"It's the first day, why do you wake up so early?" Su Niangzi glanced at the clothes of the woman inside, guessed that it was Song Cuihua's, and said with a horizontal eye: "Should the Song family call you to wash her clothes?" ”

Su Xiujin said with a smile: "I have to wash my mother's clothes, but she is not in good health, so she doesn't care." ”

It was neither loud nor small, but it could be heard by the women who were washing clothes on the riverbank.

"This laundry shirt is fake, I'm afraid that tossing you is real, the first day of the wedding, where can I call the bride." Su Niangzi hugged the uneven road.

Su Xiujin only pursed her lips and smiled, just let Su Niangzi feel distressed, although her mother-in-law was very good to her, but the mother-in-law in the village abused her daughter-in-law a lot, and the women on the river beach were all suffering.

Su Xiujin saw that the clothes were almost washed, so he took the wooden basin and said that he would leave first, and then walked back. Su Niangzi was almost washed, and caught up with Su Xiujin with a wooden basin.

"Eh, eldest nephew and daughter-in-law." Su Niangzi stopped Su Xiujin, with a hint of flattery on her face.

Su Xiujin raised her eyebrows slightly and said, "What's the matter with Auntie?" ”

Su Niangzi said: "I heard that you have a shop in the town?" Also hired a guy? ”

Su Xiujin nodded: "It's just a small shop, and it's not as big as a firewood house." ”

Su Niangzi smiled: "Don't be modest, you can get a lot of silver from the shop in Ningxi Town." ”

Su Xiujin smiled, pretending not to understand the meaning of the Su Niangzi.

The ridge narrowed, and only one person had to pass, Su Xiujin let Su Niangzi go first, and she was separated by two steps.

"Auntie doesn't bend around and talk, I want you to see if there is still a shortage of people in your shop, even if it's a job of doing chores and washing dishes." Su Niangzi said bitterly, if she had a thin field, she would not beg for help, but her father-in-law was seriously ill the year before last, and she mortgaged the land, but in the end she still failed to keep her father-in-law.

"What is the aunt talking about, what kind of miscellaneous and dishwashing, called the aunt to do that, I'm afraid that the big cow will not be able to raise its head in this village." Su Xiujin said.

"Where can I take care of so much now, if I can get a few pennies to buy a few catties of rice for my family, then I will be content." Su Niangzi said, "I have borrowed everything I can borrow around here, and now I am afraid of bumping into people when I go out, and this account is like a hole, which is getting bigger and bigger." ”

Su Xiujin frowned slightly.

"But if you can come up with a way, your aunt won't ask for it, but she really can't get by-" As she spoke, Su Niangzi faintly cried, and quietly wiped the corner of her eyes with one hand.

Su Xiujin looked at the thin woman in front of her, and it was righteous to be able to do this for her in-laws.

"The shop is small, and I really don't need to hire anyone anymore." Su Xiujin said, seeing Su Niangzi's drooping shoulders, she smiled again: "But my mother still lacks a helper, the shop has been open in the past few months, and there are a lot of busy, if the aunt doesn't dislike it, come over to help, and I will give you the salary according to the third son." ”

Su Niangzi turned around in surprise and said, "Really? ”

Su Xiujin nodded: "On weekdays, I help my mother sew quilts, and I am going to sew twenty quilts in this short time, my mother is really too busy to do it alone, and then I have to harvest the daylily on the mountain, and there are many things." ”

Su Niangzi hurriedly said: "It's not much, it's still in the village, and I can take care of my mother-in-law, it's really hard to find a lantern." ”

In this way, Su Xiujin roughly said what he had to do, and the work of being able to get two coins of silver in the village for a month was really small, and this catty of rice was only twenty wen a liter.

Walking to the side of the small bridge, the two separated, Jin Daniu saw it from a distance, stopped the hoe, and wiped a handful of sweat.

Su Xiujin approached and asked, "Are you tired?" ”

Jin Da Niu shook his head, and said sweetly in his heart: "Don't be tired, why are you with Aunt Su." ”

Su Xiujin said that she was hired to do things, and Jin Da Niu also agreed very much, and Su Xiujin thought about it thoughtfully.

Near noon, Jin Daniu stopped what he was doing and looked at Su Xiujin who was "playing" on the edge of the ridge.

"That's taro." Jin Da Niu went up to the ridge, picked up a handful of mud from his legs, and washed his hands in the puddle next to him.

"Taro?" Su Xiujin looked at the plants that looked like small lotus leaves in front of her.

Su Xiujin fiddled with the water beads on the leaves, wanting to pull them out with her hands to see what the rhizome looked like.

Jin Daniu said: "Be careful of itchy hands." As he spoke, he took a hoe and carefully turned the mud below, dug out a lot of small lumpy rhizomes, and washed them in the water, which were hairy brown roots.

"Take it back and give you a taste." Jin Da Niu said, he took the leaves away, leaving only the taro.

Su Xiujin was a little curious: "Can this be eaten?" ”

Jin Da Niu smiled: "When my father was still there, he often dug this for me to cook and eat, it tasted very good." ”

Su Xiujin blinked, Jin Da Niu took off his clothes, grabbed the taro, lifted the dustpan and hoe next to him and said, "I'll go up the mountain to cut some pigweed." ”

Su Xiujin then remembered that Song Cuihua still had this matter, and followed Jin Da Niu up the hill.

There were people grazing cattle far away on the hillside, the fresh grass was luxuriant, Su Xiujin couldn't recognize which ones were pigweed, just watched Jin Da Niu take out a sickle from the dustpan, grabbed a handful of green grass, brushed and cut a handful, and after a while, he cut a dustpan, Jin Da Niu pressed the grass full of grass, Su Xiujin wanted to help, Jin Da Niu blocked her hand and asked, "Are your hands sore?" Do you have any aunts who embarrass you when you wash your shirts? ”

Su Xiujin hurriedly shook his head: "The aunts are all fine, and their hands are not sore." ”

It was close to noon before the two of them entered the house in a hurry.

Jin Da Niu put down the dustpan and hoe, and saw Song Cuihua sitting in the room smoking with a black face.

"It's really "early" to come back, can you wash your clothes all morning? It's really squeamish. These words were obviously directed at Su Xiujin.

Su Xiujin was not afraid of her: "Auntie, my daughter-in-law thinks that your clothes are the most difficult to wash, and the cuffs can't be cleaned, I'm afraid that if you can't wash them, you will be angry, so it's too late to come back." ”

"Then you can rub it all morning?!" Song Cuihua said angrily, her stomach is growling with hunger now, Da Niu is not there, where will she cook!

Su Xiujin blessed slightly: "Auntie also asked me to cut pigweed, I thought that this pig had to eat good grass no matter what it said, so I went to pick a piece of grass where the grass grows best." ”

Song Cuihua choked and glared at Su Xiujin.

Jin Da Niu couldn't help but smile, afraid that Song Cuihua would be angry, so he only dragged Su Xiujin to the kitchen to cook.

Song Cuihua has always eaten alone, and she wanted to give Su Xiujin a good-looking one, she glanced at the food brought by Jin Daniu, glanced at it and said, "What's the matter, or did you do it?" ”

Of course, Jin Daniu shook his head, Song Cuihua tasted it and said that it was not delicious, saying that Su Xiujin's cooking skills were really poor.

Su Xiujin said lightly on the side: "If the eldest lady thinks it is not delicious, then it can't be done, I can eat it with the big cow, and the eldest aunt's appetite is a little tricky." ”