Madam, She Has a Tender Heart - Chapter 9
Chapter 9: Each has its own belly
Zheng became anxious upon hearing this. She quickly glanced at Su Sanxi and said, “Well, your grandma bought them for them.”
After saying this, I felt that the reason was sufficient, and I straightened my body unconsciously. Could it be that my mother-in-law could still refute her for the girl Qingying?
She didn’t want to but heard Su Qing say to her: “Would the third aunt let me search for it? If I find copper coins, it will be mine.”
“Why!” Zheng said loudly.
Su Qingyu smiled faintly and buried her head in eating.
It was Mrs. Zheng who reacted and made a big blush. After giving Wang a cautious look, he buried his head in his rice bowl and quickly picked up the rice, not daring to show his face again.
Wang hated that iron could not become steel, so he gouged her out hard.
Su Erhe’s wife Feng glanced at Zheng quickly and then looked away.
Even if my sister-in-law has private money, how much money can she have? The Lu family in town hired a young concubine and gave her fifty taels of silver. Apart from marrying her brother-in-law, it could be used for a long time. The big house was destitute, so why bother to make the young concubine unhappy?
Qingyu has learned how to resist since her mother-in-law brought her uncle and nephews back. But she’s getting married soon. Why bother provoking her if you can’t coax her! It makes the young prostitutes jump. If they don’t get married, then they will be beaten. What’s the good thing?
While thinking, she put a chopstick dish into the bowl of Xia He sitting next to her. The mother and daughter only focused on cooking and didn’t care about Zheng and his family’s lawsuit.
Father and mother Su are both honest people. They live their lives cautiously under the hands of the stepmother and stepmother, and they can usually do without anything.
Hearing Ms. Zheng talking about private money, the couple broke out in a cold sweat. They were worried about being scolded by Ms. Wang, but Qing Lao helped them out with just a few words.
The couple breathed a sigh of relief.
Whenever they see a salesman come to the village, Qingnao, Qingyang, and Qingxing all look at him eagerly, unable to take out a single coin. The couple saw it and felt terrible pain in their hearts.
Later, I also learned to hide one or two copper coins.
After so many years of saving, it only amounted to more than two hundred copper coins. This time the young lady got married and couldn’t afford the dowry for her child. Fortunately, her father said he would give her a tael of silver to buy the child, otherwise the child would have to enter the Lu family’s house naked.
A meal that satisfies everyone’s stomach.
After dinner, everyone went out of the main room together. Before the second room was tidied up, the rich and noble people started to share cakes with each other.
Feng and Xia He were cleaning up in the main room. Mother Su was a sensible person and went over to help.
Mrs. Zheng was sitting idle in the main room, picking her teeth and staring at the cake in Wang’s hand.
As he looked at it, he clicked his tongue: “You are really willing to give it up. One tael of this donkey rolling costs 20 cents. Qing Lao, you are really willing to give it up. Your mother must have saved a lot of private money.”
Qing Lao couldn’t see that Su’s mother was busy from morning to night, and when she saw that Su’s mother wanted to stay and help, she took the twins with her in the main room to lend her a hand from time to time.
Hearing what Zheng said, he was about to refute, but Xiao Qingxing was angry that most of the cake was taken away, so she angrily said, “We didn’t buy it, it was given as a gift! Our family has no private money!”
“A gift? Who would be so generous as to give such an expensive cake?” Ms. Zheng snorted, with a look of disbelief.
“It’s just a gift!”
Xiao Qingxing was told by her sister not to talk about what happened in the town today, so she only said this sentence back and forth. Lu Bo was not confessed.
These days, having private meetings with men, even with your fiancé, is not a good reputation.
Zheng still doesn’t believe it.
Thinking to myself, it turns out that Mr. Zhang just looks honest on the outside. This cake is worth more than one tael. Gee, it seems that she made a mistake. Mrs. Zhang turned out to be a traitor.
Su Qingnao glanced at Mrs. Zheng indifferently and said coldly: “Third aunt, do you think I am willing to buy such expensive cakes to share with the family? I have the money to buy some dowry for myself? I am willing to buy it for my two cousins.” The cakes are sweet when they come back.” Seeing Mrs. Zheng stunned by what she said, Su Qingyu turned to Mrs. Wang: “Grandma, you collected fifty taels of silver, but not one tael fell into the hands of my parents. You don’t know what my dowry is. What’s the plan? There are only a few days left. I don’t know if you, grandma, will buy it or if you give me the money, my parents will buy it.”
Wang’s eyes widened immediately after hearing this: “Didn’t your father say that you should give your father one tael of silver to buy things? Isn’t that too little? When your mother got married, she had nothing but two pairs of clothes. What else do you want? !”
Su Qingnao saw Mother Su lowering her head in embarrassment as she was clearing away the dishes. She narrowed her eyes and looked at Mrs. Wang: “I wonder what grandma did when she got married?”
When Wang heard this, he choked.
What dowry can she have?
Her natal family is even poorer than the Zhang family, otherwise she would not have married her to the Su family whose mother-in-law died and brought two small oil bottles with her.
Old Su Tou, who was outside the main room, took two long puffs of water pipe and then said: “I told the carpenter Su in the village to buy you some cabinets and cages for the house. They will be available in two days. Then let your father Take it.”
When Su’s father in the yard heard this, he immediately turned to Old Su with a grateful look on his face and said, “Thank you, Dad! I’ll take a look tomorrow.”
Su Qingyu glanced outside and saw Su’s father’s face was filled with joy. She sighed and said nothing more. He took Qingyang and Qingxing’s hands and returned to the room.
When Su’s mother helped the second room pack up and returned to the main room, she couldn’t wait to grab Su Qingyu and ask about what happened in the town today.
Why did you meet Lu Bocheng?
Did Qing Lao come to the town specifically to look for him?
Although neither she nor the child’s father were satisfied with the Lu family, they asked Qing Nao to see him. If someone saw her and said something bad, it would ruin Qing Nao’s reputation.
The five members of the family gathered in the room where Su Qingyu and the two twins lived.
There are seven people in the big house, so they are divided into two rooms in the east wing.
Before the eldest brother Su Qingyu left for the army, he shared a room with the second roommate You Wen and You Wu. Later, her eldest sister got married, so she slept in the same room with her twins. Fortunately, the twins were still small and very thin, so they could still fit in the same bed.
As soon as Su’s father heard Su’s mother’s question, he and she looked at Su Qingyu.
The twins in the room were sharing a piece of cake, but they stopped eating now and carefully wrapped them and put them away. There is joy in my eyes, there are so many, one piece a day can last me many days!
The two little guys had smiles on their faces. After listening to Su’s mother’s questions, they started chattering and trying to shake off everything that happened in the town today.
After speaking, he concluded: “Mom, that brother is not a bad person.”
Xiao Qingxing sat in Su’s mother’s arms, holding the corner of Su’s clothes and looking straight at her.
Mother Su nodded her forehead: “Do you know what a good person or a bad person is? If I buy you cakes to eat, you are not a bad person?”
Xiao Qingxing pouted and shook the corner of Su’s mother’s clothes.
“He’s not as bad as the leopard in the village. He doesn’t look like that.” Xiao Qingyang added.
The leopard Xiao Qingyang was talking about was the only son of a widow in the village. His father died on the battlefield, and his mother never remarried, raising him alone. Every family in the village helped me, so I grew up eating from hundreds of families.
But this person doesn’t want to be grateful. Today this family will catch a chicken, and tomorrow that family will dig some vegetables. The land is not well cultivated, so I just keep an eye on the crops in someone’s field that are about to mature, and quickly go in with a sack to harvest a sack.
Every family has complained to the village chief countless times. He deserves to be treated well, but his head remains the same.
And even snatched the children’s snacks.
Still helping those gangsters in the town to ask for protection fees from farmers and businessmen setting up stalls, and threatening them with sticks if they don’t pay. He has a ferocious look on his face that even children are afraid of. He is an unwelcome presence in the village.
Su’s father was silent for a while, and then said: “Dad asked around in the town, and the review of Lu Bochengfeng was very bad. He said that he didn’t study well since he was a child, so he loved to fight. When he grew up, he would play with cats and dogs. He is eight or nine years old, but he doesn’t do anything serious. He drinks and goes to flower houses every day. Moreover, he is about to go to war. He doesn’t know whether he will come back or not. Like your brother, there is no news at all…”
(End of this chapter)