Chapter Ninety-Six: The Honored Guest of the Old Mansion

Back at Sea Stone, Sea Stone had picked up the fallen pine nuts from the ground and put them in the basket, the dead pig was dragged to the wooden lattice, and several small pigs were tied to the neck with ropes, and the other end of the rope was tied to the wooden lattice.

Lan Ya also put the big fat pig in his hand on the wooden lattice, and the two of them dragged a knot and walked slowly towards home.

Fortunately, the bloody qi did not attract other large beasts, and only encountered three bearded dogs, and the three flying locusts of Lan Ya fled in fright, and one of them actually hit the trunk of a tree and fainted.

Unlike tigers and other beasts that catch fresh food, the mustache dog not only eats meat, but also often eats carrion, which is often referred to as dead meat, so even if the villagers see or kill the mustache dog, they will not eat it unless they have to.

To prevent them from coming out and harming people, Lan Ya went up with a knife and let it be eaten by other beasts.

The two dragged them to the grove at the entrance of the village, and Lan Ya asked Haishi to go directly to Liu Yuan, drove the ox cart to the town, and sold them to the Liu butcher and the Sun Moon Lou respectively, and the pig went into the water, the pig bone and the two pig hind legs were all taken home.

Lan Ya carried a dead pig cub and a dead rabbit in the basket on her back, and led four live piglets home leisurely.

I thought that it was close to noon, and the Hai family had gone to the old house, but I didn't expect that he was still at home, and he was waiting for Lan Ya at the gate of the courtyard.

Lan Ya led the piglet into the Song family's original cowshed, poured some water into the cow trough, watched the piglet humming and drinking water, and then asked, "Mother, why haven't you gone to the old mansion yet?" ”

Hai Shi said with an embarrassed face: "It's not your milk yet, I'm gone, let me come back to you, take the prey together, and then go, and treat the two grandsons well." ”

Lan Ya pursed her lips meaninglessly: "At this time, I am a good milk and a good grandson, I forgot that Yu Caihe still has a big belly, and he has no name and no share." ”

Lan Ya suddenly had an epiphany, perhaps, the Zhang family also had such an idea, let Zhou Buyan and Zhou Buyu say good things in front of Zhou Youcai, and give Yu Caihe the title of a concubine, at that time, maybe there is still hope for the big green brick house.

Lan Ya poured the contents of the basket on the ground, pine nuts on the ground, a hare, and a dead piglet.

I picked up the rabbit, but I saw the snow-white fur on it, and finally I didn't want to give it to the old house.

He picked up the dead pig cub and put it in the basket, carried it on his back, and came to the Yu family's old house with the Hai family.

Along the way, Lan Ya greeted people whenever she met, and her enthusiasm was no less than that of the loud Yue family.

Seeing Lan Ya beating her shoulders tiredly, the aunt will inevitably ask, what is in the basket.

Lan Ya would explain with a smile: "Auntie, I hunted a few little piglets from the mountains, one was injured and died, and my mother was reluctant to eat it, so I took it home to honor my grandfather and grandmother."

Everyone looked at Hai's with admiration and praised Lao Yu's family for a good daughter-in-law. Hai's face turned red.

After the people left, Hai Shi sneered: "Ya'er, don't say it, isn't it your milk who wants it, why did you become the one who took the initiative to be filial, where did I have everyone praise so good?" ”

Lan Ya smiled: "Mother, it's okay to do good deeds without leaving a name." Let me ask you, did the piglets come back from our hunt? Is it for my milk? ”

Hai Shi nodded, and said embarrassedly: "This is the reason, but I always feel that filial piety should not be preached everywhere, and it is good to have this heart." ”

Lan Ya laughed out loud, and said with a straight face: "Mother, my uncle squandered a dozen taels of silver from my milk for business back then, and wanted to use a few pennies of wood hairpins to honor my milk, so that the whole village knows that this is much more than a few pennies." As soon as the upper lip touches the lower lip, if you want to eat meat, let's go up the mountain? In the winter, the beasts have not eaten, and it is even more dangerous, we have to let the whole village know that we are not bad at all, don't wait for her to pay attention to us everywhere. ”

As he was talking, he had arrived at the door of Yu's house, pushed open the courtyard door, and the laughter and laughter in the courtyard were happy, Lan Ya couldn't help but laugh, he was robbed of a peanut sticky business, but let the tense rooms of the Yu family's old house become temporarily harmonious.

Seeing Lan Ya come in, Jiang's embarrassed expression, who was pouring water into the yard, flashed with embarrassment, and said with a smile: "Lan Ya is here, and the food will be available immediately." ”

Zhang's sour words came in and said, "What's the matter?" Is there a meat dish? Do you have to? If you don't say anything, you will come back for one or two trips in a year, what should you do if the coarse grains and wild vegetables are bad? ”

Lan Ya took off the basket speechlessly, and said in a loud voice: "Milk, I brought you meat, what about a pig!! ”

The voice was crisp and vivid, and it traveled far away.

When Zhang heard this, he happily turned out of the main house, and saw that it was just a dead pig cub of thirty or forty pounds, and his face sank and said, "You call it a pig?" Not even Ah Hua's thighs can be compared. ”

Ah Hua is the fat pig in the family, and when the family is not separated, a few girls in the third room need to go up to the foot of the mountain every day to fight pigweed.

Lan Ya smiled: "Milk, this is a 'mouthful of pig'." I remember that our Ah Hua has more than 300 catties, right? When you kill the New Year's pig, remember to tell my father, and our 'whole family' will come to help. ”

Zhang's eyes couldn't help but widen, when the family was separated for the first time, there were two things that were not divided, one was the wheat on the field, and the other was the fat pig that was not killed.

When the family was divided for the second time, the wheat was counted as the filial piety silver given to the old house for one year in the third room, and the pork had not been divided.

Lan Ya mentioned this at this time, it is nothing more than to order Zhang's, it would be good to give you meat, you still owe me pork and didn't give it.

The Zhang family hated to ignore Lan Ya anymore, and instead glared at Hai's eyes and said, "When you come to dinner, you know how to be lazy." After speaking, he looked at Lan Ya defiantly.

Hai's was inexplicably used as a punching bag by Zhang's, and he didn't say anything, just took the piglets and went to the room.

Yu Daguang said with a smile: "Third brother and sister, how can a woman do this job of killing pigs and removing hair, I'll come." ”

With a smile on his face, he took the pig to the backyard to slaughter, and it was useless for Yu Sanguang to go to the fight.

There must be something unspeakable in this, Lan Ya pouted disdainfully, but she didn't bother to pay attention to it, and paced into the yard, wanting to tease Da Lin.

Dalin has been more than nine months, changing day by day, his eyes are dripping like a kitten, and he can eat a small bowl of minced meat and thin noodles in one meal.

Perhaps because of eating nutritious complementary food, Dalin's body is getting better and better, and he is getting stronger and stronger like a calf.

When Lan Ya arrived in front of him, Lan Hua, who was originally speaking, glanced at his eyes and walked away with an indifferent face, making Lan Ya inexplicable.

Lan Xiang's face was very bad, Lan Ya frowned and asked, "Sister, what is Lan Hua picking again, you don't have to take anything to heart." ”

Lan Xiang breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Ya'er, I listen to you, I don't believe what others pick." ”

Lan Ya was aroused by curiosity instead, and wondered: "What did Orchid have to do with you, let's hear it." ”

Lan Xiang said speechlessly: "She said, our grandmother asked the eldest uncle and the second uncle to go to the Zhou family to inquire about the sister-in-law, in the Zhou family, guess who you saw?" ”

Lan Ya raised an eyebrow and shook her head.

Lan Xiang said: "I met Sister Chunhua, who is the daughter-in-law of Brother Xiao Zhi who ran before." In the past, my aunt didn't know that she lived in the town, and she didn't have any contacts. This time she took the initiative to find her aunt, because her current man Zhang Fugui and her sister-in-law had done business together, Zhang Fugui suddenly disappeared a month ago, and even the eldest lady of the Zhang family, the son-in-law and the housekeeper were all gone, leaving only Sister Chunhua and the maid-in-law who waited for her, Sister Chunhua was helpless, so she found the Zhou family to inquire about the situation. ”

Lan Ya suddenly remembered that when she heard the news of Yuli in the town three months ago, a scholar surnamed Zhang wanted to go back to Nanchuan to join her uncle, but she was afraid that there was some connection between the two things.

The migration of people in large businesses must be to mobilize the people and sell their wealth, why did the Zhang family leave quietly, and the huge mansion was left to the concubine Chunhua?

It's really unbelievable, maybe the eldest lady got rid of the little wife.

Lan Ya couldn't help frowning, and Lan Xiang couldn't help but say nervously: "Ya'er, don't scare me, since Sister Chunhua has a good home, she can't return to Brother Xiaozhi, right?" ”

Lan Ya gently shook Lan Xiang's hand and comforted, "Sister, don't worry. In the past few years, Chunhua has been accustomed to the rich days of clothes and food, and she will hold on to the Zhang family. ”

What Lan Ya didn't say was that if the Zhang family didn't do too well and left some land and real estate, Chunhua would continue to live with the Zhang family's concubine name;

If the Zhang family does everything desperately, has no land and real estate, and has no way out, she will return to the Chen family to find a place to live.

Thinking of the second situation, Lan Ya couldn't help but shake her head, according to Chen Lian and Mrs. Chen's temperament, it was even more difficult to accept Chunhua again than ascending to the sky.

When the meal was about to be ready, he only listened to the carriage outside the door, and Zhou Buyan and Zhou Buyu came back, followed by Qin Yan, Liu Qingshi and Fu Liangheng.

Lan Ya couldn't help frowning deeply, looking at a few people with a spring look, they must have enjoyed the scenery at the foot of the mountain and flipped their nostalgia, and then came back sour to eat.

Lan Ya suppressed the anger in her heart and minimized her presence.

It backfired, she wanted to live in peace, but some people didn't want to live in peace, I saw Zhou Buyan looking at Lan Ya with a gloomy face and said: "My good cousin, the gourd sold yesterday is really a lot of silver, a full ten taels of silver, do you honor your grandmother?" ”

Zhang's face couldn't help but change, and he wanted to scold, but because there were outsiders, he forcibly went back, his face turned black and white, and his eyes slashed towards Lan Ya like a sharp knife.

Lan Ya didn't think it was pestle: "My cousin is a few years older than me, and he is full of poetry and books, but my sister wants to ask, my cousin lost to me yesterday with a monthly amount of silver, and today he is empty-handed, what do you want to honor your grandmother?" ”

Zhou Buyan said unhappily: "This poor and remote place, I can come here and let it shine." ”

Lan Ya said indifferently: "This intestine is full of fat, and it is a tyrannical thing to entertain with wild boars." ”

Zhou Buyan's eyes widened and said: "Ignorant village girl, sharp teeth and sharp mouth." ”

Lan Ya's eyes narrowed and smiled: "Stingy scholar, full of resentment." ”

......

After only a while, he was full of anger and did not give up.

Qin Yan said embarrassedly: "Brother Zhou, I'll go back to the town to eat, Fengxian Tower, treat my brother." ”

Zhang's face sank and said, "Lose money..... Lan Ya, don't bump into a few noble sons from the city, Orchid, go and pour tea. ”

The sentence "losing money" came out of his mouth, and Zhang immediately woke up and changed his attitude, with a bit of humility and flattery in his attitude towards several scholars.

Zhou Buyan eased his face and said to Qin Yan and the others: "Rural places, don't care, eat some taste of the mountains and wilderness, don't have a taste." ”