"Lan Ya..."
Shen Fucun stood in front of Shen Ruolan with a swollen belly, his face was as red as a cockscomb.
"Brother Fu Cun, what's wrong?"
Seeing Brother Dao holding his bowels, Shen Ruolan knew that he must have something to ask of her, and it was a kind of unspeakable request.
really
"Well, how much... money do you have on hand now? Can you... lend me some money first..."
Speaking of the latter, Shen Fucun stuttered, and his face was hot, as if someone slapped his mouth!
For so many years, their family has been indifferent to Lan Ya from top to bottom, and they don't care about it. Now that he's carrying water for them for a few days, he has the cheek to borrow money from others. What does Lan Ya think? They!
I'm so ashamed!
However, it’s impossible not to come. Old Mrs. Cui said before leaving yesterday that if she doesn’t return the five taels of silver to their family within three days, she must marry Meier to their old Zhang’s family at the end of the month. Neither would he withdraw the dowry, nor would he marry Meier, so the old Zhang's family went to the Yamen to sue them for defrauding money and marrying them, and put their family in jail.
Of course, Meier refused to marry, so the family had no choice but to collect the five taels of silver somewhere. Father Tian checked all his relatives and friends, and those who could borrow money shamelessly borrowed it. In the end, they only borrowed one tael or five taels of silver. .
If the two taels of silver that were missing could not be borrowed within three days, the family had no choice but to sell the land.
Their family only has one mu of land, and they can harvest a thousand or eight hundred catties of grain a year, which is barely enough to feed the family's mouths. If even this mu of land is gone, what will the old snacks eat? His daughter-in-law is about to give birth, so he can't let the child be born and drink northwest wind with them, right
He really had no other choice, so he ran over cheekily and opened his mouth to his cousin!
"Yes, I spent it before I went. I still have more than a hundred cash left here. I'll take it for you as much as you want, Brother Hall."
Shen Ruolan answered very loudly and quickly, but it wasn't very real. It wasn't that she was stingy, but that she didn't want others to know that she had so much money, so as not to cause trouble; she didn't want to use the money to help Shen Ruomei. How did he treat her.
However, the eldest brother was very kind to her, and it was the first time he asked himself, and she couldn't bear to refuse, so she answered him like that.
"It's only a hundred pennies!"
This amount is too far from Shen Fucun's ideal, and it can't solve any problems at all, he was slightly disappointed in his heart, and said: "Then don't use it for now, a hundred coins is not enough, I will think of other ways. "
There is no difference between those who have this hundred wen and those who don't. It just so happens that he is too embarrassed to borrow money from her, so he simply doesn't.
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Shen Ruolan is also very satisfied with this result, she doesn't like to have financial entanglements with her relatives, no matter whether it is family affection or friendship, once it is connected with money, it will more or less lose its original innocence It's changed.
Of course, the most important thing is that she doesn't want to help Shen Ruomei. If the eldest brother has something to do, she will definitely take out the money.
After Shen Fucun left, Shen Ruolan dressed, took a bamboo basket and a bag of millet, and went to the back mountain to catch sparrows.
There are two days before entering the city, and the pheasants and hares at home are gone. She has not eaten meat for two days, and it happens to be warm today. She plans to go to the mountains to pick up some sparrows, so as to improve her own food. .
When I walked to the back mountain, there were actually two or three half-year-old children buttoning sparrows on the hillside. Since Shen Fucun learned the method of buttoning sparrows, the skill of buttoning sparrows has quickly become popular in the village. The children did not hesitate to brave the severe cold and ran to the back mountain to pick sparrows, hoping to get some meat for the tooth-beating festival.
Among the children buttoning up the sparrow today, there is actually Hu Meijiao. She is still wearing the same flowered jacket as before. She stood out from the crowd, especially the brand-new embroidered shoes on her feet, which were made of pure cotton cloth. The emerald green uppers were embroidered with big red flowers, red, green and green, like two playful parrots. nice.
Of course, good-looking is only limited to the aesthetics of these rural children. In Shen Ruolan's view, this kind of red and green shoes is simply speechless, and it is eye-catching.
Seeing Shen Ruolan, Hu Meijiao's expression froze for a moment. She must have recalled some bad memories. However, this little girl was scheming. She always remembered that behind Shen Ruolan was a big gold man who bought her roast goose and dim sum. As for the Lord, I wanted to tell Shen Ruolan a trick so that I could figure out who that person was.
"Lanya, come and pick the sparrow too." She greeted Shen Ruolan with a smile.
"Um."
Shen Ruolan responded lightly, put down the baskets, sticks, etc., and began to sweep the ground and sprinkle millet.
"That's right, let's go together, we can still talk." Hu Meijiao approached with a smile as if she didn't see Shen Ruolan's indifference.
Shen Ruolan didn't even look at her, she just said nonchalantly: "It's not easy for the two of you to be too close."
Hu Meijiao paused, and retreated to her original position in embarrassment, her hot face stuck to her cold ass, it was too embarrassing.
Just in time, Shouya brought her elder sister Zhaodi to buckle the sparrow, and when Zhaodi saw Hu Meijiao's beautiful shoes, she said enviously, "Sister Meijiao, your embroidered shoes are so beautiful!"
Hearing someone praise herself, Hu Meijiao was refreshed, her vanity was greatly satisfied, and her original anger and resentment disappeared all of a sudden. She glanced at Shen Ruolan triumphantly, and saw that she was wearing the clothes left by her mother in the past. The tattered gown, fat and big, doesn't fit at all, and I can't help but secretly say: so what if you find a man who can buy you roast goose and snacks? Still dressed like a beggar, hum!
Thinking of this, she became even more proud: "What's so good about the shoes, the clothes made of this cotton cloth are so beautiful. If you don't believe me, go to my house to see my mother's new clothes, they are so beautiful."
This sentence is to tell others in a disguised form that her mother has used this cotton cloth to make new clothes.
She said that on purpose, she was so jealous of Shen Lanya, a dead girl, when she used to have something delicious and fun at home, Shen Lanya always looked at it with that kind of awe and envy. The envy and awe from the bottom of her heart, and her eyes, can always greatly please Hu Meijiao's vanity heart. Now, she is deliberately showing off her mother's new clothes and her new shoes, so as to stimulate Shen Lan Oh ungrateful thing!