Chapter 504: Counting Money (for the reward from the book friend "Yu Luo Shui Xin Lian Yi Xiang")
Zhou Wulang nodded in agreement and glanced at his father.
Old Zhou didn't say anything, but when he saw him looking at him, he glared back.
Zhou Wulang and Manbao lowered their heads and laughed.
Zhou Wulang was very curious, so he asked Old Zhou in a low voice, "Dad, is your mother-in-law difficult to deal with?"
"Huh?" Manbao counted on his fingers. Isn't Dad's mother-in-law his grandmother?
Manbao, who had never seen her grandmother, also became excited and left her mother to run up to listen.
Can Old Zhou be said to be difficult in front of his wife?
So Old Zhou glanced at the two children and said, "Your grandmother is fine."
Qian walked forward without looking around. Old Zhou breathed a sigh of relief and wiped the sweat from his forehead.
That's strange. When he came to her house, she was the one who didn't let Qian go home with him, and she even let her three uncles hold him down and beat him up.
As soon as he got home, Zhou Liulang came up to him with a bunch of nephews and nieces, "Fifth brother, have they found someone they like?"
Zhou Wulang raised his head proudly, "Of course, the marriage has been decided."
When everyone heard this, they cried out in joy and congratulated him. Even Mrs. Qian couldn't help but laugh as she stood at the kitchen door. "Now Lao Wu's dream has come true."
Old Zhou was annoyed by their noise and waved his hand, saying, "Go back to your own little courtyard and stop making so much noise. What's the point of making so much noise?"
When they were about to leave, Old Zhou suddenly remembered something and called Zhou Liulang, "Liulang, you are not young anymore, it's time for you to get married."
Zhou Liulang immediately said, "Dad, I'm not in a hurry."
He said, "I don't want to get married yet. Let's wait until I'm a few years older."
"How much older do you want to be? Your eldest brother was already married when he was your age."
Zhou Liulang said, "Anyway, I don't want to get married."
After saying that, he followed everyone to the yard.
He said to the curious Zhou Wulang and Manbao, "I'm not stupid. I've met every good girl over fifteen years old in the surrounding villages. It doesn't make sense that I was chosen while he wasn't."
Manbao: "...There are still many people who look down on Fifth Brother. Maybe those people will like you?"
Zhou Liulang thought for a moment and said, "That won't do either. It would be so embarrassing if we met at home later. Anyway, I don't want to get married yet."
Unlike Zhou Wulang who had always wanted to get married since he was a child, Zhou Liulang had never thought about it, especially after the new house was built and he had his own room, he even less thought about getting married.
Not only will my wife have to live with me after I marry her, but my children will also have to live in the same room with me. Just thinking about it makes me feel annoyed.
He prefers to sleep alone in a big bed.
Manbao told her mother what her sixth brother had said without any hesitation.
Qian was silent for a while, and Old Zhou was no longer worried. He laughed and said, "It's because he hasn't figured it out yet. It will be fine once he does."
What else could Qian do except nod?
Zhou Wulang is engaged, so the wedding is not far away.
After waiting for a few days, Old Zhou felt that the two families had become more familiar with each other, so he asked Zhou Wulang to bring a chicken and go with matchmaker Wang to ask for the wedding date.
It went surprisingly smoothly. The Lu family actually hoped that the two children could get married soon. In the words of the old doctor, "Zhi Niang is not young anymore. She will be eighteen next year."
This time, Lu's mother's attitude towards Zhou Wulang was quite good, so Zhou Wulang was very proud and quickly set the wedding date.
They went to a Taoist priest on the mountain to calculate an auspicious date, which happened to be December 21st. The third day after the wedding banquet was the Little New Year.
Old Zhou also thought that this was a good day. He didn't have to worry about having too much meat when preparing it, as he could just save the excess for the New Year.
There was a wedding to be held at home, but this time Old Zhou was no longer stingy. He felt bad when he saw the money being spent like he did when Zhou Silang got married last time.
Because now his son is rich.
The amount of money he spent was actually not much different from when he arranged Zhou Silang's wedding, but the feeling was different. He couldn't help but say to Qian: "The feeling of having money is so different from the feeling of not having money."
Qian couldn't help laughing, "Isn't this nonsense?"
Old Zhou counted the money in the house again, and then closed the box with satisfaction.
Zhou Wulang was also counting money at this time. He was about to get married, so Manbao took his share of the money out of the system and gave it to him.
The money they deposited with her always had its own box and account book. Every time they gave her money, she would directly throw it into the corresponding box and then take out the account book to record it.
Every time they took money from her, they would record it, so the accounts were clear.
Zhou Wulang didn't even look at the account book. He just carried the box back to his room and counted it happily.
Manbao and Zhou Liulang were very curious, so they sneaked into the room and counted together.
In his box, there were two brand new five-liang silver ingots, which were distributed by his family before, as well as some small silver blocks, and more were copper coins strung together in strings.
Zhou Wulang counted again and again and was surprised. Although he knew that he was very rich, he didn't expect he could be so rich.
He couldn't tell how heavy those loose silver pieces were, so he had to weigh them.
But the amount that could be counted was twenty-eight taels, which was enough for him to marry three times.
Zhou Wulang happily instructed Zhou Liulang, "Go get me a scale. I want to weigh this silver."
Zhou Liulang also felt itchy and said to Manbao, "I want to count my money too."
Manbao said it was no problem.
The brother and sister ran out together, one went to the courtyard to get the scale, and the other ran back to the room to get the cash box.
Zhou Liulang also had two silver ingots weighing five taels each, but the money he had left was less than Zhou Wulang's. In fact, they earned almost the same amount, but the difference lay in how they spent it.
Zhou Wulang always wanted to get married, so he saved money with great determination, but Zhou Liulang was different.
Every Chinese New Year he would buy himself new cloth to make clothes, and he also loved to eat all kinds of delicious food, so he spent a lot of money.
The main reason is that he doesn't want to get married.
But when he counted the money, he couldn't help but look at the fifth brother's money box with envy and heartache, "If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have spent so much."
Manbao said nonchalantly, "If you don't spend money and you don't marry a wife, what's the point of keeping it?"
She said, "I spent a lot. I've already agreed with Bai Shanbao and the others that we're going to a restaurant in the county town to eat delicious food during the New Year."
Zhou Liulang perked up and asked, "Can you take me with you?"
"Sure, but you have to pay for it."
Zhou Liulang felt his money and asked reluctantly, "How much do you want?"
"Our preliminary calculation is that each person will cost three hundred coins."
Zhou Liulang hadn't reacted yet when Zhou Wulang screamed, "So much, are you eating dragon liver and phoenix marrow?"
"We can't just eat in restaurants, we can also buy some delicious food from the streets and alleys and eat them together." Manbao said, "The three of us have similar appetites. If we buy too much, we can't finish it. We can buy one or two and share them. That way we can eat a lot of delicious food."
Zhou Liulang's eyes lit up slightly, and he nodded repeatedly, saying, "That's a good idea, that's a good idea. I want to join in, too."
Zhou Wulang was very skeptical. "Won't you get stomach upset if you eat so much at once?"
Manbao smiled and said, "Yes, so we decided to eat it over three days."
Zhou Liulang was even happier. "That's great, that's great, Manbao. Tell the young master of the Bai family that I want to join you, too. It's just right. I'm older than you and can protect you."
Friday Lang:......
Good night, see you tomorrow
(End of this chapter)
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