Distant relatives are not as good as neighbors, the Jiang family and the Mei family have been neighbors for many years, they know each other, Dazhun has a bad impression of Yindi, and it is impossible to have any thoughts, if it weren't for his mother reminding him that Yindi is old, and when he sees her, he wants to keep his distance and know how to avoid suspicion, he remembers that Yindi is two years younger than him, and he is almost the age of discussing relatives.

Looking at Junxiu Dazhun, Yindi's whole face was red, the brown spots on her face seemed to have turned red, and a thin sweat appeared on the tip of her nose. Yindi was a little flustered and pulled the floral cloth short gown she was wearing, the gown was changed from Aunt Mei'er's old clothes, it must not be good-looking, I don't know if the eldest brother will despise herself, but Mei Yindi thought about it, although her own clothes are old, they are washed and faded and white, which is better than the rest of the clothes worn by the eldest aunt worn by Sister Zhiqiu, which are patched and patched.

Sister Qiu walked behind with Da Yin, Da Yin was carrying a small bamboo basket, and the two listened to the slightly transfigured sound that Yin Di was happy and excited, pestering Lin Zhun to ask questions, laughing loudly, and chattering all the way. Da Yin pouted unhappily and kicked the stones under his feet, "It's noisy!" Da Yin muttered.

The 13-year-old Yindi has begun to rise taller, and her trousers are all short, showing a section of her ankles, and Sister Qiu walked behind her, only looking at the two thin braids tied with red strings on the back of her head, shaking around with her laughter.

The cardamom girl's heart is budding!

Sister Qiu wanted to laugh and was a little stunned, the ancients were really precocious, and at the age of 13, they began to think about the big things in life, and in the world of their previous life, the 13-year-old girl only read comics, chasing the innocence of beautiful male idols.

No matter what Yindi said, Lin Zhun always had a brisk and warm smile, and there was not a sentence that responded to Yindi's words. When the group of people walked into the gutter, the ground was muddy and wet, Lin Zhun told the big guy to watch out for the soles of his feet, and walked to the front first.

The weather was still gloomy, the dampness in the gutters was heavy, and the leaves were still wet, with water trickling down from time to time. The dead trees on the ground and many places near the roots were full of fungi. The four of them were all busy picking up the fungus, bending down to pinch the fungus, put it in the back basket, and then straighten up and walk forward.

Sister Qiu didn't know much about mushrooms, she only dared to pick the straw mushrooms and white mushrooms she recognized, as for the truffles, she didn't find them all after a morning of wandering, and she only gave up, but fortunately, she picked a basket full of straw mushrooms and white mushrooms, enough to eat several meals at home. Next to a dead tree, she also tore a large handful of mountain fungus.

A few people walked around, and found the nectarine tree that Sister Qiu and Jia's picked two days ago, and the people in the village also had a lot of things to eat in the gutter, and the peaches in the nectarine tree were all picked up, only a few peaches hung on the branches on the top of the top, probably because they grew on the top of the most, and the light was good, and the peaches were full and ruddy.

Dayin took a look, took off his shoes, like a dexterous monkey, climbed to the tallest branch with a few clicks, and reached the peaches without much effort, and picked them off and laughed and groaned to throw them to Sister Qiu, Sister Qiu quickly put down the basket, supported the front of the gown and continued the peach that Dayin dropped.

At this time, there was no pesticide residue on the berries, Sister Qiu and a few people casually wiped the fine hairs on the peaches, and they couldn't wait to nibble on them, the peaches were moist and juicy, and there was a hint of sweetness, which was much better than the ones picked by Jia's two days before.

Dayin gnawed the peach and left only a peach pit that was not slippery in autumn, Pu spit it out, and saw Sister Qiu bite the peach in a small bite, so she pulled Sister Qiu and preached enthusiastically: "Wait for two days My grandmother's peach will be ripe, but it is delicious, Sister Qiu, you will come to my house to eat peaches at that time." ”

"How delicious is it?" Sister Qiu laughed and teased him, the 10-year-old Dayin's round head and fat noodles were very cute, and every time Sister Qiu looked at him, she had to suppress the urge to pinch his little fat face.

Dayin blinked and thought for a long time, but he couldn't figure out how to describe the delicious peaches of his grandmother's house, so he said: "Horizontal and vertical are delicious, and you will know when you taste it, and you will be sure to eat it for the next year!" That little peach sapling was brought by my uncle's friend from outside, and it's different from ours! ”

Sister Qiu smiled and nodded, and sighed gloomily in her heart, when she and the Jia family can break away from the Mei family and have a separate yard to live, then buy some good fruit saplings and plant fruit trees in the yard, not only enough to eat by themselves, but also to give away. Now that I am planting fruit trees, I am afraid that it is not enough for the two big cows and two cows to be trampled by the habitual demon king of the mixed world.

When it was almost noon, the four of them came out of the gutter and walked to the flat ground, Sister Qiu turned her face back to look at the low gutter, and felt that this place was really a baby, it was a good place all year round, flowers bloomed in spring, berries to eat in summer and autumn, and wild rabbits and pheasants could be hunted in winter.

As soon as the group of people walked to the entrance of the village, they saw a small green cloth sedan chair carried by two people in front of them, and a young man carrying a burden was followed by the soft sedan chair.

Xiaohe Town is a quiet and somewhat closed Zhuangzi, and there are very few faces all year round, not to mention that the soft sedan chair is a rare thing, and only the rich grandfather in the city sits. As soon as the green cloth small soft sedan car entered the village, it attracted many people to stop and watch.

"Where's this?" Mei Yindi stood on tiptoe and looked at it again, full of envy.

The small soft sedan chair walked steadily in front of them, until it was almost at the door of Mei's house, the soft sedan chair slowed down, and a man carrying the soft sedan chair smiled at Dazhun and asked, "Little brother, where is our Mei Lao Xiucai's house here?" ”

Lin Zhun pointed to the Mei family in front of him and said, "Here it is." ”

The barman thanked him, took a few steps forward, stopped the soft sedan chair at the gate of Mei's house, removed the bar on his shoulder, and said to the person in the soft sedan chair: "Guest officer, the place you want has arrived." ”

Sister Qiu stood behind Da Zhun and stretched her neck to look at it curiously, she didn't remember where the Mei family had rich relatives.

After the barman finished speaking, a white palm opened the sedan curtain, and a young man walked out of the soft sedan chair, wearing a fine white cloth robe, tied with a belt, and his hair was tied to the top of his hair with a piece of green cloth.

Looking at the muddy road under his feet, the scholar was disgusted, and the corners of his eyebrows were frowning enough to kill a fly.

"Uncle!" Mei Yindi was the closest to him, recognized the person, and shouted, "Why are you back?" ”

Mei Qu, the eldest of the Mei family, turned his face to look at a few children with his hands behind his back, flicked the dust that did not exist on his body, ignored it, turned his head and asked the bearer to say, "Pick my things into the house." ”

As he spoke, he continued to frown with his hands behind his back, and walked in disgust to a slightly clean place, for fear of soiling the shoes on his feet.

The Mei family had already heard the sound and came out, and Second Uncle Mei opened the curtain of the west side room and came out to see Mei Qu, and said with a surprised smile: "Boss, why are you back?" ”

Uncle Mei "en", didn't raise his head, lowered his head and walked forward in a clean place.

Mao saw that the young man came back, and he couldn't close his mouth even more happily, looking at Mei Qu's eyes were extremely misty, and he came out of the hall and pulled Mei Qu and walked to the hall, and the folds on his face smiled into a chrysanthemum, "Eh, this child, why did he come back quietly?" Homesick, aren't you? Ask the people in the village who went to the town to catch the market to come back and carry a letter, the road is so difficult to walk, ask your second brother to pick you up in the town! ”

"Eh, guest officer, don't go!" The barman by the door was in a hurry, stretched out his palm and shouted, "Have you forgotten?" Our brothers' salaries haven't been paid yet! ”

When Mei Qu heard this, he turned his face to Mao and said, "Mother, you go and settle their salaries." When he had finished speaking, he walked into the hall with his hands behind his back.

Sister Qiu, who was hiding behind Da Zhun, looked at her uncle Meiqu in amazement, how could this young man have the attitude that others owe him eight hundred taels of silver from beginning to end.

Mao listened to his son's words, turned his face to look at the barman by the door, walked to the door with a cold face, and asked, "How much?" ”

The barman was also impatient and annoyed, and he was so tired of asking for a salary, and he got angry when he heard the old woman's tone of collecting debts, "Our brothers are 35 cents, and this eldest brother ......" The barman pointed to the porter, "It's 15 cents." ”

Mao was taken aback, and immediately widened, "Why is it so expensive?" Who are you pitting? ”

The barman is not a good character, so he rolled up his sleeves and said in a loud voice: "Eh, this sister-in-law, this salary is the price that your son said when he hired a few of our brothers at the beginning, I didn't ask you how much you wanted, why is it so far from the town to here?" Want to pay the bills? ”

The two of them were babbling too loudly, and Mei Qu turned her face back impatiently and shouted, "Mother, what are you doing so much?" Just give him the money and send him away! My head hurt from the noise. ”

Sister Qiu and the four and a half children of Dazhun were quietly touching and watching on the side, and there were also a lot of people in the village who followed the soft sedan chair to see the excitement, everyone was smacking their tongues in their hearts, and it was estimated that the only person in the entire Xiaohe Town who dared to yell at Mao's was Meiqu. When he came back, he hired a porter to carry things, and hired a soft sedan chair, and spent 50 copper plates, which was enough for a medium-sized family to spend a month. There are so many people in the village who go to the town every day, and they have never heard of anyone who sits in a soft sedan chair, but it is different from the scholars, and it is much more expensive than their crops.

The son spoke, and no matter how reluctant Mao was in his heart, it was not good to quarrel in front of the son, so he went back to the house and counted the copper plates, and gave the barman a stinky face. In the end, it is 50 copper plates, enough to buy salt and soy sauce for six months at home, Mao's flesh hurts, and he couldn't help but crooked his mouth and said: "This is a slander!" Bullying our dealers are sincere! ”

The barman was also lazy to talk to the old woman, took the money and counted it roughly, lifted the soft sedan chair and left, and the bearer also followed, and a few people were not angry and walked all the way and said, "Give a soft sedan car all the money to be like this, no money to pretend to be a rich son?" The brothers are also unlucky! ”

Mao angrily jumped his weak body and spat at the direction where the barman was far away, "What the hell! It is inconvenient to carry a soft sedan chair to serve people's inferior life, and carrying a soft sedan chair for my son is a blessing that you have cultivated in your eighty lifetimes! When my son becomes a big official, cut off the heads of your turtle sons! ”

Lin Zhun and a few others watched quietly and speechlessly.

Mao's heart was still puzzled, and he wanted to scold a few more words, but suddenly he thought that his son was still waiting in the hall, and hurriedly walked home, and when he entered the hall, he saw his son sitting on the pestle with his second brother's legs crossed, and his eyes were full of unhappiness.

"Qu'er." Mao looked at the young man and was full of pain, but when she thought about the 50 cents she had just gone out, she felt pain again, and when she came to her lips, she became, "How did you hire a soft sedan chair to come back?" ”

Mei Qu said impatiently: "The road is so difficult to walk, how can I come back if I don't take a soft sedan chair?" "He's not a country man.

Seeing that his son was angry, Mao didn't dare to ask any more, so he smiled and said, "Then why are you waiting to come back at this moment?" Isn't there a lot of schoolwork in the academy? ”

Mei Qu was even more angry, put down the second brother's legs and sat up straight, staring at Mao's anger, "What if I don't come back?" We're all going to starve to death outside! I don't have a penny on me, so I eat the northwest wind? ”

Mao was taken aback, hurriedly pulled a board and sat down in front of Meiqu, glanced out through the curtain, and asked softly: "After 15 years of leaving, I just gave you more than 3 taels of silver, and it has only been more than two months now, why is it gone?" ”

The "15" in Mao's mouth refers to the 15th of January, she has some money saved before, she is afraid that her son will not have enough to study, so she did not take it out when she did the aftermath for her eldest son, she only said that she had no money, and asked Jia to ask the Lord's family to sue the West family for money.

It's just that she didn't expect that the eldest son left, the family cut off the economic source, and life suddenly panicked, she was so tight on food, and the second family complained, and there was no money saved from the mouth. After the New Year, she wanted to sell Sister Qiu, and if Sister Qiu didn't go out to work, she could pay off her debts, but who would have thought that she still didn't make any money.

She saw the dissatisfaction of the second family, if they knew that they had money in their hands...... The Mao family is confident that there is a big Buddha like her here, and no one in the Mei family dares to make trouble, but it may not be that these little rabbit cubs have no other ideas, and they will be bad in the fields. Mao thought about this, she couldn't help but crooked her mouth, her own son She knew that although Mei Tang was not as good as the eldest son and the younger son could study, but she was also an honest and obedient child, all of them were the mothers of the Wei family, and they played right and wrong in front of their son every day, which took her good son. As for Jia's family, she is a wasted child, so you don't have to bother with her.

Mei Quheng fell, didn't get angry, don't look over his head and squint at the mottled beams in the hall, "What can you do with three taels of silver?" I've been frugal enough! If it weren't for my promises...... My classmates helped, sometimes helped me, took me to dinner, I couldn't even survive for more than two months! ”

"Be quiet!" Mao hurriedly whispered, "Don't be noisy, everyone knows it." ”

Meiqu's anger came up, and he didn't give Mao face at all, put down his second brother's legs and stood up from the wooden chair, his eyes were the same as Mao's, and he waved his hand, "What's so afraid that people will know?" What can I study without money? I'm not going! ”

Mao was anxious, grabbed his son's palm, and said one after another: "Okay, okay, don't talk angry, you can rest assured, no one will be wronged by my mother!" You just need to study your books seriously, and you don't have to worry about things at home. ”