my grandmother

Chapter 164
In the entire Hejia Village, only two families gave the loom money to Li Xiaonan.

Ah Wu temporarily stored the loom in Mrs. Gu's loom shop, and left the house before dawn the next day. He hurriedly went to several villages to finish the day's affairs, and went straight to Hejia Village.

On the second day after Li Xiaonan took away the loom, Yu Dalang got the letter. That afternoon, he rushed to Hejia Village with the accountant, his assistants, and two or three yamen servants, and took away the woven cloth, the remaining thread, and all the valuables. Things, another string of iron chains, locked away the men who had pressed their fingerprints.

At noon the next day, Ah Wu came back drenched in sweat and plunged into the small courtyard of Cailian Lane. When he saw Li Xiaonan, he let out a long breath.

"You are at home, really blessed by the Bodhisattva!"

Li Xiaonan was making some calculations, looked up at A Wu, but said nothing.

"Sister-in-law Lu wants to see you and asks if you can come. Right now, she is waiting for you at the tea house in the town." A Wu squatted beside Li Xiaonan.

"Why are you seeing me?" Li Xiaonan didn't stop raising her hand.

"What else can I do! I told you about what happened yesterday, that's all!
"I came around from the gate of the yamen. There is a row of shackles in front of the eight-character wall, all of which are heavy shackles of fifty catties! It's a hot day, tsk!"

Ah Wu's tsk, can't tell what it means, it's not all sympathy, and it's not all gloating, it's actually a bit complicated.

Li Xiaonan glanced at her sideways.

"Why are you still thinking about it? It's such a big deal!" Ah Wu urged, seeing that Li Xiaonan's fingers didn't stop.

"Why did Mrs. Lu see me? Let me go to the Yamen to intercede?" Li Xiaonan kept turning the abacus with her finger, and turned a page with the other hand.

"It's not an intercession. This morning, no, Sister-in-law Lu said that yesterday evening, the men from each family were locked away, and two of them brought their children to kneel at her door. When I arrived this morning, Sister-in-law Lu was kneeling in the yard." I bought a piece of it, and it was all borrowed from her!"

Asking her to borrow money, Ah Wu emphasized his tone, and then heyed.

Li Xiaonan glanced at Ah Wu again.

"Sister-in-law Lu said that she really didn't have that much money. I just went there, so she discussed with me and asked if you could let go of your hand, sign a contract, give them the loom, or lend them some money. Sister-in-law Lu said, even if she borrowed it." A Wu continued.

"You just agreed for me first?" Li Xiaonan asked.

"I don't know you yet? How dare I agree!" Ah Wu brushed off his clothes quite proudly.

She still has some insight and foresight.

"Go and tell Mrs. Lu that I don't want to care about this matter. There is a saying that Sister Mei said, drowning a child is like killing a child. It is suitable for the families in their village. They are all the men in charge and should take responsibility." You have to take responsibility." Li Xiaonan turned another page.

Ah Wu frowned, and sighed for a moment.

This is what her father taught her in the past, the first thing to do in life is to take responsibility, what Ah Nan said is not wrong at all

"They owe a lot of money, and they said it will take a month." After hesitating for a while, Ah Wu still said something.

"Yeah." Li Xiaonan hummed speciously, "It's hot, let Sister-in-law Lu remind them, don't forget to bring water and food."

Ah Wu hummed, for a moment, sighed, stood up and walked outside.

Before and after dinner, Sister-in-law Yin entered the courtyard with a huge bright red lacquered invitation card.

The Li family was having dinner, Li Yuzhu handed the bamboo chair to Sister-in-law Yin, and Sister Mei poured herbal tea and handed it over.

"Whose family?" Li Jinzhu looked at the overly conspicuous red invitation card.

"The invitation card for the wedding of the third sister of the Wu family and Da Lang of the Yu family is for your family." Sister-in-law Yin threw the invitation card on a small stool beside her.

"Your family also has them?" Li Xiaonan asked with a smile.

"Yes, there are families in our alley, and none of them are left behind. How shameless!" Sister-in-law Yin spat.

"It was the same when the two girls in front got married?" Li Xiaonan continued to ask.

"When the boss got married, he had to be shameless, but now he is getting more and more shameless." Sister-in-law Yin spat again.

"Is Yu's shop open?" Li Jinzhu asked.

"On the eighth day of the lunar new year, Mr. Yinyang Fang Da of the government office will show you the auspicious day." Sister-in-law Yin became even more angry.

The Yujia Cloth Shop is diagonally across from their Yueyang Cloth Shop, and like their Yueyang Cloth Shop, there are five fronts, one of which is used to sell their Yujia Xiangyin Incense Pan Incense Powder, the other four, two of which display fine cloth, and the other The two rooms are silk embroidery.

"How much is the gift?" Li Xiaonan picked up the invitation card and glanced at it.

"99 copper tins, it will last for a long time." Sister Yin sighed.

This is what Miao Matchmaker said when sending invitations.

"Does everyone who receives the invitation have to go? There are always those who have no young children at home." Li Yuzhu asked.

"She doesn't invite people like this. For ordinary middle-class families, she goes door-to-door to collect copper cash. She can't invite cards. She sends back a half-inch long red cloth strip, saying that it is good luck for the door. Xu said that the door is very close.

"We are a high-class family, so we will give you a big red clay gold invitation card and let you eat a flowing water banquet, but the gift money, people said, at least 99 copper tins!" Sister-in-law Yin spat again.

"Can I go? There's no need to work on the elder sister and the second elder sister for this matter." Li Xiaonan asked with a smile.

"Okay, why not! Let's go, I want to see the excitement." Sister-in-law Yin said with a smile.

The Yu family was overjoyed at marrying a wife, followed by a small celebration. Li Xiaonan and Sister-in-law Yin watched the excitement of the wedding with 99 copper coins, and then stood at the gate of Yueyang Cloth Village to watch the grand opening of the Yujia Cloth Village.

The third sister of the Wu family back then, now the grandma of the Yu family is dressed in silk, with red gold hairpins on her hair, red gold hairpins, red gold piercing her heart, and red gold covering her temples, standing at the gate of Wu's cloth village, her face full of spring breeze.

"Bah!" Sister Yin spat, turned and went in.

Li Xiaonan stood on the threshold, watched for a while, then sat down next to Sister Yin, leaned forward and asked, "Miao Matchmaker is related to the Wu family?"

"No! Who knows what's going on with them!" Sister-in-law Yin also leaned forward, "When I got married, Matchmaker Miao had already kissed the Wu family more than she had kissed herself.

"I heard from our old lady that Miao Matchmaker is an official matchmaker passed down from master to student. Miao Matchmaker was picked up by her master Zhang Matchmaker outside the city. Zhang Matchmaker was almost forty when she picked up Miao Matchmaker. Miao Matchmaker was in her twenties. Matchmaker Zhang died, and Matchmaker Miao took over the official matchmaker.

"The Wu family came here from famine, maybe seventeen or eighteen years ago, somehow, the two families were able to get together.

"My old lady said that when the elder sister of the Wu family was young, the Miao matchmaker loved her more than her own daughter. The elder sister of the Wu family was seven or eight years old, and the Miao matchmaker still hugged her and did not let go, saying that her arms and legs were weak. Tender, tired and rough after walking too much.

"In the past seventeen or eighteen years, the Miao matchmaker has worked for the Wu family. She has no complaints or regrets. If you don't know, you think she is the mother of the Wu family sisters."

Sister-in-law Yin squinted at Grandma Yu at the door of Yu's shop across the street.

"Didn't anyone from her elder sister's house come on the day the grandma across the street got married?" Li Xiaonan held her chin and looked at Grandma Yu across the way.

"That's Ju Ren's family. Even though Ju Ren died a long time ago, she still has airs! The elder sister of the Wu family rarely goes back to her mother's house, saying that her in-laws don't allow it!" Sister-in-law Yin laughed.

"Three aunts and six wives are low-ranking, car and boat shop feet and teeth, and they should be killed if they are innocent. If there is no matchmaker, the Wu family would be so noble, right?" Li Xiaonan looked at Sister-in-law Yin and said slowly with a smile.

Sister-in-law Yin raised her eyebrows high, and after a while, she groaned, "That's right! She's a juren and a yamen, that's Qinggui. I'm going to talk to that Qinggui grandma."

Sister-in-law Yin stood up, flicked her skirt, left Yueyang Cloth Village, and walked towards Grandma Yu with a smile on her face.

(End of this chapter)