Chapter 53: Testing the Waters
"Daddy, you can live with us. In the final analysis, the separation is just a stopgap measure, how can the old man really be alone? Xie rolled his eyes and said with a smile.
"Yes, Daddy, Xiuxiu is still filial to you, let's live with us." Sanjin is a young child, and he has been in front of his parents for more than 30 years, and he suddenly has to make his own decisions about everything, and he really has a headache.
Okay, you Xie goblin, you are an old man, you obviously want to monopolize the family property! Zhou thought with a blue face with anger.
"Daddy, Dajin is the boss, as the saying goes, raise children to prevent old age, you should live with our big house." Zhou's face hurts and his body hurts, and he was beaten by Dajin, but Dajin is an elm pimple head, and if Zhou doesn't open his mouth, I'm afraid that the golden doll will be taken away by Xie.
"Yes, yes, live with us, don't interfere in the work in the fields, sit at home and enjoy happiness." Daikin said with a smile. He secretly thought in his heart, this woman, she still has to fight! After being subdued, he will be obedient and polite.
"Sister-in-law, my family's Dajin will be tested in the future, and Du Jie will also be tested, the two old men will follow us, and it will be a real blessing to be glorious in the future!" Xie glanced at Zhou.
"Blessing and blessing, there is happiness and anger, don't talk about it slowly, the third child can pass the exam in the year of the monkey, just in front of your eyes, you are asking your father and mother to be your buddy." Tian, you rush to get a good one, let me ask you, will you plant? It's not that the labor father will make you a cow and a horse! Zhou snorted in his nostrils.
"That's what you said, haven't eaten pork and never seen a pig run? Besides, Du Zhong is not still here, I have 6 acres of land, and I ask him to plant every acre of land. You can't divide the main family, so you can leave for a long time! Xie Shi's words were beautiful, secretly satirizing Dafang for not giving others a way to live.
"The third family, if you talk about the sky today, you can't let your father and mother live with you!" Zhou didn't bother to argue with Xie, so he only blocked it with one sentence.
Xie Shi understood Zhou's thoughts, and he also knew that he couldn't hide his thoughts from her. If this stalemate continues, neither of them will benefit.
Xie Shi changed his tone: "Sister-in-law, I know that you also want to honor your father, but what is the name of the three golds, the old men attach great importance to filial piety." Although we are forced to break up, if we let someone with a heart chew the root of the tongue and ruin the future, our whole family will be humiliated! ”
"Don't come to this set, my three sons haven't said anything about their daughter-in-law, I'm going to lose the reputation of a bad daughter-in-law, who would dare to marry into my family? You're not cheating on me! "Zhou doesn't eat her set.
"Do you want to, me and your mother, one by one." Du Shicheng said seriously.
"This ...... Okay, too. Zhou was secretly happy.
"Mother, you've been with us!" Xie Shi immediately came to the spirit.
"Get out! Get out of here! Ahem, ahem. Du Shicheng only felt a stream of heat rushing towards the top of his head, and his eyes were red with anger.
Seeing that their father-in-law suddenly became angry, Zhou and Xie were almost frightened, and they hesitated to move towards the door.
"Sejo, don't make yourself angry." Du Huaibing pressed Du Shicheng's shoulder, and Du Shicheng coughed so much that he shrunk into a ball.
"Let the uncle laugh, I don't know what I did in my last life, and I put up these bunnies with no conscience!" After a while, Du Shicheng eased up, and the red tide on his face went down.
"It's not bad, I'll go back." Du Huaibing didn't want to stay longer.
"Uncle, stay at home for dinner, I've been busy all morning." Du Shicheng grabbed him.
"Forget it, another day, you come to me, let's have a good drink." Du Huaibing declined.
Looking at the mess in the courtyard, Du Shicheng realized that today is not yesterday, this family is scattered! The pots and pans in the kitchen are all empty, what to entertain guests?
When Du Shicheng was stunned, Du Huaibing had already crossed him and went home.
The people in the big house and the three rooms also went back to their respective rooms in amazement.
"It's nothing, I'm back." Du Zhong kept picking the red mark mud on his index finger, as if without this red mark mud, the main family was still the original main family.
"Ah Zhong, you still come to help me." Du Shicheng saw that Du Huaibing was gone, and hurriedly grabbed Du Zhong.
"Uncle, you have 5 acres of land by yourself, you don't need me." Du Zhong's words became smaller and smaller the more he spoke.
At the same time, 28 acres are planted, sowing and harvesting, fertilizing and weeding need to find a long-term worker, and 5 acres, only need to hire a short-term worker when busy.
"Uncle's body is not hit, the field depends on you, and the salary will not be less." Du Shicheng felt sorry for Du Zhong in his heart.
"Uncle, what are you talking about, I just have the strength to do it, I understand your difficulties. I will do a good job, and how much should I be paid. "Du Zhong is a sincere person, although he is poor, he does not bend his backbone.
"Okay, just do as you say." Du Shicheng's spirit was really poor, he patted Du Zhong and turned around and went back to the back room.
"Uncle Zhong, my family's field will also trouble you." Du Mei said to Du Zhong.
"Oh, if you don't say it, I'll do it for you. It's just that you didn't fight just now, and the three acres on the river beach are not the top two acres of production. Du Zhong looked at Du Mei and sighed.
"Uncle Zhong, I want those three acres." Du Mei said calmly.
"Oh, that's it, you are a filial child, Uncle Zhong will try his best to serve the fields." Du Zhong walked out.
"Meizi, don't worry, there's still me." Du Shu followed behind and said.
The morning of panic and war passed, and all the people in the courtyard were gone, except for a few yellow leaves lying alone on the ground.
The yard is still the same yard, the house is still the same house, but at this time, in the noon sun, it seems to be drained, and it looks extremely sad and sad.
The Du Mei sisters are used to doing it in the kitchen, and they are very clear about grabbing things, and they basically have everything. At this time in their house, Du Ying had already boiled a pot of polenta, spread a few sorghum cakes, and ate and drank hot pickles.
Juniper had never been with his sisters for so long, and he was so excited that he didn't cry, make trouble, or sleep, just staring left and right.
There was already a small stove in the three houses, and now they could blatantly cook food, and Xie didn't know how happy he was. At noon, she made a fine white noodle egg gnocchi soup, and there was a white boiled egg lying in each bowl, and when she bit it, the delicious egg yolk flowed out, not to mention how beautiful.
Du Shicheng slept alone, and Wei Shi made lunch in the kitchen, braising sweet potatoes. On weekdays, she is used to cooking for a large family, but now she only cooks for two people, and she takes a little more sweet potatoes, but she doesn't have the heart to think about this, so she just sits in front of the stove and wipes her tears.
There was chaos in the big house, and although the three brothers grabbed a lot of things, there was no stove to light the fire and no chopsticks to eat. Looking at the grain, I can't get it cooked and eat.
"You go to the kitchen and have a look." Zhou, who was rumbling with hunger, urged Dajin.
"I'm not going, I'm going to you!" Daikin is still angry about what just happened.
This woman deliberately robbed her father and mother with the third family, not for filial piety, but for the money in the old man's hand, and he also came forward to say good things for her, and her parents were afraid that they would also annoy him.
"I'll go, I'll go, wait a while, don't eat!" Zhou walked to the kitchen in a huff.
"Mother, I'll help you." Zhou saw Wei sitting in the stove wiping her tears, and she said with a smile.
"No, what are you doing?" Wei's eyes were a little swollen, but her voice was unusually calm.
"No, I don't have a stove in the house, so I can't burn it, so I want to use a big stove." Zhou smiled and said.
"You can use it, clean it up when you're done." Seeing that the water in the pot was boiling, Wei removed the heat and let the sweet potatoes simmer slowly. She went back to her house to see Du Shicheng.
Zhou boiled the porridge, smelled the sweet potato in Wei's pot, couldn't help it, and opened it to take a look. As soon as she saw that there was a small half pot, she secretly took a few and put them in her arms.
After eating, Zhou immediately went to find the Yu bricklayer in the village to build a big stove.
Because it was the Chinese New Year, Yu Bricklayer had not yet gone out to look for work, so he promised to come to Du's house early tomorrow morning.
Wei, who returned to the kitchen, saw that there were fewer sweet potatoes, and she felt like a mirror in her heart. But she thought about Du Shicheng's body, and didn't say anything, just put the boiled sweet potatoes in a basket and took them back to the house.
"Mother, I want to raise ducks on the river beach." After eating, Du Mei said to Xu Shi in a relaxed tone.
"Eldest sister, how big is that circle?" Du Ying was surprised. The ducks at home are in a different enclosure and cannot be kept in the same place as the chickens.
"I don't circle it, I put it in the mouth of the fish." Du Mei said with a smile.
"That's not drowning!" Du Tao looked surprised.
"Ducks can swim!" Dumay shaved her nose.
"How is this possible, no one has ever seen a duck swimming in the water, and the ancestors have passed it down and raised it like this." Du Ying looked suspicious.
"Let's try, don't we." The Dugui people are small and big, and there are 10 duck chicks in the house.
These days, the family things are one after another, these duck seedlings that have been bought for more than ten days are three small cares, and now the yellow fluff has faded, growing gray and white hair, and the size is as big as an adult's fist.
"Okay." Du Mei also wanted to verify whether the things in the dream were also feasible in the Dashun Dynasty.
"Which one do you bring?" Du Gui frowned and asked.
"Take this one." Dume said.
Du Mei fed less, and the other ducks saw her hand and shrank back. There was only one pure white duck, slightly larger than the others, with a beak outstretched like a small shovel, pecking at her palm. Du Mei's heart moved, this is the one she wanted when she bought duck seedlings that day.
After eating, Du Mei put the little white duck and a little gray duck in a basket, covered it with a cloth, and the four of them hurried to the river beach. The Xu family didn't care about restraining them, and let them mess around.
The ducks were a little timid at first, but when Dumay poured water on them, they instinctively shook their heads, and the drops of water slid over their coat-like feathers, leaving no trace of water.
Probably adapted, two ducklings, paddling with the soles of their feet, allowing their bodies to float on the water. After a while, the little white duck actually plunged into the water.
"Ahh It's not drowned. Du Tao shouted.
"No, it won't." Du Mei's heart is also up and down, didn't he swim very well at first.
"Poof." The little white duck suddenly appeared not far away, with a struggling little loach tail showing at the corner of its mouth!
"Look, it catches fish and eats it!" Du Ying exclaimed, this was a completely unexpected surprise.
It seems that what was said in the dream will also work in the Dashun Dynasty, and Du Mei is secretly happy in his heart.
The two ducks had fun, performing all kinds of actions in the water, pricking the fierce sons, picking feathers, and pretending to sleep, and seeing that most of the hours had passed, they just refused to go ashore.