Almost two years have passed in a flash, Ziqing has grown a lot taller in the past two years, and she has begun to show the characteristics of a girl. Because of drinking goat's milk for a long time, sometimes even secretly poured goat's milk into the water to take a bath, the skin is very white, plus the facial features are delicate, the clothes, temperament and conversation are not like a rural girl at all, Shen learned the lesson of Ziping, and easily did not let her daughter go out, even if she went out, someone accompanied her.

Speaking of Ziping, her father has not forgiven her so far, and has refused to see her, when Ziping gave birth to a child, Shen took Ziqing to see her, and sent her some eggs, chicken mother-in-law, children's muslin, etc., at that time, Ziping and his family scraped together to buy a small house in the corner outside the west of Anzhou City, there is only one hall and two rooms, Ziping's husband is doing some short-term work outside, Ziping has cultivated a lot of vegetable fields in the wasteland next to the city wall, and barely makes a living by selling vegetables, raising chickens and ducks, etc., which is very hard.

Ziqing saw that Ziping's husband confessed to Shen vigorously, he did not let his wife suffer, "Auntie, you see, in order for her to make up for her body after giving birth, I even prepared a soft-shelled turtle, I said, I will not treat her badly." Auntie, you do good deeds and persuade my father-in-law, when the child is born, I will take my grandson to see him. ”

Shen Shi was noncommittal when he heard this, but he just told Ziping to take care of himself, looking at Ziping's tears, Shen was very sad, and couldn't bear to leave immediately, and he was very comforted for a long time. Later, Ziping gave birth to a boy and sent a letter to Zeng Ruiqing, but Zeng Ruiqing not only did not agree to meet, but also detained Zhou and did not allow him to visit. The child is still one and a half years old, and he has never seen his grandparents.

Ziqing's friend Xiao Xiushui also got married in the autumn of the old year, the two cried very bitterly, Ziping gave her the small glass mirror and a pair of piles of flowers in the capital given by the Wen family, Xiushui saw what she liked as if she saw a treasure, and put aside the screen that Ziqing had worked so hard to embroider, Ziqing protested dissatisfiedly: "My good aunt." Do you know how much silver I can sell for this screen embroidery? At least ten taels, eldest sister, ten taels of silver. I can't get you a big smile. ”

"It's not big or small, let's beg for a beating, and call me eldest sister again. How do you know I'm not smiling, I'm happy. I knew that you were good to me, and I didn't wronged you in vain. One day, my aunt won't be able to live without money, so I can exchange it for silver. "Xiushui still has that big grinning temperament.

"Bah, good luck, how can a bride curse herself like this? But then again, you should learn to take care of the housework, and don't be uncalculated. Ziqing is indeed a little optimistic about the future of Xiushui. If the man's family is solid and he will live, it will be better, Xiushui's personality is that he never thinks about tomorrow when he has food today, and he is not good at housework.

Every time Ziqing thinks of her, her heart is always very warm, and she doesn't know how she is doing now, but she is half a year pregnant.

While thinking wildly, Ziqing heard the voice of the old man and Tian outside, at the end of the year, Zeng Ruixiang and Zifu went to take the two over for dinner. I originally wanted them to live here, but they said that there were still some chickens and ducks in the old house, and Zeng Ruiqing's family never came back after they moved out, and it was not good for no one to watch that home. At the end of the year, there are many thieves, especially those who steal chickens and ducks, and they can be sold at a good price. They were still able to move around anyway, but they only came over for dinner every day.

There are no oranges at home, Shen asked Ziqing and Zishou to go to the back mountain to get some oranges to eat at home, Ziqing came to the back mountain with a basket, the fruit trees in the back mountain are basically full, and those few undelicious fruit trees were also successfully grafted by Ziqing, of course, it was not a success, it failed several times, and finally sprouted.

The life of the family is getting richer and richer, and last year's fruit tree income also had seven or eight hundred taels of silver, of course, the big head is still oranges, an orange is sold to six Wen, the Wen family requires a basket of one hundred, sent to the capital, and the New Year's home is put on a plate, which is beautiful and delicious and festive. In the past two years, the family has bought five shops, 150 acres of paddy fields, Shen once laughed and said that at least one son and daughter should be prepared two shops, 100 acres of paddy fields, and now there are nine shops, 220 acres of paddy fields.

"Sister, what do you want? I called you several times and you didn't hear it. Zishou pulled Ziqing for a while.

"Ah, I didn't think about anything, do you think you're still used to studying in the county for half a year?" Zishou was admitted to the county school when school started in July, because Zilu was going to take the Xiucai exam after the year, and he couldn't take care of him, so he let Zishou adapt half a year in advance, just like Zilu back then.

The two returned home, Qiuyu's sister-in-law was also there, since the miscarriage two years ago, she has just been three months pregnant, very careful, in addition to going back to her mother-in-law's house to sleep, most of the time in her mother's house, often come to Shen's place to eat, saying that she can't eat good things in other places, for fear that the child will lose.

Although Shen didn't like it, he couldn't refuse clearly, after all, she was a pregnant woman, and it was not easy to get there, but fortunately, she was just a person, and Shen would not do it for her alone after a long time, and she would eat whatever she had at home. Ziqing didn't believe that she couldn't see it, but she was just thick-skinned.

Tian Shi saw Qiuyu coming over to eat again, and said: "Your mother-in-law doesn't serve you well, in order to order food, she runs outside all day long, in case she bumps and falls, there is a good one, but what's the matter?" You said that you finally had a child, how many good things can you eat? The son-in-law doesn't earn money, how many dollars can he spend? After two days, I see that your belly is big, are you too embarrassed to run outside? ”

"You don't know that most of his silver has to be handed over to his wife, how can you give me flowers? The family hasn't been separated yet? That big family, what good things can get into my mouth? Which mother-in-law would open a small stove for her daughter-in-law in private? The old man said that he would split up when the third child got married next year, and left a dowry for his sister. I'm looking forward to that day right now. Qiu Yu said.

"You're also up to him? You won't keep some for yourself? The Tian family taught her daughter on the side, completely forgetting how she treated her daughter-in-law back then, but fortunately, the Shen family no longer cares about those things now that her life is better.

"I have two taels of silver a year, what is enough? What are you talking about? Mother, you don't pay attention to what you say, it's not good for my second sister-in-law to hear it. After Qiu Yu finished speaking, he glanced out and shouted, "Ziqing is back, and the orange is back?" Peel an orange for my sister-in-law to eat. Go back and give me a few to take away, a large family has to eat something sneaky, it's annoying. ”

As soon as Ziqing entered the courtyard gate, she heard that Tian was teaching her daughter, and at first she heard her say that Qiu Yu should not come to dinner, and thought that she had woken up, and felt that Qiu Yu was doing something wrong, and was about to see where the sun came out today, when she heard the words behind, she dared to think about Qiu Yu, and it seemed that she had to wait until she thought about her family, and the road was long. I wanted to wait a while before entering, but I didn't expect Qiu Yu's sharp eyes to see her at a glance, so she had to hand over the orange.

"Won't the eldest brother's family come back this year?" Qiu Yu then asked Tian.

Tian sighed and said who could manage him. Qiu Yu saw that he was busy and said something else. The old man watched Zifu and Zilu write couplets in the study, he was a little old in the past two years, and he was hurt by Zeng Ruiqing, and several children of the Chunyu family were not angry, the old man was unwilling to care about those messy things, looking back, he felt that it was better to have a few grandchildren, especially Zifu, and he was more favored, and when Zifu and they had a holiday, they would go over here to see a few grandchildren, and then drink some wine, eat some good food, and make a good tea. When the mood is good, the body will naturally be much better, and it looks younger.

Ziqing suddenly remembered something and asked Qiuyu: "Sister-in-law, are you still doing embroidery?" ”

"I do less, only make some purses, and I don't have time for big ones." Qiu Yu said.

"How many pennies does your purse sell?"

"Bawen."

"Then I'll give you one of Jiuwen, and you can bring it to me. I'll ask someone to help you sell it outside, but as for how much people sell, we can't control it, do you think it's okay? ”

Qiu Yu was very happy to hear it, and there was an extra penny in one purse, so she hurriedly agreed.

Ziqing is thinking of Lin Kangping running in Guangdong City in the past two years, every time he brings something to the past, tea, embroidery is the first choice, light and easy to bring, the profit is also considerable, Ziqing gave a total of thirteen taels of silver, a pair of big embroidery at the beginning of the year, Lin Kangping came over before the Mid-Autumn Festival, said that the embroidery was sold to foreigners, sold for thirty taels of silver, Ziqing put his silver there, and now it has become a hundred taels.

This year, Ziqing embroidered a large screen again, and made a few purses in her free time, but Ziqing plans to embroider the things that the eldest brother will use to get married after this is sold, which is more festive. In fact, Lin Kangping was also very reluctant to sell Ziqing's embroidery, and always said that he kept it as a sauvenir, if he still can't see Lin Kangping's mind today, it is that he has lived two lives in vain.

Wen San and Lin Kangping's thoughts about her, she knows everything, for Wen San, Ziqing has never been moved, on the one hand, it is that kind of family, Ziqing can't climb high, and she doesn't want to climb high, Ziqing doesn't want to wronged herself and share a man with several women, and she is not the biggest, so Ziqing didn't move her heart at the beginning. And Lin Kangping, Ziqing was a little indescribable, and he didn't feel love, he just felt that getting along and cooperating was quite pleasant, he was a more hard-working and resilient person, Ziqing felt that his life would definitely not be too bad in the future.

Forget it, anyway, I still have a few years to spare, and maybe, fate will have other arrangements. Ziqing comforted herself.

Shen's dinner is usually prepared early, because the old man and they have to go home after eating. Seeing that the weather was cloudy today, it seemed to be snowing, Shen said that it would be better to cut some mutton and eat hot pot, so he called Ziqing to grind sesame sauce, Ziqing was sitting on the thick wool carpet, making the clothes he wanted to wear for the New Year, thinking that he would finish this stroke, so he didn't leave immediately.

Tian came in and asked, "How did your mother greet you?" Didn't hear? You're making new clothes again, how many new clothes do you wear a year? Or is it silk? ”

Later, when I saw the embroidery on the embroidery stand, I asked, "You embroidered this?" When did you learn this? How did I not know? As he spoke, he called Qiuyu to come in and ask how much silver such embroidery could be sold. Ziqing never expected that because she got up a few minutes late, she would cause such a big trouble. (To be continued)