I don't know whose rooster card alarm clock is crowing early in the morning.

Du Qi kicked his feet through his younger brother, and Du Ba reminded him to get up quickly.

Du Ba touched his buttocks, picked up the big cotton jacket next to him and put it on, and watched Du Jiu slowly fasten the buttons.

Du Ba folded the quilt tirelessly, and the three of them went out.

There was already white smoke in the cooking shed, and someone was cooking, so the three of them went to the thatched hut in a bunch, and shouted that there was no one inside, so they went in one by one. After a while, they washed their faces, and everyone else packed up and left the house.

After eating a breakfast that was not sumptuous, Du Qi suddenly said: "Uncle and second uncle, I will wait to go back to the city next time, the luggage is still in the inn, it is not safe." ”

Han Chengjia immediately became anxious when he heard this, "How can you put it in the inn, if you don't go back overnight, many inns can be touched for you." ”

Du Qi smiled and comforted the Han family, "It's okay, the people from the brother-in-law's family in that store often settle down, and they can be regarded as believed by acquaintances." There was nothing but a few changes of clothes, and the rest of the luggage was taken home. ”

Hearing Du Qi say this, everyone was relieved.

Du Liye pondered and said: "It just so happens that I will go to the city to prepare some New Year's goods, let's go with you, I don't know the road in the province." ”

"Then thank you second uncle!"

After eating, Du Qi followed to get the luggage, there were not many things, Du Ba and Du Jiu didn't go back, and the two talked to their uncle and planned to buy some things for the family in the town.

It is not easy to survive in the town, and all firewood, rice, oil and salt are bought with money. My uncle's carpentry business is not good, and the meal I ate this morning is obviously not as sticky as yesterday. They stayed for a few days, and maybe after they left, my uncle's family would go hungry.

The Du family was not a wealthy family in the first place, and Du Ba naturally knew what was most lacking in the family.

There are two horses in a family of cotton cloth, a bag of rice and white noodles, a few bags of sugar cubes and snacks, and then ten catties of meat, the two of them rented a cart and walked back with large bags and small bags, and on the way they saw that there were rock sugar gourds that sold ten strings for the children to eat.

When the two of them came back, they saw a bunch of people surrounding the door of the woodware shop, and when they saw the two of them coming back, they gave way one after another.

Du Ba carried two bags of rice in, and saw a group of people sitting in the store with sticks yesterday, beckoning Han Dalin and Han Erlin to come and get things together.

"This bag is full of white noodles, right? Rice is also new this year, right? These bags are hundreds of pounds! ”

"These four pieces of cloth are not cheap! So much, you don't have to buy cloth for two years! ”

"The sugar and snacks belong to Lao Wang's, they smell so good!"

"So much meat! I want to eat it! ”

"Buy ten strings of sugar gourds, you have money!"

A group of people openly and secretly envy the Han family's relatives for being rich, and they couldn't help but gloat when they thought of the group of people in the store. The Han family is not good at everything.

Du Ba Du Jiu put down the things in his hand, looked at the group of people who had already stood up, and asked, "Why is this coming again?" ”

Without waiting for them to answer, Du Ba turned his head to look at Han Chengjia, "Uncle, what do they want?" ”

Han Erlin saw that his father's face was red and he couldn't speak, so he said loudly: "They just think that my father is a son-in-law, and his name is not right, and he likes my house and shop!" ”

Oh! It turned out that I felt that my own things had been taken away, and I was unwilling.

Du Ba looked at Han Cheng's family and said extremely seriously: "Uncle, this house belongs to your family, right?" The title deed is in your possession, right? ”

Han Chengjia nodded again and again, "It's ours, it's autobiography from my father-in-law." ”

"Well, that's it!" Du Bayi pretended to be forced and said to his younger brother: "Ninth brother, the letter written by my brother-in-law to us when I come can be used." You take the letter to the Yamen to report to the officials, and arrest all these people in prison to see if they dare to come! ”

Han Chengjia heard that the official hurriedly stopped: "Can't report to the official!" Can't report to the official! ”

The people of the Han family had already excluded their family, and if the relationship became more stiff after the trouble, they would be comfortable for a while, but their children and grandchildren would suffer.

Du Ba saw that the faces of the group of people opposite the newspaper official were unnatural for a moment, and he quickly recovered, and immediately pulled the banner and pulled the tiger skin.

"Uncle, there are no big officials in this Han family, right? We are not afraid, and when it comes to the emperor, our family is also in charge. Uncle, don't be afraid, our sister-in-law is married to an official family, and my sister-in-law's father-in-law may be able to endure it and see the emperor every day. When he came back, his brother-in-law wrote a letter to the officials in Qingchuan, saying that if his uncle was not easy to find, he would ask the yamen to help check the household registration or something.

We think it's too troublesome, so it's better to find it yourself. If you don't find it, everyone is happy. Who knew that someone from my uncle's house came to find fault every day. The uncle's family wants to live here for a lifetime, how can I be comfortable when I come to the door every day, let the yamen take care of it! ”

Du Ba's words fell, and the faces of Han Tianhua and the others on the opposite side were even more ugly.

It is a shame for any newspaper official, and his Han Cheng family is not afraid of being faceless, and their Han family's reputation is gone. If what Han Cheng's nephew said is true, his sister-in-law is really married to a big official. This Han Chengjia can naturally only make friends in the future, and the house shop can't be mentioned at all. I can't say that my family still has to provide for them.

When Du Ba spoke, he didn't know that there happened to be an official in the yamen passing by outside, and the official only thought that he was deliberately scaring people, and told the others about the funny things when he returned to the yamen. It happened that Wang Tingchang passed by, and felt that seeing the emperor every day was too big, and ordinary people didn't dare to say it, and what they dared to say was either capable or brainless. Nothing to do, Pavilion Chief Wang decided to take a look.

Han Tianhua and the others were really afraid that Du Qi and the others had backers, so they hurriedly asked people to call their father and uncle and second uncle. When the elders of the Han family heard about it, they also ran over.

So, after a while, the white-haired elders of the Han family and the middle-aged and inactive Wang Pavilion Chang came over together.

Everyone saluted the pavilion chief, and Wang Pavilion Chief glanced at Du Ba Du Jiu, and said with a smile: "I heard that there are people making trouble here, so I'll take a look if I have nothing to do." ”

The head of the Han family smiled shyly, "The adults misunderstood, this is all a joke by the juniors!" ”

Wang Tingchang smiled and nodded, and said to Du Ba and Du Jiu with a smile: "Look at the two sons with extraordinary bearing, with a killing aura, I don't know where the fairy town is?" ”

Although this person spoke in a crepe, he had a good eye, and he could see that their family was killing pigs. Not bad! Not bad!

Du Jiu shook his head, took out a letter from his bosom and handed it over: "The housemate is the nephew and daughter-in-law of Lord Liu Zi'an, the head of the household department, and Han Chengjia is my uncle, and I hope that the lord will take care of it." ”

"Well said! Say! Wang Tingchang took the letter and looked at it seriously, and was even more pleased to see the seal at the sign-off office.

"In the early years, Lord Liu served as the governor of Qingzhou, and Wang had seen it once from afar, but I didn't expect that the adult would now be promoted to the household department! Adults are truly the pillars of the country! ”

Saying that, Pavilion Chief Wang was going to carry the letter in his arms, with this letter, if he was in trouble in the future, maybe he could ask to see Lord Liu once.

Du Ba quickly snatched it and put it in his arms, and said with an embarrassed face: "My brother-in-law said that this thing can only be seen, or it will be bad for people to keep it as evidence of forming a party for personal gain." ”

You said so, am I embarrassed to rob me when I have a humble official position?

Glancing at Du Ba's chest, Wang Tingchang turned his head to look at the junior of Han Chengjia, thinking about it. Hey! I've always been so witty, my lord!

The witty Wang Pavilion Chief Yin Yin instructed the Han family patriarch to give them a basket of words, and warned them not to come to the door to harass them in the future, so he left in a hurry.

Wang Tingchang wants to go home and ask his wife, there are still a few unmarried little ladies in his family, Xiao Langjun, who can match the Han family. Absolutely!

Lord Liu! Captain Liu!

If he remembered correctly, the daughter-in-law of Chief Liu was the apprentice of Master Xile and the younger sister of the Nine Emperor Princes.

O Nine Emperors! Nine Emperor Princes!

The firm prince and the sub-party, the prince will ascend the throne in the future and be crowned king properly.

If his family and the Han family become in-laws, will they also have a relationship with the emperor and the prince?

Wang Tingchang seems to have seen a road to heaven!

Seeing that Wang Tingchang, who usually smiled and bent his eyes when he met Yinzi, turned into squinting, the head of the Han family already understood that there must be someone behind these three people, and Wang Tingchang couldn't help but stutter.

Patriarch Han coldly scolded the few people who came to smash things, "You juniors don't learn well, this is the home of the Han Cheng family, how can you break into it casually." Go back and let your father and mother make up for the loss in the shop. Alright, let's go! ”

Han Tianhua looked at the shop with a complicated face, and left with people without saying a word.

Waiting for the people to run out, the Han patriarch and the other two clan elders warmly greeted Han Chengjia and Du Badu Jiu into the backyard.

Patriarch Han beckoned Du Jiu, who looked very good to speak, to sit beside him, and asked with a smile: "Little brother is really capable, his relatives for more than forty years can still be found, he is really unusually capable." I don't know where the little brother's house is? Which adult wrote the letter that Pavilion Chief Wang read just now? ”

The last sentence is the key!

Du Ba didn't like this kind of fake death-defying atmosphere, and said directly for Du Jiu: "The last Qingzhou Mansion Yin is the eldest brother of my sister-in-law's father-in-law, and my sister-in-law is very capable." You, the Han family, had better not come to bully my uncle and have no help. My uncle has suffered a lot in the past, but now with our support, he will weigh it in the future. If you really want to make trouble, it's you who don't look good! ”

The Han patriarch thinks that this bear child speaks very ugly!

What is door-to-door bullying? In the past, it was just that the juniors in the clan were disobedient, how could they be so strict.

"Little brother, rest assured, you can't write two Korean characters in one stroke, they are all a family, and the clan will never watch the children of the Han family being bullied. This will never happen again today! ”

The Han patriarch promised again and again, and finally asked for the deep approval of the Han Cheng family before leaving.

The matter at home was finally resolved, and the Han family was very happy.

In the middle of the afternoon, Han Liye and Du Qi came back with luggage and a cart of things.

Hearing about the events of the morning, Han Liye couldn't help but be happy for his eldest brother, although the two of them had already taken root here, but after all, the foundation was not deep, and in the eyes of others, they were outsiders. He can help if the eldest brother has something, but the Zhou family where he is located will not help. This time, I borrowed the power of my nephew to solve the matter, and no one will look down on the two of them in the future.

I rested at my uncle's house for a day that day, and talked specifically about the things at home and Du Xiaoxi's master, brother and husband's family. Du Qi made it clear that the New Year was approaching, and they had to rush back when they were busy at home. Waiting for a trip to my uncle's house tomorrow, the three of them are ready to go back.

The next day, Du Qiyi and his entourage followed their two uncles to Shangguan Village.

The vast majority of the families in Shangguan Village are surnamed Zhou and Liu, and Han Liye's family is the old and daughter-in-law Zhou Tianci's family. Zhou Tianci is a second-generation single lineman, and he has a good relationship with the clan.

At the beginning, the Zhou family took a fancy to Han Liye, who had no family ties, and had an elder brother who could help. Waiting for Han Liye to enter the door, the family has been harmonious for decades. Now the second elder of the Zhou family is dying, and he only helps take care of the children at home. The housekeeper in the family has already been handed over to Han Liye.

Hearing that Han Liye's nephew had come here, his family was still a very talented family, and the Zhou family was very happy.

When the three of them arrived, they invited someone to make a banquet, and the family gave a warm welcome.

The lively confession of relatives had a meal, and then he talked to the old toothless patriarch of the Zhou family, who heard that their three brothers were big officials, for a few hours. The day went by.

Lying in the spacious and bright room of the Zhou family, Du Ba couldn't help but sigh, "This is the recognition of relatives!" How good it is to rejoice! ”

stayed at Zhou's house for one day, and the next day, the three of them were sent back to Qingchuan Wharf by the second uncle with the New Year's gifts from the two uncles, and took a boat passing through Shanshui County to embark on the journey home.

Before leaving, Du Jiu sent a letter to Du Xiaoxi, informing her that she had found her uncle.

Half a month later, Du Qisan finally arrived home.

Du Qi told the two uncles from beginning to end, and took out the gifts that the two of them gave to Du Niang, and then told them that the two uncles would come over in the spring of the New Year. Du Niang was happier than one when she heard it.

Driving her husband and sons away, Du Niang carefully opened the two red wooden boxes in front of her. When she saw the hairpins inside, Du Niang couldn't help but cover her mouth and cry in a low voice.

Two boxes, each containing three wooden hairpins.

Inferior peach wood has become lustrous because people play with it from time to time.

Back then, their three sisters and brothers, Jiang Ying, Jiang Yuzhu, and Jiang Yusong.

My mother once polished the withered peach trees in the courtyard into three wooden hairpins, on which were engraved their names and patterns.

The three sisters and brothers carefully treasured and cared for with their hearts.

In the end, they were buried in the great flood that caused their suffering and new life.

now

His younger brothers polished similar hairpins to honor his mother and her sister.

Mothers in the spirit of heaven will also be happy that their children are still concerned about each other after so many years!

(To be continued.) )