For the first time in her life, Gu Changning watched her hen hatch chicks, and she was very interested, and she had to go to the chicken coop four or five times a day to see Xiaohua sitting steadily in the straw nest before she could settle down and do something else.

In this way, she doesn't go up the mountain with a few little sisters these days, and in addition to housework, she is busy with the vegetable garden and chicken coop in the backyard, and she is so busy that she is spinning like a **, so after six or seven days, rumors gradually came out in the village.

Gu family in the north

"Third brother and sister, have you heard, the one on the west side doesn't seem to be in good shape." Gu Song's daughter-in-law Wu was talking to her own concubine when she was cooking in the kitchen, and she couldn't bother to wipe her sweat from the heat of the stove on her face, and her face was full of schadenfreude, and said, "I heard that the Yang family had a miscarriage!" ”

Gu Quan's daughter-in-law Jiang Shi paused slightly with her hand cutting vegetables, and said, "How can you have a miscarriage?" ”

"Who knows, it can't be that she has done too many bad things, and God has come to punish her." Wu moved swiftly to stir-fry the dishes in the pot and said casually.

Jiang Shi slowly cut the vegetables, and then said, "Probably not, sister-in-law is not like that." ”

"Phew, what sister-in-law!" Wu Shi heard her call Yang Huiyun "sister-in-law" so kindly, and he was annoyed in his heart, and he opened his mouth and scolded directly, "At the beginning, my father asked someone to find a good errand for our family Gu Song, as long as ten taels of silver, I went to borrow it from her, and she was reluctant to give it, and this errand finally fell to others, and sister-in-law, I only care about my own enjoyment, regardless of my brother's life or death!" ”

Jiang Shi listened to her words and didn't say a word, quietly busy with the work in his hands, like a wooden stake, Wu had long been accustomed to her appearance, accustomed to her silence, still carrying her on his back, scolding Gu Changning's family alone in the air.

The hand of chopping vegetables never slowed down, and Jiang lowered his eyes to listen to Wu's resentment, and his face was calm.

She knew the reason why the Wu family resented Yang Huiyun's family so much.

When the Wu family married the elder of the Gu family, Grandpa Gu was still alive, and the four Gu brothers had not yet separated, and everyone lived in the courtyard in the north of Xinghua Village.

Later, after Gu Shan got married, Grandpa Gu made his own decisions, separated Gu Shan from his other three younger brothers born to his stepmother, and gave the small piece of land in the west to the couple to live in, and also divided the five acres of dry land in his hand, so that Gu Shan had land to support his family and live.

Since then, the Gu family in the north has only lived in the big family born to Gu's grandmother Gao.

Just like that, a few years passed, and when Gu Shan's brothers of this generation became relatives, Gu Shan's youngest brother Gu Lin found a job as a bookkeeper in a shop in the town because of the relationship between studying for a few years, and later lived directly in the town with his wife and children, and only came back for a day or two during the New Year's holidays.

The town is more lively and prosperous than the village, and what fashionable things are also the first to appear in the town, Wu every time he looks at the clothes of the new patterns worn by the four brothers and sisters when they come back from the town, and the delicate and small hairpin they wear on their heads, their words and deeds are worthy of seeing the world, and she is different from the person who has lived in the village for half her life, and she suddenly envy in her heart, so she also wants to live in the town like her uncle's family.

For this reason, she even went back to her parents' house and asked her father and brother to help, so that they could find a job for Gu Song in the town, hoping that her family could move to the town to live through this matter.

As a result, because of the lack of money, this matter was so yellow, Wu was angry and angry, and blamed Yang Huiyun for the reason, if she wasn't willing to borrow money, how could Gu Song pass by this errand and cheapen others!

This anger became even more resentful after they bought land and built such a large house a year later, and finally evolved into resentment, and the Wu family would curse them every day when they seized the opportunity to vent their resentment.

It's all to blame on them, they obviously have money in their hands, but they don't want to lend it to them!

Wu didn't tell his mother-in-law about the idea of moving to town, so Gao still doesn't know about it.

Only Gu's third daughter-in-law, Jiang, who worked with her all day, noticed a little between the lines of her words.

Jiang is an honest person who doesn't talk much, although he noticed something, he only buried it silently in his heart, pretending not to know.

Now that he heard Wu himself say this, his words were full of complaints, and Jiang only laughed secretly in his heart and did not say anything.

Don't talk about the Yang family, even she won't lend money to the Wu family.

It sounds like a loan, but who doesn't know that on the day when this loan will be difficult to repay, the Yang family is not stupid, and he sent the family's silver out in vain.

For a while, all I heard in the kitchen was the sound of kitchen knives cutting on the cutting board and Wu's dissatisfied cursing.

***

"Ning Ning, why are you here?"

Yang Jin, Chen Shuang, Xing'er and Chu Chu's daughter, Chu Chu, were about to go up the mountain to cut pigweed, and Xing'er saw that Gu Changning was carrying a basket and was about to go up the mountain, and called out in surprise.

"I'm going to pick up dead branches, don't you know that, why are you so surprised?" Gu Changning asked strangely when he saw her looking at herself with her mouth open, as if she didn't expect her to appear.

"But your aunt ......" Xing'er was about to continue, but Chen Shuang's eyes quickly stopped her.

"It's nothing, Apricot mean, didn't your family just buy a nest of eggs to hatch chicks? She also thought that you would have to watch the chicks hatch at home during this time and not be able to go out, which was a little surprising. ”

Gu Changning blinked, still feeling that their performance was not quite right, he looked at them suspiciously, and said, "It's Xiaohua who hatches the eggs, not me, I just need to add water and chicken food at a fixed time, and I don't need to do anything on the side, of course I can come out." ”

"Yes, yes, that's what you said, hehe......" Chen Shuang smiled embarrassedly, and then changed the topic, "Since that's the case, then let's go quickly, now there are clouds and fog in the sky, and the sun is not shining." ”

"Well, let's go." Gu Changning was reminded by her, and forgot what he was going to say for a while, and went up the mountain directly after them.

Although the mountain road is spacious, five people can walk side by side, but some people are fast, some people are slow, and they become two lines as they walk, Chen Shuang, Xing'er, and Chu Chu walked in front, and Yang Jin and Gu Changning walked behind.

"What the hell is going on?" Gu Changning looked at the backs of the people in front of him, and asked in a low voice.

Xing'er and Shuang'er's reaction just now was so strange that she couldn't help but be suspicious.

"After you bought eggs at Xing'er's house that day, some gossip came out of the village somehow." Yang Jin grabbed the back basket belt on his body and said slowly.

"Is it about my mother?" Gu Changning thought of the words that Fang Cai Xing'er blurted out, frowned and asked, "How did you say that?" ”

"That's what I heard, saying that your aunt didn't sit on the fetus because she was stimulated too much, and she had a miscarriage." Yang Jin glanced at the angry person beside him, and continued, "It is rumored that you went to Xing'er's house to buy eggs, but in fact, it was to make up for the a-lady who had a miscarriage. ”

"This is just nonsense! Who told me this? Gu Changning's face sank instantly when he heard this, and he said.

No wonder several aunts who were good friends with A-Niang came to visit yesterday, and she was still thinking strange, how could everyone come to the door together as promised.

Isn't that just saying yes!

"I don't know who said it, but when a few of us heard it, the village was already in an uproar." Yang Jindao, "Originally, a few of us didn't believe it, but seeing that you haven't gone out for a few days, we didn't dare to come to the door to disturb after hearing the news, so Xing'er and Shuang'er would mistakenly think it was true." ”

No wonder Xing'er was full of surprise when she saw her today, and she believed the rumors without asking.

"I haven't been out for a few days because I'm cleaning up the vegetable garden in my backyard." Gu Changning was still a little annoyed by this rumor and explained, "You also know that my father bought the first acre and a half of land behind my house, and after building a house, about one acre of vacant land was used as a backyard, and my aunt only opened up a vegetable garden in the middle of the place, and the rest of the place was very empty, I felt a little wasteful, so I tried to integrate other places in the past few days, and planted autumn radishes at the end of July." ”

"Autumn radish? I remember that your family land was not rented to Uncle Sun's family, who lived in the east of the village? According to the past practice, after harvesting rice in August, you have to plant radishes and Chinese cabbage, and radishes and Chinese cabbage can have eighty catties of one acre of land at worst. Yang Jin asked puzzled.

Most of the rented fields are rented in the form of crops, and when Uncle Sun's family finishes planting autumn radish, their family can also have a few dozen catties, and it must be no problem to spend the winter, after all, radish is not a staple food, and it is impossible to fill your stomach by eating radish.

"Hmm...... Actually, I mainly focus on land preparation, and I grow radishes because I don't know what else to plant at that time besides radishes. Gu Changning explained vaguely.

She couldn't tell Yang Jin bluntly that Uncle Sun's family wouldn't plant any autumn radishes at all, so their family wouldn't have radishes at that time.

Not to mention radish, even this year's rice yield has also been greatly reduced, she remembers that only 100 catties of rice were harvested in the first year, and the second year was even worse, only 50 catties.

Thinking of this, Gu Changning was full of anger in his heart, and he couldn't wait to tear up the contract.

But breaking the contract also has to go to the yamen, Gu Changning still thinks that it is not worth entering the yamen for that family, so he has to give up.

Anyway, I will rent it for three years, and after three years, I don't need her to say it, and my brother will definitely not rent it to them again!

"Oh, that's right." Yang Jin nodded, not doubting him.

Indeed, it feels like a waste not to plant an acre of land, but if you plant it in that season, it is very likely that you will not be able to harvest it before winter, so you can only plant radishes.

"Eh, I said, why are you two walking so slowly, if you continue at this speed, the sun will set!" Xing'er clasped her hands around her lips and shouted at them as she stood on the mountain road in front of her.

"I know, I know, we're coming here." Gu Changning responded to her from afar, and walked towards them with Yang Jin.

Xing'er is actually joking, and it's only time to go down the mountain.

Chu Chu looked at the people who walked towards them quickly, and said with some envy: "Ning Ning and Xiaojin have a really good relationship, and they often see them walking together intimately. ”