Li Ailian took advantage of this free time, and hurriedly ran home, boiled a bowl of paste, and pasted the house inside and out, pasted a courtyard full of spring in the yard, and pasted a six-animal prosperity on the livestock pen, although their mother and son did not live at home, but this is finally their home, and it should not be saved.

Mao's also went to the market on this day, but she went alone, Aunt Mei and Mei Yindi wanted to follow, Mao's didn't agree, Da Niu and Erniu also clamored to go, Mao's also scolded the two children with a tiger face, and the two children cried and cried to buy, but what should I do? She wasn't happy to spend money on it.

"Everything is more expensive than it was in previous years!" When Mao came back, he threw the bamboo basket he was carrying in the crook of his arm to the wooden table in the hall and sat on the kang to simmer.

Mei Laosuo raised his eyes and glanced at the bamboo basket, except for the necessary items for the New Year such as couplets, there was only a small cloth bag of fine noodles, "This is also no need to buy anything." ”

"What do you know?" Mao's was not angry, and he chattered with Mei Laosuo, "The grass pigs in the family are fed thin, and they only sold four taels of silver in total, and they all saved up for the third son to study, and the wheat was all sold, and the autumn grain could not be sold anymore. I don't buy meat for the New Year, and I ...... before I said this, Mao's face was not natural, "I picked up that river fish and meat, there are a lot of them, how can I spend this year all of them." ”

"Huh!" Mei Laosu sighed, "The hardships of the past few years, when the third son is passed, even if our family survives." ”

Mao nodded, she liked to hear this, and she felt energetic when she heard it. If you want to keep the river fish and meat for a long time, you can only fry the river fish and meat and put it in a cool and ventilated place without a refrigerator, so that you can put it for a week or two, and eat it thriftily, enough to eat until January 15. "I have no conscience!" Mao chopped river fish and meat in the hall, gritted silver teeth and scolded, "They eat fragrant and spicy food, and they don't even give us all the slag, eat me and eat me for a few years, and they are better than raising a dog!" I knew that the dead girl had no conscience, and she should have soaked in the dung bucket at first......"

Mei Laosuo sat in the hall with his cuffs cuffed, stomping his feet, the Mei family had no money to make a brazier, it was very cold in winter, he was old again, his body was not as big as before, and his feet were often numb from cold.

"Don't talk about it." Mei Laosuo said softly, "What's the use of talking? They couldn't hear either. ”

Mao glanced at Mei Laosuo viciously, and said, "When I tell it, I feel comfortable in my heart, and I feel unbearable in my heart!" Mao only had to think that the Mei family's New Year's river fish and meat were all picked by Jia's family, and she couldn't be angry in her heart.

What is Jia's! In Mao's eyes, Jia is a sinner, and she will be a sinner after she is killed! What is Sister Qiu? Sister Qiu is the mother of her eldest son, who lost money! The two of them are all mud that can't support the wall, and they are all inferior characters, so they want to crush her and the Mei family's children and grandchildren forever under their feet.

Such two people dare to send it

Da, he dared not give her the money he earned, and he dared not recognize them after he was developed...... What a reversal of the sky! If he could, Mao would have carried a kitchen knife to "bring the Jia family to justice" who were "disrespectful and lawless".

Mei Laosu couldn't persuade Mao's to move, sighed, got up and took the bamboo basket hanging on the roof beam, and found the pack of tobacco leaves he treasured, which Sister Qiu bought back for him from Huyang. Although he smoked very frugally, there was still not much left. Mei Laosuo picked out some tobacco leaves, mixed with weeds and leaves, and smoked.

In the green smoke rising from Yuanna, Mei Laosuo sighed silently, and felt that the Jia family and Sister Qiu really didn't understand things, and it was really unfortunate that there was such an unvirtuous and unfilial daughter-in-law and granddaughter in the family. Women have long hair and short knowledge, if Meiqu has a chance, they won't stick to it? Just looking at the amount of money provided to Mei Qu in front of his face, how can he not think about how much benefit Mei Qu can get when he becomes an official? Sister Qiu also bought tobacco leaves for him before, but now that the Chinese New Year is over, she doesn't come to see her grandmother, all of them are for Jia's bad mother-in-law.

"No rules, no attention!" Mei Laosuo scolded softly.

When it was almost noon, Mao boiled oil in the small kitchen and began to fry the meat and river fish, and the aroma wafted all over the courtyard in an instant. The five members of the Mei family's second family were all overjoyed, and the Mao family rushed to the market to buy river fish and meat.

Second Aunt Mei even took Mei Yindi to take the initiative to go to the kitchen, and her attitude towards work was very positive, "Mother, I'll take Yindi to give you a hand!" ”

Mao's grim face glanced at the two aunts and mothers of Mei, and asked: "Yindi, you go and bring a bundle of corn stalks over, the second daughter-in-law, you go to the noodles, and steam the millet noodles at noon." ”

"Wow!" Second Aunt Mei smiled.

Although Aunt Mei played an unprecedented role in making lunch, but the lunch did not have the river fish and meat she expected.

"Mother, don't we eat meat at noon?" Second Uncle Mei couldn't bear it anymore and asked with a salivating face.

Mao's heart was choked, and when he opened his mouth, he choked on Mei's second uncle, "Don't eat if you don't like food!" Have the ability to earn money to buy meat by yourself! Mei Tang bowed her head and took the millet noodles and gnawed on the pancakes, and muttered: "The sister-in-law is really sour, all of them are New Year's Eve and don't say that they will send something over, they are all cabbage and kohlrabi every day!" ”

Second Uncle Mei said abruptly: "Where do I have such a big face! Instead, he wanted to ask for money and things, according to the New Year, it was not a similar festival, how could Jia, as the eldest daughter-in-law, say nothing at all, it was too much! It's just that Second Uncle Mei is stunned by the people of the Qiu Ji team, like Lin Cheng, Dawei, and Darong, all of them are strong, and it is no problem to beat him, and he has already warned him many times in the dark, and he is not allowed to find the troubles of the Jia family, and he borrows 10,020 guts, and he does not dare to make trouble during the New Year.

Aunt Mei was dissatisfied, and she pouted and said, "We can."

You don't have a big face without your mother, your face is not good for your mother, and you don't want to give a kid to your sister-in-law, what can our face be! ”

Mao's angrily slapped the wooden chopsticks on the bowl, her face was all white, Aunt Mei was obviously ridiculing the last "attempted succession", she and Mei Laosuo were jealous, and they didn't want to come forward directly, and wanted to want Mei's second uncle and Aunt Mei to make trouble, and make the Jia family and her mother shameless, and make this matter a problem, who knows that Aunt Mei and Grandma Mei didn't do it, and Second Uncle Mei didn't dare to go, for the future of Meiqu, this matter can only be stopped.

"Let's eat!" Mei Laosu sighed and opened his mouth to persuade Mao.

Mei Qu lowered her head and only cared about eating, and her ears didn't listen to what was going on outside the window, regardless of her mother and her second sister-in-law. Now he is not qualified to use a small rice stove, and he also follows the Mei family to eat porridge together, eat millet noodles and pancakes and pickles, and the second family is all looking at him, if the Mao family dares to give him a sneaky and delicious food, the second family can overturn the roof.

Mao glanced at Mei Qu, forced the evil spirit in his heart to suppress, glanced at Aunt Mei fiercely, picked up the wooden chopsticks and prepared to eat.

Second Aunt Mei saw that Mao's was silent, she was timid, and even more bold, her eyes intentionally or unintentionally glanced at Mei Qu, who was eating with her head down, and muttered while chewing pancakes: "Which family in the village is better than us!" It is planted by the tenants' land, and you can eat a few meals of fine noodles and a few bites of meat all year round! It's all the New Year, and it's still pickle lumps...... You can't even see a little oil star! Which family kills grass and pigs and doesn't keep a bite of meat! ”

The muscles on Mao's face began to tremble, but the dissatisfaction of the second daughter-in-law represents the dissatisfaction of the second family, because Meiqu failed the exam this time, and Jia's life is getting better and better after Sister Qiu separated, they don't want to study for Meiqu anymore.

But she couldn't have children, because of the baby girl who died in her hands, she was a head shorter in front of the second family and his wife, and she was weak-hearted, and now whenever she wants to open her mouth to teach the second family, Aunt Mei will sit in the courtyard and cry the child, so as to pinch her.

Although there are many Mei families, the house is cold, the people are also cold, and the few trees in the courtyard that have lost their leaves are even more depressed. The town is much more lively in the Qiu Ji shop, there are live and prosperous braziers in the house, Jia and Li Ailian took the time to make new clothes early, new cotton jackets and cotton pants, several people are all full of new clothes, and with the jewelry that Sister Qiu bought for them from Huyang, it seems that the two of them are all several years younger.

Jia Shi and Li Ailian fried two large pots of balls, the picture scroll and the jujube bun, the jujube bun is a piece of noodles into four petals, and the sunken part of each petal is placed with a red date. Jiujiang this area for the New Year, but all the families who are slightly better have to steam the fine noodles and dry food buns, if there are many people in the family, please ask someone to help steam, the year before the steamed enough to eat the whole year, and these Xu steamed buns can not be fine noodles dry food, no matter what kind of filling, can not be completely fine noodles dry food, in Jia's words

The saying is, "You can't be hungry from time to time!" ”

At the insistence of Sister Qiu, the Jia family bought five artillery battles with 3,000 sounds, and at least three artillery battles should be released in this area of Jiujiang for the New Year, one before the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, one at midnight on Chinese New Year's Eve, and one on the evening of January 15, which means that the year is over.

The two extra cannons were put in the home of Xiaohe Town with the help of Jia's family, although they don't live there now, but in Sister Qiu's eyes, it is the house that she and Jia Shiying have, no matter what, they can't be given up lightly.

(End of chapter)