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After pondering and understanding, the old lady also regretted it, "Okay, I'll tell your third brother about this at dinner, anyway, they have a yard over there, and it doesn't take much to raise this thing." ”

But as soon as the old lady brought it up during the meal, Bai Xiumei shook her head, "That's not good, mother, you should raise chickens and eat grass, besides, let's say that this grass is only available in this season, and there is no grass in winter, what do I take to raise chickens, this chicken and eggs are yours, I don't even have the silver to buy food to feed the chickens, forget it, this matter is also a big lake idle and nothing to toss, you don't take it seriously, besides, the children have to help with grass and wood, how can there be that kung fu to care about this, if you want to raise chickens, it is estimated that no one wants this chicken to be thin, let alone lay eggs... …”

Bai Xiumei made up her mind and resolutely refused to raise it, why did they work hard to get cheap here.

Lin Qiaoling helped the old lady persuade with a smile on her face, "Brother and sister, you see, this thing is just a matter of two handfuls of grass, if you really grow up as a child, you can't eat chicken, you see that we can't eat chicken all year round, you move out at least much better than us......"

Why did Lin Qiaoling want to help the old lady speak at this time, it was because Chen Fangshi asked Aunt Hua to find her medicine, and she was taking it, but she had to help the old lady with her thoughts, no matter what, they were living under the old lady's nose, and she was not stingy to help speak.

Bai Xiumei smiled indifferently, "Second sister-in-law, you don't need to persuade me, I'm worried about getting something to eat for the chickens, the chickens eat millet, but not everything can be fed." ”

As soon as Yue'er looked up, she saw the old man giving the old lady a look, put down the chopsticks and said slowly, "Milk, don't think about the chickens raised, who pays for the chickens, our family has no money, and even my brother's medicine is still owed to people who are hoarding grandpa, and even if you are old enough to pay, we live in such a remote place, in case a weasel or something comes, if the chickens are all dead, who is this?" ”

Her words angered the old lady, pointed to Yue'er's nose and began to scold, "You fool, there is a place where you interject, get out of here, who taught you to talk to your elders like this, the third family, you take care of your good girl, since you are a fool, don't give me more mouths and tongues everywhere, if you can't manage me well, I won't believe it, I don't have a long memory of beating her every day......"

Yue'er stood up with a blank face, and Bai Xiumei hurriedly pulled her daughter away, "Mother, don't be angry with the child, I will talk about her ......"

Pan'er's little face tightened, and she put the bowl down, "I'm full, you eat slowly......"

The old lady looked at her like this, and was so angry that she almost threw the chopsticks on Pan'er's face, "The third child, you discipline the child well for me, I worry about it every day, and I raise you wrong, you look at what kind of tutors these two money-losing goods in your family are, if you can't teach well, I will sell them to people, I think the two of them dare to be so disrespectful under the hands of others......"

The old lady was more annoyed in her heart, and asked her daughter-in-law to dial it today, originally she was thinking that Bai Xiumei would happily agree to raise chickens, which is good, but the chickens were not raised and cried out first.

"It's all going to turn the sky upside down, do you still have me in your eyes, the third child, do you raise this chicken or not?"

The old lady is making trouble, Chen Dahu is in trouble, his own wife's eyes are about to catch up with the knife, if he doesn't raise it, it is estimated that there will be trouble in the future, he doesn't want to raise it, but the old lady is saying this now to force him to nod.

sighed, and said ruthlessly, "Mother, it's okay for you to let us raise it, you have to give us the money and food for the chickens, otherwise what will we feed us?" ”

The old lady just wanted to make trouble, and the old man spoke, "It's all a family, don't talk about two families, damn it, get a few eggs for the child to hatch the chicks, but let's say you keep two chickens." ”

Chen Dahu smiled bitterly, "Dad, what you said, take eggs to hatch chicks, who knows what can be hatched, what if they are all roosters?" I don't dare to guarantee this, so let's do it, my mother has more eggs, maybe I can hatch more hens, but I also have conditions, I want to keep two hens, Bao'er is weak, you also know, let's not care about the others, just Chong Bao'er is your little grandson, this hen you also have to keep for Bao'er, otherwise I don't raise this chicken, whoever wants to raise it, you can also be a second sister-in-law, if you want, you can circle a chicken pen by the courtyard wall, and don't delay anything. ”

Lin Qiaoling pursed her lips, and secretly said in her heart, she worked hard to raise a few chickens, and finally there were a few pieces of meat in their mouths.

"Alas, sister-in-law, I don't have so much strength, just embroidery is about to tire our mothers down, how can there be that spiritual head to take care of the chickens, you raise it, I'm not greedy."

She also thought about it, the third family didn't even have a guy to eat, and if they didn't get the gang to eat chicken, they could still eat meat.

Chen Dahu came back with twelve eggs and half a bag of chaff, Bai Xiumei looked at this posture and stopped him from coming in, "You take it back, you raise, the chickens eat bran, you have the ability to feed it yourself, I don't care about it, if you have any questions, you can ask your mother." ”

She was aggrieved in her heart, she let them fight for everything, and thought that moving to this place would be cleaner, but it was better to find trouble for herself.

Chen Da smiled bitterly, "Child, mother, you are willing to me, our mother is forced, if you don't take this thing, you just wait, the children probably have to drink water."

Alas, I'm still angry here, who do you say I should send to, this is my mother, try another person, I'm too lazy to serve her, what can I do, but I can say okay, regardless of the rooster and hen, anyway, our family wants two hens, and the eggs laid are left for the children to eat, my father has spoken, and we can't refuse this matter. ”

Bai Xiumei glared at her husband hatefully, "What about millet, without millet, the chicks can't choke to death, just this chaff, the chicks won't eat ......"

Chen Dahu smiled, "Daughter-in-law, I'm not so stupid, I want millet, I carry it in my pocket, but the old lady didn't give much, and it is estimated that it will be enough for the chickens to eat." ”

Bai Xiumei snorted coldly, "Where is your mother afraid of chickens, she is afraid that our mother will eat, come on, take it back and put it in the house, I sue you, if your mother dares to regret it, let's not live this day, you think about it yourself......"

Pan'er puffed out her cheeks angrily, and hated that iron is not steel, "Dad, why are you so obedient, let me tell you, you feed this chicken yourself, I don't care, all day and night to beat pigweed to feed chickens and ducks, we finally became a money-losing goods in grandma's mouth, you look at my sister, our family's firewood all year round is not all my sister's go, you listen to what my grandmother said, say my sister is stupid, is that a mother, it's not stronger than the back, you are looking for a few girls to go to collect firewood?" ”

Speaking of this, the little girl whimpered with tears, she was not worth it for herself and her sister, yes, the children of every family were not idle, but the boys of their family did not work, saying that they were going to the town to be apprentices, she didn't see what the two apprentices had learned, and the sister of the second aunt's family didn't care about embroidery, their family was good, weaving was not delayed, and they had to do so much housework, what happened to them, what was wrong, she just couldn't figure it out.

Yue'er sighed faintly, and came over to hug her sister, "Mother, let's raise the chickens, who knows if they will be dragged away by weasels in the end, as long as Bao'er and my sister can eat eggs in their mouths, it's worth anything."

Say I'm a fool, that's good, I'll be my fool obediently in the future, you see which fool still works every day, I'm sick, I can't do any work, Dad, tomorrow you tell your grandmother, I'm crazy, running all over the street, this time I'm going to sit down and say I'm a fool. ”

Chen Dahu was frightened by Yue'er's words, his daughter wouldn't have said such things before, what's wrong?

There was a worried look on her face, "Girl, tell my father, are you uncomfortable?" ”

Yue'er shook her head, "How can a fool know if he is comfortable or uncomfortable, I am a fool now, I want to sleep......"

Yue'er didn't pay attention to the husband and wife, and pulled Pan'er back to the room between the two of them, "Be good, sleep, don't think about those messy things, this time my sister is completely a fool......"

Pan'er wasn't afraid of anything else, but she was afraid that her sister would be mad by the old lady, so she took Yue'er's hand and looked at it carefully, "Sister, are you really okay?" Don't scare me. ”

Yue'er waved her hand, "Sleep, I'm tired......"

Chen Dahu and his wife were really frightened by the eldest daughter's move, and now the two of them are sitting on the kang, you look at me, I look at you, and no one knows what to say.

Bai Xiumei is more anxious in her heart, the child has changed a lot more than before, she doesn't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing, she used to be stupid, but now this temper is a little long, not to mention, she doesn't dare to say that this thing is extreme, but it is definitely not according to common sense, is it possible that the child's illness was stimulated by her mother-in-law and aggravated?

"No, tomorrow I will take the child to the temple to find someone to see, last time the monk said that our child is not a fool, it is a lost soul, I want to know if this child is getting better or worse."

Chen Dahu's heart is full of thoughts, he used to say that the child is a fool, but he didn't think there was anything, his daughter just had less words and less heart, and the others were nothing less than other children, but during this time, he also knew that the child had changed, but he said that it was good or bad.

Worried, he said, "I have to go, but what about the money, our mother will definitely not give the child this money, you said that the temple can not add sesame oil money to people, last time Bao'er's mother said it, this matter to the mother is estimated to be impossible."

Why don't I go to Brother Sledgehammer and find a way to see how much money he can borrow over there, it's better than you two going empty-handed......"

Bai Xiumei looked at her man, opened her mouth, closed it again, and just nodded, in fact, she had two money in her hand, which was given to her by Pan'er, one was fifty wen for selling crabs and the other was for selling pheasants and hares, adding up to more than 100 wen, it must be enough to go to the temple, but she doesn't know when she will be able to repay the medicine money owed to others, but she doesn't plan to say this, it's good to borrow money, save her mother-in-law from knowing that they still have money in their hands, maybe this old woman has to think about it.

Chen Dahu went out with a heavy heart, and he felt that it was difficult to endure the days when he didn't have a penny in his hand, but he could also understand why his mother was picking the door, the whole family had a younger brother who was a scholar, and they all rushed for his younger brother to be admitted to an official and a half-position, not to mention the glory of the ancestors.

Bai Xiumei doesn't care about her own man, although she is tired, but she can't sleep when she has something in her heart, she takes out the material she knitted before and wants to make a spring dress for the two girls, she wants to make it for every child, but the fabric is not enough, and it will be more expensive to make skirts, so she can only make blouses.

Chen Dahu came back and took out a hundred yuan from his pocket, "Alas, I borrowed so many ......"

Bai Xiumei was not polite to him, "Okay, there are a lot of these, let's show the child, save your mother from pointing at the child's nose and scolding every day, I am a mother, the child was born by me, I feel uncomfortable when I look at it, anyway, I don't know how you feel, I don't want others to say this about my child, and your mother can't do it......"

Chen Dahu now understands that his own mother has completely offended his daughter-in-law, Bai Xiumei is not bad at anything, she would rather suffer hardships and losses herself, she is not happy that her children are abused, her own mother has touched the scales of her daughter-in-law, and it has been touched again and again, I am afraid it is a little difficult to make her daughter-in-law think of her own mother-in-law in her heart.

Chen Dahu is embarrassed as a son, one is his daughter-in-law and children, and the other is his mother-in-law, and he doesn't know whose position to stand on now.

"Alas, don't be angry with your mother, you haven't seen what kind of character she has for so many years, that is, the knife mouth and tofu heart, they are all their own family, and they don't have so many twists and turns."

Bai Xiumei snorted, "That's what you think, in my eyes, your mother is eccentric, don't talk about the old family, just say that the second family, the same girl, why don't their children collect firewood, saying that embroidery can't hurt hands, but what about our Yue'er, the hands of weaving can be injured casually?"

What kind of work is our daughter delayed, don't think about your mother's difficulty, you also think about our mother, are we easy?

Look at the children, compared to the children in the tunzi, you can't see if you have eyes......"

Chen Dahu felt that he was wrong to say more, it was better not to say it, his daughter-in-law was angry in his heart, he understood, but he didn't know how to persuade him, he also held back a fire in his heart, who did he send to.

Early the next morning, Pan'er jumped outside the door, "Mother, there is no water to wash your face, what should we do?" ”

Bai Xiumei sighed, "What can I do, let's wash it again at your milk's side, your father went to fetch water in the morning, let's go over and have a look first." ”

Yue'er slowly dressed her little brother, and then led Bao'er out, and the little guy sighed as she walked, "Sister, what can I do without water, I can't wash my feet at my grandfather's house, let's come back, isn't that the same as not washing?" ”

ps: Enlarge the chapter, I wish you all a safe year and a happy Christmas Eve!