Chapter 83: Half a Chicken (1)
He has been busy in the stove room since he sent Wang Pozi away, and when Ziqing went in, he found that his grandmother was holding the old chicken woman and didn't know how to start, and when she saw Ziqing, she said that she still went to ask Zeng Ruiyu to come over and kill **.
Ziqing didn't care about anything else, took Xiao Hei with her, and ran into Grandpa and Grandma when she went out, Ziqing thought, Grandpa kills the same, why bother to trouble the third uncle. So Ziqing asked; "Ah Gong, can you kill chickens?"
"What's not going to do if you kill a chicken."
"Your mother gave birth to something and didn't know how to come and report it, I didn't know that we were all waiting, so I knew that we were in a hurry to kill the chicken." Tian said dissatisfiedly.
"Grandma, my mother gave birth to a younger sister. Today is ugly and born all the time. Tian's face was suddenly difficult to look at.
Entering the door of the small courtyard, the He family saw the old man Zeng and they hurriedly greeted him, invited the Tian family into the house, Ziqing grabbed the chicken to the old man, and went to boil hot water by himself.
Tian came out after a while to ask the old man to leave, and when he saw Ziqing scalding chicken feathers, he said, "Where can the child clean up this, I'll clean it up." ”
Ziqing was lazy to pluck chicken feathers, and she didn't think about it, so she threw her hand to Tian's family, who knew that Tian's cleaned it up, and said: "Such a big chicken, your mother can't eat it, I'll take half of it to your aunt to eat, it's just right." Your aunt has only been back for three or four months, and she hasn't raised chickens. After Tian finished speaking, he had already divided the chickens with a knife, and Ziqing didn't have time to say anything, thinking to himself, strange Dao was so enthusiastic about helping, it turned out that he had already calculated. No one expected that because of this half chicken, the originally relaxed brotherly relationship would be much more divided.
After He came out, Tian had already left with half a chicken, Ziqing told Shen as a joke, who knew that Shen said after hearing it: "It's not good, if you want something bad, your father is afraid that he will be unhappy." He's the one who pays the most attention to these rules. Why don't you come in and tell me, just talk to your grandmother, just grab a chicken. How can there be a reason to give someone away and take half of it. ”
"Mother, I didn't let me take it, it was Grandma who took it herself. What can I say, again. What's wrong is also Grandma's business. Ziqing really doesn't believe it's a big deal.
Shen didn't say anything, and asked Zishou to go to the third cousin to send a letter to the eldest uncle and the second uncle, and Ziqing knew that the third aunt and the mother were from the same village. He also asked Ziqing to find the donkey cart master on the street, gave him ten cents, and when he went to the county seat, he found someone to bring a letter to Zeng Ruixiang, saying that the mother and daughter were safe.
When she got home, Ziqing knew. Her father may not ask for leave to come back, because the eighth day of October is the day when her sister-in-law gets married, and her father will definitely ask for leave, and there are still ten days before Mu Xiu goes home.
Ziqing saw that her mother's face was always depressed, and she wondered if her father was not at home, and her mother also suffered from postpartum depression. I tried to find a reason to solve it, but it didn't have much effect.
Ziqing went to discuss with the He family, only to learn that it was because her little sister and the Zhou family's child had a bad birthday on the same day. It depends on who is stronger than whom, and his own child will come out first when he is late, so he is not afraid, but he is afraid that Zhou's child will blame this side for having a headache and brain fever.
Ziqing was dumbfounded when she heard this. No wonder as soon as he finished speaking, he saw Grandma's face ugly, and he thought she was patriarchal and complained about her for a long time. Ziqing asked: "Grandma, this child is not born when you want to give birth, this is God's arrangement, and this can also blame others?" If you want to blame it, the eldest mother is born too slowly, or her child will be a day older. Besides, if it weren't for my mother's worry about my aunt and being frightened, maybe it might be a few days late. ”
"Silly boy, you don't understand, you are still young, you have little experience, how can you understand this." After speaking, He also sighed.
On September 19, the eldest aunt Xu and the second uncle Zhao both came and gave a milk gift, which was basically a basket of eggs and a piece of cloth. When Shen saw them, he thought about it, called Ziqing over, asked Ziqing to find a good muslin cloth, pulled five feet, and asked Ziqing to pick up a basket full of eggs, which was full of fifty, and then grabbed a chicken woman and sent it to Zhou.
Ziqing couldn't take that many things, so she asked Zishou to follow, and when she arrived at the old house, Chunyu's family also came to give Zhou's milk gift, Yan Renda's eyes stared at Ziqing and Zishou's hands.
Chunyu also looked at it and said: "This egg, there must not be fifty?" After speaking, he took the fabric from Zishou's hand, opened it, and said, "This cloth must not be five feet long." My second sister-in-law is really generous today, even the chicken woman has been caught, I have given birth to so many children, and I haven't seen a single chicken feather. ”
Ziqing said with a smile: "Auntie, you also know that you have given birth to so many children, and the eldest mother gave birth with great difficulty, of course you have to be generous, my mother has given birth to so many children, I don't know if you have seen the eggshell of the eldest aunt's house?" ”
"Hmph, isn't this a delivery, isn't it too late to go? There is always a big and small order. After saying that, they went out angrily, Ziqing took the things to the eldest mother, and gave them directly to the cousin, without seeing the eldest father.
Ziqing came home and saw that everyone was sitting in the hall with her aunt, and her aunt was still holding a two-month-old Wumao in her hand, looking like she was waiting to eat, Ziqing was really speechless. The family is still sitting and waiting to eat, nine people big and small. No, Ziqing had to go into the stove room to help make lunch, and learned that the aunt only took twenty eggs and two feet of coarse cloth.
Fortunately, the food at home was still sufficient, and with the help of two uncles, the meal was soon served, and the He family brought up the chicken soup that was originally made for the Shen family, and Ziqing sent a bowl to the Shen family.
Before Ziqing and them were served, the dishes on the table were eaten, and the Xu and Zhao families didn't have much to eat, Ziqing simply took the two younger brothers out of the restaurant, and when the aunt's family came out with a mouthful of oil, Ziqing sent the guests back into the stove room to see, the vegetables were light and the rice was gone, so she had to knead some flour and make a few bowls of pimple soup to eat, and even the two uncles were not full.
After dinner, everything was cleaned up, the doorbell rang suddenly, Ziqing and He Shi both wondered who would be able to come, Ziqing went out and asked in the courtyard gate, only to know that it was the father who came, took the things that Ziqing took during the day, and said: "Tell your mother, no matter how poor I am, I will not be short of your mother's chicken and eggs, we are not called Huazi, take half a chicken to send us away." What kind of generosity will this be? After saying that, he threw the things away and left, without allowing Ziqing to speak.
Ziqing had no choice but to pick up the things and go back to the house, and said to the Shen family: "Mother, that half of the chicken is still causing trouble, and the big daddy has returned all the things." ”
"It's my fault, just chase it out at that time." Ho said.
"Grandma, no one can blame this matter, my grandma is also kind-hearted, where does the family pay so much attention to it."
At the end of the month, after Zeng Ruixiang and they came back, Shen told her husband about the matter, and cried bitterly after speaking, it is estimated that she had been depressed for a long time, Ruixiang sat at the head of the bed, kept patting his wife's back, and said, "It's okay, with me, don't worry." Zifu and Zilu stood aside and just pursed their lips tightly. (To be continued)