Farmhouse is so old

As soon as Tang Qing heard his words, he was a little dazed. The capable daughter-in-law he fantasized about no longer exists, but there is no way to return it even if he is married, Tang Qing smiled awkwardly: "Sleep, I won't be us Buy it and wear it."

Zhou Qing breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, as long as Tang Qing didn't dislike it.

Early the next morning, Tang Qing took Zhou Qing and got into Uncle Liu's bullock cart with several large packages of processed medicinal materials. There were not many people going to the market, and there were only two people sitting in the cart, both elders of the village. After greeting Tang Qing with a smile, he found a seat and sat down.

The bullock cart creaked forward, and there were not many people in the cart. Most of the villagers were still reluctant to spend the two copper coins. They all got up early and walked to the market.

It started to get cold, and a gust of wind blew up, piercing my face with pain and pain.The clothes on Zhou Qing were a little thin, and he shivered suddenly. Tang Qing sat on his side to protect him from the cold wind.

When we arrived in the town, there were quite a lot of people. Most of them came to buy winter clothes for their families, so there was a crowd of people in front of the cloth shop.Tang Qing dragged Zhou Qing to the pharmacy first. Looking at the style, he estimated that he would have to wait for a long time to go to the cloth shop.

When they arrived at the pharmacy, an apprentice cordially welcomed Tang Qing into the small guest room in the back hall, brought a pot of hot tea, and then went out to work again.

Tang Qing and Zhou Qing sat in the room for a while before shopkeeper Wu came in: "I've been waiting for a long time, the pharmacy is really busy these two days."

"I'm just joking, saving people is the most important thing." Tang Qing hurriedly said haha, and introduced Zhou Qing to shopkeeper Wu.

"Congratulations to the two newlyweds. Come and keep it. This is my heart." Shopkeeper Wu joked with the young couple with a smile, and gave Zhou Qing another red envelope.

Zhou Qing pushed shopkeeper Wu's hand, looked at Tang Qing with inquiries in his eyes, and only accepted it when Tang Qing nodded.

"Ten catties of Eucommia, if you count five hundred Wen a catty, that's five taels, and three catties of astragalus, if you count two taels a catty, that's six taels." As he spoke, he kept chanting.

"It's a total of 25 taels and three silver coins. Kid Qing thinks I'm right." After weighing the medicinal materials and doing the calculations, shopkeeper Wu said to Tang Qing with a smile.

Tang Qing nodded and didn't say much. Shopkeeper Wu took the silver and gave it to Tang Qing, who handed it to Zhou Qing.Zhou Qing's hand holding the silver trembled slightly. Twenty-five taels of silver was not light. He had never seen more than the ten or so taels Tang Qing gave him on the night of his marriage when he grew up.

This batch of medicinal materials were all picked by Tang Qing from the back mountain, and he didn't spend a penny. He earned so much by hand after returning home to dry them all. No wonder Tang Qing spent money lavishly. The flowers are really nothing.

Zhou Qing thought for a while, and felt a little inferior again. He felt that he could do nothing but work, and then he looked at his clothes, which were a little gray. When he went out today, he still thought about what to do if there were too many people in the town looting , just wore an old dress, and wondered if it would embarrass Tang Qing.

How could Tang Qing know that Zhou Qing's mind was turning a thousand times just for a while, and he was discussing things with shopkeeper Wu at this moment.

"Kid Qing, why don't you think about it, this pharmacy is really overwhelmed with manpower, and the superiors have to assign these tasks every year. In previous years, my store had the worst reviews. There is no way around it. "The shopkeeper Wu is suffering. This Wenshui town is remote and the commerce is underdeveloped. His pharmacy usually doesn't have many people. There are two clerks, a few apprentices, and a few odd jobs.Every year, the superiors assign several thousand catties of medicinal materials to be processed, and they are all handed in before the end of the year. He is so busy that he can't keep his feet on the ground, so there is no way he can squeeze out the manpower.This is no longer Tang Qing, he sees hope again.

"I'll give you [-] wen per catty for your labor, just pay the work a year ago." Seeing Tang Qing's hesitation, shopkeeper Wu said again.

"I'm thinking about it. I'll reply to you in a few days. It's not easy to do this winter." Tang Qing thought that it would be cold and he would have no way to dry it. He could only dry it. There was not enough kang at home. easy to pick up.

"Hey." Seeing Tang Qing like this, shopkeeper Wu could only sigh silently.After sending Tang Qing and Zhou Qing out of the pharmacy, he told him that if he thought about it, he must tell him.

After walking out of the pharmacy for a while, Tang Qing saw that Zhou Qing still lowered his head sullenly: "What are you thinking, I'm not happy."

Hearing Tang Qing's question, Zhou Qing raised his head, pointed to the clothes on his body and said, "Am I embarrassing you by wearing this?"

"Ah!" Tang Qing didn't recover for a while, and was a little stunned.

"You said you were saving face, but today I wore such a suit." Zhou Qing bowed his head guiltily.

"Speaking of it, it's really true. Look at you. Doesn't this make others say that Tang Qing is incompetent, and my husband can only endure hardships, so I will take you to buy two clothes." Tang Qing stroked his chin and looked Zhou Qing up and down. , and took him to the cloth shop.

"That's not what I meant. There are still clothes at home." Zhou Qing was dragged away by Tang Qing, muttering to explain.It's just that Tang Qing would not listen to him.

There were not many people in the cloth shop at this time, and the waiter in the shop still recognized Tang Qing, and came out to greet him happily.

Tang Qing first bought two cotton coats for Zhou Qing, several bolts of cotton cloth, two quilts, and asked for a hundred catties of cotton.They didn't dare to ask for good ones, they chose inferior ones, and the cost was not much. It only cost five taels of silver when they got out of the cloth shop, and the shop agreed to send them to the village for free if there were too many things.

"Big brother." A clear female voice came from the cloth shop.Tang Qing and Zhou Qing heard the prestige.

"Second Sister." Zhou Qing was overjoyed when he saw the person coming, and rushed to greet her.The person who came was Zhou Qing's second sister, Zhou Xiaohua.

"It's a coincidence." Zhou Xiaohua saw that it was Zhou Qing who came, and knowing that she was right, she was very happy and kept saying that it was a coincidence.He looked up and down Zhou Qing again, and saw that he was getting fatter and his complexion was good. Knowing that his brother's life was not bad, he was also happy for him.

Tang Qing explained a few words to the waiter in the shop, but he didn't bother Zhou Qing to catch up with his sister.

Zhou Xiaohua also saw Tang Qing, and saw that he was talking to the waiter in the shop, and there were a lot of things piled up next to him, and she understood that the young couple had come out to buy things.

"Uncle." At this moment, a childish voice called Zhou Qing.It was Zhou Xiaohua's eldest nephew Liu Tai who came over holding Zhou Xiaohua's daughter Liu Tiantian.

Zhou Qing took Liu Tiantian as a tease.Only then did Tang Qing come over, and Zhou Qing said to Liu Tiantian, "Tiantian's name is Uncle."

"Uncle." Liu Tiantian called obediently.

"Tian Tian, ​​come and take it." Tang Qing's heart almost melted when he heard the childish voice, and quickly took out two pieces of silver from his bosom, gave one to Tian Tian, ​​and another to Liu Tai .

"Brother-in-law, you can't do it, you can't do it." Zhou Xiaohua saw that Tang Qing was giving so much all at once, so she hurriedly stopped him, but Liu Tai was too frightened to take it.

"Sister, what are you talking about, this is the first time I see Tiantian, Tiantian is so cute, I like it very much, this is a meeting gift, let Tiantian come to our house more to play in the future. "Tang Qing picked up Liu Tiantian while talking, and he sighed slightly when he saw that the clothes on her body were patched and it was not heavy to hold.He picked up Tiantian and walked to the cloth shop.

I bought two more clothes for her, both of which were red, which made Tiantian's little face blush. It would be even cuter if she grew some flesh.Liu Tiantian didn't recognize his birth, and his dear Tang Qing's face was full of saliva, Tang Qing was not annoyed, he was very happy.

Zhou Xiaohua kept saying, "It's a waste of money." She felt a little sorry.

"Sister, it's okay, just two sets of clothes." Zhou Qing persuaded him from the side. He was brought up by two sisters since he was a child, and now it's really nothing to buy two sets of clothes for his niece.Then look at the second sister who is only 25 years old, she looks like a woman in her thirties and forties, her hands are full of calluses, and her clothes are sewn and sewn.Zhou Qing felt sour again.

"How can this work? A few days ago, my mother asked my second and third brothers to send some rice noodles and meat. I thought that most of them were given by you. Speaking of which, being a daughter is also unfilial. I haven't done it all these years. You have been filial to our parents." Zhou Xiaohua couldn't help the corners of her eyes getting wet as she said.

"Sister, why are you being polite to me? Those things were given to parents, and they can use them however they want." Zhou Qing thought about the mountains of food at home and Tang Qing's earnings today, and he felt a little bit more confident. .

"I owe you such great affection, how dare you ask my brother-in-law to spend money and tell us how to pay it back." Zhou Xiaohua was also heartbroken. Country people are like this. If you give me a handful of rice today, I will pay it back tomorrow. If I want to give you a handful of wheat back, this is a human relationship.If you can only get in and out, then it's not a human favor, it's an autumn wind, shameless.

Zhou Qing also saw the second sister's worries and said comfortingly: "How about this, you and your brother-in-law come over to help turn over the land at home in the beginning of spring, my husband is not very good at taking care of these things." Thinking of Tang Qingna Lazy, don't stand when you can sit.If he can lie down instead of sitting, let him dig the ground, maybe he won't even want the ground.

"Hey, okay, I'll call your brother-in-law as soon as spring begins." Zhou Xiaohua didn't agree with this. Although it was tiring to dig the ground, but they are used to doing farm work, how can they dislike tiredness? .

After nagging the parents again, Zhou Xiaohua hugged her daughter and nephew to say goodbye to Zhou Qing and the others.

"Second Aunt, this is for you." Walking on the road, Liu Tai took out the half tael of broken silver from his arms and handed it to Zhou Xiaohua.

Looking at the broken silver, Zhou Xiaohua thought that her nephew had been helping to take care of Tiantian all these years, so she shook her head slightly and said, "Your uncle gave it to you, so you can keep it."

"Second Aunt, Uncle has already bought clothes for me, so I can't accept this." Liu Tai is almost 12 years old now, and he has learned a lot about some things. Children from poor families are already in charge.That is Tiantian's uncle, and today he got a new suit because of Tiantian's glory, so he can't take advantage of it anymore.

"Take it, you have helped Second Aunt take care of Tiantian all these years, and Second Aunt has never bought anything for you." Zhou Xiaohua still refused to accept it.

"Whatever Second Aunt said, this is what I should do." Liu Tai said with a blushing face, then stuffed money on Liu Tiantian, and ran away quickly.

Zhou Xiaohua couldn't catch up with the child in her arms, so she had to speed up her pace to catch up.

When I got home, I arranged the things I bought, and then I took the silver and sent it to my mother-in-law.Tell my mother-in-law what happened today.

Mrs. Liu didn't understand these things, she smiled and asked Zhou Xiaohua to keep it by herself, and said: "Boy Tai has already got clothes, so I don't need the money, you can just use it to pay off the debt."

Zhou Xiaohua had no choice but to agree in a low voice. Liu Tiantian was ill last year, and the family owed a lot of money, which has been owed for a long time, and there are complaints about the delay in paying it back.At any rate, this can make up for some, and it can also make people have a good year this year.