Mei Tang hurriedly followed, leaving Aunt Mei in the west room gritted her teeth and stomped her feet angrily, and saw Mei Yindi sitting with her arms on the side, and couldn't help but kick her feet up, "You didn't listen to your milk?" Go make a fire and boil water, it's a useless thing, just like your father, a wreck! It's not even better than Sister Qiu! ”

Mei Yindi hurriedly got up and ran to the small kitchen, today she was angry, she never scolded her mother, and today she blocked the door and scolded, her mother was also angry, and she was angry.

After Mei Tang entered the hall, Mei Laosu sat on the kang and smoked a cigarette, and when he saw his son come in, he only raised his eyes to take a look, and then sat silently and quietly. ”

Mao pouted and looked at the east house through the curtain, and said to Mei Tang: "Tomorrow, you go to the town and go to the Rong family to ask what their attitude is." ”

When Mei Tang heard this, she couldn't help but pat her thigh, "Mother, do you still need to ask?" If Rong Deyi still thinks that my brother is good to him, when he does something for my brother, he won't send a guy to send a bunch of money over! Now that people are rich and developed, they look down on our poor farmers in the countryside, and it is useless to go! "Look, even the old Fang family can see it clearly.

Mao's frowning and silent, his words are not rough, if Rong Deyi is interested, he will not do things like this, but the Rong family is rich, and the Mao family also has illusions about this marriage event, as long as Sister Qiu can marry into the Rong family, the Mei family can get rid of poverty, not only can they continue to provide for the old man to study, but the rest of the big cattle and two cows also have hope.

"Besides, people have a big family, so they come to the door like this, and they don't even have any money for tea for the porter, so people are too lazy to pay attention to you!" Mei Tang saw that Mao was silent, and muttered boldly.

"Don't talk about what you don't have!" Mao Shi stared at him and said, "If you are told to go, you will go, now your wings are stiff, and even I can't move you, right?" ”

Mei Tang hurriedly laughed, "No, mother, isn't this that I have no money in my hand, and I am panicked, how can we also be the in-laws of the Rong family, can't we be ugly in front of my in-laws, right?" ”

Mao sighed, got up and went to the pavilion between her and Mei Laosuo, Mei Tang stretched his neck and looked in, but the compartment was blocked by a gauze curtain made of rags, how could he not see what was inside. In less than a moment, Mao opened the curtain and came out, handed Mei Tang a copper coin, Mei Tang was overjoyed, hurriedly took it, and took a cursory glance, there were 120 copper plates!

"This money is for you to use on the road." Mao said, looking at the handful of copper coins, he was very heartbroken, "Use it on the right way, you can't buy anything that doesn't work, save some flowers." Now our family is not as good as before, I owe a lot of debts, and your third brother is still studying......" Speaking, Mao sighed, reading is a big amount of money, the eldest son of the family's economic pillar is dead, and the blow to the Mei family is too great, if her eldest son is still there, filial piety and ability, where can she make this worry?

Mei Tang first received the money in his arms, heard Mao's words, nodded like a chicken pecking rice, and finally couldn't help but preach: "The third brother has also studied for many years, and he has tried twice in the next exam, but he didn't win all of them, and he still can......'t go home."

Before the words were finished, Mao Shi was annoyed, and slapped Mei Tang's head panel, "What did you say?" What! A dog can't spit out ivory in his mouth! Didn't your eldest brother also take the exam for a few years before he passed the exam? You know a fart, it's so easy to get famous? All the students at the end of the day are taking the exam, and how many are in the exam? Is it possible to fight so hard in a moment and a half? If your third brother goes home, you don't have to say these things in front of him, and it will delay his study! ”

Mei Tang sneered and apologized to Mao's sins, but her heart was gritting silver teeth, Mao's heart had a rod and scale, who was important and who didn't care she was clear, she cultivated her eldest brother, and wanted her eldest brother to be promoted and make a fortune, she also followed Xiangfu, no longer being a country bun, the eldest brother also earned money for many years, but died in the prime of life, Mao's was both distressed and hateful, and he put all his hard work on the old man more and more. The eldest brother is good, the third brother is good, so he chose it! Aren't their sons the grandchildren of the Mei family?

Mao saw that his son admitted his mistake, and he didn't take it too seriously, this second child is a well-known ruffian, lazy and arrogant, and it is not unusual to say this.

"When you ask clearly, hurry back, pay attention to your speech, don't sin someone who doesn't have a doorkeeper on your mouth, if the Rong family doesn't mean to marry, it's good to let Sister Qiu and her mother die." Mao preached.

Mei Tang asked cautiously: "Then what if the Rong family doesn't get married?" The eldest brother still owes foreign debts to do things! ”

Without waiting for Mao's mouth to open, Mei Tang said again: "Mother, Sister Qiu's Nizi is disobedient now, and when she enters the city, she is ambitious, and she has a good mouth, you look at the scene just now, she doesn't have your milk in her eyes at all!" The eldest brother is gone, the sister-in-law must be bad, the more she makes trouble with you, the better, and she doesn't care about her! Eh, this kid will be a scourge sooner or later! ”

Mao thought about Sister Fang Caiqiu and took the four nests from her face, and the expression on her face was even more embarrassed. For a long time, he didn't even look at Mei Tang, and Mao said: "I have a plan in my heart for this matter, you don't have to worry about it." ”

As he spoke, Mao's palm was not idle, holding the soles of his shoes, and the coarse cotton threads made a fierce "stinging" sound when he pulled the soles of his shoes, which was extremely clear in the quiet hall.

Mei Tang was unwilling, and wanted to say a few more words, so she heard Mao's mouth open again, as if she was talking to herself, "No matter how clever her teeth are, she is just a girl, and she can't make any waves." ”

Mao's all said this, Mei Tang is not good to open his mouth again, carrying the 20 copper plates from Mao's to go back to the west side of the house, the heart is happy, the Zhuang family is all in the situation to go to the town, back and forth does not cost money, these 20 copper plates can all be returned to his private room, thinking about the wine and meat in the small restaurant in the town, the saliva in Mei Tang's mouth is desperately pouring outward, all day long in the house nest sweet sauce pickles, he eats all the vomit, the eldest brother was there, sometimes he also sat at the table and brought back some leftover wine and meat from the wine feast, The family can fight tooth sacrifices, and now even these benefits are gone.

No matter how angry Aunt Mei'er was in her heart, Mao asked her to cook, but she didn't dare not do it. After Mei Tang came back, Aunt Mei asked Mao's what to eat at noon through the curtain in the hall, Mao's had something in mind, and she was too lazy to train her.

In order to save dry firewood, the village usually only cooks rice in a pot, and the porridge burned under the big pot, and the pancake on the top is along the kang pancake, and the good pancake is pasted on the edge of the pot, and the porridge is cooked, and the pancake is also cooked. The seemingly inconspicuous pancakes are actually the most tests of the housewife's skills.

After Mei's second aunt married into the Mei family, she took turns cooking with Jia's family at first, but since she gave birth to a big cow, she rarely went to the small kitchen. I didn't cook for a long time, and my hands were all born. When adding too much water to the millet noodles, the noodles are too thin, and the pancakes that come out of the kang are not formed, the thick ones are thick and thin, and the thick ones are not steamed thoroughly.

She is not familiar with the things of the guys in the small kitchen, and she can't find a garlic mortar for half a day, and she asks Yindi, who burns the fire, she also doesn't know where Jia's mortar was, and the second aunt of Mei is angry, and when she looks at Mei Yindi's appearance that she doesn't know, she grabbed Mei Yindi's ears hard, and said hatefully: "The girl who has no gas, you don't know anything, how do you know how to eat!" ”

After all the congee pancakes were brought to the hall, Mao lifted the cage cloth on the basket containing the pancakes, and his face was embarrassed for a moment, and he looked at Aunt Mei'er with a blank eye, pointed to the blackened pancakes with wooden chopsticks and asked, "Second daughter-in-law, this is your kang pancakes?" ”

Aunt Mei laughed with her, her heart was weak, and she twisted Mei Yindi on the side in a hurry, and said with a flattering smile: "It's all this stinky girl, it's not good to burn a fire, it's a big fire for a while, a fire is small, it's ...... The pancake kang is not good...... Mother, you can make do with a little food. ”

Mao's face was gloomy, and he glanced at Aunt Mei'er's already bulging belly, and didn't say anything more, when she was a stupid melon? Where is the daughter-in-law stupid like this!

As usual, all the meals of the family were distributed by the Mao family, and Mei Yindi served the dishes.

When Mao's porridge was shengqing, Mei Laosuo, who had always been silent and inappropriate, opened his mouth, "Don't you call the eldest daughter-in-law and Sister Qiu to eat?" ”

The words are questions, with a deliberative tone, looking at Mao's question.

"What people eat, do you worry about using it?" Mao's is not angry, but for his own husband, he naturally can't treat his daughter-in-law and granddaughter like he wants, and he scolds if he wants.

Second Uncle Mei also didn't want Jia's to eat with Sister Qiu, so he could save some food, so he hurriedly followed Mao's words, "Yes, father, sister-in-law took Sister Qiu to her uncle's house, Sister Qiu's uncle's family is rich, and she will definitely eat how good it is." ”

Mei Laosuo stopped squeaking.

Mao distributed everyone's pancakes and porridge, and Second Uncle Mei and Da Niu Erniu were hungry for a long time, so they impatiently took the pancakes and ate them with minced garlic.

As soon as the big bull took a bite, he immediately spit it out and shouted, "What is this! Salty dead! ”

Second Uncle Mei hurriedly licked the garlic on the pancake, and spit it out, spit out several mouthfuls of spit, and shouted at Aunt Mei: "How did you cook?" Beat the salt seller to death? ”