Chapter 44: Borrowing the Ox

The first days in the spring are short, plus everyone in the family is busy with spring ploughing, the heavy snow at the beginning of spring this year, there are a lot of mice and insects in the field that are frozen to death, this year's insect removal saves a lot of heart, coupled with the drizzle from time to time, everyone is saying, it seems that this year is another harvest year, all rush to plow the paddy field, the Liu family because there is a cow, it is particularly lively, every day after eating, there are people to discuss the matter of borrowing the cow. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

There are a total of three families in Liujia Village with cattle, Liu Jizong's family, Liu Man's family and Liu Mantao's family, among which Liu Jizong's cattle are the most sought-after, the cattle of Amiao's family are three years old this year, just the right age, and they are well raised, and the price is fair, so everyone's first choice is Liu Jizong's cattle, and then Liu Man's family, his cattle are also well raised, but after all, it is an old cow, and the work is not so fast, if there are not too many paddy fields to plow at home, people will generally choose Liu Man's cattle, after all, compared with Liu Jizong's cattle, Liu Man's family's cattle eat less and don't pick, Liu Jizong's cow is a bit too expensive, and he is still picky, as for Liu Mantao's cow, no one cares, his in-laws are both people who drill money, and they don't recognize people, so only after Liu Jizong and Liu Man's family's cattle are set, everyone will go to Liu Mantao, and then they have to be ready to be slaughtered.

On this day, Liu Jizong's family was having dinner, and Wangcai suddenly ran outside, and after a while, he heard someone outside the courtyard shouting: "Is Jizong's daughter-in-law at home?" Step-daughter-in-law? ā€

"It's Aunt Tonghui." Aunt Liu recognized it immediately when she heard the voice coming from outside.

"Mother, I'll open the door." Sister-in-law Liu stood up and prepared to open the door.

"Ah Miao, why is eating so slowly?" When Sister-in-law Liu went out to open the door, Aunt Liu began to count down Miao again. Ah Miao's children have fully adapted to this home, and some habits in their previous lives have been exposed little by little, such as loving to sleep lazy (Ah Miao: getting up at 8 o'clock is already lazy, how to break if you want to cry), and then picky eaters (Ah Miao: I really don't like fat meat, why do everyone think fat meat is delicious), and then eat slowly (eh, this Ah Miao admits that she ate slowly in her previous life, and if no one urges her to eat a meal, she can slowly rub it for two hours).

Hearing Aunt Liu's words, Ah Miao silently accelerated the speed of his meal, even if it was faster in Ah Miao's opinion, it was still not enough in Aunt Liu's eyes, so Aunt Liu then counted her: "Count your earliest food, you see, even the stones are full, and you are still grinding." ā€

Hearing Aunt Liu's words, Liu Xiucai was unhappy, and said to Ah Miao: "Nannan, let's not be in a hurry, and we don't rush anywhere at night, eating slowly is good for the body, and we are blessed." She also said Aunt Liu: "How old is our family, it's good to be able to eat by yourself, what does it matter if you are slow." ā€

"Weng Weng~" Aunt Liu couldn't cry or laugh, knowing that Liu Xiucai was short-sighted, but this was too much. It's just a few words about Ah Miao, if it is seen by someone who doesn't know, he will think he is a stepmother. "But she's too slow, knowing that she's slow, let her eat first, but look, everyone has eaten, she's still grinding, she's small, and the stone is smaller than her."

Liu Xiucai has always had a double standard for Ah Miao and the little fat man, girls are used to hurt, but boys, especially the eldest men of the next generation, have to discipline this well, so they don't pay attention to Aunt Liu's words, but they are uplifting: "The stone is a man, but I don't want to compare with the girl's family." As he spoke, he asked the little fat man, "Stone, isn't it?" ā€

As long as the little fat man says that he is powerful, he will unconditionally agree, so this time he also nodded like pounding garlic, Aunt Liu was speechless, forget it, the old and the young in the family are about the same age, and it is good to reason with them, so he no longer talked to him, but just told Ah Miao: "You can hurry up." ā€

Ah Miao also knew that his meal today was too slow, so he nodded while picking up the rice in his mouth, and Liu Xiucai only said distressedly: "Nan, slow down, don't listen to your mother, hey, eat slowly." ā€

"Yo, I'm early, and I'm still having dinner!" After Aunt Tonghui came in, she saw that the dining table was still on the table and had not been removed, so she sued first, she waited at home for a while before she came, and she was worried that Liu's dinner was late, and it was not good for her to go early, but she didn't expect to come early.

"Auntie, sit down, you're full, isn't there still a debt collector in my family, let's sit down for a while, Juanniang, make tea for my uncle."

"No, no, no." Aunt Tonghui stopped Sister-in-law Liu, who was about to make tea, and said to her: "I'm not thirsty, I'll leave immediately, and it's a waste to make tea." I'm here this time...... It's just ......" Aunt Tonghui suddenly seemed to be unspeakable when she said this, and after a while, she said again: "Eldest nephew and daughter-in-law, I have come to trouble your family again." Did someone order your cow Ming'er? ā€

Aunt Tonghui was widowed as a young man, and took her son Liu Manzhen to live, and finally pulled Liu Manzhen to grow up, and desperately helped marry her daughter-in-law, thinking that a good day was coming, but she didn't expect that five years ago, Qi County sent a big flood, at that time Liu Manzhen just accompanied his daughter-in-law back to her mother's house in Qi County, and a big flood took away Aunt Tonghui's son and daughter-in-law, leaving only one grandson who was still in infancy.

Aunt Tonghui can also be regarded as a top powerful person, when she used to take Liu Manzhen alone, in order to avoid suspicion, but she broke off contact with people who had men in the village, she was afraid that others would gossip about her behind her back, such a powerful person, at first hearing that her son and daughter-in-law were gone, and the news that she wanted the white-haired person to send the black-haired person almost did not ease her breath, fortunately, the cry of her little grandson kept her, if she also left, what would the grandson do, so, this woman who has suffered all her life stood up strongly and took care of the housework, Work to subsidize the family to support herself and her little grandson, but after all, she is old, and when she used to have good bones, the two acres of paddy fields at home never used oxen to plow, and she can do it herself in a few days, but now she doesn't have the strength of the previous one, so she can only rely on cattle.

Liu Xiu only knew about her family's situation, and also knew that Aunt Tonghui was a person who did not ask for people, a few years ago, she asked Liu Jizong to help her plow the field directly, and then Aunt Tonghui had a good relationship with the Liu family, and also knew that the Liu family was sincere to help, so she let go of her inner insistence and slowly got closer to the Liu family, and the things sent by the Liu family were also willing to accept them, and from time to time they also sent back some, Aunt Tonghui had an old jar for many years, and it was particularly good to make salted duck eggs, and the salted duck egg yolks that came out of the jar were all yellow and oily. Ah Miao especially likes to eat the salted duck eggs sent by Aunt Tonghui.

Aunt Liu listened to Aunt Tonghui's intention, and immediately said: "I didn't book it out, it's still empty, if you don't come, I plan to send my fourth child to your house to ask when you plan to do it, and then I will ask Xingzi to help you." ā€

Aunt Tonghui heard Aunt Liu say that when the time comes, let Liu Zhengxing go over to help, and she can't help it, but she also knows that Aunt Liu is kind, the cow is too strong, and she can't control it on her own, so she can only say: "Then it's troublesome Xingzi, and I will prepare the forage when the time comes." ā€

Aunt Liu knew that if she refused to provide even the forage provided by Aunt Tonghui, it would not be to help but to pity her, so she also smiled and said yes.

After deciding to go to Aunt Tonghui's field early tomorrow morning, Aunt Tonghui planned to go back, and her grandson was still alone at home, so she took out more than a dozen salted duck eggs to Aunt Liu before leaving.

"Auntie, what are you doing here, there are still a few that you haven't eaten last time, you take it back quickly, what are you going to eat with so many catties." Aunt Liu saw that Aunt Tonghui had brought so many salted duck eggs this time, and immediately excused herself.

"There are still at home, you don't know, a few ducks raised at home are now the time to lay more eggs, and some of them eat seven catties." Aunt Tonghui tried her best to stuff the cloth bag wrapped in salted duck eggs into Aunt Liu's arms. "Just a few salted duck eggs, I know that dolls love to eat, so you can accept them, otherwise I won't be happy."

Hearing Aunt Tonghui say this, Aunt Liu had no choice but to accept the salted duck eggs. I stuffed a few more pastries to Aunt Tonghui and asked her to take them back for Qijin to try.