After a few days of recuperation in bed, the wound on Du Dajin's buttocks had scabbed over and he was able to get up. Du Zhu's feet were also able to walk on the ground. Zhou picked up the father and son from the bed early in the morning.

The countrymen live on a budget, and there is no replacement for the covering. This is the New Year soon, and it is inevitable that there will be guests at home, so you must always wash it clean and decent. In addition, it is also a picture of bad luck and bad luck.

Today, God appreciates the face, and the sun hangs in the morning. In the past few days, in the big house, all kinds of medicinal smells have been strung together, and the cotton wool has adsorbed the unpleasant smell.

Zhou dried all the bedding in the yard, and didn't care about eating, so he buried his head in washing the sheets and quilts. Sunshine waits for no one, and it's still waiting to be used at night.

Zhong Yu sat in the carriage of the medical hall, and came to see Du Shicheng for the last time a year ago, after checking the pulse, he frowned slightly, it stands to reason that the medicine has been used for three days, and it should be a little better.

If you owe money, you can't owe it for the New Year, Du Mei has been thinking about paying Zhong Yu's medical expenses. She took out 100 wen in the corner handkerchief, and took 20 more wen for fear that it would not be enough. The rest of the family didn't know that she had taken medicine on credit at the hospital, so in order to avoid trouble, she waited for Zhong Yu outside the hospital.

"Sir......" Du Mei saw Zhong Yu bow his head and come out with a medicine box.

"What's wrong? …… What's wrong with your mother? Zhong Yuzheng was puzzled by Du Shicheng's illness, and when he saw Du Mei calling him, he panicked.

"I'm here to pay for the medicine." Du Mei took out an embroidered purse.

"There's no need to rush this, I'll pay it back when you have money." Zhong Yu quietly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

"I've got money, really." Du Mei shook his purse, and there was a crisp sound of metal colliding.

Zhong Yu was laughed at by Du Mei's serious appearance: "The county lord rewarded it?" ”

The so-called good things don't go out, and bad things go thousands of miles. Dajin and his wife received the punishment in the county government, and it has long been known to everyone. In the end, no matter how cold Zhong Yu's temperament was, he couldn't stand the words and half of the words that the guys in the hospital missed when chatting, and they all heard it in his ears.

"How much does my mother's medicine cost? Is 100 Wen enough? Dumay asked.

"That's enough." Zhong Yu accepted the money.

"Your grandpa's medicine is still lacking, you can follow me to the medical hall to get it." Zhong Yu said.

"Ah, okay." Du Mei turned around and said to Du Ying in the kitchen, and got into the carriage with Zhong Yu.

When he arrived at the medical hall, Zhong Yu handed over the prescription to the guy at the counter to take the medicine according to the prescription, and he went to the backyard by himself. Du Mei stood in front of the counter and watched the guy weigh the medicine with a stick and bandage it.

After a while, Zhong Yu came back, holding a slender and exquisite box in his hand: "Meizi, when your mother is full moon, eat one or two slices a day, and your sisters can also eat it, just don't be greedy." ”

Du Mei didn't answer: "I only have 20 Wen on me." ”

"Silly girl, the medicine I gave you earlier is worth 100 Wen, and this is just right." Zhong Yu wanted to touch Du Mei's head, but finally held back.

"Really?" Although Du Mei had never tasted the contents of the box, her keen sense of smell had caught the sweet taste of sesame walnuts.

"I can't tell you?" Zhong Yu nodded seriously.

The eyes of the guys behind the counter were round, this box of good Ejiao cake is the signature tonic of the medical hall, which is in short supply every year, and even the rich families in Qinghe County have come down to look for it, and they have to book half a month in advance in winter. At this moment, when it comes out of the boss's mouth, how can it become a make-up! 100 Wen? Another 100 100 Wen is about the same.

Zhong Yu raised his eyes and looked at the man, his eyes were full of warnings, the man was also an old man in the medical hall, and he was busy pursing his lips and bowing his head to grab the medicine.

"Don't eat too much at once." Zhong Yu handed the medicine bag bundled into a string to Du Mei, and did not forget to advise.

"Got it." Du Mei hid the box on her body, she was thin, and the box was too small to be seen at all.

Zhong Yu stood in front of the medical hall and watched Du Mei slowly walk away.

Just half an hour after Du Mei went out, the family became a pot of porridge.

Du Mei went out on the front foot, and the scrap manuscript with a happy face hurriedly came: "Brother Sanjin, are you at home?" ”

"Brother Scrapped, come to the door early in the morning, what are you doing?" Du Sanjin greeted him.

"Let's go, today Li Zhengte arranged to write Spring Festival couplets in his yard, you go with me!" As soon as the scrap manuscript grabbed Sanjin's wrist, he was about to go out.

"Brother, don't worry, wait for me to summon the child to go with me." Du Sanjin said with a smile.

Du Jiagou is a big family, and Du Huaibing is Li Zheng and the patriarch, so he naturally has to consider the people in the clan. The labor fields of each family are different, and the economic conditions are also very different. Therefore, for the sake of family stability and unity, Du Huaibing always has to arrange some things that benefit everyone at the end of the year, so as not to make it difficult for people with declining family morals.

Let the scholar in the clan write Spring Festival couplets for every family, and the red paper and ink were paid for by Du Huaibing out of his own pocket. In previous years, it was not limited to where to write, and you could take whatever you wanted. If the conditions are good, some steamed buns and rice noodles for writing are used as moisturizing pen fees, and if there is no one, they don't care, and the villagers don't look up and look down. In addition, it is a great honor to be selected by the patriarch to write. What's more, the family can afford to read a teacher, and the conditions are not much worse.

Humane, the royal family loves the eldest son, and the people love their children. Du Shicheng heard the conversation between the scrapped manuscript and the three gold in the house, and he was grateful to Du Huaibing in his heart, and he was very relieved.

He understood Du Huaibing's intention to concentrate the couplets in his own home, which was nothing more than worrying that the next-door neighbor would be afraid of the diaphragm and not write it with three golds, so that his old face would have nowhere to rest.

Those who know him Du Shicheng, uncle. The three golds are the last decent for Du Shicheng.

Sanjin, who changed into a navy blue robe, took Du Jie and left in high spirits with the scrapped manuscript.

He has been working as a carpenter for a year and rests at home. Today's patriarch arranges ~ Shooting Mountain Lake New Year Fishing, those who contribute can be more points, and those who really have no labor will also divide a silver carp to make ingots for thirty nights. But who doesn't want more, so except for women and children under the age of ten and over fifty, the whole village will be present.

"Uncle Du, Sheshan Lake has been fished, borrow your net pocket and use it." Du Jiasuo's strength is naturally the main force.

"Don't borrow! I'm going to use it at home. "The Zhou family couldn't see that the Fang family and the Xu family were good, and even the Du family lock was not pleasing to the eye.

Du Jiasuo was originally kind-hearted, and he read the affection of Erjin. Borrowing a net bag is fake, and when you return the net bag, how can you be empty-handed, and you have to give your own home.

Seeing that Zhou didn't know the height of his eyebrows and eyes, he didn't say much, so he turned around and left.

Daikin and his three sons were eating in the kitchen, and when they heard this, they suddenly became excited. Men who grow up near the water have a natural instinct to play with water, and the boys in Dujiagou will be in the water at the age of four or five, let alone fish and shrimp.

Dajin's buttocks have just scabbed, and he must not be able to be a strong laborer on the boat to pull the net, although Du Zhu's feet can walk, it is absolutely impossible to touch the water, so as long as Du Zhu and Du Zhu are gone.

Du Xuan hurriedly finished the meal, with half a bun in his mouth, and rushed out with the net pocket to catch up with Du Jiasuo. Du Xuan has never done this once, and Du Jiasuo has to take care of him just to see Erjin's face.

Daikin father and son also roared and took the basket and went out.

Sitting in the kitchen and eating breakfast, Zhou's heart was so angry, why did Sanfang write decently and accept compliments and praises from the villagers, while Dafang had to touch the fish like a mud dog? !

With a mallet, Zhou carried a large basin of sheets and quilts to the river to rinse. She was so angry that she sprinkled her anger on the mallet, and the sheets splashed in all directions.

"Oh, Daikin's family, you're going to buy a new one." There were many people washing by the river, and a woman of a similar age next to her smiled.

"If the old doesn't go, the new won't come." The other said, squeezing his eyebrows.

"What's the matter with you, it's really salty and don't worry about eating radishes!" Zhou rolled his eyes.

The people around her were just joking, but Zhou suddenly turned his face, all of them sneered, and left one by one, and the others stayed away from her, shameing her.

When Xie got up in the morning, she saw that the shoes worn by the mother and daughter yesterday were stained with a lot of flour, and after breakfast, she took her shoes and cloth to the river to wipe them.

On the stone steps by the river, there are big girls and little daughters-in-law washing quilts, only there is a vacant seat next to her sister-in-law, and she came down without thinking about it.

Zhou was depressed, and when she saw Xie coming with her shoes, she was afraid that the muddy water would stain her sheets, so she vigorously sprinkled the water on the bluestone slab, intending to drive her away. It was cold in the morning, and the water that had been splashed earlier had formed thin ice, and when I poured it again, it was slippery and there was nowhere to put my feet.

Xie Shi didn't watch out, his feet slipped, and he slipped into the river all of a sudden! She didn't know how to water, so she was so frightened that she screamed and choked on several mouthfuls of water.

The Fang family next door happened to also go to the river to wash clothes, and when she saw this scene, she shouted in panic: "Oh no, come on, Sanjin's daughter-in-law fell into the river!" ”

The people next to him panicked all of a sudden, and they all dropped their things to look, and someone handed over the mallet, but they couldn't reach Xie's.

Fang's dragged the bamboo pole of a family's clothes drying on the shore nearby, and finally let Xie catch it, and everyone worked together to pull Xie to the shore.

Xie Shi got up wet, one shoe kicked off while struggling, her lips turned purple from the cold, and her whole body trembled uncontrollably. Fang Shi dropped the basket of clothes and helped Xu Shi to walk back tremblingly.

Hearing Fang's exclamation, Du Xing, who was embroidering in the yard, put down the embroidery shed and ran out.

As soon as Du Xing saw Fang Shi coming back with Xie Shi in her arms, the water drops on her body were dripping, and she hurriedly ran home, unfolded the quilt in the house, and looked for clean clothes.

Xie Shi was so cold that his teeth were fighting, Du Xing hit him three times and twice, helped take off Xie's wet clothes, and brought another basin of hot water. Wiped her body and hair and let her sleep in bed.

The Fang family helped settle the Xie family, only to realize that his clothes were still unwashed by the river, so he hurriedly turned back.

"Mother, how did you get this?" Du Mei looked at Xie Shi, whose face was pale, but how could he fall into the river with a brush of shoes.

"Both... It's all... Big room... Harm... I! Xie Shi was so cold that he couldn't say a word.

Du Xing's fire is rising upwards, and the eldest aunt is used to bullying the mother and daughter in the second room on weekdays, and now she has begun to pinch the third room, when the third room is soft persimmons.

I don't want to use the color today, and I don't know how to find fault in the future. Du Xing thought like this, turned around and went out angrily.

Xie loves beauty, his body is thin, he is curled up in the quilt and shivering, and he can't care what Du Xing does.

Du Xing drew a bucket full of well water in the courtyard, picked up the bucket, and splashed it on Zhou's bedding one by one. The water dipped into the bedding, and some of it flowed down the water.

Du Xing looked at the puddle of brown water that quickly accumulated on the ground where the bedding was drying, and clapped her hands with satisfaction.

Du Ying led the two small ones in the kitchen, frightened by Du Xing's crazy actions. Du Gui opened his mouth in surprise, and he couldn't close it for a long time.