Chapter 210 It's Better to Spend Other People's Money
In the west wing, Tian Minyan and others were eating together, chatting and laughing happily, when they suddenly smelled a gust of fragrant wind.
"Oh, third brother and sister, are you having dinner?" Xiao Taohua appeared at the door of the west wing with a smile on her face, holding a baggage in her hand.
The smile on Luo Shi's face froze, he put down his rice bowl and stood up, watching Xiao Taohua enter the door, but he didn't know what to call her.
"Hey, Second Auntie, why are you here? Haven't you eaten yet? Can't you find the kitchen? I'll ask someone to take you there." Tian Minyan called out to Second Auntie. Seeing Luo Shi's surprised look, she handed her a hand
He looked over with a slightly calm look.
"I've eaten. I just ate at the old man's place. I just came over to sit down and acknowledge my relatives." Xiao Taohua didn't seem to mind Tian Minyan's words and walked in with her waist twisted.
She glanced at the food on the table and saw that it was the same as the food sent to the old man's place, except for the addition of stir-fried pickles. She thought to herself, if the third house can afford to hire long-term servants, why do they still eat these coarse food?
Little did she know that Tian Minyan and the others had always been diligent and thrifty. Although their lives were better now, they did not have a lot of money every day. Especially recently, they had done too much trouble and had to spend a lot of money.
I am frugal, and the reason why there is a piece of meat in it is because it requires a lot of effort to go to the ground.
Seeing Xiao Taohua looking around the room with her eyes, Luo Shi felt unhappy. He also saw that she wanted to sit on the kang, and his face suddenly turned green. He quickly moved a chair and said: "Her second aunt, you sit down."
Little Taohua paused in her steps and glanced at the chair that Luo Shi had moved in front of her. Her expression changed, but she refrained from speaking.
In a villager's house, if she has a good relationship, she will usually be invited to sit on the kang. This is how Luo Shi dislikes her!
"Haha, sorry for bothering you, my third brother and sister, I see your belly is already growing. How many months have it been?" Xiao Taohua faked a smile, glanced at Luo Shi's belly and asked.
"It's been six months." Luo Shi replied calmly.
"I am also two months old, but I always want to eat sour things these days. What about my three younger siblings? They all say sour children and hot girls. The older ones say I am a naughty child." Little Taohua covered her face with a handkerchief.
With a smile on his face, and seeing Luo Shi's indifferent expression, he asked: "Third brother and sister, where are you? You want something sour."
"I asked Lao Wenpo to feel my belly for this baby. She is a girl." Luo Shi covered his eyes and said calmly.
Little Peach Blossom was startled and looked at her. She saw her lowering her head and stroking her belly, but she didn't feel the slightest displeasure. Instead, she glowed softly, and she couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.
She then saw the Tian brothers sitting at the table looking at her indifferently, and immediately understood, no wonder, they have given birth to two sons, and even daughters are nothing, so she smiled and said: "Daughter, daughter is fine.
, anyway, you three siblings already have two sons."
"Second Auntie, what's the matter with you?" Tian Minyan was waiting impatiently, but when she saw that Luo Shi had lost his patience, he interrupted and asked.
"Oh, this is Yan Yatou. Look, I was so busy talking that I forgot to take out the greeting gift." As she said that, she opened the bag in her hand, took out two freshly designed handkerchiefs, and handed them to her: "Here.
, this is a handkerchief made by the famous brocade workshop in Yokogawa, the pattern is the freshest, do you like it?"
Tian Minyan thanked her and took it, glanced at it casually, then handed it to Xiao Xing beside her and said, "Xiao Xing, Auntie Xiao's gift is kept separately, so don't put it away randomly."
"Yes, girl."
Little Taohua felt unhappy when she saw it, but she was even more sure that the third wife must have money. Otherwise, how could a country girl with no knowledge not like such a good thing? Even that damn girl Tian Minqing was jealous when she saw it!
"This is Brother Rui and Xiao Wu, here, this is for you." Xiao Taohua presented two spinning tops and said, "I don't know what boys like these days. Let's play with these gadgets."
"Thank you." Tian Minrui took it, glanced at it, and threw it to Xiao Wu: "But I have to be busy reading and don't have time to play in this world. Xiao Wu, you can play."
"Okay, I just happened to be playing with Erdan." Xiaowu smiled, took it and ran out of the house like flying.
Seeing Tian Minrui treating her like this, Xiao Taohua looked a little unhappy and remained silent for a while.
The atmosphere was so silent that it felt a little stuffy. Tian Minyan coughed. Only then did Xiao Taohua remember what she meant and said with a smile: "Yeah, I forgot about something."
"It's like this. The old man just said that we have separated our families, and you are too busy here to take care of us, so he asked us to cook separately. I heard from the second master that there is only one kitchen in this house, so we need to separate it.
It's not good to rush to use it, and it will hurt your harmony. Third brother and sister, do you think this is okay? The second master and I can't live here for a few days, and it's troublesome to open the fire. Can we pay for food and set up a restaurant at your place?
"
After hearing this, Luo Shi and Tian Minyan looked at each other, and the latter said: "Second aunt, we all cook in big pots, and we don't pay attention to anything with exquisite taste. You and my second uncle are used to being meticulous in Yokogawa, I'm afraid you won't be used to it.
. In fact, the town is not far from our Yangmei Village, and there are many restaurants."
"I'm used to eating delicacies from the mountains and seas in Henghe. Why don't I come here to eat radish and green vegetables to clear my intestines? Restaurants all over the world don't taste the same, right?" Xiao Taohua chuckled and said, "I just like everyone to eat together.
lively."
Tian Minyan smiled and said nothing, thinking that no wonder this little peach blossom was able to catch Tian Huaixiao and enter the Tian family. With her mouth, she was countless times stronger than Li Shi. No wonder she was able to catch Tian Huaixiao to death. Li Shi was in her
You can't get even the slightest benefit out of your hands.
However, people like this are as smart as a smiling tiger, so we need to be more careful. Who knows what they are plotting in private?
"Yan Yatou, please tell me, how much money does this cost? We are a family, so we don't care." Xiao Taohua added tightly.
Tian Minyan thought for a while and then said: "It's not that we don't want you and Erbo to eat together, the fact is that we can't make anything good. You see, we, the vegetables, have to count the pieces of meat.
"Second aunt, the peasants eat a plate of vegetables, or even a bowl of boiled salt water mixed with rice and then swallow it. How can it be that?"
"It's okay to have vegetables. We can eat whatever you cook after paying the money. It doesn't matter." Xiao Taohua just thought she was crying about poverty, but she didn't believe that she only gave her a few green vegetables after taking the money.
"Well, since you said so, well, the harvest in the north is bad now, and our firewood and rice are too expensive. I really can't just let you and my second uncle eat vegetables. You have to buy some meat. Second aunt, you can do it if you want.
Give me some money first, and then you can make up for the excess?" Tian Minyan said with difficulty.
"A consistent amount of money?" Xiao Taohua stood up in shock and thought to herself, why don't you go and grab it? It was obvious that several people were looking at her, so she sat down again and said with a stiff face: "A consistent amount of money, not much.
not much."
As she said this, she took out a purse from her sleeves with a look of pain on her face, poured out two pieces of broken silver, handed the larger piece to Tian Minyan, and said with twitching corners of her mouth: "Then I'll trouble you."
Seeing Tian Minyan put away the piece of silver, Xiao Taohua chewed a mouthful of silver teeth and thought to herself, it's not bad. If you can't make a small fortune, you can't make a big fortune. I lost one tael here and got back a hundred taels from the third room.
Thinking of this, she chatted a few more words and then dispersed.
After she left, Luo Shi immediately pulled Tian Minyan and asked, "Nanny, do you really want to cook for them?"
"Cook it, why don't you cook it?" Tian Minyan held up the broken piece of silver in her hand and smiled.
"This..." Luo Shi looked reluctant.
"Mom, we cook in one big pot anyway, so if we cook two more, it won't be a problem."
"But when I think about eating with them, I feel like it's stuffy here, as if there are claws scratching at me." She tapped her heart twice.
Tian Minyan smiled and said: "We agreed to cook it, but we didn't say we would eat it with them. Once it's cooked, we'll send it to them. It doesn't matter where they eat it."
"Well?"
"We not only cook, we also have to cook delicious food, otherwise, all the money will be spent?" Tian Minyan smiled so hard that her eyes narrowed, like a cunning little fox.
"You have a bad idea again." Tian Minrui said with a faint smile.
"No, no, brother, you are wrong. Second uncle and the others are our guests now. Since they are guests, they cannot just make two plates of vegetables. They must have meat, right? Brother, go to Butcher Zhang and weigh some meat.
Let’s add some extra dishes for everyone tonight, get some more pig meat, and get some ribs. It’s been a long time since we’ve eaten ribs. Hey, after all, it feels better to spend other people’s money.”
Tian Minrui stretched out his hand to catch the silver she threw over and shook his head, wondering who had plotted against whom.
But Xiao Taohua returned to the north room with a gloomy face and saw Tian Huaixiao lying on the kang with his legs crossed. She was so angry that she felt that she had suffered a loss the more she thought about it.
"Get up." Xiao Taohua walked to the kang, slapped Tian Huaixiao's thigh hard, and sat down.
"Oh, my little beauty, who has offended you?" Tian Huaixiao sat up, hugged her and kissed and touched her.
Little Taohua struggled for a few times, then snorted and said, "I mean, are the people in the third bedroom really so honest that they won't eat it secretly even if they put a bowl of meat in front of them? I think they are very smart, especially that damn girl.
"
"What's wrong?"
Xiao Taohua told what happened just now, and finally said: "How do I feel that we have been plotted against?"
"What? Why didn't she say it was a robbery?" When Tian Huaixiao heard that Xiao Taohua had given him a lot of money, his eyes turned green, he took off his shoes and said angrily: "That stinky girl, even her second uncle dared to scheme against her.
, I’m going to come back, let’s go to town to eat.”
"Are you stupid? You've given it away, can you take it back? Are you willing to go to the town every meal time? You're crazy in the carriage. Do you want to drive us mother and son to death?" Xiao Taohua snorted and said: "Yes.
Why don't you think about how to get the money back? No matter what method you use, I can get the money from the third house to open the shop, otherwise we will really lose money."
Tian Huaixiao thought about it, so he hummed, and the two huddled together and started mumbling again.
