He Shi came out of the house, holding a few red and bright persimmons in his hands, and took over the conversation and said, "It's okay to be a girl, but you can't dislike your son." Many people pray to God and worship the Buddha and want to have a son, and if he hears you say this, he is afraid that he will think that you are stinking with him, and laugh at him for not being able to give birth to a son. ”

Several people laughed.

Aoki thought that the Zheng family had finally gotten rid of the situation of a single generation, and he also had a brother, and the smile on his lips expanded.

Chrysanthemum looked at the persimmon in He's hand and asked, "Mother, is this persimmon soft?" ”

He nodded and said, "Pick up a few soft ones and peel them for a few small ones to eat." ”

After the persimmon was picked, it was buried in a rice jar and covered. After burying it for a few days, I took it out, and the skin was thin, and it fell off with a light tear, revealing the soft and sweet meat inside.

When Shallot saw this thing, she didn't recognize it, and when she heard her grandmother say to eat it, she shouted, "Grandma! ”

He agreed, saying that he would give her food after washing.

She went to the bucket by the well and scooped a scoop of water, rinsed the gray-white frost powder on the persimmon, then moved a small stool and sat down, and beckoned: "Gourd, bring my brother over to eat persimmons." "Peel off the skin.

Chrysanthemum hurriedly said: "I'll take a bowl, peel it and put it in the bowl, scoop it with a spoon and feed them, otherwise it will be water when you bite it." The juice of this persimmon is very astringent, and it can't be washed clean when it gets on the clothes. You can't give them too much to eat, and one person eats half of it. This thing looks soft and hard to restrain me. ”

While laughing, Mrs. Wu and Heipi came back with two baskets of cleaned chickens, so they got busy again and began to make lotus leaf chicken, and chrysanthemums boiled chicken heads and chicken feet. Aunt Liu was not at home, so Chrysanthemum called Mrs. Wu to help, otherwise there were too many things at home and she couldn't be busy.

Heipi also followed to help paste the yellow mud, while asking Chrysanthemum: "Young grandma, kill these chickens every day, the chicken feathers are poured into the dung pit and rot, can the young grandmother think of a way to turn these chicken feathers into money?" ”

He felt that Chrysanthemum had a lot of ideas, and thought that if even the chicken feathers were made to sell for money, the chicken would not be wasted at all.

Chrysanthemum looked at him and smiled: "I've thought about this for a long time, but I haven't come up with a good idea." Except for getting the hair off the rooster, the hairduster and the shuttlecock, I didn't think of a good way to do it. But at the moment, we're very busy, and even if we want to, we don't have time to do it. ”

Heipi sighed and said, "Feather dusters aren't easy to sell!" ”

Chrysanthemum tied a lot of chicken feathers collected and put them in the Laixi store to sell, which also means waste utilization, but it didn't sell well. Also, who doesn't have this mile?

After the chicken was buried, Mrs. Wu went home.

Chrysanthemum fried a few more dishes, then beckoned to eat, and said to Aoki in a loud voice: "Brother, bring back this pork belly and chicken, I will stew it for my mother and Sister Yunlan to eat." ”

Aoki agreed, and was not polite, got up and patted the wood chips on his body, and went to the kitchen to serve it.

Chrysanthemum filled the simmering jar in a large basket and said to him, "It's better to carry, it's inconvenient to carry." You still have to hold the gourd, and if you turn around and spill it, it's not good if you burn people. ”

Aoki nodded, holding the basket in one hand, and called the gourd back to the next door.

Chestnut was reluctant to stay behind, and followed him to the gate of the courtyard, shouting, "Brother, brother." ”

He smiled: "If my brother doesn't go home for dinner at night, his grandparents should miss him." Won't it be the same when I'll play with you again tomorrow? ”

The gourd is usually eaten at Zhang's house at noon, and it is taken back in the evening.

Chrysanthemum shouted, "Sensei, I'll take you to see my uncle after dinner." ”

There was nothing to say all night, and the next morning, Huaizi was going to the mountain side to find Wang Zhong to tell him something, and Chrysanthemum went with him to see the chickens.

Leave the chestnuts at home to play with the gourd, let the grapes watch aside, and the locust goes out with the shallots and chrysanthemums.

Out of the village, looking at the bleak trees and fields, the leaves and autumn grass are yellow everywhere, there is no desolation, only in the crops can see green, or wheat, or carrots and other crops.

Huaizi taught shallots as she walked: "Girl, look, that's wheat." And the wheat was ground and flour was made and bread was eaten. This is a white radish. ”

Shallot moved with his fingers, and a pair of eyes looked around, and when he saw Wheat, he suddenly said, "Leek." This mother taught her to admit it.

Chrysanthemum burst out laughing.

Huaizi couldn't help laughing, and felt that it was necessary to let her daughter figure out that there was still a difference between wheat and leeks, so she deliberately diverted from the right road, walked to the ridge, and took the shallots to see the wheat.

When he arrived at the wheat field of unknown people's house, Huaizi squatted down and let her daughter stand on the ridge of the ground and lean on his arms, telling her the difference between leeks and wheat.

Chrysanthemum said: "There are no leeks to compare, how can she remember a person as big as her?" At first glance, these two things are really about the same. ”

Huaizi pulled a wheat seedling in his hand, let the scallion hold it, and said that he would go home and compare with the leeks to see if it was the same.

Shallot pinched the wheat sprout and said stubbornly, "Leek." "I glared at my father very unhappily, why do you always say that leeks are wheat?

Chrysanthemum laughed as she looked at the father and daughter's identical narrow eyes and stared at each other.

Huaizi grinned happily: "Okay! It's a leek. Shallots say that they are leeks and leeks. ”

Suddenly, I heard someone say, "Yo! Who is this, stunned to treat wheat as a leek? ”

The two of them looked around, and it turned out to be Zhou Xiaonian and his daughter-in-law, carrying a hoe, and it seemed that they were going to the field

Huaizi greeted them with a smile, saying that the girl was small and couldn't recognize wheat and leeks, so he took her to take a look.

As soon as the words fell, Shallot turned to Chrysanthemum and pouted: "Mother, leek!" ”

Huaizi hurriedly said, "It's a leek." Dad was mistaken. While winking at Zhou Xiaonian.

The two of them laughed, and the chrysanthemum was helpless, if the two crops were not put together, I was afraid that the girl would not be able to turn this corner.

Zhou Xiaonian said: "Huaizi, I was about to ask you something. This year I also planted two acres of carrots (carrots). The first year I planted, I didn't do much to serve, and it didn't grow very well. I passed by your house that day, and I thought your turnip seedlings were sturdy and wanted to ask you if you had any tricks. ”

Huaizi asked, "Have you made a bottom fat?" ”

Zhou Xiaonian said: "It's mated, and the fertilizer is thrown away with wheat." Pig manure mixed with mud and straw burnt soil fertilizer, it has long been issued. ”

Huaizi said: "Where is the land?" I'll take a look with you. I can't talk nonsense if I don't see me. ”

Zhou Xiaonian was very happy, turned his head to lead the way, and walked along the ridge.

The young daughter-in-law stood aside and let Huaizi go, and waited for Chrysanthemum to come forward and walk with her. She was like a pot of fire, rushing chrysanthemums to ask this and that, and praised the shallots for growing well and being able to speak, and then mysteriously talked about Zhou Xiaozi's family.

"My uncle was so angry when he came home that day, he scolded my aunt and Xiaoman's daughter-in-law and punished him for kneeling! I heard that Xiaoxiu was scolded when she returned to her parents' house, and she really deserved it, and they made a lot of trouble that day. ”

Chrysanthemum smiled and said, "Don't blame her, who doesn't panic when she loses the baby?" She was so sad that she thought so much. ”

Why is this woman so hot?

No matter what you say, "people have two skins on their mouths, turn them over and take them", at that time, the baby was lost, and they complained about the Zhang family; At this time, seeing that the baby was recovered, the Zhang family did not show weakness, so they changed their rhetoric, most people are gossiping with the trend, and they must not be taken seriously.

Xiao Nian's daughter-in-law immediately said: "Listening to you say this, you are a considerate person." Let's talk about this, the traffickers also pretended to be chili sellers to enter the village, and if she complained, you definitely couldn't blame her; She lost her baby, and everyone sympathized with her, but she shouldn't have beaten anyone. ”

Chrysanthemum was noncommittal when she heard this, and when she saw that she was still going to say, she hurriedly said: "It's always that we didn't think it through, and let the traffickers take advantage of the loophole." ”

The young daughter-in-law shouted: "It's strange that my father-in-law said that your family is kind!" I'll be honest with you●◆◆⊥ˉ

Chrysanthemum was surprised when she heard this: There is some truth in what she said, but I don't know if it is sincere. She is talking to Chrysanthemum at this time, people who don't know how deep their friendship is, and they don't think that the two families had a big quarrel a few years ago, and Chrysanthemum wants to laugh when she thinks of it.

Seeing that Chrysanthemum didn't speak, the young daughter-in-law said to herself: "It's okay now, we are really relieved, and the babies are not afraid to run around at the door and in the village." When everyone talks about this, I don't know how much to thank Zhang Jiali! ”

Chrysanthemum hurriedly said: "This is all arranged by the village chief, we just followed up with some silver, and the village chief also made a big mile." ”

Xiaonian's daughter-in-law smiled: "You don't have to be polite, we all know that your family proposed it first, and the village chief arranged it." ”

Chrysanthemum didn't say anything more.

It turned out that after they finished harvesting chili peppers, they wanted to withdraw the tenants who were waiting to check at various intersections, but because they heard that another village had lost a baby, they felt that this trafficker was afraid that they would not be able to put an end to it for a while, so they discussed with Huaizi and asked him to go and tell Li Gengtian that they would arrange people to take care of these intersections all the year round, and patrol back and forth in the village from time to time.

Thinking that they were all famous people, he summoned the Zhang family, the Zhao family, and the Liu family together, and in the name of the three Xiucai people, each household paid twelve taels of silver a year, and arranged four people to take care of four strong men all year round at the ferry to Qingbei Village, the intersection to Yushu Village, the big intersection from the village head to Xiatangji, and the intersection at the end of the village into the mountain.

His Li family paid extra money to build a house at these four intersections, and arranged for his family to wander around the village from time to time, and they had to inquire about new faces when they saw them.

This can make the people in the village happy, one by one praised, the capital and the Xiucai master is a village is stained, and now Qingnan Village is the safest Zhuangzi in ten miles and eight townships. In the final analysis, this matter was caused by the Zhang family's harvest of chili peppers, so people turned to talk about the Zhang family's kindness, which shows that the world is unpredictable.