Flowers are expensive

Chapter 232

Hong Ling raised her head and said with a smile: "Don't worry about envying me, and try to be more self-sufficient. The first child has twins, which saves trouble and is festive."

"Where is it so easy? When you are a sow, you have a litter of a dozen or so piglets!"

Everyone in the room laughed again.At this time, Mrs. Gong opened the door and came in with a bowl of brown sugar egg water.Lihua glanced inside, stuck out her tongue and said, "There are six or seven boiled eggs in it! Hongling, can you eat it?"

Mrs. Gong said with a smile: "She is just about to mend. What are six or seven boiled eggs? When my mother gave birth to me, she could eat eleven or twelve eggs a day! My grandma said, Fortunately, at that time, the family raised a lot of chickens, and the eggs were enough, otherwise they would not be able to feed a confinement child! By the way, Lihua, you haven’t eaten breakfast yet, have you? I’ll send you to the house? "

"No, I haven't washed my face yet, I'll go by myself later."

Just as he was talking, several women came to the yard, all from the village, and they seemed to come to congratulate Hong Ling.It was inconvenient for outsiders to enter the confinement room, so Hong Ling asked Mrs. Gong to take her things away, and thanked her repeatedly through the door.

Mrs. Gong took the things and went to talk with those women.Yuan Shi suddenly remembered something, and asked Hong Ling: "Is this child a third child? It is said that it should be done today."

Hong Ling patted the child on the back lightly, shook his head and said: "Don't rush the etiquette, there is no one in the Cao family, and Haitang is still sick there, so let's save it. There are too many children who haven't washed three times." If you go, don’t you grow up as usual?”

"Now that you've remembered it, don't worry about it," Li Hua said, "There is no one in the Cao family, and we are still alive and kicking! Aunt Yuan, do you know what to do about this?"

"Actually, it's not troublesome. It's just that you have to prepare some things ready-made. It's auspicious for us to use a new wooden basin for washing in large households. Those onions, dates, and copper plates can be prepared in time. Just before noon."

Hong Ling said with some embarrassment: "You have been working hard these days, how can I make you worry about these trivial things."

Yuan said with a smile: "It's not a trivial matter to wash three times. After washing, you may be able to become a high-ranking official! At that time, your young master will bring a few boxes of things to thank me, and I will not refuse!"

Lihua nodded and said, "Okay then, hurry up and get ready, and I'll pay you back how much money you spent."

Yuan Shi agreed, went out of the room to greet her son, and went to Zhang Luo.Lihua saw that the child had fallen asleep, so she went back to her room to wash her face.As soon as he finished grooming, Deng Kailuo's voice sounded outside the door.She opened the door and asked, "Is there anything going on in the flower field?"

Deng Kailuo said: "I took Kaixing and the others to work in the flower fields early in the morning to add goods to the city. According to your words, I also found a few people in the village to help, not those who left before. But now they But I came back with the cheek to ask you for wages!"

Lihua snorted and said, "Okay, I'm just going to talk to them about this! Once I leave, the gophers can climb up the tree and dig holes! Since they have a good place to go, I will naturally tell them about it." Let's go, go to the flower field and talk slowly, so as not to scare Hongling and the children in the yard."

"Is Haitang awake?" Deng Kailuo asked.

"I woke up once last night, nothing serious." Li Hua knew from Yuan Yin that it was Que Ling's feathered dart that poisoned Hai Tang.Yan Amber has given Haitang the antidote, so she should be fine.

Lihua tidied up the ledger and a stack of sub-lists, and then took an abacus, and walked to the flower field with Deng Kailuo.From a distance, she saw Wu Qing, Cao Kun and others sitting on the ridge of the field with unhappy expressions on their faces, as if someone owed [-] tans of rice.

When Deng Kaixing looked up and saw her, he yelled at Wu Qing impatiently: "Hey, my surname is Wu, the mistress is here, why are you still sitting here? If you have something to say, go to the mistress and don't stay here." Let the ridges collapse!"

Wu Qing gave Deng Kaixing a blank look, and said back: "You think I'm your mother's body? Can you still collapse by sitting on the ridge of the field? I'll jump a couple of times now, and you can see if I can collapse!"

"Aren't you looking for fun!" Deng Kaixing jumped onto the field and glared at each other, "Did you get up this morning and stuff your throat with crow dung? Your mouth is so stinky! Didn't you lead someone to the tall branch of Steward Cao's mother?" Do you still have the face to come back and ask for wages! Why didn't you accompany your master when he was hanging on the tree last night?"

"Your mouth stinks!" Wu Qing became furious, and punched Deng Kaixing with her fists.All the men in the Deng family knew how to use two moves, and Wu Qing's punch couldn't hit Deng Kaixing at all.With a quick flash, he dodged Wu Qing's fist, and then stretched out his leg to hook him, which tripped Wu Qing.Wu Qing jumped forward, fell off the field ridge, and fell like a dog eating shit, which made the others laugh out loud!
Wu Qing blushed, and when she climbed up, she grabbed the two chrysanthemums next to her and threw them towards Deng Kaixing.Deng Kaixing pointed at him angrily and said: "Take it back, who will let you hurt the seedlings? Do you know how much money a plant costs? Can you afford it?"

Wu Qing was furious, and angrily picked up a few more chrysanthemum seedlings that had grown gracefully, and threw them at Deng Kaixing.Deng Kaixing was also annoyed, jumped off the ridge, and held Wu Qing with two or three punches.Although Wu Qing was older than him, where was his opponent? He was beaten up and screamed, "Ouch! Ouch! The vicious dog has bitten someone! The vicious dog has bitten someone!"

"Who are you calling a vicious dog?" Deng Kaixing became even more angry, and punched Wu Qing on the bridge of the nose.

Wu Qing hugged the bridge of his nose and yelled in pain: "You...you are the vicious dog raised by Qin Lihua! You are a fart! Working with a woman, you will throw your tenth son of Deng's family to death Eight generations of ancestors!"

"Still talking nonsense! I have to beat you to death before you are willing to shut up, right? Alright, I will send you to meet the eighteen generations of ancestors in your grave today!"

"Kill someone! Kill someone!" Wu Qing screamed.

"Still yelling! Young Master, I..."

When Deng Kaixing wanted to punch again, Deng Kailuo trotted a few steps to stop him, and said: "Why are you so angry with his rotten mouth? He has a small stomach, you are a man, and the species are different. What else are you fighting for?"

There was another burst of laughter.Wu Qing pushed Deng Kaixing away, got up with a blushing face and said, "You are good at planting? You are good at planting and following a bitch's ass to show courteousness? I feel ashamed for you when I see it!"

Deng Kailuo was also angry, and when he was about to jump off the ridge to clean up Wu Qing, Lihua stopped him and said, "If he wants to be ashamed for you, let him go instead, and it won't cost you half a rice anyway! He eats his own house." I’m so ashamed for you all day long, and it’s his own food that was wasted! What do you care about with him?”

Wu Qing's face was purple, and she was so angry that she couldn't speak.Deng Kaixing smiled as he patted the dirt on his body: "My hostess said that well! My surname is Wu, why don't my young master give you a cup of tea so that you can sit on the ridge of the field and feel ashamed?"

Wu Qing glanced back at Deng Kaixing, jumped onto the ridge of the field and said to Lihua: "Qin Lihua, since you are back, you have to settle the wages for us. We have worked on your hands for more than half a month. You have to give it to us, right?"

Lihua shook the little abacus in her hand, and said with a smile: "When did I say I won't pay you any more? Have I ever owed anyone half a penny since the flower fields started to grow?"

"That's fine," Wu Qing said with her hips on her hips, "Now let's calculate the wages of the few of us and pay them in person, and we won't bother you, the boss, in the future."

The men behind Wu Qing also shouted.Deng Kailuo shouted: "Why are you shouting? I didn't say that I won't settle the settlement for you. How could Hou Potian drop two ingots of gold ingots and kill you? Calm down, the hostess will settle it for you!"

Cao Kun pursed his lips, stretched his head out from behind Wu Qing and said, "They are all from the same village. Deng Cailuo, why are you putting on airs in charge? Who is to blame? In the past, Ma Liu was not as big as you! You It seems that you have nothing to be proud of, at best, you are doing errands for others!"

Deng Kailuo glared and said: "Cao Kun, you are such a soft fur that came out of a rabbit's nest! When you begged your hostess to let you work in the flower field, you smiled like a carrot blossoming. Now You turn your back on me and don't recognize anyone? Aren't you going to live a good life with that housekeeper Cao? Or if I ask my master, I will hang you on a tree for a few hours?"

Cao Kun shrank his neck in fear and said, "Hey, scare people! What crime have I committed and you want your boss to hang me? There must be a charge for beheading! We countrymen don't understand? You can pretend to be a master only if you go to the city for a few days? Do you think I don’t know what you are doing in the city? Why don’t you bow down and pretend to be a grandson and beg the rich people in the city to buy your things? ! How promising can it be?”

"Isn't it?" Wu Qing took over the conversation, "Don't use chicken feathers as arrows! Your boss has some skills, he is an official, but can an official arrest and hang people casually? We didn't do anything. If you really want to If you do that, be careful not to punch a hole in the ancestral grave for Lei Gong!"

"Don't worry," Li Hua said slowly while lowering her head and holding her abacus to settle accounts, "Who has the time to hang you from a tree? I'm busy in this flower field, so I don't want to compete with your broken mouths. If your mouth is itchy, go back and find it." Slowly grind the lampstand!"

"You call us mice!" Wu Qing couldn't help being furious.

Lihua raised her head and said with a faint smile: "Mice are much more cunning than you, don't be so self-righteous! Okay, your wages have been calculated, and I will count them in person, and then come to my place to make trouble. Let the dog kick it out."

"Who will come here after getting the money? Hurry up." Wu Qing said impatiently, spreading her hands.

Lihua pushed Wu Qing's hand away with her abacus and said, "Stand aside first, you don't have any part in the wages. Not only that, but you also have to pay me."

Wu Qing widened her eyes, pointed at Lihua with her hips on her hips and asked, "I heard that right, Qin Lihua? Why should I pay you back? Are you deliberately making things difficult for me?"

Lihua ignored Wu Qing, handed the money bag to Deng Kailuo, and then paid wages to the few people except Cao Kun and Wu Qing one by one.The few people took it in their hands and saw that there were only three hundred Wen.Originally agreed to be five hundred words, a full two hundred words were missing.

Wu Qing took the opportunity to question: "Qin, you are too rude, right? Even if you don't go to work these two days, you don't need to deduct two hundred cash, right? Everyone is from the village, you are doing such immoral things Are you not afraid of retribution?"

"I only deducted [-] Wen for the sake of fellow countrymen," Li Hua said unhurriedly, "It's the season of shipment in my flower field, let alone a delay of two or three days, it's just a delay." After a long time, there is a loss. If you can work together to finish the work in the field in the first two days, you can go to the city to replenish the goods today. Who will I ask for the loss of the delay? Only you will be deducted. You still feel wronged with two hundred coins each? Well, I'll simply calculate the loss from the beginning, so that you don't think that I, Qin Lihua, have treated you badly!"

The few people who got the wages were a little guilty, after all, they gave up their jobs without saying a word.When they heard that Lihua was going to recalculate the loss, they all shook their heads hurriedly, turned around and left without saying a word, holding the three hundred coins.

Seeing that they were all gone, Wu Qing felt so bored, so she urged Lihua, "What about my wages? Is Cao Kun going to pay you too? Could it be that you want to blame the two of us for your loss? "

Lihua glanced at the few chrysanthemum seedlings that Wu Qing had torn off just now and said, "Do you know how much a chrysanthemum seedling in my flower field is worth in the city?"

"Who are you scaring? Isn't it just a chrysanthemum seedling? Can you still say a sky-high price?" Wu Qing asked unconvinced.

(End of this chapter)