When he walked near Zhao's house, Zhao took the bucket in Chen Qianliang's hand and the basket on his shoulder, and said to Chen Qianliang: "You send Qianyan and Ye Feng back, this bucket is quite heavy, I'll go back first." ”

"Okay, mother, but when you take this bucket back, you have to find the bamboo mats, pour them all out to dry, and after drying, you can store them for use in the winter."

After saying this, Chen Qianliang followed Ye Feng and Qianyan to go home.

Ye Feng didn't see the Zhao family, and thanked them, and then Chen Qianliang helped them carry the bucket. This bucket is more than 20 catties, and it is okay to carry it in your hand for a while, but after walking for a long time, it will be too sour.

When he arrived at home, Chen Qianliang went back without even entering the door, thinking that it was because it was about to be lunchtime, and he was still thinking about going back to dry the fish.

In this regard, the Ye family didn't mind, anyway, the two families were close and had always been good friends, so it was not bad.

After pouring the pigweed, Ye Feng and Qianyan took out the bamboo mat and poured out a whole bucket of fish, shrimp, mussels and screw meat.

Suddenly, there was a strong fishy smell all over the yard.

Seeing that the two children were excited, Ye went with them, and went to the stove to cook. It stands to reason that Chen Jixing is also coming back soon.

That piece of land doesn't look big, and he can plant it alone in the morning.

I have to say that Ye's estimate was right, Chen Jixing really planted all the corn before noon. It's just that because he is too tired in the past few days, and the weather is hot, Chen Jixing's whole body at this moment is full of sweat and the smell of dung.

In this way, after lunch, Ye also followed Ye Feng and Qianyan to the lake to catch fish and shrimp, while Chen Jixing boiled water at home to take a bath and rest. The corn has finally been planted, and now when the corn grows taller, you can start interplanting potatoes or sweet potatoes.

When the three of them arrived at the lake, they found that Zhao and Chen Qianliang had arrived.

Seeing the mother and son braving the scorching sun, worrying about their livelihood, Ye's heart suddenly felt a little sad. If it weren't for the lack of money and no backbone at home, he wouldn't have come out to work under such a scorching sun.

They don't care about subsidizing the family, but Zhao's mother and son have to do this.

After greeting each other, several people began to go their separate ways.

With the addition of adults, the efficiency is really different. Ye took a thousand words to fish, and Ye Feng was responsible for smashing mussels and screws to get meat. And Qianliang's mother and son are the same, one catches and the other takes meat, and the cooperation is excellent.

In this way, before the sun went down, both families ran home several times. And the bamboo mats in the courtyards of each house are also full of fish and shrimp.

It's just that I don't know if Da Niu went home and said it, but Da Niu's mother has not appeared today.

It wasn't until the next morning that Da Niu remembered that he was going to the lake to play, but Da Niu's mother didn't let him go, that he remembered what Ye Feng said to him yesterday.

Moreover, the reason why he told Da Niu Ma about this was not to subsidize the family, but to go to the lake to play.

In this regard, the big cow's mother couldn't cry and laugh, so she agreed, and took the big cow to the lake with a dustpan and a wooden barrel.

As soon as the three women met, they could talk on weekdays, and they soon started chatting. I have to say that the efficiency of chatting while working is not bad, after all, I am in a good mood.

It's just that Da Niu's mother is just doing this to find some "snacks" for those chickens, ducks and pigs she raises, while Ye and Zhao are going all out, in order for pigs and chickens and ducks to grow better, and strive to sell them at a good price at the end of the year.

In this way, the three families were busy for more than half a month, and the Ye family dried hundreds of catties of dried fish, shrimp and crabs in half a month due to Chen Jixing's joining.

The Zhao family is not bad, and it is estimated that there are more than 200 catties.

As for the big cow family, the big cow father never does this, and the big cow's mother and the big cow are just a small fight, but Rao is like this, and there are dozens of catties.

Moreover, after more than half a month of experiments, there have been gratifying changes in the chickens, ducks and pigs that have been fed with food, which also strengthens the decision of several people to continue fishing for fish and shrimp.

It's just that more and more people have figured out the trick, and this is not technical at all, so more and more villagers have joined the ranks.

After lunch that day, Chen Jixing went out, saying that he was going to the field to see the growth of corn, and he couldn't wait to start interplanting.

And Ye didn't know where he went, and after returning home, he was even more irritable, and kept pacing in the house. After coming to this house for so long, Ye Feng had never seen such a gaffe from the Ye family.

Ye Feng felt weird, so he quietly asked Qianyan. In case something happens, many people will come up with ideas.

As a result, Qianyan couldn't say it clearly, and it took Ye Feng to figure it out after asking for a long time, it turned out that tomorrow was Qianyan's grandmother's birthday.

Ye Feng was a little clear at the moment.

The vast majority of families in this village are in the same house for the third or even fourth generations, and the whole family lives with the elderly, brothers and concubines, whether they get along or not, generally speaking, before the old man dies, or before the sister-in-law and brother-in-law get married, they will not be in a hurry to separate the family.

has been here for so long, but Ye Feng has never seen any of Chen Jixing's brothers and sisters come to the house, and the Ye family has never mentioned his in-laws, and Qianyan has never even mentioned his grandparents.

I have to say, this is very strange.

Even if Chen Jixing's family is a single family and has no father and mother since he was a child, it will not even mention the old man.

In other words, Chen Jixing's family must have been separated from the old mansion.

And right now, the Ye family is just so troubled because her mother-in-law is going to celebrate her birthday tomorrow, it seems that the two families not only have contradictions, but this contradiction is very likely to be a big, big irreconcilable kind.

Seeing that Ye's face was unhappy and a little scared, Ye Feng was a little unbearable, he had never seen a little daughter-in-law scared like this in order to celebrate her mother-in-law's birthday.

After thinking about it, Ye Feng said to Ye Shi distressedly: "Sister, just go, take me tomorrow, there are many people." I'm my sister's mother's family, what's the matter, my own mother's brother stands out for you. ”

As he spoke, he patted his chest, which was neither bulging nor wide.

Although Ye Feng didn't understand the situation at all, and he didn't know if he could help, he was firm in his heart and couldn't let the Ye family be wronged.

Since he came to Chenjia Village, it was the Ye family who gave him a home and kindly took him in, so that he would not continue to wander and have no fixed place to live.

Therefore, no matter what, he can't let the Ye family be wronged.

It is true that the other party is Ye's mother-in-law, but it has nothing to do with him.

Ye Feng originally just wanted to comfort and comfort Ye and cheer her up, but he didn't expect that when he heard this, Ye couldn't help but have red circles in his eyes and kept shedding tears.

Fortunately, Qianyan went out to play, and Chen Jixing has not returned home yet, otherwise it would be another embarrassment: Chen Jixing is the sandwich biscuit in countless modern mother-in-law and daughter-in-law vs. dog blood dramas.

No matter who you help, it's not a person inside or outside anyway.

As for Qianyan, it is too young, and it is not good to know these things too early, and it is even worse if you have a fear of marriage.

Facing the crying Ye family, to be honest, Ye Feng was a little frightened, but he didn't know how to comfort the Ye family. However, Ye Shi slowly held back and chatted with Ye Feng.

It turned out that when Ye's was not married, her mother, Lin, gave birth to three daughters in a row, and the faces of Ye's father and grandparents were already darker than the bottom of the pot.

Originally, I thought that I was going to give birth to a fourth spell of luck, maybe it was a son. But I heard the old man in the village say that giving birth to a daughter is like this table leg, giving birth to three, and naturally having to give birth to one before stopping.

The words scared the Lin family so much that they didn't dare to regenerate no matter what.

Later, at the insistence of Ye's father, even though his body was not suitable for childbearing, Lin still desperately conceived her fourth child. Sure enough, she was still a daughter, and she also responded to the old saying in the village and gathered the four legs of a table.

Ye is the boss, and whether the Lin family and Father Ye talk about it or not, she takes the initiative to do it.

Laundry and cooking, working in the fields, going up the mountain to collect firewood, and taking care of the three little sisters. But she did not win the love of her elders until she got married, and she thought that she was finally free.

After marrying Chen Jixing, she also gave birth to two daughters in a row. What's even more unacceptable is that the eldest daughter was abducted by Hanako because of her mother-in-law's superstition and ignorance.

The sharp-tongued mother-in-law asserted that Ye was a character like her mother, and she was afraid that she would only have to give birth to four daughters.

It's just that she obviously doesn't give up, and wants the Ye family to give birth to five.

It's a pity that the Ye family seems to have hurt his body when he gave birth to a thousand words, and there seems to be something that Ye Feng didn't know about and Ye didn't want to talk about during the period, anyway, Ye's stomach hasn't moved since then.

Ye Feng then understood, and also sighed that Ye's life was really not easy.

However, you can't just break up because of this, right?

Ye Feng knew that there must be a story between the two families, but it was definitely more sad than what he had just said.

Forget it, wait until the right time to ask.

Seeing that Ye was not as sad as just now, Ye Feng patted his chest and said, "Sister, what I just said is from my heart. I don't have much power right now, but as long as I'm in the day, I won't let anyone hurt you. In the future, when I am developed, I will naturally provide for my sister. And, actually, all children are the same in this life. In the future, if Qianyan enters the palace and becomes a mother, see if they don't blush and die. ”

Ye touched his head, leaned on his arm, and said with red eyes: "Good boy, my sister is waiting for the day when you are developed." It's just that I can't bear to enter the palace with a thousand words, and she can be safe and sound for the rest of her life. ”

Hearing this, Ye Feng had to sigh, this is what his mother would say. It's not for the rich, it's just for the daughter's good and safe life.

When Chen Jixing came back, it was late, and Ye had already adjusted his mood and was cooking in the stove.

Ye Feng asked, "Brother-in-law, why did you come back so late?" ”

Isn't it just to go to the field to see how the corn grows, and it won't take so long? Ye Feng couldn't help but wonder in his heart if Chen Jixing went to his legendary old mansion to see his father.

I think that no matter what happened between the Ye family and his parents-in-law, Chen Jixing, as his biological son, would not have any estrangement with them. And what the second elder of the Chen family hates, it is estimated that it is only the Ye family from beginning to end.

After all, in this family, except for himself, he is an outsider, and the Ye family is surnamed Ye, and he has no blood relationship with them.

Who knows, Chen Jixing said: "Naturally, it's in the ground." You don't know if you haven't planted the land, but weeds will soon grow on the newly ploughed land. In addition, there has been a lot of rain recently, so those weeds are growing faster. No, it's only been more than ten days, and the originally clean ground is overgrown with grass. I, Ah, pulled the grass one by one, one by one, so this is the time. ”

Hearing this, Ye Feng thought about it, although the land rented by the Chen family was not large, it was only seven or eight acres. But these lands are not concentrated, but are divided into one east and one in the west. It does take a lot of time for Chen Jixing to pull out the grass in these fields alone.

For this reason, Ye Feng once suggested that Chen Jixing re-lease the land, preferably in one place, which is also convenient for farming.

Chen Jixing said: "Everyone thinks like this, but there are good and bad things in this land, and the rent is naturally different." Anyway, everyone wanted to rent a good seed, so in the end, it was like this. ”

Not only is there less good land, but there is also more rent and more demanding, and it is fragmented, and it is not connected in one place, so many people have this in their homes, with one in the east and one in the west.

At least those with average soil can be anywhere.

Thinking of tomorrow's events, and thinking of Chen Jixing's role and difficulties in this matter, Ye Feng couldn't help but not talk about this topic.

At night, Ye Feng couldn't help but think that although Ye's daughter-in-law as an old woman's daughter-in-law had no way to change, it had nothing to do with him.

Moreover, the old woman couldn't move, but he dared to move those brothers and sisters-in-law of the Ye family.

If everyone knows etiquette and understands etiquette, even if it is cynicism, he can endure it, anyway, it will be a day at most.

But if the other party dares to kick his nose in the face and blatantly bully Ye and Qianyan, he will simply make a big fuss, and don't blame himself for letting the old woman have an unforgettable birthday.

Of course, he naturally had a way to embarrass himself and the Ye family.

It's better if the other party is unreasonable, anyway, as long as you are thick-skinned. If the other party is reasonable, then it is easier to do, isn't there a saying called "with the other way, give back to the other".

What Ye Feng is best at is this routine of "attacking the shield of the son with the spear of the son". Thinking of this, he suddenly became a little excited.

It seems that he really has a perverted side.

Thinking about it, I don't know when I fell asleep.

The next day, the family freshened up and dressed again, carrying the so-called gifts, and then walked to the east of the village.

Ye Shi wore a dress that Ye Feng had never seen since he arrived at this house, it looked like it was seven or eight percent new, and it looked quite festive, thinking that it was only worn during the New Year or when there was something important.

Chen Jixing changed into clean clothes and solemnly shaved his beard. No, I looked several years younger all of a sudden.

It's no wonder that people say that men look younger at the same age.

Chen Jixing's dress looks smaller than Ye's. As everyone knows, the Ye family is in charge of housework alone, and he is exhausted, so it is strange that he does not look old.

Along the way, unlike the silence of Ye and Qianyan, Chen Jixing looked quite happy. Also, for the Ye family, this is a rule in the past and is coldly looked at.

But for Chen Jixing, it's just going to his mother's house.

No matter how bad the mother-in-law is to her daughter-in-law and granddaughter, no matter how bad she is to her own son who crawled out of her intestines, she will not be much worse.

Except for Chen Jixing, everyone seems to be reluctant to speak, and Ye Feng naturally won't have nothing to say.

In modern times, it's called awkward chatting.

Along the way, Ye Feng thought, since this old mansion is in the east of the village, it seems that the economic conditions should not be too bad. You must know that he understands now, but anyone with a little economic strength will not settle in the west of the village.

The eastern part of the village has become synonymous with the affluent district.

However, Chen Jixing's family is doing so badly, and he doesn't see the people from the old house coming to help, it seems that this matter is indeed not simple.

After walking for a while, a boxy farmhouse courtyard appeared in front of Ye Feng's eyes.

To tell the truth, this courtyard is really well repaired, at first glance it is quite magnificent, it is the most common blue brick and white wall, the color is very layered, and it is also very high-grade, and the house of the village chief that Ye Feng has seen before is not far behind.

From the outside, the courtyard seems to be a typical courtyard pattern. Perhaps for safety, a stone wall was built outside. At this height, it is also higher than the average wall.

And Chen Jixing's fence made of bamboo, compared with the simplest fence in this courtyard, is simply shabby.

When you enter the gate, you will see a very large courtyard, and the ground is paved with bluestone slabs, which looks very clean and tidy.

At this moment, there are more than a dozen Eight Immortal Tables in the courtyard, and there are many people sitting around the table, most of whom are from Chenjia Village.

Everyone was talking and laughing, drinking water that I don't know what it was, and it looked decent, anyway, it had to be lively and lively, and the atmosphere was good.

As a result, with the arrival of the Ye family, it was okay to see Chen Jixing, and when they saw the Ye family with Qianyan and Ye Feng, the crowd gradually stopped talking, as if they were ready to watch a good show.

Just because everyone knows it, it is estimated that there is a good show to watch today. But it's not unusual, which year Mrs. Liu is too old, but I don't know if there will be "new tricks" this year, after all, the Ye family now has a so-called maiden brother.

Aunt Cha's family naturally came a long time ago, and she definitely wouldn't miss such a lively occasion. Just take more than a dozen eggs, and the family can eat a random meal.

For this reason, she also deliberately asked her eldest son, who went to school in the county, to take a leave of absence and come back, and the family of four appeared neatly on the table.

The cost of these more than ten eggs, their family must eat them back.

Seeing that Ye was a little unnatural under the gaze of everyone, she was not ready to fall into the well. After all, in her opinion, this kind of role is not her turn today.

Huang will naturally breathe a sigh of relief for her.

I have to say that for these trivial things, Aunt Cha has always been like a god, after all, she has a very complete information.

Sure enough, within two minutes of the Ye family's arrival, the curtain of a room on the east side of the courtyard suddenly opened.

At the movement of the curtain, a peasant woman about thirty-six or seventeen years old, with a full face and meat, her eyebrows and eyes were a little crooked, and people liked to look at her with slanted eyes, walked towards Ye Feng and his party.

I saw that she was wearing an apron, with a silver hairpin obliquely stuck on her head, and some earrings hanging from her ears, shaking as she walked.

Under the reflection of the sun, it looks shiny.

As soon as she approached, Ye Feng smelled something that suddenly smelled a little moldy, and went straight to his nose. When he found her shiny hair, Ye Feng was sure in his heart that this must be something like the legendary osmanthus oil.

However, shouldn't osmanthus oil have the fragrance of osmanthus, how can it be this musty taste? It seems that it is just a fake and shoddy product.

That's not the point, it's the look on her face, it's really interesting.

What kind of expression was that, Ye Feng suddenly felt that he was short of words, and he couldn't describe it for a while.

Anyway, it's neither estrangement nor heartfelt enthusiasm, the smile is still there, but it doesn't make people happy. What surprised Ye Feng even more was that she didn't say a word from beginning to end, but just took the initiative to reach out and take the basket from Ye's hand.

It stands to reason that after receiving a gift, shouldn't you welcome people into the house, kowtow to the old woman or something? But she just wouldn't get out of the way, blocking there like a stone statue, and she didn't smile.

Ye Feng was still thinking about what she was doing this for, when he unexpectedly heard her speak, Ye Feng thought she was a mute before.

"The third family, shouldn't your birthday gift for your mother this year be another fifty eggs and a piece of indigo coarse cloth?"

When she said this, her voice was actually a little deliberately raised, which was enough for the villagers sitting in the courtyard to hear clearly.

said, without waiting for Ye's refutation or self-admission, he directly removed the gray cloth covering the basket, and held the basket generously, as if to let everyone see clearly that what she said was true.

And what is in the basket instead of eggs and blue cloth?

Ye's face turned a little red, and her hands were trembling slightly, and it could be seen that she was still very embarrassed.

But it's clearly not over yet.

At this time, another peasant woman in her thirties, about the same age as Ye's, with a pair of hanging eyes, also walked out.

I saw that she was also wearing a half-worn apron, as if she had expected this kind of scene for a long time, and before she came to her, she exaggerated "yo" and said: "I just heard movement in the house, which rare guest I said, it turned out to be the third brother and sister!" ”

This word is long and full of charm.

But the first woman with crooked eyebrows and eyes was not ready to let go of Ye, so she made up for it again, "Then, brother and sister, what you said is right, third brother and sister, you came really early." ”

As she spoke, Ye Feng saw her unappetizing yellow teeth.

Afterwards, Ye Feng knew that this person was Ye's sister-in-law, surnamed Huang. It's just that Huang is just one of many surnames, but she can live up to her name, and her teeth are also yellow, which is not easy.

Then, regardless of whether people want to or not, he took Ye's hand and continued to chirp: "Brother and sister, you are really, don't say a word when you come, my second brother and sister will come to greet you!" Hey, brother and sister, you are really, just like this, the pestle is here, and the third brother and sister are not allowed to come in, I don't know, I thought that this family did not welcome the third brother and sister's family! ”

After speaking, he only sneered and looked at the two.

The person who was called the second brother and sister was not annoyed, and smiled exaggeratedly: "Look at what you said! But you can't blame me for that! Although it is a concubine of relatives, if it is not my mother's birthday, we will not be able to meet. Speaking of which, it's not that we hate others, but that people hate us! ”

Then, no matter what Ye Shi thought, he continued: "If you don't believe it, I'll only say one thing, just if you divide it out early, and you don't have to be a cow and a horse to serve your mother-in-law like you and me, you will already envy someone to death." You're right, sister-in-law? ”

After speaking, regardless of Ye's red and white faces, the two talked and laughed and entered the house hand in hand, as if there was no Ye.

Ye Feng later learned that just now these two women, one was Ye's sister-in-law Huang, who was later called "Huang's Sound Pill" by Ye Feng, just because her voice was not ordinarily loud, which was comparable to her own sound effects.

The other is Ye's second sister-in-law, Zhu, who was called the female version of Zhu Bajie by Ye Feng. The reason is really inconvenient to say. It's just that he later found out that Huang's Xiangsheng Pill is a real bad guy.

And this Zhu family is not as bad as imagined, but it is just because he was instigated by the Huang family.

However, for a long time, Ye Feng still didn't like the Zhu family, even if she changed it later, Ye Feng didn't have a good impression of her.

So much so that later, at Ye Feng's suggestion, the Ye family and the Zhao family's big cow mother formed a duck duck village kitchen, and Ye Feng did not agree to let the Zhu family join as soon as possible, but accepted her when more people were needed later.

Watching Ye's sister-in-law and sister-in-law sing double reeds and teaming up to bully Ye's family, this scene made Ye Feng even more confused. Since Chen Jixing is the youngest son, according to tradition, he should be the one who is most liked by the elderly, why did he just divide the younger son out and live alone?

With no basket to cover his hands, Ye could only stand there helplessly, looking more and more embarrassed.

Go into the house, I really don't want to go, there are people in it that I don't want to see and talk to; If you don't go in, you'll really be an outsider.

Do you really want to find a random place to sit in the courtyard like other villagers?

It would be fine if it had been changed on weekdays, but today is not as good as weekdays, and today is my mother-in-law's birthday.

No matter what the Ye family does, anyway, it will inevitably be arranged by the two sharp-toothed sisters-in-law.

As for the Ye family's separation, the people in the village naturally knew about it. Seeing Ye's embarrassing appearance at the moment, no one stepped forward to help.

However, this kind of outsider doesn't seem to be able to really help, after all, "it is difficult for a clean official to decide family affairs", not to mention that they are not a clean official.

People who are a little older know very well that in this big family, it is difficult to get along with such superb concubines as Huang and Zhu, and the few words of exclusion just now are just a small fight.

If you want to ask them about their combat effectiveness, hehe, Aunt Cha can be directly turned into scum in front of them.

Of course, to call them the best, the premise is that Ye's mother-in-law, Mrs. Liu, is not counted.

The older generation understands better in their hearts that if her old people are also included, the Huang family and the Zhu family will not talk about it for the time being, and even Aunt Cha Wu will not be ranked at all.

That's a real fighter.