Chapter 9 What good things are you thinking about?
Shi Qingluo sat down leisurely.
He looked at Niu and said, "I'm thirsty. Go get me a cup of tea."
Mr. Niu really wanted to give this increasingly arrogant daughter a slap in the face. Whose dead girl dared to ask her own mother to wait on her to make tea and pour water?
It's a pity that she didn't dare. After retorting several times before, she was slapped with the cane by the dead girl, and her whole body was in burning pain.
"Drink!" After she finished brewing, she placed the tea cup heavily on the table, choking on it.
The old man looked at it with pain. This was the tea he drank while hiding it. In the past few days, everything had gone into this evil creature's mouth. He was so heartbroken.
Shi Qingluo took a sip and said with disdain: "The quality of this tea is still a bit low. Fortunately, I don't need to drink it anymore."
She was introduced to tea culture by her grandfather in modern times and fell in love with drinking tea.
In the past, she would not even take a look at this tea, but now she can only make do with it.
When you earn money, you have to buy some good tea.
Mr. Shi: "..."
The tea that he couldn't bear to part with was almost finished by her, but she actually had the nerve to be so disgusted with it.
He continued to suppress his anger, "You just said you were getting married. What did you mean?"
Shi Qingluo replied: "I have fallen in love with a family, and I have made a good deal with his family. I will marry him the day after tomorrow."
"Pfft!" The old man couldn't help but spit out the water he had just drank.
The others also looked dumbfounded.
Shi Laosan thought he heard wrongly, "What the hell? Marry the day after tomorrow?"
At that time, the old lady and Mr. Niu asked in unison: "Which one?"
Shi Qingluo said truthfully: "Xiao Xiucai's family in Xiaxi Village next door."
Niu asked in surprise: "What? You don't want to marry Xiao Xiucai, do you?"
She usually likes to chat outside, so she knows the situation at Xiao Xiucai's house.
Shi Qing rolled his eyes at her, "That's right! If I don't marry him, how could I marry his younger brother?"
Niu asked: "Do you know that Xiao Xiucai is in a coma and will probably be widowed if he gets married? Do you know that their family has no money to buy medicine? Do you know that he has broken off the relationship with the general's father?"
He doesn't want a powerful general father to follow a poor and divorced mother. In his opinion, that Xiao Xiucai is a fool.
Shi Qing nodded, "Of course I know, I wanted to marry him just because of the situation in his family."
She glanced at the people in Shi's family and said bluntly: "Even if I get married and become a widow, it will be more comfortable than living with you."
Shi family: "..."
Mrs. Shi said with a stern face: "Are you crazy? If the recent incident had not happened in the Xiao family, it would indeed be a good family, but now it is a pit of fire."
Shi Qingluo raised his eyebrows, "No matter how hot the fire pit is, there is no Shijia pit, right?"
"The reason why you say that is because their family can't afford the bride price?" She also understood the Shi family's excellent character.
Hearing this, the old lady Shi's face froze and she sneered: "Our family has raised you so big, shouldn't we receive a dowry when we marry you off?"
It really doesn't matter to her whether it's a fire or not.
I even wish it was a fire pit, but the key is that the fire pit must be valuable, just like the one in the Wu family.
Mrs. Niu couldn't help but echoed: "That's right, no matter what, if the Xiao family wants to marry you, they must give out ten taels of silver as a betrothal gift."
She wanted to say one hundred taels, but it was impossible for the Xiao family to come up with it.
When she thought of the one hundred taels flying away like that, she felt heartbroken again.
Others feel similarly.
Mrs. Shi agreed and said, "Yes, if you don't have money, let them borrow it."
Shi Qingluo looked at them with a half-smile, "I want ten taels of silver! That's fine, but I don't know if you have the money to spend."
Shi's family: "..." Is this human language?
Niu was so angry that his heart ached, "Don't forget, you were raised by us."
Shi Qingluo sneered, "I started working when I was three years old, and was sent to a Taoist temple when I was five years old. You also took my salary every month, so are you sure you raised me?"
"Don't be so shameless."
Her face instantly turned cold, "The bride price is not worth a penny, and you have to pay me the compensation you owe me."
Niu asked loudly, as if you were crazy, "What? Not only will we not give you a betrothal gift, but we also have to compensate you?"
Shi Qingluo grabbed the rattan that had been deliberately placed under the table and pulled it out, "Shouldn't we compensate?"
"Over the years, I have been sucked by your blood."
Niu was caught unawares and jumped up, "Ah!"
She wanted to yell loudly or sit on the ground and act violently, but when she saw the cold eyes from Shi Qingluo, she held it back.
How could she have given birth to such a rebellious and unfilial person?
Mrs. Shi said hurriedly: "No, the money at home has been spent long ago. Your fourth uncle won't have enough money to take the scholar exam next year."
Shi Qingluo knew that all the money at home would be used for Shi Laosi's examination of the scholar.
Mrs. Shi values money more than her life and is unlikely to dig it out.
She had already thought about it, "Then compensate with grain. Give me a hundred kilograms of whole grains, and the three bags of soybeans and mung beans in the kitchen. I want them too."
This is an extremely painful but acceptable range.
I learned from my memories that potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn did not exist in this dynasty.
Coarse grains are mainly buckwheat, sorghum and beans.
The Xiao family is short of food now, and she doesn't want to get married and eat wild vegetables every day. Eating too much of that will cause heartburn.
As for soybeans and mung beans, they are of great use.
"No!" Mrs. Shi and several daughters-in-law screamed in denial at the same time.
The men in the Shi family also looked disapproving.
Not only did she not give her a betrothal gift, but she also asked them to give me food. What good thing could this damn girl have in mind?
Shi Qingluo knew they would react like this.
She took a slow sip of tea and said, "I'm not asking for your opinion, but I'm telling you to get ready."
"If you really don't want to, that's okay."
"Then I won't get married. I'll just stay at home until I get married."
"You must have eggs, meat and rice every day, otherwise if I am unhappy, I may be unable to help but send you down there to keep you entertained."
She looked like I was taking special care of you, "You can choose one of them: be blown to death, beheaded to death, or beaten to death."
People from the Shi family: "..." A mouthful of old blood stuck in his chest.
Damn it, how could they have such an inhumane trap!
Mr. Shi said with a dark face: "Which girl in our village gets married like this?"
Shi Qingluo said in a nonchalant tone: "So I'm going to set a precedent."
Shi's family: "..." Why don't you die?
In the end, she was forced by Shi Qingluo's fierce threats and the people of the Shi family couldn't stand her anymore.
So I could only hold my nose and agree, wishing I could send him to the Xiao family tomorrow.
Early the next morning, Xiao's mother and the patriarch's wife went to Shi's house to propose marriage.
Xiao's mother still bought meat and candy.
The Shi family also has a reputation in Shangxi Village that is not easy to mess with, mainly because the eldest brother Shi and his brothers and their daughters-in-law are very vicious and violent.
Therefore, Xiao's mother and the patriarch's wife thought it would be difficult to propose marriage, and the patriarch's wife was well prepared for how to deal with the other party if they were difficult to deal with.
Who knew that although the Shi family didn't look very happy, they were surprisingly easy to talk to.
There was even a feeling that he wished they could take Shi Qingluo away today.
Finally, they agreed to get married tomorrow. Not only would they not require a betrothal gift, they would also be given a few bags of grain as a dowry.
Chapter completed!