A quarter of an hour later, Zhou Dayong led everyone out of Wang Chunhua's house smoothly.

It's just that the burden of red eggs and snacks on everyone's back has changed from the original bulging appearance to an empty appearance.

Xiao Qiongzhi was very puzzled, and stepped forward to ask him: "Second uncle, why is there no more in everyone's baggage?" ”

"It's for the big girl." Zhou Dayong replied.

"Why?" Xiao Qiongzhi was a little puzzled.

Although Wang Chunhua has the magic of entanglement, and when she asks people for things, she is completely shameless, but this time she is a child, and half-grown children like Zhou Dayong account for a very small minority, and the vast majority are under the age of ten.

Children under the age of ten are at the age when they like to eat snacks, and their families are usually poor and often can't eat anything.

Finally, when the Chinese New Year is over, they can open their appetites to eat, and they can't wait to take the opportunity of New Year's greetings to get some more snacks and keep them to eat slowly.

When the New Year's greetings came all the way, most of the children, when they arrived at their own homes, were reluctant to pour out the snacks on their backs, like her, and put them into their own lime jars.

She didn't understand it at first, but once reminded them that from the head of the village to the end of the village, there are nearly 300 families, and if they keep carrying their burdens to pay New Year's greetings, there will be more and more red eggs and snacks, and they will be very tired.

If you pass by the door and pour out the existing ones in advance, it will be easier to do so.

But they said, "It doesn't make sense."

Because, they've done it before.

Every time their parents will quietly take away some of the red eggs and snacks they get before they finish their New Year greetings and go home, which is too cost-effective.

It can be seen that it is impossible for them to be willing to give all the red eggs and snacks in their baggage to Wang Chunhua and the eldest girl.

Zhou Dayong said very depressedly: "After we entered the house, Wang Chunhua blocked us in the house and asked us to drink sugar water. ”

"The eldest girl knelt at the door and kowtowed to us, saying that she had no father, and there was not much food left at home, so she couldn't live, and begged us to have pity on her, and give her everything in her baggage."

"At first, no one was willing to send it, but then the big girl kept kowtowing, kowtowing all over her head with blood, and said that if everyone didn't give her everything in their baggage, she would die of it."

"Everyone couldn't bear it, so they had to give her everything in their baggage."

So that's it!

Xiao Qiongzhi was surprised.

The eldest girl doesn't have any brains, she will do this, it must be taught by Wang Chunhua.

It's no wonder that in recent times, they have become honest, and they are waiting to seize the opportunity of today, take advantage of the children's sympathy, and ask for things.

From the village to Wang Chunhua's house, more than 160 households have to pass, and each family has prepared two red eggs and a large handful of melon seeds, peanuts, hemp seeds and other snacks for each child to pay New Year's greetings.

It is equivalent to saying that except for Zhou Dazhi, who left all the snacks in his baggage at home like Xiao Qiongzhi before, the other children, each of whom had more than 300 red eggs and four or five catties of snacks in their baggage.

Eggs, last time Xiao Qiongzhi went to the township to buy them, they were three dollars of silver, more than three hundred, and they were worth more than ten taels of silver.

Melon seeds, peanuts, hemp seeds and other snacks are used to make miscellaneous grains, which is quite suitable, more than 100 children, four or five catties per person, and counting, there are four or five hundred catties.

In addition, when Zhou Youqian was given money for the funeral last time, according to Zhou Dayong afterwards, the people in the village knew that Wang Chunhua was lazy and lazy, and knew that she had no food at home.

It is equivalent to saying that Wang Chunhua and the grain and miscellaneous grains she has now are enough for her and the eldest girl to eat for nearly a year.

Wang Chunhua is really calculating.

It's just that each family has already taken five catties of Huaishan or Poria cocos to her not long ago, and she is still so pitiful to the children of each family, what does this make the families think? How to treat it?

It's stupid.

Xiao Qiongzhi originally sympathized with Wang Chunhua and the eldest girl, after all, they became orphans and widows, and they have been honest for a while recently.

Now, she deeply feels that she is still too kind.

People like them not only know how to blindly ask for it, but also like grasshoppers, it is difficult to get rid of it, which tests people's psychological endurance too much.

She gave all the children a pitying look and reminded them loudly, "You are all fooled. Not long ago, your parents took five catties of Huai Shan or Poria cocos to give to the big girl's family, and the big girl's family now has at least 1,000 catties of Huai Mountain and Poria cocos, and there is no shortage of food. ”

"Don't pay New Year's greetings to you yet, go home quickly, and tell your mother, grandfather, and grandmother everything that happened at the eldest girl's house!"

"Okay." All the children immediately agreed in unison, turned around and ran home.

They are really reluctant to pay their hard respects to the red eggs and snacks they have gotten, and now they know that the big girl is taking advantage of their sympathy and deceiving them of things, and their hearts are very resentful.

After they left, Xiao Qiongzhi went home directly with Zhou Dayong, Gouzi, and Shishi, planning to wait for their parents to take them and find Wang Chunhua to ask for something back, and then continue to pay New Year's greetings to the rest of the clansmen.

About half an hour later, all the children gathered around the patriarch Zhou Yuandong, the two old ladies who assisted Zhou Yuandong in stewardship, and the parents of the children, and came to the gate of Wang Chunhua's courtyard.

Voices.

Xiao Qiongzhi was following Prince Kun, the dog, and the stone under the pigsty in the west corner of the yard, teasing the wild boar.

After hearing the movement, she immediately took Prince Kun, the dog, and the stone out together to watch the excitement in the back.

Zhou Yuandong didn't enter the courtyard, but directly let a few aunts go in, and escorted Wang Chunhua and the eldest girl out of the courtyard.

I haven't seen her for nearly a month, Wang Chunhua looks a lot older, and her temples have begun to grow gray.

The big girl seems to have grown a lot taller, thinner than before, with big eyes, not as bright as in the past, with a little timid and ignorant look.

On her head, a gray rag was wrapped indiscriminately, and the part of the rag against her forehead had a large bruise and blood seeping, which looked really strange and pitiful.

Zhou Yuandong asked an eldest lady to untie the rags on her head, looked down at the wound on her forehead, and asked her in a deep voice: "Auntie, does it still hurt?" ”

"It hurts!" The big girl nodded honestly.

Her forehead was swollen with a large piece about two fingers long and two fingers wide, all of which were broken, and there was no sign of medicine, and now there were still some signs of faint bleeding, and the injury was relatively serious.

"Are you willing to use this way of kowtowing to people in the future to beg the people in the village to give you and your mother something to eat?" Zhou Yuandong asked again quietly.

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