Flowers are expensive

Chapter 21 Talk about conditions

"Hmph!" Ma Liu sneered, "Oh, now that you're a woman in charge, the spectacle is getting bigger and bigger? I'm afraid it's the big families in the city who are responsible for the sister's dowry? How can you join in the fun? It’s really nothing to do! Years ago, you asked those daughter-in-laws to make embroidered shoes and belts, and I sold them for a good price in the city for you. You shouldn’t have spent that money, right? You are not allowed to touch the things in the box! If you do, don’t blame me for not giving you a good face in the future!" "Hey," Cao patted the table and said, "Ma Liu, why are you so so What about Xiaoqi? Once I marry my younger sister, you won’t even be willing to add two taels of silver!"

"Anyway, take your own private room to add, I will not stop you from adding as much as you like. But how much is in the box, I have a clear account in my heart, you don't move." Ma Liu shook his sleeves like an old man. Opened the door and went out.

Mrs. Cao stared sideways at his leaving back, cocked her mouth angrily, and muttered, "It's useless to be a steward, so you're getting more and more stingy! Are you taking a bunch of money in your arms and planning to take it to the coffin? Maybe he went to subsidize his old lady behind his back, hum!"

Sister-in-law Xiao and Grandma Yun cooked the lunch that day.Lihua and Hongling planned to do it themselves, but they were coaxed and pushed out of the kitchen by Mrs. Xiao.

When Gong came back from delivering the red sweet potato vines, she happened to see this scene, so she pulled Lihua and Hongling aside and said, "You guys should rest, there is chicken stew today, so she won't let you do the cooking! As the saying goes, three pinches of salty, three pinches of light, three pinches of neither salty nor salty, she took chopsticks to taste the salt taste twice more, and her stomach was full once, how could she let you do such a good thing? ? Look, there will be no chicken stew tomorrow, so she must not be so diligent."

The three stood under the eaves and covered their mouths and snickered for a while.Just as she was smiling, Huang Ying walked out from the gate of the second courtyard, and suddenly saw Mrs. Gong and Lihua Hongling talking and laughing affectionately. She felt strange.

Her eyeballs rolled up and down, and she looked at Mrs. Gong from head to toe, and a disdainful smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.She purposely walked over to talk to Hongling, but when she got closer, she covered her nose with a gauze and took a step back, asking, "What's the smell?"

Mrs. Gong was talking vigorously at first, when she heard Huang Ying's words, she remembered that she had just lifted the red sweet potato vine and was sweating all over, so naturally she smelled of sweat.Then smell the three people next to them, all of them have a good smell of powder on their bodies, and their faces are even redder than before.She hurriedly stopped talking, said that she had something to do, and hurried to the backyard.

After Mrs. Gong left, Hong Ling asked Huang Ying, "How can you talk like that? Look at her, she just sweated, so she smells of sweat."

Huang Ying fanned the wind with a gauze handkerchief, and said disdainfully: "It's already there, I'm just telling the truth, I still don't believe that you can really talk to her! I'm kind enough to help you out, lest she pester you to talk. "

"Then please don't be so kind next time, okay?" Li Hua said nonchalantly, then turned and left.

Hong Ling glanced at Huang Ying, and left with Li Hua.Huang Ying bit her lower lip, frowned and stared at the backs of the two of them, thinking that there was a mud leg protecting her?What are you proud of?No matter how capable, isn't he just a mud leg?snort!

Before it was time to eat, all the people in the field or orchard came back.I heard that there is chicken soup to drink today, and everyone has a festive smile on their faces.Twenty or so people were waiting eagerly in the yard, squatting under the eaves, or sitting on the stone table, or leaning on the grape pergola in the yard, talking and laughing, it was very lively.

When Cao Shi walked out with a cold face, the hot discussion gradually died down.She glanced at the group of people and walked into the kitchen.She entered the kitchen and asked, "Sister-in-law Xiao, is the chicken soup ready?"

Mrs. Xiao hurriedly said, "Okay, let me scoop a bowl for you first?"

"I don't care," Cao said, glancing at the chicken soup in the big iron pot, "my son is growing, why don't you drink more? You scoop it up and bring it to my room." She was about to walk away Suddenly, he saw two boiled eggs on the stove, and asked, "Is this Qin Lihua's?"

"That's right," Mrs. Xiao nodded, "She really knows how to eat. She said that if you boil the eggs in chicken broth, the eggs will be more tender."

"Really?" With a sly smile on Cao's face, he waved his hand and said, "What are you looking at me for? Do whatever you want!" After she left, there was an egg missing from the stove.

When Lihua came to pick up the eggs, she found that one was missing, so she asked Sister-in-law Xiao, "Why is one of my eggs missing?" Sister-in-law Xiao immediately turned around and said, "How do I know? I put it on the stove after I cooked it. You didn’t take it! There are many people in this yard, and you don’t look at it yourself, who can you blame? One is missing, isn’t there another one? Or, you can ask one by one, who took you eggs?"

Lihua was about to speak when Granny Yun hurriedly came over with a big pottery bowl, touched Lihua lightly with her arm, pulled her to the big iron pot, and whispered to Lihua while scooping up the soup: "Don't ask Yes, the housekeeper took it."

"what?"

"Keep your voice down, take it if you take it, and don't make trouble. You asked her to bleed today, and she gave up a chicken. She took an egg back and felt more at ease. She is the housekeeper here after all. You can’t break up with her too much, life will be hard in the future! Come—” She filled the big pottery bowl, put it on the stove, wiped the spilled water with her apron, Then he said loudly, "Pear Blossom, take it to Man Ting. Manager Ma said just now that Man Ting is hurting, drink more! You take a tray, and I'll scoop up vegetables and rice for you."

Grandma Yun's attitude towards Pear Blossom suddenly became much better, which made Pear Blossom feel very strange, but her heart was warm.Grandma Yun scooped up two pottery bowls full of vegetables and a large bowl of rice for Li Hua, and told her, "Let Man Ting eat up, you will suffer a little, let him drink more soup, and he will heal faster!"

"Thank you, Grandma Yun!" Li Hua happily walked out of the kitchen door with the tray in her hand.After she left, Sister-in-Law Xiao turned her face to Granny Yun and asked, "Your old man treats Man Ting so well, do you feel panicked?"

Grandma Yun rolled her eyes at Sister-in-law Xiao, and asked, "What do you mean by that? Man Ting was hurt, and it was the responsibility of Manager Ma, give him more points. If you think I gave too much, you can just ask Manager Ma Say it."

"Are you in a hurry? Why don't I just talk about it casually? I think Manting was lost when he was a child when he went to the mountains to play with you. It took more than ten years to lose it, and now I finally found it. Your old man feels guilty and panicked, and intends to do more favors for you, and then scoop up a bowl of chicken soup for Man Ting. You see that you are overthinking, don't you?"

"Keep your chicken soup and feed it to your Dongchuan Xining!" Grandma Yun's face darkened instantly, she sat back in front of the stove, picked up the tongs and knocked twice on the side of the stove, and said, "The debts I owe are my own. I will pay it back, you don’t need to worry about it. Ever since the child got lost, I knelt before the Bodhisattva and begged every day. At any rate, I begged back, and the Bodhisattva was willing to forgive me. Aunt Xie didn’t care about me anymore. These gossips are chewing their tongues!"

Seeing that Grandma Yun was really angry, Sister-in-law Xiao quickly turned around and said with a smile on her face, "Hey, isn't there no one else here, are we two gossiping? Are you really angry?" Grandma Yun pulled her face and said: " If you think that I, a dead old woman, is an eyesore and a waste of food in the village, simply tell Steward Ma, wrap me in a straw mat and throw it out!"

"Nothing!" Mrs. Xiao said with a quick smile, "Who dares to throw you out? No matter what you say, she is the aunt of the horse steward, isn't she? Even if you throw me out, she wouldn't dare to throw you out! Calm down , I’ll come back later to apologize to you, I have to send chicken soup to the housekeeper.”

Grandma Yun spat at Sister-in-law Xiao's back and scolded, "You're a flatterer!"

Besides, Lihua walked to the door with a tray, kicked the door open, and shouted: "Xie Manting, dinner is ready! Dinner is ready!" Who knew that as soon as she walked in, she saw Manting with his upper body empty, bowing his head to hurt his waist Dressing.

When her gaze suddenly touched Man Ting's slightly copper-colored back, her heart thumped twice, and she was instantly stunned!Only one sentence popped out of her mind: My first mother, Ali Baba, plus the Fourteen Thieves!This is too...too that, right?My eyes can't bear it anymore!
"Close the door!" Man Ting looked a little embarrassed, and hurriedly raised his head and shouted at her.

"Oh!" She just came to her senses, quickly put down the tray in her hand, and hurriedly closed the door.This kind of delicacy can't be seen by the women outside casually, it will affect the harmony of the neighbors!
After closing the door, Lihua turned her head to look at the ground, where there was a piece of cloth stained with blood, as if it had just been replaced.She hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "The wound was opened just now, right? Why didn't you say anything? Let me help you..."

"No need," Man Ting blocked Li Hua's hand, "I will change it myself."

"Is it worth being so brave? No one here praises you." Li Hua snatched the cloth strip with ointment from Man Ting's hand, pasted it according to the position of the wound, and then picked up the cloth tape to give it to the wound. He hangs on.

Manting didn't seem to be used to this, so he hurriedly said, "I'll do it myself!" Lihua glanced at him and smiled as she straightened the knotted cloth belt, "Are you still shy? I'm not shy as a girl. It's not that I haven't seen it before, why are you so shy as a big man..."

When she said this, she suddenly felt that the eyes of the whole court looking at her were a little strange, and realized that what she just said was a bit ambiguous, and hurriedly explained, "It's not what you think, I said I have seen it... it is Means... Forget it, don’t talk about it, you can think whatever you like, anyway, no one will believe me if I say I’m not Que’er.”

"Aren't you?" Man Ting looked at her face and asked with a little interest.

"Is it important?" She quickly wrapped the cloth strips for Manting, tied a double bow, looked down and smiled, "We are just a temporary couple anyway, after your injury heals, I will Run away again... No, go again. You promised me that you would let me go, right?" She raised her face as she spoke, only to find that Man Ting was staring at her the whole time.At this time, Man Ting quickly avoided his eyes, and said to her: "You go now, and I will not stop you."

"Don't worry," Li Hua patted Man Ting's shoulder, wiped the oil a little, and said with a smile, "I'll wait until you recover from your injury before leaving, I'm a moral person, you saved me! Are you hungry? I'll help you down to eat, be careful!"

Lihua helped Manting to the table, took out the only remaining egg from the small cloth bag on the side, peeled it and said: "There were originally two, but unfortunately one was intercepted halfway by three hands, it's really abominable! Fortunately, there is one left, so you can make do with it, and I will get it for you tomorrow."

"You are not allowed to ask for eggs." Man Ting looked at her and said.His face was calm, but his tone was like an order.

"Why don't you? You're hurt, and you're from the village. So what if you ask her for two eggs to make up for your health? Don't ask her for it. As long as she has a good heart, she should take the initiative to send it. I I just took what I should have, and didn’t steal or rob.”

"In short, don't go again. Otherwise, I won't eat if you come."

While peeling the eggshell, Lihua raised her eyelids to look at Man Ting and asked, "Do you think I'll embarrass you by asking for eggs? I don't think what I want is what I deserve. I don't greedy others. You can't just take me away, this is my principle!" After she finished speaking, she handed a white and tender egg to Man Ting and said with a smile, "Eat it, it is ready to be dedicated to you! Hmm? Why don't you take it?" Huh? You can't let me put its clothes back on, can you? It's too difficult!"

(End of this chapter)