Chapter 35: Breaking Up Again
Xie went home embarrassed, and Zhou washed the sheets and quilts without hurrying under the suspicious eyes of the women, and went home with the basin. As soon as she entered the yard, she saw suspicious water piling up on the ground, and she stepped forward to touch the bedding and shouted angrily: "Which one killed a thousand knives did this, and this tells us how to sleep at night!" ”
Xie slipped into the river, although it was not pushed by Zhou, but it was inseparable from her, Zhou thought it was just another quarrel with Xie, but he didn't know that Du Xing, who was silent on weekdays, was actually a ruthless character.
Zhou's fire surged upwards and rushed straight to the three-room house, and Du Xing stood at the door to stop it.
"You girl, you must have done it!" Zhou's eyes are about to burst into sparks.
"I did it, you caused my mother to fall into the water, I just made your futon wet, this is still light!" Du Xing crossed his waist and glared.
"See if I don't tear your little!" Zhou didn't expect Du Xing to admit it so naturally, he was annoyed in his heart, and he was about to come up and tear it apart regardless of the identity of his elders.
Zhou's slap was almost on Du Xing's face, but she didn't expect a cold light flashed in front of her, and a pair of scissors stabbed at the palm of her hand, so frightened that she urgently retracted her hand halfway.
"Wow, Xiucai has raised a female rakshasa here!" Zhou couldn't fight, so he simply opened his throat and scolded.
"You want to kill someone, I'll let you kill, let you kill!" Zhou lowered her head and arched towards Du Xing, she expected that a teenage girl would not dare to see blood.
Sure enough, Du Xing was defending herself in a hurry just now, and now she was overwhelmed by Zhou's sprinkling.
"Sister-in-law, it's not enough for you to hurt me, you still want to ruin Xing'er's reputation, how can you be so vicious?!" Xie Shi got up from the bed and said leisurely. Her face turned pale from the cold, and her body was even trembling slightly.
"Phew, you don't pretend to be pitiful, you slipped into the river by yourself, and it was up to me! Your daughter has soaked my futon, and you still want to protect it! Zhou glanced at Xie with disgust.
"If you didn't mean to, how could I have slipped!" Xie's voice also raised.
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The loud quarrel between the two concubines has long attracted the neighbors, because today the village is writing couplets and fishing, and only the old man and children are at home, and there are people looking in outside the courtyard gate.
Du Shicheng, who slept in the main house, couldn't bear it, and the dignity that this family had maintained for many years was trampled on by his son, daughter-in-law, grandchildren and grandchildren as pig urine bubbles.
Wei was about to go out to scold, but was stopped by Du Shicheng, and he went out by himself.
"If you want to split up, wait until you eat tomorrow's last meal!" Du Shicheng stood at the door of the hall and said to the two daughters-in-law who were arguing.
Du Shicheng's voice was not high, but a little hoarse, but in Zhou's Xie ears, it was like thunder.
"Dad, Du Xing has wet all the bedding in my house!" Zhou tugged at Xie's clothes.
"Dad, she was the one who caused me to fall into the river first!" Xie Shi did not show weakness and pulled Zhou's collar.
After listening to Du Shicheng's words, the flustered Wei pulled his sleeve: "If you are in charge, you can't make trouble when you split up, don't talk angry!" ”
"You're blind, look what you've done with this house!" Du Shicheng also complained about his old wife, he pointed at the two-room daughter-in-law who fought like a black-eyed chicken, and said angrily.
"What are you doing here, what should you do!" Wei was scolded by Du Shicheng, and this tone can only come out of the daughters-in-law.
Seeing that his mother-in-law was scolded, Zhou's Xie let go of their hands and scattered in a gray manner, Xie continued to cover the bed, while Zhou dried the washing and then disposed of the water on the bedding.
The sun rose, and the sunlight shone directly into the hall, and Du Shicheng, who was still standing in place, squinted.
Back then, I saw that the Zhou family was tall and fat, and he was a person who could work and give birth, so he married Dajin as a daughter-in-law. It's been 20 years, and the arrogance of being an old man at home hasn't changed at all, but has intensified.
Du Shicheng thought with his toes, and knew that the separation that Dajin blurted out that day must have been pouted by the Zhou family. His son knew that he was an abacus bead, and he could not move it. When did his elm brain come alive?
Let's talk about the Xie family, the broken settlement in the county town is cunning. But I can't resist the three golds, Xie's mouth is sweet, and he can coax the old woman to be happy. This Fang Yuan didn't expect them to really be able to work in the fields, as long as they fought for the Du family's face and glorified the lintel. But now I don't feel easy.
Du Shicheng turned his mind to the second room, all kinds of changes in this family happened after the accident with Erjin. It's like a room with a beam drawn, but sooner or later. Before, how could he not have found out?
The Xu family in the second room has a gentle temperament and behaves in a regular manner, although it is picked up by Erjin halfway, but it is not like a peasant girl, nor is it as swaggering as the Xie family. At first, I asked, but I didn't say why, but then I couldn't tell it, and the source of my life experience became a mystery.
The girl in the second room and one room, according to his observation at home, is not as lazy as the old woman said, and they do nine out of ten of the work in the house.
Du Shicheng went through his three sons and three daughters-in-law in his heart, and sighed faintly. That's it, instead of making trouble in the future and splitting up again, it is better to take advantage of the fact that you haven't torn your face now, so that you can talk about the brotherhood of father and son in the future.
"Daddy, you are so ......" Wei Shi looked at Du Shicheng with blank eyes, and stopped talking.
"Didn't you see that too? How can paper hold fire! Du Shi turned back into his room.
Zhou absentmindedly arranged the futon, and out of the corner of his eye, he peeked at his father-in-law's uncertain face, and his heart was drumming. Last time, Daikin talked about separating the family, and he directly made his father-in-law so angry that he vomited blood, and he hasn't made a good deal to this day. If something happens again this time, will my mother-in-law directly let Dajin take a leave of absence from her?
After a while, Zhou saw that her father-in-law was fine, turned around and went back to the house, and a stone in her heart finally fell to the ground. She only felt that she couldn't stay at home, so she took a basket and went to Sheshan Lake to find her son.
When Xie heard the word separation, he was stunned at first, and then lay on the bed, and couldn't help laughing.
This family of more than a dozen people lives together, with in-laws at the top, and concubines staring at the bottom, eating, drinking, and playing everywhere, and she has long been tired of it. If there are only four people in the future, they have money to collect rent, there is food in the field, and they are the masters of their own houses, this day is not beautiful!
When Du Mei returned home, the courtyard was quiet, and he only saw water stains flowing all over the ground, and he couldn't help frowning. It's as if something happened here. She put the medicine in the hanging basket in the kitchen and went back to her room.
The three younger ones were all in the house with their mother, and when they saw the eldest sister returning, they scrambled to tell her what had just happened. They chattered back and forth, making Du Mei stunned.
"Third sister and fourth sister, don't say it, let your second sister say it." Dumay interrupted them.
"Oh." Du Tao and Du Gui closed the small floodgates.
"That's the case......" Du Ying said everything just now in full with a vivid voice.
"The water outside was splashed by Du Xing?" Du Mei didn't believe it, her cousin looked at Si Sven, but her temperament was so fierce?
"That's still fake! The fourth sister's mouth opened like this. Du Ying pointed at Du Gui and learned from her. Immediately attracted Du Gui's protesting small fist.
The three little ones rolled onto the bed with a laughing and laughing.
"Meizi, don't worry, if you divide the family, you will separate the family. Although your father is gone, your grandfather can't drive us outside, I will take more embroidery, and those who have hands and feet will not die of hunger. Xu Shi saw the worry on Du Mei's face and patted her hand.
Du Mei turned to look at her mother, her father was gone, and her mother cried many times. So much so that Du Mei has always felt that in this family, the one who needs to be protected the most is her mother. But just now, for the first time, she felt that her mother was the strongest backing for their sisters.
"Mother, don't worry, I have a way, and I will definitely take you and your younger siblings to live a good life." Du Mei snuggled into Xu's arms.
"Hmm." Xu Shi only thought that Du Mei was saying something to relieve her heart, and he didn't go to his heart.
A hard object in her arms was against Du Mei, and she remembered the box Zhong Yu gave her.
"Mother, I gave the medicine money to Dr. Zhong, and he gave me this, saying that it was for you." Du Mei pulled the box out of his arms.
"This is given by Dr. Zhong?" Xu Shi saw the box, and his eyes flashed.
"Yes, he let you eat it during your confinement, and said that we can eat it too, but not too much." Du Mei repeated what Zhong Yu said.
"Did he tell you, what is this?" Xu Shi rubbed the box and asked.
"I didn't say it, I said that I had 100 Wen to buy medicine, so I made up for this." Du Mei muttered a little in her heart, isn't this just a sesame walnut crisp, why is her mother's expression so solemn.
Xu Shi has seen the medicine that Du Mei got back, she estimated it at the price of more than ten years ago, and now the eggs are all one penny, and the medicinal materials do not know whether the price has increased or not.
"You always say Doctor Zhong, what is his name? How old is it? Xu couldn't understand why this Dr. Zhong gave her the best Ejiao cake.
"His name is Zhong Yu, he is in his thirties, he gave birth to a younger brother last time, thanks to him." Du Mei touched Juniper's little hand, which was getting fatter and fatter.
Last time, Xu's production was exhausted, and he didn't have the strength to open his eyes, how could he still see clearly?
The three small ones, seeing that the box was exquisite, did not make a fuss, and they all came up to see. The aroma of walnuts and sesame seeds is mouth-watering.
"Now that you've got it back, let's eat it." Xu kept the doubt in his heart.
She opened the box, and saw that the black cakes were neatly stacked, and she gave each of her four daughters a slice. Du Mei broke half and forced it into Xu's mouth.
The cake slowly melts in the mouth, leaving a fragrant taste on the lips and teeth. Xu's face changed drastically, surprised, frightened, and surprised......
Xu Shi looked at the box carefully again, and found the Yu Jitang system on the reverse side.
"Is Dr. Zhong's medical hall called Yu Jitang?" Xu asked.
"I don't know, I guess so. Mother, how do you know? Du Mei asked curiously.
"It's written here." Hsu refers to small print.
She recalled everyone, even people from more than ten years ago, and couldn't find a single one with the surname Zhong. But this Ejiao cake is obviously the authentic taste of Jishitang, although after so many years, she is still very sure. But Jishitang has already been seized, and Xu is a little uneasy.
"Mother, do you know how to read?" Du Mei was surprised.
"Yes, I learned it from my husband when I was a child. During the New Year, I will teach you quietly, but you are not allowed to say it, you will be scolded by your grandmother. Xu smiled.
"Yes, yes." The four sisters said happily.
"Let's go make lunch, your third uncle's couplet is almost ready." Xu urged, today the third room of the big house is in trouble, and the Du Mei sisters can't make people unhappy anymore.