Chapter 122 Gift Money
When Chu Hong returned home, she was still a little panicked and restless, fearing that someone might have died.
Finally, she looked for Xiao Hei first: "Little Hei, little cutie, do you want to go out for a walk?"
Ever since the family started exchanging enamel basins for grain, the amount of food in the house has increased rapidly. The jars and wooden cabinets are all filled with broken rice, and there are still more than a dozen bags of grain and several bags of rice with nowhere to put them.
I originally asked the carpenter to make two large cabinets, but they were still not enough, so I secretly bought a few large jars to store the rice.
There are two more cabinets added behind this, and they should be ready soon.
It’s the mouse’s nature to love rice, so the mouse had no choice but to bring Xiao Hei home.
Of course, we can't force Xiao Hei to go home, we can only tempt him with delicious food.
For Xiao Hei, he has many friends outside and can have a lot of fun, but the food is rather monotonous.
Nowadays, the only thing cats can eat is mice.
Therefore, Chu Hong took him home smoothly.
Xiao Hei called his friends and brought the two cats home.
Therefore, even mice dared not show up in Chu Hong's house.
When Chu Hong found Xiao Hei, she saw the three cats fighting in a mess on the ground.
The way Chu Hong looked at Xiao Hei was as if she was looking at a scumbag.
Fortunately, Xiao Hei didn’t understand the meaning of her eyes. He was just having fun playing with his brothers.
Therefore, Xiao Hei didn’t want to go out to play at all. In a while, his owner would prepare meal for him. What if he missed the meal by going out?
Chu Hong saw that talking was useless, so she just tried to catch Xiao Hei, scaring the other two cats so much that they ran away. There was no brotherhood at all.
The caught Xiao Hei angrily meowed at her and gave her a small plum-shaped paw: "Let me go."
Chu Hong was also afraid that her family would see her talking to the cat, worrying that she would be suspected of being mentally ill.
She grabbed Xiao Hei's neck and went back to the room. She took out a piece of candy from the drawer and put it into Xiao Hei's mouth. Xiao Hei immediately calmed down.
In Chu Hong's memory, cats and dogs cannot eat sweet or salty food, but Xiao Hei likes to eat everything.
She accidentally saw Xiao Hei peeling candy with his cat paws.
When you need something from Xiao Hei, just give him something delicious.
As expected, Xiao Hei did not resist. Chu Hong whispered, "Xiao Hei, go to the next village and see if there is anyone fighting. If not, come back after dark."
He didn't forget to add a killer line: "I'll save some dinner for you, and I'll get you some fish in two days."
Xiao Hei took a look and said obediently: "You should have told me earlier. Wait for my good news."
It thought Chu Hong was a little silly. If she had asked it to go to the next village to watch the fun earlier, it would have agreed.
Since we have more broken rice at home, we can now have rice for one meal every day.
During dinner, Chu Hong said that she was going to buy some pig offal the next day.
Wu Xiu was very supportive of this: "Even if there is no pig offal, it would be fine to buy some bones, pig trotters, etc."
Secretary Song also reminded her: "If you go too late and there is nothing to sell, ask your sister to buy it early in the next few days."
"Just go to the He family and get it when the time comes."
Chu Hong nodded continuously: "We are thinking the same thing. Grandma and I said the same thing before."
Then he asked him, "Can the wooden cabinet be delivered tomorrow? Otherwise, it would be inappropriate for people to see so many sacks of rice in our house."
Secretary Song nodded: "We agreed before that it will be delivered to you in the evening."
Chu Hong was relieved and asked Xiao Yuer, "Do you want to go with me to see your aunt tomorrow?"
Xiao Yuer is only six years old today and there is no preschool or anything like that now. He has to wait until next year to go to school.
However, children in the countryside are free-range. They either dig wild vegetables or play in the mud, but run around all over the mountains and fields.
Xiao Yuer is getting along well with Chuchu now. After hesitating for a moment, he shook his head and said, "Chuchu and I have an appointment to go dig earthworms to feed the chickens tomorrow."
Chu Hong's whole body froze. She was fearless except for mollusks.
I could only laugh dryly: "Xiao Yu'er, you are really capable."
Wu Xiu shook his head and said, "How dare you say that? I think Xiao Yu'er is much more diligent than you."
Chu Hong was thick-skinned and didn't care at all: "I'm also very hardworking. My job is not easy!"
No one in the family believed what she said. At least until now, Chu Hong always got up late and went to bed early, and she was never seen busy at work.
But what matters now is her marriage.
Chu Tong took out the notebook and said, "All the forty-four households in our village have sent gifts."
"Twenty families sent money, and received eighty-six dollars."
Nowadays, when people give money for marriage, giving two dollars is normal, and five dollars is considered too much.
Chu Hong was a little surprised: "Could it be that I remembered it wrong? Isn't there forty-two households in our village?"
Chu Tong couldn't help laughing: "You forgot that Uncle Six and his two sons separated. Doesn't this mean there are two more households?"
Wu Xiu also asked curiously: "What did Aunt Six and the others send?"
Chu Tong was in charge of the gift-collecting and accounting at home, so she knew what was going on: "It was sent by Uncle Six yesterday. It was two towels."
Secretary Song also shook his head: "They are too stingy. This towel must have been given by someone else when the mistress got married."
He also gossiped a little: "What did the two sons of the sixth brother send over?"
Chu Tong was afraid that she had made a mistake, so she opened the notebook and took a look: "They each gave two yuan and took ten eggs."
Secretary Song not only did not complain about the small amount, but nodded: "They didn't get much either. If they come to borrow money later, we will help them out."
When the quarrel happened last year, Sixth Aunt said that they would not leave home even if the family was divided, and that she would give each of her two sons a room.
But this time, the two daughters-in-law killed and stewed the two hens in the house. They also broke open the locked cupboard and boiled eggs with brown sugar, which almost made Aunt Six angry to death.
So they simply let them build their own houses. They gave each family two bags of rice, half a bag of flour, half a bag of grains, and fifty yuan, and then sent the two sons away.
This amount of money is definitely not enough to build a house, and the fact that each family can contribute two yuan makes Secretary Song think that they are pretty good.
Wu Xiu also gossiped a little: "I heard that the brothers want to build a house near us?"
Secretary Song knew all the places in the village where houses could be built: "There is a hillside behind us, next to us is Old Chu and his family, and beyond that is the cowshed."
“If they want to build, they can only build on the other side of the road.”
Chu Hong was the one cooking tonight, so after dinner, Chu Tong quickly cleaned up the dishes.
At this moment, someone outside shouted, "Old Song, are you home?"
"Yes, who is it?" Secretary Song, who was originally waiting for the carpenter to deliver the wooden cabinet, felt a little panicked and prepared to send the person away as soon as possible.
Secretary Wu came in with a flashlight and looked at Chu Hong, who was sitting next to him and talking to the little girl, with complicated eyes: "I'm here to see our women's director."
Chu Hong saw that it was Secretary Wu who came in. She felt a little uneasy and felt that something was wrong. After hearing his sarcastic words, she could only laugh dryly: "Uncle, you are a rare guest. Please take a seat."
It was rare that he was so attentive in making tea, and he generously put two spoons of sugar and some tea leaves in it.
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