Old Mrs. Deng sounded afraid of the Cheng family, but Mr. Zhang did not hear the underlying dissatisfaction and answered: "I am Lihua's grandfather, and you are Lihua's grandma. We say that Lihua is Zizheng's son. Who knows?"
? Where are my siblings? Otherwise, they can still report us? At worst, we can just share some of the money with her."
"Ju Niang, that's a thousand taels of gold. You must not know how much a thousand taels of gold is, right? Let me give you an analogy. For the house that my boss bought in the county, these thousand taels of gold can buy fifty or sixty
Such a house! As for the shops in Laosan Town, we can buy two streets of shops!"
"This white money is right where your mouth is, how can we still watch it run away?"
"When we have money, we will buy a big house in the county, live in the county, be an old man and an old woman, have servants to take care of us, and enjoy the blessings."
"You've been with me for most of your life, and I haven't been able to take you to the county yet!"
"Besides, this girl Lihua is not at a loss. She has to thank us all. She is not happy about the name of the young lady of the Cheng family. She will never think of it in her lifetime!"
The last tone was like giving alms. This was because Old Deng didn't like Lihua, so she didn't hide it at all.
After that, he reached over and held Old Deng's hand, emphasizing: "With this money, Song'er's road to the imperial examination will be much easier. The third family can also change to a bigger shop. The fourth one is here."
The shop can also be put up."
In these plans, Fenhao did not bring his second child.
You are going to sell someone else's daughter, and you will not be able to share the money with her, how shameless you are.
Old Deng restrained himself with great force, and could not hold back from taking out his hand and slapping Lao Dou on the face.
However, I couldn't bear to be held by him, so I opened my mouth without leaving a trace and tucked the quilt with my hands, and then it came out.
"What you said is very beautiful. It's a thousand taels of gold. You want me to think about it. Who wouldn't? Do you think you are the only one smart enough to think of saying that your granddaughter is the son of Chujiu?"
"We have appointed a lot of people! The Cheng family is not that easy to fool. There is a Taoist priest from Chengyang who is making decisions. Shouldn't we ask him to say a word? Then we won't be able to get any money and it will ruin our family's reputation."
"Our family is different from other families. The eldest son and Song'er are both scholars. Song'er also wanted to take the imperial examination and become an official. It is rumored that his grandparents were jealous of money and deliberately deceived the Cheng family to get money. You call his classmate Mr.
What do you think of him? When he becomes an official in the future, he is afraid that others will use this to say something against him."
"Such a thing, the gain outweighs the loss, you have to think clearly!"
Mrs. Deng spoke loudly, and everyone disagreed. Why didn't they agree? It was because of her eldest grandson.
If after saying this, Mr. Zhang still insists on doing this.
Regardless of whether it works or not, Mrs. Deng thought about the half pack of rat poison she had left today and carefully kept it.
She had endured enough and couldn't bear it anymore. If this old guy insisted on committing suicide again and again, she would send him down to see the King of Hell!
Zhang Laodou was really frightened when he heard about his eldest grandson's reputation.
Yes, if his grandson wants to be an official, reputation is the most important thing.
So you can't take the initiative to deliver it to your door.
He couldn't take the initiative, but if the Cheng family knew that Lihua was the son of Chujiuzheng, and insisted on coming to ask for marriage, for the sake of the good of the Cheng family, he couldn't bear to lose the young master of the Cheng family, so he reluctantly agreed to marry his granddaughter.
In this case, who else would gossip?
This was the Cheng family's initiative to come to the door. He couldn't bear to see the Cheng family, a white-haired person giving away a black-haired person. This was a good deed!
Zhang Laodou thought this and couldn't help but laugh. He is really a smart old man.
But he had to think about this first. He had to think about how to reveal the words to the Cheng family without letting others know that he took the initiative.
Don’t tell Ju Niang about this beforehand.
Zhang Laodou thought this subconsciously, then he hummed and stopped talking about it.
When Old Deng saw this, she breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, this old guy still cared about his grandson's reputation. Otherwise, if she really wanted her to feed him rat poison and gain a reputation as a murderer, she would probably have nightmares with her courage.
.
She didn't know what Zhang Lao Dou was secretly thinking. If she knew, she would be so angry that she would vomit blood.
How do you expect this hopeless person to be saved?
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After two days of busy work, all the chili peppers in the house were made into bean paste. The five empty large pottery jars were filled, and Song Qiu's house was also filled. The scent of the jars made me sleep.
You can smell it even when it's burning.
Song Qiu was very happy, especially after looking at the first tank. It had been fermenting for several days and was getting more and more fragrant. It was absolutely no problem to use it for cooking now.
And all the peppers that were strung up and dried in the sun were drying out day by day, and it would only be a few days before they were completely dry and ready to be put away.
Everything went well, and Song Qiu could now focus on the progress on the Changhe side.
Now, all we have to do is build the inn and prepare it for opening.
Several days have passed, and the Changhe River has undergone another big change.
The outline of the inn is already visible, the lobby in the middle has been built, and workers are busy working on the side rooms on both sides.
When Liu Caigui saw Song Qiu coming, he came over and reported the progress to her, "Girl Aqiu, look at this inn. It was built according to your drawings. It's pretty good, right? According to this progress, it will be completed before August 15th.
good."
"Didn't you ask me about painting? My uncle happened to know about it, so I left it to him. I asked someone to buy the tung oil and varnish from the county. When the house is built,
I took people to paint it and applied a layer of tung oil on the top so that it would be waterproof."
When Song Qiu heard this, he was overjoyed and said, "It's really hard for Uncle Caigui. I knew that Uncle Caigui was the best at doing things. With you here, I have saved so much worry! When the inn is completed, I will invite Caigui."
Uncle, thank you very much for eating and drinking!"
The words were sweet and heart-warming. Liu Caigui grinned after hearing this, "Aqiu girl, why are you seeing me outside? Anyway, I treat you like an uncle, and your father helped me a lot when he was here. This is such a small thing.
What the heck, don’t worry, I’m here and everything here will be taken care of for you!”
"By the way, there are many people passing by these days who come to ask questions immediately. I followed your instructions and said that an inn is going to be built here. I saw that those people were very happy after hearing this. It will be opened by then.
, I will definitely take care of business after passing by!”
This girl has a big idea. This inn has been built and is destined to make money. Only this girl has such courage.
Liu Caigui also sincerely helped with the construction.
Song Qiu naturally wants to know this. After all, this is an official road. How can there be fewer people passing by it every day?
She had already set up shop at the tea stall, but she was not worried about the business of the inn.
I checked the account with Liu Caigui again and found out that the twelve taels of silver I gave earlier had been used to pay the villagers for cutting down trees, and there was still a lot left over from the wages for these days!
But once I bought the varnish and tung oil, I had no money left.
Song Qiu then brought another five taels of silver to Liu Caigui. He estimated that these five taels of silver would be enough to pay for these days' wages.
It costs seven to eight taels of silver to build a brick house with a courtyard. Her big inn costs about ten taels of silver, which is not expensive.
Mainly because the varnish and tung oil are a bit more expensive, and the labor cost is nothing.
Song Qiu nodded, looked around, and returned to the village with his hands behind his back. He didn't take two steps when he met the village chief wandering out of the village.