Fish Leaping Farm Gate

Chapter 164 The Gambler ([-])

Du Huanghua lived in Qidong for five days before she came back. The wife of the county mistress admired her craftsmanship very much, and mentioned many times that she hoped to open an embroidery house in Qidong County.

This proposal sounds good. If Mrs. Wan is willing to open a new branch of Hongxiufang over there and ask Du Huanghua to manage it, maybe Su embroidery can be further developed.

But from Du Xiaoyu's point of view, it is actually difficult to achieve, at least not in the recent period. First, Mrs. Wan seems to have the intention of retiring, and teaches Du Huanghua to do everything, intending to train her to take over Hongxiufang. Among the two disciples, only Du Huanghua fully comprehended the essence of Suzhou Embroidery, and she couldn't assign another person to be the other shop, so she couldn't take care of both sides.

When it came to buying goods, Sister Rong really couldn't hold back on the way, relying on her own experience, she wanted to lead Du Huanghua into the trap of taking kickbacks, so that she could falsely accuse her of being greedy for money and deliberately buying inferior goods, so as to make Mrs. Wan never again. Look down on this disciple, so as to regain her purchasing rights.

It's a pity that she made a wrong calculation.

Du Huanghua came prepared, and with the help of the big sister Liu Hong, the two played a good show together, and they used the shop assistant to confess to Sister Rong instead.

It turned out that she had used her power more than once to shoddy the good. Although the amount was not much, it was enough to make Mrs. Wan furious.

Sister Rong kept begging on the way, hoping that Du Huanghua could forgive her and let her go this time. However, Liu Hong is not a vegetarian. Sister Rong is arrogant and domineering in Wanfu, and because she is a senior sister, bullying a few junior sisters is commonplace , she couldn't see it for a long time, how could she be shaken a little bit?
The two of them did not let go in the end, Mrs. Wan sighed, she was not ignorant of what Sister Rong had done, although this time was to train the two disciples, but also wanted to give Sister Rong one last chance, unexpectedly she was still obsessed with it, In the end, I still hurt myself!
Mrs. Wan drove her out of the teacher's door and out of Wanfu.

Du Xiaoyu shook her head after hearing what Du Huanghua had finished speaking, "It's really self-inflicted. Mrs. Wan has tolerated her for a long time, but she didn't see it at all. She only knows how to suppress you everywhere. This time I finally pulled out the nail!"

Du Huanghua sighed, "She really got into a dead end. Otherwise, our seniors and sisters will support each other and will only make Hongxiufang better and better. It is also very beneficial to her, but I don't know why I insist on doing this."

"The hearts of the people are not enough, sister, she can't see the good of others, but she can't see the benefits she has already taken. Think about it, she was just the daughter of a maidservant, but she became Mrs. Wan's eldest disciple. If others only She would feel that she was very lucky, but she completely forgot about it, she was not satisfied, she did not seek to make progress, and she could not blame others."

The two stopped talking about it, and Du Huanghua took the rattle drum to play with Fudan, which was brought back from Qidong County. There were two fat dolls in red bellybands embroidered on the drum surface, one holding fish and the other holding jade. Ruyi is very festive, with a red ribbon hanging on each side, and black wooden beads tied underneath, shaking it with a "bang bang bang" sound.

Fudan giggled and clapped his hands, "Sister, play with me." He can already speak complete sentences now.

Du Huanghua handed it over, and he immediately shook it by himself, very happy.

Seeing the gentle smile on her face, Du Xiaoyu showed a little worry. After all, it has been more than two years since Du Huanghua married into the Bai family. Why has there been no news?Seeing that she likes children so much, has she ever worried about this in her heart?
In fact, Mrs. Zhao had already told Du Huanghua about this in private, and wondered if it was related to Bai Yushi's physical condition, but the people who saw Bai's family didn't respond, and finally let it go.

When the autumn wind blew, the Du family started to make bacon again, and smoked pork heads were also easier to sell. Their family had pre-ordered all the pig heads at Qin's side early in the morning, and the rabbits were also slaughtered in batches. Du Xian was busy Keep your feet off the ground.

Fortunately, the newly hired worker to clean the rabbit house is a strong man, so he is occasionally asked to help, anyway, the wages are extra.

Du Xiaoyu is busy with her honeysuckle. It really bloomed three times in the third year. The whole body is very fat, with layers of branches and leaves, and needs to be pruned again. She plans to plant a few more acres next year, but at that time there will be no need for seeds. , as long as the appropriate branches are cut off for cuttings in early summer next year.

After finishing work, I walked home for a while, and happened to meet Zhou Zhouya. She has grown up now, and her facial features are more beautiful, but she is relatively small. She works at home all the year round as before, and her younger brother went to a private school last year. This is relatively free.

The two sat on the edge of the field and chatted for a while. On Tuesday, Ya said that her sister had a wedding, and her mother called to deliver things. She just came back from Zhongshun Village.

The relationship between the two mothers has always been bad, Zhou Daya didn't even want to look at Mrs. Hong, although she was greedy for the generous gift from the other party, but after getting married, Zhou Daya didn't honor her parents with a penny, which made Hong Madam angry everywhere Call her daughter heartless.In fact, who didn't say behind her back that she did it on her own, sold her own daughter and wanted her to be filial, it was really a dream.

Mrs. Hong may have realized later that it was a bit inappropriate to kill the chicken to get the eggs. Recently, she began to please Zhou Daya again, and she also treated Zhou Zhou a little better, and occasionally added two new clothes.

But her nature is hard to change, and she doesn't know what kind of family she will find for Zhou Ya in the future.

Gossiping for a while, Zhou Zhouya was afraid that Mrs. Hong would scold her and be delayed on the road, so the two went home separately.

The gate of the courtyard was locked, Mrs. Zhao came up to open the door, her face was extremely ugly, Du Xiaoyu didn't know what happened, so she hurriedly asked her what was wrong.

It turned out that when Du Tang came, Mrs. Zhao didn't open the door, so he yelled at the door for a while, saying all kinds of bad things. Mrs. Zhao didn't like to swear, so she had to close the door so she couldn't hear her.

"What is he here for?" Du Xiaoyu wondered after listening, now that the two wells don't interfere with the river water, and they don't covet their family's property, haven't they already achieved their goals, so what's the trouble?
Mrs. Zhao said with a sullen face, "I scolded your father for being unfilial, saying that now that he is living a good life, he forgets his mother, and that he doesn't even show his face during festivals, and that he knows the grace of raising a dog."

"It's unreasonable!" Du Xiaoyu said angrily, "They kicked our house out, so what's the point of asking dad to honor grandma? How dare he come here and bark!"

"It's probably because he drank too much. See if he's drunk." Mrs. Zhao pondered, "Don't mention this to your father, so as not to worry him."

Du Xiaoyu responded and went to work inside.

Unexpectedly, in the evening, Du Xiaoyu just opened the door and let Du Xian in, but he didn't know where Du Tang came from, and he couldn't stop him, so he was sent into the yard.

Seeing the two people staring at him, Du Tang didn't look fierce, but smiled and said something to them.

Du Xian didn't want to gossip, so he asked him what's the matter, so that he could leave after talking.

Du Tang rolled his eyes, and said to him from left to right, "Your yard is really nice, I think it is almost as good as ours, no wonder everyone in the village is envious! Tsk tsk, I haven't seen you for a few years, it really is different !"

"What exactly do you want to say?" Du Xiaoyu shouted.

Du Tang said in displeasure, "You girl doesn't distinguish between superior and inferior, I'm your second uncle! Brother, I'm not talking about you, the child still needs to be taught well."

When Zhao heard his voice in the main room, she frowned suddenly, but she didn't want to come out to see him, she just listened to what he was saying.

"You don't care about the child's affairs, but you said there is something else, I'm still busy!" Du Xian's tone was not polite.

"Brother, you really have no conscience. Mother drove you out because she was too sad. If there was no such misunderstanding, mother would not have done this, right? Why did you take it completely seriously? We are a family after all, Your names are still on the genealogy, that is, members of the Du family, you should not forget Xiaoyi wherever you go!" He paused, "Mother is not in good health now, and we brothers are taking care of everything. , you are the boss of the family, how can you ignore it? Let outsiders know that you are not filial, and you will be punished if you sue the yamen!"

He was full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, and meant to make Du Xianjing filial piety, Du Xiaoyu became more and more strange, when did this Du Tang become such a person who obeys filial piety?

Du Xian was somewhat ashamed by what he said. The ancients valued filial piety above heaven. Even if parents were immoral, everyone should remember the kindness of nurturing.

"But mother asked you to talk about this?" Du Xian asked.

"I'm the one who reminded you. Mother is heartbroken. You've ignored her all these years. Anyone's heart will be cold, isn't it?"

Du Xiaoyu sneered, "Since grandma doesn't mention these things, what nonsense are you talking about? Parents and children are orderly. You are my father's younger brother. Why do you judge me? When my father is honest, he wants to bully others?"

"You damn girl, let me talk nonsense again, see if I..." Du Tang waved his fist, but he endured it and said patiently, "Brother, I know there is some misunderstanding between you and your mother. It's not easy to untie it, and it's impossible to ask you to take care of it every day, and my sister-in-law is probably not willing."

Du Xian was slightly taken aback, not knowing what he meant by this sentence, he said filial piety for a while, and forgave him for not taking care of his mother.

"What are you trying to say?" he frowned.

"Your family is not short of money now, as long as you take some out and buy some things that mother likes to send over, mother will forgive you after a long time, and you won't get any unfilial reputation. Isn't this the best of both worlds?"

Going around, it turned out that they wanted money!

Du Xiaoyu stared at him for a couple of times, only to find that there was a circle of bruises around Du Tang's right eye that hadn't completely dissipated, and immediately thought of something in his heart, he couldn't help laughing, and gently pulled Du Xian's hand, signaling Talk to him.

Du Xian knew that his daughter was thinking cleverly, so he said, "I'll go in and discuss with my wife and daughter, and then I'll come out and answer you."

Du Tang laughed quickly, "No hurry, no hurry, I'll wait outside."

The two then went to the main room.

(End of this chapter)