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"Xianzhu, go to Second Grandfather's house and borrow a mule cart. And ask Second Grandmother to buy us twenty rolls of white cloth and ten rolls of linen in the village.

Miaozhu, go get the money." After Hu made the arrangements, everyone prepared to act separately.

At this time, Shen Xiao's wife from the east side of the inner room lifted the curtain and came out and said, "Fifth sister-in-law, don't buy white cloth in the village, it's expensive.

Go to Yuxiang Market, a little over ten miles east of the pass. Cotton is grown abundantly there, and a piece of white cloth can be bought for 220 wen."

"Fifty or sixty cents cheaper than in the village? Aunt, I'll go with you and be responsible for buying the cloth." It was just over one or two taels of silver, so Shen Lingzhu volunteered to save money.

Mrs. Hu patted her head and asked her son to take the money and borrow a car to buy linen.

Shen Miaozhu asked, "Aunt, did you give the exemption quota from military service under your uncle's name to the Chang family?"

Beigou Village is not very big. The total land of the village is about 1,800 mu, so most of the young and strong people in the village will run to the rice fields on the river bank more than ten miles away, either to work long or short terms or to rent land for farming.

For example, my second and third grandfathers borrowed money from my uncle a few years ago and each bought a few acres of rice fields there.

Often, the Shen family would drive carts to the fields and back again, which was equivalent to driving a car to farm in her previous life.

“Of course they were distributed, but they were only given to a few members of the Chang family within the third generation, and they were very resentful about it.

As for the Shen family, because your grandfather agreed to return to the ancestral family, they have been preventing your grandmother from handing over the old house to her two sons.

He said he would hand over the old house when he stopped entangled with the Chang family. "It was also thanks to the fact that before the master passed the imperial examination, the family had little land, and later donated it to the clan school.

The land he bought after passing the imperial examination was not in the village and was all in the master's name, otherwise the Shen family would have been in even greater turmoil.

In a rural area where people even fight over a piece of land, the Hu family doesn't think that the clan is afraid to fight.

Shen Lingzhu exchanged glances with her senior sister. When the Chang family was unable to reduce or exempt the adult tax this year, they must have known that their uncle's house had been raided.

Listing all kinds of funeral rituals at this time clearly shows bad intentions.

"Then we don't need to borrow a lot of money. Twenty taels of silver is enough. As for the rituals, we can ask the Taoist priests of Qixing Temple to perform them, and we don't need monks." Shen Lingzhu also pointed out that his uncle should not act ostentatiously.

The funeral of my fourth great-uncle, a commoner, must not be excessive, otherwise it will cause another trouble.

Shen Miaozhu was against borrowing money from the beginning: "Aunt, Uncle Xia has already sent over a dozen taels of silver from selling wheat, plus the twenty taels I borrowed from the Seven Stars Temple, it should be enough."

"Funerals must be well prepared. I wouldn't feel safe if you didn't bring fifty taels with you.

The Chang family only has this one person within the third generation, so they are not afraid to spend the money this time.

"Little Zhuzi, don't just stand there. Go find Xia Wang to pull the ox cart." Mrs. Hu thought more than they did. The two families lived dozens of miles apart. When the old man was still alive, had they hired a doctor and settled the medicine bill?

The Chang family is the host, but it is unknown whether they will handle the entire ceremony themselves or hire a specialized coffin shop.

She suddenly thought of something: "Ninth sister-in-law, your mother's home is very close to the pass, right?"

"It's about ten miles. If Big and Small Zhuzi go together, I'll take the kids back to my parents' home and help inquire about it.

He's the child's father, and he has to move back home." Shen Xiao's wife was very sure that the fifth brother would not let the fifth sister-in-law go. She couldn't possibly leave her husband here to recuperate. Alas, it was hard to get a quiet day.

And this time, after seeing her husband's injuries, her father-in-law did not blame them for keeping him away from home.

How could Mrs. Hu not see her expression? "No need, no need. You don't need to go. Jian Zhu can go alone."

As the two of them were talking to each other, Shen Miaozhu, who had just come out of the hall, pinched the back of her junior sister's hand. The pain made her instantly move away, but seeing that everyone in the courtyard was busy and noticed her, she quickly walked back to her senior sister and whispered, "What are you doing?"

Shen Miaozhu glanced at her and said, "Don't speak so quickly next time. Auntie has a bad memory now. If you don't mention asking grandma for money, she probably won't remember it.

Also, the bellows need to be made faster, and it would be best to do it while my uncle is at his peak.

Otherwise, the longer time passes, the greater the chance that others will imitate it."

The two of them really didn't want too many members of the Shen family to join in, but the reality forced them to have only members of the Shen family available.

Otherwise, find people from other families in the village to work, and the elders of the Shen family will come to the door.

"Go to the county town to do business as soon as possible, and then sell the ice-making method to a few more stores." Shen Miaozhu was thinking about whether he should buy more cheap white cloth, print and dye the patterns himself, and then sell it at a high price.

Shen Lingzhu said: "Master, Second Sister, how about we sell you a few recipes?

In the past, your steamed three-fresh bean curd buns were so delicious that they would fetch a high price in restaurants in the county town."

Shen Miaozhu nodded in agreement, and at the same time told her about the back mountain of Qixing Temple, where there were many peach and persimmon trees planted. She planned to cut down trees on her own mountain and transplant some of them here.

The short distance from the hall to the bamboo shed where they worked felt like several miles.

By the time the three of them left on the ox-backed horse, Shen Huai and his son had not yet returned home.

When they arrived at grandma's house, her aunt also gave them a warm welcome. But when Mrs. Hu mentioned borrowing thirty taels of silver, she froze noticeably and found excuses to interrupt grandma.

Shen Lingzhu thought she was unwilling to borrow money from her family, but after her grandmother and aunt went to the inner room and came out, they took out ten taels of silver with some embarrassment and said, "Her aunt, can I get you ten taels first?

Also, before you leave tomorrow morning, have Zong Qi bring you half a pig to save you money on buying more."

"Grandma, has the money been used?" Shen Lingzhu asked as her senior sister twisted her waist hard.

"That's kind of the point." Qi couldn't say that before your parents left, we borrowed dozens of taels from others and gave them another 200 taels to take away.

The young couple said that they would use the rice from the next few years as compensation, and only then did their daughter-in-law not say anything.

Yesterday, someone came to his house to collect a debt, and the old man took the silver and money in the box to pay the debt.

They all knew each other well, and Mrs. Hu believed that she couldn't give much at this time. "Thank you, aunt, for this. You don't need to prepare pork. I'm worried that when I bring it to the Chang family, they will have prepared everything and are just waiting for my master to give the money."

"Damn it, Fourth Master Chang is such a good man, but he was taken advantage of by that family.

When your parents-in-law wanted to take him in to live with them, if it weren't for that group of people crying and making a fuss just to tie your family down, the old man would have been living a leisurely life long ago." Qi knew the inner workings of both families very well.

The more Shen Lingzhu listened, the more she felt that her grandmother was probably her grandmother's best friend.

She was particularly concerned about her own family: "How much white cloth do you need to bring? I'll find the cloth shop at the market and buy it for you on credit.

Two hundred and thirty or forty coins a piece, and if you can't use it all, you can return it."

"Aunt." Shen Miaozhu, who had been silent the whole time, hoped that her aunt would agree.

After all, Yuxiang is more than ten miles away from the pass, and there is no doubt that they will be bullied if they go there.

Moreover, she was not very willing to go to the Chang family, and was even more reluctant to let her junior sister go. The little girl had a straightforward personality, and anything she didn't like at the funeral would definitely make her explode.

I'm not afraid of bickering, but I'm afraid of fighting, which will make her even angrier.

“???” Shen Lingzhu saw that her senior sister was calling her aunt but her eyes were fixed on her. She didn’t understand what she meant for a moment.