Du Qiyue bought a lot of things, and after getting off the ox cart, he asked Huzi to help take the things back together.

Brother Liu sat at the door of Du Qiyue's house absentmindedly weaving the wicker basket in his hand, and when he saw Du Qiyue and them coming back, he immediately greeted him, "Brother, Brother Qi Yue, you are back, I have been sitting at this door for a long time, why did you come back so late today?" ”

"When we came back, the wheel of the ox cart in front of us was broken, and the road was full of fields on both sides, and there was no place to walk around, so it took us a lot of effort to drag the ox cart in front of us away." Du Qiyue explained.

"The cow that pulled the cart is still alive or dead, and a few men and I pulled it for a long time before pulling it." Huzi said, taking out a small round wooden box from his arms and putting it in the wicker basket that Liu Ge'er had only woven half.

"Brother, what is this?" Brother Liu picked up the small wooden box that was more than an inch and asked.

"Red finger, I just saw that there was something for sale." Huzi scratched his head and said a little embarrassed, it was really embarrassing for him to let a man with five big and three thick men go to buy things for his brother and girl.

"Brother, how can you buy this, you have to pay ten cents! Why don't you buy some snacks? Brother Liu complained in his mouth, but quickly unscrewed the small lid of the wooden box in his hand, looked at the pink paste inside and sniffed it vigorously, and said happily: "It's so fragrant!" ”

"Hehe, if you like it, the vendor who sells red fingers told me that this will not fade for more than ten days after being applied to the nails, and such a box can be used for a long time." Huzi said with a smile.

"Brother, how did you come up with the idea to buy me this thing?" Brother Liu screwed the lid of the box and asked a little puzzled.

Du Qiyue opened the lock on the door, and Huzi was carrying things into the house, when he heard this, his face turned red, and he stumbled and said, "It's just... It's just that a few days ago, I saw Brother Ming with red fingers on his hands, which is very good-looking. I thought you'd be old enough to paint red fingers, so I bought it for you. ”

Brother Liu happily stuffed the wooden box into his arms, but he didn't forget to say: "Thank you, brother, but don't waste money on this next time." ”

"Got it, I don't have the money to buy it next time." Huzi said.

After helping Du Qiyue move the meat to the kitchen, Huzi went to work in the field, Du Qiyue and Liu Ge'er found two wooden basins and took the meat and intestines separately to the yard, ready to be cleaned. Pig blood can also be sold for money, so when Zhang slaughtered the pig, the blood was very clean, so the meat was quite clean, but the intestines were simply cleaned up, and there were still a lot of dirty things in it, so it had to be cleaned again.

Brother Liu looked at the pig's head in the big wooden basin, rolled up his sleeves and took the kitchen knife and began to shave the pig hair that the butcher had not cleaned up, and asked while shaving: "Brother Qi Yue, how is the matter with Gengti?" ”

Du Qiyue took a chopstick and quickly turned over the pig's intestines, and said: "Geng Ti got it, when I finish cleaning up the meat, I will go to the patriarch and a few clan uncles to talk about the matter first, and then after finishing the work in the afternoon, we will go to the Qian family again to make a fuss." ”

"Are you going alone, Brother Qi Yue? There are many brothers in the Qian family, and if you go alone, you will definitely suffer. Brother Liu said worriedly.

"I'm sure I'm not going alone, I'll ask the patriarch for a few later. I have already obtained the evidence, and we are completely in charge of the patriarch in this matter, and for the sake of the face of the Du family, they will also give me backing. Du Qiyue said, he held the chopsticks in one hand and poked forward, and the other hand held the intestines and turned them down, squeezing out all the dirt inside the intestines very skillfully.

Brother Liu felt a little disgusted when he looked at it, so he turned his head around, but he was still worried in his heart.

After Du Qiyue finished processing the intestines, he found a small axe, washed it, split the shaved pig's head, poured the pig's brain into the bowl, and then carefully rolled off the mucous membranes and blood vessels on the brain with dry straw, and put it aside.

Raising his arm, Du Qiyue put back the sleeve that was about to fall off, and was about to clean up the pig's tongue and pig's trotters when a few children suddenly came to the door, pushed open a crack in the door, and pulled it on the door of Du's house and looked inside. Du Qiyue glanced back and recognized that one of the five-year-old boys was Du Qiyue's uncle Du Fujin's fourth child Copper Lock, this child didn't look like the Du family's species, but had a brain like Zhang Guihua, and his two eyes were dripping and he looked like a bear child.

The rest of the meat had been washed and put in a large bucket with a lid, and the only thing exposed was the big pig's head and a basin of intestines, Du Qiyue was not afraid of being seen by these children, and he didn't know that the knife was scraping the tongue coating on the pig's tongue.

The copper lock is the eldest among the children who came, because the relationship between Du Fujin's family and Du Qiyue's family is not good, so these children have never played in front of Du Qiyue's house on weekdays, and today the first time I came to Du Qiyue's temperament, it is inevitable that some people can't let go, one of the children pulled the clothes of the copper lock and asked: "Brother Copper Lock, why are we here, what is there to see in this house." ”

"You know what, this house is so good, it must be comfortable to live in!" The copper lock pushed the child, and looked at the Du family's big brick house without blinking, he heard his father and mother say that it won't be long before he can live in, then this house will be his family in the future, and he can't come to see it in advance.

"Brother Copperlock, it's so meaty!" At this time, the other child noticed the pig's head and intestines placed by Du Qiyue beside him, and his greedy mouth chirped a few times.

"What kind of meat is this, it's just some leftovers, what's good." Tongsuo looked at the big pig's head and the big pot of intestines, and his mouth was also very greedy, but he didn't know why he couldn't look down on Du Qiyue, so he was full of disdain when he said it.

"Our family has eaten leftovers these days, not as much as his family, I bought a pair of intestines with other people's families, and fried a small bowl, which was eaten by my father at night, and I only ate a few bites." The greedy child licked his tongue and said.

The children didn't stay at the door of Du Qiyue's house for long, and the copper lock had seen enough of the house and pulled them away, Du Qiyue just got the pig's tongue in his hand, and threw the pig's tongue into the barrel angrily. He just thought about dealing with the affairs of the Qian family, but he forgot that Du Fugui's family was still trying to occupy his house. But he didn't expect their family to be so confident, but a few years old knew about it, and now they came to see the house, which was really happy!

After the two washed all the pork, Du Qiyue set aside a portion of the pork and pork bones they ate today, and put all the remaining meat into the vat, sprinkled salt and hung it into the well. Now that the weather is getting hotter and hotter, the well water that Du Qiyue had been warm when he first came has now begun to get colder, and putting the meat in the cold well is like putting it in a natural refrigerator.

After doing this, Du Qiyue went into the small room where he put things in his kitchen, found a small jar of wine left by Du Fugui and a few packs of snacks he bought in the town just now, and ran to the patriarch's house.

There are several surnames in Liushuwan Village, among which Du is the largest surname here, and the surname Du in the village is basically related to the family, and Du Qiyue's family is considered to be the first family in the Du family. The current patriarch of the Du family, Du Deren, is an old man in his seventies, and his age is considered to be the largest in this village, but his body is still very tough, and his brain is still shrewd. Du Qiyue called Du Deren grandpa, and the relationship should be relatively close, but when Du Fugui and Zhao Momo were alive, the two families actually didn't have a lot of contact, so Du Qiyue and Du Rende were also relatively raw.

"It's Xiao Yue from the rich family, I haven't seen you for a long time, come and sit down." Du Deren sat in the courtyard smoking a dry cigarette, and when he saw Du Qiyue coming over, he smiled and beckoned him to sit on the stool next to him.

Du Qiyue put the wine jar and two packets of pastries in his hand in front of Du Deren, and said very respectfully: "Grandpa, I went to the town today and bought you the jar wine and two packs of pastries, you can take it and taste it." ”

"Oh, Xiaoyue is really filial, then grandpa will accept it unceremoniously." Du Deren smiled, didn't beat around the bush, and said directly: "Xiaoyue, if you have anything, just say it, your father and grandmother have already left, if you have something, just tell your grandfather, grandpa will watch and call the shots for you." ”

"Thank you, grandpa." Du Qiyue thanked him, took out the Geng post from his arms and handed it over, "Grandpa, this is Qian Yin's Geng post, I took it from the matchmaker in the town." ”

"That brother of the Qian family in Liushutun Village?" Du Deren frowned, he had also read books when he was young and knew how to read, so he took the Geng post and looked at it, and the name written on it was indeed Qianyin. Du Deren has lived for so long, and he has seen a lot of things, and he immediately guessed what happened, his face became ugly, and he asked, "Does this Qian family want to divorce?" How did you get this Geng post? ”

Du Qiyue told Du Deren about the matter, and then said angrily: "If the Qian family thinks that my family is poor now, even if I come to withdraw from the marriage, I will not stop it." But they are so selfish and want to trample me Du Qiyue under their feet for their own sake, which is really hateful. It doesn't matter if I alone was ruined and the marriage was ruined, but there are several men in our clan who are the same age as me, and it would not be my sin if my affairs affected their marriage. ”

Where would Du Deren not understand this truth, there was also a man in their village who was divorced decades ago, and the original Yue family designed a traitor in order to marry his own girl to the county Cheng family, which made the reputation of the man stink, and the man who harmed him is still single, and several brothers in the family did not find good relatives because of the man's affairs. Du Deren happened to have a grandson who was two years younger than Du Qiyue, and he was recently discussing marriage with a good family in the town, and he didn't want to hurt his grandson because of Du Qiyue's affairs, so he said, "Then what do you mean?" ”

"I want to go to the Qian family this evening to talk about the matter, since the Qian family has done such a thing, I will definitely withdraw from the marriage, my family gave a lot of marriage gifts, and I will definitely get these back. But this Qian family is not a good family, and I definitely can't do it alone, so I want to ask the patriarch to help call a few clan brothers to go with me, so as to help me strengthen my courage. Du Qiyue said.

Du Deren thought about it and didn't agree immediately, but thought about it and asked, "What kind of family is the Qian family looking for now?" ”

"It's a merchant from outside the town, and it only moved in half a year ago." Du Qiyue said that he hid the relationship between the Li family and the county master, and only said that they only moved here half a year ago, which means that the merchant has no foundation, so there is no need to worry about offending them.

"Then do as you say, and I'll help you call a few reliable brothers." Du Deren nodded and said.

"Thank you, grandpa." Du Qiyue immediately made a gesture to Du Deren, and then said, "Xiao Yue has one more thing I want to ask Grandpa for help." ”

"It's your uncle's business, right?" Du Deren asked.

"Grandpa, my uncle's family has a lot of children, and my little uncle's family couldn't take care of me in the past, and my father didn't let me trouble him. Now that I'm sixteen years old, how can I still have my uncle's family to take care of me? Wouldn't that be too ignorant. Du Qiyue said.

"That's the case, you're so old, it's not good to say it if you need someone to take care of your daily life. However, your clan uncles always treat you as children, and if they don't want to worry about you, you go and talk to them. Du Deren took a puff of his cigarette and said.

"I know, grandpa, I'm going to see a few clan uncles."

"Yes, that's how it should be. Xiao Yue, grandpa is a little tired, squint for a while. It's almost noon, so hurry up. Du Deren said, and his eyes narrowed.