Girlfriend's Fortune

Chapter 193 Chapter 190 Two: Uneasy
Another woman heard Shi's talk about her daughter, and thought of something, she jokingly said: "From the Shi family, I heard that your daughter was also born in August, right? It's a pity that she was not born in the ninth day of the junior high school. Such a good thing will never happen. "

Shi Shi was annoyed when she heard that, what a good thing, she is just a precious girl, she is not willing to send her for some kind of happiness, and she does not care about such a thousand taels of gold.

But the mother-in-law of the Cheng family is here. She doesn't want to say much, so she just said along the way: "Yes, it's just a pity that I wasn't born in the ninth day of junior high school, and I just don't know whose turn it will be for such a good thing."

As soon as the others heard this, the topic immediately returned to this matter, and they were all wondering who the right girl was.

Chen's heart was beating drums after hearing it.

After washing the clothes and returning to the house, Mrs. Shi, who was begging for tricks and smiling, also left, and Mrs. Chen immediately half-closed the door.

Zhang Donggua, who was holding a finger-thick wooden stick and carving one end with a knife, suddenly felt that the room was getting darker, so he couldn't help but look up at Mrs. Chen, "What are you doing, the door is closed in broad daylight, and others are watching?" You are going to make fun of us."

As usual, Chen's face had already been blushed by Zhang Donggua's joke, but this time she had a lot of thoughts, and she didn't have those thoughts to think about anything else.

He just leaned over, sat closer to Zhang Donggua, and said worriedly: "I just heard outside, Mrs. Geng said, the girl that the young master Chongxi will have to be born at the ninth day of the eighth month."

"Didn't you know this a long time ago, it will be born in August... what did you say?" Zhang Donggua didn't take it seriously, but suddenly reacted, and was immediately shocked, "It's going to be born in the first day of the ninth month? You heard it right ?”

Mrs. Chen nodded, and said in a worried tone: "That's right, Mrs. Geng said so, and it has been spread all over the outside world. I heard that many people have come to my door in the past two days, all saying that my daughter is giving birth to her ninth son. Yes, but the Chengyang Taoist made a divination and said that none of them match up, and I think it was all a lie."

"His father, our pear blossom..."

Zhang Donggua came back to his senses, and immediately raised his hand to stop Chen's unfinished words, "Pear Blossom's wedding is scheduled for next winter, and there is still a whole year to go, so we have to think about it carefully and prepare a dowry for our daughter. How much money have we saved over the years? It’s been a long time since I counted, and I forgot.”

Mrs. Chen was blocked, and understood that the man was afraid that the wall would have ears, so she swallowed the words back, and then talked about the dowry to the daughter.

"We have been in the Cheng family for these years, and we paid back our wages every year, but we secretly saved up from the private work we did. These years add up to about [-] taels. At that time, we will pack two good camphorwood boxes for Lihua. Buy two more pieces of good jewelry, give five taels of silver to put in the bottom of the box, and let’s keep saving the rest for Yang’er to beg for a wife.”

Chen's embroidery is good, and she didn't show it when she married in. But after she arrived at Cheng's house, she was accidentally seen by others, and her reputation spread in private. Gradually, the maids and women of Cheng's family came to her, Or embroider a handkerchief and a pillow cover, or help embroider a complete set of dowry.

You can earn some money in a year.

There is also Zhang Donggua, who is born to be a good carver, maybe it is a talent passed down from his father, Li Dazhui relied on a good carver to support himself and saved a lot of money back then.
Otherwise, the old Deng's natal family would not have fallen in love with him back then. In order to get a generous dowry, they had to say that they remarried with the old Deng.

Zhang Donggua didn't have any good tools, just a sharp knife and any stick in his hands, he can carve flowers for you.

The carved hairpins are lifelike and look good, and it doesn't lower the grade just because it's made of wood.

Therefore, there are quite a few maids who like to wear wooden hairpins, and they often ask him to order them, and they can earn some money a year.

The most important thing is that a steward of the Cheng family asked Zhang Donggua to help carve a Guanyin two years ago. It was carved with a very good piece of wood. The steward rewarded Zhang Donggua with a piece of silver for the finished product.

To be honest, Zhang Donggua and his wife each have their own skills. If they don't do this long-term work, they just do embroidery and woodcarving seriously, and they can't earn more than seven or eight taels of silver a year.

That's not bad.

But Zhang Donggua has a clear heart, and if this craftsmanship is kept at home, it really can't be used, who can't let it go.

Therefore, the couple are hiding it, and in the Cheng family, they also earn a little money in a low-key manner.

On the Zhang family's side, they only thought that they were sent to work as long-term workers, and they just paid their wages to the family every year. They didn't care about how they were doing at all.

Zhang Donggua nodded after listening to the family background, "Then do it this way."

After finishing speaking, he looked at Chen and said, "We Lihua are engaged, and the other party is the Zhou family. This is a good relationship. The boy Shitou is a good match for our Lihua. Brother Wujin is also a good person, and his younger siblings are also cheerful. I am satisfied with this marriage from the bottom of my heart, and thanks to our mother, since this marriage is settled, there is no reason to retreat."

Chen could understand what the man meant, but she was just worried about the father-in-law at home...

Zhang Donggua lowered his voice, "We know that Pear Blossom fell to the ground at the same moment. Where did he know? He was sleeping soundly that night, and he could hear his snoring standing in the yard, and the fourth child , and slept soundly too! Don't worry."

At that time, Zhang Hugua was not yet married, and there was no one else in the family except them.

Zhang Donggua felt that there should be no need to worry. Mother and Aunt Yuan must be the same as them. When they heard about this, they became vigilant and would not say anything.

Mrs. Chen felt a little relieved when she heard it, but she couldn't bear it anymore, "Then what if Lihua is the one who can make the young master happy, let's hide it from the Chengyang Taoist priest, then the young master No... isn't that the only way to disappear?"

Thinking about it like this is really uncomfortable.

It's a pity that such a good child is gone.

And they knew that they might be able to save them, and they could really like it, but they kept it from them. In conscience, they really couldn't bear it.

Zhang Donggua couldn't bear it when he heard it.

But when he thought of his daughter, he gritted his teeth and said, "You also said it's just in case, what if it's not, or it's not good even if you want to celebrate the joy? If you have retired from the Zhou family's marriage and sent Lihua over, it will come to an end." If the time is not right, the Zhou family will still be willing to bring up the marriage again? This is not kind."

Therefore, for the sake of pear blossoms, they can only hide it.

Conscience can't bear it, at worst, they should kowtow to the young master a few more times.

In Chen's selfish heart, daughters are naturally more important, but thinking about the young master's place, she just can't bear it.

If only the young master could get better without being overjoyed.

Such a good child died at such a young age, it is also unfair.

Chen thought about the symptoms of the young master's serious illness that the man mentioned yesterday, something flashed through her mind, but she didn't catch it right away.

(End of this chapter)