"I heard from mother that you broke off the relationship with my aunt?" She didn't want to mention it originally, but now that she was in front of the person, she couldn't help but feel curious.
Zhang Yuqing nodded. "It's over. I've even written the letter of severance. I have no further ties with them from now on."
Chunxiao looked at her, not knowing how to greet her.
"Cousin, don't be curious. I don't want to talk about my sister-in-law. I feel sick when I see her now. She is not a good person."
"Then I won't ask." It was indeed related to Xu. "That cousin's wife is really not a good person."
She looked at Mu Ming and Shu Lin who were sitting beside her, as well as a well-behaved little girl. "What's your name, little girl? This is the first time I've met you, and I haven't prepared a gift for you."
The little girl smiled at her and said, "Aunt, my name is Fang Xiaoyu, and I am 7 years old."
"Xiaoyu is so good." Chunxiao likes well-behaved children. She felt around her body and finally found the gold peanut bracelet she bought before in her inner pocket. This bracelet was originally intended to be given to Changxing, but the little guy Changxing didn't care about it at all, so she would borrow the flowers to offer her blessings today.
She took out the bracelet and put it on the little girl's hand. "My cousin gave it to you. Do you like it?"
"Cousin, you can't use this." Zhang Yuqing knew the bracelet was worth a lot of money as soon as she saw it. "You can take it back."
"Cousin, this is a meeting gift from me to Xiaoyu. Look how beautiful she looks wearing it." A few golden peanuts were strung together on a red thread. "Let her wear it. It's not worth anything."
"Cousin, how can we accept this?" Fang Erqiang finally spoke.
"It's okay, keep it." She looked at the little girl, "Xiaoyu, do you like it?"
Although the little girl was happy, she still looked at her parents and didn't dare to speak.
"Look, you've scared the child." Chun Xiao touched the child's hand. "Don't be afraid. Your parents said you can keep it. Wear it. It looks good."
The little girl then smiled and said she liked it.
In the evening, everyone gathered together for a family dinner. Chunxiao felt that she had not gotten enough sleep after entertaining guests all day, so she carried a lunch box and went back to the end of the village.
Xiaohua was already waiting for her in the yard.
"This dish has gotten cold since we carried it all the way here. You should heat it up before eating. I didn't even see you when you left."
"I came back after finishing my meal. I wanted to greet you, but I didn't come forward when I saw you talking to the guests. Miss, they came to our place on horseback today. I saw it. It was so lively that everyone in the village followed."
Chunxiao hadn't expected it either. "It actually swam to the end of the village. It's really noisy."
"Yes, luckily I was here, otherwise no one would have opened the gate for them. But I did see the bride, miss. It's quite lively over there today, isn't it?"
"It's lively! The whole village is out. Isn't it lively? No, I need to go to bed early today. I didn't get enough sleep and I'm still a little dizzy."
Xiaohua went to heat up the food and boil some water for her.
Chunxiao returned to her room, sat at the desk, and prepared to draw a blueprint when she suddenly saw two boxes next to the cabinet in the room. They used to be placed separately, but now they were stacked together.
She fumbled for the key from her usual spot in the cabinet and opened the upper box. It was filled with white silver ingots, which must have been the money from this year's cotton sales. It must have been several hundred taels, and the one at the bottom was probably the cloth she had saved.
Thinking of money, she remembered her banknotes, so she sat on the bed and began to take off her old clothes, taking out all the banknotes and stacking them together into a thick stack. She then opened her secret cabinet, where there were still 20,000 taels, making a total of 150,000 taels.
The silver bills in the secret cabinet box must have been there for a long time, and the color had changed slightly. The box could not hold so much money at all. She tried hard to stuff 100,000 taels of bills in. Finally, she took a small jar and stuffed all the remaining silver bills into the jar. She hid the box and the jar together in the secret cabinet.
When Xiaohua came over, she saw her squatting and counting silver ingots.
"Miss, why are you counting money again? Do you want me to count it for you?"
"No need, hurry up and eat. I'll count it so I have an idea." Her parents must have lived here before, otherwise they wouldn't have left so much money there. If it was like before, someone could have stolen it. It was over 600 taels of silver in total. She counted it in her mind, and it was about the money from selling cotton. She still had over 100 taels on her, enough loose change to last her for a while. She would also take a trip to the farm sometime to check it out.
The next day, she went to Yan Dashan's house for dinner as usual. Most of the relatives had already left. Everything was back to normal.
"Chunxiao, there's a box of silver in your room. You'd better take good care of it. I forgot to tell you yesterday."
"I saw it when I got home yesterday. Xiaohua was afraid someone had broken into the house, so she refused to come over and insisted on staying home to watch over the place."
"It's good to keep watch over there. Don't worry. I was thinking you could pick one or two women from your farm to help you watch over there. You're not here often, and sometimes we have things to do here and can't take care of both sides."
Chunxiao thought it made sense. "Let's talk about it later. We're not leaving for a while anyway. Oh, and I don't need the carriage tomorrow. I want to go to the farm tomorrow. Chinese New Year is in two days, and I have to go see it when I get back. Also, I haven't prepared anything yet, so I'll do some shopping in town tomorrow."
"Do you want me to go with you? Don't you still need to buy something?"
"No need, mother. I can just take Xiaohua with me. You can just help me watch over there tomorrow."
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