Chapter 25 Burnt Sweet Potatoes
Estimating that Dou Liangfu was happy enough, Mai Xiaoyuan sent her mother-in-law to find someone, she rubbed her eyes vigorously with a handkerchief, and after a few strokes, she was sad and sensible, and the image of the virtuous housewife was perfectly interpreted by her.
Dou Liangfu walked to the door and specially adjusted his clothes, put on a smiling face before going inside, he was not afraid of Mai Xiaoyuan's trouble, but he was just troublesome and didn't want to worry about such trivial things. He himself only thinks that those women are tools to relieve boredom and pass the time in his spare time, and he also hopes that Mai Xiaoyuan can understand this truth.
"Official." contains a few traces of grievances, a lot of understanding, and the affectionate call of wanting to talk, so that Dou Liangfu's heart is satisfied, look at his wife, sensible, gentle, generous, where is only a vulgar woman who knows how to fight for the wind and be jealous, and want to eat and wear can be compared.
When Dou Liangfu first made his fortune, he was not disgusted by others calling him a rich man, and the longer he walked outside and the more people he came into contact with, he felt that the title of rich man was only suitable for those rich people in the countryside. People who really have status and status should at least call "official", and their subordinates should call "master", which is his request for his family, and his women and subordinates must change their words.
Mai Xiaoyuan showed his jealousy just right, and hurriedly changed the topic to talk about his family's arrival in the county seat and his sister's injury. She wanted Dou Liangfu to agree to borrow the prestige of the Dou family and put some pressure on her grandmother Mai Liu and her aunt to make her father and family have a better life.
"Is your youngest sister hurt? Where's the injury? "If you hurt your face, isn't that person useless, and there is no use value anymore.
"I didn't hurt my face, I was hit on the shoulder by my grandmother with a stick, I heard that it was because Xiao Huan was diligent and delicious and was praised by everyone. So my cousin got angry and took someone to my house to make trouble while my father and mother went to the field, and happened to be met by my second sister and beat them away.
As a result, my grandmother took the lead in coming to the door to beat my second sister, but somehow it hit Xiao Huan, but she was beaten at such a young age, and she didn't dare to make a sound after being beaten......"
The Zhuang family just has no rules, no vision, and all the girls in the Mai family together are not as valuable as that Mai Xiaohuan, thinking of this, Dou Liangfu couldn't help but ask: "You sisters haven't seen each other for half a year, is your sister still so thin now?" ”
"The concubine is also trying to tell you about it! Speaking of which, you still have a vision, that girl's body and bones are much stronger than before, and her appearance has grown a lot, and she looks like a small village flower. Mai Xiaoyuan specially picked up Dou Liang's favorite words and said that this person had all the little girls in his relatives' homes who were a little bit good, and he also collected several handsome ones from tenants and poor people's homes, thinking that they would come in handy in the future.
Since he met Mai Xiaohuan, Dou Liangfu has kept telling his daughter-in-law that he should put more effort into this girl, maybe it will be of great use in the future! Because of this, Mai Xiaoyuan also stopped thinking about letting his two younger sisters go to the Tang family in Qingcheng County to be maids.
After Dou Liangfu laughed twice, he took Mai Xiaoyuan in his arms and rubbed it vigorously, if he hadn't messed with Aunt Xiang just now, it is estimated that the two of them would have rolled into bed by now. Mai Xiaoyuan endured the feeling of nausea and waited carefully, and saw the opportunity when Dou Liangfu was the happiest, and put forward a request for the Dou family to send someone to warn his uncle.
"What's so difficult about this, I will let the housekeeper go, not only your grandmother and uncle need to knock and knock, but even the village chief will send someone to tell you. My Dou Liangfu's mother-in-law and sister-in-law were bullied, what face do I have to walk around in these ten miles and eight towns, isn't this a slap in my face? ”
He also instructed the steward to book two rooms in the inn for Shan Cuihua and the others, and asked people to invite the best doctor in Pingliang County to treat Mai Xiaohuan. Mai Xiaoyuan naturally wanted to thank his family, and praised Dou Liangfu as a model of the most affectionate and righteous person who has never been seen before or since.
Shan Cuihua also felt that the eldest girl had a long face for herself, and after moving into the inn, she asked Mai Yonghai to take Mai Xiaofang home, and there were two big men left at home who couldn't cook, and the work in the field was not finished yet, and no one could take care of it. If it weren't for Mai Xiaohuan's swollen shoulders and a little fever, she wouldn't want to stay.
Mai Xiaohuan really had a high fever at night, but fortunately, the doctor had already prescribed the medicine, and the shopkeeper got up in the middle of the night to help boil the medicine and feed her, and the fever finally subsided when it was almost dawn.
The next day, Mai Xiaohuan's shoulders were not so scary, she urged Shan Cuihua to ask to go home, it was the time of the autumn harvest, how could she have the heart to stay in the inn!
Shan Cuihua resolutely refused, wanting to observe for a day, and the next afternoon, when the two of them were about to pack up their things and hire a car to go home, Mai Yonghai led the way, and Mai Wang personally drove the car to find it.
These two people, why did they come over by themselves when they were so busy at home, and before Shan Cuihua began to complain, Mai Yonghai himself said first: "Our family's beans have been cut, and it is the uncle's family who helps." ”
And what's going on? The news was even more unbelievable than someone saying that the sun was coming out of the west. It turned out that the housekeeper of the Dou Mansion found Shaxi Village early in the morning, and he went to the village chief's house first, indicating that the Dou family valued the Mai Wang family very much, but in less than two days, someone in the Mai family was injured twice in succession, and they didn't dare to say anything about this filial piety, and the Dou family couldn't afford to lose this person.
If the village chief can't take care of it, the Dou family will go to the county to find someone to find a relationship, and when the time comes, not only will the Mai Liu family and the Mai Xing family not be able to eat and walk around, but even the village chief will probably have to be replaced.
When Pan Mingqiu heard that this was the rich man of Dou, he was angry, and hurriedly accompanied the people of the Dou Mansion to find Mai Xing's house, and severely criticized and taught their family a lesson from old to young. He also ordered Mai Liu's family to take out five taels of silver for Mai Xiaohuan's medical treatment, and personally supervised the people of Mai Xing's family to work at Mai Wang's house for two days.
The steward of the Dou family warned Mai Liu and Mai Xing's family in front of the village chief and the villagers of Shaxi Village that whoever dared to bully Mai Wang's family again would be against the Dou family.
With the help of the Mai Xing family, the beans that had to be harvested in three days were harvested in one and a half days. Mai Wan and his son also had free time and came to pick up people themselves.
A few people sat on the ox cart, chatting as they walked, and as soon as they entered the village, they heard someone sitting on the side of the avenue crying. After carefully identifying the voice, Shan Cuihua couldn't help but roll her eyes, has her mother-in-law changed the place of Sapo from the house of several sons to the main road now? The village chief asked her for five taels of silver as if she wanted her life, Shan Cuihua dared to vouch for her head, if she didn't go back, her mother-in-law would have to make trouble every day.
"Yonghai, you go to the village chief, you send me and Xiaohuan home and go to your eldest brother's house, our mother can't afford to spend these five taels of silver, you return the silver in front of the village chief and your eldest brother and sister-in-law. But I said ugly things in the front, I won't be polite if they come to make trouble again, didn't the Dou family say it! will send people directly to prison. ”
"Hey!" Mai Wang drove the car to the road, avoiding the crying Liu and the people watching the excitement, after returning home, Shan Cuihua handed the five taels of silver in her arms to her husband, and asked him to return it to her mother-in-law quickly.
Of course, it is a good thing that the silver is lost, and Mai Liu took five taels of silver and rubbed it on his clothes, and bit it with his teeth, always feeling that it had gone out for a walk and came back to lose weight.
The reason why Wu provoked her mother-in-law was because she was holding her breath in her heart, for so many years, she had always taken advantage of others, especially in front of her brother-in-law's family, which was a steady victory and no loss. Unexpectedly, this time not only was her daughter beaten into a pig's head, but she was also arrested for two days as a laborer, so it is strange that she can feel comfortable.
She thought that Shan Cuihua would not easily repay the five taels of silver, but she didn't expect that she would send the silver back as soon as she returned to the village. I didn't see the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law war I was looking forward to, the old lady didn't lose at all, and several people in my family worked for several days in vain.
Half a month later, the injuries on Mai Xiaohuan's head and shoulders were all healed, and now it is the end of autumn, and if you don't go up the mountain, you can't pick anything, and you haven't got those sweet potatoes back yet!
Where did Shan Cuihua dare to let her go out by herself! Although the Dou family came forward, the mother-in-law and the Wu family would be more restrained, and it would be a big mistake to think that they would stop there. Judging by the experience of so many years of struggle, those two are not easy to succumb to the lords.
Accompanied by Mai Yonghai and Mai Xiaofang, Mai Xiaohuan went up the mountain again after more than half a month, and she ran straight to the hillside where there were sweet potatoes. When she saw the slices of sweet potatoes that no one had dug up, her face bloomed with a smile, and she was happier than when she had picked up silver, because these things were treasures in her eyes, and if she used them well, they would turn into white silver.
She gathered a pile of dry wood and asked her second brother to help make a fire, and when the open fire was extinguished and only the carbon fire was left, she dug out a few sweet potatoes and buried them. Mai Yonghai and Mai Xiaofang stood by stupidly and watched, they really didn't understand what their sister wanted to do? Didn't Grandma's stick knock on her shoulder, but on her head and beat people to the ground, and she burned the things she fed to the animals to eat?
Mai Xiaohuan was ready to let the facts speak for a while, and after she noted down the location, she took two people to find the monkey head, which was a real mountain treasure. After more than half an hour, the two sisters carried half a basket of monkey heads, Mai Yonghai carried a rabbit, and returned to the place where Mai Xiaohuan buried the sweet potatoes with an empty basket.
The fire had been extinguished, and Mai Xiaohuan used a branch to remove the ashes and dig out six sweet potatoes from it. Mai Xiaofang refused to take it at first, but she couldn't resist the fragrance of sweet potatoes, and she couldn't stop after peeling and tasting it.
Mai Yonghai did the same, and as a result, the two of them ate all six sweet potatoes, and Mai Xiaohuan didn't even catch a bite.
Forget it, it's the same when you go back to eat, Mai Xiaohuan seized the opportunity to give the two of them a science about the use, nutrition, eating method and value of sweet potatoes.
"How do you know that?" The brother and sister asked together.
"Ugh!" How can this be explained?