Lei Minmin was startled, and while looking towards the door, she patted Qiliangmu's stomach angrily and said, "Keep your voice down."
Just as she was about to lean down and tell her man, Mrs. Zhao's yelling voice came from outside, "Second daughter-in-law, second daughter-in-law, where did you die? Why don't you take your sister's clothes to be washed? Do you want to cheat?"
Wait until it gets dark and put it off until tomorrow? And then tomorrow after tomorrow, you want to unfilially push the matter to me, a mother-in-law?"
This refers to Sang scolding Huai. Both Qi Lianglin and his wife knew that Mrs. Zhao's words were directed at the big house.
Now when it comes to people in Qikangshui's family who are not working at home, the only ones in Qikangshui's family are Mr. and Mrs. Qiliangmu.
One of them can only rest in bed, and Lei Minmin, although she only has to cook three meals a day, she still has a lot of things to prepare. She basically goes out before dawn every day and comes back after dark.
That is to say, I came back to discuss something with Qiliangmu today, so I walked in front and back with Mrs. Zhao.
Lei Minmin pursed her lips and whispered: "Mom, you are here to get me. Just now, I asked for cloth. I thought she was going to make clothes for my little sister again, so I said that we have separated. What cloth?"
I am here to make clothes for our unborn grandson."
Qi Fujiang's wife found out she was pregnant a month after she settled down. This was the Qiliangmu couple's first grandson or granddaughter. The couple were overjoyed. Lei Minmin began to prepare for the pregnancy after the child was born.
s things.
Before they needed to change, babies' clothes could be remade from adults' old clothes, but where did they get the old clothes now? Lei Minmin knew that there was cloth for sale in Dali, so he quickly went to borrow a soft cotton cloth on credit.
[At that time, Lei Minmin had no money and could only borrow money. Later, he paid it back after earning wages.]
How much cloth is needed for babies? At least it is not enough to make clothes for adults.
Mrs. Zhao asked Lei Minmin to take the piece of cloth to make clothes for her?
Qiliangmu now has no hope for his parents anymore. Perhaps stepping out of the family circle and looking inside allowed him to see more clearly and understand what Mrs. Zhao's intention was in asking for a cloth from her daughter-in-law.
But it really didn't count for a moment. His wife took this piece of cloth and decided to give her new clothes during the Chinese New Year.
There is not enough fabric to cover a whole suit of clothes, there is no cotton in the winter, etc. There are so many reasons.
Qiliangmu kept his face sullen, with sadness on his face.
Lei Minmin is a cheerful person, and she can occasionally dress up as a darling wife to coax her husband, but this is her true face when she has a bad temper.
Seeing Qi Liangmu's unlucky appearance, the fire in her chest started to boil. She gave Qi Liangmu's stomach another slap and shouted without suppressing her voice:
"We are going to be grandparents soon. The grandchildren in your daughter-in-law's belly will need you to recognize them in the future. If you don't feel sorry for him/her, who else will feel sorry for him/her?"
Do you think we can still have a good life if our family collapses?
If it's not just about treating your legs, what do you have to worry about when doctors say they can cure it?
We owe money first. As long as people are alive, are we afraid that we won't be able to pay it back?
Besides, we don’t owe anyone in this family. What happened on the way to escape without you, the eldest son, taking care of it?
If we talk about debt, we owe it to my employer. If my employer hadn't saved you several times on the way, you would have died many times."
Lei Minmin became angry when she mentioned what happened on the way to escape, and her voice became louder and louder.
People say that adversity reveals true character. This adversity also reveals true character.
Lei Minmin was dissatisfied with Qi Kang'an, his wife, and Qi Yushan since they fled together.
The former patriarch's family was divided into two families just before they fled. The former patriarch no longer talked about favoritism at that time, but it was fair to say that the money allocated to each house was the same. Lei Minmin saw it really, every house was equal.
Seventy-eight taels of silver.
Not only that, even if the families were not divided before, it does not mean that each house did not have its own private room before the division.
As for their family:
Qi Lianglin was in poor health, but Lianglin's wife knew how to embroider. Because Lianglin's wife was timid, Lei Minmin helped her with handkerchiefs and handkerchiefs, so Lei Minmin knew that Lianglin's wife helped the town's embroidery shop to embroider one.
The price of silver for a handkerchief is six cents, but Liang Lin's wife can embroider fifteen to twenty handkerchiefs a month.
Liangsen's wife is an honest person, and like Lei Minmin, she is busy at home, but Qi Lianglin and Qi Liangmu will follow Kang An to the town to do odd jobs every time they have leisure time.
The former clan leader did not ask them to hand over all of the money they earned. Instead, he paid 60% of the money to the family and kept the rest for his own use.
All the money that Qikangshui's family has earned over the years has been placed in the hands of Mrs. Zhao.
In other words, based on this calculation, Qikangshui's family must have at least a hundred taels of silver in their hands when they fled.
But along the way, they said they didn't have any fares to go to the city, nor did they say they didn't have any food to buy.
At first, Lei Minmin thought that Mrs. Zhao did not dare to tell the truth because of her wealth. Later, she overheard a conversation between Mrs. Zhao and Qi Yushan and realized that the money was gone.
It turned out that when passing through Hefeng Town, Mrs. Zhao used all the money to exchange for two gold bars for Qi Yushan. She also said that the three brothers could no longer be Qi Yushan's backers, so she asked Qi Yushan to hide the gold bars.
It will be used as a dowry in the future. If she gets separated, Yushan will not be afraid of going hungry if she has gold bars in her hand.
I don’t know if their family just has no money, but Qi Yushan actually dropped two gold bars on the way.
Lei Minmin almost rushed over and had a fight with the mother and daughter.
"I still regret it now. I should have gone up and tore them apart." Lei Minmin's gums itched and rubbed.
Ye Sanni and another woman of similar age sat on the horse next to her and broke the vegetable leaves together. They were both a little surprised when they heard this.
There are two gold bars!
Ye Sanni elbowed Lei Minmin, "Then why didn't you rush forward?"
I couldn't help but replace her.
Another woman, Zhao Daya, the granddaughter-in-law of Qiwen Fang, was equally curious: "What about after noon?"
After Lei Minmin came to help with the cooking, she and Zhao Daya got closer, and Zhao Daya had already been friends with Ye Sanni, so the three of them unknowingly became good friends who talked about everything.
In the past, Lei Minmin would not talk about family matters. One was embarrassing, and the other was still embarrassing.
But the family has been separated now, and their big house is not embarrassing. She is afraid of a hammer.
She first replied to Ye Sanni and said, "At that time, my family happened to be patrolling there and they dragged me away."
Then he returned to Zhao Daya: "My mother-in-law is like that. As long as I am tough, she will be honest. She even made custard stew for my wife and my eldest daughter-in-law at noon."
Zhao Daya asked casually without thinking much: "You guys are separated. She stewed two eggs for your family at once. No one in the second and third bedrooms of your family said anything, right?"
When it comes to family separation, Lei Minmin exploded again, "A family separation is a family separation, but my family's family separation is so frustrating."
Ye Sanni: "What?"
"When we were separated, my father-in-law said that since there was not much relief food left, we would not divide it for the time being. We should all eat together, and when the next time the relief food comes, each family would take their own share."
Ye Sanni and Zhao Daya both nodded, feeling that there was nothing wrong with this method.
