Farm widows have space, pick up a treasure on the way to escape

Chapter 672 Entrainment of private goods
He Jiuniang and Lu Guilan both followed Sun. Qin took Lianhua's hand and gently placed it on Leizi's hand.

"Leizi, my second aunt just handed over the lotus to you. You have to take good care of her in Fucheng. Once we take care of the things here, we can go to Fucheng to see you soon."

Mrs. Qin smiled gently. She had already planned to open a gambling house in Fucheng. Although it would be very difficult, it was rare for her to have something she was interested in and she wanted to try it. It was better than just taking care of her children at home all day. powerful.

In the past, she always felt that women should stay at home to take care of their husbands and raise children, and let men go out to do business.

But after escaping from famine, seeing what the three siblings did along the way and after settling down in Jingzhou, the whole family prospered.

Even so, Gou'er was still well-educated by his three younger siblings, and he was the smartest and most sensible among the group of children.

And because the third brother and sister are capable, they set an example for the children and are much more perseverant in doing things than before.

Later, the elder sister-in-law also opened her own restaurant, and now the younger sister is going to Fucheng to open a jewelry store. Even the mother-in-law has the urge to do something on her own, but if she doesn't take action, she will never be able to catch up with them.

"Don't worry, Second Aunt, I will definitely take good care of Lianhua."

The smile on Leizi's face was not to mention how bright it was. If he had known that he could get engaged to Lianhua if he showed his feelings, he should have acted earlier to avoid letting those people covet Lianhua for so long.

From today on, Lianhua is his fiancée, and no one wants to think about it.

Lianhua blushed with embarrassment and said with a smile: "Sister-in-law, we are waiting for you in Fucheng. When we get back, I will help find a better location for the gambling house and buy it first."

"Okay, you can take care of it when the time comes, but you have a lot of things to do, so you'd better do your own thing first. Don't worry about the gambling house."

Mrs. Qin smiled happily, finally feeling that she had something in common with them.

"Eh!"

A few people went out talking and laughing, and there were already many guests outside. Although I don't know what they were thinking, but so far, everyone's face was filled with smiles.

Naturally, you have to bring gifts when you come to a banquet. It is rare to give gifts to the Lu family openly and openly. Everyone gives them with great effort, fearing that the Lu family will not look down on them if they don't give enough.

Lu Baichuan had known for a long time that something like this would happen, so he asked people to count the gifts on the spot and check the packaging inside and outside. If there were any private goods, he would take them out and return them to others.

Naturally, the gifts on the surface should not be too expensive, but stuffing some small gold bars, banknotes, etc. inside is too simple. They gave them quietly, and the Lu family quietly received them without anyone noticing.

If they have short hands, when they encounter problems and ask for help, the Lu family will naturally help them.

They asked for nothing more.

But the Lu family was ruthless enough. They started checking in front of so many people and returned everything except gifts. They showed no mercy at all.

The smiles on everyone's faces could not be maintained. No one cared about who was being laughed at, so they all went to Lu Baichuan to intercede.

"General, we have no other thoughts. We are just thinking about the engagement between Master Lei and Miss Lianhua. We can't give you any expensive gifts, so we will give you some gifts to cover it up!"

"Yes, yes, our county is a small place. We can't buy anything good. I don't know what Master Lei and Miss Lianhua like. Just let them buy it by themselves."

"We are only sending some blessings to the two children within our capabilities, so please accept them, General!"...

Enemies who usually fight each other when they meet rarely have such a unified tone, and even the tone of their words is the same to please.

It was no longer appropriate for Lu Baichuan to check the gifts in public. At this time, he could no longer be cold-faced. When facing these people to please and intercede, he also showed a smile and said: "We, the Lu family, understand your thoughts. We are just two of them." The children are still young and are not so lucky to receive such a big gift, so I ask the adults to take it back. Today is a happy day for the two children, so adults, please don’t worry about these trivial matters, just eat and drink to your heart’s content.”

After saying that, he turned around and went to entertain the guests in the village, without giving these people a chance to say anything more.

It was the first time for the guests in the village to see so many officials. They were all frightened and cowered at the table, not daring to express their anger. They were afraid of offending these big shots and not even knowing how they died.

Fortunately, the Lu family was kind and did not ignore them. The eldest brother Lu and the second eldest son Lu always stayed with these guests in the village, so that they would not be so helpless.

Just at this time, the Zhang family and the Liu family arrived.

Gifts from other families come with hands, but gifts from the Zhang family and Liu family are carried by people. Of course, the Liu family has more gifts.

This scene attracted everyone's attention. Even their small gift boxes were investigated by the Lu family. Those two county magistrates were so high-profile that they couldn't be investigated thoroughly?

The county magistrate was richer than them and had hidden a lot of things. They immediately felt relieved and stood aside to watch the show in a tacit understanding.

At this time, Mrs. Sun went to the backyard and pulled He Jiuniang and Lu Guilan out.

It would be better to let He Jiuniang handle this kind of situation.

However, He Jiuniang felt that they were overthinking it. If it were such a valuable thing, the two county magistrates would not dare to give it away so blatantly. Wouldn't this be like jumping into the fire pit?
Liu Yuexiang took the initiative to step forward, saluted, and said proactively: "These are gifts specially prepared by my daughter and cousin for Miss Lianhua. They are all things that my daughter's family likes to use. They are not worth a lot of money. Madam, please be sure to give them to Miss Lianhua." Take it.”

She knew that the Lu family listened to He Jiuniang's words to some extent. Getting He Jiuniang's approval meant getting the Lu family's approval, and He Jiuniang was an extremely smart person. She didn't dare to play tricks in front of He Jiuniang, so it was better to be sincere.

He Jiuniang smiled and nodded. She felt that Miss Liu was really a smart person. She said something her daughter's family likes to use, which shows the relationship. This was given to Lotus by them and has nothing to do with the Lu family.

However, everyone else had checked them, and it was unreasonable for them to bring so many without checking them, so they opened them and checked them too.

Indeed, they are all things that belong to the daughter's home, such as skirts, jewelry, rouge, fans, etc., as well as some exquisite and small vases, some cloth, embroidery and the like.

The things are exquisite, but not very expensive.

After checking, no private goods were found.

Others had stern expressions, but the Lu family showed sincere smiles. The Lu family would not treat anyone poorly if they could prepare gifts for Lotus with such care.

Just as Lianhua and Leizi also came out, they felt a little touched when they saw the gifts the cousins ​​had prepared for them.

She could feel the kindness radiating from the two sisters. Strangely enough, even though they had not had much contact before, it made her feel like they had known each other for a long time.

She smiled knowingly and thought it would be nice to have two good friends of the same age.

(End of this chapter)