Chapter 21: A Woman with a Story
Xu Lanyin estimated that the corn harvested from two acres of land was more than 500 catties, and in addition to keeping seeds, he couldn't eat for a long time, and he had to pay taxes, buy medicine, and buy various necessities for life.
Thinking about the six acres of land, she greeted Gu Wangchen and his mother hundreds of times in her heart. Since you have the intention of retiring from your relatives, why bother to let the family sell the land and ruin the livelihood of this family. If she doesn't sell her dowry, I really don't know what this family will rely on to survive.
The sun was just right in the evening, the two sisters and brothers basked in the yard with corn cobs, and Qin and Xu Lanting sat next to them to bask in the sun.
Looking at the large piece of gold, the family smiled with satisfaction.
Xiao Zheng said happily, "So much, we won't be hungry anymore." ”
Xu Lanzhou shook his head and said, "These things look too much, and I can't eat next year's spring harvest." If the six acres of land are not sold, let's sell some corn for rice and white flour, and have money to buy meat to eat. Looking at Xu Lanyin, "It's all your fault." ”
This child has become Xianglin's sister-in-law.
Xu Lanyin didn't talk back, what people said was the truth, she went to work in the backyard vegetable patch in silence.
Qin whispered to Xu Lanzhou, "Your eldest sister knows that she is wrong, and she is even more sad in her heart, but you are still thinking about it." ”
The autumn examination began on the eighth day of the junior high school, and the people of Xiaozao Village cared about this national event for the first time. After tea and dinner, they all talked about it, hoping that Gu Wangchen could pass the exam and add glory to Xiaozao Village.
Gu Wangchen is the first descendant of Xiaozao Village to go out to participate in the autumn test in hundreds of years, if he wins, not to mention Xiaozao Village, even the people of the entire Sanshi Town will be honored.
Only the people in the two rooms under Old Man Xu silently prayed to God for a long time, and not to let that person pass the exam. Especially Xu Lanyin's family, not only did they not want him to pass the exam, but also hoped that he would not be able to come back if he encountered some natural or man-made disasters on the way home. They would rather spend the money than come back to trouble Xu Lanyin.
Although Xu Lanyin knew that Gu Wangchen could pass the exam, she still hoped that her arrival would cause a butterfly effect, and hoped that the pair of small wings would fan Gu Wangchen down.
It's almost the Mid-Autumn Festival, and a few golden cinnamon trees behind Xu Lanyin's yard are full of small flowers, so fragrant that Xu Lan will go out for a few laps because she has nothing to do.
The life of this family is much better now than in the past few months, but it is also a nest every day, and occasionally it is a mixed noodle steamed bun, and Xu Lanyin eats it lightly. Smelling the rich fragrance of osmanthus flowers, she remembered the osmanthus sauce that the original owner often ate when she was a child.
In the past, when the Qin family was in good health, they would spend 20 yuan every autumn to ask the children in the village to help pick osmanthus flowers and make a jar of osmanthus wine and two cans of rock sugar osmanthus sauce. Haven't done it since she got sick.
Xu Lanyin told the Qin family that she wanted to make rock sugar osmanthus sauce, which made the Qin family very happy.
Qin was a very delicate woman before she got sick, even if it was a jinghai cloth skirt, coarse tea and light rice, her life was also very exquisite, which made ordinary days a little more fun. The house is always spotless, the children are clean and tidy, the tofu can be made into a meaty taste, and they also make their own balsam to wipe their faces. Especially in the month when Xu Qingyan came back, the house was decorated with flowers, and she improved the food in different ways, and she took the small amount of money to the extreme......
It's just that the original owner was thinking about how to go out and earn more money for Gu Wangchen, and he didn't want to calm down and learn from the Qin family. This made the Qin family very angry, and often taught the original owner, but the original owner just didn't listen, and felt that his mother treated his son-in-law as an outsider.
The Qin family is very beautiful, and his temperament is very different from that of the village woman. Although she has been at home alone with her children for a long time, because of Xu Qingyan's various legends, the people who beat her bad ideas did not dare to come to the door to provoke her. Later, Xu Qingyan had an accident, the Qin family was seriously ill, and the Xu family's big house protected the second room tightly, plus the old man Xu, Xu Qingming, and Xu Dashi all grew tall and strong, and the Xu family was a big family in Xiaozao Village, and the idle man who had no money still didn't dare to provoke her, and occasionally there were people who were not afraid of death, and they didn't dare to provoke after being beaten by the three generations of the Xu family. People who are rich and powerful and covet her beauty naturally lose interest in people who are seriously ill and old.
Xu Lanyin has always felt that the Qin family has a story. A woman like her was also a man in her previous life, and for some reason she married Xu Qingyan, a country man who was engaged in a "special occupation" and had been away from home for many years......
Since August 12, Xu Lanyin has led his two younger brothers to pick osmanthus flowers. Xu Lanzhou shook down the osmanthus on the tree, Xu Lanyin swept it up, and Xu Lanting picked up the slag in the middle of the flowers. The three siblings were busy for two days and picked up a large dustpan and spread it out in the yard
On the morning of the fifteenth, Xiao Zhengtai specially came to invite the people in the second room to have a reunion dinner in the big room in the evening.
He also said, "Grandpa and grandma also invited Aunt Yin this time. ”
He was very unconvinced, how could he invite this loser, he was not less because he had a joke about a loser's aunt recruiting a partner.
Xu Lan wanted to have a good relationship with the old couple and the big house, so she was willing to go. And Qin made it clear that she would not go, her illness was not completely cured, and she didn't want to go out.
After making a wish to leave, the Qin family took forty yuan and asked Xu Lanyin to go to Xinghua Village to buy two catties of meat as a gift.
There is no meat stall in Xiaozao Village, and there is one in Xinghua Village, which is at the east entrance of the village.
Xu Lanyin was particularly reluctant to go there, because Sujiazhuang was not far from the east exit of Xinghua Village. But Xu Lanzhou went to the ground, and she had to go. Then he said, "Buy two more big bones, stew soup to make up for it, and my mother and little brother should drink more bones." ”
Qin Shi gave her another ten wen.
Xu Lanting was sad and pulled Xu Lanyin's skirt, and he also wanted to go.
Xu Lanyin coaxed, "Xinghua Village is not fun, Sister will take you to the county seat another day." ”
Xu Lanting let go of his hand with a smile.
Xu Lanyin led Huazi out of the village and crossed the Baisha River, and was a little hesitant. The path behind the village to the east had to pass by Sujiazhuang, and of course she didn't want to pass there. But she was reluctant to go to the village, because when the original owner went to Sujiazhuang to cry, many villagers went to see the excitement and laughed at her. Even the children in the village will gather around to laugh and sing when they see her, "Little lady, cry Gulang......"
Xu Lanyin guessed that the scene was not only the original owner laughing and making trouble regardless of his face, but also perhaps there was also a man-made handiwork in it. The most likely is Steward He, who privately collects Su Qing's money, and has to do things for Mrs. Su on the surface. This matter was well known in Xinghua Village, and Su Qing's bad reputation was confirmed. Mrs. Su would never have guessed that Gu Wangchen and Su Qing were happy to see this result.
She cursed a few words, but walked east. Although you have to pass by Sujiazhuang, you pass by the backyard wall, and there are very few people walking there.
These days are the harvest season, and the farmers are busy in the fields. Passing by a field, a farmer who was busy in the field saw her, even if she was far away, Xu Lanyin could hear his words, "Look, Gu Xiucai's unmarried little daughter-in-law has gone to Sujiazhuang to make trouble again." Haha, it's lively again. ”
Hearing the man's words, several farmers farther away straightened up and looked at Xu Lanyin and laughed.