Chapter 32: Spread all over the hillside
Little friend, my aunt doesn't want to destroy a small underage flower like you and fall in love with a 10-year-old boy...... Psychologically, I can't get over this hurdle!
The donkey muttered, "Everyone in our family has told us that the family that is engaged to you is very wealthy, and they look down on you and will definitely not marry you." There are also two pieces of money, my father said, in the future, our two families will be in the family's house, now your family is in difficulty, my family should help your family, and he still thinks he is too little to give two dollars! ”
"Do you really say that?" Sister Qiu took a breath, the people in the village either ridiculed her for being a poisonous mother, or hated her family's poverty, without her father and no mother's brother to help her, how did she get to Fang Laosuo, she became a sweetheart.
The donkey nodded, and there was a sentence that he hesitated for a long time and didn't say, his father hugged him and sighed, saying that Sister Qiu was careful of her eyes, and his mother made such a fuss today, and she definitely hated the upper family.
Look at the mother who is crying and tossing, the 10-year-old man can't help but look up to the sky and sigh, eh, the woman is tired! Why do you want to get married!
"Donkey, your family wants to marry Sister Qiu, why didn't you ask if people are happy to marry?" Lin Zhun's voice came from behind the two, he waited at home for Sister Qiu for a long time and didn't see her, so he went out to take a look, and as soon as he came out, he listened to the donkey's words.
I don't know how, the donkey looked at Lin Zhun's gentle and warm smile, and Leng felt a gloomy feeling.
Da Yin stared at the donkey with a dissatisfied face, and at noon he also wanted to go to Mei's house to support Sister Qiu, but the master pulled him and didn't want him to go, saying that he was still young and it would be useless to go. He's grown up, he's all a gentleman, and the adults always look down on him! It's disgusting!
"That's it, Sister Qiu won't marry you!" Da Yin preached angrily, he is almost the same as a donkey, and he often plays together, but this guy's mother is not a good person, unreasonable and fierce, you can't ask Sister Qiu to marry him, otherwise you won't be angry with his mother every day? It's like the plum milk next door bullying Sister Qiu and her mother.
"Who else can I marry if I don't marry?" The donkey was confused.
Dayin choked up on the donkey's question, and immediately replied: "Sister Qiu's sea of people who can marry!" Who cares about you...... Me, I can also marry Sister Qiu! "Da Yin suddenly thought, the donkey is almost the same as him, since the donkey can be married, he can also marry!
Before he finished speaking, Da Yin slapped him on the back of his head, turned his face to look at the smiling eldest brother, Da Yin was full of grievances, he was out for Sister Qiu, how could he beat him!
Lin Zhun chuckled with a warning, "If you talk nonsense again, I won't take you out to play in the future." Where can I talk about the marriage of the girl's family on the side of my lips, so that people can listen, I don't know how to arrange Sister Qiu! ”
Sister Qiu looked at Lin Zhun almost with a grateful gaze, Dayin and Donkey, two little children who didn't understand anything...... Jue's marriage is a playhouse, I marry you today, will I marry him tomorrow?
"Did you hear that?" Sister Qiu took the opportunity to say to the donkey: "If you want to repay the favor, don't say whether you will marry or not, I will not marry you." ”
The donkey nodded, a little helpless, "That's fine." In fact, he didn't quite understand what was going on, so he patted his thin chest and said very proudly: "You saved my life, I can't rely on this, if there is anything you need help in the future, come to find my donkey!" ”
This kid, I've heard a lot about the Water Margin......
Originally, Sister Qiu and the brothers of the Jiang family went to cut the pigs and eat grass, and temporarily joined the donkey, so they became four people together, and after cutting the pigs and grass, the four people went to the small river at the entrance of the village.
Spring has arrived, peach blossoms and pear blossoms are blooming all over Xiaohe Town, wild flowers are also blooming all over the hillside, especially the flowers and trees in the gutter are all blooming, looking from a distance, a piece of pink and steaming, very spectacular and beautiful, but it is a rare beauty in the 21st century in the eyes of other people, it is nothing more than an ordinary scene.
Xiaohe Town has four seasons clearly, the four seasons are overlapping, each season will have a different scenery, spring is a hundred flowers in full bloom, purple and red, summer is a piece of green oil, lush green onions, autumn leaves are red and yellow, autumn is high and cool, winter snow brushes, silver wrapped. People who were born and raised in cities have very little contact with nature, and they do not see or experience the beauty of the four seasons.
The small village is quiet and beautiful, such an ancient time is something that Sister Qiu has never experienced in her previous life, there is no war, the palace princes are relatively far away from her, and there is no Jin Yong's pen to work hard to make the heroes of the rivers and lakes, only the trivial and complicated life of the crop households, ordinary and hard work.
The petals of the peach trees on the riverside floated into the river, drifting into the distance along the river, and there were several uncles and daughters-in-law squatting on the stone slabs on the riverside, laughing and beating the clothes in their hands, holding their sleeves high, showing half of their white arms.
If you go up the river, you will find the mountains of Xiaohe Town, and the small rivers that flow through Xiaohe Town are the rivers in the mountains. The children followed Lin Zhun all the way up, and the more they went, the thinner the river became, and the clearer the water flowed.
Lin Zhun asked Sister Qiu to lead the big seal and the donkey to stay on the shore obediently, he poured out the pigs and grass, raised the trouser legs, and flowed into the river, and used the back basket to catch the river fish and shrimp in the river.
Lin Zhun bent down in the small river to fish back and forth for a quarter of an hour, before the water returned to the shore, at this time there are only a few small river fish larvae green shrimp, not enough fat, until the end of the summer rainstorm, when the river surges, there will be large river fish rushing downstream, if you are lucky, you can catch two or three pounds of river fish.
The four of them picked up a lot of dry firewood, Lin Zhun brought a flint, first lit the fire with a pinch of weeds, and then carefully added branches to go up, blowing gently, and in less than a moment the flames were bigger, and the small river fish and small green shrimp that had been caught before were skewered into a few skewers, and they were roasted on the fire.
The donkey is happy no, there is no older brother in his family, the big children in the village think they are small, and they are not willing to take him to play, he is still the first time to grill river fish and grilled shrimp outside, I think it is much more fun than bringing a group of children with a nose, compared to falling into the urine mud, climbing trees I don't know how many levels, I made up my mind to follow the big brother and the big brother Yin to play.
Sister Qiu is also the first time to grill small green shrimp, this kind of green shrimp born in the shallow river is almost transparent, with long whiskers, black sesame-like eyes, mixed with water seems to be made of water, with a branch easily pierced into it.
The river fish and shrimp are very easy to cook, lack of salt and oil, and there is a lot of roasted paste, which must not be as good as the grilled river fish sprinkled with all kinds of condiments that Sister Qiu had eaten in the barbecue field in her previous life, but it is a few half-old children who still eat with relish.
The green shrimp are too small, and they are even smaller when they are roasted, Sister Qiu looked at the red green shrimp on the branches, and couldn't help but say: "If you can make more green shrimp seeds, it would be good to make green shrimp paste." ”
Green shrimp paste is a good thing, mixed in rice, stir-fried into the dish, fresh and fragrant, in the ancient times when there was no MSG, this is an excellent condiment.
"Sister Qiu can make green shrimp paste?" Lin Zhun asked, when he was studying in the town, he heard from foreign traders that there were a lot of green shrimp paste on the seaside, and the sea green shrimp caught by the fisherman could only be kept for one or two days, and it would be easy to preserve if it was dried into green shrimp paste.
Sister Qiu nodded hurriedly, "Yes!" After thinking about it, he felt that it was inappropriate, and added, "I have seen others do it." ”
Lin Zhun looked at Sister Qiu and smiled, "Okay, I'll give you a little more next time." ”
The sun shines into the river, and the water surface is rippling, but Sister Qiu feels that Lin Zhun's eyes are brighter than the surface of the river.
The donkey's mother came to make such a scene, Second Uncle Mei came out once, and he didn't get the money, Second Aunt Mei peeked out under the window of the west side house, she stomped her feet in a hurry, hated Mei Tang for being unproductive, couldn't bear it, couldn't get the money, and didn't even dare to let go of a fart in front of Mao. The two guan money was transferred to a position in Li Zheng's hand, and it was transferred from Fang Laosu's hand to the Mancang family, and Mei Tang didn't even touch it.
As soon as Second Uncle Mei entered the door, Second Aunt Mei became annoyed, lowered her voice, and screwed and scolded Mei Tang with her belly.
Mei Tang yelled angrily: "What can I do? At that time, you also looked at the situation, Li Zheng was standing there, and my mother didn't have anything to say, can I still pay it back? ”
Aunt Mei also knew in her heart that it was impossible not to repay the money, but she was not happy in her heart, and she was not happy! sat down beside Mei Tang and pushed Mei Tang's angry Heng Heng and said: "The head of the family, the eldest brother and the third brother are all studying, so our room suffers the most!" The old woman's heart is too biased! I don't care, the big cow and the two cows also read! ”
Mei Tang "choked" and said impatiently: "Women don't have knowledge, what's the use of studying?" With so much study, so much money, how many old talents have passed the exam? Even if you pass the old Xiucai, look at the eldest brother, it's not like this? The big cow and the two cows are not the material for studying! If you have the money for him to study, you can build him two houses and marry a daughter-in-law! ”
It's no wonder that Mei Tang thinks so, reading is really a high-risk investment, this year is not as expensive as the 21st century, books are very expensive, the four treasures of the study are not cheap, and going to school is a lot of money. Even those with a well-to-do family only want their children to read for a year or two to understand a few words and understand things, and then go home. Like the Mei family, there are a few children who can study.
Aunt Mei doesn't think so, if the two sons have an old Xiucai who can be admitted to the exam, they are people who have a reputation, look at how respected Sister Qiu and her father are in the village, you will know, and if you pass the exam, Lao Xiucai can support the family without having to work, what a good thing! "Erniu is not the material for studying, but our Da Niu is smart, if his grandmother is not so eccentric, willing to provide Da Niu with a study, maybe he is an old showman!"
Mei Tang is also a little moved, although the benefits of being an old Xiucai are not much, he can win a lot of his white crops, at least there is a national supply, food and clothing are not worried, even the county grandfather also has to look at it differently, the eldest brother is so sloppy, just because he has to provide for the third brother to study, and there is a big guy to eat.
"Where can our mother be happy?" Mei Tang lowered his voice and said, "I don't have any money to pay off my eldest brother's debts, what do I use for Da Niu to study?" ”
Second Aunt Mei snorted, "Who believes that she has no money in her hands?" Didn't you pinch your hands and save for the old man? Pushing Mei Tang, he said: "You go and tell your mother that the big cows are all 10 years old, and they should have gone to study a long time ago." ”
Mei Tang sat on the edge of the kang and did not move for half a day, since he had memories, the Mao family is the master of the Mei family, the day of the Mei family, who dares to ask the Mao family for advice? Seeing that Aunt Mei'er was about to make a noise about the corners of her eyebrows, Mei Tang hurriedly comforted: "Good life, I'll say, don't make trouble, it's not good to ask your mother to listen to it." ”
Second Aunt Mei immediately smiled, urging Second Uncle Mei to go quickly.
Mei Tang had already boasted, so he could only go out with his jacket, but as soon as he opened the curtain, he looked at Mao's tiger face standing by the door of the west side room, looking at him, Mei Tang was empty-hearted, and said with a smile: "Mother, why are you standing here?" ”
Mao Shi was cold, patted his chest and said: "I am not blessed with the old woman, I was a cow and a horse to earn money and marry two daughters-in-law, and in the end I couldn't even eat a hot meal, and I still served them when I was old!" What I owe you is yours? The top ones want to eat my flesh and eat my blood? ”
Mei Tang also waited in the house for a long time, waiting for lunch, but Jia Shi did not come out of the east room, and no one went in the small kitchen to cook.
"Go, tell your daughter-in-law to come out and cook!" After Mao scolded, he asked Mei Tang, "Seeing that the sky is not in the house, I should be the eldest young lady?" Our Lao Mei family can't afford to support her, so we asked her to go back to Wei's house to be a young lady! ”
Mei Tang was unhappy, "What about the sister-in-law?" Isn't the big cow his mother pregnant with a child, and his body is not good! ”
Originally, Mao's two daughters-in-law were all angry, but Mei Tang said this, Mao's was even more annoyed that the second daughter-in-law Wei Shi, who couldn't hide in the house, Wei Shi was a smile when he saw people, and he loved nonsense the most.
"Why, I still can't move your daughter-in-law? Second, you have lost your conscience! I have a daughter-in-law and forget my mother, I gave birth to you for nothing! Mao's angry lips are all trembling, the obedient eldest son is dead, and now the second child in front of her is a daughter-in-law who has no mother in her eyes, how can her life be so bitter!
Mei Tang was stunned when he saw this battle, he beat and scolded Mao to grow up, and he was most afraid that his mother would come here, so he immediately turned his face and ate fiercely in the room: "Listen to your mother's instructions?" Deaf? Don't hurry out and cook the rice! ”
Seeing him like this, Mao Shi was slightly satisfied in his heart, took the shelf, turned his head and walked to the hall, and left a sentence before leaving, "Follow me to the hall, I have something to tell you." ”