To tell the truth, she knew that Mrs. Li only had her own daughter in her heart, and her sons were all here to collect debts, and she also knew that in this world, her father and mother were housekeepers, and before the family was separated, her son and daughter-in-law were not allowed to have private wealth.

But looking at a large family, all of them have a group of children, and they don't have any private money in their hands, they really can't say it.

Even if you have everything at home, who doesn't have a time when you are in a hurry or want to buy something that fits? In the past, the family had no money, so forget it.

Later, when the business started and the family had money, it was still like this, so I couldn't talk about it.

Anyway, the big head is in the hands of Mrs. Li, usually every house, everyone works by themselves, earns some money and spends it by themselves, is there anything wrong?

Mrs. Li is actually still reluctant to pay, in the final analysis, she still thinks that these are her daughters'. It's just that she knows that her daughter's idea is right and she won't suffer, and when she sees her insistence, she won't say anything.

However, Mei Xiaotong talked about Tianlong's grandchildren, which touched her, how many children are really such ruthless people, aren't they even as good as beasts?

It's just that I'm still not happy in my heart, "That being said, is it possible to do this, let that slut of the Zhou family dangle under the nose of the old lady every day?" Now it seems that our family is afraid of her, but we are forced to close the door and hide at home. ”

Mei Xiaotong looked at the newly adjusted formula in her hand again, and then comforted, "Mother, what are you afraid of her doing?" You can rest assured to open the door, Zhou she won't dare to come in! Even if she comes in, I'll throw her out! What should you do, just don't have this person! See how many days she can last? ”

Mrs. Li slapped her thigh, "Girl, what you said is that not only do I have to open the gate, but I also want to invite a matchmaker to come and find a daughter-in-law for the boss in the yard in front of the Zhou family!" I can't kill that slut of the Zhou family! ”

As he spoke, he was going to go down to the kang to look for someone.

Mei Xiaotong hurriedly grabbed her, "Mother, on such a hot day, are you not afraid of going out to the sun?" What's the big deal, you can go again tomorrow? ”

Mrs. Li barely rested, but she still couldn't sit still, so she went to tell Mei Changgui to open the door, moved a reclining chair and sat under the jujube tree, facing the door, shaking the pu in her hand

fan, it depends on what moth the Zhou family will come out of.

As a result, Zhou really didn't dare to enter the door, she lay down for a while, felt thirsty, and knew that it was impossible for the Mei family to give her water to drink, so she had a bowl, and she carried the bowl to the river, taking advantage of the noon when there was no one.

After a simple wash, I went up the Qili slope again, found a few green wild fruits, put them in my arms, and went down the mountain slowly.

When he returned to Mei's house and saw that the courtyard door of Mei's house was open, Zhou was overjoyed, and hurriedly walked two steps, and when he arrived at the door, he met Mrs. Li's eyes, and Zhou immediately became angry.

Without waiting for Mrs. Li to speak, she took two steps back, lowered her head and returned to sit on the straw pile, staring at the door of the Mei family's courtyard.

Mrs. Li got up suspiciously

, When I looked at the door, I saw that Zhou actually laid straw under his firewood stack, so did he want to live permanently?

Suddenly there was a fire.

As soon as he inserted his waist, stepped on the threshold with one foot and one foot in the door, he began to scold, "Lin Xinghua, who let you, a cheap woman, sleep on the firewood stack of the old lady's house?" You don't understand people, do you? Or do you want to bully our Mei family for a good d, so you have to rely on it? Celestial Dragon, Celestial Tiger, are you all dead? Just watching this slut sleep in the doorway of his house? Do you want to get out of here with Lin Xinghua, a slut? Don't come out and blow her away to the old lady? Who is this diaphragm? Who is disgusting? ”

Mrs. Li is not stupid, she will not do anything to the Zhou family at this time, and the trouble caused by the big house will naturally be solved by the people of the big house.

When Tianlong and Tianhu heard the call, they immediately ran out of the big room, ran to the door, and saw Zhou holding a bowl of water and gnawing a green wild fruit in his mouth...... I just went up the mountain and picked a few wild fruits, which I can still eat, give them to ...... I'll give you a try......"

Tianlong's throat choked, don't turn his head.

Tianhu also looked in a trance, in the past, the Zhou family was also like this, when he went home from work, he would touch the mountain, pick a few wild fruits and hide them secretly in his arms, and then hide in the house at night to share them with everyone.

Looking back on this at this moment, it seems like it was yesterday.

Such a humble and pitiful Zhou family made Tianlong and Tianhu unable to even say words of reprimand.

Gritting his teeth, Tianlong turned over and knelt down for Mrs. Li, "Milk, please look at the faces of a few grandchildren, just let her hide outside for a few days." We don't give her food, we don't give her food, we don't give her drink, and she can't last a few days. Now that she is like this, the grandchildren really can't open their mouths......"

Mrs. Li looked at Tianlong and Tianhu, and then at the Zhou family outside the door, and only sneered for a long time, "Okay!" The old woman just watched how you behaved! ”

With that, the wrestler went into the house.

Tianlong and Tianhu glanced at each other, looked at the Zhou family outside the door, didn't dare to say another word, turned around and went back to the house.

Zhou held the bowl of green fruits, standing at the door of the Mei family's courtyard, with his head down, unable to see the expression on her face, and not knowing what she was thinking.

Until the door of Mei's yard was closed at night, I saw that the lights in Mei's house were all extinguished, and the sound was gone.

Zhou Shi walked on two almost unconscious legs, and slowly rubbed back into the straw pile step by step......

Early the next morning, when Mei Changgui opened the courtyard door, he saw that the ground outside his yard had been swept clean, and the pile of straw in the firewood stack was still there, but Zhou's was gone.

Mei Changgui thought that Zhou's had left, look at the sky, Zhou's was so noisy yesterday, and no one slept well.

It's a little late to wake up today, and I go to the fields at this time on weekdays, since the beginning of summer

There has been no rain for many days, and even the water level of the river near the village has now dropped by half, revealing a large riverbed.

Now it is almost time for the rice to tassel and flower, and it is the time to need water, and if there is no water in the fields, the harvest in the fields will be sharply reduced.

Mei Zhongzhong has been so worried these days that she has no other heart to care about, and she only pounces on the field.

Mei Changgui didn't see Mei Zhongzhong, so he estimated that he was going to the paddy field, so he packed up and wanted to go out.

didn't take a few steps, and ran into an acquaintance, squeezing his eyebrows at Mei Changgui, "I said, Wang Laosi, your eldest brother plans to reconcile with the Zhou family again?" ”

Mei Changgui's eyes widened, "What nonsense?" When is my eldest brother going to reconcile with the Zhou family? No, stop messing around, or watch out for the fists of labor-"

"Cut, still loaded? If you don't reconcile with others, they are busy in your Mei family's fields early in the morning? ”

Mei Changgui was stunned for a moment, realized something, and ran to his own field.

The Mei family's paddy field is low, and although it has not rained for a long time these days, the water in the field has almost dried up, leaving only a layer of soft and rotten silt.

These paddy fields are watered by a ditch by the river, and because the water level of the river has dropped, the water in the ditch is only muddy.

In the distance, I saw a thin figure, struggling to pedal the waterwheel, trying to pump the muddy mud into the Mei family's paddy field.

In the past few days, for their own paddy fields, several waterwheels have been erected on the ditch, but where is this enough, only at night barely soak a little water from the river into the ditch, before dawn to rush to the field, in order to pump a little water to the field, to ensure that the paddy field does not dry up.

That figure doesn't need to look at it much, you know that it is Zhou, it is estimated that she came in the middle of the night, and most of the muddy mud in the paddy fields of the Mei family has been moistened by water, and their own rice looks more energetic.

Mei Changgui paused, took a few steps forward, and walked to the waterwheel, "Our Mei family's field, naturally our Mei family's people will take care of it, don't worry about it!" ”

Zhou didn't argue, and when he saw Mei Changgui coming, he didn't stay, he lowered his head to wipe his sweat, and he didn't go back to the village, and walked directly to the mountain.

Mei Changgui opened his mouth to ask her what she was doing, but he held back.

The most important pumping work had already been done by Zhou, and Mei Changgui inspected the rice fields again before going home for breakfast.

At the dinner table, I couldn't help but tell Zhou's behavior in the morning.

The others were fine, the two brothers, Tianlong and Tianhu, looked at each other and slowed down their eating.

Mei Xiaotong swept her eyes and knew what the two brothers meant, but she only didn't see it, and looked at Mei Xiaoque.

Mei Xiaoque's face was flat, "Let her go, she is a bitter trick, as long as she ignores her, it is estimated that she will not be able to resist in a few days, and she will have to leave." ”

Since Mei Xiaoque is so sober, then others don't have much to do.

In the next few days, Zhou went up the mountain to look for food during the day, and returned to Mei's house at night

I made do with the straw pile in the middle of the night, and I went to help Mei's family pump water in the middle of the night, and I was still pulling it in the paddy field if I had nothing to do

Grass, occasionally going up the mountain to touch a few rare fruits, will always be washed, wrapped in leaves, and placed at the door of the Mei family's yard.

The Mei family has Mei Xiaoque's attitude, but they can't see the Zhou family.

Except that Tianlong and Tianhu saved some rations every day and sent them to the Zhou family, but they never said a word.

The people in the village watched it as if it were a joke, and the boring people made a bet to see how many days the Zhou family could last? In the end, the Mei family couldn't stand Zhou's entanglement, or Zhou couldn't bear it and left by himself.

But within a few days, the people in the village were no longer in the mood to care about these things in other people's homes.

Because the weather is getting hotter and hotter, but not a drop of rain is falling, even the paddy fields in the low-lying land have run out of water.

The ground was high and the ground was cracked open by the sun.

Zhuanghu's family, two harvests a year, the whole family is pointing to this life, if you continue to do this, I am afraid that this year will not be harvested.

Nowadays, the most important thing in these nearby villages is to fight drought.

Lingshan Village is next to the Great Black Mountain, there is a river next to the village, the situation is not bad, there is no river in the village, it is said that people have to carry water to the field to water.

It's just a drop in the bucket, and it doesn't help.

In the past ten years, Lingshan Village has not encountered such a major drought, and if there is an occasional small drought, the whole village must work together to grab water, grab enough water for the fields in their village, and put them in the paddy fields to close up.

In this year's situation, the village Li Zheng couldn't sit still for a long time, and discussed with the opinions of several families and respected old people whether they were going to grab water.

In particular, I heard that the upstream water was barely enough, but the upstream villages were afraid that the water would not flow away enough for them, so they blocked the river and blocked the water, so in the past few days, the water downstream has become less and less.

As soon as this news came out, Lingshan Village exploded, this is a vicious way to cut off the path of life?

The upstream water is enough, but what to do in the middle and lower reaches?

After a noisy morning, Li Zheng and several patriarchs decided to go and grab water!

Take advantage of the darkness to run to the dam upstream and open the dam to let the water flow down.

It is also necessary to learn from the upstream, after the river flows through Lingshan Village, a river dam is also built to store the water, and the water is retained in the paddy fields of Lingshan Village first, and then the water is released downstream.

The plan has been decided, and the assignment of tasks begins.

In previous years, when there was a small drought, the Mei family had always arranged it like this, Mei Changgui had great strength and fierce temperament, and he had always been a good hand in the village to grab water from the river dam and fight with the descendants in the upstream village.

They are young and vigorous offspring and are responsible for bringing water to the village.

And Zhou and Mei Xiaoque are responsible for grabbing the water from their own paddy fields, and when the water arrives in the village, every family has to race against time to dig it up

The ridge of the house, put water in it.

They also had to prevent people further downstream from digging up the ridges of their fields and bringing water to their fields.

This is all manual work, very tiring, every night to guard the ridge, for fear that people will steal the water from their fields.

But this year, the head of the Mei family arranged for Mei Changgui to be the same as in previous years, in his own field, although Mei Xiaoque is not able to do heavy work in the field now, but it is still okay to patrol the ridges so as not to steal water from others.

As for digging ditches and waterproofing their own fields, only Mei Zhongzhong took Tianlong and Tianhu with him.

Mei Xiaotong hesitated for a moment, thinking about whether it was time to show his divine power, and heard Xiao Tongtong's voice in his head sound again, "Release the prestige mission, the host please establish your prestige in this water battle between villages and villages, get the recognition of the villagers, and increase your prestige." Complete missions and award 20 points. ”

What else to say, Mei Xiaotong ordered to receive the task, and then took the initiative to follow Mei Changgui to the upstream to pick up the dam and grab water.

As soon as the head of the Mei family heard that Mei Xiaotong was also going, his eyes were about to pop out.

This kind of water grabbing between villages, to be honest, will happen once in a few years, and if it is serious, it will kill people!

Even if it's lighter, it's an afterlife that has a broken head, broken arms and legs every year.

For their own fields, their own harvests, and they are all young and vigorous offspring, they can hit the red eye when they fight, and if they really want to play a real fire, they usually have to see blood before they end.

When anyone's daughter heard this, she couldn't wait to turn pale, why is this girl of Meizhong's family so bold?

But after thinking about it, this girl went up the mountain to fight a wolf, isn't that a tiger?

After thinking about it like this, I agreed, but I still told a few more words, "You go and follow your brother, if you see something wrong, the girl's family, hide first, don't be ashamed!" ”

Mei Xiaotong nodded very obediently.

As soon as the patriarch left, Mrs. Li exploded, twisted Mei Xiaotong's ears and pulled into the house, "You come in for me!" ”

The Mei family looked at Mrs. Li with admiration, she was really the person with the highest status in the family, and she dared to twist the ears of her little sister and aunt!

As soon as she entered the house, Mrs. Li's tears came out all of a sudden, "My little ancestor, is it fun to grab water?" If you are not careful, you will have your head broken and your arms and legs broken! You're a girl's family, what's going on with their stinky men? If you break a little skin, your mother will be distressed to death! ”

Mei Xiaotong touched her ears, oops, she had a fever, it was estimated that Mrs. Li was really angry, so she hurriedly came over, held Mrs. Li's hand and coquettishly said, "Mother, you have torn my ears out, show me quickly, it won't be a broken skin, right?" ”

When Mrs. Li heard this, she couldn't care less about crying, so she hurriedly leaned over to look, and saw her daughter's white steamed bun-like ingots, and the two soft earlobes on them were really red.

I can't feel distressed, while blowing, I coaxed "Okay, it won't hurt if my mother blows it!" ”

Mei Xiaotong leaned her ear over with a smile, and while enjoying Mrs. Li's caresses, she whispered to Mrs. Li, "Mother, are you still worried about me?" I'm not even afraid of wolves, I'm still afraid of people? What's more, I didn't go alone, there were so many people, maybe it wouldn't be my turn to make a move! ”

"Besides, who in our village now doesn't look at it, if we don't make much effort to grab water this time, if someone doesn't like our family in the future, they will make a stumbling block and say two bad things or something, which will have a big impact on our family's business in the future."

"If I go at night, no matter what I say, our Mei family's attitude is out, and others can't say anything! Mother, don't worry, I know it! Besides, isn't there a fourth brother, can he let me have an accident? "At the critical moment, push Mei Changgui out to attract firepower.

Mrs. Li is not a person who does not understand the truth of human feelings, but she feels sorry for her daughter, when she is in this family, she has to carry everything, and her daughters are delicate at home, embroidering flowers and flowers, just waiting for her father, brother and sister-in-law to marry her

Bride man.

My own daughter is pitiful, she has to carry a family at such a young age, she has to worry about everything, and she doesn't get anything good. The only good thing is that whatever the girl says, no one dares to object!

But the advantage of Mrs. Li is that she is a slave girl, what her daughter says, no matter how reluctant she is, she can endure it, and everything follows her daughter's.

Therefore, although I was still not happy in my heart, I didn't object anymore.

After thinking about it, he called Mei Changgui in again, and told him that grabbing water is secondary, and the first important thing is to protect her sister. If Mei Xiaotong breaks a little oily skin, she will wait to be pumped when she comes back!

Mei Changgui was forced to make a bunch of assurances before being driven out by Mrs. Li.

In the evening, they are all full of food and drink, especially the people who want to go to the dam to grab water at night, and every family is steamed with steamed buns, and they are hungry, so they have enough to eat and have the strength to work at night.

When it was dark, An Huahao came, and when Mrs. Li saw An Huahao, her eyes suddenly lit up, didn't she send her to protect her daughter?

Immediately put on a smiling face, "Hua Hao is here, have you eaten?" ”

An Huahao shook his head very really, "I didn't eat it!" ”

(End of chapter)