Chapter 1178: Begging for money
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the osmanthus flowers are in full bloom, and Xiao Shi ordered the banquet to be placed in Xiaoguanghan, a corn garden, and the people of the three prefectures are all celebrating the festival together.
In the study, Xu Yu planned to send someone to buy some gifts to give to his sisters who were about to get married, so he was taking stock of his private money.
Last night, he thought in his heart, there are no three thousand taels anyway, there are two thousand taels, all of which are pocket money that the elders reward for the New Year and the New Year, and then go to his brother and friends to borrow three thousand taels everywhere, each according to the budget of two thousand taels of silver, a woman's lifelong affair, and a debt of three thousand is not worth anything.
The plan was quite good, but after opening the special small safe, he was disappointed, and only five or six hundred taels of silver remained.
He was so puzzled that he said how could I spend so much money? Impossible! I took out the small ledger and read it from beginning to end, and I thought it was about the same.
How can a rich boy be thrifty? Spending money is like running water. At this time, there was a slight sound of clothes rubbing outside, and Xu Yu asked, "Who?" ”
The man outside the window smiled and replied, "It's me." ”
"Chunyan, come in, I have something to say to you." Xu Yu said with a smile.
Chunyan still remembered yesterday's chase and frolic, shook her head and said, "I won't go in, what's the matter with you?" Go ahead. ”
"I'm really in trouble." Xu Yu turned his head sideways and looked at the other party from the window, "Come in." ”
"What a coincidence!" Chunyan pouted, "I'm here, you have something, if I don't come, who are you going to do this?" ”
"Except for you, I naturally don't ask for anyone." Xu Yu seemed to be angry and said: "If you don't believe me, I can't help it, forget it, I'll do it myself." ”
"That's it, since you have something. Then I'll go in and help you. Chunyan smiled at him, "Can you still eat me?" I'm not afraid. ”
This casual joke made Xu Yu's mind flutter instantly, as if something had been ignited, and Chunyan had already come in with a smile. Xu Yu saw that she was wearing a Tianzhu cloth dress with blue bamboo leaves printed on a white background. smiled: "Scared me, I thought that the South China Sea Guanyin had descended to earth." ”
Chunyan felt useful, turned around lightly at the moment, and said with a smile: "This is my new clothes, is it good-looking?" ”
"Good, very good-looking!" Xu Yu looked appreciative. "Didn't I say it, like Master Guanyin."
"Just laugh at me." Chunyan was smug and a little shy, "Where am I worthy?" ”
The Qianqian girl was as delicate as a fairy, Xu Yu's strange appearance became more and more feverish, and she couldn't help but stand up. Tilting his head to look at Chunyan's whole body, "Don't move, let me take a closer look." ”
Chunyan blushed suddenly, how could she be so fiercely looked at by a man at close range? The Tianzhu fabric is thin and transparent, extremely close-fitting, full chest, straight buttocks are undoubtedly highlighted, there is a cheongsam style, and people are ashamed.
And she was keenly aware of the slightest strangeness in the other party's eyes. Sneered, "I know you're fine. After finishing speaking, he turned around and was about to run, but Xu Yu pulled his clothes. There's something really going on, don't believe it. ”
The alert Chunyan turned around and saw Xu Yu squatting on the ground with his hand loose, pointing to the safe and saying, "I'm sorry for you to help me calculate carefully, whether there are any errors in the accounts." ”
Chunyan, who breathed a sigh of relief, couldn't hide a trace of disappointment in her heart, and said unhappily: "Why don't you count yourself?" ”
Xu Yu said with a bitter face: "I have always been careless. These silver are a few pennies, a lot of money. It's too much trouble to calculate. But if you don't add them up one by one, you can't match the total. I know your heart is the finest. So please help me. ”
"Humph!" Chunyan glanced at the scattered silver and copper coins inside, pursed her lips, raised her head and said, "Don't come to coax me, persuade you not to pour rice soup." ”
"It's weird." Xu Yu said speechlessly: "How did I pour rice soup?" As he spoke, he naturally held one of his little hands and said with a smile: "Why do you want to pour rice soup?" ”
"Stop making a fuss." Chunyan waved her hand vigorously, "Isn't this rice soup?" You beg me to help you, but you have to sit on the side and don't move, or I'll go." As he spoke, he twisted his body and turned his pretty face outward, with a posture of saying that he would go.
Xu Yu hurriedly said: "Okay, you do the math, I'll sit here and promise not to move, isn't this okay?" ”
"You know each other." Chunyan smiled with satisfaction, squatted down and took out the scales, weighed the scattered silver, counted a lot of copper coins, got up and sat at the table, kept recording, and calculated the numbers on the ledger one by one.
When settling accounts, she still kept glancing at Xu Yu with her eyes, paying attention to whether he was moving. Xu Yu kept smiling, and suddenly her butt got up, Chunyan threw the brush and ran, until she ran out of the window, and said proudly: "I knew you were going to do it." ”
"I didn't!" Xu Yu was exposed to his intentions, his face flushed, and he didn't know why he had an urge to hug Chunyan today, and said stupidly: "Please settle the account, you ran away like this?" ”
"I'm done." Chunyan chuckled, "There is no mistake. ”
Xu Yu asked, "What is the total?" ”
Chunyan snorted, "Isn't it clearly written in the account book? Also ask me what to do? I knew you had bad intentions. Hmph, let's go. ”
"Don't go." Xu Yu ran out, and the person was already far away, so he said to himself: "Provoked me and left again, isn't this hypocrisy?" ”
His own money is not enough, Xu Yu doesn't want to alarm them in the Spring Festival, as a child, it is obvious that he will find sponsorship from the elders, and everyone can ask for some money from aunts and sisters-in-law, mothers and aunts, and they don't have to pay it back. Unlike my father and eldest brother and third brother, everyone had a famine, it was not easy not to say it, and I had to lay an IOU plus a lot of interest, and no one did not take the opportunity to fall into the ground.
At that moment, he went to Zhengyuan, and as soon as he came in, he met his eldest sister Yunsu, and when he saw him, he ran over and grabbed his hand, and said, "Second brother, I was looking for you." ”
As he spoke, he handed over the notebook in his hand, handed it to Xu Yu and said, "You should be kind." ”
Xu Yu opened it and was dumbfounded, it turned out to be a donation book for girls' schools, scratched his head and said, "How can I have money?" If you don't look for me, this kind of thing will come to me, so you should go to your father. ”
Xu Yunsu said: "I didn't go to touch the nails, the last time I helped my classmates raise donations, before I could speak, my father frowned and said: Who is going to be in the limelight?" What do I do with my money not to help the poor, but to give it to a group of women to show off? Brother, you also know my father's temper, so scared that I withdrew without saying a word. ”
"Why do those women do so much? It's a speech and it's equality. Xu Yu said, while opening the donation book, there were twenty taels of donations, some of which were ten taels, several of which were fifty taels, and the second and third sisters were twenty taels, but Yun Su himself had the most, and he actually wrote two hundred taels.
Xu Yu smiled: "You shouldn't look for me, you should look for the eldest brother." From the point of view of being rich, I should go to Xu Kun Xu Xuan and the third brother, I am the poorest in the family. ”
Yun Su said: "I was going to find my eldest brother, but when I met you, I naturally begged you first." ”
At this time, I saw Xu Xuan running over and shouted, "Sister, I gave you money, why did you throw it on the ground?" ”
Yun Su pouted and said, "Who is rare for your two taels of silver?" Write it on it, when people ask, call me ashamed, it's better not to write. ”
"Ugh." Xu Yu scratched his head again, and originally wanted to donate two taels, but the third brother touched the nail, and said helplessly: "Since Yunyu Yunning is twenty taels, then I will be thirty taels." ”
Yun Su said happily: "Thank you second brother, hum, not like someone?" ”
Xu Yu smiled at her, who knew that Yun Su continued: "It's not me who counts, our Xu family brothers and sisters, the young lady becomes the young master, and the young master becomes the young lady." ”
Xu Xuan said unconvinced: "Isn't it just that you donated a few more money?" The first is that even my father does not approve of it, the second is that we spend a lot of money when we go out all day, and the third is a matter between women. Fundraising is about your willingness, you are willing, but we are reluctant. ”
Hearing these words happily, Xu Yu agreed very much in his heart, and said that the third brother is indeed better than me, so I can't say this.
"Less quibble." Yun Su said disdainfully: "Our sisters' minds are much broader than yours. Even the young Xiangyun is stronger than your brothers. ”
Xu Xuan smiled bitterly and waved his hand, and said to Xu Yu: "Money is really a good thing, and Qian Duo is also broad-minded. ”
"Huh." Xu Yu was worried about his own affairs, so he said to Yun Su: "You write it for me first, and I'll send the silver when I get back." ”
Without thinking, Xu Xuan and Yun Su continued to reason, and he walked over.
In the courtyard near Huchun Hall, Xiangxuan was wearing an apricot-colored Hunan skirt, with her back to the door, and said to the house: "Hey, hurry up, you said you went out at one o'clock, it's almost two o'clock?" Forget it, I'm not waiting, you can continue to dress up. ”
Xiangling in the house said, "What's the hurry? Can we be like the old man, just leave? ”
Xiangxuan said: "Why not? Isn't it good to be simple? ”
"You think it was 10 years ago? How do you go out and meet people without makeup? Xiangling's movements were still unhurried, "Do you like to wait, I still have to wait for a while anyway." ”
Xu Yu wanted to laugh but didn't dare, and coughed outside the door. Xiangxuan looked back and said with a smile: "How can Yu'er have the time to come to us?" If you don't accompany your confidantes, it seems that you will have nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace. ”
Xu Yu said with a smile: "Auntie's mouth is a joke, whose house are you going to listen to?" ”
"Your aunt Rong's birthday, I have already said it." Xiangxuan smiled and beckoned, "I'll sing it to you one day." ”
Xu Yu walked in and said, "Recently, I heard that several wives have set up a drama club, and my aunt is also included?" ”
Xiangxuan said: "I don't have anything to do with those wives, I learned from Qin Yan. ”
At this time, Xiangling walked out and said, "Not leaving? Then you keep talking, I'll go first. ”
"I'll go too." At that moment, Xiangxuan said apologetically to Xu Yu: "I'll talk about it at night, good!" ”
"Auntie, go slowly."
Xu Yu sent the two of them away with the maid and the mother-in-law, so they had to come out and go to Qingwen's yard, but Qingwen and Musk Yue were not there, and the mother-in-law said that she went to Dongfu to play cards, and Aunt Zhiqing went back to her mother's house with her mother, but instead went around and didn't get a tael of silver, but gave out thirty taels. (To be continued)