Probably because Du Xiaoxi was too resentful, the eldest aunt didn't come, but the little aunt came.

Du Xiaoxi's two aunts are hard-working and hard-working, and they rarely go back to their parents' homes except for the New Year's holidays, and there are no bullshit at home, and they rarely come to trouble their parents' families.

The fourth brother asked someone to bring Xin'er to say that the sister-in-law had returned to her parents' house, and if there was something, let them all go back. Father Du took his wife and children back to Dujia Village.

My sister-in-law got married far away, and it was already half of the afternoon when I got home, and when Daddy Du came back, wisps of white smoke were already rising in the village.

"Brother Cheng, let's go to your sister's house tomorrow to have a look, that old pious woman actually wants to leave the quarry, it's really wishful thinking!"

Daddy Du answered, and only after listening to Grandma Du's intermittent words did he understand what was going on.

When the sister-in-law said that the time coincided with the emergency of Daddy Du, and after three years of filial piety, she became a ten** old girl, and the family who came to kiss was no longer seventeen or eighteen.

The second eldest of the Gao family, that is, Du Xiaoxi's little uncle, is an honest and stupid honest man, because he is unsatisfactory, has no ability, and is not favored by his father, and finally he has not married a wife at the end of twenty-three, and he just happened to be a pair with his sister-in-law.

The old man and the old lady of the Gao family have many common problems, they like the eldest son who can do things, spoil the younger son who will please people, and treat the honest and honest second son in the middle as a slave to the whole family.

Of course, this is not good in the sister-in-law's marriage, although the sister-in-law is not a shrewd person, fortunately, the honest man is obedient, and after marriage, he is a standard wife slave, let him do whatever he wants. After having a child, I listened to my mother-in-law's words and devoted myself to the small family.

The son is disobedient, the key is that he can't be caught.

The old couple of the Gao family had no choice, and in the end they could only force the second son to give how much pension money he gave every year, food, fruits and vegetables. In this way, there was nothing to do for a few years.

Later, the old man Gao died, and the sister-in-law and her mother-in-law had another big fight, and finally it became a point where they did not communicate every year except for pension money and food.

Hearing the name of Bald Mountain, you know that most of the mountains over there are not hairy stones, and Gaojia Village at the foot of Bald Mountain is naturally not a place with beautiful mountains and rivers.

In such a stone-covered village, the most important possession is naturally the fields of production.

Before the old man Du died, he divided the family for his three sons, divided the land equally among the three sons, and the old woman followed the eldest son later, and the other two families only needed to give pension money and food every year. At that time, the village leaders and clan elders also witnessed it. That's it when you pay it back.

As a result, the old man had just been buried. When the family was officially separated, Mrs. Gao disagreed, she did not agree to give the field to the second child, and in order to block the mouths of the people in the village, she shouted to give the quarry in Bald Mountain to the second child.

How can an abandoned quarry that has been useless for half a lifetime be compared to a field that produces food every year?

The sister-in-law naturally disagreed with this division, and immediately called her mother's family to make trouble with the elders of the Li Zhenghe clan.

At that time, the elders of the Gao family also persuaded Mrs. Gao. However, the old lady did not agree to give the land to her second son. Every day, he scolds the sophomore at the door of his house for being unfilial. Anyway, I don't want to sign the paperwork of separation, and I don't give the second year of high school when I collect the food every year.

It was like this for more than two years, and in the end, the sister-in-law's family compromised. Give Mrs. Gao, and there is no pension money!

It would have been fine if things had been like this, but in the past two years, there has been a turnaround.

After the construction of the mountain waterway, a new wharf was followed by a new wharf that joined near the North-South Grand Canal. After the construction of the new wharf, due to the terrain limitations, the passenger flow that can be carried is not as large as that of the old wharf. Later, Liu Erye and several wealthy families in the county proposed the idea of connecting the old and new wharves and turning them into a wharf.

The two wharves are far apart, and there are several villages built after the construction of the north-south canal, and the only thing that is difficult is that there is a mountain more than ten meters high between the two wharves.

And the bald hill where the sister-in-law's house is located is near the mountain on the side of the old wharf.

When the new wharf was built, the quarries near the new wharf made a fortune one by one, and the cost of transporting the quarries to the new wharf was much higher than that of the mines away from the new wharf because it was transported to the new wharf by a mountain, and in the end it didn't make much money.

Now that she has to connect two wharves to the city, and dig up the mountains that are in the way, and then sell slate in front of her own house, Mrs. Gao can already imagine how much silver her son earns in a day.

So seeing that the mountain by the canal was about to be dug up, she had to purchase a large number of stone slabs to repair the house and pave the road, and Mrs. Gao jumped out again to get the quarry back!

After hearing what the sister-in-law said, everyone in the Du family was also drunk.

can toss like this, why can't this old lady Gao go to heaven!

I heard that my sister-in-law is here, and my uncle has Brother Jin and my father and mother have sent me to see what's wrong. After all, my sister-in-law's family is far away, and she only comes back a few times a year, and now she is afraid that something will happen if she doesn't celebrate the New Year.

After hearing that Mrs. Gao was making a fuss about the quarry again, Du Youjin scolded angrily, and immediately said that tomorrow their brothers would also go to cheer.

The next day, before dawn, the two families hurried in the dark, and now they walked to Bald Mountain almost just in time for a hot meal at noon.

Du Xiaoxi sat by Du Niang, and when she saw the beautiful flowers on the side of the road, she would be coquettish and let the starling jump out of the car and pick them back.

Du Niang looked at the carefree little girl and sighed, she didn't want her to come over, after all, the two families might have to fight, what can her daughter do with her! However, the girl's sentence 'I haven't been to my aunt's house since I was a child', what Daddy Du and Du Niang were going to say was suppressed.

Du Xiaoxi felt a little proud in his heart, there are people above us, your daughter will stop in their village, and everyone knows that our family can't afford to mess with us!

Staggered to Bald Mountain, and a group of people were watched by the lively people before they entered the village.

"This Gao Yang's daughter-in-law's family is really rich, and the family doesn't have a patch on their clothes." A little woman who had just come in whispered to the woman next to her. How expensive is the clothing material, who is not patches to make patches, how many patches, there is not a single patch on the clothes of a group of people in the Du family, it seems that their family is having a good time.

She nodded in agreement, raised her chin and said to Du Xiaoxi: "Did you see the round-faced little lady holding the old lady." is the best-looking one, but the people are married to Liu Bancheng in our county, and after the door, it is the young lady of the Liu family. ”

The little woman exclaimed, "She's the girl?" Everyone in our county knows her! ”

A few women next to him also muttered, "Look at the several large packages in those cars, I don't know what good things I brought over this time?" ”

"I heard that the shop on the new wharf of Gao Yang's family is rented from Liu Bancheng's family, Gao Yang didn't have a good father, but married a good mother-in-law." The people around him nodded in unison.

got off the bus at the door of the sister-in-law's house, and Gao Wang, who was guarding the door at home, had already greeted the child with his child.

"Mother, old mother. Auntie. Uncle, you're back, sit in the house! Gao Wang asked the children to welcome everyone into the yard, and he took his son to borrow the neighbor's yard to put the ox cart away, and by the way, let the nephew go, and the big family who was still in the quarry called back.

Grandma Du was helped directly into the house. Du Xiaoxi stood behind Grandma Du and looked at the furnishings in the house. Everything is clean. There are also a lot of gadgets made of stones, and it seems that the life of the sister-in-law's family is okay.

There are not many people left in the house, and I heard my sister-in-law say that she went to the quarry to open stones. Only the pregnant second cousin was left at home with the child.

After washing his face, drinking tea, and before he could say a few words, the little uncle came back with his sons.

My sister-in-law gave birth to three sons and two daughters, except for the youngest son who died young, the other children have been married for many years, and the whole family came in full, and the house soon became unstable.

The sister-in-law waved her hand to let a group of juniors go down, and took her brother and nephew to discuss how to deal with Mrs. Gao.

Du Xiaoxi was kicked out with the seventh brother and the eighth brother, and was led by the three girls of the little cousin's family to sit under the plane tree in the yard, and other children, big and small, also stood next to him.

"Auntie, when did you come back? Is Kyoto fun? Did you see the emperor and empress? ”

When I went to my grandmother's house during the Chinese New Year, I didn't see my aunt and was told that my aunt was taken to Kyoto by the master, and the few little babies of the Gao family were amazed for a long time, and when they came back, they showed off to the aunt's Gao Meimei for a long time.

"Not long after I came back, Kyoto is a little better looking than our county, there are more things, I brought a gift for you to take a look?"

"Okay! Okay! ”

A few small cheers ran straight to the right side of the room.

The right side room is a suite house with a compartment, Du Xiaoxi ran over and saw the eldest nephew and daughter-in-law Li Shi guarding the door of the cubicle room to collect the soles of shoes, and the compartment behind him fell a big lock.

The three girls said good things, but Li sat still and refused to open the door, and when he saw Du Xiaoxi coming over, he stood up and greeted: "Auntie is here!" Sit down! ”

Looking at Li Shipo's rather embarrassing appearance, Du Xiaoxi was also very helpless, being called aunt by someone older than you, this feels so sour!

"I bought them gifts, just give them now, open the door!"

Li Shi looked helplessly at a few small ones who got up and opened the lock, and kept saying: "What you brought are all good things, I'm afraid that someone from the third uncle's side will suddenly come over and leave, and my mother let me watch here." Then he said to a few small ones: "You can pick two things, don't take all the good things, be careful to turn back your grandmother to scold people!" ”

A group of people responded, entered the house and looked curiously at the few large packages brought by the Du family. Du Xiaoxi stepped forward directly, untied the one with the pink cloth on it, and pulled out the contents one by one.

Handkerchiefs, purses, red beaded bracelets, some worthless small jewelry, bits and pieces accounted for a small half, and the rest were all old clothes.

Du Xiaoxi's clothes all year round are made by the Liu family and sent over, and every time they give a festival gift, they have to send two bodies, there are more than a dozen sets a year, and the Du family will not do it for her except for adding a set to their daughter during the New Year.

Du Xiaoxi wears small clothes directly for Du Zhaodi and the children of the eldest aunt and second aunt's family, and Du Xiaoxi doesn't wear these clothes much.

Sanniu and a few little sisters are several years younger than Du Xiaoxi, and these clothes have to be collected before they can be worn, but a few little girls don't dislike it, and they are happy to wear them one by one to try the best look.

"That's it! Time to eat! You guys go set the table! Seeing that the mother-in-law had already prepared the meal, Li hurriedly shouted to the children in the house, and then drove the people out and locked the door.

At the dinner table, Du Xiaoxi learned that the sister-in-law's mother-in-law and the brother-in-law's family hid directly in the new wharf, and they couldn't find anyone at all.

They can only wait for the family to come back, or else the trip will be in vain.

After eating, Du Xiaoxi, who was used to taking a nap, woke up after sleeping on her little niece's bed for a while. The third girl who was chopping vegetables for the pig in the yard saw it, and pointed to Du Xiaoxi where to wash her face.

"Sanniu, where did your seventh and eighth uncle go?" Du Xiaoxi asked quietly in the courtyard.

"My brother took them to the quarry! I won't be back until the next day. The three girls didn't look back.

Du Xiaoxi scratched her head embarrassedly, "Can I go?" I want to check it out. ”

"Okay, Auntie, I'll take you there later, and you wait for me to finish feeding the pigs."

The third girl worked very neatly, and after feeding the pigs, she ran to the house and said hello to the elders, and then took Du Xiaoxi to Bald Mountain.

"I'll get some for you!" Seeing that Sanniu could only lean forward when she walked with a basket of things on her back, Du Xiaoxi said busily.

Sanniu didn't care, "Auntie, my back moves, you concentrate on your feet, don't fall, if my mother knows that I brought you here to fly and die, I can't do it." ”

"Auntie, do you see it, it's at the foot of the mountain in front."

Du Xiaoxi responded and asked curiously, "Is this mountain all your home?" ”

"No, the one at the foot of the mountain belongs to our family, and the rest are ownerless in the village, and only our family has a quarry."

The two talked and laughed and soon arrived at the quarry.

"Let's drink water!" The three girls roared in a loud voice, and Du Ba didn't know where to get out.

"Girl, why are you here? There's nothing to see here, you two pack up and go back. “

Du Xiaoxi glared at Du Ba angrily, "Why can you come, I can't come!" I don't want to go! Let's take a look! “

Du Qi and Du Ba glanced at each other, sighed and didn't care.

The thirteen-year-old brother is the guide of a group of children, dutifully introducing where the stones are mined, where to put the polished slates, how many stones can be dug in a day, and how many slate slabs can be hit.

Du Xiaoxi also looked around with relish, and saw that the entire quarry was a slate except for the stone, and asked suspiciously: "Why is it only made of slate?" Stone tables, stone benches, stone lions, and all kinds of small toys can be made of some. It's too simple to only make slates, right? ”

The eldest nephew smiled embarrassedly, "Our family is not a stonemason, we don't have that skill, we can only make simple stone slabs, but grandma and grandpa have discussed sending us to the stonemason shop as apprentices, even if we can't earn it in the future, we will have something to eat." (To be continued.) )