Since Shen Mei listened to Liu Bicao's words and brought back the embroidery work to those girls' families to do, she has become more and more busy, sometimes she can't see anyone for a day, but there is more and more money in her purse, and she laughs all day long. On this day, accompanied by Shen Jinxin, he went to the town's embroidery room to complete the embroidery work, and went to the pharmacy to pick up Liu Boan and go home.

Knowing that Liu Boan was coming back today, Shen's mother was very happy, and ordered Shen Jinqian to go to the bamboo forest to catch a rooster to kill early in the morning, which provoked Shen Jinxin to call Shen's mother partial, and she was better to Liu Boan than her own son. said that Shen's mother chased after him to fight, and early in the morning, the courtyard of the Shen family was full of laughter.

"Winter is warm, summer is cold, morning is provincial, and dusk is fixed." Shen Jinyan knew that he would go to a private school next year, and he worked harder and harder, and he would learn what Shen Jinqian taught every day, not only reading and memorizing, but also asking what it meant; "Big brother, what does this mean?"

This means that serving parents should be considerate, warm the bed for them in the winter, and make the bed and fan the cool for their parents in the summer. When you get up in the morning, you should first say hello to your parents; Waiting for parents to sleep peacefully at night. Shen Jinqian was plucking chicken feathers with Liu Bicao while explaining the meaning to Shen Yan, and Shen He was also listening, and now Shen He will also practice a big character every day under Liu Bicao's teaching. In her early years, Liu Bicao also studied medicine with her grandfather.

There is nothing to do in the field these days, Shen's father cut bamboo from the bamboo forest at home to weave bamboo baskets, and will use this thing in the autumn harvest soon. Seeing the happy appearance of his son, daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law, he was very ironed.

Shen Jinyan understood, continued to read, and asked Shen Jinqian when he encountered a word he didn't know.

Aunt Zhou saw this scene when she came, and then thought about her own situation, her thatched house was built with the help of the people in the village, when will it be like the Shen family.

"Auntie is here, come in." Liu Bicao's eyes were sharp, and when she saw Aunt Zhou standing outside the door, she immediately stood up and opened the fence door.

Aunt Zhou quietly wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with her sleeves, smiled at Liu Bicao, and then went in. Shen He saw that someone from the family had come, and he didn't need to say it, he went to pour a bowl of water and came out, these are all taught by Liu Bicao on weekdays, seeing Liu Bicao's approving gaze, he immediately smiled, and raised his head proudly at Shen Jinyan.

"What's the matter with his aunt coming here?" Mother Shen is a little strange, this week's aunt usually doesn't like to visit the door, why did she come to her house today? Thinking about the recent people from the village who came to the house to tell Shen Mei and Shen Jinxin about their relationship, could it be that Aunt Zhou also came because of this matter? The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law glanced at each other, then looked at Aunt Zhou, waiting for her to speak.

Aunt Zhou has never opened any mouth to ask for people in her life, I don't know how to explain the meaning, think about the current situation of her family, her son can't do heavy work because of his previous leg injury, there is no cattle at home, and the heavy work in the field is pressed on her husband, and there is no source at home except for the land, so that the son can marry a daughter-in-law, and it costs money to rebuild the house in the family.

"Sister-in-law Shen, you are blessed, the children you raise are so smart and capable." Aunt Zhou's face was blushing, and her face was already red just by saying this, "That...... Are your plums at home? ”

Mother Shen looked at Aunt Zhou suspiciously, and asked what Meizi was doing, but Liu Bicao understood after thinking about it, Aunt Zhou came to Meizi mostly for embroidery, "Auntie is looking for Meizi to talk about embroidery?" Seeing Aunt Zhou nodded, she continued, "But unfortunately, Meizi went to the embroidery room today." ”

"It's the same thing you told my Bicao about this matter, Meizi started this, and it was also her sister-in-law's idea for her." Although Shen's mother usually doesn't have too much contact with Aunt Zhou, she also knows that she is an honest person, and the situation in her family is also clear, and she also wants to help her, they are all hard-working people.

Aunt Zhou's visit this time made Liu Bicao have another idea in her heart, and now Shen Mei has taken out all the work of handkerchiefs and luozi, which are all suitable for the little girl. There are also some women in the village who are good at embroidery, and it is much better if they come back from the embroidery room to pick up ready-to-wear clothes and shoes, and then do them for women in the village who have no financial resources.

"Auntie, let's do it, you come back tomorrow, I'll ask Meizi to leave you some handkerchief, you do it first." Every time Shen Mei got the embroidery work back, it was agreed in advance by those little girls, and the number was not much, since Aunt Zhou opened her mouth, she left a few. "By the way, auntie, how is Erwang's leg?"

Erwang is Aunt Zhou's youngest son, "It's all right, it's just that the place hurt on a rainy day hurts a little, and I have to thank you, if it weren't for you, he would have to be in bed for the rest of his life." Aunt Zhou talked about her youngest son, and when she thought of her eldest son who died outside in military service, she couldn't help crying.

Shen's mother also remembered that when her eldest son went to serve in the military, she couldn't eat or sleep well, so she was afraid that something would happen outside, so she simply came back, "Don't think so much, live a good life now, your family is not small, and it will be natural to marry your daughter-in-law home." ”

Liu Bicao's eyes jumped, did her mother mean to tell Shen Mei to Erwang?

Aunt Zhou didn't think about it so much, she nodded after listening to Shen's mother's words, and now she is looking forward to her son marrying his daughter-in-law home, but in the current situation of her own family, who is willing to marry her daughter to suffer, thinking about it is another sad thing. The three of them said a few more words before Aunt Zhou left.

"Alas, this woman, she sees her parents at home, she looks after her husband when she gets married, and when she has a child, she looks forward to the child getting married, and the living person is gone." Mother Shen waited for Aunt Zhou to leave before she said, "Simply, Jin Qian came back safely." ”

"His son didn't die outside." Shen Jinqian cleaned up the chicken feathers and put them in the kitchen. Sit down next to the willow grass.

At the beginning, there were many adult men in the village, and among Liu Bicao's go, only Shen Jinqian came back, and the others died outside. Even Shen's father dropped the work in his hand and listened to Shen Jinqian.

Liu Bicao was not very clear about this matter, and when she heard him say that Aunt Zhou's eldest son did not die outside, she subconsciously asked, "What about the others?" Since he didn't die, why didn't he come back? ”

Shen Jinqian was about to speak, but how did she know that Aunt Zhou, who had returned, heard it clearly, and heard that her son was not dead, so she rushed into the courtyard of the Shen family and pulled Shen Jinqian's arm: "My son, my son is really not dead?" You tell me, where is my family Dawang now? Oh my son. As he spoke, he finally let go of Shen Jinqian, sat on the ground, covered his face and cried bitterly, as if he had cried out all the bitterness in his heart over the years.

Mother Shen and Liu Bicao hurriedly helped her up and sat down, Liu Bicao looked at Shen Jinqian and didn't know what to do, no one thought that Aunt Zhou would suddenly return.

"It's fine." Shen Jinqian shook his head at Liu Bicao, "Sincerely, take my sister back to the room." ”

"Jinqian, tell me quickly, what the hell is going on? How could my Dawang not die, and why didn't he come back? ”

"He really didn't die, but he married the daughter of the magistrate of Suizhou in Suizhou at that time."

"Even if he married the daughter of the magistrate of Suizhou, then why would the yamen lie that he was dead?"

"Lying about his death will save you from returning to Dahe Village, and you will be given a maintenance payment."

It turned out that when there was a war in Suizhou, Zhou Dawang followed the army, originally he was just a small soldier, inconspicuous, but because he could platter the people above, he was appreciated by the centurion, and the centurion's sister was the concubine of the magistrate of Suizhou. Zhixian only has such a daughter, and he doesn't want his only daughter to become a village woman, so he came up with a lie that Zhou Dawang is dead, Zhou Dawang was carried away by the wealth in front of him, and the Zhixian who agreed married his daughter.

Aunt Zhou understood when she heard Shen Jinqian say this, her son did such an ungrateful thing for the sake of wealth and wealth, leaving behind his old father and mother. It's really a loss of conscience, what did you do in your previous life to give birth to such a son, "I don't have this son in the future, thank you Jinqian." After Aunt Zhou finished speaking, she left the courtyard of the Shen family and staggered home.