She looked at her eldest cousin, looked at her very nervously, and couldn't help but roll her eyes in her heart, like she wanted to return the money to her father? It's just that her father is honest, and he doesn't wait for him to finish speaking by himself, and when he meets that treacherous one, follow your words and let you suffer a dumb loss, what will happen at that time?

Looking at the other people in the house, the men and women were very nervous, and sighed in their hearts, too, seventy or eighty taels of silver is not a small amount, and you can buy dozens of acres of wasteland.

She frowned and thought about it - she said just now that she couldn't think of it, if she opened her mouth and said it, wouldn't it be exposed?

After a while, she clapped her hands and said, "I remember, my aunt said—" Everyone was in high spirits and listened to her in detail—"Most of this is her nephew's filial piety, and it is her private money." Unlike houses and fields, it can only be divided by the son of the Yu family,—— daughters are married, and there is no share - this money, everything that crawls out of her belly, has more babies, more babies, and fewer babies. ”

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and the second cousin said: "This is like what our mother said, her old man is the most sensible, and she knows everything."

Chrysanthemum pursed her lips and said in her heart, why don't you discuss it yourself? At the end of the day, I'm still a little greedy and want more.

So she deliberately shouted, "Sensei...... I remembered something again, and that was······ It is...... Oh, that's right, 'Brothers and sisters should be kind, they are all born from the same mother's womb, broken bones and tendons, if I don't think about my mother's brother, where will my nephew be filial to the silver?' It's noisy all day long, and if you don't let a point, this family will lose. When there are troubles, the brothers don't come to help, and they make trouble like enemies, and they make people laugh at ......, and I can't remember anything else. ”

The cousins all wiped their tears and cried silently, and the eldest cousin said to Chrysanthemum: "Thank you, Chrysanthemum." Baby, give the comb used by our mother to Chrysanthemum to make a thought, her old man asked Chrysanthemum to talk, it can be seen that she likes her very much. ”

A dull yellow-skinned daughter-in-law hurriedly turned around, picked out a yellow wooden comb with a broken tooth from an old needlework dustpan, which had been polished to a very smooth and shiny color, and I don't know what kind of wood it was made of, and handed it to Chrysanthemum.

Chrysanthemum hurriedly took it respectfully, then said goodbye to them, and told Zheng Changhe a few more words, and then he went out of the inner hall, and only then did he breathe a sigh of relief in the sunlight outside-he finally got over.

On the way back, the mood was naturally different. When people get old, they will always die, except for those close to them, who will be sad and nostalgic for a while, and the rest of them will soon forget. Chrysanthemum and Aoki are not close to their aunts and grandmothers, not to mention Huaizi and Liu Yunlan, so they will talk and laugh along the way.

Liu Yunlan and Aoki were surprised when they heard Chrysanthemum talk about last night.

Liu Yunlan said with great certainty: "It must be that the eldest aunt and grandmother are angry and show their souls." You don't want to think about how strong the wind can be from outside the door. Can you blow the oil lamp down? My aunt's coffin was parked in the inner hall, and it was so big that she was afraid of going to bed like that last night, so why did she dare to get under the coffin?"

Rao is sun is under the sun, and Chrysanthemum also shivered and said, "I forgot, that wind is really weird and shouldn't blow into the mourning hall." Oh, don't talk about that, or I won't be able to sleep at night. Last night, when I closed my eyes, I always felt that Grandma Gu was standing in front of the bed and looking at me. ”

After speaking, he grabbed Huaizi's arm and didn't let go.

Grape nodded again and again: "I haven't seen Mrs. Gu, but I can always see an old woman dangling in front of me."

Aoki and Huaizi kept looking for words to comfort them, afraid that their hearts would respond.

Liu Yunlan smiled: "It's good to go back." I heard that the ghost is not something that everyone can see, otherwise why wouldn't the aunt and grandmother directly appear and scold the cousins? A place where yang energy is heavy, a yin spirit. Don't dare to approach, so as long as the acacia is by your side, you don't have to be afraid.

I think the first time you entered the mourning hall, your aunt's ghost may have been there, and the oil lamp was brought down by her anger; The second time, when the big guys went in, she couldn't do anything, so she borrowed the hands of the grapes to do this, and the grapes were small......"

Aoki nodded again and again, "There is some truth. Since ancient times, ghosts have different paths, if there is no moderation, won't they all be chaotic?"

Chrysanthemum nodded and said, "I'm also strange, although I know that the second time is a ghost made by grapes, but the first time things are really different, what can I say?" At that time, I really felt that the wind was blowing, my hairs were rising, and I couldn't move even if I wanted to, and I always felt that my aunt and grandmother were around······"

As he was talking, the gourd sitting on Aoki's shoulder suddenly spoke: "Dad, Mrs. Gu is afraid of people."

Aoki hurriedly said: "Don't be afraid of gourd, Mrs. Gu is the best, she likes gourd the most, and I hugged you when you were just born."

Hulu pouted and said, "I don't like gourds, Mrs. Gu doesn't laugh, but the old lady laughs."

Liu Yunlan "chuckled" in her heart, and hurriedly asked, "Hulu, where did you see Mrs. Gu?"

Everyone thought that Hulu's words were a little strange, and the old lady in his mouth was his grandmother Wang--Wang's always smiling-everyone knew this, but since he could remember, he hadn't seen his own aunt's wife

Hulu said: "Mrs. Gu is here...... ······ on top of the big box"

At this time, everyone was stunned, and Chrysanthemum had goosebumps all over her body: Hulu really saw the eldest aunt and grandmother, on top of the coffin. It's not a mistake or a coincidence, such a big baby won't lie at all.

Her teeth chattered, and she pulled the acacia and said, "Gourd...... How can you see it?"

Grape was so frightened that he was colorless, and he squeezed into the middle of several people, not daring to advance or lag behind.

Huaizi hurriedly hugged the chrysanthemum and comforted: "The little baby is different."

Liu Yunlan was still vigorously interrogating the gourd, whether it was the long big black box in the mourning hall, whether Mrs. Gu was sitting or standing and waiting, but the gourd couldn't tell clearly, only said that Mrs. Gu was on top of the big box, he smiled at her, and she didn't smile.

Aoki sighed and said, "The eldest aunt and grandmother must be smiling at the gourd, but when she smiles at the juniors, she also grins, unlike her grandmother and second aunt, who smile all over her face." Hulu thought that when he saw his aunt and grandmother ignoring him, he remembered it. ”

Liu Yunlan explained to Chrysanthemum: "The little baby's eyes are clean, and it is easy to see these ghosts. However, our gourd has strong bones and is also a yang heavy, otherwise I am afraid that I will be frightened yesterday, but our family still has to buy some paper money to burn for my aunt and grandmother, bless our gourd. ”

Ju Bao asked in wonder, "Even if the ghost of the eldest aunt is seen by the gourd, it shouldn't scare him, right?"

Liu Yunlan said: "It's not that the aunt and grandmother are scared of the gourd, it's... That yin qi, ordinary people can't stand it. Didn't you also say that when you first entered the mourning hall last night, you felt gloomy?"

Chrysanthemum nodded, it seems that this is what people often say, hit the evil spirit

After talking about his cousins again, Aoki sighed and said, "This family is almost like this, and as soon as the aunt and grandmother go, the affection will be one layer worse." If the cousins don't get close to their father, this family will be broken. ”

He was a little depressed, not that he was reluctant to do so, but for his father Zheng Changhe, his father lacked the care of his elders, and his family had no brothers and sisters and other close relatives, so he was afraid that he would be sad for a long time. The second aunt and grandmother are afraid that it will not be possible, otherwise my sister will not come to the funeral if she dies.

Chrysanthemum also understood the meaning of her brother's words, and said to him: "Let's be more filial as children." I see that my father is very sad, and I'm afraid it will take a long time to recover."

Huaizi said: "Don't be afraid, a gourd, plus chestnuts and shallots, it is easy to make Dad happy."

Chrysanthemum and the others returned home, life returned to calm, the dead were gone, and the living still had to live. After fifteen, after sending Zhang Yang away, Zhang Huai summoned the tenants Wu family father and son and Wang family father and son to work in the wasteland bought by Chrysanthemum.

Digging ponds and wells at the foot of the mountain, and planting bamboo on the mountain, Old Man Wu and Old Man Wang took their sons full of energy. The owner only hired two of them to help, it was the off-season, but they could earn fifteen cents a day, where to find such a good thing? Therefore, the work is also real, and they do not cut corners, otherwise they will not be allowed to do it if they have something to do next time.

Because planting bamboo could not be delayed, the Wu family and the Wang family were arranged to open up wasteland on the mountain, and even the daughters-in-law of the two families also went up the mountain to help; Zhang Dazhuan and his son took Liu Heizi to dig a pond at the foot of the mountain.

Chrysanthemum took the grapes to the field to see it once, and then changed the plan - to change the fish pond to five acres in size. In this way, it was too slow to dig by these few people, so she asked Liu Heizi to go back to the village to find a few families to help, and simply spent some money to dig the fish pond in one go, which also saved her father-in-law and Huaizi from being burdened.

While she was busy with the affairs of the wasteland, she also had to worry about her mother's family, because Zheng Changhe fell ill after helping her aunt and grandmother burn the first seven days.

"Dad, you drink some corn paste first, and I'll give you a bowl of noodles to eat when I get back." Chrysanthemum persuaded Zheng Changhe, who was a little emaciated.

She took a bowl of corn paste in her hand, sat on the edge of the bed, looked at her father with a white cloth wrapped around his head, with a pillow behind his back, lazily leaning on the bed, as if she was in confinement, and wanted to laugh.

Zheng Changhe was in a bad mood, so he didn't eat corn paste, saying that he wanted to eat soybeans stewed in sauce and make a big bowl of pots. Of course, Chrysanthemum would not agree to him, so she coaxed him like a baby.

She scooped a spoonful of corn paste with a small wooden spoon, and poured it high, and the thick corn paste was connected into a line and poured down, "Look how sticky this corn paste is, I also put some meat foam in it, it is very delicious." With this sour bamboo shoot, drink a big bowl hot, sweat all over, and people will be comfortable. Could it be that Daddy wants to lie in bed all the time? Is it because my father is afraid of working and thinks that he has bought too much wasteland, so he pretends to be sick and hides at home?"

As he was talking, Yang Shi came into the room and glanced at Zheng Changhe, and said to Chrysanthemum: "If you don't eat it, forget it, you coax him." And squeamish. He is willing to lie on the bed and go with him, let's go to the field tomorrow, and he will still farm and live without him. ”

Zheng Changhe glanced at Yang complainingly, reluctantly took the bowl in Chrysanthemum's hand, and drank it "snorting", Xu was hungry, and the sour bamboo shoots were appetizing, and he ate very well.