My Lin Ying is a big girl, and it's not a matter of always being in the villa, I heard that there is a female account room in your grain store, I don't know if Yingzi can go to you to do things? Miao asked tentatively with a red face.

"Is Lin Ying literate?" Dume asked.

"I know a few, she hasn't been to a private school seriously, but she has listened to Mr. Xixi's lecture with the young lady of the previous owner." Miao said expectantly.

"Otherwise, I've already found the shopkeeper in the restaurant, I'll ask him to bring Yingzi, if he can learn it, it's good, if he can't learn, let's do something in the back kitchen, what do you think?" Du Mei thought for a moment and said.

"Very good, very good." Miao was overjoyed when he heard Du Mei arrange this, and nodded again and again in agreement.

"Then it's decided, I'll go to Uncle Lin and them and settle the salary." Du Mei got up and said.

"They're in that room with Dr. Zhong." Miao raised his hand and pointed.

Du Mei walked in, several men were eating peanuts, I don't know what to say, they were talking enthusiastically, their eyebrows were dancing, she couldn't bother, she just sat next to her.

"Why didn't you sit with your Aunt Lin?" Zhong Yu saw her sitting with a smile and didn't speak, so he grabbed a handful of peanuts and gave it to her.

"I just came from them, thinking that at the end of the year, it is time to settle the salary with Uncle Lin." Du Mei took the peanut and peeled one to eat, which was sweet and delicious.

"Or, no, we dragged our family to come for a few months, there was no production in the fields, and we had to eat a lot of grain for nothing every day, in addition, the three boys went to study in Yixue in vain, and you gave us cotton and clothing, this time, what kind of wages do we talk about, it seems that we are not satisfied, it is really black-hearted." Lin Ping waved his hand again and again, and said in fear.

"I can't rely on you if there is no production in the field, you are also very busy with the autumn harvest and winter planting, and you have also taken over the private work on the side, and the money you earn is posted on the villa, where will I not know." Although Du Mei was busy every day, from the gratitude of the villagers, she guessed that Du Zhong took the Lin brothers to help many families to harvest and grab seeds, and everyone naturally remembered this gratitude to Du Mei.

"This is what we should do, besides, we only have this strength, and we are idle when we are idle, where do we care about this star." Lin Yong was strong and said disapprovingly.

"Since everyone is very helpful to me, of course I can't treat you badly, and I can't get half a little less." Du Mei took out his purse and gave each family a penny.

"This ...... We deserve it! Lin Ping still has to resign.

"You take it, in the first year, the plums should be given to you, pay more attention in the future, the affairs of the villa are all entrusted to you, and next year you will get paid again, it will be more than today, and you will be at ease." Zhong Yu interjected on the side.

"This is nature, the villa is not only a plum, but also our home, we must hope that he will get better and better." Lin Sheng said quite emotionally.

"Yes, yes, yes." The other three men nodded their heads. When they saw Zhong Yu say this, they accepted the wages.

Du Mei talked to them for a while, and then went to find Du Zhong, who had not seen each other for a long time, and was talking in his room at this time.

“…… You're not too young, I have to save up a sum of money for you to marry a daughter-in-law, otherwise, how can I be worthy of your dead mother. As soon as Du Mei walked to the door, he heard Du Zhong say this.

"If you have money, buy two acres of land first, and then talk about the rest!" Du Shu was a little impatient.

"Buy fields all day long, fields are so easy to buy!" Du Zhong said angrily.

"If there is no land, I will not marry a daughter-in-law! Whose girl would like to live a hard life with me? Du Shu's temper came up and he roared.

"You really haven't been on the house for three days, I think you're going to turn the sky upside down." Du Zhong was annoyed and wanted to roll up his sleeves and beat people.

"Uncle Zhong!" Du Mei pushed the door in due time.

"Meizi, why are you here? Something? Come and sit next to the brazier. Du Zhong gave up his seat to Du Mei, and he sat aside by himself.

"Uncle Zhong, I don't have anything else to do, I'm just giving you this year's salary." Du Mei stretched out his hand to roast on the charcoal fire, the dark red charcoal fire dancing in the white ashes.

"Where do you start with wages, don't say how much food you helped us in the spring, but the three big houses cost a lot of money, and at that time it was said that they would use labor to pay for it, but now my wages are afraid that it is not enough, where is there any surplus for me." When Du Zhong heard Du Mei's words, he said anxiously.

"The house was originally what you deserved, you worked for the Du family for twenty years, my grandfather and they are not able to give it to you, and I happen to have it, so I should naturally compensate you." Du Mei said softly with a smile on his face.

"They are them, you are you, you give me, enough is enough, never give it again!" Du Zhong said that he would not accept anything.

"Okay, okay, your wages are all worth the house, and Brother Shu's wages still have to be paid." Du Mei knew that he couldn't do it, so he had to change the conversation.

"How is this said, our father and son are a family, where can we calculate two accounts." Du Zhong waved his hand again and again, frowning and insisting.

"I'm all over, Brother Shu is a few months older than me, I saw you send him a job, and I already treated him as an adult, how can the salary still be mixed with you?" Du Mei was not in a hurry or impatient, and only spoke to him slowly.

"You girl, others are afraid that they will pay more, so it's better for you to hurry up and find a way to pay the bill." Du Zhong didn't know what she was thinking, and couldn't help but sigh.

"Uncle Zhong, you are also the steward of the village, on the first day of the new year, the children of the Lin family affectionately called you Uncle Zhong and gave you New Year's greetings, don't you give you any New Year's money?" Du Mei thought about him.

"I've got money." Du Zhong muttered quietly.

"It's not easy to save the money you have at the bottom of the box, keep it for you and Brother Shu, I have already paid Uncle Lin and them, where can I miss you." Du Mei knew that it didn't make sense with him, so he simply didn't talk to him, and only stuffed five hangs of money into his hand.

"This ...... How are there so many? Du Zhong seemed to be burned by the money, and asked in surprise.

"This year, my father died, and I got Zhuangzi, I have a lot of things in my family, and I don't bother you a lot of things, what are these things." Du Mei shook his head.

"When your father was here, he was very kind to me, and I did that, not as it should be. Now that you have a chance, of course I am even happier for you, and your father has a spirit in the sky, and he is also at ease. Du Zhong said, the corners of his eyes were wet.

"Don't talk about those sad things, let's have a happy New Year." Du Mei shook his big rough hand and comforted.

"Uh-huh." Du Zhong squeezed out a smile and answered in a low voice.

On this day, Huanhuan had dinner happily, everyone dispersed and went back, and Du Shu stayed in the villa to accompany his father for the New Year.

Back home, Du Mei took a few more medicines, and the wind chill slowly and completely healed. Seeing that the end of the year is approaching, she is busy day by day, getting thinner and thinner, she has never cried since she cried on the villa, Xu Shi is often worried about her, coldly watching, and seeing that she is no different from the past, she has to put her hanging heart back.

The door of the Du family locked the house and killed the New Year pig, Du Mei bought half a fan, now the weather is cold, the meat is divided, and it will be frozen into an ice lump, and it will not be bad for ten days and a half months.

The people in the village are grateful for Du Mei's goodness, this family gives some glutinous rice noodles, that family gives some sesame research, Lao Jitou gave her half a drawer of tofu, and a lot of dried tofu shutters, and many people give all kinds of steamed buns, she almost doesn't need to prepare anything, and the food in the New Year is almost there.

The village has to fish according to the custom, every family labors, Xu Shi because of Du Mei's cold disease, resolutely do not allow her to touch the water, three small ones to pick up some half-sized crucian carp bream, and in the evening, Du Huaibing specially sent the silver carp and a big herring to make ingots.

The next day, Xu's noodles, the family was busy for a day, steamed several flavors of steamed buns, including red bean paste, cabbage and pork filling, and sour bamboo shoots and mushroom filling, her steamed buns were fragrant, attracting the children in the village to come, Du Mei was not stingy, and each person gave a taste.

In this way, in addition to not sticking couplets and Tianqian'er, the second room is exactly the same as ordinary people's New Year's Day.

After the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, Du Mei let Shi go back, she knew that Aunt Shi was looking forward to him day and night, especially at the time of the reunion of ten thousand families this year.

In the chaos of the day, the Chinese New Year's Eve finally arrived, and Du Mei Zhongyu changed his new clothes early and drove the carriage to come. In previous years, he gave his buddies a holiday early, locked himself in the study to read a book for a day, and then ate a bowl of the same meal as usual, listened to the sound of firecrackers from others, and knew that another year had passed, and there was no joy or sadness in his heart.

Now that he has the Du Mei family, he suddenly has fireworks, knowing that he has to have a reunion dinner for the New Year, to keep the New Year, and to give New Year's money, these Zhong Yu, who is still alone in middle age, is very novel, and he secretly looks forward to this day coming sooner.

In the courtyard of the second room, Zhong Yu wore a brand-new navy blue cotton robe, neatly tied his hair, and calmly gathered around the Du Mei sisters to choose vegetables.

"Uncle Zhong Yu, the young leaves of celery can be eaten." Du Mei chuckled, and she couldn't help but remind Zhong Yu when she saw that Zhong Yu had picked every celery leaf cleanly.

"Yes, yes, celery leaves flatten the liver and bladder relieve, dispel wind and dampness, you can eat it." Zhong Yu didn't leave the line for half a sentence, causing the three little ones to laugh secretly.

Juniper was naughty, he also squatted on the ground like a little adult, and folded a celery into a mess, Du Gui made a gesture to hit him, he immediately giggled, threw himself into Zhong Yu's arms to ask for protection, and arched in his arms.

Zhong Yu rarely felt such family affection, and he cherished it very much, he washed his hands and played with Juniper. Juniper is very smart, nine consecutive rings, Luban locks and the like, a simple teaching will be, and he can play different tricks by himself.

In the evening, the aroma of each family's food was permeated and intertwined over Dujiagou, and the people in the village began to set off firecrackers one after another.

Du Mei lined up the two kickers in front of the courtyard gate, and then picked up the hanging whip with a thin bamboo pole and inserted it on the courtyard wall.

"I'll come, I'll come." Zhong Yu was leading Juniper out, and when he saw this, he hurriedly stepped forward and said.

"Okay." Du Mei was also polite, and handed the fire fold to Zhong Yu.

Zhong Yu also played back his head, carefully lit the lead in turn, and hurriedly ran away.

"Bang... Smack..."

"Chirp... Chirp..."

"Crackle Crackle"

The door of the second room courtyard sounded for a while, the family avoided in the courtyard to see, the three small ones covered their ears, excited and happy, after a while, the red confetti of firecrackers scattered all over the ground, like a bright red flower, looking very festive and lively.

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Friends, Happy National Day!