Chapter 144: Intercepted halfway
Hearing Yu Mingyue say that she was going to follow into the city, Yu Zhiqing was a little surprised.
In Yu Zhiqing's eyes, his daughter has always been the most sensible, today is the day when the family holds a full moon wine, and it is also the time when the family needs manpower the most, and a few days earlier, I still heard Yu Mingyue talk every day about what dishes to prepare today to celebrate.
At this time, looking at Yu Mingyue's expectant little look, Yu Zhiqing couldn't bear to refuse, and when he agreed to Yu Mingyue's request with a chuckle, he also thought in his heart: Even if his daughter is very sensible, how can there be children who don't like to play, anyway, there are so many adults in the family, and it is not bad to ask a child to arrange any meals.
If you want to take your daughter into the city, then you need more people to help you with Zhang Luo's food at home today, Yu Zhiqing went to the stove room before going out, and told Kong Xiaoju about taking Yu Mingyue into the city, and smiled and asked Kong Xiaoju to take more effort when she was at home today to help Kong Mingying Zhang Luo's food.
Originally, Kong Mingfu brought Kong Xiaoju and Kong Xiaolan sisters out today, just to ask the two sisters of the Kong family to help them, and Kong Xiaoju naturally had no opinion.
After arranging the things at home, when the father and daughter arrived at the ditch, the dishes had been washed and loaded into the car, and Yu Tianzhou, who was wearing water shoes, stood in the ditch where the water level reached the calf to wash his hands, and beckoned everyone who helped wash the vegetables to eat at home.
The people who help his family wash vegetables every day, except for the four people of Kong Mingfu's three fathers and sons and Yu Zhizong, the others are the villagers who sell vegetables to his family in the village, although whether it is the relatives of the three fathers and sons of the Kong family and Yu Zhizong, or the villagers who help, no one should go down to his house to eat this breakfast every time, but in this rural area, knowing that others will not go, but they still have to greet him so warmly every day, which is a necessary etiquette, otherwise, they will be said to be stingy.
Sure enough, although even Yu Zhiqing, who was present, warmly greeted everyone to dinner, but everyone only smiled politely and thanked them, and then left one after another.
Such customs and etiquette are the same in the countryside in most parts of China, Yu Mingyue has long been used to it, after seeing everyone leave, Yu Mingyue still did not give up and asked her grandfather's family and her uncle to have breakfast at home, but the four of them did not respond, and they all said that they had eaten.
In this regard, Yu Mingyue was a little disappointed, the relationship between the three families is now much closer, but only in this regard, it is still too polite, and it seems that it is not close enough. Yu Mingyue often sighed that it was because she was too poor in this ghost era, so that such close relatives had not regarded going to each other's house to eat as an ordinary thing.
In fact, it's no wonder that Yu Mingyue sighed so much, in her previous life, when Yu Mingyue was so old, the people in this place were also so habitual, not a red and white celebration, a birthday, killing pigs and sheep or something, even if they were brothers who had split up their families, they would not go to each other's house to eat.
What's even more exaggerated is that when a few years ago were poorer, when they encountered a red and white wedding, the guests had to consciously bring rice, meat, wine, vegetables and other simple food, and stools, tables, dishes and chopsticks and other supplies, but this was a period that Yu Mingyue had not experienced.
People who don't know the reason must be strange to hear it, but when you say it, you can understand it instantly, why? Because I was poor at that time, it was difficult to eat a full stomach on weekdays, and where could I have enough food to entertain guests. But when the young man in the family is older, he still has to marry a daughter-in-law, and when the girl in the family is older, he still has to marry her, and if someone in the family dies, he must be buried, right?
China's thousands of years of customs have determined that these events must be held lively, but what if there is no money or anything? The methods are all thought up by people, and they are also forced out by the environment, so there are people who know how to be flexible and come up with a solution: gather the strength of all relatives and friends to do the big things that must be done in front of you and must be done lively.
Therefore, there are relatives and friends to drink red and white wine, but also have to bring their own rice and other things to the door, this custom, in many poor areas, spread for thousands of years, until today, many rural areas to do happy events, very close relatives in addition to giving gifts, there are also the custom of sending some household items.
Although Yu Mingyue herself knows some about these customs, she has not heard too much, she has not thought deeply, and she has not done any research, at this time, she saw that the two relatives were bound by etiquette and were unwilling to go to her house to eat, although she had a small regret in her heart, but when Yu Tianzhou pulled her home for dinner, she had to follow her home, and when she hurriedly ate, she was going to follow into the city, after all, the time was almost nine o'clock, compared to the past, it was late to enter the city today.
During the meal, although several adults in Yu Mingyue's family warmly invited, Huang Bing and Yu Zhigao really didn't serve the table, only Kong Xiaolan and Kong Xiaoju, who were going to help cook today, were pulled to the table by Kong Mingyingqiang, which made Yu Mingyue's originally low mood a lot better, and she felt a little proud.
Yu Mingyue came out of the stove room after eating, and at a glance, she saw Yu Zhigao standing on the edge of her fruit seedling field, which made Yu Mingyue's nerves tense suddenly.
At this time, Yu Zhigao felt a chill on his back at this moment, turned his head, and just saw Yu Mingyue staring at him defensively, with big black eyes on his little face, as if he was shooting cold light at him.
Yu Zhigao felt very uncomfortable in his heart, but after taking a breath, he still brought a friendly smile on his face, looked at Yu Mingyue and pointed to the saplings in the seedling field that had grown to more than a foot tall.
"Xiaoyue, this is the fruit tree seedlings you raised, right? Do you want to sell it, or do you want to grow it yourself? ”
Yu Mingyue wanted to rush up and tear up Yu Zhigao's fake smiling face at this time, and then use a stove broom to sweep the garbage out of the door, but when she heard Yu Zhigao's question, Yu Mingyue suddenly calmed down, and her mind was running rapidly, trying to find a reasonable and safe explanation. Because she knew very well that if Yu Zhigao found out about her family's plans, then her family's desire to plant fruit trees on the surrounding wasteland would no longer be a secret, and it would be easy to die early.
"Hehe, Zhigao, you said those saplings, they were all raised for others."
The answer to Yu Zhigao was Yu Tianzhou, who had just come out of the stove room. Yu Tian was talking around, and walked to the courtyard, although he had a smile on his face at this time, but his heart was very unhappy, when he walked to the center of the courtyard, he directly changed the direction and went to the direction of the hall, obviously did not plan to give Yu Zhigao much explanation.
Yu Mingyue didn't follow, but Yu Zhigao was slightly stunned, but he caught up with Yu Tianzhou with a smile on his face.
"Hehe, big daddy, you still have a lot of old roads, I just looked, there are a lot of saplings on both sides of your yard, and you should earn a lot of money next year." Even if there are people in this world who will help others raise saplings in vain, it will be him, a pro-daddy who values money more than life.
Of course Yu Tianzhou didn't know about Yu Zhigao's belly slander in his heart, but when he heard Yu Zhigao's words, Yu Tianzhou was already very unhappy in his heart. "Hey~ What's the way! It's to know an acquaintance, let me help raise some saplings, how much is a tree until now, and people haven't given a letter yet, I can't say that the saplings will grow in the future, and I can't earn the artificial money to paste it. ”
For this nephew who wants to take advantage of others with a sharpened head, Yu Tianzhou can't like it in his heart. In the early years, his nephew was still young, he looked at his sister and brother-in-law and had no plan, life was difficult, and he also helped a lot, but until more than five years ago, his son and daughter-in-law and granddaughter Xiaoyue encountered a thunderbolt, and when he was in a hurry to save his life with money, he never thought that his sister's family not only did not help one or two, but also spread some cool words in the village, saying that his family was because he did not respect the elderly in the early years, and now he has been retributed.
Even the nephew in front of him, who had been in junior high school with his help, was well-read on weekdays, and stammered with his big daddy, also changed his face in an instant, and he didn't want to persuade his parents to help his family, and even pleaded with his parents to borrow 100 yuan from his family when they had a wedding wine.
Since then, he has seen this family in vain, and he has no intention of asking for the 100 yuan that was relied on, nor does he plan to have any more dealings with this family. This time, taking advantage of the full moon of his two little grandsons, his nephew came cheekily again, he was still speculating earlier, it was this nephew who had grown a little older and changed his temperament, knowing that those things in the early years were not authentic, and now he took this opportunity to take the initiative to come up and ask for peace, but he didn't think about it, he still didn't change his life, he didn't say a word, and he even wanted to fight his family's idea so clearly.
Obviously, Yu Tianzhou's reply did not satisfy Yu Zhigao, so Yu Zhigao kept following Yu Tianzhou, while accompanying the smiling face that made people feel cold, while touting Yu Tianzhou, he also asked Yu Tianzhou new questions from time to time.
"Dad, you are always too modest, if you don't have a way, who would dare to say that he has a way in our entire Caiyun Village, now counted, not to mention our Caiyun Village, that is, there are not a few people in our entire Daping Township who can have Dad, you are so business-minded, a while ago, the leaders of the township can evaluate your family as the active household of our township, and the leader of our township to get rich."
"Alas, it was all raised by the leaders of the township, and I, the loess buried in my neck, should I be the leader, if you want to say that it is actually your cousin and your cousin-in-law and their young people who are fighting for energy, dare to fight." Speaking of this, Yu Tianzhou couldn't help but grin.
"Daddy, don't say that, you're not even 60 now, but my cousin is really motivated and hardworking, cousin, he has been following Daddy into the city to engage in this vegetable selling business for a while, which is much more knowledgeable than those of us who are shaving in the fields every day. I heard a while ago that "
Yu Mingyue watched the two of them go farther and farther, and after the two entered the hall, she could no longer hear what Yu Zhigao asked behind her.
At this time, Yu Mingyue was in a very complicated mood, she wanted to catch up and listen to the end, but she stood in place and couldn't move. Yu Zhigao's smiling face that made her feel disgusted and wanted to vomit, and Yu Zhigao's words with probing and flattery in every sentence, made her want to go forward and point at Yu Zhigao's nose and scold, but she didn't dare, and she couldn't. If she really did that, the adults in her family would think she was crazy.
Yu Mingyue was standing in place, thinking about whether to go to the city today, or whether she should stay at home at any time to prevent Yu Zhigao from making a bad move, Yu Zhiqing had already finished eating, walked out of the stove room and called her out.
In the end, Yu Mingyue still chose to enter the city. First of all, the attitude of Yu Tianzhou and Kong Mingying made Yu Mingyue feel a little relieved, feeling that this time her grandparents would not be so light, and they were taken advantage of by Yu Zhigao. On the other hand, it was Yu Mingyue who felt that she was entangled in her heart when she stayed at home and faced an enemy who couldn't scold, fight, or say anything serious. She is even more reluctant to stay at home and cook delicious meals for these two enemies.
With such an ostrich mentality that is out of sight, Yu Mingyue followed Yu Zhiqing into the car and went directly to the city, but it backfired, her vegetable tractor had just driven out of more than ten miles, and when she was halfway down, she met Chen Mingliang and a small jeep.
It was not Chen Mingliang himself who was driving, but there were three old ladies in the car, Wang, Liu, and Chen, and when Mrs. Chen, who was sitting in the passenger seat, saw Yu Mingyue and his party, she directly asked the driver to stop the car and stopped Yu Zhiqing's tractor.
Yu Mingyue was not very surprised to meet the three of them, but when she heard that the three old ladies were going to her house to deliver moon rice, Yu Mingyue was a little surprised.
Sending moon rice is not a year old, whether it is in this era, or in another twenty or thirty years, this place will come to the door to send moon rice, part of it is the mother's family, and the other part is the man's family is very close relatives and friends. And these three old ladies, although they are good friends with her family, are not in the above two columns according to custom.
was stopped by three old ladies who liked her very much, Yu Mingyue couldn't enter the city, and when Yu Mingyue was hugged to the back seat of the car by Mrs. Liu, when she watched the two old ladies take out the big bags and small bags of gifts on the car to show her, Yu Mingyue was instantly relieved.
Although the three old ladies went to her house to deliver moon rice today, the three old ladies obviously did not understand the local custom of sending moon rice, and the bags of gifts on the car, in addition to small clothes, small shoes and socks, were bags of milk powder and nutritional products for the elderly. Among them, they even bought her new clothes, new shoes and the like.
Not only did the bag of gifts not have any auspicious red paper seals on them, but they also did not prepare any firecrackers to use before entering the Lord's house. This time, the three old ladies obviously came to her house as before, and the other purpose should be to see the two twin brothers who looked different from her, because since she got in the car, the three old ladies kept asking about the situation of the little twins.
Yu Mingyue didn't feel strange that the three old ladies knew about her mother's twins, although the three old ladies hadn't been to her house since her mother gave birth to a child, but her family went into the city every day to sell vegetables, and often sent some fresh vegetables to the three families when they passed through the district. A few days after her mother gave birth, the three old ladies who heard the news bought eight hens and 100 eggs, and waited at the fork in the district to ask her father to bring things back.
After Yu Mingyue and his party returned to the door, the young man who drove greeted the three old ladies and said that he would come to pick him up before dark, and he was ready to turn back to Renyi District. At this time, Yu Mingyue knew that it was the driver of the Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau, surnamed Li, because the three old ladies called him Xiao Li Xiao Li.
Seeing that Xiao Li's driver was about to get into the car, Yu Mingyue also greeted politely: "Uncle Li, come to my house for dinner early in the afternoon, and my house will have dinner around six o'clock." ”
"Huh." Xiao Li is only twenty-four or five years old, and he is still a hearty young man, and after laughing, he responded with a mouthful: "Okay, then thank you in advance for this little master." After saying that, after reversing the car, he waved his hand at Yu Mingyue, and then drove away with a grin.
Yu Mingyue returned home, and brought back three old ladies, which surprised Kong Mingying, who came to open the door, and the unexpected visitor made Kong Mingying even more happy, and warmly welcomed the three old ladies into the house, you pull me, I pull yours, and go to the hall.
Since the three old ladies entered the door, they were also happy and enthusiastic, far more than Kong Mingying, the host, but also Huang Bing and Yu Zhigao, who came to visit.
Obviously, Huang Bing and Yu Zhigao had already guessed that the three old ladies were the families of the three high-ranking officials in the city, and they didn't need Kong Mingying to introduce them, just one by one, "This is Aunt Wang, right?" "This is Aunt Chen, right?" called up, except for the fact that they always called the wrong person, these three people seemed to be too familiar and close to the three old ladies.
Yu Mingyue was squeezed aside, and when she saw this scene, she couldn't help but shudder. I really want to step forward and slap them in the face, point at their noses and ask them, do you want to be shameless, and you know that you don't know shame.
Faced with such a situation, Kong Mingying felt that while blushing, she was not in a good mood, so she didn't want to make more introductions, but Mrs. Wang didn't know what to do, and only when the three of them were close relatives of Yu Mingyue's family, she introduced herself, which saved Huang Bing and Yu Zhigao from screaming and admitting each other, and it was less embarrassing.
didn't want to be too embarrassed, so after bringing the three old ladies into the hall and putting down many gifts, Kong Mingying directly took the three old ladies into the house to watch the children.
Yu Mingyue was also about to follow the dodge Qingjing who entered the house, but before Yu Mingyue, who was walking behind, stepped through the door, she was preempted by Huang Bing's daughter-in-law Zhu Meili, and squeezed Yu Mingyue behind with a stride.
Yu Mingyue was really speechless, looking at Zhu Meili's bloated back due to obesity, she stared angrily. What kind of pig is beautiful, such a fat pig dares to call it beautiful, I really obeyed the father and mother who gave her this name. R1152