When passing by the door of Mei's house, the whole family listened to the noise, and when they looked up, the courtyard was already torn into a mess, and they were just about to wave their fists.

More than two years old in the evening, it was the first time she looked at the dry fight, and she hurriedly buried her head in Lin Zhun's arms, and her two little tender hands were still covering her ears, Lin Zhun coaxed her softly, and accelerated her pace to Jiang's house.

However, it was the second Aunt Mei who had already looked at them, and even shouted, "Sister Qiu, Dazhun!" Come on, let's ask the grandfather to give us a break from this lawsuit! As he spoke, he ran out and grabbed Sister Qiu.

Sister Qiu naturally doesn't care about this bad thought, didn't she see that Li Zheng didn't come at all!

Mei Qu saw Sister Qiu and Lin Zhun, and immediately her face turned white with fright, and she stood there and shrank into the crack in the ground, not daring to say a word.

"We are juniors, but we don't dare to care about the affairs of our elders!" Sister Qiu smiled and shook her hand, pulling Lin Zhun and hurriedly running to Jiang's house, behind them, the servant Lao Niu and his wife who had just bought him, hurriedly blocked the second Aunt Mei who was about to pull Sister Qiu.

The angry Aunt Mei stomped her feet, scolded and sighed a few words and went back.

After arriving at Jiang's house, the crying and scolding next door were still endless, even if she sat in the house, she could hear it clearly, and she was scared to hide in Lin Zhun's arms and didn't dare to come out, she was still the first time to see this kind of scene.

"How can you live here!" Sister Qiu frowned and said, "Father and mother, now that the Great Seal is all married, you still live with us." ”

Lin does and Aunt Chunhua all have this meaning, who doesn't want to live with the kid, it's just that they take care of Sister Qiu and are not willing to bring it up by themselves, and now Sister Qiu has taken the initiative to bring it up, and everyone is happy.

Lin really expanded the courtyard to the west by half an acre of land, built a few rooms there for the servants to live in, and when he grew up a little later, he built a few more side houses, or bought the idle land behind him, and expanded into the courtyard to build houses to live in.

Lin Laosu looked at the location of the Mei family next door and sighed: "This year is the New Year, and all of them are not in peace!" ”

Sister Qiu had already heard that the Mei family was arguing about the distribution of acres of land in the ten cities. In her opinion, it is nothing more than a few acres of land handed down from her ancestors, and she is still noisy to start, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the Mei family has no interest.

But Fan Meitang and Meiqu have one that can be done, there are so many ownerless idle land in Xiaohe Town, and it is hard to cultivate a few acres of land in the city, so that they can work for a few years, and the land is mature, isn't it inconvenient to be a wealth?

There are not many families with less land in the village, all of them are like the Mei family, there are more people from generation to generation, and the land will always be like that, and the descendants can only beg for food.

Over the years, Sister Qiu has bought a lot of land sporadically, adding up to 200 acres of land, and now Lin Zhun has passed the examination, all of these permits do not have to pay public taxes, and they have saved a lot of expenses, just relying on these permits, they can live a life without worrying about food and clothing, but none of this big guy has the idea of touching her land, everyone is concentrating on doing their own work, this is why the Jiang family can live a prosperous life, and the Mei family goes

The cause of the downhill road.

In the evening, the noise of Mei's house finally stopped, and some villagers who watched the play came to Jiang's house to chatter, saying that the two sides were decided, and it was the same as before, Meitang was divided into four cities and acres, and the remaining six cities belonged to Mei Laosu and Meiqu, but Mei Laosu wanted to give Mei Tang 10 taels of silver to build a house.

In Xiaohe Town, three taels of silver can build three decent tile houses, and Meitang wants 10 taels of silver, so the lion opens his mouth. However, it was the one who surprised everyone, Mei Laosu actually responded, others were surprised that Mei Laosu had so much money, and Mei Tang was remorseful, and felt less.

Mei Laosu doesn't have so much money in his hands, but he has to stay until the beginning of spring to build a house, and he can slow down for a while. His idea was to sell the grass pigs on both sides of the grass pigsty, and scrape together enough 10 taels of silver to give Mei Qu, but he really couldn't, so he sold Qiao Xian's jewelry completely, and how could he send Mei Tang away, otherwise there would be no peace at home.

Most of Qiao Xian's jewelry was used to dot Mei Qu, and some of it was used to give Yang Xiaohong a dowry, and the rest of the money, Mei Laosu and Mao's plan planned to leave Mei Qu as emergency money at the bottom of the box, but now that the matter is now, they will not use the money.

After two more days, it was almost the New Year, and Sister Qiu took Wanwan and the servants to Jiang's house to help pick up things, preparing to make sure that they moved to them before the New Year, and this year was spent at their house. When passing by the door of Mei's house, Mao was sitting by the courtyard door with his sleeves crossed, chatting with an elderly lady.

Over the years, Mao's has aged a lot, his black and thin face is full of folds, his hair is also very white, and the whole person is thin and small, and he can almost shrink to the board when he sits there.

Seeing Sister Qiu coming over with a group of people, Mao's voice immediately raised a lot, and she said to the old lady next to her: "The two rabbit kings and eight turtle grandsons of the second family, as soon as they arrive at the meal, they will take a big porcelain bowl to scoop the vegetables in the urn, and they are not afraid to kill them!" ”

When Mei Qucheng got married, there were a lot of leftover dishes on the banquet, and Mao's all stored in the water urn in the courtyard, which could be put for ten days and half a month.

When the grandson comes to scoop the vegetables, Mei Laosuo and the Mao family can't beat people away, they can only let them scoop the vegetables and cook by themselves. In the past two days, Sister Qiu has heard a lot of scolding next door in Jiang's house, and she is tired of listening to it.

In her opinion, it's just two mouthfuls of food! Isn't it a pity that you can't finish eating and throw it away? Even if the Mao family hates Aunt Mei, what about Mei Tang? Isn't she a child? Aren't Da Niu and Er Niu her own grandchildren? She can scold her two mouthfuls of food like this, and she can't complain that Mei Tang and Da Niu Erniu have no respect and affection for their old couple.

When passing by the door of Mei's house, Mao was still talking loudly: "Look at my clothes, I have been wearing them all for 6 years!" Many young people have never made new clothes, and the Chinese New Year is also full of ...... What's the use of raising these little people? When you grow up, your wings are stiff, and you forget that they have eaten your food, and you have money

I can't remember you! ”

Sister Qiu continued to walk forward, and she didn't look at Mao's at all, she hadn't sent Boxing gifts to Mei's family for many years, and Mao's had no fabric to make new clothes. Mao's didn't blame the kid for being unproductive and unfilial, but blamed her, because Sister Qiu, the granddaughter who was out of the cabinet, didn't give it away, so she didn't wear it.

Then let her continue to wear new clothes that she doesn't have! Sister Qiu laughed sarcastically.

"Mother, what is the old wife talking about?" Wanwan asked softly in her arms.

Sister Qiu smiled and kissed Wanwan's small noodle plate, and said in a slightly amplified voice: "That old woman is complaining that her kid is not enduring, and she can't make new clothes for her to wear during the New Year!" ”

"Oh!" Wanwan looked very worried, looked down at her brand-new little flower jacket and small sledgehammer shoes, and felt that there were no new clothes to wear during the New Year, how pitiful!

Mao's anger can't be, he can't speak with his mouth open, he has nothing to say, and the old lady who is chattering can't hold back her laughter, so she hurriedly got up and said: "It's not too early, I'll go home and cook." Ran a few steps forward, eagerly greeted Sister Qiu, teased Wanwan in Sister Qiu's arms, and praised Wanwan for being so good.

The old lady is not stupid, Mao is a poor country mother, Sister Qiu is a wife, she should be clear.

Dayin and Liu Fanghua have already returned from Huyang, although the two have placed their home in Huyang, but in the end, their parents are in Xiaohe Town, and the New Year will still be spent in Xiaohe Town. Due to the addition of a new daughter-in-law, the Jiang family's year has been extremely lively, just moving to Li, more than ten people have been busy for two or three days.

On the morning of the 27th of the year, the sky began to drift goose feathers and heavy snow, and on the 30th day, the ice cubes under the eaves of the house had already formed more than a foot long, and Sister Qiu and Lin really raised carbon braziers in each room, sitting and talking with Lin Laosuo, and the big seal smiled and held the bamboo pole to pound the ice under the eaves of the house.

Because the ground was covered with thick snow, the ice fell on the snow and broke very little, so the big seal took a ruler and handed the long ice cube in his arms, and said with a smile: "Good sense, you taste it, this ice is sweet!" ”

Wanwan tilted her head, looked at the uncle with bad intentions on her face, and said in a milky voice: "Uncle Mengren, ice is not sugar, how can it be sweet?" ”

Dayin stomped his feet and sighed, feeling that the current little girl was all thieves and thieves, and she couldn't coax them all, but she didn't give up, and coaxed with a smile: "You taste it, it's really sweet!" ”

Before Wanwan really stuck out her tongue to add ice cream, Liu Fanghua scraped and patted Da Yin's head with one ear, and said with a crossed waist: "How old are you?" Also bullying the night! I was sorry and said with a smile to Sister Qiu: "Sister-in-law, he is like this, you don't have the same knowledge as him!" As he spoke, he snatched Wanwan from the arms of the Great Seal, hugged it to Aunt Chunhua, and glanced at the Great Seal.

Da Yin saw that all the people in the room were angry and looked at him, pursed his lips, and hurriedly ran to Lin Laosuo to brush his sense of existence.

Before eating Chinese New Year's Eve, Lin Laojun insisted on going to the old house to set a cannon, and Lin Zhun and Sister Qiu were afraid that the road would slip and Lin Lao

Su fell, so he took the big seal to the old house with the cannon, and the child in the province had nothing to do, so he teased the night as a toy, and when they came back after the cannon, they happened to cook dumplings.

There are still snowflakes in the sky, and there is a deep footprint in the ground, and every household in the village is in the artillery battle before the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and the sound of violent bamboo crackles into a loud sound, and the whole village is filled with the smell of gunpowder and green smoke of the artillery battle.

Sister Qiu hates to smell this, it's a pity that it's a tradition to set off cannons, but the government here won't issue an official document banning whipping, and it's just a few days a year, and patience will pass.

When the servants walked to the door of Mei's house, they saw a group of four people standing by the door of Mei's house, as if they were two people with a son and a daughter, looking inside, hesitating. Seeing Sister Qiu and her group coming over, the middle-aged woman led by her hurriedly asked, "Daughter, let me ask you about something, is this the Mei family in Xiaohe Town?" ”

(End of chapter)