in the next few days, so I mentioned it and told the beautiful girls that my mother just had a gallbladder removal surgery today, and I will run frequently recently. Hospital. If there is no update by this time, don't wait. It will take a while to get back to normal.
However, I still want to ask for a monthly vote, because so far this month I am still in the top ten, and I have persisted until there are only two days left. It is a pity to be squeezed out. I hope that the pretty girls who have monthly votes can vote and help me. Hold on.
(End of chapter)
