Chapter 471 Like
Some cold bracelets were put on his hands. Maybe it was because he was not familiar with the business or maybe it was because he was nervous, but it took Lao Zhou a while to put them on.
But Qian was sure that he must have practiced, otherwise how could he put the bracelet accurately on her hand in the dim night light from outside?
In the moonlight, Qian stared blankly at the thin bracelet on her wrist, and these thoughts came to her mind.
She knew that something was not right with him these past few days. He acted strangely. He neither followed the fourth brother and the others to the mountains to look for mushrooms and poria cocos, nor did he go to the fields to check on his rice and wheat. He just sat at home all day, swaying here and there.
She thought he was here because Aunt Lai was spreading rumors about the absurd things he did when he was young, but she didn't expect it was because of this.
Old Zhou waited for a long time, and when he saw that she didn't say anything, he couldn't help but coughed violently.
Qian couldn't help but burst out laughing and raised her wrist to look at it. "How can I see it in the middle of the night? Why don't you give it to me during the day?"
Old Zhou's face was filled with regret when he heard this. He muttered, "During the day, there was no..."
"Did you ask the second brother to buy it?"
"No, I bought it myself."
"Don't you go into the city only once every eight days?" Qian said with a smile, "and you bought it then?"
Old Zhou grunted and said nothing.
Qian sat up from the bed, raised her wrist and examined it carefully in the moonlight, then smiled and said, "It's quite nice. Did you choose it?"
Old Zhou became happy and nodded, "Yeah."
No matter how old a woman is, there is no woman who doesn't like accessories.
Besides, this was Qian's first time having a silver bracelet. She looked at it for a long time before she remembered to ask, "How much is this?"
"It's too expensive," Old Zhou said, "three taels, seven hundred coins."
Qian raised her eyebrows and asked, "Where did you get the money?"
Old Zhou was stunned, then he remembered that he seemed to have no money.
Qian remembered that her daughter's eyes had been getting wider and wider in the past two days, and she stared at him motionlessly.
Under her gaze, Old Zhou reluctantly whispered, "I borrowed it from Manbao."
Qian: "...How are you going to pay her back?"
Don't tell her to...
Old Zhou coughed lightly and said, "Manbao is still young. I have already discussed it with her. I will pay her back after she gets married."
Qian looked at him for a long moment, then nodded slightly and said, "Okay, as long as you understand what's going on."
She didn't ask him if he planned to earn money to pay it back. She knew that he must have some private money hidden, but she didn't know how much he had hidden.
But Manbao's...
Qian smiled slightly and went to sleep wearing the silver bracelet. The next day, Manbao came to have breakfast and saw the silver bracelet on his mother's wrist. He was delighted and said, "Mom, please show it to me."
Qian smiled and showed her her hand.
Manbao looked at the style and asked, "Mom, do you like this?"
Seeing Old Zhou listening intently, Qian smiled and nodded, "I like it."
Manbao then memorized the appearance of the silver bracelet.
The daughters-in-law of Xiao Qianshi only then noticed that their mother-in-law was wearing a silver bracelet. They all complimented her, "This looks really good on you, mother."
Qian smiled and said, "Your father-in-law gave it to you."
The daughters-in-law praised "father-in-law for having such good taste", and then Old Zhou on the side also became happy.
Manbao then quietly asked his sister-in-law, "Sister-in-law, do you like this too?"
Xiao Qian smiled and nodded, "Where's the silver bracelet?"
I like them all, no matter what they are.
Manbao nodded, it seems that his father has a good vision.
After everyone left, Old Zhou went to look at his precious cow with his hands behind his back. Qian then pulled Manbao over and asked, "Did your father borrow money from you?"
Manbao nodded.
She then asked, "Isn't your father's private money enough to buy a bracelet?"
Manbao looked disgusted and said, "Dad only has a little over a hundred coins in his pocket, how can this be possible?"
Qian: ...After all these years of being frugal, you only have a little over a hundred coins?
Manbao looked around and whispered to her mother, "There are still twenty or so coins that were deducted from my second brother."
Qian looked confused, "Why did he withhold your second brother's money?"
"Last year, my second brother wanted to go to the city to sell something, but my father deducted half of his earnings, leaving him only ten cents a day. My second brother complained to me privately for a long time."
Qian rubbed her forehead, but when she thought about it, it became clear that Old Zhou really had no chance to make money.
The family had a good harvest, and she would basically get the money right after she sold the crops.
Even if Old Zhou and his sons went to work for the white landlord together, his sons had to hand over 60% of the profits, but he had to pay the full amount.
So how did he save the remaining private money?
When Qian came back to her senses, she saw Manbao shrunk her neck and smiled smugly. She knew what she was proud of, so she tapped her forehead and said, "Your Zhou family members are quite similar in this respect."
"What's similar?"
"To hide my private money."
That's right. Manbao, who currently has the most private money in the family, smiled and left her mother and quickly went into the kitchen to find something to eat.
The atmosphere in Old Zhou's family is good. Although for some reasons, the young people in Qili Village all know that the hardworking Old Zhou was a lazy man when he was young, this does not prevent the young people in Old Zhou's family from dominating the village.
Because as Old Zhou's reputation for laziness was being spread, the news that he had a smart second brother also spread in a small circle.
Adults don't talk about Zhou Yin very often, though they're not as shy about it as before. However, some very old people will occasionally mention him.
But for the young people in the village, this is a new person whom they have never heard of before, so they will naturally pay more attention to him.
As a result, Datou and his family had a reasonable explanation for their aunt's and their own intelligence. "Look at how smart my great-uncle is, so it's natural for my aunt to be smart. It's also natural for us to be smart. This is all given by our ancestors."
The friends all looked at them with envy, and when they went home at night they couldn't help but sigh at their grandparents and parents, thinking that this was inherited from their ancestors, so they were not as smart as Datou and the others, and they really couldn't blame them.
Yes, Datou and his brothers and sisters are very smart in the eyes of their friends in the village.
They can not only count, recognize words and read, but also know many, many things.
If we say that Zhou Silang dominated the village with his strong fists and many brothers, Zhou Wulang and Zhou Liulang were the kings of the village with their money and many brothers, then Datou, Daya, Ertou and Erya and others maintained their positions among their peers with their wisdom.
Many children don’t know that intelligence can grow, especially during childhood.
At least Koko felt that its host was getting smarter as she grew older and learned more. Now, she could easily deal with people who found her through the forum.
Especially Dr. D and others who had more frequent interactions, no one noticed that there was a child opposite them.
(End of this chapter)
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