Song Sanxiao pretended that he didn’t dare to drink, “Brother, you’d better tell little brother, what exactly is it that you want from me? If you don’t tell me, I wouldn’t dare to drink this wine of yours.”
“Look at you, you’re thinking too much, aren’t you? We are at least a family. I can’t stand by and watch you being beaten out of the house by your elder aunt. You can drink this wine with no worries, I have absolutely nothing else to do with it.”
“Really?”
“Of course it’s true, come on, I’ll fill it up for you, let’s drink.”
Song San Xiao was “relieved” and really wasn’t polite, he ate his food and drank heavily, which made Song Ming’s heart ache.
When he thought of the 100 taels of silver, he secretly gritted his teeth again, he couldn’t surrender the child to the wolf, what is this?
“Third brother, why did elder aunt beat you today?”
Song Ming poured wine for Song Sanxiao and seemed to be chatting.
“Why? Today the Gu family came to the door to propose a marriage, my mother did not agree, she was holding her anger in her heart and took it all out on me.”
“The Gu family is a good family. If Yue’er is engaged to Young Master Gu, our family will also benefit from the future.”
Song San Xiao tilted his neck and drained his wine, placing the bowl on the table with a thud, “Who says otherwise? I also persuaded my mother to do the same thing, and she beat me out of the house.
“What are you talking about, of course you are eldest aunt’s own child, I just don’t understand why eldest aunt doesn’t agree?”
“It’s not because that young master of the Gu family is a fool.”
“That’s all outside rumours, Young Master Gu is not stupid at all.”
Song San Xiao waved his hand, “No more talk, no more talk, drink. After I finish drinking I have to go to the county to find my friends to take me in.”
“Go to what county, just stay here with big brother.”
“Forget it, if my mother finds out I’m here, she’ll tear your house down!”
Thinking of that temper of his eldest aunt, Song Ming dared not force him to stay, and did not pour him any more wine, faking a glance at the sky outside, “It’s getting late, you should go now, lest something happen on the road in the dark.”
Song San Xiao was already full of wine and food, so he got up, “Yes, thanks for the meal, brother Ming, I’ll take note of it, I’ll return it one day.”
“We are all brothers, take care on the way, I’ve had a bit too much to drink, so I won’t see you off.”
Song San Xiao waved his hand and staggered out the door. ‘
When he had just taken ten or so steps, Song Gua, who had been listening with ears in her own house, rushed into the house like a gust of wind, “Well, did you find out anything?”
Song Ming shook his head, heartily picking up the wine jar and shaking it, pouring the little wine left inside into his mouth.
Song Gua sat down, picked up the chopsticks that Song Sanxiao had just used and put the vegetables into her mouth, complaining as she ate, “This is wine and vegetables, your mother and I have been working hard for half a day, but you haven’t asked anything out! Why are you so stupid?”
Song Ming took a sip of wine, smacked his lips and narrowed his eyes, “Mother, what’s the hurry, I have my own ideas.”
……
Inside the Song family courtyard.
Song Lin sat on his buttocks and pounded his injured leg, “It’s all my fault, it’s all my fault!”
If he had been more careful and not fallen into the trap, Yue would not have pawned that jade bracelet for saving her, and he would have been able to drive the Gu family out openly and honestly today.
“Dangjia.”
Xu hurriedly took his hand to stop him from pounding down, “I’ve thought it over, I’ll go to the county tomorrow morning, pick up two big jobs and come back, and I’ll definitely earn that silver out in three months.”
“No!”
Embroidery was a waste of the eyes, and if she had to embroider two large pieces in three months, Xu’s eyes would be blind.
The family was very happy, but Song Lin noticed that something was wrong with Xu’s eyes, and she could not see at night, so she called a doctor to see her. Only then did Xu beg Song Lin for permission to embroider only a few handkerchiefs.
“That’s over a hundred taels, where are we going to get them?”
“There’s always a way!”
Song Sanxiao had been begging for help from her when he was being beaten just now, Song Wangyue did not plead for him, knowing that the family needed to let out the fire they were holding in their hearts, and was calculating in her heart that Song Sanxiao would not be far away at this time, and how she could find an excuse to send some silver to him, when she heard the words just in time to speak.
“What’s the solution?”
The family looked at her in unison, somehow taking her as their backbone.
“It’s still early in the day, second uncle you go and set up the ox cart, we’ll go around the county, if we can’t we’ll ask big brother and see what good ideas he has.”
“Yes, yes, go and ask Si’er, he has a lot of knowledge, he should have some ideas. Lao Er, hurry up and go and set up the ox cart.”
Song Shu, who had already been scared silly by the 130 taels of silver, then slowed down, answered and hurriedly went to set up the ox cart.
“I’ll go with you.”
Song Lin’s heart was burning with anxiety, and it was hard to stay at home. He thought that he could not go to the restaurant where he usually sold hunting products and borrow some silver first, so that when his leg was better, he could pay for the hunting products.
Knowing that he was also anxious at home, Song Wangyue did not object and hurriedly went back to the house to get 20 taels of silver cheques and put them on her person.
Song Wan Yue and Song Lin got on the bullock cart and rode to the county town. I thought I would run into Song Sanxiao on the way, but I didn’t see any sign of him even when I arrived at the county town.
“Where are you going?”
When the ox cart entered the city, looking at the streets with people coming and going, Song Shu didn’t know where to rush to.
“Just take a look around.”
Song Shu did as he was told and drove the ox cart around the county, turning all the busy streets, turning Song Lin’s heart more and more anxious, he knew that Song Wan Yue had no other choice before letting Song Shu drive the ox cart round and round.
“Stop.”
The bullock cart turned right into the Yue Hak Lai Restaurant, the place where Song Lin came to sell wild game in the past.
Song Shu brought the ox cart to a halt.
Song Lin got off the cart, “You guys wait here, I’ll go and find the shopkeeper and see if I can borrow some silver.”
He limped in and came out after a long while, clutching ten taels of silver in his hand, and sat dejectedly back in the ox cart, “The shopkeeper only lent ten taels.”
In normal times, ten taels would have been a lot, but for the Song family now, it was too little.
“The shopkeeper is a good man.”
Song Wangyue said from the bottom of her heart, and at the same time had a thought in her mind.
“Second Uncle, go to the spice shop.”
There was a big spice shop on the way here just now, Song Shu drove the ox cart over, Song Wan Yue didn’t let Song Lin get off the ox cart, she went in herself, bought some spices, and had Song Shu go to the rice and noodle shop and buy thirty catties of white flour.
Seeing that she had only bought these things, Song Lin became even more anxious, but he did not want to say anything to her, thinking that he would go to the mountains tomorrow to hunt more game and sell it for money.
After the purchase, Song Shu drove the ox cart back to the city, just a short distance out of the city gate, he saw Song San Xiao wandering over.
