Chapter 20: The Second Aunt
When the eldest aunt opened the gate of the hall in the morning, she looked at the courtyard, and the tables and stools were scattered all over the ground, and the pig bones were scattered all over the ground. The eldest aunt shook her head helplessly, picked up a small broom and bent down to sweep the gnawed pig bones on the ground.
It didn't take long for Erya to come over. Seeing that the eldest aunt was sweeping the bones as garbage, she hurriedly took a basket and went over: "Auntie, these bones are kept, and when they are washed and dried, it is okay to use them as food for the yellow wolf, and it is okay to smash them for the chickens, they are all good things." ”
The eldest aunt straightened her waist, took a basket and picked up the bones one by one and put them in the basket, and laughed at the second girl: "I said, nephew and daughter-in-law!" No wonder our days are getting worse and worse! You see, we threw away a lot of these things as waste, but they became treasures when they came to you. We don't even want treasures, but we don't have a good life! ”
The second aunt was cleaning up in the yard next door, and she heard the words of the second girl and the sister-in-law clearly, so she also raised her voice and answered over there: "Sister-in-law, don't say it, I also found out that this girl is really good at everything." The little fluff of the goose's belly and duck's belly, she wants to keep it. He also asked me to go to the house in Zhuangzi to say hello and let the fluff be kept for her. Sister-in-law Zhang, they are still asking, 'Why do you want that?' ’”
Hearing the second aunt ask her here, Erya hurriedly raised her voice in the direction of the second aunt's house and replied: "That fluff, if there is more, I want to use it to get some cotton wool to make a jacket together, and if it is less, add some cotton wool to make cotton shoes!" ”
The eldest aunt didn't wait for the second aunt to speak, so she asked the second girl in surprise: "Nephew and daughter-in-law!" Are you serious? Can that fluff really be used as a cotton jacket and cotton shoes? ”
The second aunt over there didn't speak for a long time, but she ran around the courtyard gate on her feet. Panting and asking Erya: "Nephew and daughter-in-law?" Are you serious? ”
"Of course! Not only can you make jackets, shoes, but also quilts! That's all high-end products, and it's a few grades more expensive than cotton! Erya's look of course made the eldest aunt and the second aunt completely believe what Erya said.
The second aunt solemnly said to her sister-in-law: "Sister-in-law, during this time, I went out to help others kill geese and ducks. I don't want anything but fluff. I still have to go to my mother's house to say hello and ask them to help get some back at her door, and I will make some dowry quilts for my leaves. ”
"Not only do you go out, I also want to go out to help others kill geese and ducks, I'm afraid that others won't lift their feathers, and then they will be ruined! The family has not made cotton clothes for several years, and I also want to get cotton jackets for my children to wear. ”
The eldest aunt asked the second girl again: "Niece and daughter-in-law, if they are a few of them to make one body, how much fluff will it take?" ”
Er Ya is a little confused,. That's a lot. "That's a lot, at least half a catty for a piece, you can do the math! You can't get a single one or two on a goose, and even fewer ducks. See for yourselves how much you need to kill! ”
The second aunt was full of confidence: "No problem, I can get at least ten a day!" ”
The eldest aunt is also full of confidence: "I can too!" ”
Erya looked at the two female men and began to discuss with great interest which house to help, which family's goose and duck fat, etc., shook her head! When the time comes, I'm afraid you won't be able to persevere. I think that at the beginning, she was most afraid that the old lady would let her lift goose feathers and duck feathers, which was a technical job.
The women tidied up the yard and made breakfast. The men also got up, washed up, and began to eat breakfast.
At the dinner table, the uncle began to assign tasks: "Daman! ”
"Huh!?" Daman should arrive with questions!
"You have breakfast, and with your brother, bring the meat left for your grandfather's house!" The uncle said and asked the second uncle, "Second brother, who will send your mother-in-law's mother's family?" ”
The second aunt hurriedly responded: "I'll go, I happened to have something to do in the past!" ”
The uncle said "oh", and said to Xiaohu: "Xiaohu, you have breakfast, and together with your daughter-in-law, send the meat of your second aunt's family!" ”
The eldest aunt was busy asking the uncle: "Daddy, then Liu Yatou's mother's family also wants to send some meat over?"
Uncle thought for a moment, "yes! How did I forget Xiaohu's daughter-in-law's maiden family!? Otherwise, pick a back seat and send it over! Fortunately, there is still one end that has not been sold. ”
When Erya heard this, she was anxious: "Don't! Let's talk about it later! My grandfather and my father must still be angry, just ask someone to bring some Boxing gifts over for the New Year's holiday, and don't go there normally, so as not to be thrown out. If I go back with Xiaohu, maybe I'll have to be beaten! "Just kidding! I don't even know where to open my house! I don't know anyone, if you don't wait for yourself to figure it out slowly, and then there will be an oolong incident, then it's a big game!
When Xiaolong heard that someone was going to beat his brother, he didn't do it: "Sister-in-law! Who hits brother? I'm going to hit him! ”
The second girl glared: "You dare!" That's my dad and my father! Call me! ”
Xiaolong flinched suddenly, and muttered weakly: "Sister-in-law, Xiaolong doesn't fight!" ”
Uncle Niang, they "coaxed" and laughed! Dahong and Xiangzi were choked and coughed!
Xiaolong secretly looked at his sister-in-law, and when he saw that his sister-in-law didn't laugh, he was anxious: "Sister-in-law! I've said it all, don't fight! Why aren't you happy!? ”
Xiaohu also looked at his daughter-in-law with some concern, for fear that her daughter-in-law would be really angry. Er Ya turned her head and squeezed her eyes at Xiaohu to prevent Xiaolong from seeing. When Xiaohu saw it, he smiled and lowered his head to drink porridge, and didn't pay attention to Xiaolong's pitiful appearance.
Xiaolong didn't have the heart to eat, so he poked and poked around the bowl with chopsticks. Erya pretended to be vicious and said, "Don't eat it yet!" Otherwise, we won't take you with us when we go to my second aunt's house! ”
Xiaolong was relieved to see that his sister-in-law was still willing to take him out to chat. Happy to play with Anzi, and compete to see who eats fast!
After breakfast, each of them packed up their own things to give away. Before leaving, Erya also asked the uncle to get a bamboo knife and a smooth and non-burred round wooden stick with two sharp ends. When she returns, she will use these tools to skin wild boars!
The second aunt's house is not far away, and the second girl followed Xiaohu and dragged a little dragon, and arrived in less than half an hour.
There was a half-old woman in her fifties and sixties standing at the door of the second aunt's house, chatting hotly with a woman in her forties not far away. Erya admires the hearing of their ears, and they can talk passionately from a distance of several meters. Do you hear me?
Xiaohu stepped forward and called "grandma". Erya and Xiaolong didn't know each other anyway, so they grunted!
The half-old woman didn't know if she was upset when she was interrupted from chatting, or if she was unhappy when she saw Xiaohu. Anyway, when Xiaohu called her, his face was like facing someone. Hum an "um" from your nose!
Xiaohu didn't pay much attention to her, holding the back basket in one hand and pulling Erya with the other, Erya pulled Xiaolong, and entered the door in a row.
"Second aunt! Second aunt! As soon as Xiaohu entered the courtyard gate, he shouted!
"Oops! Come on! Come on! When the second aunt heard the call, she knew that it was from her mother's family. He hurriedly ran out of the back room, holding the half-contained sole in his left hand and a needle in his right hand, with a long thread in between.
"Why are you here? Is there something going on at home? The second aunt felt a little abrupt in her heart, but when she saw Xiaohu and Xiaolong looking at herself with a smile and a little girl she didn't know, she was relieved again! Hurriedly welcomed Xiaohu and them into the house.
Xiaohu put down the basket, took out a large piece of pork inside, and took out the two pheasants that the uncle asked him to bring when he left.
Follow the old woman who entered the door and saw meat and pheasants. Finally showed their first smile here: "Roar! This eldest brother is really good, the family is already so difficult, why do you send dried meat here? ”
As he spoke, he walked down the corridor with the meat in his hand, and hung the meat on the hook in the corridor.
Xiaohu didn't talk to them, they only talked to the second aunt: "Second aunt, the uncle said that I got married, and you couldn't go back, this time I just took advantage of the wild boar we hunted to bring you and bring my daughter-in-law over to show you!" ”
"Good, good!" The second aunt pulled up her sleeves and wiped the tears on both sides. He also said: "This daughter-in-law, I look good!" This body is strong enough. Good! ”
Then he said, "I'm being held in custody now, and I'm not allowed to go back." I don't know what's going on at home? Tell me about it! ”
Xiaohu was about to speak, and the old woman who went to the corridor to hang meat came in again. Pulling Xiaohu and chattering: "Xiaohu, you are here just in time!" You come to judge the old woman and me. When your family was in trouble, we didn't say we wouldn't help.
But your second aunt, who was silent, didn't even say hello, and sold the dowry field. Does that make sense? So the fat field was sold in such a hurry. Who doesn't feel distressed! Yes?
If she is not allowed to go back to her parents' house, she will not talk to me, and this has been more than a year. Still angry with me, ignore me! My mother-in-law is about to become a daughter-in-law
The second aunt pulled the second aunt and squeezed her eyes, signaled to follow her, and the second aunt followed the second aunt into the back room with Xiaolong.
When she arrived in the back room, the second aunt pursed her lips and said to the second girl: "Niece and daughter-in-law, don't listen to her." At that time, your uncle and second uncle still had your family's fields and furniture and so on, everything that could be sold had been sold out, your aunt and your second aunt's dowry had also been sold, and even several nieces took out their dowries.
I was so anxious that I begged her every day to get some money out and send it back to me. She pretended to be stupid to me, pretended not to hear, and pretended to forget; Tell me, my mother's family has arrived there, and I still hold on to this dowry, am I still a human being? Therefore, I don't care whether she gives money or not, I directly find someone to sell the five acres of land that I married at the beginning, and send the money back to your uncle.
Coincidentally, the person who bought the land happened to be the child's grandmother's mother's Zhuangzi, and it didn't take long for this matter to be poked out.
Obediently, they were like crazy, arguing with me every day, telling me to go back and get the money to redeem the land. I don't want to, so she'll provoke your cousin and cousins to do it against me.
Fortunately, your cousin is older and sensible, so she doesn't listen to her. Your three cousins are still young and ignorant, so they listen to her, and now they don't talk to me. I'm not afraid, though. ”
The second aunt raised her head and said: "When I was in my mother's house, an elder brother and two younger brothers, just one of my daughters, the family treated me as a pain in the eyeballs, and specially bought land near the Wei family to give me a dowry.
When my mother's family is in trouble, I only care about my mother's family, and in order to get their good, I forget that my mother's family is good to me!? I can't do it, and if I do, I'm afraid I'll regret it in the future and don't want to live in this world.
Now no matter what they do to me, I did what I had to do, and I have peace of mind!
So, the child's grandmother, the child's grandfather, and your uncle, don't let me go back to my parents' house, and I don't care. Now they are playing tricks on me and looking down on my mother's family. One day the bowels that make them regret are all green, so many nephews and nieces in my family, can they still be poor for a lifetime? I don't believe it! The second aunt gritted her teeth, and it seemed that she was really angry.
"Also, if there is anything good in the future, don't send it! It's all a bunch of ungrateful stuff.
At the beginning, when my mother's family was good, what good things didn't move here? The children have passed, and they have to serve them like a king, so what is good not to hold on to them first? Every time I look at a few nieces and nephews, I am embarrassed to let the children take it.
But what about them? I turned around and forgot that even though it was my own child, I really felt chills in my heart.
Since their nature is like this, I don't expect them to honor me and feed me in the future. When I'm old and can't move, I'll climb the pond and drown myself! ”
"Holy!" Erya shouted in her heart, how did the Wang family raise their daughter? The temperament is really strong enough, and you can be so angry with your own children?!
Here the second girl was sweating profusely by the second aunt, and the little tiger over there was also dizzy by the old woman's chatter.
It's wise to take Xiaolong with you, it's not: "Sister-in-law! Sister-in-law! I want to go home! Let's go home! I want to go home! "Xiaolong is a child after all, and if no one pays attention to him for a long time, he is in a hurry to go crazy. Pulling my sister-in-law's sleeve and pulling it out!
Er Ya said hello and wanted to go! "Second aunt, there are still a lot of things at home, we have to go back to help quickly, so we won't talk to you more. If you can go back, try to go back and walk around so you can relax. As for us, rest assured, as you said, we have so many brothers and sisters, and they have all grown up, and life will soon be better. ”
"Oops! Niece and daughter-in-law! Don't go, no matter what, after eating here and then going back, the first time you come, how can you go back without eating? The second aunt pulled the second girl and didn't let her go.
Xiaohu heard the sound of Erya greeting and leaving in the hall, and exhaled fiercely, thinking to himself: 'Ouch! My mother, too! I can finally go, and if I don't go, I'm going to be crazy with nagging. But I heard that the second aunt wouldn't let me go, yelling! That's not going to work!
Xiaohu shouted at the inner room: "Second aunt! We're really busy, see you next time! Why don't you go back someday? ”
The second aunt sent the second aunt out with a lonely expression, and Xiaohu looked a little sad when she saw the second aunt. I don't know what's going on! glanced at his daughter-in-law, but didn't get any information.
The second aunt was reluctant to go back after sending her all the way, and the second girl was sad to see. secretly said to the second aunt: "Second aunt, don't worry, we have started to get better now." Next year, we will be able to pay off all the debts. Within three years, I will definitely give you back the dowry field you sold, so that none of them will dare to despise you. When the time comes, no one will dare to stop you from going back to your parents' home. Otherwise, we will come to your doorstep and get justice for you. ”
Erya's words seemed to have reached the heart of the second aunt, and the second aunt suddenly lay on the second aunt and cried. The original strength turned out to be stiff: "Mmmmmmmmmm Good! I'm waiting for you to pick me up and take me back to my parents' house! I'm not going back, I'm just waiting for you to pick me up! Let me go back to my parents' house in style! ”
Erya gently patted the second aunt's back, and Xiaohu also wiped her tears beside her.
After a long time, the second aunt raised her head, straightened up, straightened her clothes, and watched them go, until she couldn't see them, and then she turned back and went home!
Chatting: Some people say that the poverty alleviation process is too slow! Yes, this is related to some of my social views, I am more opposed to rapid wealth, because such a speed is often unstable, and in the future development of the family, it is likely to become a catastrophe. If so, it is better to be poor all the time.
Many of the problems in our current society, if you think about it, are the sequelae of those who made a fortune in the past few years. and the complete exposure of a series of human greed that later generations want to imitate their predecessors in making a fortune quickly.
On the one hand, I am anxious that this society is being eaten up by the madness of money, and on the other hand, I sigh for my own powerlessness!
Think about the time when my family was very poor in the past, between brothers and sisters, two porridges a day were still pushed by you, but now, it is just one or two houses, and you have to make trouble, and your six relatives don't recognize it!
What's going on?