Du Fangling knew that the drama was about to start, and hurriedly said according to Du Jinning's words yesterday: "No, no." His voice trembled a little, "I'm ...... I'll just come, you go feed the **. ”

Seeing that Du Jinning shook her fist and made a gesture of "come on", she calmed down and said: "I will kill the pig in two days, and I don't have to cut the pigweed, and there is pork to eat, it's good!" After a pause, she said in a very cheerful tone, "Let grandmother buy two more piglets next year, and we will raise them, and by the time of the Chinese New Year next year, we will have more pork to eat." ”

After stammering a couple of sentences, this time she spoke smoothly and entered the state.

Du Jinning gave her a thumbs up, and when she heard the footsteps outside the hospital, her voice raised a little, and she pretended to be angry: "What are you doing raising so much?" No matter how much you raise, it's not enough for the second uncle to pay off his gambling debts. ”

"What?" Du Fangling asked suspiciously, "What gambling debts?" Second Uncle won't gamble outside, right? ”

"Not really. That day, I went to the academy to play with Brother Zhang, and I heard someone say: 'Du Yunnian, if you don't return the thirty taels of silver in five days, I will break your legs and go to the door to make trouble.' 'Calculate the time, tomorrow is the date to repay the debt, and I don't know if my grandfather used the money to help my second uncle pay off the debt. ”

In order to prevent the Du Jincheng brothers outside the wall from being unfamiliar with the voices of the two of them, Du Jinning deliberately pointed out the three words "Du Yunnian", and called the name very loudly.

Sure enough, at first, the Du Jincheng brothers didn't care, they just buried their heads and walked home, but when they heard the words "Du Yunnian", the two of them paused, glanced at each other, and stopped.

"Brother, you're talking about the second uncle." Du Jinde said, thinking for a while, "Is it from the third uncle's family?" Why are they here? ”

When he came back in the morning, Du Jincheng heard the conversation between Niu and Zhang. He explained in a low voice: "My mother thinks that raising livestock smells, so my grandmother raised all the livestock in Mrs. Lin's house. I think this is it. ”

When he heard another voice from inside, he made a silent motion and pricked up his ears to listen.

"Thirty taels?" Du Fangling inside exclaimed, "Why did the second uncle borrow so much money? Our family...... Did grandfather have that much silver? The last time you were sick, my grandmother said that she had no money, so she only took ten cents out. ”

"Who knows?" Du Jinning's voice was low, as if he was sad, and his tone became indifferent, "Can we compare with the second uncle?" He was the son of his grandfather and grandmother. Even if my grandfather doesn't have money, won't he still have a great uncle? The eldest uncle works as a bookkeeper in the city, and he doesn't know how much money he earns in a year. It is not difficult to take thirty taels of silver to pay off the debt of the second uncle. ”

"But the eldest uncle's family also has to eat and drink, and the two elder brothers are still studying, and it costs money to study. Moreover, Brother Jincheng is also seventeen years old, right? It's time to get married, and it all costs money. How can the eldest uncle pay off all the money earned by the second uncle? It's good to have a family of the second uncle and be able to provide for the third brother to study. ”

"Doesn't this have a grandfather? Grandfather asked the eldest uncle for money, but the eldest uncle dared not give it? Du Jinning said.

Seeing that she was almost done, she said again: "Forget it, these have nothing to do with us, anyway, don't be so stupid, be less tired." The second uncle is an eldest man who is idle at home all day, and the second aunt doesn't do anything, relying on us and the eldest uncle to raise him, what's the matter? Don't tell your grandmother about raising an extra pig, so as not to get yourself burdened. ”

"yes, I see." Du Fangling responded.

“……”

Hearing that the conversation inside the wall was worthless, Du Jincheng pulled his brother's arm, pursed his lips and said, "Go, go back." ”

The brothers walked forward for a while, some distance away from the Lin family, and then Du Jinde asked his brother: "Brother, do you want to tell your father about this?" ”

Du Jincheng nodded: "That's nature." ”

These people in my hometown are so hateful, just like the locusts, they don't let go if they don't suck the blood of people. The second uncle actually went to gamble money, and when he was in debt, his grandfather didn't say that he was killed or disabled, and he was like no one, and just now he let him sit there talking and laughing and talk to everyone; This cousin of the third room is also a college with dozens of taels of silver every year, and if you miss it, you can read it, really when their family's silver is blown by the wind?

With anger, the two walked quickly, and after a while, they returned to the second room of the Du family.

At this time, the Niu family was directing the Chen family and the Yao family to place the sacrifices on the table, while Du Chensheng, Du Yunyi, and Du Yunnian, father and son, were sitting on chairs and talking.

Du Jinde saw his father and was about to ask him to go to the inner room to talk, but Du Jincheng pulled his sleeve in time and pulled him into the inner room.

Zhang, holding a teacup in his hand, was instructing Du Fangyun to embroider tweed, and when he saw his two sons coming in, he asked with a smile: "Where did you go and come back?" On a cold day, what is there to visit in this village? It's dirty. ”

As he spoke, he looked at the feet of his two sons, and saw that the shoes that were originally quite clean were stained with some mud, and his brows furrowed: "Hurry up and change the shoes." ”

The Du Jincheng brothers knew that their mother loved cleanliness very much, and if they usually did it, they would wipe the soles of their shoes before entering the door, and then enter the house after wiping them clean. But I was so angry just now, where did I want to get this stubble? At this time, he didn't have the heart to change his shoes, Du Jincheng said: "Mother, we have something to tell you." ”

Zhang knew the two sons very well, and seeing that the two of them looked wrong, he hurriedly put down the teacup in his hand and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

The two found a chair and sat down, Du Jincheng looked outside, and saw that the three people outside were talking energetically, and they should not be able to hear their conversation inside, so he told his mother the two news he had just heard.

When Zhang heard this, his slender eyebrows suddenly frowned, and his face showed displeasure.

"Mother, what did they take our family for? Really, when we dig up gold and silver, can't we succeed? Du Fangyun, who was sitting on the side, couldn't help but say angrily.

She is already engaged, and she will have to prepare a dowry in the next two years. If the family comes back with an extra tael of silver, her dowry will be less.

"Don't worry, your father won't agree."

Zhang is still very confident in her husband.

Du Yunyi was still very responsible when he was young, he felt that he was the eldest son, and he took over his father's work, and if he made money, he should hand it over to his parents to support his father. But after getting married, after her many adjustments// teachings, now Du Yunyi has basically taken care of his small family, and he has no opinion on taking the money back to support his parents; But if the second and third rooms are for him to raise, he will not be happy.

Now Mo said that Du Yunyi did not have the idea of taking out the money to pay off the gambling debts of his second brother and provide for his nephew to study in the academy. Even if they had, they wouldn't be able to afford that much money for a small house.