Chapter 12: The Winter of the Fifth Year
Spring went to winter for five years
The snow is white and the wind is cold
The world is changing
Ups and downs, only the original intention
In the cold winter, the farmers in the north are in the cat winter, and most of the villagers who have nothing to do or gather in everyone's "secret base" to gamble and have fun; Or get together to have fun; or the three aunts and six mothers-in-law gossip about whose little daughter-in-law is moistened like a peach blossom, and so on. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
At this time, seven or eight little daughters-in-law, aunts and Wu Guihua occupied the entire Dongwu Huokang, gossiping about the "news" in the village, while keeping the soles of their shoes in their hands, and they were busy with entertainment and work. Geng Xiuqin, the second daughter-in-law of the old Li family, also sat on the side and sorted out the twine used to cut the soles of her mother-in-law Wu Guihua, and her ears were still straight to listen to the "legend" in the village.
Sitting on the edge of the brazier and watching this scene on the kang felt quite funny. As a new daughter-in-law, she can't interject, and she can't interject, but she can't help but want to know more, so she feels funny when she looks at Geng Xiuqin's hard work. Such a scene is very familiar to Lu Sheng, after all, he was like this five years ago, and he couldn't interject if he wanted to hear it. However, when Geng Xiuqin is better than herself, if she can interject, people can also say, where is it like herself, she can only watch her mouth open, and there is no sound.
Hey, at the end of the year and every year, it's a gossip gathering of these gossips, oh, the only difference is that there is a new second daughter-in-law this year. You say the eldest daughter-in-law Wang Feng? Forget it, that lazy woman, now Lu Sheng has seen Wang Feng's laziness, so it's not bad if the cold wind is blowing and the snow is not in the bed, and I still expect her to go out, it's like the sun is coming out in the west.
Lu Sheng, who spent five years in Lao Li's family in Anyang Village, is now ten years old, and his stature has risen a lot, and he has long adapted to the life of not having a computer, mobile phone, ipad, and knowing the world at home, and has also learned a lot of skills to adapt to life. Just like her, she learned how to use a rural stove and cook a decent farmhouse meal with a small amount of seasoning; Then I learned to use farm tools, and when I was busy with farming, I carried a hoe and followed Wu Guihua to the field, and I also learned the gossip of rural people.
However, although it is not good to gossip about others, Lu Sheng is a child and gossips because he met the only friend in the village. Although this friend has made a lot of friends, I have to admit that it is really much more beneficial to be able to make friends with An Qinghe, the youngest granddaughter of the village chief's family. Can't blame her for making friends and thinking about the benefits, who called her not a real child, not interested in the little girl's games, if she didn't have other purposes, who would pretend to be interested in playing with her.
If you lose, you will gain.
After all these years of adaptation, and helping to do farm work all year round, the people are darker and rougher, and there is no white and tender and well-behaved appearance when I first arrived at Lao Li's house, but because of this, I am completely like a girl from a farmer's house, and I am more concerned about some things in the farm.
Since the beginning of the previous year, the village has become more lively than ever, and there are more people clearing the mountains, because this year, in order to pay tribute to the thousands of people of the generation who sacrificed their lives 30 years ago, the state leaders have reduced the amount of grain taxes for the peasants for three years, and if the land cleared by their own families is completely exempted from all taxes within three years, but each household can only be allowed to reclaim 2 to 3 acres of wasteland, and the specific calculation is based on the number of people per household, so a lot of grain can be planted on a mountain by a mountain.
The changes in the village inadvertently don't feel that there is much of a big one, and the old Li family, as their own buyer, has really changed a lot in the past few years.
Not to mention anything else, the courtyard of Lao Li's family has changed a lot. Because last year, the second Li Erzhu finally got married and married Geng Xiuqin from Wu Guihua's maiden village. For Li Erzhu's marriage, Li Dequan and his family gritted their teeth to double the courtyard outward, and then built three new large tiled houses on the east side of the courtyard, next to the kitchen.
In this way, the courtyard of Lao Li's house was composed of five main houses plus a side room and a kitchen, the yard was very large, and a pigsty and a cowshed were built on the west side of the yard, and the chicken shed was also next to each other. At that time, it was the old man's room, Li Dequan's family of two people, Li Erzhu's room, and then Lu Sheng and Li Guigui's room, and the other room was the family's food or something. According to this way of living, even if Li Erzhu gets married, he can still live.
But I don't know how to talk about marriage at the beginning, it may be compared to the old family, if you want to get married, you must have a new marriage room, and you must divide the family. Lu Sheng guessed that there is also Li Erzhu's credit here, don't look at Li Erzhu's usual honest appearance, he is actually a very shrewd person; And Li Erzhu's daughter-in-law Geng Xiuqin talked about it by Erzhu himself, after a period of observation, Lu Sheng also found that Geng Xiuqin had no idea, listened to her parents at home, listened to her husband when she got married, and didn't listen to Li Erzhu for everything.
But even if Li Erzhu has such an idea, there is nothing wrong with it, after all, Li Dazhu is indeed married like this, and it is convenient to do everything with his own home; There is an example here, so you can't blame the younger brothers below for some scholars coming ahead. Therefore, even if the family was financially difficult, Li Dequan gritted his teeth and repaired a new house, married Li Erzhu a daughter-in-law, and then divided the family.
Although they still live in the same courtyard, one gate goes in and out, but they eat separately, and Erzhu has been eating like this since he got married for half a year. But now everyone is eating in a pot again, either anything else, or Geng Xiuqin is pregnant. For the sake of this baby pimple, Li Erzhu didn't think about what his family was doing, so he ate it together first, and waited for the child to be born.
Geng Xiuqin's pregnancy is the happiest, except for Li Erzhu, who is the old man.
The old man, who began to be sick last spring, has been lying in bed and is not necessarily well, and he has been to the hospital, and the doctor has also explained that he can go home to recuperate, so that the old man can be happier and stay up as long as he can.
The doctor's meaning, where can the Li family not understand, with tears in their eyes, they sent the old man back to the house, Wu Guihua and a few concubines, taking turns to serve, not only did the family not see a little bit of the old man's depression, but also often heard laughter, just to let the old man look lively, popular, happy, and feel comfortable to stay up for a while.
In fact, since the old man was sick, several sons and daughters-in-law have been serving him, which is enough to make Old Man Li happy. At the end of last year, he witnessed the birth of Li Dazhu's second son, and now he may see the birth of his third great-grandson, and in the words of the old man, it is worth it to die.
Everyone knows that what the old man wants to see most is the birth of an 18-year-old Li Guigui's child. But the actual situation is that Li Guigui is 18 years old, he still looks stupid, his intelligence has not grown at all, but his body is very strong, and there is no problem at all in getting married; But Lu Sheng is still young, Lu Sheng is only 10 years old this year, and he will have to wait many years to get married. The old man can't wait, and the old man understands that although he has regrets, he doesn't feel pity. After all, the precious situation is special, and it is not something that can be found by looking for a daughter-in-law, otherwise there would be no such thing as Lu Sheng back then.