Chapter 2: Ah Miao's Home

Ah Miao just came to this world, his heart was not steady, and he didn't dare to speak rashly, so he responded to all changes with the same, while being "stupid", while carefully observing the home in this life, and so Ah Miao finally figured out the "history" of the family, it has been many months, and this is still listening to people say that they have pieced it together, after all, many years have passed, and many things have to be heard by the old man and the old lady when they talk about the ancients. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In this life, different from the history that Miao knows, history turned a corner in the Song Taizu period, Kaibao nine years, Taizu did not die, but Taizu's brother Zhao Guangyi, died of a vicious disease, a few years later, the imperial court also recaptured the sixteen states of Yanyun, after the death of Taizu, the crown prince Zhao Dezhao succeeded to the throne, it was for Taizong, Taizong period, political clarity, singing and dancing, and because Taizong loved the people like a son, he reduced the tax many times, built water conservancy, and the people were grateful to the Song Dynasty, the year when Miao hit his head, it was the twenty-fourth year of Chongning, the second year, Taizong used the new era name, for the first year of Yuanfeng, Ah Miao also suddenly became better, but some people in the village said that Ah Miao was the child blessed by the emperor, and for a while, Liu Jia Ah Miao changed from a "silly girl" in other people's mouths to a blessed person.

Speaking of Miao, she is Liu Jizong's youngest daughter, Liu Xiucai really didn't misunderstand the Yao family girl, oh, now I have to call Aunt Liu, since Aunt Liu married into the Liu family, a total of 5 sons were born, except for the third child who died young, the rest of the sons have grown up, to the time when the boss can say daughter-in-law, Aunt Liu found that she actually had it again, Liu Jizong was very happy, but Aunt Liu was a little embarrassed, and when the child was born, it was a girl, and now the entire Liu family and the Wu family were a sensation, this is the only girl in this generation. is the same generation as Ah Miao, in addition to his 4 elder brothers, the Wu family also contributed three, all of whom are not sons without exception, so Ah Miao is the only one.

So it is conceivable that when Ah Miao fell down from the mountain and fell stupid, how worried Aunt Liu was, this Liu family did not even have a good New Year, Liu Jizong and Aunt Liu thought of countless ways, and then they all accepted their fate, it was a big deal to raise a girl for a lifetime, even Liu Xiucai was seriously ill because A Miao fell out of bed, the old man had just passed his ninety birthday, and he had a high life in the village. Even the roots of the Wu family and the daughter-in-law of the family have come to see again and again, this is the only elder in the family, the father and mother of the Wu family have been in poor health because of the famine, and the two old people are not good after the roots are married, Liu Jizong and the mother of the roots, because they fell into the roots of the tree, have been lingering on the sickbed, and then left, as soon as the mother left, the father was like losing his soul, and it didn't take long for him to go with him, Liu Xiucai was not even knocked down by his daughter and son-in-law walking in front of him, but it was Ah Miao's fall, Shengsheng made Liu Xiucai seriously ill, although there was no danger, but Liu Xiucai's health was even worse.

Since it is decided to raise a daughter for a lifetime, this is also something to tell the sons, although the son also loves his sister, there is no guarantee that the daughters-in-law in the future can also be good to Ah Miao, it seems that he has to leave more land for his daughter. I didn't think about it, Ah Miao got better later, he would call someone, he would run back and jump, Liu Jizong and his wife immediately invited a doctor again, and the old doctor was surprised when he saw it, this female doll, he had come to see it at the beginning, and he was obviously stupid, but now it is better? The old doctor took the pulse, looked at Ah Miao's eyes, shook his head for a long time, said a lot of things, and finally dropped a sentence of "already good" and left, not even prescribing medicine, listening to the famous doctors in ten miles and eight towns all said so, Ah Miao and her father and mother were relieved, and even Liu Xiucai was more energetic, he really liked Ah Miao's little girl.

Ah Miao's current family, there is a grandfather, although the old man is old, not blind or deaf, even the back is not very hunched, it can be regarded as the ancestor of the family, because she fell, had a serious illness, and later although he got better, he looked much older than the original; Father and mother each have one, four brothers, the eldest brother Liu Zhengxing, has been married, has a little nephew, the nickname is Zhuzi, at home to help Liu Jizong take care of the family's fields, the other three brothers, the second brother such as Liu Zheng'an, now in the town restaurant to do work, ten days and half a month home home, Xiao Miao likes him the most, just because this brother will bring her a lot of delicious food, the second brother is now at the age of kissing, but he can't look down on the girl in the village, and he wants to wait for himself to marry a girl in the town; The third brother Liu Zhengyuan is an "old master", fourteen or fifteen years old, he never leaves his book every day, he has been admitted to Xiucai at a young age, among the four male babies, Liu Xiucai likes him the most, and he hopes that he can have a future, and he will be a master in the future, the youngest brother Liu Zhengwen is now ten years old, although there is a text in the name, but the most naughty but, I like to tease Xiao Miao, I have to make her cry every time, and then I was beaten by Liu Jizong, even if this can't change this stinky problem, I still tease him after the fight, Xiao Miao hated him the most, and then Ah Miao "stupid." "Yes, I didn't expect this brother to be the saddest, he talks to Ah Miao every day, it doesn't matter if he doesn't respond, he can talk alone for a long time.

The uncle of the Wu family, that is, the root of the tree, the daughter-in-law was married by the father of Wu at that time, the aunt of the Wu family was surnamed Ye, and she had a difficult time in her mother's house, it turned out that her father and mother also planned to sell her to the rich family in the town as a girl, and then the father of Wu gave two pieces of cloth, twenty taels of silver, a pig and a cow as a dowry, and married the aunt of the Wu family into the door. The daughters-in-law of the two of them got along well, and the lady of the Liu family at that time was also happy. The uncle and aunt of the Wu family have three sons, in addition to the eldest son Wu Shiwang who married the daughter of another Liu family in the village, the other two sons Wu Shixin and Wu Shihong, one sixteen, one twelve, the second is talking about kissing, the third is playing well with Ah Miao and her fourth brother, and by the way, Ah Miao is also the most distressed.

Since Ah Miao woke up, Aunt Liu has been talking about going to the temple to make a vow, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, she made a wish in front of the Bodhisattva, this is not a hurry to repay the vow, what if the Bodhisattva is annoyed and takes Ah Miao away.

"Boss, I have to go to the temple tomorrow, Ah Miao fell in front of me, but I made a wish to the Bodhisattva" Aunt Liu untied her hair while talking to Liu Jizong, and occasionally stretched her neck to look at Ah Miao lying asleep on the bed.

"I have to go, I have to thank the Bodhisattva" Liu Jizong is honest, before he got married, it was Liu Xiucai who had the final say with his mother, and now he has become a parent, everything the daughter-in-law said is right, outsiders look a little wrong, but he has a good life.

"You say, how about asking for a sign for the second child? He is 17 years old this year, and the eldest is about to get married at this time", thinking of the marriage of the second son, Aunt Liu had a headache again, the year ago was the best time to see the daughter-in-law, but because of the matter of Miao, he has not been in the mood to greet this matter, now after the New Year, it is about to spring ploughing, and the girl who is not engaged must be planning to stay for another year, but this is said to be pro, engaged, and married.

"You don't know the second child's thoughts, he wants to find a daughter-in-law in the town, do you think it can be the same as looking for a daughter-in-law in the village?" Liu Jizong said while smoking a dry cigarette with a 'let' and 'ba' and 'ba'.

Aunt Liu snatched Liu Jizong's dry tobacco pouch, "Don't smoke anymore, Ah Miao is in the house, you want to choke the child to death." ”

Liu Jizong smiled wryly, "Didn't you think of it all of a sudden", he said, he stopped smoking cigarettes, put away the cigarette gun and put it at the head of the bed, but he couldn't choke on his baby daughter anymore.

Ah Miao was lying on the bed, not asleep at all, now at this time, in her original life, at most eight or nine o'clock, it was the beginning of the nightlife, how to sleep, but Aunt Liu has been sitting next to her and watching her, while patting her heart like a baby while singing a little song, this small body lives in the soul of an adult after all, she is not willing to toss people so much, she can only "fall asleep" silently, so now Aunt Liu is talking to Liu Jizong, she is eavesdropping openly.

Aunt Liu finalized the matter of going to the temple tomorrow to repay her wishes, and pondered the marriage of the second child for a while in her heart, and also blew the oil lamp to go to bed and lay down, now the days are much better than before, but the thrifty habits of the peasant family have been carved into the bones, the lamp is lit and it costs oil, or go to bed early.

Ah Miao has been following Liu Jizong and his family to sleep after he was born, the Liu family has many houses, Liu Xiucai planned to have a full house of children and grandchildren when he built a new house, but he didn't expect that he only had one daughter in his life, fortunately, the grandson is angry, there are indeed many children and grandchildren, but the house is a little tight, especially when the children are older, they all have to marry a daughter-in-law. Liu's current house, sitting north and facing south, the location is very good, a total of 5 rooms, a utility room and a kitchen, 5 rooms, Liu Xiucai lives in the west room, Liu Jizong and Aunt Liu occupy the east room, a little further east of a room is newly built, given to the eldest two, the other two, one is a study, Liu Jizong set up a small bed behind the bookcase, originally planned to study at home after being tired of lying down to rest, and then the third child passed the children's exam, was admitted to Xiucai, Liu Xiucai looked forward to the Liu family's third child raised people back, Then he sent a message to let the third brother move into the study, and this room became the room of the third child of the Liu family, and there was a boy in the family, the current permanent population is the fourth child in the family, and the second brother of Ah Miao also lived when he occasionally went home, and the eldest was also together, and later became a parent, so he moved out.

There is another utility room and a kitchen at home, because the Liu family is not separated, so the food is also a big pot of rice, Aunt Liu is very capable, but in the kitchen is a little unleashed, I also know that Aunt Liu was the youngest girl in her mother's house, pampered to grow up, almost never entered the kitchen before marrying into the Liu family, when she was young, she had a mother-in-law, and when she was older, there were several sisters-in-law, where did she need to do it, and so she married the eldest daughter-in-law, thinking that she could finally unload the burden of the kitchen, but I didn't expect the eldest daughter-in-law to be a good one, The work in the kitchen is not handy, and the cooking is not as good as Aunt Liu, there is no way, this cooking thing still falls on Aunt Liu, and the sister-in-law will work in the kitchen.

Liu's yard is big, tidy, the whole yard is surrounded, the highest place is a little higher than people, the front of the courtyard gate is connected with a fence fence, two vegetables are planted under the fence, one long is planted in the east and one in the west, two sheds are built against the wall in the east, one shed raises cattle, the other sheds raise pigs, there is an old cow and a calf in the cowshed, this calf is raised by the fourth brother of Amiao, the calf has been the fourth brother since the birth of the calf, the two piglets in the pigsty are newly caught before the year, and the peasant family generally catches two pigs before the year, to the village began to float the fragrance of osmanthus when killing a head, the meat in the busy season of the farm is enough, more can also be exchanged for some money, the other end is kept for the New Year, from the beginning of the wax month, every household in the village began to kill pigs, this month is also the busiest time for butchers, sometimes a day can turn four or five households, every day in the wax month, the village is floating with the smell of meat; There are some chickens and ducks raised on the west side of the yard, there can be twenty or thirty, and more than ten or twenty eggs can be laid every day.

There is a pond a little ahead of the east of the Liu family compound, it is also the Liu family, the pond is not big, it is more than one acre, this piece was originally a swamp, it has been barren, it is the village Liu Lao Lai's family, Liu Lao Lai is an old bachelor, the old people in the family are gone, this Liu Lao Lai was not called Liu Lao Lai, but he was really lazy and lai, so he got the title of Liu Lao Lai, he was not annoyed, he usually did not like to serve the crops, a few acres of land at home were planted for others, Liu Lao Lai did not work, he stole chickens and dogs all day long, and he did not have the next meal. Whoever goes to rub a little, no matter who talks about it in the village, shakes his head, and then Liu Lao Lai scholar gambles money and loses a clank of money and owes a lot of debt, and the fields are all sold and almost sold, and they are about to be sent to the government, and the peasant family even respects Lizheng, not to mention the yamen, which is a boundary where there is no return. Later, Liu Laolai remembered the swamp at home, and bought it with Liu Jizong, Liu Jizong was grinding and couldn't do anything but sympathize with Liu Laolai, so he bought the land for five taels of silver, and went to Lizheng to sign the paperwork, Liu Laolai repaid the debt, thinking that he was now poor and white, and had nothing, so he simply took the only two taels of silver left, and went out to "wander", and he didn't come back until now more than ten years have passed.

The land was bought, but it can't grow crops, if it is as barren as the original, Liu Xiucai is distressed again, or Aunt Liu slapped the board, simply dug up the ground, and continued the water to raise fish, Aunt Liu went back to her parents' house and asked her brother to help get some fish fry, and the Liu family brother was naughty, went to the Qinghe River to catch small fish, no matter what the species, they were thrown into the pond, the Liu family would not raise fish, even if there was such a pond, I didn't think about how many fish could be raised, and it was almost the same to collect dozens of fish a year. The chickens of the Liu family usually look for food by themselves by the pond, ducks, having a pond is a heavenly life, the Liu family loves to eat fish, especially Liu Xiucai and the fourth child of the Liu family, this has also become the reason why Liu Xiucai likes the fourth child very much, no way, this great-grandson even has the same preferences as himself, but he can't like it more.