There is a curtain between the inner room and the living room, and Du Yinsheng's words are clearly heard by Niu in the inner room. Seeing the old man come in with a black face, she knew what to say, and before Du Chensheng could speak, she shouted: "Everything else is easy to say, don't think about marriage." ”

Du Chensheng made up his mind immediately, and he would not allow Niu's refutation. He glared: "You also heard what the eldest brother said, either you will be stopped, or our family will move out of Peach Blossom Village." You choose one. ”

"He's not the emperor Lao Tzu, why is he what he says?" Niu said angrily, "Let's not leave, can he still call the yamen to drive us out?" ”

Du Chensheng was already on fire today, and when he saw that the old woman dared to talk to him, he slapped him in the face: "Old lady, your hair is long and your knowledge is short." ”

"You hit me? Ah, I'm not alive anymore. As soon as Niu sat down on the ground, he began to cry.

"If you don't live, you die. I'm so much away from you stingy. ”

"Du Chen gave birth to you who has no conscience, I will give birth to you and raise children, wait for you to eat and drink, you treat the old lady like this! Don't think that there are only people in your Du family, and my Niu family is not vegetarian. If you want to get out of the marriage, just wait for my nephews to slam the door. Niu said, got up from the ground, took a furoshiki and was about to pack up and go back to his parents' house.

The Niu family is from the next village, there are several brothers in the family, and there are seven or eight nephews with big shoulders and thick waists. Seeing that the old woman was going back to her mother's house to move the rescuers, Du Chensheng was suddenly stunned, snatched the wrapper in Niu's hand, and shouted: "What kind of mother's house are you going back to?" When you are seventy or eighty, you still run to your mother's house every day, and you are not afraid that your nephews and daughters-in-law will dislike you? Okay, let's talk about the marriage later, and ask the second family to get food quickly. ”

"Hmph, starve you old man." Seeing that although his wife's tone was fierce, there was a retreat in his words, Niu threw down the clothes in his hand as if he was victorious, took the key from the placket and opened the cabinet, measured some food out, and prepared to ask Yao to cook.

Seeing this, Du Chensheng hurriedly said: "Take some rice for Sanfang and ask them to make it themselves, so as not to get in the way." ”

When Niu heard this, he was not happy: "The Communist Party has so much grain, but now the fields are barren, and they haven't started planting rice yet, where did they get so much rice?" Give them it, you old man drink the northwest wind to go? ”

"Give a few pounds first, and then talk about it later." Du Chensheng said.

Niu didn't dare to be disobedient this time, and muttered in his mouth, but his subordinates still weighed two catties of rice and took them out together.

In the low room of the third room, Chen was wiping tears from Du Jinning who was lying on the bed, and saw her mother-in-law come in with a black face, threw a cloth bag in her hand into her arms, and scolded in her mouth: "What a group of debt collectors, I owe you." With that, he turned and went out.

Chen held the cloth bag, stunned, and then opened the cloth bag, saw the white rice inside, was shocked, looked at Niu's back and said: "This, this is ......"

Du Fangfei boiled a bowl of water in the stove to feed Du Jinning, stretched out his head and saw that it was white rice, was silent for a moment, and said lightly: "Just now I saw my uncle and grandfather come out of my grandfather's house, I think he said something, and my grandmother took it out to make up for Brother Ning'er, so keep it." ”

Chen Shi didn't know how to make up for Du Jinning, who came back from the ghost gate, and this bag of white rice was delivered in time. For fear that the Du Fangling sisters would not do well, she went to the stove in person and boiled white rice porridge for Du Jinning.

"Sister, I won't let you marry that fool." Du Jinning looked at Du Fangfei and said very seriously.

Du Fangfei touched Du Jinning's head, his eyes were red, and he shook his head: "In this family, I am also tired and tired, beaten and scolded, and it makes no difference if I marry into that family." Anyway, I'm old and I have to get married, what good family can my grandfather and grandmother choose for me? Don't stir this up on yourself, it's none of your business. ”

"But no matter how poor and tired you are, you won't kill anyone. Sister, let's go and beg my uncle and grandfather, and ask my grandfather to change your family. Du Fangling suddenly pushed the door in from the outside and spoke.

Du Fangfei shook his head: "No." But there was a flash of fear in his eyes.

Du Jinning opened his mouth, looked at the people walking around the house, and still closed his mouth.

In the evening, only Du Jinning drank white rice porridge, and Chen and the three sisters still drank corn paste. Du Jinning wanted to even some of them, but they didn't want to, and Chen also scolded her: "Don't make trouble, eat quickly, you take care of your body, it's better than anything else." ”

Du Jinning had no choice but to drink all the porridge without knowing what to eat.

The cowshed is narrow and small, and the space is not large, not only separated from the inside and outside, but also a small part of the three-room stove room is left outside. Du Jinning squeezed into the same bed with Chen when he was a child. In the dead of night, the lights in the main courtyard and the east and west compartments outside were extinguished, and the three sisters outside seemed to be silent. ”

Chen opened his eyes, reached out and touched her head, and asked, "Is there anything uncomfortable?" ”

"Nope." Du Jinning shook his head and said softly, "Mother, since they dislike my father, why don't they separate us from the same room?" ”

Chen got up from the bed with a "pout", the bed was already narrow, she slept outside, this time the movement was a little more intense, and she almost fell off the bed.

She sat down and stared at Du Jinning in the faint moonlight: "You, where did you hear the nonsense?" What kind of father, all nonsense. ”

When she was excited, her voice became louder, and Du Jinning heard the movement outside, and hurriedly pulled her shirt: "Be quieter." Seeing that Chen had been staring at her, she had no choice but to say, "What else is there to hide?" That's what everyone in the village says today, and I hear it all. ”

"Nonsense!" Chen said angrily, "That's because your grandfather and grandmother are old and confused, and they only believed such words at the instigation of your second aunt." You were born half a day after your father died, how could it be that you killed him? Who can kill someone before they are born? If you want to fight yourself, you should be restrained, and you will have to wait until then? Your grandparents are angry with you because of your father's death, and your second aunt has never been able to see that our three rooms are good, so this is what you say, don't believe this! ”

"Well, I don't believe it." Du Jinning saw that the more Chen spoke, the more excited he became, and his voice rose again, so he had to reluctantly reassure, and pulled the topic back again, "Whether I believe it or not, they believe it anyway." In that case, why didn't they divide us up? Aren't they afraid that I will give them away? ”

"What the hell are you talking nonsense? You are such a good child, who can you defeat? ”

This is probably the most untouchable topic for Chen, and Chen, who has always spoken softly, was excited when he heard this.