Li Qiaolian also came, wearing a newly made cotton flower dress, her hair was combed neatly, there were a few brightly colored silk flowers on her temples, and silver and gold-plated earrings on her ears...
If this outfit was placed in the country, it would be considered decent, but it is a pity that this is in the city. If you dress up like this, you will easily think of a matchmaker or an upstart bumpkin from the countryside.
Shen Fucun didn't like her attire very much. He told her about her several times, but Li Qiaolian just didn't listen. She was obsessed with her own aesthetic point of view. No matter what Shen Fucun said, she thought she was well-dressed like this. Had to let her go.
During this period of time, Li Qiaolian's life was very comfortable. She didn't have to wait on her parents-in-law, and she didn't have to be angry with her sister-in-law. The man in the family could make money, and even handed over all the money to her. She could spend it however she wanted, whatever she wanted. She can buy whatever she wants, and the only fly in the ointment is that she is not very satisfied with the housing situation of her family.
The house at home is rented, small and dilapidated, compared with the grand mansion of my second uncle's house, it looks like a doghouse.
In fact, although the house they are renting now is not considered good, it is not considered broken. Li Qiaolian has never seen the house of the second uncle's house, and she must be satisfied with her current house, but after seeing the house of the second uncle's house, she will No matter how I think my house is not pleasing to the eye, I always feel aggrieved and useless living here.
During this period, she had carried the child to the second uncle's house more than once, revealing between the lines that she wanted to move in and live together.
However, Mu Shi didn't think highly of her behavior, and always pretended to be deaf and dumb to the meaning that she infiltrated, pretending to understand and pretending to be confused, but refused to respond to her.
She had a bad record with her second uncle before, so she was embarrassed to mention it directly. After talking about it a few times, she saw that her second aunt really didn't want their family to live in, so she gradually let go of her small thoughts.
But, from then on, she felt a little more resentment in her heart, thinking that Shen Dejian, the second uncle, was not good at being a second uncle and didn't know how to take care of her nephew.
After arriving today, she also had a cold face, and she sat there the whole time after entering the door, she didn't speak to Shen Dejian and his wife, let alone help in the kitchen, she just sat on the side and coaxed the children.
When Shen Dejian and Mu Shi saw her dead appearance, they knew that she had emotions in her heart, and they didn't bother to talk to him, so they only talked to Shen Fucun and Shen Jincun, and no one paid attention to her, treating her like a piece of stinky shit .
Both Fu Cun and Jin Cun like Mu's second aunt very much, and they are willing to talk to her and discuss things with her; and Mu also likes these two nephews, all of them are honest and down-to-earth He is a good young man, much better than their mothers!
"Jin Cun, haven't you been home for several months? Do you want to go home? Do you need to go back and see?" asked Mu with concern.
Shen Jincun smiled and said, "No need, Second Aunt, didn't my brother say that my parents are all well when I came back last time? Then I won't worry about it. We are so busy here, and it takes five or six days to go back and forth How can I be willing to delay, I will go back after my father's birthday next month."
"That's fine. When the time comes, let your second uncle settle your wages for the past few months for you, and give them back to your parents, so that they can be used to build a house and marry a wife."
Hearing the words of Second Aunt saying marrying a wife, Shen Jincun blushed all of a sudden, scratched his head and said with a smile, "Second Aunt, I'm not in a hurry, I'm only fifteen, it's early!"
Mrs. Mu said with a smile, "I didn't ask you to marry now, but let your parents see if there are any good girls who are suitable, and if there are good ones, they should be settled first, otherwise it will be too late, and all the good girls will be snatched away by others. But it’s a loss.”
Shen Jincun lowered his head and smiled, but a light green image appeared in his mind.
With her in comparison, he really looked down on those country girls in the village who wore flowered clothes and had rough voices. It's just that she is an orphan girl who was abandoned by her family. I don't know if her parents can let him marry her
Soon, dinner was served, and everyone walked to the table and sat down. Li Qiaolian felt jealous again when she saw the table full of chickens and fish.
Although her man has an income of three taels of silver a month, the two of them are discussing to buy a house in Jizhou. Therefore, the three taels of silver a month cannot be spent casually, and two taels must be saved, and the remaining one tael Only then can she spend whatever she wants.
In fact, a tael of silver is not a lot. If it is just food, the three of them will be more than enough for the three of them. But Li Qiaolian loves beauty and spends money. From time to time, she always buys a box of rouge, a bottle of oil, or a piece of cotton cloth to make a piece New clothes, in this way, the little money left on hand will be enough for the two of them to fill their stomachs. She has never eaten a meal like this when she was at home!
"Let's eat, stretch your chopsticks a little bit, everyone here is my own family, don't be polite, you can eat!"
Shen Dejian waved his hand, and everyone began to eat.
While eating, they talked about some short stories about their parents. As they talked, they talked about Aunt Shen and Aunt Shen.
Shen Fucun said, "Second Uncle, my aunt and my second aunt both regret how they treated you at that time. When I went back last time, my second aunt and my second uncle asked me to go to their house for dinner, and my second uncle had a drink. I even cried when I was there, saying that he was sorry for you and wanted to make it up to you, but you ignored him, he felt bad!"
Shen Dejian was silent for a while, and said: "Your second uncle is the most treacherous and selfish person. He regrets it now because he wants to take advantage of my life. If I'm still as down and out as before, it's not because he regrets it. You have to pretend not to know me when you see me!"
"Your eldest uncle is not a good person. When I was down and out in those years, I saw me in the village and never knew to talk to me. Even if I talked to him, he would not respond. This kind of use It doesn't matter if you don't care about the relatives who are in the back and forth, I just pretend that I don't have those two girls, and I don't want to recognize their two cheap brother-in-laws. In this life, your father will be the only brother."
When Li Qiaolian heard the words, she suddenly felt her face was hot, as if the second uncle was talking about her. Didn't she just ignore him when she saw him in the past, and she used to look forward but didn't need to look back
After being slapped in the face, Li Qiaolian didn't dare to put on a straight face anymore, she lowered her head and ate honestly.
While eating, someone knocked on the door suddenly.
"Eat first, I'll open the door!" Zhao Di greeted, put down her chopsticks and ran to open the door.
Not long after, when Zhaodi came back, she had the expression of seeing a ghost on her face, followed by two men dressed as royal guards.
"Second Uncle, these two are looking for you!"
Zhao Di looked at the two men timidly, flustered.
She has lived opposite the palace for a few months, of course she recognizes the clothes of the guards of the palace, but she doesn't know why people from the palace want to come to their house.
When Shen Ruolan saw the two men dressed as royal guards, her head suddenly became dizzy, and she knew that something must have happened to that man.
Before he had time to ask questions, a guard holding a brocade box said respectfully, "Second Master Shen, we are the guards at Prince Zhan's mansion. The prince heard that today is Madam's birthday, so he specially prepared some gifts for you. Please Second Master Shen and his wife accepted it with a smile."
After finishing the words, except for Shen Ruolan, everyone in the room was stunned, stunned, as if they had been immobilized, they were all dumbfounded, dumbfounded, and pinched...
"Second Master Shen, Second Master Shen..."
Seeing that Shen Dejian, his wife and the whole room were stupefied, the guards couldn't help but remind them.
Shen Dejian was awakened, stood up hastily, and said tremblingly: "This, this, Caomin and Zhuojing... What can you do? Accept the birthday gift from the prince? Please take the birthday gift back with the two generals. I don't dare to accept the clumsy Jing, I'm afraid it will shorten the lifespan of the grassroots!"
Another guard said with a smile: "Second Master Shen is really good at joking, how can you refuse the prince's reward? Have you ever seen someone who was rewarded by the prince return the reward? Wouldn't that be disrespectful and disrespectful?" The crime of disobedience?"
When Shen Dejian heard this, he was so horrified that he covered his mouth all of a sudden, and said again and again: "Forgive me, general, forgive me, the grassland people don't know the rules here, so the grassland people will accept it now, I won't return it, I won't return it!"
After finishing speaking, he hurried over, carefully took the three brocade boxes over, and wanted to kneel down to thank him, but was stopped by two guards.
"Second Lord Shen, you are being polite. It doesn't have to be like this. Besides these three things, there is also a horse outside, which was also given to his wife as a birthday present by the prince. Second Lord Shen can go and have a look and see if he likes it. I will also wait for it. It’s good to go back and return to life.”
Hearing this, Shen Dejian hurriedly handed the three brocade boxes to Shen Ruolan, and followed the two guards out.
Shen Ruolan was afraid that her father would suffer, so she casually put three boxes on the kang and followed them out.
In the yard, a light golden sweat horse was walking leisurely in the yard. The horse's shape was graceful and its posture was boundless and elegant. Shen Ruolan suddenly remembered, isn't this horse the one she saw at the auction that day
I remember that at the time she was so rare, but later she was photographed by a fat, white and beardless man at a price of 53,000 taels. At that time, she was so shocked that the fat, white and beardless man belonged to him. man!
But, how did he know that he liked this horse? Why give her such an expensive gift? Is he still not giving up on her
The answer—it goes without saying.
Shen Ruolan has a headache!
He refused him time and time again, but he still didn't give up, and now he was forced to do it at home, how could he explain this to his parents
How sad!
Although Shen Dejian didn't recognize the Chollima, the horse looked very good, especially the color of the horse. It was the first time he had seen such a light golden horse in his life!
"Second Master Shen, do you still like this horse?"
"I like it, I like it!" Shen Dejian said repeatedly, as if in a dream, what Prince Zhan rewarded, let alone a good horse, even a pig, it is also a great thing, it must be regarded as a priceless treasure!
"It's as long as Second Master Shen is satisfied, so we can go back and return!"
The two guards left politely. Seeing that her father was still dreaming, Shen Ruolan stepped forward to hold the horse and tied it to a stone plinth in the yard.
When she finished tying and turned around, she saw her father looking at her intently.
"Eh? Dad, what's the matter with you?"
"Lan'er..."
Shen Dejian looked at her with complicated eyes, hesitated to speak, but in the end he didn't say anything, just sighed and said, "It's okay, let's go back to the house."
Shen Ruolan knew what her father wanted to ask, but she didn't know how to answer it. At this moment, she suddenly had a feeling that she could explain clearly with her mouth full.
When they returned to the house, the room was still quiet. Everyone sat in their original positions, maintaining their original postures, and none of them could wake up from the shock of King Zhan's reward.
Shen Dejian coughed, and said, "The people from the palace have left, let's continue eating!"
His sound made everyone wake up from a dream, and started discussing one after another.
Shen Fucun stared, startled and said, "Oh my God, how can King Zhan still give gifts to grassroots like us? This is incredible?"
Lord Shen Jincun said, "Second uncle, your family has nothing to do with King Zhan! What's going on here?"
Shen Dejian wiped his face, and gave a reason that he couldn't even fool himself: "Probably the neighbors live in the neighborhood, the prince should pay attention to his good looks!"
Both Shen Fucun and Shen Jincun disagreed with the second uncle's reason, but Li Qiaolian, who had long hair and short knowledge, believed it.
"Emma, I didn't expect that living close to the palace would have such benefits. If I had known, we would have rented a house near here!" She sighed, dying of regret.
Everyone was silent, each with their own thoughts.
Mrs. Mu glanced at Shen Ruolan, her eyes were exactly the same as Shen Dejian's just now, she seemed to have thought of some questions, but with Shen Fucun and the others present, some questions were not easy to bring up, so she had to keep silent and wait for people to leave before asking .
But Li Qiaolian's heart went to the few brocade boxes that the prince rewarded, "Second aunt, what good things do you think the prince can reward the second uncle?" She said while looking at the few brocade boxes on the kang. box.
Shen Dejian also wanted to know what was in the box, so he got up and went to the kang, and opened those boxes.
The first box contained a pearl the size of a longan. Shen Ruolan looked very familiar with the box containing the pearls. After opening the box and seeing the pearl, she remembered that it was the pearl that day. The first treasure to be auctioned at the beginning of the auction - mother beads, I remember being bought by someone for 28,000 li of silver, but I didn't expect it to fall into his hands in the end.
Everyone was amazed when they saw such a big bead, especially Li Qiaolian, who likes to dress up and looks beautiful. When she saw this bead, her eyes were straightened. If such a big pearl is inlaid on a hairpin or pierced through Wearing it around the neck, it looks so cool and beautiful!
Unfortunately, it's not hers!
The second box is filled with a 'Yellow Shark Tent'. Everyone saw that it was just a thin gauze tent. Everyone was surprised, but they didn't pay much attention to it. Only the Mu family recognized it as an excellent thing, and cherished it very much. put away.
In the third box was the gold-plated copper snake bracelet that Shen Ruolan wanted to buy but didn't buy. The bracelet was of acceptable workmanship, but because it was gold-plated copper and not pure gold, Li Qiaolian didn't pay much attention to it. I even thought to myself: Sure enough, the richer you are, the more stingy you are, and the majestic palace even sends out copper-plated and gold-plated things. Can't it be pure gold
She didn't know that the things used as weapons, especially this kind of concealed weapons, should be as inconspicuous as possible. Otherwise, if it was made of pure gold, eye-catching and noticed, it would probably be seen. It's out of Duanmi, so it's better to make it copper-plated and gold-plated. If it's not eye-catching, no one will notice it.
After showing a few gifts, Mrs. Mu took the things to the east room and locked it.
The meal gradually came to an end amidst everyone's suspicion and shock.
After dinner, Shen Fucun and his brothers got up and said goodbye. Shen Jincun has also moved out now, and lives in the printing factory, where he can not only stay, but also make shifts for the printing factory!
The brothers left.
Mu Shi and Shen Dejian called Shen Ruolan to their room, and asked the questions they had been holding back for a long time.
"Lan'er, why did the lord give such an expensive gift to our family? Doesn't it have other meanings for you?"
It was Mother Mu who spoke. Her tone changed from her usual gentleness to an unusually solemn and severe tone.
Shen Ruolan secretly scolded that man for being harmful, for sending these things so badly that she didn't know how to explain it to her parents.
She laughed a few times dryly, and said, "Mother, probably not, I'm not a beauty, it's probably because the prince sees my storytelling well, appreciate me!"
"I admire you? Is it useless for you to be a mother at such an old age? You still use such a childish excuse to prevaricate your mother?"
Mrs. Mu got a little angry, "If the prince just appreciates you, it's enough to reward you with three to five hundred silver, why spend so much money to reward you, even if the family is rich and noble, tens of thousands of taels of silver is not easy to reward people for fun." Don’t tell me you don’t know how much the things he rewarded our family are worth today. If it’s just because you can tell stories to appreciate you, how can you reward such valuable things?”
Shen Dejian also said: "Although Dad doesn't know how much that horse is worth, but Dad has never seen a light golden horse in his life, so the color of this horse is probably worth several thousand taels." Let's go! What's going on, why did the prince treat our family like this, you should tell the truth to your parents!"
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