Chapter 58: A New Hope

When He Wanyi and He Wanlin returned to He Wanqing’s house, they saw her happily chopping vegetables. The two of them looked at each other, and after thinking for a long time, they couldn’t figure out the reason. They were about to ask when she sent them away. “Okay, put down the wild vegetables, I’ll chop them. You two go buy meat, knead the dough, don’t just stand there.” “Ah, okay.” The two of them answered at the same time, and after putting down the wild vegetables, one ran out to buy meat, and the other took out their family’s big basin and started kneading the dough.

 One basin of dough for dumplings, and one basin of dough mixed with corn flour for making buns later. While He Wanqing and her two sisters were preparing to make dumplings, Zhu Sanni, who hadn’t gotten any money, started making a fuss again. This time, she directly cursed at home and ran to He Dadan’s door to curse, causing the old ladies who didn’t go to work because of their age to scold her for a while before she left and went home. But after returning home, Zhu Sanni was no longer like she was in the morning, ready to have a big celebration. Instead, she said: “Third, you know our situation, we had some money, but we gave it all back to He Wanqing’s family. Originally, I was thinking that when you got married, I would go and ask for a dowry, and I would get that money back.

 Now your wedding is off, the bride has been replaced by He Cao, but our family really doesn’t have any money, so we won’t have a big wedding. You go to the back mountain and hunt two wild chickens, your elder brother and the others go to the river and catch a few fish, your two sisters-in-law go and dig some wild vegetables. My daughter and I will go to the neighbor’s house and borrow some wild mushrooms, prepare a few simple dishes, two tables of people will be enough. What do you think?” The more she spoke, the less Zhu Sanni wanted to even prepare two tables of people. Who told He Cao to stand her up, saying that she had no money. In her opinion, it was Xu Dahua who had embezzled it, not wanting to give it to her. Since she didn’t want to give it, then the wedding would be held like this, and she didn’t want to spend the money anyway.

“Mom, no, those people are probably coming tomorrow, I still have some money in my pocket. You keep enough for my travel expenses back home, and use the rest to buy food and hold the wedding banquet.” He was also angry that He Cao didn’t give him any money, but he thought more deeply. He thought that He Cao was afraid that if she took out the money, her mother would keep it for herself and not give it to them, so she said she didn’t have any, and he didn’t think in the direction of it being stolen. “Third, you don’t have much money, only one hundred yuan in total, I’ll keep some for your travel expenses back home, and buy some food, will our family be able to live in the future?

Besides, your bodies are all injured now, and you still need money to buy medicine and recuperate, if this money is spent, what will we do if we don’t have money to buy medicine later?” Zhu Sanni, who didn’t want to go buy food, looked at the money in her hand, wanting to keep it in her pocket and not use a single cent. “Mom, tomorrow those people are coming, if they see that our house is so shabby, with only a few dishes, do you think I’ll still have face?”

“Okay, okay, I know, I’ll go buy food, thirty yuan will be enough, right?” She counted out twenty-five yuan with heartache, and then, afraid that it wouldn’t be enough, she counted out another five yuan, unwilling to let go of the child to catch the wolf. “Here, I’ll give you another five yuan, thirty should be enough, I’ll use the rest to buy meat. By the way, don’t forget to go to the back mountain and take a look, maybe you’ll be lucky and find some wild chickens, and you’ll save the money for meat.” Looking at the thirty yuan on the edge of the kang, Xu Weijun nodded: “Okay.

” Fortunately, his mother still cared about him. Zhu Sanni left the room, stood in the courtyard and directed everyone in the family who could move, and it wasn’t until nightfall that she had prepared everything she needed for the next day. Seeing the three wild chickens that her third son had brought back from the mountain, Zhu Sanni rolled her eyes, pulled her daughter over and whispered a few words. One wild chicken was left, and the other two ‘flew’ away. While the Xu family was still slaughtering chickens and preparing food, the He family, who had just returned from work, were eating white and plump wild vegetable and pork dumplings.

 And because of the dowry and salary that Gu Cheng’an had sent, He Jialin was openly invited to have dumplings with them. Of course, his sidekick Su Benjun, now Su Weiguo, was also fortunate enough to come along. Looking at the laughter and shouts of toasting in the room, the three sisters, who had switched from dumplings to buns, smiled but didn’t say anything. It wasn’t until the room shouted “Cheers!” that the three of them went into the house to tidy up. “Wanqing, you don’t need to tidy up, you and your seventh brother go and send Jiang Zhiqing back.” He Big Aunt watched her niece tidying up diligently. When she saw that Jiang Zhiqing and the others were about to leave, she immediately asked her to go along, pulling her youngest son out as a shield.

Later, she felt that the two of them weren’t enough, so she arranged for her daughter and her nephew to go together. Standing at the door, watching the closed door, He Wanqing, He Wanyi, and He Wanlin looked at each other, helplessly following behind the four of them to the intellectual’s courtyard. They walked and stopped, and soon the positions changed. He Wanqing and Gu Cheng’an were in the middle, Su Benjun and He Wanlin were in front, and He Jialin and He Jiakang were behind. The two of them, who originally wanted to say something, looked at each other and said nothing, walking to the intellectual’s courtyard. Watching the two of them go inside, the five siblings happily went home. Back home, they sent the four people away, and then watched He Grandma and He Grandpa, plus her mother, Shen Laomu, and Shen Laoye sit on the kang waiting for her.

 She knew what to do, pretending to go back to her room to get something, she deliberately lingered for a while before taking everything back to the outer room. Looking at the red cloth package in her hand, the faces of the five people stopped smiling, their eyes fixed on the thing in her hand. Seeing this, He Wanqing told them what Gu Cheng’an had said in the afternoon, and while she was talking, she untied the package. When all the things were in front of them, she sat down on the edge of the kang and watched them. The five of them each took a thing and looked at it, and when they had all finished looking, they all looked at her.

 They all had a feeling, that it was a new dawn after a long night! “Wanqing, keep all these things well, you can’t take them out now, when you have the chance later, you can take them out.” Shen Laomu put the two bracelets in the box and asked her to keep them, then she stroked her head and exchanged glances with Shen Laoye. Soon, Shen Laoye nodded: “Don’t worry, your dowry won’t be any worse than this.” His Shen family wasn’t just a landlord, he had plenty of these things, and giving more to his granddaughter as a dowry wouldn’t leave his granddaughter at home without any. “Yes, your dowry won’t be any worse than this, Grandma guarantees it.” He Grandma glanced at her old friend, nodded to her, and then said it too.

Only He Grandpa could only smile and nod in agreement, after all, he was just an ordinary person, he didn’t have anything. Hearing this, He Wanqing suddenly looked up at her grandmother. She had known since she was a child that her grandfather’s family had money and things, after all, it wasn’t the first time she had seen them. But her grandmother actually said the same thing, why did she feel strange? Could it be that her grandmother’s ancestors were also landlords? Suddenly, her gaze fell on Shen Laomu, and then she suddenly realized. Yes, they must have been landlords too, otherwise, how could they have become close friends.