Flowers are expensive

Chapter 37 Who wins the fight and who will marry Tian Yisheng? 1
That night, Lihua secretly called Gong Shi aside and told her about preparing dry food.Mrs. Gong nodded in agreement, accepted Lihua's flat silver hairpin, and happily brought it back to her room.

She was looking at the hairpin on her head beautifully in front of the bronze mirror when her husband Deng Kailuo suddenly pushed the door open and came in. She was so frightened that she hurriedly pulled out the hairpin, but her hands trembled for a moment, and the hairpin fell to the ground with a thin crisp sound.

Deng Kailuo looked at the ground and asked, "Tong'er, when did you add a new hairpin? Did your mother give it to you?"

"No!" Gong quickly picked it up from the ground, and was about to put it into the small wooden box, but Deng Kailuo snatched it quickly.He took a few glances under the oil lamp and said, "The pattern is pretty nice, and the workmanship is pretty good. Where did you get the hairpin?"

"I..." Mrs. Gong was a little hard to say, because she promised Lihua not to say anything.

"What's the matter? What kind of man gave it to you?" "What kind of man? You're talking nonsense!" Mrs. Gong snatched the hairpin and said dissatisfiedly, "I didn't steal or snatch it anyway, and it wasn't given by the man!"

"Who gave it to you? If you don't tell me clearly, I won't accept it. If you take things from other men behind my back, I will beat you!"

Deng Kailuo reached out to grab Gong Shi.Mrs. Gong turned her body away while laughing and said, "Be careful that the hairpin pinches you! What a wicked ghost, you are a yellow-faced woman, which man would still give me such a beautiful hairpin?"

"Then tell the truth, where did you get it?" "I can't tell..."

"Can't you say it? There must be a ghost! I don't want you to know something powerful, but you just think that you are a man who has no certainty in what to say?" Deng Kailuo asked her forehead.

"Hateful! Like a child who hasn't grown up, why are you so narrow-minded!"

"Then why don't you tell me, wait until I strip you and serve you?"

"Stop making trouble!" Gong patted Deng Kailuo's hand and said with a smile, "I promised not to talk about it, isn't that embarrassing me?"

"Who did you promise?"

"Pear blossoms!"

"Why did she give you a hairpin?"

Gong had no choice but to tell Deng Kailuo that Lihua asked her to help prepare dry food.Deng Kailuo shunned her bangs, and said with a smile: "You still do this? No, return the hairpin to Lihua tomorrow, we can't help with this job."

"why?"

"In the future, we need to let Manting know that you helped Lihua escape, so he can't blame us? How can I be brothers with Manting? Helping my brother's wife escape, I can't do such a thing, You can’t do it either, you know? If you want a hairpin, when Ma Liu goes to town to sell leather, I’ll go with you, and I’ll just make one for you, do you hear me? I’ll give them pear blossoms tomorrow.”

"Then what's the point?" Gong said, "I promised Lihua, and besides, if I don't help her, she will find someone else!"

"In this village, whoever has been favored by Manting, except Dongxiang and his wife, who would help Lihua do that? Don't forget, if Manting wasn't there, your man would have died in the hands of the robbers. She is a widow. If you really do this, I will really divorce you!"

"Okay, just take a break, am I afraid that you will take a break?"

"Damn girl, do you think I dare not divorce you?" Deng Kailuo glanced at Gong Shi, "After tonight is over, I will divorce you tomorrow."

"Wait," Mrs. Gong asked, avoiding the people who rushed over, "You said that Ma Liu is going to sell leather in the town?"

"That's right, the skins from the winter are still piled up in the warehouse. I heard from Ma Liu two days ago that I would go to the town one day and sell the skins to save them from being eaten by moths in the warehouse."

"I heard that Ma Liu bought a house in the town." Gong said in a low voice.

"Really? Who said it? The housekeeper?" Gong shook her head slightly and said, "No, the housekeeper doesn't seem to know yet! I heard it from my cousin-in-law, who watched Ma Liu go to the house in the town I went in and out several times, I guess either Ma Liu built a house behind his back, or raised a small..."

"Hush!" Deng Kailuo covered Gong's mouth and whispered, "You can't talk nonsense, if you tell the housekeeper, it will turn the world upside down! We just need to be clear in our hearts, and let's not bother with other people's affairs."

"Wait, the lamp hasn't been blown yet, what are you in a hurry for?"

The sister-in-law Xiao who lived next door frowned immediately when she heard some movement, and spat at Mrs. Gong and said, "I really don't feel too tired to panic! It's only a matter of time since I've been tossing around, it's a few times worse than that over there." This sister is disgusting!"

At this time, Xining opened the door and came in.Sister-in-law Xiao hurriedly stopped talking, called Xining to come forward and said, "Xining, mother heard about it, and Yi Sheng will be back soon in the next two days. In the next two days, you should go to Old Man Tian's house a few more times and help him do the cooking. work or something."

Xining was a little shy, lowered her head and said, "Mother, isn't it good? Others will gossip when they see it."

"Let them talk about it! The more the better, the farther the better, let everyone know the gossip between you and Yi Sheng, this marriage is easy to mention!"

"Mother... Yi Sheng doesn't like me..."

"No matter how talented he is, didn't he come out of this poor place? He doesn't like you? Those rich ladies outside think of him? I've inquired for you. Old man Tian also plans to find a suitable one nearby. After all, Yi Sheng is also seventeen, long past the age of engagement, if you don't settle down, you may invite people to gossip."

"But mother..." "Nothing! Do you think you are good-looking, and you will be happy if a few families come to ask you about your relatives? You don't even look at what kind of families they are, just like your parents, they are face-to-face Master, who is facing the yellow mud with his back to the sky, what is the purpose of marrying? Yisheng is different, and the future is good! You are not pleasing to win, wait for others to snatch it, and you will cry!"

Xining hesitated for a moment, and reluctantly responded: "Yes..."

The next day, Mrs. Gong really returned the silver hairpin to Lihua, and also persuaded her a few words.She went to find Duan Qigu again, but Qigu politely refused.In this village, Lihua didn't dare to find a third one, for fear of leaking the wind, and he might not be willing to help.Now she was in a bit of trouble, how could she get out of Zique Mountain without dry food?
The next afternoon, Lihua and Hongling were sitting in the yard picking fresh pea pods.Third Aunt Dong couldn't help feeling amused when she saw Huang Ying pointing at the orchid and pulling the pea pods on the vine path, and asked, "Sister Huang Ying, are you trying to break hands with the pea vine? Like you, it won't be long until dark." I can't finish picking it!" Huang Ying said slightly, "I just don't want to get yellow and black juice all over my nails."

"Oh, it's really precious! When we arrive at the farm, can we not be dirty? The housekeeper will scold you for working like that. I have some scissors in the house. I'll give you some. I'll make some more quickly." Aunt Dong He got up and went to the backyard.

Huang Ying glanced at her back, smiled at Lihua and Hongling and said, "When did Third Aunt Dong treat me so well?" Huang Ying shook the bean pod in her hand and sighed: "So what? After all, it's in this broken valley. Hey, by the way, Qin Lihua, didn't you say to ask Gong Yutong to help prepare dry food? Are you ready? When? Can we go?"

"Oh," Lihua also sighed like Huang Ying, "This time, half a penny is killing a hero! Yutong and Qigu are unwilling to help, where can I find dry food?"

"What? Why aren't they willing to help? Didn't you say you gave them silver hairpins? Don't you think it's too little?"

"It's not that there are too few, it's just that I don't want to."

"Actually..." Hongling suddenly said, "Actually, I heard from Haitang that whether the family admits it or not is secondary. It is not up to the family to make decisions about their marriages. He also said that when the spring festival arrives in a few days, he will bring them with him." When I go back to meet my relatives, Man Ting thinks the same way, don’t you know, Lihua? Didn’t Man Ting tell you?"

"I said it, but..."

"Wait!" Huang Ying interrupted Li Hua, threw the bean pods in her hand to the side of the chicken coop and asked, "What did Cao Haitang and Xie Manting say to bring you back to recognize your relatives during the Spring Festival?" Hong Ling nodded and said: " That's right, didn't Liang Bai tell you?"

"The dead man never told me that! When I got up this morning, I asked him about it, and he perfunctory me for a while, so it can be seen that he didn't plan to take me back for the Spring Festival!" Huang Ying became more and more angry as she spoke. , got up to look for Liang Bai.Hong Ling hurriedly stopped her and said: "He is in the orchard right now, can you still go to the orchard to make trouble? You can ask him when he comes back!"

"I'm not as good-tempered as you, so I have to ask him to understand now!"

When Huang Ying was about to go out, suddenly Duan Qigu's shouts came from outside the courtyard wall.I saw Grandma Yun pushing her into the courtyard gate, persuading her: "They are all people who don't look up and look down, why are you arguing? Go in and rest!"

"Bah!" Duan Qigu spit out the door and cursed, "I just have to scold her for that shameless bastard! Give birth to a girl who is more handsome, why don't you delay to choose the imperial concubine? Wait here She's such a talented person that I've been suffocated in the broken ditch!"

Seeing this, Lihua asked, "What's the matter? It was fine when I went out just now, who is Qi Gu arguing with?"

"Who else?" Duan Qigu blushed, stood stumpy in front of Lihua, who was a head taller than her, and clapped her hands, "Pearhua, tell me, who in this yard is like a flea, Jumping here and there, as if she is indispensable everywhere? Counting and counting, is that the cheeky bastard surnamed Xiao? Let me tell you, she is really a shameless thing, more shameless than that sister ——No, I'm not scolding you, I'm just scolding that surnamed Xiao, it's not a thing!"

"What's the matter? Didn't you go to work in the pepper garden? Why are you still arguing?" Lihua asked with a puzzled expression.

"Listen to me telling you slowly," Duan Qigu said quickly, "We are going to work in the pepper garden. Sister Gong and I are helping Granny Yun collect those old pepper leaves to soak her feet The man surnamed Xiao saw an ox cart coming up the road over there, as if he had seen a gold ingot, he rushed over like a mad cow, hit his sister Gong on the back, and hung his face on the pepper branch , there was a long scar, you said it was too much! That's all, hit someone, please turn around and apologize, the surname Xiao could do it, went straight to the bullock cart, ignored it Sister Gong."

"Her father is sitting in the bullock cart? Running so vigorously?" Huang Ying asked disdainfully.

"Cough!" Duan Qigu slapped her thigh vigorously and said, "If she was her own father, she wouldn't be able to run so vigorously! Who would let Tian Yisheng, the boy of the Tian family, sit in that bullock cart! He wants to be someone's mother-in-law, but he can't help it!" Did you run over to please me? You said Yisheng is a scholar, what can you say to her? You even have the cheek to stop the bullock cart to say hello, there is really nowhere to find her like that!"

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Sister-in-law Xiao suddenly rushed to the door, took off her shoes and threw them at Qigu.Qigu blocked it with her hand, hit her shoulder and flew out, she let out a ouch, pointed at Mrs. Xiao and shouted: "You want to kill people without paying for them?"

Sister-in-law Xiao rushed to her, and shouted back: "Who told you to spit shit out of your mouth and speak ill of us in Xining! I stopped Yi Sheng just to tell him about Dongchuan worshiping Mr. Enlightenment, isn't it right? It’s good that you have such a bad mouth, you’ve brought it up to us in Xining, you’re too good at breaking it! You can ask people from all over the world what kind of person we are in Xining, and we still need someone to come to ask relatives? Wu Matchmaker I'm afraid the soles of my feet are swollen from running!"

(End of this chapter)