"Keep your voice down." Yang Feng covered Ye Luoxin's mouth.
Ye Luoxin used her strength to take off her hand. The dishwater still remained on her face, so Ye Luoxin had no choice but to wipe it with her sleeve.
"Don't let mom hear it, or dad will be in trouble again." Yang Feng whispered.
"Dad didn't do anything wrong. Isn't it Mrs. Zhao's problem?" Ye Luoxin also asked in a voice that only two people could hear.
"That's true, but my father slept with the kitchen girl for a month before he could calm down, so no one can mention this matter. Do you understand?"
Ye Luoxin turned around and looked at Xu Zhengxiang, who looked unhappy, and seemed to understand.
On the other side, Mrs. Zhao walked forward along the field ridge with a basket on her back.
This season, there isn’t that much grass on the field ridges, and people usually cut pigweed on the path along the mountain.
There were many people working in the fields. Madam Zhao was walking when suddenly a hand stretched out from the haystack next to her and pulled her in.
After seeing the person who pulled her clearly, Mrs. Zhao smiled softly: "You damn ghost, you didn't even say a word, you scared me to death."
"Stop talking nonsense and hurry up." The man was impatient.
"Take the money first." Madam Zhao was not in a hurry.
The man took out five cents from his body, and Mrs. Zhao's expression immediately changed, "Why is it so little? It was eight cents last time."
"Funds are tight at this time. When the food comes down, I will replenish it for you."
Madam Zhao put the copper coins into her pocket and tapped the man's nose: "I'm giving you an advantage."
After a while, heavy breathing came from the haystack.
…
There are more than 200 households in Qingshan Village, and more than half of them have the surname Xiao.
In order to grab the harvest, the villagers helped each other when it was time to harvest rice.
Xiao Changhe's family's fields were still a little green, so the time was about five days later. Starting from this day, they first helped Li Zheng's family and Xiao Dahong's family harvest their fields.
There was a lack of rain in May and June, so the quality of this year's rice was not very good, and it could only be 60 to 70% full.
However, there were no floods or severe droughts this year, so it was considered a good year, so everyone was quite satisfied with the harvest.
The whole family worked together to help cut the rice, so of course Ye Luoxin couldn't be idle.
The men were responsible for cutting the rice, and several skilled women were responsible for bundling the rice. Ye Luoxin, Yang Feng, and the youngest daughter of the Li Zheng family, Xiao Duo, followed behind to pick up the ears of rice and return the scattered rice from time to time. Come together.
Li Zheng's wife only met Ye Luoxin on her wedding day. When they met again this time, she felt that this little daughter-in-law had changed her appearance.
The originally sickly body is now stronger, and the snow-white face has been exposed to the sun, and it also shows a healthy ruddy look. She looks more juicy than the average girl.
Li Zheng's wife felt happy when she saw it. She lowered her head to bundle the rice and said to Xu Zhengxiang: "No wonder everyone said on the wedding day that your second daughter-in-law is a little lucky star. Looking at her current appearance, she is very popular."
Xu Zhengxiang also looked back at her daughter-in-law and said modestly: "No matter how lucky or unlucky she is, as long as she lives her life honestly, she will be a good daughter-in-law."
While everyone was working hard, a carriage came galloping from the entrance of the village.
When they arrived at the village, the carriage showed no sign of slowing down, which frightened several children on the roadside and ran home while shouting.
No one in the village could afford a horse, and it was even rarer to see a carriage.
Hearing the sound, all the people working in the fields straightened up and looked in the direction of the carriage, watching it stop in front of Xiao Changshui's house.
"The ones who came to your sister-in-law's house are her daughter-in-law and son back." The village chief's wife asked Xu Zhengxiang.
"Come back as soon as you come back, come back once a year, and come back once is enough for her to blow for a year." Thinking of Li Cuihua's way of looking at people with her nostrils, Xu Zhengxiang immediately lost interest in watching the fun, lowered his head and continued working.
What Li Zheng's wife said was quickly confirmed. It was indeed Li Cuihua's youngest son and daughter-in-law who came back.
But they didn't stay too long. The carriage left Qingshan Village before the sun set.
After dinner, Li Cuihua appeared in the village wearing new clothes made of khaki fabric.
"Aunt Xiao, have you had dinner?"
"Well, I've finished eating. The pork knuckles my son bought are well-sauceed and fragrant."
"This new outfit is nice."
"My son bought it for me. I said I have clothes. I have clothes, but he insisted on buying them for me. It was a total waste of money."
"Your daughter-in-law's family owns an oil shop. She has money at home. It only costs a few dollars to buy you some clothes."
"That's true. If my son is a scholar and marries a merchant's daughter, her family will have to burn incense, so she won't be nice to me."
She triumphantly walked around the intersection and met villagers returning home.
"Aunt Xiao is taking a walk!" everyone greeted.
"Well, I bought new clothes for my son."
"Ah?...Ah! My son is back. These clothes are beautiful!"
"It goes without saying! Literary people have a high vision!" She kept wandering around the village until it was so dark that she couldn't see the people on the other side clearly, then she went home.
When I walked to the door of Xiao Changhe's house, I saw the firelight still shining in the yard and several people surrounding me, so I opened the door and walked in.
"It's so late and you haven't rested yet?"
"I helped Li Zheng's family harvest rice today, so I was a little late. I just finished eating, has sister-in-law eaten?" Xiao Changhe knew that his wife disliked this sister-in-law, so he took the initiative to answer.
"Hey, look at how you're living your life. Do you eat this after a busy day?" She pointed at the sweet potatoes baking on the stove and pouted.
The sweet potatoes were newly dug by Xiao Mu and given to Ye Luoxin to try.
"These sweet potatoes are new this year. They don't taste good, so I won't let my sister-in-law taste them."
Xu Zhengxiang took two off the stove, patted the ashes and handed them to his two daughters-in-law.
Li Cuihua said "cut" when she saw this:
"Who cares about this stuff? My son came back this time and brought a portion of soy pork knuckle. The soy sauce pork knuckle is the signature dish of Xuji Restaurant. It costs half a tael a portion, and most people can't afford it."
"Sister-in-law, what does what you eat have to do with us? You don't share it with us, why do you tell us?" Xu Zhengxiang said angrily.
"You are just stingy. Are you jealous because of the new clothes I wore and the sauced pork knuckles I ate? Hey, this is fate. Who told your son not to study well?"
Although she only gave birth to one son, Xiao Jun, one son was worth three to Xu Zhengxiang. This was what she was most proud of.
Just as she was about to make some sarcastic remarks about Xu Zhengxiang, a dog suddenly ran out from the corner of the yard. Under the firelight, only the black and white fur of the dog could be seen. It whined and bit into her new pants.
Li Cuihua was startled and raised her foot to kick the little beast. Who knew that the puppy actually bit her shoe and chewed it off.
"You don't care. Does this dog want to rebel?"
"Yuanbao, come back!" Ye Luoxin shouted.
When the little guy heard the shouting, he obediently returned to Ye Luoxin's feet.
Li Cuihua stumbled to find her shoes and cursed: "You are a dog that takes advantage of human power. If you bite me next time, I will see if I don't skin you." After saying this, Li Cuihua hurriedly walked outside.
Xiao Jing looked at his uncle's back, then at his mother's face, and whispered: "Mom, when I pass the exam, I will buy you Xu Ji's braised pork knuckles every day."
"You just need to study hard. If you become a scholar, you can then go on to take the exam. Mom doesn't like to eat soy pork knuckles."
Xiao Jing was silent in his heart: Who doesn't like eating meat? That elbow sounds delicious. When he gets rich, he will definitely buy it for his mother to eat.
