The sun came out the next day, and a few white clouds drifted overhead in the sky. Sister-in-law Wang walked on the path leading to Chenzhuang with light and fast steps.

"Your eldest sister is here!" Chen Laoduan greeted the sister-in-law Wang who entered the door and said, "They are all at home, talking in the house." ”

"Big sister is here!"

"Your eldest sister is not slow, she is far away, this will come, sit on the bench!"

Yuye and her mother were talking to Sister-in-law Wang.

Yuye, who was talking about his mother-in-law's family, felt that it was inconvenient for people to talk about things here, so they all left, and only a few Chen Laoduan's sons and sister-in-law Wang were left in the house.

Sister-in-law Wang was let to the hall and said: "Uncle, aunt, yesterday the eldest sister, sister-in-law, and aunt also went to see it, and came back and told you about the situation. ”

"Look at what your eldest sister said, just if the girl is optimistic, there is no opinion, what other opinions do I have with your uncle? I heard that other people's families are living okay, as long as the children do not suffer in the future, what else can rural people ask for? The boy had no opinion, and he pulled a few clothes to get things done. Anyway, they're not small, it's time to start a family. "Chen Laoduan's wife is straightforward, she has always been straightforward in her words and actions, and even her daughter on the side is rolling her eyes and staring at her." Mother! I'll have to work at home for a few more years before I leave! ”

Yuye's mother looked at her daughter and said, "Be good, don't be hard-mouthed. When a woman gets married, you should go, don't you have to leave for a few more years? I don't expect you to feed me and your brother. ”

Sister-in-law Wang took over the conversation and said: "Auntie, don't say that, the palms and backs of your hands are full of meat, you and your uncle have raised your daughter to such a big age, and it is also appropriate for Sister Yuye to respect you, if you really pass the door, you don't come for a few days, do you still miss her with your uncle?" ”

"That's that, that's of course! Children are connected to flesh and blood, which one is not around to think about them for sure, but when the old man can't let them marry for this, right? Let's go, I will go to their house by myself for a while, and come back when the intimacy comes. Yu Ye Niang said, here to instruct her husband to buy vegetables and cook.

As soon as this Chen Laoduan's daughter came home yesterday and told her about the situation, he discussed it with his wife; As long as the matchmaker arrives, he will say what time and what time he wants, so as to save the stinky boy that the girl originally talked about from staring around, and don't have any trouble sooner or later. So he asked his wife to talk to Wang's sister-in-law and went to buy vegetables by himself.

Sister-in-law Wang had dinner at Chen's house. Everything went unexpectedly smoothly, and she was embarrassed by the bride price, and the time of the ceremony and marriage was agreed. She said goodbye to her uncle and aunt and Yuye, rejoiced in her heart, and sang a little song all the way home.

She didn't go directly to Qin Changhuai's house, but went back to her house first and told her husband about the situation. She told her husband about how Yuye's parents were open and how things went smoothly, and Zhongliang listened with suspicion.

Sister-in-law Wang asked her husband to cook at home, and she kept relaying the words of Yuye to Qin Changhuai's family. They were very happy in their hearts, saying that there was a lot of leftover from yesterday's dishes, and they must leave the sister-in-law here for dinner, and by the way, they set down the things they wanted to buy. But the sister-in-law said: "The woman doesn't have any requirements, just say that you can buy one according to your heart." After saying that, she insisted on going home.

She was so tired, she ran two days and two round-trips for twenty or thirty miles each way, she was too hard, and it was time to rest, everything could not be done in one day. When Wang's sister-in-law returned home and ate a bowl of rice, she felt tired and weak, and fell asleep on the bed. When it was dawn every day, she didn't wake up when Zhongliang got up to cook, and she slept so soundly and sweetly!

Although Qin Changhuai saw that there was a lot of food at home, he couldn't move or sell it, it was all the food of several families who had been weighed above, and he had to return it to others after the incident. That part of his own house can't be sold, except that he has to eat it after running errands, how can he move a single grain? In order not to tear less clothes and buy fewer things than Lotte's daughter-in-law, he didn't count borrowing it at home, and asked his wife Liu Yongmei to go to the houses of several uncles and aunts in Lian'er to borrow them. I finally borrowed enough money to buy a bride price for a happy event.

I heard that the daughter-in-law of the tethered child said that it was done, and she was about to do a happy event, and several adults in the nearby house came to help buy the things to be bought, including those for home and for the woman, and they were all bought quickly.

In the middle, Sister-in-law Wang went to Chen's house again, but Yuye and her parents were still the same, and did not put forward new or excessive requirements.

The marriage between Lian'er and Yuye is getting closer and closer to the set day. Tie Er's side prepares a cart to arrange the personnel to pick up relatives, support pots and stoves, rent plates and bowls, and arrange new houses; On the woman's side, Chen Laoduan was pulling the dowry he bought for his daughter from the bazaar home. Everything is in progress.

But everything is unpredictable, there are unforeseen circumstances, and what Qin Changhuai was worried about still happened.

On the twelfth day of the twelfth lunar month, Qin Changhai's cousin's son got married, and he went to give a gift, sat at a table with Yuye's father and drank, talking about the production of their respective production teams, how many catties of wheat each person shared in the afternoon season, and how much red taro each person shared in autumn. When Qin Changhai said that each person in Daqinzhuang only divided forty or fifty catties of wheat, Chen Laoduan said to his daughter, daughter-in-law, and sister-in-law that several big and small hoarders in the Tie'er family were all wheat. When he returned home, he told his wife about his suspicions.

"Don't ask him for anything, and you can't let your daughter live that kind of hard life without the next meal!" He's going to find out.

After some careful arrangements, he and his daughter-in-law came to Wang's sister-in-law's house the next day.

"Auntie, uncle, why are you here?" Sister-in-law Wang said to Chen Laoduan and his wife.

Tadashi also talked to the two of them and gave up his seat.

"It's time to come and see. Don't buy what you shouldn't buy, what's the use of Lang Fei's money? Yu Ye Niang said, the meaning is difficult to guess.

"Smoke a cigarette." Zhongliang let it. Chen Laoduan didn't answer, and his face was blue. "I don't eat this cigarette! Not right! ”

The atmosphere in the room was a little tense.

"Look at what the aunt says, you can't buy nothing in his mind! Not to mention that his family still has a few dollars, even if he doesn't, he should borrow two to buy some clothes, how can it be said that it is Lang fee? "Sister-in-law Wang always felt a little hung in her heart when she said in her mouth, and she didn't know what the purpose of these two people was coming today." Uncles and aunts, sit down, I'll buy some food, I haven't been to my house for many years. ”

She was about to go out, but was stopped by Yuye Niang. "Don't buy it, it's not like I haven't eaten it. I'll come and see it later, and I'll be back. Let's talk about the business first. ”

Sister-in-law Wang couldn't leave, so she could only accompany her. "Anyway, just do as you say, whatever they want."

"Your eldest sister, I didn't take such a relationship with you, Yuye is similar to your sister-in-law, I believe what you say, can you tell me the truth today, how is the family doing with the in-law you told Yuye? How much wheat do you share in the middle of the day? Why is his family full of big hoards and small hoards? Chen Laoduan asked Sister-in-law Wang, and her attitude was very serious.

As soon as she heard this, Sister-in-law Wang knew that Chen Laoduan must have heard something, and her plan to hide from the world and the sea was missing, and she didn't realize that her panicked demeanor changed suddenly. However, she knew that the food that Qin Changhuai had borrowed had not been returned to others, and her heart calmed down again. said, "Uncle, don't say such things, you didn't fake me, I also took Yuye as my sister-in-law." There is not much food distributed by the population of our team, but which village also has rich and poor, right? Qin Changhuai's family is all laborers, and the labor and grain are more than the head grain, plus the harvest from his own land, I have three more people and two people than him, and the household of two people cannot be more than his family's grain! Can something else be faked, can this thing be faked?! Look at what you say, as if someone is lying to you! ”

"I have not made anyone thirty or twenty in the middle of the news about the two of you?" Sister-in-law Wang and Chen Laoduan almost quarreled.

"Forget it! Never mind! The situation is really like what you said, there is nothing left, what should I do, I am still a good family! Yuye Niang persuaded Sister-in-law Wang. "Your uncle just heard people say this, so he came to ask you if he wasn't at ease, don't be angry."

Sister-in-law Wang's husband Zhongliang also played a drum on the side and said, "Yes, Uncle Changhuai's family is really capable, and there is a lot of dung on the self-reserved land, can you not harvest more wheat?" ”

Chen Laoduan looked at Zhongliang. I thought: My self-retention of the underground is not small, and I don't confiscate as much as I want, just relying on that bit of self-reserved land, saying how much I will collect, is simply talking nonsense with my eyes open, and bragging.

Besides, Yuye also suspected the situation that Yuye heard from her father last night. She went to the king's house to find her sister lotus, and told her father and mother about coming to the sister-in-law, and the sisters were afraid that the two elders would speak indiscriminately and cause something to happen from the Wang family.

Yuye entered the door of the sister-in-law, saw that everyone had a straight face, pushed her father and mother out, and said, "Who asked you to come?" I'll take you to see what's going on! She didn't know that the quarrel just now hadn't been angry, not to mention that when she entered the door, her sister-in-law talked to her, but she didn't have time to answer.

Sister Yuye also came, and Sister-in-law Wang stepped forward to speak. "For the sake of Sister Yuye's matter, the uncle and aunt just don't worry about me, and I don't know who said something in the middle, so they believe it. I couldn't really convince them. Alas! ”

I also heard about the situation, but I don't know if it's true or false, so it's hard to make an idea, "Sister, I'm your brother's daughter-in-law, and Yuye is my own sister, right?" The two old men didn't mean to withdraw from their relatives, they just wanted to ask you if there was any place to hide from me. Yes? You also said it earlier; No, you said it earlier. We are all women, and we all know that it is not pleasant to be coaxed, anyway, when I come today, I must see it clearly and figure it out, what ugly and handsome, I can't take care of it so much. Come with me and we'll talk about other things when we come back. Walk! ”

This sister-in-law always thinks that her mouth is quite good at speaking, but she didn't expect the lion to be bitten by a mosquito, there is really no way! Even if I was a little unsure, I had to lead others to go. Some people say that the "empty city plan" can only be used once, can this untouched grain become less?

Sister-in-law Wang, Lotus, and Yuye came to Lian'er's house, Qin Changhuai and Liu Yongmei rushed to the market to buy things and didn't come back, only Lian'er was at home alone. He was very happy to see Tamaha again, especially when he thought of the joy and happiness of living with her in a few days, and he couldn't control his thoughts about her. As soon as Yuye came today, he only thought that she must have come to see what things he bought for her, and he was happy and happy, but he never expected her to say such a thing.

"Qin is chained, your family has a lot of food, can you lend us two thousand catties to eat?" Her unusual attitude made Lian'er incomprehensible, but he immediately remembered the words and went back. "Yes, how can there be anyone who can't be saved when he dies?"

The three of them walked into the hall. He also knew that what Lu Dao said just now was not a joke.

The new quilt on the bed is gone, and the food in the hoard is not as sharp as it used to be. The three of them saw it all.

They walked up to the hoard, and the lotus flower did not just grasp the wheat on it like Sister-in-law Wang did last time, but rolled up her sleeves and stretched out her arms to touch something.

At this time, Sister-in-law Wang and Lian'er already felt the fear and embarrassment of being discovered, and Lotus and Yuye had already erupted with regret and anger at discovering the secret.

The big hoards and small hoards were knocked down, and the wheat on top flowed on the ground, and the wheat bran and red taro leaf bran below were revealed, exposed to broad daylight.

A trick to hide from the world is over. In the face of the facts, Sister-in-law Wang no longer finds reasons to defend herself, and she can no longer find any reason to defend herself. She set up a trick to deceive others, she could only let it fall, listening to the scolding and cursing of Yuye and her others: "You woman! You can't hide it from anyone! You're a liar! On the surface, he talks about people, but behind his back, he does all the unsightly things, despicable! Shameless! Yuye cried, she was deceived and fooled, and she cried sadly. She talked about the object herself, and her father and mother scattered when she suspected that her family was poor, but this time she originally thought that she had found a good mother-in-law who did not worry about food and clothing, but she was a poor bastard who was deceived and disguised! She couldn't understand what marriage could be, full of deception and deception. After venting, she left Daqinzhuang aggrievedly and never came back. Her sister and her father were angry and furious, and there was a shame in their hearts that could not be washed away and deceived and blinded. Lian'er was very annoyed and regretted, a girl who knew and reasoned and was like a flower, a piece of meat that was about to be eaten in her mouth was not swallowed and lost. He wanted to cry without tears, and beat his chest: Why do you want to slap your swollen face and become fat, lose your honesty as a person, and deceive the feelings of others? Good things don't go out, bad things go a long way. The people of Daqinzhuang are more worried while feeling sorry for their children, worried that once the reputation of Daqinzhuang's poverty spreads, who is willing to say that girls within a radius of thirty miles and twenty miles are willing to say here, who is still willing to marry here? People are thinking: Why can't poverty pass? Why is food and clothing, and prosperity not yet coming?!