In this life, I don’t play the cards according to the principles of the first life at all!
"Grandpa, just pretend you don't know. I'll wait for Brother Zheng to come back to discuss it."
Li Zhengguo brought his master back to look at the house and draw the drawings. When he saw his wife's frown, he quietly asked, "What's wrong?"
"We'll talk about it later. You go with the master to draw the drawings first. Have you found the construction master?"
"This master is willing to take his two apprentices there."
"Okay, you go and do your work first."
…
The master sighed while looking and measuring, saying that many rooms in this yard had been repaired and were in a mess.
Li Zhengguo echoed indifferently.
Before the courtyards were returned to their original owners, they were large courtyards, inhabited by a few or a dozen households. When repairs were needed, who wouldn't buy some tiles, bricks and lime and tidy them up as they pleased?
The Second Hospital was restored quite well, but my grandpa either ran out of energy or money.
The conversation between my daughter-in-law and my grandfather was never hidden from him.
After the measurement, the master confirmed again, "Is it really a complete replica?"
Li Zhengguo nodded affirmatively, "Yes, I guarantee they are all big timber from deep mountains."
"Okay, let me know in advance when you leave."
"Okay, definitely."
…
After seeing the master off, Li Zhengguo hurried back to his room.
He drove his two sons to the east room and took his daughter, who was sucking her thumb, out of the arms of her dazed wife and put her on the bed.
"What happened?"
Tian Jing came back from the soul wandering in Taixu, "Xiao Wei is pregnant."
"Fuck!" Li Zhengguo couldn't help but swear, "Jon's?"
"Probably. She is still fainting and doesn't know yet. Besides, I always feel very confused."
"You mean compared to before?"
Tian Jing nodded, "Yes."
Li Zhengguo comforted him by saying, "We are already different, so of course there is no way to compare."
"no."
Tian Jing shook her head seriously, "Chen Guangfu is already in a mess. Before, we thought he stood still because he didn't want to disturb me, who has become different."
"However, I think this guess is wrong. Only by holding Chen Yaoming still would he alarm me."
"Now that there is another child, don't you think it's even more confusing? This child is in Xiao Wei's belly."
"If she really stays, do you think she won't rely on me if I force her to give up her right to support?"
"She is not a person who can endure hardships and be an ordinary working person for the sake of her children. She will only use this child to achieve her goals, such as threatening her grandpa and coaxing her."
"Although grandpa is not confused, he is too soft-hearted. Until his heart becomes as cold as ice, he thinks he can still save it."
"Just now, he wanted to use this child to save Xiao Wei's temperament. I wanted to secretly abort Xiao Wei's child, but he didn't agree..."
Li Zhengguo sighed and hugged his wife. It was so hard for him to be sweet.
"Grandpa is right. This is Xiao Wei's right. If you interfere, she will definitely rely on you. How are you talking about the yard?"
Tian Jing pulled her husband to sit down, and with a wave of her hand, the supernatural shield enveloped the two of them.
"This matter is even more inappropriate... Mr. Xiao Er's impatience made me have more speculations. I used a price of 60,000 to drive them back to discuss it."
"Then, I discovered that my grandfather should have been deceived, including my great-grandmother, the woman who spent her whole life in exchange for her father's last wish, a kind-hearted woman who taught a kinder son, was deceived by her benefactor."
Li Zhengguo was confused, "Let's get to the point."
"The point is, I carefully searched the entire yard, and there was a fake rock layer a few meters deep underground near the second gate."
"Under the rock layer, there are eight sealed spaces made of stones, and there are six iron boxes in each sealed space."
"These iron boxes are exactly the same as the sixteen iron boxes. What grandpa said were made secretly, is it really secretly made?"
"The confiscated dowry prepared for my great-grandma was sixty-four tons. Is it such a coincidence?"
"I think, at least, my great-grandpa got back all of my great-grandma's dowry, but hid it for selfish reasons."
"And the eldest master and the second master both know it. Otherwise, why would they come all the way back? No matter how fast their property is lost, they wouldn't come to snatch the eighteen boxes of dowry that are currently worthless, right?"
"A woman's dowry in ancient times could be stuffed into a box. Apart from paper and bedding, there were only other ornaments such as porcelain and copperware."
"So, I suspect even more that grandpa and his father did add the Xiao family's original property into those forty-eight iron boxes, because he couldn't take away too many things."
"The reason why it is placed here is because this courtyard is in the name of my great-grandmother. If he escapes, he will definitely anger the warlord. The only thing that has any hope of being preserved is this courtyard."
"And the facts also prove that the Xiao family's fixed industry in the country is indeed gone. Otherwise, wouldn't those two people ask the country to get it back?"
"I don't dare to tell grandpa these things. Grandpa doesn't care about these external things. What he cares about is his father's deception and distrust of his mother and him."
"Even if his father had no choice but to conceal the forty-eight boxes, why do the eldest and second masters know about it now, but my grandpa doesn't know about it?"
"Grandpa and great-grandma thought wholeheartedly about the Xiao family, but grandpa and his father didn't regard grandpa as a member of the Xiao family at all."
"Perhaps, in his feudal thinking, the foreign wife is not a serious son, not even a bastard. He is just a tool to make the foreign family feel at ease and to provide for the foreign family in his old age."
Seeing that his wife was getting angrier as she talked, Li Zhengguo hurriedly patted his wife on the back.
"Don't be angry or not, no matter what grandpa and his father think of grandpa, we just feel sorry for him."
"Wouldn't it be more satisfying to move all the things away quickly and let them draw water from a bamboo basket?"
Tian Jing sighed, "I'm just annoyed by Xiao Wei. In the past, when I was helpless, she didn't care about me. Now that I'm capable, I still have to worry about her. It's so tiring."
Li Zhengguo covered his wife's mouth and said, "No matter what, she is your mother, and you can't curse her. She was unreasonable before, so you dumped her to relieve your anger. Now, you can't dump her."
Tian Jing opened her mouth and bit it.
Li Zhengguo just smiled at his wife who was as angry as a kitten and said, "Just relieve your anger."
Tian Jing relented, "Oh~ I'm so irritable."
"Okay, hurry up and start work, I'll give you a break."
…
Li Zhengguo held his daughter and played with his two sons at the entrance to the third courtyard.
Although these forty-eight boxes are at the entrance of the second courtyard, they cannot be operated blatantly in the second courtyard.
You can only continue to operate in the third courtyard and spend more seeds and abilities.
Ah Feng came to call for dinner.
Li Zhengguo asked him to wait and let the food cool down before eating. The weather was too hot.
Ah Feng had no problem with it, as long as she had prepared the food, but she asked, "Can I come in?"
"No. You go to the reception room and rest."
"No, I want to pick some vegetables. The weather is too hot and I like to eat them raw."
"We'll talk about it later."
Ah Feng was driven away.
Xu Ma looked around and waved to her.
Ah Feng waved her hand and entered the reception room.
Xu's mother followed her and was startled when she saw her picking up the teapot and wanting to pour water. She quickly interrupted her and said, "You can't drink."
"Why?"
Can't you drink even a pot of cold tea?
Xu Ma leaned close to her ear and said, "There is medicine here. You must not drink the tea I make for the eldest master and others in the future."
Ah Feng was so shocked that she almost dropped the teapot, "Mama Xu, you?"
Xu Ma waved her hands repeatedly, "It wasn't me, it was the little miss who arranged it."
Ah Feng's face turned even paler.
Xu Ma turned back and looked outside, and asked in a low voice, "Young Master didn't let you go back to Sanjin?"
Ah Feng ignored her and simply tidied up the reception room.
This Xu Ma knew that the tea was not safe, but she didn’t clean it up and wash it away. What was her purpose?
Do you think that by telling her a secret, she can join her gang?
Then she should be like Xu Ma, who would be replaced by someone else soon.