Chapter 166 You Don’t Want Money
Lu Qiniang discovered that Xiao Yan never took off his ring when he slept.
She asked him curiously why he didn't pick it and why it was too heavy.
Xiao Yan lied with his eyes open: "It's a habit I developed in the army."
"oh."
When the military is mentioned, people are filled with awe.
Good, respect!
These five taels of silver were well spent. I kept them with me day and night.
However, the next day, when Lu Qiniang saw the black-armored soldiers again, she felt unwell.
She tentatively asked Daya: "You said they wouldn't go to your father's side, right?"
"Mom, it seems to be over there..."
Lu Qi Niang: "...It definitely wouldn't be such a coincidence to run into your father and the others."
Xiao Yan was digging mud to build a dam, he couldn't see it, he definitely couldn't see it.
Anyway, it's impossible to ask her to pay another five taels of silver.
What kind of family spends five taels of silver every day to please their husband?
This man only cost five taels of silver to buy, and the subsequent maintenance costs are too high and unbearable.
Lu Qiniang was just deceiving herself when she heard Daya say, "Mother, we've seen the Black Armored Army these past few days..."
"Has it been like this these days? Why didn't I see it yesterday?"
"You were delivering the goods and didn't notice."
Lu Qiniang: It’s over, it’s over. If you walk by the river often, you will get your feet wet.
Xiao Yan will always meet him.
But the problem is, who knows when you will meet him?
You can't coax him every day.
You can coax them, but don’t spend money.
Daya said, "I was curious yesterday, so I asked someone about their whereabouts."
"Where are you going?"
"The place they went to was the Chaobai River dam."
Lu Qi Niang: "Why, going to see your father?"
These people too, why didn’t they come when Xiao Yan was in trouble? Now that he has redeemed himself and become a good citizen, they come again?
The child died and the milk came.
"They're not going to see my father. They're doing their daily horseback archery training," Daya said. "I heard there's a rat infestation on the Chaobai River embankment. The people on the embankment are responsible for lighting fires to smoke out the rats so they can be shot to death."
Lu Qiniang: "That's a good thing. But your father must have encountered something. He didn't even tell anyone when he got home, alas."
Xiao Yan must be feeling very uncomfortable.
Seeing his old subordinates right before his eyes, yet he was reduced to a serving civilian, his pride was probably shattered to the ground...
No, we still have to coax her, and there has to be a long-term plan.
Lu Qiniang thought that she could coax a child, but she had no experience in coaxing a man.
Actually, there was, but didn’t it coax Zhang Heyao away?
So that was a lesson learned, and we must not repeat the same mistake.
After much thought, Lu Qiniang went to find her only male "honest friend" who could tell the truth -
Doctor Hu.
Doctor Hu came to bring her medicine, and Lu Qiniang pulled him aside.
"What are you doing? Stop dragging your feet." Doctor Hu said, "Give me the money quickly."
"Here, here, here. You're indispensable. Old Hu, please do me a favor."
"No help." Doctor Hu refused ruthlessly, "I knew it would be bad luck if you came to me."
"I won't let you treat patients this time. I just want to ask you something, something about men."
"Men's things? Why, you're not a man?"
Lu Qi Niang: "...What nonsense are you talking about!"
She didn't have the nerve to ask if it was possible or not.
To stop Divine Doctor Hu from talking nonsense, she quickly explained the whole story and said worriedly, "You said I just spent five taels of silver to buy him a ring, and he was quite happy. But I think this is a long-term thing. Is there anything that doesn't cost money and can make Xiao Yan happy?"
"Yes, I have!"
"Ah? What? Old Hu, tell me!"
"As a man, all he thinks about is women. With women, he's happy every day."
Lu Qiniang: "I'm going to buy him a woman? That would require another mouth to feed, and it would be so expensive! What a rotten idea!"
Doctor Hu asked, "Why, you are a man?"
Lu Qiniang understood and her face flushed: "Old Hu, why are you not serious anymore!"
"Why aren't you serious? You two are already a couple, why are you being so pretentious? Don't you want to have a son?"
Lu Qiniang stammered, "I, I, Xiao Yan and I are not related at all."
"You two are sleeping on the same kang, and you still have to beat each other with a stick?" Doctor Hu was speechless.
"Old Hu, don't talk nonsense."
"What nonsense did I say? You're so clueless. Remember, you two are a couple, a couple! Why don't you take advantage of this opportunity to give him a son and tie him down? Are you going to wait until he becomes successful and leaves you like Zhang Heyao did?"
After Doctor Hu left, it felt like there were two villains fighting in Lu Qiniang's mind.
One of the villains is Doctor Hu. He said that they are husband and wife, Xiao Yan is a good person and does not despise her, so they should live a good life and they will eventually be able to live together.
Another villain is herself. She said, "Lu Qi Niang, what, even a little bit, do you have that makes you worthy of Xiao Yan? You've been despised once, are you going to be despised again? You only remember the food and not the beating, right?"
Lu Qinniang was torn between her conscience and her conscience.
By noon, most of the items on the stall were sold out, so the mother and her two daughters packed up the stall and went home to prepare things for the next day.
"Daya, leave it there, I'll knead the dough."
Lu Qiniang didn't need her daughter to do the hard work, she did it herself.
Because of the dense flow of grain ships, business has been very good recently. The three big pots at home are all in use, and the steamers are five-layered and steaming hot.
Let’s do this for this year. If business is good next year, we will have to hire someone to help.
When she finished her work, Lu Qiniang was covered in flour and sweating profusely.
"Mom, please go and wash up." Daya said with a smile.
Lu Qiniang went back to the house, took a shower, and changed into clean clothes.
She touched her belly and it seemed to have shrunk a bit, but with her big body, she was destined to never have a slim waist in this life.
But she inexplicably remembered what Doctor Hu said, and inexplicably rubbed some of that extremely expensive rose water on her neck.
Then Lu Qiniang's face turned red.
What is she doing!
But I've already wiped it off. It's so expensive, I can't bear to wash it off, so forget it.
Ah Huang stood three feet away from her in disgust.
"Mom, the Fifth Young Master is here!" Erya shouted in the yard.
"Hey, here I come." Lu Qiniang hurried out to greet her.
Zhou Xiaoyao's face had become much rosier. Standing under the grape trellis, his blue silk official uniform from the Hanlin Academy was gilded by the afterglow.
"Sister." He said with a smile and handed over the snack in his hand.
"Come on, what else do you want to buy? Come in and sit down."
Zhou Xiaoyao smiled and shook his head: "I have something else to do. I just stopped by today and came to tell you, sister, that I have already spoken to the clan leader about the adoption, and he said he would consider it. Sister, don't worry about me anymore, I'm fine."
"Oh." After hearing this, Lu Qinniang felt uneasy.
consider?
Why does she feel like she is just shirking responsibility?
Zhou Xiaoyao was about to leave, but Lu Qiniang said, "Wait, wait a minute."
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