Chapter 153
When the Ling family came to pick up the dowry, Master Xu was waiting at home. Seeing that it was Ling Teng, he also asked Mrs. Ling in detail about her body. This article is the fastest\Wuwuwu to Zhaji Reading Network () Master Xu sighed, "I am only this sister. When I was young, everyone was poor and lived a tight life, and I couldn't take care of her. Now I have raised this unfilial son, which made her heart hurt and had no face to see her."
Ling Teng said in a gentle voice, "The affairs of children all depend on fate. Sometimes when the fate is over, they cannot be forced. Fortunately, the second sister is still young and there is still time to marry again. Even Brother Xu, uncle should not blame him too much. After all, he is a relative. The eldest uncle is very angry and hates him. Now he is calm, he is thinking about his relationship with you. If Brother Xu has any good things, it will make the eldest uncle feel sad."
Seeing Ling Teng being gentle and elegant and speaking peacefully, Master Xu really liked him indescribable. He sighed that although Ling Teng had not passed the imperial examination, his behavior and worldly affairs were clear, and he was more than a hundred times better than Xu Huan, so he asked him a lot.
When Ling Teng left, Master Xu took a box of silver notes to him and said, "Tell your uncle, I'm sorry to her, I'm sorry to my second sister. Nothing is bad for the second sister, it's the one who is a bastard who has no luck. This is what I am my uncle to give to my second sister, and there is no other meaning."
Ling Teng said, "Since my uncle is concerned about my uncle, why don't you go and see my uncle with your own eyes, whether it's an apology or something else. How can you break up with your brother-sister relationship for many years? Even if you can't be a relative, you're still a relative. If you go, please give it to your uncle yourself. I don't know what my uncle and second sister mean, so it's really hard to accept it rashly."
Master Xu smiled bitterly, "This is the same. I will go there myself to apologize to my sister tomorrow."
Master Xu did what he said, and the next day he really went to Uncle Ling's house. The brother and sister said something in the room. Mrs. Ling cried very much. Master Xu's eyes were red. He said goodbye before he left for lunch, and he looked relieved.
After Ling Erjie came back from the medicine shop in the evening, Mrs. Ling touched her rough hands and said with a lot of heartache, "Our family says it's not rich, and it's not too much money. Don't go to the medicine shop to work in the future, just stay at home with me. Your sister is about to talk about her that there are so many things at home."
Ling Erjie has always been docile, but this time he rarely did not agree and said softly, "The fourth sister has always been capable and said that she will not delay family affairs. Besides, you are at home every day, and the fourth sister is at home, and my grandmother is also strong. I know that my mother feels sorry for me, don't worry, the medicine shop is not tired, I want to do something. Besides, Sister Qing is several years younger than me, and she does this like me, and she doesn't say she is tired, so how tired can I be."
"How can you compare with her? Changqing's martial arts skills are great." Mrs. Ling said. Last time, Zhao Changqing didn't slap Mrs. Ling to death, and she was really merciful.
Ling Erjie smiled and said, "Don't worry, mom, stay at home every day, what fun can I have? I'm happy to go out and do things."
Mrs. Ling whispered, "Your uncle is here today and I brought two thousand silvers to you."
Ling Erjie frowned, "What do you want this money for? I have been eating and drinking for free for several years at my uncle's house. I shouldn't have asked for this money."
Mrs. Ling sighed, "Your uncle wants to give it to you, but I can't do anything. Just give it to you. I don't want this money either. You are not a child, so please keep it yourself."
Ling Erjie said, "Mom, please keep it for me. I will send it back to my uncle if I have time."
Mrs. Ling has always felt sorry for her second daughter’s work and has complained to her eldest daughter who occasionally returns to her mother and her younger daughter. Sister Ling Si advised, “Mom, why are you stupid? Don’t you realize that your second sister has lost a lot of weight?”
"Is there any?" Mrs. Ling kept guarding Ling Erjie, but did not notice it.
"Why aren't there? My second sister is walking to the medicine shop every day, and then I'm not idle at the medicine shop. Last time I saw her changing her pants by herself at night and said that she was too fat. Isn't this just because she lost weight?" Ling Si advised, "My second sister is willing to go to work, so I told her to do it. It's not that I'm not right. Although the turtle bastard named Xu is a bastard, the man and the man still take the yellow-flowered daughter to marry after Li. My second sister and Li are honest, to be honest, it's probably not easy to find a condition named Xu. Instead of raising her second sister, it's better to raise her second sister to be more aggressive. It's not easy to endure hardship if she marrys her like this."
Mrs. Ling said sadly, "You make sense, just let her go."
In fact, Ling Erjie is really a person who is easy to get along with. She has a very good temperament. After Ling knew that Ling Erjie was helping in the medicine shop, she specifically told Zhao Changqing to take care of Ling Erjie. Zhao Changqing smiled, "Don't worry, mother, the second sister is very capable."
Ling asked, "How is the business of the medicine shop?"
Zhao Changqing laughed, "It's okay. Some people come to see a doctor, but they are usually minor diseases with headaches and fever. My husband and I have learned a lot of tricks to take the pulse." If an ordinary woman opens a shop, some hooligans and gangsters are indispensable to make trouble. Zhao Changqing's shop has only a few groups of people. After Zhao Changqing put the silver ingot into a fancy style, no one dared to come.
"I got a few kilograms of bird's nest in the shop, and I picked out some good kilograms. My mother's place is four kilograms and my grandmother's two kilograms. They are all very good kilograms. Mother should not send anyone, I remember to eat a bowl of it and my father every day." The seasoning shop started to make money, and Zhao Changqing made a lot of money. She was not a stingy person who only entered and did not leave. She was willing to spend money when she had money.
Ling said, "You can keep it for yourself."
Zhao Changqing smiled, "I am young, and eating these is useless. My father and mother were not young, let alone grandmother. They should make up for it when they are older. Both mother and grandmother are used to saving money. They are not willing to spend money on this on weekdays. I just spent the money and bought the things. If I don't eat them, it will break. Mother just eat them, don't worry about the money."
Ling's eldest daughter was considerate, but she was not good at life. She was so unlucky that she felt more distressed. She smiled and told her, "Don't be too busy. She ran outside every day. When she was tired, she remembered to take a break. Our family is not short of these few taels of silver."
Zhao Changqing smiled, "I know. Don't talk about our family, is it that my uncle's family only has the second sister out to make these few taels of silver? It's just a matter of occupying the hands and doing some things. I bought some rice, cooked Laba porridge in the pharmacy, and sacrificing some of them outside, which is also a matter of accumulating virtue."
Ling smiled, "This is good."
Zhao Changqing didn't just give Laba porridge to Laba. She spent 100 taels to buy some Chenmi to donate it to the temple. The temple must give it to the temple every winter, so the temple gave it to her. It was not because Zhao Changqing was stingy. In fact, most of the people who went to the temple to receive the porridge were poor. With the same money, Chenmi could naturally buy more and benefit more people.
On Laba Day, Ling Erjie got up at dawn. She wore a cotton coat and skirt. After washing, she rushed to the pharmacy without even having any food. The guardian Zhao Liangdong, the housekeeper, had just gotten up. When she heard Ling Erjie call to open the door, she laughed, "Second sister came so early."
Ling Erjie laughed, "The first pot of Laba porridge in the morning cannot be too late. You big men can cook porridge. I'm not relieved, so come earlier." After a few jokes, the two went to the yard together. The pots for cooking porridge were all large pots that were specially invited to be plated. The house could not be opened, so they plated them in the yard. Ling Erjie slapped a few breaths, stomped her feet, and waited for the fire to rise and roast it before she felt the cold. When Zhao Changqing, Mr. Su, Su Bai, and Zhao Changning came over, a large pot of porridge had been cooked, and the fragrance was not mentioned. Zhao Changning said, "I'm full at home and want to eat another bowl."
Ling Erjie laughed, "If you want to eat, take a bowl, but I didn't eat it either."
Zhao Changqing rolled up his sleeves and said, "Second sister, you go to have dinner first, and I will do this with my husband."
Ling Erjie was not polite, and served a bowl of porridge by himself, holding a bowl of porridge with Zhao Changning. Mr. Su put the Laba porridge in the pot into the bucket, and Zhao Changqing directly mentioned the outside of the shop, and a large pot filled three buckets. Su Bai then moved the door panel, blocked two tables at the door of the shop, and hung out the signs for free porridge. Sometimes, someone came to pick up the porridge with a bowl or a jar.
Zhao Changqing's shop is not the one that offers the most porridge, but it is the most affordable. It has lotus seeds, floral fragrance, red beans, longans, raisins, etc., and it is very changed. Moreover, the porridge is very thick and cannot be put into the chopsticks. As long as you eat it, there is nothing you don't like.
Zhao Changqing opened a pharmacy shop, not to make a lot of money. The lobby in her shop was single-fired stove. She sat on the stove all day long and had a stone pottery bowl next to her. Who would like to drink it and get it by drinking it? Some people who had no money, and she didn't care much, and she didn't care much. She opened a pharmacy shop, and in addition to practicing the pharmacy she had learned for several years, she was more or less trying to accumulate some kindness for herself. Zhao Changqing died once, not afraid of death. No matter how frustrated or sad the days, she lived, and was not afraid of suffering. She was afraid, if there was another rebirth, what if she met Chu Yu? She thought, accumulating some virtues at all times, and God could always be pityed. If life could come back again, she reminded Chu Yu in advance that she must let Chu Yu live a peaceful life.
Zhao Changqing did not expect to make much money, but the business of the shop was very good, especially some poor people, who liked to come to Zhao Changqing's shop. Mr. Su saw people who were dressed in ordinary clothes and prescribed prescriptions with cheap medicine. Some wealthy and noble people obviously believed in such a small shop that had just opened. Therefore, Zhao Changqing's business was good, but he could not grab the money-making business of the big shop.
During Laba, Ling Teng also went to the family temple to deliver a can of Laba porridge to Mrs. Ling Er.
When Mrs. Ling saw her son, she cried, and she regretted it and complained about the hardships in the temple. Ling Teng said, "Mom, please recite scriptures with peace of mind. Both my son and father are good, even my sister, and I am also very good. I just got pregnant a few days ago. I will say to my mother, and I am happy."
When Mrs. Ling Er heard this, she was very happy and asked her son how to get some things to deliver to her daughter. She even talked a lot about how to take care of her during pregnancy. Ling Teng listened carefully. After sitting for a while, she was about to get up and go home. Mrs. Ling Er asked in a low voice, "Are your father still angry with me?"
Ling Teng said, "Not only my father is angry, I am angry too."
Mrs. Ling Er wiped her tears and said, "I know I shouldn't say bad things about Qing Yat, but I don't mean to ruin her reputation. It's all your aunt who killed Qiandao!" When it comes to Mrs. Liang, Mrs. Ling Er was quite gritting her teeth.
Ling Teng did not tell her that the Liang family had already gone to the underworld, but after hearing Mrs. Ling's complaints, he left.
After Ling Teng returned home, Ling's second uncle asked, "Your mother is fine in the temple."
Ling Teng said, "It's okay, I'm in good spirits."
Uncle Ling stopped talking.
During the holidays, Mrs. Ling didn’t see her daughter for a day and complained to Sister Ling Si, “Your second sister is more concerned about the medicine shop than her own mother.”
Sister Ling Si laughed, "Didn't the second sister say that last night? I can't help but have to be more busy with Laba porridge in the shop today."
After staying dark at night, Ling Erjie came back with a smile. Mrs. Ling asked her, "But is Shede's home coming?"
"Why can't bear to come back? I can't help but be busy during the Chinese New Year." Ling Erjie asked with a smile, "Mom, do you have any food? I haven't eaten yet."
"Have you eaten so late yet?" Mrs. Ling hurriedly asked the maid to bring the dinner reserved for Sister Ling. Sister Ling washed her hands and slowly started eating. Mrs. Ling said, "Go again in the future, bring a few snacks on her body. If you are hungry, you can make up for one or two."
Ling Erjie laughed, "Don't say anything, mom, I'm so happy that I'm so happy. There are no ones who can work and bring snacks. Besides, I've been busy in the shop and I don't have time to eat snacks. Once I brought a few sweet potatoes to bake! I forgot to put them on the stovetop. When I think about it, I've been baked into baking eggs!" Ling Erjie laughed as she said, which made Mrs. Ling and uncle Ling laughed.
After dinner, Ling Erjie asked for some paper from Uncle Ling and went back to her house to practice calligraphy.
Ling Sijie also knew a few words, but they didn't write well. Seeing Ling Erjie practicing calligraphy today, Ling Sijie asked, "Second Sister, you are really working hard!" Her sister is different from before. Now Zhao Changqing gives Ling Erjie one tael of silver every month. When Ling Erjie got the first month's salary, she happily bought eight kinds of fruits for her family and a silk flower for Ling Sijie. As a result, she spent all of them all at once. However, Ling Erjie is different from before, and Ling Sijie is not very good at speaking. For example, in the past, Ling Erjie used to just pass the time, but in fact she couldn't recognize the word "complete" and Ling Erjie always jumped and guessed the words, and read them blindly if you could understand them. She had never learned calligraphy at night like this.
Ling Erjie laughed, "I learned a few words in a scattered way when I was a child. Later, my father taught us some when I was free, but I only recognized a thousand words, but I couldn't write them well. Now I can practice when I have free time, and literacy is a big idea. I can't recognize many medicinal materials in the shop, and I can't recognize some of the names. How can I say I work in a medicine shop? If you have free time, write more. In the future, the managers and managers must at least remember the accounts."
Sister Ling Si smiled and half-sticked her head and just watched her sister carefully practiced calligraphy. She lost her mind without realizing it.
Mrs. Ling discussed with Mrs. Ling, "The incense in Ping'an Temple is the most effective. Let's pack up the New Year gift tomorrow. Let's send it to my sister. My sister and I discussed it and donate a sum of incense to Ping'an Temple and burn a few high incense pillars for my second sister and Qing's girl."
Uncle Ling said in a muffled voice, "Please go to Yue Lao Temple to burn it."
Mrs. Ling thought about it, "That's the same." She sighed again, "Where do you think our family is wrong or what? Our daughters dare not say that they are all very good, and they are all serious daughters. Why are they always so unhappy? And with the girl Qing, it's just a disaster." Mrs. Ling didn't feel sympathy for Mrs. Ling when she went to the temple. It was just because Ling Teng didn't say it on weekdays.
Mrs. Ling sighed, but she didn't know that Ling also wanted to sigh. After Laba Festival, the family went to Zhu's family to send New Year gifts. Yuan asked Ling, "Is there a Xu Juren, can my sister recognize her?"
"Xu Juren?" Ling didn't know much Xu Juren, only Xu Huan, who killed thousands of swords. It's just a good deal. Why did Yuan ask about Xu Huan?
Yuan laughed, "It's said that Aqing and Xu Juren were also classmates in the official school. Last time they went to the autumn examination together in the city, but only Xu Juren was on the list. I asked Aqing, Xu Juren was very good at learning. But there was one thing. I heard that he had a marriage with his aunt's cousin before, so I didn't know what to do with him? Someone told us that Sister Xi was renowned, and he was talking about this Xu Juren. I asked him that Xu Juren had married his sister's eldest brother's daughter before. If you ask others, I wonder if you can find out what it is, I would like to ask the truth."
Ling did not like to talk about right and wrong outside, but when Yuan asked her, Ling's second sister was Ling's niece after all, let alone Xu Huan's lack of friendship, which was very annoying. Ling told Yuan all the bastards that Xu Huan did.
After returning home, Ling said viciously, "I got to the Zhu family so soon, and I thought it was so beautiful!"
Zhao Changqing laughed, "Why should my mother be angry about this? I want me to tell you that Sister Xi's marriage is eight out of ten."
"No, I've told Xu Huan about it."
Zhao Changqing took the warm tea from Bai Ma Zi and handed it to Ling, took another cup, and sipped it, "Uncle Yuan is not the biological mother of Sister Xi, but Xu Huan is a young juren. He said he had divorced him before, and his own conditions were there, and his family's wealth and fame were good. If he talked to Sister Ling, Uncle Yuan would definitely not be happy. But Sister Xi was just one head away. Besides, the disadvantage of Xu Huan mentioned by his mother was nothing more than lust. This is seen in men, and there are so many people like my father. Besides, a beautiful person like Sister Xi is not afraid of not being able to tie Xu Huan's heart. Even if he can't tie him up, Uncle Yu Yuan would not lose much."
Ling sighed, "These wealthy families say they are rich but do not live in one's own mind. Either you plot against me or I deal with you, what's the fun of it? It's just that your uncle Yuan doesn't consider your sister Xi and put it in his heart. Which woman can really plan for the children of the concubine wholeheartedly? It's no wonder that she is."
As expected, the Xu Zhu family made a marriage before the New Year, changed the Geng letter, and the first month of the New Year was decided, and became a marriage in March. As for Xu Huan's own temperament, Yuan did not hide it from it or embellish it, and told her husband Zhu Mingtang truthfully, "The reason why Xu Juren had a house outside and was not very close to Ling's daughter. I heard from Changqing's mother that Xu Juren had a date and had some preferences."
Zhu Mingtang disagreed, "Who is a man without three wives and four concubines? Besides, Xu Juren has a bright future. Does a man cry and cry for the world when he sets a house? No one can stand such a woman." He agreed to the marriage.
Yuan said without saying much, "Then I will prepare a dowry for Sister Xi. She called me a mother. In addition to one of the officials, I also gave her some private houses."
Zhu Mingtang felt that Yuan was virtuous and praised Yuan very much. After talking about Zhu Xi’s marriage, the couple rested early.
As for the Xu family, Xu Huan's marriage was naturally handled by Mrs. Xu. Mrs. Xu repeatedly reminded her, "If you don't have a good life, I don't know what to do."
Because of Ling's second sister's affairs, Xu Huan became a little calmer and hurriedly said, "Don't worry, my son will never know how to do it again."
Mrs. Xu sighed, "Go and see your new house." She said that she wanted to separate her son and get married at least at home.
The Xu family was busy remarrying Xu Huan. Ling Erjie went to the medicinal herb shop to buy medicinal herbs and was carrying a pack of coptis chinensis from the medicine shop. When he heard someone calling her, he turned around and saw that it was Mr. Xu. Ling Erjie smiled and said, "Uncle, why are you here?"
Master Xu was following him, and he hurried over to pick up the medicinal bags from Ling Erjie. Master Xu asked, "Are you buying medicinal materials?" He didn't know that Ling Erjie was working outside.
"The shop is busy. When I am free, I come to pick it up and pick it up at night." Ling Erjie asked, "Where is my uncle going?"
Master Xu saw that Ling Erjie was wearing ordinary clothes and was much thinner. He felt a little sad and smiled, "Silly child, this is our medicinal herbs, you don't even know."
"It turns out it's my uncle's medicine shop. Sister Qing and Mr. Su both praised my uncle's medicine shop for being affordable." Ling Erjie smiled, "I have seen this coptis chinensis, and it is indeed of excellent quality."
When Master Xu heard this, he knew that Ling Erjie was getting medicinal materials for which shop, and asked him to follow him, "You send the medicine to Sanren Pharmacy for your cousin." He said to Ling Erjie, "I haven't seen you for a long time. Come in and sit down, and ask the guys to recognize you."
Sister Ling hesitated and said, "I'm not dressed well, I'm sorry." She was embarrassed for my uncle.
Master Xu said in a gentle voice, "When I just bought the medicinal materials, I was not as good as you now. At that time, I had no money to buy clothes, and I wish I could use all the pots at home to make up the money."
Ling Erjie was a person with a broad mind, so she followed Master Xu in with a smile.
Ling Erjie married Xu Huan for four or five years, and she really didn't know what the Xu family had. The shopkeeper had not known before that this was actually a cousin, so he quickly apologized. Ling Erjie smiled, "I have many relatives, and there are many cousins and girls. I don't know that this is my uncle's property, and I didn't mention it to the shopkeeper. How can I blame you? I feel sorry for you for being so polite. Seeing that the shopkeeper is about the same age as my father in my family, if you don't dislike me, I will call you uncle. I will give me more advice in the future."
The shopkeeper thought to himself that this cousin had a good temper and laughed, "I've been treated as a cousin. What do cousin want in the future? Just send someone to say it, I'll ask my friend to send it to you."
Ling Erjie smiled, "Our pharmacy shop is small and we need less medicinal materials. We can't get any delivery from the pharmacy shop. They are all busy. I came here and just thought it was to train my body."
Master Xu said, "Sanren Pharmacy is not an outsider, so I will calculate it according to the price of the large pharmacy in the future."
The shopkeeper quickly responded, said a few words and then left. Master Xu asked, "Are you doing things in Sanren Pharmacy now? I almost forgot that the girl Zhao family is your aunt's cousin."
Ling Erjie laughed, "Uncle, don't be too careful. My mother was too lazy to let me go out to do things, afraid that I would work hard, but in fact, my family didn't have the money to lose to me. I was so annoyed at home, and my sister Qing opened a medicine shop. I thought, although I don't have the ability to save the world, I used to help with some trivial matters. Fortunately, my sister, Mr. Su was willing to teach me, and I gradually could do some small things after studying for a few months. I saw that my uncle was much haggard, and my uncle still had to think about everything. I was at my uncle's house and I didn't need to set rules by my mother-in-law when I came in? My aunt loved me and never asked me to set rules, and my two sister-in-law also took good care of me. I heard that my cousin was getting married, but before
I really hate him, thinking that he has changed his mind so quickly, now I have figured it out. We are awkward, although we don’t talk about it, don’t the elders feel it? They are still anxious for us, but they are misleading others and themselves. Now that we are separated and cannot be daughter-in-law, I am still my uncle’s niece. My uncle still takes care of me like this, so what else can I be inconsiderate? Even my cousin, I am a mediocre person, I have never read a few books, and I can’t talk to my cousin in the past. At first, I didn’t know where to go from my uncle’s house, so I stayed silent for several years. Now that I have come out, I realize that people have hands. Although I am not smart, as long as I am willing to endure hardships, I can actually make a living."
Master Xu listened carefully to Ling Erjie's words and smiled unconsciously. He was a man who started from scratch. He saw all the world and understood how courage a woman like Ling Erjie had to go out to work. He admired Ling Erjie's rare mind and demeanor. However, Master Xu smiled and suddenly burst into tears.
Ling Erjie was at a loss. She originally wanted to persuade Mr. Xu, but she didn't want to make Mr. Xu sad. She quickly took out a veil to wipe her tears and advised, "Uncle, don't do this, I want my uncle to be lenient. I am the one who can't speak, which makes my uncle sad."
Master Xu hid his tears and forced himself to smile, "Uncle is not sad, I am happy for you. If you are so generous and ambitious, you will definitely be blessed in the future."
I am not sad for you, I am sad for my son. He did a huge foolish thing and he lost a person who can never be saved. I wonder if he will regret it in the future. However, as his father, I feel deep regret and sadness for him.
Chapter completed!