As a well-known large landowner in Panshi Town, the Cheng family has a different status and is better informed.
When the rumors in the town were still vague and uncertain, they already knew that this matter was indeed true and was not a rumor.
The Cheng family, who always do good deeds to help the people when encountering major disasters, had already been making preparations calmly due to Landlord Cheng's prompt decision.
The Cheng family has a lot of land. Those who rent it out and those who don't rent it out only have more grain collected and stored in the granary every year. This is their confidence.
If a fight breaks out, they won't be afraid.
Mrs. Chen was working as an errand in Grandma Cheng's courtyard, and she knew more information. When she heard that a war was imminent, she felt anxious, worried about her son, daughter, and mother-in-law.
No, on the morning of the 15th, Mrs. Chen immediately went to Mrs. Cheng to beg her.
Mrs. Chen had already told Grandma Cheng earlier that she would stop doing it when she was fifteen, and also told her son’s arrangements to open a ready-made clothing shop in the town. Then she would have to ask Grandma Cheng to help.
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Although Grandma Cheng was reluctant to let Mrs. Chen go, she did not force her to stay. She only said that there was no time to open the shop before the Chinese New Year and she wanted to keep Mrs. Chen until the 27th and 27th. Li Donggua could go home first.
But when Mrs. Chen heard that there was going to be a war, she couldn't stay for a moment and wanted to go back and stay with her family.
After listening to this, Grandma Cheng didn't bother much. She asked her grandma to pay Chen's salary, and also gave Chen a lot of things. She also told Chen that if she needed any help, the shop would be ready to open in the next year.
Yes, just come to Cheng's house to find her at any time.
The Cheng family also has a cloth store, and ready-made clothing stores can purchase goods from the Cheng family's cloth store, guaranteed to have good prices.
Mrs. Chen was grateful and bowed respectfully to Grandma Cheng. After thanking Grandma Cheng for her kindness, she packed up her things, returned to her residence, and left with Li Donggua, who had already collected her things and was waiting.
The Cheng family hurried back to Songshan Village.
Old Mrs. Deng knew that today was the day when her son and the others would return home, so she watched her at home early in the morning, and even asked Mrs. Miao to go to the market before dawn to cut a piece of meat.
Now that there is no one in the house who is an eyesore, she can do whatever she wants, and no longer has to think about things.
When Li Donggua and his wife returned home, they naturally had a good reunion and exchanged greetings. They cooked a table of dishes for noon, and Lao Yuan and Song Qiu were also there, having a lively lunch.
In the afternoon, Li Donggua and his wife went back to Li's house to clean up.
Now that they have returned to the Li family, they naturally have to live in their own house.
The house in the Zhang family belongs to Zhang Hugua. Although he recognizes this younger brother, there is no reason to live in the Zhang family.
After everything is sorted out, I will take Old Deng over.
The Li family is also a brick house with a spacious lot. There are three main rooms and two rooms on the left and right. In addition, the stove, utility room, backyard firewood shed, pig pen and chicken coop are all very complete.
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Earlier, the workshop here was all cleaned up, and there was no need to tidy up. It was tidied up in one afternoon.
After the beds were made, we came back that night, and even Pear Blossom also moved in. Each person had a room, which was very spacious.
Only the old Deng family refused to live there even after Li Donggua talked about it for a long time.
Li Donggua was anxious. She had agreed to live with him, but he was already here. Why didn't her mother want to live with her son?
Old Mrs. Deng had his own ideas, so he just said: "You will accompany me to the county town tomorrow, and I will live there when you come back."
Li Donggua didn't understand, but since her mother was going to the county town, she didn't ask any questions and agreed honestly.
My mother is old and has never been to the county town, and neither has he. Now that he has money, the county town is big, and the shop is big, so he will go to the county town to buy some jewelry to make a dowry for Lihua.
With this plan in mind, Li Donggua obediently went to the Song family to talk to Song Qiu about borrowing a mule cart.
He knew that the Song family also had a carriage, but he didn't know how to drive the carriage. He could still drive the mule carriage, although it was a bit slow.
As soon as Song Qiu saw Uncle Donggua come back, Grandma Deng put the matter of going to the county town on her agenda. It was so urgent, and there was something urgent.
Thinking about what the county has to offer?
There was Mr. Zhang who was squatting in the prison.
She saw that her grandma was not surprised at all, as if she knew what was going on, and secretly envied the close relationship between these two good sisters.
So she asked Li Donggua to drive the covered mule cart, and also gave Li Donggua a key. This was the key to the house she bought in the county. The beds and other things inside were all made up, just to wait.
It was convenient to go during the Yuan Festival.
This mule train sets out early in the morning. No matter whether it runs some errands or not, it won't be able to make it back in the evening. If you have a place to stay, it's better than staying in an inn.
When Li Donggua heard that Song Qiu had bought a house in the county, he also secretly sighed that the girl was very capable and was not polite. He thought about going back to the county town. He was unfamiliar with the place and had a place to stay. It was naturally better than staying in an inn in a daze.
Well, I smiled and took the key and put it away.
Before dawn the next day, Li Donggua drove a mule cart, picked up the thickly dressed old Deng, and left the village for the county town.
Chen and Lihua were also on the mule cart. Song Qiu had promised Lihua a long time ago that when Li Donggua and his wife came back from the Cheng family, she would not be allowed to work and go home to live a good life with her parents.
This reunion.
After all, as soon as the new year is over, Lihua will get married in a hurry. By then, no matter how close she is to her mother's family, it will be different.
But the two of them did not go to the county town. They just took a trip to Ping'an Market to buy firewood, rice, oil and salt to take home. They also planned to buy some pieces of meat. Although it was already halfway through the twelfth lunar month, they would marinate it for a few days and smoke it tightly.
, it’s also time to smoke the bacon before New Year’s Eve.
When we arrived outside the Ping'an Market, we put the mother and daughter down, and the mule cart continued on its way.
Lihua held Chen's arm, and the mother and daughter walked down the path to Ping'an Market together. Lihua chatted with Chen, and then presented all the money she had saved over the past six months to Aqiu yesterday.
She took it out and gave it to Mrs. Chen, "Mom, take it and buy some things later!"
She thought that her parents had no money, and her brother had to get the money for her grandfather's funeral for the first time. The rest had to be paid back to her parents for the ten-year contract, and she didn't know if it would be enough.
Mrs. Chen looked at the money bag in her daughter's hand and felt very happy. She didn't say much about the money box at home. She just touched her daughter's head and said, "You should keep this money yourself and keep it when you get married."
Bottom line, being a daughter-in-law is different. It has to be used for flowers. It doesn’t matter if you don’t have money on hand. You don’t have to worry about your family. Your father and I have money on hand!"
Lihua listened and didn't think much about it. She just thought it was from Grandma Cheng's reward. After all, she also saw her mother and the others came back yesterday. Mother brought back a lot of things, saying they were all given by Grandma Cheng.
Here the mother and daughter went into the big market to do some shopping.
Over there, Li Donggua, mother and son, passed through Panshi Town and continued forward, hurrying slowly and stopping to eat dry food. Finally, in the middle of the afternoon, they successfully entered the city gate of Dongling County.
Although this is my first time here, I can walk on a dark road without getting lost.
But after entering the city gate, Li Donggua was a little confused. With the streets extending in all directions, he really couldn't tell where was from where.
Li Donggua was confused, thinking that she had been driving all the way, her mother was tired, and it was time to have a good rest, so she didn't care about anything else, so she found someone to inquire about Yuxiangfang Hairpin Hutong, and went to rest first.