After a long wait, it was finally evening.

After inspecting the straw shed indiscriminately, and seeing that there was no one around, Xie Ping'an wrapped his padded jacket tightly and hurried home.

Second Sister Zhao came to him to confess his heart, he was full of joy, this joy made his heart hot, as if he had all his strength.

But he was faintly worried in his heart, worried that his father and mother would not agree to his marriage with Second Sister Zhao.

Joy and worry at the same time, soon arrived home.

When he entered the house, he saw an oil lamp burning in the hall, and his father was frowning, talking to his mother and two sisters, Hui Niang Qiuniang. Xie Xuan, Zhou Qin, and Zhou Hong were playing with the flower rope on the underground pestle.

"The Li brothers are really not the material for work, the son-in-law is okay, although he only knows what to do when he yells at him, but he is not cheating and cheating, and is willing to work hard.

Boss Li also made do, although he was afraid of the light, and only picked up light and economical work, but he had a good brain, and he was not bad at doing it seriously.

Li Lao Er can't do it, he will take the pie for a while, shout at this and that, and treat himself as a foreman, if he commands correctly, it will be fine, he just doesn't know how to command blindly. People said two words about him, and he also pulled up the tiger skin to make a big banner, saying that he was a relative to our family, and we invited him to be an overseer......"

Before Xie Qingshan finished speaking, Qiu Niang said angrily: "The hanged ghost is a shameless thing, who will invite his treacherous ghost and lazy slug to be the overseer?" He has a flea face - such a big face, and he dares to say that our family invited him, such a shameless thing!

Dad, you go to Zhuangzi to drive him away tomorrow, if you can't pull off your face, I'll drive him away! Don't let him spoil a pot of porridge with a rat droppings, the people invited by our Zhuangzi are all serious work, where can he be allowed to fool around and fight the autumn wind! ”

Because Hui Niang is the second brother of her family, she is even more disgraced, and she dislikes him for taking advantage of his family, because she said:

"That's it! He has always been a clandestine and slippery, I know that Dad, you take care of my face, afraid that people will say that we don't care about our relatives, and I am afraid that I will be hung up by my in-laws when I go back.

But the two brothers have always been unprofitable, and leaving them in the Zhuangzi not only delayed their work, but also gave them wages and burned their fur jackets for lice - it was not worth it! ”

Xie Wang held Sheng Lin'er in his arms, and said while teasing:

"Hui Niang is not bad, our family's money is blown by the wind? If you throw a brick and tile, you will have to find a whereabout, give the dog a bone and think you are good, give it to them, but complain about the few miles we give!

Ming'er still sent him away in a good voice, if you are embarrassed, ask my wife to come forward, you men in the province can't wipe your face! ”

Xie Qingshan sighed and said: "When I came, I talked to him, spread it out to him, and said that our family is recruiting people to work, and if he can't do it, he should go home." I'll watch him for another day tomorrow, if the work is okay, it's just that! ”

Xie Ping'an stood in the shadow of the oil lamp, and when he saw everyone talking, he wanted to go up and say it several times in his heart, but he was pressed down by himself.

One hundred taels of silver, their Xie family was busy for half a winter, and the vegetables of the two straw sheds were easily sold for one hundred and three taels of silver, and Han Yayu's tap was not counted.

Workers were asked to dig ground huts and build straw huts on the Zhuangzi, and the workers' wages were not calculated.

Cook for the workers every day, oil, salt, pickles, and grains, and also need one or two silver a day.

His sister-in-law only spent seven or eight taels of dowry when she entered the door, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he asked for one hundred taels, what did he think of his eldest brother and sister-in-law? ……

How could he open this mouth?

But Second Sister Zhao's pretty face lingered in front of her again, and the thin handful of embroidered sweat towels were still in her arms, sticking to the flesh in her arms, like a piece of charcoal burning his heart......

"Hean, when are you back? Why are you standing in that dark shadow? Xie Wang first spotted Ping'an's figure, "What's the matter with you coming back?" What can I do if no one looks at the vegetable shed? ”

When Ping'an saw his mother asking, he made up his mind, walked up to his father, bent his knees, and knelt down like a jade pillar pushing Jinshan.

"Daddy! Mother! The son is not filial, and there is something to ask his father and mother to fulfill! ”

Xie Xuan looked at Xie Ping'an's actions and guessed in her heart. and Zhou Qin's flower rope stopped turning, and turned around to see what was about to happen.

Xie Wang was startled, and hurriedly handed the swaddling clothes in his arms to Hui Niang, went to support him, and said with concern: "Ping'an, what can't you sit down and talk about, the man has gold under his knees, why do you suddenly kneel down?" ”

Hui Niang and Qiu Niang were also a little surprised, and they both came to persuade Ping'an, "Ping'an, you stand up and say something!" It's really a serious matter, can our father and mother miss you? ”

Xie Qingshan sat there and didn't move, glanced at him and said, "If you have anything to say, you can promise you things without kneeling, and you can kneel for things that you can't promise!" ”

Xie Xuan listened to Xie Qingshan's words, and couldn't help but laugh secretly, Xie Qingshan was really the Dinghai Divine Needle in the family.

Xie Wang's family got up safely, but Ping'an just didn't get up, and only begged: "Mother, you sit there and listen to me carefully!" ”

Although Xie Wang's family reprimanded and scolded Ping'an on weekdays, how could he ever see his son kneel down and beg them solemnly? The heart has softened by three points.

Seeing that Ping An didn't get up, he had to sit down and listen to his detailed explanation.

"Daddy! Mother! Since I saw Second Sister Zhao in the county seat, I ...... I can't forget her. I think about it day and night, and my heart is full of her every day. I want to beg my father and mother, ask the matchmaker to go to her house to propose, if I can't marry her, I don't want to marry a daughter-in-law in my life! ”

Ping'an relied on his impulse, regardless of the urgency to say it, covered his chest, the sweat towel that Second Sister Zhao gave him was still on his chest, and there seemed to be the aroma of fat powder lingering around his mouth and nose, as if encouraging him.

As soon as these words came out, the room was like a frying pan.

Xie Wang was angry and anxious, jumped up and scolded:

"You've been fascinated by the goblins, why are you still thinking about her? Dare to say a lot to you before, it's all in vain? You're *** big - I lost my heart, I was an unexpectedly pustule, a man, just when I saw the goblin, my soul was hooked away? also said that without her, Second Sister Zhao would not marry a daughter-in-law? Don't marry and pull down! You will be single for a lifetime, I have two grandchildren, one more than you is not more, and one less is not much less than you! ”

Hui Niang and Qiu Niang hurriedly came to persuade the Wang family.

Hui Niang persuaded softly: "Mother, don't say that angry thing, why are you a bachelor for a lifetime?" If you want to marry a daughter-in-law, the neighbors and relatives will laugh at us! ”

Qiu Niang went to help Ping'an, and lowered her voice to persuade him: "Ping'an, hurry up and make amends to my father, for a woman who has only met once, what do you think of our mother's anger?" ”

Ping'an was scolded by his mother, and heard her mother scolding Second Sister Zhao for being a goblin, so she couldn't get up with her neck, and said hard:

"Dad, mother, I know what I'm doing wrong today, I shouldn't be working against you for a woman! But I really can't do it, so please let me go this time, and give him a hundred taels of dowry to the Zhao family. When you marry Second Sister Zhao and enter the door, in the future, you will point to the east and I will not go to the west, and you two elders will be honored for the rest of your life! ”

"Who cares about your filial piety? Before the goblin entered the door, you dared to fight us for her. If you really do what you want, marry her and enter the door! In the future, she will blow two words of bedside wind in your ear, and we will have a good life? I gave birth to you for nothing! ”

Xie Wang trembled angrily, pointed to Ping'an and said, "Why did I give birth to your unexpectedly pickled thing?" You're a dog eating pig - you don't care about it, you don't know what to do, you don't know what to do, and you turn your elbow outward. What kind of ecstasy soup did that goblin pour into you, making you so dizzy and careless......"

Ping'an heard his mother scolding Second Sister Zhao, how could he not be anxious? Second Sister Zhao is like a delicate flower fairy daughter in his heart, how can she be tainted by other people's words? Even his father and mother can't scold her like that!

An evil fire rose up, and impulsively said: "Dad! Mother! Why are you reluctant to give up the one hundred taels of silver? We earned a hundred taels by cutting a stubble in the vegetable shed, and we also spent five hundred taels when we bought the Zhuangzi! Am I not worth a Zhuangzi for such a big person? Is it worth a stubble of shed vegetables? You just don't want to spend money for me......"

"Crackle—"

A white porcelain bowl with warm tea fell on Ping'an's head, dousing him with tea all over his face, and then fell to the ground and fell to pieces.

Xie Qingshan sat by the oil lamp, his face was blue and full of anger.

"Good! Good! What a son I bore! Marry! You just have to marry that second sister Zhao! I don't care about you! If you marry her for 1,200,100 taels, I don't care about you! You don't want to get a penny from me! Thank you, I owe you? Your mother and I gave birth to you and raised you! I just don't owe you! ”

In the hall, you can hear the pin dropping for a while.