"That's right!" Xiao Yanwu snorted angrily, "If you still let her come back in gold and silver, she won't be beautiful!"

Jiang Xinrou said with a smile: "Okay, Dad is in the shade of the backyard, you go and accompany him, and I will go to the kitchen with the obedient girl to see what we eat at noon." Don't worry, don't let her work, just let her point out where to put the bottles and cans of seasoning, and my sister-in-law and I are not familiar with the stove here. You love my daughter, I don't hurt me?

I wanted to say don't be tired of my daughter, but Xiao Sanye, who was seen through by his daughter-in-law without opening his mouth, laughed twice and ran to the backyard to accompany the old man to watch the ducklings play in the water.

Jiang Xinrou took her daughter's hand: "Let's go, just show my mother where the things are." You don't need anything else, with the good craftsmanship of the blessed sister-in-law, my mother has to step aside. ”

Ying Fang smiled: "Actually, I feel pretty good now, and it's still fulfilling to do something appropriately, otherwise if I'm lazy, I feel like I'm about to be wasted." ”

"What nonsense are you talking about! Don't talk about waste in the future, you should be careful when you are pregnant, and there is no one at home, in case there is something to regret, it will be too late. If you want to be bored, your mother will accompany you to give the child some winter clothes and quilts. Since even your master said that it might be twins, we have to prepare as soon as possible. Your dad bought the fabric, didn't he say that there was still some cotton? Let's spread it first, it's not enough for me to go to the cotton station to buy it. ”

"That's enough, my wife learned that I was pregnant and left some for me. If it's really not enough, it's too late to buy it when this year's new cotton comes down. "Hengzhi will not be born until the New Year.

At noon, I didn't cook rice, nor did I fry a few more dishes, but a bowl of green vegetables and egg noodles for one person, and simply sacrificed to the Five Organs Temple.

The pond was sun-soaked in the middle of the day, and the ducks, probably too sweltering, staggered ashore and hid in the shade of the leafy mulberry trees.

"This year, your mulberry tree has produced fruit, but the amount is not much, and when the two dogs and a few children found out and came to tell me, they were almost pecked by birds. It's the big mulberry tree at the foot of the mountain, this year has produced a lot of fruit, Ergouzi and a few children stayed there early, took bamboo poles to catch birds, ripe picked a lot, and sent us some over, freshly ate a few, and the rest of the drying is so small, let Ah Jiu give you a snack to eat, doesn't it taste sweet?"

Grandma Zhang also came over after lunch, accompanied by two dogs and a few babies, helping Grandma Zhang carry a pot of herbal tea, Yingfang was pregnant and couldn't drink herbal tea, Grandma Zhang poured her a pot of fried rice and boiled tea.

Sun-dried mulberries lose their moisture and taste sweeter than fresh. Ying Fang smiled and helped Shi Niang sit down. It's a pity that the gifts she prepared for a few children were put at home, but fortunately, the old man also had a lot to eat, opened two cans, took out a box of animal biscuits, and invited the two dogs and a few children to eat.

Where have the children ever eaten such high-end biscuits, not to mention how rare they are.

"Thank you, Sister Fangfang, Cangzhu didn't know that you were back, and I knew that I was coming. I'll tell him later. ”

"The sun is so hot now, don't go. When the sun goes down, you bring him something to eat. I also brought you gifts, several of you children, oh, to reward you for taking care of my family during this time. ”

Ying Fang smiled and waved at the children. It made the children laugh.

"Sister Fangfang, I heard that you are pregnant with a baby in your belly, is it the same as my mother giving birth to a sister, do you also have a sister in your belly?" asked the younger dog baby, looking at Yingfang's slightly bulging belly curiously.

"Who said it must be a younger sister, or it could be a younger brother. Ergouzi retorted righteously.

"That is, like my aunt, all the births were younger brothers, and my grandmother smiled from ear to ear, praising her as a great hero of the family. Sister Fangfang, you must also give birth to a younger brother, if you give birth to a younger brother, you can eat delicious food every day, and it's okay if you don't work, if you give birth to a younger sister, you can only be like my aunt, you have to get up before dawn to wash clothes and cook for the whole family, and you will be scolded by my grandmother when it's over. ”

The youngest Tiezhu said seriously with a small face.

Everyone sighed for a while.

Grandma Zhang patted Yingfang's hand soothingly and didn't say anything. There are many patriarchs in the countryside, and there is indeed a situation like Tiezhu said, giving birth to a male baby will become a great hero, and if you can't give birth or give birth to a girl, you have to bear the endless cynicism of your in-laws.

Jiang Xinrou held her daughter's hand: "Fortunately, our family doesn't have this rule, your grandfather loves your granddaughters more than his grandchildren, don't you see that your cousins are jealous?"

The old man came in from the back of the house, and when he heard this, he blew his beard: "That's not it, the grandson is to protect the territory and defend the country, and the granddaughter is the one who hurts." ”

Everyone laughed.

Ergouzi said enviously: "Sister Fangfang, are all the boys in your family really defending the country? How can they protect the country and defend the country? I also want to be like that." and Cangzhu, I made an appointment with him to become a soldier when he grows up, just like Brother Gangzi. ”

As he spoke, he patted his chest up.

"Boy, you have this ambition to be commended, but your small body is up for discussion, go back and practice hard, you can take ten moves under this Xiao Li next to me, and the team of defending the country is designated to you. Old Man Xiao said with a smile.

"Really?" Ergouzi's eyes widened, looking at Xiao Li, and then at his own small body, and dejectedly found that this gap was not a star and a half.

However, it also has a clear goal.

"Brother Li, are you very good at fighting, do you want to teach me?"

"Brother Gouzi, that's not called fighting, that's called military boxing, Brother Gangzi said, he also taught me a trick at that time, but unfortunately I was stupid and didn't learn it. ”

"Then Brother Xiao Li will definitely too, Brother Xiao Li, you teach me!"

"Brother Li, I want to learn too!"

"And I still have it!"

“……”

Immediately, Comrade Xiao Li was surrounded by Ergouzi and a group of children, and they all wanted to learn military boxing from him. Even the three or four-year-old iron pillars were sandwiched in the middle with a milky voice.

Xiao Li is the eldest at home, and he has a string of younger brothers and sisters, and he is used to taking care of children. But his task is to protect and take care of the old man, which teaches boxing......

Old Man Xiao looked at Xiao Li with a smile and said: "The children are so sincere, you can teach them, well, from tomorrow, in this courtyard, if you want to learn, report to the courtyard on time at six o'clock, Xiao Li will teach you a trick every day, and teach you until we go back." How much you can learn depends on your own ability. ”

"Oh oh oh! so good!" the children cheered and jumped on Xiao Li.

"Add another bamboo, and I'll tell him in a moment that he must be pleased. Ergouzi said excitedly.

Since "not fighting, not knowing each other" with Li Cangzhu, the two have established a friendship similar to wearing a pair of open crotch pants, and the friendship is not too iron.

"Old man, don't you like to be quiet? Isn't it to disturb your rest by letting these boys come over at six o'clock in the morning?" When the children went to play in the backyard, Xiao Yanwu asked the old man.

The old man said: "When you are old, you wake up early at six o'clock, and getting up early to move your muscles and bones is good for your body." I haven't seen such energetic boys in many years, and looking at them reminds me of the three of you when you were young. Besides, we don't have to stay here for more than a day or two, so we have to do something so that it doesn't look like we're having an idle meal. Otherwise, you think, the whole commune is busy, and just a few of us are hanging around all day long, which will inevitably make people chew the root of their tongues. Teaching children to learn to play military physical boxing, firstly, I really want to help those children with high ambitions, and secondly, we have done some good deeds, and we will not feel sorry to stay for a few more days. ”

Xiao Yanwu gave a thumbs up to the old man: "Jiang is still old and spicy." ”

The old man snorted: "That's." Lao Tzu has eaten more salt than you have ever eaten rice. ”

Xiao Yanwu squeezed his eyes at his daughter, which means "Look at it, look at it, your grandfather is starting to brag about himself again."

Ying Fang couldn't help but laugh out loud.

The children's gang led by Ergouzi helped in the backyard in addition to the grass and fed the ducks, seeing that the sun was not as strong as at noon, he said to Yingfang that he wanted to go to Jiangkou Port to find Cangzhu to play, mainly to tell him the good news.

Yingfang asked them to follow her home and give them the gifts she had prepared in advance—

The older children each had two pencils, an eraser, and two study books, while the younger ones were not yet of school age and did not have a strong sense of stationery, so they were given a handful of hard fruit candy.

The children left beaming.

The old man and his entourage, together with Grandma Zhang, also went to Yingfang's house.

Since you have to set a table in the evening, you naturally have to prepare the dishes.

The ducks just started laying eggs, and they were all female ducks, so they were naturally reluctant to slaughter, and finally planned to listen to Yingfang's and slaughter a rooster to beat their teeth.

In addition, Grandma Zhang's newly marinated salted duck eggs are also very popular with everyone. Compared with salted eggs, the yolk of salted duck eggs is large and oily, and you can make half a bowl of rice in one bite, not to mention how fragrant it is.

But what everyone didn't expect was that the old Jin and the two who ran on the mountain all night brought them a big surprise -

Lao Jin held a twitching hare in his mouth, and Xiao Jin dragged a bundle of firewood with his two hind paws, and looked at it, what kind of firewood was it, it was a pheasant that was rolled his eyes.

The Xiao family has heard that Lao Jin can hunt is one thing, and what they have seen with their own eyes is another, but it is easy to praise Lao Jin to a new height.

"It seems that there are a lot of treasures on this mountain, and Lao Jin refuses to come back. If I had been young and carrying a shotgun and living in it for three or five days, I might not have been able to enjoy it. The old man couldn't help but remember the past.

Grandma Zhang said with emotion: "After the catastrophe, I haven't been up for many years. I don't know when there was a group of wolves, and I was seen by several villagers before and after, and gradually no one dared to go up, at most I went to the small slope forest to chop firewood, pick up some fungus, mushrooms, and then I had to be careful. You too, don't be poisoned by wolves for a bite to eat. ”

"Wang—"

Little Golden Tooth heard Grandma Zhang's jealousy of the wolves, and screamed unconvinced. Stupid humans! Who said that wolves must be cruel, some people say that they are human beings, and they do things more cruel than wolves. Whisper!

Old Jin lay on the ground and smashed his head with his front paws.

Seeing such a soft and cute scene, everyone's hearts melted, and they all gathered around to touch its little head.

The little golden tooth could not stand the enthusiasm of the man, and ran away with a grin, leaving his father to lie very comfortably under the eaves, humming and chirping to enjoy the mistress's hair.

The sun set, and the cool well water splashed the ground over and over again, and soon, after a day of drying in the yard, the heat disappeared a lot.

The men carried out the tables, chairs and benches, and the extra-large round table of Yingfang's house was placed on it, which could seat fourteen or fifteen people. The secretary, the president and his daughter-in-law all came, and Xiang Er's son, who was both a relative of Xiang Gang's side and a matchmaker for the younger couple, also came.

As soon as the cold dishes and peanuts were served, the men enthusiastically touched the wine bowls.

The women drank the sweet wine made by the second aunt.

However, Ying Fang is excepted.

She was temporarily deprived of the right to dip into alcohol. In front of him is a bowl of fruit tea brewed with dried mulberries. Replace the wine with tea and toast the elders present.

The secretary and president saw that the Xiao family was not as difficult to approach as they imagined, and gradually let go, not as restrained as the previous two dealings, the wine table brought each other closer to each other's friendship, and as the wine entered the intestines, the voice was also a lot louder, and when it came to the excitement, it caused everyone to laugh.

The second dog led a group of boys to lie on the wall of Yingfang's house and look down: "Sister Fangfang, you haven't finished eating yet, who do you think I brought here?"

Li Cangzhu struggled to lie on the courtyard wall, poked out his little head, and beckoned to Yingfangxi: "Aunt Fang!"

"Poof—"

Xiao Sanye, who had a keen ear, sprayed wine.

"Good girl, where did you get such a big nephew?"

Jiang Xinrou had just seen the swallow girl call her daughter "aunt" not long ago, and she was already immune to this, and waved to the boys outside the courtyard wall with a smile and said, "Come in and sit." Have you eaten dinner? I don't care if I eat it, I will take some peanuts and melon seeds to eat. ”

A few young people, when they heard that there was something delicious, cheered, hula came in, grabbed two handfuls each, and jumped up and down to find other friends to show off.

The second dog is a lot of sensible people after the New Year, and there is an excessively precocious Li Cangzhu on the side, the power of example is huge, in previous years, he grabbed some food and stuffed it into his pocket.

As a reward, Yingfang stuffed a piece of sour jujube cake for them.

"I'll start learning military physical boxing tomorrow morning, and you'll come too, Cangzhu, right?"

"Aunt Fang, I will definitely come. Li Cangzhu's chest was quite high, for fear that Yingfang would not let him come, "My mother supported me very much when she found out, and asked me not to be late." ”

"How is your mother doing? After I left, the Hu family didn't trouble her again, right?" Ying Fang pulled Cangzhu aside and asked carefully about Widow Li's current situation.

"Thank you Aunt Fang for your concern, my mother is so good. Grandma Shu had trouble with my mother a few times before, but was blocked back by my mother. Later, I heard that Aunt Fang, you have found your biological parents, and you are an official in Kyoto, everyone knows that my mother has a good relationship with you, and her precious grandmother does not dare to trouble my mother again. My mother knew you were coming and wanted to come with me to see you, but it was late tonight, and she said she still wouldn't come out, and she would definitely come over tomorrow morning. ”