Cao Bamei had nothing to say for the sake of talking, and Xiuxiu had nothing to say.
Besides, in this family, mother has the final say.
Xiu Xiu didn't care the most about whether her younger brother, Mistress, could go out to play.
The thing she cares about most is Yongxiao.
"Mom, I'm taking Yongxiao back to the house to feed him. When the meal is ready, you guys eat first and leave a bite for me."
Because Yongxiao often falls asleep while eating.
When Yongxiao fell asleep, she happened to squint for a while.
Cao Bamei was already familiar with the routine of Xiu Xiu and her son. She nodded repeatedly when she heard this: "Okay, okay, you go and do your work. I will go to your room to see you after lunch."
"If I see you falling asleep, I'll keep quiet and leave the food in the pot for you."
Xiuxiu nodded and carried Yongxiao back to the backyard.
Before leaving, Xiuxiu saw the mistress and asked him, "Do you want to come to my house?"
The mistress's eyes rolled.
Xiuxiu immediately changed her tune: "Looking at you like this, I guess you won't be able to sit still. You'd better not go to my room. Yongxiao needs to sleep!"
Just like that, Xiuxiu didn't bother to care about the mistress anymore, and carried Yongxiao back to the backyard.
Cao Bamei didn't bother to care about him. She gave him a few words of advice and turned around to go to the kitchen.
There are still vegetables simmering in the pot. If you don't serve them, the vegetable soup will become dry and the bottom of the pot will burn through.
As soon as Cao Bamei entered the kitchen, she ran towards the north wall like flying.
Cao Bamei glanced at the courtyard door. Seeing that the courtyard door was still closed intact, Cao Bamei felt relieved and went back to cook.
Of course she knew that the third son was being locked up at home, and she also wanted to let the third son go out to play, but wasn't she worried that she would get sick?
During this period of time, Yang Yongjin was not at home, and the family was different from before, with an additional population.
Because Yang Yongjin was not at home, the burden of the family fell on Cao Bamei's shoulders.
Sometimes she looked at her daughter, son, and grandson, each one smaller than the other, and one younger than the other. They were simply the children of a big family.
But I am no longer young, I am about to run away from home, and my physical condition is not as good as when I was young.
Sometimes she thinks this is good. There are boys and girls in the family, the population is prosperous, and it will be better if it lasts a few more years.
But sometimes I see that my mistress is still so young, and Yongxiao is even younger.
When Xiuxiu was less than twenty years old, she became a concubine. She didn't know what to do in the future.
When she thought that she had gone into a corner, Cao Bamei got into trouble and couldn't sleep all night long.
She was cautious in everything, but what she was most afraid of was that the children at home would get sick at this time, and she would really panic...
Therefore, she would rather isolate herself from the world and keep her children at home than take the risk by letting them out...
"Wow..."
Suddenly, the cry of the mistress came from outside the kitchen.
Cao Bamei quickly threw away the spatula in her hand and rushed out. She looked around and heard the sound but saw no one.
"Where are you, mistress?"
"Wow wow..."
Still crying, still no one in sight.
At this time, Xiuhong came over from the backyard in a panic.
"Mom, come quickly, my brother is stuck in the hole in the wall!"
Stuck in a hole in the wall?
Cao Bamei's mind went blank, thinking that she had heard wrongly, or that Xiuhong had said it wrong.
The wall is a wall, and people are people. How can people get stuck in the hole in the wall?
When she rushed to the backyard in panic, she saw at a glance that there was a dog hole as big as a washbasin under the wall that was blocked by debris.
As expected, the mistress was stuck in the dog hole. The upper half of her body was outside the dog hole, but the bottom half of her body was stuck inside.
With his feet kicking wildly, the debris that was originally leaning against the wall was kicked down, and some hit the mistress's legs and feet, causing him to scream in pain.
"Oh my god, okay, what are you doing in this dog hole?"
Cao Bamei threw away the spatula in her hand and rushed to the base of the wall in three steps.
The dog hole under the wall was specially made when the house was built.
At that time, she and Yang Yongjin had just moved out of the single room in the old house, because they were fed up with the fact that outside the door was the long hall, which was still shared by so many people. Going to the door of the main hall was the bluestone alleyway used by the neighbors. They wanted to There is no place to live in peace with a cat or a dog.
So Yang Yongjin and Cao Bamei were enjoying themselves at that time, hoping to raise cats and dogs in their new house.
But cats and dogs like freedom and cannot be confined in the house all the time.
The cat is fine. It can climb over walls and is flexible.
But the same cannot be said for dogs.
So when we built the yard, we specially left a dog hole in this inconspicuous corner so that the family dogs could come in and out.
As a result, the first dog I raised after the yard was built was kept for less than three months because it kept getting in and out of the dog hole and looking for food in the fields outside. It was probably because he ate something poisonous or something poisonous. Suddenly, he died.
In a brand new yard, the first dog they raised died like this. The couple felt very sad and unlucky.
For a long time after that, the two stopped thinking about raising dogs.
Later, because there were houses in the village where thieves frequently stole things in the winter, Yang Yongjin considered that he was away from home for many years, so the three of them were the only ones at home.
The third son was not born yet at that time.
So I brought back a half-grown dog from the county seat to look after the home.
Not long after, Cao Bamei, who was pregnant for the third time, suddenly got lumps all over her body and sneezed all day long.
After calling Fu Bo and Wang Sheng for diagnosis, they couldn't make any diagnosis. Finally, Mrs. Sun saw the clue and asked her if she was allergic to dog hair.
Cao Bamei gave the dog to Da Sun to raise.
As a result, within five or six days, the rash on my body gradually healed and I stopped sneezing.
Since then, the second-in-law has never had a dog again.
To this day.
The original dog hole was naturally abandoned. Cao Bamei was afraid that a weasel would sneak in, so she urged Yang Yongjin several times to block the dog hole.
But Yang Yongjin is always too busy with this and that to take care of it.
Cao Bamei was worried that weasels would get in through the dog hole and steal the chickens, so she put some damaged stools and other things at home against the entrance of the hole.
Some broken baskets, pots and buckets in the back are also piled here.
As time went by, this place became a corner of its own and became a place for the second room to store debris. Only during the twelfth lunar month every year, the couple would think of tidying up, and they would not pay attention to it at ordinary times.
Unexpectedly, this forgotten small area was discovered by the mistress.
He pushed the debris piled half as high as a person all over the floor, revealing a narrow gap leading to the hole in the wall.
The mistress squeezed in through that gap against the wall, and then tried to get out of the dog hole to play outside.
