"Is it because we don't want to take care of your father? It was they who kicked you out, and the money you handed over to the public middle school over the years is not only a penny of five acres of land, but also a son, why is your father's heart so biased? Thinking of Yu Gui's undisguised disdain outside the door just now, Yang Cuilian's heart became more and more uncomfortable.

Yu Dayou wiped his wife's tears, "Don't be sad, didn't you get fifty taels today, our life is better." With this money, we can build a brick house, no longer live in this leaky thatched hut that leaks when it rains, and then make a few beautiful new clothes for you and the children, the big girl is gradually getting bigger, and then find a good son-in-law for you in two years to honor you, you just have to wait to enjoy the blessings! ”

When Yu Dayou came out with meat and peach cakes, Yu Gui raised his eyebrows, and led the way without saying anything. However, Yu Xian saw it and muttered a few words of dissatisfaction, "The meat was obviously bought for the second sister, and Tao Su said that it was bought for me to eat." But because of Yu Gui's presence, he didn't make a loud noise, but it was even more unpleasant to look at Yu Gui. The east and west of the village are not far apart, and it will be there in half an hour, Yu Gui pushed open the courtyard door and shouted loudly, "Grandfather and grandmother, father, mother-in-law, I have successfully completed the task!" The enthusiasm in his tone was similar to the attitude towards Yu Dayou's family just now.

Yu Dayou and they followed into the courtyard, and out of the house came a round-faced woman in her twenties wearing a lotus-colored shirt, and when she saw Yu Dayou and his wife, she raised a light smile on her face, and ran over quickly with her skirt, "Second brother and sister-in-law!" ”

Yang Cuilian has always had a good impression of her sister-in-law, and she also laughed at this time, Yu Xiuhe took Yang Cuilian's hand and said for a long time, "Second sister-in-law, you are thin again, and the second brother didn't take good care of you." He turned his head and touched the heads of the three sisters and brothers one by one, took out three small golden melon seeds from his waist and gave one to each person, "I can't see each other a few times all year round, this is a gift for you, say thank you to the beautiful sister-in-law." ”

The third sister and brother also liked this sister-in-law who always gave them things and always smiled, and said loudly in unison, "Thank you, beautiful sister-in-law!" ”

Yu Xiuhe was very satisfied with their performance, pulled Yu Chun with her left hand, pulled Yu Xia with her right hand, and stuck out her tongue at Yu Xian, who was looking at her, "You are a man, and you still want to be held, are you ashamed." ”

The group entered the house, the old man Yu and his wife sat on the high hall, Yu Dayou pulled his wife and children and respectfully called Daddy, the old man leaned on the back of the chair and lazily smoked dry tobacco, listening to his son shouting He only teased his eyelids, and hummed lightly, but his grandmother Gao was very happy to see the second son, and quickly stood up and pulled Yu Dayou to ask Yu Xian long and short questions, but for Yang Cuilian and Yu Chun sisters, they turned a blind eye.

Yu Dayou handed the meat in his hand to the Gao family, and took out a string of money from his waist, no more, no less, exactly three hundred Wen, "Mother, this is this month's money." ”

Yu Daquan and his wife asked Yu Daquan to give 300 wen a month on the grounds that they contributed money and efforts to take care of the second elder on weekdays. In the countryside of this era, every household chews only two or three taels of silver a year, and Yu Dayou gives 300 wen a month, which is more than three taels a year, which is completely enough for the basic living expenses of three generations of six people in the grandparents of the big house. Otherwise, with Yu Dayou's diligence and ability of the husband and wife, coupled with Yu Chun's early sensibility and knowledge of embroidery to subsidize the family, even if he was dragged down by Yu Xia's illness, his family would not be as close to the wall as it is now.

Gao didn't count these copper coins, and directly gave them to the woman wearing gold and silver who had been standing beside her, this woman was quite tall, only half a head shorter than the average adult man, her face was thin and her cheekbones were a little high, she looked mean, her hair was neatly tied up in a bun and hung down behind her head, a silver hairpin with peony was inserted on her head, and a thick gold bracelet on her wrist was revealed when she reached out to receive the money.

"Thank you, Mother." Take the money Miao's heart is happy, these years the family's income and expenses are under her control, she has not made a lot of money from it, these years to cut a lot of bright clothes for herself, a lot of gold and silver jewelry, the dowry brought when she got married has not been touched so far, and it is well preserved.

Yu Chun quietly rolled her eyes when she saw her aunt like this, leaned into Yu Xia's ear and whispered, "Look at the hairpin on her head, it's for the little girl, she wears this nondescript one at her age, I guess she thinks it's quite beautiful." ”

Yu Xia felt that what Yu Chun said made sense, pursed her lips and smiled softly.

Uncle Yu Daquan came out of the house during the meal, because the old man Yu's father used to be a showman, so he attached great importance to the study of his two sons, although he himself could recognize a few words, but he wanted to glorify the lintel, and pinned his hopes on the two sons. Yu Daquan is more clever, and he learns very quickly in the three-character scripture and thousand-character text, but it may be that the test luck is not very good, and he has participated in the county examination several times and was stunned that he was not admitted, and he is still just a child, in contrast, Yu Dayou is an elm pimple with a pimple in his head, and even his name is barely recognized after learning for a long time. Therefore, Old Man Yu has long had no hope for Yu Dayou, and bet all his bets on his eldest son, which is also the main reason why his mother-in-law can take charge of the public school early when Miao's is alive.

The meal is a family sitting in the hall to eat, twelve people are crowded on the table of eight immortals, there is a roast chicken brought by Yu Xiuhe on the table, a plate of fried vegetables, a scrambled egg, a bowl of pickled soybeans, and a wild vegetable tofu soup, the old man Yu glanced at the dishes on the table, picked up the chopsticks and put them down again, "Eldest daughter-in-law, stew the meat you just brought, your master studies hard every day, and it is time for him to replenish his body." ”

"Hey, I wanted to make it just now, but it takes time to stew the meat, I'm afraid it's too late, and when the stewed rice is finished, since you said so, I'll stew it quickly." Miao patted his head, stood up and went to the kitchen. When he turned around, he pursed his lips disdainfully, in this family, the mother-in-law Gao doesn't care about anything, but this is a lot of business. He didn't want to think about the fact that there were half outsiders sitting at the table now, so he couldn't eat this meat tomorrow. Although she was dissatisfied, Miao still stewed meat honestly, although she was in charge of the family's money, but the real thing in this family was Old Man Yu.

Yu Xiuhe tore off the two chicken legs of the roast chicken to Yu Gui and Yu Xian, one for each person, the old man Yu just wanted to stretch out the chopsticks to clip the chicken wings, and the chicken wings were divided by Yu Xiuhe to Yu Chun and Yu Xia sisters, one for each of them, the old man Yu was a little unhappy, coughed, Yu Xiuhe took off a piece of meat from the chicken breast, carefully ripped off the skin, and grinned into the old man Yu's bowl, "Dad, you have bad teeth, the chicken breast is tender, and it is the most suitable for you to eat." ”

Old Man Yu's face was slightly pale, and he took a sip of rice wine and didn't say anything. Grandmother Gao held Yu Zhen, took the scrambled eggs to her, crushed them into the rice porridge, scooped them out with a spoon and cooled them, and fed them one bite at a time. Yu Xia took a bite of the rice and looked at the people at the table carefully.