Sister Qiu gritted her teeth and continued: "As soon as he died, you scolded his daughter-in-law for being rotten, and scolded his daughter for being a poisonous mother, so what did he become?" My father is your own child, isn't it? If not, I'll go with my mother. ”

Mao's froze, when did this Nizi become so sharp-toothed?

Jia's frightened palms trembled, and he hugged Sister Qiu to cover her mouth and didn't want her to say anything.

Sister Qiu pulled down Jia's palm, and gently scratched Jia's palm with her fingernails, "Milk, my father is buried not far from here, he can listen to whatever you scold." Sister Qiu continued to preach unhurriedly, "The whole village knows that my father is a dutiful son, my father is a ghost, and he is also filial to you. ”

Thinking of his eldest son, who died early, Mao's eyes were red, and the swearing words rolled back and forth to his lips a few times before swallowing back. The eldest son who had been trained with all his heart and soul died in the prime of life, and before he could leave a queen, there was nothing more painful in his heart than for her to be a mother.

Mao wanted to scold Sister Qiu and her daughter-in-law Jia fiercely, the two of them dared to scold her mouth, and she lived enough! But Sister Qiu's words touched her heart again, the eldest son is the most filial and obedient, he just died, and his soul is still floating in Xiaohe Town, look at what happened here, forget it, forget it, the lunch is to look at the face of the son, spare the bear mothers of the Jia family.

"What are you doing? It's a corpse! There's no work in your eyes? Hurry up and finish drying your clothes and cooking! Mao stared at his eyes and spoke, although his tone was still fierce, but it was not full of swear words like Fang Cai.

Jia Shi was stunned, but he didn't expect that his mother-in-law, who had always been unreasonable and vicious, would let them go so lightly, and she felt that Sister Qiu had annoyed her mother-in-law this time, and she didn't know what to scold her.

Sister Qiu pulled down the Jia family who was there and whispered: "Mother, hurry up and dry the clothes, grandpa and grandma are hungry, stay to eat." ”

Only then did Jia Shi come to his senses, lowered his head and dried a pot of clothes with Sister Qiu's arms, legs and feet, and ran to the vegetable cellar with low eyebrows, picked up two large cabbages, and fetched water and noodles to wash vegetables.

Now just the beginning of spring, the green vegetables in the vegetable field have not yet grown, the vegetables that can be eaten are the large cabbages stored in the vegetable cellar in winter, if there are yellow flowers to eat in winter, but this work is warm, but there is no yellow flowers, it is when the green and yellow are not connected.

The Mei family has a lot of land and little land, and they still provide for the old Mei Qu to study in the town, so the food is not as good as other families. For example, the Jiang family eats a bowl of vegetables for one person at noon, and eats gnocchi, but the Mei family does not eat like this, just eating gnocchi and eating more, and it costs food, while the Mei family eats noodles and soup at noon, and even if you eat soup, you can eat less noodles.

Jia's palm rolling skills are very good, a pot of millet noodles mixed with a small amount of fine noodles, rubbed for a moment to become a yellow dough, arm thick rolling pin back and forth, less than a moment the dough becomes a thin round large dough sheet, and then folded into a palm-sized knife, with a large cutting kitchen knife cut into thin noodles. The cabbage was also washed, cut and laid on a cutting board.

Sister Qiu took a large corn stalk from the dry firewood pile outside into the small kitchen and helped her mother light the fire. When it was time to do work, the second family hid in the west side house and did not say a word, hoping that they would come to do the work, and the family would not eat lunch.

When the smoke in the small kitchen floated up, the door of the west room opened with a bang, and Aunt Mei's second aunt Wei Shi wore a magenta embroidered jacket, and her hair was smeared with osmanthus oil, and the comb was clean and neat, and she walked to the bamboo pole in the courtyard to dry the clothes, and after looking at the clothes, she walked to the door of the stove house, leaned against the door frame of the small kitchen, and said: "Sister-in-law, why haven't I washed the blue and white pants?" There's also a big black one on it! ”

The water in the cauldron was boiling, and Jia Shi was going down to the inside, stirring the pot with wooden chopsticks while going down, afraid that the noodles would sink to the bottom and stick to the pot, so he listened to Wei Shi say this in a hurry, "Ah? He raised his eyes to look at the brightly dressed brother and sister by the door.

She is kind-hearted by nature and thin-skinned, and she says this to her face, and she can't come down a little bit on her face, and she has beaten all those clothes carefully, how can there be any that has not been washed? Not to mention an honest and honest person like her, she is an ordinary person, and others help her wash her clothes, and she doesn't come to the door and say that she is not clean.

"That'...... Then I'll go back after lunch......" Before Jia finished speaking, Sister Qiu, who was squatting in front of the rice stove and cooking the pot, stood up, took out a corn stalk that was burning in the stomach of the rice stove, and walked to the door where Wei was standing with a gloomy face, and threw it at Wei's feet.

Wei Shi was frightened and hurriedly jumped to the side half a step, the ashes after the corn stalk burned were floating in the air, Wei Shi glanced at Sister Qiu angrily, and hurriedly patted the black ash crumbs stuck on the trouser hem, and he couldn't care about pretending to be polite, and shouted in a sharp voice: "What are you doing!" When I entered the city, I didn't earn a fart, and I still wanted to go to the house and lift the tiles! I'll ask your second uncle to beat you up, and I'll be honest! ”

"Second aunt, do you know how to be clean? Why don't you wash your own clothes? Sister Qiu said loudly, "When I came back from washing my mother's clothes, I heard that the second daughter-in-law of the Mei family is a lazy person, and she doesn't wash all her clothes!" ”

Wei Shi was annoyed, she loved cleanliness and heavy face, and muttered to Jia's family, "Sister-in-law, why are you like this?" I'm pregnant with your little nephew, my body is inconvenient and I can't stick cold water, I want you to help wash two clothes, it's just these jobs by the way, how can you tell people around! After finishing speaking, he deliberately bowed his belly to Jia's family, who told Jia's that if he couldn't give birth to a son, he should wash her clothes and serve her!

"My mother didn't talk about it." Sister Qiu stopped in front of Jia's family, "The clothes are full of bells and whistles, the people in the village will know that it is yours at a glance, my mother doesn't have such beautiful clothes!" ”

Mei Xiucai is dead, Sister Qiu is his only child, and he has to keep filial piety for three years, and Jia's guard is at least six months of heavy filial piety, not to mention clothes with flowers, even clothes with slightly bright colors are not allowed to be worn, and Jia's has no good-looking clothes, which everyone knows in Xiaohe Town.

"I'm talking to your mother, what's the matter with your girl! Roll the edges! Wei Shi leaned on his waist and crooked his mouth and rushed to Sister Qiu, and then said to Jia Shi with a long voice and a smile: "Sister-in-law, those pants are not clean, but you can't wear them......"

Jia Shi glanced at Sister Qiu, signaled her not to speak, the work in her hands was not stopped, the noodles in the pot had already been boiled, she poured cold water into the cauldron, put the cut cabbage in it to cook, bowed her head and said to Wei: "Brother and sister, no one said you, Sister Qiu's children's family doesn't understand things, they talk and play, I'll wash it again after lunch." ”

Wei Shi smiled meaningfully, and looked at Sister Qiu from above, the little kid dared to scold her this morning, she had enough to live! It's not okay to tell her to eat a stew! Look if she dares to turn over the!

"Sister-in-law, I have no taste in my mouth when I am pregnant with a child, and I don't have the strength to eat anything, you cut some pickled kohlrabi for me, cut it into thin strips, I can't eat it if it's thick, mix it with sesame oil and balsamic vinegar, and then scramble a red egg, so that it can be appetizing." Wei Shi patted the non-existent dust on his body, and asked Jia Shi, who was busy in the rice stove house.

"Okay." Jia Shi replied with a voice, turned his back to wipe the water traces at the end of his eyes, Wei Shi is deliberately looking for ballast, tossing her, there was no such thing as making trouble before, it was nothing more than to see Sister Qiu come back, and the family had a little more mouth to eat, and the second family was unhappy.

The smoke lingered in the small kitchen, the noodles in the cauldron were boiling with steam, and in the fog, Sister Qiu still looked at Jia's small act of wiping her tears, and for a moment her heart seemed to be scalding the boiling water in the cauldron, she still thought that the Mei family was too simple. The second family has two sons, and the Mei family is the most vocal, the entire Mei family belongs to the second family, and the second family doesn't treat her and Jia as members of the Mei family at all. The Jia family was tired of being a cow and a horse, and they only felt that it was natural, and they also felt that they had eaten the Mei family's food with the Jia family, and they suffered a loss.

Sister Qiu silently glanced at the smiling Wei Shi, turned her head and took the wooden basin and collected the blue and white pants hanging on the bamboo pole.

"What are you doing?" Wei asked unhappily.

Sister Qiu smiled and said, "Didn't the second aunt say that the pants were not cleaned?" ”

Due to sobbing, Jia's voice was a little hoarse, and the sound came from the small kitchen, "Let's wash after eating." ”

Sister Qiu raised her voice and said, "No, just leave me a bowl of noodles." Then he said to Wei: "Second aunt, you said that these pants were not cleaned, I just looked at them for a long time, and I didn't see anything unclean. I took these pants to my father's grave to see if it was clean or unclean. ”

"You ......" Second Aunt Mei'er's white face turned red, and she pointed at Sister Qiu speechless. The uncle and his younger siblings originally belonged to the type of person who wanted to avoid suspicion, where did they take their younger siblings' pants to find the uncle and ask, or go to the grave to ask, this is called the neat-mouthed Aunt Mei, who is speechless.

Mao walked out of the hall with a gloomy face, still holding the soles of his shoes in his hands, and scolded Sister Qiu first, "Where are you going to eat yet?" Second Aunt Mei, who looked up and down with a light flower whistle on her face, "Your eldest brother has just been gone for more than a month, what are you doing wearing such a festive scene?" Ask Sister Qiu to wash your pants, do you have a panic on your face? If you don't make some ghost names for a day, your armpits are itchy? ”

Sister Qiu couldn't hold back her laughter, hurriedly lowered her head, hid the corners of her mouth and eyes, Mao's scolding was the most ruthless, and people couldn't get off the stage.