Seeing that the sky was gradually darkening, Pu Cao was anxious to go back to the front yard to get food, but the father and son of the Li family stepped forward to stop her and said, "Sister-in-law Zhang, this wooden work is almost done, and we want to rush home early, so we won't eat dinner here." ”

"In such a hurry?" Pu Cao didn't expect the father and son to be in such a hurry to go home, so he persuaded, "Why does the third uncle have to eat dinner before leaving." ”

Uncle Li shook his head with a smile, "There are some tasks at home that have not been done, and I want to go back sooner." ”

His face was a little embarrassed, his two big hands rubbed together as if he wanted to say something but he didn't feel good to speak, Pu Cao naturally knew what he meant, and saw that they had made up their minds, so he hurriedly said, "Then I won't stop the third uncle." ”

After speaking, she turned to Dong Si, "Fourth Brother Dong will also go to Brother Liu's house with the third uncle to sit down, and I will take the money and settle all your wages together." ”

The Li family's father and son and Dong Si's eyes flashed with joy, and they responded with a smile, "Okay, let's go." ”

Pu Cao went back to the front yard, and saw Chunni sending Chen's sister-in-law out of the house, so she hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Why are the sisters-in-law leaving?" Haven't eaten dinner yet? ”

Chen's second sister-in-law and several of them all smiled and waved their hands, "It's late, the family has to feed the chickens and pigs to cook, and there is a lot of work, so we will have time to gossip another day." ”

Dong's fourth daughter-in-law also led the table and said, "I'm afraid that the two Tao boys in our family have turned the sky up early these days, and I have to go back quickly, and my sister will call us again if she has something in the future." ”

After speaking, everyone laughed and dispersed, and the table secretly looked back at the courtyard of the Zhang family from time to time and didn't know what to expect, and finally their faces were full of disappointment, and they lowered their heads and followed their aunt away.

Pu Cao's doubts were even heavier, and just as she was about to open her mouth to ask a few words, she was pulled by Chunni and trotted into the house, Pu Cao was pulled and staggered, and smiled helplessly, "What are you in a hurry, is there a wolf outside to eat people?" ”

Chunni pursed her lips, a flash of annoyance flashed in her eyes, and said, "It's not a wolf, or a black-hearted wolf." ”

Chunni's temper is irritable, straightforward, rarely holds grudges, and there are not many people who can be hated like her, Pu Cao guessed after a little thought, "Your in-laws are here?" ”

Chunni nodded, and shook the freshly sewn duck egg blue quilt vigorously, as if this quilt was the second elder of the Liu family, and folded and patted and patted hatefully.

Pu Cao was amused, stepped forward to rescue the new quilt, and said with a smile, "Speaking of which, the day we entered the city, I also breathed a sigh of relief for you." ”

"Cheer me up?" Chunni's eyes lit up immediately, and she hurriedly urged Pu Cao, "Tell me quickly, why are you angry for me?" ”

While picking up the new cotton clothes of several children, Pu Cao whispered a brief account of the kicking of the door panel that day, and finally said, "I estimate that the swollen bag on your mother-in-law's head is the size of a duck egg." ”

Chunni laughed so much that she almost rolled on the kang, and said straightly, "It's so relieving, it's too relieving, it's good to hit her stupid." ”

Pu Cao hurriedly pulled her and instructed, "You stupid girl just listen to your anger, but don't tell your family to have a child, after all, it's someone's biological father..."

"I know, I know, I'm not stupid," Chunni rubbed her sore belly twice, stepped forward and hugged Pucao and patted her back hard, "It's still Pucao's best, take this bad breath for me!" ”

Pu Cao's small body is so thin, how can she stop this fat girl from filming endlessly, so she quickly pushed her away and scolded with a smile, "You're going to shoot me to death, see who will be angry for you in the future!" ”

"Oh, how dare I," Chunni rubbed her a few more flatteringly, and then said, "I just watched my in-laws enter my yard, and you said that they came to visit my injured son, let alone the hen, and they didn't even take an egg, really..."

"Okay, okay, that's the birth of the child's parents, you don't talk too much, save some face for the birth of the child. Besides, it's not good to live in a village and get too stiff, so try to ease it down. ”

Chunni rolled her eyes and sighed, "Well, it's all about having children." ”

Pu Cao turned over the silver coins in the jar where the money was hidden in the corner, counted them and divided them into two parts, and said, "The third uncle is in a hurry to go home, I will go and settle his and Dong Si's wages, and we will only eat dinner for our own family, you can watch and do it." ”

Chunni nodded, and the two went out of the house together, one ran to the stove and the other went to the east courtyard.

In Liu's house, Mrs. Liu and the old man sat on the main seat, gossiping while drinking tea, and the old man patted the newly made ash table next to him and said, "This table is really smooth, and the style is good, and it looks much more decent than the one that our family has used for more than ten years." ”

Mrs. Liu understood, and immediately answered, "No, we are all old bones who are going to enter the coffin, just have a table to use, these good ones are better to hold on to our son." ”

Uncle Li's father and son and Dong Si were not easy to answer, so they lowered their heads and drank water, but Liu Housheng couldn't hide, he blushed with embarrassment, and whispered, "Dad, mother, this is wood from the Zhang family in the West Courtyard, which is used for your brother's writing." I've been busy these days, and I haven't had time to move over. ”

When Mrs. Liu heard this, her originally smiling face immediately became full of disappointment, and she said loudly, "What, it's not our family, so what are you doing in this house?" The little widow of the Zhang family came up with a moth idea, and the two of you were busy like live donkeys for a long time, but you didn't even earn a table back? ”

The mother-in-law spoke so incoherently, and when the son felt faceless, it was not easy to refute it in person. Liu Housheng couldn't wait to hide his head under the stool at this time, and he was aggrieved and breathless.

He originally thought that his father and mother were worried about his injured leg and came to visit, but he was secretly happy in his heart, thinking that he would talk to Chunni at night, so that she would not always complain about his father and mother.

However, the old lady gave him a few slaps in the face with these words, which made his heart bleed. Where are they worried about his injury, obviously for the little family foundation that he and Chunni just set.

Uncle Li is the elder of Chunni's mother's family, and he has not been taken care of by Chunni these days, and after listening to it for a long time, he is honest and doesn't like to cause trouble, and he is also a little unhappy for Chunni, so he coughed twice and said, "My father-in-law praised this table for being good, but our father and son didn't dare to be it, it was really a general skill." However, when Chunni got married, the two fir cabinets that my eldest brother and sister-in-law married were good things, which I went to the city and asked my master to make them by himself.

Originally, I was going to take a second look at it this time, but where did the cabinet go? I've lived for so long, and I haven't found it? ”

Liu Housheng's head hung lower, and the guilt in his heart was even worse.

When Chunni got married, his wife saw the pair of big wedding cabinets, and cried in front of him all day long saying that he had been poor all his life and had never used such a good cabinet.

As a result, this time the family was separated, and the old lady refused to return it, and every time he opened his mouth, the old lady pretended to be dizzy, and finally had to give up.

Chunni went back to her parents' house some time ago, and it is impossible to say such grievances to her mother's family, so naturally the Li family village knows about it, and Uncle Li is still saying this, obviously beating his father and mother.

Of course, the old lady Liu and the old man knew it in their hearts, their faces stiffened, and they laughed dryly, and said with an excuse, "That cabinet is sturdy and has copper locks, and it is perfect for some good things, so it has always been in our house." The three brothers want to see the cupboard, so let's go back and sit down. ”

Uncle Li nodded and said with a smile, "Oh, at my in-laws' house, I said why didn't I see it." If you want me to say, our Chunni is an ignorant person, is the dowry cabinet an ordinary thing, and half of the dowry is topped, so it is kept for the in-laws?

When these words spread out, those who knew that she was filial, and those who didn't know how to do it thought that her in-laws were domineering and took up her daughter-in-law's dowry. ”

There is an old saying that the dog that barks the most does not bite, and the dog that bites does not bark.

It's a bit inappropriate to apply this to people. But Uncle Li, who is a person who does his work silently except for laughing on weekdays, suddenly said these few words, even sarcastic and sarcastic, and the sharpness was really unexpected.

For a while, Liu Housheng and Dong Si could not find any other words to describe it except for this emotion.

The faces of the old couple of the Liu family were as red as monkey butts, and their eyes turned around countless times and they couldn't figure out how to prevaricate.

Pu Cao listened to it well outside the door, covering her mouth and snickering, eager to applaud Uncle Li. After laughing enough, he opened the door and went in as if he had just arrived, and said, "Everyone has been waiting for a long time, and a little thing has been delayed." ”

After speaking, she seemed to have just seen the old couple of the Liu family, and said with a smile, "Uncle, the eldest mother is also here." ”

The old couple of the Liu family nodded, wanting to make a smile, but the muscles on their faces were too stiff, so they had to hold back a dry sentence, "Well, it's here." ”

Pu Cao didn't flatter them, so naturally he didn't say much, but took out the silver money, handed the big bag to Dong Si, and said with a smile, "Fourth Brother Dong, that pile of firewood has not been weighed, it can only be roughly estimated, it can be counted as seven thousand catties, here is one or two silver and four hundred copper coins, you count them." ”

Dong Si originally estimated that the firewood was more than 6,000 catties, but he didn't expect such a large amount of pampas grass, not only did he not deduct a little more, but he was grateful and admired in his heart, and desperately pushed the silver money back, "No, the firewood is only eighteen or nineteen cars in total, that is, more than six thousand catties, just give one or two two." ”

The oiled paper bag with silver coins in Pucao Tuan, together with the copper coin strings, was directly stuffed into his hand, and said with a smile, "Fourth Brother Dong didn't just send firewood, but also helped worry about everything in the wall frame stove, and I still felt indebted to only these silver coins, so the fourth brother will accept it, if you really feel too much, go back and add a new padded jacket to your sister-in-law, my sister-in-law helped us for a day today, and left without eating dinner." ”

Liu Housheng thanked Dong Si for missing the friendship of hunting in order to carry him down the mountain, and also persuaded, "You just take it, they all live in the same village, and they will come and go often in the future. ”

Dong Si scratched the back of his head and thought about it, so he accepted the money.