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Yu Jie and Yu Niang watched her actions from the side and couldn't help but laugh: "Grandma, in the past, I saved all this money for the future of my brothers and sisters. Now the young Marquis has recognized two children. , what are you worried about? With such tight savings, you might as well buy more rice, noodles, meat and eggs, and you can also eat some good ones. Since you married into this mansion, the days have become tighter and tighter, and it is actually not as good as you in Zhenjiang Prince's Mansion. When I was a concubine, wouldn't it make people laugh out loud if I told you about it?"
"What do you know?" Fu Qiuning glanced at Yu Jie and Yu Niang, and whispered: "As the saying goes, be prepared for a rainy day. Although the young Marquis seems to like Feng'er and Jiao'er at this time, who can see through him? What is he thinking? He threw the children away for six years. Who can guarantee that one day he will not suddenly think of the past and become bored with the two children again? By then, we will spend all the money we have on him. After eating and drinking, Feng'er and Jiao'er are getting older, what should I do? That's why I have to save money. In this world, outsiders are unreliable. The most important thing is to rely on myself and save this money."
Because when he said this, he couldn't help but open the red silk and carefully counted the silver inside. There were fifteen taels in total. She laughed happily and sighed: "As long as the money is in our hands, it doesn't matter whether the young marquis favors or humiliates him."
Yu Jie and Yu Niang laughed together and said: "Normally, grandma is the most mature and steady person. But at this time, look at it, she is no different from a miser." After saying this, Fu Qiuning glared at her, but she saw She couldn't help but laugh.
Carefully putting the money at the bottom of the box, then locking the box and putting the key close to his body, Fu Qiuning said: "Yes, now that the Dragon Boat Festival is coming, it's time to go to the backyard pond to collect some reed leaves for making rice dumplings. There are also eggs and duck eggs. I have saved thirty or fifty for a while. Don’t sell them this time. We will keep them for ourselves. Originally, we didn’t need these many, but I was afraid that the little marquis might not be sure when he would come again. Come out." At this point, she couldn't help stroking her forehead. Thinking about the incomprehensible Jin Fengju, she felt a little headache.
Yu Jie and Yu Niang hurriedly agreed, so they called Jin Zangfeng and Zangjiao, locked the courtyard door, and the family went to the large pond behind the few acres of land in the backyard.
This was originally a large pond with some lotus flowers planted there, but it had been dilapidated for several years and no one had taken care of it, and not many of the lotus flowers were left. On the other hand, a large area of lush reeds grew beside the pond. It was in this pond that Jin Zangfeng and Jin Zangjiao learned to swim. Yu Jie, who grew up by the water when they were young, had good water skills and was responsible for teaching them.
As soon as they arrived at the pond, the two children took off their clothes and went down to the pond without waiting for Fu Qiuning's instructions. They were not allowed to play here casually on weekdays. Is there any reason not to have fun at this time? But I didn’t forget to do serious work, and they were all picking fat and thick reed leaves.
Fu Qiuning and Yuniang didn't know how to swim, so they cut some horse lilies on the bank. The leaves of the horse lilies were thin and long, which were just used to make the tying thread for making rice dumplings. This was a traditional rule. In the modern era where Fu Qiuning lived in his previous life, the rice dumplings were generally not tied with horse lilies, but with colorful silk threads.
Until mid-afternoon, Fu Qiuning looked at the reed leaves and called to Jin Zangfeng and Jin Zangjiao, brother and sister: "Okay, the reed leaves are enough, don't just play with the water, come up quickly." After saying that, he heard The little brother and sister giggled, plunged down, swam a long way away and said, "Mom, let's drive the ducks and geese back."
"Stop wrangling me." Fu Qiuning couldn't help laughing and scolding: "The leading goose in our family is more obedient than you. In the evening, he will naturally lead the geese and ducks back. Why do you have to worry? The sun has not set yet. Go down, if they are willing to come ashore, come up to me quickly."
When the two children heard this, they had to come back reluctantly. Fu Qiuning watched them plunge in again, and couldn't help but said: "Yujie, you watch here. If they still refuse to come up after a while, you can Let me go down and catch them one by one." After saying that, Yu Jie laughed and said, "Yes. Why doesn't Grandma use the big turtle to scare them now?"
Fu Qiuning said with a smile: "Don't make fun of me. Although this pond is big, they have almost walked around it. How can they still believe that there is a turtle as big as a mountain that eats people..." Before he finished speaking, he suddenly heard two children screaming. The sound only startled Fu Qiuning. He quickly stood up and looked over, only to see the two of them holding something unknown in their hands and swimming towards the shore.
"Maybe I caught two small fish." Yu Niang smiled, but she saw Jin Zangfeng and Jin Zangjiao swimming closer in the blink of an eye. She laughed and said, "Mom, look what we caught?" After saying that, she climbed ashore and Carefully opening the palm, I saw four light blue duck eggs lying in the four small hands.
"Yeah, it's a duck egg." Yu Jie and Yu Niang both exclaimed, and Yu Jie said angrily and funny: "No need to ask, there are only our ducks in this pond, so the eggs must have been laid by those eating the inside out. Here. Okay, everyone ate the food I mixed. They just got some aquatic plants and small fish and shrimps from the river. So they were so short-sighted that they laid all the eggs. I said why there are so few duck eggs these days. Well, I just thought they were getting old and laying fewer eggs, so I kindly helped them hide it, but I was afraid that I would kill them as soon as I spoke. Who knew that they were so unsatisfactory, so they all waited for me and brought them back one by one. Kill it and make old duck soup."
As she spoke, Fu Qiuning and Yuniang laughed, and the two brothers, Jin Zangfeng and Jin Zangjiao, laughed so much that they fell on their mother. She watched Yu Jie jumping into the river and cursing for a while, but the group of white geese, gray geese and ducks were swimming happily and ignored her, so this shrewd girl could only come back chattering. But I heard Jin Zangfeng say: "Mother, if I go into the water again, maybe I can come back with some duck eggs."
"Okay, there are such coincidences. They don't always lay their eggs in the pond, but they couldn't help it. After all, we don't have many duck eggs in our daily life. Besides, there are still many duck eggs. Yes, who knows how long it has been soaked in the water? Just fish it out, I'm afraid it will stink too." After Fu Qiuning finished speaking, he asked the two children to get dressed, and then they picked up the reeds, leaves, reeds, reeds, and lilies and went there together. Go back.
As soon as they returned to the backyard, they heard a loud knock on the door in the front yard. Several people looked at each other in surprise. Suddenly, they saw two brothers, Jin Zangfeng and Jin Zangjiao, jumping up and shouting: "Maybe daddy is here. Let's go Open the door." After saying that, he held hands and ran towards the front yard, leaving Fu Qiuning and others behind in an instant. (To be continued)