Chapter 81, the Li family
The second grandfather was very surprised to see it, and the second daughter-in-law had been looking for her mother's sister for more than ten years but couldn't find it, but she didn't expect to meet it here.
He was also happy for his daughter-in-law, so he simply asked Ergouzi to go to the field and call his father and the others back," ...... Tell your dad and let him come back to meet his brother-in-law. β
Fu Yuwan hugged Erya and Li Xiaoran left and right, touched her hair, and said with tears in her eyes: "Erya, this is the child of your little aunt's family, and you are cousins." β
Li Xiaoran hurriedly said: "I am five years old, one year younger than Sister Erya. β
Erya looked at her with wide eyes: "I didn't expect that you turned out to be my aunt's sister, ha, I will be your cousin in the future, come, call my cousin to listen." β
Li Xiaoran couldn't cry or laugh, this second girl was timid when she first saw her, and she was very timid, but when she was familiar with it, she knew that this was a big girl. "Sister Eryaβ" she said in a long voice deliberately.
Fu Yuwan smiled and patted her daughter: "Look at how steady my sister is, you, like a boy." Although there was reproach in the words, but the eyes were full of smiles, Er Ya was obviously used to it, and he didn't care, holding his mother's arm with one hand, and holding Li Xiaoran's little smirk with the other.
Fu Yuwan said to Li Xiaoran again: "You are very similar to your mother when you were a child, but your mother is not as lively and cheerful as you, she has been quiet and supple since she was a child." β
She pulled her niece into the house, "Let's go, go into my aunt's house and have a look." "As the owner of the house before, the house was dilapidated and dirty, so it was naturally difficult to bring it to the house.
The thatched house was very low, she estimated that if she was 1.8 meters tall, she would have to bend down and bow her head, the house was made of yellow mud, and under the south window of the house, there was a large kang mat made of sorghum straw on the kang, and a few simple wooden stools on the north side. A simple bench table, and a wooden chest.
On the kang, there are a few quilts on the kang tip, a hemp rope in the middle of the big kang, and a curtain is blocked on it, the curtain is opened during the day, and there are two spaces when it is pulled up at night.
Fu Yuwan saw her niece looking at the house, and she also looked at her niece carefully.
Although she has been looking for her sister. I didn't expect my sister's family to be so rich. Now it's his own owner. She is doing well, and she can rest assured.
This family still doesn't recognize it. To be honest, she has no bottom in her heart.
If her sister's family dislikes her family and is unwilling to recognize this family, she doesn't plan to go up the pole to climb the family. What's more, she still has such an unbearable past. No one else knows about this, but my sister does. If she dislikes herself and is embarrassed and unwilling to recognize this sister, she has nothing to complain about.
It's just that she didn't expect that her brother-in-law and niece recognized her at that time. didn't dislike their poor family at all, which made her feel very moved. Maybe my sister didn't tell them about herself! Otherwise, how could they recognize themselves without even thinking about it.
Fu Yuwan opened the box and took out a piece of lake blue embroidered with two goose yellow ducklings. took her hand and said: "This is the handkerchief I embroidered for the county, and my embroidery work is not as good as your mother." Don't dislike it, my aunt is nothing good, so let's take it as a meeting gift! β
Li Xiaoran didn't want it originally, the embroidery work for the embroidery village was used to exchange for money, how could she accept it. But when she heard her say the greeting gift, she changed her mind, took it and said happily: "Thank you, aunt, I like it very much!" β
This handkerchief is a piece of fine cloth, and the handmade money is only five cents, and you have to make your own embroidery threads and fabrics, and a handkerchief will earn two or three cents of hard-earned money. Although the duckling on it is cute, it is not as realistic as Fu's embroidery, as if it is alive, and it looks a little stiff.
But Li Xiaoran knows that there are not many ordinary people who can do embroidery, and this skill is already good compared to them.
"The ducklings are cute." She looked up and added.
Seeing that she seemed to really like it, not perfunctory, Fu Yuwan put her mind at ease.
"Auntie, I heard from Brother Ergouzi that he also has an older brother and sister, why is he not at home?" Li Xiaoran asked this sentence for a purpose, at that time, Ergouzi clearly said that his brother was fourteen years old, and his sister was also twelve years old, and it was inferred from time that these two might not be Fu Yuwan's biological children.
Fu Yuwan didn't tell the child this, but said: "The boss went to the ground with his father, and the eldest girl sent food to her grandmother." β
Li Xiaoran carefully put the handkerchief into her arms, and when she looked up, she saw Erya staring at her hand enviously.
Her hand was beaten, and she didn't know what to do and put it in her arms, which was given to her by her aunt, and she couldn't give it to her no matter how much she liked it.
She regretted it a little, she knew that it would be good to bring a few head flowers.
However, there is such a thing as a meeting ceremony, and my father is worried about it, so I better be a girl who doesn't understand anything.
Fu Yuwan took her hand and asked her, "Is your mother doing well?" How many siblings do you have in your family? "Wait.
From her question, it can be seen that she really cares about this sister from the bottom of her heart.
Li Xiaoran went back one by one.
Fu Yuwan sighed, "I didn't expect that your mother is not easier than me." β
Li Xiaoran was surprised, this aunt is really a smart person, she only briefly mentioned that her family was separated during the New Year, and she lived in Uncle Ye's house who came with her, so she could deduce that Fu's life has not been easy these years.
The second girl's father is back, and the second aunt and the grandmother who went to deliver the meal are back together.
Fu Yuwan quickly went to stew a potato stew with tofu, a duckbill stew with potato soup, a scrambled egg, plus the previous dishes, and the men went to the table to drink again.
There are not many vegetables to eat at home this season, and many people only eat pickles and wild vegetables at home. Duckbill cabbage is a kind of wild vegetable, put some oil and stir-fry, peel a few potatoes, and the stewed soup is shalen, very delicious.
The second girl's father is called Li Yuzhu, the second in the family, and he looks very honest. The three brothers, the eldest Li Yushi, and his wife Wang are honest and honest villagers, who can't speak stupidly, just bury their heads in work, and have two sons and a daughter at home. The eldest daughter was sold to a rich family in the county to be a girl because of her bad year, and she signed a ten-year living deed at that time, and now it is only five years.
Li Xiaoran listened, and the people in their family seemed to feel very guilty about her.
The second girl secretly sued her, the eldest sister of the uncle's family is fifteen years old this year, and the family harvest was not good that year, and the rent was high. The eldest aunt and grandmother were sick at the same time, and there was no way, so they wanted to sell the second girl, but the swallow of the uncle's family said that the younger sister was only one year old, and she couldn't sell it for a few dollars, and if she sold it, she couldn't get it back. It's better for her to sell to a rich family as a maid. She looks average, and she will not be looked at in the future, and she will be able to come back in the future.
Originally, it was said to be sold for five years. But the family didn't do it, saying that she was old, and she had to be put back after five years of training. I had no choice but to sign it for ten years. However, Fu Yuwan also had a mind and wrote it on the deed of sale. The marriage match is decided by the family, and the main family cannot match her at will.
Erya said: "My grandparents and parents feel that they have lost her, otherwise, I would not have known where I was sold." So they are desperately saving money, wanting to redeem her as soon as possible, without waiting for ten years. At that time, my sister was twenty years old, and it was difficult to find someone. β
Er Ya sighed like a little adult after speaking. "My sister is my benefactor!"
Li Yuzhu also has a younger brother named Li Yushan, who is fifteen years old this year and has not yet married.
This family all lives together, and the two sons of the old family are not very old, one is fourteen and the other is twelve, and they can only work in the fields in the past few years.
Li Xiaoran watched coldly, feeling that this family has a good character, and several children are very attached to Fu Yuwan, it is said that several of them, together with her brother-in-law Li Yushan, were brought up by her, and they have all learned to read and write with her, so the children of the younger generation of the Li family can more or less recognize words, unlike many children from poor families, who don't even recognize their own names.
When Li Yihe was leaving, he gave each of the six children of the Li family a piece of broken silver, "I came in a hurry, and I didn't bring any gifts, this is pocket money for a few children." β
These pieces of broken silver add up to ten taels, Fu Yuwan knew that he was thinking that he wanted to change the law to subsidize them, so he refused to accept anything.
Li Xiaoran looked at the Li family and listened to Fu Yuwan's words, and was very happy for her, she stopped her: "Auntie, this is my father's intention, aunt don't care, we are relatives, she will be sad if my mother knows about it so clearly." β
Fu Yuwan didn't refuse, but when they left, they packed a small basket of dried mushrooms for them, Li Yihe didn't refuse, and asked his daughter to say goodbye to them.
Erya was very reluctant to take her hand and ask her when she would come to play again, and she was sent outside Zhuangzi with tears in her eyes.
After saying goodbye to the steward of Tian, they drove the mule cart back to the county, and it was already the end of the Shen period, and the three of them went directly back to the inn.
In the afternoon, Li Yihe had temporarily entrusted Zhuangzi to the field steward to help manage it, twelve taels of silver a year, and asked Li Yuzhu to help manage it, giving six taels of silver a year, and setting the rent of this 100 acres of land at 50 percent, while the 20 acres of land rented by Li Yuzhu's family only received 40 percent of the rent.
The Li family thanked him again and again, but Fu Yuwan was very embarrassed, and was a little worried that Fu was holding him back.
Li Xiaoran quietly told her: "My father is very good to my mother, and my mother has a little sister in her belly." β
Fu Yuwan was surprised and delighted, so she put her mind at ease.
However, Li Xiaoran had a better impression of her, and decided to help them after his family was well.
Early the next morning, Ye Changsheng went out to run errands, and Li Yihe took his daughter to the house.
This trip to the county town made the Li family rich overnight and became rich. Not only did he get a lot of silver taels, but he also got land and a house. What Li Yihe is even more pleased about is that Fu's sister is still alive, and she is married and has children, which is not too far from her own family, and they are all under the jurisdiction of a county town.
Li Yihe's heart was like grass growing in his heart, and he had already flown home. If the wife had learned that her aunt was still alive, she would have been very happy.
It's just that it's not easy for them to come out once, and it is impossible to go back so quickly, and the house in the county seat has to go over and have a look.
ps: Thank you for the peace charm given by Baby Fanfan. I'm sorry that I haven't updated it for various reasons during this time. From today, the time is still set at about half past four in the afternoon.
ps: The update began, and Xilin cheekily yelled: "Where is the recommended ticket?" Throw it at me! "Thank you, bow and salute, all the girls who support Xilin!