Chapter 38 In-laws
Chunni pinched the heavy small cloth bag in her hand, and tears fell again, "Mother, it's all Nier's unfilial piety." I've been married for so long, and I still have you to worry about it..."
Mrs. Li sighed and hugged her daughter in her arms, "What are you talking about, aren't you your mother's daughter when you were seventy or eighty?" You've just broken up now, and it's hard to get through it in the future. ”
The mother and daughter chattered for a long time, Chunni got up and helped the old lady to walk around the house, the old lady looked at the new clay jars, dustpans, shovels, and all kinds of household objects, and couldn't help but whisper, "The last time you went home and said that Pucao bought your belongings for you, your father and I didn't believe it, but I didn't expect it to be true."
Pucao, this kid is really good to you, you can't be ungrateful in the future, and help others more when you have something. ”
"Mother, if you don't say it, I know. His father and brother were greedy for money and stingy when they gave birth to a child, and they treated the child as if he was not his own, and I was also cold. In the future, they will have good things with Pucao and help each other. ”
"That's good, but your in-laws are no longer acting right, and you don't have to be bad in terms of etiquette, so that people will grab the handle and listen to gossip."
"Got it, mother."
The mother and daughter were just talking, when they saw Pu Cao come in with two large pottery bowls, followed by Peach Blossom and Shanzi also smiling and carrying a tray. Chunni hurriedly stepped forward to take the tray from the hands of the two children, and complained, "How can you let the children work, in case they get hot." ”
Pu Cao glanced at her and smiled, "I can't take it alone, so I'll let them help." ”
Chunni understood, stretched out her hand and patted the little heads of the two children and praised, "Shanzi and Peach Blossom are really getting more and more capable." ”
The two children were praised and their little faces were red, but their small breasts were tall, as if they had really become the pillars of the family.
When everyone entered the house, Pu Cao called the two children to come forward to salute the old lady, and finally said, "Auntie, last time my boy burned his arm, thanks to the badger oil you gave." It's so good that there is no scar at all, thank you so much, auntie. ”
Mrs. Li waved her hand and smiled heartily, "What a small matter, how can it be worth talking about once." After speaking, she pointed to the sundries that had been unloaded in the yard and said, "It's not easy for you and Chunni to pick a door to live, and your uncle and I don't have gold and silver to help." Anyway, your uncle still has a craft of weaving baskets and baskets, and I have taken two copies of each, so you and Chunni can use them separately. There were still dozens of catties of bud grain dumplings in the sack, and the sticky and stupid ones were mixed together. Soak and grind it, and eat it in the winter. ”
Pu Cao has been friends with Chunni for many years, and she also knows a little about the old lady's temper. Knowing that she is not a person who likes hypocrisy, and her temperament is strong, she didn't shirk half a sentence, and smiled happily, "Thank you uncle and aunt for thinking about us, there is something delicious now." And the basket I have to pick first, it's mine, and I'll give Chunni the rest. ”
"No, my father made it up, I have to pick it first." Chunni pretended to step forward to stop Pu Cao, and the two of them fought like children, which made Mrs. Li smile so much that her face bloomed, and she persuaded, "Okay, okay, don't rob it, let your father make it up again in the future." ”
Pucao and Chunni also pinched each other twice and laughed.
After a few more words, Liu Housheng came back with his two uncles, and Pu Cao hurriedly got up and said, "Auntie, let's eat." I still have work at home, so I'll go back first, and I'll come back in the afternoon to gossip with my aunt. ”
Mrs. Li pointed to the food on the table and said, "The food has been delivered, so let's eat together." ”
Pu Cao waved his hand and said with a smile, "There are still many at home, I'll take the children back to eat." By the way, I took the new basket away, and I didn't have to worry about it for a while, and the neighbors came to see that they were all snatched up, and I suffered a loss. ”
Everyone laughed, stepped forward to help pick out two earthen baskets, a large wicker basket and two small baskets, Pucao smiled and thanked the peach blossoms of Shanzi, and then hugged them back.
Chunni led her mother and brother into the house, and the two brothers of the Li family smiled and said, "This Pucao girl is a shrewd one, much more powerful than our Chunni." ”
Chunni took the chopsticks into the house, and protested while reaching out to remove the lid of the pottery bowl, "Mother, look at the eldest brother, he is going to say that I am stupid." ”
Mrs. Li smiled, "Your eldest brother is afraid that you will suffer, and we are all relieved to see that you are having a good life at this time." ”
Li Lao Er looked at the dishes on the table, a big bowl of tofu stew, a big bowl of fried fungus with cabbage, and a dozen golden bud cakes, and said, "This Pucao girl is really willing, these two dishes need to be cut into a pound of meat." ”
Chunni has eaten a lot with Pucao these days, but she is not as childish as she was originally, and persuaded with a smile, "The body is the capital to make money, and when you have a full stomach, you can earn more money." Second brother, you can eat with confidence. ”
Boss Li laughed and said, "Mother, you listen to Nizi in a set of ways, like the landlord's wife." ”
Chunni raised her chin and said, "I'm learning to read and settle accounts with Pucao now, and I'm going to be a landlord's wife in the future." ”
Her smug appearance made everyone laugh, and Boss Li patted Liu Housheng and said, "Shengzi, my sister is about to turn the sky upside down, you will beat more in the future." ”
Liu Housheng smiled honestly, "Nizi is smart, she is in charge of my work!" ”
How can everyone in the Li family say that their daughters are not good, but in fact, they love them in their hearts. Hearing Liu Housheng say this, the smile on his face immediately brightened by three points.
Mrs. Li first raised her chopsticks and grabbed a piece of fungus, and everyone ate it one after another. Halfway through the meal, the old lady seemed to suddenly remember, and said with annoyance, "Oh, I just talked for a while, and I forgot to invite my father-in-law and mother-in-law to dinner together." How is this good, Nil, you go for a walk. ”
Chunni just told her mother what her ruthless in-laws did that day, and naturally knew that she didn't really invite her, so she also pretended to be annoyed and got up and said, "I'll go now, but the food has been moved, and my in-laws are here to take care of it." ”
Sure enough, without waiting for others to speak, Liu Housheng frowned first and stopped, "Don't go, it's the same if you invite you in the evening." If my father and mother ask, let's say that my mother-in-law only arrived in the afternoon. ”
The Li family was not sincere, so naturally they would not insist too much, so they continued to eat with a polite sentence.
Soon the crowd finished eating, and the table was withdrawn.
The eldest and second Li found a flat burden and helped to pick up all the soil in the Zhang family's yard and take it to the greenhouse. Then, without wiping a handful of sweat, the two of them set up an ox cart and drove home before the sun set.
Pu Cao was very reluctant to go, and wanted to leave them to drink a bowl of water before leaving, but was stopped by Mrs. Li, who smiled and asked her to help pickle the sauerkraut.
Chunni grabbed the cabbage and scalded it in a hot water pot and fished it out, shook the water neatly, dispersed the heat, and then placed it neatly in the jar.
Mrs. Li hugged the salt shaker and stood aside to help sprinkle salt, and the three of them cooperated very tacitly, and they covered the linoleum paper while talking and laughing, and sat in the yard to rest and drink water.
The old man and the old lady of the Liu family happened to hear the villagers say that their mother-in-law was here, and she also brought a lot of good things to her son and daughter-in-law. The old couple immediately felt like a kitten scratching in their hearts, and they had the heart to come to the door to see what good things Chunni's mother had given, and they couldn't help but feel empty when they thought of that day.
In this way, they stayed up until the sun was about to set, and it was estimated that the Li family would definitely go back, so the old couple rushed over with a cabbage.
Mrs. Li took Pucao and Chunni to sit in a slightly biased position, and the old couple of the Liu family entered the courtyard door and only glanced at it hastily, thinking that their son and daughter-in-law were not there, so they ran directly to the new baskets in the corner of the courtyard.
Mrs. Liu carried a new earthen basket in one hand, and smiled so proudly, "At first glance, this basket is Old Man Li's craft, I used to ask him to make a few to give us and he said that his arm hurts." Now that his daughter has broken up, she has sent so many at once, what an old buckle! ”
As soon as Old Man Liu was about to respond, he heard someone sneering on the side, "My mother-in-law is not afraid of the wind flashing her tongue when she says this, which of those baskets and baskets in your family is not made up by my old man's son?" Last time, my old man injured his arm, and you asked for thirty baskets. Those who know the inside story also understand that their mother-in-law has the habit of saving their belongings, and those who don't know are afraid that they think that their mother-in-law wants to make a fortune by selling baskets. ”
Where did the old couple of the Liu family think that there was someone in the yard, they were so shocked that the basket in their hands fell down, and when they saw clearly that the person who spoke was the old lady of the Li family, their faces suddenly rose like pig's liver.
Chunni heard her mother's words like a knife, which was really relieving and relieving. Standing with Pucao with their heads bowed, they all smiled at each other's eyes.
The old lady of the Liu family opened her mouth for a long time in embarrassment, and finally stepped forward and said with a dry smile, "Oh, my mother-in-law is also here." This is obvious, aren't we all our own family? I really didn't know that your eldest brother was sick last time, otherwise why would you have to go to the door to see, how could you still make him tired. ”
Old man Liu also stepped forward, rubbed his hands and said, "My mother is too careful." ”
Pu Cao was watching the play with joy, and the corner of his eye suddenly swept Liu Housheng limping back from the back garden, and his elbow quickly turned Chunni.
Chunni is also a clever person, and immediately stepped forward and hugged her mother's arm and said, "Mother, my in-laws are also finally here, let's go into the house and sit." ”
After saying that, her subordinates shook it vigorously, and Mrs. Li also consciously knocked a few words It should be almost, after all, her daughter is still someone's daughter-in-law, and it is not good to make too much trouble, so she eased her face and invited the old couple of the Liu family into the house, and Pu Cao took the opportunity to say goodbye with a smile and went back.
Liu Housheng endured the leg pain and walked to the door of the house, and when he raised his eyes, he saw that his daughter-in-law and mother-in-law were smiling and pouring water for his father-in-law, and the heart that had been hanging in his chest for most of the day was put down...
As soon as the sun sets on the mountain at the beginning of winter, the whole small mountain village is even colder. The autumn wind, which was originally mild during the day, seemed to have suddenly changed its temperament, becoming fierce and cold, whistling through the treetops, eaves, and mountains and forests, extremely arrogant.
After dinner, Pucao settled the two children and lay down in the quilt, and counted the remaining money in the family by the faint light, and then blew the oil lamp and quickly got into the quilt. (Later, in the afternoon, it will be sent at 16 o'clock, because sometimes there is something at noon and you can't catch up with the code word.) Also, friends who read the text, please collect it, my collection is so pitiful. Woo, hug, thank you very much! )