He thought that Chen Tugen had cast some kind of magic spell on his mother from the Palace of Hell, so he was so frightened that he quickly left the door.

Chen Tianhua took the IOU, read the content of the note carefully, and after identifying it as the original voucher, he smiled coldly, tore the IOU into pieces, threw it towards Fan Mingzhong, and snorted:

"Second Young Master Fan, my family doesn't owe your Fan family any money anymore, right?"

"Yes, yes, I'll pay it off." Fan Mingzhong nodded and bowed in agreement.

Before anyone in the room could react, Chen Tianhua turned and left the front hall and walked toward the courtyard door.

Fan Yuxiang, who was standing outside the front hall door, looked at Chen Tianhua curiously.

She discovered that in Shuangqi Township, there was actually someone who was not afraid of her mother and second brother. This person must be very magical.

Seeing Chen Tianhua walking towards her, her fair face immediately turned red and she lowered her head shyly.

Seeing her shy look, Chen Tianhua unexpectedly stopped, lowered his head and joked:

"Whoever introduces you to a man in the future, don't ask a self-righteous fool like Mr. Wu. Isn't this just trying to show off Mr. Wu's face? Before that, you are still his fiancée!"

After saying that, he smiled evilly and did not stop. He strode out of the courtyard of the Fan Family, jumped off the awning boat, untied the rope, stepped on the dock, and the boat left the dock like an arrow.

"You bastard!"

Wu Yuxiang stomped her feet and waved her hands behind him, her whole body shaking with anger. She wished she could go up and tear his mouth open.

Arriving in the middle of the river, Chen Tianhua suddenly thought that the fifty oceans were still in his arms, but the Fan family had not chased them out.

Let the ship dock and then return it?

Forget it, Mr. Fan doesn’t want it himself, and Mrs. Fan doesn’t accept it herself. Who can be blamed?

Besides, if you suffer a lot all morning and lose a lot of brain cells, this is considered mental damage compensation.

Chen Tianhua laughed at himself and rowed towards Henghu Lake.

At this time, Fan Mingzhong was telling his mother the truth in detail. The mother and son were so angry that they could only cry and faint in the bathroom.

…

"Brother, you are finally back." Youjuan looked at the door because she was waiting for Chen Tianhua to come home for dinner at noon.

"Hmm...what's wrong?" Chen Tianhua nodded and asked in confusion.

He walked into the main room as if nothing had happened, and then rubbed his cheeks that were frozen by the cold wind with both hands.

"Gen'er, let me warm your hands and body with the fire gun. The charcoal we just replaced is still very hot." Mother handed a brass utensil in her hand to Chen Tianhua.

This round instrument, which my mother calls a fire gun, is not a weapon used to ignite gunpowder and fire lead bullets during the Ming Dynasty. It is a portable small heater made of pure brass.

In this type of heater, charcoal or straw ashes that have just been burned but still have sparks are placed inside. The cover on the surface of the hand warmer is densely packed with holes the size of mung beans. These are both heat dissipation holes and heating holes.

The heater can be used to warm hands, feet, or body. It is very practical and is a heater commonly used by wealthy families in the south of the Yangtze River in winter.

The last time Chen Tianhua went to Shaoxing, he bought three pure copper heaters, two large and one small, to keep everyone warm in the winter and not to cause winter sores all over his hands and feet.

"Oh, I don't want it. I'm so young and full of energy, how can I possibly use these? I bought them just for the three of you."

Chen Tianhua put the heater in his mother's hand and pushed it back into his mother's arms. Then he took the washbasin and towel and scooped out hot water from the soup pot on the stove to wash his face.

"After washing your face, hurry up and eat." Mother said.

"Um…"

After washing my face with hot water, my tense skin relaxed and I felt much better.

He hung up his towel and sat down to eat.

In the winter months, there is no heating at home, but the family's own body temperature, plus the heat generated by the hot water stove and three heaters, still heat the house a lot, at least much better than on the lake.

He wore a pair of woolen gloves when rowing, otherwise his hands would be too cold to hold the oar.

Traveling back to the late Qing Dynasty to spend the first winter, living in an environment without any heating facilities, Chen Tianhua felt a little uncomfortable.

"Gen'er, have we paid off the Fan family's debt?" Mother still couldn't help nagging her.

"Of course, it's unreasonable to come to your door to pay back the money." Chen Tianhua said lightly.

Of course, it was impossible for him to tell his mother about the series of strange things about repaying the debt and the process of bringing the money back.

However, Fan Mingzhong returned the IOU to him, and he tore it up on the spot. There is no proof. I would like to see what can happen to your Fan family?

Let your stupid mute eat Coptis chinensis, and you won't be able to tell the pain.

"That's good, Mom can finally sleep peacefully, haha..." The mother smiled happily.

"Oh, mama, I've already said it. You won't have to worry about these things from now on. I'll take care of everything in the family." Chen Tianhua pretended to dislike his mother's nagging.

"Yes...you have my roots, let's eat quickly." Xue Wanzhen quickly retracted the topic.

"Eat it while it's hot. Vegetables and rice will cool down quickly when the weather gets cold, so eat it while it's hot..." Chen Tianhua shouted.

…

We have entered the twelfth lunar month, and in another half month it will be the traditional Chinese festival - the Spring Festival.

However, the Spring Festival had not yet been called the Spring Festival in the late Qing Dynasty. It should have only started in the Republic of China.

Nowadays, we still use words such as celebrating the new year, staying up late on New Year's Eve, etc. to express it.

As the New Year approaches, many schools will start their annual holidays after the 15th day of the twelfth lunar month.

Jingming School is a Chinese and Western school. There are foreign teachers in the school. They accept the Western education system. Every seven days is a week, and Sunday is a rest day.

After Chen Tianhua sold the pearl to Chen Zongyu, he has been busy at home in Shuangqi Township for nearly a month and a half. In addition to his work at the fishery business, he also accompanied his mother to various houses to pay off debts, repair his own house, etc.

On the seventeenth day of the twelfth lunar month, the outdoor temperature was around minus five or six degrees. Chen Tianhua braved the cold wind and rowed his small rowing boat into the city.

On the boat were placed large grass carp, green snails, etc. that were caught in the wild by his aquatic products business, each weighing more than ten kilograms, and there were ten of them in total.

The weight of 1,780 kilograms weighed heavily in the small rowing cabin, just like the friendship in Chen Tianhua's heart.

When he arrived in the city, he first sent six large grass carps and green snails to his second uncle Chen Zongyu as a New Year's gift.

For businessmen, fish is a mascot, and it represents good wishes for success and prosperity every year.

Chen Zongyu was so happy that he asked his servants to cut open the abdomen and remove the internal organs, then make them into dried fish and dry them in the sun.

People in Shaoxing like to make dried fish the most. A big dried fish weighing 17 or 18 pounds tastes great.

At home, Chen Zongyu kept Chen Tianhua for lunch, and when leaving, he gave him a big "Jinhua ham" in return.

After finishing Chen Zongyu's work, of course Chen Tianhua had to visit Mr. Cai Heqing, the teacher of Jingming Academy, his sworn sister Liu Yufang, his sworn brother Chen Qimei and others in the afternoon.
Chapter completed!