Xiao Er immediately responded happily and respectfully.
Although the business is much better than usual during Chinese New Year, it is still rare to see such proud guests as Lin Fufu and the sisters.
This means that he has drawn at least one tael of silver today.
As for the wives and ladies of the wealthy and official families, most of them go directly to the third floor. Guests of that level cannot be contacted by newcomers like him who have only been in Yinbao Building for two years.
You have to be a mistress for at least five years to serve those distinguished guests.
Moreover, those distinguished guests are also numerous.
Even the big shopkeeper has accounts in his heart. When the new year is over, which wife or lady should buy new jewelry headdresses, or which wife is going to marry a daughter and daughter-in-law, and wants to buy jewelry headdresses? My heart is like a mirror.
When it was time to check out at the counter, the shopkeeper at the counter took a closer look at the bamboo basket in the small second-hand store, and saw that it was full, and he was very kind to Lin Fufu and Lin Fen.
The silver Lin Fen asked to pay separately from Lin Fufu, the silver Lin Fen should pay is not much, the silver earrings for her and Lin Fang are only 60 Wen, Feng’s earrings are 80 Wen, and Feng’s pair of silver earrings are only 60 Wen. Three taels of silver for the bracelet, one tael of silver and sixty Wen for Mr. Lin's gold ring.
So a total of six taels of silver.
Lin Fen took out six taels of silver from his purse and paid for it.
Going to Lin Fufu's side, there are two identical long-lived silver locks, a total of three taels of silver.
The three pairs of gold bracelets cost twenty-six taels and forty Wen in total, a pair of large gold earrings for Grandma Li cost two taels of silver and eighty Wen, and a gold hairpin for Aunt Qin cost two taels of silver and thirty Wen. , Give Wu's gold bracelet seven taels of silver.
A total of forty-one taels of silver and fifty Wen.
"This girl, let's count it as forty-one taels of silver." The shopkeeper took the initiative to waive Lin Fufu's fifty cents, and gave her a whole sum, and then said courteously: "I also hope that in the future, the two girls will often Visit our Silver Treasure Building!"
Lin Fufu nodded with a smile, "It's good, I'll definitely come back more often."
"We don't have anything to say about our things, the girl will know as soon as she wears them." The shopkeeper said immediately.
Lin Fufu and Lin Fen smiled and said hello, and Lin Fufu took a small fifty-two bank note and handed it to the shopkeeper.
The shopkeeper saw that her hand was a silver ticket, and his face became more attentive.
Lin Fufu took the change of nine taels of silver, and Lin Fen left the Silver Treasure Building with the gold and silver jewelry they bought.
"I wanted to buy some new clothes at first. I heard that there is a new kind of tribute satin in the south of the Yangtze River. It is very beautiful. Unfortunately, we are running out of time. We will find time to go shopping next spring." Lin Fufu said with a smile.
"Fang'er and I have spent the New Year in my mother's old clothes when she was young. I don't care about that." Lin Fen smiled, and there was still a trace of sourness in his eyes.
Lin Fufu also felt sad when he heard this, "Where is there really no new dresses to wear? I own a ready-to-wear shop, and I brought back more than a dozen sets of ready-made clothes. When I go back, you and Sister Fang will come to my house to pick out two sets."
Lin Fen pursed her lips and nodded, then talked about the jewelry she bought today.
Lin Fufu also thinks that the jewelry in Yinbao Building is good, thinking that if he has time next year, he has to go to the third floor to have a look.
As for the fourth floor, she has no idea yet, only knows that the items on the fourth floor must be treasures that ordinary people cannot afford.
At least it is the treasure of the shop in Yinbaolou Town in Qinglian County.
Lin Fufu and Lin Fen got into the carriage. Because they were very busy these days, they fell asleep with a woolen blanket hugging each other before they got into the carriage.
When the carriage stopped at the door of Lin Fufu's house in Hulu Village, it was already dark, and Lin Fufu was woken up by the sound of firecrackers.
"Girl, I'm already home. Miss Lin has already gone down at the door of her house." Oda respectfully said to Lin Fufu in the car.
After stretching, Lin Fufu got out of the carriage with the package, "Oda, I know, help me take out the big package from the back compartment of the carriage and take it home. You will have dinner with us this New Year's Eve." New Year's Eve dinner."
Oda was taken aback for a moment, then said yes in a low voice,
He really didn't expect that Lin Fufu would personally invite him to have a New Year's Eve dinner with their family.
Hearing Lin Fufu's voice outside, Grandma Li and Aunt Qin came out to greet her.
"Oh, Gospel, you're back. Grandma Li is almost getting callused out of talking about it." Aunt Qin smiled and took her little bundle and medicine box from Lin Fufu.
He took another look at Xiao Tian who was following Lin Fufu with a low eyebrow, and asked, "Who is this?"
Lin Fufu looked back at Xiaotian, smiled and said, "Oh, this is Xiaotian who I invited to help me drive the carriage. There is no elder in the family, so I will let him celebrate the New Year with us."
Huangfu Jin said that Xiao Tian was an orphan, and it was not wrong to say that there were no elders in his family.
Aunt Qin has no children herself, and when she sees a child without a father or mother, her heart is very soft. She immediately greeted Xiaotian and said, "Good boy, let's spend a good New Year with us."
Oda showed his white teeth and smiled shyly.
Lin Fufu saw that he was ugly, but he looked really good-looking when he smiled, so he also smiled.
Grandma Li took her hand, pouted and said, "I prepared the New Year's Eve dinner early in the morning, and I'm looking forward to it with Xiaobao, Xiaobei and your Aunt Qin. Both children are asleep. You just came back. How did you get it so late?"
Lin Fufu was in the county these days. Grandma Li and the two children hadn't seen her for almost ten days, and they were really panicking.
"Grandma made you worry, it's all my fault." Lin Fufu grabbed Grandma Li's hand and said with a smile, "Then grandma, hit me."
Grandma Li smiled at her, and held her cold little hand with her big warm hand, "I'm not willing to, come inside to warm up, and we can have the New Year's Eve dinner."
Aunt Qin smiled and said to Lin Fufu: "Grandma specially asked someone to buy a set of firecrackers and came back. It happened that brother Tian was here, so I asked brother Tian to set off firecrackers and invite my ancestors to come back for dinner."
Lin Fufu hurriedly agreed, and turned to look at Oda.
Xiaotian also nodded with a smile. He trained beside his master since he was a child. These hands are the hands that hold knives and kill people. This is the first time he has set off firecrackers.
"Go and set off the firecrackers. You can eat after the firecrackers are set off. I just heated up this meal." Grandma Li also said.
The custom in the northern part of the Great Wei Dynasty is that the food is set out first. Before eating the New Year's Eve dinner, you have to burn paper and invite the ancestors to eat, and then you can start.
But Lin Fufu didn't feel much about this custom, because the ancestors of Lao Lin's family had nothing to do with her, but they still followed Xiaotian to burn the paper money.
She also invited her mother Chu's in her heart, and she was also worried about Old Lin, who didn't know where and what happened to Old Lin who had lost his memory.
The original custom was that if Father Lin was at home, or if Lin Xiaobao had grown up, girls would not be able to burn paper to invite their ancestors, but there was really no man in the family, so the woman who burned paper to invite ancestors had to use her left hand to hold the yellow paper to burn. , cannot use the right hand.
Otherwise, please don't go back to your ancestors.
Lin Fufu smiled helplessly after listening to Grandma Li's rules, but because it was Grandma Li's advice, she followed suit.
The yellow paper burned quickly, blown by the cold wind, and the burnt or unfinished scraps of paper flew into the air and swirled.
Seeing that the yellow paper is almost burnt,
But whether or not to let off firecrackers depends on the situation of each family. Like those who don’t even have a decent dish during the Chinese New Year, they naturally have no money to buy firecrackers.
Xiaotian went to burn paper and set off firecrackers, and Aunt Qin invited him to the table to sit and eat.
Lin Fufu first took a look at Xiaobao and Xiaobei who were sleeping, and then returned to the table and sat down to prepare for the New Year's Eve dinner.
"Today, I brought a lot of hard vegetables that Master Jiang prepared for us from the restaurant in the county. We can eat them after heating them up." Lin Fufu recalled that there were still a few jars of hard vegetables in the big bag that Xiao Tian was carrying. .
Oda was very clever, and immediately sat down to help get the dishes.
When he was carrying the bag just now, he felt the jingling of several jars in the bag, and it must be the hard food in the mouths of those girls in Lin.
"Hey, I also made a few tough dishes today. Look, there are whole chicken, braised carp in braised sauce, salted duck, braised pork in braised pork, and braised beef. There are four or five other side dishes. These Enough for us to eat." Grandma Li said.
Lin Fufu just laughed: "I bring back fresh food, such as braised lamb's feet, braised mutton with radish, and crystal meatballs..."
After hearing Lin Fufu's words, Oda went on to get it.
Aunt Qin said: "You all sit down, I'll go to the kitchen to heat up."
Lin Fufu felt a little ashamed. She was busy with business these days, and fortunately, Grandma Li and Aunt Qin were there for her family affairs.
"You eat the vegetables first. You must be hungry after you have been in the carriage for so long." Grandma Li picked up a chopstick and put a big chicken leg into Lin Fufu's bowl, and then put another big chicken leg in Oda's bowl Li, "Good boy, you have no elders in your family, so you will regard my old lady and your aunt Qin as elders, and protect the gospel more in the future."
Oda stood up immediately, and became a little flustered. Lin Fufu saw it funny, and said to him: "It's okay, grandma is right, just treat us as one family."
Grandma Li is helping her to win over people. She probably thought that Xiaotian was really picked up by her, but in fact, he is not easy.
Otherwise, with Huangfu Jin's cautious personality, it would be impossible to randomly arrange someone to be by her side.
Although, at the beginning, she told Huangfu Jin not to waste capable people by her side, but now that she thinks about it, how could Huangfu Jin listen to her
Aunt Qin quickly brought the warm dishes to the table, and the whole family had a lively New Year's Eve dinner.
Aunt Qin and Xiao Tian took the dishes and chopsticks to the kitchen to wash, while Lin Fufu talked with Grandma Li.
"Your second aunt came over today, and she said that we should go to her house to have a New Year's Eve dinner, so it's hard for her." Grandma Li told Lin Fufu all the things that happened in the village in the past few days, and then Talking about Feng Shi with Lin Fufu, "Your grandma, you really did it. Now that your uncle is torturing her, she will come to torment your second aunt, and run to your second uncle's house if you have nothing to do. At your second uncle's house, you just go back to sleep at night."
"Ah?" Lin Fufu widened his apricot eyes when he heard this, "I nurse her... what about my grandfather? My grandfather doesn't eat anymore? My uncle doesn't eat anymore?"
After hearing Lin Fufu's question, Grandma Li shook her head, "You don't know who your grandma is, so she will naturally bring food from your second uncle's house for your grandfather to eat. As for your uncle's family, she is now telling people in the village , she doesn't care."
Lin Fufu opened his mouth slightly, feeling that it was impossible to use human thinking to think about anyone in the old house of the Lin family.
"Oh, have you heard? Your Dalang brother has also gone to the county, and he won't be back this year for the Chinese New Year." Grandma Li remembered something again.
Lin Fufu frowned. He didn't expect that Lin Dalang also went to the county, and he didn't come back to celebrate the New Year. What was he doing
"He brought old scholar Lin and the Yuan family to the county, and I heard that they have been admitted to the county school." Grandma Li added, and then looked at Lin Fufu, "I don't know if you offended him, look at him It’s really going to be developed like that, and I’m afraid it will be against you in the future.”
"Then he really has some skills, the county school is not easy to get into." Lin Fufu's eyes flashed.
To enter the county school, not only do you need to have money to support your family, but it is also difficult for those who have no backing behind you, unless you are really good at both character and learning, and there are country gentry and wealthy households who want to form a good relationship in the future and take it as a guarantee.
But Lin Dalang has nothing to ask for, except his deceitful heart.
"Hey, speaking of this matter, your aunt also dragged Da Lang into a fierce fight. Your aunt wanted to follow Da Lang to the county, but Da Lang said he wanted to take Mr. and Mrs. Lin, a scholar. You The aunt scolded him for being unfilial, a white-eyed wolf who didn't recognize his parents. Da Lang said that he had been adopted to Lao Xiucai Lin, and he was the son of Lao Xiucai Lin. Naturally, he had to take care of Lin Xiucai and his wife, but neither You will forget to be filial to them. But your aunt does not obey, hey. This is the whole thing." Grandma Li sighed.
Lin Fufu smiled. She felt that it was really retribution for the Zhao family to have today.
"I think it's my father who hurt Lin Dalang's words the most." Lin Fufu blinked and said with bright eyes.
Grandma Li nodded, "Isn't that right? I heard from your grandma that the day Dalang took Mr. and Mrs. Lin to the county town, your grandfather cried hard in the cemetery where the ancestors of the Lin family were buried. Now I don’t want to go out and walk around.”
Lin Fufu knew that Lin Dalang's behavior really hurt Mr. Lin's heart.
One thing Mrs. Zhao said is not wrong, Lin Dalang is a white-eyed wolf through and through.
In those years, the old house of the Lin family had been suffering so much that they tightened their belts to save money, and even saved the rations of the second bedroom family of the Lin family in order to support a Lin Dalang.
Well, now that Lin Dalang has a little promise, he dumped the whole family of the old Lin family house, and whoever he replaces will feel chilled.
"Today's New Year's Eve, you go to see your grandfather, I feel pitiful. They are all of age, even for your father and Xiaobao's sake, you should say something nice Warm his heart." After all, Grandma Li is an elderly person, so she has more sympathy for people who are also elderly.
But Aunt Qin just came out of the stove room wiping her hands. After hearing what Grandma Li said, she smiled and said, "Aunt Li, according to me, even if the Gospel gives him his heart, Mr. Lin still has something to offer in his heart." Hello grandson."
Lin Fufu recognized this, and she actually thought so in her heart.
However, she will do what she should do, just try not to let people talk about it.
"Well, I've already counted it in my heart, don't worry." Lin Fufu said.
As soon as the words fell, Lin Fen and Lin Fang came over.
Lin Fang hadn't seen Lin Fufu for a long time, and when she saw her, she ran over very affectionately. After the two talked for a while, Lin Fen said, "Let's go to the old house and sit down."
Just as Lin Fufu had this intention, he stood up.
"Hey, girl Fen, girl Fang, wait a minute." Grandma Li stood up, Aunt Qin also stood up, and they both went to their own rooms.
Lin Fen and Lin Fang glanced at Lin Fufu in surprise, Lin Fufu smiled and shook his head, expressing that he didn't know what they were going to do.
But soon, Grandma Li and Aunt Qin came out with some red envelopes in their hands.
"This is lucky money for you, one for each of you." Grandma Li handed out four red envelopes one by one, and Xiao Tian also got one.
Aunt Qin also gave them one with a smile, and shouted: "New Year's Eve, be safe every year!"
Lin Fufu looked at the two red envelopes containing copper coins in his hand, his eyes became hot.
She can also receive the lucky money from her elders!
Oda also stared blankly at the two brand new red envelopes in his hand, lowering his head, not knowing what he was thinking.
Lin Fen and Lin Fang thanked Grandma Li and Aunt Qin. They had already received the New Year's money from their parents, so they didn't feel as deeply as Lin Fufu and Oda.
This is still the happiness of children with parents.
Lin Fufu packed up his mood, thanked Grandma Li and Aunt Qin sincerely, and then walked out the door with Lin Fen and Lin Fang.
"Girl, the road outside is dark, I'll take you there." Xiaotian said.
Lin Fufu waved his hand at him, "No need, many people have hung lanterns outside today, and the children are still firing cannons outside, it's okay."
Oda thought, afraid that the girl wanted to avoid suspicion and gossip, so he also nodded, but decided to follow in secret.
"Gospel, did Grandma Li tell you about the old house?" Lin Fen asked quietly.
"Yes, I've said it all." Lin Fufu said softly.
"My mother can't stand our grandma anymore, she is crying for dinner today and wants us to take them to the county or to the town." Lin Fang also said quietly.
Listening to the children's playfulness and the crackling of cannons, Lin Fufu helplessly stretched out his hand to caress his forehead.
"But my father didn't want to. He still yelled at my mother and let my mother go by herself. He also yelled at me and my sister for being unfilial." The more Lin Fang spoke, the more angry he became.
Hearing her words, Lin Fufu knew that the second bedroom of the Lin family did not enjoy the New Year's Eve dinner.
"My mother told me that the reason why my father said that Fang'er and I were not filial is that I have listened to my grandma's instigation too much these days." Lin Fen held back for a while.
"If my father and mother stay in Hulu Village, even if they are far away in the future, they will not be able to survive this day!" Lin Fang kicked a small stone away with his feet, and said in an angry voice: " Unless, we don't even want our parents anymore."
But that's impossible.
"Hehe, when Fang'er and I came out to look for you just now, my father chased us out of the gate and told us that no matter how much money we earned, at least half of it should be filial to my grandma!" Lin Fen sneered in the dark.