Liu Fu smiled and said, "Mother, seeing that the New Year is coming soon, let's go back to my grandmother's house together?" ”

Liu's face showed a happy color, and then it dimmed, and he stirred his cuffs in embarrassment and said, "You, your eldest aunt is ......"

Liu Wu still insisted on holding Liu's hand and said: "Mother, I still have some silver on hand now, buy some New Year's goods, my aunt's face will not be too ugly, besides, even if it is ugly, I can't even see my own mother, right?" I haven't seen my grandmother in years. ”

Liu mustered up the courage to nod, he hadn't seen his mother for more than six years, no matter how ugly his sister-in-law said or how desperate she did, she had to give it a try.

......

Li Wensheng was holding a pheasant in his hand, passing by the big tree at the entrance of the village, where Niu Bo's ox cart was parked, and more than a dozen women jumped off the ox cart.

Seeing Li Wensheng's back, several women turned their heads and whispered, and two of them were bold, even glancing at Li Wensheng with their eyes and pointing their fingers.

The woman's voice was so small that it was indistinct, but it was like a mosquito screaming in the ears in the summer, and it was a disturbing mess.

Li Wensheng supported his ears for a long time, but he still couldn't hear it really, so he simply gave up, and ran to Widow Li's house with a pheasant.

Liu Ya opened the door of the hospital, and when he heard that Li Wensheng knew that Liu Wu was sick and sent a pheasant to boil soup to recuperate, he was not happy in his heart and didn't want to accept it; But he was afraid that he would annoy Li Wensheng by not hearing the reason he found, so he was pestled at the door like a puppet, and he didn't accept it, and he didn't accept it.

Liu Wu put on his jacket and walked out weakly, seeing that it was Li Wensheng, he generously let Liu Ya take the pheasant, and said with a pleasant face: "Brother Wensheng, have you asked the shopkeeper Huang for help me leave?" ”

Li Wensheng nodded and said: "Shopkeeper Huang agreed that you don't have to go back to the county seat, and he also hired a new guy, but he asked you to drive out some work before the year." ”

Liu Wu nodded with a smile, she naturally guessed the meaning of the Huang shopkeeper, that day she threw the pillow at the Huang family, and ran back before she had time to negotiate the price, the Huang shopkeeper must have sold the pillow, and the price was not low.

There is no shortage of embroidery in the yellow shopkeeper, what is lacking is a novel pattern, and the cartoon rabbit he drew is novel and cute, absolutely unique.

Huang shopkeeper has been in business for many years, so he will naturally not miss business opportunities, and he will be able to draw inferences from one another, so that he can embroider the other eleven pieces of the zodiac at home.

The shopkeeper Huang is a businessman, and he always puts his interests first, even if his carriage is gone and the coachman is dead, he still does not forget how to make money and save money.

It's just that I don't know how Li Wensheng explained Ma San's death to Shopkeeper Huang.

Without opening his mouth to ask, Li Wensheng had already glanced at the willow buds on his side, shook his head imperceptibly, and said with a smile: "The owner asked you to embroider the pillows of the other eleven zodiac signs a year ago, and promised that a pillow would give you one or two pieces of silver." ”

A tael of silver? This is not a fraction of what he said at the beginning, he gave the money for a pillow sample, and Liu Wu said all the pillows sold, the difference is a thousand times, or even more.

Liu Wu did not refute, and nodded with satisfaction, a grateful look.

is sure in his heart that this Huang Wangcai is not a reliable person, and he will have to hide his heart in the future, that is, he can't do nothing, let him think that he is useless, and be pampered by others to treat him as an outcast; and can't be too high-profile, attract the attention of the Wen family, and then carry out assassination operations.

Embroidering embroidery in the village and earning a little money is still okay, as for the rest of the money, you can only bypass the Huang family and make calculations.

Li Wensheng naturally didn't know about the agreement reached between Liu Ya and Huang Wangcai, and only thought that Liu Ya and Aunt Li's embroidery were good and good-looking, and the money they sold to Huangjia Cloth Village was much higher than that of selling to other cloth houses.

Liu Ya was obviously also happy, and turned around to tell Widow Li that she had gone, looking anxious.

When Liu Ya walked away, Li Wencai lowered his voice and said: "I told Huang Wangcai that the robbers may be from the Wen family, saying that they have released cruel words, and they will be robbed once in the future." Huang Dongjia agreed that you don't have to go back to the county, I will help you run errands every once in a while, and ask for ideas. ”

Liu Fu nodded, this Huang Wangcai is shrewd enough, but his courage is not too big, and he always looks forward and backward, afraid of wolves and tigers, and lacks decisiveness, which is also one of the reasons why the Wen family has been riding on him and bullying him all these years.

Liu Wu no longer dwelled on this matter, but looked at Li Wensheng with an embarrassed face, opened his mouth many times, but swallowed back when the words came to his mouth.

Li Wensheng waited for a long time and didn't wait for Liu Wu's words, and said suspiciously: "Xu'er, what do you want to say?" ”

"No, it's nothing...... Liu Fu shook his head hurriedly, his face full of remorse for what he had just said and stopped.

Li Wensheng's face was displeased, and he said with a calm face: "Su'er, we have been in contact for a long time, you know what kind of character I have, I hate others to hide from me and lie to me the most, you have something to say, don't swallow and spit out, and those women who chew their tongues behind their backs annoy me." ”

Liu Fu sighed and said: "Brother Wensheng, it's not that I don't want to say it, but I can't say it, this is related to the reputation of the Liu family, and this can't come out of my mouth." You, you better go and ask others, now many people in the village know about this. ”

After speaking, he simply shut Li Wensheng out of the door, and then looked at the catkins behind the door, like a mouse that had attacked a cat, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, and the arc became larger and larger, and it went straight to the bottom of his heart, and he said in his heart, let the storm come more violently.

was imagining the upcoming chickens and dogs of the Liu family and the Li family jumping in his mind, Liu Ya ran out with the chicken for the second time, and hesitated: "Sister, did you throw this pheasant like a fur hat, or should I send it back?" ”

Liu Fu shrugged his shoulders and said indifferently: "It's stewed." ”

"Huh?" Liu Ya's eyes widened in shock, she clearly remembered that no one in the family liked Li Wensheng, especially the eldest sister, and mentioned Li Wensheng's full of anger.

Since he got sick, his attitude towards Li Wensheng has taken a big turn, from calling him by his name to calling Brother Wensheng gently, from throwing away the hat he received indiscriminately, to now stewing pheasants, isn't it that the eldest sister can't resist and decides to join the Li family?

Liu Ya said eagerly: "Eldest sister, you won't, you won't agree to Li Dalang, right?" He, he ......."

Liu Wu stroked the little head of Liu Ya, who was a little incoherent, and smiled: "Silly Nizi, don't be cranky, the sharp knife is erected there, we always have to avoid its edge, curve to save the country, this is not cowardice, but strategy." ”

Liu Ya still didn't relax in her heart, and looked at the eldest sister who was "talking nonsense" with a worried face, and seemed to make a great determination to say: "Eldest sister, Brother Ergang is not very afraid of Li Dalang, you, are you okay to marry Brother Ergang?" ”

Liu Wu still shook his head, pulled Liu Ya into the house, and changed the topic: "Ya'er, let's study and study the embroidery of the zodiac pillow with Aunt Li, there will be a lot of silver left, and we can go to visit my grandfather's house before the year......"

Liu Ya is the head of learning embroidery, and I heard that I can earn a lot of silver, and immediately like being beaten with chicken blood, full of combat effectiveness, grinding my fists and preparing to embroider boldly......

......

Li Wensheng, who came out of the catkins, was confused by the catkins' words, thinking of the women's pointing at him just now, Li Wensheng's heart became more and more uneasy.

On the way home, he met Zheng Shi, a famous long-tongued woman in the village, Li Wensheng walked straight to Zheng's side, and Zheng was so frightened that he retreated several steps before standing still, looking at Li Wensheng with a vigilant face, for fear that Li Wensheng would take advantage of no one to treat her unfavorably.

The fire in Li Wensheng's heart arched one after another, but he had to suppress his anger and said: "As long as you tell me what the people in the village are paying attention to my Li family, I will give you a pheasant stew tomorrow morning." ”

Zheng's face showed three points of joy, and he looked around to see no one, so he lowered his voice and said: "Li Dalang, you hurry up and pick up your Erlang, if you don't pick it up, I'm afraid you won't be able to pick it up again." ”

After speaking, he looked at no one around, hurried away, took two steps and turned back and said: "The pheasant will be thrown into my yard tomorrow morning or tomorrow night when his eyes are dark, don't let people see us talking, I am not a person who pulls my wife's tongue." ”

Li Wensheng's brows furrowed into thick Sichuan characters, and after analyzing Zheng's words for a long time, he still couldn't analyze the meridian and the meridian, so he simply drove in and went straight to Liu's house, wanting to ask Wenwu face to face clearly.

As soon as I entered the courtyard of the Liu family, I saw that the courtyard of the Liu family was crowded, some were fetching water, some were cleaning up the main house, and some were dismantling the quilts and washing the quilts.

Zhou's face was dark, with a burning stick in his hand, and he commanded everyone in the courtyard.

"Liu Gen, sweep the ground in your sister-in-law's house a few more times, especially the horns, and don't let it go, lest you attract insects, ants and flies in the summer;"

"Liu Gan, go open the door, ventilate, and remove the smell......"

"Wicker, go and call your mother and your aunt back, you have grown lazy meat, borrow a soap horn and a clothes pounding stick for a long time, and your ass can collapse into a pit......"

"Liu! Don't do your laundry yet! Waiting for my wife to wash it by hand? ”

Liu Shi looked at the kang mats, mattresses, quilts, and more than a dozen pickled pants and clothes piled up like a hill in front of him, his heart was churning, and he endured disgust and said: "Mother, there are too many things to wash, and the kang mats, mattresses, quilts, clothes, and pants, these things have to be brushed and washed separately, and they are waiting to be used, I'm afraid it's too late, do you tell Cuihong to help boil some hot water......"

Zhou's old face fell, and he said hatefully: "Look at these things, how much firewood do you have to boil and how much hot water?" Are your hands carved of gold or made of silver, and you alone are precious in gold? The stove can't be vacated, and the emerald red can't be vacated, so she is boiling tiger bones for her husband, so she quickly washes it, and puts it on the kang to dry and can be used immediately. ”

Liu's heart is very uncomfortable, he accompanies the sick catkins for a day and a night, the work in this willow cui red house is put on for a day and a night, and he comes back, this work is a posture of dying if he doesn't do it, isn't he just waiting for himself to come back and do it?

Because the Song family has a son-in-law and a scholar, the waist pole is hard, sweeping the snow in front of the door, doing their own work, not listening to Zhou's words at all, and going to help Liu Cuihong clean up the house of pickles;

With the Song family taking the lead, the Chen family and the Qiao family did not do it, although they did not have the Song family's hardness, but one excuse to borrow a clothes stick, the other to borrow a soap corner, an hour passed, and there was no one to see.

Liu Cuihong's own work naturally couldn't hide, so she simply found a job to wake up, saying that the tiger bones last night were not boiled well, she went to look at the stove to boil the tiger bones, but the clear-eyed people saw all the way that she was sitting on the pony, already half-asleep, and the so-called tiger bones in the pot had been boiled only to see the white soup without the bones.