Chapter 320: Black Years
The family seemed to have milled cotton under their feet, and they were still crying and were about to wander again, but in just a quarter of an hour's work, they were taken in by well-meaning people, they had houses to live in and hot meals, and they also generously lent them money to build houses.
In the evening, Shi Laosu said to Aunt Mei anxiously: "I really don't remember saving the child in the river!" It must be that they recognized the wrong person and reported the wrong kindness! ”
He's really weak-hearted...... He has been honest all his life, and his friends who are a dry goods dealer don't want to make money, so he started to do the work of a trafficker in the dark field, and when he walked the streets, he saw a lonely child and the uncle and the lady and put them in the car and took them away, and many people made a fortune, and they all persuaded him to do this, he didn't have the courage, and he was afraid that he would be punished for doing such hurtful things, and he had always been a poor goods dealer who made a small business to earn a penny or two.
When he married Aunt Mei, he was almost 10 years old, and the 10 taels of silver were saved by him for 20 years, which emptied all his belongings. It's not that he doesn't want to marry someone of the right age, but apart from Aunt Mei, who wants to be a dealer with him who doesn't even have a family?
Aunt Mei originally wanted to say that we should go and tell others clearly, but then got up and looked at the sleeping pair of Zhengxiang's children, gritted her teeth and said with tears in her eyes: "No matter, let's talk about building a house, and when we save money, we will hurry up and return it to others!" She really couldn't bear to ask her daughter to follow them and wander and suffer again, if she was unstable again, her daughter's life would be ruined.
When Shi Laosu was uneasy and confused, the Mao family was also confused.
"Where is such a coincidence?" Mao pulled Mei Laosu and muttered, "Fufa and his little brother are all 30 years old now, how many nights did they fall into the river when they were young?" It's been 20 years since now, how can Fufa's mother be so ironclad as a big girl? I think eight times out of ten, nine times I admit my mistake! ”
Mei Laosuo is a little difficult, but also a little angry, he also wants to help his daughter, but he always owes his daughter, but the problem is that he is not a local tyrant with a lot of money, eight hundred copper plates are not much, but it can be said that it is very much, and he gave the money to his daughter, what does the third son Meiqu think in his heart? Under the trade-off, you can only entrust the girl.
"Don't talk about it, people say it's just that, we can't control it." Mei Laosu preached.
Mao Shijue was strange, and continued to say: "If you take it in, I heard that 800 copper plates will be lent out in an instant, just like playing with water, even if it is a life-saving benefactor, it is too generous?" I look at her man's poor appearance, don't expect to pay back! If you don't get the money back, the fool will borrow it! ”
Mei Laosuo moved his lips and said for a long time: "We also borrowed Lao Lin's two taels of silver, isn't this and haven't paid it back?" He was a little embarrassed when he thought about it, but there have been so many things over the years, and the Jiang family has also made their family a lot of trouble, and sent Meiqu to prison for three years, so even if they had money, they didn't think about paying it back.
Mao was really angry, and he stood up in the self-support nest, and said with a tiger face: "What are you talking nonsense? Can this be? Jiang family
Why should we pay back the money? That should have been our money...... "As soon as Mao talked about his own crooked reasoning, he could cultivate a book, and every time he had to read this book from beginning to end, Mei Laosu would almost memorize it.
"Yes, yes, I know, I know it all." Mei Laosuo covered Mao's mouth, he knew in his heart that if the money was not returned, he would rely on Lai, and the Jiang family would not ask them, so try it out with another family, and ask for money on the door as soon as possible, "At night, don't make noise about the children to sleep." Mao took a few breaths, and then reluctantly suppressed the anger in his heart, thinking about Sister Qiu's Nizi and she was going to reduce her life, but suddenly she thought again, is it inconvenient for the rich daughter-in-law to work in Sister Qiu's shop!" I know, it's the damn girl! Mao pulled Mei Laosuo and shouted excitedly, "It must be the money she gave, otherwise how could there be a coincidence?" Let me tell you, that dead girl is a food that crawls outside the world, she has money to give outsiders a waste, she won't give her grandpa and grandmother, she has no conscience, she ......"
The more Mao said, the more angry he became, the more sad he became, and he sat in the nest and covered his face and cried.
The sound of crying and scolding reached the west room, and Aunt Mei was upset about the noise, and even scolded the hall house, "What are you crying about!" Are you dead, man, or dead? ”
Mao's crying suddenly stopped.
No, let's not say it, Aunt Mei's second aunt has been fighting with Mao's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law for many years, and now she can always poke Mao's key point with a knife.
When spring dawned, all the snow in the ground melted, and Aunt Mei began to look for someone to build a house. There is a lot of idle land in the village, and it is not a big deal for Aunt Mei to build two earthen embryo houses, Li Zheng pitied her, and did not embarrass her, and even confiscated all the money from her.
When building a house and beating the soil embryo, Aunt Mei originally invited two workers, but Darong and Dawei brought a lot of strong men to help, and forced the workers invited by others to take away, just one day's work, Aunt Mei's two earthen embryo houses were built, but they could not live in people, and they could only wait for the soil embryo to dry later.
Aunt Mei's family was moved and didn't know what to say, don't give money to others, don't eat when entertaining and eating, just smile and say that all of them are from the villagers, just come and help, it's not a thing!
On the contrary, there are discerning people who can see it and remind Aunt Lamei, whether it is the Fufa family who took them in, or Darong Dawei, who came to work for free, they are all people who work under Mrs. Lin Juren, you have all left Xiaohe Town, who is still a villager in the township? In this world, where are there so many people who are kind enough to help!
On the day Aunt Mei moved, Sister Qiu was at home to settle the accounts, and Tiezi ran to her windowsill and shouted, "Auntie, someone outside is kowtowing to our family!" Sister Qiu put down her pen and went out, only to look at the back of Aunt Mei's family of four leaving.
Very quickly, winter goes to spring, and the spring planting of the year begins. There is not much work in the spring in this area of Xiaohe Town, if the Lord grows cauliflower, pulls weeds and hoes the oats, and piles up in the rice stove at home
When there is a lot of plant ash, the housewives will shovel the plant ash into the bamboo basket, carry the bamboo basket and bury the ash in the field for fertilizer.
In the days before and after Qingming, there was a little light rain, and every household took advantage of this time to plow the land and plant cauliflower.
In addition to renting the land of Sister Qiu's family to others, she also left about 20 acres of land, 15 acres of cooked land, planted with small oats and soybeans, and the remaining five acres of idle land opened a few years ago, with poor soil quality and not enough fat, so you can only grow cauliflower for feeding. When the farm is busy, they hire short-term workers to do it, and when the farm is not working, Lin Zhun and Lin Cheng take a few servants at home to finish the work in the field.
On the day of Qingming, Sister Qiu first went to Mei Liang's grave with Lin Zhun with Wan Wan, burned paper for Mei Liang in the drizzle, and cleaned up the weeds on the grave.
At this time, Sister Qiu can understand why the ancients pursued the boy so fanatically, that is, they couldn't give birth to a child as much as they could, and they also wanted to adopt one or simply raise one, if there was no child, no one would take care of the weeds on the grave in a hundred years, and become a wandering wild ghost, looking forward to the brothers, parents, sons and nephews? Take a look at the Mei family, a few years ago, they came to burn a paper and cry, and now in the past few years, they have come here only to collect the sacrifices of Sister Qiu's grave, Mao's and Mei Laosuo and Mei Tang and Mei Qu, the living boy is naturally more important than the dead.
And like her, how many daughters can have the ability and heart to worship their father?
The black paper ash flew in the drizzle by the wind, and Sister Qiu hugged the pull and patiently explained to her: "The one lying in this dirt bag is my mother's father, you should call your grandfather." ”
Wanwan opened a pair of black grape-like eyes, looked up in confusion and asked, "Isn't Grandpa in the town?" How did you lie down in the ground? ”
"It's also my grandfather in the town, but it's my grandfather who is lying here......" Sister Qiu had to explain again, and pulled Lin Zhun down.
Lin Zhun said with a smile: "I'll tell her when Bang Wan grows up, where can she understand now." ”
The rain only fell for a while, then stopped, and Lin Zhun went home and led people down to the field to grab the cauliflower. At noon, Sister Qiu led the people to cook and sent them to the land boundary for Lin Zhun.
When passing through the Mei family's territory, Sister Qiu listened to Yang Xiaohong's souring from a distance, and when she got closer, she saw that the person Yang Xiaohong scolded was Mei Qu.
Mei Qu was still wearing his robe, which marked his status as a scholar, wearing black linen shoes, squatting on the ground and frowning at the corners of his brows and picking at the mud on the uppers.
"Can't you get off the ground?" Yang Xiaohong stared at Mei Qu and shouted.
Mei Qu raised her eyes impatiently and said, "It's enough to have you guys!" What are you forcing me to do in the field? I haven't done any work in the field, I can't do it! ”
Mao, who turned the soil in the fields, immediately turned his face, this is okay, he dared to scold Meiqu in front of her, and he didn't know how to bully her good boy behind his back! Mao was about to walk over, so he stopped Mei Laosuo.
"You don't care, how many more years can we do? Can he never go to the ground for the rest of his life? Mei Laosu sighed, "No matter how much you do, there is always a beginning." ”
Mao moved his mouth, the most important thing is that the kid who can't give up suffers, in her eyes, the son is like that
If it's not bad luck, don't talk about lifting people now, all the students are all out of the question, and they will already be blessed as an official grandfather.
"Xiaohong, what are you talking to the third son? Hurry up and turn over the earth! Mao said in a loud voice, wanting to call Yang Xiaohong over, don't embarrass Meiqu anymore, these six cities and acres of land can also be done.
Yang Xiaohong didn't care about Mao's at all, Mao's calculation couldn't be clearer, she smiled sarcastically at Mei Qu and said, "I can't do it!" Do you think you're still a scholar? I've heard all about it in the morning, and all the people in Lin Ju have led people to plant cauliflower, what kind of thing are you, more powerful than Lin Juren? ”
(End of chapter)