Huaizi returned to the house, and Chrysanthemum came out of the room and asked, "Gone?" ”

Huaizi nodded and said, "Let's go." Talking to them is more tiring than cutting two acres of rice. Fortunately, they didn't care about us in the past, otherwise, they would definitely be like their ancestors now. ”

Chrysanthemum smiled slightly: "They originally thought they were the ancestors of the Zhang family, do you see that posture?" The tone of speech, even if our grandfather is alive, I am afraid that he will not have this style. ”

While the two were talking, He Shi came in from outside, took over the conversation and said, "Your grandfather won't put that shelf, just look at what kind of character your father is—just like your grandfather." Let's eat! If they don't leave, I'm going to deliver food in the fields. ”

Zhang Huai hurriedly said: "I'll call my father and them!" ”

He said: "No need, I have already asked the grapes to call." It's time to come back. ”

Huaizi just gave up, and told Chrysanthemum about what happened just now, but I don't know if this matter is over. Although they are not afraid of them, if they go back and talk nonsense, who has the leisure to talk to them all the time?

Chrysanthemum praised him and said: "What you said today is good, it's better than getting angry and driving people away." I didn't expect you to tell them to leave, I thought they were going to stay until the afternoon. ”

Huaizi twisted his eyebrows and said: "Isn't it more reason for them to come to the door if they get angry again?" It's really unlucky, what's this called? Half a day's work was in vain. ”

He looked at Chrysanthemum and remembered that this matter started when the fifth grandmother asked him to take a concubine, just because his mother said that he leaked his mouth, making people think that Chrysanthemum might have lost her body and could not give birth, so they started a small abacus, and couldn't help but have a burst of anger again. Hum! Even if the chrysanthemum really can't give birth, they don't want to stuff people around him. He doesn't want to marry those people!

When Zhang Dazhuan came back, he asked Huaizi about what happened at the dinner table, and said with a straight face: "Say this again next time, don't get angry, and don't give in." Save them from kicking their noses and faces. ”

Huaizi nodded with a calm face.

He said hatefully: "I can't swallow this breath - I always want to sweep them out with a big broom." I have never seen such unreasonable relatives, no wonder our father and mother broke off contact with them at that time. ”

Zhang Dazhuan said: "It's not that our father and mother broke off contact with them, it's because our family is poor." People don't look at it, so they don't bother to move around. If there is something over there, please don't invite us, and if we have something to do, please don't move them. Isn't this broken! ”

Huaizi said: "It's broken." Otherwise, with their behavior, our family can have a peaceful birthday? Even if you post it now, because you haven't taken advantage of them in the past, you don't have to look at their faces. ”

Zhang Dazhuan ate a big bowl of rice, sighed, and said, "That's the reason." ”

But they all miscalculated, and within a few days of this matter, the grandfather, daughter-in-law, and grandmother came to the door. It's not noisy. just said a lot of things to the He family apologetically, and said that the eldest grandfather was the oldest in the clan, so it was not easy. I didn't come to make trouble that day, but I just wanted to help the two parties get along. The tone was sincere, and there was a bit of a whisper.

To say that the Zhang family and the Zheng family have a characteristic: they usually treat people with the most sincerity, but if they meet unreasonable bullies, they are not ambiguous in quarreling and fighting; But if people are short with them with smiling faces, they will be embarrassed to care, and the typical soft does not eat hard.

So when He saw that the eldest grandmother was old, he talked to himself for a long time with caution, and he was embarrassed to ignore her with a straight face, and he also left food at noon - he couldn't say anything about driving people away. This made her even more aggrieved, because she didn't want to associate with them in her heart, and felt that arguing with her grandfather that day was the most refreshing.

Only acacia and chrysanthemums are not salty or light to the grandmother. Chrysanthemum didn't pay attention to her at all, but she didn't want to encourage her mother-in-law to drive people away - it was impossible according to He's temperament - and it was not good to overstep her bounds, if she left angrily as a daughter-in-law, then she wouldn't want to look up outside in the future, so she had to sigh secretly, thinking that she should be more careful in the future.

In this way, the two families were reconciled, and other families also found an opportunity to get together, and even the fifth grandfather's family pretended to be nothing, and walked around with the Zhang family affectionately.

This time, Zhang Dazhuan and Huaizi were very resolute, although they did not announce the severance of relations with them, but they didn't care at all when people came.

But the same water raises a hundred kinds of people, and there are thick-skinned people who turn a blind eye to their indifference, which makes Chrysanthemum eye-opening at the same time, but also very vigilant - this kind of person is the most difficult, "people are invincible if they don't have a face", they can't get rid of it, and this method is the most effective against people like Zhang Dazhuan and Zheng Changhe. She pondered how to give them a deterrent and dispel the little bit of coarse thought.

The days of having a baby are busy and fulfilling, and this winter, chrysanthemums are no longer as idle as usual. Normally, she could curl up in a barrel and make needlework while keeping snacks next to her. Now it's good, it's always quiet, either to change the diapers of chestnuts and shallots, or to feed, so I can only do some needlework and teach the grapes some housework and their own habits.

In November, the Zhang family and the Zheng family bought dozens of acres of wasteland, took advantage of the cold weather to hire people to open it up, turned over the soil, so as to freeze the insects in the deep soil to death, and then turned it over again in the next spring, applied some fertilizer, and then planted a season of potatoes or corn.

Chrysanthemum also bought 50 acres of wasteland, frozen for more than a month after deep ploughing, during this period, kept buying rice husks from the Jishang mill house, slowly accumulated, piled up several small mountain bags, ready to plant bamboo in the spring.

Huaizi was very strange, and when she saw that the chrysanthemum was mysterious, she didn't tell herself, so she didn't ask her, but just helped her explain these things. Zhang Dazhuan and his family saw that Chrysanthemum bought private property, but they were very happy, anyway, no matter how much money Chrysanthemum earns, will it not be left to their grandchildren in the future? Therefore, not only was he not red-eyed, but Zhang Dazhuan also happily followed Huaizi to help take care of it.

Increasing these fields, Huaizi picked two honest ones from the tenants and worked with Liu Heizi. The family is surnamed Wu, and there are three strong laborers in the family, father and son; A family surnamed Wang has five strong laborers, father and son. In this way, these two families are fixed, and there is no need to hire another person when the farm is busy, they are all from nearby villages, and they are also safe to use.

In the wax moon, the cold wind outside on this day was bleak, the ground was splashed with water and ice, and the two plum trees in the yard also had flower bones. was about to bloom, the Zhang family invited a butcher, killed five pigs, left the pig's head and tail and internal organs, and left dozens of catties of meat. The rest was sold to the Fang family's workshop.

On the day of killing pigs, it is natural to invite the family of the chrysanthemum lady to drink the pig killing soup, which is a custom. Because it's right next door. The two sides are sons and daughters, and the Zheng family is not polite, so they didn't make lunch. The whole family came to Zhang's house for dinner.

The howling of pigs outside was incessant. Huaizi, Aoki and others were busy helping to lay down and divide the pork; In the house, Chrysanthemum took the grapes to take care of a few milk babies and did needlework by the way, He and Aunt Liu cooked in the kitchen, and Yang also came to help after a while.

"Chrysanthemum—"

There was a crisp children's voice in the yard, Grape lowered his head and smiled, and Chrysanthemum was also funny, which was the characteristic name of her little nephew's gourd. Then you will be called Auntie.

Sure enough, the little gourd was dressed like a round ball, and he wore a little red hat on his head. Under his feet were brand new black cotton shoes, and he ran into the house with a bump. When he crossed the threshold, he held on to the threshold with his hand, stepped over one leg first, grinded his buttocks, and took the other leg in, before he let go of his hands and turned to chrysanthemum and shouted, "Auntie! ”

Chrysanthemum listened to the belated "aunt" smile, and when she saw him flying over, staggering, she shouted very worriedly: "Slow down, beware of falling." ”

Before the words fell, his legs were weak and he knelt on the ground. The baby in the countryside is a real skin, and he wears a lot of clothes in this winter, so the little gourd doesn't care about this wrestling at all, he supports the ground with both hands, pouts his buttocks, and gets up, and comes to the twins' small bed and shouts: "Sister, brother!" ”

Chrysanthemum hurriedly said: "Hulu, my brother and sister are still asleep, I will play with them when I wake up, don't quarrel with them first." Come, come to my aunt. Why didn't the old lady and her mother come, grandma? ”

Hulu stopped talking, ran to her side, and turned his head to look out.

Chrysanthemum looked up, and saw Wang and Liu Yunlan coming in from outside, each with a small basket in his hand, which was needlework, so he got up and beckoned them to sit down.

Liu Yunlan was not afraid of the cold, so she only put up a cotton cushion on a small wooden chair and sat down; Wang sat on a bench and put her legs into the fire bucket, and Chrysanthemum covered her legs with a small quilt.

After the old man sat down, he looked at the gourd lying next to the chrysanthemum, and said to her with a smile: "The gourd has been talking at home, asking for a sister." His grandmother brought him over first. ”

Chrysanthemum said: "My mother? ”

Liu Yunlan smiled: "Help Aunt He in the kitchen." I asked for help, but they didn't let me, saying that there were too many people in the kitchen and couldn't turn around, so they drove me out. ”

Grape was very clever, got up early and poured two cups of warm white water, and handed them to Wang and Liu Yunlan. The young grandmother said that it is not good to put chrysanthemums in winter, and it is good to drink boiled water, so she didn't make tea.

Wang Shi took the teacup and praised: "The grapes are getting more and more outstanding, and they look like big girls."

Grape smiled embarrassedly, suddenly turned around and ran to the side of the little bed, and said, "Shallot is awake!" Woohoo! Chestnut also woke up, and my brother was still asleep. No wonder my mother said that he was like a piglet, eating and sleeping, sleeping and eating. ”

Hearing this, the gourd hurriedly ran over, and shouted, "Brother, sister!" ”

He was greeted by the laughter of chestnuts.

Chrysanthemum shook her head and smiled, I don't know if the little brother has inherited the friendship factor of Aoki and Huaizi, this chestnut fight starts from laughing, as long as the gourd stands beside him, and before he teases him, he will crack his toothless little mouth and show a big smile at him; If the gourd stretched out his little hand and poked his cheeks, or hooked his lips, it would be terrible, and the room would be filled with his laughter.

Shallot is much quieter, but she obviously likes to play with her with gourds, and always smiles at him, but not as loud as her brother.

Grape skillfully helped the two villains change their diapers, and after cleaning up, they first hugged the shallots to feed the chrysanthemums. She also discovered that the young grandmother spoiled her daughters a little, always feeding the shallots first, and then the chestnuts. The chestnut couldn't eat enough, so she went to drink her mother's milk.

Originally, her mother fed the chestnuts directly, anyway, her mother's milk was enough for two babies to eat, but the young grandmother said that if she didn't feed the chestnuts all the time, her son wouldn't kiss her when he turned around, so she still had to feed some, but she always fed her daughter first, and then fed her son, but what is it that is not eccentric?

Chrysanthemum took the shallot, waited for the grapes to bring the warm boiling water prepared earlier from the kitchen, and then untied the placket, washed it with a muslin cloth, and then began to feed the little girl. (To be continued)