Chapter 185: Ugly Mother-in-law and Daughter-in-law
"Look at what you can! I really think I'm a green onion, and it's ...... Please also! Zhou spat heavily on the ground.
"You don't give rice, or if you don't see Uncle Zai's face, I won't bother to exterminate locusts for you!" Du Mei glanced at her, she and her accounts had not been completely settled.
"It's really upside down, doing things for the uncle's family as a junior, and daring to ask for wages!" Zhou couldn't wait to roll up his sleeves to beat Du Mei, but he hated the high gate in front of him and couldn't break in.
"Hey, sister-in-law, what kind of elders' shelves do you want to take, now the locust plague is so fierce, I'm afraid that if you want to kowtow and beg her, it may not be." Xie's stomach was pregnant, and she coughed melon seeds while saying cool words.
"The third family, don't rub the fire here! You pull down your face and beg her to try to kill the locusts for you! Zhou glared at her fiercely.
"I'm only six acres of land, so I can eat enough to eat, but I'm not like you, pointing to the harvest in the field and marrying a daughter-in-law." Xie Shi said coldly, the implication is that she still has rent subsidies, not as anxious as her.
"You prodigal hoof, cultivate some virtue in your mouth." Zhou stared at Xie's stomach, with a resentful expression, she had broken Xie and Ma Rong, and she had long suspected that she was not pregnant with the old Du family.
Xie Shi was stared at by her icy eyes, and couldn't help but take two steps back with a little fear: "Sister-in-law, what I said is also for your good, why should I be like this with my niece?" ”
"Hmph" Zhou ignored her, only snorted in his nostrils.
Wiping his face, Zhou was really arrogant: "Stinky girl, don't you go to the locusts for the old lady to destroy the locusts obediently today, we'll see!" ”
"From now on, whoever doesn't pay his wages will not want to use my ducks!" Du Mei has always been the master of eating soft rather than hard, how can she be suppressed by the Zhou family, she raised her voice and said to the outside world.
"It's really amazing, you dare to sit on the ground and raise the price, you dead girl with your elbow turned out, exterminate locusts for the Zhang family and the Li family, your grandma's family is next to you, you don't help, more than ten years of rice to raise a white-eyed wolf!" Wei heard the noise outside, went out to look, and heard Du Mei's words.
"At this time, do you remember that it is my aunt and grandmother? When we were suffering and tired, what good things did you do besides falling into the well! Du Mei questioned sharply, her eyes burning with anger.
"Don't be too arrogant, cheap girl, if you don't give me to exterminate locusts today, I ...... I'll die for you! "Wei is a person who stirs up three points unreasonably, and he doesn't talk about it at all.
"Toss it up! My ducks can't work in vain! Of course, there is a charge for wages. Du Mei was disgusted when he saw them, and did not want to talk to them, so he strongly refused
"You stinky girl, my rice, you dare to ask for it! Son......" Wei simply collapsed and howled outside the courtyard of Du Mei's house.
"Dead girl, look at your grandma, you really raised a white-eyed wolf, a litter of white-eyed wolves!" Zhou squatted beside Wei pretended to help her get her right.
The strong laborers of the neighbors were all in a hurry to go to the fields to exterminate the locusts, and they had no intention of watching them use strong words and make trouble, and if they passed by, they only glanced at them and did not stop to watch. There are only some deaf and dazzling old people who can't do work, and they gather around to watch the excitement and relieve their boredom.
Du Mei asked Du Ying to help Xu Shi go home and sit, she stood in the courtyard without saying a word, quietly watching Wei and Zhou sing and harmonize, they played much better than excerpts.
Wei and Zhou quarreled and quarreled,
There was a lot of trouble, one crying, two troubles, three hangings, and they came in turn, seeing that Du Mei was not moved at all, and they also beat drums in their hearts.
"Mother, you didn't buy Dabai, you should get it back with her now!" Zhou's eyes rolled and fanned the flames on the side.
"Yes, I bought the big white." Wei craned his neck and shouted.
"Please make it clear that when the family was separated, the eldest uncle's family led the cows, and the third uncle's family pulled the mules, and we just picked up some leftover chicken and duck seedlings. Now, want to be white? Are you going to redivide the oxen and mules? Du Mei listened to her words and sneered.
"The cow belongs to my family, why should I be redivided!" Zhou glared at Du Mei with an angry face.
"That's to see that our life is better, and we want to rob!" Not to be outdone, Du Mei glared back.
"I'm going to get rid of those ones anyway." Wei's little abacus clanged, and there was no duck head, look at what else you Du Mei had to rely on to take Qiao here!
"You can try this and see if you can take it away." Du Mei snorted.
Listening to Du Mei's words, Wei and Zhou looked at each other, at this point, many months ago, the Xie family of the third room tried it, when the duck was still small, she was embarrassed. Wei's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were instantly embarrassed, and they didn't know what to say.
"What are you doing here? You're all so idle, you don't have to catch locusts! Du Huaibing walked in with a bag of rice on his back, frowning and laughing at the crowd.
"Du Mei, how many have you promised now? I'm going to line up too. Du Huaibing unloaded the rice from his shoulders and wiped the sweat from his forehead.
"Patriarch, you've helped Meizi with a lot of things, and if you want to use ducks, you just need to let me know." Du Mei said gratefully.
"It's not easy for you to raise ducks, and it's not easy to raise ducks so obediently!" Du Huaibing gave Du Mei a thumbs up.
"Let's do it for the two of us first!" Zhou's face darkened, and he stepped forward to speak.
"Have you given me rice?" Du Huaibing looked back and glanced at the two of them back and forth.
"They are aunts and grandmothers, and they want to use my ducks for nothing." Du Mei grinned, but his eyes gleamed with disgust.
"There are really you, don't catch insects early in the morning, but run here to make a lot of trouble!" Du Huaibing turned his head and asked in a deep voice.
"She should do it for us, a few days ago, she also did it for the Fang family and the family of the outsider Huang Paralytic." Zhou withstood the pressure of Du Huaibing's stern gaze and said justifiably.
"You've already split up! The duck was raised by Du Mei herself, who she wanted to help and who she didn't want to help, as long as she wanted, no one could care! Du Huaibing looked at Wei's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and his heart was not angry.
"Why don't you care, this is my son's house! My son's stuff is all mine. Wei shouted unreasonably.
"Erjin is in a hurry, if you want to take care of it, it just so happens that the dowries of the four girls have been settled." Du Huaibing suffered Wei's dumb loss last time, and he didn't have any good color for her at this time.
"I'm buried in loess, and I still have to take care of their dowry!?" Wei was told by Du Huaibing, and he was so anxious that he almost jumped to his feet.
"You're still a little self-aware." Du Huaibing sneered.
"Stinky, shame on people! Don't go to the field to catch insects! Du Shicheng staggered with a stick, and he saw Wei scattering and raising the stick
The son is going to fight.
Wei didn't dare to provoke Du Shicheng, for fear that he would be angry, so he ran away in a panic.
"Uncle......" Du Shicheng called softly, he had lost a lot of weight compared to a few days ago, and he was simply skinny.
"Hey, you go back and give birth to a good life, don't be angry about these trivial things, it's not good for yourself." Du Huaibing didn't wait for Du Shicheng to speak, and comforted him first.
“。” Du Shicheng sighed deeply, glanced at Du Mei, and turned to leave.
The front of the door was clear, and Du Mei opened the door to welcome Du Huaibing.
"Patriarch, I really can't take your food!" Du Mei insisted on not accepting it, and Du Huaibing had to give up.
Du Huaibing's family has 20 acres of fields, which are continuous into a piece, from five quarters to the end of the Shen hour, it took almost four or five hours of the whole day for the ducks to eat the whole field clean.
Because Du Mei refused to accept the grain, Du Huaibing was upset, so he made a sumptuous dinner and invited the four Du Mei sisters to eat. Originally, the Yin family also wanted to invite the Xu family, but the Xu family refused to visit the door because of the mourning, so the Yin family had to give up.
Worried that their rice fields still needed to be cleared, the four sisters only ate a little and then left home. The ducks seem to have gotten used to being divided into two groups, and when they go out, they already know to follow their ducks automatically.
The rice field is cleaned every day, there are not many locusts, like Aunt Fang, Da Ya and Erzi's family, if you don't want to trouble Du Mei, you can just catch it manually once a day.
Du Mei lit a bonfire, and in the light that was clearly extinguished, the ears were not as straight and straight as they had been when the flowers were raised a few days ago, and they were slightly bent down, and it seemed that the rice grains had begun to fill and have a little weight.
"Sister, let's go back." Du Gui looked at Da Bai who had climbed up the ridge and shook Du Mei.
"Okay." Du Mei came back to her senses and gave Du Gui an apologetic smile.
"Sister, what do you want?" On the way home, Du Gui asked.
"After this disaster, I am afraid that the food in winter will increase several times." Du Mei frowned.
"Isn't my sister running a grain store, I'm not afraid." Du Gui said with a smile.
"Yes, it's not what it used to be, we're not afraid." Du Guixiao, Du Mei didn't want to burden her, so she only put her worries in her heart.
There are still villagers who ask to come to the door, and Du Mei can help if he can, only to make Wei and Zhou half angry, but there is no rut at all, so they have to resign themselves to going to the fields to work.
On this day, Du Mei was releasing ducks and catching them at Fang's house, and Du Huaibing took Shen Zhanghua, the commander of Qinghe County, and hurriedly found it.
"Look, that's what I'm talking about ducks exterminating locusts!" Du Huaibing pointed out to Shen Zhanghua with a smug face.
Since the outbreak of the locust plague in Qinghe County, Shen Zhanghua has not slept a single night, thinking about good strategies day and night, and his eyes are blue and his face is pale. When he heard that Du Mei of Dujiagou used ducks to catch insects, and the effect was good, he didn't even have time to sit in a sedan chair, so he rode a horse directly.
Shen Zhanghua stretched out his hand to build a pergola, stared at the ducks eating happily in the field, and said excitedly: "This method is really peculiar!" ”
"No, this method, so far, has only been done by Du Mei's ducks. A few days ago, some unconvinced villagers drove their chickens, ducks and geese to the fields, you know what's going on......" Du Huaibing couldn't help laughing.
"How's it going?" Shen Zhanghua asked curiously. 2k reading web