"Last time I heard you say that there is a second housekeeper in the house. Is he the old man I looked at just now?" Li Zhong asked.

"Correct."

While talking, Tiandong and Bai Wei took Li Zhong around the new house before going back to the house where the young couple lived.

The house is in the front yard. Although it doesn't have a yard like the master lives in, their house is not small at all.

As soon as I opened the door and entered the house, I was hit by a rush of heat. The ground dragon was so hot that it wasn't cold at all in the house.

Bai Wei started busy after entering the house, making tea, getting snacks, and baking two sticky bean buns. After the first snowfall, the family packed a hundred kilograms of sticky bean buns. The young couple divided a hundred of them among themselves, and sometimes they would bake them to fill their stomachs when they were hungry at night.

Li Zhong looked at his daughter-in-law who was busy, and with satisfaction took out a purse from his sleeve and put it on the table.

"This is the New Year's money that your mother asked me to give you. There are four children. Your mother from Bai Zhi and Tian Ma helped keep the accounts. This is yours. I will give the Bai Shao's to her later."

Not only daughters and sons have it, but also sons-in-law and daughter-in-law.

Bai Wei felt warm in her heart after hearing this, she accepted it with a smile and said:
"My father and mother are used to pampering us and even giving us lucky money."

"I'll give it to you no matter how old you are, even if you two have children, you two will still give it to me." Li Zhong said with a smile.

Bai Wei exchanged glances with Tiandong, sat down next to her husband and said:
"Dad, I have discussed with Dongzi and we are planning to have a baby next spring."

"Did Madam give in?"

Bai Wei nodded, helped him fill up the hot water and said:

"It's what the madam mentioned, so we made this plan. What the madam means is that spring will be next year, and you and my mother will come here to celebrate the New Year and take care of me. What we mean is that after the child is born, you and my mother will take it away." , after all, we can’t care about it here.”

"Ah? I... we take him away? No, no, you two can't let go." Li Zhong shook his head hurriedly.

He knew that his daughter-in-law had good intentions and wanted him and his wife to help look after their grandson to make up for their loneliness, but that was why he couldn't agree.

A son is better than his father, and vice versa.

Tiandong held Bai Wei's hand and began to persuade:
"Dad, if we say we are willing to give up, we would be lying to you, but you have also seen our current situation. The family can't do without me, and my wife can't do without Weiwei, so after much deliberation, we have the only option of letting go. It’s best if you take the child back.”

"Yes, dad, if Madam can take the initiative to mention it, it means that she has made a decision. The family can rest assured when the child is born, not to mention that it was raised by us." Bai Wei continued to help persuade.

After hearing this, Li Zhong no longer hesitated, nodded and said:
"In that case, let your mother stay here until the child is one year old, and then take it back after weaning. Are there any rumors in the house?"

"What rumors?" Tiandong was puzzled.

Bai Wei also looked confused and didn't understand what her father-in-law meant.

"Two groups of people went to the village a while ago to inquire about the master and his wife, and that the wife was a child bride. Do you know?"

Naturally, they didn't know. After all, when they arrived at Li's house, Li Hui had already gained momentum and the past events would not be mentioned.

Three people in the front yard talked about it, and three people in the main yard talked about it again.

"...Sun Shan has a grudge against you because of what happened to Mian Ni last time. So this time he happened to return to the village and told everyone about you being a child bride." Cheng Xue heard that Guo Dake He nodded understandingly. But it shouldn't be a big problem. Whether she is a child bride or not does not affect the fact that she is Li Hui's wife.

It's just not clear who sent this group of inquirers. If it's in the palace, then it should be fine. If it were the Gu and Su families, they probably wouldn't dare to do anything blatantly. Yesterday, Bai Qian came home and said that Mrs. Gu was looking for her. Is this the reason?

Her sudden silence made Guo Dake and his wife unsure of what she was thinking.

"Xue Niang, Sun Shan has been severely punished by Uncle Jiang and expelled from the village. Everyone in the village has been informed and will not let them mention the fact that you are a child bride. You can rest assured." Yang comforted softly.

Seeing her misunderstanding, Cheng Xue smiled and shook her head, saying:
"It's okay. I am Hui Zi's daughter-in-law and the mother of four children. No one can say anything. I just don't understand why you have to ask me. Someone from Yujiatun also went to inquire."

"Yes, yes, we also know about this. Uncle Jiang went to Yujiatun to find your uncle. Sister, do you think it is your original parents who are looking for you?"

"You can say that I think so too."

Seeing the serious look of the couple, Cheng Xue shrugged and pretended not to care and said:

"What can I do if I can't find them? They haven't looked for me for so many years. Now that Huizi has become rich, they look for me again. I don't want to get involved with them."

The couple who were originally happy that Fa Xiao found his family were no longer happy after hearing this.

Indeed, when it was not developed, there was not even a shadow. Now that someone has become an official and shows up again, what the hell.

"Sister, I support you. You can't have anything to do with them. Such relatives who are eager for quick success and instant benefits will be the source of trouble. Do you still remember Er Liang's previous wife? Just remarry that one."

Guo Da can see her nodding and continues happily:

"When I died, I beat two girls in a row. When I was pregnant with my third child, I was kicked out of my job. Both the older one and the younger one couldn't keep it. I heard that the younger one was also a daughter, and she didn't even cry. After the funeral, I continued to find a wife for my son."

After hearing this, Cheng Xue threw aside the group of people who were searching for her life experience and concentrated on talking to them about village affairs.

While chatting, she finally discovered the problem. The two of them were not just here to hang out, but were actually engaged to Luozi.

After she continued to ask questions, Guo Dake finally said with an embarrassed "hmm":
"Yes, I just came here to Xiao Ding. His master fell in love with him and wanted to settle the affairs of the two children first and get married in two years."

Cheng Xue was happy for them after hearing this. She knew that Luozi's master was a veteran of the Yulin Guards. He had gone with the emperor to southern Xinjiang to resist the South Vietnamese. After returning, he was placed in the most important position of the Yulin Guards to protect the safety of the palace.

Although he has never seen the girl from the military general's family, his master's back house is very clean and there are no concubines except for his first wife.

"The days go by so fast. In a blink of an eye, we will be engaged."

"It's not good. The two of us came here this time just to give him some money to buy a nest. In the past few years, we have saved a lot because of the workshops and fields. We have two hundred taels. I don't want to buy it. Whatever the size is, just buy something similar." Yang said feeling good about herself.

Two hundred taels is indeed a lot in Wanghe Village, but it is really impossible to buy a house in the capital. Renting is okay.

The smallest one with three rooms in a small courtyard costs eight or nine hundred taels. Two hundred taels is really a drop in the bucket.

"Sister-in-law, if you believe me, you can start a business partnership with me with these two hundred taels. I'm going to make some goose down cotton trousers for sale, which should be very profitable. Anyway, they didn't get married in the past two years. If you save up, we can get there in one step. Luozi himself should try to live up to his expectations and hold an official position."


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