Chapter 365: Talking to Sisters about the Future
Silly girl, have you ever seen someone who went out later be able to catch up with someone who went out first? If they catch up, either the people in front are lazy and don't go, or the people behind are running, I see that they can't run, and they don't know where to run, so they can only follow our business, and by then, we have walked out of another way to make money. Du Mei smiled, smiling easily and comfortably, confident.
"Sister's ideas are many, we just have to follow along." Du Tao pushed Du Ying, and the two sisters met and laughed.
"Speaking of which, I was about to talk about you, this duck will be raised on the mountain villa in the future, there are many people there, just at the beginning, teach the aunt of the Lin family how to call the ducks and feed the ducks, and then hand them over, what are the plans of the three of you in the future?" Du Mei asked very seriously.
After the New Year, Du Ying is thirteen years old, Du Tao is eleven years old, Du Gui is nine years old, Du Mei is now rich, has a house, and has a business, it's time to think about her sisters.
"We're still following you, don't you want us anymore?" Du Gui blinked his eyes and almost cried.
"Why doesn't my sister want you, I just want you to be more promising! Now that you are all studying in Yixue, have you ever thought about reading something famous? For example, will you be a shopkeeper in the future? Or do you want to study medicine with Uncle Zhong Yu? Du Mei rubbed her hair and spoke to the three of them.
"I don't know!" The three girls answered in unison.
"Then think about it! When did you think of it, when did you tell me. Du Mei suddenly felt that she had taken too much care of them on weekdays, and she didn't know anything about such a big matter at this time.
"Sister, to be honest, of the three sisters, only Guizishu is the best. When I study, I just want to go to bed when I listen to it, and it's so-so. Du Tao said a little shyly.
"These days, the master teaches to recognize medicinal materials, and many people like it, and I like it too, but I also like to plan it." Du Ying was a little embarrassed and felt that it was really difficult to choose.
"Peach, you practice abacus well, and in the future, our shop will not invite Mr. Bookkeeper. Sakura, if you are willing to learn medicinal herbs, I will send you to Uncle Zhong Yu, Guan Yuan is on the counter, you are right to learn from him. Du Mei thought about it and gave them good advice.
Du Gui listened to Du Mei's words, and immediately became angry, she followed the example of an adult, walked around the kitchen with her hands behind her back, she deliberately said in a rough voice, and said in an old-fashioned manner: "Peach account, how much money did you collect today, Dr. Sakurako, give me medicine." ”
Her appearance made the whole family laugh, and the stone and the three sons of the Lin family could hold it back at first, but then they couldn't help it, so they laughed with everyone.
"You crazy girl, my sisters are all on the move, what are you going to do?" Xu laughed so much that tears came out of his eyes, and he poked her head and asked.
"What should I do?" Without thinking, Du Gui turned around and threw himself into Du Mei's arms, raised his head and asked.
"You're still young, just study with Uncle Scrap Manuscript." Du Mei shaved her nose lovingly.
"I'm not young anymore, so I'll take Komatsu to school with me in the future." Du Gui corrected it seriously.
She used to be led by two sisters, but now it's her turn to be a sister, so she naturally has to show off.
"Mmmm, young lady, let's go tomorrow." Juniper was about to join in the fun, when he saw Du Gui calling him by name, he immediately twisted his little buttocks, slid off his small stool, ran over upside down, and grabbed Du Gui's hand.
"Two living treasures, don't eat the meal soon!" Xu looked at a pair of children on the ground and scolded with a smile.
The family laughed and laughed, and after a long dinner, they listened to the rustling sound outside the window, like the sound of silkworms chewing mulberry leaves in a spring night.
"It's snowing!" The stone opened the door to check and couldn't help but exclaim.
"Really?" The three little heads crowded together to the door and looked out excitedly.
"It's spring now, why is it still snowing?" Du Mei said as he listened to the sound of snow particles hitting the lattice.
"It's not right to be warm these days, look at it, it's going to be a cold spring!" Xu pulled the three children back, the temperature outside dropped sharply, just after eating, and then the cold wind blows, it will have diarrhea.
"It's going to be cold again, but fortunately the cotton clothes haven't been removed." Du Mei looked at the jackets on the four younger siblings and said.
"Every year is to eat the Dragon Boat Festival dumplings to send cotton clothes, this season is cold and warm, there is a saying, the spring cold freezes the cow, which shows that the spring cold is not worse than the cold winter wax moon." Xu Shi cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks and talked to Du Mei in a clumsy manner.
"If it snows again tomorrow, it's time for a charcoal pot in the duck shed." Du Mei thought for a moment and said.
"This, don't worry, we still have a lot of charcoal left in winter, and I have received it in the next room, and it is convenient to use it." Xu nodded.
"I hope the snow will stop tomorrow, and there will be guests in the restaurant who have booked a table." Du Mei said with some concern.
"Let's see, doesn't the shopkeeper Dong live in the county seat? He can still handle this. Xu reassured Du Mei Dao.
"That's it." Du Mei was a little helpless.
The cold outside the house invaded the house little by little, and it was cold, and the family hurriedly washed up and fell asleep.
The snow particles mixed with the snowflakes fell overnight, and the ground was white, and in the morning, the big snowflakes poured down like cotton wool, dense and large, almost obscuring the sky, and only a little cold light reflected by the snow was left between the sky and the earth.
Du Mei put on a thick cotton coat, and when she pushed the door, she was stunned by the snow scene in front of her. The snow was white, and even the branches of the big elm trees were covered with snow.
Last winter was almost a dry and rainy day, except for a snow when her grandfather died, and then even the rain was less, and when she came back yesterday, she still felt that it was spring, but now it was snowing all over the sky, and it froze back to winter.
The snow kept falling, and Du Mei couldn't go out, so he had to stay at home. At noon, after lunch, the Fang clan suddenly braved the heavy snow and hurriedly ran over.
"Second sister-in-law, it's terrible, something happened to your uncle's family." She said with a cold face.
"What's wrong?" Xu was frightened, and the embroidery needle was biased, almost pricked into his finger.
"Xie Shi doesn't know if it was last night or this morning, he ran out alone and fell into the dry ditch and froze to death!" Fang Clan said in shock.
"What the hell is this!" The relationship between the Xu family and the Xie family is not good, but they were still shocked when they suddenly heard such bad news.
"I heard that she was bewitched by ghosts, the patriarch said, according to the footprints on the snow, she wanted to go all the way to Yixue, it is said that she had to go several times a day, and she had never been lost.
You know that the ditch is very deep, the snow is wet and slippery, she can't climb up, it was so cold last night, she was wearing a single clothes, she can't freeze to death, I heard the people they ran to see, when they found it, it was covered with snow...... People are hard. Fang suppressed his voice and said in a low voice, afraid of scaring the child.
"Why didn't Sanjin come to report the funeral?" When Xu Shi heard this, she felt extremely terrifying, and she asked in a trembling voice.
"He's stupid at this moment, he doesn't have anything at home, it's all the patriarch helping Zhang Luo, where can he take care of the funeral!" Fang Shi pursed his lips and said.
"This is really a disaster from the sky!" Xu put the embroidery bandage back in the needlework basket, and she was disturbed by the news.
"This is what she deserves in her life, look at how many bad things she has done, this is called God has eyes, heaven is reincarnated, and retribution is not happy." Fang Shi still whispered, seeing that she seemed to be frightened, he sat with her again, said some side words, and left after a while.
"Meizi, your third aunt is suddenly gone, saying that the ghost is confused, I don't know if it was yesterday or today, and no one came to report it, the weather is bad these days, so don't go out, so as not to bump into the evil spirit." When cooking dinner, Xu specially asked Du Mei to help light the fire and took the opportunity to tell her.
"Mother, don't be afraid, let's walk and sit upright, the ghosts can't get close, besides, the snow is so heavy, even if I want to go out, I can't get out." Du Mei was relieved.
"Second sister-in-law!" The mother and daughter were talking, when they heard Sanjin calling the door outside.
"Third uncle." Du Mei braved the heavy snow to open the door, only to see Sanjin with unkempt hair, dressed in black, standing outside the door in a trance, the snow was falling so heavily, he didn't bring a hat to wear a robe, only let the snowflakes fall on his hair and shoulders.
"Your third aunt is gone this morning!" Sanjinmu said in a daze.
"I see, I'll be over in a moment." Du Mei whispered.
Although she doesn't like Xie's family, she has the identity of the third aunt, and now that the deceased is the greatest, she has to pay tribute as a relative.
Du Mei didn't tell a few small ones, for fear of scaring them, she stepped on the thick snow alone, went to the village grocery store to sell two bundles of yellow table paper, and sent them to the three-room courtyard, Du Jie came back from Qinghe County, knelt on the ground in filial piety clothes, and kowtowed to everyone who visited.
Du Mei did not kneel or salute, but stood outside for a while before going back.
The snow continued to fall, as if to cover up the ugliness, and it rained for three days in a row, and the snow was overwhelming.
In the past three days, it has become colder and colder, and the brazier cannot be removed all day, as if it is back to the cold winter of the ninth month.
On the day of Xie's burial, the sky suddenly cleared, and the barmen stepped on knee-deep snow to carry her coffin to a vacant lot in her house and buried it, because Du Huaibing had said that the punishment for Xie was to remove her name from the family tree, and second, not to be buried in the ancestral grave after death.
As the icy white snow turned into muddy and dirty jet-black residual snow, the Xie clan completely disappeared from Dujiagou and became a small mound in the field. When the villagers went to work in the fields and walked there, they did not want to stop and look at her.
The days of Sanfang are still like water, Du Jie returned to Qinghe County on the night of his mother's funeral, Sanjin went to Yixue every day to teach, he didn't want to face his nagging mother every day, so he simply moved to live in the scrap manuscript house.
Wei guards a few empty rooms every day, the day is fine, the night is very difficult, she is afraid of Du Shicheng, plus Xie at this time, in the final analysis, it is precisely because Wei ignores her that she runs around and has an accident, so she is so scared that she can't sleep every night, people are old, where can she stand like this, and gradually lose weight.
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