Nothing is set in stone. Perhaps due to the increasingly embarrassing economic situation, or perhaps due to the solution to the most basic needs of the people, the rural market trade in the Persimmon Bay area, that is, the temple fair, gradually and limited resumed after years of closure.

The villagers were also allocated a small amount of land for themselves, and they could go to the market to sell their own agricultural and sideline products. This naturally also stimulates the gradual increase of household side businesses of the villagers.

Ye not only raises chickens, pigs, and rabbits in his own yard, but also digs wild Chinese medicinal materials such as Yuanzhi, Astragalus, Goji Berry, and Swollen Hand Flower in the field between works or on the way to the end of work, and carries them home.

The market in Qingxi Town is open every 10th day of the lunar calendar. On this day, the leaves went to the market as usual. Coincidentally, at the meeting, I met the daughter-in-law of the Xing family, a neighbor who was in Qingping that year.

Although Ye Zi only stayed in Qingping for more than eight months, because she was cheerful and kind, she also made a few good friends. I haven't seen each other for several years, but I didn't expect to meet them at the market today.

"Hey, isn't this a leaf?!" the Xing family's daughter-in-law said in surprise. "Oh, it's you, I haven't seen you in years. "Not really. What are you here for?" "Ah, I've sold some medicinal herbs. ”

"Isn't the consignment store just collecting miles, what are you doing at the meeting? "Hehe, the price will be better." "Oh, that's right. ”

"Oh, I haven't seen you for a long time, and I've been chanting you. "Not really, yes. As if there was something to say, the two of them walked and talked, and then found a secluded corner where they could bask in the sun, put their baggage on the ground, sat on it, and began to talk.

"Hey, how are you doing now?" asked the daughter-in-law of the Xing family. "That's it. There's no bottom in the house here, so it's urgent. "Oh. I have a baby. "Well, kid. ”

"Oh, that's not crooked, my in-laws must like it. "No father, the father has died a long time ago, just a mother-in-law." "Look at the one that saves you trouble. How many birthdays is the baby?" ”

"Well, it's been a few months. "No, the ghost is always going to be old, so it's pregnant again. Ye Zi blushed and said. "Oh, if you sleep on the kang, you will naturally have less. The daughter-in-law of the Xing family said mysteriously by the ear of the leaf.

"Hehe, it's not that wide. "Then go to your mother-in-law's side, or it will be over." "Hey, hey. Ye Zi glanced at the daughter-in-law of the Xing family with a smile.

"What about you?" "Ah, uh, a son and a daughter." "Look at your suitability, how many birthdays are there?" "The boy is a snake, you know that. Women, monkeys. "Oh, how dare a woman be a year younger than the boy?" "Oh, no. ”

"If you can give birth to a woman this time, your forehead will be heartwarming. "Look at what you said, how can you let us?" "I think it's a daughter." "You've got the skills to do it. "Hehe, it's just a feeling. ”

"Hey, sister, after you left, Xiao Zhang married another one. That daughter-in-law is amazing. "Oh. "You don't know, the old couple of the Zhang family are out one by one. And guess what?"

"What's the matter?" "Zhang's wife is still thinking about you behind her back." "It's all over. "But also, how can people have front and back eyes, and it is useless to regret it. "Well, don't talk about it. "Hey, hey. Idle talk, what are you afraid of?"

"Hey, how are you doing?" "Old, you know. "Your mother-in-law is still so good to you?" "How can it be? The second child has married a daughter-in-law, and the position of the forehead has come down." ”

"The old in the world are looking towards the young. "Who says it's not, it's always towards the second child, and when I mention this, I get angry." Look at who she counts on when she gets old. "The E's family is an only son, no brother or brother, just a sister. "That's not crooked, how much trouble can it be saved." ”

"Hey, sister, you have gray hair. The daughter-in-law of the Xing family helped pull out a leaf while talking. "It's useless to pull it out. "How old are you? Really, eat when you need to, drink when you should." ”

"No way, there's a lot of urgency in the room here. "You can't lose yourself either. "Well, I know it. "I don't know you yet, what are the numbers, then the work is endless." "Hehe, it's all forced. ”

"Hey, there's something I've always wanted to tell you, but I can't see you all the time. Alas, I don't know whether to say it or not. "What's the matter? "Hmm......" "Tell me, what the hell is going on?"

"Do you remember the martial arts family in the west of the village?" "Why don't you remember, Wubao household, no children and no daughters." What's wrong?" "No, why are you mentioning this? ”

"Then tell you that the old couple hugged a daughter. "Oh, that's not good. "Do you know which one you're holding?" "How can you know this?" ”

"It was dark two days after you gave birth to a baby that year, and the old man of the martial arts family picked it up. "Oh?" "Really, what are you doing to lie to you?" "What are you doing here?" "It's nothing, it's just small talk." The daughter-in-law of the Xing family glanced at Ye Zi. Ye Zi didn't answer for a while.

"Hey, the old couple is very happy, and they named their daughter Gua'er. "Melon?" "Hmm. The daughter-in-law of the Xing family glanced at Ye Zi with a smile and said.

In this way, the two sat on the warm wall and chatted for a while before they each carried a small burden and dispersed.

But since he met the daughter-in-law of the Xing family at the temple fair, Ye Zi seemed to have something on his mind, and as soon as he was free, he was silently distracted there. This gossip will be put aside for the time being.

Ye Zi lives in the Liang family's two west mansions. Because it is a house built with sunflower poles, the load-bearing capacity is limited. Therefore, the entrance of the house is small, and the depth is also shallow, only eight or nine feet deep, and the house with one door and one window is divided into two small rooms inside and outside with a thin partition wall.

There is a large window in the room, and there is a large earthen kang from the back eaves wall to the front eaves wall, and the top of the back eaves wall side of the earthen kang is cushioned with two square wooden rafters, and the quilt rolls are placed on the kang below the board box.

The outer room is the one with the door, and the front is against the back eaves wall with a table, two chairs, and a wardrobe. The interior walls of the house are not plastered with lime, and the walls are plastered with one-color wheat mud (wheat fat mud, which is mixed with wheat and mud).

The house has no suspended ceiling, and when you look up, you can see sunflower stalks, sorghum straw, and bare wheat straw mud (wheat straw mud, which is made by mixing crushed wheat straw in the mud).

At night, the dog baby slept in the kang, leaning against the end of the cricket, and the leaves bulged out with a big belly close to the son, sleeping on the side of the kang. And what about the baby? I had to sleep in front of the window, and the kang looked a little crowded.

Children often use crying to express hunger, urinating or pulling. Adults and children are crowded on a kang, and when the dog baby cries, the adults are naturally woken up. Ye Zi has to take care of his son, and he has to be complained by the noble baby.

In addition to being aggrieved, Ye Zi couldn't help but think of the idea of the daughter-in-law of the Xing family, so she simply took the opportunity to quarrel with Guiwa and drove Guiwa to her mother-in-law's house to sleep.

Avoiding the noise of the child, Guiwa slept like a dead pig on her mother's kang. At first, it was okay, but Guiwa felt that he had made a bargain, so that the child would not grind him.

But after a long time, he couldn't help it, and pestered the leaves from time to time to ask for that. The leaves are tired and often unhappy.

This precious baby found fault, lost her temper at every turn, quarreled with the leaves, and even got into a fight, which made the chickens and dogs in the house restless. There was no way, I couldn't stand it anymore, so Ye Zi went back to her parents' house to stay for a few days. I won't go into these trivia.

Perhaps affected by the economic difficulties of the production team, this year, the Persimmon Bay area began to acquiesce to the sideline team. Sideline teams can go into the city to build roads, build houses, go down to salt ponds to pull nitrate, or go into the mountains to cut wood. It's just a production team, and only one side team is allowed.

As soon as he had planted wheat, he heard that the team was going to organize a work out, so Ye went to the captain's house. "Captain, I heard that you are going to the salt pond to pull nitrate?" "Well, what?"

"I want to call Guiwa to go. "Guiwa, how can he do that job?!" "Isn't it just pulling nitrate, why can't he do it?" "It's hard to pull nitrate, it's cold in winter, it's in the salt lake, it's icy and snowy. ”

"Isn't anyone bigger than your baby, if you can pull it, why can't you do it?" You don't know your precious baby yet?" "Alas, knowing is knowing, it's just ......" The captain smoked a dry cigarette and didn't answer for a while. "The baby is lazy, and she is still arguing with her in the house. Ye Zi said and shed tears.

"Guiwa is not a thing. The leaves are really bitter to death. The captain's wife couldn't help but say on the side. "When he goes out, no matter how bitter he is, his heart is not tired, and he can stop and stop. Ye Zi said. "Look at the pitiful leaves, you can take your baby there. The captain's wife said.

"Alas, you want him to go, but people are still willing?" the captain asked Ye Zi with a shake of his head. "If he doesn't go, he'll be gone. "Hehe, as long as you have the determination. Then let the baby find the forehead. In this way, Ye Zi said a lot of things, and the captain reluctantly agreed.

In fact, by this time, Ye's belly was already quite bulging, that is to say, it was not far from life. But she still wants Guiwa to go out with the side team. This time, Guiwa is too lazy in the house, if she goes out, she can't see it, and she won't be upset.

Second, Guiwa followed the side team, and there was more or less an entry in the house. Three, it also saves the couple from quarreling all the time, doesn't it?

The next night, Ye took the spinning wheel off the wall and sat on the kang to spin cotton. After a while, Guiwa came over from the house over there, and when he saw him smiling, Ye Zi opened his mouth first: "I heard that the side team is going out." "Well, what's wrong?"

"Tell the captain that you will go out with the side hustle team. "Go out? Have you ever seen Nara Ni? "Then isn't Who's going to go too?" "He goes to him, what does it have to do with him?"

"It's just two babies, if you don't do it, what can you do in the future?" ”

"So what can you do?" "Guy, hehe, there's a lot you can do." "Then you can take a look. "Oops, I don't pull nitrate anyway. Working in the ice stubble is no joke. ”

"People can stand it, but you can't stand it?" Who lives in this sunflower pole house?" "Hehe, look at this house is beautiful." "Shameless. "Ah, the last hard meal, all the money earned was given to the team, so I don't do that flawed work." ”

"No matter what you say, we can drop two of them, it's better than in this agricultural society. "You just know the money. "It's not that I'm a money fan. This baby is slowly getting bigger, and the cost of the house is also increasing. "Hehe, you're tormented, the baby is still a little bit." Children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren, and when he is older, he earns it himself. ”

"Besides, wouldn't you be able to see the world when you go out? "Hehe, it's better to say than to sing. "It's hard to tell the captain of the house, so think about it again. "Hey, okay, think about it. ”

While talking, Guiwa got on the kang with a smile, hugged the leaf and thought about it. Ye Zi pointed to his stomach, and Guiwa went to his mother's side in disappointment.