Second Brother Xia finally picked Xipa.

As soon as Xipa was picked open, Jiu'er's eyes lit up, and when she saw her second brother, she giggled happily.

put Xipa back on and motioned for the second brother to come again.

On the night when his fifth brother spent candles in his fifth brother's cave room, he picked a two-hour Xipa, and it was not until Xiao Xia's wife found her daughter that she was liberated.

Xiao Xia Pozi glanced at Xia Xiucai very meaningfully, and left with the struggling Jiu'er.

Second Brother Xia spent the rest of his time in Xia Xiucai's reprimand: "She is a child, are you crazy too." ”

And he said, "If you don't know what to do, shouldn't you look for your father?"

"She's only one year old, and you're only one year old?"

"How can an elder brother spoil his sister like this. Can't even say 'no' or 'no'?"

Second Brother Xia slandered: "If the ninth sister sits on your bed with a Xipa, you can say 'no', 'no', 'not play'?"

After drinking the wine, he couldn't hold back his mouth, and argued in a low voice: "What if I hurt the heart of the ninth sister, and when I think about it when I get married in the future, I refuse to take Xipa." ”

Xia Xiucai laughed angrily: "I'll look back and see how you reveal Xipa when you greet you." ”

Second Brother Xia shuddered when he heard it.

The fifth sister-in-law's Xipa still let Jiu'er hide it in the end. No matter how coercive and tempting she was, Jiu'er only looked at the fifth sister-in-law with big watery eyes and didn't speak. In the end, the helpless fifth sister-in-law could only give Xipa to Jiu'er, which was considered to be makeup.

Because of the second brother Xia who came back for the New Year and the fifth sister-in-law who had just passed the door, this year's New Year was particularly lively. Even the most angry sister-in-law gave each child two coppers.

The four sisters-in-law are given every year, and each child is given five. The ninth sister is a girl's family, so she gets five more.

The fifth sister-in-law gave the most, but said: "This year is the first year to enter the door, and it is rare for everyone to be happy." In the future, it will naturally be the same as the fourth sister-in-law. ”

When Second Brother Xia left, he didn't tell Sù Jiu'er.

The little girl carefully rummaged through the front and back of the house, and even let the sixth brother open the mouse hole and see it.

The second brother disappeared.

Jiu'er began to look at everyone with a very strange gaze. After dinner, whoever wanted to leave the room was stubbornly pulled back by Jiu'er.

When Jiu'er was asleep, the fifth brother and the fifth sister-in-law still went back to live in the city. Jiu'er didn't even let go of Xiao Xia's shoes, and touched them carefully with her hands, and the fifth brother and fifth sister-in-law were not there.

A few days later, the third sister-in-law also took the eldest sister back to help the third brother look at the shop, leaving Bao'er to study with her grandfather.

Jiu'er began to be sad in spring and autumn.

The family is not allowed to mention the second brother again, and often sits on the bench and looks at the sky in a daze and sighs.

A month later, the second brother asked someone to bring back a small clay figurine. Jiu'er played happily, and when she heard that it was sent by the second brother, tears fell from her eyes, looked at her mother and said, "Don't." ”

He said no, and carefully wrapped it in a cloth and hid it. Sometimes, the eldest sister-in-law wanted to coax her out to play with Zhu'er, so she twisted her head and said, "Don't give it." ”

Xiaoxia's mother-in-law persuaded her, and Jiu'er said lightly: "I saw it, and I was sad." She said very slowly, and Mrs. Xiao Xia looked at it carefully, but she didn't feel how sad she was. But the people of the Xia family really don't mention the second brother much, and the things that are sent back, Xiao Xia's mother-in-law accepts them by herself and doesn't show them to Jiu'er.

He also asked people to send letters to the fifth and third brothers, so that they could come back and see when they were free.

So, the Xia family became lively and deserted again.

Gradually, Jiu'er seemed to get used to it, and slowly became lively again. has been able to follow the starling brother to run out, and the second brother Xia seems to be a long, long time away.

Two households further forward from the Xia family is Lin Dahao's house, and life is also good. There are two children in the family, one is five years older than Jiu'er, and the other is three years older than Jiu'er. Sister-in-law Lin likes Jiu'er very much, the little girl looks so happy, with a white and tender little face, a bulging head, a fleshy cheek, a small nose, and a pouting mouth, she always smiles and bends her eyes when she meets.

Other people's children are not so polite.

"Sister-in-law Lin, what are you doing?" Jiu'er stood beside Sister-in-law Lin, looked at Sister-in-law Lin and asked as she turned over the cakes in the pot.

"Spread the bread. "In the end, it's a little girl, who knows how to talk to others, but her own boys can't do it, so she knows that she grabs food and runs to play.

"What are the breads, can you eat them?"

"Yes, it's delicious. ”

"Can children eat it?"

"Well, children can eat it too. ”

"Then a child like me can eat it?"

Sister-in-law Lin paused: "Yes!"

Jiu'er stood quietly beside Sister-in-law Lin and watched.

When Sister-in-law Lin's first cake was baked, she wrapped it in a thick white cloth and gave it to Jiu'er to eat. Jiu'er carefully broke a small piece, blew hard, and then took a small bite. looked at Sister-in-law Lin again, and said softly, "Hot." ”

So, Sister-in-law Lin helped blow it.

Jiu'er took two bites, squinted at Sister-in-law Lin and said happily, "It's delicious." My mother can't make such delicious cakes. ”

Sister-in-law Lin looked at her sweet smile and smiled, after all, she is still a little girl, and she eats so delicately.

On the way back, Jiu'er gave the pancakes to the eighth brother and Bao'er to eat. At dinnertime, the children didn't eat much.

Xiao Xia asked the starling, and said hatefully: "Why did you give birth to such a gluttonous cat?!" and asked the sister-in-law to take some small snacks and send them to the Lin family.

Xiao Xia's mother-in-law is wrong, in fact, Jiu'er is not greedy, at least not as greedy as everyone thinks. The point is that what adults think is important, and it is useless in her little world.

Xia Xiucai and Xiao Xia's mother-in-law went to the chief's house to discuss the matter of the field, and Jiu'er also went. There is a three-year-old girl in the Chang's family, who is very well-behaved and cute. Mrs. Xiao Xia took pity on Jiu'er and didn't have a little girl to play with her, so she hugged her and went over.

The two little girls turned the rope together and had a good time cooing.

Xia Xiucai discussed with the lieutenant governor whether he could exchange land with a few nearby families so that his family's land could be connected.

After a long discussion, his mouth was a little dry, and the tea was gone. The lieutenant looked at Xia Xiucai and his wife apologetically, and called his daughter-in-law to add some tea. Xiao Xia Pozi suddenly raised her forehead and exclaimed, "Oh no." ”

Let's look again, Jiu'er, who was originally playing in front of the house, is gone, and Lizheng's granddaughter Sanya is not there.

Li Zheng also comforted calmly: "Just play in this house." It doesn't matter. ”

Xiao Xia said secretly in her heart: "You don't know the truth." "Jiu'er's disappearance of a cup of tea generally indicates countless troubles.

Sure enough, the cry of Lizheng's daughter-in-law came from the kitchen.

Xia Xiucai and Xiao Xia's mother-in-law didn't care if they were at someone else's house, so they hurriedly ran over.

Xiao Xia's face turned red.

Jiu'er and Yaya sat in the high cupboard, you spoonful and I spoonful, and ate the sugar jar cleanly.

The cabinet was originally embedded in the wall, about a person high, and if you want to hold the dishes and chopsticks, you can reach the spices as soon as you reach them.

Jiu'er pulled a chair and placed a small bench on it. He made a small bench and put it in front of the chair, and it turned out to be a small ladder. The two little girls climbed up easily.

The eldest daughter-in-law was so frightened that she was afraid that her daughter would fall and fall.

When Jiu'er was taken away, Yaya chased her out and shouted: "Xiaoyu, you must come to play again." ”

The good-faced little Xia Pozi had to take a large bag of sugar from home and send it to the chief.

Xia Xiucai was not ashamed to ask Jiu'er: "Why did you think of such an idea?" and couldn't help but sigh: "It's so smart." It's a great boy to be a boy. ”

Xiao Xia's mother-in-law pondered, the villagers don't pay attention to the girls, they all follow the kids, and there are no constraints. Thinking about it like this, people sent a letter to the third brother, and the next day the third brother took their mother and daughter to live in the city.

The third brother's shop is connected to this small courtyard of his own.

Jiu'er looked at the customers who came and went to sell wine and eat in the shop, and felt very fresh. In the open space in front of the shop, there are also some small vendors who put vegetables, dried firewood, and seasonal fruits there, and from morning to night, the sound of selling and shouting is endless.

So he often slipped to the counter and listened to the third brother's reply: "This is the rice wine that has just arrived, the taste is mellow, you smell it." It doesn't smell weird at all. ”

And he said, "Let's have another braised pig's ear." Chewy and not so hard. It smells so good!"

Someone on the street outside shouted: "Freshly fried twist." Fragrant and crispy. ”

On the other side, he shouted again: "Saili's radish, come and buy it." ”

Jiu'er was stunned.

After two or three days, the third brother went to load the goods, and the third sister-in-law took Jiu'er and her friends to stare at the counter.

Xiao Xia, who was doing needlework in the back, suddenly heard a trace of immature children's voices in the noisy shouting outside. Rushed out to take a look, and sure enough, it was her Jiu'er, standing on the table in front of the wine shop, dancing and singing: "Come --- --- buy ---! The --- yellow --- wine --- by Xia ---'s family! When it's late ------ it's ------ gone!"

On that day, the business of the third brother's family was exceptionally good, and the goods for three days were sold out in one day, and the late ones were really not bought.

Xiao Xia had to stare at her every day, but she was not careful, so she ran to the front.

When she heard the third sister-in-law say that the drunken woman was pitiful, she asked the man to pour cold water on her. He also taught the woman, "How can you not take care of yourself like this?" ”

"The children in the family are waiting for you to buy rice for the pot!"

"Don't you have a father and mother to feed you?" only scolded passers-by.

"Even I'm only three years old, I know that I have to look at the shop and share my parents' worries!" In fact, I'm almost three years old, and the shop is not her father's. When her mother heard this, she was about to die of sorrow.

Xiao Xia's mother-in-law stayed up for half a year, and she had no choice but to take Jiu'er to the fifth brother. When leaving, the third sister-in-law pouted, very disapproving, if a businessman wants to have a girl as smart and generous as Jiu'er, it will be happy to die.

Mrs. Xiao Xia said apologetically to the fifth sister-in-law: "You are small here, you shouldn't have come." There's really no way, you're a quiet and polite person, help me bring her. ”

The fifth sister-in-law asked Jiu'er to learn needlework, and Jiu'er sat on the side and watched.

The fifth sister-in-law took the embroidery needle and gently pricked Jiu'er's little hand, Jiu'er quickly retracted her hand and looked at the fifth sister-in-law with a breath.

"Later, you have to be careful, this needle pricking hurts. The fifth sister-in-law looked at her with a smile.

Jiu'er blinked, nodded, and looked at the needle again with a hint of awe.

The fifth sister-in-law asked Jiu'er to sew a straight line first.

Jiu'er took the small strip of cloth and happily sat aside and went busy. After a while, it was sewn, and I looked left and right, and I liked it very much. The fifth sister-in-law smiled on the side: the stitches were sparse and crooked, and the strips of cloth were sewn on the placket.

But in the end, it was a three-year-old child.

"Go and show my mother, I couldn't sew so well when I was three years old. ”

Jiu'er pinched the small strip of cloth and jumped up to find her mother. But a dog ate and lay on the ground.

The fifth sister-in-law was startled, thinking that she had been sitting for a long time and her legs were numb. hurriedly helped Jiu'er up. Xiao Xia, who was sitting a little farther away, also hurriedly ran over.

Jiu'er pulled the fifth sister-in-law's clothes and stood still, and then pulled the fifth sister-in-law and threw herself forward.