Mrs. Bao said: "The matter is obvious. If I don't say it, how can outsiders not say it? Don't fool yourself!"
Tang Youji was a filial person and quickly scolded her: "Shut up!"
He turned around and advised his father: "Youfu has a bit of a squeamish temperament. Maybe he will kiss his mother more. I didn't think much about it, just... that's it."
Madam Fan pursed her lips and looked back and forth at her family members.
She really didn't want to ask Tang Youfu to come back, especially now that her daughter was eccentric, and the fewer people in the family, the better.
Moreover, even if she didn't say anything, she wouldn't be able to blame her in the future.
But seeing that Tang Mingqi and Tang Minglu's two sons were nearby, she still suppressed her selfishness and said: "Don't make any noise now, I think something is wrong. That man is a restaurant owner, and he must have a lot of money.
He can't be so busy without his family... Since he has two dollars, and in this age, to put it bluntly, it doesn't cost much to buy ten yellow-flowered girls, why does he want to marry an old woman?
Raising an oil bottle? Why don’t you think so?”
When she said this, there was silence in the courtyard, and everyone was thinking.
Mrs. Bao was still the first to say: "When you say that, it's true!! Why do I think that this person is the old woman that Tutang only married because of his good fortune?"
Tang Youji said: "Perhaps I am too old to have children, so I want a son to support me until the end of my life."
Tang Youxiang couldn't help but nod: "Absolutely."
Mrs. Fan thought for a while and said no more.
After all, it makes sense to say that. She just thinks it's a bit weird. She wants to provide for herself until the end of her life. Wouldn't it be better to buy a child as her son?
When Mrs. Bao thought about it, she suddenly became envious and jealous: "Although this old woman has a bad character, she is really lucky. She really got taken advantage of again!"
Only Old Man Tang burst into tears: "I'm so lucky, he's my son!"
Tang Youji advised sincerely: "Dad, you are such a grown-up. He wants to live a good life, so we can't tie him up! If that family wants him to take care of himself until his death, he will definitely be treated badly."
Tang Youxiang also said: "Dad, for this kind of thing, the sensible ones don't have to hold him back, but the ignorant ones can't. He just feels that he enjoys it more than his own father. What can you tell me? You can't lock him up, but you can lock him up for a while.
, can I still be locked up for a lifetime?”
Old Man Tang had tears in his eyes and said no more.
The whole family said nothing more and continued to work. After a while, someone came over and called: "Brother Ji, brother Xiang, the patriarch asked you to come over."
I guess the clan leader didn't want to give in, so he simply stopped calling him "Old Man Tang" and the two brothers went over.
The pigs over there had been killed and divided. It was already dark, but a group of people were still gathered together. When they saw them passing by, they discussed it.
In the market, ordinary pork costs two cents per catty, but wild boar meat is expensive, highly flavorful, and not very tasty, so restaurants charge one and a half cents per catty.
Nowadays, people are almost dying, but the wild boars are still growing quite big. The three wild boars add up to more than 700 kilograms, which is really a lot.
Then use the money to buy rice. One stone of rice costs six cents, and one stone of wheat costs four cents. The price is almost the same. So a group of people discussed that those with very young children at home would need a few kilograms of fine rice and flour, and others.
All of them require whole grains, and they can be eaten for a while.
The patriarch asked him: "How do you plan to organize your family?"
Tang Youji looked at his younger brother, and Tang Youxiang said directly: "We, Mibao'er, are still young, so we have to eat more carefully. We still have some food at home, so we won't buy it with the others. We will just press the pig."
Give us two hundred catties of silver, and we can go back and buy it ourselves."
The clan leader nodded, and directly asked someone to give them three taels of silver, saying, "I've taken advantage of you again."
Tang Youxiang waved his hand and said with a smile: "My family doesn't talk about this."
Someone next to me asked: "What are you going to do about the historian's affairs?"
After Tang Youxiang paused, someone else said: "If you have anything to say, let me know! Everyone can help! After all, Youfu is also a descendant of the Old Tang family. How can you call someone daddy?"
Tang Youxiang agreed repeatedly and came back with his brother.
The whole family didn't finish their work until it was completely dark. Tang Youxiang was covered in juice and the bandage was soaked, so he pulled it off by himself.
In fact, he felt less pain the day before yesterday, but Mrs. Fan held him down and refused to let him take it off, so he endured it for two more days.
As soon as it was pulled off, Mrs. Fan quickly came over to take a look, and saw a pink mark on her back, with only a slight blood slit in the middle. It had only been a few days, but it was actually almost healed.
Mrs. Fan couldn't help but swallow her saliva at that time.
Tang Youxiang had never seen the wound himself, so he didn't think anything was wrong. He turned back and touched it: "Is it healed? I told you it doesn't hurt anymore."
Madam Fan opened his hand and said, "It's almost healed. Get some water and wash it quickly. Don't rub it here or it will break."
Tang Youxiang responded and said to himself: "Yesterday, Xiaoman said that his injury didn't hurt anymore. I even gave him a lesson and didn't ask him to remove it."
Mrs. Fan quickly said: "Don't call it for removal yet. Once it has been removed, myrrh has been applied. You have removed it too early and it's not fully recovered yet!"
Tang Youxiang responded casually and took a basin to the back to take a bath.
In the countryside, when they started working, they didn't have time to eat. After he finished washing, Tang Youji also washed two handfuls, and then the family sat down to eat.
The children were also hungry. The half-grown boy ate the poor old man. The table was full of a large pot of pork stewed with cabbage, and the whole family ate without raising their heads.
The second brother felt he had recovered from his sleep and got up to have dinner with everyone. Only Mi Bao'er didn't wake up.
Mrs. Fan also left some food for her, and she watched it several times throughout the night, but she still didn't wake up in the morning.
Mrs. Fan was very anxious.
Although the little girl's face looked red and didn't look like anything, she was still extremely anxious.
Tang Youxiang was also restless. In the morning, the villagers wanted to ask him to go to the county town to buy grain together, but he refused. After everyone asked, they found out that Mi Bao was not awake. In the afternoon, even the village doctor came to check and felt his pulse.
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Old Man Tang felt uncomfortable, and it was only now that he realized that his granddaughter was really suffering. He knew that he had done something stupid and kept wandering in front of the door.
Mrs. Fan looked at the silly old man and felt pitiful and panicked, so she got up and asked him to guard him.
The village doctor usually stayed close to him and did not shy away from him. He scolded him in a low voice: "You are just an old fool! What do you mean by being the head of a family? Only when the whole family can live a good life with you can you be called the head of the family! You are the head of the family.
When the whole family has no food to eat, you still call the head of the family a piece of shit? He is occupying the pit and not doing shit (real) things!!"
"You Ji Youxiang is filial enough, but if you put aside the money earned by hard work for more than ten years to support a family named Shi, your own family will not even be able to eat, and you will have to make a fuss about the separation of the family on the spot! They also
You are now grown up, you have a family, you have to support your wife and children, you can’t just live with your father! Why can’t you understand such a thing? Do you have to frighten your children?”
Old Man Tang lowered his head when he scolded him: "I, I just think about the people in the village..."
"What kind of village is it? Are you closer to the people in the village or to your own son? They didn't just jump out of the rocks. Why do you want to fuck these parents? Will they throw a basin for you when you die?"
He lowered his voice: "I know, you don't think it's something you brought home, but why don't you think about how difficult it is for a child to escape from the mouth of a wild boar? From the river to the place where the accident happened
, how long is the journey? You think about it for yourself, let alone the two children, just say that Youxiang can escape from the wild boar! This matter is really a magical method! There is no other explanation! Wheels are wheels.
Don’t go anywhere else!”
Old Man Tang kept nodding his head and didn't reply even though he was crying.
The village doctor sighed sadly and stopped talking. Old Man Tang whispered again: "The beginning of winter, it's just... about being blessed, please give me an idea."
~~Ding dong~~
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The prices of pork, rice, wheat, etc. are generally based on the prices during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, which are taken from "Wanshu Miscellanies", "Shenzong Records", etc. In order to facilitate understanding and conversion, one tael of silver = 10 qian = 100 cents = 1000 Wen =
It is consistent/one tael of gold = ten taels of silver. At the same time, one stone is set to be equal to one hundred catties, and the catty is set to be the same as the modern catty, one catty and ten taels. (It is too troublesome to follow history completely. We are just making assumptions, so there is no need to be so particular, hehe;