"Mom, there are only women at home in the west courtyard."
"You asked?"
"I got up early to carry water and met Hongjuan, who said that my uncle had left long ago."
After hearing what Yu Qinniang said, Mrs. Xu told her not to wait for her to eat, and not to call Tian Xin'er out before she got up from bed.
After thinking about it, he went out and turned back with Xiao Pao, taking the last wilted cucumber to the next door.
"Naughty boy."
The five-year-old boy ran over, twisted his clothes, sniffed his nose, raised his head and asked Mrs. Xu: "The fourth grandma is here to fight with my grandma again?"
This kid won't pick up any pot.
Mrs. Xu twisted the cucumber into her arms and said, "Let's eat it." Then she responded to her cousin's two daughters one by one.
"Fourth Aunt is here."
"Well, where is your mother?"
Hao Yinhua poked her head out from the chicken coop and said angrily: "Have you pulled it?" If you keep blocking it like this, you won't be able to hold it in again.
Mrs. Xu was speechless. She said hello in modern times and asked if she had eaten. It was early in the morning and asked if she had eaten.
She was asked to say that this poor place should not be called Erdaohe Village, but should be called either Lagan or an area with diarrhea.
Mrs. Xu coughed and reminded herself to keep her posture low: "Well, I have something to discuss with you."
"It belongs to Tian Xin'er. If you don't look for me, I still want to look for you. Come with me to the backyard."
What does it have to do with her granddaughter? She wants cucumbers.
After a while, the two old ladies were heard arguing in the backyard: "Why don't you eat too much and eat less food to kill yourself? And you still use copper coins to buy it. There is no one like you who is not upright. You built a house as big as you did." Is there anyone living here? It’s just my family’s luck. I’ll only get into trouble every day.”
Mrs. Xu also raised her voice and kept talking about the broken house.
But I didn’t say that I was happy as usual. Many of my boys want to marry a daughter-in-law, but you don’t. I’ll make you mad.
Instead, he said: "I collect cucumbers for others. Don't ask me who I collect cucumbers for. How can I tell you? You can cut off cucumbers for me in secret again. You are not allowed to give me expensive things. Sloppy and cheap things are indeed not worthy of starvation. I I still have to make some money from it.”
You have to earn sewing money, how much can you earn?
A basket of them wouldn't sell for many copper coins, so it leaked through some crack.
Moreover, he is not very tall, so he cannot be carried by helpers. I had just met Lord Yama, and my body and bones must not have recovered.
Hao Yinhua poked her head in the vegetable garden, picking up vegetables while thinking about how miserable her cousin was. She thought for a while: "I'll leave some pickles for the fat kid to eat, and you take the rest and give me some coins."
ah?
Mrs. Xu said sincerely this time: "Third Sister."
"Don't think it's over without money. Later, let your second son help my family make car panels to cover the cucumber tent. The panels of my father's car are too old and need to be replaced."
The third sister takes back that sentence.
And when she mentioned that damn old man, Mrs. Xu couldn't help but said sternly: "Your tree has a bad hand, so how come your naughty boy's hand is bad too? I saw him lounging at home last afternoon, you guys?" My mother-in-law went to work on the dam. Don't tell me that he was eaten by a blind bear in just one night."
Hao Yinhua's son was named Shukuan. When he was sixteen or seventeen years old, his right hand was bitten off by a wild beast when he went hunting in the mountains with others. Although his life was saved, his life was not good. This situation made the two younger sisters dare not get engaged early and wanted to stay for two more years to help their parents' family.
Hao Yinhua said unhappily: "Your brother-in-law wakes up early and stays late at night. He left at midnight last night. How can you think it's so easy for you to give pigs to others at such a young age?"
"Just get used to it and you will become an old bastard." He also lost his conscience towards you and lost his wife and wealth. It will be more exciting to bring you a eldest son back one day. Then it will be up to you whether you call me a son or hold a grandson.
Hao Yinhua stomped the mud on her feet and came out of the garden: "What are you mumbling about?"
"That old bastard... no, who hired your bullock cart to help, and you have to go out in the middle of the night?"
Hao Yinhua mentioned a name. This family was indeed a well-known and wealthy family in eight villages across ten miles. They knew each other, but they didn't recognize them in person.
Old Mrs. Xu remembered her name. It would be best if she could get to know him tomorrow and ask how much it would cost to pay for the car. If she made a mistake about the money, her stupid cousin would pay attention to it. I don’t believe it, which girl can stay with that damn old man for nothing? Just look at how miserable he is. He has to spit out his last night’s meal after just one kiss. How can he do it if he doesn’t give two to the girl outside?
Just as she was about to turn around and leave, Hao Yinhua stopped her: "Wait a minute, what are you going to say about Tian Xin'er?"
After a while, Hao Yinhua's two daughters took their daughter-in-law and grandson out, and they heard the fourth grandma bragging loudly again:
"...My granddaughter should at least be worthy of a scholar. The family should at least have a hundred acres of fertile land. Eight feet tall is enough."
Old lady Xu doesn't like the seven-foot-tall man.
The foot here is short, not the modern two meters and three meters, but one and seven meters:
"You have to be tidy, be honest, look good, have a handsome smile, roll up your sleeves when you come to my house and work, and don't look at my granddaughter enough. You have to know how to care about her, so I can only consider it reluctantly. "
Hao Yinhua felt that her sister's illness was not cured at all, and she really should take another medicine. The medicine was to go back to sleep, and she would dream about everything: "Your demands are higher than yours, how can you have the nerve to say it?"
Stop talking nonsense so early in the morning!
Mrs. Xu is really unhappy this time. Getting engaged at the age of thirteen is really nonsense.
"I'm just telling you from the bottom of my heart. I'll tell you the same thing no matter who comes now. No, I won't tell you until 18 or 20.
I also have to wait until there are piles of sows in my house, which can eat three chicken thighs in one meal. I also have to raise fish at the entrance of the courtyard to attract wealth and drink water. My cows, horses and mules are the fattest, my dogs are the most beautiful in the village, and I also need two maids. Give me a pat on the back, one to light the fire, and one to bring the water.
I'm not bragging to you, I'm just flirting with you, my family isn't that bad, and I don't want to think about Tian Xin's marriage. I am the only granddaughter with roots in fields! "
Mrs. Xu thought vindictively, yes, love as much as you like, go out and be careful.
For a moment, she actually expected her cousin to spread the news to her, so that the villagers would think she was crazy. Crazy people have less trouble and can scratch whoever they want.
It would be irritating to make money every day to fill your stomach, and you also have to deal with all these nonsense.
The naughty boy looked at the back of Mrs. Xu and suddenly burst into tears.
The fourth mistress made a tinkling noise, but gave him a wilted cucumber in exchange for two baskets. Wasn't this someone who came to the house early in the morning to cheat? It's better to fight as usual.
Hao Yinhua was so angry that she stood at the door and yelled: "If you're talking seriously, you're just talking nonsense. If you're not talking nonsense, you're even more crazy. I'm waiting for your mother-in-law to come back to see if she can deal with you."
Old Mrs. Xu paused in her steps and rolled her eyes. Yes, she had her eldest uncle's family and old lady in the next village. Who would have thought that she would have to call another old lady "mother" at her old age.
People in the Xu family live really long lives, and they can still pass away at a very young age, like her ancient mother-in-law. The short life is gone in a flash.
But this year, the three boys in her family were able to go to the city to work as part-time workers, just to borrow the light of their wives.
Because the old lady worked as a hair-combing maid at Wang Yuanwai's house when she was young, this year the old lady in the main house was confused and didn't know many people. Wang Yuanwai specially recruited those old people who had served her to chat with her. The reward is some work. The old mother-in-law took all the men from her eldest uncle's family and her children with her.
Let's not mention these people. They haven't come back yet anyway, so making money is more important.
Old Mrs. Xu thought to herself: Whoever dares to influence her live broadcast to make money now will meet the gods and kill the gods.
"Miscellaneous, why are we going?" Xu Tianxin had just finished loading the fried alkaline noodles, and Mrs. Xu was already getting ready to go out.
"Family, let's do something new every day. We're going on location today, going up the mountain with grandma."
He also pointed to his granddaughter and asked if there was no background music?
It would take them at least two hours to get there.
There was nothing I could do, the mushrooms on the nearby mountains had already been harvested, and I couldn't even dig up the bark of the elm trees if I didn't go far.
Therefore, the grandfather and grandson kept working forward with sickles and baskets on their shoulders, accompanied by the music of "Walking in all directions, the road is long, the water is long, and the water is long and confusing."
