Xu Laoer heard the noise and hurried to help unload the truck.
"Brother, why are you here?"
"If it weren't for the harvest of autumn vegetables and the wind and rain to repair the house, I should have come a long time ago. My mother kept urging me, and I was anxious. But this and that always got delayed. Brother-in-law, you must be exhausted from work recently. ?It’s okay, I’ll work with you from now on.”
Yu Qiniang's eldest brother is named Dali. He moved everything into the courtyard while talking.
Two new kang mats made of reeds are woven with flower patterns.
Ever since I heard that the Xu family was buying wasteland to build a new house, the Yu family's mother started knitting with her skillful hands.
These two large Kang mats were kept in hand every day after putting down the rice bowl. It took more than 20 days to make them and they were just perfect for the new house.
Then Dali brought in a basket of more than 200 lively loaches and took his younger brother at home to catch them while they were wet for two nights. The main difficulty is to compete with the villagers.
Dali smiled and said: "Brother-in-law, our village is not close to the river and there are no big fish to eat. But if this stuff can get rid of the earthy smell, it will taste good when it is ready. Don't dislike it, let my sister make it for you. Give it a try. I just didn’t catch any frogs this year. Otherwise, I can bring you some frogs. I’ll try again when winter comes, and I’ll send them to you when I catch them.”
The reason why Dali is regretful is not that the Xu family did not eat forest frogs.
But he remembered that his sister loved to eat wood frog stewed with potatoes when she was at her parents' house. It was a rare meaty taste in the Yu family.
In previous years, after catching wood frogs, except for those who exchanged them for salt and oil and vinegar in the city, they would always leave a dozen or so to stew twice throughout the year to replenish the fat lost in the autumn harvest.
How could Xu Laoer dislike Loach? That's not much more delicious than boiled cabbage.
He was so full of food that he was about to eat, and he finally wanted to change the food, and he said with great anticipation:
"Stew the loach with sauce and add some chili until it is very fragrant. In previous years, we would go to the branch of the river to catch it, but this year we have not had time to grab it back from the river. It just happened to be stewed tonight. Let's have a good meal. Sweating." I hope Qin Niang can be willing to let the sauce go.
Next, Dali unloaded two baskets of red mountain fruits from the car.
Mountain red fruits have similar taste to wild hawthorns, and they also look similar.
Xu Laoer frowned in disapproval and said, "Why don't you keep it at home and sell it for money? What are you doing with so much of this thing?"
At this time of year in previous years, Xu Laoer knew that his mother-in-law would collect red fruits from the mountains in exchange for some rags and needlework, and then use the rags and needlework to make a lot of insoles and uppers, which would be sold to shops in the town in exchange for money to support the family. A pair of eyes made I'm almost half blind from needlework.
After all, there are two boys in the family who haven't gotten married yet, and they were separated, so they didn't get anything. Breaking down a home is worth tens of thousands of dollars, and repurchasing it again requires money.
Yu Dali didn't want to bring so many mountain reds. He was wondering who would eat the sour ones.
But his mother said that the Xu family's situation was much better than her own. If there was sugar, it would be delicious when boiled. The proprietress of the shop where she exchanged rags with her would wrap it in sugar and eat it. She would cook it in a big pot every time and let it cool. It can be eaten for a long time if kept frozen in the warehouse.
He also said that your brother-in-law has a niece, and you are considered an elder. It is a rare trip to bring something specially for the child. You can't leave your paws empty and let someone call you "uncle". If you can't take out anything, the child will be disappointed and can only bring two baskets of wild fruits for nothing.
It was the remaining half of the car's contents that moved Xu Laoer the most.
Only looking at half a cart of white stones, his brother-in-law just pushed it with brute force.
This kind of white mountain stone can be smashed and mixed with local mud blocks to create a large white wall.
After painting, the house will be clean and decent immediately. It is a "specialty" on the mountain next to my mother-in-law's house.
But because this kind of white mountain stone is located on a very high and dangerous cliff, many mountain people usually collect it and exchange it for some money. He heard that it was sold to people in the city to paint walls, and he didn't know what the musk smell was, and the walls would emit a lingering fragrance.
Only then did Xu Lao Er realize that his brother-in-law had lied about why he didn't arrive in time to harvest autumn vegetables and repair the house. He guessed that he went up the mountain for a few days to dig out white rocks for his family. Thinking that I would finally visit my house, I would bring something valuable and decent.
Xu Laoer looked at Dali's burned hand and saw that half of the thumb nail on his right hand had fallen off, confirming his guess.
Xu Laoer thought to himself: Brother-in-law, don't say anything. My brother-in-law will remember this day from now on.
But what the second child doesn’t know is that the Yu family originally left Yu Qiniang’s betrothal gift and silver flowers to use, which was a pain in the Yu family’s mother’s heart. She often said that if your sister is not pregnant and has a baby, she will be looked down upon by her mother-in-law. superior.
The two brothers, Dali and Erli, were always afraid that their sister would have a bad life, no matter how good her sister was when she returned to her parents' home, they were worried. This was the uneasy point.
I guess when I collect enough money and give it to my sister, I will feel at ease.
I just don’t dare to think about when I will have enough money to collect it.
Therefore, the Yu family can only do their best not to come to the door to cause trouble when they are in trouble. If it is useful, they are obliged to do so. For example, if your family is poor and has nothing to offer, all you can do is prepare as much as you can.
At this time, the man could not say anything touching.
Xu Youliang could only help move things while chatting with Yu Qinniang with Dali: "Your sister has been very tired these days. I heard from her that she has to go to the fields to collect vegetables in the past few days. The chicken didn't crow, and she Just get up.”
Following him, I never experienced any blessings.
As a family member, Dali didn’t know if he felt bad in his heart, but he said without caring:
"Brother-in-law, isn't that normal? It's better if you can do something better. If the wife of a farmer's family is not so capable, how can she live a good life? She relies on her hard work. My mother often says at home that my sister has fallen into a bad nest. , I was talking about it when I went back to my sister’s house last time. My aunt in your family treats her like her own daughter. After my sister left, my mother couldn’t mention how happy she was.”
Dali thought reasonably, and he couldn't help but enjoy the blessings of following his brother-in-law, because the brother-in-law was the elder brother in the Xu family, and the eldest brother above him was gone, and the brother-in-law was the eldest brother, so he couldn't be humble. He also has a younger brother who understands this mentality.
But her sister had a good mother-in-law, and she couldn't prepare for the day when she no longer had to wear rags and had to rely on her mother-in-law. You can also rely on your mother-in-law to enjoy good food and drink spicy food, and luck lies behind.
Dali accidentally discovered the truth.
He wiped the sweat from his head vigorously. It was really tiring to push a cart of things all the way. He said with a smile: "By the way, brother-in-law, don't you know, your aunt is famous in other villages. Even I am Our family has borrowed all of them.”
"What light can I borrow?"
"I think there will be more places to borrow money in the future. As for now, our village is taking a high look at my family. When the news of the mutual market first came, many people in our village knew that your family had bought a large house before, and they praised it. My sister married into a well-to-do family. Li Zheng also went to my house to find out. If there is someone in your family who has some tricks, please tell me and don’t hide anything. You said I can’t just tell you nothing, it seems like what’s going on Yes, I just want to tell you that my sister came home a while ago and asked me to prepare more urala grass."
Dali said funnyly, and then the whole village prepared urala grass, which was very baffling.
"Is your home well prepared?"
"It's a lot. Brother-in-law, don't worry. He pounded the grass and dried it into silk long ago. I also stuffed a lot of it into the clothes I wore today. By the way, how far is the new house built?"
Xu Laoer smiled: "Let's go, I'll take you to have a look, your sister happens to be over there, and then we will go up the mountain to move the wood."
"sister!"
Yu Qiniang was very happy to see her eldest brother.
But this happiness is not a reason for her to cook lavishly. Listen, what nonsense is that her man said? Let her exchange soybeans for dry tofu and stir-fry chili peppers, let her go to the third aunt's house next door to buy eggs and fried eggs, let her stir-fry peanuts to make four dishes, and order her to use salt to make the loaches spit out mud.
"I can't do that."
"Why?" Xu Laoer stared.
"I can't let the villagers be so picky. Now that her brother is here, the food is really different."
"It's really hard for you to be stingy and have an idea. People in the village will only say that you can't bear to leave your brother when he comes, so who can you be generous to? I think you deserve a beating. It's a pleasure. I'll entertain my brother-in-law. I Why can’t you speak easily?”
