In the evening, sure enough, after Aoki and Zhang Huai finished work, they set up a flat dustpan on the snow outside the courtyard, sprinkled some corn kernels underneath, covered dozens of sparrows, and even Zhang Dazhuan and Zheng Changhe were also accomplices.

Chrysanthemum and Liu Xiaomei were not good at this work of killing small creatures, so they instructed Aoki and Zhang Huai to boil a pot of hot water, clean up the little sparrow, remove the internal organs, smear it with a layer of seasoning and flour, and roast it like a grilled fish.

Zhang Dazhuan laughed and said, "I'm fortunate to be at home today, otherwise I wouldn't have eaten this good thing." Last night, you grilled fish to eat, and you didn't call me to follow your father, it's too unfilial. ”

Zheng Changhe said with a smile: "Let's sit down there with two old guys, and the babies don't have any energy to do anything." ”

Hearing this, several young people all snickered.

Zhang Dazhuan glared and said, "That's not what I said. Chrysanthemum, I see that my father and I are getting old, we also played a little game, and we know a lot of things that you don't know. You see, it's not proper for you to roast a sparrow like this—if one is not good, it will be baked, and if you let the blacksmith beat a few thin iron hammers, and skewer the sparrow, and bake it in your hand, and turn it on and on, it will not be able to roast evenly

Zhang Yang immediately praised: "Dad, you are smart, this is a good idea." Brother, you go to Xiatangji tomorrow, and by the way, go to the blacksmith shop to get some iron chisel and come back, and in the future, we will grill fish, rabbits, and sparrows, all of which will be skewered with this thing. "He's also addicted.

Zhang Huai glanced at the chrysanthemum with a smile and nodded.

Sparrows are not easy to cook than small fish, and if they are roasted for a longer time, they will be easier to paste. So, he cut a number of long bamboo sticks and roasted them on sparrows.

Waiting to eat the crispy roasted sparrows, the old and young kept praising them, only He shook his head and said: "Make evil, kill so many sparrows!" ”

Liu Xiaomei and Chrysanthemum were very embarrassed to hear it, and they pursed their lips and laughed while chewing on sparrows, as for those big men and little boys, they didn't care about these miles!

In the evening, the family sat around the fire barrel, and Chrysanthemum took the opportunity to tell the Yang family that she could marry Zhang Huai.

Suddenly, the whole family was beaming!

Yang Shi was delighted and asked strangely: "What did you do, didn't you say that you want to tell your mother?" Why did you say yes so quickly? ”

Chrysanthemum hesitated for a moment, and then told her father and mother about her temptation of Huaizi, so that they would not know and go wrong again. In this way, it was inevitable that the young daughter-in-law pulled her face towel, and she thought that it would be better to say it, so that the family would pay more attention and deal less with this person in the future.

Zheng Changhe was furious when he heard this, and scolded: "Dead mother-in-law, why are your hands so cheap!" ”

Yang said with a straight face: "What do you know? She wanted to tell her mother's sister to Huaizi, and asked Huaizi to push it. She's not angry! ”

Chrysanthemum suddenly realized when she heard it, no wonder she always felt that something was wrong, because she was a daughter-in-law and would not have anything to do with Huaizi, so she didn't expect to be jealous, it turned out that she was jealous on behalf of her sister.

Aoki asked puzzledly, "She called Chrysanthemum ugly like this, could it be that Huaizi was willing to marry her sister?" ”

Yang said with a gloomy face: "Such a person is narrow-minded and stupid, she wants to disgust Huaizi once, and when she sees Huaizi uncomfortable, she feels relieved." Our village has this mother-in-law, and it will be lively again in the future. The flower woman got better, and she just picked it up. It's weird, why haven't you heard anything happen to her in the past two years? ”

Aoki analyzed: "I think it's the first year I just entered the door, so I always have to be more restrained." Later, I gave birth to a baby, and I didn't have time to run around, so I didn't have a chance to stir up the wind and rain. ”

Chrysanthemum remembered what she said about Liu'er today, and nodded: "It's a restless - she is still gossiping about Liu'er today, and Guizhi's sister-in-law ignores her, so she won't say it if she is embarrassed." ”

Zheng Changhe: "Hmph, if she wants to stir up the wind and rain, then it depends on whose family she marries - when the Zhou family is like Boss Li?" Zhou Xiaozi is such a strict person, although his brother Zhou Baozhu is a little worse than him, he is not easy to talk to. If this daughter-in-law dares to cause trouble, the two brothers can give her a leave of absence to her parents' house. ”

Aoki said disdainfully: "What does she do, if she dares to provoke us again, she will tell Chrysanthemum, and we will knock on the door." Now it's up to her. Mother, when are you going to help Chrysanthemum and Huaizi get married? ”

A smile appeared on Yang's face and said, "Just Layue." It's almost the New Year, and it's festive. His father, you go and tell the big bolt brother to set a good day. When the time comes, my grandmother and uncle will be brought in, and my aunt and grandmother will also be brought - the old man was not happy that Aoki didn't pick her up last time. ”

Chrysanthemum was a little apprehensive when she heard this, and asked uncertainly: "Mother, isn't it just a marriage, and it's not a marriage, why do you want to make such a big move?" ”

Yang has no way to deal with this girl.

When it comes to family affairs, she is not shy at all. If it was a girl next to her, it wouldn't be what her father said she would do, and she would have hid to the side. Chrysanthemum is good, she tossed herself and Huaizi again, not to mention, at this time to discuss the marriage, and to fight with the family, not to be lively.

She glanced at her daughter and said, "What's wrong with the marriage?" How big is it, how can you do it casually? It's not that you have to spend more money or anything, but you want relatives and friends to know that our daughter is married. Otherwise, the relatives will be determined without hearing the birds, and no one will know, and there will be people who will come to the door to ask in the future, isn't that a matter of misunderstanding people? ”

Zheng Changhe nodded again and again: "Of course, you have to be hot." When your brother was married last time, your sister-in-law, grandmother, and uncle arrived. We have few relatives, just your grandmother and uncle, and two aunts and grandmothers, and there are not many people, so it is not good to pick them up. Huaizi's family is terrible, there are four uncles and aunts, hehe! The big bolt is going to be busy! ”

Aoki reminded his father funny: "Dad, this marriage is a dowry to the woman's house, and everyone comes to our house." ”

When Chrysanthemum heard this, she was even more tired of this hateful custom.

Zheng Changhe smiled and said: "If it is far away, it is naturally impossible to do it, and now that the two families are connected, do you dare to help greet the big bolt?" ”

After laughing for a while, the family went to sleep.

The next day, Zheng Changhe agreed with Zhang Dazhuan on the date of marriage - the tenth day of the lunar month. The two families prepared with joy.

Zhang Huai is going to marry Chrysanthemum!

This news also caused a big wave in Qingnan Village, which was no less sensational than the marriage between Meizi and Li Changming. Because these two people have such an unclear story, I don't know how many versions have been passed out by those idlers in private, and now they are suddenly going to get married, and the direction of the story is different from everyone's speculation, isn't this big news!

Just when people were speculating about what was behind this family affair, someone suddenly came out: The Zhang family saw that the Zheng family was rich, so they went up to the pole and begged for it, otherwise who would marry that ugly girl, unless the brain was broken. and vividly described that afternoon, in the courtyard of the Zheng family, Zhou Xiaonian's daughter-in-law accidentally ripped off the face towel of the chrysanthemum, but Zhang Huai was shocked and almost frightened, obviously disgusted with the chrysanthemum, and later pretended to say to the chrysanthemum, "Don't wear this face towel in the future, it's very obstructive, you should let the face breathe" or something.

As soon as this gossip came out, some people talked about it with relish, and some people were disgusted - no one with a little brain would believe it, what is Zhang Dazhuan's family like, don't the people in the village know? But there are people who like to talk about this, what can be done.

Li Changming and Meizi found Hua Pozi as soon as possible and asked her if she had passed on the matter.

Hua Pozi hit the sky and screamed, swore that she didn't say anything, she was very busy, she worked slowly, and now she has to do needlework in winter, and she doesn't have time to visit everywhere, even if she comes to her son's house because she eats by the way, and she can accompany her pregnant daughter-in-law, how good!

Li Changming nodded and said, "Mother, it's good that you didn't say it." We believe in you. When someone tells you this, you go away, so that others don't have to rely on you. ”

Meizi hurriedly nodded and said, "Hey! That's right. Mother, you are talking nonsense everywhere, come to me when you have time, let's do needlework and thread, and I will make cakes and eat you when I am done. She used coaxing when she was worried about being anxious, mainly because she was also very angry when she heard this - Chrysanthemum was good with her, why did she say that?

Hua Pozi was happy to hear this, and nodded again and again, saying that she would never talk about people from now on.

Mrs. Hua didn't say it, who said this, don't guess, who else can there be besides Zhou Xiaonian's daughter-in-law?

Zhao Dazui's house, Gui Zhi sat in the fire bucket, clutching the soles of her shoes with a sad face, and she didn't have the heart to accept it, as long as someone met her in the past two days, she asked what happened in the Zheng family's compound that afternoon - she was treated as a witness. Although she ignored people, she still felt upset.

She said to Zhao remorsefully: "It's all my fault, if I don't take that mother-in-law to the Chrysanthemum family, I can't have these things." I thought it would be enough to make a fuss, but who knew that she was so ignorant, what would she be able to do if she messed up this matter? Chrysanthemum said, if you provoke her again, let her father and brother call the door! ”

Zhao Da's face was stiff, and he said majestically: "Dead mother-in-law." Wait for me to go to Zhou Xiaonian - ask him how he cares about his daughter-in-law. She said that she also pulled you out about this, saying that you were also there, and that people always came to ask you. Lao Tzu wants to knock on the door with Aoki. ”

Gui Zhi saw the man's responsible look, and immediately supported: "It's time to give her some color." In Huaizi's words, this is Qingnan Village, not Qingbei Village! Don't let her know that it's powerful, and you'll have to gossip about people in the future. ”

So, the humble Zhao Dazui rushed to the door and went to settle accounts with Zhou Xiaonian.

The Zheng family and the Zhang family, who were the parties involved, were the most angry, Huaizi was angry, Aoki was furious, and even Chrysanthemum regretted that she shouldn't have done any temptation - look, this is the result of distrusting people, and they were punished

Although she won't be half angry because of the words of these foolish village women, since you live in this environment, it's better to stop a little, and it's not an honor to be talked about as a hot person all the time!

Just when Aoki and Zhang Huai were about to go to Zhou Xiaonian to settle accounts with Zhao Dazui, Zhang Dazhuan and Zheng Changhe stopped them and said: "Don't make trouble, the more ruthless the trouble, the more people will laugh at it, and this matter will become darker and darker." Wait for me to come to the door with your father, find Zhou Baozhu to have a good fight, and by the way, call Zhou Xiaozi too, let's sit down and gossip about their daughter-in-law this week. ”