On June 15, Du Shi didn't know where to find a so-called feng shui master to give a good day, and he commanded Du Zhaoyuan and the dog to move boxes and cabinets early in the morning, and was busy for most of the day, and finally moved these things into his house first. Waiting for the things on the new side of the house to be placed, Du Shi came over and said to Xiao's mother and son: "Sister, it stands to reason that you should be allowed to move over today, but after all, this house belongs to your brother, and you are also a married person, which is somewhat different from inside and outside, our family's custom is that only people from your own family can enter the first day of moving, sister, you should be considerate of your sister-in-law, and I will help you move it over tomorrow morning." Xiao's mother looked at Du Shi in disgust and said, "Then listen to my sister-in-law." The next morning, Du Zhaoyuan took the dog and Xiu'er to move with Xiao's mother, and as soon as he walked to the yard of the old house, Du quickly rushed over, pointed at Du Zhaoyuan and scolded angrily: "Why don't you hurry up and go to work in the field, let's talk about moving in the evening!" Now that the grain is about to be harvested again, if you don't keep an eye on it, what if someone steals it." Du Zhaoyuan replied in a snort: "Whoever steals your family's grain, besides, Xiu'er and the dogs will often go to the field, what are you afraid of." Du Shi angrily pointed at Du Zhaoyuan and scolded: "If I let you go to the field, you will go, where is there so much nonsense!" I'll talk about moving later! ”。

Xiao's mother also saw that Du didn't want their mother and son to live in the new house at all, glanced at Du Zhaoyuan and said, "Brother, let's go and get busy with you first, don't be in a hurry about moving." After hearing this, Du Shi glared at Du Zhaoyuan and said, "Then you hurry up and go to the field!" Don't be in a hurry about moving, you dead elm head". The matter of Xiao's mother and son moving to a new house was put down like this. After this incident, Xiao's mother was also too lazy to pay attention to Du's, and Du's rarely walked around the old house again, if there was anything to do, just call Gouzi and Xiu'er to come over, and when they went out of the door to meet together, Du's was also smiling and said two words to Xiao's mother that were not salty and light, and turned his head. Although Xiao's mother and son did not move to a new house and did not live together across a wall, they didn't need to look at Du's face anymore, so they started another stove to cook by themselves, and the mother and son lived relatively comfortably, some of them were just dogs and Xiu'er often came to play with Xiao Zheng, and Du Zhaoyuan sometimes came over to help, but after a while, Du's scolding came from the other side of the wall, and after a long time, it slowly came to less.

Xiu'er still came over to talk to Xiao Zheng if she had something to do, Xiao Zheng didn't bother to take care of her because of Du's reasons, Xiao Zheng's knowledge was much higher than Xiu'er's, and what Xiu'er said was also perfunctory, sometimes she answered a few words and left, sometimes Xiao's mother said a few words tepidly, and Xiu'er didn't seem to feel Xiao Zheng's coldness, and still dragged the dog to come over to chat with him every once in a while. With the new house, some snobbish third aunts and six women in the surrounding villages took turns to go to the door of the Du family to propose to the dog. The Xiao family's mother and son sometimes could hear Du's arrogant voice coming from inside the house through the wall, "He Zhao Laolin's family is poor, and I watched his daughter grow up with her, I don't know what it's like yet?" With a poor and sour face, his mother-in-law borrowed me two liters of rice last month, and she hasn't paid it back yet! If my son marries one of her girls, I don't know if he will be able to get married." The matchmaker accompanied the smiling face and said to the Du family: "Don't worry, the Du family's lady is not in a hurry, the old Zhao family is not good, but the daughter of the Li Zhuzi family in the neighboring village, you also know, I have seen his daughter several times, the little girl is not only beautiful but also as shrewd as you, and now the relatives are lined up, if your dog marries her, the real talented woman, then it is called a match, or I will help you ask, but this village is a little far away, I can't go to the door empty-handed, do you see it... This...". Du Shi immediately understood what was going on, took out a few copper coins from his sleeve, took one back with a little bit, and said arrogantly to the matchmaker: "Mother Zhang, I have the money for running errands, and if the matter is done, I will have a heavy reward." The matchmaker took the money and replied with a smile: "Okay, then I will thank the Du family lady, don't worry, I will definitely use my strength to match." And the old woman just wants to ask your Xiu'er, you see that Xiu'er is now like a flower, do you want me to find a good family for her by the way? The second son of the Zhou family in the silk village in Jinyang City is now also looking for a girl from a good family, or I will tell Xiu'er to his son-in-law, let's try to make a good thing in pairs."

Du Shi became more and more proud when he saw that the matchmaker mentioned Xiu'er, and ridiculed the matchmaker: "Mother Zhang, don't think about breastfeeding, and besides, you have no place to eat at your age, so you can go to Lizhuang to run away about my son's marriage." My daughter didn't look like she was born in a small family, but she has the life of a beautiful girl, and she will marry into a big family to be the housewife in the future. You can't climb such a high door as a country matchmaker, so I'll do my daughter's business." When Zhang's mother saw Du Shi say this, she complimented: "Xiu'er, this girl is really, the more she looks at it, the more she has the life of the head mother of a big family, and she will definitely marry into a big family to be the wife of the family in the future." After Du Shi sent the matchmaker back, the matchmaker took a few small coins in her hand and turned around and said: "Living in a new house is still a poor life, these few small coins also let me go to Li Zhuang to say goodbye, the money to buy shoes is not enough, I bah!" ”。 As he spoke, he turned around and muttered away.

Xiao's mother and son are used to seeing such a scene, and they are more and more lazy to pay attention to it, but Xiao's mother watches the matchmaker in and out of Du's house, but her own children are ignored, and she often sighs a sigh or two when she looks at Xiao Zheng. Xiao Zheng saw his mother's thoughts and said with relief: "Mother, don't worry about the child's family affairs, first, the son is not very old now, and it is reasonable to say that no one cares about our family when it is in trouble, and even if there is a proposal, he will not give his son any good family, get a few crooked melons and cracked dates, and you can't look down on your mother." Seeing that her son said something interesting, Xiao's mother said: "What do you want, I will be content if you can marry a girl like Xiu'er in the future, could it be that you still have the ability to marry a princess and come back?" ”。 Xiao Zheng replied: "What's so difficult about marrying a princess, when she sees you, she won't have to kneel down to serve tea." Xiao's mother poked her son's forehead and said, "In broad daylight, do your daydreaming", Xiao's mother's melancholy slowly dissolved Xiao Zheng inadvertently.

The cicadas chirp, the crickets chirp, the autumn inadvertently came slowly, and soon it was time to harvest the millet. The harvest is imminent, at least to ensure that the family is not hungry, and the faces of the farmers show a trace of expectation, counting on the arrival of the harvest. One afternoon, Xiu'er suddenly ran over to Xiao's mother and said to let the mother and son go to the new house and the Du family to eat, Xiao's mother was stunned for a moment and responded, the mother and son arrived at the new house, it was rare for Du Shi to make two more dishes, and specially asked Du Zhaoyuan to go to the town to buy some mutton back, the dog saw that there was meat to eat, so he lowered his head and quickly kept stuffing mutton into his mouth, Du Zhaoyuan looked at his sister with a weak heart, then lowered his head to eat and stopped talking, the dog was secretly slapped a few times by Du's family, and then wiped his mouth a little bit.

After eating, when Du Shi saw the three children go outside to enjoy the cool, he said to Xiao's mother: "Sister, I have something to discuss with you today." Xiao's mother looked at Du Shi and didn't speak, and then looked at her brother, Du Zhaoyuan lowered his head and didn't speak, so he didn't move and continued to wait for Du Shi to speak. Du Shi continued: "Sister, you have also seen it during this time, the dog is about to be kicked through the threshold of our family by the matchmaker." While speaking, he glanced at Xiao Zheng outside the window, and Du Shi saw that Xiao's mother had not reacted, so he continued: "Sister-in-law has an idea here, do you think it's okay?" As for me, I want to marry Xiu'er to Zheng'er, isn't it better for our family to kiss each other." Du Shi paused slightly, looked at Xiao's mother, and then said: "But sister, I have two conditions, first, you can rebuild our old house, and use it as a Zheng'er to marry Xiu'er in the future; This second, sister, you have also stayed in a big family, Xiu'er is also a well-known good girl in our villages, your Zheng'er wants to marry Xiu'er and pass the dowry, but you can rest assured, this dowry will be taken back to her when Xiu'er passes the door, but there is one thing, this dog marries a daughter-in-law, can you be an aunt can give our parents a long face, so that the dog can marry a daughter-in-law in a beautiful manner."