A peaceful and harmonious life began. On the branches of the elm trees in the yard, strings of emerald elm coins were embroidered, and a flower magpie was calling among the branches. Yuxian sat in the sunlight of the east courtyard, holding the soles of his shoes. The back door was closed, the front door was closed, and my father-in-law and husband, each with a stone rammer, went to the village to beat adobe in the unknown day, and only came back at night. She was alone in the small courtyard, so quiet that she could only hear the "sizzling" sound of the hemp rope pulling through the soles of the cloth shoes. A little lonely, she wants to gossip with people; no, the new daughter-in-law who has been through the door for a few days will go to the east and west, which will cause criticism. She sat and sat and tossed and turned, thinking about the changes in this new family. I feel that the most obvious thing is that Ah Gong has a better temper than his biological father. 's father, Wu San, scolded her as soon as he saw something unpleasant about her. Ah Gong is very easy-going. He never asked his daughter-in-law to take care of and serve him, and when he came back at night, he would eat whatever was served in the pot. Usually at home, she asks her grandfather what kind of food to cook? wide noodles or thin noodles, dry noodles or soup? Grandpa always smiles and says, "Sensei asked, what do you like to eat and cook?" "She seems to be happier in this cropyard than in front of her own mother, Lao Tzu. People say that the new daughter-in-law is difficult, and being a daughter-in-law for Qinwa is happy!

Qinwa is also good. Diligent, sincere, thrifty, truly authentic good croppers. She believed that before getting married, her mother asked her about Qinwa's character and did not coax her. He went out in the morning and came back in the evening, sometimes to the village a dozen miles away to hunt adobe, and still had to rush back. He whispered in her ear: "If there were no you in the house, I wouldn't want to run this wrong way!"

What happened last night was unusual.

Qinwa came back from the adobe and, as usual, handed over the money earned that day to the old man. The old man took the money, put it on the table, and asked Qinwa to call his daughter-in-law. Yuxian followed Qinwa to Ah Gong's house.

Ah Gong sat on the kang, glanced at Qinwa, and then at Yuxian, knocked off the ashes, and said:

"From now on, Qinwa will earn money, and she will hand it over to me and give it to Xianwa. ”

The old man is not used to calling Yuxian and Xianwa, but he calls him his daughter. Yuxian's heart was suddenly moved, and he hurriedly said, "Dad, that's not good! You're always the head of the family......

"The family doesn't talk about it. The old man explained sincerely, "I am in my fifties, and I don't want to do anything, just to be harmonious and eat a bowl of hot rice." This sun and moon are your sun and moon, good or bad, poor or rich, all are yours. How to live your life and how to arrange your family affairs, you have to think about it! Qinwa said the day before yesterday that if you want to build three tiled houses, you should have this faction! It is not difficult to have three rooms. Dad earned a lifetime of adobe money, and he couldn't use up ten tiled houses, and now he still has these two rotten houses. The more money you earn, the more you need to collect taxes from the national army. Now, our grandfather and son are playing adobe in their spare time, but for three years, we can support three tiled houses!"

"Dad, I'll leave the money in front of you......" Qinwa said.

"You two understand the baby! What does Dad want money for? It's not for you to save it, just put it in your box, so I don't have to worry about it. The old man stuffed the dresser left by his deceased wife, the family's treasury, into Qinwa's arms at once, as a symbol of power, and handed it over to his son without hesitation, "Boy, the sun and the moon are not good, don't blame your father!"

Qinwa burst into tears and said, "Dad, sooner or later you have to use money, you speak, go to the meeting, and catch the market......"

"Hey, don't you know?" said the old man with a cheerful smile, "Dad will only make adobe all his life, earn sweat money, and will not spend money." ”

Now, the dressing box containing the money earned by the father and son from the adobe is locked in the corner of the box. Yuxian felt that this home was really his own home. When she was at her mother's house, the daughters-in-law in the village had to tell her son-in-law and then her grandfather and grandmother that the family often fought for money. Just two months after she passed the door, the old grandfather suddenly handed over the financial power to her, is the old man too old? Or is it ......

She saw that the sun had risen over the east wall, and it was a little cold in the small courtyard, so it was time to make dinner, and when Qinwa and Ah Gong came back at night, they both wanted to drink a bowl of corn grits to warm their stomachs and intestines.

As soon as the street door "creaked", the women's director Jin's sister-in-law poked her head in.

"Yuxian, ** call on women to read and learn. The township sent a gentleman to eradicate illiteracy and run a winter school, but you can't go to it?"

Yuxian had long heard rumors that he was going to run a winter school to eradicate illiteracy, and today it was confirmed. She thinks it's fresh, and if people can read and write, it would be so interesting. Although he thought so in his heart, his mouth said, "This is the ...... I'll have to ask my dad. ”

"Your dad doesn't block the generals, and neither does the diligent baby. "Sister-in-law Jin speaks and does things neatly, "The call of the people, which feudal brain dares to pull back?"

"If you can't stop it, you have to tell the old man. Yuxian said reservedly and humbly, "We can't treat the old man as disrespectful." ”

"Good daughter-in-law, what a good daughter-in-law. Sister-in-law Jin smiled and said, "I'll register you first, if anyone pulls back, you look for me!"

Sister-in-law Jin swept out the door like a whirlwind.

"It's a good thing! Knowing how to read and study, it's a good thing!" Kang Tiansheng old man ate the corn grits handed over by his daughter-in-law's hands, and said to Yuxian, who was standing at the table and asked for literacy, "I can't read, and I haven't read when I was young, and there is a person who can read and write, and no one can coax us." ”

Although Ah Gong is illiterate, he is not as feudal as the particularly stubborn old men in the village. Yuxian didn't immediately show that she couldn't wait, and deliberately pretended to be indifferent to going to winter school, lest the old man say that she was restless and lived in a small cropyard, and her heart was ambitious: "I want to go to him and let him go to school." I'm a woman, I don't know if I can read or not, it doesn't matter......"

"What's the matter! The new society, look at women high!" said the old man loudly, "Qinwa and I are too busy to stay at home, and we can't learn if we want to." ”

She achieved her goal, served her grandfather to eat, and warmed the rice in the pot for Qinwa. Qinwa didn't come back until it was dark. In spring and March, it is the season for the turned over croppers to repair houses and build houses, and the work of beating adobe is thick, and Qinwa does the work in the distant villages, and let the old grandfather do the work in the nearby villages. How interesting would it be to really learn to read and write......

Kang Tiansheng drank hot corn grits accompanied by sour and delicious sour yellow cabbage, and was very satisfied. After two or three months of on-the-spot observation of the new daughter-in-law, he was fortunate to have married a good daughter-in-law to his son. In his daily observations, he saw that his daughter-in-law was more awake than his son. Such a smart woman is really good for his straight son Qinwa. He willingly handed over the financial power to the next generation prematurely, and the self-evident meaning is: Your belongings, your sun and moon, you should work hard! He readily agreed to let his daughter-in-law go to winter school, and it was also out of this consideration that let the wise Yuxian learn some culture, and no one would want to mess with the diligent baby in the future. Ensure that after his death, Qinwa will have a shrewd housekeeper. As the saying goes, men are rakes and earns, and women are boxes and save, and they are not afraid that there are no thorns in the rake, but they are afraid that the box has no bottom. It is not easy for the croppers to live the sun and the moon!