Zhang Zhaohua sighed and said, "Aunt Ma, don't be angry, this matter is indeed something that the second brother did wrong." Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoThere's nothing to say about this, our family doesn't know how many times we've beaten him for his nonsense, his ass is colorful, there is no good piece of meat, if you don't believe it, just open his pants and see, it's not that we don't teach him a lesson and don't beat and scold him. ”

Someone outside the door was already laughing, and Widow Ma took a breath and was about to speak, when Zhang Zhaohua rushed in front of her and said, "You just said that our family instigated him to bully Lan Lan, and we should never come down on this point." Lan Lan is a child in our village, a family with the same surname, all of them are children surnamed Zhang, they are relatives, we are idle and have nowhere to go, bullying the children who have grown up? Not to mention that Lan Lan is still so obedient and well-behaved, who is not rare-"

"Why can't Brother Sheng'er get along with Lan Lan," Zhang Zhaohua said: "What does he know, but he just watched his father and mother worry because he couldn't pay the grain, he only saw my father's difficulty, but he didn't see your family's difficulty." Your family is having a hard time, adults know it, but children don't. If you say that this is what my father and mother instigated, then you have really wronged them. ”

"You say this as if you were not a child," said the horse widow, who was astonished, "how can you speak like an adult, and speak so eloquently!"

"I know these things, but it's because every time my mother steams the white flour buns, she keeps a copy for me to send to you," Zhang Zhaohua has sent steamed buns to Widow Ma's family twice, but of course not every steamed bun is sent: "Every time you tell me that your family is not easy, you can help a little bit." Your family's fields are all taken care of by the villagers, if everyone bullies your family because you are a desperate household, then your 45 acres of land will not be wasted long ago?"

Widow Ma was speechless, just looked Zhang Zhaohua up and down, and said: "Your mouth is really sharp, let me say a word, you have ten sentences waiting, I see that the sister of the Wang family is not a person who can speak well, but you have a good mouth, which is really incomprehensible." ”

Zhang Zhaohua grinned: "I don't know what I can say, but I am here." Aunt Ma, today's incident is indeed my second brother's fault, I will not ask him to please him when I go back, and if you go out, you can put Lan Lan in my house, my mother will look at it, and my second brother will not dare to mess around. ”

When the horse widow heard this, she raised her eyebrows, she didn't know what she was thinking, and showed a smile: "Your method is good, it's settled, if your mother is here, I must rest assured." ”

Zhang Zhaohua was also afraid that the horse widow would hold on, and when he saw that she was finally relieved, he also breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly jumped out of the door, pushed away the villagers who were watching the excitement, and ran home.

When she got home, Wang was stir-frying, and the smoke was too big, so she had to run to the door to look, and when she saw Zhang Qi and Zhang Chang coming from afar, she went out to pick up the hoe and basket in their hands.

"Dad, you got the hoe back, won't you go to the field in the afternoon?" Zhang Zhaohua asked.

"In the afternoon, I was going to urge the autumn grain, and the grain chief gave a three-day deadline," Zhang Qi dragged his daughter and said, "Are you done with your class?"

"It's over," Zhang Zhaohua said: "We have meat to eat at noon today, and Mr. gave half an osmanthus duck, which is a specialty of the capital." ”

When he sat down at the table, Wang took out the dishes and looked at them, and said, "Why don't you see Brother Sheng?" This guy usually doesn't see him, but he never eats badly, why hasn't he come now?"

Zhang Zhaohua said: "He blocked Lan Lan at the water's edge, spitting on people, and almost pushed people down." ”

Wang Shi was startled when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "How can this melon coward make it! Is there anything wrong with Lan Lan?"

Zhang Zhaohua said the matter from beginning to end, and said: "The widow Ma is not relenting, she is unwilling to rest, and she usually shouts if she ignores it, not to mention that Lan Lan is still scared this time, I think she will invite a foot doctor." ”

At this time, there was no serious doctor in the village, they were all barefoot doctors, also called grass head doctors, because they had a barefoot doctor in Zhangjia Village who had fast feet, so the whole village called him a foot doctor. This doctor studied for a few days when his family was well-off when he was young, and when he grew up, he went into exile with a barefoot doctor, learned things like plasters and pills, and bought medical books to read, and also knew some herbal medicines.

"The foot doctor won't prescribe medicine to her, at most get Lan Lan a cinnabar pill to eat," Zhang Qi said disapprerovingly: "The cinnabar pill is made of cinnabar, he has already made money by selling one point, and he doesn't dare to ask for more." We'll just pay her a lot. ”

"Cinnabar pills are naturally nothing," Zhang Zhaohua said: "But Lan Lan has always been weak, if the horse widow prescribes a prescription for precious medicinal materials for Lan Lan with a doctor's head and comes to us and asks us to pay for it, Dad, do you say that you will pay it or not?"

Zhang Chang put down his chopsticks and said angrily: "This loser thing - when he comes back, I will smoke his ass and bloom!"

"How many times have you beaten and scolded, it's useless to him at all," Zhang Zhaohua said suddenly: "He can't always do nothing at home, right, who is not working in the fields when he's the old?

"Eat your meal," Wang suddenly sandwiched a chopstick stewed peas for her, and said, "Where do you come from so many words?"

Zhang Zhaohua peeked at Wang's family, feeling that her expression was not very natural, and secretly said in his heart, could she actually know what Zhang Sheng's plan was?

Unexpectedly, Zhang Qi's words interrupted what she wanted to say, because he talked about planting winter wheat.

In previous years, winter wheat seeds are sown from mid to late September to early October, and before that, the need to hoe is to make a pickle. The hoe is to loosen the soil with a farm tool with three or four teeth like a rake, so that the field can be doubled several times, which can promote the growth of wheat roots, is conducive to root tillering, and can also increase the ground temperature and improve the frost resistance of wheat.

After hoeing, bury straw and fertilizer in the ground, of course, the fertilizer at this time is picked out from the manure pit, although Zhang Zhaohua feels that this is natural and pollution-free, but picking manure irrigation is indeed the best invisible thing.

At about this time of the year, Zhang Qi will smell bad, and every night when he goes home, he will lay under the stove, even if he washes it, it is useless, and the smell will always exist if he does not plant the seeds in the ground.

Listening to Zhang Qi talk about the winter wheat, Zhang Zhaohua felt that the osmanthus duck he had just eaten was tasteless, but the others were not like her, a plate of duck meat was quickly divided, and their family unanimously decided not to leave Zhang Sheng, who told him to do bad things.

The next few days passed very peacefully, what they were worried about did not happen, the horse widow did not knock on the door, but just sent Lan Lan to learn weaving with Wang, Zhang Sheng obediently came back and admitted his mistake, or was grabbed by Wang and pressed on the stone mill and spanked, Zhang Zhaohua felt that Zhang Sheng's ass had become as resistant to beating as a steel plate after experiencing a thousand blows.

Because of the new policy of "widowhood and loneliness" this year, without the crying and troubles of the widow Ma, Zhang Qi, the head of the first place, was unexpectedly comfortable, and several other families urged the grain to be paid, and the task was completed ahead of schedule.

There are also widowers in their village, but people are not as noisy as the horse widow, Zhang Zhaohua has always had a fixed thinking in the past, that is, the government encourages widows to remarry, widowers to remarry, she had secretly hoped when the horse widow made trouble in his family, hoping that the grain would come forward and match the horse widow with this widower. The reason is very simple, because this is the time when the country was created, she remembers that the country after the turmoil in history is eager to reproduce the population, so for example, when Gou Jian governed the Yue country, it was stipulated that a woman should marry out at a certain age, otherwise she would be blamed for her parents, like the early years of the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, the government encouraged young widows to remarry, and took the increase or decrease of population as an important indicator for evaluating local officials.

The Ming Dynasty was also the orthodox dynasty of the Han people, so why did it not encourage widows to remarry?

She actually asked Uncle Zhang Cong vaguely this question, Uncle Zhang Cong just told her about the truth of women's chastity, and later saw that Zhang Zhaohua did not listen, so he told her the truth, saying that there were very few widows who could observe the festival before the Song Dynasty, and most of them were unwilling to marry.

It was not until the Yuan Dynasty that female widowhood became a social model of mainstream views and standards in society.

The Yuan Dynasty's system of commending widows for their festivals also continued to the Ming Dynasty, as well as the funeral system, which in a sense was similar.

However, it should be explained that although she lived in this era encouraged and advocated widows to keep festivals, it did not force all widows to keep festivals, and widows could be allowed to remarry without any punishment, but for those who could keep festivals, they were exempted from their own family servitude. However, this commendation is also limited, and only those who "adhere to the system before 30 years and do not change their ways after 50" can be commended by the government.

The widow Ma was a widow at the age of twenty-nine, and in order to earn a torii for Lan Lan so that she could live well in her husband's house, she really didn't marry anymore - as far as this is concerned, the people in the village have moved her to some extent.