What a cheating husband

"The money you earn will be taken away again. No matter how much you earn, you won't be able to keep it," Chen Qing said with a frown. Still on.

"Then you can't just stay there!" The auntie stared.

"Ah Qing, let's find a few labor-saving jobs. If it doesn't work, go to the town to try your luck. Maybe you can find someone who pays a lot of money and is not tired. Otherwise, there will be no meat for this festival, and I'm afraid it will make people laugh. My family, Chen Ping, is a scholar again, so I can't lose face," Grandpa Chen said with a sigh.

Chen Qing's heart is cold and cold, what time is this, and he still cares about the face of a scholar, even if he goes to the town to write a letter, even a letter can earn more money than him doing hard work, but Chen Ping is the treasure of the family , I am the coolie at home.This is really in line with the sentence - all things are inferior, only reading is high!

Regardless of how aggrieved she felt, Chen Qing turned around and left the house, and endured for another two years, and she would be relieved when Abi got married.

Chen Bi's wedding is scheduled for the summer of the next year, which is the tenth day of the slack season.The real calculation is only one year and nine months, no matter how patient he is, when he helps to pay off the family's debts, no one can order him.

Chen Qingsi and the good days are coming, she calmed down and calmed down a little bit of anger.

If there is a part-time job, I will work, and if there is no work, I will go to the mountains to collect firewood. The days pass quickly.Another year of cat winter has begun, and Chen Qing and Chen Bi are still nesting at home doing embroidery.

This house was newly built when my father got married, and it was only a dozen years old. Chen Qing repaired it everywhere and it was not airtight. The thatch was refurbished just before winter, and it looked much stronger than the old house at Uncle's house.

My aunt has been thinking about this house for a long time, but Chen Qing has a firm attitude. Unless Abi gets married, she will not give up the house. These are all things that have been agreed before, and my aunt does not dare to grab it.

"Brother, my embroidery work is almost finished. If you have time, take me to the town to have fun and hand in embroidery~" After Chen Bi ran to the town a few times, he always wanted to go to the town to play.

Knowing that children love to play, Chen Qing couldn't keep her around all the time, so she nodded in agreement.

Chen Bi got the approval, and immediately speeded up. The three-day work was finished in two days, and even the embroidery that was to be handed over to the family was finished.

Chen Qing's own embroidery was completed two days earlier, and she sent it to Chen Bi when it was finished.Thinking that the family also saved a lot of money, which was enough to buy a decent dowry for Chen Bi, Chen Qing secretly estimated the supplies that needed to be bought.

It took 10 taels to fill in the betrothal gifts before, and I gave the matchmaker 1 taels of silver to ventilate. After the flood, I did not spend money secretly to buy food.Calculated, nearly 20 taels of silver were spent.

The remaining 65 taels of silver in the family is not too small. For ordinary farmers, a few taels of their own money, plus a dowry, a dozen or 20 taels is decent enough.

But who is Chen Qing, how could he let his sister marry so poorly?At least I have to buy a set of hair, a dressing table, an eight-treasure jewelry box, a set of four treasures for the study, a few brocade quilts, a few new sets of clothes, and a few rolls of cotton cloth...

Chen Qing counted more and more, wishing to give her all the things that her younger sister didn't have these years.In the past few years, he couldn't even make a new dress for his younger sister. No matter how much money he secretly saved, he didn't dare to spend it on his younger sister in public?

A set of hair and face alone cost 20 taels. This is the cheapest silver jewelry. If it is gold, it may cost several hundred taels.The price of jewelry is moderate, and it is inlaid with silver and jade, including a hairpin, a pair of earrings, two butterfly hair accessories, and a pair of jade bracelets.

The better the quality of the jade, the more expensive the jewelry, the ordinary 30 taels a set, the slightly better 50 taels a set, Chen Qing inquired about the price in the town, and was quite satisfied with the 30 taels a set of jade stone surface.

But if you bought this set of masks, you might have to save a few pieces for other things. Chen Qing was fascinated by it, which inevitably aroused Chen Bi's dissatisfaction.

"Brother~ I'm in a daze again!" Chen Bi poked Chen Qing with her finger, and called him with her mouth pouted.

The old people in the village often say that if you are always in a daze, you will become a fool if you lose your soul if you don’t pay attention. Chen Bi is worried that no one will call his soul after he leaves. What should he do if his brother really loses his soul?

Chen Qing didn't feel the little girl's worry at all, and sighed, thinking that he should do two more embroidery jobs during the winter break, so that he could get the girl's dowry ready.

In the early morning of the next day, the two brothers and sisters got up early to wash up, made breakfast and ate it by themselves, and kept the rest warm in the kitchen.

The air in winter is exceptionally cool, taking a breath into the lungs feels cold in the heart.Chen Qing still held Chen Bi's hand as he walked when he was a child, until he entered Qingping Town, Chen Qing let go of his hand, and took Chen Bi directly to a breakfast shop.

"Didn't you have breakfast?" Chen Bi asked in surprise.

"You can't eat? After walking for an hour, I'm hungry." Chen Qing grinned. This little girl is more careful than herself. It has always been Chen Qing's wish to take her sister out to eat fresh food. Of course she couldn't come out today. miss.

"Well, I'm hungry too." Chen Bi didn't expose it, and followed her brother into the shop with a smile.

The two ordered a bowl of bean curd, two sesame cakes, and a bowl of thin-skinned wontons with large fillings.After eating, Chen Bi rubbed her bulging stomach and laughed foolishly.

"Just throw away such a small amount of delicious food? I'm afraid someone will be cheated away one day." Chen Qing teased her by pointing her forehead.

Chen Bi sat for a while with a smile on her face, and then went with Chen Qing to deliver embroidery to Aunt Liu.

"Abi is here too, come and sit down." Liu Xiulian brought out a plate of pastries and handed it to Abi to satisfy her craving.

Abi rubbed her stomach and shook her head, "Auntie, I just finished eating and I can't eat anymore"

"What's so delicious about this? Look, it's for the girl!" Liu Xiulian shyly smirked at her cheeks in a funny way, and then packed a few pieces of cakes and handed them to Chen Bi, asking her to take them home to eat.

"Auntie, is there a new embroidery job?" Chen Qing asked while handing the embroidered work to Liu Xiulian.

"I'm here early, I'm just waiting for you to come over. This time, it was ordered by the wife of Mr. Juren's family. There are many requests. Please embroider carefully!" Liu Xiuniang took out a cloth bag, which contained only a piece of moon-white brocade, which was silky to the touch. excellent.

Chen Qing picked up the note mixed in the package and looked at it, his face was unavoidably tinged with embarrassment.

"Hee hee, why are you shy? Isn't it just a bellyband? You haven't worn it!" Liu Xiulian lightly slapped him with a smile.

The corner of Chen Qing's mouth turned bitter, he just didn't wear it, so he was embarrassed to hold something from a woman's house.

Chen Bi coughed lightly, hiding her smile.Brothers have to wear bellybands like women, but men don't need to wear them. Chen Qing has been raised as a man since he was a child, so of course he didn't wear them.

Aunt Liu didn't know why, she thought that Chen Qing also wore a bellyband when she was a child, "What do you want?"

"...Closing the moon to shame the flower" Chen Qing struggled to utter four words.

"What are you talking about?" Liu Xiulian also blushed, she couldn't read much, and thought that Chen Qing was praising some beautiful woman.

"It literally means, let me embroider a pattern of shameful flowers with a closed moon." Chen Qingyang raised the pattern drawn on the letter paper, and saw that the bright moon above was mostly covered by clouds, and a pool of lotus flowers were waiting to bloom.

Liu Xiulian and Chen Bi both came over to have a closer look, and chatted together to discuss where to get the needle.

After the discussion was enough, Liu Xiulian raised her head and asked Chen Qing, "Brother Shan asked me to bring you a message, saying that the shopkeeper wants you to take some time to go to the county, and said that there is a big job that is not in a hurry, and asked if you want to take it?"

Chen Qing was short of money. Hearing this good news, he hurriedly nodded and said, "Pick it up, just ask Uncle Liu to pick it up for me. This... will be embroidered soon."

"No, I heard that the job is quite difficult, I have to let you go there by yourself, some details are not clearly written in the letter." Liu Xiulian directly said Liu Hengshan's original words.

"Well, I'm going to find Uncle Liu for a ride now, does Abi want to visit the county town?" Chen Qing asked the girl with a smile.

"Think! Shall we leave now?" Chen Bi jumped up immediately, happily packed the cakes and planned to go out to the county seat.

"Okay, hurry up if you want to go, so you don't miss the time for a while." Liu Xiulian didn't expect Chen Qing to be so anxious. Seeing that old man Liu was about to get on the road, she hurriedly urged the two to find it.

Chen Qing took Chen Bi for a trot all the way, and finally arrived before Old Man Liu set off. The carriage bumped all the way, and Old Man Liu began to tell Chen Bi interesting stories about the county again, which was not much different from what he told Chen Qing at the beginning, but There are two latest interesting things that happened in the past two years.

Chen Qing also hadn't been to the county seat for three years.Since Shen Shuquan learned that Chen Qing would not go to the county seat, he occasionally asked old man Liu to bring a letter to Chen Qing.

The two communicated with each other, but they didn't lose contact.After the township examination last year, Shen Shuquan sent him a letter, telling him that he won the ranking in the competition and became a Juren. The hardships involved cannot be expressed enough. In addition, he would like to thank Chen Qing for his help.Another letter came in one month later, saying that he had to work hard to prepare for the exam and could not communicate with him often. After the imperial examination, he would contact him again.

Chen Qing didn't know the address of Shen Shuyan, so he couldn't reply to the letter, but he could feel his joy from the letter paper, and Chen Qing was also happy for Shen Shuyan. The younger one helped him, so he would not take credit or expect anything in return. He only hoped that Brother Shen could sing along the way and get his wish fulfilled.

As soon as he entered the county seat, Chen Bi's head didn't stop, he looked around dazedly, and kept asking questions.It was only then that Chen Qing discovered that when he first came to the county, his performance was really calm, and Chen Bi should be like a bumpkin who came to the city for the first time.

Seeing the look of contempt from the puppet in the street, Chen Qing could not help disturbing Chen Bi's interest by the unpleasant words of others, so she hurriedly poked the girl's head and said in a low voice, "Calm down, just ask me in a low voice if you have anything strange."

Chen Bi blinked, nodded her head, and felt that she was too surprised just now. Anyway, her brother would not laugh, so she asked directly, "Did my brother be as curious as I was when he first came?"

"Well, yes, I think everything is quite new." Chen Qing rubbed her nose and lied, so as not to hurt the girl's self-esteem.

"Hee hee...then what does this restaurant sell? It's so high." Chen Bi began to ask in a low voice.

"It sells food, but you see he has such a big face, he must only accept distinguished guests, we can't go now, when I get rich, my brother will take you to try something new." Chen Qing answered in a low voice, and the two brothers and sisters communicated quietly. Seeing it was interesting, he lowered his voice and corrected what Chen Qing said was wrong.