Chapter 38: The True Biography of the Mao Family
Mao's is not stupid, look at Jia's like this, he also knows what is going on, and scolded with a gloomy face, "Don't feel that I don't know what kind of flowers and flowers are thinking in your and rotten intestines, look at the place as a demon!" It's useless, and having a dog is all better than you! Seeing that Jia Shi lowered his head and wiped his tears, Mao threw the basket, and the beans in the basket made a loud sound, "You still hold a grudge when you say that you are useless?" What are you standing there for? And I want to mumble that the whole village knows that I'm a grandmother who oppresses you? It's really a black-hearted and ruthless one! I'm an old woman for you to eat, and I'm going to hold a grudge against you when I arrive......"
Jia Shi wiped his eyes, bowed his head and said, "Mother, I'm going to cook." ”
Mao stopped scolding at this point, and Heng said: "I should have gone a long time ago, I was asked to do everything, and there was no job in my eyes!" And when he had finished eating, he went to the west of the field, and ploughed the ground and planted the beans. ”
"Huh." Jia Shi answered, and hurriedly entered the small kitchen, if he stood here, Mao's ironclad scolding would be even worse.
Sister Qiu heard that there was no sound outside, and came out of the east room into the small kitchen to help Jia's fire burn. Looking at the flames licking the bottom of the pot, Sister Qiu's heart was a little heavy, the Mao family knew that the Rong family had no intention of marrying, and the attitude towards the Jia family returned to the previous state of scolding as much as she wanted, and she thought of a way to split up as soon as possible.
Her goal is to establish her own career in ancient times, not to mention being rich and rich, at least to have land and land, to earn money, and live a rich life, not to be subject to the control of others.
It was already the beginning of April, and the sun at noon was already hot, and everyone felt panic when walking under the sun. The wheat has grown taller, and all the wheat that ripens quickly has begun to turn yellow, and the cauliflower will soon be harvested, and the beans will be sown at this time, and the work in the field will gradually increase, and it will also be tired.
After eating, Mao began to distribute the afternoon's work, Mei Laosuo went to the east to loosen the soil and weed and fertilize, and Jia went to the west with Mei Ershu to turn over the field so that soybeans could be planted.
At this time, there are no chemical fertilizers, and the only fertilizers are nothing more than manure from their own manure heaps and the ashes left over from the cooking stove fire. The fertility of manure and plant ash is limited, and there is no high-yielding and high-quality seeds cultivated by 21st century agriculture, and the yield of wild land is not high.
The land to the west of Mei's house is not big, only about eight or nine points, leaning on the mountain, there are many stones in the field, or when Mei Laoxiu was there, he and the Jia family opened it, not to mention fat, it is an inferior land, you can't grow wheat and corn, you can only grow soybeans and other small crops.
In the afternoon, the sun was shining, and it was hot. The Jia family went out to work, and Sister Qiu looked at the bright sun outside, and applied to the Mao family, saying that she would go to the field to send water to the lord and the second uncle to eat.
Mao squinted and glanced at Sister Qiu, the little girl was very good-looking, and her mouth was good, she was sending water to the second uncle, and she didn't remember her mother-in-law who didn't lay eggs. "Go!" Mao said that no matter who Sister Qiu wants to give it to, Mao's husband and son can always eat water, and Mao will not get along with people who matter to him.
Sister Qiu hurriedly ehed and went to the small kitchen to find a clay bottle, the clay bottle has a small mouth and a big belly, and it is estimated that it can hold two or three liters of water. Sister Qiu brought water from the well, washed the clay bottle, filled it with water, put it in the basket, and carried it to the ground.
With her weak body now, she doesn't have to carry it, but she is afraid that she will not be able to lift this bottle of son's water.
Before leaving, Sister Qiu turned out a broken reed hat in the West House, the side was already broken, it seemed to be bitten by a mouse, and Sister Qiu couldn't care about it so much, she took out the reed hat and patted it, patted off the ash that fell on the top, and then buckled it to her own head, took a bowl from the small kitchen and buckled it on the mouth of the pottery bottle, and walked to the field with the basket on her back.
The land where Mei Laosu was fattened was the closest to home, and Sister Qiu went to Mei Laosuo first. The big sun in the sky is very dry, Sister Qiu carried a heavy basket on her back for a while, her head was sweating, and she chose the shaded land next to the road to walk in the field as much as possible, but there are very few trees on the edge of the field, even if there are small saplings growing, rural people are afraid that the small saplings will compete with the crops for nutrients, and they will pull out the small saplings.
The oily green wheat in the field has begun to emerge, and the oily green wheat shows the sharp wheat tips, and the breeze blows, and the large oily green fields and seas are tumbling, which is beautiful. Sister Qiu in the previous life was the most favorite when she was a child is the Tian Hai in this season, she feels that the oil blue Tian Hai is much more beautiful than the golden Tian Hai when the wheat is ripe, the golden Tian Hai indicates a bumper harvest, and also indicates the end of this round of wheat life, and the oil blue Tian Hai always gives people a vibrant impression.
At the end of April and the beginning of May, when the wheat is harvested and the wheat is spread on the field to dry, it is the most tiring, at that time, no matter where the family is, all have to work in the field to harvest the wheat. Food is related to the livelihood of the villagers, and the Mao family will never allow anyone to be lazy at this juncture.
When she arrived at the land boundary, Sister Qiu watched Mei Laosuo finish fertilizing from a distance, carried the empty dung basket and walked to a small tree on the side, sat down and leaned against the small tree to rest and enjoy the coolness.
"Master, I'll bring you water." Sister Qiu shouted.
Mei Laosuo hurriedly waved his hand to beckon Sister Qiu to come over, moved to the side, and vacated a little space. Sister Qiu walked a few steps quickly, picked up her reed hat under the shade of the tree, and poured a bowl of water for Mei Laosuo, who drank it all with the water. Sister Qiu poured another bowl for Mei Laosuo, Mei Laosuo ate it again, and when Sister Qiu wanted to pour water again, Mei Laosuo blocked it, "There is not much left, leave it to your mother and your second uncle to eat." Mei Laosu said.
In Sister Qiu's impression, she rarely listened to Mei Laosuo's speech, she has always been silent, silent, and almost didn't feel his existence in the Mei family, all big and small affairs are mastered by the Mao family, which is different from most families where men are in charge.
"It's okay, you can eat as much as you want, I'll go home and fetch water after you finish eating." Sister Qiu preached.
Mei Laosu shook his head with a smile, touched Sister Qiu's head, and said, "You are a good boy, better than them." "On such a hot day, none of the second child's children thought about bringing them water, all of them were brought to the second child and the second daughter-in-law, and they only thought about themselves.
Sister Qiu looked at Mei Laosuo, whose face was flushed with the sun, and was slightly surprised. In her impression, this master had hardly said anything to them, who were supposed to be grandchildren.
Although Mei Laosuo does not like to talk about things, but he is a good hand at work, skillful and diligent, can weave bamboo baskets, can do simple carpentry, farm tools are broken and can be repaired, this is the head of the village is all praised by everyone, in the speech of this work, Mei Laosu pulled a few long leaves of weeds, rough calloused fingers up and down up and down, an oily blue grasshopper in his palm braided into shape, resting in the palm of Sister Qiu's hand.
"Let's play with it, don't let the big cow and the second cow look at it." Mei Laosuo said with a smile, and when he smiled on his dark and thin face, he was full of horizontal stripes.
Sister Qiu looked at the grasshopper in the palm of her hand, vivid, and the silk was extremely different from the straw weaving things sold on the street in the 21st century.
"Master, you are so skillful." Sister Qiu praised sincerely, if it is put aside in the 21st century, Mei Laosuo can all rely on the palm skills of making gadgets for dinner.
Grandpa Mei laughed, patted the grass juice and grass clippings on his palm and said: "Old man, I don't like it, when your father and uncle were young, I also made up the palace lanterns displayed in the city on the 15th night of the city!" ”
When it comes to his own palm skills, Mei Laosuo is very self-conscious, and he talks a lot. Looking at Mei Laosuo's smile, Sister Qiu's heart moved, and she asked, "Master, have you ever been to Huyang?" ”
Mei Laosu nodded, "I've been, I was a buddy in the city for a while when I was a child, and during the Chinese New Year, there are lights hanging everywhere in the city at night, and they shine like daytime, and many lights will turn on their own, and the paintings on it are all beautiful...... You haven't seen it before! ”
"Master, you are a person who has seen the world!" Sister Qiu smiled and complimented.
Mei Laosuo's face was a little red and he shook his head.
"Then why do you listen to my milk for everything? She's not as knowledgeable as you! Sister Qiu continued.
Just now, Mei Laosuo was still happy, and the smile on the side of the work faded and did not say a word.
"Master, all the leaders in our village say you, I've listened to it several times, saying that you are too soft, give me a mother-in-law to take care of it, shame on me!" Sister Qiu's half-truthful preaching.
Mei Laosuo patted the ash on the hem of his trousers, there was no smile on his face, touched Sister Qiu's head, and said: "It's all a family, who is not all in this family?" If you can get by, you can live. ”
Seeing that Mei Laosuo didn't want to "seize power" at all, she completely shook off the boss and listened to Mao's words, Sister Qiu was a little disappointed, fortunately, this master was kind to her, if her temperament could be tougher, she could form a certain influence on Mao's, and her life with Jia's would be a little better.
"Master, I'm leaving, and I'll bring water to my mother and my second uncle." Sister Qiu took the straw grasshopper into her arms and stood up to preach to Mei Laosuo.
Mei Laosuo "eh", nodded, and finally said to Sister Qiu: "Your grandmother has that temperament all her life, the knife mouth is water and tofu heart, she is not bad, she is not forgiving, she is worried that it is not easy for our family to live, it is inevitable to swallow and touch, you are a junior, don't hate your milk." At the end of the sermon, looking at Sister Qiu's blank expression, Mei Laosuo smiled self-deprecatingly, and told a 10-year-old girl about this, where did she understand.
Sister Qiu took a flurry, and it took half a day to "grace", put on a reed hat and walked west with a basket on her back. What confused her was that Mei Laosu said that Mao's knife mouth was water tofu heart, she only looked at Mao's knife mouth, and she really didn't see where the water tofu heart was.
The two pieces of land are farther away, Sister Qiu walked for a while before arriving, Jia Shi pulled the plow in front of him, because he was too hard, his body was almost sticking to the ground, his face was full of sweat, and he poured from the chin of the head panel to the wild land.
Second Uncle Mei lazily held the plow frame in the back, and kept urging: "Sister-in-law, you make a little effort, this plow can't move for half a day, and if it is like this, the plow will not be finished at night!" ”
Sister Qiu was angry for a while, the more prosperous people in the family would buy livestock to plow the land, and the worse ones would also borrow the livestock of others and give some money. Like the Mei family, they can't afford to hire livestock, they can only use manpower to pull the plough and turn the soil, this is the most tiring physical work, all of them are done by men, even if the male labor in the family is less, it is the man who pulls the plough in front of him, and bears the heaviest physical work, and the woman is holding the plow frame behind, which is only the balance of the need to hold the plow frame, which is much easier.
Only in Mei's house, lazy, scoundrels, and ruffian-like people like Second Uncle Mei will there be a matter of asking the widowed sister-in-law to pull the plow. As long as it involves things like doing work and paying money, he doesn't care what others think of him, just feel comfortable, and from the degree of selfishness and disregard for others, the second child of the Mei family is the most similar to the Mao family, and he has the true inheritance of the Mao family.
"Mother!" Sister Qiu shouted loudly, "You come over to get water, I'll bring you water!" ”
As soon as the sound fell, Second Uncle Mei, who was holding the plow, hurriedly rushed over, and complained incessantly: "It's all done for a while, why did you send water?" What are you grinding, you want to die of thirst for me! ”
As he spoke, he took out the pottery bottle from Sister Qiu's back basket, and he didn't need a bowl, he hugged the pottery bottle directly, poured water into the mouth of the pottery bottle, and a lot of water was spilled out, and it flowed down Uncle Mei's chin to the ground.
"Second uncle, you save some food, my mother hasn't eaten yet." Sister Qiu said softly.
Sister Qiu didn't expect that her sentence would poke the hornet's nest.
Second Uncle Mei put down the pottery vase, and raised her leg to Sister Qiu, Sister Qiu quickly dodged it, and Second Uncle Mei scolded, "You little rabbit cub, Lao Tzu has to chirp crookedly when he eats saliva, and Lao Tzu doesn't do work to feed you a rabbit cub!" The conscience is all called by the dog! ”
Jia Shi hurriedly unloaded the plow rope on his back, ran here, hugged Sister Qiu into his arms, and blocked in front of Second Uncle Mei, with a pleading expression, "Second Uncle, Sister Qiu is a child who doesn't understand things, how can you be as knowledgeable as her!" ”
Second Uncle Mei was stunned, still scolding and scolding in his mouth, "I helped the eldest brother teach this little rabbit cub a lesson, and he has no conscience!" Uncle doesn't want to eat saliva, the son of the heart is really poisonous! ”