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Chapter 777 Longevity Lock

As soon as the dew moon is over, the midwinter season will come. Chen Xin only feels that this year’s cold winter seems to have come very early. He is not yet ready for the winter. trembling.

He carefully calculated the silver taels he would need in the future, and there were places where money was needed. Although he had rations on weekdays, he needed to buy and replace his daily items, and the handling fee to go to the capital in the future would also be a sum of money.

The ancestors often talked about the golden house of freedom in the book, but in reality, this golden house is just a mirage, only a spiritual world to comfort, and the suffering of poverty is still only swallowed by these poor scholars by gritting their teeth.

Chen Xin put down his pen and ink, and heard a knock on the door. He quickly stepped forward and opened the door, and saw Li Xiruo holding a bunch of things and looking at him with a smile.

Chen Xin asked in a daze, "This is?"

"Winter is coming soon. The mountains are not as warm as the villages. It's hard to endure. I brought you some quilts and cotton clothes, otherwise you won't be able to live here this winter."

Chen Xin pursed his lips. Seeing that Li Xiruo was having a hard time holding these things, he took the lead and put them aside, and let her into the house. He saw that there was a little fur sewn on the outside of the cotton padded jacket to keep warm, and he immediately felt sorry. : "Take all these back. It is difficult for you brother and sister to hunt in winter. These furs are the way of your survival. I have already borrowed 200 taels of silver from you. How can you still collect these things?"

"These are external things, you can take them if they are given to you. If you get sick here, wouldn't it be that we have harmed you, not to mention that the wind and cold are not easy to recover, and it will cost a fortune to hire a doctor. How much will it cost? to earn it back.”

"Can……"

Chen Xin suddenly remembered the furnishings in the house, paused what he wanted to say, and said instead: "It seems that I rarely see you come back with prey, and there are no traces of animal corpses in the house, and even the hunting tools are dusty. Ash……"

Seeing that Chen Xin said more and more doubts grew, Li Xiruo tried his best to think of countermeasures, but Chen Xin justified himself: "It can't be that you can't hunt anything at this time of year."

The more Chen Xin thought about it, the more he felt ashamed of the brothers and sisters of the Li family. The life of the two brothers and sisters was already so difficult, but they still spent money to make cotton clothes and quilts for themselves.

"Actually, I just settled the accounts. 200 taels of silver is enough for me to catch up with the exam. I will return some of it to you first, and you can use it to subsidize your family first."

"If Mr. Chen feels guilty, you can actually count some interest on the money we lent you, and return it to us together at that time."

Chen Xin was taken aback when he heard this, and he calculated in his mind how much 200 taels plus the interest of the bank should be, which made Li Xiruo amused, looked at him and said, "Okay, just now I was just playing around with you, you don't want to read a book." It's too late, go to bed earlier."

Li Xiruo walked away with a smile. Chen Xin kept staring at her and leaving. It took a while to come back to his senses, and found that he had not let go of staring at Li Xiruo just now.

Chen Xin suddenly slapped the door frame with his palm, feeling the pain in his palm, reminding himself that Li Xiruo doesn't understand anything at all, so why did he have other thoughts about her, not to mention that he is the only candidate for the high school exam right now? What should be done, he can't indulge in his children's affair, now the Li family gave him love, after he becomes famous, he can just repay it with money, now it's just a temporary debt, he doesn't need to feel so much guilt, just like his As for the Su family.

Chen Xin calmed down and closed the door and began to read, but after a while, there were hurried footsteps outside, the door was pushed open by a strong force, and someone came to Chen Dao: "Second son, see what sister-in-law is doing." What did you bring?"

Chen Xin frowned, and looked up at Mrs. Chen in front of him.

Auntie Chen held a bamboo basket, she couldn't wait to uncover the red cloth on it, and leaned slightly towards Chen Xin: "Look, it's eggs, which were laid not long ago, and I brought them to make up your body." .”

Aunt Chen put the eggs on the table as she spoke, and turned around to sit on the bed. Chen Xin saw that the quilt that Li Xiruo had just delivered was pressed down by Aunt Chen, feeling a little unhappy, and stood up. In the Year of the Snake, he said in a bad tone, "What is sister-in-law doing here?"

"You child, I'm your sister-in-law, so I can't come here yet."

Chen Xin sneered: "My sister-in-law tried every means to drive me to someone else's house before, but she didn't call me so close back then."

Chen Xin knew what she was doing here. He just got 200 taels of silver and let the whole village know. Although his reputation is not very good now, he is rich and has the title of scholar. Who cares if he is famous or not? It couldn't be eaten as a meal, so Mrs. Chen came to flatter him, wanting to let him go back to live so that he could get a share of the pie.

Sister-in-law Chen flattered her with a smile: "Second brother said that, and we've met each other. We've always been a family. What's more, what's the matter with you living in someone else's house all the time? Don't tell me you're going to be a foster husband again?"

Chen Xin frowned slightly angrily: "Sister-in-law, please be careful with your words."

Seeing that he was really angry, Mrs. Chen comforted her slightly, but after a while she patted her thigh again and said, "But what's the matter with you living with this pair of brothers and sisters? Well, the whole village is talking about you and that pair of brothers and sisters. Gossip about Orion girls, you are shameless, but our old Chen family should also be shameless."

"Miss Li and I are innocent, sister-in-law don't ruin people's reputation like this." Chen Xin rushed in front of sister-in-law Chen and said to her: "I don't care what you usually say, but Miss Li is a good person. , if you say one more thing, I won't talk about the relationship between uncle and sister-in-law."

Seeing that Chen Xin dared to yell at her like this, regardless of age, Mrs. Chen also became angry: "Chen Xin, are you fascinated by that vixen? You don’t even want your home? You said, did she mean that you want to stay here? Let me tell you, it was your idea of ​​200 taels of silver, you..."

Before she finished speaking, Chen Xin grabbed her, stuffed the bamboo basket into her arms, and was about to throw people and things out. Mrs. Chen grabbed the quilt that Li Xiruo sent, and held it tightly. , All were overturned on the ground, Chen Xin saw those cotton-padded quilts stained with dust on the ground, felt a pain in his heart, let go of Aunt Chen, picked up these things and quickly put them on the bed.

But a corner of the new quilt was still worn out, and Chen Xin felt a little more guilty. He didn't know what kind of broken cotton was covered by Li Xiruo, so his quilt was stained, and he wiped it carefully. Seeing the traces on it, seeing the mess in the room and listening to Mrs. Chen yelling, I felt a sense of sadness in my heart.

This is Li Xiruo's home, but every time she enters her room, she never enters without knocking on the door, and her room is always neat and tidy, and these people who say they are their relatives , but he doesn't care about his things.

Chen Xin slowly folded the quilt again, feeling extremely heavy in his heart, but suddenly he heard a "swoosh" in his ear, an arrow came across the sky, brushed past Mrs. Chen's ear, and shot into the wood. On the beam, Mrs. Chen covered her ears and screamed.

Chen Xin turned around and saw Li Xiruo running lightly from the outside with a quiver on his back and a longbow in his hand, pretending to be surprised: "Sister Chen, why is it you? Thinking that tonight can be regarded as eating meat."

Could Mrs. Chen not be able to tell that she was scolding her? Standing up, she was about to use her ability to scold the dead for not paying for her life, but when she saw Li Xiruo took an arrow and put it on a bow, her words began to be awkward , stammering: "You, what are you doing!"

Li Xiruo blinked: "I think that wild boar might run out again later, and I'm just in case."

Mrs. Chen almost didn't bring it up when she heard it, but seeing the sharp arrow, she felt frightened again, and she didn't dare to curse, so she just said to Li Xiruo: "You little girl is good at movies, I will come back another day Looking for you."

"Chen Xin, just wait, I'm going home to tell my parents-in-law how you treated me today, me,"

Li Xiruo raised her arms and gestured around with her bow and arrow. Aunt Chen didn't dare to finish her sentence, so she hurried out with the basket in her arms.

Li Xiruo sneered, these mortals who bully the weak and fear the hard will have no bones, and they start pinching when they catch the soft persimmon, without looking at who Chen Xin is, naturally she will not let him be bullied.

Chen Xin grabbed the bow and arrow in Li Xiruo's hand, and took it for him silently. At this moment, he realized that every time he encountered hardships, Li Xiruo would always appear by his side at the right time to solve the problem for him. With all the problems, yet he is living so muddled under the protection of a weak woman, letting her take the lead in everything, and he has read many sage books, is he just living to depend on others?
Li Xiruo unloaded the quiver and found that Chen Xin's expression was a little dazed, thinking that he was unhappy because of what happened just now, but Chen Xin said to her: "Sister-in-law just said something right, I am not close to the girl." No reason, it's really not appropriate to disturb the girl anymore, what's more, I am a man after all, men and women are different, people in the village have started gossiping again, I can't ruin the girl's reputation for my own selfishness."

If Li Xi arrives, it is not necessary for Chen Xin to live here, but if Chen Xin moves to another place, it will be a lot of trouble for her to help him. She has always been lazy, and she doesn't care about these common rules, but in the end she still He said teasingly: "Sir, what you said is not right. Although we are not relatives, we are also the relationship between the creditor and the debtor. Naturally, I have to be more careful with you. If you run away at that time, who will I ask for?" people go."

Chen Xin thought for a while, and took out a long-lived lock from his neck. He took it off and put it in his hand, looked at Li Xiruo and said, "This long-lived lock is given to me by my parents before sending me to the Su family." Mine, most of it is only made of brass, but the lock cylinder in the middle is made of pure gold. For so many years, my food and clothing belong to the Su family, but this is the only thing that belongs to me, so I still attach great importance to it. Entrust it to the girl, and exchange it with an IOU in the future."

(End of this chapter)