Chapter 55: Gathering

Qingfeng worriedly wanted to chase after him, but Mr. Feng waved his hand to recall him, and sighed, "That's it, their mother and son's heart knot has to be untied by themselves, and I can't do anything about it." ”

Qingfeng scratched the back of his head and muttered helplessly, "I thought that the young master would get better when he married his wife." I didn't expect him to be kind to his wife, but he was still cold to others. ”

Old Man Feng raised his hand and slowly poured himself a cup of hot tea, his eyes looked at the south through the rain curtain, he didn't know what he thought, and his face became more and more gloomy...

Dong Rong was kissed by a snake this time, and was almost dragged by Lord Yan to report, which really frightened everyone. The cousin of the Wang family and the sister-in-law of Du Juan, who heard the news from the villagers yesterday, ran up the mountain almost like a roll, and before she could appease the two, Aunt Cao and Uncle Cao came again.

Aunt Cao was so frightened that her face turned pale, and she grabbed her nephew and daughter-in-law and looked at her from head to toe, and made sure that she was fine, so she collapsed on the wooden couch and couldn't get up.

Dong Rong stretched her head and took a closer look, the shoes on the old lady's feet were cotton cloth and straw, obviously she was in a hurry, and she made a mistake in a panic. She was so moved that she didn't know what to say, so she hurriedly called Sister-in-law Liu to help open the cabinet and take out a new pair of shoes that she had made before for the old lady to change.

Aunt Cao didn't want her to bother, but Dong Rong felt that Wang Lu and Du Juan lived in a small courtyard outside the city, and it was rare for their family to gather in her orchard once, so they used the excuse that not long after the summer solstice, they should have a banquet at their uncle's house.

It is said that adult nephews and daughters visit their uncles on the day of the summer solstice, and the uncle's family has to prepare horned melons and bacon, and the nieces and daughters will not get summer plagues if they eat the strength of their legs. But other families are okay, Wang Lu and the stone brothers don't have such a good thing when they put up Cao Pozi's uncle. Not to mention eating banquets, it's good not to look for them to be filial.

Therefore, no one, including Aunt Cao, thought that Dong Rong would catch such a reason to stay as a guest. Everyone couldn't refuse her kindness, so they all laughed and said that they would kill her, a rich man.

In the orchard, the handymen are provided with two meals a day, and there is never a shortage of vegetables and meat. Dong Rong discussed the dishes with Sister-in-law Liu, and on the other hand, she shouted that Cousin Wang Lu went home to pick up the two children and the stones.

Soon the children arrived, and the meal was served on the table. All the people were seated one by one, according to their seniority. Old lady Yu, as Dong Rong's life-saving benefactor, was also invited to sit on the top, Aunt Cao's mother made vegetables for her, and the old sister closed her mouth as a big benefactor, so panicked that the old lady didn't know what to say. In the end, Dong Rong snatched the wine jug with a smile, which was regarded as relieving the old lady Yu's siege.

Everyone is from the crop yard, and they can't do without the interesting stories of ten miles and eight villages and their own children, Aunt Cao and Mrs. Yu actually talked more and more to the appetite, drank glass after glass of wine, held the two hands in one place and did not spread, so close that they almost got married to godsisters, and finally both fell drunk and fell asleep on the wooden collapse and snored like thunder.

The uncle of the Wang family felt a little embarrassed, and he had to carry his son down the mountain with his mother, but Wang Lu and his wife were worried that the small courtyard was unattended and were anxious to go back early, so Dong Rong asked Silly Zhu to carry his aunt to Cao's house for a night.

Old man Cao was really startled when he suddenly saw his sister being carried back by his son, and then he heard that he had a banquet on the mountain, and his face was a little unsightly. How can a son set up a banquet, but he didn't invite his father, if he let outsiders know, he must be laughing at the Cao family's lack of rules.

Or the cuckoo had eyes, and smiled and talked about eating bacon on the summer solstice, so the old man Cao changed his face, glared at his wife fiercely, and then opened the wing room to send his sister to settle down.

Mrs. Cao smashed the dustpan in her hand and muttered that her daughter-in-law deliberately cut her face. The nephews also dislike the poor and love the rich, so they went to the rich cousins and sisters, and it was not uncommon for the uncle's family to have these pieces of bacon.

Old man Cao still wanted to scold the old woman, but Wang Lu and the others were embarrassed and hurriedly left.

Aunt Cao slept all night at Cao's house, and she had an unbearable headache in the morning, but her sister-in-law complained about many trivial things such as Chen sesame seeds and rotten grain, and she went up the mountain again in a fit of anger. It happened that she came in a hurry yesterday, and she didn't take a good look at her niece and daughter-in-law's orchard, and there was no work to do at home, so it was not too late for her to go back for another day.

In the orchard, a group of handymen are wearing robes and hats to dig drainage ditches in the rain. Water droplets soaked the clothes along the cracks in the clothes, and from time to time someone sneezed. But even so, no one opened their mouths to curse, I heard that the drought in the south is severe, and they still have rain to water the fields here, and it is too late to kowtow to God, where do they dare to complain without conscience.

Dong Rong had just pinched her nose and drank the decoction in the nagging of Liu's sister-in-law, and was sitting in front of the window boredly doing needlework. Mrs. Yu was worried about her son, and from time to time she took advantage of the change of line to look down the mountain. It's a pity that she can only see a few feet away, how can she see her son's figure. Dong Rong saw it in her eyes, remembering her mother who left early in her previous life, and her nose was sour with envy for a while.

The old and the young were thinking about their own things like this, and Aunt Cao climbed up the mountain. When the old lady saw her nephew and daughter-in-law's eyes red, and then remembered the hateful appearance of her sister-in-law, she hurriedly stepped forward and took her nephew's hand, and persuaded, "Sister Rong, your mother-in-law is a rectum, you should turn a deaf ear to whatever she says on weekdays, and if you are really wronged, ask your aunt to call the shots for you." Don't be secretly angry, it's not worth it. ”

Dong Rong came back to her senses, and when she heard this, she knew that the old lady had misunderstood, but she didn't plan to explain, so she smiled and left her aunt to stay with her for another day. Mrs. Yu also finally found a confidant old sister, and she helped one after another, "Sister Cao, how many sons and daughters-in-law of these ten miles and eight villages are unfilial, which makes the old man cry." Not to mention the filial piety of your son and daughter-in-law, even your nephews and daughters-in-law are like daughters. If you could wake up laughing from your happy dreams earlier, and you still make a tone and refuse to stay and enjoy the happiness, it is really a red-eyed death that does not pay for your life. ”

Aunt Cao was coaxed into smiling, and she stayed.

Dong Rong unfolded two muslin cloths and asked the two old men to help cut them, she planned to take advantage of the fact that she couldn't go out to recuperate in the past few days and make two more clothes for Silly Zhu and Brother Ping. Especially the set of stupid pillars, it must be gorgeous and exquisite.

That day, she was burned in a daze, and she didn't have time to carefully look at the stupid pillar's clothes, and later heard Liu's sister-in-law and others praise him for being more handsome than the sons and brothers in the city, so she asked the stupid pillar to wear it again. It's a pity that the stupid pillar refuses to give in, which makes her itchy and unbearable. This time, she made a set with her own hands, and said that she had to coax him to put it on and take a look.

Aunt Cao liked to see her nephew and husband and wife in love, so she pulled Mrs. Yu to discuss for a long time before deciding on the style. When the two were about to cut their hair, Sister-in-law Liu ran in with wet hair. It turned out that a sheep herder was lazy, and accidentally let a little ram get into the fence of the orchard, and when the handymen drove it away, the sheep fell down the steep slope in a panic and broke his leg. The sheep herding baby was afraid of being beaten when she went back, and she was rolling in the mud and crying.

Sister-in-law Liu twisted the corner of her dripping clothes and scolded with a smile, "This sheep baby, obviously he is not careful, but he actually let it go." Steward Zhao was going to find his family to come over, and he was still holding his legs. ”

Dong Rong was worried about not knowing what to do to entertain Aunt Cao in this rainy weather, when she heard this, her eyes lit up, and she asked, "Is the sheep heavy fall, but can't live?" ”

Sister-in-law Liu nodded, "My hind legs are broken, I'm afraid I won't be able to live." The sheep baby's family is also so poor that they can't open the pot, and I'm afraid that life will be even more difficult now. ”

"Let Steward Zhao go to his family and ask about it, and buy this sheep. It happened that the weather was wet and cold, so I boiled a pot of mutton soup to warm everyone's body. Dong Rong moved to the end of the kang, opened the box, and took out a piece of broken silver weighing one and a half taels, and instructed while handing it to Liu's sister-in-law, "Let Steward Zhao explain the truth to the family, only this once, not as an example." How can their goats practice high jump, and our orchard spends money to deal with the aftermath? ”

Boiled mutton soup! Sister-in-law Liu took the silver, her mouth opened with joy, and she shouted happily after a while, "The owner is so kind-hearted, if everyone knows that there is mutton soup to drink, I am afraid they will jump up with joy!" I'm going to look for a knife and pick up the skin first, and I'm going to have to prepare more hot water...", and she almost jumped out and ran out. Soon there were bursts of joyful shouts up and down the mountain, "There is sheep soup to drink, there is sheep soup to drink!" ”

"Xie Dongjia, Xie Dongjia!"

How could Aunt Cao not know that her nephew and daughter-in-law were changing the law, Zhang Luo was delicious and honored her, so she pulled Dong Rong's hand distressedly and complained, "You girl, it's not good to keep the money to do something, as long as you and the pillar live a good life, my aunt will eat bran and the vegetables are sweet." ”

Dong Rong hugged the old lady's arm and shook it, and said coquettishly, "I didn't buy sheep to entertain my aunt, I also wanted to drink a few bowls to replenish my body, and I also lost a lot of weight when I came back from a trip to the mountains, and my aunt borrowed our light." Besides, I bought such a large orchard, and it is not short of the money of this little lamb, and the family is more lively than anything else. ”

Aunt Cao heard a few days ago that Dong Rong bought an orchard as a dowry, and she was also suspicious in her heart, but the old lady is different from Mrs. Cao's childish spirit of being a little family who has to hold every chicken feather in her hand. In her opinion, as long as the money comes from the right way, and the nephews and nephews and daughters-in-law have good feelings, it is the same in whoever the property is placed in. What's more, Mrs. Cao is not the mother-in-law of the pillar, and her nephew and daughter-in-law should be on guard.

Because of this thought, she never asked about the orchard, Dong Rong admitted in her heart, naturally treated her closer and closer, and reciprocated her as a real mother-in-law.

Their aunt and nephew are so close, but they are envious of Mrs. Yu, and she is also looking forward to when her son will marry a diligent and filial daughter-in-law. So he said, "Old girl, there is a suitable girl for my family to have a son." ”

"Okay, old sister, there is really a good girl in our village..." Soon the two of them were sitting together, nagging and cutting their clothes, and laughing endlessly. ZM