Aunt Jiu sighed again and again, and called her youngest son, who was only five years old, "Yifan, you take Sister Jiu'er to the room." ”

The two vacant houses, next to their main house, were the barns that her husband had built to raise his cows while he was there.

After her husband was gone, the cow was not bought, and it was always empty.

Speaking of which, when Aunt Mu Jiu's husband was still there, the family was well-off, but after leaving, her in-laws were sick and had to spend money, and she was bullied by other cousins, so the family lost little by little.

Mu Jiu's son, Mu Yifan, took Mu Jiu into the room, "Sister Jiu'er, what do you need to tell me, don't look at me as a small person, I'm very capable." ”

Mu Jiu was infected by the child's innocent smile, and couldn't help laughing, "That's good!" Sister is here, thank you in advance for our capable little brother! ”

Mu Yifan scratched the back of his head shyly, "I'll go see my grandma." ”

"Go ahead."

There was nothing in the cowshed, and Mu Jiu didn't go back to Mu's house to get the bed made of rotten wooden planks, but went to the field to find some hay, spread it on the ground, and prepared it for a while.

Fortunately, it is autumn now, and the moisture is not heavy, so there is no need to worry about sleeping on the ground and getting rheumatism.

It's not a problem to live in Aunt Mu Jiu's house all the time, she needs to build a new house as soon as possible and build some furniture, especially a comfortable big bed!

Settled, Mu Jiu leaned against the wall.

Grunting, the stomach screamed a few times.

Forehead......

After thinking about it, he went out, turned a corner, and went to Lin Changsheng's house.

Looking around like a thief, he secretly knocked on Lin Changsheng's door.

It was Lin Fifteen who opened the door, and he was a little surprised when he saw Mu Jiu, "You...... Are you here to find immortality? ”

"Uncle Fifteen? Can you lend me a few pounds of grain? ”

Lin Shifu had never been in contact with the people in the village, and he didn't know about the earth-shaking changes that happened in the Mu family last night, and frowned when he heard this, "Your grandmother called you here?" ”

"It's not!" Mu Jiu replied honestly, "We separated, and my grandmother didn't give me anything......"

"You wait...... Lin fifteen turned around and entered the courtyard, and he didn't ask Mu Jiu to go in and sit.

Mu Jiu understands that this is for her good.

A widower takes a boy who has just arrived at the age of marriage, and she goes in with a girl, which is easy to cause unnecessary misunderstandings.

Lin Fifteen only went for a while and came out, carrying a small sack in his hand, which contained half a bag of rice, "You take it first, it's not enough to come to Uncle to get it." ”

"Uncle, I'll pay it back when I have money."

"Let's go back and make lunch."

"Thank you, uncle!"

Mu Jiu left Lin Changsheng's house as fast as he could.

……

Li Xiaotao took Mu Hongli to close the door, ready to dig wild vegetables, and when she saw the bag behind Mu Jiu, she asked curiously, "Jiu'er, what are you carrying." ”

"m."

Li Xiaotao was shocked, "What! ”

"Mother, I didn't go back to get it, but borrowed it."

Li Xiaotao breathed a sigh of relief, and brought it up again, "Who did you go to borrow it?" ”

"Uncle Fifteen."

Li Xiaotao's brows furrowed, "Which fifteenth uncle?" ”

"It's the fifteenth uncle of the Lin family."

"What!" Because of excitement, Li Xiaotao's voice broke, "You...... You ......"

What a widower! If it is seen by other people in the village, I don't know how to arrange Jiu'er!

"Mother, in fact, the fifteenth uncle is very good, but he doesn't have contact with the people in the village, it just seems a little weird."

"But you're a girl who hasn't been out of the cabinet!" Li Xiaotao reprimanded Mu Jiu for the first time, "This is not good for your reputation!" ”

"Mother, my reputation is already like that, how bad can it be? As long as I don't get sold by my grandfather, I'd rather break it! ”

Before the words came out, he felt that he was a little extreme, so he put down the rice bag, hugged Li Xiaotao's hand, shook it flatteringly, and said coquettishly, "Mother, Jiu'er is really afraid of being sold by grandpa and rui......ned by an old man like the forest landlord."

"Nonsense!" Li Xiaotao finally relented, "Okay, my mother doesn't say that Lin Shifu is bad, she just thinks that if you go to him to borrow something, it is easy to attract right and wrong...... Hey, it's useless to be a mother......"

"Mother, don't talk about this, life will get better and better in the future, you go cook first, I'm hungry."

But......

"Mother, it seems that we don't have a pot!"

"Sister, not only do we not have a pot, we don't even have a kitchen for cooking."

Mu Jiu, "......"

Forget it, step by step.

"Mother, why don't we borrow Aunt Jiu's kitchen for use?"

Mu Jiu thought about it, if he didn't want to embezzle Lin Changsheng's part of the silver, he went to buy a pot at noon, and he had to buy a few bowls, as for chopsticks, the bamboo forest in the east of the village had bamboo, wouldn't it be okay to cut it back and make a few pairs?

When, she is a dignified goddess doctor, and she needs to save to such an outrageous level!

Li Xiaotao said weakly, "Why don't you go back and ask your grandmother for a pot?" ”

"Mother, do you think grandma is likely to give it to you?"

Li Xiaotao was dumbfounded when she thought of Mrs. Mu's earth-shattering cry in the morning.

Since she lives in Aunt Jiu's house, she should go to see her mother-in-law, and by the way, talk about borrowing the kitchen.

After Mu Jiu made up his mind, he pulled Li Xiaotao and knocked on Aunt Mu Jiu's door.

It was Mu Yifan's little pot friend who opened the door, "Sister Jiu'er? ”

"Ahem...... Yifan, my sister wants to borrow one from your kitchen. ”

Although Mu Yifan was very small, he was very well-behaved, and let the door open, "Sister, come in." ”

Mu Jiu entered the courtyard of Aunt Mu Jiu's house, looked into the hall, and asked Mu Yifan in a low voice, "Yifan, where is your grandmother?" I'm going to see her. ”

Mu Yifan led Mu Jiu to their house.

The furnishings of their house are very simple, the main hall is furnished with a dilapidated square table, on which is placed an old incense burner, which is used to worship ancestors during the New Year's holidays.

There was a bamboo chair on the side of the hall, and a scrawny old man sat on the bamboo chair crookedly, with gray hair and blank eyes.

When they walked in, Mu Luo turned his head to look at it and asked, "Yifan, who's coming?" ”

"Grandma, it's Jiu'er's sister, and she recently rented our family's cowshed."

Mu Roche sighed, very enthusiastic, "You go and bring a few stools for the guests to sit on." ”

Li Xiaotao vaguely remembered that Mu Luo's husband was ranked thirty-four in the Mu family, so she asked out loud, "Hello Aunt thirty-four." ”

"Are you...... I'm old, and my eyes are not good to ......."

Mu Yifan: "Grandma, he is the aunt of Uncle Qiao Yong's family. ”

Mu Roche: "Oh...... Please sit down, there is chaos at home, don't mind. Yifan, go and pour water for your aunt. ”

Mu Jiu hurriedly stopped Mu Yifan, "Thirty-four grandmother, you don't have to worry, let's find a stool to sit on by ourselves, Yifan is still young." ”

Mu Luo smiled bitterly, "It's all my wife's fault, dragging them down, and you have to take care of me at a young age." ”

Probably feeling that the topic was heavy, Mu Luo rubbed his eyes, "Look at how I talk about these unhappy things, you rented the house next door, and if you need anything, just tell the ninth daughter-in-law." ”

"Thank you, Grandma Thirty-Four, for the trouble."

No one had come to see Mu Luo for about a long time, and Mu Jiu's arrival made her very happy, so she had to leave Mu Jiu to eat at home.

Aunt Mu Jiu is a woman who needs to take on the responsibility of supporting her family, where does Mu Jiu dare to really eat at their house, and it is not easy to refute the old man's face, so she asked Mu Hongli to go next door to get three catties of rice and cook their family's meal together.

They are all poor families, Li Xiaotao feels sorry for those rice, but when she thinks that Aunt Mu Jiu doesn't say a word and gives them the house to live in without asking for rent, she is relieved.

If the rice is gone, you can plant it again, and it is difficult to find it again with such a warm heart as Aunt Jiu.

When Aunt Mu Jiu came back, she smelled the fragrant smell of rice, walked into the kitchen in surprise, and saw Mu Jiu walking out with a pot of rice, "You ......"

She knows best what she has at home, there is only a little bit of rice at home, which is specially reserved for her mother-in-law to replenish her body, and their mother-in-law can only rely on a few catties of cornmeal to survive, so thin that she is skinny and boneless.

Especially her daughter Mu Yihan, who is about the same age as Mu Jiu, has a sallow face, a few points thinner than Mu Jiu, and looks like a dehydrated bean sprout.

Mu Jiu smiled, "Aunt Nine is back, let's eat!" ”

Mu Yihan swallowed his saliva, pulled the corner of Aunt Mu Jiu's clothes, and whispered, "Mother, I want to eat rice." ”

"You kid, it's not easy for Aunt Peach, let's boil some polenta, and wait for the autumn harvest."

It's just that everyone knows that after the autumn harvest, followed by the cold winter wax moon, the poor people have to save food at the beginning in order to spend the long winter.

Mu Jiu put down the rice pot, filled another bowl of rice, and put it in Mu Yihan's hand, "Eat, it's not enough to have in the pot." ”

Mu Yihan subconsciously looked at Aunt Mu Jiu and didn't dare to answer.

Aunt Jiu's eyes were red and she shook her head.

Mu Yihan didn't take Mu Jiu's bowl.

Mu Jiu had no choice but to persuade, "Aunt Jiu, I know what you're thinking, but the children have lost weight like this, you can let them eat a meal, besides, we can't invite you to eat every meal." ”

Aunt Nine choked, her throat was sour, and she could barely make a sound, "Thank you......"

Mu Jiu took another bowl of rice and stuffed it into Mu Yifan's hand, "Aunt Jiu doesn't like to hear this, when we are most helpless, you can give us the house if you owe rent, and it won't cost us a few dollars to invite you to eat rice." ”

Aunt Jiu's tears fell, and her voice was hoarse, "Those two houses are empty and empty." ”

The point is that such a house can only charge a maximum of two cents a month, and Mu Jiu was stunned and said that he would give her five cents!

Even though she hasn't got it yet, she's embarrassed!

Mu Jiu also invited them to eat fragrant rice, and Aunt Jiu always felt uneasy, "After eating this meal, my house is not easy to collect your rent, you can help me clean up." ”

There is no harm if there is no comparison, Mrs. Mu can't wait to strip them naked and then drive them out, and Aunt Mu Jiu, a widow, is willing to give them a house to live in for free!

Mu Jiu naturally refused to take advantage of Aunt Mu Jiu, "Aunt Jiu, didn't you drive us away?" If we don't pay rent, we're embarrassed to live! ”

"If I don't give you a place to live for free, I'm embarrassed to eat your family's food!"