Chapter 9 Sleepless Nights (II)

　　Lian Man'er slept in a daze and couldn't open her eyes, only to feel that someone picked up her wrist to check her pulse, and heard Lian Shouxin and Zhang talking, during which there was a stranger's voice. 　　"...... The pulse is still calm, there should be no major problems. Take a few doses of medicine that clears heat and calms the mind, rest for a few days and then see." Mrs. Wang wrote the prescription, and saw Lian Shouxin and Zhang's couple anxious and a bit soulful, so he added, "...... are some common medicines, I happen to have some with me, why don't you guys go back with me, and now prepare two doses for the child to eat." 　　Lian Shouxin and Zhang's are busy nodding yes, followed by Mrs. Wang out of the west room, and saw that the upper room are still lighted, vaguely heard Zhou's ouch sound. 　　Zhang and Lian Shouxin glanced at each other. 　　"Eunuch Wang, is my mother's illness going to be serious, can you also prescribe some medicine to take." Lian Shouxin saluted Imperial Doctor Wang. 　　"Your old lady doesn't matter ......, well, if she has to take medicine ......." 　　Lian Man'er only vaguely heard three words in the room, and thought, "So this couple knew that Zhou was faking illness, but still invited the bone-setter to come, and had already seen Zhou first. Still really filial without words. 　　...... 　　The west room of the upper room of the Lian family. 　　Lian Duo'er had already fallen asleep on the bed, Lian Shouren and Gu were sitting on the bed discussing something in a low voice, when the door was suddenly pushed open with a creak, and Lian Hua'er came in from the outside and went straight to Lian Duo'er with her hands outstretched. 　　"Hua'er what are you doing?" Gu looked at Lian Hua'er's bad face, busy getting up to stop her. 　　Lian Hua'er's hand was originally running towards Lian Duo'er, being stopped by Gu, she couldn't grab Lian Duo'er. 　　"Mother, don't stop me. If I don't pinch her mouth this time, she won't learn from her mistakes. What was going well was almost ruined because of her." Lian Hua'er said with hatred. 　　Gu's heart was also complaining that Lian Duo'er almost ruined things for Lian Hua'er, but the palm of her hand was meat. 　　"Alright, haven't you already taught her a lesson? It's not good if you hit her again and let people see it." Gu advised Lian Hua'er. 　　"Then let her go first, when we go back to town ......" Lianhua'er felt that Gu's words were reasonable, so she had to force down her fire and said. 　　"Duo'er is your own sister that ......" 　　"Not my own sister, I would have killed her." Lianhua'er gas said. 　　"By the way," Gu suddenly thought of something she wanted to ask Lianhua'er, and then suddenly closed her mouth, pointing her finger to the east, "All asleep?" 　　Lian Hua'er nodded. 　　"I just let the fourth uncle and the fourth god serve the medicine, and after messing around all night, they were all sleepy long ago, and when I came out, they were all dead asleep." Lian Hua'er said. 　　Gu got down to the window again and looked out, saw that there was no one outside, and only then did she pull Lian Hua'er. 　　"Man'er actually came back to life, that word, she didn't hear it, did she?" Gu's low voice asked. 　　"Shouldn't have, otherwise she would have said it long ago." Lian Hua'er thought for a moment and said, "Seeing how she spoke and acted today, it turns out that I actually misjudged her." 　　"On Yingzi's side, there's no problem, right?" Gu asked again. 　　"That is a shallow eyesight, by me a few good words have nest companion to live, that bracelet, she also thought it was gold that, really have not seen the world." Lianhua's tone is somewhat contemptuous, "this matter as long as hidden to me through the door, not afraid." 　　"That's true." Gu nodded her head. 　　"Mother, is there anything to eat?" Lian Hua'er sat down on the bed, "I'm starving." 　　"Mother knew you came looking for food." Gu smiled and took out a box of snacks from her own clothes bag, "Gui Xiang Zhai's Gui Hua Cake from town, your favorite." 　　Lian Hua'er then took the treats from the box and ate them. 　　"Mother, do we have to stay here until I get married? Why don't we go back to town tomorrow. I really can't eat their food, it's always corn rice and wow, which makes my throat hurt, but I can't eat a single bite. Xiuer aunt also gave me clip meat to eat, that meat fat, can only feed the dog, she thought it was something good. Ridiculous meal time, but also because of this also made a scene." 　　Lianhua'er said at the end, couldn't help but laugh. 　　"First endure it, not come back to live, rely on your father, dowry how to give you to buy." Gu spoke and glanced at Lian Shouren next to her. 　　"I see that grandpa and grandma are also poor, and refused to sell the land, what dowry can be organized. Tomorrow when we have money, why don't we just go back to town, how convenient." Lian Hua'er said. 　　"I also mean the same thing, Grand Master, what do you think then, we all go back to town tomorrow?" Gu asked Lian Shouren with a smile. 　　"What I said to my parents is to stay until Hua'er gets married and sends out her marriage from here in the old mansion." Lian Shouren said. 　　"Now that we have the money, let's say that the Sun family's side said that it's convenient to send the marriage from town isn't it." Gu said. 　　Lian Shouren was a little hesitant. 　　"So that's fine, but my parents know that my town's pavilion is gone, and want us to stay through the New Year. If we leave tomorrow, I'm afraid I'll chill my parents' hearts, and it'll be hard to do this in the future." Lian Shouren said, "I'll go back tomorrow, you guys stay here, and I'll send Dalang and the others back. Immediately will be the fall harvest, you are here or watch some, get some to go to town for rice and flour, enough for us to eat next year." 　　"Father is right, let Big Brother and Sister-in-Law do this, they're used to doing it. Mother and I will follow father back to town, or we can do the dowry." Lian Hua'er said. 　　"Could it be that the Grand Master has something that he has to leave out our mothers in order to do?" Gu smiled and looked at Lian Shouren. 　　"Nonsense what, then talk to father and mother tomorrow morning and take you all back together." Lian Shouren busily said. 　　Gu and Lian Hua'er looked at each other and smiled. 　　"Father, Mother, my dowry, have you planned it yet?" Lian Hua'er asked again. 　　"Didn't the Sun family's son say that he doesn't need a dowry, what he's marrying is you as a person." Lian Shouren busily said, "As you can see, how can our family afford a dowry." 　　"If father wants to say that, then in the future, it will be difficult to deal with father's affairs." Lian Hua'er took a handkerchief and wiped the dessert crumbs from the corner of her mouth. 　　"You girl, what kind of words are these, you're still making things difficult for your father?" Lian Shouren was a bit annoyed. 　　Gu was busy persuading from the side, "You two masters have something to discuss." 　　"Father, don't forget, I'll be the one to pay back all the money borrowed tomorrow. Tomorrow borrowed five hundred and forty two, three hundred two to return that Yang Chengfeng, there are two hundred and forty two, that forty two for father to keep their own use, two hundred two for me to buy a dowry, barely get by." Lianhua'er said, obviously early calculated clearly. 　　"What, you want two hundred taels for a dowry?" Lian Shouren was anxious, "The rules in our countryside, a dowry of twenty to thirty taels of silver is extremely decent. Because you married the Sun family, it will give you ......" 　　Said this, Lian Shouren paused, then ruthless: "Give you to take a hundred taels, the rest of the rest, where the family does not need to use money. I can easily save twenty taels, for your matter, also handed back to your grandfather and grandmother, counting up, you have one hundred and twenty taels for dowry." 　　Lian Hua'er saw Lian Shouren say this and busily gave Gu a wink. 　　"Grand Master, Lian Hua'er is right about this. The Sun family is a big family, so if Lian Hua'er's dowry is more generous, we will have face, and we will be able to talk to our in-laws in the future. Besides, it's only a matter of two or three months. When Hua'er marries, Sun's son will be our son-in-law, and we'll still be afraid that we won't be able to use our money." Gu said. 　　The mother and daughter talked and talked, and then talked about Lian Shouren's future, Lian Shouren reluctantly nodded his head. 　　"Hua'er, dad has lost his family's fortune for you." 　　"Father don't worry, I understand." Lian Hua'er smiled, "I'll make sure Sun Lang is on top of Father's affairs. When father becomes an official in the future, I'll follow in the Sun family's footsteps." 　　"Our flower child is just smart." Lian Shouren laughed. 　　After the three of them had finalized their discussion, Lian Hua'er was satisfied and went back to the east room to sleep. 　　...... 　　The candle flame in the east room was extinguished a long time ago, He slept until the middle of the night, suddenly woke up, thought of a certain thing, and lifted her leg to kick Lian Shouyi next to her. 　　"His father ......" He said. 　　"What is it?" Lian Shouyi muttered, his eyes didn't even open. 　　"Big brother is sure to report false accounts again, tomorrow you follow the big brother to the town, the idea to get a few two silver make use of." He said. 　　"This still needs you to say." When Lian Shouyi heard about the silver, he quickly came to his senses, "My father wants my big brother to become an official, so that he can follow him as the old master, and he can't listen to anything else. Over the years, our family's family funds have been emptied by big brother. They fooled father and mother, and they fooled Old Three and Old Four, but they couldn't fool me." 　　"Then how about this time, the Sun family is a rich family, I heard that they are still related to the Shen family in the Prefecture, so it's not hard to get Big Brother an official job, right?" He pressed one leg onto Lian Shouyi's leg and said. 　　"This time it looks like there's a real run for it." Lian Shouyi pulled He's retreat away and said. 　　"Then can we go along too?" He's happy. 　　"That goes without saying, we are not separated, parents will definitely go, our family will also go." Lian Shouyi said, "I heard from Li Ban-tou in the county that the county magistrate in our county has brought several brothers and brothers-in-law in the government office, and everyone who meets him has to call him master, and the silver is collected by the hands of all the soft. When the time comes, we can't be worse than that." 　　He was happy for a while, and then thought of following the light of the people, it is not as good as being a master and wife. He thought so, and suddenly not satisfied. "Father, if you continue to study, wouldn't this good thing be yours?" 　　"Don't mention studying again, it gives me a headache. We don't have a daughter like Hua'er. Over the years, we've provided for Big Brother, so it's only right that we follow him to enjoy the blessings." Lian Shouyi kicked He. 　　"His father, your big brother's heart is ruthless enough, look at this time, it's still Man'er's girl's life that she survived." He suddenly said, "That bitch Gu, like a vixen, can she really look after us when the time comes?" 　　"There's still father and mother there, he dares not look after us." Lian Shouyi grunted, "Besides, I'm not the old four that stupid, big brother over the years, a number of handle in my hands, afraid of him how!" 　　"What handle?" He immediately sat up, eyes wide open and asked.