Seeing Yao come in, the three of them all stood up, saluted her, and called, "Second aunt." ”

Seeing that Zhang's expression was indifferent, Yao Shi did not respond to his praise, and turned his head to Niu Shi and said, "Mother, the meal has been prepared, do you think you will start the meal now?" ”

Niu Shi gestured to Zhang's with her eyes, and when she saw Zhang's nod, she said, "Okay, let's eat." ”

The meal was placed in the hall, there were still two tables, the seven men of the Du family plus the Niu family sat at the top, and the Zhang family led his daughter to a table with the three sisters of Yu Ju and Du Fangfei. The food on both tables is exactly the same, and there is no difference.

Seeing this, Du Fangling's eyes turned cold.

Although they ate in the upper room during this time, because only the Yao family had a table with them, they changed their staple food to white rice, but the dishes were no different from before. Yao's was cleaned up by Niu's for a few meals, and he didn't dare to make trouble anymore, and he ate with a long face at every meal, and didn't dare to have any objections.

Now as soon as the Zhang family returns, their treatment has changed, and they have become the same as the men in the family. This made Du Fangling feel inexplicably ironic.

Their mothers and sons were busy with the twenty acres of fields all day long, and the grain produced was converted into money, which was no less than the silver that Du Yunyi got back. But this treatment is simply very different.

Zhang looked at the dishes on the table, but his eyes flashed with disgust. took a handkerchief and wiped the bowl and chopsticks in his hand and wiped Du Fangyun's as well, and then stood up and went to serve the meal.

Yao's wanted to scold her, so he stepped forward to help her serve the meal, but was avoided by Zhang, and said lightly: "No, I'll just come by myself." ”

Yao also knew that Zhang's love for cleanliness was disgusted with her dirty, and her face was stupid, but she didn't dare to say anything.

After serving the meal, Zhang pulled some of the dishes in front of her and Du Fangyun into the bowl, and then did not stretch the chopsticks into the plate on the table, obviously disgusted that the dishes that others had sandwiched were not clean and did not want to eat.

I think Niu also knew this, and when he first set the dishes, he put the two best meat dishes in front of them.

However, Du Yunyi didn't pay much attention to it, and while eating, he chatted with his parents with and without a match.

Du Jincheng and Du Jinde are okay, but they are a bit picky eaters, Du Jincheng is older and knows how to cover up; Du Jinde had no scruples, rummaging through the plate with chopsticks, and finally didn't eat any dishes, pouting and only picking up rice.

Niu Shi felt distressed, while comforting Du Jinde, and asked him what he wanted to eat, and finally sent Chen Shi back to the kitchen to make another egg custard, Du Jinde poured the egg custard into his bowl and ate it with rice.

Yao watched over there, pouting to himself secretly, but he didn't dare to show it.

Du Jinning looked at all this coldly, and wondered about the personalities of the few people in the big house.

After dinner, Yao's and Chen's mother and daughter cleaned up the table, while Zhang and Du Fangyun sat there on the ground, waiting for Du Fanghui to make tea for them; Du Yunyi sat in the hall with Du Chensheng and Du Yunnian and talked; Du Jincheng and Du Jinde walked out of the courtyard, looking like they were ready to go out for a walk.

Du Jinning glanced at Du Fangling and walked out first.

Du Fangling came out with a stack of bowls, put them in the kitchen, and said to Chen: "Mother, I'll feed the pigs." He turned around and walked out of the courtyard.

Du Jinning followed Du Jincheng and the brothers for a while, and when he saw them walking aimlessly, the direction of the village turned out to be the north of the village, and he was suddenly overjoyed, and turned his head to see Du Fangling coming out, and hurriedly beckoned to her.

Du Fangling ran forward and walked to Du Jinning's side.

"You go to Granny Lin's house." Du Jinning whispered.

Du Fangling nodded, and went to Granny Lin's house on the path.

Granny Lin is the lonely old woman who was fostered in her house by the Du family's second house. Du Fangling's visit to her house coincided with the excuse she made when she ran out.

Granny Lin's house is just north of the village, and a little further from her house, there is a small forest with a few plum trees. When the Du Jincheng brothers came to the north of the village, they thought they were going for the plum blossoms. When they come back in a while, they will definitely pass by the door of Granny Lin's house.

After Du Fangling left, Du Jinning continued to follow the two not far away. She was already thin and very alert, she avoided someone when she saw someone coming out, and only the villagers greeted Du Jincheng and the brothers all the way, but did not see Du Jinning.

Du Jincheng and the two walked for a while, and sure enough, they went to the side of the grove. Du Jinning did not follow further, but entered Granny Lin's house.

Granny Lin also had a husband, children and daughters, and the family was happy. But her life was not good, her son died of illness at the age of twelve, her daughter grew up and married in a neighboring village, and her husband died three years ago, leaving her alone in the family, and only occasionally her daughter would come back to visit her.

Because her yard was relatively large, she raised more livestock and poultry, and later after her husband died, she was too lazy to raise them, so the yard was empty. It happened that Zhang's family thought that the house was smelly, so Niu's gave Mrs. Lin eighty yuan a year and moved all the chickens and pigs in the family.

Du Fanghui mows the grass every day, catches insects, feeds pigs and chickens, and does not work for Niu's half a snack; The yard here is big, raise one more pig, raise a few more chickens, and the eighty yuan will be earned; It doesn't dislike the eldest daughter-in-law Zhang, which is a good deal for the Niu family, so this situation has been maintained in recent years.

As for whether Du Fanghui will be more tired, it is not a matter for Niu to consider.

"Where's Granny Lin?" Du Jinning entered the courtyard, didn't see Mrs. Lin, and asked Du Fangling.

Du Fangling pouted into the house: "It's cold, I didn't go out at home." ”

Du Jinning frowned.

What she and Du Fangling are going to do for a while, she doesn't want people to see it. But there was no way, except for Du Pozi's family, she had no other choice.

She looked left and right, and saw that there was a tree in the courtyard, which was not very tall, Du Jinning rolled up his sleeves and climbed the tree very neatly. Turning his head to look in the direction of the north of the village, he could just see the grove behind him, and from time to time he could see the figures of Du Jincheng and the two walking around in the woods.

For this position, Du Jinning is very satisfied.

The only bad thing is that it's a bit windy in the trees, and it's much colder than it is underneath. The torn cotton jacket on Du Jinning's body was thin and hard, and he didn't keep out the cold in the first place, but when it was blown by the cold wind, it became even colder, so he had to wrap the cotton jacket tightly, and the idea of separating the family was even stronger.

If the family is separated, she will be able to use all her skills to lead her family to live a good life.

Du Fangling saw that his little face was frozen red, so she hurriedly ran under the tree and shouted in a low voice: "Brother Ning, you come down, I'll go up." ”

Du Jinning waved his hand at her and made another booing motion.

Du Fangling had no choice but to stop her mouth and continue to cut pigweed.

Du Jinning is cold, and the Du Jincheng brothers are no better in the grove. After a while, the two brothers couldn't stand it anymore, discussed a few words, and began to walk back.

Du Jinning hurriedly jumped off the tree.

Estimating the footsteps of the two, she felt that she was about to arrive at Mrs. Lin's house, and she said loudly: "Sister, I'll help you cut pigweed." ”