Flowers are expensive

Chapter 202 Cao's Gossip

Yutao hesitated a little, as if she was still angry with Man Xiang, and said: "He is like that, what kind of sincerity is there? Don't try, I will follow you anyway, whether you are a girl or a manager, I don't want to be married anymore!"

Lihua leaned on the stove with one hand, picked up a long wooden chopstick and tapped her forehead, and said, "You and Man Xiang are really the same kind of people. They are stubborn and like to talk ironically. You obviously like each other to death. He is so tense on his face that if he beats him to death without admitting a word of the truth, wouldn't that be his own suffering?"

Yutao covered her forehead, pouted her mouth and said aggrievedly: "Then what can I do? Is it possible that I can forcefully break into Xie's house and drag him out, begging him to marry me? I'm not that cheap!"

"But you really don't want to live with him forever?"

"Miss Ewha..."

"That's just thinking! Ouch!" Lihua rubbed her forehead and said, "It's just as hard to talk to you two! It's a waste if you don't get together! Come here, let me tell you something!"

Yutao put her ear to Lihua's mouth, and Lihua murmured for a long time, then she moved away and asked, "How is it? I can do it this way? No matter what the result is, you won't suffer at all. It's better than you really going to jump into the river, right?"

Yutao thought for a while, nodded and said, "Okay, just do as you said! Anyway, I have already said it, I will follow you from now on, and will be your girl and manager!"

Lihua smiled and said, "Then I've earned it!"

"Pear Blossom! Pear Blossom!" Mrs. Gong walked in with a smile all of a sudden, and said, "Outside Qi Gu and the others are here, come out for a while!"

Lihua patted Yutao on the shoulder, hugged the water pot and went out to say hello to Duan Qigu and the others.

Seventh Aunt Duan, Grandma Yun and Third Aunt Dong were already sitting in the yard helping to put flowers into the pillow.Seeing Lihua, Duan Qigu raised her head and joked with a smile on her face: "Lihua, is it okay to come to you to work for half a day? It's idle anyway, earning twenty or thirty copper coins to buy a piece of cloth to make shoes, you don't mind it? "

"I hate it!" Lihua laughed, "I hate you all for a long time, or you just come to me to help!"

"I think so!" Duan Qigu said with a smile while grabbing a flowered pillow, "Seeing that Gong Meizi earns a hundred copper coins a day, and Cairo earns 250 coins a day, who in the village is not jealous? It's a pity I Not so lucky! It’s rare to be free today, why don’t you come here to earn some expenses?”

Lihua sat down and smiled, "Why are you free today? Are you afraid that Housekeeper Cao will be in a hurry with you?"

"Her?" Duan Qigu rolled her eyes and said disdainfully, "I haven't seen anyone for two days! Maybe she went back to hide at her mother's house!"

The women around fell silent, turned their heads to look at Duan Qigu, and asked what was going on.Duan Qigu suddenly felt a sense of being flattered, and she gestured happily on her face: "In the past few days, she and Ma Liu were fighting in the room, her face was swollen, and she didn't even dare to come out of the room! We just I thought it was just a couple quarreling and fighting, it was nothing serious. But the day before yesterday it happened again! In the middle of the night, Ma Xianger was crying so hard that he woke us up!"

"Yo? What's the fuss? Usually, it's just a couple of quarrels. How many quarrels are there this time?" Gong asked curiously, stopping the needlework in his hand.

"Who knows? In the middle of the night, the house was about to be demolished! Grandma Yun and I ran to the door to see it, and we were terrified! Ma Liu seemed to be drunk, holding such a long thick stick in his hand— ——" Duan Qigu made an exaggerated gesture and continued, "The housekeeper is lying beside her, her hair is all loose, she looks like a ghost, and there are red marks on her arms! Ouch, this is the first time I saw Ma Liu beat the housekeeper like this!"

There was an uproar in the yard, and discussions started.Surprised and funny, Mrs. Gong patted her knee excitedly and said happily: "Is Ma Liu good enough? Usually, I just slap her once or twice to make her face swollen, but this time it's such a big deal? She's had a good time, and she has today! Hey, hey, Qigu, what is it for? Is Ma Liu drunk?"

Third Aunt Dong took the conversation and said, "Maliu is not uncommonly drunk. Have you ever seen him play around while drunk? Like your Cairo, he falls asleep when drunk. How can he beat the housekeeper?" Ah! I heard Ma Liu ask the housekeeper about where the pearls came from."

"Oh!" Gong patted her knee again and smiled, "I remember, it's the pearl that Aunt Gao put in, right? I'm also curious about it! Where did Aunt Gao get such a big pearl, it must be Housekeeper Cao’s mother gave it to her, but where did she get it? Even Ma Liu doesn’t know about it, so it’s hard to say!”

Luo Shi next to him gloated and asked, "Could it be that Ma Liu suspects that Cao Meizhi stole someone? Oh hello! Who stole her? Which rich person can give her a big pearl after stealing it?"

"Scared! Where is only one!" Aunt Dong said again abruptly, with a bit of complacency on her face.

Sure enough, as soon as she said this, the lively discussion stopped again, and the eyes turned to her again.Lihua also felt a little surprised, and asked, "More than one? How many are there?"

Don't look at Third Aunt Dong who is usually honest, submissive, silent, and well-behaved in front of Mrs. Cao, but behind her back she is just as gossipy as Dong Ping.It's just that she doesn't often say it in front of people, and only occasionally reveals her gossip.This time, Mrs. Cao cleaned up Ma Liu's affairs neatly. Why don't she take this opportunity to gossip about Mrs. Cao once?
Third Aunt Dong shook her thick black eyebrows, and said mysteriously: "I heard Ma Liu scold Cao's housekeeper for being shameless and disobedient, and asked her if she would give her a pill every time she was with her." Pearl, didn't you accompany her for twenty or thirty times?"

"Hey!" The people in the yard suddenly exclaimed in unison.Some people have already started counting with their fingers.Gong's mind was the fastest, and he inserted the needle into the sachet, counted it for a while, and said in surprise: "According to twenty pieces, it would be more than 2000 taels of silver! Oh, my God! Wow! More than 2000 taels of silver, if you put it in front of you, it won’t make you blind? Is Cao Guan’s wife that valuable? Except for a fat body, she doesn’t look very good!”

One sentence made everyone laugh.Duan Qigu covered her mouth and said with a smile: "Don't underestimate the housekeeper, she treats you and me fiercely, but treats the master with a gentle, gentle and gentle face, like a little lady! You married to the village last night I didn't see that when the master came back that year, she held the wine jar to show off her drinking capacity in front of the master. The master's eyeballs rolled back and forth on her face like rolling balls, and he kept praising her for drinking well. She is a talented person and well managed! She bowed to the master in a soft voice and said, "It's all thanks to the master's blessing!" Oh, hey, I'm covered in goose bumps just thinking about it now!"

Everyone laughed so hard again.Mrs. Gong asked excitedly: "Is there such a thing? I just think that Housekeeper Cao's mother is born with such a fierce look! It turns out that she also knows how to flirt and flirt in front of the master?"

"Otherwise, where can I exchange pearls?" Aunt Dong interjected with a mysterious smile on her face.

"What do you mean?" Gong asked.

"If you don't want the old ones, it's the same if you want the young ones! I heard Ma Liu ask the housekeeper if it was given by the young master! You say, in this village and outside the village, a finger with so many pearls can We can count them, except for the Young Master Zeng who is also the eldest master of the Wang Mansion, otherwise who else will go?"

"You mean Wang Xinsheng?" Lihua was a little surprised by this statement.Look at Wang Xinsheng, he doesn't seem to be able to mix with Cao Meizhi!

"Isn't it?" Third Aunt Dong said with a serious expression, "I heard it from Ma Liu! He asked the housekeeper how many times he had accompanied the young master, but the housekeeper refused to tell me if she died! If it's not guilty, why not Say? If it wasn’t given by the Eldest Young Master, then who gave it? Those pearls will be sold in the city, no matter what you say, it will cost two to three thousand taels, who has such a big style? I’m afraid that Young Master Zeng doesn’t have it either!”

"Two 3000 taels?" Gong raised three fingers, shook his head lightly and said, "Isn't it possible! Is Young Master Wang confused? Spending so much money on Steward Cao's wife, isn't he in a panic?"

"Cough! What's two 3000 taels? The young master is from Bianjing City. I heard that Wang's mansion is about the same size as our village. There are a lot of gold, silver, and jade. Even the floor is made of jade. What about Baner! In the eyes of the Eldest Young Master, that little money can be regarded as sending off beggars!" Once Third Aunt Dong's gossip came into play, she could make up anything, and the more she talked, the more excited she became.

Duan Qigu said with a look of astonishment: "I can't see it! The young master is actually a good person? Think about it, the master is not serious. Where can the son he gives birth to be serious?"

"Impossible!" Hong Ling, who had been sitting beside her silently, suddenly denied it.The voice was neither loud nor low, but it just caught everyone's attention.She was a little embarrassed immediately, regretting such a sentence.She was just impatient and wanted to defend Wang Xinsheng, because she knew what Wang Xinsheng was like, and it was impossible for her to fall in love with Cao!
Third Aunt Dong stared at Hongling curiously, and asked, "Why is this impossible? Hongling, do you know something?"

Hong Ling blushed slightly, and immediately said: "I... how do I know what? I just think... I don't think the young master is that kind of person?"

"You seem to know the young master very well?" Aunt Dong asked again.

"I..." Hong Ling was a little embarrassed when asked.Li Hua hurriedly accepted the words and said with a smile: "Third Aunt, you are so forgetful! I, Hong Ling and Huang Ying all came from Wang's Mansion in Bianjing City. Have you forgotten this? If the young master has a crush on Cao Meizhi, Don't say that Hong Ling doesn't believe it, even Huang Ying and I won't believe it! Huang Ying, what do you think?" She said and gave Huang Ying a wink.

Huang Ying knew about the past between Hong Ling and Wang Xincheng, so she immediately answered, "Don't say you were beaten to death, even if you were hanged, I don't believe it! I grew up in Wang's mansion, and I know who the young master is best. He’s so decent! Even if he’s looking for a concubine, he definitely won’t be looking for someone like Cao Meizhi! Are there no women in this village? Third aunt, I think it’s just Ma Liushun’s guess!”

"That's strange!" Duan Qigu said solemnly, "It wasn't given by the eldest young master, where did the housekeeper get the pearls? Did they fall from the sky? Dig from graves? Pick from trees? Or fish from the Haizi River? There must be a source!"

Lihua was also very surprised about this point, Mrs. Cao had never been out of the mountains, let alone knew any rich people.But the pearl in Gao Sangu's sleeve was something she saw with her own eyes, and a single pearl is worth silver, and even if you have money, you may not be able to buy a good pearl.

The women discussed Cao's and Cao's pearls over and over all afternoon.After Lihua distributed the wages to the part-time workers, everyone went home contentedly.After everyone dispersed, she and Gong Shi Yutao counted the things that were left out today.

Lihua yawned while waiting for Yutao to report.Mrs. Gong turned her head and glanced at her and said, "Are you tired? You've been busy these two days, and you're tired enough. Why don't you go to sleep for a while and let Yutao do the counting? When we have dinner, I'll I'll call you again."

Lihua was really tired, so she handed over the pen and paper to Yutao, and walked back to her room to sleep.She fell headfirst on the quilt, and when she was about to fall asleep comfortably, her hand inadvertently touched the royal blue kit that was placed next to the pillow last night.She took the kit and looked at it for half an hour last night, but unfortunately she couldn't think of anything.

(End of this chapter)