Chapter 30 Own property
The house was bought with money from the old man.
The money paid for the second and third bedrooms was enough to buy the house, but there were still a few hundred taels left.
Sanfang himself had one thousand taels of silver in hand.
Xiang Lihua wanted to use the money to buy some property, and in the future she could support her three children by collecting rent.
With a fixed place to live, Xie Qi also moved back home from the academy.
Xie Lingjiao also invited her fourth cousin, who was also studying in the academy, and said that there was a spare room at home so that the fourth cousin could stay there - of course, she had told her family about this before coming.
Everyone remembers the land deed given by the fourth cousin.
No one objected to him living at home.
"This is how people live."
Xie Lingjiao sold the Ganoderma lucidum for three thousand taels of silver. With such money in her pocket, she didn't want to go out to dig up medicinal materials, so she just stayed at home.
Eat and drink.
There was also sister Xiaocao who stuttered and read ghost stories to her.
"Zhang Sheng entered Po... Po... Fifth sister, how do you pronounce this word?"
Xie Xiaocao pointed to the word temple on the book and approached Xie Lingjiao to ask.
Xie Lingjiao was eating the peeled loquat and opened her eyes after hearing this.
"Temple, Zhang Sheng entered the ruined temple."
“It turns out to be a temple!”
Xie Xiaocao read it several times and lightly marked it with a charcoal pen. Picked up the book and continued: "At night, no matter what hand, what, what, what, what, what, what."
Xie Lingjiao: “I can’t see my fingers.”
Sister Xiaocao has just started studying and doesn’t know many words.
Xie Lingjiao didn't feel annoyed at all, so she just sat under the tree and listened to her reading. She occasionally encouraged her: "Yes, Qimei, you are very talented."
Much faster than when she could read.
Moreover, Sister Xiaocao is willing to learn. Apart from eating and sleeping all day long, she is chanting on her lips and gesturing the strokes of each word out of thin air.
Seeing this, Xie Lingjiao couldn't help but sigh: If she had been so serious back then, she would have been slapped less hard by her mother.
"Really? Fifth sister!"
Xie Xiaochuan didn't dare to look at people at first, but after he started practicing calligraphy, he became more energetic and bolder.
The voices can be heard easily.
"Of course."
Xie Lingjiao was sure.
Let her eat a loquat herself, "What you studied is the textbook written by Xiaochi himself, and with my supervision, sister Xiaocao, you will definitely become a talent in the future!"
"Even if you don't believe in yourself, you still have to believe in me and Xiaochi."
"How smart our little Chi is!"
right!
Fifth Sister is right! !
Xie Xiaocao, who was already full of energy, became even more excited: "Fifth sister, don't worry, I won't let you and Xiaochi down... or anything like that!"
"Cultivation."
Xie Lingjiao asked her to continue.
Read it for a while.
Xie Xiaocao said: "I'm sorry, Fifth Sister, I should go make lunch or something."
"...Lunch?"
"Yes! That's the one!"
Xie Xiaocao carefully closed the book and put it away carefully: "I'm leaving, Fifth Sister! Do you have anything you want to eat? I'll cook it for you!"
"Steamed pork ribs."
"Okay fifth sister!"
Xie Xiaocao left happily.
Xie Lingjiao looked at her back, yawned, and shouted loudly to her mother, who was studying arithmetic in the house to collect rent: "Mother! Mother!!"
"What's wrong?"
Although she has some foundation, Xiang Lihua still has a headache in learning.
As soon as he heard his daughter calling him, he quickly opened the door and went out, "What's wrong, Jiaobao? Are you hungry? Mom, go cook for you!"
Xie Lingjiao: "Sister Xiaocao has gone."
"Xiaocao is so hardworking that he never has time to spare. Your second uncle and the others are the same, raising so many chickens and ducks. By the way, why are you calling me?" "That's right."
Xie Lingjiao fed some loquats to her mother, "Mom, do you think we should find someone to help at home? This way the family can have less work to do. Third sister has been busy recently, and sister Xiaocao is not interested except for literacy. Interested.”
No one plays with her anymore.
Xie Lingjiao didn't understand.
Human beings only have a lifespan of a few decades, and they are still busy doing this and doing that, and they don't know how to play at all.
A lifetime is gone so quickly.
Don’t rush to enjoy it either.
Alas...
"I just know how to play!" Xiang Lihua patted her daughter with a headache: "Can't you learn from Xiaocao and recognize a few more words?"
"Why do you admit so much? I don't want to take the imperial examination!"
Check out the 16-9 book bar and see the correct version!
Xie Lingjiao spoke plausibly, "Anyway, it's enough for Xiaoqi and Xiaochi to know how to read! My brother can read and I can read, there is no difference!"
fart! !
No difference yet? These are clearly two different things!
It’s true that you have no support, but you can learn by yourself!
If it were anyone else, Xiang Lihua would have rolled her eyes and scolded her. But for her daughter, she gritted her teeth and swallowed the breath.
I kept comforting myself in my heart: It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. My daughter is different, so forget it if she doesn't make progress. Anyway, if I teach my two sons well and make them filial to his sister all their lives, my daughter can live a good life.
right!
If my daughter wants to play, let her play!
Just hold on to your son tighter!
After comforting herself, Xiang Lihua opened her eyes: "Then I will go to the tooth shop to sell you to the little maid some other time?"
She asked when she bought a house last time.
A little maid costs about ten taels of silver.
Too expensive.
Xiang Lihua would definitely not be able to part with this money if she was given the task. But if my daughter wants it, it’s okay to buy one.
"No."
Xie Lingjiao pouted, "How can we play together with the little maid I bought? If something happens, should I order her, or not? No, I don't want it!"
No need to think about it?
Just do what you do with Xiaochi and Xiaoqi, the little maid!
Xiang Lihua thought so and said so.
Hearing this, Xie Lingjiao stared: "How can this happen? My brother is my biological brother! How can he be the same as the maid?"
The maid belongs to someone else's family.
It wasn't brought up by her, nor was it produced by her own family, which might make her feel uneasy about her conscience!
Xie Lingjiao didn't want it.
Her lips pursed even higher, "Forget it, Mom. I'll go out and play by myself."
"Sure, you go."
Xiang Lihua gave her a handful of coins and asked her to buy candies: "I heard that huazi shooting is very rampant now. Be careful when you go out. Don't talk to people you don't know, and don't ask for other people's things. Whatever you want, Buy it, if you don’t have enough coins, ask your mother for it.”
Xie Lingjiao has money herself.
I still wanted to give my mother a thousand taels, but I didn't want her to ask me where the money came from, so I gave some to my brothers and kept the rest myself.
"I know, mother!"
Xie Lingjiao took out her purse and put the copper plate inside, "I also have money. If you are short of money, just ask me!"
Xiang Lihua: "..."
How can I, a mother-in-law, reach out and ask for money from you?
"Go, go, go!"
Let's play and don't delay her arithmetic learning.
"Let's go, mother, bye~"
"Bye, bye."
Waved to Pear Blossom.
Return to the study.
He asked his younger son with some uncertainty: "Xiao Chi, you said your sister..." Is it okay to raise her like this? You're not going to raise your precious daughter bad, are you?
Xie Chi raised his head, "Mom, what did you say?"
"Oh...it's nothing. Where did we just learn? Then tell me about it..."
(End of chapter)