As soon as the third mother-in-law and the fourth mother-in-law left, Zeng Ruiqing said with a dark face: "Dad, mother, where should we build our stove?" We can't cook without a stove. ”

Tian Shi hurriedly said: "Your father said a long time ago, there is a vacant land under the mandarin orange tree behind the pig house, and it is enough to build a stove room." You're going to make do with us for a few days. ”

Zeng Ruiqing still answered with a black face. At this time, Zhou asked, "Mother, didn't you say that you would return a chicken woman?" Plus 10 eggs with seeds? ”

Tian glared at Zhou, then at the old man, and said, "I usually ask you to do something, but I can't remember it, but this time I remember it very well." You go and pick one by yourself, but you have to pick it, and don't blame me when the time comes. After speaking, he went into the kitchen in a huff, found a small basket with ten eggs, and handed it to Shen.

Zhou said: "We won't catch it today, and if we do, we won't have anywhere to put it, and we'll catch it when we build the stove." Let's catch it for my second brother's family today. ”

Shen then followed Zhou's to catch chickens, and Ziqing wanted to see how many chickens Tian had raised, so he followed. I only heard Shen say thank you Zhou, and Zhou replied: "Hmph, if you don't catch it, it's cheaper for the three of them, and the old woman only has her three daughters and a bunch of granddaughters in her eyes, and we have worked hard for so many years before we got a chicken." It's a pity for those three big fat pigs. Seeing that the family is separated, I didn't even want to kill the pig during the Chinese New Year this year, and I didn't even eat a bite of meat in a big year. The old woman has it in her hands, and when we are all separated, they will be used. According to me, we should have a good fight, and the family will score one. ”

"Forget it, sister-in-law, look at the posture just now, you can't ask for more rations, let alone this big pig, if you don't say anything, you have to have more than 100 catties, and it's not worth more than two dollars, can your mother be willing to give it up? You have to keep it and sell it for a good price. Shen said.

Ziqing looked at the closeness of her eldest mother and her mother, smiled, and thought of the famous saying, "There are no eternal enemies and no eternal friends, only eternal interests." Sure enough, it is a wise saying.

Zhou saw Shen say this, there was no way, she definitely couldn't make trouble alone, so she scattered a handful of millet on the ground, and attracted all the chickens, Tian raised about a dozen or twenty chickens, and before Ziqing could see it, Zhou made a move, and a fat chicken woman handed it to Shen. Shen took it and twisted the two wings cross, returned to the hall, found a rope to tie the two chicken legs, handed the chicken to Zilu, and asked him to carry the chicken and eggs, Zifu went to carry the ten chickens raised by Ziqing, those ten chickens Ziqing has been raising for almost two months, each of them is almost a catty, and he has not caught insects and fed them in the past half a month, and they grow a little slowly.

Shen picked a pair of empty barrels and asked Zifu and Zilu to follow, Zeng Ruiqing and Zeng Ruixiang still went back to the back to dismantle the bed. Ziqing still looked at Zixi, Zishou went to play with Da Mao and their brothers, Ziqing was a little uneasy, but Zishou wanted to go, and she couldn't stop her.

After all the things were moved and it was past noon, Tian said to her Zeng Ruixiang: "You still eat here at noon, there is no time to prepare there, after eating lunch, you will quickly buy all the belongings you want to buy, and I will leave you alone at night, you go and call your daughter-in-law and children back." Look at your big cousin, are they still there? I guess I've had lunch later, so let's call here to eat. Zeng Ruixiang listened and agreed to leave with some disappointment.

Zeng Ruixiang just left for a while, Zishou came back crying, his new clothes were so dirty that he couldn't see the color, and he cried and said to Ziqing: "Sister, Brother Sanmao beat me and pushed me to the ground, there is all sludge, you see my clothes are dirty, sister, they bullied me, Brother Da Mao and Brother Ermao are still laughing next to me." ”

Ziqing saw that the adults in the family didn't squeak, so she pretended not to hear it, only Xia Yu came over and said, "Zishou, don't cry, the second aunt will wash you." ”

Ziqing couldn't say anything, so she found some hot water, washed his face and washed his hands, and he couldn't change his clothes, so he moved away. Just after cleaning up Zishou, Zeng Ruiqing and the Shen family came back, and even Shen Jianren and the Xiao family came over together. Shen saw that Zishou was dirty, and hurriedly pulled it over to ask what was going on.

Zishou cried again, Ziqing explained a few words on the side, and Tian hurriedly took over and said: "How can there be a child who doesn't quarrel and quarrel." Alright, let's eat, everyone is waiting. ”

Shen listened and hurriedly coaxed Zishou, Ziqing secretly thought to herself, this time the child must be recovered, the three big ones are bullying the small ones like this, it is too unreasonable, and no one said that the three big children should not be.

I didn't expect Zifu to make a move soon, when Ermao served the soup, Sanmao stood next to him, Zifu deliberately accidentally touched Ermao, and the bowl of hot soup in Ermao's hand was all on Sanmao's body, Sanmao angrily jumped to scold Ermao, the two pinched each other, Zifu said on the side: "I'm sorry, I don't know why I didn't stand firm." ”

Ziqing watched it really from the sidelines, and when she saw Zifu apologize seriously, she was about to hold back her internal injuries, but she didn't dare to laugh. I still ran to the back room and laughed, and I rubbed my stomach for a long time.

After eating, Zeng Ruixiang asked Zifu to go with him to get the set pot, this time Shen Jianren and they didn't follow, Shen took the four children to buy five catties of early rice from the street, five cents a catty, and went to the butcher shop to buy ten cents of fatty meat, let Zilu carry it, came to the door of the new house, looking at the tall and long courtyard wall, Zishou was happy and stupid, "Mother, is this our new home?" "The wooden door of the primary color has not had time to be painted, and a large iron lock is hung on it, which is the kind of long lock of ancient times, the same as the copper lock, but the price of iron is much cheaper.

A few people walked into the door and walked about 30 meters to the door of the wooden house, the door was a stove, a small open space, it used to be a desk and bookcase, Shen basically cleaned up, the beds were made, the two beds were next to each other, next to the wall were Shen's two red lacquer boxes and a three-section wardrobe, Ziqing estimated that the area of this wooden house was less than 30 square meters, and there was a little firewood piled up in the corner, the family had to squeeze here for a year, and the pressure to make money was so great.

As soon as Shen put his youngest son down, Zeng Ruixiang and Zifu came back, and they came over with a guy from a blacksmith shop with two pots, Ruixiang carried a small one in his hand, and Zifu also carried a small iron pot for braising rice and making porridge in his hand. After putting the pot away, Zeng Ruixiang took Zifu out to buy a water tank and bucket, and the water tank and bucket were bought, and said that he wanted to buy dishes and chopsticks, tables and stools, and he hadn't gone out yet, Shen Jianren's family came, and brought a one-meter square table, two bamboo chairs, six wooden stools, a bag of rice, a piece of pork, a basket of eggs, one large and one small, two wooden basins, ten bowls, ten plates, and ten pairs of chopsticks, which are almost all now.

Zeng Ruixiang was going to fetch water and was about to wash it, Shen Jianren followed, came back and said to Shen: "Sister, this water is too inconvenient, it's better to dig a well as soon as possible, otherwise, you are a woman's family, and it will be too hard these days." ”

Shen Jianren's words made Zeng Ruixiang on the side really embarrassed, originally he was the head of the family, and a few children were so young, so they couldn't help much, but the economic conditions of the family couldn't help him give up that bondage.

Seeing that Zeng Ruixiang was in a dilemma, Shen said to Shen Jianren: "Third brother, don't worry, I will think of digging a well in two months." ”

Shen Jianren can't say anything, life is always a person's life, and the bad girl is separated from that family, with her hands, there should be no problem in living. Thinking of this, Shen Jianren said goodbye with peace of mind, Shen wanted to keep them for dinner, Xiao said, the coming day is long, live a good life, anyway, they have to stay for two days before leaving.

Zeng Ruixiang filled the water tank, Shen put everything in order, and began to boil water to wash the dishes and chopsticks, and then asked Zifu to go to his grandmother's vegetable field to pick some vegetables and come back, and told Zifu to remember to tell his grandmother. Here, Shen Shi heated the two stir-fry pots and rubbed them with pork skin several times.

Before dark, the family finally sat down to eat the first meal after moving, in order to save trouble, Shen put the vegetable leaves into the rice porridge, and cut some fine meat, a pot of delicious vegetable porridge is good.

Shen looked at his children and said: "This is the first meal after our family is separated, although it is simpler, but my mother is very happy, I feel that the future days are ahead, you must also be obedient, in the future, my mother will send you to the school one by one, you must know to be motivated." ”

Zifu took the lead and replied: "Don't worry, mother, we remember." ”

Zeng Ruixiang and Shen nodded, the first meal after the separation started, and after two months, Ziqing finally ate a delicious and comfortable meal. After the meal, Shen asked Zeng Ruixiang to take the three boys in the family out for a walk, and she wanted to take Ziqing to take a bath.

When the whole family finished taking a shower and lay down on the bed, Ziqing still heard her father and mother carefully settling the accounts, plus the things added today, Shen said that there were less than three taels of silver left, and thanks to Shen Jianren who helped buy a lot today. Later, I heard Shen say that there are one or two given by Tian today, almost four taels, Zeng Ruixiang mentioned the matter of digging wells, Shen said to wait for another month to see, and then say anything Ziqing didn't hear and fell asleep.