C31

The front yard had been repeatedly trampled by people. The snow that had just fallen had turned into dust and was extremely dirty. It was very necessary to clean it up. Also, there was a thief in the kitchens — — those hungry wolves from Zhang Family. She had to take inventory of their losses, and store all of the extra food on the table at the same time to prevent anyone from thinking too much about it.

The matter was more or less settled, and there was a knock on the door again.

Standing outside the door was an apricot flower that he had played with better. The little girl's little white face was flushed red, her head was lowered, and her fingers nervously twisted the hem of her dress, looking uneasy.

"Apricot flower!" Did you go to your uncle's house to pay your respects to the new year? Come in and sit down, I'm so bored that I don't even have a date to chat with! " The young man happily led the way into the house.

Xing Hua twisted and turned. When she walked through the door, she tilted her head a little as if she was looking at something behind her.

He Miao raised an eyebrow. This girl had something on her mind! While she was closing the door, she took a quick glance outside and saw a young woman standing on the corner of the wall with a child in her arms. It was her sister-in-law from the apricots.

The young woman also noticed the seedlings. She smiled at her, but did not say anything. Carrying the child, she turned around and walked away. The child flopped in her mother's arms, pointing at the entrance of the house, and said in a slurred voice, "Sugar, sugar."

"Sister-in-law A Xiang, bring Yuan Zi in!" He greeted them warmly.

The young woman halted her steps, hesitated for a moment, then turned around. She really did come over.

They sat around the fire in the living room, and the young man played with the ball with the candies. Seeing that there was food to eat, the child flung his mother away and threw himself into the arms of his beautiful aunt. Little Fatty's claws snatched the candy away and he stuffed it directly into his mouth.

He ruffled Yuan Zi's hair and took the initiative to find a topic to discuss with his two sister-in-law. In fact, she knew very well that their purpose was simply to borrow money. The Xinghua family was not considered rich in the village, with only one male and three daughters and one son. Since the family only had one male, they were given fewer fields, so the food was a little insufficient. Thus, the elder brother of Xinghua decided to leave the fields to the women at home to cultivate.

Seeing that the apricot flowers were going around and around, he didn't say anything about the main topic, so he asked for her.

"You two are sister-in-law and sister-in-law, but what's so difficult about it?"

The apricot flower twists the fingers, the small face to become red, the lips to be a few times, only then said in a small voice: "No, nothing. I just came to see you and talk to you. "

A Xiang, who was sitting to the side, felt that if this went on any longer, it would be getting dark. She didn't try to be polite anymore and said bluntly, "He Miao, sister-in-law isn't going to fight with you. She's here today mainly to borrow some money from you. Your Brother Ping Ang wants to make a big one after the festival and directly bring the things to the prefecture city. It's just that he doesn't have much money on hand and still need to take care of his family and can't take out all of the goods in one go. That's why he wants to ask you to borrow money to save the situation. " As he spoke, he drew a rough estimate and outlined their plans.

He gave it to her without much hesitation. Then, he gathered another portion and planned on splitting it after the event.

Unexpectedly, her throwing away of money brought about some trouble.

The next day, the news about Second Uncle Tian borrowing money to buy a cow had somehow spread out. Following that, a few other families came to pay their New Year respects with their gifts to the He Miao Family.

Originally, they did not want to borrow money on the new year's eve, but after Tian Er, yesterday afternoon, even that Apricot Flower family had come to borrow money. When they left, they even carried big and small bags. They were worried that if they kept dragging this on, more people who were familiar with She Miao would ask for money, and it would be their turn. After all, fifty taels of silver seemed to be a lot, but who knew how much She Miao spent in such a extravagant manner? Since she would have to open her mouth sooner or later, it would be better for him to borrow money sooner rather than later.

However, they hadn't thought that they would all have the same idea, and that they would all get together.

The young man was in a difficult position.

On the surface, her money was only fifty taels, but in reality … However, her husband had repeatedly told her not to leak it out! She also knew the principle that having a treasure was a sin. As an orphan, without solid backing, she wouldn't be able to protect a large amount of money. In that case, when the Second Uncle heard that Ren Ang was not here, his complexion looked a lot better. If he knew that he still had more than seven hundred taels of silver hidden inside, he would have died!

When her father was still here, he had a normal relationship with a few elders and barely had any connections. The reason he had rashly come over to borrow money was just to bully her. Everyone was from the same village, and the people who came over were also from the higher generation, so it wasn't easy for her to refuse, and one of them even had a bit of a relationship with the village head.

To be honest, the young man didn't want to borrow it. At least not all of them.

As she was thinking of Little Jiu Jiu, she suddenly thought of an idea.

"Aunts and uncles, you see, it's not that I don't want to help." However, it was true that money was not enough! Everyone, don't think that even though fifty taels of silver looks like a lot, it's nothing! Yesterday, my Second Uncle had just opened his mouth, I had bought a lot of things to decorate my house, and had also spent a portion of the departure ceremony for the new year, so more than half of the miscellaneous things were already spent, and the remaining would be enough for me to spend. If I were to wait for the food to come out, I will have at least five to six months.

"Miao'er, you must be joking with your aunt!" Wasn't there something to eat in the kitchen? This is not young or old! Your little girl's family, how much can one person eat? " An aunt teased her. Yesterday, they were all standing outside the courtyard to watch. What was going on in the kitchen?

She Miao smiled bashfully, "You've heard how many things there are. But more than half of the prepared food has been taken away by Zhang Family's people. The rest is barely enough for me to eat for two days. As for the rice flour oil, yesterday Apricot had come over to borrow some from her sister-in-law, saying that it was to help Yuan Zi improve his diet. Since Apricot Flower's mother was also sick, she had to eat some rice oil that was boiled with rice porridge to recuperate and wait for the Brother Ping Ang to make some money in the beginning of spring before returning it. Therefore, there is really not much left in the grain homes. "

In order to dispel the suspicion that the Apricot Flower family had also borrowed money, yesterday she poured out a portion of the flour oil and gave it to Sister Xiang and the flower to bring home. She also agreed that she would come to their house for dinner in the future. In any case, it wasn't interesting for her to eat alone at home, so it could be considered as indirect help to the Apricot Flower family!

Seeing that her aunt was about to say more, She Miao quickly took the initiative to make her own suggestion:

I don't have much silver on me right now, but I have enough money to buy a cow. How about this, I'll lend the money to all six of you.

One for one, and two for six. That was nine silvers, enough to buy a whole cow for them to take turns with.