Mrs. Chen's plan to build a mound for Chen Xiucai fell through, because she thought that all the property of the thirty acres of land in the big house fell into the hands of the upper house, so she was generous, and the paper sedan chair, horses, and black gauze hats were carried in, and a total of one or two silver were spent.

Hearing that Old Man Chen came out on crutches and said that he was not mourning, he fell on her back angrily and fell on the kang for a long time without getting up.

Qingyu rushed to see the Li family, saying that Yu Hang had someone she knew, and she could repair a book to ask about the situation. When Chen Xuejiao heard this, she quickly took out all the paper, pen and ink that she usually practiced calligraphy, and Qingyu didn't let others do it, so she rolled up her sleeves and cut paper and ink to write letters. Qingyu has always been like a fan, neither mentioning her life experience, nor her hometown, Li and others only knew that she had been in the fireworks field since she was a child, but they didn't expect that she had someone she knew in Yuhang, and they didn't know if it was her former benefactor, or if she grew up there since she was a child.

Qingyu wrote the envelope, handed it to Chen Xuejiao, sent it to the dart bureau in the town, handed it to the young man who delivered the letter, and told him to send it over quickly.

There is no one alive, no corpse is dead, and the Chen family is only Chen Xiucai and the others are still selling tea and silk outside.

Old Man Li broke into Yuhang when he was young, and there were acquaintances there, and he also asked acquaintances to inquire. Waiting for news in several places, although Li Shi should do what he should do as usual, he is getting thinner and thinner day by day, every day when he closes his eyes, it is the scene of Chen Xiucai falling into the water, and he can't sleep when he wakes up, a round face is instantly emaciated, and the cheekbones on both sides are raised high. Chen Qi'an, Chen Xueru, and Chen Xuejiao are older, and they are silent and more sensible every day, helping the Li family to share the chores at home, only Na Qiping is young, and he caresses the abacus every day after school and asks: "When will my father come back, so as to teach me to plan the plate." ”

Hearing this, Li was sad for a while.

Mrs. Chen lay on the kang and got up in less than two days. Yu Hang is half a month away from Xuzhou Mansion, and when a letter comes over there, as soon as the filial piety passes, he is looking for a matchmaker for the Li family, and maybe something will come out.

If you don't remarry, you will only wait for three years. In three years, Chen Qi'an should marry, with the Li family, no one else is allowed to interfere with what kind of daughter-in-law Qi An marries, and I am afraid that it will not be so easy to handle the big house at that time.

Mrs. Chen's face changed back and forth, and she thought about it for a while, and suddenly thought of her second daughter-in-law, Zhao, so why not let her persuade Li. So he pretended to comfort Li through the window: "I was a little anxious before, I was afraid that my eldest son would not have a well-dressed mound, and the soul would not be reborn." I see you don't have a crab at home. Your second sister sent a letter, worried that you would be sick at home, so why don't you take the children to Xuzhou Mansion for evacuation. ”

Mrs. Chen didn't really let the Li family go to Xuzhou Mansion to relax, Zuo just transferred her out of the house, and the provincial day and day shook in front of Old Man Chen's eyes, touching his heart, and it was just a hundred days to set up a door for Qi An. Ever since Mrs. Chen wanted to pile up clothes for Chen Xiucai, the Li family was extremely disgusted with her. Hearing this, I gritted my teeth and didn't know what to do.

Chen Xuejiao fought back with white teeth: "It's not so easy to break my mother and occupy our family's fields and houses. ”

Old Man Chen has the same mind as the Li family, and he will never mourn if he sees anyone. At this time, I heard Mrs. Chen grinding her teeth and slapping the bed board in the house. Mrs. Chen sighed, brought a bowl of sorghum rice from the pot house into the upper room, and it was all here, and Old Man Chen hadn't eaten yet.

Mrs. Chen has always disliked chatting at the door, but since Chen Xiucai is gone, she likes to get into the crowd and chat. Less than a day after going out, the news that the Chen family supported the Li family's remarriage was released. Seeing her wipe her tears from her eyes, she was like losing her heart, opening and closing her mouth for the sake of the Li family's good Chen family and not treating her badly, but no one in the village knew her vicious heart. Four miles and eight towns, which village has no relatives from other villages, I don't know which one of these words reached the ears of Mrs. Li.

Mrs. Li's three sons are just this one daughter. The size is spoiled, and the good days of marrying Chen Xiucai have not passed, if it weren't for the good of his son-in-law, he would have let his daughter leave long ago. This time, she did not grit her teeth and scold her mother for being uneasy and kind, but felt that Mrs. Chen's words were not unreasonable, the Li family was only in her early thirties, guarding four children for the rest of the cold, summer, spring and autumn, but in the end, there was no man as a backer, it was difficult for her to achieve such a dry job.

She didn't dare to say this to her husband, who was a man after all and didn't understand a woman's mind. The young woman has no husband, and at the beginning she swore to keep her husband's kindness for the rest of her life, and she could no longer be greased and powdered in her dusty clothes all day long, and she could not make a sound when she could not prick a needle.

The Li family naturally loves the four children of the Li family, but in the end it doesn't hurt their own daughter, for the sake of their daughter, it is naturally good to remarry while they are filial piety, the Li family is paying a dowry, it is not difficult to marry in the future, if it is really three years Qi An is also old, which bachelor dares to ask her at that time.

Mrs. Li thought about it and called Qiao's family to go to Chen's house together. Some things that others can't say, if you don't say it when you are a mother and a sister-in-law, then she will be in the Chen family until she dies of old age in this life.

When I entered the door of Chen's house, I saw that Li was discussing with Xue Jiao about collecting duck eggs, she was fine, and her sunken eye sockets couldn't deceive Mrs. Li.

She sighed and glanced at her eldest daughter-in-law Qiao, asking Qiao's to probe her daughter's tone.

Qiao Shi took Li's hand and lowered his voice when no one was around: "Why did I hear that you are going to remarry, saying that your mother-in-law is penetrating, whether you are married or guarded will not stop you, what do you think in your heart?" ”

Mrs. Chen's joy of running outside these days, coupled with the big speaker Zhang's mouth, the matchmakers in the entire Baitu Town have the idea of a few singles. This matter is rumored to be all over the city, and the Li family naturally doesn't know because he doesn't have the heart to pay attention to the people on the side. Mrs. Chen thought about letting the outside pass it out first and luring the matchmaker to the door, and then the old man Chen would think that it was the Li family's idea, and he could prevent the widowed daughter-in-law from remarrying. On the other side of the Li family, others don't say it, but the Li family's mother can still watch her daughter guard the cold kiln. When the time comes, she will pick up a few Keyi people for the Li family, and she will come to the door every day to play sloppy, so she can't help but be unmoved.

After Qiao's questioning, Li felt that something was wrong. Strange these days, the matchmaker in the town often comes all the way to the house, one and a half afternoons, and just looks at the time to observe her, although her mouth is full of comforting words, but in the end there will always be a sentence that it is difficult for a woman to leave a man at the door. Where did she care about this, and after a few words with them, after Qiao Shi reminded her to think about it carefully, she dared to love them because Mrs. Chen invited her to come to the door to see her.

Li's mouth turned white, and she knew her mother-in-law's thoughts after that, she gritted her teeth and spit out a mouthful of blood and scolded: "It's not certain whether my man is dead or alive, she can't wait for me to leave the house immediately, and if I do such a thing, I am not afraid that I will go to hell in the future and fry it in an oil pot." ”

Qiao Shi carefully looked at Li's appearance, and then sighed and said: "I'll just say, your mother-in-law didn't have a good heart, and Qi Anxue didn't know if she was four, if you heard that, wouldn't it be a sin." Qiao's deliberately mentioned the four children as the reason, wanting to find out if the Li family was guarding because of these four children.

"Phew, don't talk about four children, even if there are no four children, I will wait for Qi'an's father to die." Lee gritted his teeth like an oath.

Qiao's accompanied him and scolded him, and comforted his sister-in-law again. When her mother-in-law said those words to her, she knew that she was asking her to ask her sister-in-law to change her marriage, thinking that her sister-in-law was a fierce person, and she couldn't make her husband's corpse cold, and she ignored her four children, and went to someone else's house as soon as she pulled the red thread.

When they arrived at the pot house, Mrs. Li was lighting the fire, and Qiao Shi took the fire stick and said, "I don't think my sister has that thought, even if the news is true, she has to keep it?" ”

Mrs. Li sighed: "How can it be done, does she take care of the four children?" Qi An is older, after the autumn season, he sealed Xiucai, and after two years he married his daughter-in-law in a private school is a business, Xue Ruxian can go out of the hall and get married in the kitchen, Qi Ping and Xue Jiao take me home to feed, but add two pairs of chopsticks left and right. ”

"Mother, don't worry, isn't this my brother-in-law who has no news yet? Although the Chen family said those words, the mother should think about it carefully if she loves her sister, can her mother-in-law be happy when she is anxious to let her sister remarry? Qiao Shi persuaded, "Besides, whether my brother-in-law is dead or alive is not yet a sure letter, our family is in a hurry to let my sister remarry, and others only say that our family is unkind, even Qi An will be sad and leave our hearts." ”

Mrs. Li listened to her daughter-in-law's words and said, "Your brother-in-law has fallen into the Qiantang River, you should be a fierce man, and you will sneak up in a short time." Your sister has been married to him for so many years, I haven't said a word, when he sat in the museum, the money was handed over to the house, so that Xiaofen followed how much famine, and finally he figured out how much to go out to find a living, but he didn't expect to end up like this. ”

This is the first time that Mrs. Li has complained about her son-in-law, and Qiao Shi naturally can only listen to it, and he doesn't dare to say a word.

Mrs. Li's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were cooking in the pot house, and Han Xingjian's mother Zhou and Zhao Yiming's mother Xu came in front.

The two of them also heard those bastard words, and came to comfort the Li family. Xu's most important thing to say, she just died of her husband, and in recent days, she has just come to her senses, and those matchmakers who came to the door were scolded away by her, looking at Li's haggard appearance and crying to comfort her: "My family's mouth is really dead, but Qi An's father is not necessarily, maybe he is rushing home at this time, don't listen to the bastards outside." ”

Zhou's excuse: "Chen Xiucai is blessed with a big life, my family said that when they followed the horse team to the north and south, they didn't know how many fateful things they encountered, and they were all avoided by Xiucai, and they will definitely be able to avoid it this time." ”

Li said with a strong smile: "I knew I wouldn't let him go out, after all, he is a scholar, if he returns home this time, I will die poor and not let him go out." ”

Li's wish is very simple, she originally wanted to be able to leave Mrs. Chen's clamps, plant dozens of acres of land, buy a new homestead, build a three-entry yard, plant fruit trees and grow food, the family has enough food and drink, and some surplus money in her hand, and it is enough to live comfortably all year round. But now, she just wants her husband to come back, that is, to eat bran for a lifetime, and she is willing to be restrained by her mother-in-law for the rest of her life.

A few people were talking, when they heard someone shouting outside: "Which is Chen Zimin's home?" ”

Before they could react, Chen Xuejiao and Chen Xueru took the lead in rushing out of the gate, and then came back holding a letter in their hands, and their crisp voices filled the courtyard: "Mother, it's Dad, it's Dad's letter!" ”