222, a golden scale
The family dinner was over, and Tang Qiyuan, who was slightly drunk, held Qifan's hand intimately. He must let the third brother see his two treasure houses and the precious medicinal herbs in the field.
The two of them left with their arms around each other.
Seeing that someone had left the table, the fifth wife Zhen was eager to pull her two daughters to resign from the old lady. Yanran frowned and whispered: "Why do you have to be so anxious? I'm afraid that the aunts will still have to play mahjong with their grandmother for a while!"
The fifth wife didn't say goodbye: "Today is your uncle's forty birthday. We have no reason before we catch the morning banquet. We will not go until the sun sets. What does that look like!"
Yanran dared to speak: "Now, while my third uncle comes back, my mother should run to the third room frequently and inquire about her father's affairs. My mother's cloth shop is supplied by the third room. Even the newly opened snack shop is the idea of the fifth sister..."
"It's been so late? You still have time to talk about these things." The fifth wife was so angry that she blamed her daughter for not understanding herself, and she also thought that these "little eyes" were not close to her outsiders. "Since childhood, how much good cake did you eat your uncle?"
After hearing this, Smiling, he couldn't help but interfere: "Early early this morning, did you send someone to send a gift to your uncle? I have packed so many gold hairpins in our family and made a golden scale for my uncle. Isn't that okay?"
When talking about this gold scale, Sanger was a little irritated. Although it was just a small decoration, what kind of land is the fifth house now? My father lost a lot of money in his business. My mother's dim sum shop had just started and had not started to make real money. Why bother to make this happen just to make my uncle and aunt happy?
In addition to important occasions, my mother secretly replaced the gold hairpin and bracelets I wore on weekdays with gilded ones. The daughter of the Tang family wore silver gilded bronze gilded jewelry. She wouldn’t make people laugh when she said it?! It would be fine if she was squandering her food for the sake of her father, but it was just to add icing on the cake to my uncle’s birthday party! Since I was a child, I have never seen him any benefit except eating a few cakes!
When my father's business was in trouble in North Korea, my uncle and aunt often came to the house, accompanied my mother in a hurry and made some suggestions for her, but they didn't see them taking out a tael of silver to help. My aunt even stared at her eyes and scolded the second and fourth rooms of the Tang family for not coming out to help, and she could tell if something happened.
When Wan'er was angry, his right eyelid jumped violently. At this moment, the three girls were frowning and whispering in the old lady's east side. Wan'er looked at the colorful and lively room outside the red sandalwood partition, and felt that it was a matter of another world. They were all wearing red gold; their foreign families were all high-ranking officials, big merchants, and scholarly families... Smiling sighed and pinched the tie-dye purse that my grandfather gave him, hoping that the two little people inside were beaten with gold, so that the mother would not dare to melt it easily.
Yanran sighed: "I really should have a toast my third uncle at the family dinner today. After all, my third uncle is my father's elder brother. It is only right for my mother to give me a toast my third uncle to help me with this."
The fifth wife's expression was a little unnatural. She also hesitated in her heart about the toast mentioned by Yanran. After all, her sister-in-law toasted her uncle and was a little embarrassed. But now when she heard her daughter say that, it was obviously a natural thing.
The fifth wife tucked the veil in her hand: "You don't have to worry about adults."
Zhen bit her lip and looked at the bustle in the room today. She remembered the day when she got married. She wore a wedding dress and a phoenix crown, held her brother and sister-in-law's hand, and cried in a deep voice. Her brother, a five-foot man, also cried and vowed to revitalize the Zhen family and make her sister have a decent family. She also said with tears in her eyes that when her brother's forty birthday, she would definitely give her a golden scale to her birthday!
Now that my dim sum shop has improved, I will only get better and better after I get back to Beijing. But my brother only has this one forty years of his birthday, and I will never be able to get back if I miss it. Now I just misappropriate some of the money in the future, but I can't buy the regret medicine that I owe my brother no money. Although my dim sum shop sells different snacks, I can't be regarded as a colleague. The brother and sister have unknowingly become enemies of my colleagues! Although my brother and sister have never said anything, I always feel that I owe my parents' family.
This time, I thought of celebrating my brother's birthday with glory, but I couldn't do it as I wish, Zhen sighed deeply.
Yanran stopped talking, and looked out the window with her slender eyes. The pomegranate flowers were blooming lively, covering half of the window. At this moment, the red color was a bit stingy.
"Mom, it's almost time. Are we still going to our uncle's house?" Smiling asked. She never likes to worry about adults, but today the gold scale really hurts herself.
The fifth wife said sternly: "Why don't you go? You are the only one uncle!"
The three of them were in a stalemate when they saw the girl Chunseong walk in and said, "The old lady said, Miss Eighth doesn't have to follow this trip to her parents' home, so let Miss Eighth stay and read the cards for the old lady."
The fifth lady was stunned for a moment and suddenly realized that the old lady allowed herself to go back to her parents' home, so she hurriedly responded with a smile. She was very cute to the eighth girl, even if the old lady didn't mention it, she wouldn't dare to take her back to her home. My sister-in-law always regarded her as a thorn in her eyes, so it would be better to avoid it.
Yanran instructed her maid: "Carry the fresh loquats sent from the farm into a basket, and eat a table of hard dishes today to make everyone feel angry. Remember, let the eighth girl peel it for the old lady to eat with her own hands."
The three of them went to the east room and resigned to the old lady. The old lady just smiled and nodded, waved her hand and let the three of them go.
Smiling remembered that the uncle of the second wife had celebrated her birthday last year. The old lady pulled the three sisters Huanyan to look at each other for a long time. Everyone added jewelry. Seeing Shu Yan's cloak was plain and gave Shu Yan a rose-red satin cloak.
Smiling sighed in her heart. As my mother and sister left the house, although the sun was big outside, there was a pergola with honeysuckle in the yard, and the coolness of living in the yard was filled with.
Xiaoxiao stood under the pergola and waved to her.
Smiling at his mother and sister walking in front of him, he quickly walked to Xiaoxiao, and asked with a smile: "What's wrong with Sister Five?"
Xiaoxiao held a handkerchief in his hand: "Last time you said that the glass hairpin of the pomegranate flower looked good, so I went to the Shen family shop according to the pattern and fired two pairs."
"Just sister is thinking about me!" Smiling, she opened the veil with a smile, and saw that there were four glass hairpins inside, two golden and two yang red. The shape and posture did not have a single one, some were staggered, and some were clustered.
Smile did not hide his joy: "I'll wear this at my uncle's birthday party later! Yanran will definitely like it!"
I smiled and seemed to suddenly remember something: "I just heard Xiao Dier talk about it. Recently, there are often wild dogs on Tamsui Street. A relative of a girl in our room was knocked down by a wild dog yesterday and almost bitten her face."
When Han Er heard this, he felt pain, and he bit his face and was disfigured. After thinking again, his uncle's house lives in Tamsui Street: "Fortunately, we are sitting in a carriage, so it should be fine."
"It's better to be careful. It is said that the relative was knocked down by a vicious dog at the door of his house." Xiaoxiao also looked like he was still scared, "You must remember, don't act alone, you must follow reliable people around you."
He nodded, and his right eyelid jumped again: "Sister Xie reminds me that I will be careful." He looked up and saw that his mother and the others had already walked away, so he hurriedly took a few steps to follow.
Xiao Di'er just cooperated with the girl, frowned and nodded, but she didn't know where the evil dog came from, and she had never heard of any girl's relatives being thrown away by a dog... But the girl must have the intention of this move, and she just cooperated actively.
Xiaoxiao looked at Yan'er's figure who was leaving, and a complicated expression appeared. At the family dinner, Wan'er mentioned that he was going to celebrate his birthday, and he seemed to remember some past events... At that time, he was only twelve or thirteen years old, and many things were blurred in his memory. He only faintly remembered that Yanran Wan'er had gone to their uncle's house to attend whose birthday party, but Wan'er was hospitalized, as if he was bitten by a dog. Grandma was very angry about this and did not ask the sisters to visit the hospital. Xiaoxiao was not clear about the details inside.
This time, I also went to Waner's uncle's house, and also went to celebrate his birthday. Xiaoxiao was worried that history would repeat, so he made up a lie to remind Waner. If something really happened, Yuan Longchao would not have a rabies vaccine. Aunt Wu went back to her parents' home to celebrate her brother's birthday. The old lady couldn't stop her from anything reasonable, so what qualifications did she have to stop her?
Besides, many things in the previous life have changed slightly in the Yuanlong Dynasty. There is no need for evil dogs. Just the weird uncle and wife of the fifth house are enough to make their family messy.
The wife of Zhen’s uncle, Lu, sneezed a lot in her main hall: “It must be Cuixian coming, but she was stopped by her mother-in-law again! The old man of their family went out to do business and returned to Beijing, which is worth mobilizing such a group of people!”
Zhen Ben Zhen’s brother, Yanran’s uncle, had a red light after drinking and eating, leaning against the kang and picking his teeth with toothpicks. Today’s birthday party was a glorious. It was about 100 relatives and friends. Now that it had just left, Zhen Ben was naturally filled with a lot of wine. Because he was happy and was not drunk, he called his son Ming Geer: "Pick up the golden scale that your aunt beats!"
A smile appeared on Lu's face: "It's still Cuixian who has a conscience. I really didn't love him in vain during the years she was in the boudoir."
Ming Ge'er is twelve years old, but he is almost as tall as him. He has long arms and legs. It is the time to pull the strips. At this moment, he respectfully brought the gold scale to me: "Dad, is this really gold?"
"Your aunt is the daughter-in-law of the Golden Tang family, and their family can still lose gold!" Lu touched the scale pole and the weight was so happy that she couldn't touch it enough. There was still a happy tooth mark on the weight, which she bit on to verify the purity of the gold.
Ming Ge'er stared at him: "Auntie must have spent a lot of money."
"Your aunt's family has money. If you sweep a broom around the house, you can sweep a bunch of gold scum!" Zhen Ben's cheeks and nose were red, and his eyes were filled with a wet smile. He filled his wife with a cup of hot tea: "It's not in vain that you took off your jewelry and leather robe and gave her a whole set of wedding faces!"
Lu also wiped his eyes: "My brother is so old, and he still talks about the old sesame seeds and millets."
The family was chatting in the main hall, and a boy over two years old came in at the door, calling him parents, and calling him Ming Ge as his second brother.
When Lu saw him, he became angry, rolled his eyes wide, and asked the nurse to take him away quickly.
Zhen Ben hugged his youngest son and grabbed a handful of peanut candy for him: "Our Brother Liang is so old, eat candy! Eat candy!" He said, and said to his wife: "It's time to let this child go to the table today."
"I brought him a full bowl of fish and meat, but it wasn't enough for him to eat? What's his identity? I still want to go to the table!" Lu Shi wanted to twist the little boy to death now.
"Is the food delicious today? Is the little wolf dog I bought for you so nice?" Zhen Ben never leaves room for his wife when it comes to the matter of a concubine's son. His son is in love with him. It is not what she crawled out of her belly, so she naturally doesn't like him.
Lu poured himself a cup of tea and drank it in one go: "Our Brother Ming, you really should have hurt. It's thirteen in the blink of an eye, and the marriage should be settled."
"What should I do if a young master gets engaged so early?" Zhen Ben disagreed.
"I still want to climb Cuixian's in-laws!" Lu pointed to the golden scale on the table.
"The Tang family has a great career, and Cuixian can't be the master of her daughter."
"She has two daughters, and her mother-in-law can't take care of her alone!" Lu gritted her teeth and pulled her son: "Which do you like with your two cousins?"
Although Brother Ming grew up, he still had a childish temper: "Who wants them! Two ugly monsters."
"You silly boy, what you married is not a human being, but a solid golden lump!" Lu raised his hand and hit Brother Ming for a moment.
Brother Ming blushed and made a stubborn expression: "I like good-looking ones."
"You are not stupid in this regard," Lu burst out laughing: "You two cousins look exactly the same. Who can you tell if you look good?"
Brother Ming's face turned redder: "It's so cute."
Lu's fire broke out and almost lifted the table: "What is she? Like her slutty, she can only pretend to be charming, which makes the man angry!" He said that, glared at Zhen Ben.
Ming Ge'er is not afraid of her mother: "She is much better than Yanran's Smile!"
Lu Shiqiang held back her anger, changed her mind, and smiled at her son: "How can she be worthy of our family with such an identity? It's just a big deal. When you marry your cousin, you will also take that fox charming son in for you as a concubine!"
"Really?! Then I'll marry my cousin!" Ming Ge'er didn't understand the relationship between men and women. She just liked her cute melon-shaped face and big eyes. Every time she saw her autumn-like eyes, she felt like her heart was melted.
Chapter completed!