When Sister-in-law Mei, who was standing with her head bowed, heard this, she immediately raised her eyes and glanced at Mao, knelt on the ground, and begged with a trembling voice; "Mother, didn't we say okay, Sister Qiu only signed the living deed and not the death deed? Sister Qiu...... Sister Qiu, her father is such a daughter as Sister Qiu! As she spoke, Sister-in-law Mei cried uncontrollably, crying to the point of sadness, and cried softly without taking her breath: "Mother, Sister Qiu, her father has only been gone for a month!" Sister Qiu is also married to someone else, why can't you sell your granddaughter! ”

Speaking of the dead eldest son, Mao's eyes were also red, and he knocked the stick in his hand hard, and said, "What are you doing?" You still want to turn against you! What do you want to do in front of outsiders? Is it because you see that my son is gone, and you will be thinking about the flowers? Do I lack you to eat or do I lack you to wear? And the face told me, my son is a daughter, and he doesn't even rely on anyone who breaks the pot to help the soul? It's not good to give birth to a hard female worm, you hen who doesn't lay eggs! Go back to your mother's house! ”

Sister-in-law Mei hurriedly wiped her face, pulled Sister Qiu and walked home, walking very fast, Sister Qiu only watched Sister-in-law Mei's two shoes with broken toes striding forward in front of her face, with great shame and sorrow, as if she was humbly afraid of being looked at.

When she walked to the door of the house, Sister-in-law Mei suddenly thought about it, she came out to wash her clothes before, but the clothes were still left on the riverbank and not brought back, "Sister Qiu, you go back first, I'll come back after washing the clothes." ”

"Do you wash the second aunt's clothes again?" Sister Qiu asked.

Sister-in-law Mei nodded, turned her head and was about to leave.

Sister Qiu grabbed her, and after the first shout of "Mother ......" came out, Sister Qiu felt a lot smoother, "Just take the clothes back, don't wash her, she has arms and legs, and she has a daughter, why do you always bully you to wash her clothes?" ”

The eldest daughter of the second aunt, Yindi, is two years older than her, and the 13-year-old girl of the Zhuang family is already a laborer, and it is nothing to wash her mother's clothes.

"Be quiet." Sister-in-law Mei hurriedly preached, and after seeing that there was no sound in the courtyard, she sighed and said, "Sister Qiu, don't talk nonsense, your second aunt...... Isn't she pregnant with a child, she doesn't have many clothes to wash, and her mother is also a matter of convenience. ”

Sister Qiu pursed her lips, the weather just started in spring, the water in the river is still cold and biting, washing clothes and hands can freeze off a layer of skin, what is the way, she has never seen a more delicate daughter-in-law than Sister Qiu's second aunt, she doesn't do it, and she can't give up her own daughter, but she can bully her sister-in-law.

The second aunt gave birth to two sons, Da Niu and Erniu, and she thought that she was the number one hero of the old Mei family, and now she is pregnant with a fourth child. Mao only has a son and grandson in his eyes, and he also looks down on the second aunt who gave birth to two grandchildren and is about to give birth to a third grandchild.

If she gets her clothes back as they are, the second aunt will make trouble, and Mao's will definitely not care about it, and they will be the ones who will suffer at that time.

"Then you can wash your clothes in the river and fish them up." Sister Qiu said close to Sister-in-law Mei's ear, "Don't worry about washing her, when she asks, I have a way to pick her up, and I won't be able to say anything at that time." ”

Sister-in-law Mei's nose was sore, and she endured it for a long time to endure the tears that were about to fall, and as soon as her daughter returned to the city, she grew up, and she knew that her heart hurt her mother, and she was no longer the silly and stupid daughter she was before.

"Okay, my mother knows, and my mother is not stupid." Sister-in-law Mei smiled, "You go into the house to rest, if you are sleepy, you can sleep for a while." ”

"Eh, okay." Sister Qiu preached, watching Sister-in-law Mei's weak back gradually disappear.

The courtyard of the Mei family is not small, there are four main halls facing south, the middle one is the hall house, the westernmost hut is for food, the pavilion on the side is the house of Sister Qiu's third uncle, and the easternmost room is the pavilion of Sister Qiu's grandmother.

There are two rooms on the west side of the main hall, which are the houses of Sister Qiu's second uncle's family, and a room with a small kitchen on the east side is the attic room where Sister Qiu's family lives. In winter, the small kitchen is on fire, the firewood is wet and difficult to burn, how much heating is not noticed, the smoke is smoky enough, and in the summer, it is steaming hot, and it is the worst house in the Mei family.

Sister Qiu recalled that when she was a child, she lived in a west room with the second uncle's family, and later the second uncle's family added two sons, and the second uncle muttered that he couldn't live and had no money to start a new house, so Sister Qiu's family moved to the earthen house next to the small kitchen, and lived there until now.

In addition to these houses, two magnolia trees were planted in the courtyard, and at the turn of spring and summer, the trees were full of magnolias. Except for the chicken pen and pig pen in the yard, the rest of the places were reclaimed as vegetable fields. Sister Qiu walked all the way to their house along the path, and saw that the vegetable field was freshly turned over, and the manure was cultivated, and the black fat soil diffused with a faint and gentle smell, and the sown vegetable seeds had already sent out tiny sprouts, swaying slightly in the wind.

She left before these Xu land has not been turned over, these Xu work is either done by her mother or her grandfather Mei Laosuo, the whole Mei family is full of calculations, and these two diligent people, the second uncle Mei is a tall horse, but he is lazy, don't expect him to do work, Mei Er's family is a "delicate" person, and it is impossible to go to the ground, and the third uncle of the Mei family is still studying, and he doesn't know where the iron plow is.

"Eh, you...... Why are you back? A slightly sharp voice sounded in Sister Qiu's ears.

Sister Qiu raised her eyes and saw that a girl wearing a coarse cloth jacket and combing two braids came out of the west room with a basin of water and looked at her in surprise. The girl is much taller than her, her hair is slightly gray, and there are only two thin braids when her hair is tied up, and her face is a little long.

This has a nice name in Sister Qiu's hometown, called "veil", which refers to a freckleled girl, as if she is covered with a veil. Some girls will lose their veils when they grow up, while others will stay with them for the rest of their lives.

"Big sister." Sister Qiu said hello and continued to walk forward.

Mei Yindi, the eldest lady of the Mei family, was not happy, and shouted with raised eyebrows: "What do I ask you?" Are you deaf? ”

Sister Qiu glanced at her, "Our grandmother knows why I came back, Lu Ya told our grandmother, and when our grandmother comes back, you can ask her how you are." ”

In Mao's eyes, granddaughters are all money-losers, even if Mei Yindi is the eldest daughter of the Mei family, she can't be an exception, she also wants to grind her feet, give Mei Yindi one hundred and twenty guts, and she doesn't dare to ask why Sister Mao's Qiu came back.