Chu Chu waited for his mother to finish the meal with taste, and sat down with his brother to eat, but where can such a dish be eaten? It's just that I had to eat because I was hungry, so I ate a small bowl indiscriminately, and then got up in a depressed mood to clean up the dishes and chopsticks.

It was getting dark, and when I saw my mother saying that I was going to sleep, Qi Dashou helped the old lady get off the kang.

Chu Chu asked, "Where does my mother sleep?" ”

Qi Dashou pointed to the small mud kang in the back room and said, "It's next to the stove, it's warm, and my mother has been sleeping there." ”

"Oh!" Chu Chu glanced at the tattered earthen kang and said, "What about you?" ”

"I'll just sleep underground, and if you sleep on the kang, we don't have extra bedding at home." Qi Dashou was very distressed, "Why don't you sleep with your mother?" ”

"How can you sleep two people in that palm-sized place?" Chu Chu shook his head, "My futon was brought for me by the people in the house, but I haven't seen it at this time, I don't know what's wrong." ”

As he was talking, someone outside called for the door. Chu Chu said: "Probably they are here." ”

The black light blindly walked out and opened the door, it was the little girl on the second door, Qiqiao, who brought her a cover with a lantern.

Qiqiao saw that it was Chu Chu who opened the door, so he said: "It's easy to find, how can you live in such a small house?" When is it not lit again? ”

One sentence made Chu Chu cry, one was miserable, and the other was as if he had seen a relative.

Seeing this, Qiqiao entered the door and saw that a dilapidated grass house was pitch black, and he was surprised: "This dare to be a house where people live?" "Lifting the lantern and looking around, there is no furniture in the room except for a kang table and a bamboo chair, and it is pitiful just to look at.

"Alas!" Qiqiao sighed: "Even if you get to this point, you don't have to cry." Come, check your stuff and make it clear. ”

"It's just some rags." Chu Chu, who was crying, felt uncomfortable, and said sadly: "I blame me for not being human, why didn't I help my mother and brother in the first place, I should have known that it was not my own after all!" Now it's so down. You have to worry about your relatives to feed you, and it's better to die for a hundred. ”

"Don't cry yet, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain." Qiqiao squatted down with a smile and unfolded the burden, and said one by one: "These are your two tents, these are four mattresses, and there is a single quilt, this is a quilt, this is a quilt, this is a leather mattress, and this is the tiger skin blanket that the old man rewarded you with in the past." These two pillows are yours too. ”

Although Mrs. Zhu only allowed Chuchu to bring her clothes, it was a first-class and wealthy mansion, and Ren was far from being comparable to ordinary large families.

Seeing that Chu Chu was still listless, Qiqiao smiled and said, "There is more." So saying, he called another coat bag, and showed her the clothes one by one, a total of twenty-seven clothes in the four seasons.

Chu Chu is in a better mood, clothes are money, so many good clothes were not taken seriously in the past, and now it has undoubtedly solved a big problem.

Look at them one by one. Chu Chu thanked him with emotion, and Qiqiao smiled: "Don't worry, there is another good thing, you are happy to see it." As he spoke, he pulled out a paper bag from his bosom. When it was opened, it was snow-white silver, and Chu Chu looked puzzled.

Qiqiao explained: "This is a private gift from the two young ladies, fifty taels of silver. As he spoke, he touched it in his arms again, and said hurriedly: "Ah." Where did it go? ”

After digging for a while, Qiqiao smiled and said, "It's okay, it's okay." Here it is. ”

handed over the silver, Chu Chu looked moved, and took the silver gratefully, and found that it seemed to be as heavy as Mount Tai.

Seeing that he took out a handkerchief bag again, he said: "This is what Sister Shinu asked to return to you, saying that it was your thing, and Mrs. copied it and rewarded her." ”

"What is it?" Chu Chu became curious.

Qiqiao said: "It's a pair of gold-filled bracelets." ”

Chu Chu's expression changed completely, and he hurriedly opened it to take a look, and his face was immediately full of joy, and he didn't say anything, and said to Qiqiao: "Thank you, in the end, it's better for the two of us, live up to me." ”

"My sister used to be good to me, but I'm not good to you or human?" Qiqiao grinned, "It's not too early, I'll go first." ”

After walking a few steps, Qiqiao walked back and said, "The moon is very big outside, and you don't have any lights, so I will give you a lantern to use, and there are two candles inside, which can be lit until dawn." ”

Chu Chu was very grateful, sent him out of the door, and stood in front of the door and waved goodbye repeatedly. Bolted the door, ran into the house in three steps and two steps, and said, "Brother, brother! ”

Qi Dashou had already slept, and after being woken up, he got up, and saw his sister with a smile on her face, "It's okay now, you don't have to carry the burden when you get up, and we don't have to live in this broken grass house." ”

"Huh!" Qi Taishan was a joke, and he smiled and didn't take it seriously.

"Look." Chu Chu put his clothes on the table like a treasure, picked up a bag of silver from the pile, and Qi Dashou said in surprise: "Where did the silver come from?" ”

Chu Chu explained with a smile, and Qi Dashou said with a respectful face: "The young lady of the Zhu family is really a good person, really a good person. ”

With fifty taels of silver out of thin air, Qi Dashou said excitedly: "With this silver, we can open a good shop." ”

"What kind of shop?" Chu Chu asked with a smile.

But Qi Dashou had never seen so many good clothes, and he couldn't help but look a little open to the money, look at one piece, look at one and praise it, Chu Chu held it down and said: "I ask you, this bag of silver is only fifty taels, what kind of shop can you open, and how much money can you make a day?" ”

Qi Dashou thought for a while and said, "It's enough to open a fruit shop, and you can make about a penny a day." ”

Chu Chu snorted, "What's the matter with a hanging money?" If you have relied on me, I will have money, but otherwise I will live my life. ”

"Good girl." Qi Dashou smiled, "This silver is yours, you can do whatever you like, can I say a word?" ”

"That's pretty much it." Chu Chu, who knew his brother's temperament, smiled again, so he showed him the pair of gold-filled bracelets, Qi Dashou flipped through them and looked at them for a long time, shook his head and said, "But how much can the gold-filled ones be worth?" ”

"No wonder you're golden, too." Chu Chu looked proud, "Even the people in the house don't forgive me for having this, only Shi Nu and I have grown up together since childhood, and they are like sisters, so she specially asked for this bracelet that no one is rare and secretly gave it out." ”

Under the lamp, he pointed to a line of small characters on the inside of the bracelet, and said proudly: "Look, isn't this the words of Jinbao Zhai?" ”

"Ahh Qi Dashou jumped up and said shockingly: "This, this is actually real gold?" I said how heavy. "Smack! Suddenly, he raised his hand and slapped himself in the mouth. "Don't be dreaming."

"Hee-hee!" Chu Chu sneered, "Don't make a fuss, you listen to me, this bracelet is five taels a piece, and now the gold price is expensive, and the gold number of this Jinbao Zhai is opened in the British government, regardless of entry and exit, it is full, do not go to a star of water, ten taels is a real one hundred taels of silver, that is to say, we have a capital of one hundred and fifty taels." ”

At the moment, Chu Chu put his hands behind his back. The four major families come and go frequently, she has gone to Xufu with the two young ladies several times to play, she has learned some things, and she herself is also shrewd and clever, otherwise she would not be the confidant of the fifth aunt. Now that the matter is a foregone conclusion and irretrievable, I think that the Qiao woman has also got something that can show her skills, and the whole person instantly becomes radiant.

Qi Dashou looked at the radiant girl blankly, and listened to her calmly say, "Let's go to the rented room first." If you have to be close to Xu's house, take another hundred taels to buy some embroidery goods, and then invite some good female embroiderers to come to your house to make some shoe uppers and embroidered pillows, clothes, etc. Always do it at the expense of exquisiteness. No matter what other families, only the third-class girls of the Xu Mansion family, there are a lot of embroidered clothes for a year. And seeing that it is November, hurry up to open the embroidery village. There is a big business in time for the Chinese New Year. ”

Looking back, seeing his brother's stupid face, Chu Chu sneered: "You don't know." The Xu Mansion and our Mansion are close friends, and every year, each Mansion has a reward for the next person; Then there are the shawls of each hall, etc., are changed once a year, at least to replace the inside of the inside, the outside to change the new, if you can make a business, at least you can earn hundreds of taels of silver, is it better than opening a fruit shop? I know a lot of people in the two mansions, and there are girls and the second uncle of the Xu family who are thinking about the old relationship, I am afraid that this business will not be able to be recruited? The most important thing is Xu Sanye, I have heard that he admires the self-reliant woman the most, I do a good job, Tong Su is not bullied, can you not allow me to share some business? What's more, I'm better with those faceless housekeepers, I'm afraid that I won't send the silver one by one to me for use? ”

Qi Dashou was happy to hear it at first, but when he heard this, he suddenly changed color and said: "I can't help it, it's okay for you to show up, after all, you are walking around the house." But how can you think of this? Can we still be a human being as a family? ”

Chu Chu took a sip and said unhappily: "What do you know? The third master and the young lady are just a castle in the air, it is difficult to see each other, even if they do, it is difficult to succeed, because I am worried about the business too much, I am a lonely soul without a master, who cares? Can it be done without the help of a housekeeper? In fact, where do we pay attention to chastity when we are girls, the Zhu family is not the Xu family, as long as the committed masters are happy, then there is everything to eat and wear.

Hum! If I don't do that, where will I have these two bracelets? If I were still in the house, would you care about me? I still don't have a man, so I can't tell me to stay empty for the rest of my life? ”

Qi Taishan said angrily: "I can't care about you, who can take care of you?" If you do this, what face will I have to meet people? Otherwise, you find a beloved and simply come home, you have a husband, and no matter what you do, it's none of my business. ”

"You!" Chu Chu was really angry and funny, and said in his heart, why should I quarrel with him? I didn't want to be a husband, I just wanted to find a backer and had to do it, and then I came to find a husband, who knows if the fish water is useless? In that regard, I have eaten big fish and meat, and it is as unbearable as coarse tea and light rice, who can understand my suffering?

Thinking that she has no reputation in Zhufu, she has no scruples in this regard, and she knows too well what a woman needs to pay if she wants to survive.

Chu Chu didn't want to quarrel with his brother, so he smiled and said, "My brother's words are reasonable, I listen to you." ”

Seeing that one candle was about to burn out, Chu Chu changed to another and lit it, and asked her brother to bring the futon in, which was very spacious and warm on the kang, so she woke up her mother and helped her to lie down.

The old lady touched the brocade quilt and said with praise: "Good, fragrant, soft and gentle, I have been cultivating this blessing for several lifetimes!" He also said: "In the end, it comes from a big family, and food and clothing are too particular." "I was annoyed for a long time before I fell asleep.

At this time, the temperature was cold at night, Chu Chu gave her brother a leather mattress and a tiger skin blanket to sleep on, she hid the silver herself, put the bracelet on her hand, and fell asleep quickly after lying down after a tired day.

At the same time, Xu Run, who was in a bad mood, talked to himself for a few days, often sighing and crying alone, as if he was enchanted. Suddenly, I got seriously ill, anyway, I was upside down all day long, lying in bed - incoherent, at first I could hold back in front of people, but gradually I couldn't help it, and when I saw someone, I was in tears, and I was dizzy and depressed.

His mother thought that her son had fallen into an evil spirit, so she hurriedly asked a doctor to treat her, and even asked for fortune and made a wish to pray to God or something, but she did not see any success for many days.

Seeing that his son's condition is getting worse and worse, he is sometimes unconscious, sometimes awake in a day, and confused when he is unconscious, and he looks stupid when he can't hear it; When he is sober, he is like a good person, able to eat and speak, and speak clearly.

Mrs. Xu was so anxious that she didn't dare to leave an inch when she moved over at night, so she found that her sleeping son often murmured, sometimes what was called Qin Yan, sometimes what was called Ying Lian, sometimes scolded Xi Shiyi, sometimes scolded Master Xia, and sometimes scolded Xu Xuan Hu Sheng and others. (To be continued......)