Chapter 6: Aunt Trouble
After eating, the four boys, who couldn't stay idle, ran out to play again.
Huang Liuniang cleaned up the table, and Xia Shouping packed up farm tools in the yard to prepare for spring ploughing.
"Ah, are you feeling better? When you are well, you get up and walk, you are always lying down, and if you are afraid of the cold, don't go out of the house. Huang Liuniang took the dishes and chopsticks down while chattering and gossiping with Qingbao.
Probably because of the fact that he ate a lot of food, Qingbao really felt a lot better, but his nose was very blocked and panicked, and his breath was a little uncomfortable.
"Okay." Qingbao also wants to see what kind of environment this home is, in Liuya's memory, her yard can be big or large, and it takes a lot of steps to reach the gate of the courtyard.
Qingbao crawled out of the bed, and when he got off the kang, he found that he was not wearing anything stronger than the four boys, and it was also a thick cotton coat and a thick cotton jacket, which did not fit well. This made Qingbao very disgusted, she pointed to her sleeve and said to Huang Liuniang: "It's too dirty, take it off and wash it." ”
"What to wash, wash it and you won't wear it, wait for a few days to warm up and change the jacket and then wash it." Huang Liuniang didn't take this dirty look at her eyes at all, and lowered her head to wash the dishes.
Seeing that Huang Liuniang didn't care, Qingbao had to wear it temporarily, she had just arrived, but she didn't know where there were clothes at home, the previous Liuya hadn't paid attention to these at all, and her mind was full of eating and playing.
Qingbao's cotton shoes are also picked up by others, not only dirty and torn, but also a little big to wear.
Thinking about it, she also knew that Liuya had no other cotton shoes, so she could only wear them temporarily, and she wore them as cotton drags.
Qingbao came outside the house and carefully looked at her future home.
There are two low and low yellow mud rooms, one is a bedroom in the east, one is a kitchen in the west, and a large stove is built in the north and south by the east wall. There is a door in the north and south of the kitchen, so you can go south or north. There are a lot of farm tools in the northwest corner, including hoes, shovels and pickaxes, and a full pocket, which is probably grain.
There is a bench against the wall on the south side of the farm implements, on which are placed a small bag of rice, a small bag of noodles and a few cabbages, and next to the cabbage is a small cupboard with chopsticks, oil and salt.
The courtyard is indeed as long as Liuya remembers, but it is definitely not very big. How wide can two rooms be?
There is no courtyard wall, but a fence made of tree branches, and from this courtyard, you can see the neighbors on the left and right.
No way?
All the things in this house are here?
Qingbao glanced around again with some unwillingness, and then was very disappointed to find that this home was so small, there was really no place to hold more things.
At the moment when he knew that the conditions were so difficult, Qing Bao really wanted to crash into the wall to see if he could go back to that era of abundant materials, although there were all kinds of shortcomings, but he would not starve.
Just as she was thinking wildly, a boy who was about the same as Erzhu walked in from outside the courtyard, and shouted at Xia Shouping, who was repairing farm tools in the yard: "Third uncle, my grandmother asked you to go over and call the third aunt again." As soon as Xia Qingbao pondered, he remembered that this boy with a little pointed head was the second tiger of the eldest aunt's family.
Why did grandma call her father and mother over at this time?
It can't be the eldest aunt and the wicked person who sues first, right?
Xia Shouping said with a smile: "I know, you go and talk to your grandmother, and your third aunt and I will go over." ”
Erhu grimaced at Qingbao disdainfully and bounced away.
Xia Shouping put down the work in his hand and shouted into the house: "Liuniang, my mother told us to go over, let's go first, and then get busy when we come back." ”
Huang Liuniang agreed, wiped her wet hands, and walked out of the house.
"Ya, you watch the house, your father and mother will come when they go."
Qingbao said in his heart that one of these two people is honest, and the other is disgusting and soft-faced, and it is obvious that they are not on the same level as the thick-hearted aunt, if they don't go to see it, they will definitely have to suffer a loss. Although she has not inherited the powerful combat power of Mother Xia, after all these years of Mother Xia's life, she is better than these two people.
Thinking of this, Qingbao took Huang Liuniang's hand and pretended to be coquettish: "I'll go too, I'll go too." ”
This is not a big deal, Huang Liuniang instructed Xia Shouping to tie the door, and took Qingbao's hand and walked out.
While walking, Huang Liuniang said: "It must be at noon today, your sister-in-law doesn't know what bad water she stabbed in front of your mother, look at it, your mother should scold me again in a while." ”
Xia Shouping was silent for a long time before he squeezed out a sentence: Liuniang, just bear with it, for the sake of me and the child. ”
Huang Liuniang glanced at Xia Shouping, and sighed faintly: "What can I do if I can't bear it, since ancient times, there has been no reason for a daughter-in-law to scold my mother-in-law, and I dare to mumble two words behind my back, which time didn't I let her on the big face?" hateful sister-in-law, the long-tongued woman, I don't know what to do again. ”
Xia Shouping didn't know what to say again, obviously, he had nothing to say to this sister-in-law.
Qingbao listened to them while looking at the surrounding environment, and the more he walked, the more chilled he became.
They have been walking for about ten minutes, and they haven't reached Grandma Liuya's house yet, which shows that this village is not small.
But there are so many people, and none of them are big tiled houses described in the book.
All of them are low yellow mud houses like her house, and the courtyard walls are also fenced.
Occasionally, I saw a few pedestrians on the street, all of whom were also in rags, not much better than beggars.
What kind of society is this......
It's too backward, too poor.
Hearing what Huang Liuniang said, Qingbao knew that she was going to swallow her anger, but at the same time, she also heard that in this era, her mother-in-law is very authoritative in her daughter-in-law's heart.
Since they are bullied, they can't suffer too much, if people feel that their family can be bullied casually, then they won't have a good life.
Thinking of this, Qing Bao first gave Huang Liuniang some eye medicine: "Mother, I miss my grandmother, she doesn't come to see me when I'm sick." ”
As soon as she heard that the child said that her grandmother was sick and didn't come to see her, Huang Liuniang's anger was arched again, she squeezed Qingbao's hand tightly, and said resolutely: "Ya, I will definitely talk to your grandmother about this." ”
Qingbao nodded with a smile.
She doesn't want to cause trouble, but being bullied to the end is not her style.
The family of three walked for a while, and Huang Liuniang took her into a courtyard.
It is still a yellow mud house, and it is still a fence yard, which is older than the two rooms of Qingbao's house, but this house is three, and there are two wings.
This aunt is too good, and the wicked person sues first